- #1 Len's Island
97% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,866 reviews2025
Dev: Flow Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 12.2 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 36.9% ★, Crafting 12.1%, Survival 11.5%, Base Building 11.1%, Open World 10.5%
- #2 Necesse
96% matchVery Positive93% of 28,807 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 15.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.7% ★, Crafting 9.9%, Open World 9.7%, Survival 8.8%, Base Building 8.4%
- #3 Eden Island
96% matchMixed61% of 257 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: Hunting 30.2% ★, Open World Survival Craft 25.6% ★, Base Building 10.6%, Crafting 9.4%, Survival 8.3%
- #4 Tales of Morrow
95% matchMixed46% of 96 reviews2024
Dev: GameMechanic
Windows
Create your tale! Build your home, fight, farm, and explore an old civilization while developing your skills and abilities in this relaxing and adventurous experience. You decide your fate!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.1% ★, Fishing 24% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Crafting 10.2%, Survival 7.1%
- #5 Forager
94% matchVery Positive89% of 43,959 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 41.9% ★, Crafting 14%, Survival 12.4%, Base Building 8.2%, Pixel Graphics 7.3%
- #6 Adventure Craft
94% matchVery Positive83% of 229 reviews2017
Dev: Edible Entertainment
Windows
Adventure Craft is a challenging procedurally generated sandbox RPG with roguelike elements. Hunt monsters, horde loot, and craft weapons and armor, to survive in a vast ever-changing RPG world full of action, extreme danger and wonderful surprises.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.1% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Open World 12.2%, Procedural Generation 11.6%, Survival 10.8%
- #7 DYSMANTLE
93% matchVery Positive91% of 11,572 reviews2021
Dev: 10tons Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 25.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Ascend from your shelter. Ruin everything. Escape the wretched island. ⚔️🔨🎣🌱🌵🍰 Explore. Fight. Level up. Survive. Gather. Craft. Harvest. Hunt. Build. Farm. Solve puzzles. Fish. Cook. Live. Enjoy the bittersweet post-apocalypse.
Why similar: Hunting 23% ★, Fishing 21.6% ★, Crafting 11.3%, Survival 11.2%, Open World 11%
- #8 The Survivalists
92% matchMostly Positive76% of 10,097 reviews2020
Dev: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 71%
A living world full of surprises, secrets and danger awaits in The Survivalists, an adventure-filled survival sandbox set in The Escapists universe. Explore, build, craft and even train monkeys with up to three friends in a desperate bid to survive. Have you got what it takes to be a Survivalist?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.2% ★, Hunting 20.7% ★, Crafting 11.4%, Survival 9.5%, Base Building 9%
- #9 Cube Life: Island Survival
91% 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 52.3% ★, Open World 11.1%, Crafting 10.9%, Survival 10.5%, Exploration 4.6%
- #10 Vagabond
89% matchMostly Positive77% of 99 reviews2023
Dev: Pierre Vigier
Windows · Linux
Explore procedurally generated living worlds in this 2D sandbox RPG. Meet hundreds of characters in cities, complete quests, craft powerful items, buy and furnish your home or fight monsters in dungeons.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.4% ★, Procedural Generation 13.7%, Open World 11.9%, Crafting 10.3%, Pixel Graphics 6.6%
- #11 Landless
90% matchMixed44% of 194 reviews2017
Dev: CodeBullet
Windows
Explore and conquer the high seas in this post-apocalyptic sandbox water world survival game where you must fight, build, and craft to survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26% ★, Hunting 21.6% ★, Survival 12%, Base Building 10.4%, Crafting 8.4%
- #12 Salt
89% matchMostly Positive77% of 2,251 reviews2018
Dev: Lavaboots Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 8.1 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 42.2% ★, Open World 14.2%, Survival 13.6%, Crafting 12.4%, Procedural Generation 5.1%
- #13 Crashlands
88% matchVery Positive90% of 6,745 reviews2016
Dev: Butterscotch Shenanigans
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 13.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Fight and tame alien beasts, craft resources into menacing weaponry, befriend the outlandish locals, and go toe-to-chin with a world-domineering maniac.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.7% ★, Crafting 12.2%, Base Building 11.8%, Open World 11%, Survival 10.7%
- #14 Rising World
87% matchVery Positive86% of 5,974 reviews2014
Dev: JIW-Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 21.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Rising World is a voxel based open-world sandbox game, featuring a procedurally generated world, playable in single and multi-player.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.6% ★, Hunting 27.2% ★, Base Building 10.4%, Crafting 9.4%, Procedural Generation 8.7%
- #15 Nova Lands
84% matchVery Positive89% of 3,518 reviews2023
Dev: BEHEMUTTPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Nova Lands is a factory building, exploration, and island management game. Explore, engage in combat, and automate your industry. The planet you’re on is full of mysteries, creatures, people, and things to do. Welcome to your new home amongst the stars!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.1% ★, Base Building 16.2%, Crafting 11.8%, Survival 10.4%, Open World 10.3%
- #16 Crea
86% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,408 reviews2016
Dev: Siege Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Progress with every slain monster, learn over 80 skills through talents, craft hundreds of items, and explore vast procedurally-generated worlds in this ever-expanding sandbox RPG!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 50.3% ★, Crafting 15.1%, Survival 9.8%, Open World 6.5%, RPG 5.8%
- #17 Badiya: Desert Survival
86% matchMixed49% of 342 reviews2016
Dev: Semaphore
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 43%
Badiya is a Sandbox Survival RPG set in the WWI era desert lands. Badiya challenges you to brave the sands, take part in wars, ply the spice routes, or hunt for treasure as you strive to fulfill your ambitions.
Why similar: Hunting 24.9% ★, Open World Survival Craft 24.8% ★, Procedural Generation 9.6%, Crafting 8.8%, Base Building 8.2%
- #18 Escape The Pacific
85% matchMixed67% of 761 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 38.2% ★, Crafting 14.2%, Procedural Generation 13.2%, Open World 12.3%, Survival 12.3%
- #19 Tinkerlands
82% matchVery Positive86% of 4,087 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Explore, craft, and fight your way through uncharted islands — solo or with up to 4 players in co-op! Tinkerlands is an exciting survival adventure where you will build your settlement, craft useful tools to survive, and even use magic!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40% ★, Survival 11.9%, Open World 11.7%, Crafting 11.6%, Pixel Graphics 7%
- #20 Salt 2: Shores of Gold
81% matchVery Positive85% of 2,349 reviews2025
Dev: Lavaboots Studios
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Salt 2 is a pirate-themed open world adventure focused on exploration, crafting, and survival. Play solo or with up to 5 friends, sailing the sea with your ship as a mobile base. Discover islands full of quests, towns, caves, and secrets. Level up, craft gear, hunt, fish, and customize your ship.
Why similar: Fishing 23.3% ★, Open World 17.5%, Crafting 17.2%, Survival 15.7%, Procedural Generation 13.8%
- #21 Trials of Wilderness
84% matchMixed69% of 126 reviews2021
Dev: MightByte Games
Windows
You are alone on an island, trying desperately to survive amongst the village tribes of savages. To do this you need food, water, and shelter. Hunt animals, plant crops, tame and breed animals, make weapons, armors and potions, raid villages, defend your base, fight with big creatures...
Why similar: Hunting 33.9% ★, Open World Survival Craft 20.6% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Survival 10.2%, Open World 9.9%
- #22 Deep Despair 2
83% matchMostly Positive76% of 91 reviews2021
Dev: BekkerDev Studio
Windows
Deep Despair 2 is an open world survival adventure action game with procedural generation and complete freedom of action: building, crafting, hunting, farming, livestock, brewing, cooking, traveling, fight, and more.
Why similar: Crafting 20.9%, Procedural Generation 19.9%, Open World 17.3%, Survival 17.2%, RPG 8.4%
- #23 Beyond the Map
80% matchMostly Positive78% of 748 reviews2025
Dev: Glitch Goblins
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Isometric survival ARPG set in a procedurally generated fantasy world. Build your base, gear up, and venture out, chasing stronger enemies and better loot.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.3% ★, Base Building 14.2%, Crafting 11.6%, Procedural Generation 10.9%, Survival 9.3%
- #24 Deep Despair
82% matchMixed67% of 284 reviews2020
Dev: BekkerDev Studio
Windows
Median: 10.5 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Deep Despair is a Minecraft-style survival sandbox. Travel, collect resources, craft items, dig, build, grow crops and survive. Freedom of action is limited only by your imagination!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.8% ★, Crafting 12.9%, Survival 11.7%, Open World 10%, RPG 8.6%
- #25 Solace Crafting
81% matchMostly Positive72% of 898 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 34.4% ★, Crafting 13.3%, Base Building 12.6%, Survival 11.8%, Open World 10.8%
- #26 Ikonei Island: An Earthlock Adventure
79% matchMostly Positive74% of 473 reviews2023
Dev: Snowcastle Games
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Ikonei Island is yours to discover! Explore and gather resources. Farm the land, craft tools and gear, and build your base or a cozy home. Befriend magical creatures and fight monsters with your friends or solo!
Why similar: Crafting 31.7%, Exploration 22.9%, Colorful 19.7%, RPG 13.9%, Adventure 7.2%
- #27 My Island
78% matchMixed66% of 1,734 reviews2024
Dev: SnowBaby Games
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 47%
MyIsland is a relaxed and beautiful survival game,You will drift and survive on the tropical islands, hunt and travel, build houses and development farming, and create your own warm homeland.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.5% ★, Survival 14%, Crafting 10.5%, Open World 10.4%, Hunting 6.5% ★
- #28 INMATE: Survival
79% matchMixed57% of 74 reviews2023
Dev: SV Games
Windows
INMATE: Survival is an open world survival game, where you play the role of a prisoner sentenced to stay on a 4*4 km Island with many types of enemies both humans and animals.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.9% ★, Hunting 23.5% ★, Fighting 14.8% ★, Crafting 10%, Open World 8.8%
- #29 Forsaken Isle
77% matchMostly Positive71% of 518 reviews2025
Dev: Smoodlez
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Stranded on a desert island, explore, craft, build and fight in this action survival game!
Why similar: Survival 29.9%, Crafting 28%, Pixel Graphics 16.3%, RPG 10.3%, Adventure 7.6%
- #30 Muck
75% matchVery Positive93% of 184,419 reviews2021
Dev: Dani
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Muck is a survival-roguelike. Collect resources, find items & build a base to survive for as long as you can.
Why similar: Survival 26.1%, Crafting 22.2%, Open World 16.3%, Base Building 15.9%, Exploration 7.1%
- #31 Wonderia
74% matchVery Positive82% of 347 reviews2026
Dev: Rock&DashPub: IndieArk
Windows · Mac
Wonderia's an open-world, manga-art adventure just waiting to be explored. It's got sci-fi sim elements, deep dungeons, and you can even morph into alien form! Grab up to 7 friends to mine, craft, battle, and level—or farm and fish the day away, if that's more your tempo. There's so much to do!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.4% ★, Crafting 12.6%, Procedural Generation 11.6%, Survival 11.3%, Open World 7.8%
- #32 Among Trees
77% matchMixed68% of 2,233 reviews2021
Dev: FJRD Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 38.2% ★, Survival 12.2%, Open World 11.5%, Crafting 11.3%, Base Building 10.1%
- #33 Everwind
73% matchVery Positive81% of 3,756 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 14.1 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 20%, Open World 17.9%, Survival 17.1%, Procedural Generation 14.3%, Pixel Graphics 9.5%
- #34 Retreat To Enen
76% matchMixed61% of 401 reviews2022
Dev: Head WestPub: indie.io
Windows
Base building simulator 1500 years in the future. Journey to the Island of Enen to forage, craft, build, hunt, meditate, and explore across three vast biomes. Discover secrets and create the retreat of your dreams. With over 160 unique items to gather, craft, and build, every home will be unique.
Why similar: Fishing 40.7% ★, Base Building 14.2%, Survival 12.2%, Crafting 11.5%, Open World 10.9%
- #35 Core Keeper
71% matchVery Positive93% of 66,104 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.2 hrsMean: 34.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.5% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 11.6%, Open World 10.9%, Procedural Generation 10.7%
- #36 Astral Terra
78% matchMixed50% of 152 reviews2015
Dev: Tethys Interactive LLC
Windows
Explore, Adventure, Craft, Build, Survive. How will you shape your world? Astral Terra is a Smooth Voxel, Procedurally Generated Open World game with RPG and Survival Elements!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.6% ★, Open World 13.6%, Survival 12.6%, Crafting 10.1%, Procedural Generation 8.2%
- #37 Shamania
72% matchMostly Positive74% of 162 reviews2026
Dev: Totem Keepers Games
Windows
Shamania is an open world survival game where you can CRAFT, FIGHT, and EXPLORE a vibrant sandbox world with friends in CO-OP. Expand your base as a hub for survival, gather resources, and master professions to unlock new tools and opportunities!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.6% ★, Crafting 16%, Open World 14.4%, Survival 13%, Base Building 9%
- #38 Survive The Island
76% matchMixed53% of 83 reviews2021
Dev: PhantomCore StudioPub: PhantomCore PUBLISHING
Windows
survive the island you survive from skeletons and humans you can build and mine and level up your stats you can build whatever you want you can raid enemies you can mine and cut down trees and you have to hunt for your own food and you can grow your own crops and you can craft weapons
Why similar: Survival 21.1%, RPG 21%, Base Building 20.7%, Crafting 20.1%, Open World 15.3%
- #39 On My Own
75% matchMixed63% of 153 reviews2016
Dev: Beach Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 24 minMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 27%
Craft your own tools and manage your resources in this tranquil survival adventure. Charming naturescapes and original music frame your quest to conquer the mountain as you endeavor to make the most of your “one wild and precious" life.
Why similar: Hunting 27.8% ★, Open World Survival Craft 25.4% ★, Crafting 9.4%, Survival 9.2%, Procedural Generation 6.5%
- #40 Gaia
74% matchMixed59% of 93 reviews2020
Dev: Eternal Stardust Studios
Windows
A sci-fi base building survival game, featuring raids, agriculture, intelligent AI, natural disasters and more.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.8% ★, Base Building 14.9%, Procedural Generation 13.7%, Survival 10.5%, Open World 10.2%
- #41 Cubic Odyssey
70% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,720 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Embark on a galactic journey in Cubic Odyssey, an open-world adventure where you explore vibrant planets, craft tools, build vehicles, and fight the Red Darkness. Uncover ancient mysteries, and shape a universe full of life, danger, and limitless possibilities!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.5% ★, Base Building 18.9%, RPG 7.6%, Procedural Generation 6.1%, Open World 5.5%
- #42 Miniland Adventure
72% matchMostly Positive74% of 332 reviews2023
Dev: Imilkowski DevPub: Gameparic
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 52%
The world doesn't generate itself - you do it, shape the world as you wish! Start with nothing, and build dream houses for goblins and yourself while exploring, collecting resources, crafting, building, fighting, farming... and more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.9% ★, Survival 14%, Crafting 13.3%, Base Building 13.1%, Pixel Graphics 7.7%
- #43 Aground
71% matchVery Positive94% of 2,018 reviews2020
Dev: Fancy Fish Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
As one of the last human survivors, you find yourself stranded on an uninhabited island. With a few other victims of the crash, can you craft, mine, and build your way to survival?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35% ★, Base Building 16.2%, Open World 13.4%, Survival 12.8%, Exploration 7.1%
- #44 Longvinter
69% matchMixed67% of 7,664 reviews2025
Dev: Uuvana Studios
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 45.1 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 37.5% ★, Crafting 17.5%, Survival 16.5%, Open World 14.6%, Base Building 6.6%
- #45 Voyagers of Nera
68% matchVery Positive85% of 2,598 reviews2025
Dev: Treehouse Games
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 12.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Voyagers of Nera is a cooperative survival-crafting game where you must survive a magical ocean world brimming with lost spirits and deadly monsters. Sail to distant islands, build beautiful villages and surf across the waves with up to 10 players.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.2% ★, Base Building 20.5%, Crafting 19.2%, Exploration 9%, Adventure 4.1%
- #46 GRAV
73% 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 44.6% ★, Survival 14%, Base Building 13.4%, Open World 12.6%, Crafting 10%
- #47 Palworld
64% matchVery Positive95% of 480,493 reviews2026
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 40.2 hrsMean: 84.9 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.5% ★, Open World 16.7%, Survival 14.6%, Crafting 11.5%, Base Building 9.5%
- #48 Wilderness
73% 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 30.6% ★, Hunting 28.6% ★, Survival 10.3%, Base Building 9.3%, Crafting 9.1%
- #49 Wild Omission
69% matchVery Positive88% of 80 reviews2023
Dev: Telephone Studios
Windows
Wild Omission is an open world sandbox survival game with severe weather set in an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.3% ★, Crafting 14.2%, Survival 12.2%, Open World 11.7%, Procedural Generation 10.6%
- #50 Hollow Island
70% matchVery Positive85% of 96 reviews2020
Dev: Edym Pixels
Windows
Shape your own destiny: Explore, dig for riches, fish, grow crops, cook food, brew and sell potions, expand your property, fight monsters, build camps and hoard your treasures!
Why similar: Crafting 40.9%, Open World 33.5%, Exploration 13.4%, Adventure 8.3%, Singleplayer 2.6%
- #51 Block Survival: Legend of the Lost Islands
71% matchVery Positive84% of 81 reviews2017
Dev: Battle Blockyverse Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 47%
As the lone survivor of a plane crash, use weapons as your tools and bullets as your shelter in a fast paced FPS mixing survival and crafting with old school mechanics, in a setting with everything from Vikings to dinosaurs to mechs! Book your flight today, and explore the Lost Islands!
Why similar: Crafting 51.5%, Adventure 28%, Indie 20.5%
- #52 Subsistence
70% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,766 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 40.4 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 48.8% ★, Survival 15%, Crafting 13.9%, Open World 10.9%, Base Building 9.7%
- #53 Project Castaway
66% matchMixed66% of 1,849 reviews2026
Dev: Mardonpol Inc.
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 40% ★, Base Building 13%, Survival 12.1%, Open World 11%, Crafting 10.7%
- #54 Project Cobalt
67% matchMostly Positive73% of 55 reviews2025
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: Open World Survival Craft 39.3% ★, Crafting 17.7%, Open World 15.3%, Survival 15.2%, Exploration 7.5%
- #55 Atomcraft
63% matchVery Positive96% of 358 reviews2026
Dev: Triplejump
Windows
A sandbox adventure where every pixel is physically and chemically simulated! Build intricate, fully functional machines from the pixels around you. Harvest, react, and manipulate all 118 elements to craft everything from simple tools to complex systems.
Why similar: Crafting 28.6%, Survival 22.1%, Procedural Generation 13.6%, Open World 12.6%, RPG 8.9%
- #56 Above Snakes: Prologue
66% matchVery Positive90% of 1,874 reviews2023
Dev: Square Glade GamesPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 53%
In the prologue of Above Snakes, you awake in a destroyed settlement and help the survivors rebuild it. After that, expand the world with world pieces, craft, farm, hunt, build a base, and fight to find out more about what happened.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.2% ★, Crafting 13.7%, Base Building 12.5%, Open World 9.2%, Survival 8.5%
- #57 Radiation Island
68% matchVery Positive81% of 638 reviews2016
Dev: Atypical Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 54.6% ★, Survival 19.2%, Open World 9.6%, Crafting 8.2%, Adventure 4.6%
- #58 Ylands
68% matchMixed64% of 8,445 reviews2019
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 46%
Adventure awaits you and your friends in the world of Ylands! Gather resources, craft tools, construct anything and everything, and explore the lands! Build a ship and set sail, encountering mythical animals, a wide variety of sea-life, enemies of all kinds and much more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.4% ★, Crafting 15.4%, Base Building 15.4%, Open World 11.7%, Exploration 6.8%
- #59 Re.poly
67% matchVery Positive91% of 137 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 35.3% ★, Crafting 13.6%, Base Building 12.8%, Survival 11.9%, Open World 11.4%