- #1 Project Castaway
97% matchMixed65% of 1,893 reviews2026
Dev: Mardonpol Inc.
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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 26.2% ★, Underwater 17.5% ★, Base Building 8.7%, Co-op 8.4%, Survival 7.8%
- #2 Project AlbatrOS
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DiSolve Studios
Windows
Take on the role of an underwater reef explorer, find a way to save the corals from extinction. Dive into the colorful waters of Water, explore and admire the local reef, explore the mystery of the island. Gather resources to create your own bases in order your survival.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.2% ★, Underwater 24.8% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Crafting 7.1%, Open World 5.9%
- #3 World In The Abyss
95% 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 26.4% ★, Underwater 20.2% ★, Base Building 10.1%, Crafting 8.5%, Co-op 8.4%
- #4 Sunkenland
94% matchVery Positive80% of 24,007 reviews2023
Dev: Vector3 Studio
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 20.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 31.4% ★, Underwater 21.6% ★, Base Building 9.7%, Co-op 9.6%, Survival 9.2%
- #5 Raft
94% matchVery Positive93% of 379,035 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.8 hrsMean: 38.0 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 34.8% ★, Survival 13.6%, Co-op 10.2%, Crafting 8.3%, Base Building 7.8%
- #6 Tidewrack
93% matchMixed67% of 27 reviews2026
Dev: OverLKD Studio
Windows
A few logs, one harpoon, no land in sight. Pull driftwood from the sea and build your raft into a floating town, on your own or with friends you invite straight from Steam. Dive to the ocean floor. Raiders come at night, sharks circle, and somewhere out there, a leviathan is waiting.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.4% ★, Underwater 18.1% ★, Base Building 8.4%, Crafting 8%, Survival 8%
- #7 Subnautica
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 380,795 reviews2018
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.3 hrsMean: 39.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 31.6% ★, Underwater 23.7% ★, Survival 10.1%, Base Building 9.3%, Crafting 7.7%
- #8 Subnautica: Below Zero
91% matchVery Positive90% of 108,517 reviews2021
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 15.5 hrsMean: 30.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 32.6% ★, Underwater 24.1% ★, Survival 9.6%, Base Building 9.6%, Open World 7.4%
- #9 Under A New Sun
90% matchMostly Positive76% of 406 reviews2023
Dev: New Horizon Games
Windows
While searching for a new home, an unexpected failure in your ship has left you stranded on a planet surprisingly similar to Earth. Discover a vast open world, hunt for food, develop technologies, and build yourself a new home to survive!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.3% ★, Underwater 17.8% ★, Base Building 10.5%, Survival 10.3%, Crafting 10%
- #10 Nightingale
89% matchMixed66% of 18,084 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 31.1% ★, Base Building 10.7%, Survival 9.9%, Crafting 9.3%, Open World 8.3%
- #11 Stranded Deep
89% matchMostly Positive74% of 47,919 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 42.9% ★, Survival 13.1%, Crafting 9.2%, Underwater 8.3% ★, Open World 8%
- #12 Grounded
87% matchVery Positive90% of 95,977 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.6 hrsMean: 41.9 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 32.3% ★, Survival 14.7%, Base Building 13.5%, Co-op 10.9%, Crafting 9.1%
- #13 Aurendor
88% 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 33.3% ★, Base Building 10.7%, Survival 10.1%, Crafting 9.3%, Open World 8.5%
- #14 Unshallow
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Miguel RomanPub: Rapture Ready Games
Windows
Explore the vast underwater world as one of the four divers on a mission. Build your base, grow plants, and craft items to survive. Upgrade your gear, scavenge for resources, and uncover the secrets of the alien planet in this survival game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.5% ★, Underwater 24.3% ★, Crafting 9.4%, Survival 9.1%, Base Building 8.5%
- #15 Grounded 2
85% matchVery Positive81% of 24,763 reviews2025
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 13.2 hrsMean: 26.9 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 28.3% ★, Base Building 14%, Survival 13.8%, Co-op 10.3%, Crafting 9.1%
- #16 Subsistence
86% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,861 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 40.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.8% ★, Survival 12.9%, Crafting 11%, Base Building 8.8%, Open World 8.1%
- #17 Green Hell
84% matchVery Positive85% of 102,938 reviews2019
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 39.8% ★, Survival 12.9%, Crafting 8.3%, Base Building 8.2%, Open World 7%
- #18 SkyCraft
84% 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 32.4% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Survival 10%, Crafting 9.8%, Open World 8.7%
- #19 Wildsite
83% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Vividdi Entertainment
Windows · Linux
Crash-land on a sci-fi planet plagued by toxic plasma storms. Alongside Bob, your sarcastic AI companion, build and shrink your base to move it anywhere. Fight with primitive or plasma weapons in this survival-craft adventure solo or with up to 3 friends in online co-op!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.6% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Crafting 9.9%, Survival 9.8%, Open World 8.5%
- #20 Unknown Seas
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: RobinPub: Ragnox
Windows
Explore the unknown procedurally-generated world of islands and seas. Fight enemies, farm materials, craft equipment, build your base, slay bosses and level up your character. Conquer the unknown with your friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.6% ★, Underwater 18.1% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Crafting 9.8%, Survival 6.8%
- #21 Valheim
79% matchVery Positive94% of 555,289 reviews2026
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 26.9 hrsMean: 81.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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% ★, Survival 10.5%, Base Building 10.2%, Crafting 8.7%, Open World 8.6%
- #22 Solace Crafting
82% matchMostly Positive71% of 899 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 30.8% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Crafting 10.7%, Survival 10.3%, Open World 8.2%
- #23 Under a Rock
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Nordic TrollsPub: Gameforge 4D GmbH
Windows
A procedural open-world survival craft game for 1-10 players. Explore a primitive but dangerous place with a different evolutionary path; here, wildlife is oversized, Neanderthals still exist, and curses are real.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.8% ★, Underwater 19.6% ★, Base Building 10.1%, Crafting 8.2%, Co-op 7.8%
- #24 RuneScape: Dragonwilds
79% matchVery Positive81% of 32,495 reviews2026
Dev: Jagex Ltd
Windows
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 20.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
On RuneScape's forgotten continent of Ashenfall, dragons have awoken. Gather, build, skill and craft in this co-operative survival adventure. Only by mastering survival and uncovering ancient secrets can you hope to face the ferocious Dragon Queen.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.8% ★, Open World 10.6%, Survival 10.5%, Co-op 9.9%, Base Building 9.5%
- #25 Survival: Fountain of Youth
80% matchVery Positive85% of 4,528 reviews2024
Dev: Odinsoft Inc.Pub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Survival: Fountain of Youth is a challenging single-player open-world adventure game set on the Caribbean islands. Survive as a shipwrecked 16th-century explorer, craft tools and shelter, and uncover the secrets of both an ancient civilization and your own fate.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.7% ★, Underwater 17.7% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Survival 9.9%, Crafting 9.5%
- #26 Anchor
81% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Fearem
Windows
Anchor is a large-scale underwater multiplayer survival game. Build your base, craft tools and weapons, explore, loot and prepare for battle. Every player is a potential threat in a persistent world where bases can be raided, alliances broken, and the ocean itself hunts you.
Why similar: Underwater 24% ★, Open World Survival Craft 22.7% ★, Base Building 10.4%, Crafting 9.2%, Survival 8.4%
- #27 Last Breath
78% matchVery Positive84% of 80 reviews2026
Dev: Mx
Windows
Last Breath is a solo/cooperative terraforming survival game. Dig through terrain, build powerful machines, and restore life to a dead planet. Work together to survive, automate, and reshape the world from the ground up, literally.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.6% ★, Survival 12.7%, Base Building 12.4%, Crafting 8.9%, Co-op 6.9%
- #28 The Last Viking
78% 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 20.3% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Survival 11.6%, Co-op 10.4%, Open World 10.2%
- #29 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
77% matchVery Positive82% of 10,551 reviews2024
Dev: Max Ent Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 29.8% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Survival 10.3%, Crafting 9.3%, Co-op 8.3%
- #30 Moon Colony Crafter
77% 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 33.8% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Survival 10.3%, Crafting 9.5%, Open World 8.5%
- #31 ICARUS
76% matchMostly Positive75% of 68,864 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.4 hrsMean: 46.7 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 32.4% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Survival 11.5%, Crafting 9%, Co-op 7.3%
- #32 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
75% matchVery Positive91% of 7,668 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 54%
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 33.2% ★, Base Building 13%, Crafting 9.2%, Open World 8%, Survival 6.9%
- #33 Necesse
74% matchVery Positive93% of 29,166 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 43.1% ★, Crafting 8.6%, Base Building 8.4%, Survival 8.3%, Open World 8%
- #34 TROLLHEIM: GNOMES
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Trollheim
Windows
More info coming soon
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.7% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Survival 10.7%, Crafting 9.8%, Co-op 9.3%
- #35 Lodventure
75% matchMostly Positive74% of 166 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 34.8% ★, Co-op 11.3%, Base Building 10.2%, Survival 10.1%, Open World 9%
- #36 Voidtrain
73% matchMostly Positive73% of 9,990 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 14.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 36.4% ★, Base Building 10.4%, Co-op 9.6%, Survival 8.7%, Crafting 8.2%
- #37 Drift: Space Survival
74% matchMostly Positive70% of 77 reviews2023
Dev: KAR Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 37.7% ★, Survival 11%, Crafting 10.1%, Base Building 9.4%, Online Co-Op 6.5%
- #38 Wild
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DzernPub: Dzern and Unverändert
Windows
Wild is a survival game inspired by the "7vsWild" series. The goal is to survive, fight against dangerous animals, and build your shelter. For that, you are only allowed to take one bottle as equipment, so prepare it well in advance.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.9% ★, Survival 15.4%, Base Building 14.1%, Crafting 9.6%, Open World 6.7%
- #39 Shamania
72% matchMostly Positive74% of 171 reviews2026
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 32% ★, Crafting 12.4%, Survival 10.8%, Open World 10.4%, Co-op 8.8%
- #40 Primal Man Simulator
72% 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 37.8% ★, Crafting 12.7%, Survival 12.6%, Open World 10.6%, Base Building 9.9%
- #41 Forever Skies
70% matchMostly Positive78% of 9,059 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 30.5 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 27.2% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Co-op 10.1%, Crafting 9.9%, Survival 9.3%
- #42 Sagventyr
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TheFirstStar
Windows
This action game incorporates elements unique to the medium—such as the spirit of exploration as you venture into the unknown, the tension of weighing the risks and rewards of combat, and the exhilaration of acquiring rare, hard-to-find items.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.8% ★, Survival 10.6%, Base Building 10.2%, Crafting 9.8%, Open World 8.6%
- #43 Core Keeper
70% matchVery Positive93% of 66,787 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.3 hrsMean: 34.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.7% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 10.2%, Survival 10%, Co-op 9.2%
- #44 The Planet Crafter
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 74,281 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.7 hrsMean: 38.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 30.4% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Survival 9.2%, Crafting 9.1%, Co-op 9%
- #45 Arctico
71% matchMostly Positive70% of 2,553 reviews2022
Dev: Claudio Norori
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 69%
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 39.8% ★, Co-op 10.8%, Survival 10.4%, Open World 9.3%, Base Building 8%
- #46 Nighthold
70% 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 45.4% ★, Base Building 10.3%, Crafting 8.2%, Survival 7.9%, Open World 6.4%
- #47 Until North Ends
68% matchPositive86% of 42 reviews2026
Dev: Unknown Hex
Windows
Fight, farm, and forage as a new experience awaits in this open-world survival crafting adventure. Journey alone or with friends as you build your own safe haven to weather the harsh Nordic landscapes before you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.5% ★, Crafting 11.6%, Survival 10.7%, Open World 9.9%, Co-op 9.3%
- #48 Force of Nature
71% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,209 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 43.2% ★, Crafting 13.7%, Survival 12.5%, Open World 8.4%, Building 5.6%
- #49 Skyformer
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 96 reviews2026
Dev: Weatherfused
Windows
Create an automated system that terraforms a planet with an army of drones. Craft and build bases, set up a weather monitoring system, prepare to survive different types of storms, and take control of the climate and biomes! Play alone or up to 4 player co-op.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Crafting 9.9%, Co-op 9.7%, Survival 9.2%
- #50 Planetaries
68% matchMixed58% of 228 reviews2024
Dev: EY-Studio
Windows
Experience a vast Sci-fi open-world survival TD game set on a distant planet deep in the universe. Craft, build, mine, trade, explore, and survive in this alien world. Collect Data and defend against waves of enemies seeking to banish you. Enjoy the adventure in Singleplayer or Multiplayer.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.6% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Crafting 10%, Survival 9.5%, Co-op 8.6%
- #51 Rem Survival
69% matchMostly Positive76% of 809 reviews2021
Dev: Immortal Hand Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 47.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Scavenge abandoned ruins, craft gear from scrap and salvaged materials, and fight the environment itself as hunger, exposure, and exhaustion push you to your limits. There are no second chances—only adaptation or death.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.1% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 11.7%, Survival 10.9%, Open World 9.2%
- #52 ASTRONEER
68% matchVery Positive92% of 139,497 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.7 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 35.4% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Survival 11.2%, Open World 10.2%, Co-op 8.7%
- #53 Out of Reach
69% matchMixed57% of 3,051 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 42.2% ★, Survival 13%, Crafting 10.2%, Open World 9.4%, Base Building 6.8%
- #54 SpiritBorn
67% 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 40.1% ★, Survival 12%, Crafting 11.7%, Base Building 11.5%, Open World 10.2%
- #55 Once Human
65% matchMostly Positive79% of 189,842 reviews2024
Dev: Starry Studio
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 52.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Once Human is a Strange Worlds Survival Game set in a strange, post-apocalyptic future. Unite with friends to fight monstrous enemies, uncover secret plots, compete for resources, and build your own territory. Once, you were merely human. Now, you have the power to remake the world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.2% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Survival 9.7%, Crafting 9.5%, Co-op 9.1%
- #56 Zeverland
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Quantum Quirks
Windows
Welcome to Zeverland, survive & craft together with your friends in a deceptively cute apocalypse, with no limits! Everything is interactive like the real world—dismantle toilets, strap zombie heads to bats, or weld a bed to your RV. Then, try to repair bridges, make vaccines, and relight the world!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.6% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 10.4%, Survival 10.2%, Open World 8.5%
- #57 Oldowan
67% matchMixed63% of 16 reviews2023
Dev: Broussard Boi
Windows
Oldowan is a first-person casual survival sandbox game that is focused on very early humanity and how it developed. The crafting is all based on real practices, but the survival aspects are relaxed. Play solo or with 1-3 friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.2% ★, Base Building 10.8%, Crafting 10.1%, Survival 10%, Open World 8.6%