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 28.4%, Open World 18.3%, Survival Horror 12%, Crafting 10.6%, Horror 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: The direct predecessor shares the same first-person survival-crafting loop, terrifying mutant encounters, cave exploration, and co-op base-building on a hostile island.

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 22.7%, Multiplayer 13.4%, Open World 12.2%, Base Building 10.4%, Crafting 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers brutal first-person jungle survival with crafting, shelter-building, co-op play, and constant pressure from both the environment and lurking threats.

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 24.1%, Base Building 16%, Co-op 14.8%, Multiplayer 12.4%, Open World 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a similarly tense first-person co-op survival experience where exploration, crafting, and base-building are constantly shaped by dangerous creatures.

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 25.6%, Co-op 16%, Multiplayer 13.8%, Open World 11%, Base Building 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: While less horror-focused, it captures the same satisfying co-op survival loop of gathering resources, crafting tools, building up a home, and exploring for danger.

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 27.1%, Base Building 16.7%, Open World 16.6%, Multiplayer 11.7%, Building 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its blend of open-world scavenging, crafting, co-op survival, and building fortified bases against relentless enemies makes it a natural fit.

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 27.9%, Open World 16.8%, Multiplayer 14.9%, Crafting 12.3%, Co-op 8%

Why You'll Like It: Its stranded-island setting, first-person survival systems, crafting, and shelter-building echo the isolated survival fantasy at the heart of Sons Of The Forest.

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 19.6%, Open World 15.9%, Base Building 13.8%, Multiplayer 10.9%, Co-op 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: It trades modern horror for Norse myth, but the co-op exploration, punishing survival, and deeply rewarding base-building feel very close in spirit.

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 35.9%, Open World 29%, Horror 15.2%, First-Person 5.8%, Survival Horror 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: This co-op first-person survival horror game nails the same bleak feeling of scavenging and staying alive on an island full of monstrous threats.

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 20.6%, Open World 15.2%, Base Building 13.7%, Crafting 9.9%, Horror 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its first-person survival-crafting, eerie exploration, and constant fear of what might be out there make it one of the strongest single-player alternatives.

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 20.7%, Base Building 16.3%, Open World 12.7%, Multiplayer 11%, Co-op 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: This session-based survival game emphasizes gathering, crafting, building, and surviving harsh wildlife and weather with friends in a dangerous open environment.

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 21.4%, Open World 21.1%, Base Building 18.7%, Multiplayer 11%, Crafting 11%

Why You'll Like It: It leans more action-RPG, but its co-op survival structure, building focus, and exploration of a deadly world hit many of the same notes.

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 17.1%, Base Building 15%, Open World 12.7%, Co-op 11.5%, Multiplayer 10%

Why You'll Like It: It offers co-op survival, base-building, and a hostile natural world that makes everyday exploration feel risky and rewarding.

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 32%, Open World 17.2%, Crafting 14.2%, Multiplayer 12.5%, Building 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the intense resource scramble, first-person crafting, and base-building tension, especially if you enjoy surviving alongside or against other players.

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 23.7%, Open World 16.3%, Multiplayer 11.7%, Base Building 11.5%, Crafting 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the large-scale survival, crafting, and base-building side of Sons Of The Forest, just with dinosaurs instead of mutants.

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 14.9%, Base Building 14.3%, Survival Horror 10%, Multiplayer 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: It keeps the first-person crafting and uneasy exploration of Subnautica, offering another atmospheric survival experience with a slightly stronger story focus.

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: Survival 15.6%, Open World 13.9%, Base Building 13.5%, Co-op 12.1%, Multiplayer 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its open-world co-op survival, grotesque monsters, crafting, and home-building systems make it a strong modern alternative with a horror edge.

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 26.5%, Base Building 21.1%, Open World 21.1%, Co-op 12.4%, Multiplayer 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its mix of scavenging, cooperative survival, zombie pressure, and base management makes it a great pick if you want more survival under constant threat.

'Night of the Dead' is an open-world game that combines elements of exploration, tower defense, survival, and crafting. Traverse a world dominated by zombies while collecting various resources and powerful equipment. Build a fortress to survive the hordes of zombies that swarm every night!

Why similar: Survival 15.4%, Base Building 15.2%, Open World 14.1%, Survival Horror 13%, Crafting 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: If you like building defensible bases and surviving escalating nighttime attacks, this scratches a similar survival-horror and fortification itch.

Welcome to SCUM, a ruthless open-world survival game where deep character customization defines the prisoner you become. Loot, craft, hunt, build, and fight to outlast a hostile island where every choice can change your fate. Stay alive. Stay dangerous. Become harder to kill.

Why similar: Survival 35.4%, Open World 31.3%, Crafting 19.6%, Sandbox 9.7%, Action 2.2%

Why You'll Like It: This is a more hardcore survival sandbox, but its detailed survival mechanics, open-world danger, and multiplayer pressure fit the same audience well.

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 23.7%, Open World 17.6%, Survival Horror 12.4%, Multiplayer 10.5%, Crafting 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its co-op zombie survival loop centers on scavenging, crafting, building, and enduring a dangerous open world with limited resources.

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 21.6%, Co-op 18.8%, Base Building 16.6%, Open World 12%, Multiplayer 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: This co-op survival crafter emphasizes looting, building fortified bases, and exploring a hostile world, with a similar day-to-day survival rhythm.

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 15.6%, Survival 15.1%, Open World 13.8%, Survival Horror 11.8%, Crafting 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: It blends first-person survival, base-building, crafting, and hostile mutant enemies in a way that feels surprisingly close to a lower-budget Sons-like experience.

HumanitZ is an isometric, open-world sandbox survival game set in a world ended by a zombie outbreak. Survive alone or with friends by scavenging, crafting, building, and fighting to last as long as ‘humanly’ possible. You can’t change the past, but you can fight for the future of humanity.

Why similar: Survival 20%, Base Building 16.4%, Open World 15.9%, Survival Horror 11.7%, Crafting 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: It offers open-world co-op survival with crafting, scavenging, vehicles, and zombie threats that create a familiar pressure to prepare and fortify.

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 18%, Open World 15%, Base Building 14.2%, Co-op 12.3%, Multiplayer 11%

Why You'll Like It: This first-person co-op survival game shares the gather-craft-build-explore loop, though it replaces horror with a more fantastical and expedition-driven setting.

Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. Possess any of your tribespeople, recruit followers, and build a thriving automated civilization. Survive, expand, and forge your own legacy across a vast ancient open world — together with friends.

Why similar: Survival 19.2%, Base Building 18.8%, Open World 16.6%, Co-op 14.7%, Crafting 13.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its survival systems, base-building, tribal progression, and dangerous world make it a good fit if you want more depth and scale in the sandbox side.

Subnautica 2 is an underwater survival adventure set on an all-new alien world, developed by Unknown Worlds. Play alone or with friends in 4-player co-op. Adapt to survive by building custom bases and crafting tools. Explore the unknown to uncover the mysteries hidden within the depths.

Why similar: Survival 19.4%, Co-op 14%, Open World 13.6%, Survival Horror 12.1%, Multiplayer 12.1%

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 20.8%, Base Building 19%, Open World 13.5%, Crafting 12.6%, Building 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its island survival, crafting, and exploration capture the stranded-and-improvise fantasy well, even if it is more grounded and single-player focused.

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: Survival 15.8%, Base Building 15.6%, Co-op 14.3%, Open World 13.7%, Crafting 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: This first-person survival game offers crafting, a buildable mobile base, and ominous exploration in a lonely hostile world, just with a sci-fi angle.

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 33%, Open World 20.8%, Base Building 15.9%, Crafting 9.2%, Survival Horror 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers first-person scavenging, crafting, shelter-building, and tense survival against hostile enemies in a bleak world that fans of survival-horror sandboxes often enjoy.

An Open World Survival Shooter blending hardcore PVP and PVE action. Secure precious loot in safe zones or build your own fortress in the wild. With intense gunfights, stunning visuals, and performance smooth enough for any system, the challenge awaits!

Why similar: Survival 22.6%, Base Building 18.2%, Open World 16.1%, Crafting 13.3%, Multiplayer 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses more on PvPvE gunplay, but the open-world looting, survival tension, and base-building still overlap strongly with the seed game's appeal.

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 21.6%, Base Building 15.7%, Co-op 13.4%, Open World 13.1%, Multiplayer 10.5%

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%, Multiplayer 18.2%, Horror 14.8%, Survival 11.1%

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 19%, Open World 16.1%, Base Building 14.9%, Co-op 11.6%, Survival Horror 9.1%

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 15%, Survival Horror 13%, Open World 12.9%, Base Building 11.1%, Co-op 10.2%

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: Survival 15.9%, Survival Horror 11.9%, Base Building 11.6%, Open World 11.5%, Co-op 10.7%

Explore a strange island in this open-world survival horror. Use the Gravity Gun to manipulate objects and enemies, build a moving train base, fight giant creatures, catch critters, upgrade your gear, and uncover the dark secrets hidden within its abandoned facilities. Play alone or with friends.

Why similar: Survival Horror 17.4%, Open World 14.8%, Survival 14.5%, Crafting 10.7%, Multiplayer 9.8%

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

Why similar: Survival 16.3%, Base Building 14.1%, Open World 13.9%, Co-op 13.2%, Crafting 10.1%

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 21.7%, Base Building 14.3%, Open World 12.7%, Crafting 10.7%, Horror 10.4%

In this survival horror, you're surrounded by sea and a towering gate ahead. Walk into the maze, hunt, gather, and run to survive, alone or with friends. Remember: You're not the only one starving...

Why similar: Survival 23.3%, Co-op 16.8%, Multiplayer 13.2%, Crafting 11%, Horror 8.9%

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 22.1%, Open World 15.3%, Co-op 12.9%, Crafting 11.6%, Multiplayer 10.1%

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 16.3%, Base Building 14.6%, Open World 13.9%, Co-op 13.1%, Crafting 9.8%

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

Why similar: Survival 20.6%, Survival Horror 14.9%, Crafting 13.7%, Multiplayer 12.3%, Base Building 11.1%

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 15.4%, Survival Horror 15.3%, Survival 14.5%, Open World 12%, Crafting 9.6%

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 24.8%, Open World 15.5%, Crafting 13.3%, Base Building 12.3%, Multiplayer 12%

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 20%, Base Building 18.1%, Open World 14.2%, Crafting 13.3%, Survival Horror 11.2%

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 14.3%, Base Building 13.5%, Open World 13.4%, Survival Horror 12.1%, Co-op 12.1%

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 37.1%, Open World 21.6%, Crafting 9%, Survival Horror 5.2%, Exploration 4.9%

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

Why similar: Survival 60%, Co-op 10.5%, Multiplayer 9.7%, Open World 7.8%, Crafting 4.9%

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 30.2%, Open World 18.4%, Multiplayer 11.4%, Co-op 10.7%, Survival Horror 8.4%

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 19.3%, Base Building 17.5%, Open World 16.1%, 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 14.3%, Crafting 13.4%, Co-op 12.3%, Base Building 12.3%, Open World 12%

You survived a helicopter crash; going home is your top priority. Live as a castaway - survive the dangers of the islands by using your environment to find food, build shelter, craft tools to extend your stay, explore the secrets of the islands and their surrounding waters, and carve your way home.

Why similar: Survival 16.1%, Base Building 15.1%, Open World 11.8%, Crafting 11.2%, Co-op 10.2%

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 16.5%, Co-op 14.9%, Base Building 13.7%, Open World 12.9%, Multiplayer 8.8%

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 15.1%, Survival Horror 14.6%, Open World 13%, Multiplayer 11.2%, Base Building 10.3%

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 18.2%, Open World 15.9%, Survival Horror 13.6%, Crafting 11.1%, Multiplayer 9.1%

Brave a savage, unforgiving procedurally generated world where extreme weather and the nightmares of the dark will hunt you down. Alone or in co-op, survive, build, and explore to turn a cursed hellscape into your sanctuary of light.

Why similar: Survival 18.9%, Base Building 14.9%, Open World 14.5%, Crafting 12.8%, Survival Horror 11.5%

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 16.2%, Base Building 15.5%, Crafting 10.8%, Open World 9.5%, Co-op 8.6%

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

Why similar: Survival 21.5%, Open World 21.2%, Multiplayer 12.5%, Co-op 11.4%, Base Building 10.8%