- #1 Survival: Fountain of Youth
97% matchVery Positive86% of 4,270 reviews2024
Dev: Odinsoft Inc.Pub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 18.7 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: Open World Survival Craft 50.1% ★, Survival 15.2%, Crafting 10.7%, Open World 8.4%, Building 5.7%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers a highly polished tropical survival experience with deep crafting and exploration mechanics that mirror the core loop of My Island.
- #2 Stranded Deep
96% matchMostly Positive74% of 47,062 reviews2022
Dev: Beam Team GamesPub: Beam Team Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 21.1 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: Open World Survival Craft 55.3% ★, Survival 15.5%, Crafting 7.9%, Open World 7.9%, Multiplayer 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: A quintessential tropical survival game that tasks you with surviving on a chain of islands using scavenged resources and building your own shelter.
- #3 Len's Island
96% 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 52.1% ★, Survival 14.5%, Crafting 10.3%, Open World 9.7%, Building 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: It perfectly blends island exploration with satisfying farming and building mechanics in a vibrant, stylized world.
- #4 Raft
95% 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 50.3% ★, Survival 17.8%, Multiplayer 8.8%, Crafting 7.9%, Open World 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: While set on the ocean, it captures the same tropical vibe and focuses heavily on expanding your base and managing resources in a beautiful environment.
- #5 Green Hell
94% matchVery Positive85% of 94,379 reviews2019
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 18.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 53.6% ★, Survival 15.7%, Multiplayer 8.5%, Crafting 7.4%, Open World 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: A more intense take on tropical survival that features deep crafting, building, and realistic survival mechanics in a lush jungle setting.
- #6 Sunkenland
94% 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 56.9% ★, Survival 15.3%, Crafting 8.6%, Multiplayer 7.3%, Open World 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on tropical island exploration, modular building, and survival against both the elements and hostile threats.
- #7 Survisland / 实境求生
93% matchMixed63% of 1,544 reviews2024
Dev: Super Trampers StudioPub: Easy Joy Ltd.
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Survisland is a super hardcore sandbox survival game that pays great attention to restoring the real survival experience. The character has rich and realistic actions and reactions to , and the process logic of making props is no different from reality.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.7% ★, Survival 13.1%, Crafting 9.1%, Open World 8.2%, Multiplayer 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a hardcore survival experience on tropical islands with a focus on realistic mechanics and building your own homestead.
- #8 Eden Island
92% matchMixed61% of 254 reviews2024
Dev: Moon Studio
Windows
Eden Island is a beautiful survival game. As a survivor, you will explore and survive on a realistic tropical island, craft weapons against beasts, farm and hunt, build your own home.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.1% ★, Survival 13.6%, Crafting 10.5%, Open World 9.5%, Building 7%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game that emphasizes island-based resource gathering, hunting, and base construction in a tropical setting.
- #9 The Forest
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 665,921 reviews2018
Dev: Endnight Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 37.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 59.4% ★, Survival 17%, Open World 9.3%, Crafting 7.4%, Building 4.3%
Why You'll Like It: An island-based survival game that provides robust base-building tools and a strong sense of exploration in a dense, tropical-themed environment.
- #10 Subsistence
91% 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 53.6% ★, Survival 14.8%, Crafting 9.2%, Open World 7.8%, Multiplayer 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on long-term survival and base-building in an open world, offering a rewarding progression system for those who enjoy developing their own territory.
- #11 Mist Survival
90% 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 52.6% ★, Survival 21.5%, Open World 11.5%, Crafting 7%, Base Building 3%
Why You'll Like It: Combines base-building and survival mechanics with exploration, providing a challenging but rewarding experience.
- #12 Sons Of The Forest
88% 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 31.3%, Open World 20.3%, Multiplayer 14.8%, Crafting 14.1%, Building 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A modern, high-fidelity survival game that offers advanced building systems and a vast island to explore and customize.
- #13 Among Trees
89% matchMixed68% of 2,216 reviews2021
Dev: FJRD Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Escape to an enchanting, living sandbox surrounded by wildlife and nature. Scavenge materials and craft tools to turn your small cabin into a warm, well-supplied home. Survive by fishing, cooking and growing your own food. Be careful though, the forest is as dangerous as it is wonderful.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 51.7% ★, Survival 14.8%, Open World 10.2%, Crafting 9.2%, Building 5.7%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a cozy, atmospheric survival experience with a strong focus on building a home and living in harmony with the environment.
- #14 Escape The Pacific
89% matchMixed68% of 754 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: Open World Survival Craft 50.8% ★, Survival 14.6%, Crafting 11.4%, Open World 10.7%, Building 7%
Why You'll Like It: Features realistic survival mechanics set in a vast chain of tropical islands, requiring careful planning and resource management.
- #15 Subnautica
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 344,093 reviews2018
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.4 hrsMean: 40.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 55.1% ★, Survival 16.1%, Open World 10.1%, Crafting 9%, Multiplayer 4.2%
Why You'll Like It: While primarily underwater, it shares the tropical aesthetic and the rewarding progression of building a home base in a beautiful, alien environment.
- #16 Out of Reach
87% 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 51.8% ★, Survival 14.6%, Open World 8.8%, Crafting 8.4%, Multiplayer 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: An island-based survival game that emphasizes multiplayer interaction, crafting, and building your own structures.
- #17 Salt
86% matchMostly Positive76% of 2,246 reviews2018
Dev: Lavaboots Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Salt is an open world exploration game where you sail from island to island looking for loot and new discoveries! Relax and explore at your own pace, picking a direction and setting sail across a vast ocean filled with quests, merchants, ruins, pirates, and other mysterious places.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 53.8% ★, Survival 15.4%, Open World 11.7%, Crafting 9.5%, Multiplayer 5.8%
Why You'll Like It: An exploration-focused survival game that tasks you with sailing between islands and uncovering secrets in a vast, open ocean.
- #18 Medieval Dynasty
84% matchVery Positive91% of 49,970 reviews2021
Dev: Render CubePub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 35.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.
Why similar: Crafting 22.7%, Survival 20.4%, Building 15.4%, Open World 14.6%, Multiplayer 12.1%
Why You'll Like It: While not tropical, it is the gold standard for the 'farming and building a village' loop that fans of My Island's base-development mechanics will enjoy.
- #19 Project Castaway
84% 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 50.1% ★, Survival 13.5%, Open World 9%, Crafting 8.1%, Multiplayer 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: A tropical survival game designed with co-op in mind, focusing on exploration and building a life on a deserted island.
- #20 Force of Nature
85% 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 51.9% ★, Survival 13.9%, Crafting 11.1%, Open World 7.7%, Building 4.7%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that provides a great balance of crafting, building, and exploration in a colorful, open world.
- #21 SCUM
81% matchMostly Positive74% of 122,922 reviews2025
Dev: Gamepires
Windows
Median: 11.9 hrsMean: 102.0 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 49.1% ★, Survival 14.3%, Open World 10.7%, Crafting 9.3%, Character Customization 5.1%
Why You'll Like It: Features highly detailed character customization and survival mechanics that appeal to players who enjoy managing their character's needs.
- #22 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 49.1% ★, Survival 15%, Open World 10.9%, Crafting 10.8%, Multiplayer 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that prioritizes building and crafting, allowing players to create their own unique home in the wilderness.
- #23 Conan Exiles
82% matchMostly Positive79% of 111,441 reviews2018
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 16.9 hrsMean: 111.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
An online multiplayer survival game, now with sorcery, set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian. Survive in a vast open world sandbox, build your home into a kingdom, and dominate your enemies in single or multiplayer.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.8% ★, Survival 18.1%, Open World 11.4%, Crafting 9%, Building 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: Offers deep character customization and some of the most robust building mechanics in the survival genre.
- #24 Solace Crafting
82% 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 45.4% ★, Survival 13.9%, Crafting 10.5%, Open World 9.3%, Multiplayer 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on building and crafting in a massive, seamless open world that encourages exploration and base development.
- #25 Aloft
79% matchVery Positive84% of 3,496 reviews2025
Dev: Astrolabe Interactive Inc.Pub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 13.9 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: Open World Survival Craft 38.4% ★, Survival 15.1%, Crafting 12%, Open World 8.3%, Building 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: Features a unique take on island survival where you build and manage floating islands, offering a fresh perspective on the genre.
- #26 This Land Is My Land
81% matchMixed68% of 4,601 reviews2021
Dev: Game-Labs
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 21.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Experience the frontier as a chief of a Native American tribe and resist the onset of the settlers. Explore the vast world full of hostile humans and animals while defining your narrative through the decisions you make.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 53.9% ★, Survival 16.1%, Open World 10.6%, Crafting 8%, Multiplayer 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that emphasizes exploration and territory management in a vast, beautiful landscape.
- #27 Under A New Sun
78% matchMostly Positive76% of 368 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: Open World Survival Craft 55.3% ★, Survival 15.2%, Open World 10.9%, Crafting 10.7%, Base Building 3.2%
Why You'll Like It: A tropical survival game that focuses on exploration, crafting, and building a life in a beautiful, isolated setting.
- #28 Re.poly
79% 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 48.8% ★, Survival 14.8%, Crafting 11.3%, Open World 10.3%, Multiplayer 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that emphasizes building and exploration in a stylized, open-world environment.
- #29 Wilderness
80% matchMostly Negative28% of 86 reviews2020
Dev: Horizon Studios
Windows
Survive in the wild nature by playing as an animal or as a human. Play as an animal and survive by your own or build a herd to stay protected. Have babies and protect them from predators. Play as a human and craft items, build a house, customize your character and more.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.6% ★, Survival 14.3%, Crafting 8.6%, Open World 7.4%, Multiplayer 5.4%
Why You'll Like It: A first-person survival game that focuses on exploration and crafting, providing a grounded experience in the great outdoors.
- #30 Mad Island
75% matchVery Positive92% of 4,269 reviews2024
Dev: EmadePlus
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 20.0 hrs≥1hr: 78%
This survival game is packed with features including crafting, exploring, building, excavation, farming, fishing, capturing creatures, torture, battle, and a story with many forks along the way. The objective is to escape the island, but is that really your only choice?
Why similar: Sexual Content 25.1%, Open World Survival Craft 24.3% ★, Survival 14.5%, Nudity 11.3%, Open World 11.1%
- #31 The Island
78% matchMixed46% of 103 reviews2021
Dev: Ibis Games
Windows
The Island - "Island") - a computer game with an open world and a first-person view in the genre of survival.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.7% ★, Survival 14.4%, Open World 10%, Crafting 9.5%, Building 7%
- #32 Wicked Island
74% matchMostly Positive78% of 870 reviews2025
Dev: RawDarkness
Windows
Survive a harsh, alluring open world in this 18+ survival RPG. Craft gear, build your home, customize your character, and command dragons! Explore deep dungeons and battle fierce monsters. Fight to win, or succumb to your desires with a fully integrated sex defeat and pregnancy system.
Why similar: Sexual Content 30.6%, Open World 20.3%, Nudity 14.6%, Survival 14.2%, Character Customization 12%
- #33 AREAZ
77% matchMixed62% of 104 reviews2019
Dev: Project Solutions
Windows
A realistic survival journey through challenging environments using simple real-world techniques. Manage calories, exhaustion, and nature’s dangers as you adapt and push forward. Stay alert as nature responds to your actions, ensuring no two attempts ever play the same.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 52.8% ★, Survival 14.6%, Open World 10.4%, Crafting 10.1%, Nudity 6.7%
- #34 Cube Life: Island Survival
76% 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: Open World Survival Craft 61.9% ★, Survival 11.1%, Open World 8.6%, Crafting 7.8%, Building 6.2%
- #35 Island Notes
72% matchVery Positive83% of 737 reviews2025
Dev: KangBaoGame
Windows
Shipwrecked on a mysterious island, choose self-preservation or alliances. Master base-building, farming, fishing, romance and pet taming in this morally-charged survival simulator that blends strategy with human drama. Forge bonds, conquer nature, and evolve your humanity.
Why similar: Open World 50.5%, Sexual Content 22.9%, Adventure 12%, RPG 9.7%, Base Building 4.5%
- #36 Nomad
76% 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: Open World Survival Craft 55.8% ★, Survival 16.7%, Multiplayer 9.3%, Open World 9.2%, Crafting 6.9%
- #37 INCUR Survival
73% 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 51.5% ★, Survival 13.5%, Crafting 10.6%, Open World 9.5%, Building 7.9%
- #38 Heat
74% matchMixed49% of 2,935 reviews2020
Dev: Code}{atch
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 28.5 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Survive the wilderness, build a home, raise a family, and expand your territory. Gain power as President, deliver justice as Sheriff, fight for your tribe as Chief, or show some southern hospitality as Governor. Begin your new life in 19th century America.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.6% ★, Survival 20.3%, Open World 13.5%, Multiplayer 10.2%, Crafting 6.6%
- #39 Fragmented
75% 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 58.3% ★, Survival 15.6%, Open World 8%, Crafting 6.4%, Multiplayer 6.4%
- #40 Rem Survival
73% 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 46.6% ★, Survival 13.2%, Crafting 10.4%, Open World 9.4%, Building 6.3%
- #41 ARK: Survival Evolved
71% matchVery Positive83% of 763,144 reviews2017
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 200.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 53% ★, Survival 14.8%, Open World 8.6%, Crafting 7.6%, Multiplayer 6.7%
- #42 Rust
70% matchVery Positive87% of 1,344,289 reviews2018
Dev: Facepunch Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 52.0 hrsMean: 416.6 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 36.8% ★, Survival 22.6%, Crafting 11.7%, Open World 10.3%, Multiplayer 8.2%
- #43 Outbreak Island
69% 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: Survival 35.5%, Crafting 20.5%, Open World 17.6%, Building 12.6%, Base Building 6.7%
- #44 Radiation Island
73% matchVery Positive80% of 623 reviews2016
Dev: Atypical Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Radiation Island is a survival adventure game where you craft your own destiny in a huge open world environment. As part of the Philadelphia Experiment you have become stranded in a parallel, alternate reality. Discover this new and mysterious world, with all its surprises.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 60.6% ★, Survival 19.1%, Open World 7.2%, Crafting 5.6%, Multiplayer 3.2%
- #45 Tropical Monster Girls
68% matchVery Positive86% of 722 reviews2025
Dev: Sweet Cakes Games
Windows
Build relationships and homes with sexy monster girls while you fight to survive. After your ship was raided, you find yourself on a mysterious island. Gather materials, craft weapons and tools. Decorate & build your home. Let your desires be fulfilled in ways only monster girls can.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.7% ★, Sexual Content 17%, Survival 16.7%, Open World 13.7%, Nudity 9.2%
- #46 Animallica
71% matchMostly Positive70% of 904 reviews2022
Dev: Animallica Games Studio
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 93%
In Animallica you are racing against extinction after a deadly virus ravaged the world. As the lone survivor of the last conservation center on Earth, the fate of every single animal and plant species lies in your hands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 52.3% ★, Survival 13.2%, Crafting 10.9%, Open World 6.5%, Simulation 4.3%
- #47 Hold Your Own
72% matchMixed68% of 574 reviews2017
Dev: DistrictWare inc.
Windows
A single player open world sandbox, crafting and survival FPS game set in a multi-island land where you'll fight to survive. Build your base, hunt and craft to defend yourself from aggressive wildlife, enemies or friends. Do you have what it takes to Hold Your Own?
Why similar: Survival 30.7%, Crafting 24.1%, Open World 19.1%, Building 12.1%, Base Building 6.6%
- #48 The Infected
69% 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 49.4% ★, Survival 13.7%, Crafting 11%, Open World 10.7%, Building 7.3%
- #49 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
67% 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 44% ★, Survival 13.7%, Crafting 9.1%, Open World 8.6%, Multiplayer 7.5%
- #50 The Glade
70% matchMixed59% of 113 reviews2021
Dev: Michael Schade
Windows
The Glade is a beautiful open world survival set on a stylized island which has been struck all over from large and mysterious meteorites creating a bridge for evil creatures from another world to enter and destroy anything in their path.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48% ★, Survival 15.8%, Crafting 14.6%, Open World 13.7%, Base Building 4.1%
- #51 Tribe: Primitive Builder
67% matchVery Positive81% of 760 reviews2023
Dev: Space Boat StudiosPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Chill out as you explore the beautiful, realistic island of exiles. Gather resources, craft tools, construct buildings and settlements. Manage tribe and automate your gameplay. Discover 4 lands, a storyline and save the inhabitants of the island.
Why similar: Survival 29.5%, Crafting 25.1%, Building 16.9%, Simulation 9.8%, Base Building 8.8%
- #52 Island Paradise
66% matchMostly Positive76% of 107 reviews2025
Dev: GSG
Windows
Island Paradise is a survival game where you build, upgrade, customize your own island and use nearby resources to create a home for generations to come!
Why similar: Open World 28.5%, Crafting 28%, Multiplayer 17.5%, Building 17.4%, Simulation 5.3%
- #53 Dig Island
65% matchVery Positive87% of 171 reviews2026
Dev: FiftyEight Studios
Windows
Dig Island is a 4-player co-op digging game. As you dig deeper, discover new resources, upgrade your equipment, and work with your friends to repair the plane and escape the island.
Why similar: Survival 32.4%, Crafting 29.3%, Simulation 12.8%, Character Customization 10.7%, Adventure 8.1%
- #54 Journey Of Life
69% matchMixed56% of 754 reviews2021
Dev: Hyperion Studio Limited
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 47%
You have experienced the sudden loss of your wealth, which has compelled you to abandon your previous life and begin anew. By venturing into the game world, you can construct settlements and forge alliances with other players, ensuring that you will always have exciting challenges to undertake.
Why similar: Survival 21.7%, Crafting 16.9%, Open World 15.2%, Multiplayer 11.6%, Building 10.4%
- #55 Survival Machine
65% 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 46.8% ★, Survival 13.3%, Crafting 10.4%, Open World 9%, Building 6.6%
- #56 Alchemist's Awakening
68% matchMostly Positive73% of 496 reviews2019
Dev: OsarisGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Enter a world full of magic, mystery, beautiful landscapes and dangerous creatures. Build your own destiny, by yourself or with some friends, gather materials, use elements as attacks, recombine them into building blocks... and use your Alchemist's power to give life to any shape you built.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 61.9% ★, Survival 13.4%, Crafting 12.8%, Open World 10.8%, Indie 1.1%
- #57 ArkCraft: The Rebirth of the World
66% matchMostly Positive75% of 171 reviews2024
Dev: ZD Yazilim
Windows
In this open-world crafting and building game, you explore an ancient world full of dangers and secrets. Collect animals and plants, build bases and master the craft as you build your ark and save civilization from destruction by the flood and then rebuild it.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 51.6% ★, Crafting 12.8%, Survival 12.7%, Open World 12.2%, Base Building 4.4%