- #1 Necesse
96% matchVery Positive93% of 26,780 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
Why similar: Survival 23.4%, Crafting 22.5%, Sandbox 17.7%, Pixel Graphics 14.6%, RPG 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival sandbox that emphasizes base building, combat, and exploration in a procedurally generated world similar to Forsaken Isle.
- #2 The Survivalists
97% matchMostly Positive76% of 9,935 reviews2020
Dev: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 71%
A living world full of surprises, secrets and danger awaits in The Survivalists, an adventure-filled survival sandbox set in The Escapists universe. Explore, build, craft and even train monkeys with up to three friends in a desperate bid to survive. Have you got what it takes to be a Survivalist?
Why similar: Crafting 29.1%, Survival 28.2%, Sandbox 14.4%, Pixel Graphics 11.5%, Adventure 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly mirrors the island-bound survival theme with its focus on crafting, building, and managing resources in a vibrant pixel-art world.
- #3 Starbound
96% matchVery Positive90% of 122,901 reviews2016
Dev: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.2 hrsMean: 64.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...
Why similar: Sandbox 23.4%, Survival 23.2%, Crafting 21.4%, Pixel Graphics 11.5%, Adventure 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: It features deep crafting and exploration mechanics set across diverse planets, offering a similar sense of discovery and survival progression.
- #4 Wayward
95% matchVery Positive86% of 1,349 reviews2016
Dev: Unlok
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 21.4 hrs≥1hr: 61%
You awake to discover yourself no longer in the company of good men or a fine seafaring vessel. Treasure... you remember something about treasure. Wayward is a challenging turn-based, top-down, wilderness survival roguelike. Explore, build, and most importantly survive in these unforgiving lands.
Why similar: Survival 31.4%, Crafting 25.1%, Pixel Graphics 15.2%, Sandbox 12.4%, RPG 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore survival roguelike that focuses on realistic crafting and island exploration, offering a more challenging take on the genre.
- #5 It Lurks Below
94% matchVery Positive83% of 1,274 reviews2019
Dev: Graybeard GamesPub: Skystone Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 74%
It Lurks Below is an action-oriented, survival RPG in a randomly generated world. Fight through the massive underground dungeon, customize your character with random items and find out what evil lurks below.
Why similar: Survival 26.1%, Crafting 16.6%, Sandbox 14.5%, Pixel Graphics 13.9%, RPG 13.7%
Why You'll Like It: This retro-styled action RPG emphasizes digging, survival, and combat against increasingly difficult enemies in a procedurally generated world.
- #6 Terraria
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,511,859 reviews2011
Dev: Re-Logic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 33.2 hrsMean: 149.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Why similar: Survival 25.5%, Sandbox 22.7%, Crafting 21.5%, Pixel Graphics 12.8%, Adventure 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: As the definitive 2D survival-crafting game, it provides endless exploration, combat, and building opportunities that align with the core mechanics of the seed game.
- #7 Core Keeper
93% matchVery Positive93% of 63,205 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.0 hrsMean: 33.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
Why similar: Survival 25.9%, Crafting 25.2%, Sandbox 17.8%, Pixel Graphics 13.9%, Adventure 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: This title offers an engaging mix of exploration, mining, and crafting within a mysterious underground world that rewards curiosity and survival skills.
- #8 Dig or Die
92% matchVery Positive90% of 4,268 reviews2018
Dev: Gaddy Games
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Crash land on a hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it. But be warned... this planet is merciless. Build strong, and smart; else physics may flood or destroy your only hopes of survival.
Why similar: Survival 32.5%, Crafting 26.4%, Sandbox 21.2%, Pixel Graphics 5.6%, RPG 3.6%
Why You'll Like It: This game combines tower defense elements with survival and crafting, forcing players to build robust defenses to survive nightly attacks.
- #9 Forager
91% matchVery Positive90% of 43,003 reviews2019
Dev: HopFrogPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 22.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!
Why similar: Survival 28.9%, Crafting 27.5%, Pixel Graphics 16%, Sandbox 12.3%, Adventure 4.6%
Why You'll Like It: A highly addictive sandbox game that focuses on the core loop of gathering, crafting, and expanding your territory in a charming pixel-art world.
- #10 Tinkerlands
91% matchVery Positive86% of 3,746 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 13.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Explore, craft, and fight your way through uncharted islands — solo or with up to 4 players in co-op! Tinkerlands is an exciting survival adventure where you will build your settlement, craft useful tools to survive, and even use magic!
Why similar: Survival 25.1%, Crafting 20.8%, Sandbox 18.2%, Pixel Graphics 13.6%, RPG 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that emphasizes exploration and crafting in a colorful, pixelated world filled with secrets and combat.
- #11 Don't Starve
90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 112,271 reviews2013
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 28.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.
Why similar: Survival 47.9%, Crafting 25.2%, Sandbox 15.2%, Adventure 6.5%, Indie 3.6%
Why You'll Like It: This game challenges players to survive in a harsh, stylized wilderness by gathering resources and mastering complex crafting systems.
- #12 Aground
89% matchVery Positive94% of 1,965 reviews2020
Dev: Fancy Fish Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
As one of the last human survivors, you find yourself stranded on an uninhabited island. With a few other victims of the crash, can you craft, mine, and build your way to survival?
Why similar: Survival 38.2%, Sandbox 22.2%, Pixel Graphics 18.2%, RPG 12.7%, Casual 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: Starting from nothing on a deserted island, players must progress through technology tiers in this engaging crafting and exploration RPG.
- #13 Crashlands
89% matchVery Positive90% of 6,633 reviews2016
Dev: Butterscotch Shenanigans
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 13.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Fight and tame alien beasts, craft resources into menacing weaponry, befriend the outlandish locals, and go toe-to-chin with a world-domineering maniac.
Why similar: Survival 28.6%, Crafting 27.6%, Sandbox 18.4%, RPG 10.7%, Adventure 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: A story-driven survival RPG that focuses on crafting, combat, and exploration on a strange alien planet with a distinct visual style.
- #14 Keplerth
88% matchVery Positive85% of 4,121 reviews2022
Dev: TAROPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Welcome to Keplerth! Try to survive on a hostile alien planet in this 2D sandbox RPG, where you can choose to live alone or fight side by side with your friends in the online multiplayer mode. Survive, build, farm, fight, and explore your way to victory in this open-world adventure!
Why similar: Survival 30.8%, Sandbox 23%, Crafting 12.5%, Adventure 9.1%, RPG 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D survival sandbox that features complex crafting, base building, and combat against various creatures in a hostile environment.
- #15 Stranded Sails - Explorers of the Cursed Islands
87% matchMostly Positive74% of 975 reviews2019
Dev: Alchemist InteractivePub: rokaplay
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Farm, cook, craft and decorate in this casual open world farming adventure! Set up camp with your crew after being shipwrecked on a mysterious archipelago. Your quest is to survive, explore and uncover the secrets of the Cursed Islands. Take care of your crew to build relationships and earn rewards!
Why similar: Crafting 52.6%, RPG 19.3%, Adventure 15.8%, Casual 9.6%, Singleplayer 2.6%
Why You'll Like It: This title focuses on farming, exploration, and survival on a tropical island chain, emphasizing the quest to find a way home.
- #16 Windbound
86% matchMixed59% of 1,161 reviews2020
Dev: 5 Lives StudiosPub: Deep Silver
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 63%
The Forbidden Islands are Calling, Unlock their Secrets. Shipwrecked on an island, explore, adapt and navigate the land and perilous seas to stay alive.
Why similar: Survival 31.4%, Crafting 24.5%, RPG 19.5%, Adventure 16.2%, Indie 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: This adventure survival game focuses on island-hopping and crafting, emphasizing the struggle to survive in a beautiful but dangerous ocean world.
- #17 Planet Centauri
84% matchMostly Positive77% of 2,359 reviews2024
Dev: Permadeath
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Dive into an epic adventure alone or with friends! Explore hidden dungeons, capture and tame fearsome monsters, build and defend your village. Craft powerful weapons, master magical spells, and transform an planet into the cradle of a new civilization!
Why similar: Crafting 29.9%, Sandbox 24.5%, Pixel Graphics 18.5%, RPG 10.5%, Adventure 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers extensive crafting and combat options in a pixel-art environment, allowing for deep customization of your survival experience.
- #18 Junk Jack
85% matchMostly Positive78% of 468 reviews2016
Dev: Pixbits
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 21.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Make the world truly yours in Junk Jack, a relaxing sandbox experience focused on building and improving your home. Discover new planets, tame and breed creatures, cook foods, collect animal companions, farm exotic plants, collect fish, grow flowers, play with your friends!
Why similar: Survival 26.3%, Crafting 24%, Sandbox 21.1%, Pixel Graphics 9.4%, Adventure 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox game that prioritizes creative building and exploration within a vast, pixelated world filled with hidden treasures.
- #19 Forgotten Seas
82% matchMostly Positive77% of 572 reviews2025
Dev: Pangea Game StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
You are lost in the Bermuda Void, where the ocean is endless and dry land precious. Craft your Ship-in-a-Bottle, then experience survival on the high seas. Sail for new land, build camps, hunt for treasures, trade for goods - then defend your ship from dreaded pirates stalking this strange realm!
Why similar: Survival 40.2%, Crafting 38.4%, Adventure 10.3%, Action 9%, Singleplayer 2%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on pirate-themed survival and combat, requiring players to manage their resources while exploring the open ocean.
- #20 Project Castaway
82% 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: Survival 32%, Crafting 24.3%, Sandbox 21.1%, Adventure 6.6%, RPG 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game centered on the classic castaway experience, requiring players to craft tools and build shelters to survive on a desert island.
- #21 Cube Life: Island Survival
84% matchMixed69% of 177 reviews2018
Dev: Cypronia
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Cube Life: Island Survival is an open-world, block building, survival game, taking place on a beautiful remote island. Imagine being shipwrecked and stranded left for dead, with only your will to survive. You must explore, build, craft, and fight your way to stay alive.
Why similar: Survival 28.5%, Crafting 25.4%, Sandbox 20.9%, Adventure 11.9%, Indie 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based survival game that focuses on building and exploration in an island setting, reminiscent of classic sandbox survival titles.
- #22 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: Survival 31.2%, Crafting 30.3%, Sandbox 20.3%, Adventure 7.7%, Action 5.5%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game that emphasizes base building, hunting, and resource management on a remote island setting.
- #23 Lost Sea
83% matchMixed64% of 69 reviews2016
Dev: Eastasiasoft Limited
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
After a freak storm over the Atlantic, you find yourself stranded on the shores of a mysterious island. Do you have what it takes to escape the Lost Sea?
Why similar: Adventure 43%, Action 30.2%, Indie 22.2%, Singleplayer 4.6%
Why You'll Like It: An exploration-focused survival game where players must navigate a procedurally generated archipelago to find a way home.
- #24 Craft The World
81% matchVery Positive88% of 16,818 reviews2014
Dev: Dekovir EntertainmentPub: Dekovir Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 38.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Craft The World is a unique sandbox strategy game, the mix of Dungeon Keeper, Terraria and Dwarf Fortress. Explore a random generated world populated by dangerous creatures, build a dwarf fortress, gather resources, and craft all the items, weapons, and armor you need.
Why similar: Crafting 36.8%, Survival 25.9%, Sandbox 25.1%, RPG 5.4%, Indie 2.6%
Why You'll Like It: This game blends sandbox survival with strategy, tasking players with managing a group of dwarves to build and defend their base.
- #25 Shipwreck
79% matchVery Positive82% of 255 reviews2015
Dev: Brushfire Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Shipwreck is a top down adventure game in which you must travel the land, explore dungeons, and defeat monsters to earn safe passage off the island on which you are stranded.
Why similar: Adventure 37.3%, Pixel Graphics 28.4%, Indie 21.5%, RPG 12.8%
Why You'll Like It: A simple yet engaging survival game that tasks players with gathering resources and building a life after being stranded.
- #26 Len's Island
75% 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: Survival 33.8%, Crafting 30.5%, Sandbox 21.3%, Adventure 7.6%, Action 5.3%
- #27 Radiation Island
78% matchVery Positive80% of 623 reviews2016
Dev: Atypical Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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: Survival 52%, Crafting 19.3%, Adventure 13.3%, Action 8.2%, Indie 6%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game that tasks players with exploring a mysterious island and crafting tools to survive against various threats.
- #28 Project Explore
79% matchMixed67% of 242 reviews2017
Dev: Fern Nigro
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 66%
A 2D sandbox survival game designed for creators, players, and everyone else.
Why similar: Survival 58.1%, Adventure 14.2%, Action 9.2%, Casual 8.2%, Indie 8%
Why You'll Like It: This title emphasizes the exploration and survival aspects of the genre, encouraging players to discover resources and build their own path.
- #29 Brine
80% matchMostly Negative26% of 383 reviews2016
Dev: BrineTeam
Windows
Median: 6 minMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 15%
Stranded at an Island, the Vessel is broked, do whatever it takes to survive.
Why similar: Survival 53%, Adventure 30.8%, Indie 16.2%
Why You'll Like It: This indie survival game focuses on the basics of exploration and resource management in a challenging, isolated environment.
- #30 Adventure Craft
78% matchVery Positive82% of 224 reviews2017
Dev: Edible Entertainment
Windows
Adventure Craft is a challenging procedurally generated sandbox RPG with roguelike elements. Hunt monsters, horde loot, and craft weapons and armor, to survive in a vast ever-changing RPG world full of action, extreme danger and wonderful surprises.
Why similar: Survival 34.6%, Sandbox 26.9%, Pixel Graphics 16.6%, RPG 12.4%, Action 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that provides players with the tools to explore and build in a world filled with challenges and crafting opportunities.
- #31 Magicite
76% matchVery Positive85% of 7,589 reviews2014
Dev: Sean YoungPub: SmashGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 11.8 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Explore, craft, and survive in this Multiplayer RPG Platformer with permanent death! Featuring many Rogue-like elements, Magicite randomly generates each underground dungeon for you and your friends to delve deep into.
Why similar: Crafting 26%, Survival 18%, Pixel Graphics 17.3%, RPG 12.8%, Adventure 7.5%
- #32 Stranded Deep
74% 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: Survival 48.5%, Crafting 31.4%, Sandbox 10.2%, Adventure 5.9%, Action 1.8%
- #33 Shards of Azuria
77% matchMixed60% of 101 reviews2019
Dev: Blue Potion Games
Windows
Shards of Azuria is an isometric, craft and build RPG. Create a character and a new world, then start your adventure by waking up in town. You are greeted by the locals of Azuria and begin to find your way around.
Why similar: Crafting 25.9%, Survival 19%, Sandbox 14.3%, Adventure 11.6%, RPG 9.9%
- #34 Pirates
75% matchMostly Positive77% of 910 reviews2021
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
(Sandbox Game) You play as a pirate on a remote island, surviving alone or with other players as you battle hostile skeletons. Construct a shelter and gather resources to fortify your survival.
Why similar: Sandbox 37.1%, RPG 22.3%, Pixel Graphics 12.5%, Adventure 11.8%, Action 9.6%
- #35 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: Survival 44.7%, Crafting 23.3%, Sandbox 15.6%, RPG 7.5%, Action 4.8%
- #36 Outbreak Island
71% 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 33.6%, Crafting 24.4%, Sandbox 23.4%, RPG 8.7%, Adventure 5.3%
- #37 DYSMANTLE
72% 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: Survival 33.9%, Crafting 29.4%, Sandbox 13.3%, RPG 9.1%, Adventure 6.8%
- #38 Lantern Forge
76% matchMixed54% of 284 reviews2014
Dev: Hearthfire Studios
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Lantern Forge is a sandbox survival game with building, crafting, and RPG elements. Mine and forage for resources to build a home, plant crops, and craft weapons and armor. Then venture out to explore the wilderness, find hidden dungeons and temples, fight unique monsters, and collect the treasures they guard.
Why similar: Crafting 27.6%, Survival 27.5%, Sandbox 20.4%, RPG 13.7%, Adventure 8.5%
- #39 Force of Nature
73% 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: Crafting 33.5%, Survival 33.3%, Sandbox 17.3%, RPG 5.6%, Adventure 5.2%
- #40 Survive The Island
73% matchMixed53% of 81 reviews2021
Dev: PhantomCore StudioPub: PhantomCore PUBLISHING
Windows
survive the island you survive from skeletons and humans you can build and mine and level up your stats you can build whatever you want you can raid enemies you can mine and cut down trees and you have to hunt for your own food and you can grow your own crops and you can craft weapons
Why similar: Survival 25.1%, Sandbox 23.7%, Crafting 20.4%, RPG 18.5%, Action 11.4%
- #41 Pixel Piracy
73% matchMixed65% of 7,360 reviews2014
Dev: Vitali Kirpu
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Embark on an epic 2D pirate simulator RPG adventure, where you navigate both land and sea. Upgrade your ship, recruit and level up your crew, and uncover hidden treasures as you become a legendary pirate.
Why similar: Sandbox 50.1%, Pixel Graphics 24.6%, RPG 16.8%, Action 8.5%
- #42 Pirates Journey
71% matchMixed60% of 103 reviews2024
Dev: 2MEDYA
Windows
You and your crew have been shipwrecked on a tropical island in the late 1600s. At the beginning of the adventure, you find yourself with only a few basic supplies, including ropes, sticks, and stones. With skill and cunning, you can survive on the island and thrive as a pirate crew.
Why similar: Survival 42.5%, Crafting 33.3%, RPG 12.6%, Action 5.2%, Adventure 5.1%
- #43 Project Cobalt
70% 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: Survival 32.8%, Crafting 32.5%, Sandbox 21.4%, Adventure 6.9%, Action 4.9%
- #44 Salt
71% 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: Survival 35.9%, Crafting 28%, Sandbox 16.7%, Adventure 7.8%, RPG 5.3%
- #45 Out of Reach
72% 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: Survival 44.3%, Crafting 32%, Sandbox 12.8%, Adventure 5.1%, Action 3.7%
- #46 Card Survival: Tropical Island
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 2,951 reviews2022
Dev: WinterSpring Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 45.4 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Card Survival is a card-based survival experience. Stranded on a desert island you must use your wits and skills to stay alive. Use cards and combine them together to explore, gather resources and craft useful tools.
Why similar: Survival 46.5%, Crafting 34.9%, Adventure 12%, Indie 4.4%, Singleplayer 2.2%
- #47 Orion Sandbox Enhanced
69% matchVery Positive94% of 1,099 reviews2018
Dev: y8.com
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 23.8 hrs≥1hr: 66%
This is a 2D crafting survival sandbox game. You will be able to explore a huge 2D side-view world, building houses, crafting tools, weapons and armour from the resources you collect. There is a day/night cycle and each night many dangerous monsters can be found and defeated.
Why similar: Sandbox 25.7%, RPG 16.2%, Survival 15.9%, Adventure 13.8%, Action 10.1%
- #48 Everwind
66% 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: Survival 26.5%, Crafting 21.9%, Sandbox 18.6%, Pixel Graphics 14.5%, RPG 9.9%
- #49 Card Survival: Tropical Island - The First Days
69% matchMostly Positive76% of 76 reviews2022
Dev: WinterSpring Games
Windows · Mac
Card Survival is a card-based survival experience. Stranded on a desert island you must use your wits and skills to stay alive. Use cards and combine them together to explore, gather resources and craft useful tools.
Why similar: Crafting 34.7%, Survival 32.6%, Adventure 26.7%, Indie 4.5%, Singleplayer 1.6%
- #50 Windforge
70% matchMixed68% of 616 reviews2014
Dev: Snowed In Studios
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 43%
WindForge is a side-scrolling block-building game where you explore hostile skies in an ever-changing Steampunk world. Everything you see can be created or destroyed, creating an RPG without barriers that rewards creative problem solving and improvisation.
Why similar: Crafting 26.9%, Sandbox 23.2%, RPG 14.1%, Survival 11.9%, Indie 7%
- #51 iZolated
67% matchMostly Positive71% of 116 reviews2024
Dev: Crooked RoadPub: LT-Games
Windows
iZolated - This is a post-apocalyptic 2D action game with elements of survival and RPG, which throws you into a harsh open world where the slightest mistake costs you your life. Find equipment, engage in fights, and prove that you are the top of the food chain in this chaos!
Why similar: Survival 21.3%, Sandbox 21.2%, Crafting 20.9%, Pixel Graphics 13.2%, RPG 10.7%
- #52 Age of Survival
69% matchVery Negative12% of 245 reviews2025
Dev: Silky Sullivan
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Age of Survival is survival simulation crafting game from Silky Sullivan. Your player has been stranded on an island not far off of the coast of Africa where you will encounter many creatures, and players alike.
Why similar: Survival 45.6%, Crafting 27.5%, Sandbox 10.4%, Adventure 7.4%, Action 4.6%
- #53 Apocalypse Island
67% matchMixed41% of 66 reviews2025
Dev: Bettini Games
Windows
As an ex-scientist on a mission, you find yourself in a toxic and infected island, where humans are no where to be seen. Build, explore and survive.
Why similar: Survival 42.6%, Crafting 21.4%, Sandbox 17.3%, Adventure 9.1%, Action 8%
- #54 Block Survival: Legend of the Lost Islands
68% matchVery Positive84% of 81 reviews2017
Dev: Battle Blockyverse Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 47%
As the lone survivor of a plane crash, use weapons as your tools and bullets as your shelter in a fast paced FPS mixing survival and crafting with old school mechanics, in a setting with everything from Vikings to dinosaurs to mechs! Book your flight today, and explore the Lost Islands!
Why similar: Crafting 38.4%, Adventure 26.4%, Action 20.4%, Indie 14.8%
- #55 Ruins To Fortress
66% matchMixed62% of 164 reviews2024
Dev: NimbleBeasts
Windows · Linux
Explore a post-apocalyptic island, craft, build, tear down enemy bases, defend and nuke your rivals! Life's about surviving in this multiplayer game, no matter what it takes!
Why similar: Survival 35.2%, Crafting 33.3%, Pixel Graphics 22.6%, Action 5%, 2D 2.1%
- #56 Survival: Fountain of Youth
63% 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: Survival 37.3%, Crafting 33.1%, Sandbox 19.6%, Adventure 8.1%, Singleplayer 1.8%
- #57 Pixel Horizons
65% matchMixed64% of 58 reviews2025
Dev: Dylan Ranshaw
Windows · Mac · Linux
Stranded on a beautiful island, craft tools, battle beasts, and uncover mythical weapons. Fight to survive, conquer ancient ruins, and master the wild in a high-stakes adventure. Will you prevail? - Created by a UC Santa Cruz Student
Why similar: Pixel Graphics 32.8%, Sandbox 32.4%, RPG 19.7%, Adventure 15.1%