- #1 Stranded Deep
97% matchMostly Positive74% of 47,770 reviews2022
Dev: Beam Team GamesPub: Beam Team Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 20.9 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Take the role of a plane crash survivor stranded somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Come face to face with some of the most life threatening scenarios that will result in a different experience each time you play. Scavenge. Discover. Survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.7% ★, Survival 15%, Open World 8.5%, Crafting 8.4%, Multiplayer 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: Captures the quintessential castaway experience of surviving on isolated islands with limited resources.
- #2 Raft
96% matchVery Positive93% of 377,470 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.7 hrsMean: 37.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.9% ★, Survival 16.4%, Crafting 8%, Multiplayer 7.9%, Open World 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on ocean exploration and survival while building a mobile base on the water.
- #3 ARK: Survival Evolved
96% matchVery Positive83% of 776,082 reviews2017
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 202.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.5% ★, Survival 13.4%, Open World 8.7%, Crafting 7.5%, Multiplayer 5.8%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a massive multiplayer survival experience with deep crafting, base building, and environmental threats.
- #4 Rust
95% matchVery Positive87% of 1,393,461 reviews2018
Dev: Facepunch Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 52.7 hrsMean: 429.0 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 31% ★, Survival 21%, Crafting 11.9%, Open World 10.6%, Multiplayer 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a high-stakes, multiplayer-focused survival environment where base building and resource competition are central.
- #5 Subsistence
94% 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 46.6% ★, Survival 14.1%, Crafting 9.6%, Open World 8.3%, Multiplayer 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: A survival sandbox that focuses on base building and managing resources against both AI and player threats.
- #6 Conan Exiles Enhanced
94% matchMostly Positive79% of 117,196 reviews2018
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 17.2 hrsMean: 113.9 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Conan Exiles Enhanced is an open world survival game set in the mythical lands of Hyboria, now fully upgraded to Unreal Engine 5 with stunning visuals and improved performance. SURVIVE, BUILD, and DOMINATE alone or with friends in a world brimming with adventure!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.3% ★, Survival 16.6%, Open World 11.7%, Crafting 9%, Building 8%
Why You'll Like It: Features robust base building and survival mechanics in a harsh, unforgiving open world that encourages multiplayer interaction.
- #7 Green Hell
93% matchVery Positive85% of 101,308 reviews2019
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 45.8% ★, Survival 15%, Multiplayer 7.9%, Crafting 7.7%, Open World 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a hardcore survival experience that emphasizes realistic resource management and environmental dangers.
- #8 Valheim
91% matchVery Positive94% of 540,690 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 26.0 hrsMean: 78.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 41.4% ★, Survival 12.5%, Open World 9.6%, Crafting 8.3%, Building 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: Combines exploration, survival, and building in a vast, procedurally generated world that rewards cooperative play.
- #9 ATLAS
92% matchMixed47% of 42,929 reviews2018
Dev: Grapeshot Games
Windows
Median: 12.5 hrsMean: 111.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Set sail for the ultimate pirate experience! Embark on a grand adventure alongside thousands of other players in one of the largest game worlds ever built (and even claim a piece of it to call your own). Build your ship, assemble your crew, sail the high seas, and become a pirate legend!
Why similar: Survival 19.5%, Open World 15%, Massively Multiplayer 14.7%, Pirates 14% ★, Crafting 12.1%
Why You'll Like It: Centers on sailing and island exploration, making it a direct thematic match for the nautical survival elements of the seed game.
- #10 Miscreated
91% matchMixed66% of 31,591 reviews2018
Dev: Entrada Interactive LLC
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 38.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Miscreated is a multiplayer online hardcore survival game set in a post-apocalyptic future. You will need to survive against mutants, players, and even mother nature herself.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.7% ★, Survival 15.8%, Open World 10.2%, Crafting 5.9%, Multiplayer 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic multiplayer survival game that emphasizes exploration and scavenging in a large open world.
- #11 The Forest
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 680,573 reviews2018
Dev: Endnight Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 37.3 hrs≥1hr: 93%
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 53.1% ★, Survival 16.7%, Open World 10.1%, Crafting 8%, Building 5.4%
Why You'll Like It: Delivers an intense island survival experience with a strong emphasis on building shelters and defending against threats.
- #12 SCUM
89% matchMostly Positive74% of 126,382 reviews2025
Dev: Gamepires
Windows
Median: 11.9 hrsMean: 104.8 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 38.8% ★, Survival 12.5%, Massively Multiplayer 12.3%, Open World 10.5%, Crafting 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: Features deep survival mechanics and a focus on multiplayer interaction within a large, dangerous open world.
- #13 Life is Feudal: Your Own
90% matchMixed66% of 12,061 reviews2015
Dev: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 57.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Hardcore and realistic; LiF is a Medieval multiplayer sandbox RPG, with free terraforming, a rich crafting system and preset and modular building construction. With engaging survival aspects, no target physics-based combat and a unique formation system - along with numerous other features - LiF is not for the faint of heart!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.3% ★, Survival 12.2%, Open World 10.9%, Crafting 10.1%, Building 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on realistic survival and complex building mechanics within a medieval-themed multiplayer environment.
- #14 ICARUS
88% matchMostly Positive75% of 67,515 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 46.4 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 39.5% ★, Survival 14.1%, Crafting 9%, Open World 8.2%, Multiplayer 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: A session-based survival game that challenges players to gather resources and build structures within a limited time frame.
- #15 Last Oasis
87% 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: Massively Multiplayer 22%, Survival 21.3%, Open World 15.5%, Crafting 11.8%, Building 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: A nomadic survival game that requires players to build mobile bases to survive in a harsh, shifting environment.
- #16 7 Days to Die
84% matchVery Positive87% of 405,507 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.3 hrsMean: 110.4 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 39.7% ★, Survival 18.7%, Open World 10.8%, Building 7.5%, Multiplayer 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: Combines survival, crafting, and base building with a strong emphasis on defending against waves of enemies.
- #17 Outlaws of the Old West
86% matchMixed59% of 6,295 reviews2019
Dev: Virtual Basement LLCPub: Wandering Wizard
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Outlaws of the Old West is a massively multiplayer survival MMO with a huge world, thousands of items and a modular building system. Survive the wild, build your own homestead, defeat villainous bandits and work with others to tame the Wild West.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.7% ★, Survival 14.5%, Open World 11.3%, Massively Multiplayer 10.4%, Multiplayer 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game set in the American frontier that emphasizes building and resource management in a multiplayer setting.
- #18 Fragmented
86% 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 51.5% ★, Survival 15.1%, Open World 8.7%, Crafting 6.8%, Multiplayer 6%
Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi survival game that emphasizes building and exploration in a hostile alien environment.
- #19 Sons Of The Forest
82% matchVery Positive88% of 317,804 reviews2024
Dev: Endnight Games LtdPub: Newnight
Windows
Median: 15.0 hrsMean: 32.3 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 24.2%, Open World 17.3%, Crafting 11.9%, Multiplayer 11%, Base Building 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: Expands on the island survival genre with advanced building systems and a focus on exploration and discovery.
- #20 Salt
84% 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 43.3% ★, Survival 13.7%, Open World 11.6%, Crafting 9.3%, Pirates 7.4% ★
Why You'll Like It: An exploration-focused survival game that centers on sailing between islands and discovering secrets.
- #21 GRAV
85% 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 45.8% ★, Survival 14.1%, Open World 10.3%, Crafting 7.5%, Base Building 6%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that focuses on building and exploration in a vibrant, alien world.
- #22 Savage Lands
83% matchMixed54% of 6,690 reviews2021
Dev: Last Bastion Studios LLC
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Your fight for survival begins on the frozen shores of Tarvhas, where bitter cold and vicious creatures conspire to defeat the unprepared. Uncover the land’s dark history as you and fellow explorers traverse an unforgiving and hostile world to tame the Savage Lands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 50.9% ★, Survival 14.7%, Open World 10%, Crafting 8.8%, Multiplayer 5.7%
Why You'll Like It: A harsh survival game that focuses on building and crafting to survive against mythical threats.
- #23 DayZ
82% matchMostly Positive78% of 468,041 reviews2018
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 39.7 hrsMean: 280.1 hrs≥1hr: 96%
How long can you survive a post-apocalyptic world? A land overrun with an infected "zombie" population, where you compete with other survivors for limited resources. Will you team up with strangers and stay strong together? Or play as a lone wolf to avoid betrayal? This is DayZ – this is your story.
Why similar: Survival 27.5%, Massively Multiplayer 17.2%, Open World 15.4%, Multiplayer 9.8%, Sandbox 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore multiplayer survival game that emphasizes scavenging, player interaction, and the struggle against the elements.
- #24 Unturned
81% matchVery Positive91% of 564,532 reviews2017
Dev: Smartly Dressed Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 72.8 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: Survival 19.6%, Massively Multiplayer 17.2%, Crafting 15.5%, Open World 14.9%, Multiplayer 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that offers a more accessible approach to multiplayer building and exploration.
- #25 Don't Starve Together
80% matchVery Positive95% of 541,972 reviews2016
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 64.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 67% ★, Survival 21.8%, Multiplayer 3.1%, Open World 2.7%, Crafting 2.3%
Why You'll Like It: A stylized survival game that requires intense cooperation and resource management to survive in a hostile world.
- #26 V Rising
78% matchVery Positive89% of 136,761 reviews2024
Dev: Stunlock Studios
Windows
Median: 20.8 hrsMean: 57.9 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: Survival 19.5%, Open World 16.1%, Crafting 12.9%, Massively Multiplayer 11.2%, Base Building 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: Features a unique blend of survival and base building with an emphasis on progression and multiplayer combat.
- #27 Grounded
78% matchVery Positive90% of 95,505 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.5 hrsMean: 41.8 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 39.4% ★, Survival 18.1%, Crafting 9%, Multiplayer 8.3%, Open World 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game that emphasizes exploration and base building in a unique, scaled-down environment.
- #28 Breathedge
79% matchVery Positive81% of 17,661 reviews2021
Dev: RedRuins SoftworksPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Survive in outer space! Together with your immortal chicken, discover the truth behind your sudden spaceship crash. Craft tools, pilot vehicles, and even control space stations to survive and explore the wreckage.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.3% ★, Survival 13.7%, Crafting 8.5%, Open World 6.7%, Base Building 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: Offers an island-like survival experience set in space, focusing on crafting and managing resources to stay alive.
- #29 Project Winter
79% matchVery Positive82% of 19,080 reviews2019
Dev: Other Ocean InteractivePub: Other Ocean Group
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 23.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Project Winter 2.0: Cabin Fever is an 8-player survival and social deception game where teamwork is vital, but betrayal is inevitable. Face the wilderness, uncover traitors, and survive paranoia in this streamlined yet chaotic multiplayer experience.
Why similar: Survival 31.6%, Crafting 27.4%, Multiplayer 16.7%, PvP 10.6%, Exploration 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on social deduction and survival, requiring players to work together while managing resources in a harsh environment.
- #30 Nomad
81% matchMixed60% of 4,634 reviews2015
Dev: Diminished Studios
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Try and survive in the world of Nomad. Build a base and protect it from raiding players. Scavenge food, weapons and medical supplies across the island. Team up with others and make a base. Make your mark on the world of Nomad.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.5% ★, Survival 16.2%, Open World 9.9%, Multiplayer 8.8%, Crafting 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: A free-to-play survival game that focuses on scavenging and building in a post-apocalyptic landscape.
- #31 Project Castaway
74% 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 39% ★, Survival 11.6%, Open World 8.6%, Crafting 7.6%, Building 6.2%
- #32 Force of Nature
77% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,209 reviews2016
Dev: A.Y.std
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.7% ★, Survival 13.1%, Crafting 11.4%, Open World 8.1%, Building 5.8%
- #33 Rem Survival
76% matchMostly Positive75% of 803 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 37.1% ★, Survival 11.6%, Crafting 10%, Open World 9.1%, Massively Multiplayer 7.7%
- #34 Reign Of Kings
77% matchMixed57% of 14,891 reviews2015
Dev: Code}{atch
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 47.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Struggle to survive in a harsh medieval world. Hunt wildlife, mine resources, build structures, and craft weapons and armor in order to protect yourself. You may form a guild, bring war to all opposition, and try to seize the throne and become king!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.1% ★, Survival 13.5%, Open World 10.5%, Crafting 10%, Building 7.2%
- #35 SURVIVAL: Postapocalypse Now
76% 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 50.5% ★, Survival 15.7%, Open World 8.9%, Multiplayer 5.8%, Crafting 5.4%
- #36 XERA: Survival
74% matchMixed66% of 7,941 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 36.5% ★, Survival 11.5%, Crafting 9.5%, Open World 8.2%, Massively Multiplayer 7.8%
- #37 KeepUp Survival
73% matchMixed64% of 749 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 84%
KeepUp Survival is an open-world base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and shape your own story on a mysterious island.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.8% ★, Survival 12.8%, Open World 10.4%, Crafting 10.1%, Multiplayer 6.6%
- #38 Hide & Hold Out - H2o
75% matchMixed54% of 631 reviews2016
Dev: Red Abyss Software
Windows · Linux
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Hide & Hold Out is a multiplayer survival game taking place in a devastated water world. Gather, build, team up with your friends and establish the foundations of your future floating empire utilizing the heavy guns of your battle ships!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.6% ★, Survival 13.1%, Massively Multiplayer 11.7%, Open World 6.8%, Crafting 6.8%
- #39 Survival: Fountain of Youth
71% matchVery Positive85% of 4,480 reviews2024
Dev: Odinsoft Inc.Pub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 41.2% ★, Survival 13.8%, Crafting 10.6%, Open World 8.5%, Base Building 7.2%
- #40 The Front
70% matchMixed67% of 10,771 reviews2025
Dev: Samar Studio
Windows
Median: 10.6 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 34.9% ★, Survival 11%, Crafting 9.1%, Massively Multiplayer 8.2%, Open World 8.1%
- #41 Mist Survival
72% matchMostly Positive76% of 14,333 reviews2018
Dev: Dimension 32 Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 73%
MIST SURVIVAL is a Single-player, survival stealth sandbox game Players will experience the Apocalypse stimulation in the form of virus pandemic, the players have to deal with it to survive through the difficulties such as finding shelter and food, threats from the environment and climate: wild animals, bandits, infected, and dense mist t
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.9% ★, Survival 21.1%, Open World 12.5%, Crafting 7.5%, Base Building 5.8%
- #42 Hurtworld
71% matchMostly Positive76% of 31,099 reviews2019
Dev: Bankroll Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 64.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Hurtworld is a hardcore multiplayer survival FPS with a focus on competitive gunplay and strategic map control. Built for hardcore gamers, Hurtworld aims to punish.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.9% ★, Survival 17.9%, Open World 10.8%, Crafting 9.8%, Building 7%
- #43 Outpost Zero
73% 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 42.4% ★, Survival 15.7%, Open World 9.2%, Multiplayer 7.3%, Crafting 7%
- #44 Radiation Island
72% 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 57.5% ★, Survival 19.9%, Open World 8.1%, Crafting 6.3%, Multiplayer 3.4%
- #45 Under A New Sun
70% matchMostly Positive76% of 400 reviews2023
Dev: New Horizon Games
Windows
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 47.3% ★, Survival 14.4%, Open World 11.6%, Crafting 11.2%, Base Building 6.1%
- #46 Sunkenland
68% matchVery Positive80% of 23,803 reviews2023
Dev: Vector3 Studio
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 20.0 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 46.3% ★, Survival 13.7%, Crafting 8.4%, Open World 7.2%, Multiplayer 6.3%
- #47 Deadside
67% matchMostly Positive76% of 40,499 reviews2024
Dev: Bad Pixel
Windows
Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 44.6 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 35.5% ★, Survival 13.8%, Crafting 10.3%, Open World 9.3%, Massively Multiplayer 6.4%
- #48 Renown
68% matchMixed58% of 1,578 reviews2025
Dev: RDBK Studios
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Renown is an intense medieval multiplayer survival experience set in a vast, ever-evolving world. Whether alone or rallying allies, gather resources, build powerful strongholds, and engage in brutal battles for dominance.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.9% ★, Survival 10.9%, Crafting 9.4%, Open World 8.8%, Massively Multiplayer 8.4%
- #49 Outerstellar
69% matchMostly Positive72% of 175 reviews2023
Dev: Strange Horizons Ltd
Windows
Stranded on a hostile and deadly planet, you must gather resources, build shelter, and fight to survive each night. But the secrets of this world await in a gripping sci-fi survival PvP game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.1% ★, Survival 13.8%, Crafting 10.2%, Massively Multiplayer 9.6%, Multiplayer 7.7%
- #50 My Island
69% 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 52.5% ★, Survival 14.6%, Open World 8.8%, Crafting 8.1%, Multiplayer 5.9%
- #51 Wrongworld
69% matchVery Positive94% of 551 reviews2018
Dev: Sludj Games
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Crash-landed on a surreal, low-poly world filled with freakish inhabitants, choose between permadeath and non-permadeath modes and embark on an epic (and ridiculous) survival adventure. Will you manage to stay alive as you unravel the mysteries of Wrongworld and search for a way home?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 54% ★, Survival 12.8%, Open World 8.1%, Crafting 7.2%, Building 5.7%
- #52 Life is Feudal: MMO
70% matchMixed40% of 7,349 reviews2018
Dev: LTG
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 45.7 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Experience the hardcore reality of the Middle Ages. Master survival, engage in deep-rooted RPG elements, navigate a bustling economy, build communities, and employ diplomatic strategy to thrive in Abella's vast expanse.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.4% ★, Survival 11.5%, Massively Multiplayer 10.1%, Crafting 8.8%, Open World 7%
- #53 Night of the Dead
65% matchMostly Positive77% of 11,856 reviews2024
Dev: Jackto Studios
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 32.1 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 35.2% ★, Survival 10%, Crafting 9%, Open World 8.7%, Hunting 8.1% ★
- #54 Starsand
66% matchMixed66% of 1,254 reviews2022
Dev: Tunnel Vision StudioPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Starsand is a mystic survival game set among the dunes of an arcane desert. An open-world full of danger, vast environments and mysterious happenings await you! Explore, hunt, craft, build – and SURVIVE.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.9% ★, Survival 13.4%, Open World 10.9%, Crafting 10.6%, Building 6.9%
- #55 Boundless
67% matchMixed70% of 2,774 reviews2018
Dev: Monumental, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 32.9 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Shape your citizen, forge your destiny and sculpt your world in this epic voxel sandbox MMO built on endless possibility.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.3% ★, Massively Multiplayer 12.8%, Open World 10.3%, Crafting 9.8%, Survival 7.9%
- #56 Plains of Pain
65% matchVery Positive83% of 933 reviews2023
Dev: Cobra Byte Digital
Windows
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 37.3% ★, Survival 11.6%, Crafting 9.9%, Open World 9.6%, Base Building 6.7%
