- #1 The Last Viking
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NoBrain Studio
Windows
Play as a young viking, learn to survive and fight in the wilderness. To fulfill your destiny, explore an island alone or in cooperation with friends, build structures, confront Norse gods and mythological creatures. Will you be the last Viking?
Why similar: Survival 15.2%, Open World 13.7%, Co-op 11.8%, Open World Survival Craft 10.7% ★, Base Building 9.7%
- #2 DREADZONE
96% matchMixed51% of 1,239 reviews2025
Dev: Eshed
Windows
Dreadzone is a survival game set in a deadly quarantine zone. Scavenge for resources, craft tools, build shelter, and survive against dangerous animals, zombies, mutants, and other survivors. Explore the zone where desperation drives everyone to do whatever it takes to survive.
Why similar: Survival 14.8%, Open World 13.3%, Co-op 12.4%, Base Building 10.3%, Post-apocalyptic 9.6%
- #3 Scrapnaut
96% matchMixed70% of 839 reviews2021
Dev: SpiffyBitPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements. Explore an open world with different biomes, take care of oxygen, manage your farms, generate electricity, build your home and much more!
Why similar: Survival 14.1%, Open World Survival Craft 13% ★, Co-op 11.4%, Open World 8.8%, Building 7.7%
- #4 Grounded 2
95% 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: Survival 18.8%, Open World Survival Craft 15.5% ★, Open World 12.5%, Co-op 12.2%, Base Building 10.8%
- #5 Once Human
94% matchMostly Positive79% of 189,842 reviews2024
Dev: Starry Studio
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 52.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Once Human is a Strange Worlds Survival Game set in a strange, post-apocalyptic future. Unite with friends to fight monstrous enemies, uncover secret plots, compete for resources, and build your own territory. Once, you were merely human. Now, you have the power to remake the world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 13.8% ★, Survival 12.2%, Open World 11.4%, Co-op 9.9%, Post-apocalyptic 9%
- #6 THE LAST BREATH
94% match6 user reviews17% of 6 reviews2023
Dev: Y Games
Windows
Survive the post-apocalypse world. There's a predator who's going after you. This is Online and local party games enjoyed by 1 to 5 players. you have to Survive in an end-of-life world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 14.7% ★, Survival 12.1%, Open World 10.9%, Co-op 9.8%, Post-apocalyptic 7.9%
- #7 Forever Skies
93% 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 14.3% ★, Survival 12.1%, Co-op 11.4%, Open World 10.9%, Base Building 9.3%
- #8 Lodventure
92% matchMostly Positive74% of 166 reviews2023
Dev: Sky Games
Windows
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 18.6% ★, Survival 13.4%, Co-op 13%, Open World 12.3%, Base Building 7.6%
- #9 Zeverland
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Quantum Quirks
Windows
Welcome to Zeverland, survive & craft together with your friends in a deceptively cute apocalypse, with no limits! Everything is interactive like the real world—dismantle toilets, strap zombie heads to bats, or weld a bed to your RV. Then, try to repair bridges, make vaccines, and relight the world!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 15.9% ★, Survival 13.1%, Open World 11.3%, Base Building 9.7%, Co-op 9%
- #10 BLACKFROST: The Long Dark 2
91% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Hinterland Studio Inc.
Windows
A year after the Aurora’s appearance & the world went dark, the people of Harmont & its vast wild environs struggle to survive the Quiet Apocalypse. Survive alone or with others against a host of new hazards & a fresh new survival sandbox from a pioneer of the genre. Live together. Die alone.
Why similar: Survival 23.2%, Open World 17.7%, Co-op 13.4%, Exploration 7.2%, Sandbox 7.2%
- #11 Crushed
90% matchMixed53% of 321 reviews2020
Dev: NipoBoxPub: NipoBox Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Crushed — is an Singleplayer and Multiplayer First-Person Survival Sandbox in an Open World! Challenge the wild and be ready to survive in harsh conditions. Explore the world, get resources, cook food, build a house, farm, hunt, and enjoy nature.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 18.7% ★, Survival 14.1%, Open World 12.6%, Post-apocalyptic 7.8%, Base Building 7.7%
- #12 Aurendor
89% matchMixed47% of 17 reviews2023
Dev: Telescope Studios
Windows
Aurendor is an open world survival game. Players must gather resources, cook their meals and fight dangerous creatures to survive and build a home for themselves. Aurendor also offers a multiplayer game option. Players can play together by cooperating with or battling other survivors.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 19.2% ★, Survival 14.4%, Open World 12.6%, Co-op 9.6%, Base Building 8.7%
- #13 World In The Abyss
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Lazy Cat Studio
Windows
The aliens have caused the oceans to rise, plunging the world into the abyss. Survive, craft, and explore this mysterious underwater world. Build your base, defend it against relentless waves of enemies, and dive deep to uncover the secret that could stop the alien invasion once and for all!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 16.5% ★, Survival 12.7%, Open World 11.3%, Co-op 11.3%, Base Building 8.9%
- #14 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
88% 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 16.6% ★, Survival 14.2%, Open World 11%, Co-op 9.9%, Base Building 9.7%
- #15 Core Keeper
87% matchVery Positive93% of 66,787 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.3 hrsMean: 34.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 14% ★, Survival 13.4%, Open World 12.6%, Co-op 10.8%, Base Building 9.1%
- #16 The Forest of Black Eden
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ZEREF
Windows
Stranded on an island crawling with terrifying creatures, you must survive, build, and uncover its dark secrets. Escape or be one of them with lost dream.
Why similar: Survival 15.7%, Open World 14.2%, Co-op 13.4%, Base Building 10.8%, Crafting 9%
- #17 KeepUp Survival
86% matchMixed64% of 751 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 16% ★, Survival 13.3%, Open World 12%, Co-op 11.4%, Base Building 9%
- #18 Desolated District
85% matchMixed69% of 16 reviews2025
Dev: Real Heroes Studio
Windows
Desolated District is an Open-World Survival Crafting game set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Scavenge for resources, craft essential tools, build your base and battle deadly threats as you explore a sprawling, decaying city inspired by the Kowloon Walled City.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 19.4% ★, Open World 13.3%, Post-apocalyptic 12.1%, Survival 11.2%, Base Building 9.2%
- #19 Grounded
84% 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: Survival 21.6%, Open World Survival Craft 19.1% ★, Co-op 13.9%, Base Building 11.2%, Open World 9.9%
- #20 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 20.8%, Open World 16.4%, Co-op 14.7%, Base Building 10.7%, Crafting 7.8%
- #21 The Overlap
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Back Pocket Games
Windows
The Overlap is a survival-cosmic-horror 2D sandbox. Explore procedurally generated wastelands, scavenge resources, craft, build, customize and upgrade your survivor, face eldritch horrors, survive the post-cataclysmic world alongside friends online and find out the truth behind it all.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 16.4% ★, Survival 12.8%, Post-apocalyptic 10.9%, Open World 10.4%, Co-op 10.2%
- #22 THE SIREEN
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lucy Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
You are trying to prevent the spread of a top secret invention to the islands from an accidental Laboratory explosion on an island You are maybe the last people left on the island , Crafts, you build houses, you hunt. a new open world survival horror simulator
Why similar: Survival 16.9%, Open World 14.8%, Co-op 12.8%, Base Building 9.9%, Crafting 8.4%
- #23 Zector 7
82% match7 user reviews57% of 7 reviews2024
Dev: SocksandGoats Studios
Windows
Craft, Build and Fight alongside your friends across this deadly open-world. Use both modern day and sci-fi tech as you Loot, Harvest and Trade for resources, gear and vehicles in order to survive the wasteland.
Why similar: Survival 12.8%, Co-op 12.3%, Open World 11.3%, Post-apocalyptic 8.1%, Base Building 8.1%
- #24 Rooted
81% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Headlight Studio
Windows
In this solo and multiplayer survival game, explore an ancient overgrown world full of dangers. Salvage, build, craft, hunt,.. and try to survive alone or with your friends in an evolving and fascinating post-apocalyptic environment. Powered by Unreal Engine 5.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 14.6% ★, Open World 12.6%, Survival 11.2%, Base Building 10%, Crafting 9.7%
- #25 Longvinter
80% matchMixed67% of 7,713 reviews2025
Dev: Uuvana Studios
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 45.1 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Fish, farm, craft, gather, cook, loot or steal from other players and build a campsite or a village with your friends in an open-world multiplayer sandbox game without rules!
Why similar: Survival 17.5%, Open World Survival Craft 16.4% ★, Open World 14%, Crafting 10.6%, Co-op 9.5%
- #26 Short Snow | Cold Survival Game
79% matchMixed54% of 173 reviews2025
Dev: MubDev
Windows
A realistic open-world survival experience. After a harrowing plane crash, you find yourself stranded in the wilderness. Battling freezing temperatures and hunger, you face an unknown virus that slowly paralyzes muscles, leaving its victims motionless and at the mercy of the unforgiving cold.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 19.2% ★, Survival 16.8%, Open World 14.6%, Crafting 7.5%, Base Building 7.1%
- #27 TROLLHEIM: GNOMES
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Trollheim
Windows
More info coming soon
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 16.9% ★, Survival 15.1%, Co-op 11.4%, Open World 11.3%, Base Building 10.9%
- #28 Raft
78% matchVery Positive93% of 379,035 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.8 hrsMean: 38.0 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 22.3% ★, Survival 21.6%, Co-op 14.1%, Open World 9.7%, Crafting 8.1%
- #29 The Fifth Day
81% matchMostly Negative37% of 941 reviews2014
Dev: Touz
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 63%
The Fifth Day is a post-apocalyptic survival game set in the time after mankind's extinction to the machines that it created. Your role, as one of these machines, is to survive in the hostile world left behind by man.
Why similar: Survival 22.4%, Open World Survival Craft 20.9% ★, Open World 15.3%, Post-apocalyptic 12.1%, Robots 6.1%
- #30 Moon Colony Crafter
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: InfinityCoders
Windows
Play as an astronaut on our moon in the future. Your task is to prepare the moon for future colonies by terraforming. Collect resources, explore procedurally generated caves, build buildings and create a second world for you and our earth.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 19.4% ★, Survival 14.6%, Open World 12.4%, Base Building 11%, Co-op 9.4%
- #31 Cataclysm Upon Us
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 7Dev Studios
Windows · Linux
Cataclysm Upon Us is an open world survival RPG. Craft, fight, and build in a world overrun by mutants, zombies and other abominations. Uncover secrets, embrace mutations and cybernetic enhancements. Every decision shapes your journey in this haunting cataclysm. Can you survive the chaos?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 16.9% ★, Survival 14.8%, Open World 13.5%, Crafting 7.8%, Co-op 7.7%
- #32 Shamania
76% 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 18% ★, Survival 15.1%, Open World 15%, Co-op 10.6%, Crafting 10.6%
- #33 Shadow Of The Union: Survival
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: ILIASKA
Windows
Fight back against the rebellious machines in an alternative USSR! Join forces in a team of up to 4 players and survive in a dangerous open world. By day, explore and gather resources. By night, defend your base against waves of combat robots!
Why similar: Survival 14.3%, Open World 13.9%, Co-op 12.5%, Base Building 9.6%, Crafting 9%
- #34 Category 6
75% matchMixed69% of 35 reviews2026
Dev: Crafty Game Lab
Windows
Brace yourself for the ultimate open-world survival craft experience. Welcome to a world shattered by the relentless fury of the most colossal hurricane in history. Explore and gather resources for survival and crafting. Fight off aggressive wildlife and scavengers. Play story mode or survival mode
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 19.5% ★, Survival 14.6%, Open World 12.3%, Post-apocalyptic 9.9%, Crafting 9.7%
- #35 Blightrest
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Zero Hype Games
Windows
Blightrest is a co-op survival action game set in a dark, open world where every decision brings you closer to either salvation or eternal damnation. Master survival, build fortifications, banish demons with ancient rituals, and explore the Wastes where even shadows have eyes.
Why similar: Open World 17.7%, Survival 17.3%, Co-op 13.9%, Base Building 12.5%, Crafting 9.8%
- #36 Gone: Survival
76% 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: Survival 15.1%, Post-apocalyptic 12.3%, Open World 11.7%, Base Building 10%, Co-op 9.8%
- #37 ASTRONEER
74% matchVery Positive92% of 139,497 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 19.6% ★, Survival 15.3%, Open World 14.4%, Co-op 10.3%, Base Building 9.2%
- #38 YUGOPUNK
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sunbox Games
Windows
A post-catastrophe co-op PvE survival game set in a 1980s Yugoslavia-inspired open world. Scavenge, build, farm, and fight with up to 9 friends as a retired mercenary thrust into the chaos left behind by disaster, searching for the truth and trying to figure out what actually happened to this place.
Why similar: Open World 13.5%, Post-apocalyptic 12.1%, Survival 9.4%, Co-op 9.2%, Sandbox 8.3%
- #39 RuneScape: Dragonwilds
71% matchVery Positive81% of 32,495 reviews2026
Dev: Jagex Ltd
Windows
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 20.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
On RuneScape's forgotten continent of Ashenfall, dragons have awoken. Gather, build, skill and craft in this co-operative survival adventure. Only by mastering survival and uncovering ancient secrets can you hope to face the ferocious Dragon Queen.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 18.6% ★, Open World 15.8%, Survival 15.2%, Co-op 12.5%, Crafting 7.8%
- #40 Wildsite
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Vividdi Entertainment
Windows · Linux
Crash-land on a sci-fi planet plagued by toxic plasma storms. Alongside Bob, your sarcastic AI companion, build and shrink your base to move it anywhere. Fight with primitive or plasma weapons in this survival-craft adventure solo or with up to 3 friends in online co-op!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 18.6% ★, Survival 14.4%, Open World 12.9%, Co-op 10.1%, Base Building 9.6%
- #41 Green Hell
73% 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 23.8% ★, Survival 19.2%, Open World 10.8%, Crafting 7.6%, Co-op 7.3%
- #42 Nightingale
72% matchMixed66% of 18,084 reviews2024
Dev: Inflexion Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 24.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Nightingale is an open world survival crafting game, where you’ll adventure across the mysterious and dangerous Fae Realms. As a daring Realmwalker, you’ll defeat monstrous enemies, survive hostile environments, and build elaborate estates in a visually stunning Gaslamp Fantasy world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 19.1% ★, Survival 15%, Open World 13.1%, Co-op 10.8%, Base Building 9.2%
- #43 Reckfell
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: verkme
Windows
Survival is your only goal in Reckfell. The world is unforgiving - its creatures, the environment, and even other survivors will stop at nothing to end you. You must do whatever it takes to stay alive for one more day.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 16% ★, Survival 13.8%, Open World 12.1%, Crafting 9.3%, Base Building 9.2%
- #44 Rust
71% 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: Survival 26.4%, Open World Survival Craft 15.9% ★, Open World 14.9%, Crafting 11.5%, Building 6.4%
- #45 Frozen Echo
71% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Silent Wish Games
Windows
Venture into the endless frozen wastelands alone or with friends. Stay warm, manage and upgrade your camp, hunt, and learning your skills to survive the harsh cold and wolf attacks.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 19% ★, Survival 15.7%, Co-op 13.1%, Open World 12.3%, Crafting 9.7%
- #46 Solace Crafting
70% matchMostly Positive71% of 899 reviews2022
Dev: Big Kitty Games
Windows · Linux
Embark on an adventure set in a fantasy survival RPG. Visit a borderless, open world where you manage resources to construct your base and new types of equipment to support your conquest.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 18.2% ★, Survival 15.1%, Open World 12.4%, Base Building 9.7%, Crafting 9.6%
- #47 SpiritBorn
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Highforge Studios
Windows
An open-world survival crafting RPG set among floating islands. Gather resources, craft powerful tools, unlock spirit abilities to soar between skybound realms and reclaim your lost godhood.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.3% ★, Survival 16.6%, Open World 14.6%, Crafting 9.9%, Base Building 9%
- #48 Project Castaway
68% matchMixed65% of 1,893 reviews2026
Dev: Mardonpol Inc.
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥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 18.2% ★, Survival 13.3%, Co-op 12.5%, Open World 10.8%, Base Building 8.5%
- #49 Novus Inceptio
72% matchMixed52% of 1,304 reviews2015
Dev: McMagic Productions
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Warning: This is an Early Access game! Welcome to an enigmatic world, where a new gaming experience in exploring, building and surviving is waiting just for you. Experience a sandbox world with survival elements, and join us in creating a full version of the game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 19.1% ★, Survival 14.8%, Open World 13.3%, Base Building 9.3%, Crafting 9%
- #50 Arctico
70% matchMostly Positive70% of 2,553 reviews2022
Dev: Claudio Norori
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Explore Arctico with your dog sled, kayak, and up to 3 friends! Build and customize your base camp, gather resources and samples, set up labs, and take good care of your dogs in this peaceful island.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.8% ★, Survival 14.7%, Open World 13.6%, Co-op 13.2%, Base Building 6.4%
- #51 Rerouted
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tooman Pub: Tooman
Windows
Stranded deep in the North, you have just one goal: make it home alive. Solo or with friends, fight the cold, hunt for food, set up camps, watch out for wildlife, and... try not to lose anyone along the way.
Why similar: Survival 25.5%, Co-op 20.8%, Open World 16.2%, Exploration 9.5%, Sandbox 6.3%
- #52 Subsistence
69% 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 26.1% ★, Survival 19.5%, Open World 12.7%, Crafting 10.2%, Base Building 7.5%
- #53 SkyCraft
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: ADIAN
Windows
Skycraft is an open-world survival game for 1-10 players, set in infinite procedurally-generated floating islands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 19.5% ★, Survival 14.9%, Open World 13.5%, Co-op 10%, Base Building 9.5%
- #54 Valheim
64% 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 21.1% ★, Survival 15.8%, Open World 13.4%, Co-op 9.1%, Base Building 8.7%
- #55 Broken World
68% matchMixed61% of 41 reviews2024
Dev: N777
Windows
"Broken World" is an exciting post-apocalyptic low-poly game where players have to survive in a world overrun by zombies and chaos. Build and strengthen your shelters, fight various threats and explore a dangerous world full of secrets and dangers.
Why similar: Survival 17.7%, Open World 15.5%, Post-apocalyptic 11.6%, Base Building 10.5%, Crafting 9.9%
- #56 Force of Nature
69% 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 24.7% ★, Survival 17.8%, Open World 12.2%, Crafting 11.9%, Sandbox 6.8%
- #57 Necesse
65% matchVery Positive93% of 29,166 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 25.3% ★, Survival 12.1%, Open World 12%, Co-op 9.1%, Crafting 7.7%
- #58 Permafrost
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: SpaceRocket GamesPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Permafrost is a story-driven survival sandbox set in a frozen, post-apocalyptic world. Discover a vast lore-rich open world, alone or in co-op with up to 4 players. Explore, scavenge, craft, and build a network of shelters to outlast the cold.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 14.7% ★, Survival 11.7%, Open World 10.2%, Co-op 10%, Post-apocalyptic 9.6%
- #59 Wild
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DzernPub: Dzern and Unverändert
Windows
Wild is a survival game inspired by the "7vsWild" series. The goal is to survive, fight against dangerous animals, and build your shelter. For that, you are only allowed to take one bottle as equipment, so prepare it well in advance.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.7% ★, Survival 22.3%, Base Building 11.5%, Open World 9.9%, Exploration 9.2%