Games Like Subnautica

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 28.5% ★, Underwater 19.7% ★, Survival 9%, Base Building 6.5%, Open World 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: It’s the closest match by far, delivering the same underwater survival-crafting loop, story-driven exploration, and mix of beauty and danger in an alien ocean.

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 40.5% ★, Survival 11.8%, Base Building 10.5%, Crafting 7.4%, Open World 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: This is essentially Subnautica in space, with first-person survival, crafting, oxygen management, and story-led exploration of a hostile sci-fi 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: Open World Survival Craft 36.2% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Survival 11.7%, Crafting 9.3%, Open World 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: It captures Subnautica’s satisfying progression from fragile survival to advanced base-building while exploring and transforming an alien planet.

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.6% ★, Open World 13.5%, Survival 10.2%, Exploration 6.4%, Crafting 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: It offers the same sense of wonder, discovery, crafting progression, and vehicle-assisted exploration across vast alien worlds.

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 33.1% ★, Survival 12%, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 10.1%, Open World 10%

Why You'll Like It: Like Subnautica, it’s a first-person survival game built around upgrading your mobile base, scavenging a hostile world, and slowly pushing into more dangerous territory.

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 42.5% ★, Survival 17.4%, Crafting 8.4%, Base Building 7.3%, Open World 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Like Subnautica, it blends resource gathering, crafting, base expansion, and diving into dangerous depths for better materials.

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 45.9% ★, Survival 14.8%, Open World 8.6%, Crafting 8.3%, Underwater 8.2% ★

Why You'll Like It: Its emphasis on isolation, survival systems, crafting, and underwater scavenging makes it one of the closest non-sci-fi alternatives.

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 36.2% ★, Survival 17.5%, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 8.7%, Open World 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its first-person survival, base-building, environmental exploration, and ever-present threat from wildlife give it a very similar moment-to-moment feel.

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 44.6% ★, Survival 15.1%, Open World 7.9%, Crafting 7.8%, Base Building 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: It shares Subnautica’s intense survival pressure, crafting progression, and immersive first-person exploration in a hostile natural world.

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 46.8% ★, Survival 15.5%, Open World 9.6%, Horror 8%, Crafting 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: This is another excellent mix of exploration, crafting, base-building, and sudden horror while uncovering a mystery in an unfamiliar wilderness.

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 50.7% ★, Survival 18.2%, Open World 10.2%, Crafting 5.6%, Exploration 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: It trades sci-fi for arctic isolation but nails the same vulnerable survival pacing, resource tension, and immersive environmental storytelling.

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 39.2% ★, Survival 13.1%, Open World 11.3%, Base Building 10.2%, Crafting 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: It leans lighter in tone, but its exploration, oxygen management, base expansion, and tool-driven progression hit many of the same satisfying beats.

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 35.2% ★, Underwater 22.6% ★, Survival 10.9%, Base Building 8.5%, Crafting 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its water-covered world, underwater scavenging, crafting, and base-building echo Subnautica’s oceanic survival structure in a more post-apocalyptic setting.

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 31.8% ★, Underwater 17.7% ★, Survival 11.1%, Base Building 10.3%, Crafting 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes solo survival, crafting, exploration, and gradual mastery of a dangerous environment in a way that feels very Subnautica-adjacent.

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 20.4%, Open World 15%, Base Building 14%, Crafting 10%, Horror 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a more horror-heavy take on the same loop of exploring an unknown place, gathering resources, crafting tools, and building a safe haven.

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 29.2%, Exploration 9.7%, VR 9.4%, Survival Horror 8.7%, Horror 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers the same lonely alien-world exploration, environmental danger, and story uncovered through venturing deeper into strange biomes and caverns.

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 39.6% ★, Survival 14.8%, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 9.4%, Open World 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its first-person survival, tech progression, and outpost-building on a hostile world make it a strong pick if you want more crafting-heavy planetary survival.

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 36.6% ★, Survival 13.2%, Base Building 11.8%, Crafting 9.6%, Open World 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its emphasis on exploration, survival crafting, and building up secure bases in a dangerous world makes it a good thematic match.

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 40.4% ★, Survival 22%, Horror 12.6%, Survival Horror 9.5%, Multiplayer 8%

Why You'll Like It: Its submarine management, sea-monster threats, and constant pressure in a hostile underwater setting make it a strong pick for the dread-heavy side of Subnautica.

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: Open World Survival Craft 36.5% ★, Survival 11.7%, Crafting 10%, Open World 9.9%, Base Building 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: It’s another first-person survival-crafting game centered on upgrading a mobile base and making risky excursions into a hazardous world for resources.

Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.

Why similar: Base Building 18.2%, Survival 17.3%, Crafting 16.3%, Open World 16.3%, Sandbox 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: This focuses on realistic survival, building, and system management on an alien planet, scratching a similar base-building-and-exploration itch.

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 44.1% ★, Survival 11%, Base Building 9.6%, Crafting 8.3%, Open World 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a comparable survival-crafting loop built around expanding a mobile base while pushing farther into a strange and threatening world.

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 25.9%, Open World 23.7%, Crafting 21%, Exploration 10.7%, Sandbox 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: If your favorite part of Subnautica was open-ended exploration across a dangerous ocean, this delivers a similar seafaring sense of discovery.

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 20.6%, Crafting 14.9%, Base Building 13.8%, Survival Horror 9%, Horror 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: While more run-based, it shares Subnautica’s atmosphere of venturing into hazardous zones, upgrading your lifeline, and returning home with hard-won resources.

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: Horror 28.2%, Survival Horror 16.1%, Exploration 13.8%, Sci-fi 12.1%, First-Person 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: If the underwater isolation and sci-fi horror were your favorite parts of Subnautica, SOMA delivers that atmosphere even without the survival-crafting systems.

"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: Exploration 32.8%, Multiplayer 20.5%, First-Person 18.6%, Adventure 12.1%, Action 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the colorful alien-world curiosity and scan-everything exploration side of Subnautica, even if its survival systems are lighter.

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 24.8%, Exploration 22.9%, Horror 16.9%, Sci-fi 9.5%, First-Person 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: It drops the crafting but absolutely matches Subnautica’s sense of awe, mystery, and uncovering a world’s secrets through pure exploration.

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 42.2% ★, Survival 14.1%, Open World 11.7%, Crafting 10.2%, Exploration 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: This is a broader sandbox, but its mix of planetary survival, crafting, base-building, and vehicle progression overlaps well with Subnautica’s systems.

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 34.1% ★, Underwater 16.9% ★, Survival 10.9%, Open World 8.9%, Crafting 8.3%

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 34.4% ★, Survival 12.4%, Underwater 11.4% ★, Open World 10.9%, Horror 8.3%

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 46.7% ★, Survival 15.1%, Open World 10%, Crafting 8.4%, Base Building 7.4%

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 41.8% ★, Survival 24.1%, Crafting 10.9%, Open World 5.7%, Sandbox 4.9%

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 31.3% ★, Underwater 19.7% ★, Survival 9.8%, Base Building 8.3%, Open World 7.3%

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 51.4% ★, Survival 10.9%, Crafting 8.7%, Open World 7.9%, Sandbox 7%

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 22.2% ★, Base Building 20.8%, Open World 13.9%, Crafting 13.7%, Survival 7.2%

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 36.2% ★, Survival 13%, Base Building 12%, Crafting 10.7%, Aliens 6.2%

Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.7% ★, Survival 13.3%, Crafting 9.6%, Sandbox 7.6%, Open World 6.7%

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 43.8% ★, Survival 14.5%, Open World 12.5%, Crafting 9.8%, Exploration 4.6%

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 49.9% ★, Survival 15.9%, Open World 9.6%, Crafting 8.6%, Aliens 5.2%

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 36.2% ★, Survival 12%, Base Building 10.6%, Open World 10.1%, Crafting 9.1%

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 27.9% ★, Survival 16.8%, Base Building 12.3%, Open World 10.1%, Crafting 9%

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 47.7% ★, Survival 15.2%, Crafting 10.3%, Open World 9.2%, Base Building 7.7%

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 44.2% ★, Survival 14.4%, Base Building 10.7%, Open World 10.7%, Crafting 7.6%

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 34.4% ★, Survival 11.6%, Base Building 10.2%, Open World 9.6%, Crafting 9.1%

A sci-fi base building survival game, featuring raids, agriculture, intelligent AI, natural disasters and more.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.6% ★, Underwater 20% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Survival 10.2%, Open World 8.2%

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 37.9%, Survival 34.4%, Sandbox 7.5%, Open World 6.6%, Exploration 3.8%

Survive on Raft is a Survival Sandbox Simulator on the Raft in the middle of the ocean! Fight with shark, build base, craft, loot islands, farm and survive. Play solo or with friends.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.6% ★, Underwater 18.2% ★, Survival 10.2%, Base Building 9.3%, Crafting 8.4%

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 53.9% ★, Survival 19.7%, Open World 8.4%, Crafting 6.3%, Horror 3.5%

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 37.3% ★, Survival 11.9%, Base Building 10.2%, Open World 10.2%, Crafting 9.9%

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 38.6% ★, Survival 12.8%, Open World 10%, Crafting 8.7%, Base Building 8.2%

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% ★, Base Building 10.8%, Survival 10%, Crafting 8.3%, Open World 7.9%

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 32.7% ★, Survival 21.4%, Crafting 13%, Open World 9.6%, Survival Horror 5.7%

KeepUp Survival is an open base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and unfold your own story on a mysterious island.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.8% ★, Survival 12.3%, Base Building 10.9%, Open World 10.2%, Crafting 9.7%

Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 66.8% ★, Survival 22.9%, Open World 2.8%, Crafting 2.4%, Multiplayer 2.1%

Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in this free prologue introducing one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters – an upcoming open-world game that challenges you, alone or with friends, to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.2% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Open World 9.8%, Crafting 9.5%, Survival 8.8%

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: Open World Survival Craft 42.4% ★, Survival 13.6%, Open World 10.6%, Base Building 9.7%, Crafting 8.9%

Hostile Planet: Survival is a harsh adventure on an uncharted planet that full of danger and trials.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.4% ★, Survival 18.1%, Crafting 13.3%, Open World 12%, Sandbox 4.8%