- #1 Permafrost
97% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: SpaceRocket GamesPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Survive the frozen apocalypse. Explore a vast open world buried in ice — hunt, craft, and build to withstand the deadly cold. Play solo or team up with up to 4 friends to reclaim what’s left of humanity in this brutal white hell.
Why similar: Dogs 22.5% ★, Open World Survival Craft 17.1% ★, Crafting 8.8%, Base Building 8.6%, Post-apocalyptic 6.6%
- #2 THE LAST BREATH
96% match6 user reviews17% of 6 reviews2023
Dev: Y Games
Windows
Survive the post-apocalypse world. There's a predator who's going after you. This is Online and local party games enjoyed by 1 to 5 players. you have to Survive in an end-of-life world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 19.9% ★, Base Building 9.7%, Crafting 9.6%, Open World 8.1%, Survival Horror 7.4%
- #3 Arctico
96% matchMostly Positive71% of 2,460 reviews2022
Dev: Claudio Norori
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 68%
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 28.2% ★, Dogs 15.2% ★, Open World 9.4%, Survival 7.5%, Base Building 7.4%
- #4 Unhinged
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Unifiq Games
Windows
Survive a brutal corporate death game on an alien planet. Craft and assemble components into machines and automated production systems. Harness power, cultivate exotic plants, brew herbal tonics and synthesize chaotic drugs, all while managing your sanity in a detailed mental simulation.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.9% ★, Crafting 11.1%, Base Building 9.8%, Open World 9.8%, Survival Horror 8.6%
- #5 The Forest of Black Eden
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ZEREF
Windows
Stranded on an island crawling with terrifying creatures, you must survive, build, and uncover its dark secrets. Escape or be one of them with lost dream.
Why similar: Base Building 13.7%, Crafting 12.1%, Open World 10.8%, Survival Horror 9.7%, Survival 8.9%
- #6 Odd Woods
94% 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 25.2% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Crafting 11.9%, Open World 10.4%, Survival 8.6%
- #7 Alone on the Lost Isle
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Khachatur Antonyan
Windows
An atmospheric open-world survival game featuring exploration of a mysterious island, base building, crafting, and a dog companion. Face hostile inhabitants of the island.
Why similar: Dogs 30.5% ★, Crafting 14.2%, Base Building 14%, Open World 12.3%, Survival 9.3%
- #8 Green Hell
92% 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 32.5% ★, Survival 10.6%, Crafting 10%, Multiplayer 9%, Base Building 8.6%
- #9 Sons Of The Forest
91% matchVery Positive88% of 304,972 reviews2024
Dev: Endnight Games LtdPub: Newnight
Windows
Median: 15.1 hrsMean: 32.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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: Base Building 13.7%, Open World 12.6%, Survival 11.8%, Crafting 10.6%, Survival Horror 10.1%
- #10 Cataclysm Upon Us
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 7Dev Studios
Windows · Linux
Cataclysm Upon Us is an open world survival RPG. Craft, fight, and build in a world overrun by mutants, zombies and other abominations. Uncover secrets, embrace mutations and cybernetic enhancements. Every decision shapes your journey in this haunting cataclysm. Can you survive the chaos?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.3% ★, Crafting 10.4%, Open World 10.2%, Survival 8.4%, Base Building 8.1%
- #11 Desolated District
90% matchMostly Positive73% of 15 reviews2025
Dev: Real Heroes Studio
Windows
Desolated District is an Open-World Survival Crafting game set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Scavenge for resources, craft essential tools, build your base and battle deadly threats as you explore a sprawling, decaying city inspired by the Kowloon Walled City.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.4% ★, Crafting 12.5%, Base Building 12%, Open World 10.4%, Post-apocalyptic 10.4%
- #12 MISERY
89% matchVery Positive83% of 23,009 reviews2025
Dev: Platypus EntertainmentPub: Ytopia
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
MISERY is a 1–10 player co-op survival game set in a nuclear disaster zone. Here, every day is a struggle: search radioactive ruins for resources, build your bunker, craft weapons, and explore a weird, procedurally-generated world with your friends. Beware of anomalies, monsters, and armed bandits.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 18.7% ★, Base Building 10.2%, Crafting 9.7%, Post-apocalyptic 9%, Open World 8.1%
- #13 Grounded
89% matchVery Positive90% of 93,832 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.3 hrsMean: 41.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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 27.2% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Survival 12.6%, Crafting 11.4%, Multiplayer 9.3%
- #14 Forever Skies
88% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,446 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 32.0 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 21.1% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Crafting 11.3%, Open World 8.9%, Survival 7.4%
- #15 Urge
87% matchVery Positive90% of 498 reviews2021
Dev: EnDrew
Windows
Fight, build, explore, survive, while the dynamic player-caused hazardous fog is slowly changing the rules of the world around you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.7% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Crafting 10.2%, Survival Horror 8.7%, Open World 7.8%
- #16 Short Snow | Cold Survival Game
86% matchMixed53% of 148 reviews2025
Dev: MubDev
Windows
A realistic open-world survival experience. After a harrowing plane crash, you find yourself stranded in the wilderness. Battling freezing temperatures and hunger, you face an unknown virus that slowly paralyzes muscles, leaving its victims motionless and at the mercy of the unforgiving cold.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.5% ★, Open World 11.5%, Crafting 10.6%, Survival 9.8%, Base Building 9.4%
- #17 Raft
85% 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 31.9% ★, Survival 12.6%, Crafting 11.1%, Multiplayer 9.8%, Base Building 9.1%
- #18 Subsistence
86% 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 36% ★, Crafting 13.7%, Survival 11.1%, Open World 9.7%, Base Building 9.6%
- #19 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 27% ★, Crafting 11.9%, Base Building 11.9%, Open World 10.2%, Survival 8.7%
- #20 Alight: Lunar Survival
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tbjbu2 Originals
Windows
[GAME CANCELLED] Stranded in the darkness, survive and build a base scattered across the lunar surface to generate electricity and alight the moon as you upgrade your equipment, struggle for oxygen, and escape fearsome monsters. Singleplayer only, you will survive, gather, craft, build, and explore.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.1% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 11.8%, Open World 8.9%, Survival Horror 8.1%
- #21 Painland
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Moonday Games
Windows
PAINLAND is a world where AI has taken control of Earth and sees humans as a threat. Fight to survive as a resistance soldier. Explore the ruins of a fallen civilization, craft, hack and fight autonomous machines, alone or with friends. In this world, encountering a machine means death.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 14.5% ★, Open World 12.4%, Survival 11.2%, Base Building 9.9%, Crafting 9.9%
- #22 Crushed
83% 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 28.3% ★, Crafting 11.1%, Base Building 10.7%, Open World 10.5%, Survival 8.7%
- #23 Grounded 2
81% matchVery Positive81% of 21,263 reviews2025
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.0 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Shrunk again, but the world is much larger. In this open-world, single-player or co-op survival adventure, craft weapons and armor, build your base, and traverse the playground on your buggy. But something else is out there—and it hasn’t forgotten you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.7% ★, Base Building 15.5%, Survival 12%, Crafting 11.8%, Open World 10.8%
- #24 Aurendor
82% 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 29% ★, Base Building 12%, Crafting 11.9%, Open World 10.5%, Survival 8.9%
- #25 Far Lands
81% 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 24.2% ★, Base Building 15.6%, Crafting 15.2%, Open World 10%, Survival 9.9%
- #26 Project: Mist
79% matchMixed69% of 122 reviews2026
Dev: Chicken Launcher
Windows
Explore a remote island solo or in MULTIPLAYER co-op in this open-world survival horror. Manipulate objects and enemies with the Gravity Gun, build a moving train base, fight giant creatures, catch critters, upgrade your gear, and survive a hostile world shaped by abandoned, mysterious facilities.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.9% ★, Crafting 10.9%, Survival Horror 9.4%, Open World 9.2%, Post-apocalyptic 9.2%
- #27 TROLLHEIM: GNOMES
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Trollheim
Windows
TROLLHEIM: GNOMES is a reimagined classic survival crafting game where you play as tiny gnomes in an ancient Nordic wilderness. Brave the elements, encounter the mythical Väsen that dwell within it and build your home among the trees, by yourself or with up to 7 friends. The Dark Forest found you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.4% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Crafting 11.8%, Open World 9%, Survival 8.9%
- #28 Rem Survival
79% matchMostly Positive76% of 802 reviews2021
Dev: Immortal Hand Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 47.3 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 28.2% ★, Base Building 14%, Crafting 13.9%, Open World 10.4%, Survival 8.9%
- #29 The Overlap
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Back Pocket Games
Windows
The Overlap is a survival-cosmic-horror 2D sandbox. Explore procedurally generated wastelands, scavenge resources, craft, build, customize and upgrade your survivor, face eldritch horrors, survive the post-cataclysmic world alongside friends online and find out the truth behind it all.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.3% ★, Crafting 11.7%, Post-apocalyptic 9.6%, Survival Horror 9%, Open World 8.5%
- #30 Moon Colony Crafter
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: InfinityCoders
Windows
Play as an astronaut on our moon in the future. Your task is to prepare the moon for future colonies by terraforming. Collect resources, explore procedurally generated caves, build buildings and create a second world for you and our earth.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.2% ★, Base Building 14.6%, Crafting 11.5%, Open World 10%, Survival 8.7%
- #31 THE SIREEN
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lucy Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
You are trying to prevent the spread of a top secret invention to the islands from an accidental Laboratory explosion on an island You are maybe the last people left on the island , Crafts, you build houses, you hunt. a new open world survival horror simulator
Why similar: Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 12.1%, Open World 12%, Survival Horror 10.7%, Survival 10.2%
- #32 World In The Abyss
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Lazy Cat Studio
Windows
The aliens have caused the oceans to rise, plunging the world into the abyss. Survive, craft, and explore this mysterious underwater world. Build your base, defend it against relentless waves of enemies, and dive deep to uncover the secret that could stop the alien invasion once and for all!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.2% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Crafting 12%, Open World 9.5%, Survival 8%
- #33 FRIGID
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Celeritas Games
Windows
Hunt, build, craft and survive an apocalyptic arctic environment and unravel the mystery of a strange virus that is infecting the local wildlife. Inspired by The Thing!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.6% ★, Crafting 12.2%, Open World 10.6%, Survival 9%, Post-apocalyptic 7.7%
- #34 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
74% 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 25% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 11.5%, Open World 9.1%, Survival 8.7%
- #35 Force of Nature
76% 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 35.5% ★, Crafting 16.6%, Survival 10.5%, Open World 9.7%, Building 6.7%
- #36 Solitude
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Amuzo Limited
Windows
Beached upon the coast of a haunted land you must survive the trials of an ancient malevolent force which seeks freedom from its shackles. Battle against the horrors of the night, build shelters to weather the elements, scavenge for supplies and uncover the mystery at the heart of the island.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.7% ★, Base Building 16.4%, Crafting 14.9%, Open World 10.9%, Survival Horror 9.7%
- #37 Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts
75% matchMostly Negative37% of 369 reviews2023
Dev: EFNSOFT
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 36%
Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts is a Multiplayer Survival Horror game for up to 4 players. Set in the Middle of the Unknown, you can craft, build, explore and discover secrets in the exciting first chapter from EFNSOFT.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.6% ★, Crafting 12.7%, Open World 11.1%, Survival 9%, Survival Horror 8.2%
- #38 SkyCraft
74% 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 27.9% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Crafting 12.4%, Open World 10.6%, Survival 8.7%
- #39 DREADZONE
73% matchMixed52% of 1,188 reviews2025
Dev: Eshed
Windows
Dreadzone is a survival game set in a deadly quarantine zone. Scavenge for resources, craft tools, build shelter, and survive against dangerous animals, zombies, mutants, and other survivors. Explore the zone where desperation drives everyone to do whatever it takes to survive.
Why similar: Base Building 15.1%, Crafting 13.5%, Open World 11.7%, Survival 9.7%, Post-apocalyptic 9.2%
- #40 Zeverland
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Quantum Quirks
Windows
Welcome to Zeverland. Common sense is your best weapon against the Zeds. After figuring out the "not dying" part, grab some friends to save the world. Find a cure, build a rocket, or a tower too high for Zeds to climb. Nothing's off limits. You're here at the very start of the apocalypse. Go wild!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.4% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 12.3%, Open World 9.4%, Survival 8.1%
- #41 Travellers
73% match5 user reviews0% of 5 reviews2021
Dev: Braniacs2100
Windows
Ancient-astronaut survival action game. Find the cure for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20% ★, Base Building 14.9%, Crafting 12.9%, Survival Horror 10.6%, Building 8.7%
- #42 The Last Viking
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NoBrain Studio
Windows
Play as a young viking, learn to survive and fight in the wilderness. To fulfill your destiny, explore an island alone or in cooperation with friends, build structures, confront Norse gods and mythological creatures. Will you be the last Viking?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 17.2% ★, Base Building 14.3%, Open World 12.1%, Survival 10%, Crafting 10%
- #43 Reckfell
72% 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 23.4% ★, Crafting 13.1%, Base Building 12.3%, Open World 9.7%, Survival 8.3%
- #44 ASTRONEER
71% matchVery Positive92% of 137,959 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 28.8% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Open World 11.6%, Survival 9.2%, Crafting 8.9%
- #45 Lodventure
71% matchMostly Positive74% of 161 reviews2023
Dev: Sky Games
Windows
Embark on a 1-4 players Co-op survival adventure in an open world wilderness in search of a myth called the Lod Stone. Build your house, sow your crops, brew potions, tame a horse and discover powerful abilities. Venture into dangerous dungeons, fight unique bosses to find the Lod stone.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.2% ★, Base Building 11%, Crafting 10.9%, Open World 10.6%, Co-op 8.8%
- #46 Solace Crafting
71% 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 26.5% ★, Crafting 13.6%, Base Building 12.9%, Open World 10%, Survival 9%
- #47 The Forest
70% 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 38.9% ★, Survival 12.3%, Open World 11.2%, Crafting 10.7%, Survival Horror 6.4%
- #48 Stranded Deep
70% 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 38.7% ★, Crafting 12.3%, Survival 12%, Open World 10.2%, Multiplayer 9.2%
- #49 Lost Track
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Junkyard Games
Windows
Survive alongside your companions in the outskirts of a town after a supernatural experimental accident. Gather survival resources, upgrade your vehicles and mobile fortress, and explore unknown areas to gradually uncover the truth behind the experiment…
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.7% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Crafting 12.1%, Survival 10.4%, Horror 6.4%
- #50 The Legacy
68% matchMixed53% of 65 reviews2025
Dev: Second RealityPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Cooperative survival and horror genre. You and your family have returned to your native land, on which a terrible curse and darkness has fallen. Will you be able to survive in a harsh and dangerous environment and stop the evil? It depends only on you, on your skills and ability to help each other.
Why similar: Base Building 13.8%, Open World 12.9%, Crafting 12.1%, Survival Horror 11.3%, Survival 10.7%
- #51 Out of Reach
70% 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 34.9% ★, Crafting 12.5%, Open World 11%, Survival 11%, Base Building 7.3%
- #52 Wildsite
68% 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 27.7% ★, Base Building 13%, Crafting 12.7%, Open World 10.5%, Survival 8.7%
- #53 Night City
67% matchMostly Negative21% of 19 reviews2024
Dev: Bootur Games
Windows
"Night City" is a cooperative first-person horror game with survival elements, here you will play as one of the company's clones, and go down into the dungeons to search for resources. Death will be waiting at every step, so work as a team.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.7% ★, Crafting 12.5%, Post-apocalyptic 8.7%, Open World 8.4%, Co-op 8.1%
- #54 The Highrise
67% matchMixed56% of 277 reviews2023
Dev: Studio Hatch Co., Ltd.
Windows
THE HIGHRISE is a first-person survival game set in a high-rise building that has been sealed off by an alien monster invasion. Gather resources to make fighting weapons and survival tools. You must find and send a rescue signal at the end of your desperate survival.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.3% ★, Crafting 13.5%, Survival Horror 11.2%, Open World 10.6%, Survival 7.4%
- #55 UNKNOWN REGION
68% matchMixed47% of 47 reviews2020
Dev: SYDNEY GAMES
Windows
You are one of the chosen survivors to set up your life in UNKNOWN REGION. Life has forever changed after an unknown virus has wiped out humanity. Navigate through the region to discover mutated humans and creatures. You will be challenged to test your survival skills.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30% ★, Base Building 15.2%, Crafting 12.9%, Post-apocalyptic 11.6%, Open World 8.3%
- #56 Category 6
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Crafty Game Lab
Windows
Brace yourself for the ultimate open-world survival craft experience. Welcome to a world shattered by the relentless fury of the most colossal hurricane in history. Explore and gather resources for survival and crafting. Fight off aggressive wildlife and scavengers. Play story mode or survival mode
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.2% ★, Crafting 13.5%, Open World 9.7%, Survival 8.7%, Survival Horror 8.6%
- #57 RuneScape: Dragonwilds
65% matchVery Positive81% of 25,015 reviews2025
Dev: Jagex Ltd
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 15.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
On RuneScape’s forgotten continent of Ashenfall, dragons have awoken. Gather, build, skill and craft to survive in this co-operative (1-4) survival crafting game. Only by mastering survival and uncovering ancient secrets can they hope to slay the Dragon Queen—alone or with allies.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28% ★, Open World 12.5%, Crafting 11.6%, Base Building 10.5%, Survival 9.3%
- #58 Novus Inceptio
69% 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 28.3% ★, Crafting 13%, Base Building 12.6%, Open World 10.9%, Survival 9%