- #1 Night of the Dead
97% matchMostly Positive77% of 11,732 reviews2024
Dev: Jackto Studios
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 32.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
'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 22.6% ★, Zombies 11.9%, Base Building 9.6%, Online Co-Op 9%, Crafting 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly mirrors the day-night cycle of IfSunSets, focusing on scavenging by day and building elaborate traps to survive nightly zombie hordes.
- #2 7 Days to Die
96% matchVery Positive87% of 396,805 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 16.8 hrsMean: 107.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 24.6% ★, Zombies 14.4%, Survival 12%, Base Building 10.9%, Online Co-Op 9%
Why You'll Like It: The definitive zombie survival game that centers on base building and fortification to survive the increasingly difficult weekly horde nights.
- #3 No One Survived
96% matchMixed65% of 7,577 reviews2025
Dev: Cat Play Studio
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 22.9 hrs≥1hr: 77%
This is a multiplayer cooperative open world construction survival sandbox game, where you and your friends must find supplies and build shelters in this world. You have to keep an eye on your character's needs state at all times, a bad state is likely to lead to death.
Why similar: Zombies 17.6%, Survival 14.8%, Open World 12.9%, Crafting 11.4%, Survival Horror 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore zombie survival game that emphasizes scavenging, crafting, and fortifying a base to withstand enemy attacks.
- #4 Sons Of The Forest
94% matchVery Positive88% of 299,895 reviews2024
Dev: Endnight Games LtdPub: Newnight
Windows
Median: 14.9 hrsMean: 32.0 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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 14.8%, Base Building 14.5%, Survival Horror 14.3%, Open World 13.2%, Co-op 12.9%
Why You'll Like It: Offers deep base-building mechanics and intense combat against aggressive mutants in a dangerous, open-world environment.
- #5 Mist Survival
95% matchMostly Positive76% of 14,042 reviews2018
Dev: Dimension 32 Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 73%
MIST SURVIVAL is a Single-player, survival stealth sandbox game Players will experience the Apocalypse stimulation in the form of virus pandemic, the players have to deal with it to survive through the difficulties such as finding shelter and food, threats from the environment and climate: wild animals, bandits, infected, and dense mist t
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.2% ★, Zombies 16.4%, Survival 14.2%, Open World 10.4%, Base Building 10%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on realistic survival, base building, and defending against both human and infected threats in an open world.
- #6 HumanitZ
94% matchMostly Positive75% of 11,640 reviews2026
Dev: Yodubzz StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%
HumanitZ is an isometric, open-world sandbox survival game set in a world ended by a zombie outbreak. Survive alone or with friends by scavenging, crafting, building, and fighting to last as long as ‘humanly’ possible. You can’t change the past, but you can fight for the future of humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 15.7% ★, Zombies 13.1%, Base Building 10.3%, Crafting 8.8%, Survival 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down zombie survival game that focuses on scavenging, base management, and surviving against relentless hordes.
- #7 Sunkenland
93% matchVery Positive81% of 22,996 reviews2023
Dev: Vector3 Studio
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 17.9 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 34.6% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Co-op 11.8%, Survival 10.7%, Crafting 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: A water-based survival game that requires players to build and defend their base against raids from mutants and pirates.
- #8 Enshrouded
92% matchVery Positive86% of 98,202 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.3 hrsMean: 44.1 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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 15.3%, Open World 13.8%, Online Co-Op 12.5%, Survival 12.1%, Crafting 11.6%
Why You'll Like It: Features excellent base-building and exploration mechanics within a dangerous, survival-focused world filled with supernatural threats.
- #9 Dying Light
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 482,438 reviews2015
Dev: Techland
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 21.6 hrsMean: 60.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
First-person action survival game set in a post-apocalyptic open world overrun by flesh-hungry zombies. Roam a city devastated by a mysterious virus epidemic. Scavenge for supplies, craft weapons, and face hordes of the infected.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.9% ★, Zombies 18.4%, Survival Horror 14.2%, Online Co-Op 12.1%, Open World 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: Features a core gameplay loop where the world becomes significantly more dangerous at night, forcing players to prioritize survival and evasion.
- #10 Don't Starve Together
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 528,033 reviews2016
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 64.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 58.9% ★, Survival 20.1%, Co-op 4.5%, Multiplayer 3.9%, Crafting 3%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game where managing the day-night cycle is essential to avoiding the deadly threats that emerge in the dark.
- #11 V Rising
89% matchVery Positive89% of 132,034 reviews2024
Dev: Stunlock Studios
Windows
Median: 21.0 hrsMean: 57.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Awaken as a Vampire. Hunt for blood in nearby settlements to regain your strength and evade the scorching sun to survive. Raise your castle and thrive in an ever-changing, open world full of mystery. Gain allies online and conquer the land of the living.
Why similar: Base Building 17.9%, Open World 14.3%, Survival 14.1%, Crafting 13.8%, Online Co-Op 12.1%
Why You'll Like It: Combines survival, base building, and action-RPG combat with a unique mechanic where sunlight is a lethal threat to your character.
- #12 The Infected
90% matchVery Positive85% of 6,893 reviews2020
Dev: DigX Studios
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 18.5 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 26.7% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 10.9%, Zombies 9.7%, Survival Horror 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game where you must build a secure base to protect yourself from wildlife and aggressive AI enemies.
- #13 Survival Machine
89% matchMostly Positive74% of 669 reviews2025
Dev: Grape PickersPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Build your base on a moving Machine, travel through biomes with different resources, and prepare for the night when a zombie threat is much higher than during the day. Would you go solo or explore this new world with your best friends?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.3% ★, Base Building 10.6%, Zombies 10%, Online Co-Op 9.5%, Crafting 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on mobile base building and survival against massive hordes of enemies in a hostile environment.
- #14 VEIN
86% matchVery Positive90% of 9,542 reviews2025
Dev: Ramjet Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: Zombies 14.6%, Base Building 12.3%, Survival 10.8%, Open World 10.5%, Co-op 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: A realistic zombie survival game that emphasizes scavenging and base fortification in a post-apocalyptic setting.
- #15 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
86% matchVery Positive82% of 9,646 reviews2024
Dev: Merge GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 23% ★, Base Building 10.6%, Online Co-Op 8.9%, Crafting 8.7%, Survival 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: Combines survival and base building with a unique perspective and challenging combat against giant insects.
- #16 Subsistence
88% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,601 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 40.0 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 37.9% ★, Survival 12%, Crafting 11.9%, Open World 8.8%, Base Building 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore survival game with a heavy emphasis on base building and defending your territory against AI hunters.
- #17 Volcanoids
87% matchVery Positive83% of 9,214 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.8 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: Open World Survival Craft 27.3% ★, Crafting 10.8%, Online Co-Op 10.4%, Base Building 10.3%, Open World 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a unique twist on base building where your base is a mobile drill ship that you must protect while surviving volcanic eruptions.
- #18 Nightingale
85% matchMixed67% of 17,841 reviews2024
Dev: Inflexion Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 23.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 28.4% ★, Online Co-Op 11.2%, Base Building 10.8%, Crafting 10.3%, Survival 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that focuses on crafting and exploration in a dangerous, supernatural realm.
- #19 Len's Island
82% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,615 reviews2025
Dev: Flow Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 30.7% ★, Nature 11.5%, Crafting 11.1%, Base Building 10.5%, Survival 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: Blends dungeon crawling with base building and survival elements in a vibrant, open-world setting.
- #20 Solace Crafting
84% matchMostly Positive72% of 891 reviews2022
Dev: Big Kitty Games
Windows · Linux
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 25.5% ★, Crafting 10.8%, Base Building 10.7%, Online Co-Op 9.1%, Survival 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a vast open world for exploration and crafting with a focus on building a sustainable base.
- #21 Necesse
81% matchVery Positive93% of 26,780 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.6% ★, Crafting 8.8%, Sandbox 8.7%, Open World 8.1%, Base Building 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game that features base building, farming, and challenging boss fights.
- #22 Fade to Silence
84% matchMixed63% of 1,317 reviews2019
Dev: Black Forest GamesPub: THQ Nordic
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Fade to Silence is a single-player and co-op survival adventure set in a post-apocalyptic world that is frozen in an eternal winter. Snow and ice have shaped a merciless landscape. Nature is corrupted. Monstrous creatures out of an Eldritch horror dream roam the frozen wasteland.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.9% ★, Survival 13.4%, Crafting 9%, Open World 8.6%, Base Building 8%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game set in a frozen wasteland that requires base building and combat against supernatural monsters.
- #23 KeepUp Survival
83% matchMixed65% of 734 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 26.7% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 10.8%, Co-op 9.8%, Open World 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that focuses on crafting, base building, and surviving against various threats.
- #24 DYSMANTLE
82% matchVery Positive91% of 11,317 reviews2021
Dev: 10tons Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 25.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Ascend from your shelter. Ruin everything. Escape the wretched island. ⚔️🔨🎣🌱🌵🍰 Explore. Fight. Level up. Survive. Gather. Craft. Harvest. Hunt. Build. Farm. Solve puzzles. Fish. Cook. Live. Enjoy the bittersweet post-apocalypse.
Why similar: Zombies 19.4%, Crafting 16.4%, Base Building 16.1%, Survival 15.1%, Open World 14.9%
Why You'll Like It: An exploration-heavy survival game where you must clear out zombie threats and build defenses to reclaim the world.
- #25 Dawn of Defiance
80% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,736 reviews2024
Dev: Traega EntertainmentPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 30.6% ★, Online Co-Op 12.6%, Base Building 11.4%, Survival 10%, Open World 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: A survival and base-building game set in a mythological world with a focus on PvE combat.
- #26 Out of Reach
81% matchMixed57% of 3,044 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 35.7% ★, Survival 11.6%, Crafting 10.5%, Open World 9.6%, Pirates 8.8% ★
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that emphasizes building and defending your base against other players and environmental threats.
- #27 Lost Skies
78% matchMixed62% of 2,832 reviews2025
Dev: Bossa StudiosPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 34.3% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Online Co-Op 13%, Sandbox 9.4%, Crafting 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on exploration and survival with a unique emphasis on building bases in the sky.
- #28 Project Castaway
78% matchMixed67% of 1,632 reviews2026
Dev: Mardonpol Inc.
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 69%
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% ★, Online Co-Op 10.9%, Base Building 10.2%, Co-op 9.8%, Sandbox 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: A survival and exploration game that focuses on island life and building a base to survive the elements.
- #29 Far Lands
79% matchMixed66% of 166 reviews2024
Dev: Scalpel Softworks
Windows
Far Lands is an open-world survival game. Fight mercenaries, steal their loot and vehicles. Build and defend your base from zombies. Gather resources, craft better gear and loot different points of interest. Want to play with friends? Join them on Co-op!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.5% ★, Base Building 14.2%, Crafting 13.2%, Survival 10.8%, Open World 9%
Why You'll Like It: A survival and crafting game that emphasizes exploration and base building in a dangerous wilderness.
- #30 StarRupture
77% matchVery Positive81% of 10,861 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 25.7% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 10.2%, Co-op 9.3%, Survival 8.7%
- #31 Outbreak Island
76% matchVery Positive80% of 906 reviews2025
Dev: Tiny Magicians
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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: Sandbox 17.9%, Survival 16.3%, Base Building 15.6%, Zombies 15.6%, Crafting 14.9%
- #32 Force of Nature
79% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,198 reviews2016
Dev: A.Y.std
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.4% ★, Crafting 14.5%, Survival 11.5%, Sandbox 9.4%, Open World 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that combines crafting, exploration, and combat in a procedurally generated world.
- #33 Everwind
75% matchVery Positive82% of 2,069 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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: Online Co-Op 13.7%, Sandbox 12.9%, Co-op 12.5%, Crafting 12%, Open World 11.9%
- #34 Rem Survival
77% matchMostly Positive76% of 802 reviews2021
Dev: Immortal Hand Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 47.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Scavenge abandoned ruins, craft gear from scrap and salvaged materials, and fight the environment itself as hunger, exposure, and exhaustion push you to your limits. There are no second chances—only adaptation or death.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.7% ★, Base Building 14.5%, Crafting 13.7%, Survival 11%, Open World 10.7%
- #35 Welcome to ParadiZe
76% matchMixed67% of 1,247 reviews2024
Dev: Eko SoftwarePub: Nacon
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Paradise isn't exactly what you hoped for: it's infested with zombies! Thankfully, you can control them. Capture them and teach them to farm or fight. They will help you defend our camp while you explore the world looking for… a new paradise.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 16% ★, Zombies 13.6%, Online Co-Op 9.4%, Co-op 9.3%, Base Building 9.2%
- #36 Forgotten Seas
74% matchMostly Positive77% of 572 reviews2025
Dev: Pangea Game StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
You are lost in the Bermuda Void, where the ocean is endless and dry land precious. Craft your Ship-in-a-Bottle, then experience survival on the high seas. Sail for new land, build camps, hunt for treasures, trade for goods - then defend your ship from dreaded pirates stalking this strange realm!
Why similar: Pirates 23% ★, Open World Survival Craft 16.9% ★, Base Building 10.8%, Online Co-Op 9.6%, Crafting 9.5%
- #37 Eden Crafters
74% matchVery Positive86% of 2,214 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in Eden Crafters, a solo and co-op open-world game that challenges you to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Temper the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.3% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Crafting 11.4%, Online Co-Op 9.4%, Sandbox 9.3%
- #38 Shamania
73% matchMostly Positive78% of 140 reviews2025
Dev: Totem Keepers Games
Windows
Shamania is an open world survival game where you can CRAFT, FIGHT, and EXPLORE a vibrant sandbox world with friends in CO-OP. Expand your base as a hub for survival, gather resources, and master professions to unlock new tools and opportunities!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.9% ★, Crafting 11.6%, Open World 9.7%, Survival 8.8%, Online Co-Op 8.1%
- #39 Whisper of the Swallows
73% matchVery Positive87% of 144 reviews2026
Dev: Blown Leaves
Windows
Brave a savage and unforgiving procedurally-generated world where extreme weather and the nightmares of the dark are your greatest enemies. Alone or in co-op, survive, build, and explore to transform a cursed hellscape into your sanctuary of light.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.2% ★, Crafting 11.8%, Base Building 10.8%, Sandbox 10.5%, Online Co-Op 9.9%
- #40 Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts
75% matchMostly Negative36% of 365 reviews2023
Dev: EFNSOFT
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 36%
Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts is a Multiplayer Survival Horror game for up to 4 players. Set in the Middle of the Unknown, you can craft, build, explore and discover secrets in the exciting first chapter from EFNSOFT.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32% ★, Crafting 11.7%, Open World 10.6%, Survival Horror 10.6%, Survival 10.4%
- #41 Lost Rift
72% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,413 reviews2025
Dev: People Can Fly
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 26% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 11.1%, Nature 10.1%, Online Co-Op 9.8%
- #42 Tinkerlands
71% matchVery Positive86% of 3,746 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 13.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Explore, craft, and fight your way through uncharted islands — solo or with up to 4 players in co-op! Tinkerlands is an exciting survival adventure where you will build your settlement, craft useful tools to survive, and even use magic!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.7% ★, Online Co-Op 11.8%, Sandbox 10.5%, Crafting 9.5%, Survival 9.2%
- #43 SurrounDead
70% matchVery Positive92% of 23,544 reviews2022
Dev: ZurvivorPub: PlaySurrounDead
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
SurrounDead is an open world survival game. Taking place in a world ravaged by an apocalyptic catastrophe. The dead reign free and will stop at nothing to kill you.
Why similar: Zombies 27%, Open World Survival Craft 20.4% ★, Survival 15.9%, Open World 15.1%, Base Building 10.2%
- #44 Survive the Nights
69% matchMixed66% of 6,335 reviews2025
Dev: a2z Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Hardcore open-world survival where preparation is everything. Scavenge, craft, fortify during the day. When night falls, the infected hunt in numbers. Play solo or with friends in a brutal post-apocalyptic sandbox where survival is earned through smart decisions. How many Nights will you survive?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.8% ★, Zombies 16.4%, Sandbox 11.5%, Online Co-Op 11.1%, Survival 10.1%
- #45 Re.poly
71% matchVery Positive92% of 135 reviews2019
Dev: Hinkfoot Studios
Windows
Re.Poly is a relaxed yet deep indie survival game in a low-poly style that blends exploration, combat, building, and adventure. Whether alone or with friends, create your own world, write your own story, and decide how you want to play.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.7% ★, Crafting 10.8%, Base Building 10.7%, Sandbox 9.6%, Action RPG 9.2%
- #46 Raft
67% matchVery Positive93% of 368,916 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.5 hrsMean: 36.8 hrs≥1hr: 95%
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 32.1% ★, Survival 13.1%, Co-op 10.5%, Crafting 9.2%, Multiplayer 8.5%
- #47 Frozen Flame
70% matchMixed63% of 2,965 reviews2022
Dev: Dreamside InteractivePub: Ravenage Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A challenging exploration and survival adventure, set in the dying world of Dragons. Only those who harness the power of Frozen Flame have the means to survive the harsh conditions of the realm and able to muster the strength to cleanse it for good.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.8% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Online Co-Op 11.2%, Crafting 10%, Sandbox 9.4%
- #48 Plains of Pain
69% matchVery Positive85% of 692 reviews2023
Dev: Cobra Byte Digital
Windows
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 24.7% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Crafting 9.9%, Online Co-Op 9.9%, Sandbox 9.3%
- #49 Fragmented
72% matchMixed43% of 1,964 reviews2017
Dev: Above and Beyond Technologies
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Stranded in a hostile alien world, you must fight to survive. Hunt, harvest, craft, advance skills, and build using local resources along with technology from your voyage.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.6% ★, Survival 13.1%, Open World 9.2%, Crafting 8.6%, Sandbox 7.2%
- #50 CrossWorlds: Escape
71% matchMixed64% of 157 reviews2020
Dev: Another Reality
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 97%
CrossWorlds: Escape is a hardcore game in which you will have to deploy all your skills to survive in a huge open world that is susceptible to changes in weather, seasons and various natural phenomena.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.7% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Nature 10.7%, Crafting 10.5%, Sandbox 9.7%
- #51 INCUR Survival
69% matchVery Positive84% of 103 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 34.5% ★, Zombies 17.5%, Crafting 13%, Survival 10.4%, Open World 10%
- #52 DREADZONE
68% matchMixed51% of 1,171 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 15.7%, Zombies 14.9%, Crafting 13.3%, Co-op 12.4%, Survival 12.1%
- #53 How to Survive 2
70% matchMixed69% of 10,988 reviews2016
Dev: Eko SoftwarePub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 15.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Dead or Alive? Make up your mind, stranger. We don’t like that undead business here in Louisiana…Survive solo or with friends as you look to fulfill your basic needs of food, water and shelter, crafting your own tools and weapons while you secure your camp and face flesh hungry zombies.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.7% ★, Zombies 19.3%, Survival 13.5%, Crafting 8.3%, Co-op 7.7%
- #54 Forever Skies
66% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,284 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.4 hrsMean: 32.0 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 29.2% ★, Base Building 15%, Crafting 13%, Co-op 12.1%, Open World 10.6%
- #55 Grounded
66% matchVery Positive90% of 92,875 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.2 hrsMean: 40.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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 27.1% ★, Survival 13%, Base Building 12.6%, Co-op 10.1%, Crafting 9.4%
- #56 Junk Survivor
67% matchMostly Positive72% of 78 reviews2023
Dev: Neojac Entertainment Inc.
Windows
Junk Survivor is a zombie post-apocalypse game where you loot, craft, build and farm in a struggle to survive. With a vast map to explore, a robust skillset to unlock this customizable sandbox awaits the adventurer. How long before you die!
Why similar: Zombies 19.3%, Survival 12.6%, Open World 11.8%, Crafting 11.1%, Sandbox 10.8%
- #57 ENDALOR
65% matchMixed68% of 79 reviews2026
Dev: Diorite Games
Windows
An immersive medieval dark fantasy survival game with RPG elements for 1-4 players. Set in a hand crafted open world. Explore, survive, build, craft, fight and conquer your way through the dark, brutal and mysterious lands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.9% ★, Online Co-Op 10.2%, Base Building 9.5%, Crafting 8.4%, Survival 8.4%
- #58 DeadPoly
65% matchMostly Positive77% of 5,800 reviews2022
Dev: TFL Games
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 63%
DeadPoly is a polygon arcade zombie survival looter shooter with base building, crafting, scavenging, leveling, questing, and more, but your only goal is survival, everything else is optional.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.9% ★, Zombies 14.7%, Base Building 11.3%, Online Co-Op 11.1%, Crafting 10.8%