60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Survival, Open World, Base Building, Exploration.
In the great outdoors, climate change, aggressive animals, hunger, and thirst all pose challenges to survival. Your mission is to acquire key assets on the island and return safely. Gather resources from the wild, process them, and evolve to become even more advanced.
The Joy of Mining
Mine, loot, craft, build, fight, and explore the open world in this Minecraft/Terraria-inspired game. It includes quests from NPCs, farming and fishing, as well as a variety of arcade games to play in-game.
Veil of the Volcano
Create a tribe to survive the natural disasters of the island. Prepare your community for the day the volcano blows. You'll need to survive until the Spring when life returns.
Mine, loot, craft, build, fight, and explore the open world in this Minecraft/Terraria-inspired game. It includes quests from NPCs, farming and fishing, as well as a variety of arcade games to play in-game.
Why similar: Survival 20.8%, Nature 11.9%, Exploration 11.8%, PvE 11.6%, Crafting 10.3%
Create a tribe to survive the natural disasters of the island. Prepare your community for the day the volcano blows. You'll need to survive until the Spring when life returns.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.1%, Life Sim 14.8%, Survival 13%, Base Building 8.3%, Action-Adventure 7.5%
Breadoria is a survival colony sim where tiny Breads gather, build, craft, and defend their home from hungry invaders. Take control of any Bread, or automate your colony as you plan its next expansion.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.5%, Survival 18.1%, Base Building 13.6%, PvE 8.5%, Crafting 7.2%
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: Survival 21.1%, Nature 18%, Life Sim 13.9%, Base Building 13.1%, Crafting 8.2%
Build systems, sustain life, and transform a barren moon into a living world. In this 2D survival-crafting RPG, preparation and infrastructure matter more than reflexes... because when the winter eclipse comes, only what you’ve built will keep you alive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.3%, Survival 18.1%, Base Building 11.2%, Exploration 9.3%, Crafting 7.4%
Survive and thrive in a pixel art survival RPG set in the Alaskan wilderness. Trap, fish, forage, and build a village from scratch. Face shifting seasons, craft to endure the cold, and live in harmony with nature in a world where every choice matters.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32%, Survival 17.5%, Nature 15.2%, Base Building 8.4%, Crafting 7%
Survive as a crow through lands bound to cycles of warmth and frost. Endure hunger, thirst, and fatigue while paying attention to predators. Find allies among other animals, share resources, and decide when to leave before survival grows harsher.
Why similar: Nature 20.7%, Survival 17.5%, Life Sim 16.7%, PvE 11%, Exploration 6.9%
A tropical survival‑defense hybrid where you are the prey and your crops are the prize. Plant, protect, and survive against persistent wildlife in a hostile world where you cannot fight back.
Why similar: Survival 30.7%, Nature 30.5%, Open World 7.2%, Exploration 6.6%, Action 6.2%
Crash-landed in an endless jungle, you must rescue survivors, build a steam-powered colony, and construct an escape vehicle before the wilderness claims you. Endless Vine is a steampunk survival colony builder where every decision shapes your fight for survival.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.9%, Nature 18%, Survival 15.7%, Base Building 12.3%, Top-Down 5.1%
The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place, especially if you're stranded on an island full of cursed skeletons. Find ways to escape from this island together with the villagers on the island.
Why similar: Survival 33.8%, Life Sim 24.6%, Exploration 13.5%, Action-Adventure 7.7%, Adventure 7.5%
Polylithic is a survival game unlike any other, set in the most pivotal moment in mankind's history: the Stone Age. Experience life as a Paleolithic hunter-gatherer, settle down as a Neolithic farmer, form tribes in co-op multiplayer, or go at it alone in a world where we're not yet apex predators.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.4%, Survival 17.3%, Base Building 11.7%, Nature 11.1%, Open World 7.8%
A sci-fi survival colony sim. Mine ore, craft equipment, and build a base. Recruit and provide for humans, robots, and aliens to grow your colony. Raise oxygen, heat, and pressure in order to turn a dead planet into a living one. Defend against enemy attacks and keep the base running.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.8%, Survival 15.3%, PvE 11.4%, Base Building 9.8%, Exploration 8.6%
Enter a child’s mind through memory-editing therapy and survive a strange world filled with hostile creatures. In Trauma-Island, gather resources, craft tools, build shelters, and collect memory fragments to heal trauma in this open-world survival experience.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.6%, Life Sim 18.1%, Survival 11.1%, Exploration 8.1%, Action-Adventure 8.1%
Through an "accident" seafarers arrive on an island where they have to fight for their survival. Help them by building and managing a tree house for them.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.9%, Survival 18.7%, Life Sim 16.6%, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 7.2%
Build your own Settlement of Ancient People. Survive, Hunt, Gather, Craft Tools, Fight, Research new technologies and face the challenges that the environment throws at you.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.5%, Survival 18.6%, Base Building 11.2%, Life Sim 10.6%, Open World 8.2%
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 49%, Survival 22.3%, Base Building 17.5%, Resource Management 5.1%, Exploration 2.5%
Discover nature and survive with what you can find in this environment.
Why similar: Nature 30%, Survival 26.3%, Action-Adventure 12.4%, Exploration 9.2%, Base Building 6%
Build your oasis town with up to 8 friends. Defend it from threats that emerge at night. Hunt down powerful bosses. Work the land, gather resources, and trade with travelling merchants. Explore distant lands and grow your town’s influence.
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.9%, PvE 14%, Base Building 11%, Top-Down 8.2%, Open World 7.8%
A real-time ant colony simulation game set in the hostile world of insects. Fight for resources, build underground networks, learn from the environment, harvest DNA from defeated foes, evolve new ant abilities, and guide hundreds of ants toward building a global SuperColony. Add to Wishlist now!
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.5%, Survival 19%, Nature 16.8%, Base Building 14.1%, Open World 7.3%
Colony of the Forsaken is a survival colony sim where you control multiple villagers, build up your settlement during the day, and defend it from enemy waves at night. The focus is on managing villagers, surviving losses, exploring for progress, and shaping each villager through skills and spells.
Why similar: Colony Sim 45.4%, Survival 21.7%, Base Building 10.4%, Exploration 6.4%, Top-Down 5.5%
Survive on a mysterious island, gather resources, craft tools, and build a ship to escape—or explore freely in a larger open-world survival mode.
Why similar: Survival 23.2%, PvE 17.5%, Nature 13.3%, Exploration 9.9%, Crafting 7.9%
A sandbox simulation where you manage oxygen, pressure, heat but also the mental and physical wellbeing of your crew. Take command of ships, scavenge, build, craft, survive the harshness of space in an emergent story where the world does not care about you.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.1%, Survival 19.2%, Base Building 13.9%, Open World 7.3%, Exploration 6%
The ISLE survival is a vast open world survival / crafting game. Loot resources, craft items, build camps and explore the environment. Protect yourself from hazards and wildlife. Find ways to survive in hostile living conditions.
Why similar: Nature 23.6%, Survival 22.4%, Life Sim 11.7%, Base Building 10%, Exploration 10%
In a collapsing world, safety is a memory. Guide a small group of survivors through the daily struggle of a bleak reality. Manage your shelter, craft essentials, and make soul-crushing choices. In Never Secure, winning isn't the goal—lasting one more day is.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.8%, Survival 23.7%, Base Building 12.2%, Inventory Management 6.6%, Crafting 5.6%
We must revive this post-industrial world. Plant trees to earn Karma, build pipes, join Guilds, and participate in league tournaments to stay alive. Find lost objects to craft secret messages. Go rogue, wander with your dog, steal other players' Karma and grow stronger with every battle
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.7%, Nature 19.1%, Survival 15.6%, Base Building 10.2%, Open World 7.5%
Forage, craft, fight, form clans, and expand your settlements in a dynamic, ever-changing ecosystem. Keziah’s Realm offers a unique gaming experience where you must survive in a rich, procedurally generated world, alongside intelligent NPCs who possess abilities equal to those of the player.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.9%, Survival 22.3%, Exploration 8.8%, Base Building 8.4%, Top-Down 6.5%
After a shipwreck, you are one of the survivors. To Survive you will need to fight for your life.
Why similar: Survival 23.8%, Nature 16.2%, Base Building 16.2%, Open World 10.4%, Crafting 9.2%
Unleash your ultimate survival skills in Coastline Survival - a game that redefines open-world excitement! Craft, build, farm, hunt, and fish amidst breathtaking coastal scenery. Conquer the wild, master survival, and carve your path to triumph in this thrilling adventure today!
Why similar: Nature 18.8%, Survival 15.4%, PvE 12.3%, Base Building 11.6%, Exploration 8.8%
In the game Desperate Island, the player takes on the role of a survivor on a deserted island and must use the island's resources to survive and overcome the challenges posed by nature. The player must search for food and water and create shelters.
Why similar: Nature 22.8%, Survival 20.6%, Exploration 12.4%, Action-Adventure 11.6%, Open World 7.7%
A 3D voxel fantasy colony sim with online co-op. Build a settlement block-by-block, mine deep for rare resources, craft powerful gear, and defend your colonists from monsters and rival factions.
Why similar: Colony Sim 48.9%, Survival 23.1%, Base Building 16.9%, PvE 8.3%, Open World 2.7%
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 26.7%, Life Sim 12.3%, PvE 11%, Exploration 8.9%, Crafting 8.9%
An emergent open world exploration and survival game. Explore vast islands overrun by robot life and uncover the mystery of the cataclysm that flooded the Earth. Play solo or in co-op.
Why similar: Survival 22.7%, Nature 21.9%, Exploration 11.8%, Open World 11.2%, Adventure 7.4%
Wheels Echo is a winter survival story where your thoughts shape the journey. As Fred Walker, explore a silent frozen world, write down clues in your notebook, uncover mysteries, survive the cold, and piece together what happened to everyone — and to you.
Why similar: Nature 28.8%, Survival 23.3%, Life Sim 18.5%, Exploration 11.9%, Action-Adventure 8.3%
A settlement simulation about five monks who survived a burning monastery and set out across the continent. Generate a world, gather scattered companions, and raise a new sanctuary from the ashes. Rebuild a broken world with the hands of those who survived.
Why similar: Colony Sim 45.8%, Survival 20.5%, Base Building 15.4%, Exploration 6.3%, Top-Down 5.1%
When calamity struck, the world of Highreach was shattered. In this open-world survival game, build encampments, rescue survivors, and soar across the skies on your airship to explore a lost world and uncover the truth.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.8%, Survival 16.1%, Base Building 11%, PvE 11%, Open World 7.6%
Your youth,your rules.From heated battles to heart-pounding romance. This is a life simulation game set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, where young people live their youth while surviving.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41%, Survival 18.5%, Life Sim 18.2%, Base Building 10.7%, Crafting 5.6%
Inspired by the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, the open world survival of Minecraft, and the social interactions of The Sims. Embark is a colony management game with a focus on complex simulation in a huge living 3D world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 56.9%, Base Building 15.4%, Survival 15.1%, Open World 5.7%, Crafting 5.5%
A fungal fairycore colony sim where you are the vengeful spirit of an ancient forest. Possess and gaslight invaders into fighting each other, reclaim their bodies as fuel for the Grove, and guide your Seely mushroom children to build and expand. The Grove is done being nice.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.9%, Nature 20%, Survival 14.8%, Base Building 9.8%, PvE 9%
Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!
Why similar: Colony Sim 47.6%, Survival 22.3%, Base Building 15%, Open World 6.5%, Crafting 4.5%
You are an ordinary man who found himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. Your plane crashes off the coast of a sinister island, hidden from civilization by a shroud of fog and rumor.
Why similar: Nature 20.4%, Survival 18%, Life Sim 12.6%, Base Building 10.3%, PvE 10.2%
Survival in a post-apocalyptic ice age with settlement building. Dig through the snow, find resources, build shelters, and defend yourself from evolved beasts and feral locals. Explore ruins, trade, and rebuild civilization in the harsh world after the icy cataclysm.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32%, Survival 20.3%, Base Building 13.2%, Nature 11.4%, PvE 10.8%
G.E.T. (Gather, Explore, Technologize) is a 3D first person open world adventure-survival game. On your journey you will progress through different ages, beginning from the stone age and finishing in the far future.
Why similar: Survival 21.5%, Base Building 13.3%, PvE 10.1%, Open World 9.1%, Exploration 8.9%
Untamed is a planned multiplayer creature survival game that takes place in a post apocalyptic world full of overgrown ruins.
Why similar: Nature 33.8%, Survival 26.4%, Exploration 14.2%, Action-Adventure 8.7%, Open World 6.4%
Lead a small herd of sheep through the desert. Ensure their survival by managing their needs. Protect and save them from various environmental hazards, as well as their own silly decisions. Bond with them over the course of your journey by fulfilling their wishes, and be their Shepherd.
Why similar: Nature 26.9%, Survival 25.2%, Life Sim 19.2%, Exploration 9.2%, Relaxing 6.6%
Ashen Wilds is a challenging survival experience in a brutal open world. Gather resources, build your base, and protect yourself from deadly creatures—and other survivors. Trust no one.
Why similar: Survival 27.4%, PvE 22.2%, Nature 17.3%, Action-Adventure 10.6%, Open World 7.8%
Build an autonomous colony on a living procedural planet. Gather resources, command robots, expand your power grid, and defend the teleporter from an ecosystem that reacts to every step of your growth. Activate the link—or lose everything.
Why similar: Colony Sim 44.7%, Base Building 15%, Survival 11.5%, Nature 9.7%, Exploration 6.8%
In this simulation game, play the role of a proud northern pike (Esox lucius) living in a North American lake. Your goal: Surviving and becoming the King of Agonik Lake! To achieve this feat, feed yourself; get stronger, taller, faster; and avoid various hazards along the way.
Why similar: Survival 32.3%, Nature 22%, Exploration 13.9%, Adventure 9.6%, Action-Adventure 9.1%
An open-world survival game. Use your environment to craft items and structures. Physics based with weather and day/night. More than 50 different animals. Combat and non-combat activities fishing.
Why similar: Survival 23.5%, Base Building 15.5%, Exploration 10.5%, Open World 10.4%, Nature 10%
A Robinson Crusoe–inspired VR roguelike survival adventure set in the 17th century. Shipwrecked on a ruthless tropical island, you must survive without guidance. Trust your instincts as you face wild beasts, nature’s fury, and a mysterious local tribe.
Why similar: Nature 23.6%, Survival 21.3%, Life Sim 18.4%, Open World 9.5%, Exploration 8%
Explore a vast wilderness where every path is yours to choose. Hunt, survive, and uncover ancient trials hidden deep within forgotten lands. Follow the call of instinct, awaken nature’s power, and carve your journey to become the true guardian of the wild.
Why similar: Nature 19.1%, Survival 18.1%, Exploration 16.4%, Action-Adventure 13.4%, Open World 11.7%
Terra Taker is an open-world survival crafting game where you build megastructures to terraform a fantasy planet. Gather resources, build automated bases, and transform floating islands, tornadoes, snowfields, lava zones, and lightning-scorched lands into a new paradise for humanity.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.5%, Survival 18.1%, Base Building 13.3%, PvE 8.9%, Exploration 8.1%
Take control of the helpless beings on the island and guide them. Survive, grow and continue the course of life. Don't let the harsh reality of mother nature take you down.
Why similar: Survival 22.2%, Nature 20.6%, Life Sim 19%, PvE 12.3%, Open World 10%
You command a drilling train, leading a dwarf clan through the underground depths toward the planetary core. Manage the crew, complete expeditions, gather resources, upgrade gear, and make tough choices to reach the abandoned city and bring your people back home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 45.4%, Survival 20.4%, Base Building 15%, Exploration 8.5%, Resource Management 4.4%
A detailed zombie-survival colony sim where you create a settlement on an infested island. Guide your workers as they build walls, grow crops, dig trenches and plant their flag in the land. Help them to fight hordes, form families, and uncover old technologies. Write their story...
Why similar: Colony Sim 52.7%, Survival 20.5%, Base Building 17.1%, Top-Down 6.3%, Resource Management 3.4%
In Cold Warms Us, survive a frozen wilderness as you search for 13 fallen expedition members. By day, scavenge and craft to stay alive; by night, fight off deadly threats. Balance hunger, cold, and health as you uncover the secrets buried in the snow. Will you endure the unforgiving cold?
Why similar: Nature 25.1%, Survival 22.7%, Top-Down 10.8%, PvE 8.8%, Exploration 7.6%
Cloudrift Islands is a sky pirate adventure. Pilot a handmade flying ship, raid floating islands, fight monsters and turrets, gather resources, and uncover rare 18+ loot (images and videos) reserved for the boldest captains.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.3%, Life Sim 18%, Survival 11.1%, Action-Adventure 9.1%, Exploration 7.3%
Compact Colonies is a survival base-builder with roguelike elements, where every tile counts. Manage scarce resources, grow a tiny settlement, and keep your people fed, faithful, and defended in a finite world full of strategic trade-offs.
Why similar: Colony Sim 45.2%, Survival 20.3%, Nature 17.5%, Base Building 7.9%, Resource Management 5.9%
In Project Ark, the land has become uninhabitable after the apocalypse. The sea has become the only habitable place. Transform your ship into a floating city. Build, produce, and collect resources, research technologies, take care of your health, and rescue survivors!
Why similar: Colony Sim 46.7%, Life Sim 16.7%, Survival 10.9%, Exploration 7.4%, Top-Down 6.2%
