- #1 Sons Of The Forest
97% matchVery Positive88% of 321,117 reviews2024
Dev: Endnight Games LtdPub: Newnight
Windows
Median: 15.0 hrsMean: 32.4 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 22.8%, Multiplayer 13.4%, Open World 12.3%, Base Building 10.3%, Crafting 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: Its first-person wilderness survival, scavenging, crafting, shelter building, co-op play, and hostile island setting closely mirror Green Hell’s tense expedition feel.
- #2 The Forest
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 683,269 reviews2018
Dev: Endnight Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 37.4 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 53% ★, Survival 17.5%, Open World 8%, Crafting 6.8%, Survival Horror 3.4%
Why You'll Like It: This is the closest predecessor in atmosphere and structure, combining first-person survival crafting, cave exploration, cannibal threats, and highly flexible base-building.
- #3 Stranded Deep
96% matchMostly Positive74% of 47,919 reviews2022
Dev: Beam Team GamesPub: Beam Team Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 20.9 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: Open World Survival Craft 48% ★, Survival 15.5%, Multiplayer 9.6%, Crafting 7.1%, Open World 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: It offers similarly deliberate first-person crafting and survival management, trading Green Hell’s jungle for isolated tropical islands and ocean travel.
- #4 Survival: Fountain of Youth
95% matchVery Positive85% of 4,528 reviews2024
Dev: Odinsoft Inc.Pub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 18.6 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: Open World Survival Craft 40.7% ★, Survival 14.3%, Base Building 8.9%, Crafting 8.9%, Open World 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes methodical, realistic survival systems such as injuries, nutrition, crafting, hunting, and expedition planning across dangerous islands.
- #5 ICARUS
94% matchMostly Positive75% of 68,864 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.4 hrsMean: 46.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.6% ★, Survival 13.3%, Online Co-Op 9%, Multiplayer 8.3%, Base Building 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: Its mission-based wilderness survival asks players to gather, craft, hunt, manage environmental hazards, and build defensible outposts alone or in co-op.
- #6 Soulmask
93% matchMostly Positive77% of 22,506 reviews2026
Dev: CampFire StudioPub: Qooland Games
Windows
Median: 13.9 hrsMean: 69.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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: Open World Survival Craft 36.1% ★, Survival 15.2%, Crafting 10.7%, Base Building 10.2%, Open World 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: Its dense jungle setting, detailed survival needs, tribal progression, recruitable companions, and co-op base-building make it an especially strong Green Hell alternative.
- #7 Subsistence
94% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,861 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 40.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.8% ★, Survival 14.6%, Multiplayer 8.2%, Crafting 8.1%, Open World 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: This demanding first-person survival sandbox centers on gathering, hunting, crafting, maintaining a base, and surviving a hostile natural world.
- #8 SCUM
92% matchMostly Positive74% of 127,189 reviews2025
Dev: Gamepires
Windows
Median: 11.9 hrsMean: 105.4 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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: Open World Survival Craft 45.6% ★, Survival 15.4%, Online Co-Op 10.3%, Open World 9.7%, Crafting 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: Its unusually deep metabolism, injury, nutrition, and survival mechanics will appeal to players who enjoy Green Hell’s more simulation-driven systems.
- #9 Raft
91% matchVery Positive93% of 379,035 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.8 hrsMean: 38.0 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 39.7% ★, Survival 16.3%, Multiplayer 10.2%, Crafting 6.5%, Online Co-Op 5.5%
Why You'll Like It: It replaces jungle trekking with ocean travel but retains the satisfying cycle of collecting resources, expanding a home base, researching tools, and surviving with friends.
- #10 Valheim
90% matchVery Positive94% of 555,289 reviews2026
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 26.9 hrsMean: 81.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.9% ★, Survival 12.1%, Online Co-Op 10.1%, Multiplayer 7.8%, Open World 7%
Why You'll Like It: Although mythic rather than realistic, it delivers excellent exploration, resource progression, shelter building, dangerous biomes, and cooperative survival.
- #11 Grounded
91% matchVery Positive90% of 95,977 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.6 hrsMean: 41.9 hrs≥1hr: 94%
The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.6% ★, Survival 17.2%, Multiplayer 10.3%, Base Building 7.8%, Crafting 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: Its miniature backyard premise still provides a superb loop of environmental exploration, crafting, thirst and hunger management, base defense, and co-op survival.
- #12 The Infected
89% matchVery Positive84% of 7,020 reviews2020
Dev: DigX Studios
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 18.5 hrs≥1hr: 68%
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 37.4% ★, Survival 12.1%, Crafting 8.6%, Base Building 8.5%, Open World 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: It blends open-world scavenging, hunting, detailed crafting, base construction, and harsh survival management in a more isolated single-player setting.
- #13 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
89% matchVery Positive82% of 10,551 reviews2024
Dev: Max Ent Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 32.8% ★, Survival 12%, Online Co-Op 8.7%, Multiplayer 8.1%, Base Building 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: This survival adventure offers a similar gather-craft-build loop, dangerous wildlife, exploration, and multiplayer cooperation from a tiny-person perspective.
- #14 7 Days to Die
87% matchVery Positive87% of 405,507 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.4 hrsMean: 111.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.5% ★, Survival 18%, Online Co-Op 9.2%, Multiplayer 9%, Open World 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: The game combines scavenging, crafting, skill progression, fortifying a base, and recurring high-pressure survival threats in a large open world.
- #15 Mist Survival
88% matchMostly Positive76% of 14,394 reviews2018
Dev: Dimension 32 Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 73%
MIST SURVIVAL is a Single-player, survival stealth sandbox game Players will experience the Apocalypse stimulation in the form of virus pandemic, the players have to deal with it to survive through the difficulties such as finding shelter and food, threats from the environment and climate: wild animals, bandits, infected, and dense mist t
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.1% ★, Survival 21.7%, Open World 9.7%, Base Building 7.2%, Crafting 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: This solo-friendly survival sandbox features scavenging, hunting, crafting, building shelters, and managing threats while exploring a hostile post-apocalyptic landscape.
- #16 Sunkenland
86% matchVery Positive80% of 24,007 reviews2023
Dev: Vector3 Studio
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 20.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Get ready for a Waterworld-themed survival game with modular base building, sunken city scavenging, crafting, base defense, and invasions of NPC clans for resources and territory. Ready for the water apocalypse?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.3% ★, Survival 13.7%, Multiplayer 8.2%, Base Building 7.2%, Crafting 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: This waterlogged survival sandbox focuses on scavenging, crafting, building and defending a home base, exploration, and optional online co-op.
- #17 ARK: Survival Evolved
86% matchVery Positive83% of 778,394 reviews2017
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 202.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 46.1% ★, Survival 14.9%, Multiplayer 8.4%, Open World 7.3%, Crafting 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: It shares open-world crafting, building, hunting, and co-op survival, while adding dinosaur taming and a much larger-scale progression loop.
- #18 The Long Dark
85% matchVery Positive89% of 123,946 reviews2017
Dev: Hinterland Studio Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 47.7 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 54.8% ★, Survival 19.7%, Open World 8.2%, Crafting 4.9%, Sandbox 2.1%
Why You'll Like It: Its slower, highly atmospheric wilderness survival focuses on warmth, calories, injuries, weather, exploration, and difficult decisions rather than combat-heavy progression.
- #19 DayZ
84% matchMostly Positive78% of 470,116 reviews2018
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 39.7 hrsMean: 281.7 hrs≥1hr: 96%
How long can you survive a post-apocalyptic world? A land overrun with an infected "zombie" population, where you compete with other survivors for limited resources. Will you team up with strangers and stay strong together? Or play as a lone wolf to avoid betrayal? This is DayZ – this is your story.
Why similar: Survival 26.9%, Online Co-Op 15.2%, Multiplayer 12.5%, Open World 11.3%, Co-op 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: For a harsher multiplayer-focused alternative, it offers tense resource scarcity, sickness and injury management, hunting, crafting, and unpredictable wilderness encounters.
- #20 The Wild Eight
84% matchMixed68% of 8,131 reviews2019
Dev: Eight PointsPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
The Wild Eight is an intense survival action-adventure set in the frozen wilderness of Alaska. Team up with friends in online co-op or go solo, explore the mysterious land, craft weapons and fight to live another day.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.3% ★, Survival 17.3%, Multiplayer 8.6%, Open World 6.4%, Online Co-Op 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: Its cold wilderness setting emphasizes hunger, temperature, crafting, exploration, and cooperative survival against an unforgiving environment.
- #21 Enshrouded
82% matchVery Positive86% of 106,050 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.9 hrsMean: 46.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.
Why similar: Survival 21%, Online Co-Op 14.9%, Open World 14.7%, Base Building 12.5%, Multiplayer 12.4%
Why You'll Like It: It is a more forgiving fantasy take on open-world survival, with strong exploration, crafting, base-building, resource gathering, and cooperative play.
- #22 Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey
83% matchMostly Positive79% of 12,059 reviews2020
Dev: Panache Digital GamesPub: Private Division
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 61%
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 47.7% ★, Survival 15.9%, Open World 9.8%, Crafting 8.6%, Multiplayer 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the vulnerable, hands-on feeling of surviving in a dangerous jungle, with exploration, resource experimentation, and animal threats replacing conventional crafting systems.
- #23 Nightingale
82% matchMixed66% of 18,084 reviews2024
Dev: Inflexion Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 24.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Nightingale is an open world survival crafting game, where you’ll adventure across the mysterious and dangerous Fae Realms. As a daring Realmwalker, you’ll defeat monstrous enemies, survive hostile environments, and build elaborate estates in a visually stunning Gaslamp Fantasy world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.9% ★, Survival 11.7%, Online Co-Op 9.5%, Multiplayer 8.3%, Crafting 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: Its expedition-based survival crafting supports exploration of hazardous realms, shelter construction, gathering, hunting, and cooperative PvE progression.
- #24 The Front
81% matchMixed67% of 10,771 reviews2025
Dev: Samar Studio
Windows
Median: 10.7 hrsMean: 44.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
The Front is a survival open-world crafting sandbox game. You are a resistance fighter sent back in time to stop the rise of a tyrannical empire. Collect resources, craft tech, build shelters, and fight monsters to accomplish your mission.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.1% ★, Survival 11.6%, Multiplayer 8.3%, Crafting 7.8%, Base Building 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a large survival sandbox built around gathering, crafting technology, constructing bases, and defending against environmental and enemy threats.
- #25 Subnautica
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 380,795 reviews2018
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.3 hrsMean: 39.8 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 44.8% ★, Survival 15.1%, Open World 7.9%, Crafting 7.5%, Base Building 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: Its solitary exploration, survival meters, crafting progression, base-building, and fear of unknown wildlife create a similarly immersive survival journey beneath the sea.
- #26 Once Human
79% matchMostly Positive79% of 189,842 reviews2024
Dev: Starry Studio
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 52.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Once Human is a Strange Worlds Survival Game set in a strange, post-apocalyptic future. Unite with friends to fight monstrous enemies, uncover secret plots, compete for resources, and build your own territory. Once, you were merely human. Now, you have the power to remake the world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.6% ★, Survival 11.6%, Online Co-Op 8.7%, Multiplayer 8.3%, Open World 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: It combines open-world gathering, crafting, base construction, environmental survival, and co-op PvE exploration in a more MMO-like structure.
- #27 Don't Starve Together
80% matchVery Positive95% of 543,644 reviews2016
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 64.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 64.1% ★, Survival 22%, Multiplayer 4.1%, Online Co-Op 2.1%, Co-op 2.1%
Why You'll Like It: Despite its stylized presentation, it offers excellent co-op survival centered on gathering, crafting, food management, exploration, and enduring a punishing natural world.
- #28 ASKA
79% matchVery Positive80% of 12,267 reviews2024
Dev: Sand Sailor StudioPub: Thunderful Publishing
Windows
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 29.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
A new Viking age dawns with you at its helm. Forge a thriving colony from nothing in this mythic open-world survival sim. Earn the gods' favor and survive in a land ruled by ancient terrors and unforgiving seasons. Rally unique villagers, expand your settlement and defend your tribe - solo or co-op!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.4% ★, Survival 11.8%, Online Co-Op 10.1%, Multiplayer 8.3%, Base Building 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: Its Norse wilderness setting combines personal survival with village building, resource management, seasonal challenges, and co-op exploration.
- #29 Survival Machine
78% matchMostly Positive70% of 809 reviews2026
Dev: Grape PickersPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Build your base on a moving Machine, travel through biomes with different resources, and prepare for the night when a zombie threat is much higher than during the day. Would you go solo or explore this new world with your best friends?
Why similar: Survival 21.5%, Online Co-Op 20.3%, Crafting 16.2%, Base Building 15.9%, Co-op 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: This co-op survival game centers on exploring dangerous regions, gathering supplies, crafting equipment, and expanding a mobile fortified base.
- #30 Project Castaway
78% matchMixed65% of 1,893 reviews2026
Dev: Mardonpol Inc.
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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: Open World Survival Craft 34.5% ★, Survival 10.8%, Online Co-Op 9.6%, Multiplayer 6.7%, Base Building 6.1%
- #31 Night of the Dead
77% matchMostly Positive77% of 11,888 reviews2024
Dev: Jackto Studios
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 32.0 hrs≥1hr: 83%
'Night of the Dead' is an open-world game that combines elements of exploration, tower defense, survival, and crafting. Traverse a world dominated by zombies while collecting various resources and powerful equipment. Build a fortress to survive the hordes of zombies that swarm every night!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34% ★, Survival 10.2%, Online Co-Op 9.4%, Multiplayer 7.8%, Crafting 7.4%
- #32 Medieval Dynasty
76% matchVery Positive90% of 52,440 reviews2021
Dev: Render CubePub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 11.6 hrsMean: 36.2 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: Survival 17.1%, Crafting 16.6%, Multiplayer 12.5%, Open World 10.2%, Base Building 10%
- #33 Grounded 2
75% matchVery Positive81% of 24,763 reviews2025
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 13.2 hrsMean: 26.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Shrunk again, but the world is much larger. In this open-world, single-player or co-op survival adventure, craft weapons and armor, build your base, and traverse the playground on your buggy. But something else is out there—and it hasn’t forgotten you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.4% ★, Survival 16.2%, Multiplayer 9%, Base Building 8.2%, Open World 7.3%
- #34 The Survivalists
77% matchMostly Positive76% of 10,123 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: Open World Survival Craft 32.1% ★, Survival 13.5%, Online Co-Op 11.1%, Crafting 9.8%, Multiplayer 7.9%
- #35 The Planet Crafter
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 74,281 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.7 hrsMean: 38.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.3% ★, Survival 12%, Online Co-Op 10%, Base Building 8.7%, Crafting 7.7%
- #36 Forever Skies
73% matchMostly Positive78% of 9,059 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 30.5 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 34.9% ★, Survival 12.6%, Crafting 8.7%, Base Building 8.5%, Open World 7.8%
- #37 Force of Nature
76% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,209 reviews2016
Dev: A.Y.std
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.3% ★, Survival 14.2%, Crafting 10.1%, Open World 6.7%, Multiplayer 6.1%
- #38 Hand Simulator: Survival
74% matchVery Positive86% of 9,917 reviews2019
Dev: HFM Games
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 42%
Wild island. Thirst and hunger. Dangerous animals and insects. The perfect place to test your survival skills, especially if you only have empty hands, especially if it is a hand simulator.
Why similar: Survival 36.3%, Multiplayer 25.5%, Realistic 8%, First-Person 6.2%, Exploration 5.5%
- #39 Green Hell VR
75% matchMixed57% of 1,257 reviews2022
Dev: Incuvo
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 69%
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: Survival 29.9%, Crafting 16.8%, Open World 13.5%, Sandbox 7.9%, Realistic 7.5%
- #40 Conan Exiles Enhanced
74% matchMostly Positive79% of 117,692 reviews2018
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 17.2 hrsMean: 114.1 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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 36.8% ★, Survival 18.7%, Open World 10%, Crafting 8.2%, Multiplayer 7.9%
- #41 No One Survived
72% matchMixed64% of 7,844 reviews2025
Dev: Cat Play Studio
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 22.7 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 26.5%, Open World 14%, Multiplayer 13.5%, Crafting 11.4%, Online Co-Op 8.7%
- #42 HumanitZ
71% matchMostly Positive74% of 14,430 reviews2026
Dev: Yodubzz StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 15.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%
HumanitZ is an isometric, open-world sandbox survival game set in a world ended by a zombie outbreak. Survive alone or with friends by scavenging, crafting, building, and fighting to last as long as ‘humanly’ possible. You can’t change the past, but you can fight for the future of humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.2% ★, Survival 15.7%, Multiplayer 9.4%, Open World 8.9%, Online Co-Op 8.8%
- #43 ASTRONEER
72% matchVery Positive92% of 139,497 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.8% ★, Survival 13.3%, Multiplayer 9.7%, Open World 8.5%, Base Building 7%
- #44 Deadside
70% matchMostly Positive76% of 40,566 reviews2024
Dev: Bad Pixel
Windows
Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 44.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
An Open World Survival Shooter blending hardcore PVP and PVE action. Secure precious loot in safe zones or build your own fortress in the wild. With intense gunfights, stunning visuals, and performance smooth enough for any system, the challenge awaits!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36% ★, Survival 14.7%, Crafting 9%, Multiplayer 8.7%, Base Building 8.1%
- #45 Miscreated
73% matchMixed66% of 31,592 reviews2018
Dev: Entrada Interactive LLC
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 38.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Miscreated is a multiplayer online hardcore survival game set in a post-apocalyptic future. You will need to survive against mutants, players, and even mother nature herself.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 53.6% ★, Survival 17.9%, Open World 8.7%, Multiplayer 8.7%, Crafting 5.4%
- #46 Ranch Simulator: Build, Hunt, Farm
70% matchMostly Positive79% of 48,660 reviews2023
Dev: Toxic DogPub: Excalibur Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Builder. Farmer. Hunter. Trader. Ranching certainly isn’t your average job. Think you have the skills to turn your family’s rundown homestead into the most prosperous ranch in the valley? Then it’s time to head out into the wilderness in this captivating single and multiplayer open-world simulator.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 23.5%, Multiplayer 20.5%, Open World 16.8%, Co-op 11.9%, Sandbox 9%
- #47 MISERY
68% matchVery Positive84% of 26,185 reviews2025
Dev: Platypus EntertainmentPub: Ytopia
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 83%
MISERY is a 1–10 player co-op survival game set in a nuclear disaster zone. Here, every day is a struggle: search radioactive ruins for resources, build your bunker, craft weapons, and explore a weird, procedurally-generated world with your friends. Beware of anomalies, monsters, and armed bandits.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.7% ★, Survival 13.6%, Online Co-Op 10.7%, Multiplayer 8.6%, Crafting 7.1%
- #48 Rem Survival
71% matchMostly Positive76% of 809 reviews2021
Dev: Immortal Hand Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 47.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Scavenge abandoned ruins, craft gear from scrap and salvaged materials, and fight the environment itself as hunger, exposure, and exhaustion push you to your limits. There are no second chances—only adaptation or death.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.3% ★, Survival 13.5%, Crafting 9.5%, Base Building 8.4%, Open World 8.1%
- #49 The Gold River Project
69% matchMixed63% of 686 reviews2026
Dev: Fairview Games Inc.
Windows
The Gold River Project™ is a camping trip gone wrong in the Pacific Northwest. Explore, craft, build, and survive in this open-world experiment that traps you and up to 4 friends in this single player or co-op survival adventure game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.6% ★, Survival 11.3%, Multiplayer 8.4%, Open World 8.1%, Online Co-Op 7.9%
- #50 Generation Zero®
70% matchMostly Positive72% of 42,281 reviews2019
Dev: Systemic Reaction™Pub: Avalanche Studios
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 19.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Generation Zero is a stealth-action shooter where you wage guerilla warfare against lethal mechanical enemies. Explore a vast open world map inspired by the Swedish Cold War era, take part in the resistance alone or with up to three friends in seamless co-op.
Why similar: Survival 19.2%, Multiplayer 13.2%, Open World 12.8%, Base Building 12.4%, Crafting 12.2%
- #51 Out of Reach
71% matchMixed57% of 3,051 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.1 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 45.9% ★, Survival 15%, Multiplayer 7.9%, Crafting 7.7%, Open World 7.6%
- #52 Far Cry® Primal
69% matchVery Positive86% of 41,437 reviews2016
Dev: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 26.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
The award-winning Far Cry franchise returns with its innovative open world gameplay, bringing together massive beasts, breathtaking environments, and unpredictable savage encounters. Welcome to the Stone Age, a time of danger and adventure.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.1% ★, Survival 22.6%, Open World 16.9%, Crafting 8.2%, First-Person 3%
- #53 Survisland / 实境求生
68% matchMixed63% of 1,552 reviews2024
Dev: Super Trampers StudioPub: Easy Joy Ltd.
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Survisland is a super hardcore sandbox survival game that pays great attention to restoring the real survival experience. The character has rich and realistic actions and reactions to , and the process logic of making props is no different from reality.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.2% ★, Survival 12.7%, Multiplayer 8.8%, Online Co-Op 8.8%, Crafting 7.8%
- #54 Survive the Nights
67% matchMixed66% of 6,793 reviews2025
Dev: a2z Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Hardcore open-world survival where preparation is everything. Scavenge, craft, fortify during the day. When night falls, the infected hunt in numbers. Play solo or with friends in a brutal post-apocalyptic sandbox where survival is earned through smart decisions. How many Nights will you survive?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.4% ★, Survival 15.5%, Online Co-Op 11.6%, Multiplayer 11.1%, Co-op 6%
- #55 Shamania
66% matchMostly Positive74% of 171 reviews2026
Dev: Totem Keepers Games
Windows
Shamania is an open world survival game where you can CRAFT, FIGHT, and EXPLORE a vibrant sandbox world with friends in CO-OP. Expand your base as a hub for survival, gather resources, and master professions to unlock new tools and opportunities!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.5% ★, Survival 12.3%, Crafting 9.2%, Open World 8.4%, Multiplayer 8.4%
- #56 State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition
67% matchVery Positive83% of 70,161 reviews2020
Dev: Undead LabsPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 39.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
The dead have risen and civilization has fallen. Now it's up to you to gather survivors, scavenge for resources and build a community in a post-apocalyptic world – a world where you define what it means to survive in this ultimate zombie survival simulation.
Why similar: Survival 28.8%, Open World 16.3%, Base Building 15.7%, Multiplayer 14.5%, Online Co-Op 11%
- #57 KeepUp Survival
68% matchMixed64% of 751 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
KeepUp Survival is an open-world base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and shape your own story on a mysterious island.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.7% ★, Survival 12.4%, Multiplayer 8.3%, Crafting 7.9%, Open World 7.6%
- #58 DESOLATE
69% matchMixed66% of 8,065 reviews2019
Dev: NeargaPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
DESOLATE is a first person horror survival experience. Form a research team with up to 4 players and explore an open world filled with mysteries and unsolved questions, or do it all on your own.
Why similar: Survival 49.2%, Open World 28.4%, First-Person 5.6%, Crafting 4.1%, Survival Horror 3.1%
- #59 Subnautica 2
63% matchVery Positive91% of 128,024 reviews2026
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows
Median: 10.6 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Subnautica 2 is an underwater survival adventure set on an all-new alien world, developed by Unknown Worlds. Play alone or with friends in 4-player co-op. Adapt to survive by building custom bases and crafting tools. Explore the unknown to uncover the mysteries hidden within the depths.
Why similar: Survival 26.8%, Multiplayer 19.4%, Open World 13.4%, Co-op 10.4%, Survival Horror 7.7%
- #60 Abiotic Factor
64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 59,444 reviews2025
Dev: Deep Field GamesPub: Playstack
Windows
Median: 21.2 hrsMean: 46.5 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Abiotic Factor is a survival crafting experience for 1-6 players set in the depths of an underground research facility. Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the world’s greatest minds must survive against the universe’s biggest threats.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.3% ★, Survival 13.6%, Online Co-Op 11.1%, Crafting 9%, Base Building 8.3%