Games Like Don't Starve Together

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 57.7% ★, Survival 33.1%, Crafting 2.5%, Multiplayer 1.9%, Sandbox 1.5%

Why You'll Like It: The original single-player game delivers the same gothic art, demanding wilderness survival, crafting, seasonal threats, and experimental spirit as Don't Starve Together.

Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 67.6% ★, Survival 18%, Multiplayer 3.5%, Co-op 2.5%, Sandbox 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: Terraria offers an enormous 2D sandbox full of gathering, crafting, building, dangerous nights, bosses, and memorable cooperative expeditions.

Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 55.6% ★, Survival 22.7%, Co-op 4.5%, Multiplayer 4.1%, Open World 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its top-down pixel-art exploration, cooperative base building, boss progression, farming, and resource-driven survival make it an especially natural multiplayer alternative.

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 56.6% ★, Survival 23.8%, Multiplayer 3.8%, Co-op 3.6%, Crafting 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: From Klei, this lighter co-op survival adventure combines island exploration, crafting, base building, and clever systems such as training monkeys to automate work.

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 71.3% ★, Survival 14.5%, Multiplayer 3.1%, Co-op 2.7%, Open World 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: This top-down survival sandbox mixes exploration and crafting with settlement management, NPC workers, dungeons, and drop-in multiplayer.

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 71% ★, Survival 15%, Multiplayer 2.5%, Co-op 2.4%, Sandbox 2.2%

Why You'll Like It: Starbound translates the 2D crafting-and-exploration loop into a universe of procedurally generated planets, with multiplayer building and survival-oriented progression.

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: Open World Survival Craft 63.3% ★, Survival 20.2%, Multiplayer 3.5%, Co-op 2.9%, Open World 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: Valheim captures the rewarding co-op rhythm of preparing, building, exploring, and surviving increasingly dangerous biomes and boss encounters.

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 62.8% ★, Survival 19.2%, Co-op 3.5%, Multiplayer 3.4%, Open World 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its colorful 2D co-op sandbox structure centers on gathering materials, crafting gear and bases, exploring biomes, and fighting bosses with friends.

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: Open World Survival Craft 54.9% ★, Survival 31.1%, Multiplayer 3.7%, Open World 3.3%, Co-op 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its uncompromising hunger, weather, scavenging, crafting, base defense, and multiplayer survival systems offer a more realistic but similarly tense challenge.

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 60.6% ★, Survival 24.9%, Multiplayer 4.2%, Co-op 4%, Crafting 2%

Why You'll Like It: Raft provides a relaxed-but-dangerous co-op survival loop of scavenging, expanding a shared floating home, crafting tools, and exploring islands.

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: Open World Survival Craft 56.6% ★, Survival 27.2%, Multiplayer 4.4%, Co-op 4.3%, Crafting 2.2%

Why You'll Like It: Grounded turns backyard exploration into a cooperative survival adventure with inventive creature threats, base building, crafting, and a strong sense of discovery.

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: Open World Survival Craft 64.1% ★, Survival 22%, Multiplayer 4.1%, Online Co-Op 2.1%, Co-op 2.1%

Why You'll Like It: Green Hell offers a more realistic and intense cooperative take on survival, with detailed crafting, injuries, nutrition, shelter building, and hostile jungle exploration.

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 70.2% ★, Survival 23.1%, Open World 2.6%, Crafting 1.8%, Sandbox 0.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its combination of co-op base building, open-world scavenging, cave exploration, cannibal attacks, and escalating survival danger suits players who like Don't Starve Together's darker side.

The Wild Eight is an intense survival action-adventure set in the frozen wilderness of Alaska. Team up with friends in online co-op or go solo, explore the mysterious land, craft weapons and fight to live another day.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 62% ★, Survival 24.1%, Multiplayer 3.2%, Co-op 3.1%, Open World 2.2%

Why You'll Like It: This harsh co-op wilderness survival game focuses on hunger, cold, crafting, exploration, and helping a group endure an unforgiving frozen landscape.

7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 59.1% ★, Survival 29.1%, Multiplayer 3.9%, Open World 3.1%, Online Co-Op 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its gathering-and-crafting loop culminates in regular horde nights, making collaborative preparation and base defense central to survival.

A vibrant blend of survival and action RPG for 1-10 players! Craft legendary items, grow your home base and embark on an epic journey through procedural realms to face towering creatures hel-bent on unleashing Ragnarök. Valhalla can wait, Einherjar!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 70.8% ★, Survival 18.1%, Multiplayer 4%, Co-op 3.8%, Online Co-Op 3%

Why You'll Like It: This isometric co-op survival game emphasizes gathering before nightfall, defending a shared base, crafting upgrades, and facing recurring world-ending threats.

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 60.2%, Co-op 10.4%, Multiplayer 9.6%, Open World 7.8%, Crafting 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: This expanded sequel offers polished co-op crafting, freely built shelters, environmental survival, exploration, and frightening encounters in an isolated wilderness.

Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 59.4% ★, Survival 23.1%, Multiplayer 4.2%, Open World 3.9%, Co-op 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: Palworld adds creature collection and automated production to an accessible open-world co-op survival loop of crafting, building, exploration, and combat.

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: Open World Survival Craft 63.6% ★, Survival 21.2%, Multiplayer 4.2%, Co-op 3.5%, Open World 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: ASTRONEER offers a gentler cooperative survival sandbox built around exploring alien planets, collecting resources, terraforming terrain, and constructing shared bases.

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 67% ★, Survival 21.5%, Multiplayer 3.3%, Open World 2.6%, Co-op 2.2%

Why You'll Like It: ARK delivers large-scale multiplayer survival through gathering, crafting, base building, taming creatures, and enduring dangerous prehistoric environments.

Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 60.1% ★, Survival 21.9%, Multiplayer 4%, Co-op 3.8%, Open World 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: Surviving as a tiny person in a giant backyard gives its co-op gathering, crafting, base building, and creature encounters a playful sense of scale.

You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.

Why similar: Survival 61.6%, Open World 10.4%, Multiplayer 9.8%, Online Co-Op 6.7%, Crafting 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: Enshrouded blends cooperative building and crafting with open-world exploration, dangerous environmental zones, and progression through a corrupted fantasy landscape.

Awaken as a Vampire. Hunt for blood in nearby settlements to regain your strength and evade the scorching sun to survive. Raise your castle and thrive in an ever-changing, open world full of mystery. Gain allies online and conquer the land of the living.

Why similar: Survival 63.5%, Open World 9.6%, Multiplayer 9.3%, Crafting 6.9%, Online Co-Op 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: V Rising combines shared-base construction, resource collection, dangerous exploration, and boss-driven progression, with a distinctive vampire-survival premise.

Abiotic Factor is a survival crafting experience for 1-6 players set in the depths of an underground research facility. Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the world’s greatest minds must survive against the universe’s biggest threats.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 64.6% ★, Survival 23.5%, Multiplayer 3.4%, Crafting 3.2%, Online Co-Op 3%

Why You'll Like It: Its cooperative survival-crafting gameplay asks players to scavenge a bizarre science facility, build improvised bases, manage needs, and face strange threats.

Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 67.4% ★, Survival 16.9%, Co-op 4%, Multiplayer 3.3%, Open World 2.2%

Why You'll Like It: Voidtrain supports co-op scavenging, crafting, upgrading a mobile base, and exploring a surreal hostile world while continually pushing onward.

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: Open World Survival Craft 61.5% ★, Survival 23%, Multiplayer 3.9%, Co-op 3.1%, Open World 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its mission-based co-op survival emphasizes resource gathering, shelter construction, weather hazards, crafting, and managing expeditions on a hostile planet.

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: Open World Survival Craft 66.2% ★, Survival 21.1%, Open World 3.2%, Crafting 2.9%, Multiplayer 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: Crashlands offers a humorous 2D crafting-and-exploration adventure with plentiful recipes, base building, strange creatures, and an approachable survival-sandbox feel.

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: Open World Survival Craft 64.6% ★, Survival 20.8%, Co-op 4.3%, Open World 2.8%, Crafting 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: This calmer survival-crafting game focuses on gathering, base construction, exploration, and collaboratively transforming a barren planet into a livable world.

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: Open World Survival Craft 68.7% ★, Survival 24.6%, Open World 2.5%, Crafting 1.3%, Co-op 0.8%

The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 70.2% ★, Survival 21.4%, Crafting 2.9%, Multiplayer 2%, Sandbox 1.3%

The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.6% ★, Survival 35.1%, Multiplayer 4.3%, Crafting 3.3%, Open World 3.2%

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 67.5% ★, Survival 21.7%, Multiplayer 3.7%, Open World 2.3%, Crafting 2%

“A real Gem” – Destructoid at E3 “Offers a different experience for zombie game veterans” – Co-Optimus“Has a lot more going for it than smashing brains and gory, red goo ... With a surprisingly deep crafting system” – GamesRadarYou're shipwrecked on an isolated island, a desperate castaway in a total freakshow world. How will you survive?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 56.1% ★, Survival 31%, Co-op 3.7%, Crafting 2.9%, Multiplayer 2.8%

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: Survival 55.1%, Co-op 11%, Multiplayer 9.8%, Open World 7.6%, Crafting 7.2%

Dead or Alive? Make up your mind, stranger. We don’t like that undead business here in Louisiana…Survive solo or with friends as you look to fulfill your basic needs of food, water and shelter, crafting your own tools and weapons while you secure your camp and face flesh hungry zombies.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 57.3% ★, Survival 30.3%, Multiplayer 3.8%, Co-op 3.5%, Open World 2.4%

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: Open World Survival Craft 67.1% ★, Survival 21.3%, Multiplayer 3.2%, Crafting 2.4%, Open World 2.3%

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 74.4% ★, Survival 18.5%, Open World 2.1%, Crafting 1.7%, Sandbox 1.4%

Choose one of the characters and start your journey. The game has many interesting things in store: building, crafting, puzzles, bosses, mystery, laughs, quests etc.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 64.7% ★, Survival 20%, Multiplayer 4%, Co-op 3.3%, Crafting 2.3%

Shrunk again, but the world is much larger. In this open-world, single-player or co-op survival adventure, craft weapons and armor, build your base, and traverse the playground on your buggy. But something else is out there—and it hasn’t forgotten you.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 53.9% ★, Survival 27.8%, Co-op 4.4%, Multiplayer 4.2%, Open World 3%

Embark on a 1-4 players Co-op survival adventure in an open world wilderness in search of a myth called the Lod Stone. Build your house, sow your crops, brew potions, tame a horse and discover powerful abilities. Venture into dangerous dungeons, fight unique bosses to find the Lod stone.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 65.4% ★, Survival 20%, Co-op 4.8%, Open World 3%, Crafting 2.3%

Your fight for survival begins on the frozen shores of Tarvhas, where bitter cold and vicious creatures conspire to defeat the unprepared. Uncover the land’s dark history as you and fellow explorers traverse an unforgiving and hostile world to tame the Savage Lands.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 67.7% ★, Survival 20.5%, Multiplayer 2.8%, Open World 2.5%, Online Co-Op 2%

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 65.3% ★, Survival 22.9%, Crafting 2.7%, Sandbox 2.1%, Open World 2%

Miscreated is a multiplayer online hardcore survival game set in a post-apocalyptic future. You will need to survive against mutants, players, and even mother nature herself.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 68.2% ★, Survival 22.7%, Multiplayer 3%, Open World 2.7%, Crafting 1.4%

Explore, Build, Farm, Craft and Fight in this survival sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Delve deep to uncover the secret of the invading 'Faults' and restore stability to the land.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 62.8% ★, Survival 19.8%, Multiplayer 3.7%, Co-op 3.5%, Crafting 2.6%

You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?

Why similar: Multiplayer 44.8%, Crafting 20.5%, Open World 16.5%, Sandbox 14.2%, 2D 1.7%

A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 59.6% ★, Survival 20.3%, Co-op 4.3%, Multiplayer 3.9%, Open World 3%

Struggle to survive in a harsh medieval world. Hunt wildlife, mine resources, build structures, and craft weapons and armor in order to protect yourself. You may form a guild, bring war to all opposition, and try to seize the throne and become king!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 65.4% ★, Survival 21.5%, Multiplayer 3.5%, Open World 3%, Crafting 2.6%

Hurtworld is a hardcore multiplayer survival FPS with a focus on competitive gunplay and strategic map control. Built for hardcore gamers, Hurtworld aims to punish.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 58.4% ★, Survival 28.8%, Multiplayer 3.9%, Open World 3.2%, Crafting 2.6%

Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 67.1% ★, Survival 22.6%, Open World 2.9%, Crafting 2.3%, Multiplayer 2.2%

Muck is a survival-roguelike. Collect resources, find items & build a base to survive for as long as you can.

Why similar: Survival 71.9%, Multiplayer 11.3%, Crafting 7.5%, Open World 6.7%, Adventure 1.4%

CastleMiner Z is an infinite world filled with deep places to explore, and horrifying monsters to slay. Build structures out of blocks, craft weapons and tools from raw materials, and explore the vast and frightening world around you.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 65.6% ★, Survival 20.8%, Multiplayer 3.4%, Co-op 2.5%, Open World 2%

Hardcore and realistic; LiF is a Medieval multiplayer sandbox RPG, with free terraforming, a rich crafting system and preset and modular building construction. With engaging survival aspects, no target physics-based combat and a unique formation system - along with numerous other features - LiF is not for the faint of heart!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 67.4% ★, Survival 19.9%, Open World 3.3%, Crafting 2.7%, Multiplayer 2.7%

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 66.3% ★, Survival 21.7%, Open World 3.1%, Crafting 3.1%, Multiplayer 2.4%

Brave a savage, unforgiving procedurally generated world where extreme weather and the nightmares of the dark will hunt you down. Alone or in co-op, survive, build, and explore to turn a cursed hellscape into your sanctuary of light.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 65.2% ★, Survival 21.3%, Crafting 3%, Open World 2.8%, Online Co-Op 2.4%

Fish, farm, craft, gather, cook, loot or steal from other players and build a campsite or a village with your friends in an open-world multiplayer sandbox game without rules!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 56.6% ★, Survival 25.6%, Multiplayer 5.2%, Co-op 3.4%, Open World 3.4%

Overcooked returns with a brand-new helping of chaotic cooking action! Journey back to the Onion Kingdom and assemble your team of chefs in classic couch co-op or online play for up to four players. Hold onto your aprons… it’s time to save the world again!

Why similar: Multiplayer 38.1%, Co-op 29.5%, Online Co-Op 23.9%, Funny 3.4%, Difficult 3%

Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts is a Multiplayer Survival Horror game for up to 4 players. Set in the Middle of the Unknown, you can craft, build, explore and discover secrets in the exciting first chapter from EFNSOFT.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 64.2% ★, Survival 20.9%, Multiplayer 3.3%, Open World 3.2%, Crafting 2.7%

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 65.8% ★, Survival 24.5%, Crafting 2.8%, Multiplayer 2.1%, Open World 2.1%

No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 72% ★, Survival 16.9%, Open World 4%, Multiplayer 3.1%, Crafting 1.5%