- #1 Space Engineers
96% matchVery Positive89% of 133,721 reviews2019
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 96.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.
Why similar: Survival 17.1%, Open World 15.6%, Base Building 14.9%, Building 14.2%, Multiplayer 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive space building and survival game that allows for complex engineering and ship construction in a vast asteroid-filled environment.
- #2 Astrometica
96% matchVery Positive83% of 3,055 reviews2024
Dev: BeryMeryPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Astrometica is a space exploration and base-building survival game. After a catastrophic event, explore vast space, gather resources, build bases, and uncover cosmic mysteries. Use advanced technology, craft tools, and discover new blueprints to survive and thrive in the unknown.
Why similar: Crafting 21.7%, Survival 20.5%, Open World 18.4%, Base Building 13.6%, First-Person 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: A direct thematic match that focuses on surviving in space by building bases and managing resources while drifting through debris fields.
- #3 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
95% matchMostly Positive79% of 34,194 reviews2020
Dev: Eleon Game Studios
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 76.8 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!
Why similar: Survival 15.5%, Crafting 15.3%, Open World 13.8%, Building 12.7%, FPS 11%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a comprehensive space survival experience with planetary exploration, ship building, and combat against alien threats.
- #4 Breathedge
94% matchVery Positive82% of 16,224 reviews2021
Dev: RedRuins SoftworksPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Survive in outer space! Together with your immortal chicken, discover the truth behind your sudden spaceship crash. Craft tools, pilot vehicles, and even control space stations to survive and explore the wreckage.
Why similar: Survival 20.4%, Crafting 17.6%, Base Building 15.8%, Open World 10.9%, Space 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: This survival game features a humorous but deadly space setting where you must craft tools and manage oxygen to survive a massive wreckage site.
- #5 Volcanoids
94% matchVery Positive83% of 9,267 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: Crafting 17.1%, Survival 13.3%, Base Building 12.2%, FPS 11.7%, Open World 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: It features a unique mobile base-building mechanic where you must drill and survive on a hostile volcanic island.
- #6 ICARUS
93% matchMostly Positive74% of 63,962 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 46.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.
Why similar: Survival 19.8%, Crafting 17.2%, Base Building 13.9%, Open World 12.7%, Multiplayer 12%
Why You'll Like It: A session-based survival game that mirrors the hardcore, high-stakes nature of surviving on a hostile planet with limited resources.
- #7 Outerstellar
92% matchMostly Positive72% of 170 reviews2023
Dev: Strange Horizons Ltd
Windows
Stranded on a hostile and deadly planet, you must gather resources, build shelter, and fight to survive each night. But the secrets of this world await in a gripping sci-fi survival PvP game.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 15.9%, Crafting 13.7%, Survival 13.6%, Base Building 9.9%, Multiplayer 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: A space survival game that emphasizes exploration and crafting in a dangerous, uncharted galaxy.
- #8 No Man's Sky
91% matchVery Positive85% of 406,987 reviews2016
Dev: Hello Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 20.2 hrsMean: 70.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Why similar: Open World 23.2%, Survival 16.3%, Crafting 12%, Multiplayer 10.6%, Space 10%
Why You'll Like It: While more expansive, it perfectly captures the loop of space exploration, resource gathering, and base construction on alien worlds.
- #9 Forever Skies
89% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,446 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 32.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A first-person survival game set on a post-apocalyptic, ecologically ruined Earth. Play solo or with up to 3 friends as you build, upgrade, and fly a high-tech airship. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and face dangers on the surface as you hunt for a cure to save humanity.
Why similar: Crafting 16.9%, Survival 14.6%, Open World 13.1%, Base Building 12.8%, Building 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: This survival game focuses on building and maintaining a high-tech airship while exploring a ruined, toxic world.
- #10 Starbase
90% matchMixed56% of 6,719 reviews2021
Dev: Frozenbyte
Windows
Median: 14.3 hrsMean: 91.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Starbase is a hybrid voxel/vertex-based space MMO with a fully destructible and infinitely expanding universe, with a focus on building and designing spaceships and stations, exploration, resource gathering, crafting, trading, and combat.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 25.3%, Open World 14.5%, Building 12.9%, Crafting 11.4%, FPS 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: A massively multiplayer space-sim that emphasizes building, destruction, and engineering in a persistent universe.
- #11 Stationeers
89% matchVery Positive88% of 9,014 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 83.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!
Why similar: Crafting 22.5%, Survival 19.4%, Base Building 17.4%, Building 15.6%, Multiplayer 12.3%
Why You'll Like It: This is a deep, technical survival game that requires players to manage complex atmospheric and electrical systems in space.
- #12 The Planet Crafter
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 70,189 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.5 hrsMean: 37.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
Why similar: Crafting 18.3%, Survival 17%, Base Building 15.9%, Open World 13.7%, Building 13%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game centered on terraforming a barren planet, requiring extensive building and resource management to survive.
- #13 Interstellar Rift
88% matchMixed68% of 1,660 reviews2020
Dev: Split PolygonPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 33.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Interstellar Rift is an open world starship simulator with an emphasis on ship construction and multi-player interaction. Survive in a hostile galaxy with your own custom designed and constructed starship. Invite other players to join your crew or fight them across the galaxy!
Why similar: Crafting 18.8%, Open World 14.8%, Survival 14%, Building 13.4%, PvP 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: This space-sim focuses heavily on ship design and construction, allowing for deep customization in a multiplayer environment.
- #14 Voidtrain
85% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,447 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
Why similar: Crafting 17.8%, Survival 17.4%, Open World 13.8%, Base Building 13.4%, Multiplayer 12.1%
Why You'll Like It: You build and upgrade a train that serves as your mobile base while traveling through a surreal, dangerous void.
- #15 XERA: Survival
86% matchMixed66% of 7,908 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: Massively Multiplayer 14.4%, Crafting 14%, Survival 12.6%, Base Building 11.9%, Open World 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer survival game that emphasizes looting and combat in an open-world environment.
- #16 Craterbound
84% matchMixed54% of 99 reviews2022
Dev: Daniel Marquez
Windows
Crash-land onto a unique and hostile alien world and begin your fight to survive. Face its inhabitants, upgrade your technology, create outposts & bases, and find a way to repair your ship. Explore the beautifully strange terrain, all while blasting and crafting your way off of the planet.
Why similar: Crafting 18%, Survival 17.3%, Open World 15.8%, Base Building 13.5%, Action-Adventure 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: A space-themed survival game that focuses on exploration and building within a harsh crater environment.
- #17 Space Trash Scavenger
82% matchVery Positive84% of 518 reviews2024
Dev: SquarePlay GamesPub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Grab your jetpack and explore procedural asteroid fields, derelict spaceships and abandoned outposts. Build and automate your Space Rig to process scavenged trash. Craft, trade and fight your way home in this interstellar, open-world survival sandbox.
Why similar: Crafting 21.8%, Survival 18.2%, Open World 15.1%, Building 12.4%, Base Building 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the scavenging and survival aspects of space exploration, tasking players with cleaning up debris to build their base.
- #18 Karagon (Survival Robot Riding FPS)
84% matchMixed47% of 107 reviews2023
Dev: Tbjbu2 Originals
Windows
Survive, shoot, construct, and ride killer elemental robots. Craft equipment, explore multi-floor buildings, build and farm, uncover schematics, and progress through technology tiers. Alone or with friends in this brutal post apocalyptic open world survival robot riding crafting shooter game!
Why similar: Crafting 16.5%, Survival 14.4%, FPS 13%, Open World 12%, Base Building 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: This game combines robot-themed survival, FPS combat, and base building, closely matching the mechanical focus of the seed game.
- #19 Last Oasis
83% matchMixed62% of 24,224 reviews2020
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 17.9 hrsMean: 121.2 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: Massively Multiplayer 29.7%, Survival 17.2%, Open World 13.8%, Crafting 12.9%, Building 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A nomadic survival game where you must build mobile bases to outrun a scorching sun in a massive open world.
- #20 Rust
81% matchVery Positive87% of 1,363,157 reviews2018
Dev: Facepunch Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 52.5 hrsMean: 421.6 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: Survival 26%, Crafting 20%, Open World 14.5%, Multiplayer 11.5%, Building 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: While not space-themed, it is the premier multiplayer survival game for players who enjoy hardcore base building and intense combat.
- #21 Subnautica
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 365,018 reviews2018
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 39.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
Why similar: Survival 22.7%, Crafting 18.8%, Open World 17.3%, Base Building 13.5%, Multiplayer 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: Though set underwater, it is the gold standard for survival, crafting, and base building in a hostile, alien environment.
- #22 GRAV
82% matchMixed47% of 6,921 reviews2015
Dev: BitMonster, Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 60%
GRAV is a sand box experience where you explore a multitude of planets, hunt strange alien creatures, build and defend outposts, craft weapons and armor, and attempt to survive against other players in a hostile environment.
Why similar: Survival 22.2%, Open World 17.8%, Crafting 16%, Base Building 14.6%, Multiplayer 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that allows for building and exploration on dangerous, procedurally generated planets.
- #23 ARK: Survival Evolved
78% matchVery Positive83% of 767,761 reviews2017
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 201.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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: Survival 20.2%, Crafting 15.5%, Open World 14.4%, Massively Multiplayer 11.7%, Multiplayer 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers a deep survival and building loop that challenges players to tame the environment and survive against massive threats.
- #24 Hostile Planet: Survival
79% matchMixed65% of 99 reviews2022
Dev: Aliens Developers
Windows
Hostile Planet: Survival is a harsh adventure on an uncharted planet that full of danger and trials.
Why similar: Crafting 23.8%, Survival 23.6%, Open World 16.9%, Building 13.8%, FPS 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game that emphasizes action and crafting while trying to stay alive on a dangerous, alien world.
- #25 Fragmented
81% 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: Survival 26.3%, Open World 16.6%, Crafting 16.2%, Multiplayer 13.3%, Building 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer survival game that emphasizes crafting and combat in an alien world.
- #26 Outpost Zero
80% matchMixed49% of 850 reviews2019
Dev: Symmetric GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Outpost Zero blends the genres of Multiplayer Base Building Survival and Simulation games in a Sci-Fi universe. On a lawless alien world, robotic scouts are tasked with building an Outpost for human colonists. Command AI minions, colonize the planet, and survive the perils of Gaiya.
Why similar: Survival 23.7%, Open World 15.2%, Crafting 14.3%, Multiplayer 14.1%, Base Building 13%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on building and defending a base on a hostile planet while managing robotic workers.
- #27 Astrometica: Prologue
77% matchVery Positive90% of 1,290 reviews2024
Dev: BeryMeryPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 53%
Astrometica: Prologue is the free game about surviving in space. You need to use your skills and tools to stay alive. There are many challenges to face, and you need to fight to survive. You also need to build a new base in space.
Why similar: Survival 16.7%, Crafting 16%, Base Building 15%, Open World 14.9%, Building 13.5%
- #28 Drift: Space Survival
78% matchMostly Positive70% of 77 reviews2023
Dev: KAR Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
You were deep in uncharted space on a research mission. Disaster struck. Together with your friends, explore a mysterious asteroid field and mine whatever resources possible to build what you need to survive.
Why similar: Survival 20.4%, Crafting 20.3%, Building 13%, Base Building 11.2%, Space 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A space-focused survival game that tasks you with managing resources while drifting through the vacuum of space.
- #29 Rem Survival
77% 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: Crafting 16.2%, Massively Multiplayer 15.4%, Survival 13.9%, Open World 12%, Base Building 11.2%
- #30 Stars End
76% matchMixed61% of 1,419 reviews2023
Dev: Reverie World StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Stars End is a sci-fi survival sandbox set on the wild frontier of a distant star system. Play solo or host your own server as you craft, build, and battle to survive in a galaxy shaped by danger, discovery, and your own grit.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 24.3%, Survival 11.8%, Crafting 11.7%, Multiplayer 9.7%, Open World 9.7%
- #31 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,680 reviews2021
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Experience the first stages of terraforming an entire planet in this space survival open world terraforming crafting game prologue. Explore, survive, collect, build your base then create oxygen, heat and pressure to make an hostile planet livable for humanity.
Why similar: Survival 18.6%, Crafting 17.8%, Open World 14.5%, Base Building 14.4%, Multiplayer 12.2%
- #32 Planetaries
76% matchMixed58% of 223 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: Crafting 18.5%, Survival 16.3%, Open World 14.8%, Base Building 12.9%, Building 12.7%
- #33 Keplerth
75% matchVery Positive85% of 4,138 reviews2022
Dev: TAROPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 16.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Welcome to Keplerth! Try to survive on a hostile alien planet in this 2D sandbox RPG, where you can choose to live alone or fight side by side with your friends in the online multiplayer mode. Survive, build, farm, fight, and explore your way to victory in this open-world adventure!
Why similar: Survival 20.4%, Open World 18.3%, Building 15.7%, Crafting 9.7%, Multiplayer 9.4%
- #34 Grim
73% matchMixed59% of 146 reviews2025
Dev: Spoonfed InteractivePub: Beyond Frames
Windows
GRIM is an Exclusive VR Multiplayer Survival game where you must immerse yourself, stranded on a secluded part of Earth. Survival is not just a choice but a grueling battle against nature and other players. Gather resources, craft, and build your base, all to stay alive.
Why similar: Crafting 16.9%, Survival 15.4%, Massively Multiplayer 12.2%, Open World 12.1%, Base Building 9.9%
- #35 Exile to Death
75% matchMixed67% of 324 reviews2018
Dev: Aleksei MilchakovPub: Manifestors Games Studio
Windows
Median: 9.4 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 99%
Explore the world , collect resources , craft items , build a fortified house and kill other players to survive. BUT don't forget about cyborgs...
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 41.8%, Crafting 22.4%, Survival 22.3%, Action 6.9%, Adventure 3.6%
- #36 Will To Live Online
73% matchMixed69% of 18,236 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: Survival 27.1%, Open World 17.5%, Massively Multiplayer 17%, Multiplayer 13.6%, FPS 9.8%
- #37 LIFE EFFECT Survival
70% matchVery Positive88% of 453 reviews2026
Dev: LIFE EFFECTPub: EFFECT STUDIO
Windows
Survive in a harsh and dangerous world after an alien invasion. Gather resources, craft equipment, fight mutants and massive monsters, use weapons, vehicles and robots, explore territories, defend strongholds and fight for survival.
Why similar: Crafting 23.4%, Survival 19.7%, FPS 18.2%, Robots 13%, Futuristic 10.1%
- #38 Life Not Supported
73% matchMixed67% of 172 reviews2023
Dev: YETIBYTES
Windows · Linux
You are the lone survivor orbiting a potential new home planet, tethered to what’s left of your ship. Gather nearby debris and assemble a make-shift vessel in an attempt to survive the harsh realities of space. Maybe you'll live long enough to uncover the truth behind the ship's malfunction...
Why similar: Crafting 21.1%, Survival 17.3%, Base Building 14.7%, Building 12.6%, Multiplayer 10%
- #39 PIONER
70% matchMixed63% of 3,493 reviews2025
Dev: GFAGAMES
Windows
Median: 7.5 hrsMean: 19.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
PIONER drops players into a vast, grim world, where survival hinges on exploration, crafting, and smart resource management. As an MMO FPS, it offers both PvE missions and intense PvP zones, with unique crafting mechanics, hundreds of weapons and a deep story to explore.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 21.5%, Crafting 16.1%, Survival 13.8%, Open World 13.3%, FPS 13.1%
- #40 Dead District: Survival
72% matchMixed48% of 473 reviews2023
Dev: BadBit Games
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Open-world survival sandbox with base-building, crafting, farming and multiplayer. Explore a dangerous island, fight, build and stay alive.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 21.8%, Crafting 13.8%, Survival 13.3%, FPS 10.9%, Multiplayer 9.2%
- #41 Deadside
68% matchMostly Positive76% of 40,248 reviews2024
Dev: Bad Pixel
Windows
Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 44.5 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: Survival 17.7%, Massively Multiplayer 13.9%, FPS 13.4%, Open World 13.3%, Crafting 10.4%
- #42 Dysterra
70% matchMixed56% of 763 reviews2025
Dev: Reality MagiQ
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 65%
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: Crafting 23%, Survival 19%, FPS 17.2%, Base Building 16.6%, PvP 10.2%
- #43 Out of Reach
72% matchMixed57% of 3,046 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
You’re a castaway stranded in the middle of nowhere. Storm is gone, the worst certainly not. Look for food and resources, craft gear, make shelters. These are the basics, you need much more to stay alive on this cut-off-the-world, yet not desert island. Build & burn, sail & explore, be Out of Reach!
Why similar: Survival 18.5%, Massively Multiplayer 15.9%, Crafting 15.7%, Open World 13.7%, Multiplayer 9.5%
- #44 Muck
67% matchVery Positive93% of 183,134 reviews2021
Dev: Dani
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Muck is a survival-roguelike. Collect resources, find items & build a base to survive for as long as you can.
Why similar: Survival 21.4%, Crafting 18.3%, Multiplayer 12.1%, Open World 11.9%, Building 11.1%
- #45 Away From Life
67% matchMixed69% of 157 reviews2026
Dev: Cursor GamesPub: IZilla Games
Windows
You survived a helicopter crash; going home is your top priority. Live as a castaway - survive the dangers of the islands by using your environment to find food, build shelter, craft tools to extend your stay, explore the secrets of the islands and their surrounding waters, and carve your way home.
Why similar: Crafting 15.6%, Survival 12.9%, FPS 12.2%, Building 10.9%, Base Building 10.9%
- #46 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
66% matchVery Positive91% of 7,431 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Survive, craft, and automate in this free prologue set on one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters, an open-world game where you play solo or with friends to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.
Why similar: Crafting 17.3%, Base Building 14.5%, Open World 14%, Multiplayer 12.8%, Survival 11.6%
- #47 Sunrise: survival
71% matchMixed48% of 529 reviews2017
Dev: Fedorov Ilya & Andrew Konovalov
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 34.3 hrs≥1hr: 46%
"Sunrise" - an online shooter with elements of survival from the first person. Your task is to survive in the harsh conditions of the post-apocalyptic world. Explore new regions, team up with other players in groups, survive with them and create your own rules of survival!
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 25.2%, Survival 24.8%, Multiplayer 11%, Open World 9.3%, FPS 8.8%
- #48 Cubic Odyssey
66% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,584 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Embark on a galactic journey in Cubic Odyssey, an open-world adventure where you explore vibrant planets, craft tools, build vehicles, and fight the Red Darkness. Uncover ancient mysteries, and shape a universe full of life, danger, and limitless possibilities!
Why similar: Base Building 22.7%, Building 19.7%, Action-Adventure 13.1%, Open World 8.7%, Crafting 8.5%
- #49 DREADZONE
67% matchMixed52% of 1,188 reviews2025
Dev: Eshed
Windows
Dreadzone is a survival game set in a deadly quarantine zone. Scavenge for resources, craft tools, build shelter, and survive against dangerous animals, zombies, mutants, and other survivors. Explore the zone where desperation drives everyone to do whatever it takes to survive.
Why similar: Crafting 16.7%, Survival 16.1%, Open World 14.3%, Base Building 12.9%, Multiplayer 10.8%
- #50 Polygeddon
68% matchMixed41% of 66 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: Massively Multiplayer 18.5%, Survival 17.4%, Crafting 17.3%, Open World 15.6%, Multiplayer 11.7%
- #51 StarRupture
64% matchVery Positive81% of 12,313 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 22.6 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: Crafting 20.2%, Survival 18.5%, Base Building 16.5%, Open World 16.4%, Multiplayer 12.1%
- #52 Survival: Lost Way
69% matchMostly Negative36% of 291 reviews2023
Dev: SimplePlanPub: SimplePlan Studio
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
An open-world post-apocalyptic survival sandbox. Scavenge, craft, build, and survive solo or in co-op.
Why similar: Crafting 22.3%, Survival 19.4%, FPS 13.8%, Multiplayer 13.2%, Building 9.7%
- #53 Jitter
65% matchVery Positive86% of 159 reviews2025
Dev: Berko Games
Windows
A sci-fi exploration & survival game where you take on the role of a spaceship’s AI. Explore, fight, and survive across a mining colony in the Main Asteroid Belt. Rebuild your ship. Rescue your crew. Reveal the truth behind your mission.
Why similar: Open World 25.8%, Base Building 19.9%, Action-Adventure 12.5%, Space 12%, Exploration 10.5%