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 45% ★, Survival 17.4%, Multiplayer 9.8%, Crafting 7.5%, Open World 6%

Why You'll Like It: It closely matches Stranded Deep's ocean survival loop, replacing islands with a constantly expandable floating base and more structured co-op exploration.

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 48% ★, Survival 15.5%, Multiplayer 9.6%, Crafting 7.1%, Open World 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: This is an especially strong fit for players who enjoy realistic first-person survival, demanding crafting, injuries, hunger management, and hostile wilderness exploration.

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 42.4% ★, Survival 14%, Crafting 9.6%, Open World 7.3%, Underwater 5.9% ★

Why You'll Like It: You play a shipwrecked explorer surviving across Caribbean islands through detailed crafting, shelter building, scavenging, and expedition planning.

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 46.3% ★, Survival 14.7%, Open World 8.7%, Underwater 8.1% ★, Crafting 8%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers the same isolated crash-survivor progression and gathering-and-crafting loop, with a much deeper focus on underwater exploration and discovery.

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 43.2% ★, Survival 13.5%, Crafting 10.3%, Open World 9.3%, Building 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its focus on being marooned in the Pacific, constructing shelters and rafts, and managing practical survival needs makes it one of the closest thematic alternatives.

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 46% ★, Survival 13.4%, Crafting 7.3%, Underwater 7.3% ★, Multiplayer 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: This water-covered survival sandbox emphasizes scavenging flooded locations, building defended bases, crafting gear, and surviving alone or cooperatively.

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 55% ★, Survival 17.1%, Open World 8.8%, Crafting 7.2%, Building 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: A plane-crash survival premise, island setting, first-person crafting, shelter building, and unsettling exploration make it a natural darker counterpart.

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 23.8%, Crafting 22.5%, Sandbox 8.8%, Exploration 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: It combines first-person sailing between islands with survival supplies, crafting, exploration, and building up a capable seafaring life.

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 47.6% ★, Survival 14.2%, Crafting 9.8%, Open World 9.7%, Underwater 5.7% ★

Why You'll Like It: It offers a colorful but mechanically familiar castaway setup built around island exploration, resource collection, hunger management, and base construction.

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 48.8% ★, Survival 15%, Open World 8.6%, Crafting 8.4%, Multiplayer 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: It is a multiplayer-friendly open-world survival game where gathering, crafting, building fortified settlements, and exploring islands drive progression.

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 56.3% ★, Survival 19%, Open World 8.9%, Crafting 5.2%, Exploration 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: For players drawn to Stranded Deep's solitary and realistic survival tension, it offers deliberate exploration, scavenging, crafting, and severe environmental management.

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 43.2% ★, Survival 19.6%, Multiplayer 10.6%, Crafting 8.6%, Open World 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: The setting is very different, but its first-person co-op survival, resource gathering, crafting tiers, and creative base building offer a similarly satisfying loop.

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 28.1%, Open World 17%, Multiplayer 14.8%, Crafting 12.2%, Co-op 8%

Why You'll Like It: This expands on island-based crash survival with deeper building systems, scavenging, co-op play, and a more intense horror-focused wilderness.

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 50.6% ★, Survival 15.2%, Crafting 9.2%, Multiplayer 7.7%, Open World 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: This is a grounded survival sandbox built around gathering materials, crafting equipment, constructing a defensible base, and enduring a hostile open world.

Card Survival is a card-based survival experience. Stranded on a desert island you must use your wits and skills to stay alive. Use cards and combine them together to explore, gather resources and craft useful tools.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.4% ★, Survival 26%, Crafting 16.2%, Adventure 2.9%, Sandbox 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: Although presented through cards rather than first-person exploration, it is an exceptionally detailed simulation of being stranded on a tropical island and learning to live there.

A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.2% ★, Survival 13.9%, Open World 9%, Crafting 8.1%, Multiplayer 8%

Why You'll Like It: Its open-world survival crafting, exploration by boat, buildable shelters, and optional co-op provide a broad fantasy take on the same progression cycle.

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 43.7% ★, Survival 13.3%, Crafting 10.3%, Open World 9.7%, Building 6%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on methodical first-person wilderness survival, gathering and refining resources, maintaining a base, and coping with evolving environmental threats.

The Forbidden Islands are Calling, Unlock their Secrets. Shipwrecked on an island, explore, adapt and navigate the land and perilous seas to stay alive.

Why similar: Survival 45.3%, Crafting 27.4%, Adventure 10.6%, Open World 9.4%, Exploration 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the shipwrecked-islander mood through sailing, island-to-island scavenging, crafting, hunting, and upgrading a customizable boat.

Sailing simulator featuring realistic sailing physics and a vast open world to explore. Embark on cargo delivery missions, customize your boat, try fishing and cooking. A relaxing day sail, or an epic ocean voyage? Your sailing adventure starts here!

Why similar: Survival 39.9%, Open World 29.6%, First-Person 8.7%, Exploration 8.6%, Simulation 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its demanding sailing, provisioning, and navigation between distant islands strongly suits players who enjoy Stranded Deep's ocean-travel fantasy.

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 53.8% ★, Survival 14.8%, Crafting 8.1%, Open World 6.2%, Sandbox 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: This humorous space survival game shares the scavenging, crafting, oxygen management, and improvised-base aspects of surviving after a disaster.

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 46.2% ★, Survival 14%, Crafting 9.8%, Open World 8.6%, Building 6%

Why You'll Like It: Its peaceful survival-crafting structure centers on collecting resources, building a self-sufficient base, exploring an alien world, and gradually making it livable.

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 43.1% ★, Survival 15.2%, Crafting 8.5%, Multiplayer 8.5%, Open World 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its session-based wilderness expeditions feature harsh survival meters, first-person crafting, shelter building, weather hazards, and cooperative play.

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 39.5% ★, Survival 13.4%, Crafting 10.1%, Open World 9.3%, Multiplayer 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: It translates the scavenging-and-building survival loop to a ruined Earth, with a customizable airship serving much like a mobile ocean base.

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 40.8% ★, Survival 14%, Crafting 9%, Multiplayer 8.6%, Open World 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers first-person survival, crafting, building, exploration, and co-op in a wilderness made dangerous by its miniature scale.

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: Open World Survival Craft 45% ★, Survival 20.9%, Open World 10.3%, Multiplayer 9.4%, Building 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: Players who want more combat alongside open-world scavenging, crafting, base construction, and survival pressure will find a robust alternative here.

Nightingale is an open world survival crafting game, where you’ll adventure across the mysterious and dangerous Fae Realms. As a daring Realmwalker, you’ll defeat monstrous enemies, survive hostile environments, and build elaborate estates in a visually stunning Gaslamp Fantasy world.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.3% ★, Survival 13.4%, Crafting 8.9%, Open World 8.9%, Multiplayer 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: This first-person survival-crafting adventure emphasizes realm exploration, base building, resource progression, and cooperative expeditions in varied wilderness regions.

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 39.4% ★, Survival 11.6%, Open World 7.2%, Crafting 6.7%, Multiplayer 6.4%

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 47% ★, Survival 13.8%, Open World 8.3%, Underwater 8.1% ★, Multiplayer 6.6%

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 26.3%, Multiplayer 17.2%, Underwater 16.2% ★, Open World 14.8%, Co-op 8%

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 49.7% ★, Survival 15%, Open World 8.3%, Multiplayer 7.7%, Crafting 7.6%

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 51.9% ★, Survival 22.9%, Open World 11.5%, Crafting 7.2%, Sandbox 2.5%

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 48.2% ★, Survival 15%, Open World 10.8%, Crafting 9%, Multiplayer 6.4%

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 34% ★, Survival 22.7%, Crafting 11.4%, Open World 9.8%, Multiplayer 9.2%

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 18.1%, Crafting 14.3%, Underwater 10.7% ★, Open World 10.7%, Multiplayer 8.7%

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 53.9% ★, Survival 15.6%, Open World 7.6%, Multiplayer 7.2%, Crafting 6.3%

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.6% ★, Survival 14%, Crafting 10.9%, Open World 7.4%, Multiplayer 5.4%

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 52.1% ★, Survival 15.8%, Open World 9.8%, Crafting 7.5%, Multiplayer 7%

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 50.2% ★, Survival 10.5%, Open World 10.3%, Crafting 7.7%, Multiplayer 6.5%

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: Open World Survival Craft 45.6% ★, Survival 14%, Crafting 10.8%, Open World 9.4%, Building 5.7%

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 57.8% ★, Survival 11.2%, Open World 8.2%, Crafting 7.7%, Building 5.4%

The Gold River Project™ is a camping trip gone wrong in the Pacific Northwest. Explore, craft, build, and survive in this open-world experiment that traps you and up to 4 friends in this single player or co-op survival adventure game.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.8% ★, Survival 12%, Open World 9.6%, Crafting 8.1%, Multiplayer 8%

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 46.6% ★, Survival 25.2%, Crafting 10.2%, Open World 5%, Multiplayer 4.8%

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 52.1% ★, Survival 14.9%, Open World 8.6%, Crafting 7.9%, Multiplayer 6.8%

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 55.3% ★, Survival 17%, Open World 8.1%, Multiplayer 7.4%, Crafting 5.2%

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 55.2% ★, Survival 17.3%, Open World 9.5%, Multiplayer 7.5%, Crafting 5.8%

Hurtworld is a hardcore multiplayer survival FPS with a focus on competitive gunplay and strategic map control. Built for hardcore gamers, Hurtworld aims to punish.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.1% ★, Survival 19.1%, Open World 9.8%, Crafting 9.3%, Multiplayer 8.5%

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 30.3%, Open World 18%, Crafting 14.3%, Multiplayer 13.9%, Building 6.7%

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 57.4% ★, Survival 15.3%, Multiplayer 7.7%, Crafting 7%, Open World 6.7%

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 39.6% ★, Survival 13.3%, Crafting 9.3%, Open World 9.1%, Multiplayer 8%

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 44.2% ★, Survival 13.9%, Open World 10%, Multiplayer 9.1%, Crafting 6.5%

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 47.4% ★, Survival 14.7%, Open World 9.6%, Crafting 9%, Building 4.8%

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 59.1% ★, Survival 20.2%, Open World 7%, Crafting 5.7%, Multiplayer 4%

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 53.5% ★, Survival 10.6%, Crafting 7.6%, Open World 6.4%, Multiplayer 5.9%

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 50.7% ★, Survival 14.8%, Crafting 9.6%, Building 5.3%, Open World 3.3%

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 47% ★, Survival 13%, Crafting 10.3%, Multiplayer 7.9%, Building 6.3%

Explore, survive, and push the boundaries of the horizon in a vast, procedurally generated world. Customize your vehicle, face unpredictable events, gather resources, and embark on a unique adventure, alone or with up to 4 players.

Why similar: Survival 26.6%, Open World 18.6%, Multiplayer 16.4%, Co-op 9.2%, Realistic 9.1%