Games Like Far Cry® Primal

Fight to liberate a war-torn Himalayan region in this open world FPS. Wield a deadly arsenal, dominate land and sky with gyrocopters and war elephants, and take on enemy territory solo or in co-op.

Why similar: Open World 31.4%, Hunting 21.6% ★, FPS 8.2%, Survival 8.2%, Stealth 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers the closest overall Far Cry loop of first-person open-world exploration, animal hunting, crafting upgrades, enemy outposts, and emergent wilderness encounters.

Stranded on the Rook Islands as Jason Brody, fight your way through a lawless tropical open world using a powerful arsenal to save your friends and escape the madness of this acclaimed visceral FPS.

Why similar: Open World 32.7%, Hunting 23.4% ★, FPS 10.1%, Stealth 7.5%, Survival 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its island setting delivers the same stealth-or-guns-blazing outpost takedowns, hunting-driven crafting, hostile wildlife, and player-led open-world action.

Fight a fanatical cult in this open world FPS. Engage in intense combat, free hostile territory, recruit loyal followers and animal allies, and liberate Hope County solo or in full 2-player co-op.

Why similar: Hunting 29.5% ★, Open World 23.4%, Survival 12.9%, Stealth 8.3%, FPS 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Although modern-day, it retains Primal's core Far Cry rhythm of liberating outposts, roaming wilderness, hunting animals, crafting, and improvising during encounters.

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora™ is a third and first-person action-adventure game set in the Western Frontier. Reconnect with your lost heritage and discover what it means to be Na'vi.

Why similar: Open World 49.6%, First-Person 10.3%, Action 7.8%, Adventure 7.8%, Exploration 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: Built around a similarly lush Ubisoft open world, it emphasizes first-person traversal, gathering, hunting, crafting, hostile camps, and bonding with the wild.

Dive into a transformed vibrant post-apocalyptic Hope County, Montana, 17 years after a global nuclear catastrophe. Lead the fight against the Highwaymen, as they seek to take over the last remaining resources.

Why similar: Open World 45.1%, FPS 13%, Survival 8.3%, First-Person 8%, Stealth 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: This post-apocalyptic Far Cry keeps the familiar open-world shooting and outpost gameplay while adding scavenging and rougher frontier-style survival flavor.

Experience Aloy’s legendary quest to unravel the mysteries of a future Earth ruled by Machines. Use devastating tactical attacks against your prey and explore a majestic open world in this award-winning action RPG!

Why similar: Open World 46.3%, Hunting 23.8% ★, Adventure 6.4%, Action 5%, Stealth 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its vast tribal wilderness, creature hunting, resource crafting, and tactical fights against powerful beasts capture much of Primal's hunter-versus-nature appeal.

Explore Ancient Egypt in this action-adventure game. Battle powerful enemies, unveil conspiracies, and discover the origin story of the Assassin’s Brotherhood.

Why similar: Open World 56.6%, Stealth 16.7%, Action 6.4%, Adventure 5.5%, Exploration 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: Ancient landscapes, wildlife hunting, resource upgrades, exploration, and clearing enemy locations make it an excellent historical open-world alternative despite its third-person combat.

You are a gun for hire, trapped in a war-torn African state, stricken with malaria and forced to make deals with corrupt warlords on both sides of the conflict in order to make this country your home. You must identify and exploit your enemies' weaknesses, neutralizing their superior numbers and firepower with surprise, subversion,...

Why similar: Open World 45.8%, FPS 15.7%, Survival 8.5%, First-Person 6.7%, Stealth 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: The series' harsher open-world entry emphasizes hostile travel, dynamic combat, wilderness navigation, and player-created solutions more than its later sequels.

Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.9% ★, Survival 21.6%, Open World 20.7%, Crafting 8.7%, First-Person 3.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its primitive crafting, dinosaur taming, hunting, and perilous open-world exploration strongly fit the animal-master and Stone Age survival side of Primal.

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 39.1% ★, Survival 22.6%, Open World 16.9%, Crafting 8.2%, First-Person 3%

Why You'll Like It: This first-person jungle survival game makes navigation, crafting, hunting, and managing threats from the natural world central to every expedition.

Survive your evolution in Neogene Africa starting 10 million years ago. Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is a third-person open world survival game where you Explore, Expand, and Evolve to advance your clan to the next generation in the exciting new adventure from Panache Digital Games.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.8% ★, Open World 22.8%, Survival 18.9%, Crafting 9%, Exploration 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: It is a uniquely prehistoric survival adventure about exploring wild terrain, using tools, protecting a clan, and evolving through dangerous encounters with animals.

Arthur Morgan and the Van der Linde Gang are outlaws on the run. With federal agents and bounty hunters massing on their heels, the gang must rob, steal, and fight their way across the rugged heartland in order to survive.

Why similar: Open World 63.7%, Adventure 7.3%, Action 6.7%, FPS 5.3%, First-Person 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its exceptionally detailed frontier wilderness rewards tracking animals, hunting, crafting, exploration, and surviving unpredictable encounters far from civilization.

Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. Possess any of your tribespeople, recruit followers, and build a thriving automated civilization. Survive, expand, and forge your own legacy across a vast ancient open world — together with friends.

Why similar: Hunting 30.5% ★, Open World Survival Craft 20.8% ★, Open World 17.7%, Survival 14.7%, Crafting 9%

Why You'll Like It: This tribal survival sandbox focuses on gathering, crafting, building, fighting wildlife, and establishing a clan in a dangerous primitive world.

Discover an atmospheric hunting game like no other in this realistic, stunning open world – regularly updated in collaboration with the community. Immerse yourself in the single player campaign, or share the ultimate hunting experience with friends.

Why similar: Hunting 47% ★, Open World 21.1%, Survival 11.4%, Stealth 7.4%, FPS 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: For players who most enjoyed stalking wildlife in Primal, it provides a much deeper and more realistic open-world hunting experience.

Lead the revolution in this first-person open world guerrilla shooter. Fight with improvised weapons, travel however you can, and build your rebel network to take down Castillo's regime.

Why similar: Open World 39.8%, Crafting 13%, FPS 11.7%, First-Person 8.4%, Action 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: It retains the series' satisfying first-person open-world combat, camp clearing, animal companions, and freeform exploration, albeit in a more urbanized setting.

Welcome to a new world! In Monster Hunter: World, the latest installment in the series, you can enjoy the ultimate hunting experience, using everything at your disposal to hunt monsters in a new world teeming with surprises and excitement.

Why similar: Open World 58.8%, Action 12.9%, Adventure 6.8%, Exploration 5.7%, Action RPG 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: The game revolves around tracking enormous creatures through living ecosystems, preparing gear from gathered resources, and mastering demanding hunts.

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 34.4% ★, Survival 20.3%, Open World 18.4%, Crafting 11.1%, First-Person 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its first-person survival systems make gathering, crafting tools, hunting, exploration, and overcoming wilderness hazards the heart of progression.

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: Open World 35.4%, Survival 33.7%, Crafting 11.7%, First-Person 6.4%, Exploration 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: A dangerous forest, hands-on crafting, hostile tribes, hunting, and open-ended exploration create a similarly tense fight for survival in the wild.

Dive into intense dinosaur hunting adventures with your friends. Complete hunting contracts for Preton Corporation. Gather rewards, improve your equipment and become a master hunter. Are you the hunter or the hunted?

Why similar: Hunting 40.6% ★, Open World 21.2%, Stealth 10.2%, FPS 8.1%, First-Person 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: This dinosaur-hunting game offers a direct prehistoric wilderness premise with weapon crafting, tracking, and cooperative survival against large predators.

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 40% ★, Survival 22.1%, Open World 19.9%, Crafting 7.5%, First-Person 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: It combines first-person wilderness survival, hunting, crafting, cave exploration, and conflict with hostile inhabitants in a highly reactive environment.

Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.

Why similar: Open World 31.1%, Survival 26.6%, Crafting 22.5%, First-Person 7.4%, Adventure 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its slower-paced first-person frontier life centers on hunting, gathering, crafting, and building a sustainable settlement in a historical wilderness.

Lead your elite team of Ghosts in this tactical third-person shooter. Explore a massive open world, infiltrate and destroy the deadly Santa Blanca cartel, and save Bolivia and its people.

Why similar: Open World 47.1%, Stealth 14.9%, Survival 10.1%, FPS 6.4%, Shooter 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its enormous open map and flexible approaches to enemy compounds recreate the freedom of scouting, infiltrating, and disrupting hostile territory.

Winner of more than 200 Game of the Year Awards, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition brings the epic fantasy to life in stunning detail. The Special Edition includes the critically acclaimed game and add-ons with all-new features.

Why similar: Open World 64.4%, First-Person 7.3%, Stealth 7%, Adventure 6.9%, RPG 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its expansive untamed world offers freeform exploration, hunting, crafting, ancient tribal ruins, and frequent encounters with dangerous creatures.

Story-driven open-world RPG that immerses you in an epic adventure in the Holy Roman Empire. Avenge your parents' death as you battle invading forces, go on game-changing quests, and make influential choices. Explore castles, forests, villages and other realistic settings in medieval Bohemia!

Why similar: Open World 62.7%, First-Person 12.2%, Adventure 6.1%, RPG 5.2%, Action 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its grounded first-person medieval world rewards wilderness exploration, hunting, crafting, and surviving through preparation rather than superhuman abilities.

As Lara Croft races to save the world from a Maya apocalypse, she must become the Tomb Raider she is destined to be.

Why similar: Open World 36.2%, Survival 17.9%, Stealth 14.4%, Adventure 10.5%, Action 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its dense wilderness setting combines hunting, resource crafting, stealthy enemy encounters, ancient ruins, and a strong sense of hostile jungle exploration.

First-person action survival game set in a post-apocalyptic open world overrun by flesh-hungry zombies. Roam a city devastated by a mysterious virus epidemic. Scavenge for supplies, craft weapons, and face hordes of the infected.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.4% ★, Open World 23%, Survival 16.5%, Stealth 9.6%, FPS 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its first-person open-world movement, scavenging, crafting, volatile night dangers, and improvised combat offer a more urban but similarly tense survival-action loop.

As primitive human, in the wild Ice Age prehistoric world, Hunt and tame wild beasts such as mammoths and sabretooth, build homes, and survive.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.1% ★, Hunting 23.7% ★, Survival 18.2%, Open World 16.8%, Adventure 4.7%

Having defeated the Campaigner, Turok throws the Chronocepter into a waiting volcano to destroy it. Unfortunately the blast awakens an even deadlier force - The Primagen. Once again a Turok is tasked with restoring peace to the land and stopping the Primagen from merging Earth with the nether world.

Why similar: FPS 47.9%, Action 19%, Adventure 13%, First-Person 10.4%, Shooter 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: This classic first-person adventure supplies a primal sci-fi world full of dinosaurs, hostile creatures, exploration, and heavy survival-oriented action.

A tropical paradise seethes with hidden evil in Far Cry®, a cunningly detailed action shooter that pushes the boundaries of combat to shocking new levels. Freelance mariner Jack Carver is cursing the day he ever came to this island.

Why similar: Open World 29.1%, FPS 24.3%, Stealth 12.3%, First-Person 9.5%, Action 8.6%

Far Cry® 3: Blood Dragon is THE Kick-Ass Cyber Shooter.Welcome to an 80’s vision of the future. The year is 2007 and you are Sargent Rex Colt, a Mark IV Cyber Commando. Your mission: get the girl, kill the baddies, and save the world.

Why similar: Open World 43.9%, FPS 22.4%, Stealth 9.3%, Action 7.6%, First-Person 4.6%

Experience fierce open world survival gameplay as you attempt to stay alive on an unforgiving island inhabited by dinosaurs! Hunt. Grow. Survive.

Why similar: Hunting 38.2% ★, Open World 29%, Survival 27%, Adventure 2.6%, Action 2.3%

Stone Rage is a prehistoric, open-world survival game. Play as a Cro-Magnon or Neanderthal and shape-shift into beasts as you secure your place in a harsh landscape of dangerous animals, scarce resources, and unforgiving climates. Make friends and enemies. Build. Fight. Survive.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.6% ★, Open World 24.7%, Survival 21.1%, Crafting 5.1%, Adventure 3.9%

Conan Exiles Enhanced is an open world survival game set in the mythical lands of Hyboria, now fully upgraded to Unreal Engine 5 with stunning visuals and improved performance. SURVIVE, BUILD, and DOMINATE alone or with friends in a world brimming with adventure!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.8% ★, Open World 26.5%, Survival 25.3%, Crafting 9.7%, Adventure 1.9%

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 35.9% ★, Survival 18.3%, Open World 18.3%, Crafting 7.8%, FPS 4.7%

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 40.3% ★, Survival 21.8%, Open World 18.3%, Crafting 8.7%, First-Person 3.9%

Enter a world of mystery, danger, ancient dinosaurs, mythical beasts, and cubes! Work by yourself or with a tribe of others to gather materials, craft useful items, tame wild creatures, and build huge bases to survive in PixARK!

Why similar: Open World 35.8%, Survival 35.1%, Crafting 10.2%, Adventure 6%, FPS 5.5%

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 39.1% ★, Survival 23.6%, Open World 19.1%, Crafting 5.2%, First-Person 4.1%

Immerse yourself in a survival FPS adventure. Stranded on a dangerous island, face mercenaries, dinosaurs, and a vibrant yet hostile ecosystem. Explore breathtaking environments and survive the onslaught of intense, fast-paced encounters.

Why similar: Survival 29.5%, Stealth 15.3%, FPS 13.3%, First-Person 10.6%, Exploration 6.8%

A savage online shooter, where players do battle as man or beast in class-based deathmatches and a frantic escape mode. Unleash your inner dinosaur!

Why similar: Open World 27.8%, FPS 19.4%, Survival 19.3%, Action 11.9%, First-Person 9.6%

Survive, hunt and prey in the deadly jungles and swamps in distinctly new and thrilling first person gameplay.

Why similar: Hunting 24.6% ★, FPS 18.4%, Survival 14%, Stealth 12.3%, Action 9.8%

Welcome to SCUM, a ruthless open-world survival game where deep character customization defines the prisoner you become. Loot, craft, hunt, build, and fight to outlast a hostile island where every choice can change your fate. Stay alive. Stay dangerous. Become harder to kill.

Why similar: Hunting 25.2% ★, Open World Survival Craft 25.1% ★, Open World 17.5%, Survival 14.2%, Crafting 7.1%

SAS is an Open World Multiplayer PVP and CO-OP Survival Game. Set in a vast environment that features Building, Crafting, Taming, Riding, Flying and Exploring Wildlife, Dinos and Dragons as well as Horrific Creatures and Instances with the ability to Morph into Spirit Animals.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32% ★, Open World 23.4%, Survival 19.4%, Crafting 10.7%, First-Person 5.4%

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is an action-adventure game in which you are a Viking warrior raised on tales of battle and glory. Explore a dynamic open world set in England’s Dark Ages. Raid your enemies and grow your settlement to earn your place among the gods in Valhalla.

Why similar: Open World 51.8%, Stealth 18.3%, Exploration 9.1%, Action 7.2%, Adventure 6.3%

A survival open-world game, where you can gather resources, Hunt, Craft tools and armor, Tame Animals, Ride Animals, Build, and defend your base from creatures, and other players.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.7% ★, Open World 19.1%, Survival 16.7%, Crafting 10.2%, First-Person 6%

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 24.6% ★, Hunting 21.9% ★, Open World 16.1%, Survival 13.3%, Crafting 8%

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 40.6% ★, Survival 21.7%, Open World 18.9%, Crafting 10.5%, First-Person 2.2%

Mesorift Survival is a classic survival game with PvP and PvE elements, set in a tropical open world with three islands. Gather resources, build a base, craft weapons, and survive.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.9% ★, Open World 23%, Survival 18.2%, FPS 7.8%, First-Person 6.1%

Experience the critically acclaimed Horizon Zero Dawn™ with stunning new visuals and upgraded features. In a far future where colossal machines roam the Earth, pockets of humanity survive in unique tribes among the lush, overgrown ruins of our long-lost civilization.

Why similar: Open World 55.2%, Stealth 17.8%, Crafting 12.5%, Action 7.8%, Adventure 4.9%

Experience the frontier as a chief of a Native American tribe and resist the onset of the settlers. Explore the vast world full of hostile humans and animals while defining your narrative through the decisions you make.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.4% ★, Open World 20.4%, Survival 18.8%, Stealth 11.3%, Crafting 7.3%

No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.6% ★, Open World 26.9%, Survival 14.1%, Crafting 5.4%, Exploration 4.7%

Place yourself at the heart of the Jurassic franchise and build your own Jurassic World. Bioengineer dinosaurs that think, feel and react intelligently to the world around them and face threats posed by espionage, breakouts and devastating tropical storms in an uncertain world where life always finds a way.

Why similar: Open World 46%, Survival 22.2%, Singleplayer 9%, Action 5.6%, Atmospheric 5.2%

The Island - "Island") - a computer game with an open world and a first-person view in the genre of survival.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.6% ★, Hunting 25.3% ★, Open World 17.1%, Survival 14.9%, Crafting 7.6%

Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32% ★, Open World 20.2%, Survival 19.6%, Crafting 10.1%, First-Person 4.6%

ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!

Why similar: Open World 38.9%, Survival 35.1%, Crafting 14.3%, Adventure 4.4%, Action 4%

Hurtworld is a hardcore multiplayer survival FPS with a focus on competitive gunplay and strategic map control. Built for hardcore gamers, Hurtworld aims to punish.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.9% ★, Survival 24%, Open World 21.4%, Crafting 9.4%, FPS 9.1%