- #1 Rust
97% matchVery Positive87% of 1,344,289 reviews2018
Dev: Facepunch Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 52.0 hrsMean: 416.6 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% ★, Survival 16.6%, Crafting 12.9%, Open World 10.1%, Multiplayer 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: The definitive multiplayer survival experience featuring intense base building, raiding, and a harsh post-apocalyptic open world.
- #2 Deadside
96% matchMostly Positive76% of 40,013 reviews2024
Dev: Bad Pixel
Windows
Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 44.2 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 24.6% ★, Post-apocalyptic 12.3%, Survival 9.8%, Third-Person Shooter 8.1%, Open World 8%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore multiplayer survival shooter that captures the gritty, post-apocalyptic atmosphere of a lawless wasteland.
- #3 7 Days to Die
95% matchVery Positive87% of 396,805 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 16.8 hrsMean: 107.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 23.4% ★, Survival 11.2%, Base Building 10.6%, Post-apocalyptic 10.2%, Online Co-Op 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: Combines procedural generation with deep base-building mechanics and a relentless post-apocalyptic survival loop.
- #4 Miscreated
96% matchMixed66% of 31,585 reviews2018
Dev: Entrada Interactive LLC
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 38.3 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 40.1% ★, Survival 13%, Open World 10.1%, Post-apocalyptic 9.5%, Crafting 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic survival game that focuses on scavenging and player interaction within a dangerous, irradiated open world.
- #5 Once Human
94% matchMostly Positive77% of 167,251 reviews2024
Dev: Starry Studio
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 50.2 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Once Human is a multiplayer open-world 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 23.9% ★, Post-apocalyptic 11.6%, Base Building 11.5%, Online Co-Op 9.3%, Co-op 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer survival game set in a strange, post-apocalyptic world that emphasizes base construction and faction-based exploration.
- #6 Valheim
94% matchVery Positive94% of 529,829 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 25.6 hrsMean: 76.1 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 28.4% ★, Online Co-Op 10.7%, Base Building 9.5%, Survival 8.9%, Open World 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a highly rewarding procedural survival experience with a strong focus on base building and cooperative exploration.
- #7 No One Survived
93% matchMixed65% of 7,577 reviews2025
Dev: Cat Play Studio
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 22.9 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 17.1%, Open World 14.5%, Post-apocalyptic 13.9%, Crafting 12.6%, Multiplayer 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game that emphasizes base defense and resource management against hordes in a post-apocalyptic setting.
- #8 SCUM
92% matchMostly Positive74% of 122,922 reviews2025
Dev: Gamepires
Windows
Median: 11.9 hrsMean: 102.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Traverse punishing environments, looting, crafting and evading the constant threats to your life. The unprecedented levels of character customization and progression are your ultimate tools for survival.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.5% ★, Open World 10.7%, Survival 10.7%, Crafting 10.4%, Online Co-Op 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: Provides an incredibly detailed survival simulation set in a post-apocalyptic environment with complex crafting and base-building systems.
- #9 Subsistence
91% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,601 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 40.0 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 38.3% ★, Survival 11.9%, Crafting 11.2%, Base Building 9.1%, Open World 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A challenging survival game that focuses on base building and defending against AI and player threats in an open world.
- #10 Soulmask
90% matchVery Positive81% of 17,627 reviews2024
Dev: CampFire StudioPub: Qooland Games
Windows
Median: 13.7 hrsMean: 66.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Choose your path across a primeval continent shaped by the Mask's power. From lush rainforests to scorched sands, recruit and lead unique tribesmen, build automated production lines, and construct everything from local bases to colossal airships, uncover the secrets of the Mask
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.3% ★, Base Building 13%, Sandbox 11%, Crafting 10.8%, Open World 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: Features deep survival mechanics and base building with a unique focus on recruiting and managing a tribe in a hostile open world.
- #11 Volcanoids
91% matchVery Positive83% of 9,214 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.6% ★, Base Building 10%, Online Co-Op 9.6%, Crafting 9.4%, Survival 8%
Why You'll Like It: Features a unique take on base building where your base is a mobile drill ship that you must upgrade to survive a volcanic wasteland.
- #12 ICARUS
89% matchMostly Positive74% of 62,078 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 44.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 27.1% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Survival 9.8%, Online Co-Op 9.6%, Crafting 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: A session-based survival game that utilizes procedural generation and intense crafting requirements to challenge players.
- #13 Conan Exiles
89% matchMostly Positive79% of 111,441 reviews2018
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 16.9 hrsMean: 111.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
An online multiplayer survival game, now with sorcery, set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian. Survive in a vast open world sandbox, build your home into a kingdom, and dominate your enemies in single or multiplayer.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.6% ★, Survival 14.2%, Open World 12.1%, Crafting 10.6%, Sandbox 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a brutal open-world survival experience with extensive base building and territorial control mechanics.
- #14 ARK: Survival Ascended
88% matchMixed60% of 100,735 reviews2023
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows
Median: 28.6 hrsMean: 195.6 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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: Base Building 16.2%, Survival 16%, Open World 14.5%, Crafting 12.8%, Sandbox 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: A massive multiplayer survival game where base building and environmental mastery are essential for survival.
- #15 DeadPoly
87% matchMostly Positive77% of 5,800 reviews2022
Dev: TFL Games
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 63%
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 20.8% ★, Post-apocalyptic 10.3%, Third-Person Shooter 10.1%, Base Building 9%, Online Co-Op 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A low-poly survival game that captures the core loop of scavenging and base building in a multiplayer environment.
- #16 VEIN
85% matchVery Positive90% of 9,542 reviews2025
Dev: Ramjet Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 14.9%, Post-apocalyptic 13.5%, Survival 12.5%, Open World 11.8%, Co-op 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game that emphasizes realistic base building and scavenging in a post-apocalyptic world.
- #17 DayZ
86% matchMostly Positive78% of 456,703 reviews2018
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 39.6 hrsMean: 272.0 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 15.5%, Post-apocalyptic 15.3%, Online Co-Op 12.8%, Sandbox 11.5%, Open World 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: The quintessential post-apocalyptic survival game where every encounter with other players is a high-stakes decision.
- #18 Rem Survival
86% matchMostly Positive76% of 802 reviews2021
Dev: Immortal Hand Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 47.3 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 33.2% ★, Base Building 14.6%, Crafting 12.5%, Survival 10.6%, Open World 10%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the fundamentals of survival and crafting within a persistent open-world environment.
- #19 V Rising
82% matchVery Positive89% of 132,034 reviews2024
Dev: Stunlock Studios
Windows
Median: 21.0 hrsMean: 57.1 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 16.2%, Survival 12.2%, Open World 12.1%, Crafting 11.3%, Online Co-Op 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: Combines survival and base building with a top-down perspective, focusing on progression and territorial dominance.
- #20 Dysterra
84% matchMixed56% of 755 reviews2025
Dev: Reality MagiQ
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 67%
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 21.3% ★, Base Building 10.4%, Post-apocalyptic 10.3%, PvE 9.2%, Crafting 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi survival game that features base building and territory control in a harsh, post-apocalyptic setting.
- #21 GRAV
84% matchMixed47% of 6,921 reviews2015
Dev: BitMonster, Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 11.5 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 35.1% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Survival 11.1%, Open World 9.7%, Sandbox 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that allows for large-scale base building and exploration across diverse alien landscapes.
- #22 Wild Omission
82% matchVery Positive88% of 59 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 24.5% ★, Crafting 10.3%, Survival 8.8%, Sandbox 8.7%, Base Building 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer survival game that focuses on the core loop of gathering resources and building defenses.
- #23 Unturned
81% matchVery Positive91% of 561,138 reviews2017
Dev: Smartly Dressed Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 71.6 hrs≥1hr: 76%
You're a survivor in the zombie infested ruins of society, and must work with your friends and forge alliances to remain among the living.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 18.4%, Crafting 14.7%, Sandbox 14.1%, Survival 13.4%, Co-op 12.8%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer survival game that offers extensive base building and scavenging in a post-apocalyptic sandbox.
- #24 Crushed
83% matchMixed55% of 307 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 27.8% ★, Base Building 9.3%, Survival 8.7%, Post-apocalyptic 8.5%, Open World 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game that emphasizes exploration and crafting in a vast, open-world environment.
- #25 The Forest
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 665,921 reviews2018
Dev: Endnight Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 37.0 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 50.1% ★, Survival 16.1%, Open World 11.8%, Crafting 10.5%, Sandbox 5.2%
Why You'll Like It: A tense survival game that emphasizes base building and exploration while fighting off threats in a hostile environment.
- #26 Green Hell
80% matchVery Positive85% of 94,379 reviews2019
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 18.7 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 33.7% ★, Survival 11.1%, Online Co-Op 9.9%, Crafting 7.9%, Multiplayer 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore survival game that demands mastery of crafting and environmental awareness to stay alive.
- #27 MISERY
78% matchVery Positive85% of 17,893 reviews2025
Dev: Platypus EntertainmentPub: Ytopia
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
MISERY is a 1–5 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% ★, Post-apocalyptic 11.1%, Online Co-Op 9.6%, Base Building 9.2%, Survival 7.8%
- #28 Planetaries
79% matchMixed59% of 222 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 23.6% ★, Base Building 10.3%, Online Co-Op 9.4%, Crafting 8.7%, Survival 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer survival game that focuses on exploration and crafting within a procedural world.
- #29 Project Zomboid
79% matchVery Positive94% of 440,877 reviews2013
Dev: The Indie Stone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 14.8 hrsMean: 82.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 28.3% ★, Survival 15.6%, Open World 10.8%, Post-apocalyptic 10.3%, Sandbox 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: The ultimate sandbox survival game that provides unparalleled depth in base building and post-apocalyptic resource management.
- #30 Dune: Awakening
77% matchMostly Positive70% of 74,372 reviews2025
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 47.7 hrsMean: 95.2 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival RPG where you can fully immerse yourself in the epic world of Dune. Alone or with friends, explore a vast open world Arrakis, survive the sandworms, build a home, craft an ornithopter, and unravel the mystery of the missing Fremen.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.2% ★, Base Building 10.7%, Online Co-Op 8.6%, Crafting 8.3%, Sandbox 8%
- #31 KeepUp Survival
78% matchMixed65% of 734 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
KeepUp Survival is an open base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and unfold your own story on a mysterious island.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.4% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Crafting 9.5%, Co-op 8.7%, Survival 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game that focuses on base building and resource gathering in a post-apocalyptic open world.
- #32 Whisper of the Swallows
76% matchVery Positive87% of 144 reviews2026
Dev: Blown Leaves
Windows
Brave a savage and unforgiving procedurally-generated world where extreme weather and the nightmares of the dark are your greatest enemies. Alone or in co-op, survive, build, and explore to transform a cursed hellscape into your sanctuary of light.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27% ★, Base Building 10.2%, Crafting 10.1%, Sandbox 9.9%, Online Co-Op 9%
- #33 HumanitZ
75% matchMostly Positive75% of 11,640 reviews2026
Dev: Yodubzz StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 14.2 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 17.5% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Post-apocalyptic 10.1%, Survival 9.1%, Crafting 9.1%
- #34 XERA: Survival
77% matchMixed66% of 7,888 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 24.1% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Post-apocalyptic 9.6%, Crafting 8.8%, Survival 7.8%
- #35 Necesse
73% matchVery Positive93% of 26,780 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 35.4% ★, Sandbox 8.7%, Crafting 8.1%, Base Building 7.7%, Open World 7.7%
- #36 SurrounDead
74% matchVery Positive92% of 23,544 reviews2022
Dev: ZurvivorPub: PlaySurrounDead
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 15.2 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 19.3% ★, Post-apocalyptic 16.7%, Survival 14.7%, Open World 13.6%, Base Building 9.9%
- #37 Savage Lands
76% matchMixed55% of 6,679 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 35.2% ★, Survival 10.4%, Online Co-Op 9.7%, Crafting 8.6%, Open World 8.5%
- #38 Last Oasis
75% matchMixed62% of 24,198 reviews2020
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 17.9 hrsMean: 121.0 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 18%, Open World 15.7%, Crafting 13.7%, Sandbox 11.2%, PvP 9.2%
- #39 Hurtworld
74% matchMostly Positive76% of 31,099 reviews2019
Dev: Bankroll Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 63.2 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 32.9% ★, Survival 15.8%, Crafting 11.9%, Open World 11.5%, Multiplayer 8.2%
- #40 Survive the Nights
72% matchMixed66% of 6,335 reviews2025
Dev: a2z Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Hardcore open-world survival where preparation is everything. Scavenge, craft, fortify during the day. When night falls, the infected hunt in numbers. Play solo or with friends in a brutal post-apocalyptic sandbox where survival is earned through smart decisions. How many Nights will you survive?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.2% ★, Post-apocalyptic 15.4%, Sandbox 11.8%, Online Co-Op 11.1%, Survival 10.1%
- #41 Urge
73% matchVery Positive90% of 476 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 29.4% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Post-apocalyptic 11.7%, Sandbox 10.1%, Crafting 9.7%
- #42 Shamania
71% matchMostly Positive78% of 140 reviews2025
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 25.1% ★, Crafting 10.9%, Open World 9.4%, Survival 8.6%, Sandbox 8.1%
- #43 Next Day: Survival
73% 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 18.1%, Post-apocalyptic 16.9%, Open World 14.7%, Multiplayer 9.4%, Crafting 9.1%
- #44 The Front
69% matchMixed68% of 10,753 reviews2025
Dev: Samar Studio
Windows
Median: 10.6 hrsMean: 44.3 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 26.7% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 9.9%, Survival 8.6%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #45 StarRupture
68% matchVery Positive81% of 10,861 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 24.1% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 8.8%, Co-op 8.2%, Sandbox 8.2%
- #46 Far Lands
71% matchMixed66% of 166 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 28.4% ★, Base Building 16.3%, Crafting 13.7%, Survival 11.8%, Open World 9.6%
- #47 Will To Live Online
72% matchMixed69% of 18,150 reviews2018
Dev: AlphaSoft LLC
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 35.0 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 27.2% ★, Survival 19%, Post-apocalyptic 18.9%, Open World 13.4%, Multiplayer 10.2%
- #48 Ruins To Fortress
71% matchMixed62% of 164 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 27.7% ★, Base Building 10.5%, Crafting 8.8%, Survival 7.8%, Open World 7%
- #49 Sunkenland
69% matchVery Positive81% of 22,996 reviews2023
Dev: Vector3 Studio
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 17.9 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 30.4% ★, Base Building 10.7%, Co-op 9.7%, Survival 9.2%, Crafting 7.8%
- #50 Taora : Survival
70% matchMixed63% of 395 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 22.2% ★, Post-apocalyptic 12.1%, Third-Person Shooter 10.5%, Base Building 9.7%, Crafting 9.7%
- #51 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
69% matchVery Positive82% of 9,646 reviews2024
Dev: Merge GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 15.1 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 24.7% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Online Co-Op 9.3%, Crafting 8.7%, Survival 8.6%
- #52 Enshrouded
67% matchVery Positive86% of 98,202 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.3 hrsMean: 44.1 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 14.2%, Online Co-Op 13.3%, Survival 12.8%, Crafting 11.6%
- #53 Survival Machine
68% matchMostly Positive74% of 669 reviews2025
Dev: Grape PickersPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Build your base on a moving Machine, travel through biomes with different resources, and prepare for the night when a zombie threat is much higher than during the day. Would you go solo or explore this new world with your best friends?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.5% ★, Base Building 12%, Online Co-Op 10.2%, Crafting 9.6%, Co-op 8.4%
- #54 Palworld
64% matchVery Positive94% of 417,805 reviews2024
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 34.2 hrsMean: 70.0 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 24.6% ★, Open World 10.2%, Survival 9.2%, Online Co-Op 7.8%, Crafting 7.5%
- #55 ENDALOR
66% matchMixed68% of 79 reviews2026
Dev: Diorite Games
Windows
An immersive medieval dark fantasy survival game with RPG elements for 1-4 players. Set in a hand crafted open world. Explore, survive, build, craft, fight and conquer your way through the dark, brutal and mysterious lands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.6% ★, Online Co-Op 10.3%, Base Building 10%, Survival 8.4%, Open World 8.1%
- #56 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 41.5% ★, Survival 12.4%, Open World 8.6%, Crafting 7.7%, Sandbox 7.1%
- #57 Saleblazers
65% matchVery Positive88% of 1,877 reviews2023
Dev: AIRSTRAFE INTERACTIVE
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.5 hrsMean: 19.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Fight. Sell. Survive. Live off the land, build your perfect shop, and defend against nightly horrors in this open world survival shop simulator for 1-8 players.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.6% ★, Base Building 15%, Online Co-Op 12.5%, Crafting 12%, Open World 10%
- #58 Frozen Flame
67% matchMixed63% of 2,965 reviews2022
Dev: Dreamside InteractivePub: Ravenage Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 11.6 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 24.3% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Online Co-Op 10%, Sandbox 8.6%, Crafting 8.4%
- #59 Polygeddon
67% matchMixed42% of 64 reviews2025
Dev: Digital Dreamworks
Windows
You are on an island where everyone wants to kill you, ranging from weather conditions to dangerous enemies, your goal is to survive. Survive alone or together. Build, craft, grow, explore, fight!
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 16.3%, Sandbox 10.4%, Crafting 10.3%, Survival 10.2%, Open World 10%
- #60 SURVIVAL: Postapocalypse Now
68% matchMixed56% of 8,877 reviews2019
Dev: TB Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 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 41.8% ★, Survival 13.3%, Post-apocalyptic 11.2%, Open World 9%, Multiplayer 6.7%
