- #1 Dune: Awakening
97% matchMostly Positive71% of 79,582 reviews2025
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 43.1 hrsMean: 98.6 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Dune: Awakening is a single- and multiplayer Open World Survival game with immersive adventure and RPG gameplay. Explore, build, craft, and unravel a cinematic Dune story as you rise from survival to greatness on the most legendary planet in the universe. Just remember: the sandworm always comes.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.5% ★, Base Building 9.5%, Open World 7.9%, Crafting 7.7%, Building 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: Its persistent shared desert, factional competition, base construction, resource gathering, vehicles, and dangerous PvE make it an especially close MMO-survival alternative.
- #2 Enshrouded
96% matchVery Positive86% of 106,050 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.9 hrsMean: 46.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.
Why similar: Open World 15.4%, Base Building 14.8%, Survival 13.3%, Online Co-Op 11.5%, Crafting 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: It offers expansive exploration, highly flexible base building, crafting progression, co-op servers, and corrupted monster-filled regions to clear.
- #3 The Front
96% matchMixed67% of 10,771 reviews2025
Dev: Samar Studio
Windows
Median: 10.7 hrsMean: 44.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
The Front is a survival open-world crafting sandbox game. You are a resistance fighter sent back in time to stop the rise of a tyrannical empire. Collect resources, craft tech, build shelters, and fight monsters to accomplish your mission.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.2% ★, Base Building 9.8%, Crafting 8.6%, Survival 8.4%, Building 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: This multiplayer survival shooter centers on harvesting, constructing defended bases, researching technology, and fighting through a hostile open world.
- #4 Soulmask
94% matchMostly Positive77% of 22,506 reviews2026
Dev: CampFire StudioPub: Qooland Games
Windows
Median: 13.9 hrsMean: 69.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. Possess any of your tribespeople, recruit followers, and build a thriving automated civilization. Survive, expand, and forge your own legacy across a vast ancient open world — together with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.4% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 10.1%, Open World 9.7%, Survival 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: Its large survival sandbox emphasizes tribal base management, gathering, crafting, combat, and unusual character-control mechanics in a persistent world.
- #5 Fallout 76
95% matchMostly Positive72% of 140,856 reviews2020
Dev: Bethesda Game StudiosPub: Bethesda Softworks
Windows
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 116.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Twenty-five years after the bombs fall, you and your fellow Vault Dwellers emerge into post-nuclear America. Join millions of players as you explore, build, quest, and triumph in a massive open-world multiplayer adventure.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 20.3%, Open World 18.6%, Base Building 15.5%, Multiplayer 12.5%, Survival 12.5%
Why You'll Like It: This online post-apocalyptic RPG similarly combines cooperative world events, mutated threats, scavenging, progression, and personalized player-built camps.
- #6 Palworld
94% matchVery Positive95% of 490,433 reviews2026
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 41.0 hrsMean: 86.8 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 25.4% ★, Open World 12.7%, Survival 10.9%, Crafting 7.9%, Online Co-Op 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: It mixes open-world survival crafting and multiplayer base building with creature collecting, automated production, and combat against dangerous bosses.
- #7 Undawn
93% matchMixed54% of 6,611 reviews2023
Dev: Lightspeed StudiosPub: Level Infinite
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 41.3 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Explore, adapt, and survive in Undawn, a free-to-play open-world survival RPG for mobile and PC developed by LightSpeed Studios and published by Level Infinite. Embark on an adventure with other survivors four years after a worldwide disaster where hordes of infected roam a shattered world.
Why similar: Open World 14.5%, Post-apocalyptic 14.4%, Survival 13.1%, Crafting 10.8%, Multiplayer 8%
Why You'll Like It: As a free-to-play post-apocalyptic online survival game, it closely matches the mix of infected enemies, crafting, exploration, progression, and social play.
- #8 ICARUS
92% matchMostly Positive75% of 68,864 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.4 hrsMean: 46.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.8% ★, Base Building 10%, Survival 9.9%, Online Co-Op 8.1%, Crafting 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: Its session-based expeditions retain the satisfying survival loop of gathering, technology progression, building shelters, and cooperative PvE against environmental threats.
- #9 ARK: Survival Ascended
91% matchMixed60% of 118,321 reviews2023
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows
Median: 27.2 hrsMean: 198.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!
Why similar: Survival 15.7%, Open World 14.8%, Base Building 13%, Crafting 11.1%, Building 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: It delivers open-world survival, extensive building and crafting, cooperative tribes, dangerous wildlife, and long-term creature-based progression.
- #10 Rust
91% matchVery Positive87% of 1,402,448 reviews2018
Dev: Facepunch Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 52.8 hrsMean: 431.0 hrs≥1hr: 96%
The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20% ★, Survival 15.7%, Crafting 10.9%, Open World 10%, Building 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: Rust shares the tense persistent-server survival formula of scavenging, crafting firearms, constructing bases, and protecting resources from other players.
- #11 HumanitZ
90% matchMostly Positive74% of 14,430 reviews2026
Dev: Yodubzz StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 15.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%
HumanitZ is an isometric, open-world sandbox survival game set in a world ended by a zombie outbreak. Survive alone or with friends by scavenging, crafting, building, and fighting to last as long as ‘humanly’ possible. You can’t change the past, but you can fight for the future of humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 16.7% ★, Base Building 10.7%, Survival 10.2%, Open World 9.6%, Post-apocalyptic 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: Its zombie-ravaged open world supports multiplayer scavenging, vehicle use, crafting, shelter building, and exploration of a collapsing civilization.
- #12 7 Days to Die
89% matchVery Positive87% of 405,507 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.4 hrsMean: 111.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.6% ★, Survival 12.8%, Base Building 10.2%, Post-apocalyptic 9.7%, Open World 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: This post-apocalyptic co-op survival game blends zombie combat, looting, skill progression, crafting, and deeply customizable fortified bases.
- #13 SCUM
89% matchMostly Positive74% of 127,189 reviews2025
Dev: Gamepires
Windows
Median: 11.9 hrsMean: 105.4 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Welcome to SCUM, a ruthless open-world survival game where deep character customization defines the prisoner you become. Loot, craft, hunt, build, and fight to outlast a hostile island where every choice can change your fate. Stay alive. Stay dangerous. Become harder to kill.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33% ★, Open World 12.9%, Survival 12.3%, Crafting 10.7%, Online Co-Op 10%
Why You'll Like It: Its large multiplayer world combines detailed survival systems, scavenging, firearms, vehicles, building, and high-stakes encounters with players and AI.
- #14 Deadside
87% matchMostly Positive76% of 40,566 reviews2024
Dev: Bad Pixel
Windows
Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 44.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
An Open World Survival Shooter blending hardcore PVP and PVE action. Secure precious loot in safe zones or build your own fortress in the wild. With intense gunfights, stunning visuals, and performance smooth enough for any system, the challenge awaits!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.6% ★, Base Building 10.1%, Survival 9.8%, Crafting 9%, Open World 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: This open-world multiplayer shooter combines scavenging, survival needs, crafting, base construction, AI bandits, and risky PvP encounters.
- #15 V Rising
86% matchVery Positive89% of 137,392 reviews2024
Dev: Stunlock Studios
Windows
Median: 20.9 hrsMean: 58.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Awaken as a Vampire. Hunt for blood in nearby settlements to regain your strength and evade the scorching sun to survive. Raise your castle and thrive in an ever-changing, open world full of mystery. Gain allies online and conquer the land of the living.
Why similar: Base Building 14.2%, Open World 12.9%, Survival 12.5%, Crafting 10.1%, Online Co-Op 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: Its action-heavy survival structure features resource gathering, castle construction, crafting stations, boss hunting, and online co-op or PvP servers.
- #16 XERA: Survival
88% matchMixed66% of 7,942 reviews2021
Dev: Spotted Kiwi Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 24.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Action-focused, open world survival shooter, PvPvE against fellow mercenaries and lethal XOIDS. Raid for resources alone or with team-mates, build and defend your base, stash your gear and survive against the odds. You are the hunters. You are the hunted. And the robots never sleep…
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.8% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Post-apocalyptic 8.6%, Crafting 8.5%, Survival 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: Its free-to-play online wasteland delivers loot-driven shooter combat, AI enemies, base building, and persistent PvP survival stakes.
- #17 Abiotic Factor
85% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 59,444 reviews2025
Dev: Deep Field GamesPub: Playstack
Windows
Median: 21.2 hrsMean: 46.5 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Abiotic Factor is a survival crafting experience for 1-6 players set in the depths of an underground research facility. Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the world’s greatest minds must survive against the universe’s biggest threats.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.7% ★, Base Building 11.4%, Crafting 10%, Survival 10%, Online Co-Op 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: It offers co-op survival and base building in a strange science-fiction facility full of paranormal threats, crafting systems, and emergent exploration.
- #18 No One Survived
86% matchMixed64% of 7,844 reviews2025
Dev: Cat Play Studio
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 22.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%
This is a multiplayer cooperative open world construction survival sandbox game, where you and your friends must find supplies and build shelters in this world. You have to keep an eye on your character's needs state at all times, a bad state is likely to lead to death.
Why similar: Survival 16.8%, Open World 14.8%, Post-apocalyptic 11.1%, Crafting 11%, Multiplayer 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: It is a co-op-friendly post-apocalyptic survival sandbox with zombies, skill-based crafting, farming, power systems, and detailed base construction.
- #19 Sons Of The Forest
84% matchVery Positive88% of 321,117 reviews2024
Dev: Endnight Games LtdPub: Newnight
Windows
Median: 15.0 hrsMean: 32.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends, in this terrifying new open-world survival horror simulator.
Why similar: Survival 16%, Open World 14.3%, Base Building 13.6%, Co-op 12.3%, Multiplayer 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: This co-op survival adventure focuses on exploring a mysterious hostile island, gathering supplies, constructing detailed bases, and fighting unsettling mutants.
- #20 Night of the Dead
84% matchMostly Positive77% of 11,888 reviews2024
Dev: Jackto Studios
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 32.0 hrs≥1hr: 83%
'Night of the Dead' is an open-world game that combines elements of exploration, tower defense, survival, and crafting. Traverse a world dominated by zombies while collecting various resources and powerful equipment. Build a fortress to survive the hordes of zombies that swarm every night!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.7% ★, Base Building 9.9%, Online Co-Op 8.8%, Crafting 8.6%, Open World 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: This zombie survival sandbox emphasizes scavenging and crafting elaborate defenses to withstand escalating hordes with friends.
- #21 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
83% matchVery Positive82% of 10,551 reviews2024
Dev: Max Ent Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.9% ★, Base Building 9.9%, Survival 8.8%, Crafting 7.9%, Online Co-Op 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a cooperative survival-and-building loop with dangerous oversized creatures, exploration, crafting, and persistent player encampments.
- #22 Sunkenland
82% matchVery Positive80% of 24,007 reviews2023
Dev: Vector3 Studio
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 20.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Get ready for a Waterworld-themed survival game with modular base building, sunken city scavenging, crafting, base defense, and invasions of NPC clans for resources and territory. Ready for the water apocalypse?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.2% ★, Survival 9.6%, Base Building 9.5%, Co-op 9.5%, Crafting 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: This co-op survival game replaces wastelands with flooded islands but retains resource runs, modular base building, crafting, raids, and hostile NPCs.
- #23 Valheim
79% matchVery Positive94% of 555,289 reviews2026
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 26.9 hrsMean: 81.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.3% ★, Online Co-Op 9.1%, Survival 8.9%, Open World 8.6%, Base Building 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: Its cooperative open-world progression rewards exploration, resource gathering, crafting, boss preparation, and ambitious player-built settlements.
- #24 Unturned
81% matchVery Positive91% of 564,742 reviews2017
Dev: Smartly Dressed Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 73.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Unturned is an open-world zombie survival sandbox game. As one of the few not yet turned, you must fight to remain among the living.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 13.9%, Survival 12.2%, Crafting 12%, Open World 11.7%, Co-op 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: This free-to-play multiplayer survival game offers zombie-infested maps, scavenging, firearms, vehicles, crafting, and player-made bases.
- #25 Grounded
80% matchVery Positive90% of 95,977 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.6 hrsMean: 41.9 hrs≥1hr: 94%
The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.6% ★, Survival 13.6%, Base Building 11.6%, Co-op 9.5%, Multiplayer 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: This polished co-op survival adventure turns a backyard into a dangerous ecosystem for exploration, resource gathering, crafting, and base defense.
- #26 Will To Live Online
82% matchMixed69% of 18,412 reviews2018
Dev: AlphaSoft LLC
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 35.1 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Will To Live is a MMORPG-shooter whose action takes place in a severe post-apocalyptic world. Explore the world, engage in fights with mutants and other survivors, join the clans in the struggle for existence and prove your right to Live.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.5% ★, Post-apocalyptic 14.1%, Crafting 11.6%, Open World 11.2%, Survival 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: This free-to-play post-apocalyptic MMO shooter offers hazardous-zone exploration, mutants, survival supplies, loot progression, and cooperative play.
- #27 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
78% matchVery Positive91% of 7,668 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Survive, craft, and automate in this free prologue set on one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters, an open-world game where you play solo or with friends to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.6% ★, Base Building 10.9%, Open World 8.4%, Crafting 8.2%, Online Co-Op 8%
- #28 Last Oasis
81% matchMixed62% of 24,230 reviews2020
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 17.8 hrsMean: 120.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Nomadic Survival MMO. Build wooden walking machines to travel to new lands. Create clans and fight for territory. Resources deplete fast, so take your sword and scavenge, pirate, and trade to stay alive.
Why similar: Survival 17.7%, Open World 16.1%, Crafting 12%, Building 11.1%, Sandbox 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: Its nomadic post-apocalyptic MMO survival structure focuses on gathering, crafting mobile bases, clan cooperation, and contested resources.
- #29 Project Zomboid
79% matchVery Positive94% of 484,416 reviews2013
Dev: The Indie Stone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 15.9 hrsMean: 89.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.5% ★, Survival 16.6%, Open World 12%, Post-apocalyptic 9.2%, Sandbox 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: Though isometric, it offers one of the deepest zombie-survival sandboxes for multiplayer looting, skill progression, crafting, vehicles, and safehouse building.
- #30 StarRupture
75% matchVery Positive81% of 13,607 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 27.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.6% ★, Base Building 10.9%, Open World 8.6%, Survival 8.5%, Crafting 8.4%
- #31 Forever Skies
76% matchMostly Positive78% of 9,059 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 30.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A first-person survival game set on a post-apocalyptic, ecologically ruined Earth. Play solo or with up to 3 friends as you build, upgrade, and fly a high-tech airship. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and face dangers on the surface as you hunt for a cure to save humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.1% ★, Base Building 10.6%, Crafting 8.8%, Open World 8.6%, Co-op 8.6%
- #32 VEIN
75% matchVery Positive88% of 12,706 reviews2025
Dev: Ramjet Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
VEIN is a post-apocalyptic survival multiplayer sandbox game. Gather supplies to survive, explore abandoned buildings, defend your home, and rebuild society, whether alone or with friends.
Why similar: Survival 14.8%, Open World 14.7%, Base Building 14.5%, Post-apocalyptic 12.8%, Co-op 9.8%
- #33 Rem Survival
78% matchMostly Positive76% of 809 reviews2021
Dev: Immortal Hand Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 47.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Scavenge abandoned ruins, craft gear from scrap and salvaged materials, and fight the environment itself as hunger, exposure, and exhaustion push you to your limits. There are no second chances—only adaptation or death.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.9% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Crafting 11.1%, Survival 10.4%, Open World 10.3%
- #34 DARKEST DAYS
77% matchMixed49% of 5,176 reviews2025
Dev: NHN
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 42%
DARKEST DAYS is a zombie shooting RPG set in a post-apocalyptic world devastated by a sudden zombie outbreak. Explore a dark yet captivating open world, build a sanctuary with fellow survivors, grow stronger, and fight for survival.
Why similar: Open World 15.9%, Post-apocalyptic 15.4%, Survival 13.8%, Base Building 10.9%, Multiplayer 10.9%
- #35 Dysterra
76% matchMixed56% of 773 reviews2025
Dev: Reality MagiQ
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 60%
On a future post-apocalyptic Earth, build, craft, and loot other players’ bases to survive long enough to board the rocket and escape the dangerous robots and mercenaries that inhabit Ararat Island. Manipulate the weather and use earthquakes to change when the server wipe occurs in DYSTERRA!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.5% ★, Base Building 9.6%, Post-apocalyptic 9.4%, PvE 9.1%, Crafting 8.4%
- #36 DeadPoly
74% matchMostly Positive78% of 6,250 reviews2022
Dev: TFL Games
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 64%
DeadPoly is a polygon arcade zombie survival looter shooter with base building, crafting, scavenging, leveling, questing, and more, but your only goal is survival, everything else is optional.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.5% ★, Post-apocalyptic 9.6%, Base Building 8.4%, Online Co-Op 7.9%, Survival 7.9%
- #37 The First Descendant
73% matchMixed57% of 112,520 reviews2024
Dev: NEXON Games Co., Ltd.Pub: NEXON
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 60.5 hrs≥1hr: 74%
The First Descendant is a third-person looter shooter powered by Unreal Engine 5. Become a Descendant. Fight for the survival of humanity. Descendants have unique abilities to tackle both solo and co-op missions. Up to 4 players use varied mechanics to defeat giant bosses. BE THE FIRST DESCENDANT!
Why similar: Online Co-Op 26.1%, Multiplayer 21.2%, Shooter 15.3%, Co-op 14.5%, PvE 11.7%
- #38 Everwind
71% matchVery Positive81% of 3,899 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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: Open World 11%, Crafting 11%, Online Co-Op 10.9%, Building 10.8%, Survival 10.3%
- #39 Lost Rift
72% matchMixed69% of 1,717 reviews2025
Dev: People Can Fly
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Lost Rift is a first person survival adventure shooter that blends cooperative base building with multiplayer PvE or PvP extraction expeditions. Journey solo or in teams of up to 5 players across a vast archipelago, craft gear, build bases, defeat raiders, and become legendary.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.4% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Crafting 9.8%, Survival 9.1%, Online Co-Op 8.6%
- #40 Subsistence
74% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,861 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 33.4% ★, Survival 11.7%, Crafting 9.8%, Open World 8.7%, Base Building 7.5%
- #41 Lost Light
73% matchMixed55% of 28,188 reviews2022
Dev: NetEase Games
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 21.8 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Join the "Firefly" task force and unveil the sinister plot behind the exclusion zone in the world of Lost Light. You could either scavenge for supplies or go out with guns blazing and plunder. Survive the brutal domain where danger lurks in every corner!
Why similar: Survival 23.2%, Shooter 18.9%, Multiplayer 17.6%, Open World 12.3%, PvP 9.8%
- #42 Plains of Pain
72% matchVery Positive83% of 1,036 reviews2023
Dev: Cobra Byte Digital
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Enter a living post-apocalyptic sandbox where the world doesn't wait for you. Build, craft, trade, earn the trust of factions, and forge your own path through a brutal procedural wasteland.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 19.1% ★, Post-apocalyptic 9.1%, Base Building 8.9%, Crafting 7.2%, Open World 7.1%
- #43 Generation Zero®
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 42,281 reviews2019
Dev: Systemic Reaction™Pub: Avalanche Studios
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 19.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Generation Zero is a stealth-action shooter where you wage guerilla warfare against lethal mechanical enemies. Explore a vast open world map inspired by the Swedish Cold War era, take part in the resistance alone or with up to three friends in seamless co-op.
Why similar: Base Building 12.1%, Post-apocalyptic 12%, Open World 11.1%, Survival 10%, Crafting 9.7%
- #44 The Planet Crafter
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 74,281 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.7 hrsMean: 38.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Online Co-Op 8.7%, Survival 8.5%, Building 8.4%
- #45 Wild Omission
70% matchVery Positive88% of 83 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 22.3% ★, Crafting 9.5%, Survival 9%, Open World 8.8%, Building 8.5%
- #46 Shamania
67% matchMostly Positive74% of 171 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 22.8% ★, Open World 10.1%, Crafting 10.1%, Survival 9%, Online Co-Op 6.9%
- #47 Outpost Zero
71% matchMixed48% of 853 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 32.3% ★, Survival 13.8%, Base Building 10.9%, Open World 10.1%, Multiplayer 8.7%
- #48 SURVIVAL: Postapocalypse Now
70% matchMixed56% of 8,877 reviews2019
Dev: TB Games
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Want to survive? - Arm yourself and survive. Crafting, shooting, transport and much more awaits you in the Survival game. What happened to the world around and why he died - you may find out. But is this the main question now?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.3% ★, Survival 13.5%, Open World 9.5%, Post-apocalyptic 9.5%, Multiplayer 6.7%
- #49 Urge
68% matchVery Positive90% of 524 reviews2021
Dev: EnDrew
Windows
Fight, build, explore, survive, while the dynamic player-caused hazardous fog is slowly changing the rules of the world around you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.8% ★, Base Building 11%, Post-apocalyptic 9.4%, Building 8.7%, Crafting 8.3%
- #50 Ruins To Fortress
67% matchMixed66% of 184 reviews2024
Dev: NimbleBeasts
Windows · Linux
Explore a post-apocalyptic island, craft, build, tear down enemy bases, defend and nuke your rivals! Life's about surviving in this multiplayer game, no matter what it takes!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.8% ★, Base Building 9.3%, Crafting 8.3%, Survival 8.2%, Open World 7.7%
- #51 Fragmented
70% matchMixed43% of 1,964 reviews2017
Dev: Above and Beyond Technologies
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Stranded in a hostile alien world, you must fight to survive. Hunt, harvest, craft, advance skills, and build using local resources along with technology from your voyage.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.4% ★, Survival 12.7%, Open World 9.1%, Crafting 7.1%, Multiplayer 6.8%
- #52 Grounded 2
64% matchVery Positive81% of 24,763 reviews2025
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 13.2 hrsMean: 26.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Shrunk again, but the world is much larger. In this open-world, single-player or co-op survival adventure, craft weapons and armor, build your base, and traverse the playground on your buggy. But something else is out there—and it hasn’t forgotten you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.4% ★, Survival 12.2%, Base Building 11.5%, Open World 9.1%, Co-op 8.5%
- #53 ARC Raiders
63% matchVery Positive82% of 417,359 reviews2025
Dev: Embark Studios
Windows
Median: 41.5 hrsMean: 100.2 hrs≥1hr: 97%
ARC Raiders is a multiplayer extraction adventure, set in a lethal future earth, ravaged by a mysterious mechanized threat known as ARC.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 14.2%, PvP 13.3%, PvE 11.9%, Online Co-Op 11.7%, Multiplayer 11.3%
- #54 Gone: Survival
69% matchMixed43% of 320 reviews2020
Dev: Coden StudioPub: Conglomerate 5
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Gone Survival is a first-person survival game for one player. Where you have many opportunities and a completely open world
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 12.4%, Base Building 11.2%, Crafting 10.4%, Survival 10.3%, Building 9.8%
- #55 TerraTech Worlds
66% matchMixed63% of 2,297 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 21.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.2% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 9.4%, Building 8.9%, Open World 8.9%
- #56 Green Hell
66% matchVery Positive85% of 102,938 reviews2019
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.6% ★, Survival 11.6%, Online Co-Op 8.7%, Multiplayer 8.3%, Open World 7.4%
