- #1 Card Survival: Tropical Island
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 3,044 reviews2022
Dev: WinterSpring Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 46.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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: Card Game 15.3%, Open World Survival Craft 13% ★, Perma Death 12.9%, Survival 11.4%, Crafting 10.6%
- #2 Don't Freeze: A Winter Card Survival
96% matchMostly Positive77% of 35 reviews2026
Dev: YOLO35GAMES
Windows · Mac
Don't Freeze is a winter card survival game set in a winter wasteland. Explore, gather resources, craft, hunt, die, repeat. Something sinister lurks in the cold darkness. Will you make it out in time?
Why similar: Card Game 17.1%, Perma Death 15.3%, Open World Survival Craft 15% ★, Survival 12.7%, Crafting 12.3%
- #3 Card Survival: Tropical Island - The First Days
96% matchMostly Positive77% of 79 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: Card Game 19.1%, Open World Survival Craft 12.4% ★, Perma Death 11.2%, Text-Based 10.3%, Crafting 10.2%
- #4 Terminus: Zombie Survivors
95% matchVery Positive94% of 4,475 reviews2024
Dev: Longplay Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 13.3 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Terminus: Zombie Survivors is a 2D turn-based survival roguelike set during a zombie apocalypse. Each journey is unique, and every decision can mean the difference between life and death. Can you brave hunger, cold, and the undead in order to reach the Terminus and find salvation?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.3% ★, Survival 14.3%, Zombies 11.7%, Crafting 10.8%, Turn-Based 8.1%
- #5 Don't Starve
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 113,372 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 31.2% ★, Survival 26.4%, Crafting 16.1%, Perma Death 12.3%, Sandbox 4%
- #6 By the Dead
94% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Loomeit Studios
Windows
Explore the dark, fight the un-dead forces, gather valuable resources, craft for survival, build safe shelters, and survive the night in this eerie open world survival crafting game!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.4% ★, Crafting 18.1%, Survival 16.4%, Zombies 12.3%, PvE 10.1%
- #7 Humanolve: A Human Evolution Card Saga
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: HeYa Interactive
Windows
Embark on a primal card-based survival odyssey in Humanolve. Lead your tribe through perilous hunts, weather the wrath of nature, and forge tools of triumph. Combine cards to craft tools and weapons, explore the wilderness, and conquer your nemesis. Your choices will shape human evolution itself.
Why similar: Perma Death 22.9%, Card Game 22.1%, Crafting 18.1%, Survival 15.9%, Roguelike 8%
- #8 Dusklander
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bitrunner
Windows
Survive in a nightmare world where Light is the most valuable resource. Explore, craft and learn to bend this strange reality to your will. Travel across lands locked in everlasting dusk, face dangers lurking in the dark and find a way to wake up.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.4% ★, Perma Death 20.4%, Crafting 17.3%, Survival 16.2%, PvE 8.7%
- #9 Castaway Cards
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Brooklyn
Windows
Castaway Cards is a turn-based card survival game. Explore and gather resources. Craft cards to build tools, hunt, and farm. Delve deeper to find secrets and powerful new recipes. Plan your moves and build a raft to escape. Every decision could be your last. Will you survive?
Why similar: Card Game 23.5%, Turn-Based 14%, Open World Survival Craft 13.2% ★, Survival 11.1%, Roguelike 9.3%
- #10 Cubits
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mango Nebula Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Take control of a talkative little Cubit, who knows he lives inside a game, and do your best to ensure both of you survive in this harsh, unforgiving world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.8% ★, Perma Death 19.3%, Crafting 17.3%, Survival 15.5%, Strategy 5%
- #11 NEO Scavenger
90% matchVery Positive90% of 5,410 reviews2014
Dev: Blue Bottle Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
NEO Scavenger is a game where you must survive in the wasteland long enough to figure out who you are. Each turn, you must decide where to go, how to scavenge for supplies, and how to deal with anything and anyone you encounter.
Why similar: Survival 22.7%, Perma Death 16.7%, Turn-Based 15.7%, Post-apocalyptic 13.5%, Crafting 13.3%
- #12 Fire Vow: Dark Fantasy
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: untitled01
Windows
A dark fantasy card-based survival game. Explore the cursed land, gather resources, craft tools, manage hunger and thirst, and survive through difficult choices. Every decision—from who to help to who to kill—shapes your journey.
Why similar: Card Game 24%, Crafting 18.7%, Text-Based 18.1%, Survival 13.4%, PvE 9.3%
- #13 Bunker Life
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GameIn
Windows
Survive! You need resources. Explore and search items to live.
Why similar: Card Game 19.8%, Survival 16.4%, Post-apocalyptic 11.4%, Text-Based 10.7%, Board Game 10.5%
- #14 Radiation Island
88% matchVery Positive81% of 638 reviews2016
Dev: Atypical Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 44.1% ★, Survival 23.7%, Zombies 12.8%, Crafting 10%, Adventure 5.6%
- #15 SURVIVAL 2099
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Doomsday GamesPub: Open World Entertainment
Windows
Survival 2099 is an open world survival crafting game. Human beings have been discharging nuclear wastewater into the sea for a long time, and Marine creatures are slowly mutated by radiation. In 2099, the apocalypse comes, and the terrible creatures after mutation begin to attack human.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.2% ★, Perma Death 17.8%, Crafting 17.5%, Survival 16%, Roguelike 6.5%
- #16 Necropolis Nights
86% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: DevDelta
Windows
"Necropolis Nights" is a survival card game where you gather resources, craft, farm, and hunt by day, then fend off zombies at night. Strategize to survive and thrive in a world overrun by the undead.
Why similar: Card Game 25.2%, Survival 17.3%, Crafting 15.2%, Zombies 14.7%, Board Game 10%
- #17 Primal Chronicles
85% matchMixed60% of 20 reviews2024
Dev: Fables of wits
Windows
Primal chronicles is a prehistoric tribe management roguelike. In real-time, you have to order your tribes men to gather, hunt and craft. Every game is a unique journey across multiple lands filled with spirits. You will either lead your tribe to salvation or doom them all.
Why similar: Card Game 25.1%, Survival 19%, Crafting 18%, Resource Management 11.6%, Strategy 9.3%
- #18 Subterrain
86% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,398 reviews2016
Dev: Pixellore Inc
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Uncompromising Sci-Fi survival on Mars! Manage the entire colony single-handed! Craft, Research, Explore and Fight against evolving mutants. Vast open world and randomly generated levels to explore! Can you survive long enough to escape the horror?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.5% ★, Survival 23.7%, Crafting 19.3%, Zombies 11%, Perma Death 8.9%
- #19 Deckalypse
84% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Jazzoid Studios
Windows
Command a party of survivors against the zombie apocalypse in this turn-based deckbuilder roguelike. Four heroes, four decks, one shared energy pool that grows as you push deeper. Earn cards in the wasteland, unlock perks between runs, and bring down the Overlord before it's too late.
Why similar: Card Game 24.9%, Survival 14%, Zombies 11.7%, Post-apocalyptic 11%, PvE 10.9%
- #20 Wandering Within
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Lonely Crows
Windows
Wandering Within is a 2d solo survival game where you have to cross a hostile desert to unravel the mysteries of a legendary chest. Gather resources, find water and build tools to increase your chance of survival
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.9% ★, Survival 21.5%, Perma Death 19.7%, Adventure 4.8%, Resource Management 4.7%
- #21 Wrongworld
83% matchVery Positive94% of 551 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 44.2% ★, Survival 16.3%, Crafting 12.2%, Perma Death 10.6%, Adventure 5.3%
- #22 Wayward
82% matchVery Positive86% of 1,366 reviews2016
Dev: Unlok
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 21.6 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 32.6% ★, Survival 17.9%, Crafting 16.6%, Turn-Based 9.3%, Roguelike 8.9%
- #23 Doomed Lands
82% matchMixed46% of 65 reviews2023
Dev: Nibb GamesPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A diabolical demon dooms a teeming island to destruction. Five legendary lieutenants and their minions descend every seven days…but that allows ample time to prepare. Survive, craft, train, and gear up to defend the island!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27% ★, Crafting 15.3%, Survival 15.1%, PvE 12.4%, Roguelike 9.3%
- #24 Forager
81% matchVery Positive89% of 43,959 reviews2019
Dev: HopFrogPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 22.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 39.5% ★, Crafting 19.8%, Survival 17.8%, Pixel Graphics 8.5%, Resource Management 4.8%
- #25 Road Survival: Bigger on the Inside
81% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Folded Worlds
Windows
In a toxic, zombie-ridden wasteland, survival is brutal. Upgrade your RV into a foldable-space mobile base—farm, craft, gather resources, and fend off the undead to build your last safe haven.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.7% ★, Crafting 16.1%, Survival 13.9%, PvE 10.9%, Zombies 10.6%
- #26 Polygon Survival
80% matchMostly Negative39% of 28 reviews2023
Dev: Performance Artist
Windows
Polygon Survival is a low-poly zombie survival shooter with simple building and crafting. You find yourself in a mini world of zombie apocalypse and your only goal here is survival.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.2% ★, Crafting 17.6%, Survival 16%, Zombies 13.7%, Post-apocalyptic 11.7%
- #27 ARCANA
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Thomas RandallPub: bald
Windows
An Open World Survival Crafting game where you harness magic to advance. Discover new crafting recipies, expand your base, and conquer your enemies.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.9% ★, Survival 19.5%, Crafting 14.4%, PvE 7.3%, Adventure 5.2%
- #28 In the Van
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cosmic Tofu
Windows · Mac
A cozy post-apocalyptic survival game where your van is your home, your shelter, and your key to survival. Scavenge, craft, and uncover the stories the dead left behind.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.1% ★, Crafting 16.8%, Survival 15.6%, Zombies 11.9%, Post-apocalyptic 9.1%
- #29 Nomad
79% 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 42.2% ★, Survival 21.4%, Zombies 13.9%, Crafting 12.9%, Post-apocalyptic 3.5%
- #30 Swappy World
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Awakening Games srls
Windows
Two main actions: swipe to move and tap to interact in an open-world survival crafting experience made through cards. Handle your energy tactically to survive as long as possible. Craft weapons, build your base and be prepared to explore a world full of secrets.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.9% ★, Card Game 20.9%, Crafting 17%, Survival 15.2%, Resource Management 6.5%
- #31 Card Survival: Fantasy Forest
77% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,172 reviews2025
Dev: WinterSpring Games
Windows · Mac
Card Survival: Fantasy Forest is a card-based deep survival simulator and the next installment in the Card Survival Series. Carve yourself a home in a primordial forest that has a will of its own. A day-to-day life simulator in a world where nature reigns with mystery, beauty and sometimes cruelty.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.1% ★, Card Game 17.4%, Survival 14.1%, Turn-Based 13.1%, Crafting 10.1%
- #32 How to Survive
77% matchVery Positive83% of 17,098 reviews2014
Dev: Eko SoftwarePub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
“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 30.1% ★, Survival 24.6%, Zombies 19.7%, Crafting 18.3%, Post-apocalyptic 4.2%
- #33 Atomic Cards
76% matchMostly Positive71% of 48 reviews2021
Dev: SerVGPub: Hide Head
Windows
Collect food, weapons and materials, face enemies and make difficult moral choices that will affect the gameplay.
Why similar: Card Game 19.6%, Crafting 17.8%, Survival 15.7%, Text-Based 14.3%, Post-apocalyptic 11.4%
- #34 Miscreated
76% matchMixed66% of 31,591 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 44.3% ★, Survival 21.8%, Zombies 12.3%, Crafting 10.8%, Post-apocalyptic 8%
- #35 UnReal World
75% matchVery Positive94% of 1,370 reviews2016
Dev: Sami Maaranen (creator)Pub: Enormous Elk
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 71%
The cult classic open-ended wilderness survival roguelike taking place in the ancient North, iron-age Finland. Throughout the years, UnReal World has been praised for its incredible depth, realism, atmos and immersion. Lose yourself in the most intricate, detailed and enchanting iron-age game world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.7% ★, Perma Death 16.1%, Turn-Based 13.7%, Crafting 13.6%, Survival 13.2%
- #36 LifeZ - Survival
75% matchMixed68% of 240 reviews2018
Dev: iDs Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
LifeZ - Survival is a third-person sandbox-survival game. Build your hideout, search for water and food, mine resources and fight against zombies and finally find ways to contact the outside world and leave Catastrophie Area.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38% ★, Survival 19.9%, Zombies 16.1%, Crafting 12%, Post-apocalyptic 6.8%
- #37 Andarilho
74% matchMixed66% of 1,312 reviews2020
Dev: SC Jogos
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
You are a guy with a backpack, just try to stay alive!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.3% ★, Crafting 17.8%, Survival 15.7%, Zombies 10%, Post-apocalyptic 9.9%
- #38 Ozone Wipeout
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CitrioN
Windows
Ozone Wipeout is a post apocalyptic zombie survival game in a procedurally generated open world. Staying alive is your only goal which is much easier said than done. Harsh weather conditions, zombies and resource scarcity are only a few of many things you will have to deal with.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.5% ★, Survival 15.8%, Zombies 13.3%, PvE 11.5%, Post-apocalyptic 11.1%
- #39 Junk Jack
74% matchMostly Positive78% of 478 reviews2016
Dev: Pixbits
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 21.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Make the world truly yours in Junk Jack, a relaxing sandbox experience focused on building and improving your home. Discover new planets, tame and breed creatures, cook foods, collect animal companions, farm exotic plants, collect fish, grow flowers, play with your friends!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.4% ★, Crafting 19%, Survival 18%, Sandbox 6.9%, Pixel Graphics 5.5%
- #40 Dig or Die
73% matchVery Positive90% of 4,284 reviews2018
Dev: Gaddy Games
Windows
Median: 4.3 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 40.7% ★, Survival 21%, Crafting 19.9%, Sandbox 6.6%, Strategy 4.7%
- #41 SURVIVAL: Postapocalypse Now
73% 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 47.3% ★, Survival 22.9%, Crafting 10.4%, Post-apocalyptic 9.6%, Zombies 5.7%
- #42 The Long Dark
72% matchVery Positive89% of 123,417 reviews2017
Dev: Hinterland Studio Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 47.4 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 49.1% ★, Survival 26%, Crafting 10.7%, Post-apocalyptic 4.8%, Sandbox 2.6%
- #43 Mist Survival
72% matchMostly Positive76% of 14,333 reviews2018
Dev: Dimension 32 Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 73%
MIST SURVIVAL is a Single-player, survival stealth sandbox game Players will experience the Apocalypse stimulation in the form of virus pandemic, the players have to deal with it to survive through the difficulties such as finding shelter and food, threats from the environment and climate: wild animals, bandits, infected, and dense mist t
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.6% ★, Survival 26.2%, Zombies 16.3%, Crafting 12.4%, Sandbox 3%
- #44 Project Zomboid
71% matchVery Positive94% of 475,049 reviews2013
Dev: The Indie Stone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 15.6 hrsMean: 87.1 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 30.3% ★, Survival 25.4%, Zombies 17.8%, Crafting 10.5%, Post-apocalyptic 8.4%
- #45 Lysward
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Snowcastle Games
Windows
Lysward is a single-player survival adventure set in a vast and unforgiving desert in the fantastical world of Umbra. Explore, craft, team up with your companion, and leverage the Amri magic to endure the heat.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.9% ★, Survival 26%, Crafting 12.3%, Adventure 5.6%, Resource Management 4.8%
- #46 Root Scourge
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Studio Diakamos
Windows
An open world crafting game where surface is occupied by a mutated plant species. Humanity has been exiled and is living under the surface for hundreds of years. You are one of the few professionals that can roam the surface. As a mercenary, you take on jobs and face the root scourge on surface.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.6% ★, Crafting 17.1%, Survival 15.2%, Post-apocalyptic 14.2%, PvE 8.1%
- #47 Infinite Survival
71% matchMixed45% of 11 reviews2018
Dev: Infinine Games
Windows
Infinite Survival is a roguelike survival game with turn-based gameplay. The game features a completely procedurally generated open world. Craft new items and weapons, lay traps and defences, use stealth to evade enemies, and explore in any fashion you want.
Why similar: Perma Death 16.8%, Turn-Based 15.7%, Crafting 15.3%, Survival 12.9%, Strategy 10%
- #48 Scrapcrawl
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BugSmith
Windows
You are at the epicenter of a nuclear explosion. Survive and leave the exclusion zone before the radiation becomes deadly. Explore the ruined post-apocalyptic world in search of resources and food. Fight zombies. Develop the bunker. Craft items.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.5% ★, Crafting 18.1%, Survival 17.2%, Zombies 14.1%, Post-apocalyptic 12.1%
- #49 Robinson: Survival
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Digital Fresh
Windows
A turn-based card strategy game about survival and exploring an unknown land. Build your deck, embark on expeditions, gather resources, craft tools, and establish a camp. Help Miss Robinson survive, uncover the truth about her past, and choose the path her future will take.
Why similar: Card Game 29.1%, Survival 23.1%, PvE 16.2%, Turn-Based 11.5%, Crafting 10.2%
- #50 Force of Nature
69% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,209 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 44.1% ★, Crafting 23.3%, Survival 20%, Sandbox 5%, Strategy 2.9%
- #51 Ruinlander
67% matchMostly Positive71% of 49 reviews2026
Dev: wineviper
Windows · Linux
Instead of saving the world, worry about what to eat and how not to get a dose of radiation or not to freeze in changing conditions. Travel, search abandoned cities for supplies, make contacts with different factions or try to join one of them. Decide for yourself how exactly to survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.6% ★, Survival 17.8%, Turn-Based 15.2%, Post-apocalyptic 12.1%, Crafting 11.2%
- #52 Frozen State
69% matchMixed64% of 549 reviews2016
Dev: Flox StudiosPub: Flox Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 42 minMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 42%
Frozen State is a brutal, survival game set in a world embraced by the man-made ice age meant to protect mankind from pestilent hybrids. Bitter cold and numbing fear are the constant companions in the journey through the retro-futuristic Frozen State world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.4% ★, Survival 25.2%, Crafting 17.5%, Zombies 13.7%, Post-apocalyptic 5.2%
- #53 Defend Till Sunshine
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: EUZERU
Windows
Defend Till Sunshine is a exploration-survival game which you will experience with your puppy. You need to survive against multiple situations. Discover across the land, find villages, learn craft techniques, interact with villagers and learn tips from them, build your own house and more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.7% ★, Survival 27%, Crafting 23.8%, Adventure 9.1%, Indie 2%
- #54 Millennium Slumber
67% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Desmodus Games
Windows · Linux
Survive 400,000 years on a planet infested with an alien calamity! Gather resources, build a base and defend against hordes of nocturnal monsters in this rogue-like with cryostasis mechanics.
Why similar: Crafting 26.2%, Perma Death 22.4%, Survival 21%, PvE 11.2%, Roguelike 8.9%
- #55 The Glade
68% matchMixed60% of 116 reviews2021
Dev: Michael Schade
Windows
The Glade is a beautiful open world survival set on a stylized island which has been struck all over from large and mysterious meteorites creating a bridge for evil creatures from another world to enter and destroy anything in their path.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.6% ★, Crafting 22.4%, Survival 16.6%, PvE 14.5%, Post-apocalyptic 11.1%
- #56 HUNKER DOWN
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: munkgames
Windows
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.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.9% ★, Crafting 20.2%, Survival 18.4%, Zombies 15.5%, Post-apocalyptic 12%
- #57 THE REVENANTS
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sliva Group
Windows
The Revenants is a hardcore turn—based survival story generator with elements of strategy. Hide from the poisonous fog, search for items, fight the danger and try to save your life.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.5% ★, Crafting 16.6%, Survival 12.3%, Zombies 10.6%, Post-apocalyptic 9.2%
- #58 The Fifth Day
68% matchMostly Negative37% of 941 reviews2014
Dev: Touz
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 63%
The Fifth Day is a post-apocalyptic survival game set in the time after mankind's extinction to the machines that it created. Your role, as one of these machines, is to survive in the hostile world left behind by man.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.5% ★, Survival 26%, Post-apocalyptic 12.4%, Crafting 9.4%, Zombies 5.8%