Games Like Grounded 2

The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.5% ★, Survival 17.1%, Base Building 12.8%, Co-op 10.1%, Multiplayer 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: As the direct predecessor, it offers the exact same core gameplay loop, art style, and perspective-shifting survival mechanics.

Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.3% ★, Survival 12.2%, Base Building 12.1%, Co-op 7.9%, Crafting 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the core premise of being a tiny creature navigating a giant, dangerous world filled with insects and environmental hazards.

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 19%, Base Building 18.6%, Open World 15.6%, Crafting 11%, Multiplayer 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: It features highly intuitive base-building and a vast open world that rewards exploration and tactical survival.

Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.2% ★, Survival 16.3%, Base Building 12.2%, Open World 10.1%, Crafting 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the same sense of wonder and terror while exploring a beautiful, dangerous alien environment that requires careful resource management.

A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25% ★, Survival 13.2%, Base Building 10.4%, Open World 9%, Online Co-Op 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a masterclass in cooperative survival and base-building with a strong emphasis on exploration and progression.

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 20.9%, Base Building 15.7%, Co-op 13.7%, Open World 13.3%, Multiplayer 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: This sequel refines the survival and building mechanics of its predecessor with modern graphics and deeper AI interactions.

Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27% ★, Survival 18.4%, Co-op 11.1%, Multiplayer 9.8%, Base Building 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a unique cooperative survival experience where building and expanding your mobile base is the primary focus.

Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.5% ★, Survival 15.1%, Open World 12.3%, Multiplayer 8.7%, Base Building 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: It blends survival and base-building with creature-collection mechanics, offering a similar sense of progression and discovery.

Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 18.4% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Survival 12.3%, Co-op 9.3%, Open World 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: This top-down survival game offers a compelling loop of mining, crafting, and base-building in a mysterious underground world.

Abiotic Factor is a survival crafting experience for 1-6 players set in the depths of an underground research facility. Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the world’s greatest minds must survive against the universe’s biggest threats.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.8% ★, Base Building 15.5%, Survival 15.4%, Crafting 11.1%, Online Co-Op 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A science-themed survival game that captures the feeling of being a small cog in a large, dangerous facility.

As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.5% ★, Survival 22.1%, Open World 11.9%, Crafting 9.3%, Horror 4%

Why You'll Like It: A seminal survival game that excels at base-building and creating a tense atmosphere while fighting off hostile threats.

A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.9% ★, Base Building 14.9%, Survival 12.7%, Co-op 9.9%, Crafting 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the satisfying progression of terraforming a planet through exploration, crafting, and base-building.

ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!

Why similar: Survival 24.5%, Base Building 18%, Open World 16.4%, Crafting 12.6%, Multiplayer 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a deep survival experience centered on taming creatures and building massive bases in a dangerous open world.

Nightingale is an open world survival crafting game, where you’ll adventure across the mysterious and dangerous Fae Realms. As a daring Realmwalker, you’ll defeat monstrous enemies, survive hostile environments, and build elaborate estates in a visually stunning Gaslamp Fantasy world.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.1% ★, Survival 12.9%, Base Building 11.3%, Open World 8.9%, Crafting 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique survival experience across procedurally generated realms with a focus on exploration and crafting.

Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival game with immersive adventure and RPG gameplay. Explore, build, craft, and unravel a cinematic Dune story alone or with friends as you rise from survival to greatness on the most legendary planet in the universe. Just remember: the sandworm always comes.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.4% ★, Base Building 13%, Survival 11.9%, Crafting 8.7%, Open World 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: It brings large-scale open-world survival to a harsh, iconic setting with a focus on resource gathering and base construction.

ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.3% ★, Survival 14.4%, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 8.1%, Multiplayer 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: This session-based survival game offers a unique take on the genre with high-stakes missions and persistent base-building.

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 21.8% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Survival 13.1%, Co-op 11.3%, Crafting 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A survival game that features a unique mobile base-building mechanic set in a post-apocalyptic world.

Awaken as a Vampire. Hunt for blood in nearby settlements to regain your strength and evade the scorching sun to survive. Raise your castle and thrive in an ever-changing, open world full of mystery. Gain allies online and conquer the land of the living.

Why similar: Survival 20.2%, Base Building 20%, Open World 14.8%, Crafting 11.8%, Multiplayer 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: It combines survival and base-building with unique combat mechanics and a progression system that feels highly rewarding.

7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.6% ★, Survival 20.1%, Base Building 13.9%, Open World 10.3%, Multiplayer 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: It is the gold standard for survival games that focus heavily on base fortification and defending against waves of enemies.

Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.9% ★, Survival 11.2%, Base Building 10.9%, Co-op 9.8%, Crafting 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a creative survival experience where you build and upgrade a train while traversing a surreal interdimensional landscape.

Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.3% ★, Survival 14%, Base Building 12.1%, Open World 10.5%, Multiplayer 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes exploration and creative base-building in a colorful, low-gravity space environment.

Get ready for a Waterworld-themed survival game with modular base building, sunken city scavenging, crafting, base defense, and invasions of NPC clans for resources and territory. Ready for the water apocalypse?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.3% ★, Survival 14.5%, Base Building 12.5%, Co-op 12.1%, Crafting 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A survival game that focuses on underwater exploration and building bases on the ocean surface.

Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.9% ★, Survival 10.6%, Base Building 8.6%, Open World 8.3%, Crafting 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that focuses on building settlements and managing NPCs in a vast, procedurally generated world.

Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.8% ★, Survival 25.1%, Open World 12.8%, Multiplayer 9.4%, Co-op 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A hardcore survival simulator that offers unparalleled depth in base-building and long-term survival strategy.

Subnautica 2 is an underwater survival adventure set on an all-new alien world, developed by Unknown Worlds. Play alone or with friends in 4-player co-op. Adapt to survive by building custom bases and crafting tools. Explore the unknown to uncover the mysteries hidden within the depths.

Why similar: Survival 23.2%, Co-op 16.1%, Multiplayer 14.3%, Open World 13.5%, Exploration 7.6%

A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.

Why similar: Base Building 15.9%, Survival 13.8%, Co-op 11.6%, Crafting 11.5%, Open World 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: It features a unique base-building mechanic where your base is a drill ship that can move across the map.

Take the role of a plane crash survivor stranded somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Come face to face with some of the most life threatening scenarios that will result in a different experience each time you play. Scavenge. Discover. Survive.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.6% ★, Survival 19%, Multiplayer 10%, Open World 9.6%, Crafting 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A classic survival game that focuses on the struggle of staying alive on a deserted island chain.

Explore, craft, and fight your way through uncharted islands — solo or with up to 4 players in co-op! Tinkerlands is an exciting survival adventure where you will build your settlement, craft useful tools to survive, and even use magic!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.2% ★, Survival 13.3%, Open World 9.4%, Co-op 9%, Crafting 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A charming survival game that focuses on exploration, crafting, and building in a vibrant pixel-art world.

Adventure in a vast open-world survival craft game with your programmable sidekick Grammi! Program the Grammi to collect materials, build your town, craft weapons and armor to challenge strong enemies! Play alone or with friends online!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.3% ★, Survival 13.4%, Co-op 10.7%, Crafting 10.2%, Open World 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: It blends survival and automation, allowing players to build bases and automate tasks with the help of programmable companions.

A living world full of surprises, secrets and danger awaits in The Survivalists, an adventure-filled survival sandbox set in The Escapists universe. Explore, build, craft and even train monkeys with up to three friends in a desperate bid to survive. Have you got what it takes to be a Survivalist?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 19.8% ★, Survival 13.8%, Base Building 11.4%, Crafting 10.9%, Online Co-Op 8%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a lighthearted survival experience with crafting and base-building mechanics that can be managed with the help of monkeys.

On RuneScape's forgotten continent of Ashenfall, dragons have awoken. Gather, build, skill and craft in this co-operative survival adventure. Only by mastering survival and uncovering ancient secrets can you hope to face the ferocious Dragon Queen.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.2% ★, Survival 12.6%, Open World 10.2%, Co-op 9.6%, Base Building 9.3%

StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.3% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Survival 12%, Co-op 9.6%, Open World 8.5%

Embark on a PvE survival adventure in the Age of Piracy. Fight on land and sea, solo or with friends. Build, craft and explore vast open world filled with dark secrets. Master soulslite combat and take on challenging bosses, command your ship and plunder unspoken treasures!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.4% ★, Survival 16.3%, Crafting 12.8%, Base Building 12%, Online Co-Op 10.1%

Dive into a freezing underwater adventure on an alien planet. Below Zero is set two years after the original Subnautica. Return to Planet 4546B to uncover the truth behind a deadly cover-up. Survive by building habitats, crafting tools, & diving deeper into the world of Subnautica.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.8% ★, Survival 15.5%, Base Building 12.5%, Open World 9.7%, Multiplayer 7%

Rome has fallen! Rebuild civilization in this action-adventure survival game for 1-8 players. Fight hordes of the walking dead, build settlements, restore the Roman gods... or kick back and farm with friends.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.2% ★, Survival 15.8%, Base Building 14.2%, Crafting 13.2%, Open World 8.6%

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 28.8% ★, Survival 16.2%, Multiplayer 9.5%, Base Building 8.4%, Crafting 7.4%

Everwind is a novel take on RPG and Sandbox Survival genre in First-Person-Perspective. Embark on the adventure with your friends - Build a base on a flying island-ship, gather resources, craft, loot, and fight while you rise above the clouds to uncover the mysteries of this world!

Why similar: Survival 17.1%, Co-op 14.3%, Crafting 13.1%, Open World 12.9%, Online Co-Op 10.5%

Solarpunk is a survival game in a technologically advanced world of floating islands. Alone or together with your friends, you can construct buildings, grow food, craft gadgets and hop on your airship to explore distant islands in the sky.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.1% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Survival 11%, Co-op 10%, Crafting 9.2%

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 32.1% ★, Survival 16.9%, Crafting 10.2%, Base Building 9.5%, Open World 8.8%

You are the Defier, a Spartan beginning your afterlife on the Crossroads. In this Greek myth-inspired survival craft, ascend from weak soldier to god-like anti-hero. Build impressive Greek structures, craft legendary gear, and break the seals of the Underworld with up to 3 friends.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.6% ★, Survival 14.4%, Base Building 12.6%, Online Co-Op 8.8%, Open World 8%

TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.7% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Survival 11.9%, Co-op 10%, Crafting 9.5%

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 19.9%, Base Building 17.7%, Open World 14.2%, Co-op 11.8%, Crafting 9.2%

Once Human is a multiplayer open-world 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 23.3% ★, Base Building 14%, Survival 13.6%, Co-op 10.7%, Open World 9.4%

Chart a course in a breathtaking, but fractured world. Explore ancient ruins, master advanced technology, and craft your very own skyship to brave nature’s fury and colossal threats in Lost Skies. Team up with friends or go it alone in this awe-inspiring cooperative survival adventure.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.1% ★, Base Building 18%, Online Co-Op 10%, Open World 7.9%, Sandbox 7.8%

The Gold River Project™ is a camping trip gone wrong in the Pacific Northwest. Explore, craft, build, and survive in this open-world experiment that traps you and up to 4 friends in this single player or co-op survival adventure game.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.1% ★, Survival 12.7%, Open World 10.7%, Co-op 10.7%, Crafting 8.5%

Embark on an adventure set in a fantasy survival RPG. Visit a borderless, open world where you manage resources to construct your base and new types of equipment to support your conquest.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.2% ★, Survival 12.4%, Base Building 11.5%, Crafting 9.1%, Open World 8.2%

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 21.9% ★, Survival 12.9%, Base Building 12.5%, Co-op 10.1%, Open World 9.2%

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 29.2% ★, Survival 15.6%, Base Building 13%, Open World 10.1%, Crafting 7.3%

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 26.7% ★, Survival 14.2%, Base Building 11.2%, Open World 10.1%, Crafting 8.8%

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 23.7% ★, Base Building 17%, Survival 16.7%, Crafting 12.5%, Open World 10%

Shamania is an open world survival game where you can CRAFT, FIGHT, and EXPLORE a vibrant sandbox world with friends in CO-OP. Expand your base as a hub for survival, gather resources, and master professions to unlock new tools and opportunities!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.6% ★, Survival 12.8%, Crafting 10.3%, Open World 10.2%, Co-op 8.3%

A survival crafting adventure set in the Fourth Age of Middle-earth. Lead the Dwarves to reclaim Moria - mine, build, and battle through procedurally generated depths alone or with up to 8 players in co-op. It is time to return to Moria!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25% ★, Base Building 15.6%, Survival 14%, Crafting 10.1%, Online Co-Op 8%

Step into the ultimate open-world witch adventure. Befriend and battle creatures, and conjure up a sanctuary alongside other witches in co-op or single-player.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32% ★, Base Building 18.5%, Crafting 13.2%, Open World 12.1%, Online Co-Op 10.5%

This is a multiplayer cooperative open world construction survival sandbox game, where you and your friends must find supplies and build shelters in this world. You have to keep an eye on your character's needs state at all times, a bad state is likely to lead to death.

Why similar: Survival 25.4%, Open World 15.8%, Crafting 12%, Multiplayer 11.1%, Co-op 9.8%

Soar the skies in Aloft, the co-op sandbox survival game set in a world of floating islands. Build any island into a skyship, your home in the clouds. Find lost knowledge, cure the fungal corruption, and brave the hurricane to restore the ecosystem.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23% ★, Survival 17.3%, Co-op 14%, Crafting 13.2%, Open World 9.4%

An open-world survival crafting game for 1–8 players, blending intense dungeon crawling and ARPG combat with peaceful farming and creative building. Take on quests and explore a vast, procedurally-generated world full of danger and discovery.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.1% ★, Survival 16%, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 11%, Open World 10.6%

Experience a vast Sci-fi open-world survival TD game set on a distant planet deep in the universe. Craft, build, mine, trade, explore, and survive in this alien world. Collect Data and defend against waves of enemies seeking to banish you. Enjoy the adventure in Singleplayer or Multiplayer.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.9% ★, Survival 11.4%, Base Building 11.4%, Crafting 8.4%, Open World 8.4%

Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements. Explore an open world with different biomes, take care of oxygen, manage your farms, generate electricity, build your home and much more!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 19% ★, Survival 14.6%, Co-op 10.9%, Base Building 10.2%, Multiplayer 8.4%

The Front is a survival open-world crafting sandbox game. You are a resistance fighter sent back in time to stop the rise of a tyrannical empire. Collect resources, craft tech, build shelters, and fight monsters to accomplish your mission.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.7% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Survival 13%, Crafting 9.5%, Open World 8.5%

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 35.9% ★, Survival 18.3%, Open World 9.3%, Multiplayer 8%, Crafting 7.3%