- #1 The Joy of Mining
97% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: spielepk
Windows
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 20.7%, PvE 11.9%, Nature 11.8%, Exploration 11.8%, Crafting 10.3%
- #2 Veil of the Volcano
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BefuddleBug
Windows
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 32.3%, Life Sim 15%, Survival 12.9%, Base Building 8.4%, Action-Adventure 7.4%
- #3 Edge Of Survival
96% match6 user reviews33% of 6 reviews2024
Dev: Studio Builderline
Windows
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%, Nature 18%, Life Sim 14.1%, Base Building 13.1%, Crafting 8.2%
- #4 Frontier Roots
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MoroiGames
Windows
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 32.2%, Survival 17.3%, Nature 15.1%, Base Building 8.4%, Crafting 7%
- #5 Migration
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Define Human
Windows
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 17.4%, Life Sim 16.8%, PvE 11.2%, Exploration 6.9%
- #6 Endless Vine
94% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Circuit Root
Windows
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 36.2%, Nature 18%, Survival 15.6%, Base Building 12.3%, Top-Down 5.1%
- #7 Cruel Paradise
93% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Pitaya Juice
Windows
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 6.7%, Action 6.1%
- #8 CAPTAIN FIRAT
92% matchPositive83% of 18 reviews2025
Dev: FIRAT ÖZDEMİRPub: AMİRAL GAMES
Windows
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 25%, Exploration 13.6%, Action-Adventure 7.6%, Adventure 7.4%
- #9 Trauma Island: Dream Doctor
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SJR Team
Windows
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 38.8%, Life Sim 18.3%, Survival 11%, Exploration 8.1%, Action-Adventure 8%
- #10 Tree House Colony
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Jens P. Behrens
Windows
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 37%, Survival 18.5%, Life Sim 16.7%, Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 7.2%
- #11 Primal Survival Wars
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ForgeOfGames
Windows
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 28.7%, Survival 18.5%, Base Building 11.2%, Life Sim 10.7%, Open World 8.1%
- #12 Oxygen Not Included
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 140,434 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 68.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 49.2%, Survival 22.1%, Base Building 17.4%, Resource Management 5.3%, Exploration 2.5%
- #13 SuperColony
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Antic Games Inc.
Windows · Mac
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 40.8%, Survival 18.9%, Nature 16.7%, Base Building 14.1%, Open World 7.2%
- #14 Naturia
88% match8 user reviews38% of 8 reviews2023
Dev: Gametech
Windows
Discover nature and survive with what you can find in this environment.
Why similar: Nature 29.9%, Survival 26.3%, Action-Adventure 12.2%, Exploration 9.2%, Resource Management 6.2%
- #15 Island of the Lost
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: JR_Development
Windows
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%, PvE 17.8%, Nature 13.3%, Exploration 9.9%, Crafting 7.9%
- #16 the ISLE survival
86% matchMixed44% of 16 reviews2023
Dev: Free Land Studios
Windows
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 22.3%, Life Sim 11.9%, Base Building 10.1%, Exploration 10%
- #17 HullRats
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dan Danciu
Windows
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 39.4%, Survival 19%, Base Building 13.9%, Open World 7.2%, Exploration 5.9%
- #18 Never Secure
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Blank Page Games
Windows
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 39.9%, Survival 23.4%, Base Building 12.2%, Inventory Management 6.7%, Resource Management 5.6%
- #19 DIE LAST
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gosh
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 20.8%, Nature 19%, Survival 15.4%, Base Building 10.2%, Open World 7.3%
- #20 Keziah's Realm
82% matchPositive100% of 14 reviews2025
Dev: Bonny Studios
Windows
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 38.1%, Survival 22.2%, Exploration 8.7%, Base Building 8.4%, Top-Down 6.5%
- #21 Tides of Despair
83% matchMixed42% of 19 reviews2023
Dev: Survival Poly Games
Windows
After a shipwreck, you are one of the survivors. To Survive you will need to fight for your life.
Why similar: Survival 23.7%, Base Building 16.2%, Nature 16.2%, Open World 10.2%, Crafting 9.3%
- #22 Coastline Survival
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Orbitami Entertainment
Windows
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 18.7%, Survival 15.3%, PvE 12.5%, Base Building 11.7%, Exploration 8.8%
- #23 Survindust
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: IS Games
Windows
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 26.4%, Life Sim 12.4%, PvE 11.1%, Crafting 8.9%, Exploration 8.9%
- #24 Desperate Island
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Endurance Games
Windows
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 22.9%, Survival 20.7%, Exploration 12.5%, Action-Adventure 11.6%, Open World 7.7%
- #25 Robowild
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Slightly Esoteric Studios
Windows
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 22%, Exploration 11.9%, Open World 11.1%, Adventure 7.2%
- #26 Highreach
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: VestGames
Windows · Linux
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 30%, Survival 16%, PvE 11.2%, Base Building 11%, Open World 7.4%
- #27 Embark
80% matchMixed61% of 388 reviews2019
Dev: Overly Complicated Games
Windows
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 57.2%, Base Building 15.4%, Survival 15%, Open World 5.6%, Crafting 5.5%
- #28 The Last Blue ―Youth at the End of World―
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: afterglow games
Windows
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 41.1%, Life Sim 18.3%, Survival 18.3%, Base Building 10.7%, Crafting 5.6%
- #29 Phantom of the Grove
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Survansix
Windows · Mac
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 35%, Nature 19.8%, Survival 14.6%, Base Building 9.7%, PvE 9.1%
- #30 Colony Survival
78% matchVery Positive92% of 8,872 reviews2017
Dev: Pipliz
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 28.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 47.9%, Survival 22.2%, Base Building 15.1%, Open World 6.4%, Crafting 4.5%
- #31 The Isolated
77% matchMixed67% of 33 reviews2024
Dev: STuNT
Windows
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 20.3%, Survival 17.9%, Life Sim 12.8%, PvE 10.4%, Base Building 10.3%
- #32 Deep In Snow
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PimpGameStudio
Windows
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 32.1%, Survival 20.1%, Base Building 13.1%, Nature 11.3%, PvE 11%
- #33 Outpost Simulator
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mental DreamsPub: Ultimate Games S.A.
Windows
Build a safety base for survivors, serve their needs, and earn money to expand your outpost. Manage resources, find supplies, and protect your people in a challenging survival world. A unique mix of customer simulator, base building, and first-person open-world survival game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.1%, Survival 17.7%, Life Sim 16.7%, Base Building 13.3%, PvE 9.8%
- #34 G.E.T.
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Konnex Interactive
Windows
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 21.3%, Base Building 13.3%, PvE 10.3%, Open World 9%, Exploration 8.9%
- #35 Shepherd
76% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2023
Dev: Unherd Of, LLC
Windows
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 26.7%, Survival 25.1%, Life Sim 19.4%, Exploration 9.2%, Relaxing 6.7%
- #36 Ashen Wilds
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Elevate Games
Windows
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 27.3%, PvE 22.6%, Nature 17.3%, Action-Adventure 10.5%, Open World 7.7%
- #37 Untamed
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Solar Vault Studio
Windows
Untamed is a planned multiplayer creature survival game that takes place in a post apocalyptic world full of overgrown ruins.
Why similar: Nature 33.9%, Survival 26.5%, Exploration 14.2%, Action-Adventure 8.7%, Open World 6.3%
- #38 Fish Simulator: Agonik Lake
74% matchPositive93% of 44 reviews2023
Dev: Les Jeux NemesisPub: Telefix Productions
Windows
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 22.1%, Exploration 13.9%, Adventure 9.4%, Action-Adventure 9%
- #39 The Wild
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cosmic Byte
Windows
Step into the wild, the untamed world of Earth, where you'll take control of a wide variety of animals. Survive the harsh environment, hunt, forage, breed and fight through an ever changing ecosystem.
Why similar: Nature 27.9%, Survival 21.5%, Life Sim 14.3%, PvE 13.6%, Exploration 12.9%
- #40 Terra Taker
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dream Craft
Windows
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 29.6%, Survival 17.9%, Base Building 13.3%, PvE 9.1%, Exploration 8.1%
- #41 The Islands
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Trash Studios
Windows
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 15.6%, Exploration 10.6%, Open World 10.3%, Nature 10%
- #42 Cloudrift Islands
70% matchPositive87% of 47 reviews2026
Dev: Inspite
Windows
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 33.6%, Life Sim 18.3%, Survival 11%, Action-Adventure 8.9%, Exploration 7.3%
- #43 Wilderness Trials: Alpha Wolf
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Oki AkiPub: Oki Game Lab
Windows
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 16.5%, Action-Adventure 13.3%, Open World 11.6%
- #44 Spirit
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: .Life Gaming Studio
Windows
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 22.1%, Nature 20.5%, Life Sim 19.2%, PvE 12.6%, Open World 9.9%
- #45 Bootstrap Island
67% matchVery Positive82% of 1,213 reviews2026
Dev: Maru VR
Windows
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 23.5%, Survival 21.1%, Life Sim 18.7%, Open World 9.4%, Exploration 8.1%
- #46 Polylithic
70% matchMixed68% of 171 reviews2023
Dev: polyperfectPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 32.2%, Survival 19.3%, Base Building 13.2%, Open World 8.6%, Exploration 8.3%
- #47 Underground Nomads
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Funzen Games
Windows
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 45.5%, Survival 20.2%, Base Building 14.9%, Exploration 8.4%, Resource Management 4.5%
- #48 Project Ark
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lefterov Oleksii PE
Windows
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 46.8%, Life Sim 16.8%, Survival 10.8%, Exploration 7.3%, Top-Down 6.2%
- #49 Cold Warms Us.
69% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: temmkainc
Windows
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%, Survival 22.6%, Top-Down 11%, PvE 9%, Exploration 7.6%
- #50 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
71% matchMixed70% of 364 reviews2020
Dev: Xigma Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Build, survive, explore. Design your city, manage resource chains and workers, Send ships on expedition, trade with cities, discover mysterious dungeons and uncover secrets of ancients.
Why similar: Colony Sim 49.9%, Survival 23.9%, Base Building 13.1%, Crafting 6.8%, Resource Management 5%
- #51 Compact Colonies
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: TunawareDevsPub: 2 Left Thumbs
Windows
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 45.4%, Survival 20.1%, Nature 17.3%, Base Building 7.9%, Resource Management 6.1%
- #52 Baugarten
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Treibrad Games
Windows · Mac
Baugarten is a new kind of empire-builder. Baugarten plays like a traditional empire builder - but those interested can push the limit by leveraging their math and science skills to optimise everything further and get ahead faster.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.3%, Nature 17.8%, Survival 13.9%, Base Building 9.2%, Open World 8.7%
- #53 From Nothing
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Power Hobo Games
Windows
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: Survival 25.7%, Base Building 17.1%, Exploration 13.3%, Open World 10.3%, Action-Adventure 7.4%
- #54 Landiscape
65% match6 user reviews57% of 6 reviews2026
Dev: GTI
Windows
Landiscape is a relaxed 1–4 player open-world survival sandbox set on a zombie-infested island. Build bases, scavenge resources, explore dangerous landmarks, grow crops, and survive together — or turn on your friends.
Why similar: Survival 25.1%, Base Building 17%, Open World 11.1%, PvE 11.1%, Exploration 10.4%
- #55 Isekai Mystic World
66% match9 user reviews89% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: Yuki Game Studio
Windows
Your wish has come true: welcome to Isekai Mystic World! Explore a vibrant world, hunt, fish, farm, and build your home. Forge epic weapons, face dangers, and uncover secrets, alone or with friends, in this action-survival adventure!
Why similar: Nature 17.3%, Survival 17.3%, PvE 14.2%, Action-Adventure 9.5%, Open World 8.8%
- #56 Gateworlds
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hydrarch
Windows · Mac
Gateworlds is a colony sim about exploring and surviving a fantasy wilderness. Find your way in a world of floating islands, strange creatures, and fickle gods.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.3%, Survival 20.4%, Base Building 11.6%, Exploration 9.1%, Crafting 5.3%
- #57 50 Days To Survive
68% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2023
Dev: NullReferenceGames
Windows
You find yourself alone in the middle of a desert, and devoid of all hope. Quickly find what to eat, what to drink, what to shelter you, and improve your comfort of life to avoid death. Can you survive for 50 days? Let's see that.
Why similar: Survival 22.8%, Nature 20.8%, Base Building 10.7%, Exploration 10.1%, PvE 9.3%
- #58 ReckFall
66% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: GamingWardenPub: BinaryFall Interactive
Windows
Stranded on an alien earth-like planet after a failed mission, you’ll need to gather resources, build shelter, and fight to stay alive. Explore strange biomes, uncover hidden secrets, and decide whether to rebuild or escape before the planet claims you.
Why similar: Survival 19.5%, Nature 15.4%, Base Building 12.7%, PvE 11.1%, Open World 9.4%