Games Like Subnautica: Below Zero

Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.9% ★, Underwater 19.3% ★, Survival 8.9%, Open World 6.6%, Base Building 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: The original delivers the closest possible mix of alien underwater exploration, oxygen management, creature-filled biomes, modular bases, vehicles, and environmental storytelling.

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

Why You'll Like It: It continues the series' core premise of surviving, crafting, building, and uncovering mysteries on an alien ocean planet.

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 37.3% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Survival 11%, Open World 8.5%, Crafting 7%

Why You'll Like It: You explore an inhospitable alien planet, gather materials, build a base, and gradually transform the environment through satisfying survival progression.

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 34.4% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Survival 11.3%, Open World 9.8%, Crafting 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its first-person scanning, blueprint-driven crafting, hazardous exploration, and customizable mobile base create a very Subnautica-like sci-fi survival loop.

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 41% ★, Survival 10.9%, Base Building 10%, Open World 5.7%, Crafting 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: It replaces the ocean with space but retains Subnautica's first-person resource scavenging, oxygen concerns, crafting trees, base building, and absurd sci-fi tone.

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 47% ★, Survival 13.8%, Open World 8.3%, Underwater 8.1% ★, Multiplayer 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its isolated ocean setting, diving expeditions, improvised crafting, shelter building, and fear of sea predators make it a grounded counterpart to Subnautica.

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 43.2% ★, Survival 16.2%, Multiplayer 7.8%, Base Building 7.2%, Open World 7%

Why You'll Like It: Raft offers continual ocean exploration, salvaging, crafting, and expanding a home base while surviving the threats of an enormous open sea.

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.2% ★, Open World 13.3%, Survival 9.7%, Exploration 5.7%, Multiplayer 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its vast alien-world exploration, resource gathering, technology upgrades, base construction, vehicles, and underwater biomes provide a broader but similarly exploratory sci-fi experience.

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 39.9% ★, Survival 12.2%, Open World 10.9%, Base Building 10.1%, Multiplayer 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: The approachable alien-planet exploration, terrain traversal, oxygen logistics, research progression, and base construction echo the more relaxed side of Below Zero.

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 36.1% ★, Underwater 22.1% ★, Survival 10.2%, Base Building 8.4%, Open World 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: A flooded-world survival sandbox built around diving for supplies, constructing waterside bases, crafting gear, and defending your home fits the aquatic survival appeal well.

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 37.5% ★, Survival 16.5%, Base Building 11.8%, Multiplayer 7.6%, Open World 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: Grounded has the same rewarding loop of exploring a dangerous ecosystem, analyzing resources, crafting survival tools, and building increasingly elaborate shelters.

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 52% ★, Survival 17%, Open World 9.9%, Crafting 4.2%, Exploration 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its frozen isolation, careful resource planning, atmospheric exploration, and environmental storytelling strongly match Below Zero's arctic sense of vulnerability.

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: Base Building 19%, Survival 18.3%, Open World 15.5%, Crafting 13%, Sandbox 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: This sci-fi survival adventure combines oceanic travel, resource management, construction, and the lonely task of preserving life in a flooded world.

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 33.5% ★, Underwater 17.7% ★, Survival 10.7%, Base Building 10.5%, Open World 7%

Why You'll Like It: Its methodical crafting, base building, survival meters, expeditions into hostile regions, and discovery-focused progression suit players who enjoy Subnautica's deliberate pace.

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 44.9% ★, Survival 14.1%, Open World 7.5%, Multiplayer 7.5%, Base Building 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Green Hell delivers similarly immersive first-person survival, hands-on crafting, shelter building, harsh environmental systems, and tense exploration, transplanted to the jungle.

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 29.9%, Survival Horror 12%, Exploration 9.4%, Sci-fi 8.1%, Open World 8%

Why You'll Like It: This atmospheric first-person alien survival adventure emphasizes solitude, environmental hazards, exploration, crafting, and piecing together a mysterious world's history.

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 35.9% ★, Underwater 16.6% ★, Survival 10.4%, Open World 8.8%, Base Building 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: You survive on an unfamiliar world by exploring, collecting, crafting tools, and constructing a base while learning how its ecosystems work.

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 60.8% ★, Exploration 9.4%, Adventure 5.8%, Sci-fi 5.5%, Story Rich 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: While less focused on crafting, it offers a contemplative underwater journey through deep-sea environments, isolation, and emotional sci-fi mystery.

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 38.6% ★, Survival 20.1%, Multiplayer 11.7%, Survival Horror 11.5%, Horror 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its dark alien-ocean setting, submarine maintenance, creature threats, and constant pressure to keep a fragile vessel functioning capture Subnautica's most stressful depths.

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%, Open World 15.1%, Base Building 14.2%, Survival Horror 10.1%, Multiplayer 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its open-ended survival, construction, cave expeditions, hostile creatures, and investigative story provide a darker land-based equivalent of Subnautica's danger-and-discovery loop.

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 73.8% ★, Exploration 9.2%, Open World 4.7%, Adventure 4.3%, Indie 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: Beyond Blue is a gentler alternative for players who primarily want to explore beautiful marine ecosystems and learn about the creatures inhabiting them.

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 37.3% ★, Survival 12.4%, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 8.2%, Aliens 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its scientific facility setting, scavenged crafting, base fortification, strange creatures, and mystery-heavy exploration make it a strong survival alternative for players who enjoy experimentation and discovery.

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 27.7% ★, Horror 16.1%, Survival Horror 13.3%, Sci-fi 8%, Exploration 8%

Why You'll Like It: SOMA shares Below Zero's lonely underwater sci-fi setting and mystery-driven exploration, but leans much further into existential horror than survival crafting.

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 43.5% ★, Survival 12.7%, Open World 10.3%, Base Building 9.6%, Crafting 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Valheim offers satisfying exploration-driven survival, procedural biome progression, crafting, building, and formidable environmental expeditions with a similarly strong sense of discovery.

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 48.8% ★, Survival 14.7%, Open World 9.5%, Horror 7.1%, Crafting 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: This survival-horror classic combines freeform crafting, base defense, frightening exploration, and a hidden story beneath a dangerous wilderness.

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 37.5% ★, Survival 12.5%, Base Building 11.8%, Open World 9.3%, Crafting 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: Exploring an oversized ecosystem, collecting materials, mastering traversal, taming mounts, and building elevated bases recreates the wonder of being small in a dangerous natural world.

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 32.4% ★, Survival 15.3%, Base Building 12%, Open World 9.7%, Multiplayer 6.6%

"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 26.1%, Exploration 25%, First-Person 15.1%, Adventure 12%, Action 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its colorful alien ecosystem, scanning, upgrades, traversal tools, and playful scientific exploration make it a more action-oriented companion to Below Zero.

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: Open World Survival Craft 44.3% ★, Survival 14.6%, Base Building 6.4%, Open World 6.3%, Sandbox 5.7%

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 23.1% ★, Base Building 21%, Open World 13.6%, Crafting 10.5%, Multiplayer 8%

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 80.2% ★, Adventure 5.5%, Open World 5.5%, Action 4.2%, Indie 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: This submarine-focused underwater adventure emphasizes exploring a strange post-apocalyptic ocean, managing a vessel, recruiting a crew, and uncovering submerged ruins.

Experience the first stages of terraforming an entire planet in this space survival open world terraforming crafting game prologue. Explore, survive, collect, build your base then create oxygen, heat and pressure to make an hostile planet livable for humanity.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.2% ★, Survival 12.5%, Base Building 11.7%, Open World 9.4%, Crafting 7.1%

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 37.8%, Survival 32.2%, Sandbox 8.2%, Open World 6.5%, Sci-fi 3.6%

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 35% ★, Survival 11.6%, Underwater 11.1% ★, Open World 10.5%, Aliens 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 52.3% ★, Survival 10.1%, Open World 7.6%, Sandbox 7.5%, Crafting 6.5%

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 42.4% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Open World 9.7%, Survival 8.5%, Multiplayer 7.4%

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 41.9% ★, Survival 14.1%, Survival Horror 10.4%, Crafting 10.2%, Horror 10%

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: Open World Survival Craft 26.9% ★, Survival 16.6%, Open World 14.3%, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 10.5%

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 43.3% ★, Survival 22.7%, Crafting 8.4%, Open World 5.6%, Sandbox 5.3%

Earth, 1976. You have been tasked with managing a deep-sea science facility working to perfect cloning. Explore the darkness and keep your crew alive in this hardcore survival colony builder. And beware. The darkness hides untold horrors.

Why similar: Underwater 50.7% ★, Base Building 19.3%, Survival 18.1%, Exploration 8.6%, Atmospheric 3.3%

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 32.4% ★, Underwater 19.3% ★, Survival 9.3%, Base Building 8.1%, Open World 7.2%

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: Open World Survival Craft 36.3% ★, Base Building 12%, Survival 11.2%, Open World 9.6%, Crafting 7.3%

Outpost Zero blends the genres of Multiplayer Base Building Survival and Simulation games in a Sci-Fi universe. On a lawless alien world, robotic scouts are tasked with building an Outpost for human colonists. Command AI minions, colonize the planet, and survive the perils of Gaiya.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42% ★, Survival 14.9%, Base Building 9.8%, Open World 9.2%, Multiplayer 7%

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 17.9%, Survival 16.3%, Open World 13.6%, Crafting 12.4%, Sandbox 8.8%

A realistic open-world survival experience. After a harrowing plane crash, you find yourself stranded in the wilderness. Battling freezing temperatures and hunger, you face an unknown virus that slowly paralyzes muscles, leaving its victims motionless and at the mercy of the unforgiving cold.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.2% ★, Survival 12.3%, Open World 10.2%, Base Building 7.2%, Crafting 5.8%

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 40.1% ★, Survival 12%, Open World 9.8%, Base Building 8.2%, Crafting 6.7%

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 42.8% ★, Survival 16.1%, Base Building 12.2%, Open World 8%, Crafting 7.3%

Honeycomb: The World Beyond is a sci-fi survival adventure set on the vibrant alien planet of Sota7. Adapt by building your base and crafting essential tools. Explore diverse biomes and use your bioengineering experience to uncover mysteries and secure humanity's future.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.7% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Survival 11.7%, Open World 9.9%, Crafting 8.3%

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.2% ★, Survival 17.2%, Open World 11.9%, Crafting 10.3%, Aliens 5.4%

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 29.3%, Exploration 19.3%, Horror 16.3%, Survival Horror 12.1%, Atmospheric 6.3%

A fiercely formidable sci-fi survival game, set on a hostile alien world that wants you dead! Alone, or with a crew, do you have what it takes to survive?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.7% ★, Survival 14%, Base Building 12.5%, Crafting 8.4%, Multiplayer 6.4%

Heat Death is a sci-fi survival game where you can build, upgrade, and customize your battle train to explore and survive a frozen world! This train is not only your shelter and vehicle, but also your weapon and ally to face hostile drones, deadly storms, and hidden mysteries of an unknown world!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.8% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Survival 12.4%, Crafting 9.1%, Open World 8.1%

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 22.6%, Exploration 18.7%, Horror 13.9%, Story Rich 9.1%, Sci-fi 8.9%

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 48.9% ★, Survival 14.2%, Open World 8.9%, Crafting 7.8%, Base Building 7.6%

You are the lone survivor orbiting a potential new home planet, tethered to what’s left of your ship. Gather nearby debris and assemble a make-shift vessel in an attempt to survive the harsh realities of space. Maybe you'll live long enough to uncover the truth behind the ship's malfunction...

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.3% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Survival 12.1%, Crafting 8.8%, Open World 6.1%