Games Like Raft

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 38.8% ★, Survival 14.4%, Co-op 11.5%, Multiplayer 7.8%, Base Building 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its flooded-world scavenging, customizable water bases, island exploration, and co-op survival make it one of the closest modern alternatives to Raft.

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 45% ★, Survival 17.4%, Multiplayer 9.8%, Crafting 7.5%, Open World 6%

Why You'll Like It: This is a focused ocean survival adventure about island-hopping, diving for supplies, crafting tools, and building shelter alone or with a friend.

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 39.7% ★, Survival 16.3%, Multiplayer 10.2%, Crafting 6.5%, Online Co-Op 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: Players who enjoy Raft's exploration and crafting will find a deeper, harsher cooperative survival experience amid jungle rivers, ruins, and wildlife.

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 33% ★, Survival 19.1%, Co-op 10.8%, Multiplayer 10.4%, Base Building 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Co-op survival, resource gathering, inventive base construction, and a light adventure tone make the backyard a compelling land-based substitute for Raft's ocean.

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 32.3% ★, Survival 14%, Co-op 11.6%, Crafting 9.1%, Base Building 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: You gather materials while traveling in and continually upgrading a personalized mobile airship, creating a very Raft-like progression loop with co-op support.

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 42.7% ★, Survival 17.3%, Crafting 8.1%, Open World 7.3%, Base Building 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its ocean exploration, scavenging, underwater base-building, and steady technology progression closely match Raft's sense of discovery, though it is single-player.

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 35.9% ★, Survival 13.7%, Multiplayer 8%, Co-op 7%, Crafting 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its excellent co-op survival loop lets groups harvest materials, build substantial bases, sail to new biomes, and prepare for increasingly dangerous expeditions.

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 38.3% ★, Survival 11.5%, Co-op 9.7%, Multiplayer 7.5%, Crafting 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its co-op crafting and survival revolve around expanding a moving train into a fully equipped home while stopping to explore dangerous, strange regions.

Breathe easy and thrive in this cozy colony sim. Build a haven for castaways, manage resources, live your best life on the ocean. Lead your humble settlement into a high-tech society.

Why similar: Crafting 19.6%, Multiplayer 18.1%, Base Building 17.5%, Building 16.1%, Open World 14.3%

Why You'll Like It: It swaps first-person survival for a colony-builder format but strongly captures Raft's floating settlement construction and ocean-debris resource loop.

Project Castaway is a survival crafting title set in the Pacific Ocean. Live the life of a stranded castaway, with only yourself - and the island's inhabitants - for company! Sail the ocean, hunt, explore unique islands and gather resources as you fight for survival.

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: This tropical co-op survival game centers on collecting resources, building up a base, exploring islands, and enduring the hazards of the sea.

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 39.2% ★, Survival 16.5%, Crafting 9.8%, Base Building 9.3%, Building 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: This detailed solo island-survival game emphasizes crafting, shelter-building, resource management, and sailing between dangerous regions.

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 53.3% ★, Survival 21.1%, Open World 7.8%, Crafting 7.7%, Building 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its cooperative gathering, freeform shelter construction, cave exploration, and survival pressure provide a more horror-heavy version of Raft's core loop.

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 25.8%, Co-op 16%, Multiplayer 13.7%, Open World 11.1%, Base Building 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: This expands the original's co-op wilderness survival with more elaborate building systems, exploration, and a highly interactive island environment.

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 43.2% ★, Survival 16.2%, Multiplayer 7.8%, Base Building 7.2%, Open World 7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers another accessible underwater crafting-and-base-building expedition, with smaller regions and a stronger story focus than the original Subnautica.

Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.5% ★, Survival 14.6%, Multiplayer 9.7%, Co-op 8.7%, Open World 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its colorful cooperative exploration and terrain-based construction replace hunger pressure with a welcoming loop of gathering resources and expanding outposts.

Salt 2 is a pirate-themed open world adventure focused on exploration, crafting, and survival. Play solo or with up to 5 friends, sailing the sea with your ship as a mobile base. Discover islands full of quests, towns, caves, and secrets. Level up, craft gear, hunt, fish, and customize your ship.

Why similar: Survival 38.4%, Crafting 24.2%, Open World 21.2%, Sandbox 11%, First-Person 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: It combines open-sea sailing, island exploration, gathering, crafting, and ship-focused progression in a calmer pirate-adventure structure.

Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!

Why similar: Survival 19.5%, Building 13.1%, Crafting 12.7%, Multiplayer 12.6%, Co-op 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its Survival mode supports cooperative gathering and building, with particular appeal for Raft players who enjoy inventing functional vehicles and contraptions.

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 31.3% ★, Survival 13.7%, Multiplayer 8.4%, Co-op 8.4%, Crafting 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Gathering oversized materials, building elevated bases, taming mounts, and surviving with friends give it an adventurous and creative survival feel.

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 34.9% ★, Survival 13.5%, Co-op 10%, Base Building 8.8%, Crafting 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Terraforming a hostile world through gathering, crafting, exploration, and steadily growing a functional base offers rewarding long-term survival progression.

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 41.6% ★, Survival 16.1%, Multiplayer 8.3%, Crafting 7%, Open World 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: It provides enormous multiplayer survival maps with resource harvesting, base-building, exploration, and the additional appeal of taming creatures.

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 34% ★, Survival 15.3%, Multiplayer 8.6%, Base Building 7.5%, Co-op 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Mission-based co-op survival, detailed construction, and dangerous environmental expeditions make it a strong choice for groups wanting more demanding crafting gameplay.

Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 60.6% ★, Survival 24.9%, Multiplayer 4.2%, Co-op 4%, Crafting 2%

Why You'll Like It: Its stylized co-op format still delivers the essential survival rhythm of gathering, crafting a secure base, exploring, and preparing for escalating threats.

A living world full of surprises, secrets and danger awaits in The Survivalists, an adventure-filled survival sandbox set in The Escapists universe. Explore, build, craft and even train monkeys with up to three friends in a desperate bid to survive. Have you got what it takes to be a Survivalist?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31% ★, Survival 15.6%, Crafting 10.7%, Co-op 8.6%, Multiplayer 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: This approachable top-down co-op game focuses on island scavenging, crafting, building a camp, and using trained monkeys to automate chores.

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: Survival 24.5%, Open World 13.7%, Base Building 13.1%, Multiplayer 13.1%, Crafting 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: This polished co-op survival adventure offers extensive voxel building, crafting progression, and open-world expeditions in a more combat-driven fantasy setting.

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: Survival 17.1%, Co-op 13.7%, Crafting 12.4%, Base Building 10.9%, Multiplayer 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: Instead of a raft, your upgradeable mobile base is a drillship, but the co-op cycle of scavenging, customizing it, and venturing into danger is very similar.

Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.

Why similar: Survival 32.8%, Base Building 22%, Open World 16.3%, Building 16%, Sandbox 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: While primarily a city builder, its floating community, ocean salvage, and constant struggle to keep a settlement supplied closely echo Raft's setting.

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 42% ★, Survival 16.5%, Crafting 7.9%, Multiplayer 7.8%, Open World 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: This multiplayer island survival game combines gathering, crafting, building, sailing, and hostile player encounters for a rougher pirate-adjacent alternative.

Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.1% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Co-op 11.9%, Crafting 11.4%, Multiplayer 10.7%

Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.

Why similar: Survival 21.7%, Co-op 16.9%, Multiplayer 13.9%, Base Building 13.1%, Building 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its cooperative survival sandbox lets players mine resources and construct detailed ships and stations, ideal for those who most enjoy Raft's engineering freedom.

Nomadic Survival MMO. Build wooden walking machines to travel to new lands. Create clans and fight for territory. Resources deplete fast, so take your sword and scavenge, pirate, and trade to stay alive.

Why similar: Survival 33.2%, Open World 14.7%, Crafting 14.1%, Multiplayer 12.7%, Building 11%

Why You'll Like It: Its survival MMO structure revolves around constructing and maintaining mobile walker bases, making it a distinctive PvP-oriented take on traveling-home gameplay.

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 28.9% ★, Survival 24.6%, Crafting 10.7%, Multiplayer 10.1%, Open World 7.6%

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 42.3% ★, Survival 16.2%, Crafting 8.5%, Multiplayer 8.2%, Open World 5.8%

Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.6% ★, Survival 10.7%, Multiplayer 7.7%, Co-op 7.1%, Crafting 6.8%

Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.1% ★, Survival 23.9%, Multiplayer 9.4%, Open World 8.3%, Co-op 7.8%

Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.6% ★, Survival 13.6%, Multiplayer 8.7%, Crafting 7.7%, Co-op 6.7%

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 40.9% ★, Survival 15.2%, Crafting 8.6%, Online Co-Op 7.1%, Building 6.6%

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 37% ★, Survival 14.6%, Crafting 9.6%, Base Building 8.2%, Building 7.1%

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 35.8% ★, Multiplayer 9.6%, Survival 9.5%, Base Building 8%, Crafting 7.8%

Subnautica 2 is an underwater survival adventure set on an all-new alien world, developed by Unknown Worlds. Play alone or with friends in 4-player co-op. Adapt to survive by building custom bases and crafting tools. Explore the unknown to uncover the mysteries hidden within the depths.

Why similar: Survival 27.9%, Co-op 18.5%, Multiplayer 18.3%, Underwater 11.8% ★, Open World 11.2%

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 41.6% ★, Survival 13.7%, Co-op 10.8%, Multiplayer 9.2%, Open World 6.9%

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 46.8% ★, Survival 18.6%, Crafting 9.7%, Open World 9.6%, Multiplayer 8%

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 48.1% ★, Survival 16.8%, Base Building 8.9%, Crafting 8%, Sandbox 5.3%

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 38.3% ★, Crafting 10.3%, Multiplayer 10.2%, Co-op 9.5%, Base Building 8.6%

Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.1% ★, Survival 29.7%, Crafting 10.4%, Multiplayer 5.8%, Sandbox 4.4%

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 54.7% ★, Survival 23.6%, Open World 7.9%, Crafting 5.6%, Co-op 2.7%

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 45.4% ★, Survival 17.3%, Crafting 10.3%, Open World 8.4%, Base Building 7.9%

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 36.6% ★, Survival 13.5%, Co-op 8.7%, Multiplayer 7.9%, Crafting 7.5%

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 40.2% ★, Survival 13.7%, Co-op 11.1%, Multiplayer 9.2%, Crafting 8%

The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.5% ★, Survival 17.4%, Crafting 11.2%, Multiplayer 5.5%, Base Building 5.5%

Hide & Hold Out is a multiplayer survival game taking place in a devastated water world. Gather, build, team up with your friends and establish the foundations of your future floating empire utilizing the heavy guns of your battle ships!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 52.9% ★, Survival 18%, Multiplayer 9.1%, Crafting 7.1%, Open World 5.6%

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 31.5% ★, Survival 11.2%, Co-op 10%, Crafting 8.3%, Multiplayer 7.6%

Abiotic Factor is a survival crafting experience for 1-6 players set in the depths of an underground research facility. Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the world’s greatest minds must survive against the universe’s biggest threats.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.7% ★, Survival 16.1%, Crafting 10.1%, Base Building 8.9%, Multiplayer 7.9%

A sci-fi survival-crafting colony sim set in a flooded world of floating islands. Build a colony, craft gear, design rafts, fend off sharks, manage your survivors, and explore island bunkers to uncover lost Float-Tech from an old-world corporation.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.4% ★, Survival 18.2%, Crafting 11.3%, Base Building 8.8%, Building 8.8%

The Wild Eight is an intense survival action-adventure set in the frozen wilderness of Alaska. Team up with friends in online co-op or go solo, explore the mysterious land, craft weapons and fight to live another day.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.2% ★, Survival 19.8%, Co-op 8.9%, Multiplayer 8.9%, Crafting 6.3%

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 30.3% ★, Survival 16.5%, Co-op 12.7%, Crafting 11%, Building 8.8%

Try and survive in the world of Nomad. Build a base and protect it from raiding players. Scavenge food, weapons and medical supplies across the island. Team up with others and make a base. Make your mark on the world of Nomad.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47% ★, Survival 19.3%, Multiplayer 12.3%, Open World 7.2%, Crafting 6.8%

Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements. Explore an open world with different biomes, take care of oxygen, manage your farms, generate electricity, build your home and much more!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.9% ★, Survival 15%, Co-op 10.6%, Multiplayer 9.1%, Building 8.6%