- #1 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
97% matchVery Positive82% of 10,429 reviews2024
Dev: Max Ent Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 16.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 27.1% ★, Survival 13.9%, Base Building 12.3%, Co-op 8.5%, Multiplayer 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: It mirrors Grounded's tiny-scale survival fantasy almost perfectly, with co-op exploration, insect threats, crafting, and base-building in an oversized natural world.
- #2 Abiotic Factor
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 58,426 reviews2025
Dev: Deep Field GamesPub: Playstack
Windows
Median: 20.8 hrsMean: 46.1 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Abiotic Factor is a survival crafting experience for 1-6 players set in the depths of an underground research facility. Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the world’s greatest minds must survive against the universe’s biggest threats.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.7% ★, Survival 16.6%, Base Building 15%, Crafting 10.8%, Multiplayer 8%
Why You'll Like It: Like Grounded, it turns a familiar environment into a dangerous oversized playground and pairs co-op survival-crafting with smart progression and quirky science flavor.
- #3 Raft
96% matchVery Positive93% of 377,470 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.7 hrsMean: 37.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.8% ★, Survival 19%, Co-op 10.8%, Multiplayer 10.4%, Base Building 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: It delivers the same satisfying co-op survival loop of scavenging, expanding your base, crafting upgrades, and venturing into new hazards.
- #4 Valheim
95% matchVery Positive94% of 540,690 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 26.0 hrsMean: 78.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.2% ★, Survival 14.4%, Base Building 10.1%, Multiplayer 8.1%, Crafting 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: Its blend of co-op survival, rewarding base-building, gear progression, and dangerous biome exploration scratches a very similar itch.
- #5 Green Hell
94% matchVery Positive85% of 101,308 reviews2019
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 18.4 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: Open World Survival Craft 35.5% ★, Survival 17.1%, Multiplayer 10.3%, Base Building 7.9%, Crafting 7%
Why You'll Like It: If you want Grounded's survival tension turned up, this gives you deep crafting, co-op play, shelter building, and constant environmental danger.
- #6 Enshrouded
94% matchVery Positive86% of 104,779 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.9 hrsMean: 46.5 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 23.1%, Base Building 20.2%, Open World 13.2%, Multiplayer 12.1%, Crafting 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a polished mix of cooperative exploration, crafting, combat progression, and impressive base-building in a hazardous open world.
- #7 ASTRONEER
93% matchVery Positive92% of 139,015 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.3% ★, Survival 15.2%, Base Building 11.7%, Multiplayer 9.8%, Co-op 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: It captures Grounded's playful exploration and cooperative crafting spirit, but in a colorful sci-fi sandbox with lighter survival pressure.
- #8 Subnautica
92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 378,847 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: Open World Survival Craft 36.6% ★, Survival 17.4%, Base Building 11.6%, Crafting 8.4%, Open World 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: Its sense of discovery, hostile wildlife, crafting progression, and fear of venturing farther into the unknown feels very close to Grounded's best moments.
- #9 Core Keeper
91% matchVery Positive93% of 66,104 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.2 hrsMean: 34.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 24.3% ★, Survival 13.9%, Base Building 12.2%, Co-op 9.8%, Crafting 9%
Why You'll Like It: Even in 2D, it nails the same co-op rhythm of exploring, building a home base, crafting better gear, and fighting escalating creature threats.
- #10 Sons Of The Forest
91% matchVery Positive88% of 317,804 reviews2024
Dev: Endnight Games LtdPub: Newnight
Windows
Median: 15.0 hrsMean: 32.3 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 24.1%, Base Building 16%, Co-op 14.8%, Multiplayer 12.4%, Open World 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: This leans darker, but the co-op survival, base defense, crafting, and dangerous creature encounters make it a strong follow-up.
- #11 The Planet Crafter
90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 73,089 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.7 hrsMean: 38.5 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: Open World Survival Craft 31% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Survival 14%, Co-op 10.3%, Crafting 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: It shares Grounded's satisfying gather-craft-build loop and gradual world transformation, just with a more relaxed, less combat-heavy tone.
- #12 Nightingale
89% matchMixed66% of 18,038 reviews2024
Dev: Inflexion Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 24.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Nightingale is an open world survival crafting game, where you’ll adventure across the mysterious and dangerous Fae Realms. As a daring Realmwalker, you’ll defeat monstrous enemies, survive hostile environments, and build elaborate estates in a visually stunning Gaslamp Fantasy world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.6% ★, Survival 14%, Base Building 11%, Co-op 8.7%, Multiplayer 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Its portal-based survival adventure emphasizes co-op exploration, crafting, and stylish base-building across dangerous fantasy realms.
- #13 Palworld
87% matchVery Positive95% of 480,493 reviews2026
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 40.2 hrsMean: 84.9 hrs≥1hr: 97%
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 29.8% ★, Survival 16.4%, Multiplayer 9.7%, Open World 9.4%, Base Building 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: Beneath the creature-collecting hook, it's a co-op open-world survival-crafting game with strong base-building and steady unlock-driven progression.
- #14 ICARUS
89% matchMostly Positive75% of 67,515 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 46.4 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: Open World Survival Craft 29.8% ★, Survival 15.7%, Base Building 12.3%, Multiplayer 8.5%, Crafting 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: This focuses on survival missions, crafting, building, and teamwork in a hostile wilderness that rewards preparation and progression.
- #15 The Survivalists
88% matchMostly Positive76% of 10,097 reviews2020
Dev: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 71%
A living world full of surprises, secrets and danger awaits in The Survivalists, an adventure-filled survival sandbox set in The Escapists universe. Explore, build, craft and even train monkeys with up to three friends in a desperate bid to survive. Have you got what it takes to be a Survivalist?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.8% ★, Survival 15.2%, Base Building 11.2%, Crafting 10.8%, Co-op 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: Its cartoony island setting, co-op crafting, base-building, and accessible survival systems make it one of the closer tonal matches to Grounded.
- #16 Don't Starve Together
86% matchVery Positive95% of 541,972 reviews2016
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 64.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 56.5% ★, Survival 27.2%, Multiplayer 4.5%, Co-op 4.4%, Crafting 2.2%
Why You'll Like It: This is a tougher and weirder take on co-op survival, but its base-building, resource management, and creature-filled world align well with Grounded fans.
- #17 No Man's Sky
86% matchVery Positive85% of 414,381 reviews2016
Dev: Hello Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 20.1 hrsMean: 70.7 hrs≥1hr: 94%
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.6% ★, Survival 15%, Open World 12%, Multiplayer 9%, Crafting 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a huge amount of survival-lite exploration, base-building, resource gathering, and cooperative progression across vibrant worlds.
- #18 Forever Skies
84% matchMostly Positive78% of 8,950 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 30.6 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 28% ★, Survival 14.2%, Base Building 14%, Co-op 11.7%, Crafting 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: It delivers first-person survival, crafting, and a customizable mobile base while exploring a hazardous world for upgrades and answers.
- #19 ARK: Survival Evolved
85% matchVery Positive83% of 776,082 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: Open World Survival Craft 38.8% ★, Survival 17.6%, Multiplayer 8.8%, Base Building 8.5%, Crafting 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: Its taming, crafting, base-building, and multiplayer survival create a similarly addictive progression loop in a creature-dominated world.
- #20 Sunkenland
84% matchVery Positive80% of 23,803 reviews2023
Dev: Vector3 Studio
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 20.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Get ready for a Waterworld-themed survival game with modular base building, sunken city scavenging, crafting, base defense, and invasions of NPC clans for resources and territory. Ready for the water apocalypse?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.9% ★, Survival 15.2%, Co-op 12.1%, Base Building 11.7%, Multiplayer 8%
Why You'll Like It: It mixes co-op survival, scavenging, crafting, and fortifying a home base in an inviting but dangerous world to explore.
- #21 Terraria
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,548,448 reviews2011
Dev: Re-Logic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 33.8 hrsMean: 151.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.3% ★, Survival 15.1%, Multiplayer 9.4%, Crafting 8.7%, Co-op 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: Though 2D, it excels at the same loop of exploration, crafting, base-building, boss progression, and uncovering danger in every new area.
- #22 Portal Knights
83% matchVery Positive83% of 22,346 reviews2017
Dev: Keen Games GmbHPub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 21.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
The world of Elysia needs YOU! Join this cooperative, 3D sandbox action RPG to level up your character, craft epic weapons, conquer enemies in real-time, and build almost anything! Craft your adventure. Forge your hero. Become the ultimate Portal Knight!
Why similar: Survival 24.2%, Multiplayer 19.4%, Crafting 17.8%, Co-op 16.3%, Sandbox 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: It blends colorful co-op adventuring, crafting, building, and combat in a way that feels close to Grounded's more accessible side.
- #23 Stranded Deep
82% matchMostly Positive74% of 47,770 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: Open World Survival Craft 43.1% ★, Survival 19.5%, Multiplayer 10.7%, Crafting 8.7%, Open World 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: This is a more grounded survival take, but it still offers crafting, shelter building, exploration, and co-op problem-solving against the environment.
- #24 Voidtrain
81% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,810 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 34.2% ★, Survival 12.1%, Base Building 10.6%, Co-op 10.1%, Multiplayer 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: The moving-base concept gives a fresh spin on the same gather-craft-expand-survive loop that makes Grounded so compelling with friends.
- #25 Necesse
79% matchVery Positive93% of 28,807 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 15.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 39.5% ★, Survival 11.3%, Base Building 8.3%, Multiplayer 8.1%, Co-op 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: It mixes survival-crafting, multiplayer exploration, base management, and combat progression in a surprisingly deep sandbox.
- #26 7 Days to Die
79% matchVery Positive87% of 405,507 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.3 hrsMean: 110.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 31.3% ★, Survival 21.7%, Base Building 13.4%, Multiplayer 9.6%, Open World 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: If your favorite Grounded moments were about preparing defenses and surviving nights together, this adds much deeper base fortification and survival pressure.
- #27 Drake Hollow
81% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,807 reviews2020
Dev: The Molasses FloodPub: CD PROJEKT RED
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Build and defend villages of vegetable folk from deadly feral beasts in the blighted world of The Hollow. Explore, gather, and fight! You can even invite your friends. Can you craft the perfect village?
Why similar: Survival 22.3%, Base Building 14.1%, Multiplayer 13.5%, Open World 11.8%, Online Co-Op 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: Its colorful world, co-op scavenging, base defense, and emphasis on protecting a growing settlement echo Grounded's adventurous survival feel.
- #28 Craftopia
80% matchMostly Positive76% of 20,210 reviews2020
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Craftopia is the brand new multiplayer survival action game made in Japan. We combined many features we find enjoyable, such as hunting, farming, hack-and-slash, building, automation to develop this game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30% ★, Survival 18.3%, Crafting 13.9%, Open World 11.7%, Multiplayer 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: It combines open-world crafting, gliding, building, automation, and co-op adventuring in a lighthearted sandbox format.
- #29 Grounded 2
78% matchVery Positive81% of 23,765 reviews2025
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.9 hrsMean: 24.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Shrunk again, but the world is much larger. In this open-world, single-player or co-op survival adventure, craft weapons and armor, build your base, and traverse the playground on your buggy. But something else is out there—and it hasn’t forgotten you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.8% ★, Survival 17.3%, Base Building 12.6%, Co-op 9.8%, Multiplayer 8.6%
- #30 Solarpunk™
77% matchVery Positive82% of 4,341 reviews2026
Dev: CyberwavePub: rokaplay
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 28.6% ★, Base Building 13%, Survival 11.9%, Co-op 10.5%, Crafting 9.1%
- #31 Wildmender
78% matchVery Positive84% of 2,225 reviews2023
Dev: Muse GamesPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A desert gardening survival game. Start from a tiny spring and cultivate a blooming garden. Explore a vast world amid the sands and uncover its mysteries. Can you defend against the relentless forces of nature and mysterious wraith corruption, to bring life to a dying world?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.4% ★, Base Building 15.1%, Survival 15%, Multiplayer 12.2%, Crafting 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: Its cooperative gathering, crafting, exploration, and base growth offer a gentler but still satisfying survival-adventure alternative.
- #32 Romestead
76% matchMostly Positive77% of 4,827 reviews2026
Dev: BeartwigsPub: Three Friends
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 29.5% ★, Survival 17.8%, Base Building 14.4%, Crafting 13.2%, Online Co-Op 6.9%
- #33 Subnautica: Below Zero
77% matchVery Positive90% of 108,186 reviews2021
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 15.5 hrsMean: 30.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Dive into a freezing underwater adventure on an alien planet. Below Zero is set two years after the original Subnautica. Return to Planet 4546B to uncover the truth behind a deadly cover-up. Survive by building habitats, crafting tools, & diving deeper into the world of Subnautica.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.4% ★, Survival 16.4%, Base Building 11.8%, Multiplayer 7.7%, Open World 7.2%
- #34 Tinkerlands
75% matchVery Positive86% of 4,087 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 34.2% ★, Survival 14.8%, Co-op 9.5%, Crafting 8.4%, Multiplayer 8.3%
- #35 Satisfactory
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 278,339 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 33.2 hrsMean: 112.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Why similar: Base Building 22.7%, Open World Survival Craft 17.4% ★, Co-op 12.1%, Crafting 11.9%, Multiplayer 10.5%
- #36 Scrap Mechanic
71% matchVery Positive92% of 122,134 reviews2026
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.4 hrsMean: 64.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!
Why similar: Survival 20.8%, Crafting 13.9%, Base Building 13.8%, Multiplayer 13.1%, Open World 10.7%
- #37 Dinkum
72% matchVery Positive92% of 29,064 reviews2025
Dev: James BendonPub: KRAFTON, Inc.
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 29.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Dinkum is a survival life simulation game set on an island inspired by the rugged Australian outback. Farm, hunt, mine, fish, and forage to gather resources, expand your town, and discover what makes Dinkum so special—either solo or with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 50.5% ★, Co-op 13.2%, Crafting 10.6%, Multiplayer 8.5%, Online Co-Op 6.9%
- #38 Subsistence
76% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,766 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 39.1% ★, Survival 17.5%, Crafting 9.4%, Base Building 8.7%, Multiplayer 8.7%
- #39 Don't Starve
74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 113,372 reviews2013
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 28.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.4% ★, Survival 31%, Crafting 11.2%, Multiplayer 5.8%, Open World 4.5%
- #40 Crashlands
75% matchVery Positive90% of 6,745 reviews2016
Dev: Butterscotch Shenanigans
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 13.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Fight and tame alien beasts, craft resources into menacing weaponry, befriend the outlandish locals, and go toe-to-chin with a world-domineering maniac.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.7% ★, Survival 15.5%, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 10.4%, Open World 8%
- #41 Dawn of Defiance
73% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,842 reviews2024
Dev: Traega EntertainmentPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 34.5% ★, Survival 15.9%, Base Building 12.4%, Multiplayer 8.3%, Online Co-Op 7.9%
- #42 RuneScape: Dragonwilds
71% matchVery Positive81% of 29,187 reviews2025
Dev: Jagex Ltd
Windows
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 19.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 28.8% ★, Survival 14.2%, Co-op 10%, Base Building 9.2%, Multiplayer 8.7%
- #43 Frozen Flame
74% matchMixed63% of 2,989 reviews2022
Dev: Dreamside InteractivePub: Ravenage Games
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A challenging exploration and survival adventure, set in the dying world of Dragons. Only those who harness the power of Frozen Flame have the means to survive the harsh conditions of the realm and able to muster the strength to cleanse it for good.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.6% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Survival 13.7%, Crafting 8.8%, Multiplayer 7.9%
- #44 Project Castaway
72% matchMixed66% of 1,849 reviews2026
Dev: Mardonpol Inc.
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Project Castaway is a survival crafting title set in the Pacific Ocean. Live the life of a stranded castaway, with only yourself - and the island's inhabitants - for company! Sail the ocean, hunt, explore unique islands and gather resources as you fight for survival.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.3% ★, Survival 12.9%, Base Building 10.7%, Co-op 10.6%, Multiplayer 7%
- #45 Breathedge
73% matchVery Positive81% of 17,661 reviews2021
Dev: RedRuins SoftworksPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Survive in outer space! Together with your immortal chicken, discover the truth behind your sudden spaceship crash. Craft tools, pilot vehicles, and even control space stations to survive and explore the wreckage.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41% ★, Survival 16.7%, Base Building 14.3%, Crafting 8.2%, Open World 5.1%
- #46 Island Beekeeper
70% matchMostly Positive73% of 186 reviews2026
Dev: Akuseru Studio
Windows
Build your apiary on islands above the clouds, travel on your medocycle, crossbreed bees with unique traits and create a cozy home in the sky. Grow plants, explore islands and send healing honey down to Earth, where people still hope for your help.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.9% ★, Survival 14%, Co-op 11.7%, Base Building 11.7%, Multiplayer 9.3%
- #47 Dune: Awakening
69% matchMostly Positive71% of 78,134 reviews2025
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 46.5 hrsMean: 100.0 hrs≥1hr: 97%
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 29.4% ★, Survival 13.8%, Base Building 13.5%, Crafting 9.1%, Multiplayer 8.7%
- #48 The Forest
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 680,573 reviews2018
Dev: Endnight Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 37.3 hrs≥1hr: 93%
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.8% ★, Survival 22.6%, Crafting 8.5%, Open World 8.5%, Horror 5.1%
- #49 StarRupture
68% matchVery Positive81% of 13,247 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 26.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 27.7% ★, Survival 13.2%, Base Building 13.2%, Co-op 10.1%, Crafting 8.4%
- #50 Volcanoids
71% matchVery Positive83% of 9,332 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.
Why similar: Base Building 17.4%, Survival 17%, Co-op 13.5%, Crafting 12.7%, Multiplayer 9.4%
- #51 Starbound
70% matchVery Positive90% of 123,281 reviews2016
Dev: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.0 hrsMean: 64.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.1% ★, Survival 12.8%, Crafting 8.1%, Co-op 7.3%, Multiplayer 6.9%
- #52 Witchspire
67% matchVery Positive83% of 1,994 reviews2026
Dev: Envar Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 39.9% ★, Base Building 17.2%, Crafting 12.2%, Multiplayer 9.5%, Online Co-Op 9%
- #53 The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™
67% matchVery Positive81% of 12,363 reviews2024
Dev: Free Range GamesPub: North Beach Games
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 19.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 32.6% ★, Base Building 15.5%, Survival 15.4%, Crafting 10%, Online Co-Op 7.2%
- #54 Whisper of the Swallows
67% matchVery Positive86% of 191 reviews2026
Dev: Blown Leaves
Windows
Brave a savage, unforgiving procedurally generated world where extreme weather and the nightmares of the dark will hunt you down. Alone or in co-op, survive, build, and explore to turn a cursed hellscape into your sanctuary of light.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.3% ★, Survival 16.3%, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 11.1%, Open World 7.3%
- #55 Subnautica 2
64% matchVery Positive91% of 126,113 reviews2026
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows
Median: 10.5 hrsMean: 13.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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 26.8%, Co-op 17.6%, Multiplayer 17%, Open World 11%, Horror 7.8%
- #56 Wrongworld
69% matchVery Positive94% of 551 reviews2018
Dev: Sludj Games
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Crash-landed on a surreal, low-poly world filled with freakish inhabitants, choose between permadeath and non-permadeath modes and embark on an epic (and ridiculous) survival adventure. Will you manage to stay alive as you unravel the mysteries of Wrongworld and search for a way home?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 53.3% ★, Survival 18.6%, Crafting 8.3%, Open World 7.3%, Sandbox 3.9%
- #57 Squirreled Away
66% matchVery Positive94% of 1,067 reviews2025
Dev: Far SeasPub: Amplifier Studios
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Live your best squirrel life. Explore, gather, craft, and build incredible treehouses in acres of beautiful parkland. Scurry across lawns, up trees, and leap limb to limb solo, or up to four friends can play together in co-op. Endless summer days of adventure await.
Why similar: Base Building 25.4%, Multiplayer 17.5%, Crafting 13.9%, Open World 13.7%, Co-op 12.1%
- #58 V Rising
65% matchVery Positive89% of 136,761 reviews2024
Dev: Stunlock Studios
Windows
Median: 20.8 hrsMean: 57.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 24.3%, Base Building 21.5%, Crafting 12.7%, Open World 12.4%, Multiplayer 11.5%
- #59 The Wild Eight
69% matchMixed68% of 8,109 reviews2019
Dev: Eight PointsPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
The Wild Eight is an intense survival action-adventure set in the frozen wilderness of Alaska. Team up with friends in online co-op or go solo, explore the mysterious land, craft weapons and fight to live another day.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.8% ★, Survival 20.8%, Co-op 9.4%, Multiplayer 9.1%, Crafting 6.8%
- #60 Generation Zero®
68% matchMostly Positive72% of 42,150 reviews2019
Dev: Systemic Reaction™Pub: Avalanche Studios
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 19.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Generation Zero is a stealth-action shooter where you wage guerilla warfare against lethal mechanical enemies. Explore a vast open world map inspired by the Swedish Cold War era, take part in the resistance alone or with up to three friends in seamless co-op.
Why similar: Survival 19.1%, Base Building 18%, Co-op 14.6%, Crafting 11.8%, Multiplayer 11.6%
