- #1 Bootstrap Island
96% matchVery Positive83% of 1,099 reviews2026
Dev: Maru VR
Windows
A Robinson Crusoe–inspired VR roguelike survival adventure set in the 17th century. Shipwrecked on a ruthless tropical island, you must survive without guidance. Trust your instincts as you face wild beasts, nature’s fury, and a mysterious local tribe.
Why similar: VR 19.1%, Survival 13.6%, Immersive Sim 11.4%, Nature 11.1%, Realistic 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: A challenging VR survival game that forces players to manage resources and navigate a dangerous tropical island.
- #2 Song in the Smoke
97% matchVery Positive85% of 61 reviews2021
Dev: 17-BIT
Windows
Using the power of virtual reality, Song in the Smoke puts your survival directly in your own hands. Enter this dangerous world outside of time, where you must craft weapons, make clothes, build fires, and brew healing elixirs to steel yourself against its vicious predators.
Why similar: VR 20.3%, Immersive Sim 13.5%, Crafting 11.2%, Action-Adventure 8.6%, Survival 8%
Why You'll Like It: A premier VR survival experience that mirrors the focus on crafting, hunting, and nature-based survival found in Green Hell.
- #3 Into the Radius VR
96% matchVery Positive94% of 11,150 reviews2020
Dev: CM IMMERSIVE
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Into the Radius is a single-player survival shooter in VR. Explore the Pechorsk zone filled with surreal landscapes and dangerous anomalies. Defend yourself with realistic firearms, recover strange artifacts, scavenge for loot, and uncover the mysteries of this unforgiving dystopian environment.
Why similar: VR 41.1%, Survival 19.7%, Open World 12.6%, Realistic 8.9%, Exploration 5.8%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore VR survival game that emphasizes realistic weapon maintenance and scavenging in a dangerous, atmospheric environment.
- #4 The Forest
95% 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: Survival 32.9%, Open World 17.8%, Crafting 17.8%, Sandbox 7.8%, Realistic 5.5%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a similar intense survival loop with deep crafting and base-building mechanics in a hostile, isolated wilderness.
- #5 Survival: Fountain of Youth
94% 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: Survival 17.3%, Crafting 15.1%, Realistic 10.9%, Sandbox 10.9%, Immersive Sim 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on historical survival, exploration, and resource management in an island setting that feels very similar to the Amazon.
- #6 Green Hell
94% matchVery Positive85% of 94,379 reviews2019
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 18.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.
Why similar: Survival 29.3%, Crafting 17.2%, Open World 13.3%, Sandbox 8.2%, Realistic 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: The original non-VR version provides the exact same deep survival systems, narrative, and mechanical complexity.
- #7 Sons Of The Forest
92% 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 25.9%, Open World 16.7%, Crafting 14.5%, VR 7.4%, Sandbox 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: Expands on the survival-crafting formula with advanced AI and a massive, dangerous open world to explore.
- #8 The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners
93% matchVery Positive86% of 9,957 reviews2020
Dev: Skydance Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Saints & Sinners is a game unlike any other in The Walking Dead universe. Every challenge you face and decision you make is driven by YOU. Fight the undead, scavenge through the flooded ruins of New Orleans, and face gut-wrenching choices for you and the other survivors. Live The Walking Dead.
Why similar: VR 46%, Survival 23%, Simulation 8.9%, Open World 6.7%, Adventure 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: Features robust VR physics for crafting and scavenging that reward careful planning and resource management.
- #9 Primitier
91% matchVery Positive94% of 304 reviews2025
Dev: Ota Mato
Windows
Primitier is a highly flexible VR sandbox game, where you can create tools and machinery by freely cutting and connecting objects in a vast world based on physics simulation.
Why similar: VR 29.9%, Crafting 16.7%, Sandbox 15.7%, Immersive Sim 15.6%, Open World 11.4%
Why You'll Like It: A physics-based VR sandbox that allows for complex, manual crafting and experimentation in a wilderness setting.
- #10 Virtual Hunter
91% matchMostly Positive73% of 179 reviews2025
Dev: Korpi Games Oy
Windows
Virtual Hunter brings realistic hunting to virtual reality. Pack your gear and put your hunting skills and tactics to the test in the open wilderness.
Why similar: Hunting 30.8% ★, VR 19.8%, Immersive Sim 10.8%, Realistic 8.6%, Open World 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the realistic hunting and tracking mechanics that form a core pillar of the Green Hell experience.
- #11 The Solus Project
90% matchMostly Positive80% of 2,612 reviews2016
Dev: HourencesPub: Teotl Studios
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 72%
The Solus Project is a single player exploration adventure with survival elements. The adventure is set on a mysterious planet and is the spiritual successor to The Ball - 2010 PC Gamer Action/Adventure Game Of The Year...
Why similar: Survival 30.2%, VR 26.5%, Exploration 11%, Open World 6.7%, Crafting 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric VR survival adventure that emphasizes exploration and managing vital signs against a harsh alien environment.
- #12 Hubris
89% matchMostly Positive75% of 843 reviews2022
Dev: Cyborn B.V.
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 2.4 hrs≥1hr: 52%
Hubris is a VR action-adventure game set in a unique and colourful Sci-Fi universe, with immersive movement options, including swimming, climbing, and jumping. Players will have to gather resources, craft food and upgrade their weapons to fight off alien wildlife, droids, and humanoid enemies.
Why similar: VR 45.7%, Realistic 14.3%, Exploration 11.3%, Action-Adventure 9.7%, Adventure 7%
Why You'll Like It: Offers high-fidelity VR exploration and crafting elements that emphasize interacting with the environment in a meaningful way.
- #13 Escape The Pacific
89% matchMixed68% of 754 reviews2018
Dev: Gamers4Gamers Team
Windows
Raw, real survival in the Pacific. Build a modular floating base. Master realistic sailing mechanics. Face challenging Pacific-like weather & seasons. Hunt, craft, build & navigate using Sun Dial, Sextant & Triangulation. Explore an endless island cluster-based world. Simulate real life scenarios!
Why similar: Survival 14.3%, Crafting 13.9%, Immersive Sim 12.8%, Sandbox 10.7%, Realistic 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: A realistic survival simulation that focuses on the intricacies of crafting, sailing, and managing health in a tropical archipelago.
- #14 cyubeVR
88% matchVery Positive90% of 1,125 reviews2018
Dev: Stonebrick Studios
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 18.0 hrs≥1hr: 52%
Immerse yourself in a voxel game exclusively designed for VR. A beautiful infinite procedural world. Explore, gather resources, craft with your hands in 3D, and build anything you can imagine. Featuring great VR controls, near-infinite view distance, Steam Workshop mod support, and much more!
Why similar: VR 28.9%, Crafting 17.3%, Open World 11.9%, Sandbox 9.5%, Realistic 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: While more focused on building, its immersive VR crafting and resource gathering provide a satisfying loop for survival fans.
- #15 Survival Nation
87% matchMostly Positive71% of 252 reviews2023
Dev: Wenkly Studio Sp. z o.o.
Windows
An open-world online RPG, survival game designed for VR. In this game, you will kill hundreds of zombies, acquire weapons, learn new skills, craft, explore the world, complete quests, and fight for survival. Choose from three modes: Solo, PVE, and PVP. Will you join a Survival Nation?
Why similar: VR 24.1%, Hunting 22.4% ★, Survival 15.3%, Crafting 13.1%, Open World 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: A VR-focused survival game that emphasizes team-based resource management and open-world exploration.
- #16 Winter Survival
86% matchMixed63% of 751 reviews2025
Dev: DRAGO entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Winter Survival is a story-driven survival game where trauma turns reality into a reflection of your breaking mind. Battle cold, hunger, hallucinations, and adapt to the wilderness as it adapts to you.
Why similar: Hunting 32.2% ★, Survival 15.2%, Open World 10.7%, Crafting 9.5%, Sandbox 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the harsh realities of surviving in a frozen wilderness with deep cooking and crafting mechanics.
- #17 Northern Lights
86% matchMixed67% of 296 reviews2020
Dev: MadGoat Studio
Windows
Northern Lights is an open world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the arctic tundra. Clinging to life, you must use real-life survival techniques to gather resources, craft, and hunt while tending to your health and sanity. Can you survive your way out of the mysterious island?
Why similar: Hunting 19.1% ★, Survival 13.4%, Crafting 11.8%, Immersive Sim 10.3%, Sandbox 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric survival game that forces players to endure extreme cold and manage resources in a desolate landscape.
- #18 Frost Survival VR
84% matchVery Positive88% of 161 reviews2025
Dev: Wenkly Studio Sp. z o.o.
Windows
Sandbox Survival in VR. Face a frozen wilderness solo or in co-op - build a shelter, craft tools, hunt for food, and manage your resources to endure harsh conditions. Strategize your moves against unpredictable weather and lurking dangers. And remember to keep yourself safe and sane!
Why similar: Hunting 20.9% ★, VR 18.1%, Survival 12.1%, Crafting 9.3%, Sandbox 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: A VR-native survival game that challenges players to manage their vitals and build shelters in a freezing environment.
- #19 Z.O.N.A Project X VR
85% matchMostly Positive78% of 298 reviews2023
Dev: AGaming+
Windows
Z.O.N.A Project X - thrilling single-player VR shooter. Explore Chornobyl's exclusion zone, a hazardous apocalyptic world filled with anomalies. Survive using your weapons, scavenge for resources, and save humanity from doom.
Why similar: VR 28.9%, Immersive Sim 16.3%, Open World 13.2%, Survival 11.3%, Realistic 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: An immersive-sim that captures the tension and atmosphere of surviving in a dangerous, post-apocalyptic world.
- #20 SURV1V3
84% matchVery Positive82% of 1,793 reviews2021
Dev: Candymakers
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Forget what you have played so far, SURV1V3 is a unique realistic zombie survival fps game expressly designed for VIRTUAL REALITY that will let you test your survival skills. Play the thrilling story in single mode or coop with your friends (up to 4 players) and survive the apocalypse!
Why similar: VR 64.2%, Survival 11.8%, Simulation 9.9%, Action 8.2%, Adventure 6%
Why You'll Like It: A realistic VR survival shooter that requires careful resource management and tactical movement.
- #21 Grim
83% matchMixed59% of 145 reviews2025
Dev: Spoonfed InteractivePub: Beyond Frames
Windows
GRIM is an Exclusive VR Multiplayer Survival game where you must immerse yourself, stranded on a secluded part of Earth. Survival is not just a choice but a grueling battle against nature and other players. Gather resources, craft, and build your base, all to stay alive.
Why similar: VR 26.2%, Survival 18.2%, Crafting 16.7%, Open World 11.5%, Exploration 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: A VR survival game that focuses on the core loop of gathering, crafting, and defending against threats.
- #22 Under A New Sun
82% matchMostly Positive76% of 368 reviews2023
Dev: New Horizon Games
Windows
While searching for a new home, an unexpected failure in your ship has left you stranded on a planet surprisingly similar to Earth. Discover a vast open world, hunt for food, develop technologies, and build yourself a new home to survive!
Why similar: Survival 18.4%, Crafting 16.1%, Open World 13.1%, Realistic 10.1%, Nature 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-crafting game that emphasizes exploration and building a life from scratch in a remote environment.
- #23 Undead Development
81% matchMostly Positive79% of 349 reviews2021
Dev: Masterstrike
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 66%
How long would you survive in this unrealistic representation of the zombie apocalypse? Scavenge for supplies, find a base, and construct your defenses. Break down furniture and board up your home. Set bear traps, nail your axe to a gun, or find your own ways to fight off the undead. VR required.
Why similar: VR 44.9%, Survival 20.3%, Crafting 19.5%, Simulation 9.4%, Action 6%
Why You'll Like It: Combines base-building and survival mechanics with VR-specific interactions for a satisfying gameplay loop.
- #24 Age of Survival
81% matchVery Negative12% of 245 reviews2025
Dev: Silky Sullivan
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Age of Survival is survival simulation crafting game from Silky Sullivan. Your player has been stranded on an island not far off of the coast of Africa where you will encounter many creatures, and players alike.
Why similar: Survival 22.8%, Hunting 15.2% ★, Crafting 13.6%, Open World 11.1%, Simulation 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: A survival simulation that emphasizes crafting and building in a massive, open-world environment.
- #25 Island Time VR
82% matchMixed59% of 124 reviews2018
Dev: Flight School Studio
Windows
If you’ve ever wondered what being stranded on an island might be like, this VR game is for you, buddy. Using the advice of a new friend, Carl the Crab, you’ve gotta find a way to keep yourself from starving and survive as long as possible.
Why similar: VR 44%, Simulation 30.6%, Survival 25.3%
Why You'll Like It: A compact VR survival experience that challenges players to manage hunger and thirst on a deserted island.
- #26 Short Snow | Cold Survival Game
79% matchMixed55% of 102 reviews2025
Dev: MubDev
Windows
A realistic open-world survival experience. After a harrowing plane crash, you find yourself stranded in the wilderness. Battling freezing temperatures and hunger, you face an unknown virus that slowly paralyzes muscles, leaving its victims motionless and at the mercy of the unforgiving cold.
Why similar: Survival 19.3%, Open World 13.5%, Crafting 13%, Sandbox 10.8%, Exploration 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A focused survival experience that emphasizes the struggle against the elements in a harsh, atmospheric setting.
- #27 Whitewater VR: Extreme Kayaking Adventure
79% matchVery Positive83% of 83 reviews2024
Dev: Adam Horvath
Windows
Get ready to paddle through some of the world's wildest, and most challenging rapids in breathtaking VR. With stunning graphics, realistic physics, and heart-pumping action, you'll race against the clock as you navigate through wild waters filled with obstacles and surprises.
Why similar: VR 28.1%, Immersive Sim 15.8%, Realistic 14.1%, Nature 13.1%, Action-Adventure 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: Captures the realistic, physics-based environmental navigation that makes the exploration in Green Hell so engaging.
- #28 KeepUp Survival
78% matchMixed65% of 734 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
KeepUp Survival is an open base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and unfold your own story on a mysterious island.
Why similar: Survival 15.7%, Crafting 14.2%, Immersive Sim 12.4%, Open World 11.4%, Sandbox 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a straightforward survival-crafting experience with a focus on open-world exploration and resource gathering.
- #29 Seeking Dawn
80% matchMixed68% of 809 reviews2018
Dev: Multiverse
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Welcome to Seeking Dawn, a multiplayer survival VR adventure that takes you far beyond the solar system. Step into the shoes of a soldier discovering a hostile planet, where predators roam free and enemies are ruthless.
Why similar: VR 59.8%, Survival 27.1%, Adventure 13.2%
Why You'll Like It: A VR survival-adventure game that features crafting and exploration in a hostile, alien wilderness.
- #30 The Hermit Chronicles
78% matchMixed58% of 50 reviews2023
Dev: WinterTent Studio
Windows
The Hermit Chronicles is a 1st-person survival horror game set in a deep forest. Assuming the role of a hermit, you will have to get food, scout your neighborhood, and search for resources to make gear. But after the sun goes down, you'll have to survive for real...
Why similar: Hunting 28.6% ★, Survival 12.3%, Crafting 11.5%, Sandbox 10.2%, Nature 8.2%
- #31 BrVR Backrooms Virtual Reality
76% matchVery Positive89% of 132 reviews2023
Dev: Paul WallacePub: LakesideCentral LLC
Windows
Explore 120+ Backrooms levels in a massive single‑player survival adventure. Build, craft, fight, or just wander endless liminal spaces shaped by the community.
Why similar: VR 25.8%, Survival 15.9%, Sandbox 12.9%, Action-Adventure 8.7%, Open World 8.2%
- #32 Arizona Sunshine®
77% matchMostly Positive79% of 9,299 reviews2016
Dev: Vertigo Games
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Built exclusively for VR, Arizona Sunshine® puts you and up to 3 fellow survivors in the midst of a zombie apocalypse. Survive solo or in co-op, handle weapons with real-life movements, and explore a post-apocalyptic world in VR. Putting the undead back to rest is more thrilling than ever before.
Why similar: VR 49.9%, Survival 24%, Action 10.6%, Open World 8.6%, Adventure 5.9%
- #33 Trials of Wilderness
76% matchMixed69% of 120 reviews2021
Dev: MightByte Games
Windows
You are alone on an island, trying desperately to survive amongst the village tribes of savages. To do this you need food, water, and shelter. Hunt animals, plant crops, tame and breed animals, make weapons, armors and potions, raid villages, defend your base, fight with big creatures...
Why similar: Hunting 34.6% ★, Survival 15.6%, Crafting 11.3%, Open World 11.1%, Realistic 9.5%
- #34 Detached
77% matchMixed56% of 376 reviews2017
Dev: Anshar StudiosPub: Anshar Publishing
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Detached is a suspenseful interstellar duel that demands tactics and skill to survive. Separated from your unit you must make smart decisions and race to safety in this visceral exploration of deep space. Strap yourself into your spacesuit for thrilling gameplay designed for VR headsets.
Why similar: VR 26.6%, Survival 12.7%, Open World 11.3%, Realistic 10.8%, Immersive Sim 10.2%
- #35 REQUISITION VR
75% matchMixed64% of 480 reviews2023
Dev: ArcadiaPub: Spheroom
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 2.3 hrs≥1hr: 54%
REQUISITION VR is a first physics-based co-op game where you can use duct tape to link any objects together to create a unique weapon. You can experiment with crafting, connecting any unthinkable combinations: a katana + a circular saw, or an axe + a ball. Inspired by Dead Rising & Walking Dead: S&S
Why similar: VR 42.3%, Crafting 25.7%, Survival 7.8%, Adventure 7.2%, Action 7.1%
- #36 Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey
74% 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: Survival 18%, Crafting 13.8%, Open World 13.2%, Immersive Sim 11.1%, Nature 10.8%
- #37 Z.O.N.A: Origin
72% matchVery Positive84% of 486 reviews2025
Dev: AGaming+
Windows
Z.O.N.A: Origin is an immersive adventure in a harsh post-apocalyptic world. Dive into a captivating story, explore a stunning open world, avoid dangerous anomalies, and hunt for powerful artifacts. Every choice you make can be decisive in this unpredictable world.
Why similar: VR 32.7%, Open World 16.3%, Realistic 14.1%, Survival 10.9%, Exploration 10.2%
- #38 Contagion VR: Outbreak
74% matchMixed64% of 697 reviews2020
Dev: Monochrome, Inc
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Contagion VR: Outbreak will immerse you into the middle of a zombie apocalypse. Relive stories of the survivors in the Single Player campaign, take your time in Free Roam, or check out the Firing Range!
Why similar: VR 49.8%, Survival 13%, Simulation 11.7%, Open World 9.4%, Adventure 7.5%
- #39 Start Over
72% matchMixed62% of 375 reviews2024
Dev: EY-Studio
Windows
Embark on an unpredictable survival journey in Start Over. Solo, co-op, online, explore diverse landscapes, craft through 4 tech tiers, encounter wildlife, and trade or raid for resources. Choose your path, defend against waves, and shape your destiny in a dynamic world. Are you ready to Start Over?
Why similar: Survival 15.9%, Crafting 15.3%, Sandbox 12.3%, Immersive Sim 11%, Realistic 9.9%
- #40 INMATE: Survival
73% matchMixed57% of 74 reviews2023
Dev: SV Games
Windows
INMATE: Survival is an open world survival game, where you play the role of a prisoner sentenced to stay on a 4*4 km Island with many types of enemies both humans and animals.
Why similar: Hunting 28.4% ★, Survival 15.8%, Crafting 15.3%, Open World 11.6%, Action-Adventure 6.5%
- #41 Camping Simulator: The Squad
71% matchMixed58% of 1,083 reviews2025
Dev: CubeCube Sports Ltd.
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 1.7 hrs≥1hr: 49%
Camping Simulator lets you experience what camp means by preparing your backpack wisely for challenging conditions of nature. You can play all the experiences with up to 8 friends in multiplayer mode or single player mode.
Why similar: Survival 17.7%, Crafting 16.2%, Sandbox 14.1%, Nature 12%, Resource Management 10%
- #42 Ghosts of Tabor
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 10,203 reviews2023
Dev: Combat Waffle StudiosPub: Beyond Frames
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 22.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Ghosts of Tabor is VRs only FPS PVP and PVE survival game where you will use your wits, skills and resources to survive. Inspired by games such as Escape from Tarkov and DayZ, featuring different scenarios from scavenging to looting and crafting. Will you survive long enough to make it out alive?
Why similar: VR 39.4%, Immersive Sim 20.8%, Crafting 15.5%, Exploration 11.3%, Action 6.8%
- #43 Dinosaurs Prehistoric Survivors
73% matchMixed54% of 97 reviews2021
Dev: Arcupion Art
Windows
Will you survive? Be the dinosaur and thrive in a prehistoric world designed to give a true dinosaur survival experience. Dinosaurs Prehistoric Survivors lets players live the life of a dinosaur in a prehistoric environment where players must learn to hunt and adapt in order to survive.
Why similar: Hunting 25.7% ★, Survival 14.4%, Open World 10.2%, Realistic 9.8%, Sandbox 9.1%
- #44 Star Shelter
73% matchMostly Positive77% of 435 reviews2018
Dev: Overflow
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 47%
Star shelter is a space survival game built from the ground up for VR. You are stranded in space, you must climb around in Zero-G, explore, scavenge, craft, hack and fight to survive. You have to build, arm and upgrade your own space station in order to escape the cosmic graveyard.
Why similar: VR 27%, Survival 14%, Crafting 12.8%, Open World 11.3%, Sandbox 10.4%
- #45 Propagation VR
70% matchVery Positive94% of 5,809 reviews2020
Dev: WanadevStudio
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 2.0 hrs≥1hr: 32%
Combining survival horror and static wave shooting, Propagation VR will get your adrenaline pumping as you try to survive a zombie apocalypse. Armed only with your guns and your fists, fight off terrifying zombies and other multi-species mutants. Will you get out alive?
Why similar: VR 70.9%, Survival 19.8%, Action 8.1%, Singleplayer 1.3%
- #46 Strayed
70% matchMostly Positive78% of 332 reviews2024
Dev: Crustacean Interactive
Windows
Strayed is a fast paced open world VR survival game where every session feels like a new adventure. Start with nothing on a fresh island, gather materials, craft weapons, build bases, and battle other players for the best loot.
Why similar: VR 28.1%, Survival 18%, Crafting 17.8%, Sandbox 14.4%, Open World 13%
- #47 Pirates VR: Jolly Roger
69% matchMostly Positive77% of 255 reviews2025
Dev: Split Light StudioPub: VRKiwi
Windows
Pirates VR Jolly Roger is a game alluding to old stories of the all-time most famous Pirates. The journey into the pirate world begins on a deserted island. Despite its extraordinary charm, the land hides a number of secrets and mysteries to be solved as well as obstacles and traps.
Why similar: VR 44.2%, Realistic 13.9%, Exploration 12.7%, Action-Adventure 11.4%, Adventure 8.2%
- #48 The Gold River Project
68% matchMixed67% of 526 reviews2026
Dev: Fairview Games Inc.
Windows
The Gold River Project™ invites you and your friends on an open world camping trip gone wrong. Alone or together, you must explore, craft, build, and survive the increasingly harsh environments of the Pacific Northwest wilderness as you uncover the experiment trapping you inside.
Why similar: Survival 17.2%, Crafting 14.7%, Open World 14.6%, Action-Adventure 11.2%, Realistic 9.9%
- #49 Among Trees
69% 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: Survival 22.4%, Crafting 17.4%, Open World 15.3%, Sandbox 13.8%, Exploration 11.1%
- #50 Stranded Deep
67% 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: Survival 30.4%, Crafting 19.4%, Open World 15.4%, Realistic 9.6%, Sandbox 7.6%
- #51 Project Cobalt
67% matchMostly Positive73% of 54 reviews2025
Dev: OxygenStudio
Windows
⚗️ Project Cobalt is a survival action game set on a hostile island 🌴. Scavenge containers, mine resources, craft tools, hunt animals, and endure storms as you fight hunger, disease, and exhaustion all while uncovering the dark truth behind a failed experiment.
Why similar: Survival 18.4%, Crafting 18%, Sandbox 14.4%, Open World 13.4%, Resource Management 12.5%
- #52 CrossWorlds: Escape
70% matchMixed64% of 157 reviews2020
Dev: Another Reality
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 97%
CrossWorlds: Escape is a hardcore game in which you will have to deploy all your skills to survive in a huge open world that is susceptible to changes in weather, seasons and various natural phenomena.
Why similar: Survival 17.9%, Crafting 16.2%, Sandbox 14.5%, Nature 14.2%, Open World 12.8%
- #53 Far Beyond: A space odyssey VR
71% matchMixed69% of 171 reviews2016
Dev: Mains Digitales InteractivePub: The Small Game Company
Windows
Far Beyond: A space odyssey VR is the first hardcore Rogue-like in Virtual Reality with a Sci-fi atmosphere and AAA graphics. It features a hard but rich gameplay focused on resources management, craft and strategy.
Why similar: VR 48.4%, Simulation 15%, Survival 15%, Realistic 9.2%, Adventure 9.1%
- #54 Propagation: Paradise Hotel
67% matchVery Positive88% of 845 reviews2023
Dev: WanadevStudio
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 2.6 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Trapped inside the Paradise Hotel, you are desperate to find your sister. Explore dark surroundings, gather resources, and survive terrifying encounters. This intense single-player VR survival horror game with great storytelling will get your adrenaline pumping.
Why similar: VR 56.8%, Exploration 15.8%, Action 9.9%, Adventure 8.5%, Atmospheric 6.9%
- #55 Hand Simulator: Survival
67% 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 29.4%, Realistic 18.2%, Action-Adventure 13.6%, Simulation 12.6%, Exploration 11.9%
- #56 Surviving Mars: Pioneer
65% matchVery Positive85% of 79 reviews2025
Dev: Bolverk GamesPub: Impact Inked
Windows
The Red Planet is vast, desolate, and utterly indifferent to your survival. Surviving Mars: Pioneer is the first made-for-VR entry in the Surviving Mars universe, challenging you to carve out an existence in one of the most hostile environments imaginable.
Why similar: VR 25%, Survival 15.6%, Immersive Sim 14.4%, Resource Management 10.3%, Open World 10%
- #57 Wilderness
69% matchMostly Negative28% of 86 reviews2020
Dev: Horizon Studios
Windows
Survive in the wild nature by playing as an animal or as a human. Play as an animal and survive by your own or build a herd to stay protected. Have babies and protect them from predators. Play as a human and craft items, build a house, customize your character and more.
Why similar: Hunting 31.6% ★, Survival 17.1%, Crafting 12.7%, Realistic 11.2%, Nature 8.8%
- #58 Iridio
63% matchVery Positive91% of 109 reviews2025
Dev: KR Games
Windows
Seized by criminals, the island designated for your research needs your help. Join Yatziri and the Wazhari tribe to liberate their hostages, explore hidden secrets, craft essential items and weapons, and strategically use fire and water in challenging puzzles and life-or-death battles for survival.
Why similar: Survival 15.1%, Crafting 13.8%, Open World 12.1%, Realistic 11.7%, Nature 11.1%
- #59 V.O.D.K.A. Open World Survival Shooter
68% matchMostly Negative39% of 96 reviews2021
Dev: Guilty Pleasure Games
Windows
V. O. D. K. A. is a survival shooter in the open world, the game takes place in a fictional state in eastern Europe, most of the territory of which is infected with radiation. Your main task is survival.
Why similar: Survival 19.5%, Sandbox 14.7%, Open World 13.7%, Realistic 10.4%, Simulation 10.2%