- #1 Survival: Fountain of Youth
97% matchVery Positive85% of 4,480 reviews2024
Dev: Odinsoft Inc.Pub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 29.9% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Survival 10.3%, Crafting 10%, Open World 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: Features a similar focus on realistic survival mechanics, exploration, and crafting within a challenging, isolated environment.
- #2 Arid
96% matchVery Positive87% of 1,959 reviews2021
Dev: Sad Viscacha StudioPub: Breda University of Applied Sciences
Windows
Discover the mysteries of the Atacama, explore the abandoned mining networks, evade the scorching sun and survive the environment in one of the most arid place in the world. Arid is a FREE survival game made by students from Breda University.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.7% ★, Crafting 9.9%, Survival 9.6%, Sandbox 7.4%, Inventory Management 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: Shares the specific desert survival theme and the constant struggle against environmental heat and dehydration.
- #3 Stranded Deep
96% matchMostly Positive74% of 47,770 reviews2022
Dev: Beam Team GamesPub: Beam Team Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 20.9 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Take the role of a plane crash survivor stranded somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Come face to face with some of the most life threatening scenarios that will result in a different experience each time you play. Scavenge. Discover. Survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.7% ★, Survival 14.1%, Crafting 10.1%, Open World 9.7%, Realistic 4.8%
Why You'll Like It: Captures the same feeling of isolation and the necessity of scavenging and crafting to survive in a harsh, unforgiving landscape.
- #4 Green Hell
95% matchVery Positive85% of 101,308 reviews2019
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.3% ★, Survival 13.9%, Crafting 9%, Open World 8.5%, Base Building 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a highly realistic survival experience that emphasizes environmental hazards and the need for careful resource management.
- #5 Forever Skies
94% matchMostly Positive78% of 8,950 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 30.6 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 25.9% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Crafting 9.8%, Survival 9.1%, Open World 9%
Why You'll Like It: Features a unique atmospheric survival experience with a focus on exploration and maintaining a mobile base.
- #6 Subnautica
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 378,847 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 34.8% ★, Survival 11.5%, Base Building 10.1%, Open World 9.7%, Crafting 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: Combines survival and crafting with a deep sense of mystery and exploration in a hostile, alien environment.
- #7 Breathedge
93% matchVery Positive81% of 17,661 reviews2021
Dev: RedRuins SoftworksPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Survive in outer space! Together with your immortal chicken, discover the truth behind your sudden spaceship crash. Craft tools, pilot vehicles, and even control space stations to survive and explore the wreckage.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.1% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Survival 10%, Sandbox 8.1%, Crafting 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a humorous but challenging survival experience that requires careful inventory management and resource gathering in space.
- #8 The Long Dark
92% matchVery Positive89% of 123,417 reviews2017
Dev: Hinterland Studio Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 47.4 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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: Open World Survival Craft 48% ★, Survival 16.9%, Open World 11.3%, Crafting 6.6%, Exploration 4.4%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on the struggle against the elements and the psychological toll of isolation in a beautiful but deadly world.
- #9 ICARUS
91% matchMostly Positive75% of 67,515 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 46.4 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 33.3% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Survival 12.2%, Crafting 9.8%, Open World 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a session-based survival experience that emphasizes crafting, base-building, and surviving extreme environmental conditions.
- #10 Sons Of The Forest
89% matchVery Positive88% of 317,804 reviews2024
Dev: Endnight Games LtdPub: Newnight
Windows
Median: 15.0 hrsMean: 32.3 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: Survival 21%, Base Building 18.4%, Open World 18.2%, Crafting 13.1%, Building 9%
Why You'll Like It: Offers advanced base-building and survival mechanics set within a mysterious, dangerous, and highly interactive open world.
- #11 Crushed
91% matchMixed54% of 318 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 32.9% ★, Survival 10.4%, Open World 10.1%, Base Building 9.6%, Crafting 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a straightforward open-world survival experience with a heavy emphasis on crafting and base-building.
- #12 Mist Survival
90% matchMostly Positive76% of 14,333 reviews2018
Dev: Dimension 32 Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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: Open World Survival Craft 39.7% ★, Survival 18.3%, Open World 13.2%, Base Building 11.6%, Crafting 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: Emphasizes base-building and survival against environmental threats and hostile entities in an open-world setting.
- #13 Remains
89% matchMostly Positive75% of 321 reviews2021
Dev: SoloQ
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Remains - survival in outer space orbiting the planet. Explore the area. Find a way to restore oxygen. Create tools for your needs. Beware of the dangers of outer space. Build your shelter in orbit and try not to die!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.8% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Crafting 10.5%, Survival 9.2%, Open World 8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the core pillars of survival, crafting, and base-building in a challenging, resource-scarce environment.
- #14 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
88% matchVery Positive82% of 10,429 reviews2024
Dev: Max Ent Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 16.1 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 31.6% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Survival 11.3%, Crafting 10.3%, Open World 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on exploration and crafting within a vast, immersive world where the environment itself is a constant threat.
- #15 The Infected
87% matchVery Positive84% of 6,982 reviews2020
Dev: DigX Studios
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 68%
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: Open World Survival Craft 27.6% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Crafting 9.6%, Open World 9.1%, Survival 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Combines deep base-building and crafting with survival mechanics that require players to defend against environmental and biological threats.
- #16 Pacific Drive
86% matchVery Positive83% of 26,666 reviews2024
Dev: Ironwood StudiosPub: Kepler Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 16.7 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Face the supernatural dangers of the Olympic Exclusion Zone with a car as your only lifeline in this driving survival adventure! Scavenge resources, load up your trusty station wagon, and drive like hell to make it through alive.
Why similar: Survival 16.4%, Crafting 14.8%, Base Building 14%, Sci-fi 8.8%, Sandbox 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: Captures a similar sense of mystery and atmospheric tension while requiring players to maintain their equipment to survive a hostile world.
- #17 KeepUp Survival
86% matchMixed64% of 749 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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: Open World Survival Craft 26.6% ★, Base Building 10.6%, Inventory Management 9.9%, Survival 9.3%, Crafting 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: Provides an open-world survival experience that emphasizes building and managing resources in a large, dangerous map.
- #18 Grounded
84% matchVery Positive90% of 95,505 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.5 hrsMean: 41.8 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 37.5% ★, Survival 17.6%, Base Building 15.5%, Crafting 11.1%, Open World 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: Blends survival and crafting with a strong emphasis on exploration and environmental storytelling.
- #19 Under A New Sun
85% matchMostly Positive76% of 400 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% ★, Survival 10.7%, Crafting 10.5%, Base Building 10.5%, Open World 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the basics of survival and crafting in an open-world setting that encourages exploration.
- #20 ASTRONEER
84% matchVery Positive92% of 139,015 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.6 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 34.5% ★, Open World 11.6%, Base Building 11.5%, Survival 11.3%, Crafting 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on exploration and crafting within a stylized, alien world that encourages creative base-building.
- #21 Cubic Odyssey
83% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,720 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Embark on a galactic journey in Cubic Odyssey, an open-world adventure where you explore vibrant planets, craft tools, build vehicles, and fight the Red Darkness. Uncover ancient mysteries, and shape a universe full of life, danger, and limitless possibilities!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.7% ★, Base Building 15.6%, Building 9.9%, Sandbox 9.9%, Sci-fi 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: Blends action-adventure elements with survival and base-building in a large, explorable world.
- #22 Project Castaway
81% matchMixed66% of 1,849 reviews2026
Dev: Mardonpol Inc.
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 31.6% ★, Base Building 10.6%, Survival 9.7%, Open World 8.6%, Crafting 8%
Why You'll Like It: Centers on the survival and exploration of remote islands, mirroring the isolated feel of Starsand.
- #23 Astrometica
81% matchVery Positive83% of 3,181 reviews2024
Dev: BeryMeryPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 17.1 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Astrometica is a space exploration and base-building survival game. After a catastrophic event, explore vast space, gather resources, build bases, and uncover cosmic mysteries. Use advanced technology, craft tools, and discover new blueprints to survive and thrive in the unknown.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 18.4% ★, Survival 12.2%, Open World 12%, Crafting 12%, Base Building 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: Combines space-based survival with exploration and crafting in a first-person perspective.
- #24 Sandustry
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 3,449 reviews2026
Dev: Lantto GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Explore and mine fully destructible worlds. Automate increasingly complex production chains. Delve deep to uncover an ancient civilization’s powerful secrets and learn to love the sand in this factory game where every pixel is a valuable resource.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.8% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Crafting 10.5%, Open World 9.3%, Survival 8.8%
- #25 Valheim
79% matchVery Positive94% of 540,690 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 26.0 hrsMean: 78.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.9% ★, Survival 11.8%, Open World 11%, Base Building 11%, Crafting 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a compelling mix of survival, exploration, and base-building that rewards players for mastering their environment.
- #26 Occupy Mars: The Game
78% matchMixed70% of 3,132 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 34.1 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.3% ★, Base Building 10.7%, Crafting 9%, Survival 8.1%, Open World 7.8%
- #27 Out of Reach
80% matchMixed57% of 3,051 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.1 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 41.9% ★, Survival 13.4%, Open World 10.9%, Crafting 10.6%, Building 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: Offers an open-world survival experience with a focus on crafting and building in a harsh, isolated setting.
- #28 Nova Lands
75% matchVery Positive89% of 3,518 reviews2023
Dev: BEHEMUTTPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Nova Lands is a factory building, exploration, and island management game. Explore, engage in combat, and automate your industry. The planet you’re on is full of mysteries, creatures, people, and things to do. Welcome to your new home amongst the stars!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.7% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Crafting 9.7%, Resource Management 9.3%, Survival 9.1%
- #29 Fragmented
79% matchMixed43% of 1,964 reviews2017
Dev: Above and Beyond Technologies
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Stranded in a hostile alien world, you must fight to survive. Hunt, harvest, craft, advance skills, and build using local resources along with technology from your voyage.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.6% ★, Survival 14.6%, Open World 10.2%, Crafting 8.4%, Sandbox 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a survival-crafting experience that emphasizes exploration and base-building in a hostile alien world.
- #30 Craterbound
77% matchMixed53% of 99 reviews2022
Dev: Daniel Marquez
Windows
Crash-land onto a unique and hostile alien world and begin your fight to survive. Face its inhabitants, upgrade your technology, create outposts & bases, and find a way to repair your ship. Explore the beautifully strange terrain, all while blasting and crafting your way off of the planet.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.4% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Open World 9.9%, Survival 9.8%, Crafting 9.5%
- #31 Stars End
76% matchMixed61% of 1,428 reviews2023
Dev: Reverie World StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Stars End is a sci-fi survival sandbox set on the wild frontier of a distant star system. Play solo or host your own server as you craft, build, and battle to survive in a galaxy shaped by danger, discovery, and your own grit.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.2% ★, Survival 12.9%, Crafting 11.9%, Open World 11.7%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #32 Space Trash Scavenger
74% matchVery Positive84% of 525 reviews2024
Dev: SquarePlay GamesPub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Grab your jetpack and explore procedural asteroid fields, derelict spaceships and abandoned outposts. Build and automate your Space Rig to process scavenged trash. Craft, trade and fight your way home in this interstellar, open-world survival sandbox.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33% ★, Crafting 11.2%, Survival 10.1%, Open World 9.2%, Base Building 9.2%
- #33 TerraTech Worlds
74% matchMixed63% of 2,287 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 22.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.3% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 10.7%, Open World 9.5%, Survival 9.4%
- #34 GRAV
77% matchMixed47% of 6,921 reviews2015
Dev: BitMonster, Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 60%
GRAV is a sand box experience where you explore a multitude of planets, hunt strange alien creatures, build and defend outposts, craft weapons and armor, and attempt to survive against other players in a hostile environment.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.6% ★, Survival 13.2%, Base Building 12.9%, Open World 11.7%, Crafting 8.8%
- #35 Star Crafter
73% matchMixed70% of 106 reviews2025
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
A space survival crafting mining base building and star system building game. Craft rockets to create planets and Dyson Rings, mine and craft advanced materials, terraform the terrain, manage electricity, farm food, and more as you watch the star system evolve into stunning, ever-changing views.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.4% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 11.1%, Resource Management 9.4%, Survival 7.5%
- #36 Hostile Planet: Survival
75% matchMixed65% of 99 reviews2022
Dev: Aliens Developers
Windows
Hostile Planet: Survival is a harsh adventure on an uncharted planet that full of danger and trials.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.8% ★, Survival 14.3%, Crafting 13.4%, Open World 11.2%, Building 8.9%
- #37 The Planet Crafter
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 73,089 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.7 hrsMean: 38.5 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 26.4% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Survival 8.3%, Crafting 8.3%, Open World 7.3%
- #38 Project Cobalt
72% matchMostly Positive73% of 55 reviews2025
Dev: OxygenStudio
Windows
⚗️ Project Cobalt is a survival action game set on a hostile island 🌴. Scavenge containers, mine resources, craft tools, hunt animals, and endure storms as you fight hunger, disease, and exhaustion all while uncovering the dark truth behind a failed experiment.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.6% ★, Inventory Management 11.1%, Crafting 10.1%, Survival 9.2%, Open World 9.2%
- #39 Novus Inceptio
76% matchMixed52% of 1,304 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 32.8% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Crafting 10.6%, Survival 10.6%, Open World 10.5%
- #40 Heat Death: Survival Train
71% matchMostly Positive78% of 718 reviews2024
Dev: Mass Game DevsPub: LightOnDevs
Windows
Heat Death is a sci-fi survival game where you can build, upgrade, and customize your battle train to explore and survive a frozen world! This train is not only your shelter and vehicle, but also your weapon and ally to face hostile drones, deadly storms, and hidden mysteries of an unknown world!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 11.8%, Survival 10.3%, Building 8.7%
- #41 Planetaries
73% matchMixed58% of 226 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 31.1% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Crafting 10.6%, Open World 10.1%, Survival 10%
- #42 Wildmender
71% matchVery Positive84% of 2,225 reviews2023
Dev: Muse GamesPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A desert gardening survival game. Start from a tiny spring and cultivate a blooming garden. Explore a vast world amid the sands and uncover its mysteries. Can you defend against the relentless forces of nature and mysterious wraith corruption, to bring life to a dying world?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40% ★, Base Building 17.1%, Crafting 14.1%, Survival 12.9%, 3D 7.4%
- #43 Northern Lights
73% matchMixed67% of 296 reviews2020
Dev: MadGoat Studio
Windows
Northern Lights is an open world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the arctic tundra. Clinging to life, you must use real-life survival techniques to gather resources, craft, and hunt while tending to your health and sanity. Can you survive your way out of the mysterious island?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.7% ★, Survival 10.4%, Open World 10.3%, Crafting 10.2%, Sandbox 8.1%
- #44 Subsistence
72% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,766 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 43.1% ★, Survival 13.4%, Crafting 11.6%, Open World 9.6%, Base Building 8.8%
- #45 Drift: Space Survival
71% 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 37.1% ★, Survival 11.2%, Crafting 10.4%, Base Building 9.2%, Building 7.7%
- #46 Urge
70% matchVery Positive90% of 520 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 31.2% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 9.6%, Survival 9%, Open World 8.5%
- #47 Wild Omission
69% matchVery Positive88% of 80 reviews2023
Dev: Telephone Studios
Windows
Wild Omission is an open world sandbox survival game with severe weather set in an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.9% ★, Crafting 11.3%, Survival 10.4%, Inventory Management 10.4%, Open World 9.9%
- #48 Dune: Awakening
66% matchMostly Positive71% of 78,134 reviews2025
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 46.5 hrsMean: 100.0 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival game with immersive adventure and RPG gameplay. Explore, build, craft, and unravel a cinematic Dune story alone or with friends as you rise from survival to greatness on the most legendary planet in the universe. Just remember: the sandworm always comes.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.9% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 10.3%, Open World 9.8%, Survival 9.8%
- #49 Satisfactory
63% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 278,339 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 33.2 hrsMean: 112.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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 19.4%, Open World Survival Craft 16.2% ★, Crafting 12.4%, Open World 11.7%, Resource Management 9.7%
- #50 Alchemist's Awakening
70% matchMostly Positive73% of 497 reviews2019
Dev: OsarisGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Enter a world full of magic, mystery, beautiful landscapes and dangerous creatures. Build your own destiny, by yourself or with some friends, gather materials, use elements as attacks, recombine them into building blocks... and use your Alchemist's power to give life to any shape you built.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.9% ★, Crafting 15.5%, Open World 12.7%, Sandbox 12%, Survival 11.7%
- #51 Winter Survival
67% matchMixed63% of 776 reviews2025
Dev: DRAGO entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Winter Survival is a story-driven survival game where trauma turns reality into a reflection of your breaking mind. Battle cold, hunger, hallucinations, and adapt to the wilderness as it adapts to you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.3% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Survival 10.8%, Open World 10.4%, Crafting 7.5%
- #52 Rem Survival
69% matchMostly Positive75% of 803 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 36.4% ★, Base Building 14%, Crafting 12.7%, Survival 11.7%, Open World 11.2%
- #53 INCUR Survival
68% matchVery Positive83% of 109 reviews2022
Dev: INCUR
Windows
A survival open-world game, where you can gather resources, Hunt, Craft tools and armor, Tame Animals, Ride Animals, Build, and defend your base from creatures, and other players.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.6% ★, Crafting 11.2%, Survival 10.2%, Building 9.8%, Open World 9.7%
- #54 StarRupture
64% matchVery Positive81% of 13,247 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 26.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.6% ★, Base Building 14.3%, Crafting 11%, Survival 10.8%, Open World 10.6%
- #55 XenoHaven
66% matchVery Positive86% of 69 reviews2025
Dev: Miniverse GamePub: OKJOY
Windows
In XenoHaven, gather resources to build shelters, enslave alien beasts to work for you, and run restaurants and shops. Delve into dark underground dungeons, defeat swarming insectoids and mighty bosses, and craft powerful gear to conquer the alien world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Open World 11.7%, Survival 10.6%, Crafting 9.8%
- #56 Stranded: Alien Dawn
65% matchVery Positive84% of 11,322 reviews2023
Dev: Haemimont GamesPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 24.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.
Why similar: Base Building 28%, Survival 21.5%, Crafting 15.7%, Inventory Management 12.6%, Resource Management 9.1%
- #57 Among Trees
67% matchMixed68% of 2,233 reviews2021
Dev: FJRD Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Escape to an enchanting, living sandbox surrounded by wildlife and nature. Scavenge materials and craft tools to turn your small cabin into a warm, well-supplied home. Survive by fishing, cooking and growing your own food. Be careful though, the forest is as dangerous as it is wonderful.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33% ★, Survival 10.6%, Open World 9.9%, Crafting 9.2%, Base Building 8.9%
