- #1 Len's Island
97% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,790 reviews2025
Dev: Flow Studio
Windows Β· Mac
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 12.2 hrsβ₯1hr: 79%
An open-world survival crafting game for 1β8 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 36.8% β
, Crafting 12.1%, Survival 11.5%, Base Building 11.2%, Open World 10.4%
- #2 Necesse
96% matchVery Positive93% of 27,498 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows Β· Mac Β· Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 14.9 hrsβ₯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 44.4% β
, Crafting 10%, Open World 9.7%, Survival 8.9%, Base Building 8.4%
- #3 Eden Island
96% matchMixed61% of 255 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% β
, Open World Survival Craft 25.6% β
, Base Building 10.6%, Crafting 9.5%, 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 30.9% β
, Fishing 24.2% β
, Base Building 12.4%, Crafting 10.3%, Survival 7.1%
- #5 The Survivalists
94% matchMostly Positive76% of 10,061 reviews2020
Dev: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 8.7 hrsβ₯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 23.1% β
, Hunting 20.7% β
, Crafting 11.5%, Survival 9.5%, Base Building 9.1%
- #6 DYSMANTLE
94% matchVery Positive91% of 11,503 reviews2021
Dev: 10tons Ltd
Windows Β· Mac
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 25.3 hrsβ₯1hr: 85%
Ascend from your shelter. Ruin everything. Escape the wretched island. βοΈπ¨π£π±π΅π° 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% β
, Fishing 21.7% β
, Crafting 11.4%, Survival 11.2%, Open World 10.9%
- #7 Adventure Craft
92% matchVery Positive82% of 228 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 36.9% β
, Base Building 14.8%, Open World 12.1%, Procedural Generation 11.7%, Survival 10.8%
- #8 Salt
91% matchMostly Positive76% of 2,248 reviews2018
Dev: Lavaboots Studios
Windows Β· Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 8.0 hrsβ₯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% β
, Open World 14%, Survival 13.6%, Crafting 12.5%, Procedural Generation 5.1%
- #9 Forager
90% matchVery Positive90% of 43,749 reviews2019
Dev: HopFrogPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 22.4 hrsβ₯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 41.8% β
, Crafting 14.1%, Survival 12.4%, Base Building 8.3%, Pixel Graphics 7.4%
- #10 Tinkerlands
89% matchVery Positive86% of 3,973 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 14.0 hrsβ₯1hr: 86%
Explore, craft, and fight your way through uncharted islands β 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 39.9% β
, Survival 11.9%, Crafting 11.7%, Open World 11.6%, Pixel Graphics 7%
- #11 Cube Life: Island Survival
91% matchMixed69% of 177 reviews2018
Dev: Cypronia
Windows Β· Mac
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 6.6 hrsβ₯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% β
, Crafting 11%, Open World 11%, Survival 10.5%, Exploration 4.6%
- #12 Muck
87% matchVery Positive93% of 183,785 reviews2021
Dev: Dani
Windows Β· Mac Β· Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 7.7 hrsβ₯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 22.3%, Open World 16.1%, Base Building 16%, Exploration 7.1%
- #13 Vagabond
88% matchMostly Positive77% of 99 reviews2023
Dev: Pierre Vigier
Windows Β· 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 32.2% β
, Procedural Generation 13.9%, Open World 11.8%, Crafting 10.3%, Pixel Graphics 6.6%
- #14 Landless
89% 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 25.9% β
, Hunting 21.7% β
, Survival 12.1%, Base Building 10.5%, Crafting 8.5%
- #15 Crashlands
85% matchVery Positive89% of 6,716 reviews2016
Dev: Butterscotch Shenanigans
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 13.7 hrsβ₯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% β
, Crafting 12.3%, Base Building 11.9%, Open World 11%, Survival 10.7%
- #16 Crea
86% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,408 reviews2016
Dev: Siege Games
Windows Β· Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 19.0 hrsβ₯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 50.2% β
, Crafting 15.2%, Survival 9.8%, Open World 6.4%, RPG 5.8%
- #17 Salt 2: Shores of Gold
82% matchVery Positive85% of 2,306 reviews2025
Dev: Lavaboots Studios
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 9.0 hrsβ₯1hr: 76%
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 23.4% β
, Open World 17.3%, Crafting 17.3%, Survival 15.6%, Procedural Generation 13.9%
- #18 Badiya: Desert Survival
86% matchMixed49% of 342 reviews2016
Dev: Semaphore
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 2.9 hrsβ₯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% β
, Open World Survival Craft 24.7% β
, Procedural Generation 9.8%, Crafting 8.9%, Base Building 8.3%
- #19 Rising World
84% matchVery Positive86% of 5,920 reviews2014
Dev: JIW-Games
Windows Β· Mac Β· Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 21.3 hrsβ₯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: Hunting 27.3% β
, Open World Survival Craft 27.2% β
, Base Building 10.5%, Crafting 9.5%, Procedural Generation 8.9%
- #20 Escape The Pacific
84% matchMixed68% of 756 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 38.1% β
, Crafting 14.3%, Procedural Generation 13.3%, Survival 12.3%, Open World 12.2%
- #21 Deep Despair
83% matchMixed67% of 280 reviews2020
Dev: BekkerDev Studio
Windows
Median: 10.5 hrsMean: 10.8 hrsβ₯1hr: 92%
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 22.8% β
, Crafting 12.7%, Survival 11.6%, Open World 10.2%, RPG 8.8%
- #22 My Island
81% matchMixed66% of 1,723 reviews2024
Dev: SnowBaby Games
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 4.5 hrsβ₯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 49.3% β
, Survival 14%, Crafting 10.7%, Open World 10.4%, Hunting 6.6% β
- #23 Trials of Wilderness
82% matchMixed69% of 125 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% β
, Open World Survival Craft 20.6% β
, Base Building 11.6%, Survival 10.2%, Open World 9.9%
- #24 Beyond the Map
79% matchMostly Positive78% of 722 reviews2025
Dev: Glitch Goblins
Windows
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 36.1% β
, Base Building 14.3%, Crafting 11.7%, Procedural Generation 11%, Survival 9.3%
- #25 Deep Despair 2
81% 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 21%, Procedural Generation 20.1%, Survival 17.2%, Open World 17.1%, RPG 8.3%
- #26 Ikonei Island: An Earthlock Adventure
80% matchMostly Positive74% of 471 reviews2023
Dev: Snowcastle Games
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 8.1 hrsβ₯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 31.9%, Exploration 22.9%, Colorful 19.7%, RPG 13.8%, Adventure 7.1%
- #27 Solace Crafting
79% matchMostly Positive72% of 894 reviews2022
Dev: Big Kitty Games
Windows Β· 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 34.3% β
, Crafting 13.4%, Base Building 12.7%, Survival 11.8%, Open World 10.7%
- #28 INMATE: Survival
78% 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 27.8% β
, Hunting 23.5% β
, Fighting 14.6% β
, Crafting 10.1%, Open World 8.7%
- #29 Forsaken Isle
76% matchMostly Positive71% of 516 reviews2025
Dev: Smoodlez
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 4.9 hrsβ₯1hr: 56%
Stranded on a desert island, explore, craft, build and fight in this action survival game!
Why similar: Survival 29.8%, Crafting 28.1%, Pixel Graphics 16.4%, RPG 10.2%, Adventure 7.5%
- #30 Core Keeper
74% matchVery Positive93% of 65,308 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows Β· Linux
Median: 12.0 hrsMean: 34.5 hrsβ₯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 26.4% β
, Base Building 12%, Crafting 11.6%, Procedural Generation 10.9%, Open World 10.7%
- #31 Retreat To Enen
77% 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 40.9% β
, Base Building 14.2%, Survival 12.2%, Crafting 11.5%, Open World 10.8%
- #32 Among Trees
77% matchMixed68% of 2,229 reviews2021
Dev: FJRD Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.1 hrsβ₯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 38.1% β
, Survival 12.2%, Open World 11.4%, Crafting 11.4%, Base Building 10.1%
- #33 Aground
75% matchVery Positive94% of 2,004 reviews2020
Dev: Fancy Fish Games
Windows Β· Mac Β· Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 9.8 hrsβ₯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 34.9% β
, Base Building 16.3%, Open World 13.3%, Survival 12.9%, Exploration 7.1%
- #34 Nova Lands
73% matchVery Positive89% of 3,465 reviews2023
Dev: BEHEMUTTPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.2 hrsβ₯1hr: 88%
Nova Lands is a factory building, exploration, and island management game. Explore, engage in combat, and automate your industry. The planet youβre 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% β
, Base Building 16.2%, Crafting 11.9%, Survival 10.4%, Open World 10.2%
- #35 Everwind
72% matchVery Positive81% of 3,601 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 13.5 hrsβ₯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 20.1%, Open World 17.7%, Survival 17%, Procedural Generation 14.5%, Pixel Graphics 9.6%
- #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 42.5% β
, Open World 13.6%, Survival 12.6%, Crafting 10.2%, Procedural Generation 8.3%
- #37 Survive The Island
76% matchMixed52% of 82 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 20.9%, Base Building 20.7%, Crafting 20.2%, Open World 15.2%
- #38 Longvinter
71% matchMixed67% of 7,607 reviews2025
Dev: Uuvana Studios
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 44.0 hrsβ₯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 37.4% β
, Crafting 17.7%, Survival 16.5%, Open World 14.5%, Base Building 6.6%
- #39 Shamania
71% matchMostly Positive74% of 154 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 37.5% β
, Crafting 16.2%, Open World 14.3%, Survival 13%, Base Building 9.1%
- #40 Miniland Adventure
73% matchMostly Positive74% of 332 reviews2023
Dev: Imilkowski DevPub: Gameparic
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.9 hrsβ₯1hr: 53%
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 39.7% β
, Survival 14%, Crafting 13.4%, Base Building 13.1%, Pixel Graphics 7.8%
- #41 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 34.6% β
, Base Building 15%, Procedural Generation 13.8%, Survival 10.5%, Open World 10.1%
- #42 On My Own
75% matchMixed63% of 153 reviews2016
Dev: Beach Interactive
Windows Β· Mac Β· Linux
Median: 24 minMean: 3.6 hrsβ₯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 βone wild and precious" life.
Why similar: Hunting 27.8% β
, Open World Survival Craft 25.3% β
, Crafting 9.5%, Survival 9.2%, Procedural Generation 6.6%
- #43 Voyagers of Nera
68% matchVery Positive85% of 2,495 reviews2025
Dev: Treehouse Games
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 12.8 hrsβ₯1hr: 86%
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% β
, Base Building 20.6%, Crafting 19.3%, Exploration 9%, Adventure 4%
- #44 Cubic Odyssey
69% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,674 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 8.8 hrsβ₯1hr: 86%
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 46.4% β
, Base Building 19%, RPG 7.6%, Procedural Generation 6.1%, Open World 5.5%
- #45 Wild Omission
70% matchVery Positive88% of 74 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 34.1% β
, Crafting 14.2%, Survival 12.2%, Open World 11.6%, Procedural Generation 10.8%
- #46 GRAV
73% matchMixed47% of 6,921 reviews2015
Dev: BitMonster, Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 11.6 hrsβ₯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 44.5% β
, Survival 14%, Base Building 13.5%, Open World 12.5%, Crafting 10.1%
- #47 Hollow Island
71% 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 41.2%, Open World 33.2%, Exploration 13.4%, Adventure 8.2%, Singleplayer 2.6%
- #48 Wilderness
72% 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 30.5% β
, Hunting 28.7% β
, Survival 10.3%, Base Building 9.4%, Crafting 9.2%
- #49 Block Survival: Legend of the Lost Islands
70% matchVery Positive84% of 81 reviews2017
Dev: Battle Blockyverse Studios
Windows Β· Mac Β· Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 4.8 hrsβ₯1hr: 48%
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 51.7%, Adventure 27.7%, Indie 20.6%
- #50 Project Castaway
66% matchMixed66% of 1,785 reviews2026
Dev: Mardonpol Inc.
Windows Β· Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 8.2 hrsβ₯1hr: 72%
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 39.9% β
, Base Building 13.1%, Survival 12.1%, Open World 10.9%, Crafting 10.8%
- #51 Re.poly
69% 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 35.2% β
, Crafting 13.7%, Base Building 12.8%, Survival 11.9%, Open World 11.4%
- #52 Project Cobalt
67% matchMostly Positive73% of 54 reviews2025
Dev: OxygenStudio
Windows
βοΈ Project Cobalt is a survival action game set on a hostile island π΄. 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 39.2% β
, Crafting 17.9%, Survival 15.3%, Open World 15.2%, Exploration 7.6%
- #53 Radiation Island
70% matchVery Positive81% of 632 reviews2016
Dev: Atypical Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 6.4 hrsβ₯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 54.5% β
, Survival 19.3%, Open World 9.6%, Crafting 8.3%, Adventure 4.5%
- #54 Himno - The Silent Melody
68% matchMostly Positive78% of 349 reviews2021
Dev: David Moralejo SΓ‘nchezPub: GrabTheGames
Windows Β· Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 7.0 hrsβ₯1hr: 45%
Himno - The Silent Melody is an atmospheric roguelite action RPG. Explore different interconnected environments, gather materials to create your unique arsenal and build and automate your base.
Why similar: Procedural Generation 21.6%, Crafting 19.9%, Survival 16.8%, Pixel Graphics 10.3%, Exploration 9.8%
- #55 Palworld
63% matchVery Positive94% of 425,619 reviews2024
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 34.3 hrsMean: 71.0 hrsβ₯1hr: 96%
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 38.7% β
, Open World 16.4%, Survival 14.6%, Crafting 11.6%, Base Building 9.8%
- #56 Above Snakes: Prologue
66% matchVery Positive90% of 1,866 reviews2023
Dev: Square Glade GamesPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 3.9 hrsβ₯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 37.1% β
, Crafting 13.8%, Base Building 12.6%, Open World 9.1%, Survival 8.5%
- #57 Taora : Survival
67% matchMixed60% of 416 reviews2024
Dev: Tulpar Games
Windows
Taora is an open world survival game with unique character building and crafting. Build and upgrade your base, and survive the zombie apocalypse !
Why similar: Hunting 27.5% β
, Open World Survival Craft 26.4% β
, Crafting 11.4%, Base Building 9.9%, Survival 9.1%
- #58 The Dream Within
65% matchVery Positive87% of 141 reviews2025
Dev: Roaming of Little Hammer
Windows
A pixel-graphics open world survival craft RPG, where player is locked in a deep dream world, survive in this elusive world, forage, hunt, mine, and build up shelters. Find a way to escape.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 52.5% β
, Crafting 11.5%, Pixel Graphics 7%, RPG 6.3%, Survival 5.2%
- #59 Rogue Harvest
69% matchMixed57% of 69 reviews2018
Dev: Genetix Studio
Windows
Rogue Harvest is a finely crafted Rogue-like Open World Adventure - Dig, Mine, Build, Craft, Explore, and Survive in a massive Procedurally Generated World and work to unravel the mystery of how you ended up in this dream like place.
Why similar: Procedural Generation 21.8%, Crafting 21.1%, Survival 16.2%, Pixel Graphics 9.7%, Exploration 9%