- #1 The Long Dark
97% 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 57% ★, Survival 22.5%, Open World 9.7%, Crafting 5.1%, Post-apocalyptic 1.9%
Why You'll Like It: The definitive experience for players seeking a brutal, atmospheric survival struggle against an eternal frozen winter.
- #2 Subnautica: Below Zero
96% matchVery Positive90% of 108,186 reviews2021
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 15.5 hrsMean: 30.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Dive into a freezing underwater adventure on an alien planet. Below Zero is set two years after the original Subnautica. Return to Planet 4546B to uncover the truth behind a deadly cover-up. Survive by building habitats, crafting tools, & diving deeper into the world of Subnautica.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49% ★, Survival 16.9%, Open World 9.3%, Base Building 7.4%, Crafting 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: Features a similarly harsh, frozen alien landscape that emphasizes exploration and survival against environmental hazards.
- #3 Outward Definitive Edition
96% matchMostly Positive73% of 31,321 reviews2022
Dev: Nine Dots StudioPub: Prime Matter
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 18.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
No remarkable journey is achieved without great effort. In Outward, the cold of the night or an infected wound can be as dangerous as a predator lurking in the dark. Explore the vast world of Aurai solo or in Co-op. The Definitive Edition features both DLCs and quality of life improvements.
Why similar: Survival 25.9%, Open World 23.9%, RPG 16.1%, Online Co-Op 11%, Co-op 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: A challenging survival RPG that demands careful preparation and features a harsh, unforgiving world similar to the tone of Fade to Silence.
- #4 The Forest
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 680,573 reviews2018
Dev: Endnight Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 37.3 hrs≥1hr: 93%
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 55.5% ★, Survival 20.1%, Open World 9.5%, Crafting 7%, Horror 3.5%
Why You'll Like It: Combines intense survival and base-building mechanics with a terrifying, supernatural horror atmosphere.
- #5 Valheim
94% matchVery Positive94% of 540,690 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 26.0 hrsMean: 78.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.9% ★, Survival 15.3%, Open World 9.2%, Online Co-Op 7.9%, Crafting 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: Captures the sense of atmospheric exploration and boss-driven progression within a harsh, survival-focused environment.
- #6 Sons Of The Forest
94% matchVery Positive88% of 317,804 reviews2024
Dev: Endnight Games LtdPub: Newnight
Windows
Median: 15.0 hrsMean: 32.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends, in this terrifying new open-world survival horror simulator.
Why similar: Survival 30.8%, Open World 17.2%, Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 11.2%, Co-op 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: An evolution of survival horror that offers superior base-building and combat against grotesque, eldritch-like threats.
- #7 Don't Starve Together
93% matchVery Positive95% of 541,972 reviews2016
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 64.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 65.7% ★, Survival 24.7%, Open World 2.4%, Crafting 1.9%, Co-op 1.8%
Why You'll Like It: Shares the Lovecraftian aesthetic and punishing survival mechanics while emphasizing base management and resource gathering.
- #8 Mist Survival
92% 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 46.6% ★, Survival 24.1%, Open World 11.2%, Base Building 7.1%, Crafting 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on survival against environmental threats and supernatural entities in a post-apocalyptic setting.
- #9 Winter Survival
91% matchMixed63% of 776 reviews2025
Dev: DRAGO entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Winter Survival is a story-driven survival game where trauma turns reality into a reflection of your breaking mind. Battle cold, hunger, hallucinations, and adapt to the wilderness as it adapts to you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.9% ★, Survival 18.1%, Open World 11.2%, Base Building 9.5%, Crafting 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: Directly mirrors the struggle for survival in a freezing, atmospheric wilderness where every resource counts.
- #10 The Wild Eight
91% matchMixed68% of 8,109 reviews2019
Dev: Eight PointsPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
The Wild Eight is an intense survival action-adventure set in the frozen wilderness of Alaska. Team up with friends in online co-op or go solo, explore the mysterious land, craft weapons and fight to live another day.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48% ★, Survival 20.6%, Open World 7.9%, Crafting 6.3%, Online Co-Op 4.3%
Why You'll Like It: A frozen survival game that emphasizes mystery, exploration, and the harsh reality of a sub-zero environment.
- #11 ICARUS
90% matchMostly Positive75% of 67,515 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 46.4 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 42% ★, Survival 17.3%, Base Building 8.4%, Crafting 8.1%, Open World 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: A session-based survival game that forces players to contend with extreme environmental conditions and dangerous alien wildlife.
- #12 State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition
89% matchVery Positive83% of 69,686 reviews2020
Dev: Undead LabsPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 39.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
The dead have risen and civilization has fallen. Now it's up to you to gather survivors, scavenge for resources and build a community in a post-apocalyptic world – a world where you define what it means to survive in this ultimate zombie survival simulation.
Why similar: Survival 32.9%, Open World 19.3%, Base Building 16%, Online Co-Op 7.8%, Co-op 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on the base management and follower recruitment systems that mirror the community-building aspects of Fade to Silence.
- #13 Remnant: From the Ashes
89% matchVery Positive84% of 57,286 reviews2019
Dev: Gunfire GamesPub: Arc Games
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 28.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
The world has been thrown into chaos by an ancient evil from another dimension. As one of the last remnants of humanity, you must set out alone or alongside up to two other survivors to face down hordes of deadly enemies to try to carve a foothold, rebuild, and retake what was lost.
Why similar: Survival 16.5%, Souls-like 15.6%, Online Co-Op 12.8%, RPG 12.6%, Co-op 12.3%
Why You'll Like It: Captures the Eldritch, Lovecraftian combat feel and third-person action focus found in the seed game.
- #14 V Rising
87% matchVery Positive89% of 136,761 reviews2024
Dev: Stunlock Studios
Windows
Median: 20.8 hrsMean: 57.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Awaken as a Vampire. Hunt for blood in nearby settlements to regain your strength and evade the scorching sun to survive. Raise your castle and thrive in an ever-changing, open world full of mystery. Gain allies online and conquer the land of the living.
Why similar: Survival 30.8%, Open World 19.9%, Base Building 16.8%, Crafting 15%, Online Co-Op 10%
Why You'll Like It: Features polished third-person combat and extensive base-building within a dark, gothic, and atmospheric world.
- #15 Frozen Flame
88% matchMixed63% of 2,989 reviews2022
Dev: Dreamside InteractivePub: Ravenage Games
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A challenging exploration and survival adventure, set in the dying world of Dragons. Only those who harness the power of Frozen Flame have the means to survive the harsh conditions of the realm and able to muster the strength to cleanse it for good.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41% ★, Survival 14.4%, Open World 9.4%, Base Building 8.9%, Crafting 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: A fantasy-themed survival game that emphasizes exploration, base building, and progression in a magical, ruined world.
- #16 Grounded
86% matchVery Positive90% of 95,505 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.5 hrsMean: 41.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.6% ★, Survival 20.4%, Base Building 8.3%, Crafting 7.4%, Open World 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a highly polished survival and base-building experience set in a world that feels uniquely dangerous and hostile.
- #17 Nightingale
86% 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 40.4% ★, Survival 14.9%, Open World 9.1%, Crafting 8.2%, Online Co-Op 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that features eldritch portals and a focus on exploration in mysterious, dangerous realms.
- #18 Forever Skies
85% 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 38.4% ★, Survival 15.2%, Open World 9.7%, Crafting 9.5%, Base Building 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: Features survival and base building in a ruined, atmospheric world that requires constant adaptation to survive.
- #19 Generation Zero®
84% matchMostly Positive72% of 42,150 reviews2019
Dev: Systemic Reaction™Pub: Avalanche Studios
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 19.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Generation Zero is a stealth-action shooter where you wage guerilla warfare against lethal mechanical enemies. Explore a vast open world map inspired by the Swedish Cold War era, take part in the resistance alone or with up to three friends in seamless co-op.
Why similar: Survival 23.3%, Open World 16%, Base Building 13.5%, Crafting 13.4%, Co-op 8%
Why You'll Like It: Features atmospheric exploration in a desolate, post-apocalyptic world with a focus on survival and tactical combat.
- #20 7 Days to Die
81% matchVery Positive87% of 405,507 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.3 hrsMean: 110.4 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 41.1% ★, Survival 22.3%, Open World 10.1%, Base Building 8.5%, Online Co-Op 7%
Why You'll Like It: Provides deep base-building and survival mechanics against waves of enemies, perfect for those who enjoy the defensive aspects of the seed game.
- #21 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 51.3% ★, Survival 17.9%, Crafting 9%, Open World 8.2%, Base Building 5.5%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore survival experience that prioritizes base building and defending against environmental and AI threats.
- #22 Miscreated
83% 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 55% ★, Survival 20.2%, Open World 10.2%, Crafting 5.5%, Post-apocalyptic 3.3%
Why You'll Like It: Survival in a post-apocalyptic world that emphasizes environmental hazards and tense, player-versus-environment combat.
- #23 DESOLATE
82% matchMixed66% of 8,063 reviews2019
Dev: NeargaPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
DESOLATE is a first person horror survival experience. Form a research team with up to 4 players and explore an open world filled with mysteries and unsolved questions, or do it all on your own.
Why similar: Survival 50%, Open World 29.8%, Horror 10.2%, Crafting 3.7%, Survival Horror 2.6%
Why You'll Like It: A horror-focused survival game set in a mysterious, hostile environment filled with supernatural anomalies.
- #24 Solace Crafting
81% matchMostly Positive72% of 898 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 38.5% ★, Survival 14.9%, Crafting 9.1%, Open World 8.7%, Base Building 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that leans heavily into crafting and exploration in a vast, dangerous landscape.
- #25 HumanitZ
78% matchMostly Positive74% of 13,984 reviews2026
Dev: Yodubzz StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 77%
HumanitZ is an isometric, open-world sandbox survival game set in a world ended by a zombie outbreak. Survive alone or with friends by scavenging, crafting, building, and fighting to last as long as ‘humanly’ possible. You can’t change the past, but you can fight for the future of humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.8% ★, Survival 17.5%, Open World 10.2%, Crafting 8.8%, Base Building 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game that emphasizes scavenging, base building, and managing resources in a hostile, post-apocalyptic world.
- #26 Night of the Dead
79% matchMostly Positive77% of 11,856 reviews2024
Dev: Jackto Studios
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 32.1 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 39.1% ★, Survival 12.9%, Open World 8.7%, Crafting 8.4%, Base Building 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on survival and base building against massive hordes, catering to the defensive combat style of the seed game.
- #27 ELEX
80% matchMostly Positive74% of 19,601 reviews2017
Dev: Piranha BytesPub: THQ Nordic
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 23.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
ELEX is a handcrafted action role-playing experience from the award-winning creators of the Gothic series, set in a brand new post-apocalyptic Science Fantasy universe that puts players into a huge seamless game world full of original characters, mutated creatures, deep moral choices and powerful action.
Why similar: Open World 42.4%, RPG 26.2%, Post-apocalyptic 12.7%, Third Person 7.1%, Base Building 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world RPG that blends survival elements with a dark, post-apocalyptic setting and third-person combat.
- #28 Project Winter
79% matchVery Positive82% of 19,080 reviews2019
Dev: Other Ocean InteractivePub: Other Ocean Group
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 23.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Project Winter 2.0: Cabin Fever is an 8-player survival and social deception game where teamwork is vital, but betrayal is inevitable. Face the wilderness, uncover traitors, and survive paranoia in this streamlined yet chaotic multiplayer experience.
Why similar: Survival 38.7%, Snow 25.4% ★, Crafting 24.7%, Multiplayer 7.8%, Action 1.7%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer survival game set in a brutal, frozen landscape that emphasizes social tension and environmental survival.
- #29 Whisper of the Swallows
76% matchVery Positive86% of 191 reviews2026
Dev: Blown Leaves
Windows
Brave a savage, unforgiving procedurally generated world where extreme weather and the nightmares of the dark will hunt you down. Alone or in co-op, survive, build, and explore to turn a cursed hellscape into your sanctuary of light.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.4% ★, Survival 16%, Crafting 10.1%, Open World 9%, Base Building 7.7%
- #30 MISERY
75% matchVery Positive84% of 25,586 reviews2025
Dev: Platypus EntertainmentPub: Ytopia
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 10.8 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 32.3% ★, Survival 15.9%, Open World 8.5%, Online Co-Op 7.8%, Crafting 7.7%
- #31 Savage Lands
77% matchMixed54% of 6,690 reviews2021
Dev: Last Bastion Studios LLC
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Your fight for survival begins on the frozen shores of Tarvhas, where bitter cold and vicious creatures conspire to defeat the unprepared. Uncover the land’s dark history as you and fellow explorers traverse an unforgiving and hostile world to tame the Savage Lands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 51.2% ★, Survival 17.1%, Open World 9.1%, Crafting 7.5%, Online Co-Op 6.8%
- #32 Frozen State
78% 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 35.5% ★, Survival 25.3%, Crafting 9.7%, Open World 8.1%, RPG 6.6%
- #33 Short Snow | Cold Survival Game
75% matchMixed54% of 168 reviews2025
Dev: MubDev
Windows
A realistic open-world survival experience. After a harrowing plane crash, you find yourself stranded in the wilderness. Battling freezing temperatures and hunger, you face an unknown virus that slowly paralyzes muscles, leaving its victims motionless and at the mercy of the unforgiving cold.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.5% ★, Survival 18.8%, Open World 11.7%, Crafting 8.3%, Base Building 6.4%
- #34 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
74% matchVery Positive82% of 10,429 reviews2024
Dev: Max Ent Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 16.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 38% ★, Survival 15.2%, Open World 8.3%, Base Building 8.2%, Crafting 8.1%
- #35 Plains of Pain
74% matchVery Positive83% of 933 reviews2023
Dev: Cobra Byte Digital
Windows
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 36.9% ★, Survival 13.3%, Open World 8.5%, Crafting 8.3%, Base Building 8.1%
- #36 Fragmented
77% matchMixed43% of 1,964 reviews2017
Dev: Above and Beyond Technologies
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Stranded in a hostile alien world, you must fight to survive. Hunt, harvest, craft, advance skills, and build using local resources along with technology from your voyage.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 54.1% ★, Survival 18.3%, Open World 8.2%, Crafting 6.1%, RPG 3.2%
- #37 Radiation Island
76% 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 58.4% ★, Survival 23.4%, Open World 7.4%, Crafting 5.4%, Multiplayer 1.5%
- #38 Bleak Faith: Forsaken
73% matchMostly Positive75% of 2,983 reviews2023
Dev: Archangel Studios
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Explore the last remnants of civilization in this vast, unforgiving, and interconnected world. Learn what is left of its history. Discover pockets of natural life in the perpetually expanding Omnistructure. Lose yourself in a journey unlike any other. Find your purpose in the world.
Why similar: Survival 24.5%, Open World 19.8%, RPG 13.9%, Souls-like 13%, Survival Horror 9.2%
- #39 Survive the Fall
73% matchMixed68% of 677 reviews2025
Dev: Angry Bulls StudioPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Explore, loot and fight in an open world action game set in a post-apocalyptic future after a devastating meteor strike. Assemble your team and take the fight to the enemy or choose a stealthy approach to gain the upper hand. Expand your base to research new gear and get ready to survive the fall.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.5% ★, Survival 15.8%, Open World 9.7%, Base Building 9.3%, Crafting 9.2%
- #40 ENDALOR
72% matchMixed70% of 272 reviews2026
Dev: Diorite Games
Windows
An immersive medieval dark fantasy survival game with RPG elements for 1-4 players. Set in a hand crafted open world. Explore, survive, build, craft, fight and conquer your way through the dark, brutal and mysterious lands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.2% ★, Survival 13.8%, Open World 8.6%, Online Co-Op 7.2%, Crafting 6.9%
- #41 KeepUp Survival
73% 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 43% ★, Survival 16.9%, Open World 10.6%, Crafting 9.8%, Base Building 9%
- #42 Sailing alone:Aftermath
71% matchMixed68% of 79 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: Open World Survival Craft 43.9% ★, Survival 12.9%, Base Building 9.1%, Co-op 5.7%, Crafting 5.7%
- #43 Chernobylite Complete Edition
71% matchVery Positive82% of 15,545 reviews2021
Dev: The Farm 51
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Chernobylite is a science-fiction survival horror RPG. Set in the hyper-realistic, 3D-scanned wasteland of Chernobyl’s Exclusion Zone, explore a non-linear storyline in your search to uncover the truth of your tortured past.
Why similar: Survival 31.6%, Base Building 14.6%, Crafting 13.7%, RPG 10.8%, Post-apocalyptic 10.7%
- #44 Northern Lights
72% 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 49.3% ★, Survival 17.7%, Open World 11.3%, Crafting 10.1%, Snow 6.3% ★
- #45 Rem Survival
71% 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 45% ★, Survival 16.2%, Crafting 10.2%, Open World 10%, Base Building 9%
- #46 Voidtrain
68% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,810 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.3% ★, Survival 13.3%, Open World 7.5%, Crafting 7.4%, Base Building 7.1%
- #47 Force of Nature
70% 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 51% ★, Survival 17.2%, Crafting 11.1%, Open World 8.3%, Base Building 3.4%
- #48 IfSunSets
68% matchMostly Positive75% of 2,352 reviews2024
Dev: POLYMORPHPub: Smilegate
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 27.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
「IfSunSets」 is a survival RPG adventure game. During the day, secure necessary supplies across the island, and survive the night against strong and terrifying monsters that track you down. You can utilize resources you've secured to build a base to fend off threatening monsters.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.7% ★, Open World 10.8%, Base Building 10%, RPG 6.2%, Survival Horror 6.1%
- #49 Far Lands
69% matchMixed65% of 170 reviews2024
Dev: Scalpel Softworks
Windows
Far Lands is an open-world survival game. Fight mercenaries, steal their loot and vehicles. Build and defend your base from zombies. Gather resources, craft better gear and loot different points of interest. Want to play with friends? Join them on Co-op!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.8% ★, Survival 18.6%, Crafting 11.6%, Base Building 10.4%, Open World 9.8%
- #50 CrossWorlds: Escape
70% 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 45% ★, Survival 16.2%, Open World 10.2%, Crafting 9.6%, Base Building 9%
- #51 No One Survived
65% matchMixed64% of 7,777 reviews2025
Dev: Cat Play Studio
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 23.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
This is a multiplayer cooperative open world construction survival sandbox game, where you and your friends must find supplies and build shelters in this world. You have to keep an eye on your character's needs state at all times, a bad state is likely to lead to death.
Why similar: Survival 32.2%, Open World 17.6%, Crafting 12.6%, Survival Horror 6.5%, Online Co-Op 6.5%
- #52 Outpost Zero
69% matchMixed48% of 853 reviews2019
Dev: Symmetric GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Outpost Zero blends the genres of Multiplayer Base Building Survival and Simulation games in a Sci-Fi universe. On a lawless alien world, robotic scouts are tasked with building an Outpost for human colonists. Command AI minions, colonize the planet, and survive the perils of Gaiya.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49% ★, Survival 20.9%, Open World 9.5%, Base Building 7.9%, Crafting 6.8%
- #53 Feel The Snow
67% matchVery Positive87% of 3,059 reviews2019
Dev: Owlet
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Choose one of the characters and start your journey. The game has many interesting things in store: building, crafting, puzzles, bosses, mystery, laughs, quests etc.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.1% ★, Survival 16.7%, Crafting 8.6%, Open World 6.9%, RPG 4.8%
- #54 Project: Mist
64% matchMostly Positive72% of 254 reviews2026
Dev: Chicken Launcher
Windows
Explore a strange island in this open-world survival horror. Use the Gravity Gun to manipulate objects and enemies, build a moving train base, fight giant creatures, catch critters, upgrade your gear, and uncover the dark secrets hidden within its abandoned facilities. Play alone or with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.2% ★, Survival 14.5%, Open World 10.9%, Crafting 10%, Survival Horror 6.7%
- #55 The Fifth Day
70% 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 48% ★, Survival 24.1%, Open World 11.6%, Post-apocalyptic 5.1%, Crafting 4.8%
- #56 The Last Plague: Blight
64% 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 43.8% ★, Survival 13.6%, Base Building 9.6%, Crafting 9.3%, Open World 6.6%
- #57 Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts
67% matchMostly Negative37% of 375 reviews2023
Dev: EFNSOFT
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 2.6 hrs≥1hr: 36%
Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts is a Multiplayer Survival Horror game for up to 4 players. Set in the Middle of the Unknown, you can craft, build, explore and discover secrets in the exciting first chapter from EFNSOFT.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44% ★, Survival 15.9%, Open World 10.2%, Crafting 9%, Online Co-Op 5.1%
- #58 Lost Skies
64% matchMixed61% of 2,976 reviews2025
Dev: Bossa StudiosPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 17.0 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Chart a course in a breathtaking, but fractured world. Explore ancient ruins, master advanced technology, and craft your very own skyship to brave nature’s fury and colossal threats in Lost Skies. Team up with friends or go it alone in this awe-inspiring cooperative survival adventure.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 58.7% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Online Co-Op 10.3%, Open World 8.2%, Crafting 7.1%
