- #1 Sons Of The Forest
97% 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 22.2%, Multiplayer 13.5%, Open World 12%, Base Building 10.6%, Crafting 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: This expands on The Forest formula with deeper building, survival management, and co-op exploration in another dangerous, immersive open wilderness.
- #2 The Forest
96% 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 52.7% ★, Survival 17.5%, Open World 7.9%, Crafting 7%, Survival Horror 3.4%
Why You'll Like It: It matches Green Hell's first-person wilderness survival, crafting, shelter building, co-op play, and constant pressure from a hostile environment almost perfectly.
- #3 Stranded Deep
96% matchMostly Positive74% of 47,062 reviews2022
Dev: Beam Team GamesPub: Beam Team Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 21.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Take the role of a plane crash survivor stranded somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Come face to face with some of the most life threatening scenarios that will result in a different experience each time you play. Scavenge. Discover. Survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.7% ★, Survival 15.5%, Multiplayer 9.7%, Crafting 7.3%, Open World 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: Like Green Hell, it emphasizes realistic status effects, hunting, crafting, and building while trying to stay alive in an unforgiving natural setting.
- #4 Survival: Fountain of Youth
95% matchVery Positive86% of 4,270 reviews2024
Dev: Odinsoft Inc.Pub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 18.7 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Survival: Fountain of Youth is a challenging single-player open-world adventure game set on the Caribbean islands. Survive as a shipwrecked 16th-century explorer, craft tools and shelter, and uncover the secrets of both an ancient civilization and your own fate.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.2% ★, Survival 14.1%, Crafting 9.2%, Base Building 9.2%, Open World 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: It leans heavily into realistic survival mechanics like injuries, nutrition, crafting, and island exploration in a way that feels very close to Green Hell's harsher side.
- #5 ICARUS
94% 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 35% ★, Survival 13.1%, Online Co-Op 9.3%, Multiplayer 8.2%, Base Building 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: It delivers punishing survival, strong crafting and base-building, and excellent co-op tension as you prepare for and endure environmental threats.
- #6 Raft
93% 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 39.3% ★, Survival 16.2%, Multiplayer 10.3%, Crafting 6.6%, Online Co-Op 5.8%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the same satisfying resource-management and co-op crafting loop, just in an ocean setting instead of a jungle.
- #7 Subsistence
94% 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 45.3% ★, Survival 14.5%, Crafting 8.4%, Multiplayer 8.3%, Open World 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: Its grounded first-person survival loop of gathering, hunting, crafting, and defending your base feels very much in Green Hell's lane.
- #8 Soulmask
92% matchVery Positive81% of 17,627 reviews2024
Dev: CampFire StudioPub: Qooland Games
Windows
Median: 13.7 hrsMean: 66.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Choose your path across a primeval continent shaped by the Mask's power. From lush rainforests to scorched sands, recruit and lead unique tribesmen, build automated production lines, and construct everything from local bases to colossal airships, uncover the secrets of the Mask
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.7% ★, Survival 13.9%, Crafting 9.8%, Base Building 9%, Open World 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Its jungle setting, tribal theme, deep survival systems, and strong co-op base-building make it one of the closest modern alternatives to Green Hell.
- #9 Grounded
91% matchVery Positive90% of 92,875 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.2 hrsMean: 40.8 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 35.2% ★, Survival 17.1%, Multiplayer 10.3%, Base Building 8.1%, Crafting 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: It offers excellent co-op survival-crafting and base-building, with environmental dangers and exploration that scratch a similar systemic survival itch despite the lighter tone.
- #10 7 Days to Die
90% matchVery Positive87% of 396,805 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 16.8 hrsMean: 107.4 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 35.9% ★, Survival 17.7%, Online Co-Op 9.6%, Multiplayer 9.1%, Base Building 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: Although zombie-focused, it's still one of the strongest survival-crafting games for players who want open-world scavenging, meaningful progression, and robust base-building with friends.
- #11 Mist Survival
91% 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 45.6% ★, Survival 21.6%, Open World 9.7%, Base Building 7.4%, Crafting 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: Its focus on scavenging, crafting, shelter construction, and surviving a dangerous open world makes it a strong fit for Green Hell fans who don't mind a darker setting.
- #12 Valheim
89% 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 37.2% ★, Survival 12%, Online Co-Op 10.5%, Multiplayer 7.8%, Open World 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the addictive loop of exploring, gathering, crafting, and building secure outposts, with especially strong co-op progression.
- #13 The Long Dark
89% 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 54.6% ★, Survival 19.6%, Open World 8.1%, Crafting 5.1%, Sandbox 2.2%
Why You'll Like It: If Green Hell's appeal for you is harsh survival simulation and constant vulnerability, this is one of the best pure survival experiences on Steam.
- #14 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
88% matchVery Positive82% of 9,646 reviews2024
Dev: Merge GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 15.1 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 32.4% ★, Survival 11.7%, Online Co-Op 9.2%, Multiplayer 8.2%, Base Building 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: It combines open-world survival, environmental hazards, crafting, and shelter-building in a way that feels familiar even with its miniature-scale premise.
- #15 Subnautica
87% 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 44.6% ★, Survival 15.1%, Open World 7.9%, Crafting 7.8%, Base Building 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: Even without co-op, it nails the feeling of surviving in a hostile ecosystem where preparation, exploration, and careful resource use are everything.
- #16 No One Survived
86% 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 25.7%, Open World 13.6%, Multiplayer 13.5%, Crafting 11.6%, Online Co-Op 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: This one pushes realistic needs, crafting, looting, and co-op base-building in a grounded way that overlaps well with Green Hell's survival micromanagement.
- #17 Conan Exiles
86% matchMostly Positive79% of 111,441 reviews2018
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 16.9 hrsMean: 111.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
An online multiplayer survival game, now with sorcery, set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian. Survive in a vast open world sandbox, build your home into a kingdom, and dominate your enemies in single or multiplayer.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.3% ★, Survival 18.6%, Open World 9.8%, Crafting 8.6%, Multiplayer 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: Its open-world survival, crafting, and extensive base-building make it a natural next step if you want a harsher and more combat-heavy survival sandbox.
- #18 SCUM
84% matchMostly Positive74% of 122,922 reviews2025
Dev: Gamepires
Windows
Median: 11.9 hrsMean: 102.0 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% ★, Survival 15.3%, Online Co-Op 10.7%, Open World 9.5%, Crafting 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: Its detailed metabolism and injury systems appeal to players who liked Green Hell's more simulation-heavy approach to staying alive.
- #19 Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey
85% matchMostly Positive79% of 11,316 reviews2020
Dev: Panache Digital GamesPub: Private Division
Windows
Median: 1.6 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 47.1% ★, Survival 15.6%, Open World 9.6%, Crafting 8.9%, Multiplayer 7%
Why You'll Like It: Its primal jungle setting and emphasis on learning how to survive in nature make it an especially strong thematic match for Green Hell.
- #20 ARK: Survival Evolved
84% matchVery Positive83% of 763,144 reviews2017
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 200.9 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 45.7% ★, Survival 14.8%, Multiplayer 8.5%, Open World 7.2%, Crafting 7%
Why You'll Like It: It offers the same big survival-crafting loop of taming a dangerous world, building defensible bases, and progressing through escalating threats in solo or multiplayer.
- #21 Sunkenland
83% matchVery Positive81% of 22,996 reviews2023
Dev: Vector3 Studio
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 17.9 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% ★, Survival 13.7%, Multiplayer 8.4%, Base Building 7.4%, Crafting 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: It delivers co-op survival-crafting, scavenging, building, and defending a home base in a hostile world with constant resource pressure.
- #22 The Planet Crafter
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 67,314 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.1 hrsMean: 37.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 36.6% ★, Survival 11.8%, Online Co-Op 10.5%, Base Building 8.7%, Crafting 8%
Why You'll Like It: While more relaxed and sci-fi, it still delivers a compelling first-person loop of surviving, gathering resources, and expanding a functional base in a hostile environment.
- #23 The Infected
82% matchVery Positive85% of 6,893 reviews2020
Dev: DigX Studios
Windows
Median: 3.6 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% ★, Survival 11.9%, Crafting 8.8%, Base Building 8.7%, Open World 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: It blends gathering, survival needs, crafting, and base defense into a steady open-world survival loop that Green Hell fans can easily fall into.
- #24 Forever Skies
80% 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 34.4% ★, Survival 12.6%, Crafting 9%, Base Building 8.7%, Multiplayer 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: It mixes first-person survival, crafting, disease management, and expedition-based exploration in a way that should click with players who enjoy environmental survival pressure.
- #25 Nightingale
81% matchMixed67% of 17,841 reviews2024
Dev: Inflexion Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 23.9 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 34.4% ★, Survival 11.6%, Online Co-Op 9.9%, Multiplayer 8.4%, Crafting 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: This brings co-op survival-crafting, shelter-building, and hazard management into a fantasy setting while preserving a similar explore-gather-build rhythm.
- #26 The Wild Eight
81% matchMostly Positive70% of 7,155 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 43.9% ★, Survival 17.2%, Multiplayer 8.7%, Open World 6.3%, Online Co-Op 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: This focuses on staying alive in a hostile wilderness through crafting, exploration, and co-op survival against the elements.
- #27 Don't Starve Together
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 528,033 reviews2016
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 64.1 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 63.9% ★, Survival 22%, Multiplayer 4.1%, Online Co-Op 2.2%, Co-op 2%
Why You'll Like It: Its sanity, hunger, crafting, and base-building systems echo Green Hell's survival pressure, even if the presentation is much more stylized.
- #28 Sengoku Dynasty
78% matchMostly Positive75% of 7,351 reviews2024
Dev: SuperkamiPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 15.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Sengoku Dynasty is the ultimate feudal Japan experience: build villages, grow your community, and shape the open world through combat or economy. The choice is yours alone - or that of up to 4 players in multiplayer co-op!
Why similar: Survival 18.9%, Base Building 13%, Online Co-Op 13%, Multiplayer 11.9%, Crafting 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: It is less punishing, but its open-world building, crafting, resource gathering, and co-op village development make it a worthwhile survival sandbox follow-up.
- #29 DayZ
79% matchMostly Positive78% of 456,703 reviews2018
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 39.6 hrsMean: 272.0 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 26.5%, Online Co-Op 15.8%, Multiplayer 12.5%, Open World 11%, Co-op 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: For players who want survival stress, sickness, hunger, crafting, and emergent danger in a shared world, it captures Green Hell's vulnerability from a multiplayer angle.
- #30 Rust
78% matchVery Positive87% of 1,344,289 reviews2018
Dev: Facepunch Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 52.0 hrsMean: 416.6 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 31.3% ★, Survival 22.4%, Crafting 10.6%, Multiplayer 10.3%, Open World 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: Its crafting, base-building, and constant danger make it a strong recommendation if you want Green Hell's survival tension pushed into a more competitive sandbox.
- #31 Grounded 2
77% matchVery Positive81% of 19,870 reviews2025
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 20.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 27.3% ★, Survival 16.5%, Multiplayer 9.8%, Base Building 8.4%, Crafting 7.5%
- #32 Project Castaway
77% matchMixed67% of 1,632 reviews2026
Dev: Mardonpol Inc.
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Project Castaway is a survival crafting title set in the Pacific Ocean. Live the life of a stranded castaway, with only yourself - and the island's inhabitants - for company! Sail the ocean, hunt, explore unique islands and gather resources as you fight for survival.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.9% ★, Survival 10.6%, Online Co-Op 10.1%, Multiplayer 6.6%, Base Building 6.3%
- #33 Night of the Dead
76% matchMostly Positive77% of 11,732 reviews2024
Dev: Jackto Studios
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 32.6 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 33.3% ★, Survival 10.1%, Online Co-Op 9.8%, Multiplayer 7.9%, Crafting 7.6%
- #34 Medieval Dynasty
75% 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 17%, Survival 16.6%, Multiplayer 12.6%, Base Building 10%, Open World 9.9%
- #35 The Survivalists
76% matchMostly Positive76% of 9,935 reviews2020
Dev: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 71%
A living world full of surprises, secrets and danger awaits in The Survivalists, an adventure-filled survival sandbox set in The Escapists universe. Explore, build, craft and even train monkeys with up to three friends in a desperate bid to survive. Have you got what it takes to be a Survivalist?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.6% ★, Survival 13.3%, Online Co-Op 11.5%, Crafting 10%, Multiplayer 7.9%
- #36 Force of Nature
75% 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 45.8% ★, Survival 14.2%, Crafting 10.5%, Open World 6.6%, Multiplayer 6.1%
- #37 Hand Simulator: Survival
74% 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%, Multiplayer 25.7%, Realistic 7.8%, First-Person 6.4%, Exploration 5.6%
- #38 Among Trees
74% 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 42.7% ★, Survival 14.1%, Crafting 8.2%, Open World 8.1%, Base Building 6.4%
- #39 HumanitZ
71% matchMostly Positive75% of 11,640 reviews2026
Dev: Yodubzz StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 14.2 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 27.8% ★, Survival 14.9%, Multiplayer 9.5%, Online Co-Op 9.3%, Crafting 9.1%
- #40 ASTRONEER
73% matchVery Positive92% of 136,711 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 44.1 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 39.4% ★, Survival 13.3%, Multiplayer 9.8%, Open World 8.4%, Base Building 7.2%
- #41 Green Hell VR
73% 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: Survival 29.3%, Crafting 17.2%, Open World 13.3%, Sandbox 8.2%, Realistic 7.4%
- #42 Deadside
70% matchMostly Positive76% of 40,013 reviews2024
Dev: Bad Pixel
Windows
Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 44.2 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% ★, Survival 16.4%, Open World 8.4%, Multiplayer 8%, Base Building 6%
- #43 Miscreated
73% matchMixed66% of 31,585 reviews2018
Dev: Entrada Interactive LLC
Windows
Median: 5.5 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 53.3% ★, Survival 17.9%, Multiplayer 8.8%, Open World 8.6%, Crafting 5.6%
- #44 Volcanoids
72% matchVery Positive83% of 9,214 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.9% ★, Survival 10.6%, Online Co-Op 9.2%, Crafting 7.6%, Multiplayer 7.5%
- #45 MISERY
69% matchVery Positive85% of 17,893 reviews2025
Dev: Platypus EntertainmentPub: Ytopia
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
MISERY is a 1–5 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 12.5%, Online Co-Op 11.2%, Multiplayer 8.3%, Crafting 7.6%
- #46 Far Cry® Primal
72% matchVery Positive86% of 39,079 reviews2016
Dev: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 26.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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% ★, Survival 22.5%, Open World 16.7%, Crafting 8.5%, First-Person 3.1%
- #47 The Gold River Project
70% 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 39.2% ★, Survival 11.2%, Multiplayer 8.4%, Online Co-Op 8.3%, Open World 8%
- #48 Ranch Simulator: Build, Hunt, Farm
69% matchMostly Positive79% of 44,721 reviews2023
Dev: Toxic DogPub: Excalibur Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 14.0 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 26.4%, Multiplayer 22.8%, Open World 17.3%, Co-op 10.3%, Sandbox 7.3%
- #49 Rem Survival
71% 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 40.9% ★, Survival 13.5%, Crafting 9.8%, Base Building 8.6%, Open World 7.9%
- #50 Breathedge
70% matchVery Positive82% of 16,026 reviews2021
Dev: RedRuins SoftworksPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Survive in outer space! Together with your immortal chicken, discover the truth behind your sudden spaceship crash. Craft tools, pilot vehicles, and even control space stations to survive and explore the wreckage.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.7% ★, Survival 14.2%, Base Building 8.8%, Crafting 7.6%, Open World 5.2%
- #51 Subnautica: Below Zero
68% 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 44.8% ★, Survival 14.2%, Open World 7.5%, Base Building 7.2%, Multiplayer 6.7%
- #52 Hobo: Tough Life
69% matchVery Positive84% of 9,646 reviews2021
Dev: Perun Creative
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 22.7 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 20.6%, Multiplayer 11.9%, Open World 11.6%, Base Building 11.1%, Online Co-Op 10.7%
- #53 Camping Simulator: The Squad
68% 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 24.3%, Crafting 16.5%, Co-op 10.7%, Sandbox 8.5%, Multiplayer 7.5%
- #54 The Front
67% matchMixed68% of 10,753 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 34.4% ★, Survival 11.5%, Multiplayer 8.3%, Crafting 8%, Base Building 7.3%
- #55 Out of Reach
71% 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 45.5% ★, Survival 14.9%, Multiplayer 7.9%, Crafting 7.9%, Open World 7.5%
- #56 Abiotic Factor
64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 52,861 reviews2025
Dev: Deep Field GamesPub: Playstack
Windows
Median: 19.3 hrsMean: 42.7 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 36.5% ★, Survival 13.2%, Online Co-Op 11.6%, Crafting 9.2%, Base Building 8.5%
- #57 State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition
67% matchVery Positive83% of 67,089 reviews2020
Dev: Undead LabsPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 9.1 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 28.4%, Open World 16%, Base Building 15.9%, Multiplayer 14.6%, Online Co-Op 11.5%
- #58 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
65% matchVery Positive91% of 7,161 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in this free prologue introducing one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters – an upcoming open-world game that challenges you, alone or with friends, to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37% ★, Multiplayer 9.3%, Online Co-Op 9.2%, Survival 8.1%, Base Building 7.9%
- #59 Generation Zero®
68% matchMostly Positive72% of 41,588 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 18.9%, Multiplayer 13.2%, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 12.6%, Open World 12.5%
- #60 StarRupture
64% matchVery Positive81% of 10,861 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.9% ★, Survival 11.7%, Base Building 8.2%, Crafting 7.9%, Online Co-Op 7.9%