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Games Like Sunkenland

60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Survival, Open World, Crafting, Building.

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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?

Reviews: Very Positive — 81% — of 22,996 reviews
Released: 2023-08-25
Developer: Vector3 Studio
Genres: Action, Indie, Early Access
Platforms: Windows
Median playtime: 8.5 hrs
Mean playtime: 17.9 hrs
Players ≥ 1 hr: 88%

Overview

Sunkenland excels by blending post-apocalyptic water-based exploration with intense modular base building and defensive combat against NPC raids. These recommendations prioritize games that capture that specific loop of scavenging, constructing fortified shelters, and surviving in hostile, resource-scarce environments.

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    Why You'll Like It: It is the definitive water-based survival experience where you build and expand a modular base while drifting across an endless ocean.

  2. #2 Stranded Deep
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    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 45.4%, Survival 13.5%, Crafting 7.6%, Underwater 7.5%, Multiplayer 7.4%

    Why You'll Like It: It captures the feeling of being shipwrecked on isolated islands, requiring constant scavenging and crafting to survive the elements.

  3. #3 Subnautica
    96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 344,093 reviews2018
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    Median: 13.4 hrsMean: 40.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%

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    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: This game offers the ultimate underwater exploration experience, focusing on scavenging sunken ruins and surviving in a beautiful yet terrifying aquatic world.

  4. #4 The Front
    94% matchMixed68% of 10,753 reviews2025
    Dev: Samar Studio
    Windows
    Median: 10.6 hrsMean: 44.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%

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    Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.9%, Base Building 11.2%, Survival 10.7%, Co-op 9.1%, Crafting 8.9%

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    94% matchMixed67% of 1,632 reviews2026
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    Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.4%, Underwater 17.1%, Co-op 10%, Survival 8.4%, Base Building 8.2%

    Why You'll Like It: A realistic survival game focused on island hopping and scavenging in a vast, dangerous ocean environment.

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  8. #8 7 Days to Die
    91% matchVery Positive87% of 396,805 reviews2024
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    Windows
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    Dev: Yodubzz StudiosPub: indie.io
    Windows
    Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%

    HumanitZ is an isometric, open-world sandbox survival game set in a world ended by a zombie outbreak. Survive alone or with friends by scavenging, crafting, building, and fighting to last as long as ‘humanly’ possible. You can’t change the past, but you can fight for the future of humanity.

    Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.6%, Survival 13.6%, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 9.8%, Open World 8.1%

  46. #46 Dune: Awakening
    70% matchMostly Positive70% of 74,372 reviews2025
    Dev: Funcom
    Windows
    Median: 47.7 hrsMean: 95.2 hrs≥1hr: 97%

    Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival RPG where you can fully immerse yourself in the epic world of Dune. Alone or with friends, explore a vast open world Arrakis, survive the sandworms, build a home, craft an ornithopter, and unravel the mystery of the missing Fremen.

    Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.7%, Base Building 12.4%, Survival 11%, Crafting 9.1%, Open World 7%

  47. #47 Hide & Hold Out - H2o
    74% matchMixed54% of 630 reviews2016
    Dev: Red Abyss Software
    Windows · Linux
    Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 16.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%

    Hide & Hold Out is a multiplayer survival game taking place in a devastated water world. Gather, build, team up with your friends and establish the foundations of your future floating empire utilizing the heavy guns of your battle ships!

    Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 57.9%, Survival 15.1%, Crafting 7.7%, Multiplayer 7.5%, Open World 6%

  48. #48 Lost Rift
    69% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,413 reviews2025
    Dev: People Can Fly
    Windows
    Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%

    Lost Rift is a first person survival adventure shooter that blends cooperative base building with multiplayer PvE or PvP extraction expeditions. Journey solo or in teams of up to 5 players across a vast archipelago, craft gear, build bases, defeat raiders, and become legendary.

    Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.5%, Base Building 13.1%, Survival 11.6%, Crafting 10.2%, Multiplayer 7%

  49. #49 Night of the Dead
    69% matchMostly Positive77% of 11,732 reviews2024
    Dev: Jackto Studios
    Windows
    Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 32.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%

    'Night of the Dead' is an open-world game that combines elements of exploration, tower defense, survival, and crafting. Traverse a world dominated by zombies while collecting various resources and powerful equipment. Build a fortress to survive the hordes of zombies that swarm every night!

    Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.3%, Base Building 12.8%, Survival 11.2%, Crafting 10%, Multiplayer 7.7%

  50. #50 Soulmask
    69% matchVery Positive81% of 17,627 reviews2024
    Dev: CampFire StudioPub: Qooland Games
    Windows
    Median: 13.7 hrsMean: 66.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%

    Choose your path across a primeval continent shaped by the Mask's power. From lush rainforests to scorched sands, recruit and lead unique tribesmen, build automated production lines, and construct everything from local bases to colossal airships, uncover the secrets of the Mask

    Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.6%, Base Building 13.8%, Survival 13%, Crafting 10.9%, Open World 8.4%

  51. #51 Breakwaters: Crystal Tides
    71% matchMixed63% of 996 reviews2021
    Dev: Soaring Pixels Games
    Windows
    Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 66%

    Survive in a world ravaged by massive Titans and an ever changing ocean sim. Displace water to find resources for building and crafting unique items. Swim, sail, and fly to explore new islands and fight Titans.

    Why similar: Survival 26.3%, Crafting 17.1%, Open World 16%, Sandbox 14.8%, Base Building 12.8%

  52. #52 Age of Water
    68% matchMostly Positive70% of 3,467 reviews2025
    Dev: Three Whales StudioPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
    Windows
    Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 38.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%

    Age of Water is an online adventure game set on a post-apocalyptic Earth completely covered in water. Sail through storms, fight and trade, capture other people's boats or build your own, extract resources from the bottom of the ocean and reveal the secrets of the Age of Water world.

    Why similar: Crafting 23.6%, Post-apocalyptic 20.4%, Open World 17.8%, Multiplayer 9.7%, Shooter 8.3%

  53. #53 Rem Survival
    70% matchMostly Positive76% of 802 reviews2021
    Dev: Immortal Hand Studios
    Windows · Linux
    Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 47.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%

    Scavenge abandoned ruins, craft gear from scrap and salvaged materials, and fight the environment itself as hunger, exposure, and exhaustion push you to your limits. There are no second chances—only adaptation or death.

    Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.2%, Base Building 12.8%, Survival 12.1%, Crafting 10.4%, Open World 7.4%

  54. #54 Abiotic Factor
    65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 52,861 reviews2025
    Dev: Deep Field GamesPub: Playstack
    Windows
    Median: 19.3 hrsMean: 42.7 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 38%, Base Building 13.3%, Survival 12.6%, Crafting 10.3%, Multiplayer 6.2%

  55. #55 Aloft
    67% matchVery Positive84% of 3,496 reviews2025
    Dev: Astrolabe Interactive Inc.Pub: Funcom
    Windows
    Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%

    Soar the skies in Aloft, the co-op sandbox survival game set in a world of floating islands. Build any island into a skyship, your home in the clouds. Find lost knowledge, cure the fungal corruption, and brave the hurricane to restore the ecosystem.

    Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.5%, Co-op 15.4%, Survival 14%, Crafting 12.2%, Multiplayer 6.7%

  56. #56 DREADZONE
    68% matchMixed51% of 1,171 reviews2025
    Dev: Eshed
    Windows

    Dreadzone is a survival game set in a deadly quarantine zone. Scavenge for resources, craft tools, build shelter, and survive against dangerous animals, zombies, mutants, and other survivors. Explore the zone where desperation drives everyone to do whatever it takes to survive.

    Why similar: Co-op 16.6%, Base Building 16.5%, Survival 15.8%, Crafting 12.1%, Open World 9.9%

  57. #57 Survive the Nights
    66% matchMixed66% of 6,335 reviews2025
    Dev: a2z Interactive
    Windows
    Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 77%

    Hardcore open-world survival where preparation is everything. Scavenge, craft, fortify during the day. When night falls, the infected hunt in numbers. Play solo or with friends in a brutal post-apocalyptic sandbox where survival is earned through smart decisions. How many Nights will you survive?

    Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31%, Survival 11.8%, Co-op 11.3%, Post-apocalyptic 8.7%, Multiplayer 7.5%

  58. #58 Grounded
    66% matchVery Positive90% of 92,875 reviews2022
    Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
    Windows
    Median: 12.2 hrsMean: 40.8 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 34.4%, Survival 15.3%, Co-op 12.1%, Base Building 11.9%, Multiplayer 8.1%

  59. #59 Outbreak Island
    66% matchVery Positive80% of 906 reviews2025
    Dev: Tiny Magicians
    Windows
    Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 72%

    Survive on a remote Island, where a mysterious Outbreak awakens bloodthirsty monsters at night. Craft, build and defend your base in the brutal world of Outbreak Island, an open-world sandbox survival horror game.

    Why similar: Survival 21%, Base Building 16.1%, Crafting 13.2%, Sandbox 12.4%, Post-apocalyptic 10.2%

  60. #60 Plains of Pain
    67% matchVery Positive85% of 692 reviews2023
    Dev: Cobra Byte Digital
    Windows

    Survive a brutal open world alone or with friends. Explore a procedural wasteland scorched by chaos. Build and defend your base, trade for what you need, complete deadly quests, and fight to claim faction outposts before someone else does.

    Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.4%, Base Building 10.7%, Co-op 9.7%, Survival 9.2%, Crafting 7.8%

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