- #1 Rust
97% matchVery Positive87% of 1,363,157 reviews2018
Dev: Facepunch Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 52.5 hrsMean: 421.6 hrs≥1hr: 96%
The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.4% ★, Survival 19.9%, Crafting 16%, Multiplayer 9%, PvP 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: The definitive survival game that perfectly captures the intense base-building and high-stakes PvP combat found in Lost Rift.
- #2 Deadside
96% matchMostly Positive76% of 40,248 reviews2024
Dev: Bad Pixel
Windows
Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 44.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 27.5% ★, Survival 11.1%, FPS 9.5%, PvP 8.9%, Massively Multiplayer 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore extraction-shooter that mirrors the survival and looting loops of Lost Rift.
- #3 The Front
96% matchMixed67% of 10,771 reviews2025
Dev: Samar Studio
Windows
Median: 10.6 hrsMean: 44.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 30% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Massively Multiplayer 12.2%, Crafting 11.7%, Survival 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on base defense and tactical survival in a hostile, player-driven open world.
- #4 SCUM
95% matchMostly Positive74% of 124,053 reviews2025
Dev: Gamepires
Windows
Median: 11.9 hrsMean: 103.1 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Traverse punishing environments, looting, crafting and evading the constant threats to your life. The unprecedented levels of character customization and progression are your ultimate tools for survival.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.7% ★, Massively Multiplayer 16.3%, Crafting 10%, Survival 9.9%, Online Co-Op 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: Offers deep survival mechanics and a high-fidelity open world that emphasizes tactical combat and player-driven survival.
- #5 Once Human
94% matchMostly Positive78% of 173,391 reviews2024
Dev: Starry Studio
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 50.9 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 28.3% ★, Massively Multiplayer 14.7%, Base Building 13.5%, Online Co-Op 10.2%, Survival 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: Combines open-world survival and base building with mission-based extraction elements in a supernatural setting.
- #6 Subsistence
94% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,685 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 39.9 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 44.2% ★, Survival 14%, Crafting 13.5%, Base Building 10.3%, Multiplayer 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore survival game that emphasizes base building and defending against AI threats in a persistent world.
- #7 DayZ
93% matchMostly Positive78% of 461,119 reviews2018
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 39.8 hrsMean: 275.7 hrs≥1hr: 96%
How long can you survive a post-apocalyptic world? A land overrun with an infected "zombie" population, where you compete with other survivors for limited resources. Will you team up with strangers and stay strong together? Or play as a lone wolf to avoid betrayal? This is DayZ – this is your story.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 18.6%, Survival 18%, Online Co-Op 13.5%, FPS 11.8%, PvP 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: The quintessential hardcore survival experience that emphasizes high-stakes PvP and persistent world exploration.
- #8 Sunkenland
92% matchVery Positive81% of 23,216 reviews2023
Dev: Vector3 Studio
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 18.5 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 37.8% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Survival 11.6%, Crafting 10.1%, Multiplayer 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on water-based survival, base building, and tactical combat against raiders.
- #9 Dune: Awakening
91% matchMostly Positive70% of 76,118 reviews2025
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 47.7 hrsMean: 97.4 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival RPG where you can fully immerse yourself in the epic world of Dune. Alone or with friends, explore a vast open world Arrakis, survive the sandworms, build a home, craft an ornithopter, and unravel the mystery of the missing Fremen.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.1% ★, Massively Multiplayer 11.2%, Base Building 10.5%, Crafting 8.7%, Online Co-Op 8%
Why You'll Like It: Blends large-scale survival and base building with competitive extraction elements in a harsh desert environment.
- #10 Conan Exiles Enhanced
91% matchMostly Positive79% of 115,037 reviews2018
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 17.1 hrsMean: 111.9 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Conan Exiles Enhanced is an open world survival game set in the mythical lands of Hyboria, now fully upgraded to Unreal Engine 5 with stunning visuals and improved performance. SURVIVE, BUILD, and DOMINATE alone or with friends in a world brimming with adventure!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.9% ★, Survival 17.6%, Crafting 13.6%, Massively Multiplayer 10.7%, Multiplayer 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: Provides robust base-building and survival systems within a dangerous, large-scale open world.
- #11 ICARUS
90% matchMostly Positive74% of 63,962 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 46.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.6% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Survival 11.3%, Crafting 10.3%, Online Co-Op 10%
Why You'll Like It: Utilizes a session-based extraction loop that requires players to survive and craft before returning to orbit.
- #12 7 Days to Die
89% matchVery Positive87% of 399,251 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 16.9 hrsMean: 108.3 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 31.1% ★, Survival 15.2%, Base Building 13.9%, Online Co-Op 10.3%, FPS 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: Features deep base-building and fortification mechanics against persistent PvE threats.
- #13 Nightingale
89% matchMixed67% of 17,932 reviews2024
Dev: Inflexion Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 24.0 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 31.9% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Online Co-Op 11.4%, Crafting 11.3%, Survival 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on exploration and survival in a unique, shifting world with strong crafting elements.
- #14 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
87% matchVery Positive82% of 9,989 reviews2024
Dev: Merge GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 29.8% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Crafting 11%, Survival 10.7%, Online Co-Op 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a unique perspective on survival and base building in a dangerous, oversized natural world.
- #15 Vigor
88% matchMixed46% of 7,746 reviews2024
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 45%
Outlive the apocalypse! Dive into intense Encounters and extract the most valuable spoils the Outlands have to offer! Loot, shoot, and build to become the absolute Outlander and explore the landscape of a post-war Norway in Vigor, a free-to-play looter shooter.
Why similar: Extraction Shooter 40.6% ★, FPS 12.8%, PvP 11.3%, Base Building 10.3%, Multiplayer 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: Centers on the extraction-shooter loop while allowing players to build and upgrade a persistent home base.
- #16 ARK: Survival Ascended
86% matchMixed60% of 105,775 reviews2023
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows
Median: 27.6 hrsMean: 196.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 17.5%, Base Building 17%, Crafting 14.4%, Massively Multiplayer 12.5%, Multiplayer 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: Offers unparalleled survival and base-building depth with a focus on taming and resource management.
- #17 Raft
84% matchVery Positive93% of 372,032 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.6 hrsMean: 37.3 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 40% ★, Survival 16.2%, Crafting 11.2%, Multiplayer 10.1%, Base Building 10%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a cooperative survival experience focused on building and expanding a mobile base while gathering resources.
- #18 XERA: Survival
86% matchMixed66% of 7,908 reviews2021
Dev: Spotted Kiwi Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 24.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
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 27.4% ★, Base Building 14%, Crafting 10.4%, Massively Multiplayer 10.1%, Survival 9%
Why You'll Like It: Combines open-world survival with extraction-based PvP mechanics in a post-apocalyptic setting.
- #19 DeadPoly
85% matchMostly Positive77% of 5,910 reviews2022
Dev: TFL Games
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 11.3 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 27.7% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Crafting 10.7%, Online Co-Op 10.4%, Survival 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: A low-poly survival shooter that emphasizes looting, base defense, and multiplayer interaction.
- #20 Volcanoids
84% matchVery Positive83% of 9,267 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: Base Building 17.8%, Crafting 15.8%, Online Co-Op 11.8%, FPS 11.7%, Survival 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: Features unique mobile base-building mechanics that require constant survival and resource gathering.
- #21 Longvinter
82% matchMixed67% of 7,565 reviews2025
Dev: Uuvana Studios
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 42.7 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Fish, farm, craft, gather, cook, loot or steal from other players and build a campsite or a village with your friends in an open-world multiplayer sandbox game without rules!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30% ★, Crafting 15%, Survival 13.4%, Multiplayer 9.8%, PvP 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer survival game that emphasizes crafting, base expansion, and social interaction.
- #22 Far Lands
83% matchMixed65% of 167 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 29.6% ★, Base Building 16.7%, Crafting 15%, Survival 12.5%, PvE 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a survival and crafting experience with a focus on exploration and base development.
- #23 KeepUp Survival
81% matchMixed64% of 743 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 10.6 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 32.6% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Crafting 12.9%, Survival 11.4%, PvE 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that focuses on building and exploration in a persistent environment.
- #24 Outlaws of the Old West
82% matchMixed59% of 6,290 reviews2019
Dev: Virtual Basement LLCPub: Wandering Wizard
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 22.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Outlaws of the Old West is a massively multiplayer survival MMO with a huge world, thousands of items and a modular building system. Survive the wild, build your own homestead, defeat villainous bandits and work with others to tame the Wild West.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.3% ★, Massively Multiplayer 16.8%, Survival 14.1%, Multiplayer 8.4%, Base Building 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: A western-themed survival game with deep base-building and multiplayer mechanics.
- #25 Unturned
79% matchVery Positive91% of 562,983 reviews2017
Dev: Smartly Dressed Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 72.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
You're a survivor in the zombie infested ruins of society, and must work with your friends and forge alliances to remain among the living.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 22%, Crafting 17.1%, Survival 15.1%, FPS 13.9%, Multiplayer 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: An accessible survival shooter that features extensive base building and multiplayer combat.
- #26 Miscreated
81% matchMixed66% of 31,585 reviews2018
Dev: Entrada Interactive LLC
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 38.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Miscreated is a multiplayer online hardcore survival game set in a post-apocalyptic future. You will need to survive against mutants, players, and even mother nature herself.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.9% ★, Survival 15.8%, Massively Multiplayer 9.6%, Crafting 8.4%, Multiplayer 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic survival game that emphasizes PvP combat and base building in a detailed world.
- #27 StarRupture
77% matchVery Positive81% of 12,313 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 22.6 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 31.4% ★, Base Building 15.6%, Crafting 12.1%, Survival 10.6%, Online Co-Op 9%
- #28 Lost Skies
78% matchMixed61% of 2,893 reviews2025
Dev: Bossa StudiosPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 36.8% ★, Base Building 15.9%, Online Co-Op 12.6%, Character Customization 7.9%, Crafting 7.9%
- #29 State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition
78% matchVery Positive83% of 68,064 reviews2020
Dev: Undead LabsPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 39.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
The dead have risen and civilization has fallen. Now it's up to you to gather survivors, scavenge for resources and build a community in a post-apocalyptic world – a world where you define what it means to survive in this ultimate zombie survival simulation.
Why similar: Base Building 36.2%, Survival 30.8%, Online Co-Op 15.5%, Multiplayer 15.4%, Action 2.1%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on base management and survival in a world overrun by threats.
- #30 Road to Eden
80% matchMixed64% of 408 reviews2019
Dev: Zouking
Windows
Road to Eden is a third-person multiplayer survival coop game, set within the post-apocalyptic ruins of a world destroyed by an alien invasion. You wake up at the side of the road with no memory and must team up with other survivors to make the long and dangerous journey to Eden.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.1% ★, Crafting 13.8%, Base Building 13.1%, Survival 11.5%, Online Co-Op 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: Combines survival and crafting with a focus on building and exploration in a hostile world.
- #31 Dysterra
77% matchMixed56% of 763 reviews2025
Dev: Reality MagiQ
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 65%
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 21.9% ★, Base Building 10.5%, PvE 9.8%, Crafting 9.2%, Online Co-Op 8%
- #32 Out of Reach
79% matchMixed57% of 3,046 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: Open World Survival Craft 39.9% ★, Survival 12.9%, Crafting 11.5%, Massively Multiplayer 10.9%, Base Building 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: A pirate-themed survival game that features base building and PvP combat on a remote island.
- #33 Mesorift Survival
76% matchMostly Positive74% of 119 reviews2025
Dev: Meik.W Interactive
Windows
Mesorift Survival is a classic survival game with PvP and PvE elements, set in a tropical open world with three islands. Gather resources, build a base, craft weapons, and survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.9% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Survival 9.9%, FPS 9.6%, PvP 8.5%
- #34 Dawn of Defiance
75% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,797 reviews2024
Dev: Traega EntertainmentPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 33% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Online Co-Op 12.3%, Survival 10.7%, PvE 8.8%
- #35 ARC Raiders
72% matchVery Positive84% of 396,707 reviews2025
Dev: Embark Studios
Windows
Median: 41.4 hrsMean: 93.6 hrs≥1hr: 97%
ARC Raiders is a multiplayer extraction adventure, set in a lethal future earth, ravaged by a mysterious mechanized threat known as ARC.
Why similar: Extraction Shooter 48.1% ★, PvP 8.4%, PvE 7.5%, Online Co-Op 7.1%, Multiplayer 6.1%
- #36 Rem Survival
76% 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 32.8% ★, Base Building 14.2%, Crafting 13%, Massively Multiplayer 11.7%, Survival 10.6%
- #37 Plains of Pain
74% matchVery Positive84% of 757 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 28.2% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Crafting 11%, Online Co-Op 10.2%, Survival 9.1%
- #38 Stars End
73% matchMixed61% of 1,419 reviews2023
Dev: Reverie World StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Stars End is a sci-fi survival sandbox set on the wild frontier of a distant star system. Play solo or host your own server as you craft, build, and battle to survive in a galaxy shaped by danger, discovery, and your own grit.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.1% ★, Massively Multiplayer 15.9%, Online Co-Op 9.4%, Crafting 8.1%, Survival 7.8%
- #39 PolyZ
73% matchMixed50% of 272 reviews2024
Dev: Thirteen37 Games™
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 1.6 hrs≥1hr: 38%
Imagine DayZ mixed with Escape From Tarkov, but in Low Poly. A persistent world survival game featuring PvP, PvE, crafting, base-building, and zombies infected with a contagious virus.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21% ★, Massively Multiplayer 14.2%, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 8.8%, Survival 8.4%
- #40 Grim
72% matchMixed59% of 146 reviews2025
Dev: Spoonfed InteractivePub: Beyond Frames
Windows
GRIM is an Exclusive VR Multiplayer Survival game where you must immerse yourself, stranded on a secluded part of Earth. Survival is not just a choice but a grueling battle against nature and other players. Gather resources, craft, and build your base, all to stay alive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.4% ★, Crafting 12.6%, Base Building 11.8%, Survival 11%, Massively Multiplayer 8.6%
- #41 Project Castaway
71% matchMixed67% of 1,723 reviews2026
Dev: Mardonpol Inc.
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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 34.3% ★, Base Building 13%, Online Co-Op 12.6%, Survival 10.6%, Crafting 9.8%
- #42 Enshrouded
70% matchVery Positive86% of 101,648 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.7 hrsMean: 45.6 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 21.1%, Survival 16.3%, Online Co-Op 15.4%, Crafting 15.2%, Multiplayer 9.7%
- #43 Ruins To Fortress
71% matchMixed64% of 176 reviews2024
Dev: NimbleBeasts
Windows · Linux
Explore a post-apocalyptic island, craft, build, tear down enemy bases, defend and nuke your rivals! Life's about surviving in this multiplayer game, no matter what it takes!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.3% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Crafting 11.1%, Survival 9.5%, PvP 8%
- #44 Everwind
69% matchVery Positive82% of 3,221 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 12.8 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: Crafting 18.8%, Online Co-Op 17.7%, Survival 15.3%, PvP 11%, Multiplayer 10.7%
- #45 Eden Crafters
69% matchVery Positive86% of 2,425 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 37.3% ★, Base Building 17.3%, Crafting 14.5%, Online Co-Op 11.1%, Survival 9.6%
- #46 Abiotic Factor
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 55,118 reviews2025
Dev: Deep Field GamesPub: Playstack
Windows
Median: 19.6 hrsMean: 43.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
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 27.6% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Crafting 11.5%, Online Co-Op 10.8%, Survival 9.9%
- #47 Strayed
70% matchMostly Positive79% of 370 reviews2024
Dev: Crustacean Interactive
Windows
Strayed is a fast paced open world VR survival game where every session feels like a new adventure. Start with nothing on a fresh island, gather materials, craft weapons, build bases, and battle other players for the best loot.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.6% ★, Base Building 10.6%, Crafting 10.5%, Online Co-Op 8.5%, Survival 8.4%
- #48 Solace Crafting
70% 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 31.4% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 13%, Survival 11%, Online Co-Op 10.2%
- #49 Fragmented
73% 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 50.3% ★, Survival 15.3%, Crafting 9.9%, Multiplayer 7.9%, Online Co-Op 5.3%
- #50 Voidtrain
67% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,447 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 39.8% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 10.6%, Survival 9.9%, Online Co-Op 9.7%
- #51 Forever Skies
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,446 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.6 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 33.5% ★, Base Building 17.4%, Crafting 14.5%, Survival 12%, Multiplayer 7.3%
- #52 Renown
68% matchMixed59% of 1,558 reviews2025
Dev: RDBK Studios
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Renown is an intense medieval multiplayer survival experience set in a vast, ever-evolving world. Whether alone or rallying allies, gather resources, build powerful strongholds, and engage in brutal battles for dominance.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.3% ★, Massively Multiplayer 11.9%, Crafting 11.5%, Base Building 10.4%, Survival 9.3%
- #53 Windrose
65% matchVery Positive88% of 44,950 reviews2026
Dev: Kraken Express
Windows
Median: 19.2 hrsMean: 31.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Embark on a PvE survival adventure in the Age of Piracy. Fight on land and sea, solo or with friends. Build, craft and explore vast open world filled with dark secrets. Master soulslite combat and take on challenging bosses, command your ship and plunder unspoken treasures!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.2% ★, Crafting 11.8%, Online Co-Op 11%, Survival 9.4%, Base Building 9%
- #54 Outerstellar
68% matchMostly Positive72% of 170 reviews2023
Dev: Strange Horizons Ltd
Windows
Stranded on a hostile and deadly planet, you must gather resources, build shelter, and fight to survive each night. But the secrets of this world await in a gripping sci-fi survival PvP game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.2% ★, Base Building 11%, Massively Multiplayer 10.5%, Crafting 9.6%, Survival 9.1%
- #55 GRAV
71% matchMixed47% of 6,921 reviews2015
Dev: BitMonster, Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 60%
GRAV is a sand box experience where you explore a multitude of planets, hunt strange alien creatures, build and defend outposts, craft weapons and armor, and attempt to survive against other players in a hostile environment.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.2% ★, Base Building 15.5%, Survival 14.2%, Crafting 10.7%, Multiplayer 6.9%
- #56 Len's Island
66% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,720 reviews2025
Dev: Flow Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 34.2% ★, Crafting 12.1%, Base Building 11.9%, Nature 11.4%, Survival 10.9%
- #57 Aloft
65% matchVery Positive84% of 3,576 reviews2025
Dev: Astrolabe Interactive Inc.Pub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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: Open World Survival Craft 33.7% ★, Crafting 18.7%, Survival 15.1%, Character Customization 9.9%, Multiplayer 8%
- #58 Outpost Zero
69% matchMixed49% of 850 reviews2019
Dev: Symmetric GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Outpost Zero blends the genres of Multiplayer Base Building Survival and Simulation games in a Sci-Fi universe. On a lawless alien world, robotic scouts are tasked with building an Outpost for human colonists. Command AI minions, colonize the planet, and survive the perils of Gaiya.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.8% ★, Survival 16.1%, Base Building 14.6%, Crafting 10.1%, Multiplayer 9.7%
