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Games Like Cube Life: Island Survival

60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Survival, Open World Survival Craft, Adventure, Crafting.

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Cube Life: Island Survival is an open-world, block building, survival game, taking place on a beautiful remote island. Imagine being shipwrecked and stranded left for dead, with only your will to survive. You must explore, build, craft, and fight your way to stay alive.

Reviews: Mixed — 69% — of 177 reviews
Released: 2018-04-20
Developer: Cypronia
Genres: Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Windows, Mac
Median playtime: 4.1 hrs
Mean playtime: 6.6 hrs
Players ≥ 1 hr: 96%

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    97% matchVery Positive80% of 623 reviews2016
    Dev: Atypical Games
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    Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%

    Radiation Island is a survival adventure game where you craft your own destiny in a huge open world environment. As part of the Philadelphia Experiment you have become stranded in a parallel, alternate reality. Discover this new and mysterious world, with all its surprises.

    Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 63.3%, Survival 14.1%, Open World 7.4%, Crafting 5.7%, Adventure 5.4%

  2. #2 Stranded Deep
    96% matchMostly Positive74% of 47,062 reviews2022
    Dev: Beam Team GamesPub: Beam Team Publishing
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 21.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%

    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: Open World Survival Craft 57.3%, Survival 11.3%, Open World 8.1%, Crafting 8%, Building 5.5%

  3. #3 Creativerse
    96% matchMostly Positive78% of 30,868 reviews2017
    Dev: Playful Corp.
    Windows
    Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 63%

    A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.

    Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.7%, Building 10.8%, Sandbox 10.2%, Crafting 9.5%, Open World 8.7%

  4. #4 Project Castaway
    95% matchMixed67% of 1,632 reviews2026
    Dev: Mardonpol Inc.
    Windows · Linux
    Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 69%

    Project Castaway is a survival crafting title set in the Pacific Ocean. Live the life of a stranded castaway, with only yourself - and the island's inhabitants - for company! Sail the ocean, hunt, explore unique islands and gather resources as you fight for survival.

    Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.9%, Sandbox 9.9%, Survival 9.1%, Building 8.8%, Open World 8.5%

  5. #5 Blockscape
    94% matchMixed46% of 898 reviews2014
    Dev: ioneo
    Windows
    Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 49%

    The ultimate block building game.

    Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 59.3%, Sandbox 10.9%, Building 6.9%, Open World 6.5%, Crafting 6.3%

  6. #6 Tinkerlands
    91% matchVery Positive86% of 3,746 reviews2025
    Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
    Windows
    Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 13.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    Explore, craft, and fight your way through uncharted islands — solo or with up to 4 players in co-op! Tinkerlands is an exciting survival adventure where you will build your settlement, craft useful tools to survive, and even use magic!

    Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.3%, Sandbox 10.3%, Open World 8.7%, Survival 8.6%, Building 8.4%

  7. #7 Out of Reach
    93% matchMixed57% of 3,044 reviews2018
    Dev: Space Boat Studios
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%

    You’re a castaway stranded in the middle of nowhere. Storm is gone, the worst certainly not. Look for food and resources, craft gear, make shelters. These are the basics, you need much more to stay alive on this cut-off-the-world, yet not desert island. Build & burn, sail & explore, be Out of Reach!

    Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 53.8%, Survival 10.8%, Open World 9.1%, Crafting 8.5%, Building 7.9%

  8. #8 INMATE: Survival
    92% matchMixed57% of 74 reviews2023
    Dev: SV Games
    Windows

    INMATE: Survival is an open world survival game, where you play the role of a prisoner sentenced to stay on a 4*4 km Island with many types of enemies both humans and animals.

    Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.2%, Building 11.5%, Crafting 10.3%, Open World 10.1%, Survival 9.7%

  9. #9 Survival: Fountain of Youth
    91% matchVery Positive86% of 4,270 reviews2024
    Dev: Odinsoft Inc.Pub: Twin Sails Interactive
    Windows
    Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 18.7 hrs≥1hr: 75%

    Survival: Fountain of Youth is a challenging single-player open-world adventure game set on the Caribbean islands. Survive as a shipwrecked 16th-century explorer, craft tools and shelter, and uncover the secrets of both an ancient civilization and your own fate.

    Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.5%, Survival 10%, Crafting 9.7%, Sandbox 8.7%, Building 8.7%

  10. #10 Forsaken Isle
    90% matchMostly Positive71% of 512 reviews2025
    Dev: Smoodlez
    Windows
    Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 56%

    Stranded on a desert island, explore, craft, build and fight in this action survival game!

    Why similar: Survival 28.5%, Crafting 25.4%, Sandbox 20.9%, Adventure 11.9%, Indie 6.5%

  11. #11 Eden Island
    89% matchMixed61% of 254 reviews2024
    Dev: Moon Studio
    Windows

    Eden Island is a beautiful survival game. As a survivor, you will explore and survive on a realistic tropical island, craft weapons against beasts, farm and hunt, build your own home.

    Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.3%, Building 11.4%, Sandbox 10.2%, Crafting 10%, Survival 9.5%

  12. #12 KeepUp Survival
    89% matchMixed65% of 734 reviews2024
    Dev: Witte Studio
    Windows
    Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%

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

    Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.1%, Open World 10.7%, Survival 10.4%, Crafting 10.3%, Sandbox 10.2%

  13. #13 Necesse
    86% matchVery Positive93% of 26,780 reviews2025
    Dev: Fair Games ApS
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%

    Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!

    Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 53.9%, Sandbox 8.5%, Open World 7.7%, Crafting 7.1%, Building 7%

  14. #14 Raft
    87% matchVery Positive93% of 368,916 reviews2022
    Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
    Windows
    Median: 14.5 hrsMean: 36.8 hrs≥1hr: 95%

    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: Open World Survival Craft 54.9%, Survival 13.8%, Crafting 8.4%, Building 8.1%, Open World 7.1%

  15. #15 Aground
    88% matchVery Positive94% of 1,965 reviews2020
    Dev: Fancy Fish Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%

    As one of the last human survivors, you find yourself stranded on an uninhabited island. With a few other victims of the crash, can you craft, mine, and build your way to survival?

    Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.8%, Building 13.2%, Open World 11.7%, Survival 10.8%, Sandbox 10.4%

  16. #16 Len's Island
    86% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,615 reviews2025
    Dev: Flow Studio
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%

    An open-world survival crafting game for 1–8 players, blending intense dungeon crawling and ARPG combat with peaceful farming and creative building. Take on quests and explore a vast, procedurally-generated world full of danger and discovery.

    Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.1%, Building 11.1%, Sandbox 9.2%, Survival 8.9%, Crafting 8.7%

  17. #17 Starbound
    85% matchVery Positive90% of 122,901 reviews2016
    Dev: Chucklefish
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 17.2 hrsMean: 64.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%

    You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...

    Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 53%, Sandbox 11.4%, Crafting 6.9%, Survival 6.9%, Building 6.4%

  18. #18 My Island
    84% matchMixed67% of 1,706 reviews2024
    Dev: SnowBaby Games
    Windows
    Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 48%

    MyIsland is a relaxed and beautiful survival game,You will drift and survive on the tropical islands, hunt and travel, build houses and development farming, and create your own warm homeland.

    Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 61.9%, Survival 11.1%, Open World 8.6%, Crafting 7.8%, Building 6.2%

  19. #19 Wrongworld
    84% matchVery Positive94% of 538 reviews2018
    Dev: Sludj Games
    Windows
    Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%

    Crash-landed on a surreal, low-poly world filled with freakish inhabitants, choose between permadeath and non-permadeath modes and embark on an epic (and ridiculous) survival adventure. Will you manage to stay alive as you unravel the mysteries of Wrongworld and search for a way home?

    Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 54.9%, Survival 8.4%, Sandbox 7.2%, Building 6.8%, Open World 6.7%

  20. #20 Island Paradise
    82% matchMostly Positive76% of 107 reviews2025
    Dev: GSG
    Windows

    Island Paradise is a survival game where you build, upgrade, customize your own island and use nearby resources to create a home for generations to come!

    Why similar: Building 23.3%, Open World 23%, Crafting 22.1%, Sandbox 17.5%, Exploration 9.5%

  21. #21 Outbreak Island
    81% matchVery Positive80% of 906 reviews2025
    Dev: Tiny Magicians
    Windows
    Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 72%

    Survive on a remote Island, where a mysterious Outbreak awakens bloodthirsty monsters at night. Craft, build and defend your base in the brutal world of Outbreak Island, an open-world sandbox survival horror game.

    Why similar: Sandbox 21.9%, Survival 19%, Building 15.7%, Crafting 15.1%, Open World 13.3%

  22. #22 CrossWorlds: Escape
    83% matchMixed64% of 157 reviews2020
    Dev: Another Reality
    Windows
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 97%

    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: Open World Survival Craft 50%, Sandbox 11.2%, Open World 10.2%, Crafting 10.1%, Survival 10.1%

  23. #23 Dig or Die
    81% matchVery Positive90% of 4,268 reviews2018
    Dev: Gaddy Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%

    Crash land on a hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it. But be warned... this planet is merciless. Build strong, and smart; else physics may flood or destroy your only hopes of survival.

    Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 50.9%, Sandbox 11.8%, Survival 11%, Crafting 9.7%, Open World 6.7%

  24. #24 Astral Terra
    82% matchMixed50% of 152 reviews2015
    Dev: Tethys Interactive LLC
    Windows

    Explore, Adventure, Craft, Build, Survive. How will you shape your world? Astral Terra is a Smooth Voxel, Procedurally Generated Open World game with RPG and Survival Elements!

    Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.3%, Sandbox 10.2%, Open World 10.1%, Survival 9%, Building 8.3%

  25. #25 Wayward
    80% matchVery Positive86% of 1,349 reviews2016
    Dev: Unlok
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 21.4 hrs≥1hr: 61%

    You awake to discover yourself no longer in the company of good men or a fine seafaring vessel. Treasure... you remember something about treasure. Wayward is a challenging turn-based, top-down, wilderness survival roguelike. Explore, build, and most importantly survive in these unforgiving lands.

    Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 54.4%, Survival 12.5%, Crafting 10.8%, Sandbox 8.1%, Open World 7.4%

  26. #26 Life Not Supported
    78% matchMixed68% of 170 reviews2023
    Dev: YETIBYTES
    Windows · Linux

    You are the lone survivor orbiting a potential new home planet, tethered to what’s left of your ship. Gather nearby debris and assemble a make-shift vessel in an attempt to survive the harsh realities of space. Maybe you'll live long enough to uncover the truth behind the ship's malfunction...

    Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.5%, Crafting 11%, Building 10.9%, Survival 9.8%, Sandbox 9%

  27. #27 Card Survival: Tropical Island
    77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 2,951 reviews2022
    Dev: WinterSpring Games
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 45.4 hrs≥1hr: 75%

    Card Survival is a card-based survival experience. Stranded on a desert island you must use your wits and skills to stay alive. Use cards and combine them together to explore, gather resources and craft useful tools.

    Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.6%, Survival 20.1%, Crafting 16.4%, Adventure 7.7%, Indie 3.7%

  28. #28 Signs of Life
    79% matchMostly Positive76% of 841 reviews2014
    Dev: Sweet Dog Studios
    Windows
    Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%

    Signs of Life is a sci-fi survival sandbox platformer with a combination of procedurally generated and hand-crafted content. You'll explore mysterious locations, Mine blocks for resources, and meet strange (and some familiar) creatures, some of which don't even want to kill you and eat your corpse.

    Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 53.6%, Sandbox 11.7%, Crafting 8.6%, Survival 8.3%, Building 6.9%

  29. #29 Force of Nature
    77% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,198 reviews2016
    Dev: A.Y.std
    Windows
    Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%

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

    Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 50.5%, Crafting 10.5%, Survival 9.6%, Sandbox 8.2%, Building 7.6%

  30. #30 Card Survival: Tropical Island - The First Days
    76% matchMostly Positive76% of 76 reviews2022
    Dev: WinterSpring Games
    Windows · Mac

    Card Survival is a card-based survival experience. Stranded on a desert island you must use your wits and skills to stay alive. Use cards and combine them together to explore, gather resources and craft useful tools.

    Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.8%, Adventure 16.5%, Crafting 15.7%, Survival 13.5%, Indie 3.6%

  31. #31 Fragmented
    78% matchMixed43% of 1,964 reviews2017
    Dev: Above and Beyond Technologies
    Windows
    Median: 42 minMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 41%

    Stranded in a hostile alien world, you must fight to survive. Hunt, harvest, craft, advance skills, and build using local resources along with technology from your voyage.

    Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 58.6%, Survival 11.1%, Open World 8%, Sandbox 6.4%, Crafting 6.3%

  32. #32 The Survivalists
    75% matchMostly Positive76% of 9,935 reviews2020
    Dev: Team17
    Windows
    Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 71%

    A living world full of surprises, secrets and danger awaits in The Survivalists, an adventure-filled survival sandbox set in The Escapists universe. Explore, build, craft and even train monkeys with up to three friends in a desperate bid to survive. Have you got what it takes to be a Survivalist?

    Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.3%, Crafting 13%, Survival 11.6%, Sandbox 9.8%, Open World 9%

  33. #33 Planet Explorers
    76% matchMixed62% of 6,817 reviews2016
    Dev: Pathea Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%

    Planet Explorers is an open world sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere.

    Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 50.2%, Sandbox 12.3%, Open World 10%, Crafting 7.1%, Survival 6.9%

  34. #34 Project Cobalt
    71% matchMostly Positive73% of 54 reviews2025
    Dev: OxygenStudio
    Windows

    ⚗️ Project Cobalt is a survival action game set on a hostile island 🌴. Scavenge containers, mine resources, craft tools, hunt animals, and endure storms as you fight hunger, disease, and exhaustion all while uncovering the dark truth behind a failed experiment.

    Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.7%, Building 10.8%, Crafting 10.5%, Sandbox 10.5%, Open World 10%

  35. #35 Under A New Sun
    72% matchMostly Positive76% of 368 reviews2023
    Dev: New Horizon Games
    Windows

    While searching for a new home, an unexpected failure in your ship has left you stranded on a planet surprisingly similar to Earth. Discover a vast open world, hunt for food, develop technologies, and build yourself a new home to survive!

    Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 52.8%, Open World 10.4%, Survival 10.3%, Crafting 9.9%, Sandbox 6.2%

  36. #36 Deep Despair
    74% matchMixed67% of 280 reviews2020
    Dev: BekkerDev Studio
    Windows
    Median: 10.6 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%

    Deep Despair is a Minecraft-style survival sandbox. Travel, collect resources, craft items, dig, build, grow crops and survive. Freedom of action is limited only by your imagination!

    Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.6%, Crafting 10.6%, Survival 10.4%, Sandbox 10.1%, Open World 9.5%

  37. #37 Crafting Block World
    74% matchMixed46% of 52 reviews2019
    Dev: IO Games
    Windows

    Crafting Block World is an adventure with sandbox elements that will help you build your ideal world!

    Why similar: Sandbox 21.7%, Survival 18.1%, Building 15.4%, Open World 12.3%, Crafting 12.2%

  38. #38 Rem Survival
    72% matchMostly Positive76% of 802 reviews2021
    Dev: Immortal Hand Studios
    Windows · Linux
    Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 47.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%

    Scavenge abandoned ruins, craft gear from scrap and salvaged materials, and fight the environment itself as hunger, exposure, and exhaustion push you to your limits. There are no second chances—only adaptation or death.

    Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 51.3%, Building 11.4%, Crafting 11.1%, Survival 10.3%, Open World 10.3%

  39. #39 Alchemist's Awakening
    73% matchMostly Positive73% of 496 reviews2019
    Dev: OsarisGames
    Windows
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%

    Enter a world full of magic, mystery, beautiful landscapes and dangerous creatures. Build your own destiny, by yourself or with some friends, gather materials, use elements as attacks, recombine them into building blocks... and use your Alchemist's power to give life to any shape you built.

    Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 55.7%, Sandbox 11.9%, Crafting 11.2%, Open World 9.6%, Survival 8.6%

  40. #40 Escape The Pacific
    73% matchMixed68% of 754 reviews2018
    Dev: Gamers4Gamers Team
    Windows

    Raw, real survival in the Pacific. Build a modular floating base. Master realistic sailing mechanics. Face challenging Pacific-like weather & seasons. Hunt, craft, build & navigate using Sun Dial, Sextant & Triangulation. Explore an endless island cluster-based world. Simulate real life scenarios!

    Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.6%, Building 10.1%, Crafting 9.7%, Open World 9.4%, Sandbox 9.3%

  41. #41 Northern Lights
    73% matchMixed67% of 296 reviews2020
    Dev: MadGoat Studio
    Windows

    Northern Lights is an open world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the arctic tundra. Clinging to life, you must use real-life survival techniques to gather resources, craft, and hunt while tending to your health and sanity. Can you survive your way out of the mysterious island?

    Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 50.9%, Sandbox 10.6%, Open World 10.5%, Survival 10.2%, Crafting 9.9%

  42. #42 Solace Crafting
    71% matchMostly Positive72% of 891 reviews2022
    Dev: Big Kitty Games
    Windows · Linux

    Embark on an adventure set in a fantasy survival RPG. Visit a borderless, open world where you manage resources to construct your base and new types of equipment to support your conquest.

    Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.7%, Crafting 10.1%, Building 9.7%, Survival 9.7%, Open World 9.1%

  43. #43 Miniland Adventure
    70% matchMostly Positive74% of 328 reviews2023
    Dev: Imilkowski DevPub: Gameparic
    Windows
    Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 54%

    The world doesn't generate itself - you do it, shape the world as you wish! Start with nothing, and build dream houses for goblins and yourself while exploring, collecting resources, crafting, building, fighting, farming... and more!

    Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.7%, Sandbox 13.1%, Survival 10.6%, Building 10.5%, Crafting 9.3%

  44. #44 ARK: Survival Evolved
    69% matchVery Positive83% of 763,144 reviews2017
    Dev: Studio Wildcard
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 200.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%

    Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!

    Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 55.5%, Survival 11%, Open World 9%, Building 8.5%, Crafting 7.8%

  45. #45 Polygeddon
    69% matchMixed42% of 64 reviews2025
    Dev: Digital Dreamworks
    Windows

    You are on an island where everyone wants to kill you, ranging from weather conditions to dangerous enemies, your goal is to survive. Survive alone or together. Build, craft, grow, explore, fight!

    Why similar: Open World 18.8%, Sandbox 18.8%, Survival 18.3%, Crafting 16.8%, Building 12.8%

  46. #46 FortressCraft Evolved!
    70% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,055 reviews2015
    Dev: ProjectorGamesPub: Digital Tribe
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 72%

    FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.

    Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 52.2%, Sandbox 10.3%, Building 10.3%, Crafting 9.5%, Survival 7.1%

  47. #47 Survive The Island
    70% matchMixed53% of 81 reviews2021
    Dev: PhantomCore StudioPub: PhantomCore PUBLISHING
    Windows

    survive the island you survive from skeletons and humans you can build and mine and level up your stats you can build whatever you want you can raid enemies you can mine and cut down trees and you have to hunt for your own food and you can grow your own crops and you can craft weapons

    Why similar: Sandbox 27.9%, Building 23.4%, Survival 17.9%, Crafting 15.8%, Open World 13.3%

  48. #48 Nova Lands
    66% matchVery Positive89% of 3,351 reviews2023
    Dev: BEHEMUTTPub: HypeTrain Digital
    Windows
    Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%

    Nova Lands is a factory building, exploration, and island management game. Explore, engage in combat, and automate your industry. The planet you’re on is full of mysteries, creatures, people, and things to do. Welcome to your new home amongst the stars!

    Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.5%, Sandbox 11.4%, Crafting 8.9%, Building 8.7%, Open World 8.6%

  49. #49 ToGather:Island
    69% matchVery Positive83% of 53 reviews2019
    Dev: Studio KamiiPub: Todak Studios
    Windows

    ToGather:Island is an open world survival game set in a science-fantasy archipelago

    Why similar: Survival 24.4%, Crafting 23%, Building 14.9%, Open World 11.2%, Adventure 10%

  50. #50 Short Snow | Cold Survival Game
    67% matchMixed55% of 102 reviews2025
    Dev: MubDev
    Windows

    A realistic open-world survival experience. After a harrowing plane crash, you find yourself stranded in the wilderness. Battling freezing temperatures and hunger, you face an unknown virus that slowly paralyzes muscles, leaving its victims motionless and at the mercy of the unforgiving cold.

    Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.1%, Survival 11.1%, Open World 11%, Sandbox 8.6%, Crafting 8.2%

  51. #51 Dead District: Survival
    68% matchMixed49% of 465 reviews2023
    Dev: BadBit Games
    Windows
    Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%

    Open-world survival sandbox with base-building, crafting, farming and multiplayer. Explore a dangerous island, fight, build and stay alive.

    Why similar: Survival 23.5%, Crafting 22.5%, Sandbox 22.2%, Open World 16.5%, Exploration 9.2%

  52. #52 Bootstrap Island
    64% matchVery Positive83% of 1,099 reviews2026
    Dev: Maru VR
    Windows

    A Robinson Crusoe–inspired VR roguelike survival adventure set in the 17th century. Shipwrecked on a ruthless tropical island, you must survive without guidance. Trust your instincts as you face wild beasts, nature’s fury, and a mysterious local tribe.

    Why similar: Building 27.4%, Survival 23.9%, Open World 23.4%, Adventure 9.7%, Exploration 9%

  53. #53 Lost Skies: Island Creator
    65% matchVery Positive84% of 86 reviews2024
    Dev: Bossa StudiosPub: Humble Games
    Windows

    Sculpt your island, design places for other players to explore, and even set traps or create puzzles in the Lost Skies: Island Creator! Each island tells its own story; are you ready to craft yours?

    Why similar: Level Editor 29.5%, Building 21%, Sandbox 18%, Open World 14%, Survival 12%

  54. #54 The Forest
    64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 665,921 reviews2018
    Dev: Endnight Games Ltd
    Windows
    Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 37.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%

    As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.

    Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 56.8%, Survival 11.5%, Open World 8.8%, Crafting 6.9%, Building 6.7%

  55. #55 Don't Starve
    66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 112,271 reviews2013
    Dev: Klei Entertainment
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 28.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%

    Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.

    Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.2%, Survival 17.3%, Crafting 9.9%, Sandbox 9.1%, Open World 5.1%

  56. #56 Block Survival: Legend of the Lost Islands
    68% matchVery Positive84% of 81 reviews2017
    Dev: Battle Blockyverse Studios
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 48 minMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 47%

    As the lone survivor of a plane crash, use weapons as your tools and bullets as your shelter in a fast paced FPS mixing survival and crafting with old school mechanics, in a setting with everything from Vikings to dinosaurs to mechs! Book your flight today, and explore the Lost Islands!

    Why similar: Crafting 38.1%, Adventure 35.7%, Indie 26.2%

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