- #1 Stranded Deep
97% matchMostly Positive74% of 47,062 reviews2022
Dev: Beam Team GamesPub: Beam Team Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 21.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Take the role of a plane crash survivor stranded somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Come face to face with some of the most life threatening scenarios that will result in a different experience each time you play. Scavenge. Discover. Survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.7% ★, Survival 11.5%, Open World 7.1%, Crafting 6.9%, Multiplayer 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: This is the most direct parallel to Project Castaway, focusing on surviving on a deserted island and navigating the Pacific Ocean.
- #2 Raft
96% matchVery Positive93% of 368,916 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.5 hrsMean: 36.8 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.3% ★, Survival 11.8%, Co-op 10.2%, Multiplayer 6.8%, Base Building 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the core theme of surviving on the open ocean while constantly expanding your base to stay afloat.
- #3 Survival: Fountain of Youth
96% matchVery Positive86% of 4,270 reviews2024
Dev: Odinsoft Inc.Pub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 18.7 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Survival: Fountain of Youth is a challenging single-player open-world adventure game set on the Caribbean islands. Survive as a shipwrecked 16th-century explorer, craft tools and shelter, and uncover the secrets of both an ancient civilization and your own fate.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27% ★, Underwater 13.6% ★, Base Building 10.2%, Survival 8.7%, Crafting 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: A challenging survival game that emphasizes island exploration and historical survival mechanics in a tropical setting.
- #4 Sunkenland
95% 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 29.4% ★, Underwater 17.1% ★, Co-op 10%, Survival 8.4%, Base Building 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: Combines water-based survival with base building and combat in a flooded, post-apocalyptic world.
- #5 Subnautica
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 344,093 reviews2018
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.4 hrsMean: 40.0 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: Open World Survival Craft 31.3% ★, Underwater 19.7% ★, Survival 9.8%, Base Building 8.3%, Open World 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: While sci-fi, it is the gold standard for water-based survival and exploration with a deep sense of isolation.
- #6 Escape The Pacific
94% matchMixed68% of 754 reviews2018
Dev: Gamers4Gamers Team
Windows
Raw, real survival in the Pacific. Build a modular floating base. Master realistic sailing mechanics. Face challenging Pacific-like weather & seasons. Hunt, craft, build & navigate using Sun Dial, Sextant & Triangulation. Explore an endless island cluster-based world. Simulate real life scenarios!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33% ★, Survival 10.1%, Sandbox 9.3%, Crafting 9.2%, Open World 9%
Why You'll Like It: A highly realistic survival simulation that focuses on the intricacies of living as a castaway in the Pacific.
- #7 The Forest
93% 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 47.5% ★, Survival 14.5%, Open World 9.5%, Crafting 7.4%, Building 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a similar sense of being stranded after a disaster, forcing you to build a base and survive against hostile inhabitants.
- #8 Sons Of The Forest
91% matchVery Positive88% of 299,895 reviews2024
Dev: Endnight Games LtdPub: Newnight
Windows
Median: 14.9 hrsMean: 32.0 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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 16.1%, Co-op 15.2%, Base Building 13.9%, Open World 12.6%, Multiplayer 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: An advanced survival experience that improves upon its predecessor with deeper building systems and intense island exploration.
- #9 Green Hell
91% 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 33.9% ★, Survival 10.6%, Online Co-Op 10.1%, Multiplayer 6.6%, Base Building 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a hardcore survival experience that emphasizes realistic health management and environmental hazards.
- #10 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
90% 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 24.6% ★, Online Co-Op 9.4%, Base Building 9.2%, Survival 8.2%, Co-op 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on survival and base building from a unique perspective with a heavy emphasis on exploration.
- #11 The Planet Crafter
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 67,314 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.1 hrsMean: 37.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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: Open World Survival Craft 26.8% ★, Base Building 10.5%, Online Co-Op 10.4%, Co-op 8.9%, Survival 8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the satisfaction of transforming a barren environment through base building and resource management.
- #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 27.2% ★, Online Co-Op 9.7%, Base Building 9.5%, Survival 9.4%, Co-op 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: A session-based survival game that requires careful planning and resource gathering in a hostile environment.
- #13 Valheim
86% 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 29.6% ★, Online Co-Op 11.3%, Survival 8.8%, Base Building 7.8%, Open World 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: While set in a different biome, it offers unparalleled freedom in base building and exploration in a survival-focused world.
- #14 Salt
88% matchMostly Positive76% of 2,246 reviews2018
Dev: Lavaboots Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Salt is an open world exploration game where you sail from island to island looking for loot and new discoveries! Relax and explore at your own pace, picking a direction and setting sail across a vast ocean filled with quests, merchants, ruins, pirates, and other mysterious places.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.2% ★, Survival 12.3%, Open World 11.3%, Crafting 8.9%, Sandbox 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world exploration game that centers on sailing and discovering islands in a vast, endless ocean.
- #15 Forever Skies
86% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,284 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.4 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: Open World Survival Craft 26.8% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Co-op 11.1%, Survival 9%, Crafting 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: Features a unique high-altitude survival mechanic that mirrors the resource management and base-building needs of ocean survival.
- #16 Windbound
87% matchMixed59% of 1,161 reviews2020
Dev: 5 Lives StudiosPub: Deep Silver
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 63%
The Forbidden Islands are Calling, Unlock their Secrets. Shipwrecked on an island, explore, adapt and navigate the land and perilous seas to stay alive.
Why similar: Survival 31.3%, Crafting 22.6%, RPG 14.6%, Adventure 11.9%, Open World 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: Features a beautiful art style and focuses on sailing between islands to survive in a mysterious archipelago.
- #17 ARK: Survival Ascended
85% 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: Survival 18.5%, Base Building 15.6%, Open World 15%, Crafting 11.5%, Building 11.4%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a massive open-world survival experience with deep base-building and creature taming mechanics.
- #18 Voidtrain
84% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,176 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 13.8 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: Open World Survival Craft 31.5% ★, Co-op 9.1%, Online Co-Op 8.4%, Base Building 8%, Survival 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a unique take on the 'moving base' survival genre, similar to the experience of building a raft.
- #19 Pacific Drive
83% matchVery Positive83% of 24,897 reviews2024
Dev: Ironwood StudiosPub: Kepler Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Face the supernatural dangers of the Olympic Exclusion Zone with a car as your only lifeline in this driving survival adventure! Scavenge resources, load up your trusty station wagon, and drive like hell to make it through alive.
Why similar: Survival 19.8%, Base Building 16.7%, Crafting 15.4%, Sandbox 12.8%, Building 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: Though focused on a vehicle rather than an island, it captures the same feeling of being stranded in a dangerous, isolated environment.
- #20 Subsistence
84% 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 38.6% ★, Survival 11.4%, Crafting 8.3%, Open World 7.3%, Base Building 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: A realistic survival game that focuses on long-term base building and managing resources against AI threats.
- #21 Nightingale
82% matchMixed67% of 17,841 reviews2024
Dev: Inflexion Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 23.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Nightingale is an open world survival crafting game, where you’ll adventure across the mysterious and dangerous Fae Realms. As a daring Realmwalker, you’ll defeat monstrous enemies, survive hostile environments, and build elaborate estates in a visually stunning Gaslamp Fantasy world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.5% ★, Online Co-Op 10.3%, Base Building 8.2%, Survival 8.2%, Co-op 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a vast, procedurally generated world with a strong focus on survival, crafting, and exploration.
- #22 Eden Crafters
82% matchVery Positive86% of 2,214 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in Eden Crafters, a solo and co-op open-world game that challenges you to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Temper the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.5% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Online Co-Op 9.7%, Sandbox 8.4%, Crafting 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the automation and base-building aspects of survival in a challenging, open-world environment.
- #23 Subnautica: Below Zero
81% matchVery Positive90% of 102,346 reviews2021
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 15.9 hrsMean: 30.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Dive into a freezing underwater adventure on an alien planet. Below Zero is set two years after the original Subnautica. Return to Planet 4546B to uncover the truth behind a deadly cover-up. Survive by building habitats, crafting tools, & diving deeper into the world of Subnautica.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.8% ★, Underwater 19.8% ★, Survival 9.2%, Base Building 8.4%, Open World 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: A standalone expansion that offers more of the excellent underwater survival and exploration gameplay found in the original.
- #24 Lost Skies
81% matchMixed62% of 2,832 reviews2025
Dev: Bossa StudiosPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Chart a course in a breathtaking, but fractured world. Explore ancient ruins, master advanced technology, and craft your very own skyship to brave nature’s fury and colossal threats in Lost Skies. Team up with friends or go it alone in this awe-inspiring cooperative survival adventure.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.1% ★, Online Co-Op 14.3%, Base Building 13.3%, Sandbox 9.1%, Open World 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: An exploration-heavy survival game that focuses on building airships to travel between floating islands.
- #25 Grounded
80% matchVery Positive90% of 92,875 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.2 hrsMean: 40.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.8% ★, Survival 12.8%, Base Building 10.9%, Co-op 10.7%, Multiplayer 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: A polished survival game that excels in base building and environmental exploration.
- #26 7 Days to Die
79% 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 29.6% ★, Survival 13.4%, Online Co-Op 10.7%, Base Building 10.6%, Open World 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: The quintessential survival game for those who enjoy complex base building and defending against waves of enemies.
- #27 Rust
79% 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 26.6% ★, Survival 17.5%, Crafting 10.5%, Open World 9.6%, Building 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: A classic multiplayer survival game that emphasizes base building and defending your territory against other players.
- #28 DREDGE
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 52,902 reviews2023
Dev: Black Salt GamesPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.5 hrsMean: 11.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%
DREDGE is a single-player fishing adventure with a sinister undercurrent. Sell your catch, upgrade your boat, and dredge the depths for long-buried secrets. Explore a mysterious archipelago and discover why some things are best left forgotten.
Why similar: Open World 41.5%, Exploration 36%, Adventure 9.5%, RPG 8.8%, Singleplayer 4.2%
Why You'll Like It: While more focused on fishing, it perfectly captures the atmosphere of navigating a mysterious and dangerous ocean.
- #29 Conan Exiles
78% 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 29.4% ★, Survival 13.9%, Open World 10.6%, Building 8.9%, Crafting 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a massive open world with deep survival mechanics and extensive base-building options.
- #30 KeepUp Survival
77% 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 26.9% ★, Co-op 9.9%, Base Building 9.7%, Survival 8.7%, Sandbox 7.7%
- #31 Survival Machine
75% 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% ★, Online Co-Op 10.3%, Base Building 9.4%, Co-op 8.9%, Survival 7.7%
- #32 Volcanoids
76% 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 25.8% ★, Online Co-Op 9.8%, Base Building 8%, Survival 7.6%, Co-op 7.3%
- #33 Under A New Sun
76% matchMostly Positive76% of 368 reviews2023
Dev: New Horizon Games
Windows
While searching for a new home, an unexpected failure in your ship has left you stranded on a planet surprisingly similar to Earth. Discover a vast open world, hunt for food, develop technologies, and build yourself a new home to survive!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.7% ★, Underwater 14.6% ★, Survival 9.6%, Base Building 9%, Open World 8.3%
- #34 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
74% matchVery Positive91% of 7,161 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in this free prologue introducing one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters – an upcoming open-world game that challenges you, alone or with friends, to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29% ★, Base Building 10.3%, Online Co-Op 9.7%, Sandbox 7%, Open World 6.9%
- #35 Out of Reach
77% matchMixed57% of 3,044 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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: Open World Survival Craft 38.5% ★, Survival 11.6%, Open World 8.5%, Crafting 7.8%, Building 6.3%
- #36 The Gold River Project
73% matchMixed67% of 526 reviews2026
Dev: Fairview Games Inc.
Windows
The Gold River Project™ invites you and your friends on an open world camping trip gone wrong. Alone or together, you must explore, craft, build, and survive the increasingly harsh environments of the Pacific Northwest wilderness as you uncover the experiment trapping you inside.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.8% ★, Co-op 10.3%, Online Co-Op 9.4%, Open World 8.9%, Survival 8.6%
- #37 Solace Crafting
75% matchMostly Positive72% of 891 reviews2022
Dev: Big Kitty Games
Windows · Linux
Embark on an adventure set in a fantasy survival RPG. Visit a borderless, open world where you manage resources to construct your base and new types of equipment to support your conquest.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.6% ★, Online Co-Op 9%, Base Building 8.8%, Survival 8.3%, Crafting 7.4%
- #38 IfSunSets
73% matchMostly Positive75% of 2,127 reviews2024
Dev: POLYMORPHPub: Smilegate
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 28.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
「IfSunSets」 is a survival RPG adventure game. During the day, secure necessary supplies across the island, and survive the night against strong and terrifying monsters that track you down. You can utilize resources you've secured to build a base to fend off threatening monsters.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27% ★, Online Co-Op 10.9%, Base Building 10.2%, Co-op 9.8%, Sandbox 8.7%
- #39 Cubic Odyssey
73% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,483 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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: Open World Survival Craft 30.3% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Co-op 10.8%, Sandbox 9.6%, Building 8%
- #40 Rem Survival
74% 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 33.4% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Survival 10.1%, Crafting 9.3%, Open World 8.6%
- #41 Dawn of Defiance
71% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,736 reviews2024
Dev: Traega EntertainmentPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
You are the Defier, a Spartan beginning your afterlife on the Crossroads. In this Greek myth-inspired survival craft, ascend from weak soldier to god-like anti-hero. Build impressive Greek structures, craft legendary gear, and break the seals of the Underworld with up to 3 friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.6% ★, Online Co-Op 12.9%, Survival 9.6%, Base Building 9.6%, Open World 6.5%
- #42 My Island
72% matchMixed67% of 1,706 reviews2024
Dev: SnowBaby Games
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 48%
MyIsland is a relaxed and beautiful survival game,You will drift and survive on the tropical islands, hunt and travel, build houses and development farming, and create your own warm homeland.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 50.1% ★, Survival 13.5%, Open World 9%, Crafting 8.1%, Multiplayer 6.6%
- #43 StarRupture
69% 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 26.9% ★, Base Building 10.8%, Co-op 9.7%, Survival 8.5%, Online Co-Op 8.4%
- #44 Aloft
69% matchVery Positive84% of 3,496 reviews2025
Dev: Astrolabe Interactive Inc.Pub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Soar the skies in Aloft, the co-op sandbox survival game set in a world of floating islands. Build any island into a skyship, your home in the clouds. Find lost knowledge, cure the fungal corruption, and brave the hurricane to restore the ecosystem.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.4% ★, Co-op 12.8%, Survival 11.1%, Crafting 10.3%, Building 9.9%
- #45 Start Over
71% matchMixed62% of 375 reviews2024
Dev: EY-Studio
Windows
Embark on an unpredictable survival journey in Start Over. Solo, co-op, online, explore diverse landscapes, craft through 4 tech tiers, encounter wildlife, and trade or raid for resources. Choose your path, defend against waves, and shape your destiny in a dynamic world. Are you ready to Start Over?
Why similar: Base Building 14%, Survival 11.5%, Sandbox 11%, Crafting 10.4%, Building 9.5%
- #46 Everwind
68% matchVery Positive82% of 2,069 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Everwind is a novel take on RPG and Sandbox Survival genre in First-Person-Perspective. Embark on the adventure with your friends - Build a base on a flying island-ship, gather resources, craft, loot, and fight while you rise above the clouds to uncover the mysteries of this world!
Why similar: Online Co-Op 14.5%, Co-op 13.4%, Sandbox 11.9%, Survival 11.4%, Open World 10.3%
- #47 Survive on Raft
72% matchMixed63% of 1,245 reviews2019
Dev: Megame LLC
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Survive on Raft is a Survival Sandbox Simulator on the Raft in the middle of the ocean! Fight with shark, build base, craft, loot islands, farm and survive. Play solo or with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.7% ★, Underwater 13.7% ★, Online Co-Op 9.4%, Base Building 8.9%, Survival 7.8%
- #48 Len's Island
68% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,615 reviews2025
Dev: Flow Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
An open-world survival crafting game for 1–8 players, blending intense dungeon crawling and ARPG combat with peaceful farming and creative building. Take on quests and explore a vast, procedurally-generated world full of danger and discovery.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.7% ★, Survival 10.3%, Base Building 9.7%, Sandbox 9.5%, Building 9.5%
- #49 Shamania
69% 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 26.6% ★, Survival 8.7%, Online Co-Op 8.6%, Open World 8.5%, Crafting 8.5%
- #50 Tinkerlands
67% matchVery Positive86% of 3,746 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 13.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Explore, craft, and fight your way through uncharted islands — solo or with up to 4 players in co-op! Tinkerlands is an exciting survival adventure where you will build your settlement, craft useful tools to survive, and even use magic!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.4% ★, Online Co-Op 11.6%, Sandbox 9%, Survival 8.4%, Co-op 8.2%
- #51 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 15.2%, Online Co-Op 15.1%, Open World 13.7%, Survival 13.7%, Crafting 9.6%
- #52 Force of Nature
70% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,198 reviews2016
Dev: A.Y.std
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.9% ★, Survival 10.8%, Crafting 10.1%, Sandbox 8.3%, Open World 7.3%
- #53 Forgotten Seas
67% matchMostly Positive77% of 572 reviews2025
Dev: Pangea Game StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
You are lost in the Bermuda Void, where the ocean is endless and dry land precious. Craft your Ship-in-a-Bottle, then experience survival on the high seas. Sail for new land, build camps, hunt for treasures, trade for goods - then defend your ship from dreaded pirates stalking this strange realm!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.9% ★, Online Co-Op 12.4%, Co-op 11.7%, Base Building 11.4%, Survival 9.5%
- #54 Project Cobalt
67% matchMostly Positive73% of 54 reviews2025
Dev: OxygenStudio
Windows
⚗️ Project Cobalt is a survival action game set on a hostile island 🌴. Scavenge containers, mine resources, craft tools, hunt animals, and endure storms as you fight hunger, disease, and exhaustion all while uncovering the dark truth behind a failed experiment.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.9% ★, Survival 11.4%, Sandbox 11%, Crafting 10.5%, Open World 10.1%
- #55 Arctico
68% matchMostly Positive71% of 2,417 reviews2022
Dev: Claudio Norori
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Explore Arctico with your dog sled, kayak, and up to 3 friends! Build and customize your base camp, gather resources and samples, set up labs, and take good care of your dogs in this peaceful island.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.8% ★, Co-op 11.2%, Survival 9.2%, Open World 8.3%, Base Building 6.7%
- #56 Fragmented
71% 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 42.8% ★, Survival 12.2%, Open World 7.6%, Sandbox 6.3%, Crafting 5.9%
- #57 The Last Caretaker
64% matchVery Positive85% of 9,793 reviews2025
Dev: Channel37 Ltd
Windows
Median: 18.8 hrsMean: 30.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Explore a drowned Earth, restore lost systems, and raise the last human seeds in this first-person survival-crafting adventure. Build, scavenge, defend, and launch humanity back to the stars.
Why similar: Base Building 18.6%, Survival 15.2%, Sandbox 15.2%, Crafting 14%, Open World 13.6%
- #58 Cube Life: Island Survival
70% matchMixed69% of 177 reviews2018
Dev: Cypronia
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Cube Life: Island Survival is an open-world, block building, survival game, taking place on a beautiful remote island. Imagine being shipwrecked and stranded left for dead, with only your will to survive. You must explore, build, craft, and fight your way to stay alive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.9% ★, Sandbox 9.9%, Survival 9.1%, Building 8.8%, Open World 8.5%
