Games Like On My Own

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 53.4% ★, Survival 21.2%, Crafting 8%, Open World 7.2%, Exploration 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the same atmospheric, nature-focused survival struggle where the environment itself is the primary antagonist.

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 38.8% ★, Survival 14.2%, Crafting 12%, Relaxing 9.2%, Open World 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game mirrors the tranquil, visually stunning wilderness exploration and resource gathering found in On My Own.

You awake to discover yourself no longer in the company of good men or a fine seafaring vessel. Treasure... you remember something about treasure. Wayward is a challenging turn-based, top-down, wilderness survival roguelike. Explore, build, and most importantly survive in these unforgiving lands.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.7% ★, Survival 17.7%, Crafting 15.1%, Pixel Graphics 7.7%, Open World 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: This pixel-art survival game features deep crafting and exploration mechanics that feel very similar to the core loop of the seed game.

Card Survival is a card-based survival experience. Stranded on a desert island you must use your wits and skills to stay alive. Use cards and combine them together to explore, gather resources and craft useful tools.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.7% ★, Survival 21%, Perma Death 18.9%, Crafting 16.8%, Simulation 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a deep, methodical simulation of survival that rewards careful planning and resource management.

Northern Lights is an open world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the arctic tundra. Clinging to life, you must use real-life survival techniques to gather resources, craft, and hunt while tending to your health and sanity. Can you survive your way out of the mysterious island?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.8% ★, Hunting 19.2% ★, Survival 13.3%, Crafting 12.6%, Open World 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a quiet, atmospheric survival experience set in a beautiful, cold, and isolated environment.

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 37.9% ★, Survival 24.2%, Crafting 13.6%, Perma Death 9.9%, Open World 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its stylized art and focus on crafting and resource management make it a staple for fans of the survival genre.

Echo of the Wilds is a puzzly narrativy adventure, featuring randomised wilderness survival. Explore and survive this mysterious tale of wilds. Gather resources to build gear and sustain yourself, learning new skills, lore and the intertwining interactions between the various areas, seasons, and weather.

Why similar: Crafting 26.3%, Survival 26%, Open World 10.4%, Pixel Graphics 10.3%, Exploration 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: This roguelite survival game focuses on the same sense of isolation and discovery within a natural, untamed world.

The cult classic open-ended wilderness survival roguelike taking place in the ancient North, iron-age Finland. Throughout the years, UnReal World has been praised for its incredible depth, realism, atmos and immersion. Lose yourself in the most intricate, detailed and enchanting iron-age game world.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29% ★, Perma Death 13%, Survival 12.1%, Nature 11.5%, Crafting 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: As a classic nature-based survival simulation, it provides the most authentic experience of living off the land in a harsh wilderness.

Piece by piece, create your own world in this relaxing Wild West-inspired worldbuilder. Craft, farm, hunt, build your base, and explore.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.1% ★, Crafting 14.1%, Survival 11.9%, Relaxing 9.1%, Open World 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique, tile-based survival experience that allows you to build your own world while managing resources.

Embark on a cozy open-world survival journey inspired by ancient China's heritage. Gather resources, cultivate crops, build your dream home, and defend it from marauders. Team up with friends to explore and uncover a world where adventure meets serenity.

Why similar: Crafting 28.3%, Survival 25.4%, Open World 14%, Simulation 11.2%, Colorful 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes peaceful exploration and crafting within a serene, nature-rich environment.

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 32.7% ★, Hunting 23.6% ★, Survival 12.6%, Crafting 10.1%, Nature 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a grounded, first-person survival experience that focuses on the basics of living in the wild.

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 41.6% ★, Survival 14.6%, Crafting 13.9%, Nature 11.4%, Open World 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers an open-world survival experience with a strong focus on crafting and exploration.

Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.

Why similar: Nature 25.9%, Relaxing 24.5%, Exploration 16%, Pixel Graphics 12.4%, Open World 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: While less focused on survival, it perfectly captures the relaxing, nature-focused exploration and introspective vibe of the seed game.

A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 50.5% ★, Survival 18%, Crafting 14.6%, Open World 8.4%, Exploration 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: It balances survival and crafting with a strong emphasis on exploring beautiful, procedurally generated natural landscapes.

Dinkum is a survival life simulation game set on an island inspired by the rugged Australian outback. Farm, hunt, mine, fish, and forage to gather resources, expand your town, and discover what makes Dinkum so special—either solo or with friends.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 58.2% ★, Crafting 15%, Relaxing 10.8%, Simulation 6.3%, Exploration 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: It blends relaxing survival and building mechanics with a charming, nature-inspired setting.

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 46.9% ★, Crafting 16.2%, Survival 16%, Pixel Graphics 7.9%, Open World 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its pixel-art aesthetic and satisfying loop of gathering and crafting make it a great fit for fans of the genre.

Skillwood is a relaxing woodcutter simulator inspired by survival simulators and incremental games. Chop wood, mine stone, trade with NPCs, upgrade forests, unlock new trees or new areas and prestige to do even better next run.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.7% ★, Nature 17.1%, Survival 10.6%, Relaxing 9.7%, Crafting 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game leans into the relaxing, cozy side of nature-based survival and sandbox building.

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 32.3% ★, Crafting 12.5%, Survival 11.9%, Nature 11.2%, Procedural Generation 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game provides a detailed, realistic survival simulation that tests your ability to manage resources in a remote setting.

Explore a beautiful open world where you deliver mail, find artifacts, help people out, and fend off folks you’ve wronged.

Why similar: Hunting 31.4% ★, Nature 19.5%, Crafting 13.8%, Relaxing 9.3%, Open World 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on exploration and interaction within a beautiful, atmospheric world that rewards curiosity.

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 41.4% ★, Crafting 15%, Survival 14.6%, Open World 7.6%, Top-Down 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game features a unique art style and a heavy focus on crafting and survival in a vibrant, alien wilderness.

Existential Nature Simulation

Why similar: Relaxing 35%, Simulation 27.2%, Nature 13.3%, Music 11.9%, Procedural Generation 5%

Why You'll Like It: This is a purely meditative, nature-focused simulation that strips away survival mechanics to focus on the experience of existence.

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 41% ★, Survival 16.5%, Crafting 14.2%, Relaxing 9.1%, Pixel Graphics 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a charming, pixel-art take on the sandbox survival genre that is easy to pick up and play.

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 52.4% ★, Survival 16.9%, Crafting 11.7%, Open World 6.4%, Hunting 5.4% ★

Why You'll Like It: This game provides a straightforward, open-world survival experience centered on island living.

An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.1% ★, Crafting 19.1%, Relaxing 10.2%, Simulation 8.5%, Pixel Graphics 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the satisfying, relaxing aspects of gathering and crafting in a minimalist, colorful world.

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 41.3% ★, Crafting 14.2%, Nature 11.1%, Survival 10.8%, Relaxing 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: This title focuses on the core pillars of open-world survival, including base building and resource management.

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 55.8% ★, Survival 12.8%, Crafting 12.1%, Open World 6.8%, Exploration 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a familiar island-based survival loop with a focus on building and exploration.

Explore procedurally generated islands in this fast-paced, sandbox survival adventure filled with building, crafting, fighting, farming and quests. Build a base, hunt, cook, battle ogres, make friends with a mysterious Totem, ride an alpaca, fly a plane and do whatever you need to survive.

Why similar: Hunting 27.6% ★, Open World Survival Craft 25% ★, Crafting 9.6%, Survival 9.2%, Procedural Generation 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: This minimalist survival game strips the genre down to its essentials, focusing on hunting and gathering in a procedurally generated world.

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 53% ★, Survival 19%, Crafting 13.1%, Open World 6.6%, Exploration 3.4%

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 30.3% ★, Hunting 27.5% ★, Crafting 11.6%, Survival 11.2%, Nature 7%

Embark on a 1-4 players Co-op survival adventure in an open world wilderness in search of a myth called the Lod Stone. Build your house, sow your crops, brew potions, tame a horse and discover powerful abilities. Venture into dangerous dungeons, fight unique bosses to find the Lod stone.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.8% ★, Survival 13.9%, Crafting 11.9%, Top-Down 7.1%, Open World 7.1%

Survive, adapt, and research in the New World, with its rules, dwellers, and their laws. Head the colonization of these locations and ensure the independence and security of your population.

Why similar: Hunting 29.5% ★, Survival 16.9%, Crafting 14%, Top-Down 11.2%, Procedural Generation 10%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a mix of adventure and survival mechanics set in an isolated, natural environment.

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 25.6% ★, Survival 14.8%, Crafting 14.7%, Top-Down 6.8%, Open World 6.6%

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 28.4% ★, Survival 20.3%, Crafting 18.7%, Open World 10%, Top-Down 8.4%

Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building. Export manufactured goods to earn funding, manage colonists, defend against hostile aliens, and work towards terraforming Ceres from a frozen ball of ice to a tropical paradise.

Why similar: Crafting 30.4%, Survival 29.3%, Simulation 14.4%, Open World 12.9%, Exploration 8.8%

Card Survival is a card-based survival experience. Stranded on a desert island you must use your wits and skills to stay alive. Use cards and combine them together to explore, gather resources and craft useful tools.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.2% ★, Simulation 16.8%, Perma Death 16.1%, Crafting 15.5%, Survival 13.6%

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 44.4% ★, Crafting 17.8%, Survival 17.4%, Open World 8%, Exploration 4.4%

Vantage is a passion project created by a solo developer where your main objective is simple... to stay alive! You explore the massive world searching for food, creating primitive tools and weapons to hunt, and craft other items to make life easier. Play Online/Offline Multiplayer or Single Player.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.7% ★, Crafting 14.7%, Nature 13.4%, Survival 13.4%, Simulation 7.1%

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 43.3% ★, Survival 16.8%, Crafting 15.9%, Simulation 6.6%, Exploration 6.5%

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: Crafting 34.6%, Survival 32.8%, Open World 14%, Exploration 9.3%, Adventure 6.8%

Winter Burrow is a cozy woodland survival game about a mouse returning home to restore their childhood burrow. Explore, gather resources, craft, knit warm sweaters, bake pies and meet the locals.

Why similar: Nature 24.5%, Crafting 22.3%, Survival 19.9%, Relaxing 10.4%, Exploration 9%

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 32.4% ★, Crafting 17.4%, Survival 12.2%, Relaxing 10.7%, Open World 7.8%

A tale of survival about two shipwrecked robots - ION and ANI - on their life-defining journey in this unique genre-mix of exploration, puzzle and survival.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.7% ★, Survival 16%, Crafting 12%, Nature 9.6%, Open World 7.8%

Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.5% ★, Crafting 17.8%, Survival 16.6%, Open World 6.4%, Simulation 4.1%

Survive and evolve as an organism with this simulation game in which you will literally start as a single cell and manage and organize all its functions to a fully fledged system! Assemble, breathe, eat, fight threats, produce energy, grow, anything is possible!

Why similar: Crafting 46%, Procedural Generation 18.6%, Simulation 12.1%, Colorful 8.3%, Pixel Graphics 7.4%

Take care of forgotten nature's treasure. Build, craft, feed, clean and manage your forest in Forest Ranger Simulator. Ensure its long-lasting beauty and become a flawless Forest Ranger!

Why similar: Nature 26%, Crafting 23.3%, Relaxing 13.6%, Simulation 11.7%, Exploration 10.3%

A relaxed roguelike space odyssey in a procedurally generated universe! Travel through a lonely and mysterious cosmos. Customize your ship, explore and survive!

Why similar: Survival 13.8%, Top-Down 13.1%, Crafting 12.4%, Relaxing 12%, Exploration 12%

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 42.6% ★, Hunting 20% ★, Survival 15.9%, Crafting 10.6%, Simulation 7.5%

Uncompromising Sci-Fi survival on Mars! Manage the entire colony single-handed! Craft, Research, Explore and Fight against evolving mutants. Vast open world and randomly generated levels to explore! Can you survive long enough to escape the horror?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.4% ★, Survival 19.9%, Crafting 14.9%, Top-Down 10.8%, Perma Death 6.6%

Land on a distant planet in this chill resource management game. Harvest alien resources, build and automate machinery, uncover secrets across the stars and strike shipping deals with distant colonies for exclusive rewards!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.9% ★, Crafting 18.1%, Survival 14.7%, Open World 9.1%, Pixel Graphics 6.9%

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: Nature 31.4%, Crafting 22.3%, Survival 19.4%, Simulation 11.1%, Exploration 8.9%

A casual heavy equipment experience. Mine ore, Move dirt, Build and repair.

Why similar: Crafting 29.9%, Simulation 23.7%, Relaxing 17.4%, Exploration 16.8%, Open World 11%

Sandbox Survival in VR. Face a frozen wilderness solo or in co-op - build a shelter, craft tools, hunt for food, and manage your resources to endure harsh conditions. Strategize your moves against unpredictable weather and lurking dangers. And remember to keep yourself safe and sane!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.7% ★, Hunting 22.3% ★, Survival 12.8%, Crafting 10.6%, Nature 10.5%

A cozy foraging adventure about the magic of real-life plants! Identify and gather wild plants and fungi, cook tasty recipes, master herbal remedies, and rebuild your community after a devastating storm.

Why similar: Nature 28.3%, Crafting 23%, Relaxing 13.8%, Exploration 10.1%, Open World 9.6%

Gather resources and explore to help lost settlers build a new home in this relaxing, foraging RPG.

Why similar: Nature 32.6%, Relaxing 14.8%, Top-Down 14.7%, Exploration 11.3%, Simulation 9.4%

PostCollapse is a survival simulation game set after the collapse of civilization. Gather items from the ruins, construct tools, grow your own food, go fishing and hunting. Single player only. No Zombies.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.2% ★, Hunting 15.4% ★, Survival 14.5%, Crafting 14.3%, Procedural Generation 9.5%

Ok Scout, it's time to show us what you’re made of-break free from your city life and live like a real outdoorsman. The wilderness isn’t for the faint of heart, but if you work hard, learn how to use the environment and be one with nature, you too can become a Master Outdoorsman.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27% ★, Hunting 24.2% ★, Survival 15.9%, Simulation 9.2%, Open World 8.7%