- #1 Sons Of The Forest
97% matchVery Positive88% of 304,972 reviews2024
Dev: Endnight Games LtdPub: Newnight
Windows
Median: 15.1 hrsMean: 32.5 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 22.5%, Multiplayer 13.5%, Open World 12.1%, Base Building 10.5%, Crafting 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: It delivers the closest mix of first-person wilderness survival, crafting, base-building, co-op play, and constant environmental danger, just with a stronger horror angle.
- #2 The Forest
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 670,097 reviews2018
Dev: Endnight Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 37.2 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 52.9% ★, Survival 17.5%, Open World 7.9%, Crafting 6.9%, Survival Horror 3.4%
Why You'll Like It: Like Green Hell, it drops you into a hostile natural setting where scavenging, crafting shelters, and surviving the world itself are the core experience.
- #3 Stranded Deep
96% matchMostly Positive74% of 47,389 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 47.9% ★, Survival 15.5%, Multiplayer 9.7%, Crafting 7.2%, Open World 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: This is another immersive first-person survival game built around careful resource management, crafting, hunting, and staying alive in an unforgiving natural environment.
- #4 Survival: Fountain of Youth
95% matchVery Positive86% of 4,339 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: Open World Survival Craft 40.4% ★, Survival 14.2%, Crafting 9.1%, Base Building 9.1%, Open World 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: Its realistic survival systems, resource scarcity, medical needs, and handcrafted shelter progression make it one of the best picks for players who loved Green Hell's sim-like depth.
- #5 ICARUS
94% matchMostly Positive74% of 63,962 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 46.0 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 35.2% ★, Survival 13.2%, Online Co-Op 9.2%, Multiplayer 8.3%, Base Building 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes survival against the environment, tech progression, and building defensible shelters, giving you that same tense gather-craft-survive rhythm.
- #6 Subsistence
94% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,685 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 39.9 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 45.5% ★, Survival 14.5%, Multiplayer 8.3%, Crafting 8.3%, Open World 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: Its solo-focused wilderness survival, hunting, gathering, and grounded base-building echo Green Hell's slow, methodical fight to stay alive.
- #7 Grounded
92% matchVery Positive90% of 93,832 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.3 hrsMean: 41.5 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 35.4% ★, Survival 17.1%, Multiplayer 10.3%, Base Building 8%, Crafting 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: It turns the environment into a constant predator-filled survival puzzle, mixing exploration, crafting, and base-building in a way Green Hell players often click with.
- #8 Mist Survival
93% matchMostly Positive76% of 14,126 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 45.9% ★, Survival 21.6%, Open World 9.7%, Base Building 7.3%, Crafting 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: This one captures a similarly vulnerable first-person survival feel, with scavenging, crafting, shelter management, and ever-present danger in the world around you.
- #9 Raft
91% matchVery Positive93% of 372,032 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.6 hrsMean: 37.3 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 39.5% ★, Survival 16.2%, Multiplayer 10.3%, Crafting 6.6%, Online Co-Op 5.7%
Why You'll Like It: It offers the same satisfying cycle of gathering, crafting, upgrading your home, and surviving hostile conditions, but on the open ocean instead of in the jungle.
- #10 Soulmask
91% matchMostly Positive77% of 21,464 reviews2026
Dev: CampFire StudioPub: Qooland Games
Windows
Median: 13.8 hrsMean: 68.1 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 37.7% ★, Survival 13.6%, Base Building 9.1%, Open World 8.6%, Crafting 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: Its jungle setting, tribal survival loop, detailed crafting, and large-scale base-building make it feel especially close to Green Hell's harsher wilderness fantasy.
- #11 The Long Dark
90% matchVery Positive89% of 121,879 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 54.7% ★, Survival 19.6%, Open World 8.1%, Crafting 5%, Sandbox 2.2%
Why You'll Like It: Even without co-op, it shares Green Hell's punishing survival-sim mindset where weather, hunger, injury, and bad decisions can end a run fast.
- #12 Subnautica
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 365,018 reviews2018
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 39.3 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 44.6% ★, Survival 15.1%, Open World 7.8%, Crafting 7.7%, Base Building 7%
Why You'll Like It: Its immersive survival loop, handcrafted tools, dangerous ecosystem, and steady expansion from desperate survival to confident base-building make it a natural fit.
- #13 Valheim
89% matchVery Positive94% of 534,015 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 25.8 hrsMean: 76.9 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 37.5% ★, Survival 12%, Online Co-Op 10.4%, Multiplayer 7.8%, Open World 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: While more mythic in tone, it nails the co-op survival-crafting-base-building progression that makes Green Hell so compelling with friends.
- #14 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
88% matchVery Positive82% of 9,989 reviews2024
Dev: Merge GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 32.5% ★, Survival 11.8%, Online Co-Op 9.1%, Multiplayer 8.2%, Base Building 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: It delivers exploration, survival systems, co-op building, and a threatening natural world where even basic travel feels dangerous and rewarding.
- #15 SCUM
86% matchMostly Positive74% of 124,053 reviews2025
Dev: Gamepires
Windows
Median: 11.9 hrsMean: 103.1 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Traverse punishing environments, looting, crafting and evading the constant threats to your life. The unprecedented levels of character customization and progression are your ultimate tools for survival.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.2% ★, Survival 15.3%, Online Co-Op 10.6%, Open World 9.5%, Crafting 9%
Why You'll Like It: Its metabolism, injury, and survival management systems are unusually detailed, giving it some of the same hardcore appeal as Green Hell despite the PvP focus.
- #16 Sunkenland
86% matchVery Positive81% of 23,216 reviews2023
Dev: Vector3 Studio
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 18.5 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 44.2% ★, Survival 13.8%, Multiplayer 8.3%, Base Building 7.4%, Crafting 7%
Why You'll Like It: Its scavenging-heavy survival, building loop, and co-op progression scratch a lot of the same open-world crafting and shelter-building itch.
- #17 The Infected
87% matchVery Positive84% of 6,935 reviews2020
Dev: DigX Studios
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 18.6 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 37.2% ★, Survival 11.9%, Crafting 8.7%, Base Building 8.7%, Open World 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: Its open-world survival, building, resource processing, and constant pressure from managing your needs make it feel mechanically close to Green Hell.
- #18 7 Days to Die
85% matchVery Positive87% of 399,251 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 16.9 hrsMean: 108.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 36.1% ★, Survival 17.8%, Online Co-Op 9.6%, Multiplayer 9.1%, Base Building 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: If you want more brutal survival, crafting, scavenging, and fortifying a base against constant threats, this is one of the strongest alternatives on Steam.
- #19 The Planet Crafter
83% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 70,189 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.5 hrsMean: 37.9 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% ★, Survival 11.9%, Online Co-Op 10.4%, Base Building 8.7%, Crafting 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: It is lighter on direct danger, but the satisfying survival-crafting-base progression and gradual mastery of a hostile environment will still resonate with Green Hell fans.
- #20 Conan Exiles Enhanced
84% matchMostly Positive79% of 115,037 reviews2018
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 17.1 hrsMean: 111.9 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 36.5% ★, Survival 18.6%, Open World 9.8%, Crafting 8.4%, Multiplayer 8%
Why You'll Like It: It leans more into combat and large-scale construction, but the open-world survival, crafting, and base-building backbone is very much in Green Hell territory.
- #21 ARK: Survival Evolved
84% matchVery Positive83% of 767,761 reviews2017
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 201.1 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 45.9% ★, Survival 14.8%, Multiplayer 8.5%, Open World 7.2%, Crafting 7%
Why You'll Like It: Its survival systems, open-world progression, gathering, and base construction make it a classic fit, even if taming creatures becomes a much bigger focus.
- #22 Enshrouded
81% matchVery Positive86% of 101,648 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.7 hrsMean: 45.6 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 20.5%, Online Co-Op 15.3%, Open World 14.2%, Base Building 12.6%, Multiplayer 12.4%
Why You'll Like It: This is a more accessible action-survival take on gathering, crafting, exploration, and elaborate base-building, with strong co-op appeal.
- #23 Rust
81% matchVery Positive87% of 1,363,157 reviews2018
Dev: Facepunch Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 52.5 hrsMean: 421.6 hrs≥1hr: 96%
The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.5% ★, Survival 22.4%, Crafting 10.5%, Multiplayer 10.3%, Open World 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: The gather-craft-build-survive loop is extremely strong here, though the experience is more player-driven and PvP-heavy than Green Hell's environmental survival focus.
- #24 Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey
82% matchMostly Positive79% of 11,558 reviews2020
Dev: Panache Digital GamesPub: Private Division
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 14.1 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 47.2% ★, Survival 15.7%, Open World 9.6%, Crafting 8.8%, Multiplayer 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: Its primal jungle setting and emphasis on learning how to survive in a harsh natural world make it an unusual but thematically strong alternative.
- #25 The Wild Eight
82% matchMixed68% of 8,077 reviews2019
Dev: Eight PointsPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.0 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% ★, Survival 17.3%, Multiplayer 8.7%, Open World 6.3%, Online Co-Op 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: This is a harsher co-op wilderness survival game with crafting, resource management, and exploration, even if it is more stylized and less immersive.
- #26 Forever Skies
79% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,446 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.6 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 34.6% ★, Survival 12.6%, Crafting 8.9%, Base Building 8.6%, Multiplayer 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: Its immersive first-person survival and crafting loop captures the same vulnerable, system-driven appeal, just in a sci-fi world with a mobile base.
- #27 Nightingale
80% matchMixed67% of 17,932 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 34.6% ★, Survival 11.6%, Online Co-Op 9.9%, Multiplayer 8.4%, Crafting 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: It blends survival crafting, exploration, and home-building in dangerous worlds, making it a good pick if you want more adventure layered onto the formula.
- #28 Project Castaway
77% matchMixed67% of 1,723 reviews2026
Dev: Mardonpol Inc.
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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 34.1% ★, Survival 10.7%, Online Co-Op 10%, Multiplayer 6.7%, Base Building 6.2%
- #29 State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition
78% matchVery Positive83% of 68,064 reviews2020
Dev: Undead LabsPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 39.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 28.5%, Open World 16%, Base Building 15.9%, Multiplayer 14.6%, Online Co-Op 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: It is more community-management and zombie-driven, but the scavenging, base upkeep, and survival pressure still make it a worthwhile neighboring pick.
- #30 Starsand
79% matchMixed66% of 1,241 reviews2022
Dev: Tunnel Vision StudioPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 41.1% ★, Survival 13.8%, Crafting 9.1%, Base Building 8.5%, Open World 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: It swaps jungle for desert, but the isolated first-person survival, shelter-building, and environmental pressure feel very much in the same spirit.
- #31 MISERY
76% matchVery Positive83% of 23,009 reviews2025
Dev: Platypus EntertainmentPub: Ytopia
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 29.6% ★, Survival 12.9%, Online Co-Op 11.1%, Multiplayer 8.6%, Crafting 7.4%
- #32 DayZ
78% matchMostly Positive78% of 461,119 reviews2018
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 39.8 hrsMean: 275.7 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 26.6%, Online Co-Op 15.7%, Multiplayer 12.5%, Open World 11.1%, Co-op 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a tense survival experience centered on hunger, sickness, scavenging, and emergent danger, though it is less focused on crafting and base progression.
- #33 Grounded 2
75% matchVery Positive81% of 21,263 reviews2025
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.0 hrsMean: 22.1 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 28.4% ★, Survival 16.4%, Multiplayer 9.4%, Base Building 8.5%, Crafting 7.4%
- #34 Night of the Dead
76% matchMostly Positive77% of 11,782 reviews2024
Dev: Jackto Studios
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 32.7 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 33.5% ★, Survival 10.1%, Online Co-Op 9.7%, Multiplayer 7.9%, Crafting 7.5%
- #35 Medieval Dynasty
75% matchVery Positive90% of 50,786 reviews2021
Dev: Render CubePub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 11.8 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: Crafting 16.9%, Survival 16.7%, Multiplayer 12.6%, Base Building 10%, Open World 9.9%
- #36 Force of Nature
77% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,202 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% ★, Survival 14.2%, Crafting 10.3%, Open World 6.6%, Multiplayer 6.2%
- #37 HumanitZ
72% matchMostly Positive75% of 12,839 reviews2026
Dev: Yodubzz StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 14.8 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 15.2%, Multiplayer 9.5%, Online Co-Op 9.2%, Crafting 9%
- #38 Don't Starve Together
74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 531,653 reviews2016
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 64.7 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 2.2%, Co-op 2%
- #39 The Survivalists
74% matchMostly Positive76% of 10,012 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 31.8% ★, Survival 13.3%, Online Co-Op 11.5%, Crafting 9.9%, Multiplayer 7.9%
- #40 No One Survived
71% matchMixed65% of 7,645 reviews2025
Dev: Cat Play Studio
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 22.6 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%, Open World 13.8%, Multiplayer 13.6%, Crafting 11.7%, Online Co-Op 9%
- #41 Hand Simulator: Survival
73% matchVery Positive86% of 9,917 reviews2019
Dev: HFM Games
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 41%
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 36.1%, Multiplayer 25.7%, Realistic 7.8%, First-Person 6.3%, Exploration 5.5%
- #42 This Land Is My Land
73% matchMixed68% of 4,612 reviews2021
Dev: Game-Labs
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 21.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Experience the frontier as a chief of a Native American tribe and resist the onset of the settlers. Explore the vast world full of hostile humans and animals while defining your narrative through the decisions you make.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49% ★, Survival 16.9%, Open World 9.3%, Multiplayer 8.3%, Crafting 7.7%
- #43 ASTRONEER
72% matchVery Positive92% of 137,959 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.2 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 39.6% ★, Survival 13.2%, Multiplayer 9.8%, Open World 8.4%, Base Building 7.1%
- #44 Green Hell VR
73% matchMixed57% of 1,228 reviews2022
Dev: Incuvo
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 3.9 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: Survival 29.5%, Crafting 17.1%, Open World 13.3%, Sandbox 8.1%, Realistic 7.4%
- #45 Subnautica 2
68% matchVery Positive91% of 98,787 reviews2026
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows
Median: 8.8 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 26.9%, Multiplayer 19.9%, Open World 13.4%, Co-op 10.2%, Survival Horror 7.9%
- #46 Deadside
70% matchMostly Positive76% of 40,248 reviews2024
Dev: Bad Pixel
Windows
Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 44.5 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 40.2% ★, Survival 16.4%, Open World 8.3%, Multiplayer 8%, Base Building 6%
- #47 Ranch Simulator: Build, Hunt, Farm
69% matchMostly Positive79% of 45,769 reviews2023
Dev: Toxic DogPub: Excalibur Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 14.3 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 24%, Multiplayer 20.2%, Open World 16.4%, Co-op 11.7%, Sandbox 9.2%
- #48 Miscreated
71% matchMixed66% of 31,585 reviews2018
Dev: Entrada Interactive LLC
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 38.3 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 53.5% ★, Survival 17.8%, Multiplayer 8.8%, Open World 8.6%, Crafting 5.5%
- #49 The Gold River Project
69% matchMixed66% of 568 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 39.5% ★, Survival 11.2%, Multiplayer 8.3%, Online Co-Op 8.2%, Open World 8%
- #50 Far Cry® Primal
70% matchVery Positive86% of 39,924 reviews2016
Dev: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 26.2 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 39.2% ★, Survival 22.5%, Open World 16.7%, Crafting 8.4%, First-Person 3.1%
- #51 Subnautica: Below Zero
68% matchVery Positive90% of 105,645 reviews2021
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 15.3 hrsMean: 29.4 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 44.7% ★, Survival 14%, Multiplayer 7.6%, Open World 7.4%, Base Building 7%
- #52 Rem Survival
70% 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 41.1% ★, Survival 13.5%, Crafting 9.7%, Base Building 8.6%, Open World 7.9%
- #53 The Front
67% matchMixed67% of 10,771 reviews2025
Dev: Samar Studio
Windows
Median: 10.6 hrsMean: 44.3 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 34.6% ★, Survival 11.5%, Multiplayer 8.3%, Crafting 8%, Base Building 7.3%
- #54 Among Trees
69% matchMixed68% of 2,222 reviews2021
Dev: FJRD Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 42.9% ★, Survival 14.1%, Open World 8.1%, Crafting 8.1%, Base Building 6.3%
- #55 theHunter: Call of the Wild™
68% matchVery Positive89% of 197,377 reviews2017
Dev: Expansive WorldsPub: Avalanche Studios
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 41.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Discover an atmospheric hunting game like no other in this realistic, stunning open world – regularly updated in collaboration with the community. Immerse yourself in the single player campaign, or share the ultimate hunting experience with friends.
Why similar: Multiplayer 19.7%, Survival 19%, Open World 17.7%, Online Co-Op 16.4%, Co-op 8.1%
- #56 Out of Reach
71% matchMixed57% of 3,046 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 45.7% ★, Survival 14.9%, Multiplayer 7.9%, Crafting 7.8%, Open World 7.5%
- #57 Abiotic Factor
64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 55,118 reviews2025
Dev: Deep Field GamesPub: Playstack
Windows
Median: 19.6 hrsMean: 43.9 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 36.8% ★, Survival 13.3%, Online Co-Op 11.4%, Crafting 9.1%, Base Building 8.4%
- #58 Survive the Nights
66% matchMixed66% of 6,549 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 37.1% ★, Survival 15.3%, Online Co-Op 12.1%, Multiplayer 11.1%, Co-op 5.9%
- #59 Hobo: Tough Life
67% matchVery Positive84% of 9,762 reviews2021
Dev: Perun Creative
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Hobo: Tough Life is an urban survival role-playing game where you play as a homeless person. Play alone or team up in online co-op. Explore the streets of Praslav, scavenge for food and supplies, beg, steal, and do whatever else it takes to survive the forthcoming winter.
Why similar: Survival 20.7%, Multiplayer 11.9%, Open World 11.6%, Base Building 11.1%, Online Co-Op 10.6%
- #60 Satisfactory
64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 270,461 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 32.6 hrsMean: 110.0 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.5% ★, Base Building 14.6%, Crafting 11.7%, Multiplayer 11.3%, Open World 10.4%