- #1 Dead In Vinland
97% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,795 reviews2018
Dev: Ishtar Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 92%
DEAD IN VINLAND is a survival/management game, mixed with RPG and adventure elements, about a Viking family trying their best to survive on a mysterious island.
Why similar: Survival 32.5%, RPG 13.8%, Strategy 12.8%, Simulation 11.7%, Turn-Based 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: This is the direct spiritual successor to Dead In Bermuda, featuring nearly identical mechanics with expanded RPG and combat systems.
- #2 Sheltered
96% matchVery Positive82% of 6,212 reviews2016
Dev: UnicubePub: Team17 Digital Ltd
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Sheltered is a deep and emotional survival management game. You take on the role of protecting four family members who, after a global apocalypse, have found their way to a deserted shelter.
Why similar: Survival 51.5%, Management 10.4%, Strategy 10.2%, RPG 6.9%, Crafting 6%
Why You'll Like It: You must manage a family unit in a post-apocalyptic shelter, balancing resource allocation and base maintenance similar to the management loop in Dead In Bermuda.
- #3 Card Survival: Tropical Island
96% 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: Survival 40.3%, Simulation 13.4%, Crafting 12.6%, Strategy 10.3%, Turn-Based 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: This game provides a highly detailed, card-based simulation of island survival that captures the granular resource management of the seed game.
- #4 This War of Mine
95% matchVery Positive94% of 96,656 reviews2014
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 16.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
In This War Of Mine you do not play as an elite soldier, rather a group of civilians trying to survive in a besieged city; struggling with lack of food, medicine and constant danger from snipers and hostile scavengers. The game provides an experience of war seen from an entirely new angle.
Why similar: Survival 57.3%, Strategy 9.8%, Crafting 8.4%, Simulation 8.3%, Management 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the same focus on managing a group of survivors with individual needs and morale in a high-stakes, narrative-driven environment.
- #5 Dead Age
94% matchVery Positive82% of 5,580 reviews2016
Dev: Silent DreamsPub: Headup
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Survive the zombie apocalypse with a “Final Fantasy” turn-based combat and permanent death! Manage survivors, craft materials, and make difficult decisions. Defend your camp against hordes of the undead to prevail in this non-linear rogue-lite (comparable to FTL). Innovative Indie Survival-RPG!
Why similar: Survival 31.6%, RPG 17.1%, Strategy 13.3%, Simulation 11.4%, Turn-Based 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: This game blends turn-based RPG combat with survival management, focusing on group dynamics and resource scarcity.
- #6 Frostpunk
94% matchVery Positive93% of 132,545 reviews2018
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 22.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?
Why similar: Survival 52.1%, Strategy 18.4%, Resource Management 12.9%, Management 8.7%, Simulation 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: This game elevates the management-survival genre by forcing you to make difficult moral choices while managing the survival of a whole community.
- #7 RimWorld
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 236,346 reviews2018
Dev: Ludeon Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 59.1 hrsMean: 259.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
Why similar: Survival 47.3%, Management 17.7%, Strategy 14.9%, Simulation 14.5%, Indie 4.3%
Why You'll Like It: It offers deep, emergent storytelling through the management of individual colonists with unique traits and needs in a hostile environment.
- #8 The Bonfire: Forsaken Lands
93% matchMostly Positive77% of 220 reviews2018
Dev: Xigma Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Build, discover, craft and survive.Build your settlement in a snowy encampment, survive monster attacks and manage resources to uncover the secrets of the ancients.
Why similar: Survival 34.9%, Simulation 21.7%, RPG 17.5%, Strategy 17.1%, Indie 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the feeling of building and managing a small settlement while exploring a dangerous, mysterious landscape.
- #9 Last Wood
92% matchMixed67% of 583 reviews2022
Dev: JustUsGameLab
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 66%
In Last Wood, it is an oceanic world after the Fall. You will guide several survivors in the ocean from pieces of rafts, survive, build rafts, defense the threats, explore the unknown world, even have their offsprings, and find the truth of the world.
Why similar: Survival 46.4%, Simulation 29.9%, Adventure 13.3%, Indie 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: A survival management game where you lead survivors on a raft, focusing on crafting and resource allocation to stay alive.
- #10 60 Seconds! Reatomized
90% matchVery Positive94% of 18,699 reviews2019
Dev: Robot Gentleman
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
The post-apocalyptic dark comedy is back - remastered and even more radioactive than before! Scavenge supplies, rescue your family, and stay alive in your fallout shelter. Make difficult decisions, hunt mutant roaches... and maybe survive. Or not.
Why similar: Survival 50.6%, Management 23.6%, Strategy 20.9%, Exploration 4.9%
Why You'll Like It: It features a similar high-pressure management loop where you must allocate limited resources to keep your survivors alive after a catastrophe.
- #11 Zafehouse: Diaries
91% matchMixed68% of 440 reviews2013
Dev: Screwfly Studios
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Stuck in a remote, abandoned town, you must lead five survivors with conflicting motivations, fragile relationships and fiery prejudices to safety from the roving undead. A sophisticated engine generates new survivors, towns and content so every adventure is a different experience, and you can use built-in editors to add yourself and...
Why similar: Survival 33.3%, Simulation 19%, Strategy 19%, RPG 12.8%, Turn-Based 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: A strategic management game where you must organize survivors and manage their relationships to survive a zombie outbreak.
- #12 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
89% matchVery Positive81% of 2,242 reviews2018
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Why similar: Survival 46.4%, Strategy 12.2%, Simulation 11.5%, Crafting 10.7%, Management 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: This title combines base-building and resource management with RPG elements as you lead a group of survivors in a demon-infested world.
- #13 Aground
89% 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: Survival 54%, Management 20.8%, RPG 17.5%, Exploration 5.2%, Casual 2.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game features a strong progression loop of crafting, mining, and base-building that mirrors the sense of advancement found in Dead In Bermuda.
- #14 Stranded Deep
87% 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: Survival 63.3%, Crafting 17.1%, Simulation 6.3%, Adventure 5.2%, Strategy 3.5%
Why You'll Like It: A pure survival experience that focuses on the struggle of being lost on an island and the necessity of crafting to survive.
- #15 Organ Trail: Director's Cut
86% matchVery Positive88% of 3,135 reviews2013
Dev: The Men Who Wear Many Hats
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Organ Trail is a retro zombie survival game. Travel westward in a station wagon with 4 of your friends, scavenging for supplies and fending off the undead. Members of your party might die of dysentery or you might have to put them down yourself when they get bit.
Why similar: Survival 34.6%, Strategy 24.9%, Indie 12.4%, Simulation 11.2%, RPG 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the management of a group of survivors during a journey, requiring constant resource balancing and difficult decision-making.
- #16 The Pale Beyond
84% matchVery Positive89% of 2,115 reviews2023
Dev: Saltstone StudiosPub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 62%
You didn’t ask to lead this expedition, but here you are. Stuck in the ice, Captain missing, miles from civilisation. Someone has to take charge. Manage your meagre resources, balance safety and morale, make the hard calls, and head in the only direction you can - through The Pale Beyond.
Why similar: Survival 43.9%, Simulation 16.1%, Strategy 15.4%, Resource Management 12.8%, Adventure 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses heavily on the management of a crew in a harsh environment, where every decision impacts the survival and morale of your team.
- #17 Project Zomboid
84% matchVery Positive94% of 440,877 reviews2013
Dev: The Indie Stone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 14.8 hrsMean: 82.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 68.2%, Crafting 10.2%, Simulation 8.1%, RPG 7.5%, Indie 3.3%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore survival simulation that requires meticulous management of health, hunger, and base security.
- #18 Forsaken Isle
83% 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 51.3%, Crafting 17.5%, RPG 13.1%, Adventure 9.6%, Indie 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: A pixel-art survival game that focuses on crafting and exploration in a procedurally generated island environment.
- #19 Windbound
85% matchMixed59% of 1,161 reviews2020
Dev: 5 Lives StudiosPub: Deep Silver
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 63%
The Forbidden Islands are Calling, Unlock their Secrets. Shipwrecked on an island, explore, adapt and navigate the land and perilous seas to stay alive.
Why similar: Survival 39.1%, RPG 23.7%, Adventure 13.5%, Crafting 12.7%, Indie 9%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes survival and crafting while exploring a series of islands, capturing the adventure aspect of the seed game.
- #20 Rebirth of Island
86% matchMixed52% of 101 reviews2016
Dev: Yo_Serjio
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Survive, adapt, and research in the New World, with its rules, dwellers, and their laws. Head the colonization of these locations and ensure the independence and security of your population.
Why similar: Survival 30.1%, Strategy 18.4%, RPG 16%, Crafting 9.7%, Adventure 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a classic survival-strategy experience with an emphasis on exploration and resource management.
- #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: Survival 57.1%, Crafting 17.3%, RPG 14.5%, Adventure 6%, Exploration 5.1%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-mystery game that tasks you with investigating an island while managing your basic needs.
- #22 Survivalist: Invisible Strain
81% matchVery Positive87% of 4,190 reviews2025
Dev: BobPub: Ginormocorp Incorporated
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
It's ten years since the infection started. Long-established settlements are collapsing, one by one, for unknown reasons. Survivors are running to the hills to escape, hoping for safety in remote places. As another refugee, you're here to carve out a new life for yourself - by any means necessary.
Why similar: Survival 40.7%, RPG 20.2%, Simulation 17.7%, Crafting 16.7%, Exploration 4.6%
Why You'll Like It: This game combines base-building and community management with survival mechanics in an open-world setting.
- #23 Don't Starve
82% 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: Survival 67.6%, Crafting 14.8%, Adventure 6.1%, Indie 5%, Simulation 3.9%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a challenging survival experience with a heavy emphasis on crafting and managing hunger and sanity levels.
- #24 Radiation Island
82% matchVery Positive80% of 623 reviews2016
Dev: Atypical Games
Windows
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: Survival 68.9%, Adventure 11.7%, Crafting 10.7%, Indie 7.7%, Singleplayer 1%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers an open-world survival experience with a focus on crafting and uncovering the mysteries of a strange location.
- #25 Oxygen Not Included
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 138,890 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 67.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Why similar: Survival 51%, Management 12.6%, Resource Management 11.6%, Simulation 9.5%, Strategy 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: While sci-fi themed, it is the pinnacle of complex resource and character management in a survival environment.
- #26 Dead in Antares
78% matchVery Positive82% of 155 reviews2026
Dev: Ishtar GamesPub: Nacon
Windows
Dead in Antares is a turn-based survival management game with RPG elements, set on an alien planet. Lead a crew of survivors sent on a mission to save humanity. Manage their needs, strengthen their teamwork, and explore this mysterious world to find a way back home.
Why similar: Survival 34.5%, Simulation 14.1%, Strategy 12.3%, RPG 11.9%, Management 10.1%
- #27 Crashlands
79% matchVery Positive90% of 6,633 reviews2016
Dev: Butterscotch Shenanigans
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 13.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Fight and tame alien beasts, craft resources into menacing weaponry, befriend the outlandish locals, and go toe-to-chin with a world-domineering maniac.
Why similar: Survival 45.6%, Crafting 18.3%, RPG 16.7%, Adventure 7.7%, Indie 6%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-crafting game that features a strong RPG progression system and a focus on exploring a dangerous alien world.
- #28 Z Dawn
80% matchMostly Positive74% of 282 reviews2019
Dev: GoldenGod Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Z Dawn is a survival RPG that takes place in a post-apocalyptic world in which you get to manage a group of survivors to fight for their life, level up their skills, help fight off different breeds of zombies, build and upgrade camp, face hundreds of thrilling events and much more!
Why similar: Survival 36.5%, Strategy 16.1%, RPG 14.4%, Turn-Based 14.1%, Crafting 13%
Why You'll Like It: A strategy-RPG hybrid that focuses on managing a group of survivors and scavenging for supplies in a post-apocalyptic setting.
- #29 Delivery from the Pain:Survival / 末日方舟:生存
79% matchVery Positive81% of 1,006 reviews2019
Dev: HuaYiTianXinPub: DigiPotato
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 76%
You'll play as a survivor in a world overrun by zombies. Explore and interact with other survivors, making tough choices about whether to help or exploit them. Defend against zombies, collect resources, craft, and fortify your shelter. Use strategy to escape this world and return to safety.
Why similar: Survival 44.3%, Strategy 14.4%, Simulation 13.4%, RPG 13.2%, Adventure 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: It features a strong narrative and survival-management loop where you must make choices to keep your character alive.
- #30 Island, Sex & Survival
76% matchMostly Positive76% of 200 reviews2024
Dev: 無人島觀光促進會Pub: Alice Publication
Windows
You began a new life on the mysterious deserted island after drifting there due to a shipwreck, starting from scratch. Building a base, exploring different areas of the island, living alongside various female characters you encounter, and experiencing all sorts of miraculous events.
Why similar: Strategy 32%, Management 30.4%, Resource Management 16.7%, Indie 8.8%, Exploration 5.3%
- #31 Mad Island
74% matchVery Positive92% of 4,269 reviews2024
Dev: EmadePlus
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 20.0 hrs≥1hr: 78%
This survival game is packed with features including crafting, exploring, building, excavation, farming, fishing, capturing creatures, torture, battle, and a story with many forks along the way. The objective is to escape the island, but is that really your only choice?
Why similar: Survival 59.8%, RPG 14.2%, Crafting 12.9%, Management 10.1%, Exploration 2.2%
- #32 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: Simulation 25.6%, Survival 24.2%, Strategy 16.4%, Adventure 13.3%, Crafting 10.8%
- #33 Infectonator: Survivors
77% matchMixed67% of 1,151 reviews2016
Dev: Toge Productions
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
"Infectonator : Survivors" is a Randomized Permadeath Survival Simulator that combines RTS, Tower Defense, Roguelike, and Management-Simulation gameplay. The goal is to lead a group of survivors in a struggle to stay alive and find rescue in a zombie apocalyptic world.
Why similar: Survival 43.3%, Strategy 20.8%, Simulation 13%, RPG 10.9%, Indie 6.6%
- #34 Beasts of Bermuda
75% matchMixed69% of 9,507 reviews2018
Dev: Sastrei Studios, LLC
Windows
Median: 23.0 hrsMean: 331.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Play as a dinosaur and become part of a player-created ecosystem! Beasts of Bermuda is a multiplayer game where players endure catastrophic storms and fearsome foes while growing to monstrous sizes. Do you have what it takes to survive in the Bermuda Triangle?
Why similar: Survival 59%, Simulation 25.2%, Adventure 8.3%, Indie 5.7%, RPG 1.7%
- #35 Survivors: Match-3 Island Adventure
72% matchVery Positive83% of 121 reviews2026
Dev: G5 Entertainment AB
Windows
Survive on a mysterious island after a plane crash! Solve match-3 puzzles, restore your camp, craft tools, grow crops, explore jungles and lagoons, uncover hidden treasures and reveal the island’s secrets!
Why similar: Adventure 33.2%, Management 28.5%, Crafting 20.8%, Casual 8.8%, Exploration 7.5%
- #36 Betrayal Beach
73% matchMostly Positive79% of 244 reviews2024
Dev: Jared Nolen
Windows
Crashed on a strange island, survivors must forage, craft, and complete objectives to stay alive. But ferocious beasts, harsh weather, and secret saboteurs seek to make sure they never escape. Betray your friends or survive the island in Betrayal Beach, a 4-8 player social deduction survival game.
Why similar: Survival 52.4%, Strategy 21.6%, Crafting 9.2%, Resource Management 7%, Indie 5.9%
- #37 Island Notes
71% matchVery Positive83% of 737 reviews2025
Dev: KangBaoGame
Windows
Shipwrecked on a mysterious island, choose self-preservation or alliances. Master base-building, farming, fishing, romance and pet taming in this morally-charged survival simulator that blends strategy with human drama. Forge bonds, conquer nature, and evolve your humanity.
Why similar: RPG 64.4%, Adventure 34.8%, Singleplayer 0.8%
- #38 Out of Reach
75% 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: Survival 63.4%, Crafting 19.1%, Simulation 7.4%, Adventure 4.9%, Indie 2.8%
- #39 Down in Bermuda
72% matchVery Positive89% of 1,556 reviews2021
Dev: Yak & Co
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 15.3 hrs≥1hr: 69%
An unnatural storm leaves an adventurous aviator stranded for decades within the infamous Bermuda. Overcome creatures of the deep and unravel the islands secrets in search of a way back home.
Why similar: Adventure 66.5%, Indie 26.1%, Casual 7.4%
- #40 Peregrino
71% matchMostly Positive70% of 164 reviews2026
Dev: Inverge Studios
Windows
Peregrino is a dark isometric survival adventure where you explore a cursed forest by day and manage your caravan by night. Gather resources, hunt deadly creatures, upgrade your caravan, care for your companions, and lead them through the vast wilderness in search of New Eden.
Why similar: Management 25.5%, RPG 24.8%, Strategy 24.3%, Crafting 10.3%, Adventure 7.2%
- #41 Dead State: Reanimated
73% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,543 reviews2014
Dev: DoubleBear Productions
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Dead State is a narrative-driven survival RPG set at the dawn of the undead apocalypse. Drawing inspiration from classic RPGs like Fallout, X-Com, and Suikoden, Dead State combines strategic, turn-based combat with base building mechanics, character creation, and social management.
Why similar: Survival 53.1%, RPG 17.2%, Turn-Based 12.4%, Strategy 11.9%, Simulation 2.6%
- #42 Surviving Ceres
69% matchVery Positive87% of 137 reviews2025
Dev: Ryan SaundersPub: One Man Media
Windows
Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building. Export manufactured goods to earn funding, manage colonists, defend against hostile aliens, and work towards terraforming Ceres from a frozen ball of ice to a tropical paradise.
Why similar: Survival 35.9%, Simulation 15.2%, Crafting 14.6%, Management 13.4%, RPG 9.7%
- #43 My Island
70% 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: Survival 56.1%, Crafting 15.1%, Simulation 12.1%, Adventure 6.5%, RPG 5.7%
- #44 Survival: Fountain of Youth
68% 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: Survival 50.9%, Crafting 18.9%, Simulation 17.1%, Adventure 7.4%, Exploration 4.2%
- #45 Evolution of Ages: Settlements
71% matchVery Positive86% of 292 reviews2018
Dev: TREON Games
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Evolution of Ages is a game of managing resources in the ruins of our world. Recruit characters and level their skills and equipment from the stone age until the space age, while trying your best to avoid the very thing that led to our destruction previously.
Why similar: Strategy 22.2%, Simulation 21.5%, RPG 18.6%, Management 15.7%, Crafting 13.3%
- #46 Island Paradise
68% 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: Crafting 39.2%, Strategy 22.1%, Simulation 20.6%, Adventure 9.4%, Exploration 8.7%
- #47 Wayward
69% 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: Survival 47.7%, Crafting 15.9%, RPG 11.2%, Simulation 9.1%, Turn-Based 7.7%
- #48 Faun Town
67% matchMostly Positive78% of 105 reviews2025
Dev: 游乐坊Pub: 2P Games
Windows
After crash-landing on a mysterious island with no memories of the past, set out to explore the island and scavenge for resources to build automated production lines and repair the damaged ship.
Why similar: Strategy 19%, Crafting 18.3%, Simulation 17.3%, RPG 16.9%, Resource Management 12.4%
- #49 Better Late Than DEAD
73% matchMostly Negative28% of 909 reviews2016
Dev: Odin Game StudioPub: Excalibur Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 30 minMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 34%
Awaking on an island with no memory, you have just one memento of the life you led before… A child's photograph. Who is this? You must search the island for useful tools that will aid in your escape. As time passes and hopes of survival hang by a thread, you realise that this island is not as it seems.
Why similar: Survival 70.7%, Crafting 18.4%, Adventure 6.5%, Indie 3.9%, Singleplayer 0.5%
- #50 Highrisers
70% matchMostly Negative38% of 121 reviews2021
Dev: Solar Powered GamesPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
An Urban Survival RPG! Crafting, Exploring and Defending in a desolate metropolis haunted by the mysterious dreamers. Lead a team of 4 survivors through this urban desert of skyscrapers and high-rises, where the streets are crowded with the mutated victims of a strange disease.
Why similar: Survival 40.5%, Crafting 16.7%, RPG 13.9%, Resource Management 10.5%, Strategy 8.9%
- #51 Eden Island
67% 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: Survival 61.8%, Crafting 25%, Adventure 10.2%, Casual 3%
- #52 Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville
68% matchVery Positive86% of 2,019 reviews2015
Dev: Northway Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Rebuild a ruined city in this post-apocalyptic mix of strategy and simulation. Manage survivors, scavenge for food and supplies, deal with rival gangs, illness, interpersonal strife and zombie attacks.
Why similar: Survival 40.9%, Management 16%, Strategy 15.8%, RPG 14.1%, Simulation 13.2%
- #53 Project Cobalt
65% 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: Survival 39.3%, Crafting 16.2%, Management 12.8%, Simulation 11.2%, Resource Management 10.3%
- #54 Don't Bite Me Bro! +
67% matchMostly Positive80% of 347 reviews2018
Dev: MUIFWEGO
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 43%
Don't Bite Me Bro! is a 1-4 Player Couch Co-op open-world zombie apocalypse game. Explore the world for resources, find and save survivors throughout the world, each which become playable characters with unique traits and abilities.
Why similar: Survival 33%, Strategy 19.4%, Simulation 18%, RPG 15.2%, Adventure 7.8%
- #55 The Dead Await
65% matchMostly Positive73% of 145 reviews2024
Dev: ShotxPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Build your deck and try to survive in The Dead Await, a deck-building RPG set during a zombie apocalypse. As one of many survivors, set out across the desolate world, discover the truth about the outbreak, and rebuild human civilization - or die trying.
Why similar: Survival 37.8%, Strategy 17.4%, RPG 15.9%, Crafting 15.4%, Resource Management 10.1%
- #56 Life in Bunker
69% matchMixed60% of 333 reviews2016
Dev: Flox StudiosPub: Flox Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 56%
You've been elected as the new Bunker Warden! Now you must take control over a group of fellow bunker residents and try to make them last until the surface becomes habitable.
Why similar: Survival 42.1%, Strategy 18.2%, Simulation 17.8%, Management 10.7%, Resource Management 4.3%