Games Like Sons Of The Forest

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: Survival 28%, Open World 18%, Survival Horror 12.1%, Crafting 10.7%, Horror 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: It is the closest match by far, with the same first-person survival-horror formula, cave exploration, crafting, and base-building against terrifying mutant enemies.

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: Survival 22.2%, Multiplayer 13.5%, Open World 12%, Base Building 10.6%, Crafting 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Like Sons Of The Forest, it throws you into a hostile wilderness where realistic survival needs, crafting, and co-op play create relentless tension.

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: Survival 23.7%, Base Building 16.3%, Co-op 14.9%, Multiplayer 12.5%, Open World 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its first-person co-op survival loop, inventive base-building, and dangerous open-world exploration capture the same addictive scavenging-and-fortifying rhythm.

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

Why You'll Like It: It shares the strong co-op crafting and base-building progression of Sons Of The Forest, with constant resource pressure and dangerous expeditions into hostile areas.

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 21%, Open World 20.6%, Base Building 18.9%, Multiplayer 11.2%, Crafting 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: This is another excellent co-op survival builder built around exploration, crafting, and steadily expanding a safe home in a deadly world.

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: Survival 19.3%, Open World 15.6%, Base Building 13.9%, Co-op 11%, Multiplayer 11%

Why You'll Like It: Although third-person, it nails the same satisfying loop of gathering, building, exploring dangerous biomes, and surviving with friends in a harsh world.

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: Survival 26.6%, Base Building 17%, Open World 16.3%, Multiplayer 11.9%, Building 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its mix of open-world survival, looting, crafting, fortification, and brutal enemy assaults makes it a great fit if you love building up defenses under pressure.

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: Survival 20.1%, Base Building 16.5%, Open World 12.5%, Multiplayer 11.1%, Co-op 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers a similarly intense PvE survival experience with base-building, environmental danger, and co-op expeditions that can turn deadly fast.

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: Survival 27.5%, Open World 16.5%, Multiplayer 15.1%, Crafting 12.5%, Co-op 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: If the isolated survival aspect is what you love most, this gives you a similarly tense struggle to craft, build, and endure in a hostile island setting.

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: Survival 16.7%, Base Building 15.1%, Open World 12.3%, Co-op 11.6%, Multiplayer 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a strong co-op survival-crafting loop with base-building and a dangerous natural world that constantly makes exploration feel risky.

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: Survival 21.2%, Co-op 18.9%, Base Building 16.7%, Open World 11.8%, Multiplayer 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its open-world scavenging, first-person combat, oceanic exploration, and customizable base-building make it feel very close to a more flooded Sons-style survival sandbox.

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: Survival 23.4%, Open World 16.1%, Multiplayer 11.8%, Base Building 11.6%, Crafting 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its large-scale open-world survival, crafting, taming, and base-building scratch the same long-term progression itch as Sons Of The Forest.

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: Survival 20.4%, Open World 15%, Base Building 14%, Crafting 10%, Horror 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Even without co-op, it matches the fear-driven exploration, survival crafting, and isolated atmosphere that make Sons Of The Forest so memorable.

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: Survival 21.9%, Base Building 20.5%, Crafting 14.5%, Multiplayer 10.8%, Building 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: This first-person co-op survival game mixes crafting, base-building, and unsettling science-horror threats in a way that echoes Sons Of The Forest’s immersive tension.

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: Survival 28.2%, Open World 21%, Crafting 12.3%, Building 11.5%, Multiplayer 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: It is one of the strongest open-world survival crafting games for players who want deeper building, progression, and brutal enemy-filled exploration.

Red Barrels invites you to experience mind-numbing terror, this time with friends. Whether you go through the trials alone or in teams, if you survive long enough and complete the therapy, Murkoff will happily let you leave… but will you be the same?

Why similar: Co-op 23.8%, Survival Horror 21.3%, Multiplayer 18%, Horror 14.6%, Survival 11%

Why You'll Like It: While it drops the base-building, it is one of the best options for players who mainly want the co-op horror panic and constant threat of being hunted.

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: Survival 17.6%, Open World 14.7%, Base Building 14.3%, Co-op 12.5%, Multiplayer 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: It blends first-person survival crafting, co-op play, and dangerous exploration with a strong emphasis on building and venturing into unknown realms.

This is a multiplayer cooperative open world construction survival sandbox game, where you and your friends must find supplies and build shelters in this world. You have to keep an eye on your character's needs state at all times, a bad state is likely to lead to death.

Why similar: Survival 23%, Open World 17.2%, Survival Horror 12.6%, Multiplayer 10.6%, Crafting 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: This leans into open-world scavenging, crafting, shelter building, and survival pressure in a grounded way that overlaps well with Sons’ day-to-day gameplay loop.

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: Base Building 15.7%, Survival 15.6%, Co-op 14.4%, Open World 13.4%, Crafting 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its first-person scavenging, crafting, survival systems, and eerie exploration deliver a very similar feeling of slowly mastering a deadly environment.

Once Human is a multiplayer open-world 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: Survival 19.4%, Base Building 18.5%, Co-op 16.5%, Open World 16.2%, Multiplayer 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: This combines survival systems, base-building, grotesque monsters, and a corrupted open world in a way that overlaps nicely with Sons’ horror-survival 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: Survival 19.8%, Open World 14.8%, Base Building 14.6%, Survival Horror 10.3%, Horror 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It keeps the survival-exploration-horror atmosphere of the first game while adding more guided progression and base-building in another hostile frontier.

The Infected is a sandbox, first-person, open-world survival game. Build bases, craft, farm, hunt, and survive changing seasons. Choose whether to face the hybrid “Vambies” or turn them off for a pure survival experience.

Why similar: Base Building 15.7%, Survival 14.8%, Open World 13.6%, Survival Horror 11.9%, Crafting 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its base-building and survival progression emphasize the same satisfying routine of gathering resources by day and preparing for danger by night.

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: Survival 24.3%, Open World 15.2%, Crafting 13.4%, Base Building 12.5%, Multiplayer 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on first-person survival, crafting, and building under constant danger, which makes it a good fit for players who enjoy the slower, harsher side of Sons.

Choose your path across a primeval continent shaped by the Mask's power. From lush rainforests to scorched sands, recruit and lead unique tribesmen, build automated production lines, and construct everything from local bases to colossal airships, uncover the secrets of the Mask

Why similar: Survival 20.7%, Base Building 19.5%, Open World 18.4%, Crafting 14%, Building 13%

Why You'll Like It: It offers deep open-world survival crafting, strong base-building, and dangerous exploration for players who want a larger-scale progression-heavy alternative.

The Front is a survival open-world crafting sandbox game. You are a resistance fighter sent back in time to stop the rise of a tyrannical empire. Collect resources, craft tech, build shelters, and fight monsters to accomplish your mission.

Why similar: Survival 17%, Base Building 15.8%, Open World 13.3%, Co-op 11.5%, Crafting 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its co-op open-world survival, construction, and combat-driven exploration make it a solid pick if you want another sandbox focused on building and staying alive.

Traverse punishing environments, looting, crafting and evading the constant threats to your life. The unprecedented levels of character customization and progression are your ultimate tools for survival.

Why similar: Survival 35%, Open World 30.9%, Crafting 20%, Sandbox 10.1%, Action 2.2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a much deeper survival simulation with crafting, building, and open-world danger for players who want more systems-heavy survival.

MIST SURVIVAL is a Single-player, survival stealth sandbox game Players will experience the Apocalypse stimulation in the form of virus pandemic, the players have to deal with it to survive through the difficulties such as finding shelter and food, threats from the environment and climate: wild animals, bandits, infected, and dense mist t

Why similar: Survival 32.6%, Open World 20.6%, Base Building 16.2%, Crafting 9.3%, Survival Horror 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its lonely survival atmosphere, resource gathering, first-person combat, and improvised base defense make it a strong thematic match.

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: Survival 20.3%, Base Building 19.2%, Open World 13.2%, Crafting 12.6%, Building 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: This is a good pick if you want the island survival, crafting, and exploration side of Sons Of The Forest without as much emphasis on co-op horror.

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: Survival 20.9%, Base Building 15.5%, Co-op 13.4%, Open World 13%, Multiplayer 10.8%

A survival crafting adventure set in the Fourth Age of Middle-earth. Lead the Dwarves to reclaim Moria - mine, build, and battle through procedurally generated depths alone or with up to 8 players in co-op. It is time to return to Moria!

Why similar: Base Building 21.3%, Survival 20.6%, Crafting 13.6%, Open World 10.9%, Building 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its co-op survival, crafting, base-building, and emphasis on dangerous underground exploration make it a natural fit for players who love Sons’ cave runs.

VEIN is a post-apocalyptic survival multiplayer sandbox game. Gather supplies to survive, explore abandoned buildings, defend your home, and rebuild society, whether alone or with friends.

Why similar: Survival 18.2%, Open World 15.2%, Base Building 14.7%, Co-op 11.7%, Survival Horror 9.9%

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

Why similar: Survival 15.5%, Open World 13.5%, Base Building 13%, Co-op 11%, Crafting 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: This mixes co-op survival crafting, first-person combat, and mobile base management in a hostile world, giving it a similar build-explore-survive rhythm.

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: Survival 14.7%, Survival Horror 13.1%, Open World 12.6%, Base Building 11.3%, Co-op 10.3%

MISERY is a 1–5 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: Survival 14.8%, Survival Horror 12.1%, Base Building 11.7%, Open World 11.4%, Co-op 11.1%

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: Survival 31.7%, Open World 17%, Crafting 14.4%, Multiplayer 12.8%, Building 8.5%

The dead have risen and civilization has fallen. Now it's up to you to gather survivors, scavenge for resources and build a community in a post-apocalyptic world – a world where you define what it means to survive in this ultimate zombie survival simulation.

Why similar: Survival 26%, Base Building 21.3%, Open World 20.8%, Co-op 12.6%, Multiplayer 11.7%

Survive on a remote Island, where a mysterious Outbreak awakens bloodthirsty monsters at night. Craft, build and defend your base in the brutal world of Outbreak Island, an open-world sandbox survival horror game.

Why similar: Survival 21.2%, Base Building 14.5%, Open World 12.4%, Crafting 10.8%, Horror 10.5%

KeepUp Survival is an open base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and unfold your own story on a mysterious island.

Why similar: Survival 15.8%, Base Building 14.2%, Open World 13.6%, Co-op 13.4%, Crafting 10.1%

Age of Survival is survival simulation crafting game from Silky Sullivan. Your player has been stranded on an island not far off of the coast of Africa where you will encounter many creatures, and players alike.

Why similar: Survival 25.4%, Open World 14.7%, Crafting 10.7%, Base Building 10.2%, Multiplayer 9.9%

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: Base Building 22%, Open World 15.1%, Co-op 13.1%, Crafting 11.5%, Multiplayer 10.3%

Generation Zero is a stealth-action shooter where you wage guerilla warfare against lethal mechanical enemies. Explore a vast open world map inspired by the Swedish Cold War era, take part in the resistance alone or with up to three friends in seamless co-op.

Why similar: Survival 14%, Base Building 13.7%, Open World 13%, Survival Horror 12.2%, Co-op 12.2%

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: Survival 16%, Base Building 14.7%, Open World 13.7%, Co-op 13.2%, Crafting 9.8%

Fight, build, explore, survive, while the dynamic player-caused hazardous fog is slowly changing the rules of the world around you.

Why similar: Base Building 15.6%, Survival Horror 15.5%, Survival 14.2%, Open World 11.6%, Crafting 9.6%

An open-world post-apocalyptic survival sandbox. Scavenge, craft, build, and survive solo or in co-op.

Why similar: Survival 20.1%, Survival Horror 15%, Crafting 13.7%, Multiplayer 12.4%, Base Building 11.2%

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: Survival 29.8%, Open World 18%, Multiplayer 11.6%, Co-op 10.8%, Survival Horror 8.5%

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: Survival 19.6%, Base Building 18.2%, Open World 14.1%, Crafting 13.3%, Survival Horror 11.3%

Awaken as a Vampire. Hunt for blood in nearby settlements to regain your strength and evade the scorching sun to survive. Raise your castle and thrive in an ever-changing, open world full of mystery. Gain allies online and conquer the land of the living.

Why similar: Survival 19.9%, Base Building 17.9%, Open World 17.4%, Multiplayer 10.9%, Crafting 10.8%

DESOLATE is a first person horror survival experience. Form a research team with up to 4 players and explore an open world filled with mysteries and unsolved questions, or do it all on your own.

Why similar: Survival 35.6%, Open World 28.5%, Horror 15.4%, First-Person 6%, Survival Horror 5%

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

Why similar: Survival 59.6%, Co-op 10.7%, Multiplayer 9.8%, Open World 7.7%, Crafting 5%

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: Survival 19%, Base Building 17.7%, Open World 15.9%, Crafting 13.1%, Building 9.9%

Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.

Why similar: Survival 13.8%, Crafting 13.6%, Co-op 12.5%, Base Building 12.2%, Open World 11.7%

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: Survival 16.1%, Co-op 15.2%, Base Building 13.9%, Open World 12.6%, Multiplayer 8.8%

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: Survival 37.2%, Open World 21.7%, Crafting 9.2%, Survival Horror 5.3%, Exploration 5.1%

You're a nameless traveler, stranded in a ghost town in the Cursed West. Use your wits, elbow grease, and the iron on your hip. Build a homestead, work the land, and survive against unspeakable monsters in this unique Western horror survival game - alone or with friends!

Why similar: Survival 14.8%, Survival Horror 14.7%, Open World 12.8%, Multiplayer 11.3%, Base Building 10.4%

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

Why similar: Survival 21%, Open World 20.5%, Multiplayer 12.8%, Co-op 11.6%, Base Building 11.2%

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: Survival 17.9%, Open World 15.7%, Survival Horror 13.7%, Crafting 11.2%, Multiplayer 9.1%

Embark on an unpredictable survival journey in Start Over. Solo, co-op, online, explore diverse landscapes, craft through 4 tech tiers, encounter wildlife, and trade or raid for resources. Choose your path, defend against waves, and shape your destiny in a dynamic world. Are you ready to Start Over?

Why similar: Survival 15.9%, Base Building 15.6%, Crafting 10.8%, Open World 9.3%, Co-op 8.7%

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: Survival 15.3%, Base Building 14.4%, Open World 13.8%, Co-op 12.7%, Crafting 10.4%

In the gripping world of VORAX survival takes on a new terrifying dimension. As you step into this Open World Survival Horror game brace yourself for a journey where every moment is a battle for survival. Every choice, every move, every breath could be your last. Are you ready to face the unknown?

Why similar: Survival 17%, Survival Horror 16.7%, Open World 15.6%, Crafting 12.4%, Building 8.3%