- #1 Subnautica: Below Zero
97% matchVery Positive90% of 108,517 reviews2021
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 15.5 hrsMean: 30.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 28.9% ★, Underwater 19.3% ★, Survival 8.9%, Open World 6.6%, Base Building 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: This direct sequel retains the underwater crafting, base building, vehicle upgrades, and creature-filled exploration while shifting to an icy alien region.
- #2 Subnautica 2
96% matchVery Positive91% of 128,024 reviews2026
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows
Median: 10.6 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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: Underwater 33.3% ★, Survival 14.5%, Open World 10%, Horror 9.9%, Exploration 6%
Why You'll Like It: The upcoming sequel is built around the same core loop of alien-ocean survival, exploration, resource gathering, and technological progression.
- #3 The Planet Crafter
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 74,281 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.7 hrsMean: 38.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 37% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Survival 11.7%, Crafting 8.9%, Open World 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: It delivers the same solitary alien-world appeal through first-person gathering, crafting, base construction, vehicles, and a rewarding process of transforming a hostile planet.
- #4 No Man's Sky
95% matchVery Positive85% of 421,258 reviews2016
Dev: Hello Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 20.1 hrsMean: 70.9 hrs≥1hr: 94%
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.8% ★, Open World 13.6%, Survival 10.1%, Exploration 6.2%, Crafting 5.3%
Why You'll Like It: Explore strange planets, gather resources, upgrade gear and ships, build bases, and uncover vast alien environments at your own pace.
- #5 Raft
94% matchVery Positive93% of 379,035 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.8 hrsMean: 38.0 hrs≥1hr: 95%
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 42.7% ★, Survival 17.3%, Crafting 8.1%, Open World 7.3%, Base Building 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: This ocean-survival adventure centers on scavenging, expanding a mobile home, crafting better equipment, and following discoveries across dangerous waters.
- #6 Stranded Deep
94% matchMostly Positive74% of 47,919 reviews2022
Dev: Beam Team GamesPub: Beam Team Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 20.9 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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: Open World Survival Craft 46.3% ★, Survival 14.7%, Open World 8.7%, Underwater 8.1% ★, Crafting 8%
Why You'll Like It: Its isolated island setting, underwater diving, resource management, crafting, and improvised shelters capture Subnautica's castaway-survival side.
- #7 Forever Skies
93% matchMostly Positive78% of 9,059 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 30.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 33.6% ★, Survival 12%, Base Building 11.7%, Open World 10.1%, Crafting 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: Its first-person scavenging, mobile base management, crafted technology, and hazardous exploration create a strong sci-fi survival counterpart to Subnautica.
- #8 ASTRONEER
91% matchVery Positive92% of 139,497 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 39.5% ★, Survival 13%, Open World 11.4%, Base Building 10%, Crafting 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: Its colorful alien exploration, terrain traversal, modular bases, vehicles, and resource-driven crafting emphasize discovery over combat much like Subnautica.
- #9 Breathedge
91% matchVery Positive81% of 18,514 reviews2021
Dev: RedRuins SoftworksPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 40.8% ★, Survival 11.7%, Base Building 9.9%, Crafting 7%, Open World 6%
Why You'll Like It: This comedic space-survival game features oxygen management, scavenging, crafting, vehicle construction, and dangerous exploration beyond a wrecked habitat.
- #10 Grounded
90% matchVery Positive90% of 95,977 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.6 hrsMean: 41.9 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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 36.7% ★, Survival 17.4%, Base Building 11.5%, Crafting 8.3%, Open World 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: Although set in a backyard rather than an ocean, it shares the thrill of exploring an unfamiliar ecosystem, crafting upgrades, building bases, and surviving intimidating wildlife.
- #11 Green Hell
89% matchVery Positive85% of 102,938 reviews2019
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 44.8% ★, Survival 15.1%, Open World 7.9%, Crafting 7.5%, Base Building 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: Its demanding first-person survival systems, environmental exploration, crafting, and constant vulnerability provide a harsher terrestrial version of Subnautica's survival tension.
- #12 Sunkenland
89% matchVery Positive80% of 24,007 reviews2023
Dev: Vector3 Studio
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 20.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 35.6% ★, Underwater 22.1% ★, Survival 10.9%, Base Building 8.3%, Crafting 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: It combines ocean scavenging, diving for resources, modular base building, and survival against threats in a flooded post-apocalyptic world.
- #13 The Forest
88% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 683,269 reviews2018
Dev: Endnight Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 37.4 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 47.2% ★, Survival 15.4%, Open World 9.7%, Horror 8%, Crafting 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: It pairs open-ended crafting and base building with unnerving cave exploration and an escalating sense of danger from an unknown ecosystem.
- #14 Survival: Fountain of Youth
87% matchVery Positive85% of 4,528 reviews2024
Dev: Odinsoft Inc.Pub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 32.4% ★, Underwater 17.4% ★, Survival 11.2%, Base Building 10.1%, Crafting 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: You explore an isolated archipelago while managing survival needs, crafting tools, building shelters, and unlocking safer ways to reach new areas.
- #15 Sons Of The Forest
86% matchVery Positive88% of 321,117 reviews2024
Dev: Endnight Games LtdPub: Newnight
Windows
Median: 15.0 hrsMean: 32.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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 20.7%, Open World 15.3%, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 9.8%, Horror 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: This expanded survival sandbox offers detailed construction, scavenging, caves, environmental storytelling, and frightening expeditions into hostile territory.
- #16 The Long Dark
86% matchVery Positive89% of 123,946 reviews2017
Dev: Hinterland Studio Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 47.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 50.6% ★, Survival 17.9%, Open World 10.2%, Crafting 5.3%, Exploration 4.2%
Why You'll Like It: This solitary survival experience emphasizes careful resource use, navigation, weather hazards, and the quiet tension of exploring a beautiful but deadly wilderness.
- #17 DREDGE
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 57,198 reviews2023
Dev: Black Salt GamesPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
DREDGE is a single-player fishing adventure with a sinister undercurrent. Sell your catch, upgrade your boat, and dredge the depths for long-buried secrets. Explore a mysterious archipelago and discover why some things are best left forgotten.
Why similar: Open World 31.6%, Exploration 22.5%, Horror 19.6%, Survival Horror 10.1%, Atmospheric 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: While more focused on fishing and boating, its eerie ocean exploration, upgrades, hidden depths, and eldritch mystery closely match Subnautica's maritime unease.
- #18 The Solus Project
85% matchMostly Positive80% of 2,628 reviews2016
Dev: HourencesPub: Teotl Studios
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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 29%, VR 9.9%, Exploration 9.6%, Survival Horror 8.8%, Horror 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: A lonely first-person alien-planet survival adventure driven by exploration, environmental hazards, crafting, and uncovering the mystery of an ancient world.
- #19 Outer Wilds
83% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 108,541 reviews2020
Dev: Mobius DigitalPub: Annapurna Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 16.9 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.
Why similar: Open World 25.3%, Exploration 22.4%, Horror 17.3%, Sci-fi 9.5%, First-Person 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: It trades crafting for a remarkable alien-world mystery, but its curiosity-led exploration and awe at dangerous natural phenomena strongly evoke Subnautica's discovery loop.
- #20 Pacific Drive
82% matchVery Positive83% of 26,975 reviews2024
Dev: Ironwood StudiosPub: Kepler Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 16.9 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Face the supernatural dangers of the Olympic Exclusion Zone with a car as your only lifeline in this driving survival adventure! Scavenge resources, load up your trusty station wagon, and drive like hell to make it through alive.
Why similar: Survival 21.2%, Crafting 14.5%, Base Building 13.5%, Survival Horror 9.2%, Horror 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Its vehicle-centered survival runs, scavenging, crafting, upgrades, and unsettling unexplained world make each expedition feel meaningfully risky.
- #21 Valheim
80% matchVery Positive94% of 555,289 reviews2026
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 26.9 hrsMean: 81.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 43% ★, Survival 13.5%, Open World 10.7%, Base Building 9.4%, Crafting 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a large exploratory survival loop of gathering resources, building elaborate homes, crafting progression, sailing, and confronting dangerous biomes.
- #22 Voidtrain
82% matchMostly Positive73% of 9,990 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 14.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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: Open World Survival Craft 44.5% ★, Survival 11%, Base Building 9.5%, Open World 8.2%, Crafting 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: Travel through bizarre interdimensional spaces while scavenging, expanding a customizable train-base, crafting gear, and surviving hostile anomalies.
- #23 Barotrauma
81% matchVery Positive94% of 90,078 reviews2023
Dev: FakeFishPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.1 hrsMean: 56.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 39.8% ★, Survival 22%, Horror 12.6%, Survival Horror 9.5%, Multiplayer 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: Its submarine operations, deep-ocean creatures, equipment failures, and claustrophobic underwater horror offer a far more cooperative and punishing take on Subnautica's depths.
- #24 Diluvion: Resubmerged
84% matchMixed62% of 1,133 reviews2017
Dev: Arachnid GamesPub: Good Shepherd Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 82.7% ★, Open World 5.8%, Adventure 5.1%, Action 3.4%, Indie 2.1%
Why You'll Like It: Command and upgrade a submarine while exploring a strange submerged world full of wrecks, factions, creatures, and deep-sea secrets.
- #25 SOMA
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 53,096 reviews2015
Dev: Frictional Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 29.8% ★, Horror 20%, Survival Horror 11.4%, Exploration 9.6%, Sci-fi 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: This story-focused underwater sci-fi horror game shares Subnautica's isolated facilities, oppressive ocean setting, and unsettling unknowns, though it lacks crafting.
- #26 Volcanoids
79% matchVery Positive83% of 9,358 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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: Base Building 17.4%, Survival 17.1%, Crafting 15.6%, Open World 14%, Exploration 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: Explore a dangerous island from a customizable drillship that functions as both vehicle and base, with crafting and upgrades driving each expedition.
- #27 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
79% matchMostly Positive78% of 34,438 reviews2020
Dev: Eleon Game Studios
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 77.1 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.6% ★, Survival 14%, Open World 11.8%, Crafting 9.8%, Exploration 6%
Why You'll Like It: Its mix of alien exploration, survival needs, mining, base construction, and customizable vehicles offers a larger-scale sci-fi sandbox alternative.
- #28 Space Engineers
78% matchVery Positive89% of 134,498 reviews2019
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 96.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.
Why similar: Survival 23.3%, Base Building 22.5%, Open World 20%, Sandbox 10.4%, Exploration 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: Build and pilot detailed spacecraft, rovers, and outposts while mining resources and surviving in a physically driven space sandbox.
- #29 Narcosis
78% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,469 reviews2017
Dev: Honor Code, Inc.
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 49% ★, Horror 17.8%, Survival Horror 9.5%, VR 8.3%, First-Person 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: A slow, tense underwater survival-horror experience about navigating a failing deep-sea facility with limited oxygen and almost no safety.
- #30 INFLUXIS
76% matchMixed64% of 257 reviews2026
Dev: BaleYc Studios
Windows
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: Open World Survival Craft 34.7% ★, Survival 12.4%, Underwater 11.1% ★, Open World 11%, Horror 8.2%
- #31 Under A New Sun
77% matchMostly Positive76% of 406 reviews2023
Dev: New Horizon Games
Windows
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 34.8% ★, Underwater 16.4% ★, Survival 10.9%, Open World 9.1%, Crafting 8.1%
- #32 Don't Starve
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 113,517 reviews2013
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 28.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 42.3% ★, Survival 23.9%, Crafting 10.6%, Open World 5.8%, Sandbox 4.8%
- #33 ARK: Survival Evolved
75% matchVery Positive83% of 778,394 reviews2017
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 202.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 47.1% ★, Survival 14.9%, Open World 10%, Crafting 8.1%, Base Building 7.2%
- #34 Project Castaway
73% matchMixed65% of 1,893 reviews2026
Dev: Mardonpol Inc.
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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 31.9% ★, Underwater 19.3% ★, Survival 9.8%, Base Building 8%, Open World 7.5%
- #35 Starbound
74% matchVery Positive90% of 123,321 reviews2016
Dev: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.0 hrsMean: 64.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 51.9% ★, Survival 10.8%, Crafting 8.3%, Open World 8%, Sandbox 6.8%
- #36 Oceaneers
73% matchVery Positive88% of 116 reviews2026
Dev: Barrel Smash Studios
Windows
A sci-fi survival-crafting colony sim set in a flooded world of floating islands. Build a colony, craft gear, design rafts, fend off sharks, manage your survivors, and explore island bunkers to uncover lost Float-Tech from an old-world corporation.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.2% ★, Underwater 25.7% ★, Survival 12.3%, Crafting 9.6%, Base Building 9.5%
- #37 Abiotic Factor
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 59,444 reviews2025
Dev: Deep Field GamesPub: Playstack
Windows
Median: 21.2 hrsMean: 46.5 hrs≥1hr: 95%
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: Open World Survival Craft 36.8% ★, Survival 13.2%, Base Building 11.7%, Crafting 10.4%, Aliens 6.1%
- #38 Grounded 2
71% matchVery Positive81% of 24,763 reviews2025
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 13.2 hrsMean: 26.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Shrunk again, but the world is much larger. In this open-world, single-player or co-op survival adventure, craft weapons and armor, build your base, and traverse the playground on your buggy. But something else is out there—and it hasn’t forgotten you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.7% ★, Survival 16.2%, Base Building 11.8%, Open World 10%, Crafting 8.2%
- #39 Satisfactory
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 280,086 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 33.5 hrsMean: 113.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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 Survival Craft 22.7% ★, Base Building 20.6%, Open World 14.1%, Crafting 13.3%, Survival 7.2%
- #40 Subsistence
74% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,861 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 40.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 48.1% ★, Survival 15.1%, Crafting 9.9%, Open World 9.2%, Base Building 7.4%
- #41 Terraria
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,558,339 reviews2011
Dev: Re-Logic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 33.9 hrsMean: 152.6 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 50% ★, Survival 13.2%, Crafting 9.3%, Sandbox 7.3%, Open World 6.8%
- #42 Craterbound
72% matchMixed53% of 99 reviews2022
Dev: Daniel Marquez
Windows
Crash-land onto a unique and hostile alien world and begin your fight to survive. Face its inhabitants, upgrade your technology, create outposts & bases, and find a way to repair your ship. Explore the beautifully strange terrain, all while blasting and crafting your way off of the planet.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.8% ★, Survival 12%, Base Building 10.4%, Open World 10.3%, Crafting 8.8%
- #43 Vortex: The Gateway
73% matchMixed57% of 399 reviews2016
Dev: StormCube Games
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 53%
Vortex: The Gateway is an open world survival horror game with two game modes. If you want to survive then be alert, sneak, build and fight. Meanwhile life back on Earth changes dramatically. What changes? You will get bits of information through your adventure. Prepare for the worst!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 50.3% ★, Survival 15.7%, Open World 9.6%, Crafting 8.2%, Aliens 5.2%
- #44 Gaia
72% matchMixed58% of 93 reviews2020
Dev: Eternal Stardust Studios
Windows
A sci-fi base building survival game, featuring raids, agriculture, intelligent AI, natural disasters and more.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.2% ★, Underwater 19.7% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Survival 10.2%, Open World 8.4%
- #45 Starsand
69% matchMixed66% of 1,268 reviews2022
Dev: Tunnel Vision StudioPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Starsand is a mystic survival game set among the dunes of an arcane desert. An open-world full of danger, vast environments and mysterious happenings await you! Explore, hunt, craft, build – and SURVIVE.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.9% ★, Survival 11.5%, Base Building 10%, Open World 9.8%, Crafting 8.8%
- #46 Last Breath
67% matchVery Positive84% of 80 reviews2026
Dev: Mx
Windows
Last Breath is a solo/cooperative terraforming survival game. Dig through terrain, build powerful machines, and restore life to a dead planet. Work together to survive, automate, and reshape the world from the ground up, literally.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.1% ★, Survival 16.7%, Base Building 11.7%, Crafting 9%, Open World 8.1%
- #47 Radiation Island
70% matchVery Positive81% of 642 reviews2016
Dev: Atypical Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 54.2% ★, Survival 19.4%, Open World 8.2%, Crafting 5.9%, Horror 3.7%
- #48 Salt
69% matchMostly Positive77% of 2,252 reviews2018
Dev: Lavaboots Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 44.1% ★, Survival 14.4%, Open World 12.7%, Crafting 9.4%, Exploration 4.5%
- #49 The Last Caretaker
65% matchVery Positive86% of 13,935 reviews2025
Dev: Channel37 Ltd
Windows
Median: 20.3 hrsMean: 37.4 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 18.7%, Base Building 17.9%, Crafting 15.8%, Open World 15.5%, Sandbox 7.8%
- #50 Among Trees
69% matchMixed68% of 2,238 reviews2021
Dev: FJRD Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 39.2% ★, Survival 12.7%, Open World 10.1%, Crafting 8.4%, Base Building 8%
- #51 KeepUp Survival
68% matchMixed64% of 751 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 35.1% ★, Survival 12.3%, Base Building 10.6%, Open World 10.3%, Crafting 9.4%
- #52 Oxygen Not Included
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 144,026 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 69.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Why similar: Base Building 37.5%, Survival 34.5%, Sandbox 7.4%, Open World 6.8%, Exploration 3.8%
- #53 Crashlands
68% matchVery Positive90% of 6,773 reviews2016
Dev: Butterscotch Shenanigans
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 13.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Fight and tame alien beasts, craft resources into menacing weaponry, befriend the outlandish locals, and go toe-to-chin with a world-domineering maniac.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.7% ★, Survival 11.9%, Open World 10.3%, Base Building 10%, Crafting 9.6%
- #54 Urge
67% matchVery Positive90% of 524 reviews2021
Dev: EnDrew
Windows
Fight, build, explore, survive, while the dynamic player-caused hazardous fog is slowly changing the rules of the world around you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.5% ★, Base Building 10.5%, Survival 10%, Crafting 8.1%, Open World 8.1%
- #55 Subterrain
68% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,399 reviews2016
Dev: Pixellore Inc
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Uncompromising Sci-Fi survival on Mars! Manage the entire colony single-handed! Craft, Research, Explore and Fight against evolving mutants. Vast open world and randomly generated levels to explore! Can you survive long enough to escape the horror?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.1% ★, Survival 21.3%, Crafting 12.6%, Open World 9.8%, Survival Horror 5.8%
- #56 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
64% matchVery Positive91% of 7,668 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 54%
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 41.8% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Open World 10.1%, Crafting 9.3%, Survival 9.1%
