Games Like Project Castaway

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 38.9% ★, Survival 11.6%, Open World 7.1%, Crafting 6.8%, Multiplayer 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: This is the most direct thematic match, focusing on surviving on remote Pacific islands and navigating the ocean between them.

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 31.5% ★, Survival 11.9%, Co-op 10.2%, Multiplayer 6.8%, Base Building 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the core oceanic survival loop, challenging players to build and expand a floating base while scavenging resources from the sea.

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 29.6% ★, Underwater 16.9% ★, Co-op 10%, Survival 8.5%, Base Building 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Set in a flooded world, this game emphasizes scavenging, base-building, and defending your territory from threats in an oceanic environment.

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 27.2% ★, Underwater 13.4% ★, Base Building 10.1%, Survival 8.8%, Crafting 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: This title offers a highly detailed island survival experience with a strong focus on exploration and historical crafting mechanics.

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 34.1% ★, Survival 10.7%, Online Co-Op 10%, Multiplayer 6.7%, Base Building 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: If you enjoy the intense, realistic survival aspects of Project Castaway, this game provides a similarly punishing and immersive jungle survival experience.

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 31.5% ★, Underwater 19.5% ★, Survival 9.8%, Base Building 8.2%, Open World 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: While sci-fi themed, it is the gold standard for ocean-based exploration and survival, offering a sense of wonder and danger similar to Pacific exploration.

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 33.2% ★, Survival 10.2%, Sandbox 9.3%, Crafting 9.1%, Open World 9%

Why You'll Like It: This title focuses on realistic survival mechanics and the challenges of navigating the open ocean in a first-person perspective.

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 24.8% ★, Online Co-Op 9.3%, Base Building 9.1%, Survival 8.3%, Co-op 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the sense of scale and exploration found in survival games, tasking players with building bases and surviving in a vast, dangerous world.

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 38.9% ★, Survival 11.4%, Crafting 8.2%, Open World 7.3%, Base Building 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a grounded, realistic survival experience with a heavy emphasis on base-building and defending against both AI and environmental threats.

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 47.8% ★, Survival 14.5%, Open World 9.5%, Crafting 7.3%, Building 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game excels at island-based survival and base-building, adding a layer of intense horror and exploration that keeps the gameplay loop engaging.

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 16.4%, Co-op 15.1%, Base Building 13.7%, Open World 12.7%, Multiplayer 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: The sequel to The Forest offers even more advanced building and survival systems, making it a perfect step up for fans of island-based survival games.

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 27.2% ★, Base Building 10.5%, Online Co-Op 10.3%, Co-op 8.9%, Survival 8%

Why You'll Like It: While set on a desert planet, the core loop of gathering resources to survive and terraforming the environment mirrors the progression of island survival titles.

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 27.1% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Co-op 11.1%, Survival 9%, Crafting 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game features a unique mobile base-building mechanic on an airship, providing a similar sense of nomadic survival as sailing the ocean.

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 27.4% ★, Online Co-Op 9.6%, Survival 9.4%, Base Building 9.3%, Co-op 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: This session-based survival game features high-stakes exploration and base-building that will appeal to players who enjoy the progression loop of Project Castaway.

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 29.9% ★, Online Co-Op 11.2%, Survival 8.8%, Base Building 7.8%, Open World 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a compelling mix of exploration, sailing, and base-building that resonates with the core gameplay pillars of Project Castaway.

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 29.1% ★, Survival 12.9%, Base Building 10.8%, Co-op 10.7%, Multiplayer 7%

Why You'll Like It: This game provides a polished survival experience with a focus on exploration and base-building in a hostile, oversized environment.

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 38.7% ★, Survival 11.6%, Open World 8.5%, Crafting 7.7%, Building 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: It is a dedicated island survival game that focuses on the challenges of living on a remote archipelago with multiplayer elements.

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 27% ★, Co-op 9.8%, Base Building 9.6%, Survival 8.8%, Open World 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a straightforward open-world survival experience with a focus on building and gathering in a vast, untamed landscape.

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: Open World Survival Craft 29.3% ★, Base Building 10.2%, Online Co-Op 9.6%, Open World 6.9%, Sandbox 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: This title focuses on the intersection of ocean survival and base-building, providing a familiar loop for fans of the genre.

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 26.7% ★, Online Co-Op 10.2%, Survival 8.3%, Base Building 8.1%, Co-op 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: It features a unique realm-hopping survival loop that emphasizes exploration, crafting, and building in diverse, dangerous environments.

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: Base Building 12.1%, Co-op 11.1%, Online Co-Op 10.8%, Sandbox 10.1%, Survival 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game features a unique mobile base-building mechanic that requires players to constantly adapt and move, similar to the nomadic nature of ocean survival.

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 38.5% ★, Online Co-Op 14.1%, Base Building 13.1%, Sandbox 9.1%, Open World 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on exploration and building in a world of floating islands, offering a fresh take on the survival-crafting genre.

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 29.8% ★, Survival 13.5%, Online Co-Op 10.6%, Base Building 10.5%, Open World 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: This title is a staple of the survival-crafting genre, offering unparalleled base-building and defensive mechanics for players who enjoy long-term survival.

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 18.6%, Base Building 15.4%, Open World 15.3%, Crafting 11.4%, Building 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a massive open-world survival experience with deep crafting and base-building mechanics set on a mysterious, dangerous island.

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 25.8% ★, Online Co-Op 9%, Base Building 8.7%, Survival 8.4%, Crafting 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a massive open world to explore and build in, focusing on the freedom of progression and crafting found in Project Castaway.

Conan Exiles Enhanced is an open world survival game set in the mythical lands of Hyboria, now fully upgraded to Unreal Engine 5 with stunning visuals and improved performance. SURVIVE, BUILD, and DOMINATE alone or with friends in a world brimming with adventure!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.7% ★, Survival 14%, Open World 10.6%, Building 8.8%, Crafting 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a brutal open-world survival experience with extensive base-building and exploration, perfect for those who want a more mature survival challenge.

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 50.4% ★, Survival 13.5%, Open World 9%, Crafting 8%, Multiplayer 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game is a dedicated island survival simulator that focuses on the basics of gathering, crafting, and building in a tropical setting.

THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies -- only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.5% ★, Survival 16.3%, Open World 9.7%, Crafting 5.3%, Sandbox 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: While set in a frozen wilderness, it is the ultimate test of survival skills and resource management, mirroring the hardcore nature of island survival.

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: Underwater 17.7% ★, Base Building 9.6%, Sandbox 8.7%, Survival 8.1%, Building 7.6%

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 14.8%, Co-op 13.2%, Sandbox 11.2%, Survival 11.1%, Open World 10.2%

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: Open World Survival Craft 33% ★, Online Co-Op 12.1%, Survival 9.4%, Base Building 7.3%, Crafting 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Despite the space setting, the core loop of drifting, surviving, and building in a hostile, isolated environment is very similar to ocean survival.

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 33% ★, Underwater 14.5% ★, Survival 9.6%, Base Building 8.9%, Open World 8.4%

Voyagers of Nera is a cooperative survival-crafting game where you must survive a magical ocean world brimming with lost spirits and deadly monsters. Sail to distant islands, build beautiful villages and surf across the waves with up to 10 players.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.3% ★, Underwater 19.6% ★, Online Co-Op 10.4%, Base Building 9.7%, Co-op 9.6%

The Gold River Project™ is a camping trip gone wrong in the Pacific Northwest. Explore, craft, build, and survive in this open-world experiment that traps you and up to 4 friends in this single player or co-op survival adventure game.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.1% ★, Co-op 10.3%, Online Co-Op 9.3%, Open World 8.9%, Survival 8.6%

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 34% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Co-op 11.5%, Sandbox 10.1%, Building 8.7%

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 31.6% ★, Co-op 9.1%, Online Co-Op 8.3%, Base Building 8%, Survival 7.3%

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 32% ★, Online Co-Op 12.8%, Survival 9.6%, Base Building 9.5%, Open World 6.5%

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 24% ★, Underwater 13.6% ★, Online Co-Op 9.4%, Base Building 8.8%, Survival 7.8%

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 33.6% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Survival 10.1%, Crafting 9.2%, Open World 8.7%

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 43% ★, Survival 12.2%, Open World 7.6%, Sandbox 6.3%, Crafting 5.8%

Adventure awaits you and your friends in the world of Ylands! Gather resources, craft tools, construct anything and everything, and explore the lands! Build a ship and set sail, encountering mythical animals, a wide variety of sea-life, enemies of all kinds and much more!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30% ★, Base Building 10.5%, Online Co-Op 9.8%, Co-op 8.5%, Crafting 8.4%

Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29% ★, Base Building 10.6%, Online Co-Op 9.3%, Sandbox 8.1%, Crafting 7.8%

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 13.9%, Survival 11.6%, Sandbox 11%, Crafting 10.3%, Building 9.4%

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 26.9% ★, Survival 8.8%, Open World 8.5%, Online Co-Op 8.5%, Crafting 8.4%

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 29.9% ★, Online Co-Op 11.4%, Sandbox 9%, Survival 8.5%, Co-op 8.1%

Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival RPG where you can fully immerse yourself in the epic world of Dune. Alone or with friends, explore a vast open world Arrakis, survive the sandworms, build a home, craft an ornithopter, and unravel the mystery of the missing Fremen.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.5% ★, Online Co-Op 10.2%, Base Building 10%, Survival 8.2%, Sandbox 8.1%

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 27.2% ★, Base Building 10.7%, Co-op 9.7%, Survival 8.5%, Online Co-Op 8.3%

Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.2% ★, Survival 10.8%, Crafting 9.9%, Sandbox 8.3%, Open World 7.2%

MIST SURVIVAL is a Single-player, survival stealth sandbox game Players will experience the Apocalypse stimulation in the form of virus pandemic, the players have to deal with it to survive through the difficulties such as finding shelter and food, threats from the environment and climate: wild animals, bandits, infected, and dense mist t

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.3% ★, Survival 17.9%, Open World 11.6%, Base Building 10.8%, Crafting 6.7%

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 19.9%, Survival 16.3%, Sandbox 16.2%, Crafting 15%, Open World 14.2%

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 48.1% ★, Sandbox 9.9%, Survival 9.1%, Building 8.7%, Open World 8.5%

⚗️ 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 31.2% ★, Survival 11.5%, Sandbox 11%, Crafting 10.4%, Open World 10.2%

Starsand is a mystic survival game set among the dunes of an arcane desert. An open-world full of danger, vast environments and mysterious happenings await you! Explore, hunt, craft, build – and SURVIVE.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.4% ★, Base Building 10.6%, Survival 9.7%, Open World 8.6%, Crafting 8%

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 40.4% ★, Survival 12.3%, Open World 11.3%, Crafting 8.8%, Sandbox 8.4%

Survive a brutal open world alone or with friends. Explore a procedural wasteland scorched by chaos. Build and defend your base, trade for what you need, complete deadly quests, and fight to claim faction outposts before someone else does.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.4% ★, Online Co-Op 10.2%, Base Building 10%, Co-op 8.8%, Sandbox 8.5%

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 26.6% ★, Co-op 12.7%, Survival 11.1%, Crafting 10.2%, Building 9.8%

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%, Open World 13.9%, Survival 13.8%, Crafting 9.5%

Survive on a remote Island, where a mysterious Outbreak awakens bloodthirsty monsters at night. Craft, build and defend your base in the brutal world of Outbreak Island, an open-world sandbox survival horror game.

Why similar: Sandbox 16.8%, Survival 16.5%, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 10.9%, Building 9.9%