Games Like 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 44.4% ★, Survival 17.4%, Multiplayer 10%, Crafting 7.8%, Open World 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers the same castaway fantasy of island hopping, shark-dodging, crafting tools, and building rafts to stay alive on the open ocean.

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 38.2% ★, Survival 14.4%, Co-op 11.8%, Multiplayer 8%, Crafting 7%

Why You'll Like It: Its flooded world, water-focused scavenging, co-op survival, and emphasis on building a home base over the sea make it the closest overall match to Raft.

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 39.3% ★, Survival 16.2%, Multiplayer 10.3%, Crafting 6.6%, Online Co-Op 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: If you liked Raft's survival pressure and co-op scavenging but want a harsher wilderness challenge, Green Hell is a strong step up in realism and danger.

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 32.4% ★, Survival 19%, Co-op 10.9%, Multiplayer 10.5%, Base Building 8%

Why You'll Like It: The cooperative survival, constant resource runs, structured progression, and satisfying base-building scratch much of the same itch even in a very different setting.

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 37.7% ★, Survival 11.4%, Co-op 9.9%, Multiplayer 7.6%, Crafting 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its co-op loop of hooking floating resources, crafting upgrades, and living aboard a moving base feels strikingly similar to Raft with trains instead of waves.

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 42.5% ★, Survival 17.4%, Crafting 8.4%, Base Building 7.3%, Open World 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: The focus on surviving in an alien water world, gathering materials, and pushing farther into dangerous seas makes it a natural fit for Raft fans.

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 31.7% ★, Survival 14%, Co-op 11.8%, Crafting 9.4%, Base Building 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Like Raft, it revolves around upgrading a traveling home, collecting drifting resources, and exploring a dangerous world from a vehicle you continually expand.

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 35.1% ★, Survival 13.7%, Multiplayer 8.1%, Crafting 7.2%, Co-op 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a similarly rewarding loop of co-op exploration, crafting, and steadily transforming a humble shelter into a major survival base.

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 52.9% ★, Survival 21.2%, Crafting 8%, Open World 7.7%, Building 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its blend of cooperative survival, base-building, resource gathering, and environmental threat management matches Raft's tension-heavy side.

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 25.1%, Co-op 16.2%, Multiplayer 14%, Open World 10.8%, Base Building 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: This builds on The Forest with more polished co-op survival, stronger building systems, and a similar balance of exploration and defending your home.

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 38.6% ★, Survival 16.4%, Crafting 10%, Base Building 9.5%, Building 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its shipwrecked survival theme, island exploration, crafting progression, and fight to stay fed and safe echo Raft's solo adventure side very well.

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 35.9% ★, Survival 14.6%, Multiplayer 9.9%, Co-op 8.8%, Open World 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Although less dangerous, it shares Raft's approachable co-op crafting, exploration, and joy of gradually building up a functional home base from almost nothing.

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 34.1% ★, Survival 13.3%, Co-op 10.2%, Base Building 8.8%, Crafting 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its calmer survival loop of gathering resources, expanding your base, and watching the world slowly change captures Raft's more relaxed progression-heavy appeal.

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% ★, Survival 16.4%, Base Building 7.5%, Multiplayer 7.1%, Open World 7%

Why You'll Like It: It keeps the underwater survival-and-scavenging appeal of Subnautica while adding a slightly more guided, story-forward sense of progression that Raft players may enjoy.

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 30.7% ★, Survival 13.4%, Multiplayer 8.6%, Co-op 8.5%, Crafting 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its cooperative crafting, vertical exploration, and creative base-building offer the same "survive together and improve your home" satisfaction as Raft.

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 31.3% ★, Survival 11.8%, Co-op 10.2%, Multiplayer 6.8%, Base Building 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its stranded-on-islands setup, survival crafting, and emphasis on exploration make it a direct thematic match for Raft's shipwreck fantasy.

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 19.2%, Building 13%, Crafting 12.9%, Multiplayer 12.7%, Co-op 10%

Why You'll Like It: Its cooperative survival and highly creative building systems appeal to the same players who most enjoy designing and improving Raft's floating base.

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 30.4% ★, Survival 15.4%, Crafting 10.9%, Co-op 8.7%, Multiplayer 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: This leans into island survival, crafting, and co-op teamwork in a lighter style that still captures Raft's exploratory castaway vibe.

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 38.2%, Crafting 24.7%, Open World 20.6%, Sandbox 11.3%, First-Person 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: Sailing between islands, scavenging supplies, and living an open-sea adventure make it a good thematic follow-up for players who loved Raft's nautical exploration.

A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32% ★, Survival 12.4%, Crafting 8.4%, Co-op 8.1%, Multiplayer 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Like Raft, it centers on maintaining and upgrading a mobile base while venturing out for resources in a hazardous world.

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 33.2% ★, Survival 15.1%, Multiplayer 8.7%, Crafting 7.6%, Base Building 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: If your favorite part of Raft was gathering, crafting, and building up with friends under survival pressure, ICARUS delivers that loop in a more mission-driven format.

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 35.9% ★, Survival 15.7%, Crafting 10.2%, Base Building 9%, Multiplayer 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its excellent co-op, scavenging-heavy survival loop, and steadily expanding safe base make it a great alternative if you love building security out of chaos.

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% ★, Survival 16%, Multiplayer 8.5%, Crafting 7.2%, Open World 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: It is less cozy and more combat-heavy, but the multiplayer survival-crafting and big-base progression can still appeal to players who liked Raft's longer-term grind.

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 23.9%, Multiplayer 13.3%, Base Building 13.2%, Open World 13.2%, Crafting 12.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its polished co-op survival, robust building, and exploration-driven progression fit well for Raft players who value construction and adventure over hardcore simulation.

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 48.3% ★, Survival 17%, Base Building 9.5%, Crafting 8.6%, Sandbox 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its survival gameplay built around collecting floating debris and crafting your way through environmental hazards mirrors some of Raft's most distinctive resource-gathering moments.

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 31.5% ★, Survival 13.6%, Multiplayer 9%, Crafting 8.9%, Base Building 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: It is a lower-budget option, but its direct focus on ocean survival, floating-base building, and scavenging debris makes it an obvious mechanical alternative to Raft.

An open-world survival crafting game for 1–8 players, blending intense dungeon crawling and ARPG combat with peaceful farming and creative building. Take on quests and explore a vast, procedurally-generated world full of danger and discovery.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.1% ★, Survival 16.4%, Crafting 10.2%, Building 9.2%, Base Building 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: This combines approachable survival systems, exploration, and satisfying base-building in a more relaxed style that overlaps with Raft's laid-back progression.

An online multiplayer survival game, now with sorcery, set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian. Survive in a vast open world sandbox, build your home into a kingdom, and dominate your enemies in single or multiplayer.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.9% ★, Survival 20.5%, Crafting 8.8%, Open World 8.6%, Multiplayer 8%

Why You'll Like It: It is a strong pick for players who want more open-world survival crafting and base-building after Raft, just with a harsher combat focus.

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 32.9% ★, Survival 13.4%, Multiplayer 8.9%, Co-op 8.7%, Crafting 8%

Why You'll Like It: It mixes cooperative survival, crafting, and home-building with frequent expeditions into new realms, giving a similar rhythm of preparation and outward exploration.

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 19.5% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Co-op 12.2%, Crafting 11.6%, Multiplayer 10.9%

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 28.4% ★, Survival 24.5%, Crafting 11%, Multiplayer 10.4%, Open World 7.4%

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 60.1% ★, Survival 25%, Multiplayer 4.3%, Co-op 4.1%, Crafting 2.1%

The Forbidden Islands are Calling, Unlock their Secrets. Shipwrecked on an island, explore, adapt and navigate the land and perilous seas to stay alive.

Why similar: Survival 49.7%, Crafting 26.7%, Adventure 8.7%, Open World 7.3%, Multiplayer 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: Though solo-focused, its sailing, island scavenging, crafting, and survival-on-the-water atmosphere make it one of the better thematic cousins to Raft.

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 42.7% ★, Survival 10.6%, Multiplayer 8%, Co-op 7.2%, Crafting 7%

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 34.6% ★, Survival 23.8%, Multiplayer 9.7%, Open World 8.2%, Co-op 7.9%

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 41.6% ★, Survival 16.1%, Crafting 8.7%, Multiplayer 8.5%, Open World 5.7%

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.9% ★, Survival 13.6%, Multiplayer 8.9%, Crafting 7.9%, Co-op 6.8%

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 40.2% ★, Survival 15.1%, Crafting 8.7%, Online Co-Op 7.4%, Building 6.6%

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 41.4% ★, Survival 16.4%, Crafting 8.2%, Multiplayer 8%, Open World 6.6%

Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.1% ★, Survival 15.5%, Multiplayer 9.9%, Open World 8.6%, Co-op 7.9%

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 54.4% ★, Survival 23.6%, Open World 7.8%, Crafting 5.8%, Co-op 2.8%

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 37.4% ★, Crafting 10.5%, Multiplayer 10.4%, Co-op 9.7%, Base Building 8.8%

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 36.5% ★, Survival 14.5%, Crafting 9.9%, Base Building 8.4%, Building 7.2%

Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in this free prologue introducing one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters – an upcoming open-world game that challenges you, alone or with friends, to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.1% ★, Multiplayer 9.7%, Survival 9.3%, Base Building 8.2%, Crafting 8.1%

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 41.1% ★, Survival 13.5%, Co-op 11.3%, Multiplayer 9.3%, Open World 6.8%

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 46.3% ★, Survival 18.6%, Crafting 10%, Open World 9.4%, Multiplayer 8.2%

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 46.8% ★, Survival 17.4%, Crafting 11.4%, Multiplayer 5.7%, Base Building 5.6%

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 35.8% ★, Survival 13.4%, Co-op 9%, Multiplayer 8%, Crafting 7.7%

Build your base on a moving Machine, travel through biomes with different resources, and prepare for the night when a zombie threat is much higher than during the day. Would you go solo or explore this new world with your best friends?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.1% ★, Survival 12.4%, Co-op 9.9%, Crafting 8.4%, Base Building 7.6%

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 44.9% ★, Survival 17.3%, Crafting 10.6%, Open World 8.3%, Base Building 8.1%

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 29.7% ★, Survival 16.4%, Co-op 13%, Crafting 11.3%, Building 8.9%

The Gold River Project™ invites you and your friends on an open world camping trip gone wrong. Alone or together, you must explore, craft, build, and survive the increasingly harsh environments of the Pacific Northwest wilderness as you uncover the experiment trapping you inside.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.5% ★, Survival 13.7%, Co-op 11.3%, Multiplayer 9.3%, Crafting 8.2%

A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.2% ★, Survival 13%, Co-op 10.2%, Crafting 9.1%, Multiplayer 8.5%

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 41.6% ★, Survival 19.7%, Co-op 9.2%, Multiplayer 9.1%, Crafting 6.5%

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 52.4% ★, Survival 18%, Multiplayer 9.3%, Crafting 7.3%, Open World 5.6%

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 42.6% ★, Survival 29.8%, Crafting 10.8%, Multiplayer 5.8%, Sandbox 4.5%

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 35% ★, Survival 20.9%, Multiplayer 9.8%, Base Building 8.2%, Open World 7.3%

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 26.3% ★, Survival 14.8%, Co-op 10.8%, Multiplayer 9.2%, Building 8.6%