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

Why You'll Like It: It is the closest match by far, offering the same underwater survival-crafting loop, base-building progression, and fear-of-the-depths exploration on Planet 4546B.

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 36.5% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Survival 11%, Open World 8.3%, Crafting 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Like Below Zero, it is a mostly solitary survival game about gathering resources, building a habitat, and gradually transforming a hostile alien world into something livable.

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 40.9% ★, Survival 11.1%, Base Building 10.6%, Crafting 5.8%, Open World 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its first-person sci-fi survival structure of scavenging, crafting tools, and expanding your safe zone captures a very similar exploratory progression despite being set in space instead of underwater.

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 33.8% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Survival 11.5%, Open World 9.7%, Crafting 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: It channels a similar feeling of isolated sci-fi survival through first-person exploration, crafting, and upgrading a mobile base in a hazardous world.

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45% ★, Open World 13.2%, Survival 9.8%, Exploration 5.8%, Sci-fi 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: While broader and less tense, it scratches the same urge to explore alien biomes, gather materials, craft upgrades, and establish bases as you uncover environmental mysteries.

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 51.9% ★, Survival 17.4%, Open World 9.9%, Crafting 4.4%, Exploration 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: It replaces the ocean with frozen wilderness but delivers the same lonely, high-stakes survival mood and constant pressure from an unforgiving environment.

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 14.2%, Open World 7.5%, Base Building 7.2%, Multiplayer 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: This is a strong fit if you want immersive single-player survival with hands-on crafting, shelter building, exploration, and a grounded story threaded through the danger.

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 46.7% ★, Survival 14.1%, Underwater 8.3% ★, Open World 8.3%, Crafting 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its solo survival focus, ocean setting, diving, and crafted progression make it a good choice if the marine survival side of Below Zero is what you want more of.

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 37.1% ★, Survival 16.7%, Base Building 12.2%, Open World 7.2%, Crafting 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its handcrafted world, layered equipment progression, base-building, and sense of danger while exploring every new biome make it feel structurally very close to Subnautica.

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 39.6% ★, Survival 12.4%, Open World 10.8%, Base Building 10.4%, Multiplayer 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a gentler version of the same explore-craft-build loop, with strong emphasis on gathering materials, expanding your outpost, and unlocking new traversal options on alien worlds.

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% ★, Survival 16.4%, Base Building 7.5%, Multiplayer 7.1%, Open World 7%

Why You'll Like It: Like Below Zero, it is about surviving in a hostile water-dominated world while steadily expanding your base, crafting better gear, and piecing together a larger mystery.

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 19.1%, Survival 16.9%, Open World 16.2%, Crafting 13.2%, Sandbox 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its first-person survival on a hostile planet emphasizes careful resource management, habitat construction, and methodical technological progression much like Subnautica's base-and-tools loop.

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 32.8% ★, Underwater 18.1% ★, Base Building 10.7%, Survival 10.7%, Crafting 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game similarly rewards careful exploration, crafting, tool upgrades, and base-building as you slowly push deeper into a dangerous environment.

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 19.8%, Open World 14.8%, Base Building 14.6%, Survival Horror 10.3%, Horror 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its polished survival systems, base-building, environmental storytelling, and tense expeditions into unknown spaces appeal to the same exploratory survival instincts.

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 35.8% ★, Underwater 22.8% ★, Survival 10.4%, Base Building 8.6%, Open World 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its ocean-heavy setting, scavenging dives, base construction, and constant struggle for resources make it one of the more natural alternatives to Subnautica's survival rhythm.

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 36.7% ★, Survival 12.3%, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 8.4%, Aliens 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: It mixes first-person survival crafting, base-building, and mystery-driven exploration in a way that should click if you enjoyed Subnautica's progression and atmosphere.

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 48.2% ★, Survival 14.9%, Open World 9.4%, Horror 7.1%, Crafting 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: This remains a great pick for players who liked the balance of crafting, shelter building, and creeping dread while exploring a hostile open world.

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 29.8%, Survival Horror 12%, Exploration 9.4%, Sci-fi 8.1%, Open World 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the same feeling of being alone on an alien world, surviving harsh conditions while exploring strange locations and uncovering a sci-fi mystery.

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 61% ★, Exploration 9.4%, Adventure 5.8%, Sci-fi 5.6%, Story Rich 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: This is much more narrative-focused, but its underwater setting, lonely tone, and exploratory feel make it a good fit for players who loved Below Zero's mood.

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 73.6% ★, Exploration 9.3%, Open World 4.6%, Adventure 4.2%, Indie 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the wonder of underwater exploration and marine discovery, even if it lacks the survival and base-building systems.

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 21.4%, Open World 20.5%, Base Building 20.3%, Crafting 11.7%, Multiplayer 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Although fantasy-themed, it nails the satisfying cycle of scouting dangerous zones, collecting materials, improving gear, and building a home base to support deeper expeditions.

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 22%, Survival Horror 18.4%, Exploration 11.1%, Sci-fi 11%, First-Person 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: If the underwater sci-fi dread and mystery were your favorite parts of Below Zero, this delivers that atmosphere in a much more story-driven horror form.

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 40.5% ★, Survival 14.1%, Base Building 12.3%, Open World 8.6%, Crafting 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its hostile-planet premise, gathering and crafting systems, and emphasis on preparing for dangerous environmental conditions line up well with Below Zero's survival side.

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 43% ★, Survival 12.9%, Open World 10.2%, Base Building 9.8%, Crafting 7%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the same rewarding progression of building secure bases, preparing for tougher biomes, and turning exploration into a series of increasingly ambitious survival expeditions.

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 37.2% ★, Survival 11.1%, Base Building 9.9%, Open World 9.5%, Crafting 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: The roaming drill-base and hostile-world survival progression echo the same satisfying pattern of upgrading your safe haven so you can venture farther out.

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 28.5% ★, Survival 16%, Base Building 12.7%, Open World 9.8%, Crafting 7.1%

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 21.3%, Open World 13.5%, Crafting 10.9%, Multiplayer 7.3%

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 35.1% ★, Underwater 17.2% ★, Survival 10.4%, Open World 8.6%, Base Building 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: This is another solitary sci-fi survival-crafting game about enduring an alien world through smart resource use and base expansion.

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 37.2% ★, Survival 12.5%, Base Building 12.1%, Open World 9.1%, Crafting 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its emphasis on shelter building, careful exploration, and surviving a world that feels huge and threatening makes it a good lower-tier thematic match.

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 17.9%, Survival 17%, Open World 14.6%, Crafting 12.1%, Sandbox 8.6%

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 36.8% ★, Survival 12.7%, Base Building 11.9%, Open World 9.3%, Crafting 7.4%

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 39.4% ★, Survival 20.2%, Survival Horror 11.7%, Horror 10.6%, Multiplayer 10.4%

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 38.2%, Survival 32.2%, Sandbox 8.2%, Open World 6.3%, 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 34.6% ★, Survival 11.6%, Underwater 11.4% ★, Open World 10.4%, Aliens 7.3%

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 26.5% ★, Survival 16.6%, Open World 14%, Base Building 13.5%, Crafting 10.8%

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 42.8% ★, Survival 23%, Crafting 8.7%, Open World 5.6%, Sandbox 5.5%

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 28.6%, Exploration 19.6%, Horror 16.3%, Survival Horror 12.5%, Atmospheric 6.5%

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% ★, Survival 12.7%, Open World 10.3%, Base Building 7.6%, Crafting 6.2%

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 31.8% ★, Underwater 19.8% ★, Survival 9.2%, Base Building 8.4%, Open World 7.1%

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 40.9% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Open World 9.5%, Survival 8.3%, Crafting 7.5%

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 35.7% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Survival 11.4%, Open World 9.5%, Crafting 7.6%

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 41.7% ★, Survival 15.1%, Base Building 10.2%, Open World 9.2%, Multiplayer 6.3%

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 39.4% ★, Survival 12.1%, Open World 9.7%, Base Building 8.4%, Crafting 6.9%

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.6% ★, Survival 17.4%, Open World 11.7%, Crafting 10.7%, Aliens 5.4%

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 47.3% ★, Survival 14.2%, Open World 9.6%, Base Building 7.5%, Crafting 6.6%

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 50.8% ★, Base Building 19.4%, Survival 17.9%, Exploration 8.5%, Atmospheric 3.4%

The Moon has gone dark, cutting off Earth’s last source of energy. As a lone astronaut, you’ll explore abandoned lunar bases, solve intricate puzzles, and navigate stunning zero-gravity environments. Operate advanced vehicles, uncover hidden truths, and survive in this gripping sci-fi thriller.

Why similar: Sci-fi 18.3%, Adventure 17.4%, Survival 11.4%, Indie 11%, Exploration 8.8%

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 22.1%, Exploration 18.9%, Horror 13.6%, Story Rich 9.2%, Sci-fi 8.9%

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 10.3%, Sandbox 7.7%, Open World 7.6%, Crafting 6.8%

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 50.4% ★, Survival 15%, Open World 9.2%, Crafting 6.7%, Aliens 6%

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 44.6% ★, Survival 10.4%, Base Building 9.8%, Open World 7.8%, Crafting 6.5%

Winter Survival is a story-driven survival game where trauma turns reality into a reflection of your breaking mind. Battle cold, hunger, hallucinations, and adapt to the wilderness as it adapts to you.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.3% ★, Survival 11.9%, Base Building 11.2%, Open World 9.8%, Survival Horror 5.8%

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 48.3% ★, Survival 14.3%, Base Building 12.9%, Crafting 8.8%, Multiplayer 5.8%

Slap your way across a vibrant world where interstellar friendships are the key to your survival. Befriend eccentric aliens, craft bizarre weaponry, and stick it to the man in this sequel to the award-winning open world crafting RPG Crashlands.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.5% ★, Survival 12.4%, Open World 10.5%, Base Building 10.2%, Crafting 8.3%