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 44.8% ★, Survival 17.4%, Multiplayer 9.9%, Crafting 7.6%, Open World 6%

Why You'll Like It: If Stranded Deep's castaway loop worked for you, Raft delivers the same scavenging, thirst management, and ocean exploration in a more polished co-op-friendly survival sandbox.

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 47.9% ★, Survival 15.5%, Multiplayer 9.7%, Crafting 7.2%, Open World 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: Like Stranded Deep, it's a grounded first-person survival game where wounds, hunger, dehydration, and environmental danger matter as much as crafting.

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 42.3% ★, Survival 14%, Crafting 9.7%, Open World 7.2%, Underwater 5.9% ★

Why You'll Like It: This delivers the same shipwrecked survival fantasy with first-person scavenging, primitive crafting, and harsh island exploration, but with a stronger sense of progression.

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% ★, Survival 13.5%, Crafting 10.4%, Open World 9.3%, Building 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: It shares Stranded Deep's deserted-island premise almost beat for beat, with realistic crafting, sailing, and a heavy focus on surviving the Pacific itself.

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 46.1% ★, Survival 14.7%, Open World 8.6%, Underwater 8.1% ★, Crafting 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: It swaps tropical islands for an alien sea, but the lonely first-person exploration, resource gathering, and constant fight to survive feel instantly familiar.

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 45.9% ★, Survival 13.4%, Crafting 7.4%, Underwater 7.4% ★, Multiplayer 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its flooded-world setting, scavenging by boat, underwater looting, and co-op survival make it a natural step up from Stranded Deep's oceanic survival loop.

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 54.9% ★, Survival 17.1%, Open World 8.7%, Crafting 7.3%, Building 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: If you liked improvising shelter and tools while exploring a dangerous wilderness, The Forest offers a similarly immersive first-person survival experience with more tension.

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 56.2% ★, Survival 19%, Open World 8.8%, Crafting 5.3%, Exploration 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: Though colder and more solitary, it scratches the same realistic survival itch through careful scavenging, resource management, and hostile environmental threats.

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 46.8% ★, Survival 13.8%, Open World 8.3%, Underwater 8.1% ★, Multiplayer 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a tighter, colder variation on Subnautica's underwater survival loop, with the same emphasis on exploration, crafting, and isolation.

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 50.5% ★, Survival 15.2%, Crafting 9.3%, Multiplayer 7.8%, Open World 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: This is another grounded first-person survival sandbox focused on gathering, crafting, base defense, and slowly mastering a hostile world.

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 47.2% ★, Survival 14.2%, Crafting 9.9%, Open World 9.6%, Underwater 5.8% ★

Why You'll Like It: Its crash-landed setup, tropical setting, base building, and classic first-person survival systems feel very close to Stranded Deep's rhythm.

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 30.8%, Open World 23.6%, Crafting 22.6%, Sandbox 8.9%, Exploration 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: This keeps the island-hopping and nautical exploration spirit of Stranded Deep while adding a bigger sailing adventure and more structured progression.

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 27.8%, Open World 16.7%, Multiplayer 15%, Crafting 12.4%, Co-op 8%

Why You'll Like It: This expands the first-person survival-crafting formula with co-op, detailed building, and a strong sense of surviving in a dangerous remote wilderness.

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 48.6% ★, Survival 15%, Open World 8.5%, Crafting 8.5%, Multiplayer 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Like Stranded Deep, it mixes island survival, crafting, shelter building, and coastal exploration from a first-person perspective.

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 39.3% ★, Survival 13.4%, Crafting 10.3%, Open World 9.2%, Multiplayer 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the same gather-craft-explore survival loop in first person, but relocates the castaway fantasy to a ruined skybound Earth.

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% ★, Survival 15%, Open World 10.7%, Crafting 9.2%, Multiplayer 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its open-sea travel, island exploration, and survival-crafting structure echo Stranded Deep, just with a more stylized pirate-adventure flavor.

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% ★, Survival 19.5%, Multiplayer 10.7%, Crafting 8.7%, Open World 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Despite the playful premise, its survival crafting, environmental exploration, and danger-from-everyday-creatures appeal to the same players who enjoy Stranded Deep.

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 42.9% ★, Survival 15.1%, Crafting 8.7%, Multiplayer 8.6%, Open World 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its session-based wilderness survival emphasizes preparation, resource collection, building, and environmental threats in a way that feels mechanically adjacent.

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 51.7% ★, Survival 22.9%, Open World 11.5%, Crafting 7.3%, Sandbox 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a similarly methodical loop of looting, crafting, shelter building, and staying fed, thirsty, and alive in a dangerous open world.

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% ★, Survival 14%, Crafting 9.9%, Open World 8.6%, Building 6%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on methodical gathering, crafting, and turning a hostile world into something livable, which fits the same progression appeal as Stranded Deep.

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 43.6% ★, Survival 13.2%, Crafting 10.4%, Open World 9.6%, Building 6%

Why You'll Like It: If you want more base-building and crafting on top of survival-needs management, this delivers a familiar first-person sandbox loop.

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 33.9% ★, Survival 22.6%, Crafting 11.5%, Open World 9.7%, Multiplayer 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: While much more PvP-heavy, its open-world survival, crafting, and constant scramble for resources can appeal if you liked Stranded Deep's harsher sandbox side.

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: Open World Survival Craft 47.6% ★, Survival 15%, Crafting 11.9%, Open World 10.4%, Co-op 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: This is a deeper open-world survival-crafting game with strong exploration and base-building systems for players who want a bigger sandbox than Stranded Deep.

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 30.2%, Open World 17.8%, Crafting 14.4%, Multiplayer 14%, Building 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: This first-person survival game also emphasizes scavenging, crafting, food and water management, and building up a safe shelter against a hostile world.

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 49.5% ★, Survival 15%, Open World 8.2%, Multiplayer 7.8%, Crafting 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: If the appeal was taming a hostile world through gathering and construction, ARK offers that same sandbox freedom on a much larger scale.

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 40.5% ★, Survival 13.9%, Crafting 9.1%, Multiplayer 8.7%, Open World 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: It is less realistic, but its exploration-heavy survival crafting and building loop still hits many of the same pleasures.

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48% ★, Survival 12.7%, Crafting 10.7%, Open World 6.7%, Realistic 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: For players who liked Stranded Deep's more realistic side, this leans even harder into grounded scavenging, crafting, and bodily survival systems.

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 39.1% ★, Survival 11.5%, Open World 7.2%, Crafting 6.8%, Multiplayer 6.5%

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 26.2%, Multiplayer 17.3%, Underwater 16.3% ★, Open World 14.6%, Co-op 8.1%

The Solus Project is a single player exploration adventure with survival elements. The adventure is set on a mysterious planet and is the spiritual successor to The Ball - 2010 PC Gamer Action/Adventure Game Of The Year...

Why similar: Survival 51.8%, Open World 10.9%, Crafting 8.9%, Exploration 8.7%, First-Person 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: This first-person stranded-on-an-alien-world game strongly captures the lonely exploration and survive-the-environment atmosphere that makes Stranded Deep work.

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% ★, Survival 14.5%, Crafting 8.2%, Open World 6%, Sandbox 4.5%

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% ★, Survival 13.9%, Open World 9.9%, Multiplayer 9.3%, Crafting 6.6%

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 49.8% ★, Survival 18.3%, Multiplayer 8.3%, Open World 7.6%, Crafting 6.9%

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 49.4% ★, Survival 16.3%, Crafting 10.4%, Open World 6.6%, Sandbox 5%

Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!

Why similar: Survival 21.5%, Crafting 16.4%, Open World 15.1%, Multiplayer 14%, Building 12.1%

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 46.4% ★, Survival 25.1%, Crafting 10.3%, Open World 5%, Multiplayer 4.9%

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.4% ★, Survival 14%, Crafting 11.1%, Open World 7.3%, Multiplayer 5.5%

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 47.3% ★, Survival 14.7%, Open World 9.5%, Crafting 9.1%, Building 4.8%

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 46.3% ★, Survival 13.1%, Crafting 10.4%, Multiplayer 8.1%, Building 6.4%

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 53.7% ★, Survival 15.6%, Open World 7.5%, Multiplayer 7.3%, Crafting 6.4%

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: Open World Survival Craft 45.4% ★, Survival 14%, Crafting 10.9%, Open World 9.3%, Building 5.7%

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 44.7% ★, Survival 12%, Open World 9.6%, Crafting 8.2%, Multiplayer 8%

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 57.7% ★, Survival 11.2%, Open World 8.1%, Crafting 7.8%, Building 5.4%

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 50% ★, Survival 10.5%, Open World 10.2%, Crafting 7.8%, Multiplayer 6.6%

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 55.1% ★, Survival 17.3%, Open World 9.4%, Multiplayer 7.7%, Crafting 5.8%

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: Open World Survival Craft 42.7% ★, Survival 16.4%, Crafting 11.1%, Open World 9.3%, Multiplayer 8.9%

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%, Crafting 14.4%, Underwater 10.7% ★, Open World 10.5%, Multiplayer 8.7%

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 59% ★, Survival 20.2%, Open World 6.9%, Crafting 5.8%, Multiplayer 4.1%

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 39.5% ★, Survival 13.3%, Crafting 9.4%, Open World 9%, Multiplayer 8.1%

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 57.2% ★, Survival 15.3%, Multiplayer 7.8%, Crafting 7.1%, Open World 6.6%

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 51.9% ★, Survival 14.9%, Open World 8.5%, Crafting 8%, Multiplayer 6.9%

Survive, craft, and automate in this free prologue set on one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters, an open-world game where you play solo or with friends to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.7% ★, Multiplayer 9.7%, Survival 9.5%, Crafting 9.2%, Open World 8.6%

Hardcore open-world survival where preparation is everything. Scavenge, craft, fortify during the day. When night falls, the infected hunt in numbers. Play solo or with friends in a brutal post-apocalyptic sandbox where survival is earned through smart decisions. How many Nights will you survive?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45% ★, Survival 17.6%, Multiplayer 11.5%, Realistic 6.2%, Sandbox 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 50.5% ★, Survival 14.7%, Crafting 9.7%, Building 5.3%, Open World 3.3%

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 43.8% ★, Survival 15.2%, Open World 10.2%, Crafting 8.2%, Multiplayer 4.8%

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 51.9% ★, Survival 15.8%, Open World 9.7%, Crafting 7.6%, Multiplayer 7.1%