- #1 Bootstrap Island
96% matchVery Positive82% of 1,448 reviews2026
Dev: Maru VR
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 61%
A highly realistic VR survival roguelike adventure set on a ruthless 17th-century tropical island. Shipwrecked and alone, you must survive without guidance as you face wild beasts, nature’s fury, and a mysterious local tribe. Every decision is yours. Your survival is in your own hands!
Why similar: VR 20.7%, Survival 13.5%, Immersive Sim 11%, Nature 10.8%, Open World 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: Places you on a harsh tropical island in VR, requiring you to master realistic survival skills just like Green Hell.
- #2 Song in the Smoke
97% matchVery Positive86% of 64 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 21.4%, Immersive Sim 13.1%, Crafting 10.9%, Action-Adventure 8.7%, Survival 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: Captures the same primal, immersive VR survival loop of crafting tools, hunting, and managing basic needs in a hostile wilderness.
- #3 Into the Radius VR
96% matchVery Positive93% of 11,310 reviews2020
Dev: CM IMMERSIVE
Windows
Median: 3.2 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 41.7%, Survival 19.4%, Open World 12.3%, Realistic 8.8%, Exploration 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a similarly intense, realistic, and atmospheric VR survival experience where meticulous gear management and environmental awareness are key.
- #4 Frost Survival VR
95% matchVery Positive89% of 179 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 20.7% ★, VR 18.8%, Survival 12.1%, Crafting 8.9%, Sandbox 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Translates gritty survival mechanics into a freezing VR environment focused on crafting and resource gathering.
- #5 Sons Of The Forest
94% matchVery Positive88% of 321,117 reviews2024
Dev: Endnight Games LtdPub: Newnight
Windows
Median: 15.0 hrsMean: 32.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends, in this terrifying new open-world survival horror simulator.
Why similar: Survival 26.5%, Open World 16.9%, Crafting 14.2%, VR 7.9%, Sandbox 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: Elevates the survival-crafting genre with advanced AI, detailed base-building, and brutal wilderness challenges.
- #6 Green Hell
94% matchVery Positive85% of 102,938 reviews2019
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 29.9%, Crafting 16.8%, Open World 13.5%, Sandbox 7.9%, Realistic 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: The flat-screen predecessor offers the exact same deep physiological survival mechanics, crafting systems, and Amazonian setting.
- #7 The Forest
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 683,269 reviews2018
Dev: Endnight Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 37.4 hrs≥1hr: 93%
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
Why similar: Survival 33.2%, Open World 18.1%, Crafting 17.3%, Sandbox 7.6%, Realistic 5.5%
Why You'll Like It: Combines realistic survival crafting with a terrifying wilderness setting that parallels the dense jungle dread of Green Hell.
- #8 Subnautica
92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 380,795 reviews2018
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.3 hrsMean: 39.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
Why similar: Survival 24.5%, Crafting 16.3%, Open World 15.2%, VR 15.2%, Exploration 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: Delivers a tense, immersive open-world survival experience driven by exploration and crafting in a vast, alien ecosystem.
- #9 Primitier
91% matchVery Positive94% of 327 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 31.4%, Crafting 16.3%, Sandbox 15.4%, Immersive Sim 15%, Open World 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: Utilizes fully interactive physics-based VR crafting, letting you chop down trees and shape tools from scratch just like Green Hell.
- #10 Survival: Fountain of Youth
91% matchVery Positive85% of 4,528 reviews2024
Dev: Odinsoft Inc.Pub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Survival: Fountain of Youth is a challenging single-player open-world adventure game set on the Caribbean islands. Survive as a shipwrecked 16th-century explorer, craft tools and shelter, and uncover the secrets of both an ancient civilization and your own fate.
Why similar: Survival 17.7%, Crafting 14.8%, Realistic 11%, Sandbox 10.7%, Immersive Sim 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on realistic island survival, crafting, and exploration inspired by real-world history.
- #11 Valheim
89% matchVery Positive94% of 555,289 reviews2026
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 26.9 hrsMean: 81.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Why similar: Survival 28.8%, Crafting 20.6%, Open World 19.6%, Sandbox 12.1%, Exploration 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: Blends deep survival crafting and exploration with brutal combat in a mythical wilderness.
- #12 The Long Dark
90% matchVery Positive89% of 123,946 reviews2017
Dev: Hinterland Studio Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 47.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies -- only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.
Why similar: Survival 36.1%, Open World 17.7%, Crafting 12.2%, Exploration 9.2%, Sandbox 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: Provides an uncompromising, realistic survival sandbox focused on environmental hazards and resource management.
- #13 Stranded Deep
89% matchMostly Positive74% of 47,919 reviews2022
Dev: Beam Team GamesPub: Beam Team Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 20.9 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Take the role of a plane crash survivor stranded somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Come face to face with some of the most life threatening scenarios that will result in a different experience each time you play. Scavenge. Discover. Survive.
Why similar: Survival 30.8%, Crafting 18.9%, Open World 15.7%, Realistic 9.6%, Sandbox 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: Features marooned island survival centered around crafting, shelter building, and maritime exploration.
- #14 Z.O.N.A Project X VR
88% matchMostly Positive78% of 315 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 30.1%, Immersive Sim 15.6%, Open World 13.3%, Survival 11.3%, Realistic 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a gritty, immersive VR shooter experience in a harsh post-apocalyptic open world.
- #15 Grounded
86% matchVery Positive90% of 95,977 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.6 hrsMean: 41.9 hrs≥1hr: 94%
The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?
Why similar: Survival 39.7%, Crafting 21.5%, Open World 14.7%, Sandbox 8.3%, Exploration 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a perspective-shifting open-world survival crafting experience where everyday nature becomes terrifyingly deadly.
- #16 Virtual Hunter
87% matchMostly Positive71% of 189 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 32.3% ★, VR 20.1%, Immersive Sim 10.6%, Open World 8.3%, Nature 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: Emphasizes realistic tracking, hunting simulation, and wilderness immersion in VR.
- #17 ARK: Survival Evolved
85% matchVery Positive83% of 778,394 reviews2017
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 202.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!
Why similar: Survival 35.9%, Crafting 22.1%, Open World 20.8%, Sandbox 10.8%, Adventure 5.3%
Why You'll Like It: Combines open-world wilderness survival with taming and crafting on a hostile island.
- #18 Raft
84% matchVery Positive93% of 379,035 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.8 hrsMean: 38.0 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!
Why similar: Survival 42.6%, Crafting 22.6%, Open World 15.5%, Sandbox 10.5%, Adventure 4%
Why You'll Like It: Challenges you to survive on the open ocean using recycled debris for crafting and shelter.
- #19 Survival Nation
86% matchMostly Positive71% of 255 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 25.1%, Hunting 22.2% ★, Survival 15.2%, Crafting 12.5%, Open World 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: Offers top-down or VR zombie survival gameplay focusing on open-world looting and base management.
- #20 ICARUS
84% matchMostly Positive75% of 68,864 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.4 hrsMean: 46.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.
Why similar: Survival 27.6%, Crafting 18.9%, Open World 14.3%, Realistic 9.6%, Sandbox 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: Pits players against a hostile alien wilderness where survival, crafting, and extraction are paramount.
- #21 The Planet Crafter
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 74,281 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.7 hrsMean: 38.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
Why similar: Survival 21%, Crafting 18%, Open World 13.7%, Sandbox 12.9%, Immersive Sim 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on terraforming a hostile planet starting from basic survival crafting.
- #22 Outward Definitive Edition
82% matchMostly Positive73% of 31,430 reviews2022
Dev: Nine Dots StudioPub: Prime Matter
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 18.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
No remarkable journey is achieved without great effort. In Outward, the cold of the night or an infected wound can be as dangerous as a predator lurking in the dark. Explore the vast world of Aurai solo or in Co-op. The Definitive Edition features both DLCs and quality of life improvements.
Why similar: Open World 35%, Survival 33%, Exploration 8.7%, Realistic 6.4%, Resource Management 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: Delivers a grounded, immersive open-world adventure where survival prep and careful inventory management matter.
- #23 Pacific Drive
81% matchVery Positive83% of 26,975 reviews2024
Dev: Ironwood StudiosPub: Kepler Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 16.9 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Face the supernatural dangers of the Olympic Exclusion Zone with a car as your only lifeline in this driving survival adventure! Scavenge resources, load up your trusty station wagon, and drive like hell to make it through alive.
Why similar: Survival 25.7%, Crafting 19.9%, Sandbox 12.4%, Exploration 10.9%, Action-Adventure 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: Immerses you in a surreal, atmospheric survival journey where your vehicle is your only lifeline.
- #24 Soulmask
80% matchMostly Positive77% of 22,506 reviews2026
Dev: CampFire StudioPub: Qooland Games
Windows
Median: 13.9 hrsMean: 69.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. Possess any of your tribespeople, recruit followers, and build a thriving automated civilization. Survive, expand, and forge your own legacy across a vast ancient open world — together with friends.
Why similar: Hunting 30% ★, Survival 13.3%, Crafting 12.6%, Sandbox 10%, Open World 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: Features deep tribal survival, primitive crafting, and realistic physical interactions.
- #25 Enshrouded
79% matchVery Positive86% of 106,050 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.9 hrsMean: 46.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.
Why similar: Survival 28.4%, Open World 23.5%, Crafting 20%, Sandbox 11.4%, Exploration 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: Blends action-RPG combat with voxel-based survival building in a ruined fantasy world.
- #26 cyubeVR
82% matchVery Positive90% of 1,135 reviews2018
Dev: Stonebrick Studios
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 17.9 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 30.3%, Crafting 16.7%, Open World 11.9%, Sandbox 9.2%, Realistic 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: Delivers smooth, block-based VR crafting, mining, and building in an open world.
- #27 Island Time VR
83% matchMixed59% of 133 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 46.2%, Simulation 28.5%, Survival 25.4%
Why You'll Like It: Presents a stylized yet challenging VR desert island survival scenario.
- #28 Medieval Dynasty
79% matchVery Positive90% of 52,440 reviews2021
Dev: Render CubePub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 11.6 hrsMean: 36.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.
Why similar: Crafting 22.3%, Survival 17.1%, Immersive Sim 13.1%, Open World 12.1%, Sandbox 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on realistic survival, hunting, and building a settlement from the ground up.
- #29 Sengoku Dynasty
78% matchMostly Positive75% of 7,879 reviews2024
Dev: SuperkamiPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 7.5 hrsMean: 16.6 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 28.8%, Crafting 23.2%, Open World 21.5%, Resource Management 13.1%, Exploration 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: Combines survival, village building, and life simulation in a feudal setting.
- #30 Ember's Verge
78% matchVery Positive89% of 56 reviews2026
Dev: Feralless Games
Windows
Survive on a deserted island with no modern tools or electricity. Gather resources, craft everything you need, and adapt to changing seasons including winter conditions. No zombies, no supernatural. Man vs nature survival. Your adventure, your choice.
Why similar: Hunting 16.9% ★, Survival 13.3%, Crafting 12.1%, Sandbox 9.7%, Nature 9.5%
- #31 Grim
76% matchMixed57% of 149 reviews2025
Dev: Spoonfed Interactive
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 27.3%, Survival 18.1%, Crafting 16%, Open World 11.5%, Exploration 6.6%
- #32 The Hermit Chronicles
77% matchMixed57% of 51 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 28.9% ★, Survival 12.5%, Crafting 11.2%, Sandbox 10%, Nature 8.1%
- #33 Undead Development
77% matchMostly Positive79% of 349 reviews2021
Dev: Masterstrike
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 68%
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 46.5%, Survival 20.1%, Crafting 18.6%, Simulation 8.9%, Action 6%
- #34 SURV1V3
76% matchVery Positive81% of 1,796 reviews2021
Dev: Candymakers
Windows
Median: 3.5 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 65.3%, Survival 11.4%, Simulation 9.1%, Action 8.1%, Adventure 5.9%
- #35 BrVR Backrooms Virtual Reality
74% matchVery Positive88% of 164 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 27%, Survival 15.9%, Sandbox 12.5%, Action-Adventure 8.7%, Open World 8.3%
- #36 Z.O.N.A: Origin
72% matchVery Positive83% of 589 reviews2025
Dev: AGaming+
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 60%
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 33.7%, Open World 16.2%, Realistic 13.8%, Survival 10.9%, Exploration 9.9%
- #37 Whitewater VR: Extreme Kayaking Adventure
73% matchVery Positive81% of 88 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 29.5%, Immersive Sim 15.3%, Realistic 14.1%, Nature 12.8%, Action-Adventure 9.3%
- #38 Short Snow | Cold Survival Game
73% matchMixed54% of 173 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 19.7%, Open World 13.8%, Crafting 12.6%, Sandbox 10.5%, Exploration 8.2%
- #39 Escape The Pacific
75% matchMixed67% of 762 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 14.7%, Crafting 13.7%, Immersive Sim 12.6%, Realistic 10.8%, Open World 10.7%
- #40 KeepUp Survival
73% matchMixed64% of 751 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
KeepUp Survival is an open-world base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and shape your own story on a mysterious island.
Why similar: Survival 16.1%, Crafting 13.9%, Immersive Sim 12%, Open World 11.6%, Sandbox 11.1%
- #41 Seeking Dawn
74% 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 60.7%, Survival 26.3%, Adventure 13%
- #42 Winter Survival
71% matchMixed63% of 777 reviews2025
Dev: DRAGO entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 56%
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 32.4% ★, Survival 15.3%, Open World 10.9%, Crafting 9.2%, Sandbox 7.6%
- #43 Under A New Sun
71% matchMostly Positive76% of 406 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 18.8%, Crafting 15.9%, Open World 13.5%, Realistic 10.1%, Nature 9.5%
- #44 Arizona Sunshine® VR Legacy
71% matchMostly Positive79% of 9,306 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 51%, Survival 23.3%, Action 10.5%, Open World 8.4%, Adventure 5.9%
- #45 Northern Lights
72% matchMixed67% of 299 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 19.4% ★, Survival 13.7%, Crafting 11.6%, Immersive Sim 10.1%, Open World 10%
- #46 REQUISITION VR
70% matchMixed63% of 483 reviews2023
Dev: ArcadiaPub: Spheroom
Windows
Median: 1.3 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 43.8%, Crafting 24.5%, Survival 7.8%, Adventure 7.3%, Action 7.2%
- #47 Trials of Wilderness
70% matchMixed70% of 128 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 34.8% ★, Survival 15.7%, Open World 11.2%, Crafting 10.9%, Realistic 9.6%
- #48 Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey
69% matchMostly Positive79% of 12,059 reviews2020
Dev: Panache Digital GamesPub: Private Division
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Survive your evolution in Neogene Africa starting 10 million years ago. Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is a third-person open world survival game where you Explore, Expand, and Evolve to advance your clan to the next generation in the exciting new adventure from Panache Digital Games.
Why similar: Survival 18.5%, Open World 13.5%, Crafting 13.5%, Nature 11%, Immersive Sim 10.7%
- #49 Pirates VR: Jolly Roger
67% matchMostly Positive77% of 286 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 45.5%, Realistic 13.5%, Exploration 12.1%, Action-Adventure 11.1%, Adventure 8.2%
- #50 Contagion VR: Outbreak
70% matchMixed64% of 699 reviews2020
Dev: Monochrome, Inc
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 3.0 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 51.1%, Survival 12.7%, Simulation 10.9%, Open World 9.3%, Adventure 7.5%
- #51 Start Over
68% matchMixed61% of 382 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 16.2%, Crafting 15%, Sandbox 12%, Immersive Sim 10.7%, Realistic 10.1%
- #52 Ghosts of Tabor
67% matchMostly Positive71% of 10,496 reviews2023
Dev: Combat Waffle StudiosPub: Neem Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 22.7 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 41.3%, Immersive Sim 19.9%, Crafting 14.9%, Exploration 11.1%, Action 6.9%
- #53 Star Shelter
69% 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 28.4%, Survival 14.1%, Crafting 12.4%, Open World 11.4%, Sandbox 10.1%
- #54 INMATE: Survival
68% 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 28.6% ★, Survival 16%, Crafting 14.9%, Open World 11.8%, Action-Adventure 6.6%
- #55 Camping Simulator: The Squad
67% matchMixed57% of 1,095 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 18.3%, Crafting 16.1%, Sandbox 14%, Nature 12%, Resource Management 9.1%
- #56 Hubris
66% matchMostly Positive75% of 877 reviews2022
Dev: Cyborn B.V.
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 51%
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 46.9%, Realistic 14%, Exploration 10.9%, Action-Adventure 9.6%, Adventure 7%
- #57 Strayed
66% matchMostly Positive79% of 443 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 29.4%, Survival 18%, Crafting 17.1%, Sandbox 13.8%, Open World 13%
- #58 Project Cobalt
64% matchMostly Positive74% of 57 reviews2026
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 19%, Crafting 17.9%, Sandbox 14.3%, Open World 13.9%, Resource Management 11.4%