Games Like Camping Simulator: The Squad

Builder. Farmer. Hunter. Trader. Ranching certainly isn’t your average job. Think you have the skills to turn your family’s rundown homestead into the most prosperous ranch in the valley? Then it’s time to head out into the wilderness in this captivating single and multiplayer open-world simulator.

Why similar: Co-op 21.8%, Sandbox 20.8%, Management 13.6%, Simulation 12.8%, Relaxing 9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a similar cooperative open-world sandbox experience with crafting, building, and nature exploration alongside friends.

Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.

Why similar: Crafting 18.3%, Building 15.4%, Co-op 12.7%, Survival 12%, Sandbox 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: Shares the core survival, building, and resource management mechanics set in an immersive, expansive natural world.

Take care of forgotten nature's treasure. Build, craft, feed, clean and manage your forest in Forest Ranger Simulator. Ensure its long-lasting beauty and become a flawless Forest Ranger!

Why similar: Crafting 16.2%, Sandbox 15.3%, Building 13.6%, Nature 13.5%, Simulation 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on nature preservation, exploration, and outdoor survival elements mirroring the camping lifestyle.

Explore Arctico with your dog sled, kayak, and up to 3 friends! Build and customize your base camp, gather resources and samples, set up labs, and take good care of your dogs in this peaceful island.

Why similar: Co-op 17.4%, Survival 16.4%, Nature 11.4%, Crafting 11.2%, Sandbox 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Combines peaceful open-world exploration, base building, and survival mechanics in a snowy nature setting.

Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.

Why similar: Survival 24.7%, Crafting 16.2%, Co-op 11.1%, Sandbox 8.3%, Multiplayer 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a deeply realistic jungle survival and crafting experience that tests your wilderness preparedness to the absolute limit.

Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!

Why similar: Survival 25.8%, Co-op 19.9%, Crafting 16%, Building 11.2%, Sandbox 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Features cooperative resource management, crafting, and expansion mechanics similar to managing camp resources with friends.

THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies -- only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.

Why similar: Survival 38.1%, Crafting 15%, Sandbox 11.8%, Exploration 9.4%, Co-op 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the stark, atmospheric challenge of enduring harsh natural environments through careful resource management and survival skills.

Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends, in this terrifying new open-world survival horror simulator.

Why similar: Survival 21.8%, Co-op 18.2%, Crafting 13.6%, Building 9.8%, Base Building 8%

Why You'll Like It: Delivers an immersive cooperative forest survival and base-building adventure playing out in a dense wilderness.

Firefighting Simulator lets you experience what it means to fight fires up close as an active part of a major US city's firefighting crew - together with up to 3 friends in the co-op multiplayer- or in the single player mode.

Why similar: Co-op 30.4%, Simulation 21.3%, Realistic 13.2%, Multiplayer 10.7%, Sandbox 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Delivers the same cooperative squad-based simulation focus utilizing specialized gear in challenging environments.

A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.

Why similar: Crafting 14.9%, Co-op 14.9%, Survival 14.9%, Building 12.9%, Sandbox 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: Emphasizes the open-world survival crafting loop and cooperative base-building found in Camping Simulator.

Base building simulator 1500 years in the future. Journey to the Island of Enen to forage, craft, build, hunt, meditate, and explore across three vast biomes. Discover secrets and create the retreat of your dreams. With over 160 unique items to gather, craft, and build, every home will be unique.

Why similar: Sandbox 13.1%, Survival 12.9%, Crafting 11.5%, Nature 10%, Building 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on peaceful survival, exploration, and relaxation in vast, beautiful natural environments.

Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.

Why similar: Survival 18.5%, Co-op 14.7%, Sandbox 14%, Crafting 12.5%, Building 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a cooperative sandbox crafting and exploration loop with a heavy emphasis on portable base setup and resource gathering.

Survive and colonize Mars alone or in online co-op. Build and upgrade your base, craft equipment, mine resources, produce water, oxygen and food, explore an open world, and repair complex machinery in a technical survival sandbox.

Why similar: Crafting 15.7%, Survival 14.1%, Sandbox 12.7%, Resource Management 11.8%, Co-op 10%

Why You'll Like It: Shares the detailed survival and equipment management simulation systems adapted to a harsh open-world setting.

Embark on a cozy open-world survival journey inspired by ancient China's heritage. Gather resources, cultivate crops, build your dream home, and defend it from marauders. Team up with friends to explore and uncover a world where adventure meets serenity.

Why similar: Crafting 18.4%, Sandbox 16.4%, Survival 15.8%, Building 13.2%, Resource Management 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A survival crafting game set in a peaceful natural environment where you can build and explore cooperatively.

A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!

Why similar: Survival 20.2%, Crafting 17%, Building 15.2%, Co-op 13.8%, Sandbox 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: Blends cooperative survival, primitive crafting, and cozy exploration within heavily wooded natural biomes.

Take the role of a plane crash survivor stranded somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Come face to face with some of the most life threatening scenarios that will result in a different experience each time you play. Scavenge. Discover. Survive.

Why similar: Survival 26.2%, Crafting 18.8%, Building 9.4%, Co-op 9.3%, Sandbox 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Tests your wilderness survival and crafting skills on isolated islands much like extreme camping scenarios.

The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?

Why similar: Survival 27.4%, Co-op 20.8%, Crafting 17.3%, Base Building 10.1%, Multiplayer 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: Features cooperative backyard survival, base building, and crafting with a strong emphasis on outdoor exploration.

Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres

Why similar: Crafting 22.2%, Survival 19.9%, Sandbox 15.2%, Building 11.7%, Co-op 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: Combines top-down exploration, survival crafting, and resource management across diverse natural environments.

Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!

Why similar: Building 17.9%, Crafting 17.2%, Sandbox 17.1%, Survival 15.9%, Co-op 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: Provides cooperative building and mechanical creation in an open world full of natural obstacles.

ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.

Why similar: Survival 18.9%, Crafting 15.1%, Co-op 12.3%, Building 10.8%, Sandbox 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Challenges players with session-based PvE survival, crafting, and exploration in rugged wilderness regions.

Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).

Why similar: Survival 26.2%, Crafting 22.8%, Building 13.3%, Sandbox 10.6%, Co-op 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox open-world survival game focusing on base building, crafting, and thriving against environmental elements.

Chill out as you explore the beautiful, realistic island of exiles. Gather resources, craft tools, construct buildings and settlements. Manage tribe and automate your gameplay. Discover 4 lands, a storyline and save the inhabitants of the island.

Why similar: Nature 14.3%, Crafting 13.6%, Survival 11.4%, Building 11.3%, Resource Management 11%

Why You'll Like It: Involves primitive survival, crafting, and building mechanics set deep within untouched natural environments.

No remarkable journey is achieved without great effort. In Outward, the cold of the night or an infected wound can be as dangerous as a predator lurking in the dark. Explore the vast world of Aurai solo or in Co-op. The Definitive Edition features both DLCs and quality of life improvements.

Why similar: Survival 33.3%, Co-op 31.7%, Resource Management 9.2%, Exploration 8.5%, Multiplayer 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: Features realistic adventure mechanics where backpack preparation and outdoor camping are core pillars of survival.

Unwind and enjoy the slow life in Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles, a relaxing open-world adventure game. Yonder is set in the world of Gemea. A natural island paradise with eight distinct environments ranging from tropical beaches to snow-capped summits.

Why similar: Crafting 27.9%, Sandbox 16.8%, Building 14.3%, Exploration 13.9%, Relaxing 13%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a relaxing, combat-free open-world exploration and crafting experience set in beautiful natural landscapes.

Unturned is an open-world zombie survival sandbox game. As one of the few not yet turned, you must fight to remain among the living.

Why similar: Crafting 20.3%, Survival 20%, Co-op 19.1%, Sandbox 18.7%, First-Person 6%

Why You'll Like It: Offers multiplayer sandbox survival and crafting mechanics within stylized open-world maps.

Retrieve your weapons, face bosses to save your dog in a retro adventure focused on 3 dungeons. Finish the Story mode to unlock the Survivor mode: a 50-floor "Death Tower". You'll enjoy classic mechanics, charming visual style, and an enchanting soundtrack.

Why similar: Survival 86.5%, Adventure 13.5%

Why You'll Like It: Centers around survival, tool crafting, and shelter building in raw natural environments.

Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!

Why similar: Co-op 19.1%, Survival 16%, Building 14.9%, Crafting 14.9%, Sandbox 14.5%

Why You'll Like It: Extends the survival crafting and mobile base-building concepts into a vast open-world sandbox.

Build your own Outdoor Store and Camping Business in the heart of Red Shore Valley! Arrange your shelves, manage your stock, construct facilities on your campsite, and take care of every guest. Grow from humble beginnings into a thriving business surrounded by nature!

Why similar: Crafting 16.9%, Building 14.7%, Nature 13.9%, Sandbox 11.2%, Management 11.1%

Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..

Why similar: Survival 31.5%, Sandbox 16.7%, Co-op 13.8%, Crafting 12.5%, Building 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Shares the meticulous inventory and item management systems necessary for long-term survival in rural settings.

Ready to create your own world of flavor? Play solo or co-op with up to 8 players, prepare sandwiches with your friends, deliver online orders to the courier and run your sandwich restaurant. Clean, expand, and keep your customers happy!

Why similar: Co-op 23.4%, Resource Management 13.5%, Simulation 12.2%, Crafting 11.7%, Management 8.8%

Dive into a hilarious sandbox BBQ experience with friends! Grill, serve, and manage mayhem as meats soar and sizzle. Craft your grill, cook steaks, and feed everyone before hunger strikes!

Why similar: Resource Management 21.2%, Sandbox 21.2%, Simulation 13.1%, Life Sim 8.7%, Realistic 8.3%

Welcome to Wrap House Simulator! Run your own wrap shop, chop, grill, and serve in this cooking adventure. Customize your shop, master the grill, and survive the rush solo or co-op with up to 6 players. Keep up with orders, satisfy customers, and build your dream restaurant!

Why similar: Co-op 20.1%, Sandbox 14.4%, Simulation 10.2%, Resource Management 10.2%, Management 9.6%

Build and run your own waterpark solo or with friends. Design slides, send guests flying with ragdoll physics, manage staff, and fully customize your park. Turn total madness into a diamond five-star empire in this first-person management simulator!

Why similar: Co-op 16.8%, Sandbox 16.2%, Building 14.5%, Crafting 12.6%, Management 11%

Kebab Chefs! is a Co-Op, cooking and restaurant management game that can be played up to 4 players. Design your own restaurant. Cook delicious foods, fill your menu with various recipes, feed customers and become the biggest kebab restaurant in town!

Why similar: Sandbox 15.4%, Crafting 13.1%, Co-op 12.6%, Building 12.1%, Management 12.1%

Manage your own park facility in a huge open world in Park Ranger Simulator. Take on all the tasks that need to be completed as a park ranger - alone or together in cross-platform multiplayer! You have a variety of vehicles and equipment at your disposal to complete the challenges ahead!

Why similar: Nature 18.3%, Co-op 17%, Sandbox 17%, Simulation 10.1%, Management 8.6%

Solarpunk is a survival game in a technologically advanced world of floating islands. Alone or together with your friends, you can construct buildings, grow food, craft gadgets and hop on your airship to explore distant islands in the sky.

Why similar: Crafting 14.9%, Co-op 14.5%, Sandbox 12.8%, Survival 12.1%, Building 12%

Moonshiner Simulator is an in-depth spirits production simulator. Start from the bottom and build your operation into a thriving empire by mastering the intricacies of the craft and creating unique recipes. But beware – there will always be those who want to see you fail.

Why similar: Co-op 20.9%, Crafting 16%, Simulation 13.6%, Management 12.9%, Sandbox 7.3%

Survive on a deserted island with no modern tools or electricity. Gather resources, craft everything you need, and adapt to changing seasons including winter conditions. No zombies, no supernatural. Man vs nature survival. Your adventure, your choice.

Why similar: Crafting 17.4%, Survival 16.4%, Sandbox 15.2%, Nature 13.7%, Building 7.1%

Explore a colorful world and build your own cozy home on wheels. Craft workstations, and source energy from the sun, wind, or water. Upgrade and customize your vehicle, grow crops, and live sustainably off-grid with up to 4 players.

Why similar: Crafting 16.7%, Nature 15%, Sandbox 14.4%, Building 14.1%, Base Building 8.7%

Design your dream caravan in detail, roam freely with your mobile home, set up your camp with friends, and enjoy music by the campfire in a vast open world! - EARLY ACCESS ALPHA VERSION - OVERHAUL UPDATE WILL COMING

Why similar: Co-op 15.7%, Sandbox 14.4%, Survival 14.2%, Building 11.8%, Exploration 7.3%

Pumping Simulator As an active member of a gas station in a major city around the world, you can play with up to 10 friends in a multiplayer co-op mode or single player mode to help you understand what the pumpers are going through, and maybe will make you rich.

Why similar: Sandbox 24.2%, Resource Management 21.4%, Management 18.6%, Simulation 15.1%, Co-op 9.3%

Erzurum is a winter survival game which you will struggle against freezing temperatures, the wild nature, hunger and thirst.

Why similar: Survival 20.5%, Crafting 19.6%, Nature 13.5%, Sandbox 12.9%, Exploration 7.8%

CrossWorlds: Escape is a hardcore game in which you will have to deploy all your skills to survive in a huge open world that is susceptible to changes in weather, seasons and various natural phenomena.

Why similar: Crafting 16.1%, Survival 15.7%, Sandbox 15.5%, Nature 14.2%, Base Building 7.9%

Take over the gas station and convenience store at a roadside rest area and expand by purchasing new businesses. Manage a living world shaped by dynamic economy and random events. Upgrade your facilities, satisfy your customers, and play solo or with friends.

Why similar: Co-op 21.3%, Sandbox 19.2%, Resource Management 14.5%, Management 13.2%, Simulation 11.4%

Build your apiary on islands above the clouds, travel on your medocycle, crossbreed bees with unique traits and create a cozy home in the sky. Grow plants, explore islands and send healing honey down to Earth, where people still hope for your help.

Why similar: Co-op 15.7%, Survival 13.8%, Crafting 12.6%, Building 11.5%, Sandbox 11.1%

Keep Digging is a digging survival craft game for up to 8 players. Explore a procedurally generated 5000m underground world, bring back ores, blueprints, and fossils, then use the smelter, forge, and enchantments to build your gear! Team up in co-op or compete for items in PvP.

Why similar: Co-op 17%, Sandbox 16.5%, Crafting 16.4%, Management 10.8%, Simulation 8.6%

Barista Simulator, master the art of brewing with over 30 coffee recipes. Start with a basic setup, upgrade your café, manage your staff, and build your very own coffee haven. Are you ready for the ultimate coffee journey?

Why similar: Crafting 20.2%, Sandbox 19.7%, Management 10.9%, Simulation 9.8%, Resource Management 9.7%

Begin your ranger journey in Ranger’s Path: National Park Simulator. Maintain trails, assist visitors, track wildlife, rescue injured or trapped animals, and explore diverse biomes filled with varied species.

Why similar: Nature 23.1%, Co-op 20.7%, Simulation 13%, Exploration 11.8%, Relaxing 7.7%

Bring Nature Home! Experience Aquascapers, a single-player and co-op aquascaping simulation that invites you and friends to discover and gather various ornamental resources for your aquascaping projects. Enhance your business and dominate the market!

Why similar: Sandbox 22.7%, Simulation 12.7%, Exploration 9.9%, Relaxing 7.6%, Nature 7.5%

KeepUp Survival is an open-world base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and shape your own story on a mysterious island.

Why similar: Crafting 16.5%, Co-op 16.4%, Survival 16.4%, Sandbox 14.2%, Base Building 7.9%

The Gold River Project™ is a camping trip gone wrong in the Pacific Northwest. Explore, craft, build, and survive in this open-world experiment that traps you and up to 4 friends in this single player or co-op survival adventure game.

Why similar: Co-op 18.4%, Survival 17%, Crafting 16.3%, Nature 10.8%, Exploration 8.7%

Sandbox Survival in VR. Face a frozen wilderness solo or in co-op - build a shelter, craft tools, hunt for food, and manage your resources to endure harsh conditions. Strategize your moves against unpredictable weather and lurking dangers. And remember to keep yourself safe and sane!

Why similar: Survival 17.1%, Sandbox 15.4%, Crafting 14.6%, Nature 10.8%, Building 9.7%

Take over the gas station and convenience store at a roadside rest area and expand by purchasing new businesses. Manage a living world shaped by dynamic economy and random events. Upgrade your facilities, satisfy your customers, and play solo or with friends.

Why similar: Co-op 25.4%, Simulation 18.1%, Management 15.5%, Resource Management 13.3%, Sandbox 10%

Team up with your friends and build a thriving trade empire in this CO-OP strategy and economy simulation set on a lively island. Begin with a small market, share tasks, manage production chains, raise livestock, and dominate the economy together through changing seasons and dynamic festivals!

Why similar: Crafting 17.7%, Building 16.5%, Nature 15%, Management 13.3%, Simulation 10.1%

Embark on an unpredictable survival journey in Start Over. Solo, co-op, online, explore diverse landscapes, craft through 4 tech tiers, encounter wildlife, and trade or raid for resources. Choose your path, defend against waves, and shape your destiny in a dynamic world. Are you ready to Start Over?

Why similar: Crafting 14.8%, Survival 13.7%, Sandbox 12.9%, Building 11.3%, Co-op 9%

Old Market Simulator is a 1-4 player co-op game where you manage your market by ordering goods, growing produce, raising animals, fishing, and crafting items in your workshop, while hiring employees and expanding your business.

Why similar: Management 17.1%, Co-op 17%, Resource Management 16.6%, Simulation 14.1%, Life Sim 8%

The most detailed cottage experience. Live as a regular Finnish man and enjoy the summer. Play relaxed: go to the sauna, get drunk and grill food. Play how you want: make moonshine, become a burglar and turbocharge your moped.

Why similar: Crafting 18.8%, Sandbox 15.4%, Simulation 14.1%, Realistic 9.1%, Exploration 8.4%