- #1 Voidtrain
97% 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 32.7% ★, Trains 20.2% ★, Base Building 9.4%, Crafting 8.4%, Survival 7.6%
- #2 EverRail
96% matchMostly Positive70% of 372 reviews2026
Dev: Aesir Interactive
Windows
Every passenger is a life. Every death brings the end closer. An open world survival crafting game where you explore, scavenge, and craft to endure on the frozen exomoon Inara. Command and upgrade your ever-moving train, solo or with up to 4 players. Move or freeze.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.1% ★, Trains 18.7% ★, Post-apocalyptic 10.3%, Base Building 9.8%, Crafting 8.5%
- #3 Forever Skies
96% 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 26.2% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 10.8%, Post-apocalyptic 10.2%, Survival 8.8%
- #4 The Last Caretaker
94% matchVery Positive86% of 13,056 reviews2025
Dev: Channel37 Ltd
Windows
Median: 19.6 hrsMean: 36.3 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Explore a drowned Earth, restore lost systems, and raise the last human seeds in this first-person survival-crafting adventure. Build, scavenge, defend, and launch humanity back to the stars.
Why similar: Base Building 16.4%, Crafting 15.2%, Post-apocalyptic 15.2%, Lore-Rich 12.5%, Survival 11.9%
- #5 Zompiercer
95% matchVery Positive88% of 4,697 reviews2020
Dev: DDDimanN
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Take control of the train which will become your haven on the rails. Collect resources, craft equipment, construct a cozy house on railway cars, and travel through the carefully handcrafted locations to explore the story of a zombie apocalypse world.
Why similar: Trains 31.4% ★, Post-apocalyptic 18.4%, Base Building 17.8%, Survival 11.6%, Sandbox 9.3%
- #6 Breathedge
94% 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 41.6% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Survival 11.2%, Crafting 10.1%, Sandbox 7.1%
- #7 StarRupture
92% 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 35.7% ★, Base Building 15.9%, Crafting 13.1%, Survival 11.2%, Open World 8.3%
- #8 Subsistence
93% 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 44.5% ★, Survival 13.1%, Crafting 13%, Base Building 9.2%, Building 8.2%
- #9 Survival: Fountain of Youth
91% matchVery Positive85% of 4,480 reviews2024
Dev: Odinsoft Inc.Pub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Survival: Fountain of Youth is a challenging single-player open-world adventure game set on the Caribbean islands. Survive as a shipwrecked 16th-century explorer, craft tools and shelter, and uncover the secrets of both an ancient civilization and your own fate.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.8% ★, Base Building 14.2%, Crafting 12.3%, Survival 11%, Building 8.6%
- #10 Mist Survival
91% matchMostly Positive76% of 14,333 reviews2018
Dev: Dimension 32 Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 15.1 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 42.5% ★, Survival 18.6%, Base Building 12.6%, Open World 10.1%, Crafting 9.5%
- #11 The Planet Crafter
89% 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 33.2% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Crafting 11.3%, Building 10.6%, Survival 9.9%
- #12 Volcanoids
90% 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 19.3%, Crafting 18.2%, Building 15.3%, Survival 13.3%, Open World 9.6%
- #13 Winter Survival
89% matchMixed63% of 776 reviews2025
Dev: DRAGO entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Winter Survival is a story-driven survival game where trauma turns reality into a reflection of your breaking mind. Battle cold, hunger, hallucinations, and adapt to the wilderness as it adapts to you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.7% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Survival 11%, Building 8.9%, Crafting 8.8%
- #14 TerraTech Worlds
87% matchMixed63% of 2,287 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 22.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 32.1% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Crafting 12.3%, Building 10.7%, Survival 9.5%
- #15 Astrometica
86% matchVery Positive83% of 3,181 reviews2024
Dev: BeryMeryPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 17.1 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Astrometica is a space exploration and base-building survival game. After a catastrophic event, explore vast space, gather resources, build bases, and uncover cosmic mysteries. Use advanced technology, craft tools, and discover new blueprints to survive and thrive in the unknown.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.5% ★, Crafting 18.1%, Base Building 16.7%, Survival 15.9%, Open World 11.9%
- #16 Starsand
86% matchMixed66% of 1,254 reviews2022
Dev: Tunnel Vision StudioPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Starsand is a mystic survival game set among the dunes of an arcane desert. An open-world full of danger, vast environments and mysterious happenings await you! Explore, hunt, craft, build – and SURVIVE.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 11.8%, Survival 10.3%, Building 8.7%
- #17 Urge
85% matchVery Positive90% of 520 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 28.2% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Post-apocalyptic 10.4%, Crafting 9.4%, Building 9%
- #18 Occupy Mars: The Game
83% matchMixed70% of 3,132 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 34.1 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.6% ★, Base Building 14%, Crafting 12.5%, Building 10%, Survival 9.9%
- #19 Scrapnaut
84% matchMixed70% of 837 reviews2021
Dev: SpiffyBitPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
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 26.1% ★, Building 13.4%, Survival 11.2%, Crafting 10.4%, Base Building 9.9%
- #20 Eden Crafters
81% matchVery Positive85% of 2,630 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.8% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Crafting 12.9%, Building 9.8%, Survival 8.4%
- #21 Under A New Sun
82% matchMostly Positive76% of 400 reviews2023
Dev: New Horizon Games
Windows
While searching for a new home, an unexpected failure in your ship has left you stranded on a planet surprisingly similar to Earth. Discover a vast open world, hunt for food, develop technologies, and build yourself a new home to survive!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.8% ★, Crafting 13.2%, Base Building 12.3%, Survival 11.8%, Open World 8.7%
- #22 Novus Inceptio
84% matchMixed52% of 1,304 reviews2015
Dev: McMagic Productions
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Warning: This is an Early Access game! Welcome to an enigmatic world, where a new gaming experience in exploring, building and surviving is waiting just for you. Experience a sandbox world with survival elements, and join us in creating a full version of the game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.3% ★, Crafting 11%, Base Building 11%, Survival 9.6%, Post-apocalyptic 8.9%
- #23 Drive 4 Survival
82% matchMixed65% of 304 reviews2020
Dev: M3M Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Drive 4 Survival is a struggle for survival mostly in the frozen wilderness, where you have to rely only on yourself and your car. Try to survive!
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 21.5%, Base Building 16.3%, Survival 13%, Open World 11.4%, Building 9.5%
- #24 Space Trash Scavenger
80% matchVery Positive84% of 525 reviews2024
Dev: SquarePlay GamesPub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Grab your jetpack and explore procedural asteroid fields, derelict spaceships and abandoned outposts. Build and automate your Space Rig to process scavenged trash. Craft, trade and fight your way home in this interstellar, open-world survival sandbox.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.2% ★, Crafting 13%, Survival 10.2%, Base Building 10%, Building 9.7%
- #25 Trans-Siberian Railway Simulator
78% matchVery Positive92% of 1,938 reviews2024
Dev: PentaclePub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Take control of a Soviet locomotive and embark on a dangerous journey along the world's longest railway line. Face mafia rivals, bandits, wild animals, constant breakdowns, severe frosts, hunger, and... a hangover. How far will you get before your supplies run out?
Why similar: Trains 46.9% ★, Survival 16.6%, Open World 12.1%, Sandbox 10.6%, Exploration 6.7%
- #26 Northern Lights
81% matchMixed67% of 296 reviews2020
Dev: MadGoat Studio
Windows
Northern Lights is an open world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the arctic tundra. Clinging to life, you must use real-life survival techniques to gather resources, craft, and hunt while tending to your health and sanity. Can you survive your way out of the mysterious island?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.7% ★, Post-apocalyptic 13.1%, Crafting 12.8%, Survival 11.4%, Open World 8.5%
- #27 OxyRail
77% matchVery Positive80% of 970 reviews2026
Dev: OxygenTech Limited
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Oxygen Train is an open-world survival train game. Wake up in a world lacking oxygen. Chop trees, mine, gather resources, upgrade your unique train. Survive by planting, fishing, farming, exploring, fighting. Build your train kingdom. Supports 1-8 online co-op.
Why similar: Trains 27.9% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Building 13.5%, Survival 11.8%, Crafting 9.3%
- #28 Solarpunk™
76% 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 32.9% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Crafting 12.7%, Building 11.2%, Survival 9%
- #29 Crushed
79% matchMixed54% of 318 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 33.4% ★, Crafting 10.1%, Survival 10%, Base Building 9.9%, Post-apocalyptic 9.4%
- #30 KeepUp Survival
77% matchMixed64% of 749 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 34.9% ★, Base Building 14.2%, Crafting 13.2%, Survival 11.5%, Open World 8.5%
- #31 Project: Mist
75% matchMostly Positive72% of 254 reviews2026
Dev: Chicken Launcher
Windows
Explore a strange island in this open-world survival horror. Use the Gravity Gun to manipulate objects and enemies, build a moving train base, fight giant creatures, catch critters, upgrade your gear, and uncover the dark secrets hidden within its abandoned facilities. Play alone or with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.2% ★, Post-apocalyptic 15.7%, Crafting 12.7%, Building 11.6%, Survival 9.4%
- #32 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
74% matchVery Positive91% of 7,602 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Survive, craft, and automate in this free prologue set on one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters, an open-world game where you play solo or with friends to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.4% ★, Base Building 14%, Crafting 11.2%, Building 8.4%, Survival 7.3%
- #33 Cubic Odyssey
75% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,720 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Embark on a galactic journey in Cubic Odyssey, an open-world adventure where you explore vibrant planets, craft tools, build vehicles, and fight the Red Darkness. Uncover ancient mysteries, and shape a universe full of life, danger, and limitless possibilities!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.3% ★, Base Building 17.9%, Building 13.7%, Sandbox 8.2%, Crafting 4.5%
- #34 Satisfactory
72% 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 23.2%, Open World Survival Craft 19.1% ★, Crafting 15.8%, Building 12.6%, Open World 9.8%
- #35 Pandemic Train
76% matchMixed59% of 252 reviews2023
Dev: Trigger LabsPub: Games Operators
Windows
In Pandemic Train you are in charge of the crew aboard a train roaming the postapocalyptic wasteland, ravaged by both war and a deadly plague. Your goal is to survive long enough to discover the cure… or die trying. Humanity’s fate is in your hands! Start your journey now!
Why similar: Trains 32% ★, Crafting 13.7%, Post-apocalyptic 13.6%, Survival 13.1%, Base Building 12.6%
- #36 Blossom: The Seed of Life
72% matchVery Positive88% of 1,019 reviews2026
Dev: Pebbledust GamesPub: Pretty Soon
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Terraform a dead planet back to life in this open world survival crafting game. Explore ruins, gather resources, print machines, drive modular vehicles, grow forests, biomes, and ecosystems. Create life and make it thrive with your own hands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.1% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Post-apocalyptic 10.2%, Crafting 10.1%, Building 9.1%
- #37 RailGods of Hysterra
74% matchMixed54% of 345 reviews2025
Dev: Troglobytes GamesPub: Digital Vortex Entertainment
Windows
Embark on a co-op survival journey for 1-5 players through a post-apocalyptic Lovecraftian world! Command and evolve a living, monstrous train, craft weapons, build a mobile base, gain powers, and face the Great Old Ones. Explore an ever-changing world, hold on to your sanity, and ascend to godhood!
Why similar: Base Building 24.7%, Crafting 22%, Survival 18.1%, Building 15.5%, Sandbox 8.8%
- #38 VEIN
70% matchVery Positive88% of 12,003 reviews2025
Dev: Ramjet Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 14.3 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: Base Building 20.8%, Post-apocalyptic 19%, Survival 18.7%, Crafting 13.9%, Open World 13.7%
- #39 Sunkenland
71% 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 41.2% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Survival 11.9%, Crafting 10.6%, Post-apocalyptic 8.6%
- #40 MEAT TRAIN
70% matchVery Positive92% of 74 reviews2026
Dev: Kiwiforge
Windows
Meat Train is a FPS game where you operate a train thats uses MEAT for FUEL. Explore a wasteland where everything wants you dead, scavenge for weapons and loot. Upgrade the train and attempt to destroy an evil AI megafactory.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 39.1%, Looter Shooter 25.2% ★, Open World 15.2%, Exploration 11.5%, Adventure 5.4%
- #41 Remains
73% matchMostly Positive75% of 321 reviews2021
Dev: SoloQ
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Remains - survival in outer space orbiting the planet. Explore the area. Find a way to restore oxygen. Create tools for your needs. Beware of the dangers of outer space. Build your shelter in orbit and try not to die!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.8% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 12.6%, Building 10.8%, Survival 9.6%
- #42 SURVIVAL: Postapocalypse Now
73% 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 49.6% ★, Survival 15%, Post-apocalyptic 12.2%, Open World 7.8%, Crafting 7.5%
- #43 Derail Valley
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 9,700 reviews2019
Dev: Altfuture
Windows
Median: 13.9 hrsMean: 36.7 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Drive massive trains and build your career in a vast open railway network. For both PC and VR.
Why similar: Trains 67.7% ★, Open World 14.8%, Sandbox 10.1%, First-Person 3.8%, Adventure 3.2%
- #44 The Infected
71% matchVery Positive84% of 6,982 reviews2020
Dev: DigX Studios
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 68%
The Infected is a sandbox, first-person, open-world survival game. Build bases, craft, farm, hunt, and survive changing seasons. Choose whether to face the hybrid “Vambies” or turn them off for a pure survival experience.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.8% ★, Base Building 14.3%, Crafting 12.4%, Building 11.1%, Survival 9.8%
- #45 GRAV
73% 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 43.8% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Survival 13.1%, Crafting 10.1%, Open World 8.8%
- #46 I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival
68% matchVery Positive85% of 4,645 reviews2024
Dev: MandragoraPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 14.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
I Am Future is a relaxing single-player survival game about building a cozy rooftop camp amid a flooded post-apocalyptic city. Set up a farm, go fishing, tinker with gadgets, craft new tools, manage a team of cute robots to automate and expand your base, explore the mysterious world, and chill out!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.6% ★, Crafting 13%, Post-apocalyptic 11.5%, Building 11.2%, Base Building 10.8%
- #47 DREADZONE
70% matchMixed51% of 1,210 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: Base Building 18.1%, Crafting 15.8%, Post-apocalyptic 15.7%, Survival 14.3%, Building 12.9%
- #48 Surviving Ceres
68% matchVery Positive87% of 139 reviews2025
Dev: Ryan SaundersPub: One Man Media
Windows
Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building. Export manufactured goods to earn funding, manage colonists, defend against hostile aliens, and work towards terraforming Ceres from a frozen ball of ice to a tropical paradise.
Why similar: Crafting 21%, Base Building 19.8%, Building 18.5%, Survival 17.1%, Open World 11.2%
- #49 Frozen Ship
68% matchMostly Positive76% of 135 reviews2026
Dev: Nionetix
Windows
Frozen Ship is an open-world survival game where you manage an entire city on wheels. Building, crafting, research, medicine, resource gathering, and hunting — you decide what your people will do and how your city will develop.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 22.5%, Base Building 18.4%, Crafting 15.7%, Survival 15.5%, Building 13%
- #50 Outbreak Island
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,082 reviews2025
Dev: Tiny Magicians
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Survive on a remote Island, where a mysterious Outbreak awakens bloodthirsty monsters at night. Craft, build and defend your base in the brutal world of Outbreak Island, an open-world sandbox survival horror game.
Why similar: Survival 15.2%, Post-apocalyptic 14.6%, Base Building 14.1%, Crafting 13.8%, Building 11.4%
- #51 Beyond Contact
69% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,132 reviews2023
Dev: Playcorp StudiosPub: Deep Silver
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 68%
A fiercely formidable sci-fi survival game, set on a hostile alien world that wants you dead! Alone, or with a crew, do you have what it takes to survive?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.3% ★, Base Building 16.6%, Crafting 15.3%, Survival 14.2%, Adventure 3.6%
- #52 INCUR Survival
69% matchVery Positive83% of 109 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 39.9% ★, Building 14%, Crafting 14%, Survival 11.2%, Open World 8%
- #53 The Front
66% matchMixed67% of 10,771 reviews2025
Dev: Samar Studio
Windows
Median: 10.6 hrsMean: 44.8 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 35.4% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Crafting 13%, Building 11.5%, Survival 10.9%
- #54 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,709 reviews2021
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Experience the first stages of terraforming an entire planet in this space survival open world terraforming crafting game prologue. Explore, survive, collect, build your base then create oxygen, heat and pressure to make an hostile planet livable for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.7% ★, Base Building 14.6%, Crafting 12.1%, Survival 11.9%, Open World 7.7%
- #55 ASTRONEER
65% 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 36.7% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Survival 11.4%, Open World 8.8%, Crafting 8.7%
- #56 LIFE EFFECT Survival
63% matchVery Positive87% of 519 reviews2026
Dev: LIFE EFFECTPub: EFFECT STUDIO
Windows
Survive in a harsh and dangerous world after an alien invasion. Gather resources, craft equipment, fight mutants and massive monsters, use weapons, vehicles and robots, explore territories, defend strongholds and fight for survival.
Why similar: Crafting 22.5%, Looter Shooter 18.7% ★, Survival 17.8%, Futuristic 15.4%, Sandbox 12.6%