- #1 Survival: Fountain of Youth
97% matchVery Positive86% of 4,270 reviews2024
Dev: Odinsoft Inc.Pub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 18.7 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Survival: Fountain of Youth is a challenging single-player open-world adventure game set on the Caribbean islands. Survive as a shipwrecked 16th-century explorer, craft tools and shelter, and uncover the secrets of both an ancient civilization and your own fate.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.8% ★, Crafting 10.6%, Survival 9.9%, Building 7.4%, Sandbox 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a highly polished, realistic survival experience focused on exploration and resource management in a tropical island setting.
- #2 Stranded Deep
96% matchMostly Positive74% of 47,062 reviews2022
Dev: Beam Team GamesPub: Beam Team Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 21.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Take the role of a plane crash survivor stranded somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Come face to face with some of the most life threatening scenarios that will result in a different experience each time you play. Scavenge. Discover. Survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.6% ★, Survival 13.5%, Crafting 10.6%, Open World 9.2%, Building 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: The quintessential Pacific survival game that captures the same island-hopping and raft-building gameplay loop.
- #3 Sailwind
96% matchVery Positive90% of 2,133 reviews2021
Dev: Raw Lion Workshop
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 21.9 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Sailing simulator featuring realistic sailing physics and a vast open world to explore. Embark on cargo delivery missions, customize your boat, try fishing and cooking. A relaxing day sail, or an epic ocean voyage? Your sailing adventure starts here!
Why similar: Sailing 38.6% ★, Immersive Sim 12.9%, Open World 12.1%, Survival 11.6%, Relaxing 6%
Why You'll Like It: Features the most accurate sailing and celestial navigation mechanics that mirror the technical depth found in Escape The Pacific.
- #4 Project Castaway
95% matchMixed67% of 1,632 reviews2026
Dev: Mardonpol Inc.
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Project Castaway is a survival crafting title set in the Pacific Ocean. Live the life of a stranded castaway, with only yourself - and the island's inhabitants - for company! Sail the ocean, hunt, explore unique islands and gather resources as you fight for survival.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33% ★, Survival 10.1%, Sandbox 9.3%, Crafting 9.2%, Open World 9%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the core loop of surviving on remote Pacific islands with a strong emphasis on crafting and exploration.
- #5 Green Hell
94% matchVery Positive85% of 94,379 reviews2019
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 18.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 43% ★, Survival 14.3%, Crafting 10.3%, Open World 8.8%, Building 4.8%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a hardcore, realistic survival experience that emphasizes environmental hazards and complex health management.
- #6 Raft
93% matchVery Positive93% of 368,916 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.5 hrsMean: 36.8 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.3% ★, Survival 17.4%, Crafting 11.8%, Building 8.7%, Open World 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the modular floating base building aspect, allowing for creative construction while drifting across the ocean.
- #7 Salt
94% matchMostly Positive76% of 2,246 reviews2018
Dev: Lavaboots Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Salt is an open world exploration game where you sail from island to island looking for loot and new discoveries! Relax and explore at your own pace, picking a direction and setting sail across a vast ocean filled with quests, merchants, ruins, pirates, and other mysterious places.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.8% ★, Sailing 12.2% ★, Open World 11.2%, Survival 11%, Crafting 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: An exploration-focused sailing game that captures the sense of adventure and discovery in an endless island cluster.
- #8 Starsand
92% matchMixed66% of 1,227 reviews2022
Dev: Tunnel Vision StudioPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Starsand is a mystic survival game set among the dunes of an arcane desert. An open-world full of danger, vast environments and mysterious happenings await you! Explore, hunt, craft, build – and SURVIVE.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.6% ★, Crafting 11.5%, Survival 10.4%, Open World 10.2%, Realistic 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A realistic survival game that challenges players to manage resources while navigating a vast, unforgiving environment.
- #9 Breakwaters: Crystal Tides
91% matchMixed63% of 996 reviews2021
Dev: Soaring Pixels Games
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Survive in a world ravaged by massive Titans and an ever changing ocean sim. Displace water to find resources for building and crafting unique items. Swim, sail, and fly to explore new islands and fight Titans.
Why similar: Sailing 25.7% ★, Building 13.3%, Survival 12.7%, Open World 12%, Sandbox 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: Features unique water-manipulation mechanics and island-based survival that fits the theme of ocean-centric gameplay.
- #10 Northern Lights
90% matchMixed67% of 296 reviews2020
Dev: MadGoat Studio
Windows
Northern Lights is an open world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the arctic tundra. Clinging to life, you must use real-life survival techniques to gather resources, craft, and hunt while tending to your health and sanity. Can you survive your way out of the mysterious island?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.2% ★, Crafting 10.8%, Survival 10%, Open World 9.8%, Sandbox 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on survival and exploration in a harsh, realistic environment that demands careful planning.
- #11 Under A New Sun
89% matchMostly Positive76% of 368 reviews2023
Dev: New Horizon Games
Windows
While searching for a new home, an unexpected failure in your ship has left you stranded on a planet surprisingly similar to Earth. Discover a vast open world, hunt for food, develop technologies, and build yourself a new home to survive!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36% ★, Crafting 12%, Survival 11.3%, Open World 10.8%, Nature 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-crafting game that emphasizes exploration and building within a tropical, island-based open world.
- #12 Out of Reach
89% matchMixed57% of 3,044 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
You’re a castaway stranded in the middle of nowhere. Storm is gone, the worst certainly not. Look for food and resources, craft gear, make shelters. These are the basics, you need much more to stay alive on this cut-off-the-world, yet not desert island. Build & burn, sail & explore, be Out of Reach!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.7% ★, Survival 13.4%, Crafting 11.7%, Open World 10.8%, Building 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: An island-based survival game that emphasizes building and crafting in a hostile, isolated setting.
- #13 The Long Dark
88% matchVery Positive90% of 117,376 reviews2017
Dev: Hinterland Studio Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 46.9 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 47.2% ★, Survival 16.6%, Open World 11%, Crafting 7.1%, Sandbox 4.9%
Why You'll Like It: While set in a frozen landscape, it is the gold standard for realistic environmental survival and resource management.
- #14 Force of Nature
87% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,198 reviews2016
Dev: A.Y.std
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.3% ★, Crafting 14.5%, Survival 12%, Open World 8.9%, Sandbox 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Features a mix of survival, crafting, and exploration that mirrors the progression style of island-based games.
- #15 KeepUp Survival
86% matchMixed65% of 734 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
KeepUp Survival is an open base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and unfold your own story on a mysterious island.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.9% ★, Crafting 11.4%, Survival 10.4%, Open World 10.1%, Immersive Sim 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a robust base-building system within an open-world survival framework.
- #16 CrossWorlds: Escape
86% matchMixed64% of 157 reviews2020
Dev: Another Reality
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 97%
CrossWorlds: Escape is a hardcore game in which you will have to deploy all your skills to survive in a huge open world that is susceptible to changes in weather, seasons and various natural phenomena.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.4% ★, Crafting 11.6%, Survival 10.5%, Open World 10.1%, Sandbox 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a sandbox survival experience that tasks players with exploring and thriving on remote islands.
- #17 The Infected
84% matchVery Positive85% of 6,893 reviews2020
Dev: DigX Studios
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 18.5 hrs≥1hr: 68%
The Infected is a sandbox, first-person, open-world survival game. Build bases, craft, farm, hunt, and survive changing seasons. Choose whether to face the hybrid “Vambies” or turn them off for a pure survival experience.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.3% ★, Crafting 11.3%, Building 9.8%, Open World 9.6%, Survival 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: Features deep base-building mechanics and survival elements that reward long-term planning and resource gathering.
- #18 OceanCraft
85% matchVery Positive85% of 60 reviews2021
Dev: FlodLabPub: FlodLab UG (haftungsbeschraenkt)
Windows
OceanCraft is a game about surviving alone - or with your friends on a self build vehicle in the ocean.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.6% ★, Sailing 34.8% ★, Survival 10.8%, Nature 6.7%, Crafting 5.1%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the intersection of sailing and survival, providing a similar oceanic adventure experience.
- #19 My Island
84% matchMixed67% of 1,706 reviews2024
Dev: SnowBaby Games
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 48%
MyIsland is a relaxed and beautiful survival game,You will drift and survive on the tropical islands, hunt and travel, build houses and development farming, and create your own warm homeland.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 50.8% ★, Survival 14.6%, Crafting 11.4%, Open World 10.7%, Building 7%
Why You'll Like It: A straightforward survival-crafting game that centers on the experience of living and building on a deserted island.
- #20 Len's Island
82% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,615 reviews2025
Dev: Flow Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
An open-world survival crafting game for 1–8 players, blending intense dungeon crawling and ARPG combat with peaceful farming and creative building. Take on quests and explore a vast, procedurally-generated world full of danger and discovery.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.1% ★, Crafting 10.3%, Building 10.2%, Survival 9.5%, Open World 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: Combines survival and building with exploration, offering a more accessible take on the island-survival genre.
- #21 Among Trees
83% matchMixed68% of 2,216 reviews2021
Dev: FJRD Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Escape to an enchanting, living sandbox surrounded by wildlife and nature. Scavenge materials and craft tools to turn your small cabin into a warm, well-supplied home. Survive by fishing, cooking and growing your own food. Be careful though, the forest is as dangerous as it is wonderful.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.8% ★, Survival 10.6%, Crafting 10.1%, Open World 9.8%, Building 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a highly atmospheric survival experience with a focus on building and living within a natural environment.
- #22 Project Cobalt
81% matchMostly Positive73% of 54 reviews2025
Dev: OxygenStudio
Windows
⚗️ Project Cobalt is a survival action game set on a hostile island 🌴. Scavenge containers, mine resources, craft tools, hunt animals, and endure storms as you fight hunger, disease, and exhaustion all while uncovering the dark truth behind a failed experiment.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.4% ★, Crafting 12.9%, Survival 10.8%, Open World 10.6%, Building 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on resource management and survival in an open-world setting that requires careful planning.
- #23 Subsistence
82% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,601 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 40.0 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 44.9% ★, Survival 14.1%, Crafting 13.4%, Open World 10%, Building 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A challenging survival game that emphasizes base building and resource management against environmental threats.
- #24 Eden Island
81% matchMixed61% of 254 reviews2024
Dev: Moon Studio
Windows
Eden Island is a beautiful survival game. As a survivor, you will explore and survive on a realistic tropical island, craft weapons against beasts, farm and hunt, build your own home.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.3% ★, Crafting 12.8%, Building 11.2%, Survival 10.9%, Open World 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-crafting game that centers on the challenges of hunting and building on a remote island.
- #25 The Last Caretaker
77% matchVery Positive85% of 9,793 reviews2025
Dev: Channel37 Ltd
Windows
Median: 18.8 hrsMean: 30.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Explore a drowned Earth, restore lost systems, and raise the last human seeds in this first-person survival-crafting adventure. Build, scavenge, defend, and launch humanity back to the stars.
Why similar: Sailing 29.6% ★, Crafting 14%, Survival 11.8%, Open World 11.6%, Sandbox 11.1%
- #26 INMATE: Survival
79% matchMixed57% of 74 reviews2023
Dev: SV Games
Windows
INMATE: Survival is an open world survival game, where you play the role of a prisoner sentenced to stay on a 4*4 km Island with many types of enemies both humans and animals.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36% ★, Crafting 13.5%, Building 11.6%, Survival 11.4%, Open World 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the core survival loop of crafting and building within an open-world environment.
- #27 Sunkenland
77% matchVery Positive81% of 22,996 reviews2023
Dev: Vector3 Studio
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 17.9 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 45.9% ★, Survival 14%, Crafting 11.9%, Open World 8.8%, Sandbox 7.4%
- #28 The Planet Crafter
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 67,314 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.1 hrsMean: 37.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 32.7% ★, Crafting 11.5%, Building 10.5%, Survival 10.4%, Open World 9.1%
- #29 Arctic Anxiety
80% matchMixed55% of 290 reviews2020
Dev: Arctic Studio
Windows
Survival simulator in extreme conditions. The game takes place in the Arctic ocean. The pilot of a cargo plane makes a hard landing on the water. To survive, the player will have to search for a cargo washed up on the shore.
Why similar: Sailing 25.7% ★, Open World Survival Craft 24.5% ★, Survival 10.9%, Open World 9.4%, Building 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a realistic simulation of survival in a harsh environment, focusing on loot and resource management.
- #30 Salt 2: Shores of Gold
75% matchVery Positive85% of 2,197 reviews2025
Dev: Lavaboots Studios
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Salt 2 is a pirate-themed open world adventure focused on exploration, crafting, and survival. Play solo or with up to 5 friends, sailing the sea with your ship as a mobile base. Discover islands full of quests, towns, caves, and secrets. Level up, craft gear, hunt, fish, and customize your ship.
Why similar: Sailing 32.9% ★, Crafting 13%, Open World 12.3%, Survival 11.4%, Sandbox 9.8%
- #31 Volcanoids
78% matchVery Positive83% of 9,214 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.8 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: Open World Survival Craft 32.8% ★, Crafting 12.3%, Survival 10.3%, Open World 10.2%, Building 8.6%
- #32 Aloft
75% matchVery Positive84% of 3,496 reviews2025
Dev: Astrolabe Interactive Inc.Pub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Soar the skies in Aloft, the co-op sandbox survival game set in a world of floating islands. Build any island into a skyship, your home in the clouds. Find lost knowledge, cure the fungal corruption, and brave the hurricane to restore the ecosystem.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23% ★, Sailing 19.2% ★, Crafting 12.4%, Building 10.6%, Survival 10.3%
- #33 Mist Survival
76% matchMostly Positive76% of 14,042 reviews2018
Dev: Dimension 32 Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 15.0 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 42.3% ★, Survival 19.6%, Open World 14%, Crafting 9.7%, Sandbox 6.6%
- #34 Landless
78% matchMixed44% of 194 reviews2017
Dev: CodeBullet
Windows
Explore and conquer the high seas in this post-apocalyptic sandbox water world survival game where you must fight, build, and craft to survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.9% ★, Survival 16.4%, Crafting 11.8%, Open World 11.1%, Building 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic survival game that centers on sailing and building on the water, mirroring the oceanic focus of the seed game.
- #35 Stormworks: Build and Rescue
74% matchVery Positive90% of 57,601 reviews2020
Dev: Geometa
Windows · Mac
Median: 17.4 hrsMean: 111.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Join a world where you design, create and pilot your own air sea rescue service. Release your inner hero as you battle fierce storms out at sea to rescue those in need.
Why similar: Sailing 23.4% ★, Open World Survival Craft 21.7% ★, Sandbox 10.6%, Building 9.9%, Immersive Sim 9.5%
- #36 Nightingale
72% matchMixed67% of 17,841 reviews2024
Dev: Inflexion Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 23.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Nightingale is an open world survival crafting game, where you’ll adventure across the mysterious and dangerous Fae Realms. As a daring Realmwalker, you’ll defeat monstrous enemies, survive hostile environments, and build elaborate estates in a visually stunning Gaslamp Fantasy world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.2% ★, Crafting 11.8%, Survival 11.3%, Open World 10.6%, Building 10.5%
- #37 Ylands
74% matchMixed64% of 8,354 reviews2019
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 46%
Adventure awaits you and your friends in the world of Ylands! Gather resources, craft tools, construct anything and everything, and explore the lands! Build a ship and set sail, encountering mythical animals, a wide variety of sea-life, enemies of all kinds and much more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.9% ★, Sailing 25.1% ★, Crafting 11.1%, Building 8%, Open World 8%
- #38 Everwind
70% matchVery Positive82% of 2,069 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Everwind is a novel take on RPG and Sandbox Survival genre in First-Person-Perspective. Embark on the adventure with your friends - Build a base on a flying island-ship, gather resources, craft, loot, and fight while you rise above the clouds to uncover the mysteries of this world!
Why similar: Procedural Generation 15.7%, Building 14.8%, Open World 14.6%, Survival 14.6%, Crafting 14.6%
- #39 Subnautica
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 344,093 reviews2018
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.4 hrsMean: 40.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 42.4% ★, Survival 14.1%, Crafting 12%, Open World 11.7%, Exploration 5.8%
- #40 Forever Skies
71% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,284 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.4 hrsMean: 32.0 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 33.7% ★, Crafting 14.2%, Survival 12.1%, Open World 11.8%, Building 10.4%
- #41 Survisland / 实境求生
73% matchMixed63% of 1,544 reviews2024
Dev: Super Trampers StudioPub: Easy Joy Ltd.
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Survisland is a super hardcore sandbox survival game that pays great attention to restoring the real survival experience. The character has rich and realistic actions and reactions to , and the process logic of making props is no different from reality.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.9% ★, Crafting 10.3%, Building 10.2%, Survival 9.8%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #42 Rem Survival
73% matchMostly Positive76% of 802 reviews2021
Dev: Immortal Hand Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 47.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Scavenge abandoned ruins, craft gear from scrap and salvaged materials, and fight the environment itself as hunger, exposure, and exhaustion push you to your limits. There are no second chances—only adaptation or death.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.7% ★, Crafting 14.5%, Survival 12.2%, Open World 11.5%, Building 11.5%
- #43 Hold Your Own
73% matchMixed68% of 574 reviews2017
Dev: DistrictWare inc.
Windows
A single player open world sandbox, crafting and survival FPS game set in a multi-island land where you'll fight to survive. Build your base, hunt and craft to defend yourself from aggressive wildlife, enemies or friends. Do you have what it takes to Hold Your Own?
Why similar: Crafting 19.6%, Survival 16.5%, Open World 13.7%, Building 12.9%, Sandbox 12.3%
- #44 StarRupture
67% matchVery Positive81% of 10,861 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.9% ★, Crafting 12.3%, Survival 11.1%, Open World 10.7%, Immersive Sim 9.8%
- #45 Rising World
71% matchVery Positive86% of 5,845 reviews2014
Dev: JIW-Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 21.3 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Rising World is a voxel based open-world sandbox game, featuring a procedurally generated world, playable in single and multi-player.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.4% ★, Crafting 12.1%, Building 11.1%, Procedural Generation 10.2%, Sandbox 10%
- #46 The Gold River Project
69% matchMixed67% of 526 reviews2026
Dev: Fairview Games Inc.
Windows
The Gold River Project™ invites you and your friends on an open world camping trip gone wrong. Alone or together, you must explore, craft, build, and survive the increasingly harsh environments of the Pacific Northwest wilderness as you uncover the experiment trapping you inside.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.5% ★, Open World 11.7%, Crafting 10.7%, Survival 10.2%, Nature 6.1%
- #47 U.N.P.O.C. Vessel of Opportunity
69% matchMostly Positive75% of 59 reviews2025
Dev: Danny Ziemer
Windows
Opportunity is near. Follow clues, solve the puzzles, and stay persistent in the chase of a new way of life. Explore, survive, and thrive in this open world adventure story.
Why similar: Sailing 27.8% ★, Open World Survival Craft 27.5% ★, Sandbox 9.6%, Open World 8.1%, Procedural Generation 7.9%
- #48 Retreat To Enen
71% matchMixed61% of 401 reviews2022
Dev: Head WestPub: indie.io
Windows
Base building simulator 1500 years in the future. Journey to the Island of Enen to forage, craft, build, hunt, meditate, and explore across three vast biomes. Discover secrets and create the retreat of your dreams. With over 160 unique items to gather, craft, and build, every home will be unique.
Why similar: Survival 13%, Sandbox 12.6%, Crafting 12.5%, Open World 11.3%, Building 11.1%
- #49 Solace Crafting
70% matchMostly Positive72% of 891 reviews2022
Dev: Big Kitty Games
Windows · Linux
Embark on an adventure set in a fantasy survival RPG. Visit a borderless, open world where you manage resources to construct your base and new types of equipment to support your conquest.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33% ★, Crafting 13.3%, Survival 11.5%, Open World 10.2%, Building 9.8%
- #50 Start Over
69% matchMixed62% of 375 reviews2024
Dev: EY-Studio
Windows
Embark on an unpredictable survival journey in Start Over. Solo, co-op, online, explore diverse landscapes, craft through 4 tech tiers, encounter wildlife, and trade or raid for resources. Choose your path, defend against waves, and shape your destiny in a dynamic world. Are you ready to Start Over?
Why similar: Crafting 14.3%, Survival 12.1%, Building 11.6%, Sandbox 11%, Immersive Sim 9.6%
- #51 DYSMANTLE
68% matchVery Positive91% of 11,317 reviews2021
Dev: 10tons Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 25.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Ascend from your shelter. Ruin everything. Escape the wretched island. ⚔️🔨🎣🌱🌵🍰 Explore. Fight. Level up. Survive. Gather. Craft. Harvest. Hunt. Build. Farm. Solve puzzles. Fish. Cook. Live. Enjoy the bittersweet post-apocalypse.
Why similar: Crafting 24%, Survival 23.1%, Open World 22.1%, Sandbox 12.7%, Exploration 8.1%
- #52 Tribe: Primitive Builder
68% matchVery Positive81% of 760 reviews2023
Dev: Space Boat StudiosPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Chill out as you explore the beautiful, realistic island of exiles. Gather resources, craft tools, construct buildings and settlements. Manage tribe and automate your gameplay. Discover 4 lands, a storyline and save the inhabitants of the island.
Why similar: Crafting 17.1%, Nature 15.8%, Building 15.1%, Survival 13.2%, Realistic 12%
- #53 Astrometica
66% matchVery Positive83% of 2,970 reviews2024
Dev: BeryMeryPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 17.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Astrometica is a space exploration and base-building survival game. After a catastrophic event, explore vast space, gather resources, build bases, and uncover cosmic mysteries. Use advanced technology, craft tools, and discover new blueprints to survive and thrive in the unknown.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.5% ★, Crafting 19.1%, Survival 17.5%, Open World 17.1%, First-Person 9.9%
- #54 Outbreak Island
66% 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 18.8%, Sandbox 18.3%, Crafting 16.5%, Building 13.2%, Open World 12.4%
- #55 Breathedge
67% matchVery Positive82% of 16,026 reviews2021
Dev: RedRuins SoftworksPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Survive in outer space! Together with your immortal chicken, discover the truth behind your sudden spaceship crash. Craft tools, pilot vehicles, and even control space stations to survive and explore the wreckage.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.2% ★, Survival 12.3%, Sandbox 11.5%, Crafting 10.9%, Open World 7.2%
- #56 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
65% matchVery Positive91% of 7,161 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in this free prologue introducing one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters – an upcoming open-world game that challenges you, alone or with friends, to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.2% ★, Crafting 12.5%, Open World 10.8%, Sandbox 9.3%, Building 8.9%
- #57 Sailing alone:Aftermath
67% matchMixed66% of 61 reviews2025
Dev: MLStudio
Windows
You are just an ordinary person, with only a small boat serving as your home, struggling to find a way to survive in the ruthless ocean of the post-apocalyptic world.
Why similar: Sailing 35.3% ★, Open World Survival Craft 34% ★, Survival 9%, Crafting 7.4%, Open World 5.1%