Games Like Subnautica 2

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: Underwater 34.2% ★, Survival 14.3%, Horror 10%, Open World 9.8%, Exploration 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: The original is still the closest match, pairing underwater survival, scanning, crafting, base-building, and a mystery-filled alien ocean that rewards pushing into terrifying depths.

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: Underwater 33.8% ★, Survival 13.3%, Open World 9.3%, Horror 8.6%, Multiplayer 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Below Zero keeps the same exploration-and-survival loop while adding a colder setting, more story focus, and many of the same tense moments of venturing into dangerous biomes.

Shrunk again, but the world is much larger. In this open-world, single-player or co-op survival adventure, craft weapons and armor, build your base, and traverse the playground on your buggy. But something else is out there—and it hasn’t forgotten you.

Why similar: Survival 23.5%, Co-op 15.9%, Multiplayer 14.4%, Open World 13.8%, Exploration 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its co-op survival structure, layered crafting progression, base-building, and curiosity-driven exploration make it one of the best non-underwater alternatives to Subnautica 2.

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 19.2%, Co-op 14.1%, Open World 13.6%, Survival Horror 12.5%, Multiplayer 12.4%

Why You'll Like It: If you want the co-op survival, open-world exploration, and horror side of Subnautica 2 pushed harder, this is one of the strongest fits.

Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!

Why similar: Survival 27.8%, Multiplayer 18.9%, Co-op 18.7%, Underwater 12.2% ★, Open World 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: Raft nails the feeling of surviving in a hostile world while expanding your home base, researching upgrades, and exploring the unknown with friends.

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: Underwater 37.1% ★, Survival 15.6%, Co-op 14.5%, Multiplayer 10.1%, Open World 8%

Why You'll Like It: Its water-heavy post-apocalyptic world, scavenging dives, co-op survival, and buildable bases give it a strong Subnautica-adjacent rhythm.

The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?

Why similar: Survival 27.1%, Co-op 17.7%, Multiplayer 17.4%, Open World 11%, Horror 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Grounded shares the same satisfying loop of gathering, crafting, building, and cautiously exploring a world that feels both wondrous and threatening.

Barotrauma is a 2D co-op submarine simulator – in space, with survival horror and RPG elements. Steer your submarine, complete missions, fight monsters, fix leaks, operate machinery, man the guns and craft items, and stay alert: danger in Barotrauma doesn’t announce itself!

Why similar: Underwater 31.6% ★, Co-op 15.9%, Survival 14.7%, Multiplayer 12%, Survival Horror 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: While more systems-heavy and mission-based, its co-op underwater survival-horror atmosphere and constant pressure-driven danger are a great thematic match.

Abiotic Factor is a survival crafting experience for 1-6 players set in the depths of an underground research facility. Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the world’s greatest minds must survive against the universe’s biggest threats.

Why similar: Survival 30.3%, Multiplayer 18%, Exploration 13%, Sandbox 9.7%, Sci-fi 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its co-op first-person survival crafting, base-building, and unraveling of a dangerous scientific mystery echo the progression appeal of Subnautica 2.

A first-person survival game set on a post-apocalyptic, ecologically ruined Earth. Play solo or with up to 3 friends as you build, upgrade, and fly a high-tech airship. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and face dangers on the surface as you hunt for a cure to save humanity.

Why similar: Survival 18.1%, Co-op 17.5%, Open World 14.4%, Multiplayer 11.9%, Exploration 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: This captures a similar sense of lonely sci-fi survival, base customization, resource gathering, and mystery-led exploration in an unusual environment.

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: Survival 22.9%, Co-op 19.9%, Open World 16.3%, Exploration 10.2%, Sandbox 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: If your favorite part is building a foothold on an alien world and slowly transforming it through exploration and crafting, this is an excellent pick.

Take the role of a plane crash survivor stranded somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Come face to face with some of the most life threatening scenarios that will result in a different experience each time you play. Scavenge. Discover. Survive.

Why similar: Survival 25.9%, Multiplayer 17.4%, Underwater 16.6% ★, Open World 14.4%, Co-op 8%

Why You'll Like It: It offers the same survival focus on food, water, shelter, crafting, and dangerous ocean exploration, even if its scope is more grounded.

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: Survival 27.5%, Open World 13.1%, Sandbox 11.2%, First-Person 8.8%, Sci-fi 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: This is basically a comedic space riff on Subnautica’s first-person survival, oxygen management, crafting, and environmental exploration loop.

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: Survival 21.4%, Open World 17.7%, Multiplayer 16.9%, Co-op 14.8%, Exploration 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: ASTRONEER is lighter on horror, but its co-op base-building, resource gathering, and planetary exploration scratch a lot of the same discovery-driven survival itch.

Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.

Why similar: Survival 26.9%, Multiplayer 19.9%, Open World 13.4%, Co-op 10.2%, Survival Horror 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Green Hell delivers a similarly immersive and punishing survival experience where careful preparation and exploration are key to staying alive.

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: Underwater 31% ★, Survival 13.4%, Co-op 13.1%, Open World 9.7%, Multiplayer 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: This focuses on co-op island survival, crafting, and exploration, making it a solid option if you want more open-world teamwork and base-building.

No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.

Why similar: Open World 24.2%, Survival 19.1%, Exploration 13.8%, Multiplayer 13.8%, Sci-fi 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its huge emphasis on alien-world exploration, crafting, base-building, and co-op discovery makes it a strong fit for players who love Subnautica 2’s sense of adventure.

Stan, a professional diver in the North Sea, is struggling to overcome a life-changing loss during an extended mission underwater. Stuck in his self-imposed solitude, he starts to experience strange events and will have to make the most significant choice of his life...

Why similar: Underwater 66.9% ★, Exploration 11.7%, Atmospheric 5.3%, Adventure 5%, Sci-fi 5%

Why You'll Like It: It is far less survival-focused, but its underwater setting, isolation, and moody deep-sea exploration will appeal to anyone chasing Subnautica’s atmosphere.

Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.

Why similar: Survival 19.6%, Co-op 19.1%, Multiplayer 15.1%, Open World 13.8%, Exploration 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Voidtrain blends co-op survival crafting with vehicle-base progression and strange world exploration, capturing some of the same momentum of building to reach the unknown.

ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.

Why similar: Survival 26%, Multiplayer 17.5%, Co-op 14.9%, Open World 14.8%, Exploration 9%

Why You'll Like It: Icarus emphasizes first-person co-op survival, dangerous expeditions, and tech progression in a hostile world that rewards preparation and smart base-building.

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

Why similar: Survival 31.6%, Open World 18.8%, Horror 17.6%, Survival Horror 12.4%, Exploration 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: Like Subnautica 2, it mixes survival crafting and open-ended exploration with a constant undercurrent of dread and mystery.

Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.

Why similar: Survival 21.9%, Multiplayer 16.3%, Co-op 15.9%, Open World 15%, Exploration 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its co-op survival, shelter-building, and exploration of a world that makes familiar spaces feel alien mirrors some of Subnautica’s wonder-and-danger balance.

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: Underwater 36.9% ★, Survival 20.2%, Open World 12.1%, Exploration 9.4%, Sandbox 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its focus on immersive survival systems, careful exploration, and making a home in a hostile environment makes it a worthwhile fit for Subnautica fans.

You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.

Why similar: Survival 28.2%, Open World 25.6%, Multiplayer 18.2%, Exploration 8.5%, Base Building 7%

Why You'll Like It: Its mix of exploration, crafting, base-building, and cooperative progression makes it a strong broad survival-crafting recommendation despite the fantasy setting.

DIVE. DISCOVER. DIE. Crew a submarine with friends in We Need To Go Deeper - a 2-4-player cooperative submarine roguelike set in a Verne-inspired undersea universe.

Why similar: Underwater 52.1% ★, Co-op 21%, Multiplayer 14.4%, Exploration 8.6%, Adventure 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: This is a more arcade-like co-op submarine game, but its teamwork, underwater hazards, and descent into increasingly strange depths fit the vibe well.

Survival, horror at the sunless depths of the Pacific Ocean: Stranded on the seafloor with low light and few tools, an industrial diver takes desperate steps to surface before his oxygen — and sanity — give out.

Why similar: Underwater 48.5% ★, Horror 16%, Survival Horror 13.5%, Psychological Horror 8.2%, First-Person 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Narcosis leans fully into the claustrophobic underwater horror side of the Subnautica formula, trading crafting for pure pressure and dread.

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: Survival 17.8%, Co-op 16.7%, Open World 13.8%, Multiplayer 12.2%, Exploration 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: This offers a more combat-heavy take on survival crafting, but the mobile-base progression and dangerous world exploration are very much in the same wheelhouse.

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

Why similar: Survival 25.1%, Open World 18.8%, Multiplayer 17.4%, Co-op 14.9%, Exploration 9%

Why You'll Like It: Valheim is less story-driven, but its rewarding co-op exploration, gradual tech climb, and satisfying base-building make it easy to recommend to survival fans.

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: Open World 19.5%, Co-op 19.1%, Multiplayer 17.4%, Survival 10.5%, Base Building 8.5%

Solo or up to 8 players. Get rid of your employer's failed experiments in abandoned underwater labs. Navigate your submarine, avoid abyssal terrors, and remove all corpses.

Why similar: Underwater 39.7% ★, Multiplayer 12.2%, Horror 12%, Survival Horror 10.3%, Exploration 7.1%

Red Barrels invites you to experience mind-numbing terror, this time with friends. Whether you go through the trials alone or in teams, if you survive long enough and complete the therapy, Murkoff will happily let you leave… but will you be the same?

Why similar: Co-op 20.5%, Horror 18.4%, Multiplayer 18.1%, Survival Horror 15.8%, Survival 9%

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 30.5%, Survival Horror 15.4%, Exploration 11.8%, Horror 8.7%, Open World 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: This first-person survival adventure captures the feeling of being stranded on a mysterious alien world and slowly uncovering what happened there.

Species: Unknown is a 1 to 4 players co-op survival horror. Complete high-risk missions aboard an abandoned ship while being hunted by an unknown creature. Survive and upgrade your gear to face each new threat that lurks in the dark.

Why similar: Horror 21.3%, Survival Horror 18.2%, Multiplayer 15.2%, Exploration 10.3%, First-Person 9.5%

Venture forth as part of a specialized team of fellow players tasked with retrieving classified materials, evading the black goo virus, and the nightmarish entities it has spawned. With time running out before the US government initiates a devastating nuclear strike to contain the spreading menace.

Why similar: Survival Horror 19.1%, Co-op 16.2%, Horror 15.9%, Open World 9.9%, Multiplayer 9.4%

A visually lifelike co-op horror for 1-6 people. Journey through 10 procedurally generated levels, using what's available to survive and progress deeper into the Backrooms.

Why similar: Multiplayer 18.9%, Horror 17.7%, Survival Horror 15.8%, Co-op 15.1%, Psychological Horror 9.5%

Diluvion is a 3D deep sea, Jules Verne inspired, exploration game with RPG elements and thrilling submarine combat. As the Captain of your own vessel, you must grow and manage your crew as you search for the secrets of the past in a hauntingly beautiful flooded world.

Why similar: Underwater 87.5% ★, Adventure 4.7%, Open World 4.6%, Action 2.7%, Singleplayer 0.5%

Why You'll Like It: Although it is more of a submarine adventure than a survival crafter, its eerie underwater exploration and deep-sea atmosphere fit the thematic side well.

From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.

Why similar: Underwater 27.2% ★, Horror 16.6%, Survival Horror 14.9%, Psychological Horror 9.7%, Exploration 8.8%

Hunt and eat other fish - simply, grow into larger beasts!

Why similar: Underwater 51.8% ★, Survival 17.9%, Multiplayer 12.3%, Open World 8.7%, Co-op 3.6%

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: Underwater 35.7% ★, Survival 19.9%, Open World 15.6%, Exploration 8.1%, Sandbox 4.5%

Explore a drowned Earth, restore lost systems, and raise the last human seeds in this first-person survival-crafting adventure. Build, scavenge, defend, and launch humanity back to the stars.

Why similar: Survival 25.3%, Open World 19.9%, Exploration 11.8%, Sandbox 10.5%, First-Person 9.2%

Darkwater is a cooperative extraction horror game for 1-4 players. Command a submarine trapped under the ice of an alien planet. Battle enemy vessels and deep sea abominations as you hunt for resources. Do what it takes to survive.

Why similar: Underwater 33.4% ★, Survival 12.9%, Co-op 10.9%, Survival Horror 10.2%, Horror 10%

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: Survival 19.5%, Co-op 17.4%, Open World 15.4%, Multiplayer 14.1%, Exploration 9.1%

Sam – with companions by his side – sets out on a new journey to save humanity from extinction. Join them as they traverse a world beset by otherworldly enemies, obstacles and a haunting question: should we have connected?

Why similar: Open World 36.1%, Exploration 21.6%, Sci-fi 13.9%, Horror 10.4%, Atmospheric 9.1%

Explore abandoned biospheres at the bottom of the ocean, alone or with up to 4 friends.

Why similar: Underwater 38.9% ★, Horror 12.8%, Multiplayer 12.4%, Survival Horror 8.8%, Co-op 8.7%

Play as a shark or a diver in a dark aquatic world and overcome your enemies by employing cunning, teamwork, and stealth. Depth blends tension and visceral action as you team up against AI or be matched with other players in heart pounding combat.

Why similar: Underwater 36.1% ★, Survival 12.2%, Co-op 11.3%, Survival Horror 10.7%, Multiplayer 9.9%

Voyagers of Nera is a cooperative survival-crafting game where you must survive a magical ocean world brimming with lost spirits and deadly monsters. Sail to distant islands, build beautiful villages and surf across the waves with up to 10 players.

Why similar: Underwater 49.1% ★, Co-op 15.8%, Multiplayer 13.7%, Exploration 9.3%, Atmospheric 4.9%

Inside the Backrooms is a horror multiplayer game mixed with different mechanics that will make you spend an intense night with friends. Explore, think, interact, but be careful, it is rumored that there are several entities wishing to find you...

Why similar: Horror 22.5%, Multiplayer 21.6%, Survival Horror 15.1%, Co-op 13.4%, Psychological Horror 8.1%

Explore a mesmerizing alien world, filled with deep bioluminescent wonders and horrors alike. Old alien artefacts await uncovering, in your search for the lost crew of Lazarus, in the search for your family in the depths of planet Eo-III.

Why similar: Underwater 19.8% ★, Survival 18.7%, Open World 15.7%, Survival Horror 14.2%, Horror 13.3%

Continue the adventures of Beatrix LeBeau as she journeys across the Slime Sea to Rainbow Island, a land brimming with ancient mysteries, and bursting with wiggly, new slimes to wrangle in this sequel to the smash-hit, Slime Rancher.

Why similar: Open World 47.2%, First-Person 20.4%, Atmospheric 9.1%, Adventure 8%, 3D 6.2%

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: Underwater 35.3% ★, Survival 13.4%, Co-op 9.3%, Open World 9.2%, Exploration 7.9%

Escape the Backrooms is a 1-4 player co-op horror exploration game. Traverse 30+ eerie backrooms levels while avoiding entities and other dangers. Try to escape but be warned: survival isn't guaranteed.

Why similar: Horror 25.7%, Multiplayer 21.8%, Co-op 14.8%, Survival Horror 13.3%, Psychological Horror 8.8%

Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival RPG where you can fully immerse yourself in the epic world of Dune. Alone or with friends, explore a vast open world Arrakis, survive the sandworms, build a home, craft an ornithopter, and unravel the mystery of the missing Fremen.

Why similar: Survival 22.8%, Open World 18.4%, Multiplayer 17.6%, Exploration 11.7%, Sandbox 9.5%

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

Why similar: Survival 20.4%, Co-op 17.3%, Multiplayer 14.8%, Horror 13.6%, Survival Horror 8.5%

Dodge and carve your way through swarms of terrifying sea creatures controlled by Death, a vicious giant mind-controlling Kraken that haunts your every move. Scavenge for hidden treasure to unlock weapons, and upgrades to help you in your fight for survival. Every dive reveals a new nightmare.

Why similar: Underwater 45.9% ★, Survival Horror 15.5%, Survival 14.3%, Horror 8%, Multiplayer 5.4%

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: Multiplayer 19.2%, Open World 16.9%, Survival 15.8%, Co-op 12.9%, Exploration 8.2%

Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!

Why similar: Survival 30%, Open World 19%, Multiplayer 18.4%, Co-op 12.6%, Sandbox 4.8%

A 6-player open world horror game. Explore a abandoned town, filled with mysteries, be chased around with your friends and survive creatures capable of ending your life. Uncover what really happened.

Why similar: Horror 19.3%, Survival Horror 18.6%, Multiplayer 17.5%, Open World 15.4%, Psychological Horror 7.6%