Games Like ICARUS

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 27.5% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Survival 9.7%, Online Co-Op 9.3%, Crafting 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Another survival-crafting game on a hostile planet where gathering, building, and tech progression are the core loop, just with terraforming replacing most of the combat focus.

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 35.3% ★, Survival 13.2%, Online Co-Op 9.2%, Multiplayer 8.3%, Base Building 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: If ICARUS's punishing environmental survival and cooperative base setup are what you love, Green Hell delivers an even harsher wilderness sim with crafting, hunting, and expedition-style exploration.

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 27.5% ★, Survival 10.2%, Base Building 9.5%, Online Co-Op 9.3%, Crafting 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Like ICARUS, it mixes survival crafting, co-op, and repeated expeditions into dangerous realms while steadily unlocking better gear and structures.

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: It captures the sci-fi side of ICARUS with planetary prospecting, outpost construction, resource extraction, and constant life-support management on an unforgiving world.

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 29.8% ★, Survival 10.5%, Online Co-Op 9.8%, Base Building 8.7%, Crafting 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the satisfying gather-build-craft-explore loop and co-op PvE progression, though in a mythic Viking setting rather than a sci-fi frontier.

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 16.6%, Online Co-Op 13.4%, Open World 13.2%, Crafting 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers co-op survival, expansive exploration, and flexible base-building with a stronger action-RPG slant but a very similar progression-driven loop.

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% ★, Base Building 10.9%, Survival 10.4%, Online Co-Op 8.6%, Crafting 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Another PvE survival adventure built around dangerous fauna, exploration, and building safe structures in a hostile natural world.

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 29.6% ★, Survival 15.7%, Base Building 12.4%, Multiplayer 8.6%, Crafting 8%

Why You'll Like It: A polished co-op survival-builder with dangerous wildlife, tiered crafting, and memorable base construction that scratches the same PvE survival itch.

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 30.3% ★, Survival 11.1%, Co-op 8.5%, Building 8.3%, Crafting 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It leans harder into sci-fi sandbox systems, but surviving on alien planets, building bases, and exploring with friends feels very ICARUS-adjacent.

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 26.6% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Survival 10.6%, Crafting 9.2%, Co-op 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Another sci-fi survival-builder about scavenging, crafting, and upgrading a mobile base while exploring a ruined world with a partner.

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.8% ★, Open World 11.9%, Survival 10.8%, Space 9.2%, Multiplayer 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its vast planetary exploration, resource harvesting, base-building, and co-op play make it a great fit if you want ICARUS on a much larger sci-fi scale.

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 30.3% ★, Survival 11.1%, Base Building 10.2%, Open World 8%, Multiplayer 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: If the appeal is cooperative survival-lite on alien worlds with crafting and modular bases, ASTRONEER is one of the best spacefaring alternatives.

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 20.5%, Base Building 16.3%, Open World 12.6%, Multiplayer 11.1%, Co-op 11%

Why You'll Like It: This is a more horror-heavy take on the same gather-craft-build-survive formula, with excellent co-op and a dangerous wilderness to master.

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 27.2% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Survival 10.8%, Online Co-Op 10%, Crafting 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: It swaps the open wilderness for a massive science facility, but the co-op survival crafting, base setup, and PvE expeditions feel strikingly similar.

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% ★, Survival 13.6%, Crafting 9.5%, Base Building 8.1%, Multiplayer 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A slower, harsher survival sandbox focused on base-building, crafting, hunting, and defending yourself against both the wild and human threats.

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 33.6% ★, Survival 15.2%, Multiplayer 8.7%, Crafting 7.6%, Base Building 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Co-op survival, constant crafting upgrades, and building a functional home while exploring for materials make it a natural fit despite the ocean setting.

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 33.7% ★, Base Building 9.6%, Survival 9.4%, Online Co-Op 7.8%, Crafting 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its cooperative crafting and mobile-base progression capture the expeditionary feel of ICARUS even though the setting is far more surreal.

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 32.3% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Survival 11.9%, Crafting 10.6%, Open World 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: It mixes open-world survival crafting and base-building with strong PvE progression, plus the added hook of tribe management.

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 16.8% ★, Crafting 11.7%, Open World 9.6%, Building 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: It downplays survival pressure, but its co-op open-world building and satisfying resource-to-tech progression appeal to the same builder mindset.

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 33.1% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Survival 12.8%, Crafting 10.1%, Open World 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes grounded survival systems, crafting, and exploration of a dangerous world much like ICARUS's more methodical solo play.

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 36.1% ★, Survival 12.3%, Base Building 11.2%, Co-op 8.4%, Crafting 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its co-op scavenging, crafting, and waterworld base-building provide a similarly satisfying PvE survival sandbox.

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 28.3% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Survival 10.3%, Crafting 8.8%, Building 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: It offers open-world survival crafting, co-op base-building, and tech progression in a hostile world, landing close to ICARUS's overall loop.

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 12.5%, Crafting 12.1%, Online Co-Op 10.7%, Building 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Surviving, extracting resources, and upgrading a mobile drill-base gives it a strong prospecting-and-expedition flavor.

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 30.7% ★, Survival 16.6%, Base Building 12.2%, Online Co-Op 9.7%, Open World 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: If you enjoy fortifying bases and scavenging under pressure, this co-op survival-crafter offers one of the deepest build-and-defend loops on Steam.

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 22%, Online Co-Op 15.5%, Crafting 15.2%, Open World 14.3%, Building 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: It blends survival crafting and open-world progression with a heavier focus on establishing and expanding a settlement in co-op.

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 39.4% ★, Survival 13.9%, Crafting 8.1%, Base Building 8%, Open World 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Taming dinosaurs changes the flavor, but the cooperative open-world survival, tech progression, and large-scale base-building are highly compatible.

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% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Survival 10.9%, Crafting 9%, Online Co-Op 7.8%

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 16.8%, Building 14.1%, Base Building 13.9%, Survival 13.6%, Co-op 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: It is less intense and more settlement-focused, but the slower gathering, crafting, and building loop will still appeal to players who like ICARUS's homestead side.

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% ★, Base Building 12%, Crafting 9%, Survival 8.3%, Online Co-Op 8.2%

Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!

Why similar: Base Building 15.2%, Mining 13.2% ★, Survival 12.7%, Crafting 11.1%, Science 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: This is a much more hardcore spin on the planetary survival and base-building side of ICARUS, with deep systems for power, atmosphere, and engineering.

Take the role of a plane crash survivor stranded somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Come face to face with some of the most life threatening scenarios that will result in a different experience each time you play. Scavenge. Discover. Survive.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.7% ★, Survival 15.2%, Crafting 8.7%, Multiplayer 8.6%, Open World 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: Another harsh survival experience built around crafting shelters, managing needs, and exploring an unforgiving environment, especially in co-op.

Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival game with immersive adventure and RPG gameplay. Explore, build, craft, and unravel a cinematic Dune story alone or with friends as you rise from survival to greatness on the most legendary planet in the universe. Just remember: the sandworm always comes.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.9% ★, Base Building 11%, Survival 9.6%, Online Co-Op 8.8%, Crafting 8.1%

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 11.6%, Online Co-Op 8.5%, Crafting 7.9%, Multiplayer 7.3%

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 30% ★, Survival 10.8%, Online Co-Op 10.6%, Base Building 10%, Crafting 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% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Survival 10.9%, Crafting 8.9%, Open World 7.6%

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 27.6% ★, Online Co-Op 9.6%, Survival 9.5%, 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 34.3% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Survival 12.3%, Crafting 10.9%, Open World 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 25.5% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Survival 8.9%, Mining 8.5% ★, Crafting 8.2%

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 37.7% ★, Base Building 15.9%, Building 9.4%, Co-op 8.8%, Sandbox 6.2%

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 30.7% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Survival 11.4%, Crafting 10.3%, Online Co-Op 10%

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 26.8% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Online Co-Op 9%, Survival 8.8%, Crafting 8.6%

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 41% ★, Base Building 15.7%, Online Co-Op 13.2%, Crafting 7%, Open World 6.3%

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 12.9%, Survival 12.5%, Crafting 8.2%, Space 8.1%

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% ★, Survival 10.3%, Open World 8.4%, Online Co-Op 8.2%, Crafting 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 27.6% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Survival 9.9%, Online Co-Op 9.5%, Crafting 8.6%

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 34.2% ★, Survival 15.2%, Base Building 9.4%, Open World 8.8%, Crafting 6.7%

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 23.3% ★, Survival 14.4%, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 8.1%, Multiplayer 7.6%

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 31.2% ★, Base Building 13%, Survival 12.6%, Crafting 9.1%, Multiplayer 7.7%

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 39.3% ★, Survival 14.1%, Crafting 9.1%, Open World 8.1%, Multiplayer 6.8%

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 33.3% ★, Survival 11.8%, Base Building 10.4%, Crafting 9.4%, Building 8.8%

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 8.8%

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 32.5% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Survival 12.6%, Online Co-Op 11%, Open World 8.4%

A new Viking age dawns with you at its helm. Forge a thriving colony from nothing in this mythic open-world survival sim. Earn the gods' favor and survive in a land ruled by ancient terrors and unforgiving seasons. Rally unique villagers, expand your settlement and defend your tribe - solo or co-op!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.9% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Survival 10.5%, Online Co-Op 10.1%, Crafting 7.4%

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 30.7% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Survival 11.4%, Online Co-Op 10.6%, Crafting 10.4%

Action-focused, open world survival shooter, PvPvE against fellow mercenaries and lethal XOIDS. Raid for resources alone or with team-mates, build and defend your base, stash your gear and survive against the odds. You are the hunters. You are the hunted. And the robots never sleep…

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.1% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Survival 11.7%, Crafting 9.8%, Multiplayer 7.9%

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 14.6%, Online Co-Op 14.4%, Crafting 13%, Building 10.8%, Open World 10.6%

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 20.9%, Base Building 19.7%, Open World 14.4%, Crafting 11.3%, Co-op 10.2%

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 30.8% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Online Co-Op 11.1%, Crafting 10.5%, Survival 9.4%