- #1 Magisterium: Fantasy Craft
97% matchMostly Positive70% of 240 reviews2023
Dev: The Spiteful GamesPub: The Spiteful Games
Windows
A grinding medieval fantasy life sim with a detailed complex crafting system complemented by survival and RPG elements. Grind resources, craft items, trade with locals, master professions, fulfill quests and explore the world to uncover its long-lost secrets.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31% ★, Farming Sim 17.8%, Life Sim 15.6%, Survival 9.7%, Realistic 5.4%
- #2 Forestia
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Golden Pick Games
Windows
Armed with only a small axe, explore a forest consumed by darkness. Gather resources, craft tools, and defend the sacred altar from nightly monster assaults. Restore the altar and bring life back to the land in this 2D survival action fantasy game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.9% ★, City Builder 15.3%, Farming Sim 14.8%, Survival 12.8%, Sandbox 9%
- #3 Everplant
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: JesperPub: TakeLime
Windows · Mac · Linux
Discover an infinite procedural world, unite with monsters, discover the universe and create your own one with some friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.6% ★, Life Sim 15.1%, City Builder 14.4%, Survival 11.3%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #4 Alice in Dinerland
95% match4 user reviews25% of 4 reviews2023
Dev: Marginal_act
Windows
Embark on a whimsical and treacherous journey through a twisted version of Wonderland in "Alive in Dinerland," a gripping survival game inspired by the beloved tale of Alice in Wonderland.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.7% ★, Farming Sim 17.7%, Survival 14.3%, Sandbox 10.5%, Exploration 6%
- #5 Viking Frontiers: Prologue
94% matchMostly Positive78% of 478 reviews2025
Dev: BLUM EntertainmentPub: GameHunters
Windows
Survival of your people - that's the only thing that matters. Become the leader of a newly founded Viking settlement and lead it to safety and glory. Gather, build, craft, hunt, raid and follow your Gods to endure hardships of nature and save your clan from violent destruction.
Why similar: Farming Sim 20.4%, City Builder 17.6%, Life Sim 16.5%, Sandbox 9.6%, Survival 8%
- #6 Isometria
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Big Whoop Games
Windows
Explore an isometric world solo or with friends. Battle goblins, giant crabs, mysterious machines, and powerful bosses to gain their powers. Build a community and help the locals take back their world!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.8% ★, Farming Sim 15.8%, Survival 12.8%, Sandbox 10.9%, Simulation 6.5%
- #7 Dude Simulator 4
93% matchMixed58% of 418 reviews2021
Dev: Kiddy
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Dude Simulator 4 – a first-person open-world sandbox game with a plot. Some new adventures are awaiting the dude. The main character of the game decides to meet a girl through a mobile dating app, but during a date someone attacks him.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.3% ★, Life Sim 18.3%, Sandbox 12.1%, Survival 9.3%, Simulation 7.8%
- #8 Wrongworld
92% matchVery Positive94% of 545 reviews2018
Dev: Sludj Games
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Crash-landed on a surreal, low-poly world filled with freakish inhabitants, choose between permadeath and non-permadeath modes and embark on an epic (and ridiculous) survival adventure. Will you manage to stay alive as you unravel the mysteries of Wrongworld and search for a way home?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 55.5% ★, Survival 14.2%, Sandbox 8.5%, Simulation 7.3%, Adventure 4.6%
- #9 Breathedge 2
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: RedRuins SoftworksPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Sent on a reckless mission, you find yourself in outer space filled with numerous dangers and things to explore. Build, craft, manage your crew, look after the chicken, and defeat the evil space corporation in this new breathtaking survival game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.4% ★, Survival 17.8%, Sandbox 9.6%, Simulation 6.8%, Immersive Sim 6.4%
- #10 Stoneheart
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Longhouse Games
Windows
Adventure awaits in this RPG, with action, survival, crafting and base-building! Arriving in new lands, far from known civilization and with only a mysterious pendant, you will determine your own path. Will you survive the epic quest for the Stoneheart?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.2% ★, Farming Sim 21.2%, Life Sim 17.4%, Survival 11.7%, Exploration 4%
- #11 Medieval Frontiers
90% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Active Fungus StudiosPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
First-person colony simulation where strategy meets survival in a demanding, medieval wilderness. Construct gridless settlements, establish production chains, and manage the needs, desires, and work morale of your villagers to ensure their survival through the harsh realities of nature and disease.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.5% ★, Farming Sim 13.6%, City Builder 13.1%, Survival 11%, Sandbox 7.6%
- #12 Forager
89% matchVery Positive90% of 43,424 reviews2019
Dev: HopFrogPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 22.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 50.1% ★, Farming Sim 16.2%, Survival 15.8%, Sandbox 7.8%, Exploration 2.8%
- #13 Card Survival: Fantasy Forest
88% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,123 reviews2025
Dev: WinterSpring Games
Windows · Mac
Card Survival: Fantasy Forest is a card-based deep survival simulator and the next installment in the Card Survival Series. Carve yourself a home in a primordial forest that has a will of its own. A day-to-day life simulator in a world where nature reigns with mystery, beauty and sometimes cruelty.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.6% ★, Farming Sim 17.7%, Life Sim 16.2%, Survival 12%, Sandbox 9.4%
- #14 The Memory In Walden Pond
87% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: Sakous
Windows
Imitate ancient Chinese,In the bamboo forest landscape, survival hunting, farming herding horses, fishing qiao Jiang Zhu, build their own peach blossom source.
Why similar: Farming Sim 18.6%, City Builder 15.3%, Life Sim 14.4%, Survival 12.9%, Sandbox 9%
- #15 Strain
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lux Games
Windows
STRAIN is a story driven survival game taking place in a neon apocalypse. Stuck within the city walls, you must scavenge for resources, craft, cook, fight off raiders and join a faction to work your way to a position of power. The fate of the city rests in your hands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.3% ★, Life Sim 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%, Immersive Sim 8.6%, Simulation 6.7%
- #16 The Long Dark
86% matchVery Positive89% of 121,879 reviews2017
Dev: Hinterland Studio Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 46.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies -- only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 60.7% ★, Survival 22.3%, Sandbox 5.5%, Exploration 5.3%, Simulation 2.6%
- #17 Castaway Diary: Portal to the Unknown Isles
85% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: REMIMORY
Windows
Castaway Diary is a bright and charming anime-style survival adventure. Are you ready to escape to a relaxing island life with a group of lovely girls?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41% ★, Life Sim 17.2%, Survival 15.3%, Sandbox 9.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.1%
- #18 No Light
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 匠门电子科技有限公司
Windows
When wake up, you in a strange world. You must learn to be strong in this dangerous and dark world. Look for all the materials that can live, light the torch in hand, this light may be the last hope, but don't forget, in this boundless darkness, the light will also let "them" See you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 57.4% ★, Survival 14.8%, Simulation 9.2%, Exploration 7.2%, Realistic 5.2%
- #19 Wreck Poly Survival
84% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: FGS
Windows
Wreck Poly Survival is a low-poly survival and crafting game. Collect wood, stones and water, build shelters and hunt for food. Explore peaceful fields, light woodlands, and calm lakes as you craft tools and live at your own pace in a relaxing, minimalist world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.1% ★, Sandbox 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Simulation 15%, Survival 13.3%
- #20 Mirthwood
82% matchMostly Positive70% of 2,338 reviews2024
Dev: Bad Ridge GamesPub: V Publishing
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Embark on an enchanting journey and brave ferocious creatures in an immersive medieval fantasy world. Will you settle a new homestead to live a life of farming and trade, or pick up the sword and take up the adventurers' path?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.3% ★, Farming Sim 19.4%, Life Sim 12.2%, Sandbox 9.9%, Survival 9.3%
- #21 Dissident: Frostland Escape
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sigur StudioPub: Games Operators
Windows · Mac · Linux
A survival game about prisoners escaping from forced labor camps. A progressive, atmospheric tale in a fictional setting.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.1% ★, Survival 11.1%, Life Sim 11%, Third-Person Shooter 10%, Sandbox 9.3%
- #22 Blockscape
83% matchMixed46% of 898 reviews2014
Dev: ioneo
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 49%
The ultimate block building game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 65% ★, Sandbox 14.1%, Survival 10.6%, Simulation 3.3%, Exploration 2.4%
- #23 Don't Starve Together
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 531,653 reviews2016
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 64.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 71.7% ★, Survival 25.2%, Sandbox 1.9%, Adventure 0.8%, Indie 0.3%
- #24 V.O.D.K.A. Open World Survival Shooter
81% matchMostly Negative38% of 97 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: Open World Survival Craft 38.1% ★, Survival 15.4%, Sandbox 11.2%, Simulation 8.5%, Exploration 5.4%
- #25 SkyPrimal
80% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2021
Dev: Primal Apps Studio
Windows · Mac
Having lost your tribe, you, as the sole survivor, find yourself in an era of deadly danger and exciting adventures. You have to build yourself a shelter, make weapons, protect yourself from wild animals, and prove that you are not a prey, but a predator.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.2% ★, Survival 15.7%, Sandbox 13%, Indie 7.6%, Adventure 7.3%
- #26 Wandering Within
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Lonely Crows
Windows
Wandering Within is a 2d solo survival game where you have to cross a hostile desert to unravel the mysteries of a legendary chest. Gather resources, find water and build tools to increase your chance of survival
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 50.7% ★, Survival 20%, Mystery 11.7%, Sandbox 7.3%, Exploration 4.7%
- #27 World Crafter TD
78% matchMixed46% of 623 reviews2024
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 32%
A highly addictive survival crafting tower defense game! Gather, craft, build turrets, shoot guns, and expand the land to defend against waves of enemies in World Crafter TD!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.7% ★, Farming Sim 15.8%, Survival 10.8%, Third-Person Shooter 8.9%, Exploration 5.1%
- #28 Planta
79% matchMixed57% of 28 reviews2020
Dev: Jakub Klementewicz
Windows · Mac
Planta is a third-person open-world survival game with a procedurally generated terrain. It means the map is endless and expands while exploration! Planta throws you into an unrepeatable adventure in which you focus on gathering resources, building your base, exploring the world and... surviving!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 50.7% ★, Survival 18.2%, Simulation 14.3%, Action 8.6%, Adventure 8.2%
- #29 Nested Lands
77% matchMostly Positive72% of 444 reviews2026
Dev: 1M Bits HordePub: META Publishing
Windows
Nested Lands is a ruthless medieval RPG game featuring in-depth village building, large-scale social management and combats. Gather survivors, build a settlement, craft, master your skills, survive, and endure alone or in online co-op.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.9% ★, City Builder 14.9%, Life Sim 14.5%, Survival 11.1%, Sandbox 8.8%
- #30 WILDLANDS
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ahsen Games
Windows
Dive into a unique adventure that will put you against a world ruled by natural forces! Explore, craft, battle predators, tame animals, build homes, harvest crops & so much more. Gather your friends, grab a weapon, and head out to conquer the WILDLANDS!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 50% ★, Survival 16.9%, Realistic 6.8%, Exploration 6.7%, Action-Adventure 6.3%
- #31 VIFA
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: NavySparkStudio
Windows
Vifa is a survival-building game where each hero character brings unique talents that change how you play. Team up with friends, craft and build your base, deploy worker bots to gather resources, and assemble powerful mechs to defend your home.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.9% ★, Life Sim 11.7%, Sandbox 11.6%, Survival 10.3%, Exploration 4.5%
- #32 The Wild Eight
76% matchMixed68% of 8,077 reviews2019
Dev: Eight PointsPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
The Wild Eight is an intense survival action-adventure set in the frozen wilderness of Alaska. Team up with friends in online co-op or go solo, explore the mysterious land, craft weapons and fight to live another day.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 54.5% ★, Survival 21.9%, Mystery 9.5%, Sandbox 6.1%, Adventure 2.9%
- #33 Mineval
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MinegamerFrance Studios
Windows
Explore, build, survive, and gather all the resources you need! Customize your hero with unique armor and outfits! Mineval listens to its community and will do everything to bring your ideas and suggestions to life!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.3% ★, Simulation 18.9%, Survival 13.4%, Sandbox 11%, Realistic 6.9%
- #34 BugOut
76% matchMostly Negative41% of 37 reviews2018
Dev: A2G Studios
Windows
First Person, Exploring, Surviving, Hunting, Foraging, Buiding, Hoarding, Looting, Prepping, Crafting Work against Time and Survive, Storms, Earthquakes, Nuclear Events, Radical Weather, and much more
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.3% ★, Survival 15%, Sandbox 7.2%, Immersive Sim 6.3%, Exploration 5.7%
- #35 Claycrafter
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: scoz
Windows
Gather resources, build structures, and craft increasingly wondrous items to unlock the secrets of a mysterious world made entirely out of clay.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.1% ★, Farming Sim 16.3%, Sandbox 12%, Simulation 8.4%, Survival 7.3%
- #36 Sweet Land Survival
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BandaItPub: BandaIt Lab
Windows
Sweet Land is an action-survival game with crafting: play a bear stranded on a candy island. Manage hunger, fish, gather food, and use jams to stay strong. Two allied bears help you collect resources and fight strange creatures. Quick wits and teamwork keep you alive.
Why similar: Life Sim 18.7%, Simulation 12.6%, Sandbox 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%, Action-Adventure 7.6%
- #37 The Gold River Project
72% matchMixed66% of 568 reviews2026
Dev: Fairview Games Inc.
Windows
The Gold River Project™ is a camping trip gone wrong in the Pacific Northwest. Explore, craft, build, and survive in this open-world experiment that traps you and up to 4 friends in this single player or co-op survival adventure game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.7% ★, Survival 13%, Action-Adventure 7.6%, Mystery 6.7%, Exploration 6.3%
- #38 Short Snow | Cold Survival Game
73% matchMixed53% of 148 reviews2025
Dev: MubDev
Windows
A realistic open-world survival experience. After a harrowing plane crash, you find yourself stranded in the wilderness. Battling freezing temperatures and hunger, you face an unknown virus that slowly paralyzes muscles, leaving its victims motionless and at the mercy of the unforgiving cold.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.5% ★, Survival 16.8%, Sandbox 9.2%, Exploration 6.6%, Simulation 5.4%
- #39 Force of Nature
73% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,202 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 55.7% ★, Survival 17.6%, Sandbox 10.7%, Simulation 4.5%, Exploration 4.4%
- #40 Bromeliad
73% matchMixed61% of 28 reviews2021
Dev: Gorka Games Studios
Windows
In Bromeliad you are stranded on a pacific island where you are a Human-Bear. You will have to survive, gathering materials to build tools and bases. You will need to hunt for food, explore, tame animals, then, at night strange creatures will appear. Survive and find an element to return to normal.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.5% ★, Survival 16.2%, Sandbox 10.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.4%, Realistic 5.3%
- #41 Deadly Desert
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GIPub: TBA
Windows
Deadly desert is a survival story of two men, a young boy and his disabled father. It all started with an unfortunate accident in the middle of Nevada desert. Unfortunately, their car broke down on the way. They were waiting a long time for any help and then decided to take life in their own hands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.7% ★, Survival 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%, Realistic 8.4%, Immersive Sim 8.1%
- #42 Arid
71% matchVery Positive87% of 1,945 reviews2021
Dev: Sad Viscacha StudioPub: Breda University of Applied Sciences
Windows
Discover the mysteries of the Atacama, explore the abandoned mining networks, evade the scorching sun and survive the environment in one of the most arid place in the world. Arid is a FREE survival game made by students from Breda University.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.9% ★, Survival 15.1%, Sandbox 11.1%, Female Protagonist 7.7%, Exploration 6.3%
- #43 Don't Starve
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 112,640 reviews2013
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 28.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49% ★, Survival 28.9%, Sandbox 10.6%, Exploration 3.6%, Adventure 3.5%
- #44 ARCANA
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Thomas RandallPub: bald
Windows
An Open World Survival Crafting game where you harness magic to advance. Discover new crafting recipies, expand your base, and conquer your enemies.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 57% ★, Survival 18%, Sandbox 11.1%, Exploration 5.1%, Adventure 4.8%
- #45 DACHA
69% matchMostly Positive75% of 80 reviews2025
Dev: VD Games
Windows
Immerse yourself in the peaceful atmosphere of a Russian summer cottage: take care of the vegetable garden and flower beds, pick ripe apples, cook fragrant compote, roast kebabs and enjoy nature.
Why similar: Life Sim 25%, Farming Sim 23.9%, Sandbox 14.1%, Simulation 13.1%, Immersive Sim 8.8%
- #46 Survisland / 实境求生
69% matchMixed63% of 1,545 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 42.6% ★, Survival 14.5%, Sandbox 10.3%, Immersive Sim 7.4%, Simulation 6%
- #47 Stranded Deep
68% matchMostly Positive74% of 47,389 reviews2022
Dev: Beam Team GamesPub: Beam Team Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 20.9 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 61.1% ★, Survival 20.2%, Sandbox 4.9%, Realistic 4%, Exploration 3.8%
- #48 Farmer's Life: Prologue
70% matchMostly Positive71% of 243 reviews2021
Dev: FreeMind S.A.
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 42%
Farmer’s Life is a first simulator that will show you real, sometimes dark life on the farm. You will run Kazimir’s life - a bachelor and alcoholic. Help him to become an exemplary farmer, start a family, take care of the farm or watch him going down.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.8% ★, Farming Sim 22.6%, Life Sim 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.2%, Immersive Sim 8.2%
- #49 Outpost Zero
70% 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 50.4% ★, Survival 20.1%, Simulation 9.7%, Sandbox 5.8%, Adventure 5.7%
- #50 BEACHED
69% matchMixed65% of 3,688 reviews2021
Dev: Gradient Studios
Windows
A free-to-play, low-poly, open-world survival shooter where you’ll battle other players, explore massive monuments, and fight to stay alive. Build and fortify your base to defend against enemy raids, gather resources, and conquer a harsh, competitive world. Survival means doing whatever it takes.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.1% ★, Survival 13.4%, Sandbox 10.7%, Third-Person Shooter 10.4%, Action-Adventure 6.5%
- #51 Lust Odyssey
67% match8 user reviews13% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: BuuPink
Windows
Explore the desires of space in Lust Odyssey—a sensual journey beyond Earth’s orbit.
Why similar: Life Sim 22%, Sandbox 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Immersive Sim 10.7%, Simulation 8.5%
- #52 Nighthold
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 2 Zombie GamesPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Build shelters, interact with rescuees, battle against the Rot and raiders to survive another night in this Sandbox RPG. Play Solo or team up with friends in Online Сo-op.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 59.8% ★, Survival 11.3%, Sandbox 9.2%, Exploration 4.4%, Action-Adventure 3.8%
- #53 Lysward
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Snowcastle Games
Windows
Lysward is a single-player survival adventure set in a vast and unforgiving desert in the fantastical world of Umbra. Explore, craft, team up with your companion, and leverage the Amri magic to endure the heat.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 59.5% ★, Survival 23.4%, Exploration 6.5%, Adventure 5%, Action-Adventure 3.5%
- #54 AREAZ
68% matchMixed61% of 105 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 44.8% ★, Survival 14.6%, Sandbox 9.9%, Female Protagonist 9.8%, Exploration 5.4%
- #55 Grind and Dine
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mozeby
Windows
You've lost everything and returned to your hometown, forced to start over to survive. This city is filled with both opportunities and dangers. Can you carve out a new life in this unforgiving environment?
Why similar: Life Sim 21.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Survival 17.2%, Sandbox 15.3%, Exploration 8.9%
- #56 Cold Wind
68% matchMostly Negative29% of 17 reviews2021
Dev: BisquitPlay
Windows
Cold Wind is a first-person game where you are going to experience yourself what it feels like to be homeless. You will be exploring a large winter city looking for food, saving yourself from cold and wind at a fire.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.7% ★, Life Sim 19.7%, Survival 16.3%, Simulation 8.7%, Realistic 5.3%
- #57 I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival
65% matchVery Positive85% of 4,559 reviews2024
Dev: MandragoraPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 8.8 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
I Am Future is a relaxing single-player survival game about building a cozy rooftop camp amid a flooded post-apocalyptic city. Set up a farm, go fishing, tinker with gadgets, craft new tools, manage a team of cute robots to automate and expand your base, explore the mysterious world, and chill out!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.4% ★, Farming Sim 19.4%, Life Sim 15.8%, Sandbox 10%, Survival 9.2%