- #1 Green Hell VR
97% matchMixed57% of 1,209 reviews2022
Dev: Incuvo
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Green Hell VR is an Open World Survival game set in the Amazon rainforest, based on the successful PC title Green Hell. You are left alone in the jungle with no food or equipment. To survive, you must learn real-life survival techniques, and crafting weapons can be a matter of life and death
Why similar: Hunting 20.9% ★, VR 18.1%, Survival 12.1%, Crafting 9.3%, Sandbox 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: This title offers the most similar tactile survival experience, requiring players to manage vitals and craft tools manually in a hostile environment.
- #2 The Long Dark
96% matchVery Positive90% of 117,376 reviews2017
Dev: Hinterland Studio Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 46.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies -- only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.8% ★, Survival 19.7%, Open World 9%, Crafting 6.6%, Sandbox 5.8%
Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive cold-weather survival game, focusing on the brutal reality of freezing temperatures and resource scarcity.
- #3 Song in the Smoke
96% matchVery Positive85% of 61 reviews2021
Dev: 17-BIT
Windows
Using the power of virtual reality, Song in the Smoke puts your survival directly in your own hands. Enter this dangerous world outside of time, where you must craft weapons, make clothes, build fires, and brew healing elixirs to steel yourself against its vicious predators.
Why similar: VR 24.7%, Crafting 14.1%, Inventory Management 11.1%, Survival 10.4%, Nature 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: A premier VR survival game that emphasizes crafting, hunting, and managing resources while navigating a dangerous, atmospheric wilderness.
- #4 Subnautica: Below Zero
95% matchVery Positive90% of 102,346 reviews2021
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 15.9 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 37.9% ★, Survival 13.8%, Base Building 13.5%, Open World 8.1%, Crafting 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: While not in VR natively, it is the gold standard for cold-environment survival and complex base-building mechanics.
- #5 Sons Of The Forest
94% matchVery Positive88% of 299,895 reviews2024
Dev: Endnight Games LtdPub: Newnight
Windows
Median: 14.9 hrsMean: 32.0 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 20.1%, Base Building 18.6%, Open World 12.1%, Crafting 10.9%, Multiplayer 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: Offers deep base-building and survival mechanics in a harsh, unforgiving wilderness that feels very similar to the core loop of Frost Survival.
- #6 Winter Survival
94% matchMixed63% of 751 reviews2025
Dev: DRAGO entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 57%
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 25.5% ★, Hunting 19% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Survival 10.3%, Open World 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses specifically on the psychological and physical challenges of surviving in a frozen, desolate landscape.
- #7 The Forest
92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 665,921 reviews2018
Dev: Endnight Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 37.0 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 46.2% ★, Survival 17.6%, Crafting 9.1%, Open World 8.9%, Building 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: A classic survival game that excels at building, crafting, and defending against threats in an isolated open world.
- #8 Subsistence
93% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,601 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 40.0 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 39.3% ★, Survival 14.4%, Crafting 10.8%, Base Building 9.9%, Open World 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: A challenging survival game that emphasizes base-building and long-term resource management against AI threats.
- #9 Ghosts of Tabor
91% matchMostly Positive72% of 10,203 reviews2023
Dev: Combat Waffle StudiosPub: Beyond Frames
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 22.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Ghosts of Tabor is VRs only FPS PVP and PVE survival game where you will use your wits, skills and resources to survive. Inspired by games such as Escape from Tarkov and DayZ, featuring different scenarios from scavenging to looting and crafting. Will you survive long enough to make it out alive?
Why similar: VR 42.5%, Inventory Management 22.6%, Crafting 17.3%, Exploration 11.7%, Multiplayer 6%
Why You'll Like It: This VR extraction survival game captures the tension of managing gear and staying alive against both environmental and player threats.
- #10 Valheim
90% matchVery Positive94% of 529,829 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 25.6 hrsMean: 76.1 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 34.4% ★, Survival 12.7%, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 9.2%, Open World 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: Features a strong emphasis on surviving in cold biomes and constructing elaborate shelters to withstand the elements.
- #11 Among Trees
91% matchMixed68% of 2,216 reviews2021
Dev: FJRD Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Escape to an enchanting, living sandbox surrounded by wildlife and nature. Scavenge materials and craft tools to turn your small cabin into a warm, well-supplied home. Survive by fishing, cooking and growing your own food. Be careful though, the forest is as dangerous as it is wonderful.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.1% ★, Survival 12.2%, Base Building 10.6%, Crafting 9.1%, Sandbox 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a beautiful, atmospheric survival experience that focuses on building a cozy home in a vast, wild forest.
- #12 No Man's Sky
89% matchVery Positive85% of 402,164 reviews2016
Dev: Hello Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 20.2 hrsMean: 70.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.1% ★, Open World 11.6%, Survival 10.8%, Sandbox 9%, Exploration 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a fully immersive VR survival experience across diverse, often extreme, planetary climates with extensive base-building.
- #13 Arctico
89% matchMostly Positive71% of 2,417 reviews2022
Dev: Claudio Norori
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Explore Arctico with your dog sled, kayak, and up to 3 friends! Build and customize your base camp, gather resources and samples, set up labs, and take good care of your dogs in this peaceful island.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.4% ★, Survival 10.8%, Base Building 8.4%, Snow 8.2% ★, Open World 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: A peaceful yet challenging survival game centered on exploring a frozen landscape and building up your base.
- #14 SURV1V3
88% matchVery Positive82% of 1,793 reviews2021
Dev: Candymakers
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Forget what you have played so far, SURV1V3 is a unique realistic zombie survival fps game expressly designed for VIRTUAL REALITY that will let you test your survival skills. Play the thrilling story in single mode or coop with your friends (up to 4 players) and survive the apocalypse!
Why similar: VR 67.8%, Survival 13.3%, Simulation 11.2%, Multiplayer 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: A dedicated VR survival game that focuses on realistic weapon handling and scavenging for resources to stay alive.
- #15 Star Shelter
87% matchMostly Positive77% of 435 reviews2018
Dev: Overflow
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 47%
Star shelter is a space survival game built from the ground up for VR. You are stranded in space, you must climb around in Zero-G, explore, scavenge, craft, hack and fight to survive. You have to build, arm and upgrade your own space station in order to escape the cosmic graveyard.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.8% ★, VR 16.8%, Base Building 14%, Survival 9.4%, Crafting 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: A VR-focused survival game that requires players to manage limited resources while building and maintaining a base in space.
- #16 Mist Survival
86% matchMostly Positive76% of 14,042 reviews2018
Dev: Dimension 32 Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 15.0 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 37.4% ★, Survival 20.3%, Base Building 13.4%, Open World 10%, Crafting 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: Combines base-building and survival with a focus on managing resources and defending against environmental hazards.
- #17 The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners
86% matchVery Positive86% of 9,957 reviews2020
Dev: Skydance Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Saints & Sinners is a game unlike any other in The Walking Dead universe. Every challenge you face and decision you make is driven by YOU. Fight the undead, scavenge through the flooded ruins of New Orleans, and face gut-wrenching choices for you and the other survivors. Live The Walking Dead.
Why similar: VR 49.6%, Survival 26.5%, Simulation 10.3%, Open World 7.2%, First-Person 3.3%
Why You'll Like It: Features excellent VR crafting and resource management mechanics that are essential for long-term survival.
- #18 ICARUS
85% matchMostly Positive74% of 62,078 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 44.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 30% ★, Base Building 14%, Survival 12.9%, Crafting 9.1%, Open World 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: A session-based survival game that forces players to manage oxygen and weather conditions while building temporary shelters.
- #19 Green Hell
84% matchVery Positive85% of 94,379 reviews2019
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 18.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.5% ★, Survival 15%, Base Building 9.5%, Crafting 8.5%, Multiplayer 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: The non-VR version provides the same deep, complex survival systems and crafting mechanics found in the VR counterpart.
- #20 Raft
83% matchVery Positive93% of 368,916 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.5 hrsMean: 36.8 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.7% ★, Survival 17.3%, Base Building 9.9%, Crafting 9.2%, Multiplayer 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on the core survival loop of gathering resources and expanding your base in a hostile environment.
- #21 Longvinter
82% matchMixed67% of 7,526 reviews2025
Dev: Uuvana Studios
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 39.9 hrs≥1hr: 69%
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 26.5% ★, Survival 13.8%, Crafting 11.9%, Sandbox 9.7%, Open World 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer survival game that emphasizes crafting and building in a stylized, open-world setting.
- #22 Undead Development
84% matchMostly Positive79% of 349 reviews2021
Dev: Masterstrike
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 66%
How long would you survive in this unrealistic representation of the zombie apocalypse? Scavenge for supplies, find a base, and construct your defenses. Break down furniture and board up your home. Set bear traps, nail your axe to a gun, or find your own ways to fight off the undead. VR required.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.3% ★, VR 20.6%, Base Building 17.1%, Survival 10%, Crafting 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: A VR survival game that emphasizes base-building and fortification against waves of enemies.
- #23 Starsand
82% matchMixed66% of 1,227 reviews2022
Dev: Tunnel Vision StudioPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Starsand is a mystic survival game set among the dunes of an arcane desert. An open-world full of danger, vast environments and mysterious happenings await you! Explore, hunt, craft, build – and SURVIVE.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.1% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Inventory Management 11.1%, Survival 10.5%, Crafting 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: While set in a desert, the survival, crafting, and base-building mechanics are very similar to those found in frozen survival games.
- #24 KeepUp Survival
81% matchMixed65% of 734 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
KeepUp Survival is an open base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and unfold your own story on a mysterious island.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.1% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Survival 11%, Crafting 9.6%, Inventory Management 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that offers extensive building options and environmental management.
- #25 Crushed
81% matchMixed55% of 307 reviews2020
Dev: NipoBoxPub: NipoBox Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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 31.1% ★, Survival 11.6%, Base Building 11.1%, Sandbox 9.3%, Crafting 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game that focuses on crafting, farming, and building a base to survive in an open world.
- #26 Force of Nature
80% 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: Open World Survival Craft 36.7% ★, Survival 13.1%, Crafting 12.5%, Sandbox 9.5%, Open World 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that blends exploration, crafting, and base-building in a variety of biomes.
- #27 Rem Survival
79% matchMostly Positive76% of 802 reviews2021
Dev: Immortal Hand Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 47.3 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 32.5% ★, Base Building 15.2%, Survival 12.3%, Crafting 11.6%, Open World 8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the fundamentals of survival, including crafting, building, and managing hunger and thirst.
- #28 Camping Simulator: The Squad
78% matchMixed58% of 1,083 reviews2025
Dev: CubeCube Sports Ltd.
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 1.7 hrs≥1hr: 49%
Camping Simulator lets you experience what camp means by preparing your backpack wisely for challenging conditions of nature. You can play all the experiences with up to 8 friends in multiplayer mode or single player mode.
Why similar: Survival 17%, Sandbox 15.9%, Crafting 15%, Nature 11%, Building 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a more relaxed survival experience that focuses on the mechanics of setting up a camp and managing resources with friends.
- #29 Out of Reach
79% 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: Open World Survival Craft 34.8% ★, Survival 13.1%, Crafting 9%, Hunting 7.7% ★, Open World 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: Features survival and building mechanics that emphasize territorial control and resource gathering.
- #30 Grim
76% matchMixed59% of 145 reviews2025
Dev: Spoonfed InteractivePub: Beyond Frames
Windows
GRIM is an Exclusive VR Multiplayer Survival game where you must immerse yourself, stranded on a secluded part of Earth. Survival is not just a choice but a grueling battle against nature and other players. Gather resources, craft, and build your base, all to stay alive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.2% ★, VR 16.4%, Survival 12.2%, Base Building 12.1%, Crafting 10.8%
- #31 Short Snow | Cold Survival Game
76% matchMixed55% of 102 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 32.2% ★, Survival 14%, Base Building 10.5%, Sandbox 9.2%, Open World 9.1%
- #32 Northern Lights
77% 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 28.2% ★, Hunting 13.1% ★, Snow 10.6% ★, Survival 10.6%, Sandbox 9.4%
- #33 Subnautica
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 344,093 reviews2018
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.4 hrsMean: 40.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.2% ★, Survival 13.3%, Base Building 12.1%, Crafting 8.9%, Open World 7.7%
- #34 Wilderness
77% matchMostly Negative28% of 86 reviews2020
Dev: Horizon Studios
Windows
Survive in the wild nature by playing as an animal or as a human. Play as an animal and survive by your own or build a herd to stay protected. Have babies and protect them from predators. Play as a human and craft items, build a house, customize your character and more.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.2% ★, Hunting 16.8% ★, Survival 10.5%, Base Building 10%, Inventory Management 8.6%
- #35 ANGST: A TALE OF SURVIVAL
72% matchVery Positive87% of 195 reviews2025
Dev: Cherrypick GamesPub: Games Operators
Windows
Explore a frozen, mysterious land in this top-down survival adventure. Gather resources, craft tools, and fight to stay alive as you uncover a story of memory and redemption. Try to escape The Hollow.
Why similar: Snow 28.4% ★, Sandbox 15.7%, Survival 15.1%, Crafting 14.2%, Open World 10.6%
- #36 Project Cobalt
73% 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: Open World Survival Craft 25.5% ★, Survival 11.8%, Inventory Management 11.4%, Crafting 11.1%, Sandbox 10.7%
- #37 CrossWorlds: Escape
75% matchMixed64% of 157 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 27.9% ★, Base Building 13%, Survival 10.6%, Sandbox 10%, Crafting 9.3%
- #38 Survive on Raft
74% matchMixed63% of 1,245 reviews2019
Dev: Megame LLC
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Survive on Raft is a Survival Sandbox Simulator on the Raft in the middle of the ocean! Fight with shark, build base, craft, loot islands, farm and survive. Play solo or with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.1% ★, Inventory Management 12.3%, Base Building 12.1%, Survival 9.9%, Crafting 8.9%
- #39 Vantage: Primitive Survival Game
74% matchMixed59% of 75 reviews2021
Dev: Crystal Dragon
Windows
Vantage is a passion project created by a solo developer where your main objective is simple... to stay alive! You explore the massive world searching for food, creating primitive tools and weapons to hunt, and craft other items to make life easier. Play Online/Offline Multiplayer or Single Player.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.6% ★, Inventory Management 12.8%, Survival 9.7%, Crafting 9.5%, Sandbox 9.4%
- #40 No One Survived
70% matchMixed65% of 7,577 reviews2025
Dev: Cat Play Studio
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 22.9 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 27.8%, Open World 16.3%, Crafting 16.2%, Building 10.1%, Multiplayer 9.4%
- #41 Under A New Sun
71% matchMostly Positive76% of 368 reviews2023
Dev: New Horizon Games
Windows
While searching for a new home, an unexpected failure in your ship has left you stranded on a planet surprisingly similar to Earth. Discover a vast open world, hunt for food, develop technologies, and build yourself a new home to survive!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.2% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Survival 12.5%, Crafting 10.5%, Open World 8.3%
- #42 Oxygen Train
70% matchMixed61% of 71 reviews2026
Dev: OxygenTech Limited
Windows
Oxygen Train is an open-world survival train game. Wake up in a world lacking oxygen. Chop trees, mine, gather resources, upgrade your unique train. Survive by planting, fishing, farming, exploring, fighting. Build your train kingdom. Supports 1-8 online co-op.
Why similar: Fishing 18.5% ★, Snow 16.3% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Sandbox 11.7%, Survival 11.3%
- #43 Urge
71% matchVery Positive90% of 476 reviews2021
Dev: EnDrew
Windows
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 29.8% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Sandbox 10.4%, Survival 10.1%, Crafting 9.3%
- #44 Arctic Anxiety
73% matchMixed55% of 290 reviews2020
Dev: Arctic Studio
Windows
Survival simulator in extreme conditions. The game takes place in the Arctic ocean. The pilot of a cargo plane makes a hard landing on the water. To survive, the player will have to search for a cargo washed up on the shore.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.3% ★, Fishing 17.3% ★, Hunting 14.1% ★, Base Building 10.6%, Survival 10.6%
- #45 Lodventure
71% matchMostly Positive74% of 161 reviews2023
Dev: Sky Games
Windows
Embark on a 1-4 players Co-op survival adventure in an open world wilderness in search of a myth called the Lod Stone. Build your house, sow your crops, brew potions, tame a horse and discover powerful abilities. Venture into dangerous dungeons, fight unique bosses to find the Lod stone.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.2% ★, Survival 12.5%, Base Building 12.4%, Crafting 9.5%, Open World 8.6%
- #46 Forever Skies
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,284 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.4 hrsMean: 32.0 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 29.3% ★, Base Building 16.4%, Survival 12.3%, Crafting 11.4%, Open World 8.3%
- #47 The Gold River Project
68% matchMixed67% of 526 reviews2026
Dev: Fairview Games Inc.
Windows
The Gold River Project™ invites you and your friends on an open world camping trip gone wrong. Alone or together, you must explore, craft, build, and survive the increasingly harsh environments of the Pacific Northwest wilderness as you uncover the experiment trapping you inside.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38% ★, Survival 12.5%, Crafting 10.3%, Open World 9.9%, Nature 6.5%
- #48 Solace Crafting
70% matchMostly Positive72% of 891 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 29.2% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Survival 11.9%, Crafting 10.8%, Sandbox 9.2%
- #49 Strayed
68% matchMostly Positive78% of 332 reviews2024
Dev: Crustacean Interactive
Windows
Strayed is a fast paced open world VR survival game where every session feels like a new adventure. Start with nothing on a fresh island, gather materials, craft weapons, build bases, and battle other players for the best loot.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33% ★, VR 13.3%, Base Building 10.6%, Survival 9.1%, Crafting 8.7%
- #50 Arctic Motel Simulator
67% matchVery Positive89% of 452 reviews2025
Dev: One Slice of Pizza Games
Windows
Have you ever been to the Arctic? Do you want to open a motel in the Arctic? With the company of aurora, blizzards, polar days and nights, primeval forests, and wild animals, can you turn a run-down motel into a landmark in the Arctic?
Why similar: Hunting 28.6% ★, Base Building 16.5%, Inventory Management 12.9%, Building 12.1%, Snow 11.3% ★
- #51 Medieval Dynasty
67% matchVery Positive91% of 49,970 reviews2021
Dev: Render CubePub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 35.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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: Crafting 18.4%, Base Building 16.2%, Building 14.3%, Survival 13.8%, Sandbox 11.9%
- #52 Savage Lands
69% matchMixed55% of 6,679 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 43.2% ★, Survival 15.1%, Crafting 9.9%, Sandbox 9.7%, Open World 8.5%
- #53 Feel The Snow
68% matchVery Positive87% of 3,024 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 42.5% ★, Survival 15.1%, Crafting 11.6%, Sandbox 10.2%, Multiplayer 7.2%
- #54 Heat Death: Survival Train
66% matchMostly Positive79% of 660 reviews2024
Dev: Mass Game DevsPub: LightOnDevs
Windows
Heat Death is a sci-fi survival game where you can build, upgrade, and customize your battle train to explore and survive a frozen world! This train is not only your shelter and vehicle, but also your weapon and ally to face hostile drones, deadly storms, and hidden mysteries of an unknown world!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.7% ★, Base Building 15.3%, Survival 12%, Crafting 11.9%, Building 8.5%
- #55 Fade to Silence
69% matchMixed63% of 1,317 reviews2019
Dev: Black Forest GamesPub: THQ Nordic
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Fade to Silence is a single-player and co-op survival adventure set in a post-apocalyptic world that is frozen in an eternal winter. Snow and ice have shaped a merciless landscape. Nature is corrupted. Monstrous creatures out of an Eldritch horror dream roam the frozen wasteland.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.6% ★, Survival 18.8%, Base Building 10.5%, Crafting 9.5%, Open World 8.2%
- #56 Drive 4 Survival
69% matchMixed65% of 303 reviews2020
Dev: M3M Games
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Drive 4 Survival is a struggle for survival mostly in the frozen wilderness, where you have to rely only on yourself and your car. Try to survive!
Why similar: Base Building 19.2%, Survival 15.9%, Sandbox 15.6%, Open World 12.7%, Crafting 8.1%
- #57 Virtual Hunter
66% matchMostly Positive73% of 179 reviews2025
Dev: Korpi Games Oy
Windows
Virtual Hunter brings realistic hunting to virtual reality. Pack your gear and put your hunting skills and tactics to the test in the open wilderness.
Why similar: Hunting 33.7% ★, VR 23.3%, Open World 9.6%, Nature 9.2%, Simulation 6.7%