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 33.3% ★, Survival 14.5%, Open World 10%, Horror 9.9%, Exploration 6%

Why You'll Like It: The original remains the closest match, combining solitary alien-ocean exploration, resource survival, vehicle progression, base construction, and terrifying deep-sea predators.

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% ★, Survival 13.5%, Open World 9.5%, Horror 8.5%, Multiplayer 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: This companion entry offers the same first-person alien-ocean survival and crafting loop in a colder biome with more land exploration and a stronger narrative focus.

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 36.2% ★, Survival 15.7%, Co-op 14.5%, Multiplayer 9.9%, Open World 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its flooded post-apocalyptic world emphasizes scavenging, building fortified water bases, diving for resources, and surviving with friends.

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 27.9%, Co-op 18.5%, Multiplayer 18.3%, Underwater 11.8% ★, Open World 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: Raft delivers cooperative ocean survival centered on gathering floating resources, expanding a mobile base, exploring islands, and fending off aquatic threats.

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

Why You'll Like It: This is a slower, more grounded island-and-ocean survival game built around diving wrecks, crafting shelter, and managing dangerous wildlife.

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 30.9% ★, Co-op 16.2%, Survival 15.2%, Multiplayer 12%, Survival Horror 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: While side-scrolling rather than open-world, it captures Subnautica's hostile alien-sea tension through cooperative submarine operation, repairs, scavenging, and monster encounters.

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 23.7%, Co-op 15.5%, Open World 14%, Multiplayer 13.9%, Exploration 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Grounded 2 offers a similarly discovery-driven co-op survival sandbox, with elaborate base building, crafting progression, hostile creatures, and a world that feels dangerous at every scale.

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 19.5%, Co-op 13.9%, Open World 13.7%, Survival Horror 12.1%, Multiplayer 12%

Why You'll Like It: This is an excellent choice for players who want first-person co-op survival, extensive construction, open-ended exploration, and a much heavier horror edge.

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%, Co-op 17.2%, Open World 14.6%, Multiplayer 11.5%, Exploration 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its first-person survival loop of piloting a customizable mobile base, scavenging ruined environments, researching technology, and playing in co-op closely fits the progression appeal.

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 22.6%, Co-op 19.4%, Open World 16.3%, Exploration 9.7%, Base Building 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the satisfying cycle of exploring an alien world, collecting materials, building an evolving base, and using technology to transform a deadly environment.

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 26.8%, Co-op 17.5%, Multiplayer 16.9%, Open World 11.1%, Horror 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Grounded turns a backyard into an alien-feeling survival frontier filled with environmental exploration, creature threats, crafting, and cooperative base defense.

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 30.2%, Multiplayer 17.2%, Exploration 12.5%, Base Building 10.4%, Sandbox 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its cooperative survival-crafting structure, strange science-fiction setting, base building, and incremental exploration of dangerous facilities make it a strong alternative to alien-world survival.

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 21.2%, Open World 17.8%, Multiplayer 16.3%, Co-op 14.5%, Exploration 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: ASTRONEER trades ocean horror for a colorful planetary sandbox but preserves the joy of exploring unknown terrain, gathering resources, building bases, and cooperating with friends.

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 26.8%, Multiplayer 19.4%, Open World 13.4%, Co-op 10.4%, Survival Horror 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Green Hell provides a more realistic and demanding survival experience focused on crafting, shelter building, environmental hazards, and navigating an unfamiliar wilderness.

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 26.4%, Open World 12.9%, Sandbox 10.5%, Base Building 8.7%, First-Person 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: This spacefaring survival game has a similar first-person loop of crafting equipment, managing life support, expanding a base, and exploring hazardous alien environments with dark humor.

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

Why similar: Open World 24.8%, Survival 19.3%, Multiplayer 13.9%, Exploration 13.5%, Sci-fi 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: No Man's Sky offers vast procedural exploration, base building, resource survival, underwater biomes, and seamless co-op across many alien worlds.

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 31.9%, Open World 19.2%, Horror 17.4%, Survival Horror 12.2%, Exploration 5%

Why You'll Like It: The Forest combines open-world scavenging, detailed shelter construction, cave exploration, and unnerving survival-horror encounters in a co-op-friendly format.

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 66.5% ★, Exploration 11.6%, Atmospheric 5.5%, Adventure 5.1%, Sci-fi 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: For the quieter and more emotional side of Subnautica's underwater setting, this narrative adventure offers atmospheric deep-sea exploration and isolation.

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 35.4% ★, Survival 20.2%, Open World 12.3%, Exploration 9.2%, Base Building 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its first-person survival systems reward methodical exploration, tool crafting, shelter building, and learning to endure a dangerous island chain.

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 27.9%, Open World 25.6%, Multiplayer 17.3%, Base Building 9.3%, Exploration 8%

Why You'll Like It: Enshrouded is a polished cooperative survival-crafting game with flexible base construction, dangerous exploration zones, and a strong sense of uncovering a lost world.

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: Survival 24.9%, Open World 18.8%, Multiplayer 16.9%, Co-op 14.6%, Exploration 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Valheim offers a compelling co-op progression loop of exploring dangerous biomes, building customizable bases, crafting better gear, and preparing for formidable creatures.

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% ★, Horror 16.8%, Survival Horror 15%, Psychological Horror 9.6%, Exploration 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: SOMA is ideal for players drawn to the existential dread and abandoned underwater facilities, delivering exceptional sci-fi horror in a deep-ocean setting.

"WELCOME TO THE PIONEER PROGRAM! As the newest recruit of Kindred Aerospace - The 4th best interstellar space exploration company - Your job is to determine if the planet ARY-26 planet is fit for humans. You may be short on equipment and experience, but you'll figure it out. Good luck!

Why similar: Multiplayer 27.5%, Exploration 23.2%, Co-op 20.4%, First-Person 12.7%, Adventure 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the lighter side of alien-world discovery through first-person exploration, scanning bizarre life, unlockable equipment, and optional co-op adventure.

ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!

Why similar: Survival 32.1%, Open World 23.9%, Multiplayer 19.1%, Base Building 8%, Sandbox 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: ARK provides a large-scale survival sandbox with resource gathering, extensive construction, dangerous fauna, exploration, and multiplayer tribe play.

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 15.6%, Co-op 15.5%, Open World 15.2%, Exploration 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its miniature-scale wilderness makes ordinary environments feel as unknown and perilous as an alien ocean, supported by co-op crafting, building, and exploration.

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 31.5%, Open World 28.4%, Exploration 14.7%, Sandbox 11.6%, First-Person 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: This first-person open-world sailing survival adventure focuses on ocean travel, island exploration, scavenging, crafting, and building up a life at sea.

Beyond Blue is a single-player narrative adventure that takes you deep into our planet’s beating blue heart. Explore the awesome wonder and unbounded mystery that exists within the world’s ocean.

Why similar: Underwater 78.2% ★, Exploration 11%, Open World 4.4%, Adventure 3.7%, Atmospheric 1.5%

Why You'll Like It: Beyond Blue is a non-survival alternative that excels at the sense of awe, marine-life discovery, and immersive free-roaming beneath the ocean surface.

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 19.4%, Co-op 18.4%, Multiplayer 16.6%, Base Building 11.6%, Survival 10.5%

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 39.4% ★, Multiplayer 12.3%, Horror 12.2%, Survival Horror 10.4%, Exploration 7.1%

A short horror game where you pilot a tiny submarine through an ocean of blood on an alien moon.

Why similar: Underwater 49% ★, Horror 17.7%, Psychological Horror 9.5%, Atmospheric 5.5%, First-Person 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: Iron Lung distills the claustrophobic terror of exploring an unknown alien ocean into a tense submarine-horror experience.

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 30.1% ★, Survival 13.6%, Co-op 13%, Open World 9.9%, Multiplayer 8.8%

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 48.2% ★, Horror 16.2%, Survival Horror 13.6%, Psychological Horror 8.1%, First-Person 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Narcosis is a focused underwater survival-horror story about enduring isolation, limited oxygen, and escalating danger on the ocean floor.

A visually lifelike co-op horror game for 1-6 people. Journey through 11 procedurally generated levels, using what's available to survive and progress deeper into the Backrooms.

Why similar: Multiplayer 19.4%, Horror 18.2%, Survival Horror 15.6%, Co-op 15.3%, Psychological Horror 9.1%

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 20.7%, Horror 18.6%, Multiplayer 18.2%, Survival Horror 15.6%, Survival 9.1%

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 25.2%, Open World 20%, Exploration 11.3%, Sandbox 10.1%, Base Building 9.4%

Survive on the edge of space! Craft and upgrade tools, scavenge resources, and save a galaxy gone completely off the rails. Can Ordinary Man save the galaxy with the help of the immortal Chicken and some duct tape?

Why similar: Survival 33.2%, Open World 13.4%, Exploration 11.8%, First-Person 11.7%, Sandbox 10.6%

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

Why similar: Underwater 38.5% ★, Horror 13%, Multiplayer 12.4%, Co-op 8.9%, Survival Horror 8.8%

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

Why similar: Underwater 50.6% ★, Survival 18.4%, Multiplayer 12.2%, Open World 9.3%, Co-op 3.7%

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 34% ★, Survival 20.1%, Open World 16%, Exploration 8%, Base Building 5.7%

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 22.1%, Survival Horror 18.5%, Multiplayer 15.3%, Exploration 10.4%, First-Person 9.2%

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 35.6% ★, Survival 12.5%, Co-op 11.4%, Survival Horror 10.7%, Multiplayer 9.9%

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 19.2%, Co-op 16.4%, Horror 15.9%, Open World 10%, Multiplayer 9.6%

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 32.8% ★, Survival 13.2%, Co-op 11%, Horror 10.2%, Survival Horror 10.2%

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 19.3%, Co-op 17.2%, Open World 15.5%, Multiplayer 13.7%, Exploration 8.7%

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 34% ★, Survival 13.8%, Open World 9.5%, Co-op 9.3%, Multiplayer 7.7%

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 47.7% ★, Co-op 15.9%, Multiplayer 13.4%, Exploration 9.1%, Base Building 6.4%

Every descent is a deadly gamble. DIVE or DIE in the cursed abyss, face Eldritch horrors to uncover the mystery of the black rain. Scavenge and upgrade, recruit and sacrifice. Save your camp... The Flood is coming.

Why similar: Underwater 42.8% ★, Survival 13.6%, Survival Horror 12.4%, Horror 11%, Exploration 7.9%

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 22.6%, Multiplayer 21.6%, Survival Horror 15.1%, Co-op 13.6%, Psychological Horror 7.9%

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 19.4%, Co-op 18.9%, Multiplayer 14.6%, Open World 13.9%, Exploration 7.2%

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 19.3% ★, Survival 19%, Open World 16.2%, Survival Horror 14.1%, Horror 13.2%

Astrometica is a space exploration and base-building survival game. After a catastrophic event, explore vast space, gather resources, build bases, and uncover cosmic mysteries. Use advanced technology, craft tools, and discover new blueprints to survive and thrive in the unknown.

Why similar: Survival 32.4%, Open World 26.2%, First-Person 11.6%, Base Building 9.3%, Sci-fi 8.6%

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 48.4%, First-Person 19.8%, Atmospheric 8.8%, Adventure 8.2%, 3D 6%

Build a self-sustaining industrial empire in the deep sea of an ocean-covered alien world. Explore procedurally generated waters, automate resource production, and turn alien life into renewable industrial output through advanced bio-cultivation systems.

Why similar: Underwater 45% ★, Open World 14.6%, Survival 10.7%, Exploration 8.2%, Sandbox 6%

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 25.8%, Multiplayer 21.9%, Co-op 15.3%, Survival Horror 13.2%, Psychological Horror 8.4%

Solarpunk is a survival game in a technologically advanced world of floating islands. Alone or together with your friends, you can construct buildings, grow food, craft gadgets and hop on your airship to explore distant islands in the sky.

Why similar: Co-op 18.8%, Survival 18.2%, Open World 15.4%, Multiplayer 14.2%, Sandbox 7.9%

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 16.4%, Open World 13.9%, Multiplayer 11.8%, Exploration 9.3%

A deep-sea exploration company sends you and your friends to investigate a research facility that has mysteriously gone silent. Face terrifying events together, survive as a team, and uncover the truth hidden within the depths.

Why similar: Horror 19.9%, Multiplayer 19.5%, Survival Horror 16.1%, Co-op 15.9%, Psychological Horror 10.2%

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 22.9%, Co-op 17.2%, Multiplayer 15.7%, Horror 13.4%, Exploration 7.5%

Dune: Awakening is a single- and multiplayer Open World Survival game with immersive adventure and RPG gameplay. Explore, build, craft, and unravel a cinematic Dune story as you rise from survival to greatness on the most legendary planet in the universe. Just remember: the sandworm always comes.

Why similar: Survival 22.6%, Open World 18.6%, Multiplayer 16.9%, Exploration 11.2%, Sandbox 9%