- #1 Fragmented
97% 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 41.7% ★, Survival 12%, Open World 9.5%, Sandbox 6.9%, Multiplayer 6.4%
- #2 Astrometica
95% matchVery Positive83% of 3,131 reviews2024
Dev: BeryMeryPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 16.6 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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: Space Sim 28.7%, Open World Survival Craft 16.6% ★, Space 11.9%, Open World 11.7%, Survival 10.5%
- #3 The Last Caretaker
94% matchVery Positive86% of 12,107 reviews2025
Dev: Channel37 Ltd
Windows
Median: 18.2 hrsMean: 35.0 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: Open World 20%, Sandbox 19.9%, Survival 18%, Sci-fi 12%, First-Person 10%
- #4 GRAV
96% 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: Open World Survival Craft 37.3% ★, Open World 11.3%, Survival 11.3%, Sandbox 9.4%, Space 8.2%
- #5 Forever Skies
93% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,551 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 31.8 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 32.6% ★, Futuristic 13.7%, Open World 12.3%, Survival 11%, Multiplayer 6.9%
- #6 StarRupture
92% matchVery Positive81% of 12,866 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 24.2 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 31.6% ★, Open World 11.1%, Sandbox 10.2%, Survival 10%, Shooter 9.9%
- #7 Breathedge
91% matchVery Positive82% of 16,329 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: Open World Survival Craft 36% ★, Space 14.8%, Sandbox 10.6%, Survival 9.8%, Sci-fi 6.8%
- #8 Space Trash Scavenger
90% matchVery Positive84% of 521 reviews2024
Dev: SquarePlay GamesPub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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: Open World Survival Craft 26.8% ★, Space Sim 11.8%, Space 10.6%, Open World 8.1%, Sandbox 8%
- #9 Craterbound
91% 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: Open World Survival Craft 29.1% ★, Space Sim 17%, Space 12%, Open World 10.2%, Survival 9%
- #10 SpaceBourne
89% matchMostly Positive76% of 812 reviews2020
Dev: Burak Dabak
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Spacebourne is an open space exploration game with Rpg elements. Its world consists of different factions at war. You as an expert pilot need to choose your side or be on no one's side and create a force of your own. Load up your weapons, Ready your ship and warp to adventure.
Why similar: Space Sim 34.5%, Space 30.5%, RPG 12.4%, Simulation 12%, Exploration 6.1%
- #11 The Fifth Day
89% matchMostly Negative37% of 941 reviews2014
Dev: Touz
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 63%
The Fifth Day is a post-apocalyptic survival game set in the time after mankind's extinction to the machines that it created. Your role, as one of these machines, is to survive in the hostile world left behind by man.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40% ★, Survival 17.1%, Open World 14.4%, Multiplayer 8.2%, Sandbox 7.4%
- #12 Stars End
86% matchMixed61% of 1,423 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: Open World Survival Craft 25.7% ★, Space Sim 16.8%, Space 11.1%, Open World 8.1%, Survival 7.9%
- #13 Between the Stars
85% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,460 reviews2024
Dev: Isolated Games
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 49%
Become the Captain of an interstellar cruiser and journey across the galaxy to save the Republic. During your journey you will have to make important decisions, improve the weaponry of your ship and fight against numerous enemies.
Why similar: Space Sim 27.7%, Space 22.4%, Sandbox 8.7%, RPG 8%, Sci-fi 7.3%
- #14 Savage Lands
86% matchMixed54% of 6,686 reviews2021
Dev: Last Bastion Studios LLC
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Your fight for survival begins on the frozen shores of Tarvhas, where bitter cold and vicious creatures conspire to defeat the unprepared. Uncover the land’s dark history as you and fellow explorers traverse an unforgiving and hostile world to tame the Savage Lands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.3% ★, Survival 12.3%, Open World 11.5%, Sandbox 9.3%, Multiplayer 6.5%
- #15 Under A New Sun
84% matchMostly Positive76% of 391 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 40% ★, Open World 13%, Survival 11.8%, Realistic 9.4%, Sandbox 7.1%
- #16 Outerstellar
84% matchMostly Positive72% of 172 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: Open World Survival Craft 32.3% ★, Space 12.8%, Survival 11.5%, Shooter 11.3%, Third Person 10.7%
- #17 Rem Survival
83% matchMostly Positive76% of 802 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 44.6% ★, Open World 14.8%, Survival 13.6%, First-Person 6.2%, Multiplayer 5.8%
- #18 No Man's Sky
81% matchVery Positive85% of 411,162 reviews2016
Dev: Hello Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 20.1 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 Survival Craft 29.5% ★, Space 13%, Open World 11.5%, Space Sim 10.4%, Survival 6.5%
- #19 Survival: Fountain of Youth
79% matchVery Positive85% of 4,411 reviews2024
Dev: Odinsoft Inc.Pub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.2 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 36.4% ★, Survival 12%, Realistic 10.8%, Sandbox 10.2%, Open World 10.1%
- #20 Starpoint Gemini 3
82% matchMixed50% of 875 reviews2020
Dev: Little Green Men Games
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Fight, loot, explore and craft in the living open world of Starpoint Gemini 3. Assemble your trusty ship and boost your RPG skills to face all challenges.
Why similar: Space Sim 22.9%, Open World Survival Craft 22.3% ★, Space 12.5%, Open World 8.9%, Third Person 7.8%
- #21 Remains
81% matchMostly Positive76% of 318 reviews2021
Dev: SoloQ
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Remains - survival in outer space orbiting the planet. Explore the area. Find a way to restore oxygen. Create tools for your needs. Beware of the dangers of outer space. Build your shelter in orbit and try not to die!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.3% ★, Space 14.5%, Sandbox 11.3%, Survival 10.5%, Open World 10.3%
- #22 Wrath of Anna
82% matchMostly Negative35% of 249 reviews2018
Dev: Lorenzo Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 93%
You've been stranded on Empress Anna's remote planet of Drumgore during the Cross-Planetary War of 2021. How long can you survive?
Why similar: Sandbox 27.4%, Open World 25%, Survival 21.8%, Indie 15%, Adventure 10.7%
- #23 Volcanoids
80% matchVery Positive83% of 9,298 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: Sandbox 16.9%, Shooter 15.8%, Open World 15.3%, Survival 14.1%, Multiplayer 9.3%
- #24 Nightingale
78% matchMixed66% of 17,987 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 39.8% ★, Open World 13.5%, Survival 12.5%, Multiplayer 9.2%, Realistic 6.5%
- #25 Enshrouded
75% matchVery Positive86% of 103,247 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.8 hrsMean: 46.1 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: Open World 28.6%, Survival 22.4%, Multiplayer 13.9%, Sandbox 12.9%, RPG 7.7%
- #26 Atomfall
75% matchMostly Positive78% of 5,436 reviews2025
Dev: Rebellion
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
A nuclear disaster has left an area of Britain in tatters. Atomfall, a new survival-action game, will see you explore, scavenge, craft, barter and fight your way through beautifully recreated scenery in search of answers.
Why similar: Open World 36%, Survival 19.7%, First-Person 15.3%, Adventure 10%, Exploration 7.2%
- #27 Novus Inceptio
79% matchMixed52% of 1,302 reviews2015
Dev: McMagic Productions
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Warning: This is an Early Access game! Welcome to an enigmatic world, where a new gaming experience in exploring, building and surviving is waiting just for you. Experience a sandbox world with survival elements, and join us in creating a full version of the game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.5% ★, Open World 11.9%, Sandbox 11.5%, Survival 10.7%, Third Person 8.5%
- #28 Interstellar Rift
77% matchMixed68% of 1,663 reviews2020
Dev: Split PolygonPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 33.4 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: Space Sim 26.2%, Futuristic 11.4%, Space 10.9%, Open World 10.9%, Sandbox 10.4%
- #29 Beyond Contact
76% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,127 reviews2023
Dev: Playcorp StudiosPub: Deep Silver
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 67%
A fiercely formidable sci-fi survival game, set on a hostile alien world that wants you dead! Alone, or with a crew, do you have what it takes to survive?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48% ★, Survival 14.2%, Space 10.9%, Multiplayer 8.7%, Sci-fi 7.5%
- #30 Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey
76% matchMostly Positive79% of 11,746 reviews2020
Dev: Panache Digital GamesPub: Private Division
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Survive your evolution in Neogene Africa starting 10 million years ago. Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is a third-person open world survival game where you Explore, Expand, and Evolve to advance your clan to the next generation in the exciting new adventure from Panache Digital Games.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.6% ★, Open World 13.5%, Survival 12%, Third Person 9.5%, Exploration 6.7%
- #31 Cubic Odyssey
74% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,674 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 44.8% ★, Sandbox 15%, Sci-fi 10.2%, RPG 7.3%, Open World 5.8%
- #32 Subsistence
77% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,723 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 5.0 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 50.2% ★, Survival 15%, Open World 12.1%, Multiplayer 8.8%, Sandbox 6.8%
- #33 V.O.D.K.A. Open World Survival Shooter
78% matchMostly Negative37% of 99 reviews2021
Dev: Guilty Pleasure Games
Windows
V. O. D. K. A. is a survival shooter in the open world, the game takes place in a fictional state in eastern Europe, most of the territory of which is infected with radiation. Your main task is survival.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.6% ★, Open World 12.3%, Sandbox 11.6%, Survival 11.2%, Realistic 8.7%
- #34 Occupy Mars: The Game
72% matchMixed70% of 3,099 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 34.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.
Why similar: Space 16.5%, Open World 15.1%, Sandbox 14.9%, Survival 11.9%, Third Person 11.5%
- #35 SurrounDead
71% matchVery Positive92% of 25,610 reviews2022
Dev: ZurvivorPub: PlaySurrounDead
Windows
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 81%
SurrounDead is an open world survival game. Taking place in a world ravaged by an apocalyptic catastrophe. The dead reign free and will stop at nothing to kill you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.4% ★, Open World 20%, Survival 18.6%, Shooter 9.8%, Third Person 8.5%
- #36 Animallica
73% matchMixed70% of 908 reviews2022
Dev: Animallica Games Studio
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%
In Animallica you are racing against extinction after a deadly virus ravaged the world. As the lone survivor of the last conservation center on Earth, the fate of every single animal and plant species lies in your hands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 50.5% ★, Survival 13.6%, Open World 10.2%, Simulation 8.1%, Adventure 5.2%
- #37 Stone Rage
74% matchMixed49% of 167 reviews2020
Dev: Mountainwheel Games
Windows
Stone Rage is a prehistoric, open-world survival game. Play as a Cro-Magnon or Neanderthal and shape-shift into beasts as you secure your place in a harsh landscape of dangerous animals, scarce resources, and unforgiving climates. Make friends and enemies. Build. Fight. Survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.2% ★, Open World 13.4%, Sandbox 12.8%, Survival 12.2%, RPG 5.3%
- #38 This Land Is My Land
72% matchMixed68% of 4,625 reviews2021
Dev: Game-Labs
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 21.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Experience the frontier as a chief of a Native American tribe and resist the onset of the settlers. Explore the vast world full of hostile humans and animals while defining your narrative through the decisions you make.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.3% ★, Open World 13.1%, Survival 13%, Third Person 7.2%, Multiplayer 6.5%
- #39 Invasion 2037
73% matchMixed60% of 158 reviews2019
Dev: Little Beavers Games
Windows
Become a survival scientist in a savage post-apocalyptic world where aliens have the control of the world and find a cure, manage your shelter and fight to survive
Why similar: Survival 23.8%, Open World 19.8%, Third Person 13%, Simulation 12.2%, Sci-fi 8.6%
- #40 The Last Plague: Blight
69% matchVery Positive89% of 1,423 reviews2024
Dev: Original Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
The Last Plague: Blight is an authentic survival experience rooted in realism and immersion. Endure the hazards of a brutal open world and uncover the origins of a mysterious disease. You are humanity’s final hope in ending the Blight
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.3% ★, Realistic 14.7%, Third Person 13.5%, Sandbox 11%, Survival 9.7%
- #41 Plains of Pain
70% matchVery Positive83% of 869 reviews2023
Dev: Cobra Byte Digital
Windows
Survive in a post-apocalyptic open-world sandbox alone or with friends. Explore a procedural wasteland scorched by heat and chaos. Build a base, develop skills, craft tools and weapons, trade for what you need, complete deadly quests, earn faction reputation, or take part in faction wars.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.3% ★, Sandbox 13.3%, Open World 12.6%, Survival 11.1%, Multiplayer 8.1%
- #42 CRABS MUST DIE!
69% matchVery Positive82% of 71 reviews2025
Dev: Roman Kharlamov
Windows
You've crash-landed on a forgotten planet and must survive in a hostile open world filled with mutated crabs and other enemies. Armed with weapons, a beat-up bike, and a few skills, you'll explore, fight, scavenge, and level up. A compact open-world shooter with light RPG and survival elements.
Why similar: Open World 18.6%, Shooter 17.7%, Space 14.2%, Realistic 13.9%, Sci-fi 13.2%
- #43 GearStorm - Armored Survival
73% matchMixed56% of 82 reviews2019
Dev: Iron City Games
Windows · Mac
GearStorm - Armored Survival is a story-driven, open-world sci-fi survival adventure. Discover what led to the Phage, a deadly virus apocalypse and our escape to a alien world. Explore a vast alien planet, build your base, create your colony, acquire vehicles, weapons, and supplies to defend it.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 19.8% ★, Open World 15.8%, Survival 15.7%, RPG 13.3%, Simulation 12.4%
- #44 LIFE EFFECT Survival
68% matchVery Positive88% of 486 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: Futuristic 23.3%, Sandbox 17.2%, Realistic 16.6%, Shooter 16.1%, Survival 14.2%
- #45 Miscreated
70% matchMixed66% of 31,585 reviews2018
Dev: Entrada Interactive LLC
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 38.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Miscreated is a multiplayer online hardcore survival game set in a post-apocalyptic future. You will need to survive against mutants, players, and even mother nature herself.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 52.2% ★, Survival 16.3%, Open World 14.4%, Multiplayer 8.2%, Sandbox 4.8%
- #46 Starsand
68% matchMixed66% of 1,246 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 34.6% ★, Realistic 12.2%, Open World 12.2%, Survival 10.9%, Sandbox 9.8%
- #47 Genesis Alpha One Deluxe Edition
68% matchMixed69% of 2,502 reviews2020
Dev: Radiation BluePub: Team17 Digital Ltd
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 48%
Hyperjump into the dark recesses of space with Genesis Alpha One - a roguelike FPS where you must build, maintain and navigate your ship through a galaxy filled with hostile alien and human threats. Explore, create and survive the militarized space race in order to secure humanity’s future.
Why similar: Space Sim 34.9%, Space 17%, Open World 15.9%, Survival 13.1%, Sci-fi 11.6%
- #48 Underspace
66% matchVery Positive81% of 450 reviews2024
Dev: Pastaspace InteractivePub: Camlann Games
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 44%
The spiritual successor to Freelancer with a Lovecraftian, sandbox RPG twist. Explore a vast handmade universe with mod support and PvP/co-op multiplayer. You're going to need a bigger ship.
Why similar: Space Sim 22.4%, Futuristic 16.4%, Space 12.4%, Third Person 10.6%, Open World 9.4%
- #49 Vorax
67% matchMixed61% of 136 reviews2024
Dev: IndieGala
Windows
In the gripping world of VORAX survival takes on a new terrifying dimension. As you step into this Open World Survival Horror game brace yourself for a journey where every moment is a battle for survival. Every choice, every move, every breath could be your last. Are you ready to face the unknown?
Why similar: Open World 24.3%, Survival 20.4%, Sandbox 19.8%, Realistic 18.4%, First-Person 9.6%
- #50 Life Not Supported
67% matchMixed67% of 173 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: Open World Survival Craft 32.3% ★, Space 13.2%, Realistic 10.1%, Survival 9.9%, Sandbox 9%
- #51 Wayward Terran Frontier: Zero Falls
69% matchMixed67% of 538 reviews2016
Dev: Reason Generator Inc.
Windows
2d space combat like no other. From the perspective of a single crew member, explore the fully destructible interior of any ship in a massive living world. Engage in space combat with no hitpoints where you know your enemy is dead when you see them fall out of their ship into the cold dark of space.
Why similar: Space Sim 31.1%, Space 13.9%, Open World 13.8%, Sandbox 13.3%, Sci-fi 6.8%
- #52 Stranded Deep
65% matchMostly Positive74% of 47,623 reviews2022
Dev: Beam Team GamesPub: Beam Team Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 21.0 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 44.9% ★, Survival 13.6%, Open World 10.6%, Multiplayer 8.7%, Realistic 6.2%
- #53 Dysterra
65% matchMixed56% of 767 reviews2025
Dev: Reality MagiQ
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 61%
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: Open World Survival Craft 32.5% ★, Realistic 13%, Sandbox 11.4%, Shooter 10.9%, Survival 10.2%