- #1 Strayed
97% 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: Open World Survival Craft 28% ★, VR 12.7%, Crafting 9.5%, Survival 8.5%, Base Building 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: A VR-exclusive open-world survival game that mirrors the PvP and base-building intensity of the seed game.
- #2 Frost Survival VR
96% 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: Open World Survival Craft 24.2% ★, VR 16.9%, Survival 12%, Base Building 11.6%, Crafting 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the same core survival mechanics and base-building elements within a dedicated VR environment.
- #3 Undead Development
96% 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: Open World Survival Craft 31.4% ★, VR 23.3%, Base Building 15%, Crafting 12%, Survival 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: A VR-based survival experience that emphasizes base fortification and resource management in a hostile world.
- #4 Green Hell VR
95% matchMixed57% of 1,257 reviews2022
Dev: Incuvo
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Green Hell VR is an Open World Survival game set in the Amazon rainforest, based on the successful PC title Green Hell. You are left alone in the jungle with no food or equipment. To survive, you must learn real-life survival techniques, and crafting weapons can be a matter of life and death
Why similar: VR 27.3%, Survival 18.1%, Crafting 16%, Open World 11.5%, Exploration 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a highly realistic VR survival experience with deep crafting and environmental interaction mechanics.
- #5 Ghosts of Tabor
94% 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: Looter Shooter 27.2% ★, VR 25.4%, Crafting 11.8%, PvP 7.7%, Physics 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore VR extraction shooter that shares the intense looting and survival-oriented PvP gameplay of the seed.
- #6 Song in the Smoke
94% 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 25.7%, Crafting 16.9%, Survival 10.7%, Action-Adventure 8.6%, Simulation 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: An immersive VR survival game that emphasizes crafting, hunting, and managing resources in a dangerous wilderness.
- #7 Rust
92% matchVery Positive87% of 1,402,448 reviews2018
Dev: Facepunch Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 52.8 hrsMean: 431.0 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 24.2% ★, Survival 21.8%, Crafting 15.8%, Open World 11.8%, Multiplayer 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: The quintessential open-world survival game that sets the standard for multiplayer base building and PvP interaction.
- #8 Rem Survival
93% matchMostly Positive76% of 809 reviews2021
Dev: Immortal Hand Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 47.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Scavenge abandoned ruins, craft gear from scrap and salvaged materials, and fight the environment itself as hunger, exposure, and exhaustion push you to your limits. There are no second chances—only adaptation or death.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.1% ★, Crafting 13.4%, Survival 12.1%, Base Building 11.9%, Open World 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the core loop of open-world exploration, crafting, and base building in a survival context.
- #9 Miscreated
91% matchMixed66% of 31,592 reviews2018
Dev: Entrada Interactive LLC
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 38.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Miscreated is a multiplayer online hardcore survival game set in a post-apocalyptic future. You will need to survive against mutants, players, and even mother nature herself.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.6% ★, Survival 15.9%, Open World 11%, Post-apocalyptic 7.9%, Crafting 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: A classic open-world survival game that emphasizes multiplayer interaction and environmental hazards.
- #10 The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners
91% matchVery Positive86% of 10,102 reviews2020
Dev: Skydance Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 9.0 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 44.2%, Survival 23.1%, Open World 8%, Simulation 7.7%, Action 5.8%
Why You'll Like It: Features industry-leading VR survival mechanics, including scavenging and crafting in a post-apocalyptic setting.
- #11 SCUM
89% matchMostly Positive74% of 127,189 reviews2025
Dev: Gamepires
Windows
Median: 11.9 hrsMean: 105.4 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Welcome to SCUM, a ruthless open-world survival game where deep character customization defines the prisoner you become. Loot, craft, hunt, build, and fight to outlast a hostile island where every choice can change your fate. Stay alive. Stay dangerous. Become harder to kill.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.1% ★, Survival 14.6%, Massively Multiplayer 13.3%, Crafting 13.2%, Open World 13%
Why You'll Like It: Offers incredibly deep survival simulation mechanics and complex world interaction for fans of hardcore survival.
- #12 After the Fall®
89% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,135 reviews2021
Dev: Vertigo Games
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
From the team that brought you Arizona Sunshine® comes an epic VR action FPS with intense co-op gameplay at its core. Team up with friends and take on a hostile VR world filled with ferocious undead--mutated and twisted by the relentless cold.
Why similar: VR 27%, Looter Shooter 22.4% ★, Crafting 12.6%, Post-apocalyptic 12.4%, Multiplayer 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer-focused VR survival game that emphasizes cooperative combat and resource gathering.
- #13 Out of Reach
90% matchMixed57% of 3,051 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
You’re a castaway stranded in the middle of nowhere. Storm is gone, the worst certainly not. Look for food and resources, craft gear, make shelters. These are the basics, you need much more to stay alive on this cut-off-the-world, yet not desert island. Build & burn, sail & explore, be Out of Reach!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.8% ★, Survival 14%, Crafting 11.3%, Open World 10.1%, Multiplayer 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a sandbox survival experience with a heavy emphasis on base building and multiplayer conflict.
- #14 Deadside
88% matchMostly Positive76% of 40,566 reviews2024
Dev: Bad Pixel
Windows
Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 44.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
An Open World Survival Shooter blending hardcore PVP and PVE action. Secure precious loot in safe zones or build your own fortress in the wild. With intense gunfights, stunning visuals, and performance smooth enough for any system, the challenge awaits!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.4% ★, Survival 11.7%, Crafting 11.2%, Base Building 10.2%, Open World 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore survival shooter that focuses on realistic combat and open-world exploration in a post-apocalyptic setting.
- #15 PIONER
87% matchMixed61% of 3,637 reviews2025
Dev: GFAGAMES
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 19.4 hrs≥1hr: 93%
PIONER drops players into a vast, grim world, where survival hinges on exploration, crafting, and smart resource management. As an MMO FPS, it offers both PvE missions and intense PvP zones, with unique crafting mechanics, hundreds of weapons and a deep story to explore.
Why similar: Looter Shooter 18.9% ★, Crafting 13.2%, Post-apocalyptic 12.8%, Survival 12%, Open World 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic survival game that blends exploration and combat in a dangerous, open-world environment.
- #16 Renown
86% matchMixed58% of 1,591 reviews2025
Dev: RDBK Studios
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Renown is an intense medieval multiplayer survival experience set in a vast, ever-evolving world. Whether alone or rallying allies, gather resources, build powerful strongholds, and engage in brutal battles for dominance.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.3% ★, Crafting 12.3%, Survival 11.1%, Open World 9.5%, Base Building 9%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer survival game that emphasizes crafting and base building in a competitive open-world setting.
- #17 XERA: Survival
86% matchMixed66% of 7,942 reviews2021
Dev: Spotted Kiwi Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 24.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Action-focused, open world survival shooter, PvPvE against fellow mercenaries and lethal XOIDS. Raid for resources alone or with team-mates, build and defend your base, stash your gear and survive against the odds. You are the hunters. You are the hunted. And the robots never sleep…
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.4% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Crafting 10.4%, Looter Shooter 10% ★, Survival 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer-focused survival game that balances PvP combat with looting and base-building elements.
- #18 Crushed
84% matchMixed53% of 321 reviews2020
Dev: NipoBoxPub: NipoBox Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Crushed — is an Singleplayer and Multiplayer First-Person Survival Sandbox in an Open World! Challenge the wild and be ready to survive in harsh conditions. Explore the world, get resources, cook food, build a house, farm, hunt, and enjoy nature.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31% ★, Survival 12.7%, Crafting 11.3%, Open World 10.8%, Base Building 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game that emphasizes exploration and crafting within a persistent open-world environment.
- #19 Will To Live Online
83% matchMixed69% of 18,412 reviews2018
Dev: AlphaSoft LLC
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 35.1 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Will To Live is a MMORPG-shooter whose action takes place in a severe post-apocalyptic world. Explore the world, engage in fights with mutants and other survivors, join the clans in the struggle for existence and prove your right to Live.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.2% ★, Crafting 13.3%, Post-apocalyptic 12.5%, Survival 11.1%, Open World 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: A massive multiplayer survival game that features deep crafting and exploration in a harsh, post-apocalyptic world.
- #20 DREADZONE
82% matchMixed51% of 1,239 reviews2025
Dev: Eshed
Windows
Dreadzone is a survival game set in a deadly quarantine zone. Scavenge for resources, craft tools, build shelter, and survive against dangerous animals, zombies, mutants, and other survivors. Explore the zone where desperation drives everyone to do whatever it takes to survive.
Why similar: Survival 15.2%, Crafting 14.8%, Base Building 14.7%, Open World 13.1%, Post-apocalyptic 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer survival experience that emphasizes cooperative play and open-world exploration.
- #21 GRAV
84% matchMixed47% of 6,922 reviews2015
Dev: BitMonster, Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 60%
GRAV is a sand box experience where you explore a multitude of planets, hunt strange alien creatures, build and defend outposts, craft weapons and armor, and attempt to survive against other players in a hostile environment.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.4% ★, Survival 15.4%, Base Building 12.3%, Open World 12%, Crafting 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that features unique environments and a strong emphasis on crafting and base building.
- #22 Lost Rift
81% matchMixed69% of 1,717 reviews2025
Dev: People Can Fly
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Lost Rift is a first person survival adventure shooter that blends cooperative base building with multiplayer PvE or PvP extraction expeditions. Journey solo or in teams of up to 5 players across a vast archipelago, craft gear, build bases, defeat raiders, and become legendary.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.8% ★, Crafting 12.5%, Base Building 11.6%, Survival 11.1%, Massively Multiplayer 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: An extraction-based survival game that challenges players to gather resources and survive in a hostile environment.
- #23 KeepUp Survival
81% matchMixed64% of 751 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
KeepUp Survival is an open-world base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and shape your own story on a mysterious island.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.9% ★, Crafting 12.8%, Survival 12.7%, Base Building 11.9%, Open World 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the fundamental survival loop of gathering resources and building a base to withstand the elements.
- #24 Mesorift Survival
80% matchMostly Positive72% of 152 reviews2025
Dev: Meik.W Interactive
Windows
Mesorift Survival is a classic survival game with PvP and PvE elements, set in a tropical open world with three islands. Gather resources, build a base, craft weapons, and survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.6% ★, Survival 12.3%, Open World 11.2%, Looter Shooter 10.9% ★, Base Building 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused shooter that incorporates exploration and crafting in an open-world setting.
- #25 Crafting Dead
82% matchMixed57% of 160 reviews2017
Dev: Ferullo Gaming
Windows
Crafting Dead is a post-apocalyptic multiplayer-based zombie survival game with a voxel theme. Aim high and punch low, survive at all costs!
Why similar: Looter Shooter 13.3% ★, Survival 12.4%, Post-apocalyptic 12.1%, Crafting 11.4%, Base Building 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer survival game that combines zombie-themed combat with extensive crafting and base building.
- #26 Far Lands
79% matchMixed64% of 173 reviews2024
Dev: Scalpel Softworks
Windows
Far Lands is an open-world survival game. Fight mercenaries, steal their loot and vehicles. Build and defend your base from zombies. Gather resources, craft better gear and loot different points of interest. Want to play with friends? Join them on Co-op!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.6% ★, Crafting 15%, Survival 13.9%, Base Building 13.6%, Open World 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game that prioritizes base building and adventure in a vast, open-world environment.
- #27 Reign Of Kings
79% matchMixed57% of 14,891 reviews2015
Dev: Code}{atch
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 47.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Struggle to survive in a harsh medieval world. Hunt wildlife, mine resources, build structures, and craft weapons and armor in order to protect yourself. You may form a guild, bring war to all opposition, and try to seize the throne and become king!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.7% ★, Survival 15.4%, Crafting 14.5%, Open World 12.7%, Multiplayer 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game that focuses on multiplayer conflict, base building, and resource management.
- #28 Outerstellar
78% matchMostly Positive72% of 186 reviews2023
Dev: Strange Horizons Ltd
Windows
Stranded on a hostile and deadly planet, you must gather resources, build shelter, and fight to survive each night. But the secrets of this world await in a gripping sci-fi survival PvP game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.6% ★, Survival 12.9%, Crafting 12.2%, Base Building 11.4%, PvP 8.8%
- #29 Urge
77% matchVery Positive90% of 524 reviews2021
Dev: EnDrew
Windows
Fight, build, explore, survive, while the dynamic player-caused hazardous fog is slowly changing the rules of the world around you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.8% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Looter Shooter 11% ★, Crafting 10.8%, Survival 10.1%
- #30 Plains of Pain
77% matchVery Positive83% of 1,036 reviews2023
Dev: Cobra Byte Digital
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Enter a living post-apocalyptic sandbox where the world doesn't wait for you. Build, craft, trade, earn the trust of factions, and forge your own path through a brutal procedural wasteland.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.3% ★, Crafting 11%, Base Building 11%, Post-apocalyptic 10.7%, Survival 10.2%
- #31 Subsistence
76% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,861 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 40.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.6% ★, Survival 16.1%, Crafting 14%, Open World 10.1%, Base Building 8.6%
- #32 VEIN
71% matchVery Positive88% of 12,706 reviews2025
Dev: Ramjet Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
VEIN is a post-apocalyptic survival multiplayer sandbox game. Gather supplies to survive, explore abandoned buildings, defend your home, and rebuild society, whether alone or with friends.
Why similar: Survival 19.3%, Open World 16.3%, Base Building 16%, Post-apocalyptic 13.5%, Crafting 12.3%
- #33 INCUR Survival
74% matchVery Positive81% of 112 reviews2022
Dev: INCUR
Windows
A survival open-world game, where you can gather resources, Hunt, Craft tools and armor, Tame Animals, Ride Animals, Build, and defend your base from creatures, and other players.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.4% ★, Crafting 14.6%, Survival 13.3%, Open World 11%, Action-Adventure 6.3%
- #34 SURVIVAL: Postapocalypse Now
75% matchMixed56% of 8,877 reviews2019
Dev: TB Games
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Want to survive? - Arm yourself and survive. Crafting, shooting, transport and much more awaits you in the Survival game. What happened to the world around and why he died - you may find out. But is this the main question now?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.6% ★, Survival 16.1%, Open World 9.7%, Post-apocalyptic 9.1%, Multiplayer 7.1%
- #35 Nomad
76% matchMixed60% of 4,634 reviews2015
Dev: Diminished Studios
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Try and survive in the world of Nomad. Build a base and protect it from raiding players. Scavenge food, weapons and medical supplies across the island. Team up with others and make a base. Make your mark on the world of Nomad.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.8% ★, Survival 16.9%, Open World 11.1%, Multiplayer 11%, Crafting 9.8%
- #36 Star Shelter
75% 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: Open World Survival Craft 28.2% ★, VR 18.6%, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 10.4%, Survival 10.1%
- #37 BEACHED
74% matchMixed65% of 3,697 reviews2021
Dev: Gradient Studios
Windows
A free-to-play, low-poly, open-world survival shooter where you’ll battle other players, explore massive monuments, and fight to stay alive. Build and fortify your base to defend against enemy raids, gather resources, and conquer a harsh, competitive world. Survival means doing whatever it takes.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.6% ★, Survival 13.8%, Open World 12.2%, Massively Multiplayer 11.5%, Multiplayer 9.7%
- #38 DeadPoly
73% matchMostly Positive78% of 6,250 reviews2022
Dev: TFL Games
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 64%
DeadPoly is a polygon arcade zombie survival looter shooter with base building, crafting, scavenging, leveling, questing, and more, but your only goal is survival, everything else is optional.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.2% ★, Looter Shooter 14.2% ★, Crafting 11.2%, Survival 11.1%, Post-apocalyptic 11%
- #39 Valheim
67% matchVery Positive94% of 555,289 reviews2026
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 26.9 hrsMean: 81.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.3% ★, Survival 14.3%, Crafting 12.1%, Open World 11.6%, Base Building 10.9%
- #40 Hurtworld
72% matchMostly Positive76% of 31,099 reviews2019
Dev: Bankroll Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 64.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Hurtworld is a hardcore multiplayer survival FPS with a focus on competitive gunplay and strategic map control. Built for hardcore gamers, Hurtworld aims to punish.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.7% ★, Survival 19.9%, Crafting 14%, Open World 12.8%, Multiplayer 9.1%
- #41 CrossWorlds: Escape
73% matchMixed64% of 158 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: Open World Survival Craft 30.8% ★, Crafting 13.2%, Survival 12.9%, Base Building 12.5%, Open World 11.1%
- #42 Survival Nation
72% 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 20.6%, Survival 13.7%, Post-apocalyptic 13.3%, Crafting 13.3%, Open World 12.1%
- #43 Ruins To Fortress
71% matchMixed66% of 184 reviews2024
Dev: NimbleBeasts
Windows · Linux
Explore a post-apocalyptic island, craft, build, tear down enemy bases, defend and nuke your rivals! Life's about surviving in this multiplayer game, no matter what it takes!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.7% ★, Crafting 11.1%, Survival 10.6%, Base Building 10%, Looter Shooter 9.5% ★
- #44 Fragmented
73% matchMixed43% of 1,964 reviews2017
Dev: Above and Beyond Technologies
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Stranded in a hostile alien world, you must fight to survive. Hunt, harvest, craft, advance skills, and build using local resources along with technology from your voyage.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.7% ★, Survival 18.3%, Open World 11.2%, Crafting 10.6%, Multiplayer 8.7%
- #45 Muck
68% matchVery Positive93% of 184,764 reviews2021
Dev: Dani
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Muck is a survival-roguelike. Collect resources, find items & build a base to survive for as long as you can.
Why similar: Survival 23%, Crafting 18.6%, Open World 12.5%, Multiplayer 12.3%, Base Building 11.7%
- #46 Green Hell
69% 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: Open World Survival Craft 36.3% ★, Survival 15.9%, Crafting 10.4%, Multiplayer 10%, Open World 8.6%
- #47 Project Asteroids
70% matchMixed56% of 132 reviews2024
Dev: PAEB Studio
Windows
In the vastness of space, you are a lone robot desperately trying to survive. Build, explore, and fight for your life as you face deadly threats in the asteroid belt. This hardcore game shows no mercy—dangers lurk at every step, ready to destroy you at any moment.
Why similar: Crafting 16.7%, Survival 15.4%, Open World 12.3%, Massively Multiplayer 12.3%, Base Building 9.8%
- #48 MISERY
66% matchVery Positive84% of 26,185 reviews2025
Dev: Platypus EntertainmentPub: Ytopia
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 83%
MISERY is a 1–10 player co-op survival game set in a nuclear disaster zone. Here, every day is a struggle: search radioactive ruins for resources, build your bunker, craft weapons, and explore a weird, procedurally-generated world with your friends. Beware of anomalies, monsters, and armed bandits.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.7% ★, Survival 14.4%, Post-apocalyptic 13.2%, Crafting 11.8%, Base Building 11.1%
- #49 Polygeddon
69% matchMixed40% of 75 reviews2025
Dev: Digital Dreamworks
Windows
You are on an island where everyone wants to kill you, ranging from weather conditions to dangerous enemies, your goal is to survive. Survive alone or together. Build, craft, grow, explore, fight!
Why similar: Looter Shooter 16.3% ★, Post-apocalyptic 14.7%, Survival 13.7%, Crafting 12.8%, Open World 11.9%
- #50 Alien Dawn
70% matchMixed64% of 101 reviews2021
Dev: VoyagerVR
Windows
Built from the ground up for PCVR, this action survival game combines detailed visuals, realistic physics, and a handcrafted, interactive, and destructible open world. Explore, fight, scavenge, and survive solo or in co-op with Flatscreen cross-play and the VR features players expect.
Why similar: VR 23.8%, Survival 16%, Open World 13.8%, Post-apocalyptic 13.5%, PvP 10.6%
- #51 Silent North
69% matchMostly Negative34% of 111 reviews2025
Dev: Combat Waffle StudiosPub: combat waffle studios
Windows
Silent North thrusts you into the Swiss Alps, battling the elements, Infected, and other players. Fight solo or team up, scavenging gear and essentials. Intense PVPVE action ensures constant danger. Adapt, be resilient, and survive in this unpredictable, ever-changing landscape
Why similar: Survival 20%, Looter Shooter 14.3% ★, PvP 13.4%, Multiplayer 10.3%, First-Person 7.6%
- #52 Zombie Survival Game Online
67% matchMixed69% of 317 reviews2023
Dev: Zombie Survival Game Online LLC
Windows
Zombie Survival Game Online is an open-world, post-apocalyptic, looter shooter. Craft, quest, explore, build, and fight for survival. Parkour up a mountainside, ramp a truck over a horde, and grab a gasmask to explore the sewers. Can you survive? Doubtful.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.3% ★, Looter Shooter 17% ★, Crafting 11.2%, Survival 10.2%, Base Building 9.4%
- #53 Forever Skies
64% matchMostly Positive78% of 9,059 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 30.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A first-person survival game set on a post-apocalyptic, ecologically ruined Earth. Play solo or with up to 3 friends as you build, upgrade, and fly a high-tech airship. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and face dangers on the surface as you hunt for a cure to save humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25% ★, Crafting 12.5%, Base Building 12.2%, Survival 11.5%, Open World 10%
- #54 Into the Radius VR
66% 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 37.2%, Survival 19%, Post-apocalyptic 15.7%, Open World 14.4%, Exploration 4.7%
- #55 Once Human
63% matchMostly Positive79% of 189,842 reviews2024
Dev: Starry Studio
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 52.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Once Human is a Strange Worlds Survival Game set in a strange, post-apocalyptic future. Unite with friends to fight monstrous enemies, uncover secret plots, compete for resources, and build your own territory. Once, you were merely human. Now, you have the power to remake the world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.5% ★, Survival 10.9%, Crafting 10.8%, Base Building 10.1%, Open World 9.7%
- #56 Dead Matter
68% matchMostly Negative21% of 900 reviews2023
Dev: QI Games
Windows
After a rampant viral outbreak causes global society to collapse, you must survive the harsh wilderness of the Canadian Rockies amidst vast hordes of Infected and rival survivors.
Why similar: Survival 15.6%, Post-apocalyptic 15.6%, Open World 13.9%, Base Building 13.7%, Multiplayer 11.9%