- #1 Middle Ages: Peasants & Knights
97% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Neronian Studios
Windows
Survive in an open world inspired by 14th century Europe. Immerse yourself in crafting based on real historical methods and experience true inventory system and realistic resource management. Take control of your destiny and embrace a world full of possibilities.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.3% ★, Medieval 10.1%, Survival 9.2%, Crafting 7.7%, Base Building 7.4%
- #2 Reign Of Kings
96% matchMixed57% of 14,891 reviews2015
Dev: Code}{atch
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 47.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Struggle to survive in a harsh medieval world. Hunt wildlife, mine resources, build structures, and craft weapons and armor in order to protect yourself. You may form a guild, bring war to all opposition, and try to seize the throne and become king!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.1% ★, Survival 11.3%, Medieval 10.7%, Crafting 9.8%, Building 7.7%
- #3 Crestfallen: Medieval Survival
96% matchMixed59% of 460 reviews2024
Dev: Bloodbath Studios
Windows
👑 Hail to the King! In Crestfallen: Medieval Survival, players clash for dominance over the realm through strategic castle 🏰 building and fierce combat. Craft epic armor, forge deadly medieval weapons⚔️, and build a kingdom worthy of legend 📜. Create a Guild 🐉, trade goods, and prevail! 🌟
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.4% ★, Crafting 10.9%, Survival 10.8%, Medieval 8.6%, Building 8.2%
- #4 Stormforge
95% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Roboto Games
Windows
Stormforge is an open-world survival crafting game for 1 to 8 players. You are Stormforged, with the ability to brave and harness power from magical storms. Explore, fight, forage, craft, build, and defeat bosses in this epic, fantasy game. Survive the Storms and thrive!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.2% ★, Survival 10.2%, Base Building 8.5%, Crafting 8.2%, Medieval 7.7%
- #5 Bromeliad
94% matchMixed61% of 28 reviews2021
Dev: Gorka Games Studios
Windows
In Bromeliad you are stranded on a pacific island where you are a Human-Bear. You will have to survive, gathering materials to build tools and bases. You will need to hunt for food, explore, tame animals, then, at night strange creatures will appear. Survive and find an element to return to normal.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.6% ★, Crafting 11.6%, Survival 11.5%, Base Building 9.2%, Building 8.4%
- #6 Reckfell
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: verkme
Windows
Survival is your only goal in Reckfell. The world is unforgiving - its creatures, the environment, and even other survivors will stop at nothing to end you. You must do whatever it takes to stay alive for one more day.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26% ★, Crafting 10.2%, Survival 10%, Base Building 9.7%, Building 8.6%
- #7 Solace Crafting
93% matchMostly Positive72% of 891 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 29.3% ★, Survival 10.8%, Crafting 10.5%, Base Building 10.1%, Building 7.7%
- #8 Renown
92% matchMixed59% of 1,558 reviews2025
Dev: RDBK Studios
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Renown is an intense medieval multiplayer survival experience set in a vast, ever-evolving world. Whether alone or rallying allies, gather resources, build powerful strongholds, and engage in brutal battles for dominance.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.8% ★, Crafting 9.8%, Survival 9.7%, Medieval 9.6%, Base Building 8.3%
- #9 Subsistence
91% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,685 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 39.9 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 41.8% ★, Survival 13.9%, Crafting 11.2%, Base Building 7.9%, Building 6.8%
- #10 SpiritBorn
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Highforge Studios
Windows
An open-world survival crafting RPG set among floating islands. Gather resources, craft powerful tools, unlock spirit abilities to soar between skybound realms and reclaim your lost godhood.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.4% ★, Survival 12%, Crafting 11%, Base Building 9.6%, Building 8.7%
- #11 Wurm Unlimited
89% matchMostly Positive71% of 3,133 reviews2015
Dev: Code Club ABPub: Plug In Digital
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Wurm Unlimited is the standalone version of the fantasy sandbox world Wurm Online, the MMORPG where the players are in charge! A pioneer in the ideas of player influence, crafting and adventure, it is now one of the most deep and feature packed true sandbox experiences available.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.9% ★, Crafting 11%, Survival 9.8%, Building 8.7%, Open World 7.9%
- #12 Life is Feudal: Your Own
89% matchMixed66% of 12,061 reviews2015
Dev: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 58.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Hardcore and realistic; LiF is a Medieval multiplayer sandbox RPG, with free terraforming, a rich crafting system and preset and modular building construction. With engaging survival aspects, no target physics-based combat and a unique formation system - along with numerous other features - LiF is not for the faint of heart!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.3% ★, Medieval 13%, Survival 11.2%, Crafting 10.9%, Building 8.2%
- #13 RivenWorld: The First Era
88% matchMixed67% of 42 reviews2023
Dev: GameFocal
Windows
Do you have what it takes to endure the ruthless medieval realm? Introducing RivenWorld, a vast and immersive open-world sandbox survival multiplayer game set in the merciless medieval era.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.7% ★, Medieval 10.3%, Survival 9.3%, Base Building 9.3%, Crafting 8.4%
- #14 Force of Nature
87% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,202 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 40.9% ★, Crafting 13.4%, Survival 13.1%, Building 7.4%, Open World 6.3%
- #15 SkyCraft
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: ADIAN
Windows
Skycraft is an open-world survival game for 1-10 players, set in infinite procedurally-generated floating islands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.2% ★, Survival 10.9%, Base Building 10.3%, Crafting 10%, Building 9.1%
- #16 ICARUS
86% matchMostly Positive74% of 63,962 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 46.0 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 31.2% ★, Survival 12.2%, Base Building 11%, Crafting 9.1%, Building 6.8%
- #17 Beyond The Shadow
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kyrenal Games, LLC
Windows
As the sole specialist sent into a quarantined part of the Midwest , discover all you can about the mysterious corruption rapidly taking over. Utilize all you can find around you to survive the evolving area, find the source and eliminate the threat. Will you defeat what lies Beyond The Shadow?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.1% ★, Crafting 11.6%, Survival 11.4%, Building 9.7%, Open World 7.6%
- #18 Nightingale
84% matchMixed67% of 17,932 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 32.2% ★, Survival 11.3%, Base Building 10.1%, Crafting 10%, Building 8.7%
- #19 Primal Man Simulator
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: RD Games
Windows
Primal Man Simulator is a complex survival simulator where the player becomes one of the evolutionary precursors of modern homo sapiens, trying to live through another day in an unwelcoming forests of Europe.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.3% ★, Survival 13.4%, Crafting 12.6%, Realistic 9.2%, Base Building 8.7%
- #20 Rise & Reign
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Saivs TeamPub: JEG Studios
Windows
Washed ashore on a strange medieval land, it's up to you to choose your destiny. Harvest resources, craft weapons, and build your kingdom. Raid other players or form alliances. Serve the king or take the throne for yourself. This land is harsh, can you survive?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.9% ★, Medieval 10.3%, Base Building 9.1%, Crafting 8%, PvP 7.4%
- #21 Stranded Deep
82% matchMostly Positive74% of 47,389 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 44.9% ★, Survival 15.1%, Crafting 10%, Open World 6.7%, Multiplayer 5.9%
- #22 Out of Reach
83% matchMixed57% of 3,046 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 40.5% ★, Survival 13.8%, Crafting 10.1%, Open World 7.2%, Building 7.2%
- #23 Barbarian
81% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: CraftingBenchGames
Windows
Soulslike-inspired open-world survival RPG for 1-10 players. Master fluid combat with precise parries and dodges, defeat epic bosses, craft & upgrade gear, build your base, and share items with friends. Your progression persists across every world — play solo or with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25% ★, Crafting 11.8%, Survival 10.5%, Base Building 9.1%, Third Person 6.4%
- #24 Forsaken Universe
81% match7 user reviews43% of 7 reviews2021
Dev: Jacob Folkerts
Windows
Forsaken Universe is an exploration-survival game based on a unique universe. Become one of the Elite space explorers in the universe by completing missions, building a strong base, killing space pirates and or aliens, or many different other ways. Can you explore all the planets and survive?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.2% ★, Building 11.6%, Survival 11.5%, Crafting 10.7%, Open World 8%
- #25 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
79% matchVery Positive82% of 9,989 reviews2024
Dev: Merge GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 29.5% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Survival 11.2%, Crafting 9.5%, Building 8.2%
- #26 Far Lands
80% matchMixed65% of 167 reviews2024
Dev: Scalpel Softworks
Windows
Far Lands is an open-world survival game. Fight mercenaries, steal their loot and vehicles. Build and defend your base from zombies. Gather resources, craft better gear and loot different points of interest. Want to play with friends? Join them on Co-op!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Survival 12.9%, Crafting 12.8%, Realistic 6.9%
- #27 Dune: Awakening
78% matchMostly Positive70% of 76,118 reviews2025
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 47.7 hrsMean: 97.4 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival RPG where you can fully immerse yourself in the epic world of Dune. Alone or with friends, explore a vast open world Arrakis, survive the sandworms, build a home, craft an ornithopter, and unravel the mystery of the missing Fremen.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.3% ★, Base Building 9.8%, Survival 8.9%, Crafting 8.6%, Building 7.6%
- #28 Divided Land
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Mich
Windows
Join the fight for survival in a vast medieval open world. Explore, hunt, craft powerful gear, raid and plunder enemy villages, or forge your own path. As darkness falls, the dead awaken - prepare your defenses or seek shelter. Join allies in co-op PvE or test your skills in ruthless PvP.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32% ★, Survival 10.9%, Crafting 10.6%, Base Building 10.2%, Building 8.9%
- #29 Aurendor
78% matchMixed47% of 17 reviews2023
Dev: Telescope Studios
Windows
Aurendor is an open world survival game. Players must gather resources, cook their meals and fight dangerous creatures to survive and build a home for themselves. Aurendor also offers a multiplayer game option. Players can play together by cooperating with or battling other survivors.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35% ★, Survival 11.7%, Base Building 10.3%, Crafting 10.1%, Building 8.9%
- #30 Dawn of Defiance
77% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,797 reviews2024
Dev: Traega EntertainmentPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
You are the Defier, a Spartan beginning your afterlife on the Crossroads. In this Greek myth-inspired survival craft, ascend from weak soldier to god-like anti-hero. Build impressive Greek structures, craft legendary gear, and break the seals of the Underworld with up to 3 friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.8% ★, Survival 11.2%, Base Building 10%, Crafting 7%, Building 6.9%
- #31 Green Hell
77% matchVery Positive85% of 97,093 reviews2019
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 41.4% ★, Survival 14.7%, Crafting 8.9%, Base Building 7.7%, Multiplayer 6.3%
- #32 Rust
76% matchVery Positive87% of 1,363,157 reviews2018
Dev: Facepunch Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 52.5 hrsMean: 421.6 hrs≥1hr: 96%
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 27.5% ★, Survival 20.4%, Crafting 13.5%, Building 8.3%, Open World 8%
- #33 Life Not Supported
76% matchMixed67% of 172 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% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 11.5%, Survival 11%, Building 8.7%
- #34 Ship Builder
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: President Studio
Windows
Play with up to three companions and become the best shipwrights on this side of the globe! Explore and gather materials needed to build legendary ships! Soon they will call you a legend as well.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.1% ★, Crafting 10.7%, Survival 10.6%, Base Building 9.3%, Building 9.3%
- #35 Shamania
73% matchMostly Positive77% of 145 reviews2025
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 31.6% ★, Crafting 12.5%, Survival 11.7%, Open World 8.2%, Base Building 7.1%
- #36 Wild Omission
74% matchVery Positive89% of 63 reviews2023
Dev: Telephone Studios
Windows
Wild Omission is an open world sandbox survival game with severe weather set in an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29% ★, Crafting 11.2%, Survival 11.1%, Building 8.9%, Base Building 7.8%
- #37 Odd Woods
74% matchMostly Positive73% of 44 reviews2022
Dev: Matt
Windows
Odd Woods is a survival crafting game in a forest environment. Build your base during the day to withstand the attacks of horror creatures at night. Explore, farm and hunt wildlife to survive another day.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.6% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Survival 12.1%, Crafting 10.8%, Building 9.9%
- #38 Life is Feudal: MMO
75% matchMixed40% of 7,344 reviews2018
Dev: LTG
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 45.5 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Experience the hardcore reality of the Middle Ages. Master survival, engage in deep-rooted RPG elements, navigate a bustling economy, build communities, and employ diplomatic strategy to thrive in Abella's vast expanse.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.9% ★, Medieval 9.8%, Base Building 9.6%, Survival 8.8%, Crafting 7.8%
- #39 Hurtworld
73% matchMostly Positive76% of 31,099 reviews2019
Dev: Bankroll Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 63.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Hurtworld is a hardcore multiplayer survival FPS with a focus on competitive gunplay and strategic map control. Built for hardcore gamers, Hurtworld aims to punish.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.7% ★, Survival 17.4%, Crafting 11.2%, Building 8.8%, Open World 8.1%
- #40 Before
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Symbol Door
Windows
Survive a brutal primal world on 100-player top-down PvP/PvE servers. Craft tools, found settlements, recruit survivors, specialize, and endure. Achieve mastery in Science, Faith, Culture, or Combat - and Dominate your rivals to Ascend in Glory.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.9% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Survival 10.2%, Crafting 10%, PvP 8.6%
- #41 Wildsite
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Vividdi Entertainment
Windows · Linux
Crash-landed on an unknown planet filled with plasma and toxic weather. Your only hope? Bob, a sarcastic-genius AI who will question your every survival decision. Explore, build your mobile base and try to avoid death alongside up to 3 friends in Co-op.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.7% ★, Survival 11.2%, Base Building 10.9%, Crafting 10.5%, Building 9.2%
- #42 Valheim
70% matchVery Positive94% of 534,015 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 25.8 hrsMean: 76.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 35.7% ★, Survival 12%, Base Building 9.6%, Crafting 9.2%, Building 8.6%
- #43 Tales Of Shadowland
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Uzmi Games
Windows
Experience the freedom of a classic RPG within a cutting-edge, free-to-play, open-world, multiplayer online experience. Explore, fight, collect, build, and conquer alongside your friends, and against your enemies, without any pay-to-win elements, all while immersing yourself in the story of Eurone.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.4% ★, Medieval 10.7%, Crafting 9.1%, Building 7.5%, PvP 6.2%
- #44 Novus Inceptio
73% 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 33.4% ★, Survival 11.5%, Crafting 10.7%, Base Building 10.6%, Building 8.2%
- #45 Survival: Fountain of Youth
70% matchVery Positive86% of 4,339 reviews2024
Dev: Odinsoft Inc.Pub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 18.7 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 30.6% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Survival 11.2%, Crafting 10.1%, Realistic 7.5%
- #46 Wildwood: Hearth & Horizon
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: State Machine
Windows
WILDWOOD: Hearth & Horizon is a coop atmospheric survival game about looting, crafting, and trade. Build a base, fight enemies and find rare treasure. Work with your friends to carve out a toehold in a harsh and unforgiving wilderness. Inspired by games like "The Long Dark" and "Kenshi"
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.3% ★, Base Building 10.2%, Survival 8.5%, Crafting 8.3%, Medieval 7.9%
- #47 Raft
69% matchVery Positive93% of 372,032 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.6 hrsMean: 37.3 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 40.1% ★, Survival 17.1%, Crafting 9.8%, Base Building 8.1%, Building 7.1%
- #48 Ancient the Dimensions
69% matchNegative9% of 11 reviews2025
Dev: HEADSTONE STUDIO
Windows
Immerse yourself in an epic Survival Action RPG adventure, exploring a vast fantasy fairy tale world to build your own sanctuary and survive against extraordinary mythical creatures. Enhance your equipment, weapons, and skills to battle ruthless empires and interdimensional visitors.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.5% ★, Survival 11.8%, Base Building 10.8%, Crafting 10.4%, Building 9.2%
- #49 GRAV
72% 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 41.9% ★, Survival 14.2%, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 8.8%, Open World 8%
- #50 WILDLANDS
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ahsen Games
Windows
Dive into a unique adventure that will put you against a world ruled by natural forces! Explore, craft, battle predators, tame animals, build homes, harvest crops & so much more. Gather your friends, grab a weapon, and head out to conquer the WILDLANDS!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.6% ★, Survival 13.6%, Realistic 9.3%, Open World 7.4%, First-Person 6.3%
- #51 Crushed
70% matchMixed54% of 311 reviews2020
Dev: NipoBoxPub: NipoBox Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Crushed — is an Singleplayer and Multiplayer First-Person Survival Sandbox in an Open World! Challenge the wild and be ready to survive in harsh conditions. Explore the world, get resources, cook food, build a house, farm, hunt, and enjoy nature.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35% ★, Survival 11.7%, Crafting 9.6%, Base Building 9.4%, Building 8%
- #52 The Forest
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 670,097 reviews2018
Dev: Endnight Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 37.2 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 47.4% ★, Survival 16.3%, Crafting 9.1%, Open World 7.7%, Building 6.8%
- #53 Beware the Depths
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Jordan Moore
Windows
In the lands of Perdita, survival demands more than strength—it requires wit, will, and allies. Construct bastions against the wilds, sail to distant shores, and plunder forsaken dungeons. Fortune favors the bold, but only the cautious live to spend it. Always remember: Beware the Depths.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.7% ★, Crafting 10.6%, Survival 10.1%, Building 9.4%, Base Building 7.9%
- #54 Eldercraft: Mountaineers
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Derivative Synergistics
Windows
Eldercraft: Mountaineers is an RPG about crafting, surviving and exploring. Forge your routes and pathways up the mountain to reach valuable treasures. These will help you forge more pathways that will lead you to the summit.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.4% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Survival 12.5%, Crafting 10%, Building 9.2%
- #55 Primal Survival
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Quantum Box
Windows · Linux
A realistic prehistoric survival game where you play as Homo habilis or Homo erectus. Craft primitive tools, build shelter, hunt massive beasts, and survive the harsh forces of nature in a vast multiplayer world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.8% ★, Base Building 10.3%, Survival 9.3%, Crafting 9.3%, Building 7.5%
- #56 Dig or Die
67% matchVery Positive90% of 4,269 reviews2018
Dev: Gaddy Games
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Crash land on a hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it. But be warned... this planet is merciless. Build strong, and smart; else physics may flood or destroy your only hopes of survival.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41% ★, Survival 15%, Crafting 12.5%, Sandbox 8.8%, Base Building 6.8%
- #57 Nighthold
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 2 Zombie GamesPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Build shelters, interact with rescuees, battle against the Rot and raiders to survive another night in this Sandbox RPG. Play Solo or team up with friends in Online Сo-op.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.2% ★, Base Building 9.6%, Survival 8.9%, Crafting 8.6%, Building 7.4%
- #58 Longvinter
65% matchMixed67% of 7,565 reviews2025
Dev: Uuvana Studios
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 42.7 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Fish, farm, craft, gather, cook, loot or steal from other players and build a campsite or a village with your friends in an open-world multiplayer sandbox game without rules!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.2% ★, Survival 14.3%, Crafting 13.2%, Open World 8%, Building 7.7%
- #59 PolyZ
66% matchMixed50% of 272 reviews2024
Dev: Thirteen37 Games™
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 1.6 hrs≥1hr: 38%
Imagine DayZ mixed with Escape From Tarkov, but in Low Poly. A persistent world survival game featuring PvP, PvE, crafting, base-building, and zombies infected with a contagious virus.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.1% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Survival 10.6%, Crafting 9.2%, PvP 7.6%