- #1 Survival: Fountain of Youth
97% matchVery Positive85% of 4,480 reviews2024
Dev: Odinsoft Inc.Pub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 29.3% ★, Crafting 10.5%, Survival 10%, Open World 7.4%, Building 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 47,770 reviews2022
Dev: Beam Team GamesPub: Beam Team Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 20.9 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 43.1% ★, Survival 13.5%, Crafting 10.4%, Open World 9.3%, Building 5.5%
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 Positive89% of 2,349 reviews2021
Dev: Raw Lion Workshop
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 23.5 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 38.7% ★, Immersive Sim 12.7%, Open World 12.4%, Survival 11.7%, Relaxing 5.9%
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% matchMixed66% of 1,849 reviews2026
Dev: Mardonpol Inc.
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 33.5% ★, Survival 10.2%, Sandbox 9.2%, Open World 9.1%, Crafting 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 101,308 reviews2019
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 18.4 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 43.3% ★, Survival 14.4%, Crafting 10.1%, Open World 8.8%, Building 4.7%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a hardcore, realistic survival experience that emphasizes environmental hazards and complex health management.
- #6 Salt
94% matchMostly Positive77% of 2,251 reviews2018
Dev: Lavaboots Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 8.1 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 34.2% ★, Sailing 12.2% ★, Open World 11.3%, Survival 11%, Crafting 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: An exploration-focused sailing game that captures the sense of adventure and discovery in an endless island cluster.
- #7 Raft
92% matchVery Positive93% of 377,470 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.7 hrsMean: 37.9 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 43.7% ★, Survival 17.4%, Crafting 11.6%, Building 8.6%, Open World 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the modular floating base building aspect, allowing for creative construction while drifting across the ocean.
- #8 Starsand
93% matchMixed66% of 1,254 reviews2022
Dev: Tunnel Vision StudioPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 32% ★, Crafting 11.3%, Survival 10.4%, Open World 10.3%, Realistic 8.4%
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% matchMixed62% of 1,000 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 13.4%, Survival 12.8%, Open World 12.2%, Sandbox 11.7%
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 31.7% ★, Crafting 10.6%, Survival 10%, Open World 9.9%, Sandbox 8.7%
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 400 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 36.3% ★, Crafting 11.9%, Survival 11.3%, Open World 10.9%, Nature 6.4%
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 3,051 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 42.2% ★, Survival 13.4%, Crafting 11.5%, Open World 10.9%, Building 8.3%
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 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 47.6% ★, Survival 16.6%, Open World 11%, Crafting 7%, Sandbox 4.8%
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 4,209 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 39.9% ★, Crafting 14.2%, Survival 11.9%, Open World 8.9%, Sandbox 8.6%
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% matchMixed64% of 749 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 30.3% ★, Crafting 11.3%, Survival 10.5%, Open World 10.3%, Immersive Sim 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a robust base-building system within an open-world survival framework.
- #16 CrossWorlds: Escape
86% matchMixed64% of 158 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 32.9% ★, Crafting 11.5%, Survival 10.5%, Open World 10.2%, Sandbox 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a sandbox survival experience that tasks players with exploring and thriving on remote islands.
- #17 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 40.2% ★, Sailing 34.4% ★, Survival 10.8%, Nature 6.6%, Crafting 5.1%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the intersection of sailing and survival, providing a similar oceanic adventure experience.
- #18 Subsistence
84% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,766 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 45.5% ★, Survival 14%, Crafting 13.1%, Open World 10%, Building 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: A challenging survival game that emphasizes base building and resource management against environmental threats.
- #19 Len's Island
82% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,866 reviews2025
Dev: Flow Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 12.2 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 30.7% ★, Crafting 10.1%, Building 10.1%, Survival 9.6%, Open World 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: Combines survival and building with exploration, offering a more accessible take on the island-survival genre.
- #20 My Island
83% matchMixed66% of 1,734 reviews2024
Dev: SnowBaby Games
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 47%
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 51.4% ★, Survival 14.6%, Crafting 11%, Open World 10.7%, Building 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: A straightforward survival-crafting game that centers on the experience of living and building on a deserted island.
- #21 Among Trees
84% matchMixed68% of 2,233 reviews2021
Dev: FJRD Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 33.3% ★, Survival 10.7%, Crafting 10%, Open World 9.9%, 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 The Infected
82% matchVery Positive84% of 6,982 reviews2020
Dev: DigX Studios
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 18.6 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 29.7% ★, Crafting 11.1%, Building 9.7%, Open World 9.7%, Survival 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: Features deep base-building mechanics and survival elements that reward long-term planning and resource gathering.
- #23 Project Cobalt
81% matchMostly Positive73% of 55 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 27.8% ★, Crafting 12.7%, Survival 10.8%, Open World 10.7%, Building 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on resource management and survival in an open-world setting that requires careful planning.
- #24 Eden Island
81% matchMixed61% of 257 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 33.8% ★, Crafting 12.6%, Building 11.2%, Survival 10.9%, Open World 10.2%
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 Positive86% of 13,056 reviews2025
Dev: Channel37 Ltd
Windows
Median: 19.6 hrsMean: 36.3 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 26.5% ★, Crafting 13.6%, Survival 11.4%, Open World 11.1%, Sandbox 10.5%
- #26 The Planet Crafter
77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 73,089 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.7 hrsMean: 38.5 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 33.6% ★, Crafting 11.3%, Survival 10.5%, Building 10.4%, Open World 9.2%
- #27 Sunkenland
78% matchVery Positive80% of 23,803 reviews2023
Dev: Vector3 Studio
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 20.0 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 46.3% ★, Survival 14%, Crafting 11.7%, Open World 8.9%, Sandbox 7.2%
- #28 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 36.5% ★, Crafting 13.2%, Building 11.5%, Survival 11.4%, Open World 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the core survival loop of crafting and building within an open-world environment.
- #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 25.5% ★, Open World Survival Craft 24.9% ★, Survival 10.9%, Open World 9.5%, Building 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a realistic simulation of survival in a harsh environment, focusing on loot and resource management.
- #30 Aloft
75% matchVery Positive84% of 3,682 reviews2025
Dev: Astrolabe Interactive Inc.Pub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 14.3 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 23.4% ★, Sailing 19.1% ★, Crafting 12.3%, Building 10.6%, Survival 10.3%
- #31 Salt 2: Shores of Gold
75% matchVery Positive85% of 2,349 reviews2025
Dev: Lavaboots Studios
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 33% ★, Crafting 12.8%, Open World 12.6%, Survival 11.5%, Sandbox 9.7%
- #32 Solarpunk™
74% matchVery Positive82% of 4,341 reviews2026
Dev: CyberwavePub: rokaplay
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Solarpunk is a survival game in a technologically advanced world of floating islands. Alone or together with your friends, you can construct buildings, grow food, craft gadgets and hop on your airship to explore distant islands in the sky.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.4% ★, Crafting 12.3%, Building 10.7%, Open World 9.6%, Survival 9.3%
- #33 Mist Survival
76% 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 42.8% ★, Survival 19.6%, Open World 14.1%, Crafting 9.5%, Sandbox 6.5%
- #34 Everwind
73% matchVery Positive81% of 3,756 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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: Crafting 17.9%, Building 15.9%, Open World 15.6%, Survival 15.1%, Sandbox 14.1%
- #35 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 35.3% ★, Survival 16.4%, Crafting 11.5%, Open World 11.2%, Building 9.7%
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.
- #36 Subnautica
74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 378,847 reviews2018
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.3 hrsMean: 39.8 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 42.9% ★, Survival 14.1%, Open World 11.8%, Crafting 11.7%, Exploration 5.8%
- #37 Ylands
76% matchMixed64% of 8,445 reviews2019
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 54 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 28.4% ★, Sailing 24.8% ★, Crafting 11%, Open World 8.1%, Building 8%
- #38 Forever Skies
72% matchMostly Positive78% of 8,950 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 30.6 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 34.3% ★, Crafting 13.9%, Survival 12%, Open World 11.8%, Building 10.3%
- #39 Occupy Mars: The Game
71% matchMixed70% of 3,132 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 34.1 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.7% ★, Crafting 11.7%, Survival 9.8%, Open World 9.3%, Building 9.1%
- #40 Rising World
73% matchVery Positive86% of 5,974 reviews2014
Dev: JIW-Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 21.2 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 34.3% ★, Crafting 11.9%, Building 11%, Procedural Generation 9.9%, Survival 9.8%
- #41 Rem Survival
73% matchMostly Positive75% of 803 reviews2021
Dev: Immortal Hand Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 47.4 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 38.1% ★, Crafting 14.3%, Survival 12.1%, Open World 11.6%, Building 11.4%
- #42 The Last Plague: Blight
70% matchVery Positive89% of 1,472 reviews2024
Dev: Original Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 15.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
The Last Plague: Blight is an authentic survival experience rooted in realism and immersion. Endure the hazards of a brutal open world, uncover the origins of a mysterious disease, and become humanity’s final hope of ending the Blight.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.1% ★, Immersive 18.1% ★, Crafting 10.1%, Realistic 8.5%, Building 8%
- #43 Nightingale
71% matchMixed66% of 18,038 reviews2024
Dev: Inflexion Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 24.0 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 34.7% ★, Crafting 11.6%, Survival 11.3%, Open World 10.7%, Building 10.4%
- #44 StarRupture
69% matchVery Positive81% of 13,247 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 26.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 33.6% ★, Crafting 12.2%, Survival 11.1%, Open World 10.8%, Immersive Sim 9.5%
- #45 Windrose
67% matchVery Positive87% of 51,977 reviews2026
Dev: Kraken Express
Windows
Median: 20.1 hrsMean: 32.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Embark on a PvE survival adventure in the Age of Piracy. Fight on land and sea, solo or with friends. Build, craft and explore vast open world filled with dark secrets. Master soulslite combat and take on challenging bosses, command your ship and plunder unspoken treasures!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.2% ★, Sailing 23.7% ★, Crafting 12%, Survival 10.2%, Building 8.8%
- #46 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
68% matchVery Positive91% of 7,602 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Survive, craft, and automate in this free prologue set on one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters, an open-world game where you play solo or with friends to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.8% ★, Crafting 12.2%, Open World 10.7%, Sandbox 9%, Building 8.9%
- #47 Survisland / 实境求生
70% matchMixed63% of 1,551 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 30.4% ★, Crafting 10.1%, Building 10.1%, Survival 9.8%, Sandbox 8.3%
- #48 DYSMANTLE
69% matchVery Positive91% of 11,572 reviews2021
Dev: 10tons Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 25.3 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 23.7%, Survival 23.3%, Open World 22.5%, Sandbox 12.5%, Exploration 8%
- #49 Stormworks: Build and Rescue
69% matchVery Positive91% of 59,745 reviews2020
Dev: Geometa
Windows · Mac
Median: 17.4 hrsMean: 113.5 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 23.3% ★, Open World Survival Craft 21.9% ★, Sandbox 10.6%, Building 10%, Immersive Sim 9.3%
- #50 Hold Your Own
72% matchMixed67% of 576 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 19.5%, Survival 16.6%, Open World 13.9%, Building 12.9%, Sandbox 12.2%
- #51 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 13.1%, Sandbox 12.5%, Crafting 12.4%, Open World 11.5%, Building 11.1%
- #52 Volcanoids
70% matchVery Positive83% of 9,332 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 17.9%, Building 14.8%, Sandbox 13.9%, Survival 13.9%, Open World 13.2%
- #53 Outbreak Island
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,082 reviews2025
Dev: Tiny Magicians
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 19%, Sandbox 18.1%, Crafting 16.3%, Building 13.2%, Open World 12.7%
- #54 Voyagers of Nera
65% matchVery Positive85% of 2,598 reviews2025
Dev: Treehouse Games
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 12.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Voyagers of Nera is a cooperative survival-crafting game where you must survive a magical ocean world brimming with lost spirits and deadly monsters. Sail to distant islands, build beautiful villages and surf across the waves with up to 10 players.
Why similar: Sailing 32.5% ★, Open World Survival Craft 30.8% ★, Crafting 12.6%, Building 11.2%, Exploration 5.6%
- #55 Arctico
68% matchMostly Positive70% of 2,527 reviews2022
Dev: Claudio Norori
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Explore Arctico with your dog sled, kayak, and up to 3 friends! Build and customize your base camp, gather resources and samples, set up labs, and take good care of your dogs in this peaceful island.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.2% ★, Open World 11.1%, Survival 11%, Crafting 8%, Nature 7.2%
- #56 Breathedge
66% matchVery Positive81% of 17,661 reviews2021
Dev: RedRuins SoftworksPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 43.8% ★, Survival 12.3%, Sandbox 11.3%, Crafting 10.5%, Open World 7.3%
- #57 Tribe: Primitive Builder
66% matchVery Positive81% of 795 reviews2023
Dev: Space Boat StudiosPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 7.2 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%, Nature 15.8%, Building 15.1%, Survival 13.3%, Realistic 12.1%
- #58 Start Over
67% matchMixed61% of 379 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 14.2%, Survival 12.3%, Building 11.6%, Sandbox 10.9%, Immersive Sim 9.5%
