- #1 Raft
97% matchVery Positive93% of 373,485 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.6 hrsMean: 37.5 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: Survival 59.6%, Building 15.8%, Adventure 8.8%, Sandbox 7%, Simulation 6.8%
- #2 The Last Caretaker
96% matchVery Positive86% of 11,569 reviews2025
Dev: Channel37 Ltd
Windows
Median: 18.1 hrsMean: 33.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Explore a drowned Earth, restore lost systems, and raise the last human seeds in this first-person survival-crafting adventure. Build, scavenge, defend, and launch humanity back to the stars.
Why similar: Survival 48%, Simulation 34.3%, Sandbox 17.7%
- #3 Flotsam
95% matchVery Positive81% of 4,433 reviews2025
Dev: Pajama Llama GamesPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.
Why similar: Survival 52.3%, Building 26.2%, Sandbox 21.4%
- #4 The Last Haven
96% matchMixed61% of 1,529 reviews2023
Dev: Thunder Devs.
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
The world after a nuclear war. Manage the settlement, learn technology, make decisions, produce weapons, ammunition, organize defense, raid for supplies on other areas, do not let residents die, survive the nuclear winter.
Why similar: Survival 38.6%, Simulation 31.3%, Indie 15.5%, Building 14.5%
- #5 Ocean Punk
94% matchMostly Positive80% of 169 reviews2024
Dev: Infinite Studio
Windows
Explore a fantasy ocean-punk world, braving the deep with steam-powered marvels. Discover mysterious underwater treasures, but scarcity and ecological crises test survival. Rise, build, confront foes in this pixel-art ocean survival journey!
Why similar: Survival 29.9%, Simulation 22%, Building 15.7%, Adventure 12.4%, Sandbox 11.6%
- #6 Pathless Woods
94% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,107 reviews2024
Dev: AniYa Games Studio
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Embark on a cozy open-world survival journey inspired by ancient China's heritage. Gather resources, cultivate crops, build your dream home, and defend it from marauders. Team up with friends to explore and uncover a world where adventure meets serenity.
Why similar: Survival 32.2%, Simulation 24.3%, Building 16.5%, Sandbox 12.5%, Adventure 8%
- #7 Oceaneers
92% matchVery Positive90% of 89 reviews2026
Dev: Barrel Smash Studios
Windows
A sci-fi survival-crafting colony sim set in a flooded world of floating islands. Build a colony, craft gear, design rafts, fend off sharks, manage your survivors, and explore island bunkers to uncover lost Float-Tech from an old-world corporation.
Why similar: Survival 41.3%, Simulation 20.7%, Building 20.5%, Adventure 9.4%, Sandbox 8.2%
- #8 Landless
93% matchMixed44% of 194 reviews2017
Dev: CodeBullet
Windows
Explore and conquer the high seas in this post-apocalyptic sandbox water world survival game where you must fight, build, and craft to survive.
Why similar: Survival 37.4%, Simulation 27.8%, Adventure 15.2%, Building 11.8%, Indie 7.9%
- #9 UNDER the WATER - an ocean survival game
91% matchMostly Negative33% of 52 reviews2022
Dev: UTW Team
Windows
How long do you survive on a small island in the middle of a flooded world?
Why similar: Simulation 33.5%, Survival 32%, Adventure 19.7%, Sandbox 14.8%
- #10 Lost Scavenger
91% matchMixed53% of 244 reviews2022
Dev: Rockbee
Windows
How long could you survive in a parallel universe where the Mist dictates its rules? Would you be able to find the way to your homeworld, or will you adapt to live under the Mist domain? Fight for resources, get together with other survivors and discover the secrets of this world.
Why similar: Survival 74.1%, Sandbox 25.9%
- #11 Sailing alone:Aftermath
89% matchMixed69% of 78 reviews2025
Dev: MLStudio
Windows
You are just an ordinary person, with only a small boat serving as your home, struggling to find a way to survive in the ruthless ocean of the post-apocalyptic world.
Why similar: Survival 44.3%, Simulation 34.3%, Adventure 21.4%
- #12 The Last Journey
90% matchMixed51% of 57 reviews2017
Dev: Sleepless ClinicPub: IMGN.PRO
Windows · Mac
The Last Journey is an ultimate post-nuclear exploration game in which you travel the universe to find a new planet suitable for mankind to live on after the Earth was destroyed in a nuclear war.
Why similar: Simulation 51.2%, Adventure 28.9%, Indie 19.9%
- #13 Breakwaters: Crystal Tides
89% matchMixed63% of 1,000 reviews2021
Dev: Soaring Pixels Games
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Survive in a world ravaged by massive Titans and an ever changing ocean sim. Displace water to find resources for building and crafting unique items. Swim, sail, and fly to explore new islands and fight Titans.
Why similar: Survival 33.2%, Simulation 23.3%, Building 18.6%, Sandbox 12.1%, Adventure 7.2%
- #14 Aground
88% matchVery Positive94% of 1,992 reviews2020
Dev: Fancy Fish Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
As one of the last human survivors, you find yourself stranded on an uninhabited island. With a few other victims of the crash, can you craft, mine, and build your way to survival?
Why similar: Survival 53.4%, Building 29.6%, Sandbox 17%
- #15 World End Diner
86% matchVery Positive93% of 422 reviews2025
Dev: Andymente
Windows
Run a diner on the last island in the world after the destruction of humankind! For the cute animals and robots that survived, cook delicious food, run a farm, explore the forest, and create the best diner!
Why similar: Simulation 47.4%, Sandbox 21.2%, Adventure 16.2%, Building 13.1%, Indie 2.1%
- #16 Stranded Deep
85% matchMostly Positive74% of 47,543 reviews2022
Dev: Beam Team GamesPub: Beam Team Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 21.0 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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: Survival 56.7%, Building 12.4%, Simulation 11.3%, Adventure 10.7%, Sandbox 6.5%
- #17 Backwoods Town
83% matchVery Positive94% of 201 reviews2023
Dev: Andrii Prots
Windows
Backwoods town is an atmospheric forest survival simulator. Build your base, grow crops, fight bosses and rebuild the destroyed settlement, finding all its inhabitants along the way.
Why similar: Survival 40.6%, Building 25.6%, Adventure 14.2%, Sandbox 11.8%, Simulation 5.7%
- #18 Feral Blue
84% matchMixed52% of 244 reviews2019
Dev: Snowbird Games
Windows
The old world has drowned after the Second Flood. Now, only few survivors are fighting for the new gold - clean water, wood and soil. Become a ship's captain, keep your crew alive and create your sea empire!
Why similar: Survival 42.2%, Adventure 37.2%, Sandbox 20.6%
- #19 Survival: Lost Way
84% matchMostly Negative36% of 291 reviews2023
Dev: SimplePlanPub: SimplePlan Studio
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
An open-world post-apocalyptic survival sandbox. Scavenge, craft, build, and survive solo or in co-op.
Why similar: Survival 40.1%, Simulation 30.2%, Adventure 15.9%, Building 13.8%
- #20 Everwind
80% matchVery Positive82% of 3,471 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 42.6%, Building 24%, Adventure 17.5%, Sandbox 15.9%
- #21 Away From Life
81% matchMixed67% of 189 reviews2026
Dev: Cursor GamesPub: IZilla Games
Windows
You survived a helicopter crash; going home is your top priority. Live as a castaway - survive the dangers of the islands by using your environment to find food, build shelter, craft tools to extend your stay, explore the secrets of the islands and their surrounding waters, and carve your way home.
Why similar: Survival 33.8%, Simulation 21.5%, Building 19.9%, Sandbox 13.6%, Adventure 11.3%
- #22 Stonehearth
82% matchMostly Positive75% of 13,032 reviews2018
Dev: Radiant EntertainmentPub: (none)
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 38.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.
Why similar: Survival 34.9%, Building 22.7%, Simulation 19.4%, Sandbox 15%, Indie 4.6%
- #23 Survival: Fountain of Youth
78% matchVery Positive85% of 4,383 reviews2024
Dev: Odinsoft Inc.Pub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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: Survival 37.3%, Simulation 25%, Building 14.6%, Adventure 12.5%, Sandbox 10.7%
- #24 Last Oasis
78% matchMixed62% of 24,225 reviews2020
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 17.9 hrsMean: 121.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Nomadic Survival MMO. Build wooden walking machines to travel to new lands. Create clans and fight for territory. Resources deplete fast, so take your sword and scavenge, pirate, and trade to stay alive.
Why similar: Survival 48.6%, Building 16.5%, Adventure 16.1%, Sandbox 10%, Indie 8.9%
- #25 OceanCraft
79% matchVery Positive85% of 60 reviews2021
Dev: FlodLabPub: FlodLab UG (haftungsbeschraenkt)
Windows
OceanCraft is a game about surviving alone - or with your friends on a self build vehicle in the ocean.
Why similar: Survival 68.8%, Adventure 31.2%
- #26 Under A New Sun
76% matchMostly Positive76% of 388 reviews2023
Dev: New Horizon Games
Windows
While searching for a new home, an unexpected failure in your ship has left you stranded on a planet surprisingly similar to Earth. Discover a vast open world, hunt for food, develop technologies, and build yourself a new home to survive!
Why similar: Survival 48.5%, Simulation 18.7%, Adventure 14.7%, Sandbox 9.7%, Indie 8.3%
- #27 Wayward
77% matchVery Positive86% of 1,362 reviews2016
Dev: Unlok
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 21.5 hrs≥1hr: 61%
You awake to discover yourself no longer in the company of good men or a fine seafaring vessel. Treasure... you remember something about treasure. Wayward is a challenging turn-based, top-down, wilderness survival roguelike. Explore, build, and most importantly survive in these unforgiving lands.
Why similar: Survival 50.5%, Simulation 19.4%, Adventure 11.8%, Sandbox 10.9%, Indie 7.4%
- #28 Brine
79% matchMostly Negative26% of 383 reviews2016
Dev: BrineTeam
Windows
Median: 6 minMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 14%
Stranded at an Island, the Vessel is broked, do whatever it takes to survive.
Why similar: Survival 40.4%, Adventure 36.2%, Indie 23.3%
- #29 Ecopunk
73% matchVery Positive85% of 127 reviews2025
Dev: Zerone Games
Windows
Ecopunk is a survival and colony management simulation game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Balance survival, resource management, and hope as you guide your colony through the ruins of civilization.
Why similar: Survival 35.2%, Simulation 34.3%, Sandbox 16.4%, Building 8.6%, Indie 5.5%
- #30 Last Hope Bunker: Zombie Survival
75% matchMixed60% of 348 reviews2024
Dev: Bazura GamesPub: Dreland Enterprises
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 48%
You wake up in a bunker! The Earth became a battlefield. Dangerous creatures at every turn. We give you everything you need: medicine, weapons, shelter. Your task is to find your family. And please try to survive in this post-apocalypse.
Why similar: Survival 43.7%, Simulation 36.5%, Adventure 19.8%
- #31 Escape The Pacific
76% matchMixed68% of 755 reviews2018
Dev: Gamers4Gamers Team
Windows
Raw, real survival in the Pacific. Build a modular floating base. Master realistic sailing mechanics. Face challenging Pacific-like weather & seasons. Hunt, craft, build & navigate using Sun Dial, Sextant & Triangulation. Explore an endless island cluster-based world. Simulate real life scenarios!
Why similar: Survival 35.5%, Simulation 24.3%, Building 17.9%, Sandbox 12.1%, Adventure 10.2%
- #32 ZED ZONE
72% matchVery Positive80% of 3,584 reviews2023
Dev: Leven LiuPub: INDIECN
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 66%
A great catastrophe has come, and you, who are on duty, crash and trapped in a Zed Zone. There are zombies and monsters everywhere, In order to escape, by collecting materials, upgrading skills, building shelters, defeating zombie waves and mysterious mechs, chasing a glimmer of hope.
Why similar: Survival 41.5%, Simulation 24.8%, Building 19.5%, Sandbox 14.2%
- #33 Cube Life: Island Survival
75% matchMixed69% of 177 reviews2018
Dev: Cypronia
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Cube Life: Island Survival is an open-world, block building, survival game, taking place on a beautiful remote island. Imagine being shipwrecked and stranded left for dead, with only your will to survive. You must explore, build, craft, and fight your way to stay alive.
Why similar: Survival 32.6%, Adventure 20.9%, Building 19.3%, Indie 14.1%, Sandbox 13.1%
- #34 Scrapnaut
73% matchMixed70% of 831 reviews2021
Dev: SpiffyBitPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements. Explore an open world with different biomes, take care of oxygen, manage your farms, generate electricity, build your home and much more!
Why similar: Survival 42%, Building 24.8%, Adventure 14.8%, Sandbox 13.1%, Indie 5.3%
- #35 Out of Reach
74% matchMixed57% of 3,047 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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: Survival 50.3%, Building 16.7%, Simulation 11.7%, Adventure 9%, Sandbox 8%
- #36 Nomad
74% matchMixed60% of 4,634 reviews2015
Dev: Diminished Studios
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Try and survive in the world of Nomad. Build a base and protect it from raiding players. Scavenge food, weapons and medical supplies across the island. Team up with others and make a base. Make your mark on the world of Nomad.
Why similar: Survival 77.8%, Adventure 16.1%, Indie 6.1%
- #37 Surviving the Aftermath
72% matchMostly Positive71% of 4,539 reviews2021
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 18.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.
Why similar: Survival 45.1%, Simulation 43%, Building 11.9%
- #38 Card Survival: Tropical Island
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 2,997 reviews2022
Dev: WinterSpring Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 45.4 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Card Survival is a card-based survival experience. Stranded on a desert island you must use your wits and skills to stay alive. Use cards and combine them together to explore, gather resources and craft useful tools.
Why similar: Survival 41.8%, Simulation 28.8%, Adventure 16.4%, Indie 7.6%, Sandbox 5.4%
- #39 Aloft
68% matchVery Positive84% of 3,616 reviews2025
Dev: Astrolabe Interactive Inc.Pub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 14.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Soar the skies in Aloft, the co-op sandbox survival game set in a world of floating islands. Build any island into a skyship, your home in the clouds. Find lost knowledge, cure the fungal corruption, and brave the hurricane to restore the ecosystem.
Why similar: Survival 34.2%, Simulation 23.1%, Building 18.7%, Adventure 14.3%, Sandbox 9.7%
- #40 Forever Skies
68% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,533 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 31.9 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: Survival 53.6%, Building 24.6%, Adventure 21.8%
- #41 Drift: Space Survival
71% matchMostly Positive70% of 77 reviews2023
Dev: KAR Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
You were deep in uncharted space on a research mission. Disaster struck. Together with your friends, explore a mysterious asteroid field and mine whatever resources possible to build what you need to survive.
Why similar: Survival 36.8%, Simulation 16.7%, Building 16.3%, Adventure 12.1%, Sandbox 9.3%
- #42 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
68% matchVery Positive91% of 7,475 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Survive, craft, and automate in this free prologue set on one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters, an open-world game where you play solo or with friends to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.
Why similar: Survival 32.8%, Simulation 21.5%, Building 18.9%, Sandbox 14.2%, Adventure 12.6%
- #43 Green Project
70% matchVery Positive80% of 1,450 reviews2020
Dev: Zerone Games
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Post apocalyptic survival farming, green the world to survive !
Why similar: Simulation 46.1%, Survival 35.5%, Indie 18.4%
- #44 Forgotten Seas
67% matchMostly Positive77% of 585 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: Survival 36.5%, Simulation 28.8%, Building 20.2%, Adventure 14.5%
- #45 Last Days Motel
71% matchMixed44% of 116 reviews2019
Dev: 陌上科技
Windows
In the doomsday Hotel, you can experience the hard life in the waste Land World. Stick to hope in motel-based doomsday shelters and fight survival challenges such as hunger, thirst and lack of energy. Risking their lives to collect supplies, develop and build hotel shelters. Do everything possible to survive the cataclysmic world.
Why similar: Simulation 45.4%, Survival 29.8%, Adventure 24.8%
- #46 The Last Plague: Blight
66% matchVery Positive89% of 1,409 reviews2024
Dev: Original Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 13.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
The Last Plague: Blight is an authentic survival experience rooted in realism and immersion. Endure the hazards of a brutal open world and uncover the origins of a mysterious disease. You are humanity’s final hope in ending the Blight
Why similar: Survival 39%, Simulation 24.7%, Building 21.5%, Sandbox 14.8%
- #47 Pixel Survivors
71% matchMixed65% of 293 reviews2016
Dev: Patagoniart
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Pixel Survivors is a god management game. Create some land and build structures to keep your small society settled. See how long you can keep your village alive!
Why similar: Simulation 84.5%, Indie 15.5%
- #48 Make Sail
70% matchMixed55% of 110 reviews2018
Dev: Popcannibal
Windows · Mac · Linux
Make boats and sail them. Survive an ocean of storms and beasts to find better pieces to make your ship bigger, faster, stronger, prettier, stranger, wilder: more yours.
Why similar: Simulation 48.1%, Building 22.8%, Adventure 12%, Sandbox 8.9%, Indie 8.3%
- #49 Sunkenland
65% matchVery Positive81% of 23,316 reviews2023
Dev: Vector3 Studio
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 18.8 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: Survival 69%, Adventure 16.9%, Sandbox 14.1%
- #50 The Aquatic Adventure of the Last Human
69% matchMostly Positive75% of 516 reviews2016
Dev: YCJY Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Explore the ruins of the human race and discover the thriving wildlife that blossomed after our extinction in this underwater action/adventure. Encounter monstrous creatures and let curiosity guide you through an inevitable voyage of extinction.
Why similar: Adventure 59.7%, Indie 40.3%
- #51 Hide & Hold Out - H2o
69% matchMixed54% of 631 reviews2016
Dev: Red Abyss Software
Windows · Linux
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Hide & Hold Out is a multiplayer survival game taking place in a devastated water world. Gather, build, team up with your friends and establish the foundations of your future floating empire utilizing the heavy guns of your battle ships!
Why similar: Survival 46.1%, Simulation 27.1%, Adventure 16.4%, Indie 5.8%, Sandbox 4.7%
- #52 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
67% matchVery Positive81% of 2,254 reviews2018
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Why similar: Survival 47.7%, Simulation 23.8%, Building 12.1%, Sandbox 11.4%, Indie 4.9%
- #53 No One Survived
63% matchMixed65% of 7,677 reviews2025
Dev: Cat Play Studio
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 22.7 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: Survival 63.4%, Building 17.5%, Adventure 10.9%, Sandbox 8.3%