- #1 Rust
97% matchVery Positive87% of 1,402,448 reviews2018
Dev: Facepunch Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 52.8 hrsMean: 431.0 hrs≥1hr: 96%
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 26.4% ★, Survival 19.1%, Crafting 14.8%, Multiplayer 8.8%, Open World 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: It is the definitive inspiration for the base building, raiding, and persistent survival loop found in DUCKSIDE.
- #2 Deadside
96% matchMostly Positive76% of 40,566 reviews2024
Dev: Bad Pixel
Windows
Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 44.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
An Open World Survival Shooter blending hardcore PVP and PVE action. Secure precious loot in safe zones or build your own fortress in the wild. With intense gunfights, stunning visuals, and performance smooth enough for any system, the challenge awaits!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.7% ★, Crafting 9.7%, Survival 9.5%, Third-Person Shooter 8%, Base Building 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a very similar tactical third-person shooter experience focused on survival and open-world combat.
- #3 DayZ
96% matchMostly Positive78% of 470,116 reviews2018
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 39.7 hrsMean: 281.7 hrs≥1hr: 96%
How long can you survive a post-apocalyptic world? A land overrun with an infected "zombie" population, where you compete with other survivors for limited resources. Will you team up with strangers and stay strong together? Or play as a lone wolf to avoid betrayal? This is DayZ – this is your story.
Why similar: Survival 17.6%, Post-apocalyptic 15.6%, PvP 10.7%, Shooter 9%, Multiplayer 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: Provides the foundational open-world survival experience with high-stakes PVP and environmental management.
- #4 Sunkenland
95% matchVery Positive80% of 24,007 reviews2023
Dev: Vector3 Studio
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 20.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Get ready for a Waterworld-themed survival game with modular base building, sunken city scavenging, crafting, base defense, and invasions of NPC clans for resources and territory. Ready for the water apocalypse?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.1% ★, Survival 11.4%, Crafting 9.6%, Base Building 8.7%, Post-apocalyptic 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on water-based survival and base building that mirrors the environmental challenges of DUCKSIDE.
- #5 SCUM
94% matchMostly Positive74% of 127,189 reviews2025
Dev: Gamepires
Windows
Median: 11.9 hrsMean: 105.4 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Welcome to SCUM, a ruthless open-world survival game where deep character customization defines the prisoner you become. Loot, craft, hunt, build, and fight to outlast a hostile island where every choice can change your fate. Stay alive. Stay dangerous. Become harder to kill.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.7% ★, Survival 12%, Crafting 11.5%, PvP 8.9%, Massively Multiplayer 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: Features deep, complex survival mechanics and a persistent world that rewards strategic base building and PVP.
- #6 Once Human
93% matchMostly Positive79% of 189,842 reviews2024
Dev: Starry Studio
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 52.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Once Human is a Strange Worlds Survival Game set in a strange, post-apocalyptic future. Unite with friends to fight monstrous enemies, uncover secret plots, compete for resources, and build your own territory. Once, you were merely human. Now, you have the power to remake the world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.5% ★, Post-apocalyptic 10.7%, Crafting 9.7%, Survival 9.1%, Base Building 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: A modern survival-crafting game that emphasizes base building and multiplayer PVP in a high-fidelity open world.
- #7 Miscreated
94% matchMixed66% of 31,592 reviews2018
Dev: Entrada Interactive LLC
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 38.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 41.9% ★, Survival 14.3%, Post-apocalyptic 9.4%, Open World 7.7%, Crafting 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: A solid open-world survival game with a strong focus on scavenging, PVP, and base defense.
- #8 Hurtworld
92% matchMostly Positive76% of 31,099 reviews2019
Dev: Bankroll Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 64.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 34.9% ★, Survival 17.6%, Crafting 13.2%, Multiplayer 8.9%, Open World 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: Delivers fast-paced survival and PVP mechanics that feel very similar to the core gameplay of DUCKSIDE.
- #9 Subsistence
91% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,861 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 40.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 43.3% ★, Survival 14.1%, Crafting 13.2%, Multiplayer 8.1%, Base Building 7%
Why You'll Like It: Strongly emphasizes base building and survival against both environmental threats and other players.
- #10 DeadPoly
91% matchMostly Positive78% of 6,250 reviews2022
Dev: TFL Games
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 64%
DeadPoly is a polygon arcade zombie survival looter shooter with base building, crafting, scavenging, leveling, questing, and more, but your only goal is survival, everything else is optional.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.2% ★, Third-Person Shooter 12.2%, Post-apocalyptic 10.8%, Crafting 8.8%, Survival 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: A low-poly survival game that captures the accessible, action-oriented feel of DUCKSIDE.
- #11 Unturned
90% matchVery Positive91% of 564,742 reviews2017
Dev: Smartly Dressed Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 73.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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: Post-apocalyptic 18.2%, Crafting 16.1%, Survival 14.8%, Shooter 10.6%, Multiplayer 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: Matches the quirky, stylized aesthetic while maintaining a surprisingly deep survival and PVP loop.
- #12 SurrounDead
89% matchVery Positive91% of 27,054 reviews2022
Dev: ZurvivorPub: PlaySurrounDead
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 16.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
SurrounDead is an open world survival game. Taking place in a world ravaged by an apocalyptic catastrophe. The dead reign free and will stop at nothing to kill you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.6% ★, Survival 17%, Post-apocalyptic 16.7%, Open World 11%, Base Building 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a gritty survival experience with a heavy focus on looting and base management.
- #13 XERA: Survival
89% matchMixed66% of 7,942 reviews2021
Dev: Spotted Kiwi Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 24.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Action-focused, open world survival shooter, PvPvE against fellow mercenaries and lethal XOIDS. Raid for resources alone or with team-mates, build and defend your base, stash your gear and survive against the odds. You are the hunters. You are the hunted. And the robots never sleep…
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.3% ★, Crafting 9.6%, Post-apocalyptic 9.5%, Base Building 9%, Third-Person Shooter 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on high-stakes PVP and looting in a persistent open-world environment.
- #14 Longvinter
88% matchMixed67% of 7,713 reviews2025
Dev: Uuvana Studios
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 45.1 hrs≥1hr: 69%
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 29.3% ★, Crafting 14.7%, Survival 13.6%, Multiplayer 10.3%, PvP 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: Shares a unique, stylized art direction while maintaining core survival and crafting loops.
- #15 Vigor
86% matchMixed46% of 8,036 reviews2024
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 45%
Outlive the apocalypse! Dive into intense Encounters and extract the most valuable spoils the Outlands have to offer! Loot, shoot, and build to become the absolute Outlander and explore the landscape of a post-war Norway in Vigor, a free-to-play looter shooter.
Why similar: Third-Person Shooter 21.6%, Post-apocalyptic 19.3%, PvP 12.3%, Multiplayer 11.5%, Shooter 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: A third-person extraction-based survival game that focuses heavily on high-stakes PVP and base development.
- #16 ARK: Survival Ascended
86% matchMixed60% of 118,321 reviews2023
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows
Median: 27.2 hrsMean: 198.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!
Why similar: Survival 22.2%, Crafting 17.4%, Base Building 14.2%, Open World 13.9%, Multiplayer 12.8%
Why You'll Like It: Offers extensive base building and survival mechanics within a persistent, dangerous multiplayer world.
- #17 Crushed
87% matchMixed53% of 321 reviews2020
Dev: NipoBoxPub: NipoBox Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Crushed — is an Singleplayer and Multiplayer First-Person Survival Sandbox in an Open World! Challenge the wild and be ready to survive in harsh conditions. Explore the world, get resources, cook food, build a house, farm, hunt, and enjoy nature.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35% ★, Survival 11.5%, Crafting 11%, Post-apocalyptic 10.1%, Base Building 8%
Why You'll Like It: A dedicated survival-crafting experience that emphasizes open-world exploration and resource gathering.
- #18 Dysterra
85% matchMixed56% of 773 reviews2025
Dev: Reality MagiQ
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 60%
On a future post-apocalyptic Earth, build, craft, and loot other players’ bases to survive long enough to board the rocket and escape the dangerous robots and mercenaries that inhabit Ararat Island. Manipulate the weather and use earthquakes to change when the server wipe occurs in DYSTERRA!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.7% ★, Post-apocalyptic 12.1%, Crafting 11.2%, Survival 9.2%, Base Building 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi survival game that incorporates base building and PVP elements in a futuristic setting.
- #19 PolyZ
84% matchMixed48% of 291 reviews2024
Dev: Thirteen37 Games™
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 1.8 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Imagine DayZ mixed with Escape From Tarkov, but in Low Poly. A persistent world survival game featuring PvP, PvE, crafting, base-building, and zombies infected with a contagious virus.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.6% ★, Post-apocalyptic 12.4%, Crafting 10.3%, Survival 10.2%, Base Building 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: A low-poly survival game that emphasizes multiplayer action and base building.
- #20 Taora : Survival
83% matchMixed59% of 421 reviews2024
Dev: Tulpar Games
Windows
Taora is an open world survival game with unique character building and crafting. Build and upgrade your base, and survive the zombie apocalypse !
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.1% ★, Third-Person Shooter 12.7%, Post-apocalyptic 12.4%, Crafting 11.1%, Survival 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: Features intense shooter mechanics and survival elements set in a post-apocalyptic world.
- #21 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
82% matchVery Positive82% of 10,551 reviews2024
Dev: Max Ent Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 32.3% ★, Survival 12%, Crafting 11.9%, Base Building 10.5%, Multiplayer 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a unique perspective on survival and building in a massive, dangerous open world.
- #22 Dead District: Survival
84% matchMixed47% of 500 reviews2023
Dev: BadBit Games
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.6 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: Third-Person Shooter 16.2%, Crafting 11.5%, Survival 11%, Post-apocalyptic 10.5%, Shooter 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: A straightforward survival experience with a focus on multiplayer combat and scavenging.
- #23 Plains of Pain
82% matchVery Positive83% of 1,036 reviews2023
Dev: Cobra Byte Digital
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Enter a living post-apocalyptic sandbox where the world doesn't wait for you. Build, craft, trade, earn the trust of factions, and forge your own path through a brutal procedural wasteland.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.9% ★, Third-Person Shooter 10.9%, Post-apocalyptic 10.8%, Crafting 8.9%, Survival 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival experience that prioritizes base building and PVP combat.
- #24 7 Days to Die
80% matchVery Positive87% of 405,507 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.4 hrsMean: 111.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 32.5% ★, Survival 16.4%, Post-apocalyptic 13.3%, Base Building 10.1%, Multiplayer 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for base building and survival against waves of enemies in a destructible world.
- #25 Lost Rift
81% matchMixed69% of 1,717 reviews2025
Dev: People Can Fly
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Lost Rift is a first person survival adventure shooter that blends cooperative base building with multiplayer PvE or PvP extraction expeditions. Journey solo or in teams of up to 5 players across a vast archipelago, craft gear, build bases, defeat raiders, and become legendary.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.7% ★, Crafting 12.3%, Survival 10.2%, Base Building 9.9%, PvP 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: Combines extraction shooter mechanics with survival and crafting in a persistent world.
- #26 SURVIVAL: Postapocalypse Now
81% matchMixed56% of 8,877 reviews2019
Dev: TB Games
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Want to survive? - Arm yourself and survive. Crafting, shooting, transport and much more awaits you in the Survival game. What happened to the world around and why he died - you may find out. But is this the main question now?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.2% ★, Survival 14.1%, Post-apocalyptic 10.7%, Multiplayer 6.9%, Open World 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: A classic open-world survival experience that emphasizes multiplayer PVP and exploration.
- #27 Last Whisper
79% matchMixed66% of 196 reviews2024
Dev: 12Studio
Windows
Last Whisper Survival is a cooperative zombie survival game where exploration of the open world is key. As you venture further, you'll need to upgrade your gear and level up your character and skill tree to handle the increasing challenges as you move through the world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.9% ★, Third-Person Shooter 15.9%, Survival 11.4%, PvP 10.2%, Online Co-Op 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: An action-oriented survival game with a focus on exploration and combat in a dangerous world.
- #28 ICARUS
78% matchMostly Positive75% of 68,864 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.4 hrsMean: 46.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 34% ★, Survival 13%, Crafting 11.2%, Base Building 10.2%, Multiplayer 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: A session-based survival game that emphasizes crafting and resource management in a hostile environment.
- #29 Zombie Survival Game Online
79% matchMixed69% of 317 reviews2023
Dev: Zombie Survival Game Online LLC
Windows
Zombie Survival Game Online is an open-world, post-apocalyptic, looter shooter. Craft, quest, explore, build, and fight for survival. Parkour up a mountainside, ramp a truck over a horde, and grab a gasmask to explore the sewers. Can you survive? Doubtful.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.3% ★, Post-apocalyptic 12.6%, Crafting 12%, Survival 10.3%, Base Building 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: A looter-shooter focused survival game that emphasizes multiplayer interaction and combat.
- #30 Next Day: Survival
78% matchMixed62% of 10,257 reviews2018
Dev: SOFF GamesPub: Last Level
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 21.6 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Next Day is a multi-player SURVIVAL game with elements of RPG, in an imaginary country in Eastern Europe. Carry out an array of tasks, learn skills, and develop your character. Have shootouts with opponents and earn a reputation.
Why similar: Survival 21.6%, Post-apocalyptic 18.1%, Open World 12.2%, Multiplayer 10.9%, Crafting 10.8%
- #31 Strayed
75% matchMostly Positive79% of 443 reviews2024
Dev: Crustacean Interactive
Windows
Strayed is a fast paced open world VR survival game where every session feels like a new adventure. Start with nothing on a fresh island, gather materials, craft weapons, build bases, and battle other players for the best loot.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.9% ★, Crafting 8.7%, Post-apocalyptic 8.5%, Survival 7.3%, Loot 7.3%
- #32 Not Quite Dead: Open World Survival
74% matchMixed62% of 247 reviews2026
Dev: Voidecho Studio
Windows
Open world zombie survival Coop game with base building, looting, crafting, vehicles, and exploration.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.6% ★, Third-Person Shooter 20.3%, Post-apocalyptic 14.7%, Multiplayer 8.4%, Co-op 6.6%
- #33 Nomad
77% matchMixed60% of 4,634 reviews2015
Dev: Diminished Studios
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Try and survive in the world of Nomad. Build a base and protect it from raiding players. Scavenge food, weapons and medical supplies across the island. Team up with others and make a base. Make your mark on the world of Nomad.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.5% ★, Survival 14.9%, Multiplayer 10.7%, Crafting 9.3%, Open World 7.6%
- #34 Hide & Hold Out - H2o
77% matchMixed54% of 631 reviews2016
Dev: Red Abyss Software
Windows · Linux
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 16.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Hide & Hold Out is a multiplayer survival game taking place in a devastated water world. Gather, build, team up with your friends and establish the foundations of your future floating empire utilizing the heavy guns of your battle ships!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.6% ★, Survival 13.2%, Crafting 9.3%, Massively Multiplayer 8.9%, Multiplayer 7.5%
- #35 Mesorift Survival
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 152 reviews2025
Dev: Meik.W Interactive
Windows
Mesorift Survival is a classic survival game with PvP and PvE elements, set in a tropical open world with three islands. Gather resources, build a base, craft weapons, and survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.9% ★, Survival 12.1%, PvP 10.2%, Base Building 9.6%, Shooter 9.2%
- #36 Road to Eden
76% matchMixed64% of 408 reviews2019
Dev: Zouking
Windows
Road to Eden is a third-person multiplayer survival coop game, set within the post-apocalyptic ruins of a world destroyed by an alien invasion. You wake up at the side of the road with no memory and must team up with other survivors to make the long and dangerous journey to Eden.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25% ★, Third-Person Shooter 12.8%, Crafting 12.3%, Survival 10.6%, Base Building 8.1%
- #37 Sunrise: survival
76% matchMixed48% of 532 reviews2017
Dev: Fedorov Ilya & Andrew Konovalov
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 34.3 hrs≥1hr: 47%
"Sunrise" - an online shooter with elements of survival from the first person. Your task is to survive in the harsh conditions of the post-apocalyptic world. Explore new regions, team up with other players in groups, survive with them and create your own rules of survival!
Why similar: Survival 24.2%, Post-apocalyptic 16.7%, Multiplayer 11.3%, Massively Multiplayer 10.9%, Crafting 7.1%
- #38 Escape From Duckov
70% matchVery Positive84% of 104,533 reviews2025
Dev: Team SodaPub: bilibili
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.4 hrsMean: 27.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Escape from Duckov is a PVE indie survival RPG — in a duck's world!. Scavenge for resources, build your hideout, and upgrade your gear in the world of Duckov. Start from nothing and rise to the top. Outwit hostile ducks, survive, or make it out alive.
Why similar: Third-Person Shooter 35.2%, Survival 20.8%, Base Building 19.4%, Shooter 18.3%, Action 3.1%
- #39 Volcanoids
73% matchVery Positive83% of 9,358 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.
Why similar: Crafting 17.8%, Base Building 14.1%, Survival 13.8%, Shooter 10.9%, Open World 9.1%
- #40 Grim
72% matchMixed57% of 149 reviews2025
Dev: Spoonfed Interactive
Windows
GRIM is an Exclusive VR Multiplayer Survival game where you must immerse yourself, stranded on a secluded part of Earth. Survival is not just a choice but a grueling battle against nature and other players. Gather resources, craft, and build your base, all to stay alive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.2% ★, Crafting 12.4%, Survival 11.2%, Post-apocalyptic 10.6%, PvP 8.5%
- #41 Outlaws of the Old West
74% matchMixed59% of 6,297 reviews2019
Dev: Virtual Basement LLCPub: Wandering Wizard
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Outlaws of the Old West is a massively multiplayer survival MMO with a huge world, thousands of items and a modular building system. Survive the wild, build your own homestead, defeat villainous bandits and work with others to tame the Wild West.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.5% ★, Survival 14.9%, Open World 9.6%, Multiplayer 9%, Massively Multiplayer 8.1%
- #42 Sitting Ducks
71% matchVery Positive82% of 102 reviews2026
Dev: The Gang StudioPub: The Gang Studio
Windows
A chaotic co-op armageddon game where you build ridiculous structures to survive world-ending disasters with sticky hands, physics chaos & friends who probably won’t save you. Don´t be a Sitting Duck!
Why similar: Survival 28%, Online Co-Op 20.4%, Multiplayer 19.7%, Co-op 15.6%, Third Person 10.6%
- #43 GRAV
75% matchMixed47% of 6,922 reviews2015
Dev: BitMonster, Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 60%
GRAV is a sand box experience where you explore a multitude of planets, hunt strange alien creatures, build and defend outposts, craft weapons and armor, and attempt to survive against other players in a hostile environment.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41% ★, Survival 13.5%, Base Building 10%, Crafting 9.8%, Open World 8.3%
- #44 Night of the Dead
70% matchMostly Positive77% of 11,888 reviews2024
Dev: Jackto Studios
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 32.0 hrs≥1hr: 83%
'Night of the Dead' is an open-world game that combines elements of exploration, tower defense, survival, and crafting. Traverse a world dominated by zombies while collecting various resources and powerful equipment. Build a fortress to survive the hordes of zombies that swarm every night!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.4% ★, Crafting 11.4%, Survival 9.3%, Base Building 9.1%, PvP 8.1%
- #45 Outerstellar
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 186 reviews2023
Dev: Strange Horizons Ltd
Windows
Stranded on a hostile and deadly planet, you must gather resources, build shelter, and fight to survive each night. But the secrets of this world await in a gripping sci-fi survival PvP game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26% ★, Third-Person Shooter 12.6%, Crafting 10.2%, Survival 10.1%, PvP 8.3%
- #46 Ruins To Fortress
71% matchMixed66% of 184 reviews2024
Dev: NimbleBeasts
Windows · Linux
Explore a post-apocalyptic island, craft, build, tear down enemy bases, defend and nuke your rivals! Life's about surviving in this multiplayer game, no matter what it takes!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.3% ★, Crafting 10.4%, Survival 9.2%, Base Building 8.1%, PvP 7.6%
- #47 BEACHED
72% matchMixed65% of 3,697 reviews2021
Dev: Gradient Studios
Windows
A free-to-play, low-poly, open-world survival shooter where you’ll battle other players, explore massive monuments, and fight to stay alive. Build and fortify your base to defend against enemy raids, gather resources, and conquer a harsh, competitive world. Survival means doing whatever it takes.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.5% ★, Third-Person Shooter 13.2%, Survival 10.7%, Shooter 8.9%, Multiplayer 8.3%
- #48 Renown
70% matchMixed58% of 1,591 reviews2025
Dev: RDBK Studios
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Renown is an intense medieval multiplayer survival experience set in a vast, ever-evolving world. Whether alone or rallying allies, gather resources, build powerful strongholds, and engage in brutal battles for dominance.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.5% ★, Crafting 12.4%, Survival 10.4%, PvP 9.1%, Base Building 7.8%
- #49 Survive the Nights
69% matchMixed66% of 6,793 reviews2025
Dev: a2z Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Hardcore open-world survival where preparation is everything. Scavenge, craft, fortify during the day. When night falls, the infected hunt in numbers. Play solo or with friends in a brutal post-apocalyptic sandbox where survival is earned through smart decisions. How many Nights will you survive?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.8% ★, Post-apocalyptic 16%, Survival 11.7%, Multiplayer 8.6%, Shooter 8.3%
- #50 Western Rye
68% matchMixed53% of 109 reviews2026
Dev: Nixalon Studios
Windows
Western Rye is an open world survival crafting adventure game set in the old west American Frontier. Create your dream outlaw! Survive the the wild west, farm, build your ranch, endure the weather, fight and forge your legend with friends or alone. In Western Rye, the wild west just got wilder!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.3% ★, Crafting 11.8%, Survival 9.9%, Third-Person Shooter 9.4%, Base Building 9.2%
- #51 The Last Disease Z
67% matchMixed56% of 84 reviews2026
Dev: Bublig
Windows · Mac · Linux
The Last Disease Z is a harsh multiplayer survival experience where everything is against you. Abandoned cities, zombies and bandits, a struggle for resources and a place to live. Build, unite, and survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32% ★, Post-apocalyptic 15.5%, Crafting 13.1%, Survival 11.7%, PvP 9.9%
- #52 KeepUp Survival
68% matchMixed64% of 751 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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: Open World Survival Craft 34% ★, Crafting 13.3%, Survival 12.4%, Base Building 10.7%, Multiplayer 8.4%
- #53 MISERY
64% matchVery Positive84% of 26,185 reviews2025
Dev: Platypus EntertainmentPub: Ytopia
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 83%
MISERY is a 1–10 player co-op survival game set in a nuclear disaster zone. Here, every day is a struggle: search radioactive ruins for resources, build your bunker, craft weapons, and explore a weird, procedurally-generated world with your friends. Beware of anomalies, monsters, and armed bandits.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.2% ★, Post-apocalyptic 13.9%, Survival 11.3%, Crafting 9.9%, Base Building 8%
- #54 DREADZONE
67% matchMixed51% of 1,239 reviews2025
Dev: Eshed
Windows
Dreadzone is a survival game set in a deadly quarantine zone. Scavenge for resources, craft tools, build shelter, and survive against dangerous animals, zombies, mutants, and other survivors. Explore the zone where desperation drives everyone to do whatever it takes to survive.
Why similar: Crafting 16.7%, Post-apocalyptic 16.4%, Survival 16%, Base Building 14.3%, Multiplayer 11.2%
- #55 Stars End
67% matchMixed61% of 1,432 reviews2023
Dev: Reverie World StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Stars End is a sci-fi survival sandbox set on the wild frontier of a distant star system. Play solo or host your own server as you craft, build, and battle to survive in a galaxy shaped by danger, discovery, and your own grit.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.3% ★, Survival 9.5%, Crafting 9.5%, PvP 9%, Massively Multiplayer 8.8%
- #56 Gone: Survival
69% matchMixed43% of 320 reviews2020
Dev: Coden StudioPub: Conglomerate 5
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Gone Survival is a first-person survival game for one player. Where you have many opportunities and a completely open world
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 16.8%, Crafting 14.6%, Survival 12.9%, Third-Person Shooter 11%, Base Building 10.9%
- #57 Palworld
61% matchVery Positive95% of 490,433 reviews2026
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 41.0 hrsMean: 86.8 hrs≥1hr: 97%
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 32.2% ★, Survival 12.8%, Crafting 10.3%, Open World 10%, Multiplayer 8.8%
- #58 Forever Skies
63% matchMostly Positive78% of 9,059 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 30.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A first-person survival game set on a post-apocalyptic, ecologically ruined Earth. Play solo or with up to 3 friends as you build, upgrade, and fly a high-tech airship. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and face dangers on the surface as you hunt for a cure to save humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.9% ★, Crafting 12.8%, Post-apocalyptic 11.9%, Survival 11%, Base Building 10.8%
