Games Like Stranded Deep

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 44.4% ★, Survival 17.4%, Multiplayer 10%, Crafting 7.8%, Open World 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers the same ocean-survival fantasy of scavenging, crafting, and expanding your means of survival while exploring dangerous waters solo or in co-op.

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 47.7% ★, Survival 15.5%, Multiplayer 9.7%, Crafting 7.3%, Open World 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: Like Stranded Deep, it emphasizes first-person immersion, harsh survival mechanics, crafting, and slowly learning how to stay alive in a hostile natural environment.

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 41.8% ★, Survival 14%, Crafting 9.9%, Open World 7.2%, Underwater 6% ★

Why You'll Like It: Its shipwrecked-on-islands premise, realistic survival systems, and methodical crafting/exploration loop make it one of the closest overall matches to Stranded Deep.

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 45.9% ★, Survival 14.8%, Open World 8.6%, Crafting 8.3%, Underwater 8.2% ★

Why You'll Like It: Although underwater-focused, it shares the crash-survivor premise, strong exploration loop, crafting progression, and constant pressure from an unforgiving environment.

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 38.7% ★, Survival 11.5%, Open World 7.1%, Crafting 6.9%, Multiplayer 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: It closely mirrors Stranded Deep's stranded-island setup with resource gathering, shelter building, and co-op survival on tropical islands.

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 45.4% ★, Survival 13.5%, Crafting 7.6%, Underwater 7.5% ★, Multiplayer 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its water-centric survival, scavenging, and base-building structure captures a similar feel of surviving amid islands, ruins, and open sea.

Raw, real survival in the Pacific. Build a modular floating base. Master realistic sailing mechanics. Face challenging Pacific-like weather & seasons. Hunt, craft, build & navigate using Sun Dial, Sextant & Triangulation. Explore an endless island cluster-based world. Simulate real life scenarios!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.6% ★, Survival 13.5%, Crafting 10.6%, Open World 9.2%, Building 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: This is a highly simulation-heavy castaway survival game focused on island living, raft building, and realistic crafting in a Pacific setting.

As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 54.5% ★, Survival 17.2%, Open World 8.7%, Crafting 7.5%, Building 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: Another plane-crash survival game, it matches Stranded Deep's first-person crafting, exploration, shelter building, and vulnerable early-game tension.

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 50% ★, Survival 15.3%, Crafting 9.5%, Multiplayer 7.9%, Open World 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a similarly slow, grounded survival-crafting experience where basic needs, gathering, and careful progression matter more than spectacle.

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 55.9% ★, Survival 19.2%, Open World 8.8%, Crafting 5.4%, Exploration 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: While it lacks the island setting, it nails the same lonely, resource-starved survival tension and day-to-day struggle against nature.

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 46.9% ★, Survival 14.3%, Crafting 10%, Open World 9.5%, Underwater 6% ★

Why You'll Like It: It leans hard into tropical survival, first-person crafting, and crash-landed exploration, making it a very natural follow-up for Stranded Deep fans.

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 46.7% ★, Survival 14.1%, Underwater 8.3% ★, Open World 8.3%, Crafting 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: It keeps the same crash-survival, crafting, and exploration strengths as Subnautica while retaining that isolated fight-to-survive feel.

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 42.6% ★, Survival 19.7%, Multiplayer 10.7%, Crafting 9%, Open World 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its survival-crafting loop, environmental hazards, and emphasis on base building and exploration will appeal even if the setting is more fantastical.

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

Why You'll Like It: It expands on The Forest's formula with polished first-person survival, base building, and open-ended exploration in a dangerous wilderness.

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 45.3% ★, Survival 14%, Crafting 10.2%, Open World 8.5%, Building 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: Though more relaxed and sci-fi, it shares the satisfying loop of scavenging, crafting, base building, and transforming a hostile world into a livable one.

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 42.3% ★, Survival 15.1%, Crafting 8.9%, Multiplayer 8.6%, Open World 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its first-person survival systems, crafting progression, and environmental danger scratch a similar itch for players who like methodical preparation and resource management.

Salt 2 is a pirate-themed open world adventure focused on exploration, crafting, and survival. Play solo or with up to 5 friends, sailing the sea with your ship as a mobile base. Discover islands full of quests, towns, caves, and secrets. Level up, craft gear, hunt, fish, and customize your ship.

Why similar: Survival 30.9%, Open World 23.1%, Crafting 23.1%, Sandbox 8.9%, Exploration 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: The seafaring, island-hopping exploration and survival-adventure rhythm make it a strong fit for players who enjoy Stranded Deep's nautical side.

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 48.2% ★, Survival 15.1%, Crafting 8.6%, Open World 8.4%, Multiplayer 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: This island survival game mixes crafting, exploration, and multiplayer danger in a setting that feels much closer to Stranded Deep than most PvP survival titles.

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 38.8% ★, Survival 13.5%, Crafting 10.5%, Open World 9.1%, Multiplayer 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its scavenging-and-survival structure, constant need to maintain your mobile base, and exploratory isolation feel like a more futuristic cousin to Stranded Deep.

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 54.5% ★, Survival 15.2%, Crafting 8.8%, Open World 6.1%, Sandbox 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its stranded-survivor setup and constant scavenging-and-crafting progression feel surprisingly similar, just with more humor and a sci-fi setting.

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: Open World Survival Craft 33.4% ★, Survival 22.8%, Crafting 11.7%, Open World 9.6%, Multiplayer 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: If your favorite part of Stranded Deep is open-ended gathering, crafting, and surviving in a hostile world, Rust pushes that formula into a much more ruthless multiplayer direction.

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 40.2% ★, Survival 13.9%, Crafting 9.3%, Multiplayer 8.8%, Open World 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its crafting, exploration, weather threats, and base-building loop echo Stranded Deep's survival appeal despite the miniature-scale premise.

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 51.2% ★, Survival 23.1%, Open World 11.5%, Crafting 7.5%, Sandbox 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: This one captures the solo scavenging, crafting, and shelter-management side of survival games even though its tone is more post-apocalyptic.

The Last Plague: Blight is an authentic survival experience rooted in realism and immersion. Endure the hazards of a brutal open world and uncover the origins of a mysterious disease. You are humanity’s final hope in ending the Blight

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 58.2% ★, Survival 17%, Building 6.2%, Realistic 5.8%, Sandbox 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: This is a grounded survival sim with a strong focus on realistic needs, crafting, and surviving nature rather than fighting hordes of enemies.

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 43.2% ★, Survival 13.2%, Crafting 10.6%, Open World 9.6%, Building 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a similar first-person routine of gathering materials, crafting better tools, fortifying a base, and staying ahead of survival pressures.

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: Open World Survival Craft 49% ★, Survival 15.1%, Open World 8.2%, Multiplayer 7.9%, Crafting 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: It is less grounded and more combat-heavy, but the open-world crafting, survival progression, and base-building loop still overlap strongly.

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: Open World Survival Craft 39% ★, Survival 19.1%, Open World 11.2%, Crafting 9.5%, Multiplayer 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: It is a broader open-world survival-crafting game, but the resource gathering, shelter building, and harsh environmental progression are very familiar.

A living world full of surprises, secrets and danger awaits in The Survivalists, an adventure-filled survival sandbox set in The Escapists universe. Explore, build, craft and even train monkeys with up to three friends in a desperate bid to survive. Have you got what it takes to be a Survivalist?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.2% ★, Survival 16.1%, Crafting 13.2%, Multiplayer 8.7%, Open World 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Despite its lighter presentation, its deserted-island survival, crafting, and exploration focus make it a good thematic match for the castaway fantasy.

Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46% ★, Survival 25.3%, Crafting 10.6%, Open World 4.9%, Multiplayer 4.9%

Salt is an open world exploration game where you sail from island to island looking for loot and new discoveries! Relax and explore at your own pace, picking a direction and setting sail across a vast ocean filled with quests, merchants, ruins, pirates, and other mysterious places.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.6% ★, Survival 15.1%, Open World 10.7%, Crafting 9.4%, Multiplayer 6.6%

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 45% ★, Survival 14.1%, Crafting 11.1%, Open World 9.3%, Building 5.7%

“A real Gem” – Destructoid at E3 “Offers a different experience for zombie game veterans” – Co-Optimus“Has a lot more going for it than smashing brains and gory, red goo ... With a surprisingly deep crafting system” – GamesRadarYou're shipwrecked on an isolated island, a desperate castaway in a total freakshow world. How will you survive?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.2% ★, Survival 24.1%, Crafting 12.3%, Multiplayer 7.4%, Co-op 4.8%

Want to survive? - Arm yourself and survive. Crafting, shooting, transport and much more awaits you in the Survival game. What happened to the world around and why he died - you may find out. But is this the main question now?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 54.7% ★, Survival 17.2%, Open World 8%, Multiplayer 7.6%, Crafting 5.4%

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 53.3% ★, Survival 15.7%, Open World 7.5%, Multiplayer 7.5%, Crafting 6.5%

Your fight for survival begins on the frozen shores of Tarvhas, where bitter cold and vicious creatures conspire to defeat the unprepared. Uncover the land’s dark history as you and fellow explorers traverse an unforgiving and hostile world to tame the Savage Lands.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 51.4% ★, Survival 15%, Open World 8.4%, Crafting 8.2%, Multiplayer 7%

The Gold River Project™ invites you and your friends on an open world camping trip gone wrong. Alone or together, you must explore, craft, build, and survive the increasingly harsh environments of the Pacific Northwest wilderness as you uncover the experiment trapping you inside.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.2% ★, Survival 12.1%, Open World 9.6%, Crafting 8.3%, Multiplayer 8.1%

Cube Life: Island Survival is an open-world, block building, survival game, taking place on a beautiful remote island. Imagine being shipwrecked and stranded left for dead, with only your will to survive. You must explore, build, craft, and fight your way to stay alive.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 57.3% ★, Survival 11.3%, Open World 8.1%, Crafting 8%, Building 5.5%

The Wild Eight is an intense survival action-adventure set in the frozen wilderness of Alaska. Team up with friends in online co-op or go solo, explore the mysterious land, craft weapons and fight to live another day.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.4% ★, Survival 18.5%, Multiplayer 8.4%, Open World 7.5%, Crafting 7%

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: Open World Survival Craft 40.2% ★, Survival 12.3%, Crafting 9.7%, Open World 8.5%, Multiplayer 7.9%

Hide & Hold Out is a multiplayer survival game taking place in a devastated water world. Gather, build, team up with your friends and establish the foundations of your future floating empire utilizing the heavy guns of your battle ships!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 56.8% ★, Survival 15.4%, Multiplayer 7.9%, Crafting 7.2%, Open World 6.6%

Rising World is a voxel based open-world sandbox game, featuring a procedurally generated world, playable in single and multi-player.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.8% ★, Survival 13.1%, Crafting 10.6%, Multiplayer 8.2%, Building 6.4%

Planet Explorers is an open world sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.5% ★, Survival 10.6%, Open World 10.1%, Crafting 8%, Multiplayer 6.6%

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 43.6% ★, Survival 14%, Open World 9.8%, Multiplayer 9.4%, Crafting 6.7%

Radiation Island is a survival adventure game where you craft your own destiny in a huge open world environment. As part of the Philadelphia Experiment you have become stranded in a parallel, alternate reality. Discover this new and mysterious world, with all its surprises.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 58.5% ★, Survival 20.4%, Open World 7.1%, Crafting 6%, Multiplayer 4%

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: Open World Survival Craft 39.2% ★, Survival 13.2%, Crafting 9.6%, Open World 9%, Multiplayer 8.1%

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 46.8% ★, Survival 14.8%, Open World 9.4%, Crafting 9.3%, Building 4.8%

MyIsland is a relaxed and beautiful survival game,You will drift and survive on the tropical islands, hunt and travel, build houses and development farming, and create your own warm homeland.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 55.3% ★, Survival 15.5%, Crafting 7.9%, Open World 7.9%, Multiplayer 7.6%

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 29.8%, Open World 17.5%, Crafting 14.5%, Multiplayer 14.2%, Building 6.8%

Survive on Raft is a Survival Sandbox Simulator on the Raft in the middle of the ocean! Fight with shark, build base, craft, loot islands, farm and survive. Play solo or with friends.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39% ★, Survival 13.3%, Crafting 10%, Multiplayer 8.7%, Open World 8.6%

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 51.4% ★, Survival 16%, Open World 9.7%, Crafting 7.7%, Multiplayer 7.2%

Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.9% ★, Survival 14.2%, Crafting 11.3%, Open World 7.3%, Multiplayer 5.6%

Miscreated is a multiplayer online hardcore survival game set in a post-apocalyptic future. You will need to survive against mutants, players, and even mother nature herself.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 54.6% ★, Survival 17.5%, Open World 9.4%, Multiplayer 7.8%, Crafting 6%

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 50.1% ★, Survival 14.8%, Crafting 9.9%, Building 5.3%, Sandbox 3.2%

You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 52.8% ★, Survival 10.7%, Crafting 7.8%, Open World 6.3%, Multiplayer 6.1%

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 33.9% ★, Survival 19.5%, Multiplayer 10.5%, Crafting 9.6%, Open World 9.6%

A realistic open-world survival experience. After a harrowing plane crash, you find yourself stranded in the wilderness. Battling freezing temperatures and hunger, you face an unknown virus that slowly paralyzes muscles, leaving its victims motionless and at the mercy of the unforgiving cold.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.2% ★, Survival 16%, Open World 10.4%, Crafting 8.6%, Sandbox 3.5%

Crash land on a hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it. But be warned... this planet is merciless. Build strong, and smart; else physics may flood or destroy your only hopes of survival.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.8% ★, Survival 16.4%, Crafting 10.6%, Open World 6.6%, Sandbox 5.1%