- #1 Garden Apocalypse
97% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: OMEGABYTE
Windows
Once a thriving alien world, now a vast desert—devoured by the relentless Swarm. These towering insect invaders have left only scattered oases and buried ruins. Grow food, craft powerful resources, and uncover lost secrets to push back against the tide and restore balance to a dying world.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 37.6% ★, Crafting 15.8%, Sandbox 14.4%, Survival 12%, Strategy 8%
- #2 MaskuLand Survival
96% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: DR_Godot_Dev
Windows
You are Masku, an explorer who crash-landed in an unknown world carrying a rare cure for your son! To breathe you need special Masks, each one grants you a unique ability! Repair your balloon and get supplies, fight you way back home! His life depends on you! You need to SURVIVE!
Why similar: Crafting 21.1%, Survival 19.4%, Survival Horror 16.6%, Open World 14.3%, Sandbox 10.4%
- #3 Left to Your Own Devices
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Levi Lakota Lowe
Windows · Mac
Something stripped you to pieces and left you in a junkyard. Now everything on this planet hunts you. Rebuild your body from salvage, craft devices to survive, and explore a hand-drawn world — down into the dark, or the planets above.
Why similar: Survival 18.2%, Survival Horror 17.8%, Crafting 13.8%, Inventory Management 13.7%, Character Customization 11.6%
- #4 Icon_survive
95% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2024
Dev: 倦怠期
Windows
Escape from the Zombie Island Use cards scattered around the map to collect items Craft items Attempt to escape before the map is overrun by zombies
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 33.3% ★, Strategy RPG 24.5%, Strategy 14.4%, Real Time Tactics 12.5%, Crafting 11.2%
- #5 The Black Bahr
94% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Zeynova Production
Windows
The Black Bahr is a sandbox colony simulation RPG blending ocean exploration, crew management, and dynamic faction politics. Freely chart your course as a pirate, merchant, or honorable captain, shaping your destiny across the open seas.
Why similar: Crafting 15.7%, Sandbox 15.7%, Survival 14.6%, Open World 13.6%, Strategy RPG 13.2%
- #6 CorruptedZ
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: JMVGames
Windows
Lead a handful of survivors through the zombie apocalypse. Raise a colony from the ruins, ration every scrap of food and water, research lost tech, and hold the line against night hordes — and raiders who want their cut. Every survivor ages, sickens, and matters. How long can your camp last?
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 31.4% ★, Gun Customization 12.7% ★, Sandbox 11.7%, Crafting 7.6%, Character Customization 7.4%
- #7 Everstill Valley
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pixel Army Games
Windows
Explore a decaying wilderness haunted by silence, hunger, and shadow. Forage by day. Fear the night. In Everstill Valley, something follows.
Why similar: Crafting 16.8%, Inventory Management 16.4%, Survival Horror 14.6%, Survival 14.5%, Sandbox 12.8%
- #8 Foul
92% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: AZRK
Windows
Foul is a survival game with story elements. Alone, you must face everything that comes your way. Contaminated animals, hunger, and darkness are just some of the dangers awaiting you.
Why similar: Inventory Management 17.2%, Crafting 15.7%, Survival 14.3%, Open World 12.1%, Character Customization 10.3%
- #9 Horrors Glade
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: djva caravana
Windows
You are a young scientist whose experiment turned into a disaster. When you wake up in the heart of a creepy forest, where every whisper of the wind hides a threat, you realize: there are no rules here. There is only hunger, fear, and shadows hungry for your flesh.
Why similar: Crafting 26.1%, Survival 23.2%, Sandbox 21.2%, Open World 14.8%, Survival Horror 7.5%
- #10 风神界
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CMKZ
Windows · Mac · Linux
Fengshen Realm is an AI-driven, top-down 2D cultivation sandbox RPG. Begin as a mortal in a world that lives on without you, with no fixed story or quests. Survive, cultivate, craft, trade, explore, found a sect, make laws, expose spies, command armies, and reshape the realms.
Why similar: Strategy RPG 24.8%, Sandbox 18.5%, Open World 17.7%, RPG 12%, Simulation 10.7%
- #11 MoonCraft
90% matchNo user reviews100% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: Aluminati StudiosPub: Aluminati Studios Publishing
Windows
Your landing pod is destroyed and oxygen is draining fast! Explore, mine, craft, and build to survive relentless alien attacks on the dark side of the moon!!!
Why similar: Sandbox 21.8%, Strategy 15.1%, Open World 14.6%, Crafting 11.9%, Survival 10.7%
- #12 Island of the Lost
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: JR_Development
Windows
Survive on a mysterious island, gather resources, craft tools, and build a ship to escape—or explore freely in a larger open-world survival mode.
Why similar: Survival 18.3%, Crafting 17.8%, Inventory Management 17.4%, PvE 11.4%, Sandbox 9.9%
- #13 SKOS: 13.86
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Based Paw Crew
Windows
You are stalkers flung by an anomaly into the Middle Ages. Survive solo or in co-op in a world of knights, and go on dangerous raids into modern-day Pripyat for Soviet weapons and loot. Change the course of history or perish in the ruins of the past and future.
Why similar: Sandbox 19.7%, Survival 17.4%, Gun Customization 16.1% ★, Crafting 13.7%, RPG 8.4%
- #14 Direland
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: KAIJIUUUUU
Windows
A sandbox survival craft game set in a vast world. Explore the wilderness, defeat monsters, gather materials, and conquer colossal bosses.
Why similar: Crafting 27.4%, Sandbox 25.2%, Survival 19.7%, Open World 14.7%, RPG 11.2%
- #15 The Outbreak Guardian
87% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2022
Dev: Vanilla Cookys
Windows
The Outbreak Guardian is a third person open-world game where you are in charge of ensuring the welfare of the citizens of Patriam by managing the city's resources, which involves delivering equipment and some skilled driving.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 38.1% ★, Sandbox 15%, Survival 13.3%, Inventory Management 10.6%, Open World 9.3%
- #16 Natives
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Diggidy.net
Windows
Natives is an open-world/sandbox game with survival elements that takes place pre-Christopher Columbus. The land is raw, nature is at its peak and the seasons are full of change.
Why similar: Sandbox 17.9%, Survival 17.7%, Open World 16.2%, Crafting 13.3%, Realistic 10.5%
- #17 Survindust
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: IS Games
Windows
Stranded on a small island, you must gather, build, and automate to survive and turn a humble camp into a thriving, self-sustaining base.
Why similar: Survival 21%, Crafting 20.1%, Inventory Management 15.5%, Strategy 13.6%, Open World 8.1%
- #18 iZolated
84% matchMixed69% of 124 reviews2024
Dev: Crooked RoadPub: LT-Games
Windows
iZolated - This is a post-apocalyptic 2D action game with elements of survival and RPG, which throws you into a harsh open world where the slightest mistake costs you your life. Find equipment, engage in fights, and prove that you are the top of the food chain in this chaos!
Why similar: Gun Customization 22.8% ★, Sandbox 14.6%, Inventory Management 11.8%, Crafting 11.7%, Open World 11.1%
- #19 Black Plague: Survival
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Doomers Entertainment
Windows
You are an outcast who lost everything in the flames of the plague but gained the knowledge of "Devil's Mushrooms." In Black Plague: Survival, you must rise from a lone refugee to a fierce knight and leader of your own survivor clan.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 24.2% ★, Survival 15.6%, Open World 12.7%, Crafting 12.1%, Sandbox 9.3%
- #20 Qu Zone
83% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Scotch Software
Windows
Lost in the Hoh Rainforest, inside a shifting dead zone akin to the Bermuda Triangle, you have 30 days to find extraction or be trapped forever. Qu Zone is a roguelike extraction game where every run puts your exploration, crafting, and bartering skills to the final test.
Why similar: Strategy RPG 31%, Character Customization 15.5%, Strategy 14.4%, Crafting 14%, Inventory Management 12.8%
- #21 Project Cobalt
81% matchMostly Positive74% of 57 reviews2026
Dev: OxygenStudio
Windows
⚗️ Project Cobalt is a survival action game set on a hostile island 🌴. Scavenge containers, mine resources, craft tools, hunt animals, and endure storms as you fight hunger, disease, and exhaustion all while uncovering the dark truth behind a failed experiment.
Why similar: Crafting 16.9%, Inventory Management 15.2%, Survival 14.3%, Sandbox 13.5%, Survival Horror 12.9%
- #22 THE REVENANTS
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sliva Group
Windows
The Revenants is a hardcore turn—based survival story generator with elements of strategy. Hide from the poisonous fog, search for items, fight the danger and try to save your life.
Why similar: Strategy RPG 15.7%, Crafting 15.3%, Inventory Management 14.5%, Survival 11.1%, Sandbox 11%
- #23 Sandbox Apocalypse
82% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2024
Dev: 7Druids GmbH
Windows · Mac · Linux
Sandbox Apocalypse is a 3rd person view, open world post-apocalyptic survial game where you are responsible for your own fate. Survive in a world inhabited by zombies, gather loot, build your base and explore the world.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 24.8% ★, Sandbox 14.2%, Crafting 14.1%, Survival 12.4%, Open World 11.4%
- #24 Rise of The Newborns
81% matchPositive82% of 11 reviews2026
Dev: DodigamestudiosPub: Dodi Game Studios
Windows
In a dystopian world consumed by the VAS, become one of the Newborn: A new generation of humans immune to the plague, surviving the ravages of disease, mutants, and sinister AXIOM. Fight for hope, rise against the odds, and pave the way for society to be reborn in a unique online sandbox RPG.
Why similar: Sandbox 17%, Inventory Management 14.1%, Crafting 13.6%, Character Customization 11.8%, Survival 11.5%
- #25 99 Nights
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ammonite Design Studios
Windows
Chop down trees, gather fuel & scrap, search abandoned structures, and build a base camp strong enough to withstand what comes after the sun sets. The wilderness grows more dangerous with every passing night, and something is always watching from beyond the firelight. Survive all 99 Nights.
Why similar: Sandbox 20.6%, Survival Horror 18.4%, Survival 17.9%, Crafting 16.3%, Open World 13.1%
- #26 Midway accident
78% match6 user reviews50% of 6 reviews2024
Dev: Tactical penguin
Windows
This is a multi-person survival and escape game. You need to find what you need in the game. You can choose to leave immediately after finding what you need, or explore what happened in this area.
Why similar: Survival Horror 16.3%, Crafting 15.9%, Survival 14.3%, Inventory Management 13%, Open World 10.1%
- #27 Falldenn
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: StickyGames
Windows
Falldenn is a medieval sandbox VR game developed by one person, focusing on realistic crafting and survival mechanics. Players can master various trades, while building a thriving empire. Navigate a dynamic economy, manage resources, and explore a beautifully immersive medieval world.
Why similar: Sandbox 21.6%, Simulation 15.9%, Inventory Management 15%, Crafting 14.7%, Character Customization 10.3%
- #28 Savage Islands
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FUNMOBILE TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
Windows
Savage Islands is an action-adventure game where your objective is to make it out alive on an island teeming with trouble. To that effect, you'll need to jump into the skin of a pirate, pick up enough tools, water, and food supplies in order to fight off your enemies.
Why similar: Open World 23.5%, Strategy RPG 17.1%, Character Customization 16.7%, Sandbox 13%, Strategy 12.4%
- #29 SNOW HELL
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SURVGAME
Windows
The crash is just the beginning. Trapped in the frozen hell of Siberia, you must fight for every single day. Use the wreckage, build shelter, find food, and face deadly threats. Rescue may never come – how long can you survive?
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 35.3% ★, Sandbox 16.7%, Survival 10.3%, Crafting 10.3%, Simulation 8.5%
- #30 Scavengers of Mars - Rover Survival Simulator
76% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Last Qubit
Windows
SCAVENGERS OF MARS is an exploration-survival adventure set on the cold, desolate surface of Mars. Guide a Mars Rover to aid survivors of a catastrophic disaster as they await rescue from Earth. Explore, gather resources, craft and ensure their survival against the planet's harsh conditions.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 20.3% ★, Inventory Management 15.2%, Crafting 14.2%, Survival 12.6%, Survival Horror 11%
- #31 Lantern Forge
79% matchMixed54% of 284 reviews2014
Dev: Hearthfire Studios
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Lantern Forge is a sandbox survival game with building, crafting, and RPG elements. Mine and forage for resources to build a home, plant crops, and craft weapons and armor. Then venture out to explore the wilderness, find hidden dungeons and temples, fight unique monsters, and collect the treasures they guard.
Why similar: Crafting 30.2%, Sandbox 27.2%, Survival 25.2%, RPG 17.4%
- #32 Dune Mechanic : Survive The Steampunk Era
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Heaven BrotherhoodPub: TheGamesFortress
Windows
Create weapons of your dreams from gunpowder pistols to grenade launchers. Craft cartridges by mixing powder ingredients. Melt ore, blow glass, study chemistry, and make explosives. Cut, mine, dig, shoot, build, research, design, craft, explore and more in the Dune deserts!
Why similar: Gun Customization 18.9% ★, Inventory Management 17.3%, Crafting 15.6%, Sandbox 14.3%, Survival 14.2%
- #33 Roundfoot
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Stormjest LLC
Windows
Explore. Trade. Fight. Open world game where you manage a caravan of elephants.
Why similar: Strategy RPG 27.8%, Open World 17.6%, Sandbox 16.7%, Real Time Tactics 12.5%, Strategy 10.6%
- #34 Echo Maiden
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: WarmZombie
Windows
This is an RPG game where you will follow our protagonist to fight and save lives!
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 46.3% ★, Strategy RPG 14.1%, Simulation 9.2%, Crafting 7.9%, Survival 7.2%
- #35 Darkest Messia
74% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Spektraz Games
Windows
Darkest Messia is a dark fantasy RPG with survival and cult-building. Serve one of three ancient gods, build a settlement in a dying world, expose traitors among your people, and decide whether light, darkness, or blood will shape the final fate of humanity.
Why similar: Gun Customization 34.1% ★, Inventory Management 18.6%, Character Customization 13.8%, PvE 11.4%, Crafting 6.8%
- #36 AxleVerdant: Exile
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Parsons Goldman Jones and Co
Windows
Wage guerrilla war against the ruthless Samudra Trading Company as exiled warrior Naira in AxleVerdant: Exile, an experimental roguelike survival RPG with an emphasis on tactical combat and strategic planning. Contend with hostile wilderness and ever growing enemy forces to reclaim your home.
Why similar: RPG 17.6%, Strategy 16.9%, Simulation 15.9%, Crafting 13.4%, Survival 12%
- #37 Survivance
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Endless Worlds Studio
Windows
Stranded on an uncharted alien world with a broken ship and no rescue coming. Scan the wildlife, uncover the truth behind abandoned human outposts, and build the technology you need to escape, before this planet becomes your grave.
Why similar: Survival 25.5%, Sandbox 21.6%, Open World 16%, Crafting 12.7%, PvE 10.6%
- #38 Desperation
74% matchMostly Positive70% of 10 reviews2021
Dev: EXBOTS
Windows
In Desperation, you are an elite soldier, tasked to survive in an unknown location. You will be facing many challenges, such as building shelter, finding food and water, fighting off zombies, killer robots and even other soldiers. Will you stay solo, or will you group up? How will you survive?
Why similar: Gun Customization 17.8% ★, Crafting 15.7%, Survival 12.1%, Survival Horror 12.1%, Inventory Management 11.9%
- #39 Barbarian Outpost
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Treason ltd
Windows
Barbarian Outpost is a management game where you control a group of fierce barbarians. Start with one lone warrior and grow in power to recruit others to the clan.
Why similar: Strategy RPG 22.4%, Inventory Management 16%, Crafting 14.8%, Sandbox 11.8%, Character Customization 10%
- #40 the ISLE survival
72% matchMixed44% of 16 reviews2023
Dev: Free Land Studios
Windows
The ISLE survival is a vast open world survival / crafting game. Loot resources, craft items, build camps and explore the environment. Protect yourself from hazards and wildlife. Find ways to survive in hostile living conditions.
Why similar: Survival 18.9%, Survival Horror 18.7%, Crafting 16.8%, Open World 15.7%, Sandbox 11%
- #41 Stranded Deep 2
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: North Beach Games
Windows
Survival is just the beginning. Stranded in a desert wilderness, an endless river is your only lifeline. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and build a floating home to brave the treacherous waters and scorching heat. Every bend brings new danger and deeper discoveries. How far will you go?
Why similar: Survival 25.5%, Crafting 22%, Sandbox 21.5%, Open World 20%, Strategy 10.9%
- #42 Unfear Day
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Norman Studio
Windows
it is an open world multiplayer survival game that combines sandbox and simulation elements, including base building, NPC recruitment, community building, and the fusion of zombie growth elements and major event elements.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 25.6% ★, Survival 16.6%, Sandbox 15.3%, Open World 14.3%, Survival Horror 7.9%
- #43 Terafall: Survival
72% matchMixed42% of 33 reviews2023
Dev: Terafall: Survival
Windows
Terafall is a procedurally generated, open-world sandbox RPG all about exploring a new world to save your own dying planet from extinction, with a strong focus on non-linearity and character progression.
Why similar: Gun Customization 19.5% ★, Crafting 14.8%, Inventory Management 13.7%, Survival 13.2%, Sandbox 13.1%
- #44 Warrior Bloodline: Path of Survival
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Turdas
Windows
An epic journey of the fellowship of the children bonded by blood, escaped an experimental camp, wandering the woods and struggling both to survive and to reveal their destiny. An immersive, story-driven exploration game with a strong focus on realistic survival.
Why similar: Strategy RPG 21.8%, Crafting 17.1%, Survival 15%, Open World 11.6%, Character Customization 9.5%
- #45 Singularity - 奇异岛
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GAZEM
Windows
You are lost in the sea while driving a fishing boat, encountering severe thunderstorms and stranded on a remote island filled with strange things and monsters. You need to survive on the island and fight against unknown monsters to uncover the unknown side of the island.
Why similar: Crafting 19.6%, Survival Horror 16.3%, Survival 15.3%, Open World 14.7%, Sandbox 13.2%
- #46 Lost Paws
69% matchPositive88% of 24 reviews2025
Dev: Dungeoneering Studios
Windows
Survive as a stray dog in a large open world. Scavenge, craft, trade, and steal your way into a world where all the pets are disappearing. Arm yourself and take to the streets to rise from homeless to well-off no matter what it takes. What kind of story will you tell?
Why similar: Crafting 18%, Inventory Management 16.3%, Survival 15.6%, Open World 14.2%, Sandbox 13.9%
- #47 Last Float
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: LapsaDev
Windows
Explore and survive in this shattered world. Build, defend, and repair your raft. Search for secrets and uncover information about what happened - and most importantly, don't drown!
Why similar: Crafting 25.9%, Survival 25.8%, Sandbox 23.6%, Inventory Management 13.7%, Open World 8%
- #48 Valhalla Path: Survival
68% matchMixed63% of 16 reviews2025
Dev: Survival Saga Studios
Windows
Valhalla Path casts you as a Viking warrior stranded in a hostile land. Build a village, defend against the fallen warriors, lead your people to glory and secure your place in Valhalla's legends.
Why similar: Crafting 25.9%, Survival 24.1%, Inventory Management 16.3%, Open World 14.8%, RPG 12.3%
- #49 European Deadzone: Polesie
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TinyTerror Interactive
Windows
The Polesie region of Eastern Europe lies quarantined after a catastrophic event transformed its landscape and inhabitants. As a lone survivor, navigate this sealed nightmare of succubi, ghouls, and twisted horrors. Uncover the truth or attempt to tame the unknown.
Why similar: Gun Customization 22% ★, Inventory Management 14.4%, Crafting 12.6%, Strategy RPG 12%, Survival Horror 9.7%
- #50 Polyturned
69% match8 user reviews50% of 8 reviews2023
Dev: PolyturnedGame
Windows
Your goal is to survive in a city overrun by zombies, team up with friends to mine resources, build forts and explore the abandoned city.
Why similar: Crafting 18.7%, Survival 17.7%, Open World 14.5%, Gun Customization 13.5% ★, Sandbox 13.3%
- #51 V.O.D.K.A. Open World Survival Shooter
70% matchMostly Negative38% of 100 reviews2021
Dev: Guilty Pleasure Games
Windows
V. O. D. K. A. is a survival shooter in the open world, the game takes place in a fictional state in eastern Europe, most of the territory of which is infected with radiation. Your main task is survival.
Why similar: Survival 17.3%, Sandbox 15.9%, Open World 14.5%, Survival Horror 13.4%, RPG 11.2%
- #52 A Silent Desolation
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SHK Interactive
Windows
Stranded on post-apocalyptic Earth centuries after humanity's exodus, "A Silent Desolation" is a solo survival game developed by one person. Face dangers, craft, explore, and uncover secrets while repairing a shuttle base to escape.
Why similar: Survival 18.2%, Crafting 17.9%, Survival Horror 17.9%, Sandbox 16.7%, Open World 14.8%
- #53 Mist Island Survival
66% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: mengpotang
Windows
Mist Island Survival is a 2D pixel-art survival action RPG
Why similar: Crafting 18.2%, Sandbox 18%, Survival 17%, Open World 16%, Simulation 8.7%
- #54 Valorborn
65% matchMixed61% of 545 reviews2026
Dev: Laps Games
Windows
Dive into a living medieval fantasy sandbox RPG where the world moves with or without you and factions rise and fall. Become a thief, hunter, or sellsword, survive alone or with a party, and shape your story in a fully enterable world where every building, cave, and road hides opportunity or danger.
Why similar: Crafting 16.3%, Sandbox 16.2%, Survival 15.4%, Open World 14%, Inventory Management 14%
- #55 Craft Hero
67% matchVery Positive83% of 412 reviews2022
Dev: PandaCat 熊喵独立游戏Pub: OKJOY
Windows
Gather resources by day, build and recruit by noon, defend your village by night! A new minimalism sandbox survival with countless new ideas – Craft Hero
Why similar: Crafting 21.4%, Strategy RPG 19.8%, Sandbox 17.9%, Survival 16.9%, RPG 8.3%
- #56 WAW WORLD
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GYGAME
Windows
Open World Adventure: Spherical Planet Scene, Four-Race World
Why similar: Strategy RPG 24.8%, Sandbox 19.4%, Open World 17.6%, Survival 17.3%, RPG 10.8%
- #57 Plague Architect
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: IndividualKex
Windows
Plague Architect is a strategic outbreak simulator set in a mall. Evolve symptoms and abilities to spread infection. Watch chaos unfold.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 43.2% ★, Sandbox 13.3%, Survival 12.4%, Simulation 9.8%, Strategy 9.7%