Games Like 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 17%, Open World 13.6%, Online Co-Op 13.2%, Crafting 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its co-op exploration, flexible voxel base building, gathering and crafting progression, and dangerous PvE world make it an especially close alternative to ICARUS.

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.3% ★, Survival 10.5%, Online Co-Op 9.7%, Base Building 8.7%, Open World 7%

Why You'll Like It: A harsh procedural wilderness, cooperative boss-driven progression, building, hunting, and expedition-based resource runs closely match ICARUS's survival rhythm.

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 28% ★, Survival 10.3%, Base Building 9.5%, Online Co-Op 9.1%, Crafting 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: This is a PvE survival-crafting adventure built around traversing dangerous realms, constructing estates, gathering resources, and undertaking co-op expeditions.

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 26.5% ★, Base Building 10.9%, Survival 10.6%, Online Co-Op 8.4%, Crafting 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its co-op wilderness survival, environmental hazards, crafting, and highly customizable base building capture ICARUS's exploratory PvE appeal on a smaller scale.

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 27.9% ★, Base Building 14.8%, Survival 12.8%, Crafting 11%, Open World 9%

Why You'll Like It: Its unforgiving open-world survival, detailed crafting and building, tribal progression, and optional online co-op offer a similarly systems-heavy PvE sandbox.

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 35.6% ★, Survival 13.3%, Online Co-Op 9%, Multiplayer 8.3%, Base Building 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Green Hell emphasizes grounded wilderness survival, hunting, injuries and needs management, crafting, and co-op play in an especially punishing environment.

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 28.8% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Survival 10.4%, Crafting 8.6%, Building 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its open-world PvE survival loop centers on scavenging, crafting, building fortified bases, and surviving dangerous AI-controlled territories with friends.

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 28% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Survival 9.8%, Online Co-Op 9%, Crafting 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a more relaxed solo-or-co-op alternative focused on gathering materials, building outposts, exploring an alien planet, and gradually transforming it.

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 27% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Survival 10.7%, Crafting 9%, Open World 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its survival crafting, modular mobile base, atmospheric exploration, and cooperative scavenging make it a compelling sci-fi alternative.

Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends, in this terrifying new open-world survival horror simulator.

Why similar: Survival 20.9%, Base Building 16.2%, Open World 12.9%, Multiplayer 11%, Co-op 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: You and friends gather, build, defend a shelter, and explore a lethal open world, with a stronger horror focus than ICARUS.

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 22.2%, Base Building 16.8%, Open World 14.4%, Crafting 12.7%, Multiplayer 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: ARK offers a large hostile world for co-op survival, resource gathering, construction, exploration, and creature-driven progression.

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 30% ★, Survival 15.8%, Base Building 12.3%, Multiplayer 8.5%, Crafting 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its approachable but deep co-op survival loop of gathering, crafting, base defense, and environmental exploration is a strong fit for ICARUS players.

Dune: Awakening is a single- and multiplayer Open World Survival game with immersive adventure and RPG gameplay. Explore, build, craft, and unravel a cinematic Dune story 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 26.4% ★, Base Building 11%, Survival 9.7%, Online Co-Op 8.6%, Crafting 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its brutal desert survival, resource harvesting, construction, open-world exploration, and multiplayer PvE activities echo ICARUS on a much larger online scale.

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 33.6% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Survival 12.9%, Crafting 9.8%, Open World 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: This methodical survival adventure emphasizes exploration, hunting, crafting, shelter construction, and preparing carefully for increasingly hazardous expeditions.

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 27.7% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Survival 11%, Online Co-Op 9.8%, Crafting 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: This co-op PvE survival game rewards resourceful scavenging, elaborate improvised crafting, and collaborative base building inside a dangerous research complex.

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 34% ★, Survival 15.3%, Multiplayer 8.6%, Base Building 7.5%, Co-op 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Raft shares ICARUS's satisfying gather-craft-build-survive cycle and co-op exploration, replacing planetary wilderness with an expanding ocean voyage.

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 39.5% ★, Survival 13.8%, Crafting 9.3%, Base Building 8%, Open World 7%

Why You'll Like It: This smaller-scale PvE survival sandbox focuses directly on gathering, hunting, crafting, building a base, and defending against hostile AI.

Once Human is a Strange Worlds Survival Game set in a strange, post-apocalyptic future. Unite with friends to fight monstrous enemies, uncover secret plots, compete for resources, and build your own territory. Once, you were merely human. Now, you have the power to remake the world.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.8% ★, Base Building 10%, Survival 9.9%, Online Co-Op 8.1%, Crafting 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Once Human delivers open-world multiplayer survival with territory building, crafting, exploration, and PvE encounters in a sci-fi post-apocalypse.

Survive and colonize Mars alone or in online co-op. Build and upgrade your base, craft equipment, mine resources, produce water, oxygen and food, explore an open world, and repair complex machinery in a technical survival sandbox.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25% ★, Base Building 10.4%, Survival 8.9%, Online Co-Op 8.2%, Crafting 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its detailed Mars colonization systems, habitat construction, resource management, and environmental survival strongly suit ICARUS players who enjoy sci-fi base operations.

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% ★, Base Building 9.6%, Survival 9.4%, Online Co-Op 7.6%, Crafting 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Voidtrain blends co-op survival crafting, hostile-world exploration, upgrades, and a customizable moving base into an unusual expedition-focused adventure.

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 39.8% ★, Survival 14.7%, Online Co-Op 10.7%, Open World 10.6%, Crafting 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its demanding survival simulation, large open world, crafting, base building, and PvE server options suit players wanting even deeper survival management.

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 31.1% ★, Survival 16.8%, Base Building 12.2%, Online Co-Op 9.4%, Open World 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its scavenging, extensive construction, crafting progression, and recurring PvE defense pressure create a more zombie-heavy version of ICARUS's survival loop.

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 30.7% ★, Survival 11.2%, Co-op 8.4%, Building 8.2%, Crafting 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: It expands the survival-crafting formula into space with planetary exploration, mining, construction, vehicle building, and cooperative PvE scenarios.

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 30.7% ★, Survival 11.2%, Base Building 10.1%, Open World 8.2%, Multiplayer 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: Astroneer offers a gentler but rewarding cooperative loop of alien-planet exploration, terrain manipulation, resource gathering, base building, and crafting.

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 30.7% ★, Survival 13.1%, Open World 10.5%, Online Co-Op 8.2%, Multiplayer 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Palworld combines open-world gathering, construction, crafting, co-op play, and PvE exploration, though creature collecting is a much larger part of its identity.

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 49.5% ★, Survival 17.8%, Open World 9.4%, Crafting 8.4%, Building 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: The Forest is a tense co-op wilderness survival game centered on gathering, crafting, building defensive shelters, and exploring a dangerous island.

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 16.5%, Building 14%, Base Building 14%, Survival 13.9%, Open World 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: It favors slower, more domestic wilderness survival and settlement building, but still delivers gathering, crafting, hunting, and open-world 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 36.6% ★, Survival 12.4%, Base Building 11.2%, Co-op 8.3%, Crafting 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: This waterlogged survival sandbox has satisfying scavenging, crafting, island-base construction, and PvE raids for groups seeking a more relaxed setting.

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 29.5% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Survival 10.9%, Crafting 8.7%, Online Co-Op 7.7%

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 29.5% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 8.8%, Survival 8.4%, Online Co-Op 8.1%

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 15.3%, Survival 12.7%, Crafting 11.9%, Online Co-Op 10.5%, Building 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its resource expeditions, crafting, modular mobile base, and hostile PvE world offer a distinctive steampunk take on the build-and-survive formula.

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 20.5%, Open World Survival Craft 17.2% ★, Crafting 11.5%, Open World 9.9%, Building 8.5%

You are a fallen Spartan, cast into the realm between the living and the Underworld. In this survival adventure inspired by Greek myth, hunt, craft and build a home worthy of legend with up to 3 friends. Raid the gods' temples, defeat legendary creatures and loot the iconic weapons of the Olympians.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.5% ★, Survival 10.9%, Online Co-Op 10.4%, Base Building 10%, Open World 5.9%

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 28.4% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Survival 11.1%, Crafting 8.7%, Open World 7.7%

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 28.1% ★, Survival 9.6%, Online Co-Op 9.3%, Base Building 9.2%, Co-op 6.7%

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 29.9% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Online Co-Op 8.3%, Crafting 7.6%, Multiplayer 7.3%

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 27.3% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Survival 8.9%, Online Co-Op 8.8%, Crafting 8.5%

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 41.7% ★, Base Building 15.6%, Online Co-Op 13%, Crafting 6.8%, Open World 6.4%

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 34.7% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Survival 12.4%, Crafting 10.6%, Open World 8.5%

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 25.8% ★, Survival 14.6%, Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 7.6%, Open World 7.5%

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 33.3% ★, Survival 10.4%, Open World 8.5%, Online Co-Op 8%, Crafting 7.8%

Create an automated system that terraforms a planet with an army of drones. Craft and build bases, set up a weather monitoring system, prepare to survive different types of storms, and take control of the climate and biomes! Play alone or up to 4 player co-op.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.6% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Survival 9.8%, Online Co-Op 8.4%, Crafting 8.3%

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 25.9% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Survival 9%, Mining 8.2% ★, Crafting 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 29.8% ★, Survival 13.3%, Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 9.9%, Open World 7.8%

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 31.3% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Survival 11.5%, Crafting 10.1%, Online Co-Op 9.8%

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 38.6% ★, Survival 13.4%, Base Building 11.7%, Crafting 10.3%, Open World 9.3%

Rising World is a voxel based open-world sandbox game, featuring a procedurally generated world, playable in single and multi-player.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.1% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Mining 10.5% ★, Survival 9.3%, Crafting 8.2%

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

Why similar: Survival 14.9%, Online Co-Op 14.2%, Crafting 12.8%, Open World 11%, Building 10.8%

Enter a living post-apocalyptic sandbox where the world doesn't wait for you. Build, craft, trade, earn the trust of factions, and forge your own path through a brutal procedural wasteland.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Survival 10%, Online Co-Op 9.2%, Crafting 8.4%

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 38.3% ★, Base Building 15.8%, Building 9.3%, Co-op 8.7%, Sandbox 6.1%

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 31.3% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Survival 11.5%, Online Co-Op 10.4%, Crafting 10.2%

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 39.3% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Survival 12.5%, Space 8%, Crafting 7.7%

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 23.6% ★, Survival 12%, Online Co-Op 9.9%, Building 9.1%, Base Building 8.8%

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 33.8% ★, Survival 11.9%, Base Building 10.4%, Crafting 9.1%, Building 8.6%

'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 28.6% ★, Base Building 10.8%, Online Co-Op 9.4%, Survival 9.4%, Crafting 8.3%

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 26.5% ★, Survival 10.2%, Base Building 9.9%, Crafting 8.5%, Online Co-Op 7.8%

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 31.6% ★, Base Building 13%, Survival 12.7%, Crafting 8.9%, Open World 7.7%

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 21.8%, Base Building 19.7%, Open World 15%, Crafting 10.8%, Co-op 9.9%