Games Like ICARUS

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 27.4% ★, Survival 10.1%, Base Building 9.5%, Online Co-Op 9.4%, Crafting 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Like ICARUS, it blends co-op survival, base-building, crafting, and repeated expeditions into dangerous worlds where preparation against environmental threats matters.

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 29.6% ★, Survival 10.4%, Online Co-Op 9.9%, Base Building 8.7%, Crafting 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers the same loop of chopping, hunting, building, and venturing farther from a safe base with friends, just in a Norse setting.

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 35.2% ★, Survival 13.2%, Online Co-Op 9.2%, Multiplayer 8.3%, Base Building 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: If ICARUS's harsh weather, hunting, and survival management are your favorite parts, Green Hell pushes those wilderness systems even harder.

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 29.5% ★, Survival 15.6%, Base Building 12.5%, Multiplayer 8.6%, Crafting 8%

Why You'll Like It: Its co-op PvE survival loop of gathering, crafting, defending bases, and preparing for biome-specific dangers feels very close to ICARUS's expedition rhythm.

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 27.4% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Survival 9.7%, Online Co-Op 9.2%, Crafting 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It swaps combat for terraforming, but the alien-world survival, gathering, tech progression, and base-building arc strongly overlaps with ICARUS.

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: Base Building 17.3%, Survival 16.5%, Online Co-Op 13.4%, Open World 13.1%, Crafting 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the satisfying mix of exploration, large-scale base building, co-op progression, and crafting-driven advancement that makes ICARUS compelling.

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 27% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Survival 10.7%, Online Co-Op 10.1%, Crafting 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: This one nails the cooperative gather-craft-build-survive formula while sending you on purposeful runs into hazardous zones for resources and story 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 20.4%, Base Building 16.3%, Open World 12.5%, Multiplayer 11.2%, Co-op 11%

Why You'll Like It: Another strong PvE survival game where scavenging, building defensible shelters, and exploring a hostile open world with friends drive the experience.

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 26.4% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Survival 10.5%, Crafting 9.2%, Co-op 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Like ICARUS, it centers on surviving in a hostile world, upgrading a mobile base, and venturing out for resources and story-driven progression.

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 30.1% ★, Survival 11.1%, Base Building 10.2%, Open World 8%, Multiplayer 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its relaxed sci-fi version of exploration, resource collection, base expansion, and multiplayer planetary traversal scratches a similar frontier-survival itch.

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 25.9% ★, Base Building 10.9%, Survival 10.3%, Online Co-Op 8.7%, Crafting 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes environmental danger, crafting, exploration, and creative base placement in a cooperative survival framework.

Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.1% ★, Survival 11.1%, Co-op 8.5%, Building 8.3%, Crafting 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: For players who love ICARUS's sci-fi premise, it offers a deeper spacefaring sandbox of survival, construction, and hostile-world exploration.

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 31.1% ★, Survival 17.5%, Open World 10.5%, Crafting 9.8%, Building 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Open-world crafting, harsh survival systems, and cooperative settlement building make it a natural next step for ICARUS players.

No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.7% ★, Open World 11.9%, Survival 10.8%, Space 9.3%, Multiplayer 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: It leans more exploratory, but its co-op planet-hopping, base building, scanning, and survival hazards fit the same sci-fi pioneer fantasy.

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 33.5% ★, Base Building 9.6%, Survival 9.3%, Online Co-Op 7.9%, Crafting 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: You explore a strange world from a traveling base, gather resources on risky excursions, and steadily expand your tech and defenses in co-op.

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 38.8% ★, Survival 13.6%, Crafting 9.6%, Base Building 8.1%, Multiplayer 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers a more grounded wilderness survival experience focused on hunting, crafting, shelter, and incremental self-sufficiency.

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 39.2% ★, Survival 13.9%, Crafting 8.1%, Base Building 8%, Open World 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Taming aside, the core appeal is familiar: gather fast, build up, survive dangerous wildlife, and push into deadlier zones with a group.

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 33.4% ★, Survival 15.1%, Multiplayer 8.7%, Crafting 7.6%, Co-op 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its cooperative survival loop of constant gathering, crafting, upgrading your home base, and voyaging into story locations feels immediately compatible.

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 30.3% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Survival 12%, Crafting 9%, Open World 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: This is another tough open-world survival crafter with strong PvE, deep crafting, large bases, and progression through dangerous regions.

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 15.2%, Survival 12.4%, Crafting 12.1%, Online Co-Op 10.7%, Building 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its expedition-style loop of looting hostile territory and retreating to upgrade a persistent mobile base mirrors ICARUS's run-prep-progression feel.

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 28.8% ★, Base Building 12%, Crafting 9.1%, Survival 8.3%, Online Co-Op 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: It is closest to ICARUS when you're in the mood for alien-world resource chains, base expansion, and environmental transformation over intense combat.

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 30.5% ★, Survival 16.6%, Base Building 12.2%, Online Co-Op 9.7%, Open World 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the gather-craft-build-survive cadence, with a bigger emphasis on fortifying your base against escalating PvE threats.

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 25.3% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Survival 8.8%, Mining 8.6% ★, Crafting 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: It mixes survival crafting with vehicle and base construction on an alien planet, giving off a lighter but still familiar sci-fi pioneer vibe.

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: Base Building 14.9%, Survival 12%, Crafting 11.7%, Online Co-Op 10.9%, Open World 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its realistic sci-fi survival, harsh environmental maintenance, and methodical base construction echo ICARUS's frontier problem-solving side.

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 39.1% ★, Base Building 13%, Survival 12.5%, Crafting 8.2%, Space 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Though solo, it channels the same sci-fi survival-crafting appeal of turning a lethal environment into a manageable home through tech and exploration.

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 28.1% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Survival 10.3%, Crafting 8.8%, Building 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: This one offers another co-op-friendly open-world survival loop of scavenging, crafting, building, and defending in a hostile sandbox.

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 30.1% ★, Survival 12.8%, Open World 10.1%, Online Co-Op 8.4%, Multiplayer 8%

Why You'll Like It: Under the creature-collecting layer, it still offers open-world survival, resource gathering, automated bases, and co-op exploration progression.

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 36% ★, Survival 12.3%, Base Building 11.3%, Co-op 8.5%, Crafting 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Base building, scavenging runs, crafting progression, and co-op survival against a dangerous world make it an easy genre-adjacent pick.

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 28.9% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Survival 10.8%, Crafting 9%, Online Co-Op 7.9%

Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival RPG where you can fully immerse yourself in the epic world of Dune. Alone or with friends, explore a vast open world Arrakis, survive the sandworms, build a home, craft an ornithopter, and unravel the mystery of the missing Fremen.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.7% ★, Base Building 11%, Survival 9.5%, Online Co-Op 8.9%, Crafting 8.2%

Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.

Why similar: Base Building 16%, Survival 13.7%, Building 10.4%, Open World 9.7%, Co-op 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: This is a stronger fit if your favorite part of ICARUS is engineering elaborate bases and solving survival problems in a sandbox world.

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 29.9% ★, Survival 10.8%, Online Co-Op 10.7%, Base Building 10.1%, Crafting 5.9%

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 20.3%, Open World Survival Craft 16.7% ★, Crafting 11.8%, Open World 9.6%, Building 8.7%

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 37.5% ★, Base Building 15.9%, Building 9.5%, Co-op 8.9%, Sandbox 6.3%

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 29.3% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Online Co-Op 8.5%, Crafting 7.9%, Multiplayer 7.3%

KeepUp Survival is an open base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and unfold your own story on a mysterious island.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.9% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Survival 10.9%, Crafting 8.9%, Open World 7.6%

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 40.7% ★, Base Building 15.8%, Online Co-Op 13.3%, Crafting 7%, Open World 6.3%

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 27.4% ★, Online Co-Op 9.6%, Survival 9.4%, Base Building 9.3%, Co-op 6.8%

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 34.1% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Survival 12.3%, Crafting 10.9%, Open World 8.3%

Lost Rift is a first person survival adventure shooter that blends cooperative base building with multiplayer PvE or PvP extraction expeditions. Journey solo or in teams of up to 5 players across a vast archipelago, craft gear, build bases, defeat raiders, and become legendary.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.6% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Survival 11.3%, Crafting 10.3%, Online Co-Op 10%

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 32.9% ★, Survival 10.3%, Open World 8.4%, Online Co-Op 8.2%, Crafting 8%

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 31% ★, Base Building 13%, Survival 12.6%, Crafting 9.2%, Multiplayer 7.8%

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 32.3% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Survival 12.6%, Online Co-Op 11.1%, Open World 8.4%

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 25.9% ★, Survival 10.1%, Base Building 9.9%, Crafting 8.7%, Online Co-Op 8%

Survive a brutal open world alone or with friends. Explore a procedural wasteland scorched by chaos. Build and defend your base, trade for what you need, complete deadly quests, and fight to claim faction outposts before someone else does.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.4% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Survival 9.8%, Online Co-Op 9.5%, Crafting 8.6%

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 22.9% ★, Survival 14.5%, Base Building 12.9%, Crafting 8.1%, Multiplayer 7.6%

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 39.1% ★, Survival 14.1%, Crafting 9.1%, Open World 8.1%, Multiplayer 6.8%

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 33.9% ★, Survival 15.2%, Base Building 9.4%, Open World 8.9%, Crafting 6.8%

On a future post-apocalyptic Earth, build, craft, and loot other players’ bases to survive long enough to board the rocket and escape the dangerous robots and mercenaries that inhabit Ararat Island. Manipulate the weather and use earthquakes to change when the server wipe occurs in DYSTERRA!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.5% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Survival 11.3%, Online Co-Op 10.6%, Crafting 10.4%

Embark on an unpredictable survival journey in Start Over. Solo, co-op, online, explore diverse landscapes, craft through 4 tech tiers, encounter wildlife, and trade or raid for resources. Choose your path, defend against waves, and shape your destiny in a dynamic world. Are you ready to Start Over?

Why similar: Base Building 17.5%, Survival 15.3%, Crafting 13.4%, Building 10.2%, Multiplayer 7.7%

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: Crafting 16.9%, Building 14.1%, Base Building 13.8%, Survival 13.5%, Co-op 9.4%

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 23.2% ★, Survival 11.9%, Online Co-Op 10.1%, Building 9.2%, Base Building 8.7%

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 38.1% ★, Survival 13.3%, Base Building 11.7%, Crafting 10.6%, Open World 9.1%

In Lightyear Frontier you use your powerful trusty mech to farm on a large beautiful alien planet. Settle your homestead, farm and deliver produce to remote colonies, gather and manage resources, build, craft, explore, expand, improve your mech, meet neighbors, and make a place to call your own.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.6% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Online Co-Op 11.1%, Crafting 10.5%, Survival 9.3%

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 33.1% ★, Survival 11.7%, Base Building 10.4%, Crafting 9.4%, Building 8.8%

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 28.4% ★, Survival 11.8%, Crafting 10.4%, Open World 8.6%, Multiplayer 8%

'Night of the Dead' is an open-world game that combines elements of exploration, tower defense, survival, and crafting. Traverse a world dominated by zombies while collecting various resources and powerful equipment. Build a fortress to survive the hordes of zombies that swarm every night!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.9% ★, Base Building 10.8%, Online Co-Op 9.7%, Survival 9.2%, Crafting 8.5%

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 20.8%, Base Building 19.6%, Open World 14.2%, Crafting 11.4%, Co-op 10.3%