- #1 Outlaws of the Old West
97% matchMixed59% of 6,290 reviews2019
Dev: Virtual Basement LLCPub: Wandering Wizard
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Outlaws of the Old West is a massively multiplayer survival MMO with a huge world, thousands of items and a modular building system. Survive the wild, build your own homestead, defeat villainous bandits and work with others to tame the Wild West.
Why similar: Western 40.6% ★, Open World Survival Craft 20.6% ★, Survival 12.8%, Open World 10.9%, Multiplayer 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: This game is the closest thematic match, offering a massive open-world survival experience set specifically in the American frontier.
- #2 This Land Is My Land
96% matchMixed68% of 4,625 reviews2021
Dev: Game-Labs
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 21.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Experience the frontier as a chief of a Native American tribe and resist the onset of the settlers. Explore the vast world full of hostile humans and animals while defining your narrative through the decisions you make.
Why similar: Western 33.2% ★, Open World Survival Craft 21.3% ★, Survival 14.1%, Open World 11.4%, Multiplayer 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the 19th-century American setting with a focus on survival, stealth, and reclaiming territory from settlers.
- #3 Rust
96% matchVery Positive87% of 1,378,603 reviews2018
Dev: Facepunch Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 52.5 hrsMean: 424.5 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: Survival 27.8%, Open World Survival Craft 20.4% ★, Open World 15.5%, Multiplayer 11.8%, Crafting 9%
Why You'll Like It: It provides the gold standard for the aggressive multiplayer base-building and territory-raiding mechanics found in Heat.
- #4 Wild West Legacy
95% matchMostly Negative37% of 2,139 reviews2024
Dev: Moon Punch StudioPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Conquer the Wild West. Explore the open world of a fictitious American Midwest and survive the harsh environment. Convince other settlers to join you and manage your ever-growing settlements. Build a home, take care of your farm and become a legend in Wild West Legacy.
Why similar: Western 48.2% ★, Survival 15.1%, Open World 13.8%, Crafting 7.5%, Building 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses heavily on the simulation and survival aspects of building a life in the American West.
- #5 Life is Feudal: Your Own
94% matchMixed66% of 12,061 reviews2015
Dev: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 58.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Hardcore and realistic; LiF is a Medieval multiplayer sandbox RPG, with free terraforming, a rich crafting system and preset and modular building construction. With engaging survival aspects, no target physics-based combat and a unique formation system - along with numerous other features - LiF is not for the faint of heart!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.9% ★, Survival 17.6%, Open World 17.3%, Crafting 8.3%, Multiplayer 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes social organization and territory control, requiring players to work together to build and defend their settlements.
- #6 Conan Exiles Enhanced
94% matchMostly Positive79% of 116,436 reviews2018
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 17.1 hrsMean: 113.0 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Conan Exiles Enhanced is an open world survival game set in the mythical lands of Hyboria, now fully upgraded to Unreal Engine 5 with stunning visuals and improved performance. SURVIVE, BUILD, and DOMINATE alone or with friends in a world brimming with adventure!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.5% ★, Survival 22.1%, Open World 17.1%, Multiplayer 8.7%, Building 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: The game features a robust social hierarchy and building system that allows players to establish dominance in a harsh, unforgiving world.
- #7 ARK: Survival Ascended
93% matchMixed60% of 110,562 reviews2023
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows
Median: 26.3 hrsMean: 195.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 27.5%, Open World 22.8%, Multiplayer 14.6%, Crafting 9.1%, Building 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: It offers deep crafting, base-building, and social tribe dynamics that mirror the expansionist gameplay of Heat.
- #8 SCUM
91% matchMostly Positive74% of 125,269 reviews2025
Dev: Gamepires
Windows
Median: 11.9 hrsMean: 103.7 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 28.2% ★, Survival 18.3%, Open World 16.8%, Crafting 7.4%, Gore 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: It offers an incredibly detailed survival simulation with complex multiplayer interactions and character management.
- #9 Reign Of Kings
91% matchMixed57% of 14,891 reviews2015
Dev: Code}{atch
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 47.7 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 28.5% ★, Survival 18.1%, Open World 15.4%, Multiplayer 10.3%, Crafting 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: It features a unique social system where players can claim titles and rule over others, similar to the political structure in Heat.
- #10 Subsistence
90% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,723 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 5.0 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 35.2% ★, Survival 21.6%, Open World 14%, Multiplayer 11.4%, Crafting 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A focused survival experience that emphasizes crafting and base-building against an unforgiving environment.
- #11 Mist Survival
89% matchMostly Positive76% of 14,180 reviews2018
Dev: Dimension 32 Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 73%
MIST SURVIVAL is a Single-player, survival stealth sandbox game Players will experience the Apocalypse stimulation in the form of virus pandemic, the players have to deal with it to survive through the difficulties such as finding shelter and food, threats from the environment and climate: wild animals, bandits, infected, and dense mist t
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.1% ★, Survival 30%, Open World 19.7%, Crafting 6.1%, Sandbox 2.6%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a grounded survival experience with a focus on building a home and gathering resources.
- #12 7 Days to Die
87% matchVery Positive87% of 402,373 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.0 hrsMean: 109.1 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 28.4% ★, Survival 26.9%, Open World 17.1%, Multiplayer 12.6%, Building 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: It excels in voxel-based base-building and survival, providing a similar sense of progression and defense.
- #13 DayZ
89% matchMostly Positive78% of 464,547 reviews2018
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 39.6 hrsMean: 277.6 hrs≥1hr: 96%
How long can you survive a post-apocalyptic world? A land overrun with an infected "zombie" population, where you compete with other survivors for limited resources. Will you team up with strangers and stay strong together? Or play as a lone wolf to avoid betrayal? This is DayZ – this is your story.
Why similar: Survival 35.5%, Open World 21.8%, Multiplayer 15.4%, PvP 7.4%, Sandbox 5.7%
Why You'll Like It: The quintessential hardcore multiplayer survival experience that mirrors the high-stakes social interactions of Heat.
- #14 Miscreated
88% matchMixed66% of 31,585 reviews2018
Dev: Entrada Interactive LLC
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 38.3 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 36.5% ★, Survival 23.4%, Open World 16.6%, Multiplayer 10.6%, Crafting 5%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer survival game that emphasizes exploration and scavenging in a dangerous, open world.
- #15 Out of Reach
86% matchMixed57% of 3,049 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 32.1% ★, Survival 20.2%, Open World 14.9%, Multiplayer 9.9%, Crafting 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on island survival and building, with a strong emphasis on multiplayer combat and raiding.
- #16 Hurtworld
85% matchMostly Positive76% of 31,099 reviews2019
Dev: Bankroll Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 63.8 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 25.6% ★, Survival 24.3%, Open World 16.1%, Multiplayer 11.3%, Crafting 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced multiplayer survival game that prioritizes combat and base defense.
- #17 ATLAS
86% matchMixed47% of 42,895 reviews2018
Dev: Grapeshot Games
Windows
Median: 12.5 hrsMean: 111.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Set sail for the ultimate pirate experience! Embark on a grand adventure alongside thousands of other players in one of the largest game worlds ever built (and even claim a piece of it to call your own). Build your ship, assemble your crew, sail the high seas, and become a pirate legend!
Why similar: Survival 29.9%, Open World 25.3%, Multiplayer 13%, Crafting 10.6%, RPG 5%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on large-scale multiplayer territory expansion and management in a vast, open-world setting.
- #18 V Rising
82% matchVery Positive89% of 135,460 reviews2024
Dev: Stunlock Studios
Windows
Median: 21.1 hrsMean: 57.6 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 27%, Open World 24.5%, Multiplayer 13.6%, Crafting 10.2%, Building 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a polished take on territory control and base-building with a strong emphasis on multiplayer conflict.
- #19 Cowboy Life Simulator
82% matchVery Positive90% of 1,207 reviews2025
Dev: Odd QubitPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 14.4 hrs≥1hr: 84%
“Cowboy Life Simulator” is an immersive and relaxing ranching sim where you step into the boots of a failed businessman starting fresh on the frontier. Buy your first goat, meet the locals, explore vibrant lands, and build your dream ranch in a world full of stories and adventure!
Why similar: Open World 34.8%, Crafting 19.9%, Building 18.5%, Sandbox 9.8%, RPG 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: It leans into the Western simulation aspect, allowing players to experience the daily grind of frontier life.
- #20 Westland Survival
83% matchMixed59% of 532 reviews2025
Dev: Helio GamesPub: Helio Games
Windows · Mac
Saddle up for the ultimate survival adventure in the untamed Wild West! Build your homestead, tame the wilderness, bounty hunt the outlaws, and duel against the dangers that lurk on the frontier. Do you have what it takes to be a legend of the West?
Why similar: Western 61.9% ★, Multiplayer 10.7%, Crafting 9.5%, RPG 5%, Sandbox 4.5%
Why You'll Like It: A tactical RPG approach to the Western survival genre that emphasizes character progression and base management.
- #21 Dark and Light
84% matchMixed52% of 11,821 reviews2017
Dev: Snail Games USA
Windows
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 49.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Dark and Light is a vast sandbox survival RPG set in a world dominated by powerful elemental forces. Find your way in a meticulously crafted world, featuring breathtaking landscapes, a wide variety of mythical creatures, and limitless possibility to craft, build, and unlock dozens of powerful weapons, spells, and skills.
Why similar: Survival 24.6%, Open World 23.8%, Open World Survival Craft 18% ★, Multiplayer 7%, RPG 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: It combines survival and base-building with RPG elements, offering a large world to conquer.
- #22 Next Day: Survival
84% matchMixed62% of 10,257 reviews2018
Dev: SOFF GamesPub: Last Level
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 21.6 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Next Day is a multi-player SURVIVAL game with elements of RPG, in an imaginary country in Eastern Europe. Carry out an array of tasks, learn skills, and develop your character. Have shootouts with opponents and earn a reputation.
Why similar: Survival 36.1%, Open World 26.8%, Multiplayer 16.8%, Crafting 7.6%, PvP 3.4%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game that blends RPG elements with open-world exploration and multiplayer interaction.
- #23 Savage Lands
81% matchMixed54% of 6,686 reviews2021
Dev: Last Bastion Studios LLC
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Your fight for survival begins on the frozen shores of Tarvhas, where bitter cold and vicious creatures conspire to defeat the unprepared. Uncover the land’s dark history as you and fellow explorers traverse an unforgiving and hostile world to tame the Savage Lands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.6% ★, Survival 20.3%, Open World 15.1%, Multiplayer 9.5%, Crafting 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a harsh, fantasy-themed survival experience that requires careful base-building to survive.
- #24 Force of Nature
80% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,205 reviews2016
Dev: A.Y.std
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.9% ★, Survival 19.5%, Open World 13.3%, Crafting 9.7%, Multiplayer 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: It combines survival and crafting with a sandbox world that rewards exploration and base development.
- #25 Rem Survival
79% matchMostly Positive76% of 802 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 28% ★, Survival 17.7%, Open World 15.3%, Crafting 8.7%, Building 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: A dedicated base-building and survival game that focuses on resource management.
- #26 My Island
78% matchMixed66% of 1,723 reviews2024
Dev: SnowBaby Games
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 47%
MyIsland is a relaxed and beautiful survival game,You will drift and survive on the tropical islands, hunt and travel, build houses and development farming, and create your own warm homeland.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36% ★, Survival 20.2%, Open World 13.6%, Multiplayer 10.1%, Crafting 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a relaxing yet challenging survival experience focused on building and exploration.
- #27 GRAV
79% matchMixed47% of 6,921 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 34.7% ★, Survival 21.6%, Open World 17.3%, Multiplayer 9.9%, Crafting 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi survival game that emphasizes base-building and territory defense in a hostile environment.
- #28 Renown
75% matchMixed59% of 1,570 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 23.4% ★, Survival 16.2%, Open World 14.3%, Multiplayer 10.4%, Crafting 8%
- #29 Desert Skies
78% matchMixed57% of 469 reviews2019
Dev: White_Rabbit_Games
Windows
Desert Skies takes survival to the air! Build an airship and fly on an adventure through the deserts of the Wild West. Look for places to land and scavenge for loot, expand your airship and craft new equipment, but beware the dangers lurking beneath the sands!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.4% ★, Western 29.7% ★, Survival 12.1%, Multiplayer 7.9%, Crafting 6%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique survival experience where players build and maintain a mobile base in a desert environment.
- #30 SURVIVAL: Postapocalypse Now
76% 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 37% ★, Survival 23.3%, Open World 14.4%, Multiplayer 10.5%, Crafting 4.6%
- #31 Plains of Pain
74% matchVery Positive83% of 869 reviews2023
Dev: Cobra Byte Digital
Windows
Survive in a post-apocalyptic open-world sandbox alone or with friends. Explore a procedural wasteland scorched by heat and chaos. Build a base, develop skills, craft tools and weapons, trade for what you need, complete deadly quests, earn faction reputation, or take part in faction wars.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.7% ★, Survival 17.4%, Open World 15.7%, Multiplayer 11.4%, Crafting 8.4%
- #32 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
73% matchVery Positive82% of 10,269 reviews2024
Dev: Merge GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 16.0 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 27.6% ★, Survival 19.3%, Open World 14.9%, Multiplayer 12.3%, Crafting 8%
- #33 Stone Rage
76% matchMixed49% of 167 reviews2020
Dev: Mountainwheel Games
Windows
Stone Rage is a prehistoric, open-world survival game. Play as a Cro-Magnon or Neanderthal and shape-shift into beasts as you secure your place in a harsh landscape of dangerous animals, scarce resources, and unforgiving climates. Make friends and enemies. Build. Fight. Survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.1% ★, Survival 19.2%, Open World 16.7%, Sandbox 4.4%, RPG 4.1%
- #34 Last Oasis
74% matchMixed62% of 24,228 reviews2020
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 17.9 hrsMean: 121.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Nomadic Survival MMO. Build wooden walking machines to travel to new lands. Create clans and fight for territory. Resources deplete fast, so take your sword and scavenge, pirate, and trade to stay alive.
Why similar: Survival 25.8%, Open World 20.6%, Multiplayer 10.1%, Crafting 8.1%, Building 7.1%
- #35 Deadside
71% matchMostly Positive76% of 40,400 reviews2024
Dev: Bad Pixel
Windows
Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 44.5 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 30.5% ★, Survival 23.7%, Open World 17.6%, Multiplayer 10.7%, PvP 6.3%
- #36 Red Dead Online
71% matchVery Positive83% of 69,164 reviews2020
Dev: Rockstar Games
Windows
Median: 14.7 hrsMean: 73.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Step into the vibrant, ever-evolving world of Red Dead Online and experience life in frontier America. Chase down bounties, battle outlaw gangs and other players, hunt, fish and trade, search for exotic treasures, run Moonshine, and much more to discover in a world of astounding depth and detail.
Why similar: Western 56.1% ★, Open World 19.4%, Multiplayer 13.2%, PvP 2.9%, Adventure 2.2%
- #37 Bellwright
70% matchVery Positive80% of 20,703 reviews2024
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 12.8 hrsMean: 41.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Establish and expand your own settlements, liberate the land and assist its villagers, and recruit others to your cause while learning more about a life you had to leave behind. Command your forces, prove your valor through combat, and cement yourself as the hero of your people.
Why similar: Survival 30.9%, Open World 26%, Multiplayer 13.7%, Crafting 11.8%, Building 9%
- #38 Hide & Hold Out - H2o
75% matchMixed54% of 631 reviews2016
Dev: Red Abyss Software
Windows · Linux
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Hide & Hold Out is a multiplayer survival game taking place in a devastated water world. Gather, build, team up with your friends and establish the foundations of your future floating empire utilizing the heavy guns of your battle ships!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.1% ★, Survival 19.7%, Open World 11.2%, Multiplayer 10.3%, Crafting 5.8%
- #39 The Front
70% matchMixed67% of 10,771 reviews2025
Dev: Samar Studio
Windows
Median: 10.7 hrsMean: 44.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 27.8% ★, Survival 17.7%, Open World 14.4%, Multiplayer 11.9%, Crafting 8.4%
- #40 Green Hell
71% matchVery Positive85% of 99,313 reviews2019
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 18.5 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 34.4% ★, Survival 22.6%, Multiplayer 14.5%, Open World 12.6%, Crafting 6.6%
- #41 Life is Feudal: MMO
73% matchMixed40% of 7,347 reviews2018
Dev: LTG
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 45.5 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Experience the hardcore reality of the Middle Ages. Master survival, engage in deep-rooted RPG elements, navigate a bustling economy, build communities, and employ diplomatic strategy to thrive in Abella's vast expanse.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.1% ★, Survival 18.8%, Open World 12.6%, Crafting 8.1%, Building 7%
- #42 No One Survived
68% matchMixed64% of 7,705 reviews2025
Dev: Cat Play Studio
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 31.2%, Open World 24.1%, Multiplayer 15%, Crafting 9.5%, Building 7%
- #43 Valnir Rok Survival RPG
73% matchMixed44% of 980 reviews2017
Dev: encurio
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 42%
Valnir Rok is a multiplayer survival roleplaying game in a Viking setting with quests by bestselling author Giles Kristian. Explore a huge open world, craft items, cook meals, build houses and found clan cities. Raid other clans or place bounties. Pray to the gods and survive.
Why similar: Survival 23.4%, Open World 22.7%, Open World Survival Craft 15.9% ★, Multiplayer 12.2%, RPG 5.6%
- #44 Medieval Dynasty
67% matchVery Positive90% of 51,427 reviews2021
Dev: Render CubePub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 36.0 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: Survival 21.9%, Open World 19.1%, Multiplayer 15.1%, Crafting 15.1%, Building 14.1%
- #45 Valheim
66% matchVery Positive94% of 536,933 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 25.9 hrsMean: 77.4 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 31.6% ★, Survival 19.4%, Open World 16.3%, Multiplayer 11.6%, Crafting 7.3%
- #46 Journey Of Life
69% matchMixed56% of 755 reviews2021
Dev: Hyperion Studio Limited
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 47%
You have experienced the sudden loss of your wealth, which has compelled you to abandon your previous life and begin anew. By venturing into the game world, you can construct settlements and forge alliances with other players, ensuring that you will always have exciting challenges to undertake.
Why similar: Survival 23.3%, Open World 19.9%, Multiplayer 14.6%, Crafting 11.3%, Building 9.6%
- #47 Wilderness
70% matchMostly Negative28% of 86 reviews2020
Dev: Horizon Studios
Windows
Survive in the wild nature by playing as an animal or as a human. Play as an animal and survive by your own or build a herd to stay protected. Have babies and protect them from predators. Play as a human and craft items, build a house, customize your character and more.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.2% ★, Survival 23.5%, Open World 14.8%, Multiplayer 10.5%, Crafting 8.8%
- #48 The Wild Eight
68% matchMixed68% of 8,097 reviews2019
Dev: Eight PointsPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 7.6 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 33.9% ★, Survival 25.6%, Open World 13.8%, Multiplayer 11.9%, Crafting 6.1%
- #49 Wild Omission
65% matchVery Positive88% of 74 reviews2023
Dev: Telephone Studios
Windows
Wild Omission is an open world sandbox survival game with severe weather set in an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.4% ★, Survival 17.9%, Open World 15.4%, Multiplayer 11.3%, Crafting 8.8%
- #50 Longvinter
64% matchMixed67% of 7,607 reviews2025
Dev: Uuvana Studios
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 44.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Fish, farm, craft, gather, cook, loot or steal from other players and build a campsite or a village with your friends in an open-world multiplayer sandbox game without rules!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.5% ★, Survival 20.5%, Open World 16.2%, Multiplayer 14.2%, Crafting 9.2%
- #51 Soulmask
62% matchMostly Positive77% of 21,914 reviews2026
Dev: CampFire StudioPub: Qooland Games
Windows
Median: 13.8 hrsMean: 68.6 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: Open World Survival Craft 31.9% ★, Survival 20.6%, Open World 18.3%, Crafting 10.2%, PvP 6.3%
