- #1 Stranded Deep
97% matchMostly Positive74% of 47,919 reviews2022
Dev: Beam Team GamesPub: Beam Team Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 20.9 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 39.4% ★, Survival 11.6%, Open World 7.2%, Crafting 6.7%, Multiplayer 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the exact same Pacific island-survival and ocean-exploration premise as Project Castaway.
- #2 Sunkenland
96% matchVery Positive80% of 24,007 reviews2023
Dev: Vector3 Studio
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 20.3 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 30.1% ★, Underwater 16.6% ★, Co-op 9.7%, Survival 8.5%, Base Building 8%
Why You'll Like It: It features the same aquatic exploration, base building, and survival loop centered around island environments.
- #3 Green Hell
96% matchVery Positive85% of 102,938 reviews2019
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 34.5% ★, Survival 10.8%, Online Co-Op 9.6%, Multiplayer 6.7%, Base Building 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: Both games deliver a harsh, realistic survival experience demanding strict management of health, injuries, and crafting.
- #4 Raft
95% matchVery Positive93% of 379,035 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.8 hrsMean: 38.0 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 32.1% ★, Survival 12.1%, Co-op 9.9%, Multiplayer 6.7%, Base Building 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: Both titles immerse players in open-ocean survival, resource gathering, and craft-driven progression.
- #5 Survival: Fountain of Youth
94% matchVery Positive85% of 4,528 reviews2024
Dev: Odinsoft Inc.Pub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 18.6 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 27.7% ★, Underwater 13.3% ★, Base Building 9.9%, Survival 8.9%, Crafting 7%
Why You'll Like It: It matches the historical island-survival theme and crafting depth found in Project Castaway.
- #6 Subnautica
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 380,795 reviews2018
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.3 hrsMean: 39.8 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 31.9% ★, Underwater 19.3% ★, Survival 9.8%, Base Building 8%, Open World 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: Both games center on surviving in a vast, water-heavy alien or terrestrial ocean world relying heavily on resource collection.
- #7 The Planet Crafter
92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 74,281 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.7 hrsMean: 38.8 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: Open World Survival Craft 27.8% ★, Base Building 10.5%, Online Co-Op 9.8%, Co-op 8.7%, Survival 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: Both games reward methodical resource gathering and environmental transformation from a first-person perspective.
- #8 Forever Skies
91% matchMostly Positive78% of 9,059 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 30.5 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 27.7% ★, Base Building 10.9%, Co-op 10.8%, Survival 9.1%, Open World 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the same isolated survival and mobile base-crafting mechanics in a fresh environment.
- #9 Subsistence
91% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,861 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 40.4 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 39.5% ★, Survival 11.5%, Crafting 8%, Open World 7.4%, Base Building 7%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a robust open-world survival crafting and base defense loop similar to the core gameplay of Project Castaway.
- #10 The Forest
90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 683,269 reviews2018
Dev: Endnight Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 37.4 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 48.2% ★, Survival 14.5%, Open World 9.6%, Crafting 7.1%, Building 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a similar isolated island survival and base-building experience fraught with environmental hazards.
- #11 ICARUS
89% matchMostly Positive75% of 68,864 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.4 hrsMean: 46.7 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: Open World Survival Craft 28.1% ★, Survival 9.6%, Online Co-Op 9.3%, Base Building 9.2%, Co-op 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: It offers intense pve survival and open-world crafting that appeals to fans of hardcore survival loops.
- #12 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
87% matchVery Positive82% of 10,551 reviews2024
Dev: Max Ent Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 16.3 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 25.4% ★, Base Building 9%, Online Co-Op 8.9%, Survival 8.5%, Co-op 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: Both emphasize immersive scale, exploration, and building shelters in untamed natural environments.
- #13 Under A New Sun
88% matchMostly Positive76% of 406 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 33.6% ★, Underwater 14% ★, Survival 9.7%, Base Building 8.8%, Open World 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the theme of being stranded on tropical islands and building up a sustainable base from scratch.
- #14 Out of Reach
89% matchMixed57% of 3,051 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.1 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 39.2% ★, Survival 11.7%, Open World 8.6%, Crafting 7.5%, Building 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: Both games challenge players to survive, craft, and build on remote island territories.
- #15 The Long Dark
86% matchVery Positive89% of 123,946 reviews2017
Dev: Hinterland Studio Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 47.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 49.9% ★, Survival 16.3%, Open World 9.8%, Crafting 5.2%, Sandbox 5%
Why You'll Like It: Both focus deeply on slow-burn, atmospheric survival against the elements with minimal hand-holding.
- #16 Occupy Mars: The Game
85% matchMixed70% of 3,170 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 36.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Survive and colonize Mars alone or in online co-op. Build and upgrade your base, craft equipment, mine resources, produce water, oxygen and food, explore an open world, and repair complex machinery in a technical survival sandbox.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.3% ★, Online Co-Op 9.9%, Base Building 9.9%, Survival 8.1%, Crafting 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: Both focus on intricate survival mechanics, tool management, and base construction in hostile terrains.
- #17 KeepUp Survival
86% matchMixed64% of 751 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
KeepUp Survival is an open-world base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and shape your own story on a mysterious island.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.5% ★, Co-op 9.6%, Base Building 9.4%, Survival 8.9%, Open World 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: It matches the open-world survival mechanics and wilderness exploration elements.
- #18 Voyagers of Nera
83% matchVery Positive85% of 2,647 reviews2025
Dev: Treehouse Games
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 25.1% ★, Underwater 19.5% ★, Online Co-Op 9.9%, Base Building 9.6%, Co-op 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the aquatic exploration and cooperative island-hopping spirit of ocean-based survival games.
- #19 Nightingale
84% matchMixed66% of 18,084 reviews2024
Dev: Inflexion Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 24.0 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 27.3% ★, Online Co-Op 9.8%, Survival 8.4%, Base Building 8%, Co-op 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: It offers deep crafting and survival progression within richly realized open-world environments.
- #20 Solace Crafting
84% matchMostly Positive71% of 899 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 26.4% ★, Online Co-Op 8.6%, Base Building 8.5%, Survival 8.5%, Crafting 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: Both titles give players vast open worlds to explore and manipulate through comprehensive building systems.
- #21 Dawn of Defiance
82% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,856 reviews2024
Dev: Traega EntertainmentPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
You are a fallen Spartan, cast into the realm between the living and the Underworld. In this survival adventure inspired by Greek myth, hunt, craft and build a home worthy of legend with up to 3 friends. Raid the gods' temples, defeat legendary creatures and loot the iconic weapons of the Olympians.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.7% ★, Online Co-Op 12.3%, Survival 9.8%, Base Building 9.3%, Open World 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: It features cooperative survival crafting and shelter-building reminiscent of the progression in Project Castaway.
- #22 Ylands
82% matchMixed64% of 8,453 reviews2019
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 46%
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 30.7% ★, Base Building 10.3%, Online Co-Op 9.4%, Crafting 8.4%, Co-op 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: Both utilize colorful, voxel-inspired or stylized tropical island settings focused on exploration and crafting.
- #23 Everwind
79% matchVery Positive81% of 3,899 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 14.3%, Co-op 12.9%, Survival 11.4%, Sandbox 11.1%, Open World 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: It provides open-world exploration and cooperative survival mechanics akin to modern crafting games.
- #24 Volcanoids
81% matchVery Positive83% of 9,358 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.9 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: Base Building 12%, Co-op 11%, Online Co-Op 10.5%, Sandbox 10%, Survival 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes mobile base-building and surviving against a hostile island environment.
- #25 My Island
80% matchMixed66% of 1,739 reviews2024
Dev: SnowBaby Games
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 47%
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 51% ★, Survival 13.6%, Open World 9.1%, Crafting 7.6%, Multiplayer 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the relaxing yet challenging loop of surviving alone on a remote tropical landmass.
- #26 Rem Survival
79% matchMostly Positive76% of 809 reviews2021
Dev: Immortal Hand Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 47.4 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 34.2% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Survival 10.2%, Crafting 9%, Open World 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: It mirrors the core open-world survival and base-building formula found in sandbox titles.
- #27 Away From Life
77% matchMixed67% of 238 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: Underwater 17.6% ★, Base Building 9.5%, Sandbox 8.6%, Survival 8.3%, Building 7.7%
- #28 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
76% matchVery Positive91% of 7,668 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 54%
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 29.9% ★, Base Building 10%, Online Co-Op 9.2%, Open World 7.1%, Sandbox 6.7%
- #29 Solarpunk™
75% matchVery Positive81% of 4,581 reviews2026
Dev: CyberwavePub: rokaplay
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Solarpunk is a survival game in a technologically advanced world of floating islands. Alone or together with your friends, you can construct buildings, grow food, craft gadgets and hop on your airship to explore distant islands in the sky.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.1% ★, Base Building 9.4%, Online Co-Op 9.3%, Co-op 9.1%, Sandbox 7.4%
- #30 Force of Nature
78% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,209 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 38.7% ★, Survival 10.8%, Crafting 9.7%, Sandbox 8.1%, Open World 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: Both games task players with exploring procedurally generated worlds and gathering materials to stay alive.
- #31 The Gold River Project
76% matchMixed63% of 686 reviews2026
Dev: Fairview Games Inc.
Windows
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 33.6% ★, Co-op 10.1%, Open World 9.1%, Online Co-Op 8.9%, Survival 8.7%
- #32 Voidtrain
74% matchMostly Positive73% of 9,990 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 14.8 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 32.3% ★, Co-op 8.9%, Online Co-Op 7.9%, Base Building 7.9%, Survival 7.4%
- #33 Fragmented
78% 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 43.6% ★, Survival 12.3%, Open World 7.7%, Sandbox 6.1%, Crafting 5.7%
Why You'll Like It: It delivers open-world survival elements focused on scavenging and building in wild frontiers.
- #34 Escape The Pacific
77% matchMixed67% of 762 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 33.7% ★, Survival 10.2%, Open World 9.1%, Sandbox 9.1%, Crafting 9%
- #35 Cubic Odyssey
73% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,754 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 34.8% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Co-op 11.3%, Sandbox 10%, Building 8.7%
- #36 Last Breath
73% matchVery Positive84% of 80 reviews2026
Dev: Mx
Windows
Last Breath is a solo/cooperative terraforming survival game. Dig through terrain, build powerful machines, and restore life to a dead planet. Work together to survive, automate, and reshape the world from the ground up, literally.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.8% ★, Survival 11.2%, Online Co-Op 10.8%, Base Building 9.7%, Co-op 6.7%
- #37 Arctico
74% matchMostly Positive70% of 2,553 reviews2022
Dev: Claudio Norori
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 69%
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 37.4% ★, Co-op 10.7%, Survival 9.4%, Open World 8.6%, Base Building 6.4%
- #38 Lost Skies
72% matchMixed61% of 2,995 reviews2025
Dev: Bossa StudiosPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 19.3 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 39.5% ★, Online Co-Op 13.5%, Base Building 12.8%, Sandbox 9%, Open World 6.4%
- #39 Eden Crafters
70% matchVery Positive85% of 2,696 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 29.7% ★, Base Building 10.4%, Online Co-Op 8.9%, Sandbox 8%, Crafting 7.7%
- #40 The Last Caretaker
70% matchVery Positive86% of 13,935 reviews2025
Dev: Channel37 Ltd
Windows
Median: 20.3 hrsMean: 37.4 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 19.6%, Survival 16.7%, Sandbox 16%, Crafting 15%, Open World 14.6%
- #41 Tinkerlands
70% matchVery Positive86% of 4,122 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.4 hrsMean: 14.5 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 30.5% ★, Online Co-Op 11%, Sandbox 8.9%, Survival 8.5%, Co-op 7.9%
- #42 Shamania
71% matchMostly Positive74% of 171 reviews2026
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 27.3% ★, Survival 8.9%, Open World 8.8%, Crafting 8.3%, Online Co-Op 8.1%
- #43 Plains of Pain
71% matchVery Positive83% of 1,036 reviews2023
Dev: Cobra Byte Digital
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Enter a living post-apocalyptic sandbox where the world doesn't wait for you. Build, craft, trade, earn the trust of factions, and forge your own path through a brutal procedural wasteland.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.9% ★, Base Building 9.8%, Online Co-Op 9.8%, Co-op 8.6%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #44 Start Over
72% matchMixed61% of 382 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 13.7%, Survival 11.8%, Sandbox 10.9%, Crafting 10.2%, Building 9.4%
- #45 Valheim
66% matchVery Positive94% of 555,289 reviews2026
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 26.9 hrsMean: 81.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.6% ★, Online Co-Op 10.8%, Survival 8.9%, Base Building 7.7%, Open World 7.4%
- #46 Cube Life: Island Survival
73% 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 48.5% ★, Sandbox 9.9%, Survival 9.1%, Open World 8.6%, Building 8.6%
- #47 Mist Survival
71% matchMostly Positive76% of 14,394 reviews2018
Dev: Dimension 32 Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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 41.9% ★, Survival 17.9%, Open World 11.6%, Base Building 10.5%, Crafting 6.5%
- #48 StarRupture
68% matchVery Positive81% of 13,607 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 27.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 27.9% ★, Base Building 10.5%, Co-op 9.5%, Survival 8.6%, Online Co-Op 8%
- #49 Outbreak Island
68% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,124 reviews2025
Dev: Tiny Magicians
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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: Survival 16.7%, Sandbox 16.6%, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 10.7%, Open World 10.1%
- #50 Drift: Space Survival
69% 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: Open World Survival Craft 33.6% ★, Online Co-Op 11.6%, Survival 9.5%, Base Building 7.2%, Crafting 7.1%
- #51 Forgotten Seas
67% matchMostly Positive76% of 605 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 22.8% ★, Online Co-Op 11.8%, Co-op 11.5%, Base Building 11.2%, Survival 9.8%
- #52 ARK: Survival Evolved
67% matchVery Positive83% of 778,394 reviews2017
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 202.1 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: Open World Survival Craft 38.9% ★, Survival 11.4%, Open World 8.1%, Base Building 6.7%, Crafting 6.6%
- #53 Starsand
69% matchMixed66% of 1,268 reviews2022
Dev: Tunnel Vision StudioPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 31.8% ★, Base Building 10.4%, Survival 9.7%, Open World 8.7%, Crafting 7.9%
- #54 Re.poly
69% matchVery Positive91% of 137 reviews2019
Dev: Hinkfoot Studios
Windows
Re.Poly is a relaxed yet deep indie survival game in a low-poly style that blends exploration, combat, building, and adventure. Whether alone or with friends, create your own world, write your own story, and decide how you want to play.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.7% ★, Base Building 10.8%, Survival 10.7%, Sandbox 10.5%, Crafting 9.2%
- #55 Aloft
66% matchVery Positive83% of 3,782 reviews2025
Dev: Astrolabe Interactive Inc.Pub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 15.5 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 27.1% ★, Co-op 12.4%, Survival 11.2%, Crafting 10%, Building 9.8%
- #56 Starbound
67% matchVery Positive90% of 123,321 reviews2016
Dev: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.0 hrsMean: 64.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.7% ★, Sandbox 10.8%, Online Co-Op 8.2%, Survival 7.5%, Co-op 6.1%
