
Hunt, build, craft and survive an apocalyptic arctic environment and unravel the mystery of a strange virus that is infecting the local wildlife. Inspired by The Thing!
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Survival, Open World Survival Craft, Open World, Crafting.

Hunt, build, craft and survive an apocalyptic arctic environment and unravel the mystery of a strange virus that is infecting the local wildlife. Inspired by The Thing!

The Forest
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.

Short Snow | Cold Survival Game
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.
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 39.6% ★, Survival 13.6%, Open World 9.6%, Crafting 7.9%, Building 6.2%
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 29.2% ★, Survival 11.5%, Open World 10.4%, Crafting 8.2%, Walking Simulator 7%
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 41.9% ★, Survival 15.7%, Open World 10%, Crafting 5.8%, Exploration 4.2%
Survive a brutal corporate death game on an alien planet. Craft and assemble components into machines and automated production systems. Harness power, cultivate exotic plants, brew herbal tonics and synthesize chaotic drugs, all while managing your sanity in a detailed mental simulation.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.3% ★, Survival 10.2%, Open World 9.6%, Crafting 9.4%, Building 7.5%
Odd Woods is a survival crafting game in a forest environment. Build your base during the day to withstand the attacks of horror creatures at night. Explore, farm and hunt wildlife to survive another day.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.3% ★, Survival 10.9%, Open World 10.2%, Crafting 10%, Building 9.7%
Brace yourself for the ultimate open-world survival craft experience. Welcome to a world shattered by the relentless fury of the most colossal hurricane in history. Explore and gather resources for survival and crafting. Fight off aggressive wildlife and scavengers. Play story mode or survival mode
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.1% ★, Crafting 10.4%, Survival 10%, Open World 8.7%, Building 8.1%
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 31.4% ★, Survival 10.8%, Open World 10.3%, Crafting 10.1%, Building 8.8%
Primal Man Simulator is a complex survival simulator where the player becomes one of the evolutionary precursors of modern homo sapiens, trying to live through another day in an unwelcoming forests of Europe.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.4% ★, Survival 12.7%, Crafting 12.3%, Open World 11.5%, Realistic 6%
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 29.1% ★, Survival 9.9%, Open World 9.4%, Crafting 9.3%, Post-apocalyptic 7.9%
Fight, build, explore, survive, while the dynamic player-caused hazardous fog is slowly changing the rules of the world around you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.5% ★, Crafting 8.6%, Survival 8.5%, Building 8.4%, Post-apocalyptic 7.8%
Take the role of a plane crash survivor stranded somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Come face to face with some of the most life threatening scenarios that will result in a different experience each time you play. Scavenge. Discover. Survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.9% ★, Survival 14.5%, Crafting 9.9%, Open World 9.5%, Building 5.4%
Harvest, Build, Craft and Explore the different biomes among massive trees, plants, and hostile creatures to survive and unlock the mysteries of an alien jungle in a first person sci-fi survival adventure.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.9% ★, Survival 11.5%, Open World 10.9%, Crafting 10.2%, Exploration 5.7%
FAR NORTH SURVIVAL is an open-world survival game set in the unique setting of a vast ice-bound area beyond the Arctic Circle.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.8% ★, Survival 12.1%, Building 11.2%, Open World 11%, Crafting 10.6%
Miasmata is a first-person survival/adventure game, developed from the ground-up by brothers Joe and Bob Johnson. You play as Robert Hughes, a plague-stricken scientist on a journey to discover a cure. Your adventure begins on the shores of a remote and mysterious island.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.9% ★, Survival 22.3%, Open World 10%, Exploration 8.4%, Walking Simulator 6.3%
Crushed — is an Singleplayer and Multiplayer First-Person Survival Sandbox in an Open World! Challenge the wild and be ready to survive in harsh conditions. Explore the world, get resources, cook food, build a house, farm, hunt, and enjoy nature.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.7% ★, Survival 11%, Open World 10.2%, Crafting 9.3%, Building 8.2%
Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.3% ★, Crafting 13.8%, Survival 13%, Open World 9.3%, Building 8%
Join the Project Mist in this new open world survival horror. Explore an enigmatic Island. Fight against colossal monsters. Build and defend your base while crafting traps, siege weapons, upgrading your gear and Gravity Gun. Survive or perish while unraveling the secrets behind the giant wall!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25% ★, Post-apocalyptic 9.2%, Crafting 9.1%, Open World 8.9%, Building 8.4%
Desolated District is an Open-World Survival Crafting game set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Scavenge for resources, craft essential tools, build your base and battle deadly threats as you explore a sprawling, decaying city inspired by the Kowloon Walled City.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33% ★, Post-apocalyptic 10.9%, Crafting 10.9%, Open World 10.6%, Building 10.3%
Survive mother nature, prepare for the different seasons protecting yourself from cold, heat, hunger and thirst. Beware of Tornadoes, Storms, Tsunamis and predatory animals, on a variety of islands where each one will have to adapt to its limited resources.
Why similar: Survival 14.9%, Open World 13.5%, Open World Survival Craft 10.5% ★, Crafting 9.7%, Sandbox 8.4%
THE HIGHRISE is a first-person survival game set in a high-rise building that has been sealed off by an alien monster invasion. Gather resources to make fighting weapons and survival tools. You must find and send a rescue signal at the end of your desperate survival.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.1% ★, Crafting 10.9%, Open World 10%, Survival 9%, Survival Horror 7.2%
Explore, build, survive, and gather all the resources you need! Customize your hero with unique armor and outfits! Mineval listens to its community and will do everything to bring your ideas and suggestions to life!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.2% ★, Simulation 11.6%, Crafting 10.8%, Survival 10%, Open World 9.7%
Warning: This is an Early Access game! Welcome to an enigmatic world, where a new gaming experience in exploring, building and surviving is waiting just for you. Experience a sandbox world with survival elements, and join us in creating a full version of the game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.7% ★, Survival 11%, Crafting 10.5%, Open World 10.3%, Building 8.6%
Gather unique resources, craft custom gear, and master skill-based combat in an infinite open world. In Wildcraft, no two items or adventures are ever the same.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.1% ★, Building 13.5%, Sandbox 9%, Crafting 6.6%, Survival 6.6%
In Bromeliad you are stranded on a pacific island where you are a Human-Bear. You will have to survive, gathering materials to build tools and bases. You will need to hunt for food, explore, tame animals, then, at night strange creatures will appear. Survive and find an element to return to normal.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.2% ★, Crafting 12.6%, Survival 12.1%, Open World 11.4%, Building 9.6%
Hostile Planet: Survival is a harsh adventure on an uncharted planet that full of danger and trials.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.9% ★, Survival 15.3%, Crafting 13.7%, Open World 11.5%, Building 10.7%
When wake up, you in a strange world. You must learn to be strong in this dangerous and dark world. Look for all the materials that can live, light the torch in hand, this light may be the last hope, but don't forget, in this boundless darkness, the light will also let "them" See you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.6% ★, Building 13.3%, Survival 11.4%, Crafting 11.2%, Exploration 6.4%
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 35.7% ★, Survival 11.8%, Crafting 11.1%, Open World 11%, Nature 7%
The Overlap is a survival-cosmic-horror 2D sandbox. Explore procedurally generated wastelands, scavenge resources, craft, build, customize and upgrade your survivor, face eldritch horrors, survive the post-cataclysmic world alongside friends online and find out the truth behind it all.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.6% ★, Crafting 10%, Post-apocalyptic 9.9%, Survival 9.9%, Building 9.1%
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 28.1% ★, Crafting 10%, Open World 9.5%, Survival 9.4%, Building 9.1%
Out of the Woods is a research survival simulator game. The action takes place in an abandoned national park. The player will not have to fight zombies, monsters and other fantastic creatures, but the main enemy is no less dangerous, because it is nature itself.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.3% ★, Crafting 11.1%, Survival 10.8%, Nature 10.5%, Open World 10.3%
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: Open World Survival Craft 45.4% ★, Building 10%, Survival 9.8%, Open World 9.8%, Crafting 9.2%
Survive the post-apocalypse world. There's a predator who's going after you. This is Online and local party games enjoyed by 1 to 5 players. you have to Survive in an end-of-life world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.5% ★, Survival 10%, Crafting 9.6%, Open World 9.5%, Building 8.5%
Vortex: The Gateway is an open world survival horror game with two game modes. If you want to survive then be alert, sneak, build and fight. Meanwhile life back on Earth changes dramatically. What changes? You will get bits of information through your adventure. Prepare for the worst!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.8% ★, Survival 15.5%, Open World 10.6%, Crafting 10.2%, Building 6%
Discover the mysteries of the Atacama, explore the abandoned mining networks, evade the scorching sun and survive the environment in one of the most arid place in the world. Arid is a FREE survival game made by students from Breda University.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.7% ★, Survival 11.5%, Crafting 11.4%, Nature 8.9%, Open World 7.4%
Crash-landed on a surreal, low-poly world filled with freakish inhabitants, choose between permadeath and non-permadeath modes and embark on an epic (and ridiculous) survival adventure. Will you manage to stay alive as you unravel the mysteries of Wrongworld and search for a way home?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.3% ★, Survival 11.8%, Open World 8.6%, Crafting 8.1%, Building 7.4%
Explore, craft, and survive in a post-apocalyptic world where SCP anomalies roam freely. Brace yourself for nightly assaults as SCP-049's twisted creations close in.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.6% ★, Crafting 10.1%, Survival 9.8%, Open World 9.2%, Post-apocalyptic 8.9%
As the sole specialist sent into a quarantined part of the Midwest , discover all you can about the mysterious corruption rapidly taking over. Utilize all you can find around you to survive the evolving area, find the source and eliminate the threat. Will you defeat what lies Beyond The Shadow?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35% ★, Crafting 12.3%, Survival 11.8%, Open World 11.6%, Building 10.9%
The ultimate block building game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 50.6% ★, Crafting 8.8%, Open World 8.7%, Survival 8.4%, Sandbox 7.9%
Cataclysm Upon Us is an open world survival RPG. Craft, fight, and build in a world overrun by mutants, zombies and other abominations. Uncover secrets, embrace mutations and cybernetic enhancements. Every decision shapes your journey in this haunting cataclysm. Can you survive the chaos?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.6% ★, Survival 11.6%, Open World 10.9%, Building 9.7%, Crafting 9.6%
V. O. D. K. A. is a survival shooter in the open world, the game takes place in a fictional state in eastern Europe, most of the territory of which is infected with radiation. Your main task is survival.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.6% ★, Survival 12.2%, Open World 11.2%, Sandbox 6.3%, Post-apocalyptic 6.1%
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 41.8% ★, Survival 14.8%, Crafting 9.3%, Open World 8.7%, Building 4.5%
Eldercraft: Mountaineers is an RPG about crafting, surviving and exploring. Forge your routes and pathways up the mountain to reach valuable treasures. These will help you forge more pathways that will lead you to the summit.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.6% ★, Survival 12.2%, Open World 10.9%, Crafting 10.1%, Building 9.8%
Defend Till Sunshine is a exploration-survival game which you will experience with your puppy. You need to survive against multiple situations. Discover across the land, find villages, learn craft techniques, interact with villagers and learn tips from them, build your own house and more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.3% ★, Survival 18.4%, Crafting 14.7%, Open World 9.8%, Nature 8.5%
An open-world survival crafting RPG set among floating islands. Gather resources, craft powerful tools, unlock spirit abilities to soar between skybound realms and reclaim your lost godhood.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.9% ★, Survival 12.2%, Crafting 12.1%, Open World 11.3%, Building 10.7%
Brave a savage and unforgiving procedurally-generated world where extreme weather and the nightmares of the dark are your greatest enemies. Alone or in co-op, survive, build, and explore to transform a cursed hellscape into your sanctuary of light.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.1% ★, Crafting 11.8%, Survival 11.4%, Building 10.1%, Open World 9.5%
Fish, farm, craft, gather, cook, loot or steal from other players and build a campsite or a village with your friends in an open-world multiplayer sandbox game without rules!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.7% ★, Survival 14%, Crafting 13.4%, Open World 11.7%, Building 8.3%
Explore jungle-choked corridors of a derelict ark, adrift between the stars. Construct shelters and loot powerful artifacts from the skeletal remains of your starfaring ancestors. But never let your guard down, because the jungle is alive and hostile…
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.4% ★, Post-apocalyptic 9.8%, Building 9.3%, Crafting 9.3%, Survival 9%
CrossWorlds: Escape is a hardcore game in which you will have to deploy all your skills to survive in a huge open world that is susceptible to changes in weather, seasons and various natural phenomena.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.4% ★, Survival 11.1%, Crafting 10.8%, Open World 10.4%, Nature 9.8%
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 33.4% ★, Building 11.3%, Crafting 11.1%, Survival 10.6%, Open World 9.5%
Want to survive? - Arm yourself and survive. Crafting, shooting, transport and much more awaits you in the Survival game. What happened to the world around and why he died - you may find out. But is this the main question now?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.9% ★, Survival 16.1%, Open World 10.5%, Post-apocalyptic 9%, Crafting 6.7%
Planet Explorers is an open world sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.4% ★, Open World 13.2%, Survival 9.9%, Crafting 9.8%, Sandbox 8.8%
In this solo and multiplayer survival game, explore an ancient overgrown world full of dangers. Salvage, build, craft, hunt,.. and try to survive alone or with your friends in an evolving and fascinating post-apocalyptic environment. Powered by Unreal Engine 5.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.4% ★, Crafting 12.3%, Open World 10.6%, Survival 9%, Post-apocalyptic 7.7%
A story-driven, first person perspective, post-apocalyptic survival adventure set in the rough winter climates of last century’s Russia.
Why similar: Survival 13.2%, Crafting 11.8%, Post-apocalyptic 11.2%, Open World 11.1%, Building 10.5%
Investigate a starship crash, explore a hostile world, build shelters and survive nightly attacks of the Rot. Tear down any structure and experience total freedom of action.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.3% ★, Survival 12.9%, Crafting 12%, Building 10.4%, Open World 8.9%
Wolf Ridge is a multiplayer objective-based survival game centered around a group of hikers lost in a vast mountain range when they are attacked. The hikers must reach the evac helicopter before it's too late!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.9% ★, Survival 10.6%, Open World 8%, Post-apocalyptic 7.8%, Crafting 7.6%
Polygon Survival is a low-poly zombie survival shooter with simple building and crafting. You find yourself in a mini world of zombie apocalypse and your only goal here is survival.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.1% ★, Survival 11.7%, Crafting 11.6%, Post-apocalyptic 11.4%, Open World 8.1%
An Open World Survival Crafting game where you harness magic to advance. Discover new crafting recipies, expand your base, and conquer your enemies.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44% ★, Survival 14.2%, Crafting 9.5%, Building 8.4%, Open World 7.6%