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Survival on a mysterious island, Hunting, fishing, farming, enjoying a free life

Why similar: Dinosaurs 28.4% ★, Fishing 13% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Survival 9.1%, Crafting 6.7%

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: Dinosaurs 36.2% ★, Survival 12.4%, Base Building 11.3%, Crafting 9.1%, Open World 8%

Your planet exploded. Your escape pod crash-landed 65 million years ago. You — and one other survivor — are the first humans on Earth. JURASSIC GENESIS is co-op prehistoric survival where dinosaurs hunt by day, the night is colder than space, and every footprint you leave becomes history.

Why similar: Dinosaurs 41.8% ★, Survival 12.2%, Crafting 11.1%, Open World 9.8%, Building 6.7%

You crash on an alien planet. Hostile creatures hunt you. Search the wreckage, gather resources, build a base, and defend it against waves of predator attacks.

Why similar: Dinosaurs 45.1% ★, Base Building 14.6%, Survival 14%, Crafting 12.8%, Building 7.8%

Survive the past. Tame the future. Suddenly awakened on a primal world filled with dinosaurs and humans struggling for dominance, you must team-up with legendary heroes to confront powerful dark forces. Saddle up, and join the definitive next-gen survival experience with ARK 2!

Why similar: Dinosaurs 38.3% ★, Survival 12.6%, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 11.3%, Open World 7.8%

The only aim is to survive. Everything wants you to die - dinosaurs, the environment and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to stay alive.

Why similar: Dinosaurs 35.6% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Crafting 12.5%, Survival 11.9%, Building 8.7%

What if the dinosaurs never went extinct and they learned to survive in new ways? Grow from a vulnerable hatchling into a fully armored predator in a hostile open world where hunger, weather, and other dinosaurs can end your run permanently. Hunt, adapt, and endure or die and start again.

Why similar: Dinosaurs 39.3% ★, Crafting 11.8%, Survival 11.6%, Building 8.1%, Inventory Management 8.1%

Enter a world of mystery, danger, ancient dinosaurs, mythical beasts, and cubes! Work by yourself or with a tribe of others to gather materials, craft useful items, tame wild creatures, and build huge bases to survive in PixARK!

Why similar: Dinosaurs 38.5% ★, Survival 15%, Open World 8.9%, Crafting 7.8%, Sandbox 7.3%

Open World Prehistoric Horror Survival set on a mysterious island inhabited by dinosaurs and tribal humans. Survival is a test of resilience and adaptability. Players must carve their path in this challenging world, competing for territory, resources and ultimately, their own survival.

Why similar: Dinosaurs 47.5% ★, Survival 12.1%, Base Building 11.1%, Crafting 9.7%, Building 6.9%

A tense top-down survival shooter where dinosaurs overrun abandoned towns and forests. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and make hard decisions while deadly predators hunt you through familiar human spaces.

Why similar: Dinosaurs 50.1% ★, Survival 15.3%, Inventory Management 10.8%, Crafting 10.6%, Open World 8%

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: Dinosaurs 38.8% ★, Survival 14%, Crafting 10%, Base Building 9.5%, Open World 7.8%

Build your base, gather resources, craft items, and develop your station. Catch dinosaurs and assign them to work! Complete quests and help the local residents. Play solo or with friends.

Why similar: Dinosaurs 39.6% ★, Base Building 14.6%, Crafting 9.3%, Building 8.2%, Life Sim 8.2%

Avatar Quest Online is a sandbox MMO where avatar life, crafting, casual FPS combat and NPC life run at once. Build with unlimited blocks, decorate with nearly 100 furniture pieces, level up battling dinosaurs and dragons, and chat by voice and text. Updated daily in Early Access.

Why similar: Dinosaurs 32% ★, Animals 16.2% ★, Crafting 12.9%, Base Building 10.2%, Mining 8.7% ★

This is a casual island survival game.

Why similar: Fishing 24.4% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Inventory Management 12.2%, Survival 11.3%, Mining 10.2% ★

ARK: The Survival of the Fittest is a prototype spin-off of ARK: Survival Evolved, pitting up to 60 combatants against each other in a fast-paced, action-packed struggle for survival, where players are ultimately pushed into an epic final showdown leading their Dinosaur Armies into battle.

Why similar: Dinosaurs 55.7% ★, Survival 18.3%, Open World 8.2%, Crafting 7.5%, Multiplayer 5.2%

Become a caveman, survive by building, fishing, and hunting.

Why similar: Fishing 20.6% ★, Base Building 14%, Crafting 11.1%, Survival 10.6%, Inventory Management 10.2%

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: Base Building 16%, Survival 15.2%, Crafting 12.5%, Open World 10.2%, Survival Horror 9.9%

Experience fierce open world survival gameplay as you attempt to stay alive on an unforgiving island inhabited by dinosaurs! Hunt. Grow. Survive.

Why similar: Dinosaurs 65.7% ★, Survival 14.2%, Open World 8.9%, Multiplayer 4.9%, Sandbox 3%

Saurian is a survival-simulation experience about living the life of a dinosaur. Starting from the egg, you must survive to adulthood amidst the perilous Hell Creek ecosystem of 66 million years ago, meticulously reconstructed with the help of professional paleontologists.

Why similar: Dinosaurs 70.8% ★, Survival 16.8%, Open World 9.6%, Multiplayer 2.1%, Singleplayer 0.8%

Can you survive in a world with Zombies and Dinosaurs? Craft. Build. Survive. Create your own adventure!

Why similar: Dinosaurs 34.7% ★, Base Building 14.3%, Crafting 11.2%, Building 8.1%, Survival Horror 8%

Build your own Jurassic World. Nurture generations of dinosaurs with the series debut of juveniles, create and manage sprawling prehistoric parks around the globe, and let your imagination roar with powerful new creative options.

Why similar: Dinosaurs 59.4% ★, Sandbox 9%, Base Building 9%, Survival 7.2%, Resource Management 5.8%

Jurassic World Evolution 2 is the much-anticipated sequel to Frontier’s highly successful Jurassic World Evolution. This bold new era in the Jurassic World Evolution game franchise builds upon the ground-breaking and immersive 2018 management simulation.

Why similar: Dinosaurs 59.9% ★, Building 12.5%, Sandbox 9.2%, Open World 4.9%, Resource Management 4.1%

Oxygen Train is an open-world survival train game. Wake up in a world lacking oxygen. Chop trees, mine, gather resources, upgrade your unique train. Survive by planting, fishing, farming, exploring, fighting. Build your train kingdom. Supports 1-8 online co-op.

Why similar: Fishing 21.7% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Survival 11.2%, Cooking 9.3%, Building 8.8%

Exciting and thrilling dinosaur-extension for the Wildlife Park univers with 11 different dinosaurs in 9 new missions.

Why similar: Dinosaurs 69.2% ★, Animals 18.1% ★, Building 6.4%, Open World 3.7%, Resource Management 2.6%

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 19.5%, Base Building 18.2%, Crafting 12.2%, Open World 11.9%, Survival Horror 10.2%

Play as a dinosaur and become part of a player-created ecosystem! Beasts of Bermuda is a multiplayer game where players endure catastrophic storms and fearsome foes while growing to monstrous sizes. Do you have what it takes to survive in the Bermuda Triangle?

Why similar: Dinosaurs 68% ★, Survival 15.5%, Open World 7.5%, Sandbox 4.4%, Multiplayer 4.3%

After a shipwreck, you are one of the survivors. To Survive you will need to fight for your life.

Why similar: Base Building 22.4%, Crafting 17.1%, Survival 16.7%, Building 11.7%, Open World 11.3%

Mesozoic Dawn is a multiplayer online dinosaur survival game. Starting as a vulnerable juvenile dinosaur, you must navigate the perils of the prehistoric wilderness, utilizing the core "Growth + Nesting = Evolution" system to achieve leapfrog species iteration and evolution.

Why similar: Dinosaurs 60.5% ★, Survival 14.7%, Sandbox 8.8%, Open World 8.6%, Multiplayer 3.5%

Explore a procedurally generated planet filled with resources to harvest - or discover structures containing potentially rare items. Build your base to protect yourself and fight off evil, collecting materials to build new gear. Build a rocket and explore new planets!

Why similar: Fishing 22.7% ★, Base Building 15.1%, Crafting 14.3%, Inventory Management 13.7%, Open World 9.6%

Project DINOZ is a found-footage dinosaur horror experience set on an island where UCBC secretly revived and experimented on prehistoric life. Survive as the last witness, relive the terrifying Incident Logs, or lead Delta Team into a blacked-out nightmare to uncover what happened.

Why similar: Dinosaurs 54.5% ★, Inventory Management 12.9%, Survival 12.3%, Survival Horror 11.4%, Open World 7.7%

Base building simulator 1500 years in the future. Journey to the Island of Enen to forage, craft, build, hunt, meditate, and explore across three vast biomes. Discover secrets and create the retreat of your dreams. With over 160 unique items to gather, craft, and build, every home will be unique.

Why similar: Fishing 28.2% ★, Base Building 16.2%, Survival 12.9%, Crafting 11.4%, Sandbox 8.8%

Cooperative survival and horror genre. You and your family have returned to your native land, on which a terrible curse and darkness has fallen. Will you be able to survive in a harsh and dangerous environment and stop the evil? It depends only on you, on your skills and ability to help each other.

Why similar: Base Building 17.1%, Survival 16.4%, Crafting 13%, Open World 11.4%, Survival Horror 10.8%

Survival is only the beginning... Welcome to Prehistoria, an immersive simulation of prehistoric life. Create your dinosaur, explore an ancient island lost in time, grow strong and form packs, and raise your babies to carry on your lineage in a never ending circle of life.

Why similar: Dinosaurs 60.4% ★, Survival 13.6%, Open World 9.1%, Life Sim 7.6%, Sandbox 7.1%

Wandering is a pixel-style sandbox action-adventure where you play as a drifting desert island adventurer trying to survive on a pristine desert island. You can explore unknown islands on a raft and get unique resources and treasures. Conquer powerful enemies and acquire rare equipment.

Why similar: Fishing 23% ★, Base Building 17%, Survival 14.3%, Mining 11.2% ★, Sandbox 10.3%

Find yourself stranded on a mysterious, uncharted island after a devastating plane crash. With no signs of rescue, your only goal is to survive

Why similar: Base Building 20.4%, Survival 15.6%, Inventory Management 15%, Crafting 14.6%, Survival Horror 10.4%

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: Base Building 18.9%, Survival 15.3%, Crafting 14.5%, Open World 10.7%, Survival Horror 10.3%

Get ready for a pirate-themed open world survival game with modular base building, sunken island scavenging, crafting, exploring and getting treasures. Ready for the treasure hunter adventure?

Why similar: Fishing 26.4% ★, Base Building 16.3%, Crafting 11.2%, Cooking 10.5%, Building 8.7%

Mine, craft, and explore deeper underground. Forge powerful gear, conquer 10 dungeons, and reclaim Lumia from the darkness in this 2D mining sandbox RPG.

Why similar: Fishing 19.5% ★, Base Building 19.3%, Crafting 17.4%, Sandbox 11.5%, Survival 9.8%

A savage online shooter, where players do battle as man or beast in class-based deathmatches and a frantic escape mode. Unleash your inner dinosaur!

Why similar: Dinosaurs 83.9% ★, Multiplayer 5.3%, Survival 4.6%, Open World 3.8%, Co-op 2.3%

Place yourself at the heart of the Jurassic franchise and build your own Jurassic World. Bioengineer dinosaurs that think, feel and react intelligently to the world around them and face threats posed by espionage, breakouts and devastating tropical storms in an uncertain world where life always finds a way.

Why similar: Dinosaurs 65.9% ★, Building 14.7%, Sandbox 8.1%, Resource Management 3.3%, Open World 3.2%

In ARK Park, engage in close encounters with primal species through a series of theme park attractions. Enter by yourself or with a group of adventurous friends, and witness dinosaurs roaming in the wild with your own eyes!

Why similar: Dinosaurs 79.4% ★, Survival 10.4%, Open World 6.8%, Multiplayer 2.9%, Singleplayer 0.6%

Stranded on a small island, you must gather, build, and automate to survive and turn a humble camp into a thriving, self-sustaining base.

Why similar: Survival 19.3%, Crafting 17%, Inventory Management 13.6%, Base Building 12.7%, Resource Management 9.4%

An asteroid is hurtling toward the planet! Sneak, scavenge and blast your way through an immersive prehistoric world filled with Humans, Dinosaurs, Droids and Mother Nature’s fury!

Why similar: Dinosaurs 89.2% ★, Survival 10.8%

Sunny Shores is software for casual and retired gamers who have prematurely reached unc-status in their careers. It features cozy lo-fi fishing mechanics, block-building and an open-world sandbox. Play with friends or play with yourself.

Why similar: Fishing 17.4% ★, Survival 15.3%, Base Building 14.9%, Crafting 14.8%, Building 12.7%

Alone. Hungry. Freezing. Test your grit in this unforgiving, Bushcraft Survival simulator set deep in the icy forests of Northern Canada. Collect resources, build shelters, hunt, fish, track, and trap in a brutal open world where every decision counts - and any mistake could be your last.

Why similar: Fishing 24.7% ★, Base Building 15.7%, Survival 11.6%, Crafting 10.3%, Cooking 9.3%

Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!

Why similar: Crafting 17.2%, Survival 16%, Building 15.5%, Base Building 14.9%, Sandbox 11.5%

Guardians of Orion is a Sci-Fi Action RPG Looter Shooter with Dinosaurs and Robots. Complete Mission Objectives all over the Galaxy with your friends to earn new Gear & Rewards!

Why similar: Dinosaurs 64.9% ★, Survival 9.4%, Co-op 7.9%, Multiplayer 6.4%, Crafting 5%

Valhalla Path casts you as a Viking warrior stranded in a hostile land. Build a village, defend against the fallen warriors, lead your people to glory and secure your place in Valhalla's legends.

Why similar: Base Building 22.5%, Survival 21.4%, Crafting 21.1%, Inventory Management 13.8%, Open World 10.7%

The Archotek Project focuses on a multiplayer experience, giving you the chance to play with your friends or with new people on dedicated servers. Play as the dinosaur as you explore vibrant and exotic locations within the game, taking control of unique species from the fossil record.

Why similar: Dinosaurs 84% ★, Survival 7.5%, Multiplayer 5.1%, Open World 3.5%

Following the epic storylines of Jurassic Park, The Lost World: Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park III, as well as the highly anticipated Jurassic World, LEGO Jurassic World™ is the first videogame where players will be able to relive and experience all four Jurassic films.

Why similar: Dinosaurs 70.8% ★, Open World 11.4%, Co-op 8.2%, Multiplayer 6.7%, Building 2.1%

Explore the ocean in your sailboat as a curious little dinosaur. Discover charming islands and meet friendly pals along the way. But beware! There may be something trying to tempt you off your path.

Why similar: Dinosaurs 69.5% ★, Inventory Management 13.4%, Crafting 10.8%, Survival 5.9%, Singleplayer 0.4%

Explore an open, procedurally-generated world, loot caves, chests and fight monsters to craft better gear. Can you take on the toughest bosses to unlock new abilties and become increasingly overpowered?

Why similar: Survival 19.6%, Crafting 16.2%, Base Building 13.3%, Mining 13% ★, Open World 12.5%

Yondel is an open-world PvE survival crafting game. Gather resources, manage hunger and health, craft tools and equipment, build your base, fight hostile creatures, and descend through dangerous underground floors in an infinite procedurally generated world.

Why similar: Base Building 15.6%, Crafting 14.3%, Survival 13.1%, Inventory Management 12.9%, Building 10%

Explore and survive in this shattered world. Build, defend, and repair your raft. Search for secrets and uncover information about what happened - and most importantly, don't drown!

Why similar: Survival 23.5%, Crafting 21.7%, Base Building 17.8%, Sandbox 14.4%, Inventory Management 11.8%

Everpixel Valley is what happens when you combine farming sim, ARPG, dinosaurs, and wiener dogs. Turn your dusty plot of land into a fantastical, bustling, farm. But be careful - you'll have to defend your hard work from hordes of pixelated foes.

Why similar: Dinosaurs 50.2% ★, Base Building 19.8%, Crafting 16.6%, Sandbox 10.6%, RPG 2.6%

Escape to a relaxing, survival sandbox surrounded by wildlife and nature. Scavenge materials and craft tools to turn your base into a warm, well-supplied home. Survive by fishing, hunting, cooking, and growing your own food.

Why similar: Base Building 21.7%, Crafting 18.2%, Survival 17.8%, Building 12.1%, Life Sim 11%

Grow a dinosaur from hatchling to full-grown adult, then take it anywhere — solo or into 150-player servers, with everything you've earned carried over. 67+ playable species, from land to sea to sky.

Why similar: Dinosaurs 51.2% ★, Survival 13.5%, Life Sim 11.2%, Open World 8.9%, Sandbox 7.6%