- #1 SCUM
96% 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 33.3% ★, Open World 11%, Survival 10.7%, Crafting 10.1%, Online Co-Op 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a similarly hardcore open-world survival experience with detailed mechanics and a hostile post-apocalyptic setting.
- #2 Subsistence
97% 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 39.2% ★, Survival 11.9%, Crafting 10.9%, Base Building 8.8%, Open World 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: Features deep sandbox survival mechanics, base building, and wildlife threats in an open world.
- #3 7 Days to Die
96% 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 24.1% ★, Survival 11.4%, Base Building 10.5%, Post-apocalyptic 10.3%, Open World 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: Combines zombie survival, base-building, and crafting in a fully destructible voxel world.
- #4 Rust
95% 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 24.7% ★, Survival 16.7%, Crafting 12.6%, Open World 10.4%, Multiplayer 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on brutal multiplayer survival, base building, and resource gathering in an open-world environment.
- #5 Deadside
94% 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 22.6% ★, Base Building 10.6%, Crafting 8.8%, Survival 8.8%, Open World 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on hardcore tactical survival, shooting, and base building within a post-apocalyptic open world.
- #6 Green Hell
94% 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 34.3% ★, Survival 11.2%, Online Co-Op 9.5%, Multiplayer 7.8%, Crafting 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: Tests your survival skills with realistic mechanics and a harsh, unforgiving wilderness setting.
- #7 Sons Of The Forest
93% 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 17.4%, Base Building 17.1%, Open World 15.2%, Co-op 13.9%, Crafting 11.4%
Why You'll Like It: Delivers tense open-world survival-craft gameplay with base-building and eerie atmospheric exploration.
- #8 The Front
92% 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 27.6% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Crafting 9.7%, Survival 8.7%, Sandbox 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: Blends open-world survival crafting with military combat, base defense, and large-scale building.
- #9 SurrounDead
91% matchVery Positive91% of 27,054 reviews2022
Dev: ZurvivorPub: PlaySurrounDead
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 16.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
SurrounDead is an open world survival game. Taking place in a world ravaged by an apocalyptic catastrophe. The dead reign free and will stop at nothing to kill you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.2% ★, Post-apocalyptic 16.3%, Survival 14.9%, Open World 14.1%, Base Building 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: A solo-developed open-world survival game set in a zombie-infested post-apocalyptic landscape.
- #10 No One Survived
91% 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 17.7%, Open World 15.2%, Post-apocalyptic 14.1%, Crafting 12.6%, Multiplayer 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: Features cooperative base-building, looting, and survival against aggressive human and zombie threats.
- #11 DeadPoly
90% 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 21.6% ★, Post-apocalyptic 10.5%, Third-Person Shooter 10.2%, Base Building 8.9%, Online Co-Op 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: A looter-shooter survival game with building, crafting, and zombie-slaying mechanics.
- #12 Sunkenland
89% 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 31.1% ★, Base Building 10.5%, Co-op 9.5%, Survival 9.2%, Crafting 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: An aquatic survival crafting game where you build bases and scavenge in a flooded post-apocalyptic world.
- #13 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
89% 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 25.4% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Survival 8.9%, Online Co-Op 8.9%, Crafting 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: Offers open-world survival crafting from a tiny perspective within a dangerous wilderness.
- #14 State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition
88% matchVery Positive83% of 70,161 reviews2020
Dev: Undead LabsPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 39.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
The dead have risen and civilization has fallen. Now it's up to you to gather survivors, scavenge for resources and build a community in a post-apocalyptic world – a world where you define what it means to survive in this ultimate zombie survival simulation.
Why similar: Base Building 19.6%, Survival 16.6%, Open World 15.3%, Post-apocalyptic 10.1%, Co-op 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: Centers on community survival, base management, and scavenging in a zombie-ridden open world.
- #15 DayZ
86% matchMostly Positive78% of 470,116 reviews2018
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 39.7 hrsMean: 281.7 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 15.9%, Post-apocalyptic 15.6%, Online Co-Op 12.3%, Sandbox 11.4%, Open World 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: The quintessential multiplayer open-world survival game emphasizing harsh realism and player interactions.
- #16 Rem Survival
87% 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 33.9% ★, Base Building 14.3%, Crafting 12.2%, Survival 10.6%, Open World 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: A survival crafting game set in an open world filled with threats and building options.
- #17 ICARUS
86% 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 28% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Survival 10%, Online Co-Op 9.2%, Crafting 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: Pits you against a hostile alien wilderness where survival, crafting, and mission-based exploration are key.
- #18 Miscreated
85% matchMixed66% of 31,592 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 40.8% ★, Survival 13%, Open World 10.3%, Post-apocalyptic 9.5%, Crafting 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer post-apocalyptic survival game set in a ruined, atmospheric open world.
- #19 KeepUp Survival
84% 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 26% ★, Base Building 11.4%, Crafting 9.4%, Survival 8.9%, Open World 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: Features sandbox survival gameplay with building, hunting, and crafting elements.
- #20 ARK: Survival Ascended
82% 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 16.6%, Base Building 15.9%, Open World 15.3%, Crafting 12.8%, Sandbox 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: Combines dinosaur taming and riding with extensive open-world survival crafting and building.
- #21 Grounded
81% 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 27.8% ★, Survival 12.8%, Base Building 12.7%, Co-op 9.4%, Crafting 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: A miniature survival-craft game that brings intense exploration and base-building to a backyard setting.
- #22 V Rising
80% 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 17%, Open World 13.1%, Survival 12.9%, Crafting 11.4%, Online Co-Op 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: Features isometric survival crafting, base building, and dark fantasy exploration.
- #23 Dysterra
82% 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 22.1% ★, Post-apocalyptic 10.5%, Base Building 10.3%, PvE 8.9%, Crafting 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi survival shooter with crafting, base building, and post-apocalyptic mechanics.
- #24 Novus Inceptio
84% 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 29.3% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Crafting 9.8%, Sandbox 9.8%, Survival 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi survival sandbox featuring procedural generation and deep crafting systems.
- #25 Crushed
83% 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 28.4% ★, Base Building 9.1%, Survival 8.7%, Open World 8.6%, Post-apocalyptic 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer open-world survival game focusing on crafting, base building, and exploration.
- #26 The Long Dark
81% matchVery Positive89% of 123,946 reviews2017
Dev: Hinterland Studio Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 47.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 45.8% ★, Survival 15.7%, Open World 10.6%, Crafting 6.5%, Post-apocalyptic 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: A thoughtful, exploration-focused survival game set in a chillingly realistic post-disaster wilderness.
- #27 VEIN
78% 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: Base Building 15.1%, Post-apocalyptic 13.7%, Survival 13.2%, Open World 12.8%, Co-op 9.1%
- #28 TerraTech Worlds
79% 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 28.5% ★, Base Building 14.1%, Crafting 10.4%, Sandbox 10.1%, Co-op 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world planetary survival crafting game focusing on building and resource gathering.
- #29 Wild Omission
79% 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 25.3% ★, Crafting 10.2%, Survival 8.9%, Sandbox 8.6%, Open World 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: An early access open-world survival game emphasizing cooperative crafting and exploration.
- #30 Next Day: Survival
78% matchMixed62% of 10,257 reviews2018
Dev: SOFF GamesPub: Last Level
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 21.6 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Next Day is a multi-player SURVIVAL game with elements of RPG, in an imaginary country in Eastern Europe. Carry out an array of tasks, learn skills, and develop your character. Have shootouts with opponents and earn a reputation.
Why similar: Survival 18.3%, Post-apocalyptic 17.1%, Open World 15.1%, Multiplayer 9.2%, Crafting 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic survival shooter set in a harsh fictional Eastern European region.
- #31 Everwind
75% 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: Online Co-Op 11.5%, Crafting 11.2%, Sandbox 10.5%, Open World 10.1%, Co-op 9.9%
- #32 Solace Crafting
77% 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 24.3% ★, Base Building 10.1%, Crafting 9.2%, Survival 8.2%, Online Co-Op 7.9%
- #33 EverRail
75% matchMostly Positive71% of 411 reviews2026
Dev: Aesir Interactive
Windows
Every passenger is a life. Every death brings the end closer. An open world survival crafting game where you explore, scavenge, and craft to endure on the frozen exomoon Inara. Command and upgrade your ever-moving train, solo or with up to 4 players. Move or freeze.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 19.7% ★, Post-apocalyptic 9.6%, Base Building 9.3%, Procedural Generation 7.8%, Online Co-Op 7.5%
- #34 Whisper of the Swallows
74% matchVery Positive87% of 207 reviews2026
Dev: Blown Leaves
Windows
Brave a savage, unforgiving procedurally generated world where extreme weather and the nightmares of the dark will hunt you down. Alone or in co-op, survive, build, and explore to turn a cursed hellscape into your sanctuary of light.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.8% ★, Base Building 10.2%, Crafting 10%, Sandbox 9.7%, Survival 8.7%
- #35 Taora : Survival
76% matchMixed59% of 421 reviews2024
Dev: Tulpar Games
Windows
Taora is an open world survival game with unique character building and crafting. Build and upgrade your base, and survive the zombie apocalypse !
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.7% ★, Post-apocalyptic 12.2%, Third-Person Shooter 10.7%, Base Building 9.5%, Crafting 9.5%
- #36 Force of Nature
76% 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 36.7% ★, Crafting 12.6%, Survival 10.8%, Sandbox 9%, Open World 8.2%
- #37 Road to Eden
77% matchMixed64% of 408 reviews2019
Dev: Zouking
Windows
Road to Eden is a third-person multiplayer survival coop game, set within the post-apocalyptic ruins of a world destroyed by an alien invasion. You wake up at the side of the road with no memory and must team up with other survivors to make the long and dangerous journey to Eden.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20% ★, Third-Person Shooter 9.2%, Base Building 9.1%, Crafting 9%, Survival 7.9%
- #38 MISERY
71% matchVery Positive84% of 26,185 reviews2025
Dev: Platypus EntertainmentPub: Ytopia
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 83%
MISERY is a 1–10 player co-op survival game set in a nuclear disaster zone. Here, every day is a struggle: search radioactive ruins for resources, build your bunker, craft weapons, and explore a weird, procedurally-generated world with your friends. Beware of anomalies, monsters, and armed bandits.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 19.5% ★, Post-apocalyptic 11.7%, Online Co-Op 9.2%, Base Building 9.1%, Survival 8.5%
- #39 Stars End
73% matchMixed61% of 1,432 reviews2023
Dev: Reverie World StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Stars End is a sci-fi survival sandbox set on the wild frontier of a distant star system. Play solo or host your own server as you craft, build, and battle to survive in a galaxy shaped by danger, discovery, and your own grit.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.8% ★, Co-op 9.9%, Online Co-Op 9.3%, Survival 7.5%, Crafting 7.3%
- #40 Shamania
71% 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 25.7% ★, Crafting 10.7%, Open World 9.7%, Survival 8.8%, Sandbox 8%
- #41 Dawn of Defiance
71% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,856 reviews2024
Dev: Traega EntertainmentPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
You are a fallen Spartan, cast into the realm between the living and the Underworld. In this survival adventure inspired by Greek myth, hunt, craft and build a home worthy of legend with up to 3 friends. Raid the gods' temples, defeat legendary creatures and loot the iconic weapons of the Olympians.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.7% ★, Online Co-Op 11.1%, Base Building 10.8%, Survival 9.3%, Open World 7.1%
- #42 SURVIVAL: Postapocalypse Now
73% 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 42.4% ★, Survival 13.3%, Post-apocalyptic 11.2%, Open World 9.2%, Multiplayer 6.4%
- #43 Frozen Flame
72% matchMixed62% of 2,997 reviews2022
Dev: Dreamside InteractivePub: Ravenage Games
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A challenging exploration and survival adventure, set in the dying world of Dragons. Only those who harness the power of Frozen Flame have the means to survive the harsh conditions of the realm and able to muster the strength to cleanse it for good.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Online Co-Op 9.5%, Sandbox 8.5%, Crafting 8.3%
- #44 Re.poly
73% matchVery Positive91% of 137 reviews2019
Dev: Hinkfoot Studios
Windows
Re.Poly is a relaxed yet deep indie survival game in a low-poly style that blends exploration, combat, building, and adventure. Whether alone or with friends, create your own world, write your own story, and decide how you want to play.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.9% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 11.2%, Sandbox 10.9%, Survival 10%
- #45 GRAV
74% matchMixed47% of 6,922 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 35.8% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Survival 11.1%, Open World 9.9%, Sandbox 9.1%
- #46 Night of the Dead
70% 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 26.3% ★, Base Building 11%, Online Co-Op 9.5%, Crafting 9%, Sandbox 8.6%
- #47 The Last Plague: Blight
69% matchVery Positive88% of 1,514 reviews2024
Dev: Original Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 15.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
The Last Plague: Blight is an authentic survival experience rooted in realism and immersion. Endure the hazards of a brutal open world, uncover the origins of a mysterious disease, and become humanity’s final hope of ending the Blight.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.1% ★, Base Building 14%, Crafting 10.2%, Post-apocalyptic 10%, Sandbox 8.9%
- #48 Planet Explorers
72% matchMixed62% of 6,818 reviews2016
Dev: Pathea Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Planet Explorers is an open world sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.2% ★, Sandbox 14.1%, Open World 11.5%, Crafting 9%, Survival 8.1%
- #49 Planetaries
70% matchMixed58% of 228 reviews2024
Dev: EY-Studio
Windows
Experience a vast Sci-fi open-world survival TD game set on a distant planet deep in the universe. Craft, build, mine, trade, explore, and survive in this alien world. Collect Data and defend against waves of enemies seeking to banish you. Enjoy the adventure in Singleplayer or Multiplayer.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.3% ★, Base Building 10.1%, Online Co-Op 9%, Crafting 8.6%, Open World 7.8%
- #50 HumanitZ
67% 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 18.1% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Post-apocalyptic 10.1%, Survival 9.7%, Open World 8.8%
- #51 Ruins To Fortress
69% 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 28.5% ★, Base Building 10.3%, Crafting 8.7%, Survival 7.9%, Open World 7.2%
- #52 Forever Skies
67% 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 25.4% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Post-apocalyptic 10.6%, Crafting 10%, Co-op 9.4%
- #53 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 29.9% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Post-apocalyptic 11.8%, Sandbox 9.9%, Crafting 9.5%
- #54 Valheim
63% 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 29.4% ★, Online Co-Op 10.3%, Base Building 9.4%, Survival 9%, Open World 8.4%
- #55 Enshrouded
65% 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: Base Building 17%, Open World 15%, Survival 13.2%, Online Co-Op 12.8%, Crafting 11.4%
- #56 Xsyon - Prelude
70% matchMostly Positive73% of 369 reviews2014
Dev: Notorious Games
Windows
Xsyon is a player driven apocalyptic fantasy sandbox MMORPG, set in a living and evolving environment. Players create the world they want to live in as they form tribes, construct towns, shape landscapes, create quests, hunt, farm, gather, build societies and develop a New World.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.4% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Post-apocalyptic 10.5%, Sandbox 9.5%, Crafting 9.1%
- #57 Once Human
64% 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 19.1% ★, Post-apocalyptic 9.1%, Base Building 8.9%, Crafting 7.2%, Open World 7.1%
- #58 Occupy Mars: The Game
65% matchMixed70% of 3,170 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 36.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Survive and colonize Mars alone or in online co-op. Build and upgrade your base, craft equipment, mine resources, produce water, oxygen and food, explore an open world, and repair complex machinery in a technical survival sandbox.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.2% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 9.6%, Online Co-Op 9.5%, Survival 8.2%
- #59 Far Lands
67% matchMixed64% of 173 reviews2024
Dev: Scalpel Softworks
Windows
Far Lands is an open-world survival game. Fight mercenaries, steal their loot and vehicles. Build and defend your base from zombies. Gather resources, craft better gear and loot different points of interest. Want to play with friends? Join them on Co-op!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.2% ★, Base Building 16%, Crafting 13.4%, Survival 11.9%, Open World 9.8%
- #60 Nightingale
66% 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 26.3% ★, Base Building 9.9%, Online Co-Op 9.4%, Crafting 8.5%, Survival 8.4%
