- #1 Raft
97% matchVery Positive93% of 373,485 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.6 hrsMean: 37.5 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 38.5% ★, Survival 14.4%, Co-op 11.7%, Multiplayer 8%, Base Building 7%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the core water-based survival and modular base-building experience that defines Sunkenland.
- #2 Stranded Deep
96% matchMostly Positive74% of 47,543 reviews2022
Dev: Beam Team GamesPub: Beam Team Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 21.0 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 45.8% ★, Survival 13.5%, Crafting 7.5%, Underwater 7.4% ★, Multiplayer 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses heavily on island-hopping and scavenging in a vast ocean, mirroring the exploration loop of Sunkenland.
- #3 Subsistence
96% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,713 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 40.2 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 46.1% ★, Survival 13.4%, Crafting 9%, Base Building 7.7%, Multiplayer 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore survival experience that emphasizes base building and defending your territory against AI threats.
- #4 The Infected
95% matchVery Positive84% of 6,954 reviews2020
Dev: DigX Studios
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 68%
The Infected is a sandbox, first-person, open-world survival game. Build bases, craft, farm, hunt, and survive changing seasons. Choose whether to face the hybrid “Vambies” or turn them off for a pure survival experience.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.7% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Survival 11.6%, Crafting 10%, Open World 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: It features a robust base-building system and persistent NPC raids that challenge your defensive structures.
- #5 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
94% matchVery Positive82% of 10,202 reviews2024
Dev: Merge GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 15.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 35% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Survival 11.6%, Co-op 10.1%, Crafting 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: Combines survival and base building with a unique perspective and environmental exploration.
- #6 Enshrouded
94% matchVery Positive86% of 102,638 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.9 hrsMean: 46.1 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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: Base Building 21.2%, Survival 20.9%, Open World 15.1%, Crafting 13.5%, Multiplayer 11%
Why You'll Like It: Offers highly detailed modular base building and exploration in a post-apocalyptic world.
- #7 Forever Skies
93% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,533 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 31.9 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 31.5% ★, Co-op 12.1%, Base Building 11.8%, Survival 10.4%, Crafting 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Features a unique mobile base-building mechanic set in a post-apocalyptic, high-altitude world.
- #8 7 Days to Die
92% matchVery Positive87% of 400,969 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.0 hrsMean: 108.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.2% ★, Survival 16.3%, Base Building 11.7%, Open World 7.3%, Multiplayer 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for base defense and survival against waves of enemies, which aligns perfectly with Sunkenland's raid mechanics.
- #9 ICARUS
91% matchMostly Positive75% of 64,520 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 46.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 36.1% ★, Survival 12.3%, Base Building 11.2%, Co-op 8.4%, Crafting 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: A session-based survival game that requires careful planning, base construction, and resource management.
- #10 Subnautica
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 373,268 reviews2018
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.3 hrsMean: 39.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 35.5% ★, Underwater 22.3% ★, Survival 10.9%, Base Building 8.4%, Crafting 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: While less focused on raids, it provides the definitive underwater exploration and scavenging experience.
- #11 Rust
90% matchVery Positive87% of 1,373,048 reviews2018
Dev: Facepunch Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 52.6 hrsMean: 423.6 hrs≥1hr: 96%
The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.3% ★, Survival 20.9%, Crafting 11.6%, Multiplayer 8.4%, Open World 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: It offers the most intense multiplayer base-building and raiding experience, similar to the competitive nature of Sunkenland.
- #12 Survival: Fountain of Youth
89% matchVery Positive85% of 4,383 reviews2024
Dev: Odinsoft Inc.Pub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.1 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 34.1% ★, Underwater 17.1% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Survival 10.9%, Crafting 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A historical survival game that emphasizes island exploration and resource management.
- #13 Voidtrain
88% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,560 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 14.0 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 42.2% ★, Co-op 11.4%, Base Building 9.7%, Survival 9.7%, Crafting 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on building and upgrading a mobile base while exploring a strange, hostile environment.
- #14 The Planet Crafter
87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 71,038 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.5 hrsMean: 38.2 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 38.6% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Co-op 11.9%, Survival 11.3%, Crafting 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a satisfying loop of scavenging and base expansion in a desolate, alien environment.
- #15 Volcanoids
89% matchVery Positive83% of 9,287 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 15.8%, Co-op 14.9%, Survival 13.2%, Crafting 12.3%, Open World 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: Features a unique drill-ship base that you must upgrade and defend against volcanic threats.
- #16 Nightingale
86% matchMixed66% of 17,965 reviews2024
Dev: Inflexion Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 24.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Nightingale is an open world survival crafting game, where you’ll adventure across the mysterious and dangerous Fae Realms. As a daring Realmwalker, you’ll defeat monstrous enemies, survive hostile environments, and build elaborate estates in a visually stunning Gaslamp Fantasy world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.7% ★, Survival 11.3%, Base Building 10.2%, Co-op 10%, Crafting 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: Combines survival and crafting with a focus on exploring diverse, procedurally generated realms.
- #17 Project Castaway
86% matchMixed66% of 1,760 reviews2026
Dev: Mardonpol Inc.
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 8.2 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 29.8% ★, Underwater 16.8% ★, Co-op 10%, Survival 8.5%, Base Building 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game centered on island exploration and crafting in a tropical setting.
- #18 The Front
85% matchMixed67% of 10,771 reviews2025
Dev: Samar Studio
Windows
Median: 10.6 hrsMean: 44.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
The Front is a survival open-world crafting sandbox game. You are a resistance fighter sent back in time to stop the rise of a tyrannical empire. Collect resources, craft tech, build shelters, and fight monsters to accomplish your mission.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.3% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Survival 10.7%, Co-op 9%, Crafting 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game that heavily emphasizes base defense and tactical combat against NPC factions.
- #19 IfSunSets
84% matchMostly Positive75% of 2,279 reviews2024
Dev: POLYMORPHPub: Smilegate
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 27.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
「IfSunSets」 is a survival RPG adventure game. During the day, secure necessary supplies across the island, and survive the night against strong and terrifying monsters that track you down. You can utilize resources you've secured to build a base to fend off threatening monsters.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.4% ★, Underwater 22% ★, Base Building 10.7%, Co-op 10.4%, Post-apocalyptic 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: Features a day-night cycle where you must build defenses to survive nightly monster attacks.
- #20 Deadside
84% matchMostly Positive76% of 40,335 reviews2024
Dev: Bad Pixel
Windows
Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 44.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%
An Open World Survival Shooter blending hardcore PVP and PVE action. Secure precious loot in safe zones or build your own fortress in the wild. With intense gunfights, stunning visuals, and performance smooth enough for any system, the challenge awaits!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.4% ★, Survival 12.7%, Post-apocalyptic 7.7%, Base Building 7.6%, Co-op 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: A survival shooter that emphasizes open-world exploration and tactical combat.
- #21 VEIN
82% matchVery Positive89% of 10,737 reviews2025
Dev: Ramjet Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 14.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
VEIN is a post-apocalyptic survival multiplayer sandbox game. Gather supplies to survive, explore abandoned buildings, defend your home, and rebuild society, whether alone or with friends.
Why similar: Survival 18.3%, Base Building 16.8%, Co-op 14.6%, Open World 11.5%, Post-apocalyptic 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game that focuses on scavenging and building a secure base in a post-apocalyptic city.
- #22 Windrose
81% matchVery Positive87% of 48,348 reviews2026
Dev: Kraken Express
Windows
Median: 19.7 hrsMean: 32.4 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Embark on a PvE survival adventure in the Age of Piracy. Fight on land and sea, solo or with friends. Build, craft and explore vast open world filled with dark secrets. Master soulslite combat and take on challenging bosses, command your ship and plunder unspoken treasures!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.2% ★, Survival 13.8%, Crafting 12.1%, Base Building 10.5%, PvE 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: A pirate-themed survival game that emphasizes sailing and open-world exploration.
- #23 No One Survived
82% matchMixed65% of 7,677 reviews2025
Dev: Cat Play Studio
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 22.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%
This is a multiplayer cooperative open world construction survival sandbox game, where you and your friends must find supplies and build shelters in this world. You have to keep an eye on your character's needs state at all times, a bad state is likely to lead to death.
Why similar: Survival 25.5%, Open World 13.9%, Crafting 13.5%, Co-op 13.3%, Multiplayer 11.6%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on scavenging and fortifying a base to survive against zombie hordes.
- #24 Green Hell
83% matchVery Positive85% of 98,679 reviews2019
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 18.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 44.3% ★, Survival 13.7%, Multiplayer 8.3%, Base Building 7.4%, Crafting 7%
Why You'll Like It: A challenging survival game that forces players to master crafting and environmental navigation.
- #25 StarRupture
81% matchVery Positive81% of 12,717 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 23.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 32.7% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Co-op 10.9%, Survival 10.2%, Crafting 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: Combines base building and survival with automation elements on a hostile alien planet.
- #26 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
79% matchVery Positive91% of 7,475 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 55%
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 39.3% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 8.4%, Survival 7.9%, Multiplayer 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: A water-themed survival game that focuses on crafting and base expansion.
- #27 The Last Caretaker
78% matchVery Positive86% of 11,569 reviews2025
Dev: Channel37 Ltd
Windows
Median: 18.1 hrsMean: 33.9 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: Base Building 22.1%, Survival 19.6%, Crafting 16.9%, Post-apocalyptic 12.6%, Open World 12.2%
- #28 Survival Machine
78% matchMostly Positive72% of 755 reviews2026
Dev: Grape PickersPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Build your base on a moving Machine, travel through biomes with different resources, and prepare for the night when a zombie threat is much higher than during the day. Would you go solo or explore this new world with your best friends?
Why similar: Base Building 28%, Survival 22.6%, Crafting 22%, PvE 10.5%, Exploration 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on building a mobile base that you must defend while traveling through dangerous lands.
- #29 Voyagers of Nera
77% matchVery Positive85% of 2,430 reviews2025
Dev: Treehouse Games
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 12.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Voyagers of Nera is a cooperative survival-crafting game where you must survive a magical ocean world brimming with lost spirits and deadly monsters. Sail to distant islands, build beautiful villages and surf across the waves with up to 10 players.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.8% ★, Underwater 24.3% ★, Co-op 11%, Base Building 10.9%, Crafting 8.3%
- #30 Everwind
77% matchVery Positive82% of 3,471 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Everwind is a novel take on RPG and Sandbox Survival genre in First-Person-Perspective. Embark on the adventure with your friends - Build a base on a flying island-ship, gather resources, craft, loot, and fight while you rise above the clouds to uncover the mysteries of this world!
Why similar: Co-op 20.4%, Survival 18.1%, Crafting 15.5%, Open World 11.9%, Multiplayer 11.3%
- #31 Landless
80% matchMixed44% of 194 reviews2017
Dev: CodeBullet
Windows
Explore and conquer the high seas in this post-apocalyptic sandbox water world survival game where you must fight, build, and craft to survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.4% ★, Survival 16.7%, Base Building 12.9%, Crafting 8.5%, Open World 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game set entirely on the ocean, requiring players to build and maintain floating structures.
- #32 Subnautica 2
73% matchVery Positive91% of 118,544 reviews2026
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 36.4% ★, Survival 15.6%, Co-op 14.6%, Multiplayer 10%, Open World 8%
- #33 Hide & Hold Out - H2o
79% matchMixed54% of 631 reviews2016
Dev: Red Abyss Software
Windows · Linux
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 16.2 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 58.2% ★, Survival 15%, Crafting 7.6%, Multiplayer 7.4%, Open World 6%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer survival game set in a water-world where players compete for limited resources.
- #34 Survive the Nights
75% matchMixed66% of 6,578 reviews2025
Dev: a2z Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.0 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 31.4% ★, Survival 11.8%, Co-op 11.2%, Post-apocalyptic 8.6%, Multiplayer 7.5%
- #35 DeadPoly
76% matchMostly Positive77% of 5,942 reviews2022
Dev: TFL Games
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 63%
DeadPoly is a polygon arcade zombie survival looter shooter with base building, crafting, scavenging, leveling, questing, and more, but your only goal is survival, everything else is optional.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.3% ★, Survival 11.5%, Base Building 11.2%, Crafting 9%, Post-apocalyptic 8.2%
- #36 Under A New Sun
76% matchMostly Positive76% of 388 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 37.7% ★, Underwater 16.8% ★, Survival 10.9%, Base Building 9.3%, Crafting 8.3%
- #37 DUCKSIDE
74% matchMostly Positive73% of 3,044 reviews2024
Dev: tinyBuild RigaPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 18.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Imagine DayZ or Rust but you're a duck. A persistent world survival game with PVP, PVE, crafting, base building and hat wearing ducks, wielding weapons.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.7% ★, Survival 11.4%, Crafting 9.7%, Base Building 8.8%, Post-apocalyptic 7.7%
- #38 KeepUp Survival
75% matchMixed64% of 744 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 31.4% ★, Co-op 10.8%, Base Building 10.2%, Survival 10.2%, Crafting 7.9%
- #39 HumanitZ
73% matchMostly Positive75% of 13,179 reviews2026
Dev: Yodubzz StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 28.1% ★, Survival 13.8%, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 9.6%, Open World 8.1%
- #40 Lost Rift
73% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,611 reviews2025
Dev: People Can Fly
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 37.9% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Survival 11.6%, Crafting 10.1%, Multiplayer 6.9%
- #41 Mist Survival
74% matchMostly Positive76% of 14,158 reviews2018
Dev: Dimension 32 Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 73%
MIST SURVIVAL is a Single-player, survival stealth sandbox game Players will experience the Apocalypse stimulation in the form of virus pandemic, the players have to deal with it to survive through the difficulties such as finding shelter and food, threats from the environment and climate: wild animals, bandits, infected, and dense mist t
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46% ★, Survival 19.7%, Base Building 11%, Open World 9.1%, Crafting 6.9%
- #42 Dawn of Defiance
72% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,809 reviews2024
Dev: Traega EntertainmentPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
You are the Defier, a Spartan beginning your afterlife on the Crossroads. In this Greek myth-inspired survival craft, ascend from weak soldier to god-like anti-hero. Build impressive Greek structures, craft legendary gear, and break the seals of the Underworld with up to 3 friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.9% ★, Survival 12.5%, Base Building 11.3%, Multiplayer 6.5%, Crafting 6.5%
- #43 Plains of Pain
72% matchVery Positive83% of 831 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 30.9% ★, Base Building 10.7%, Co-op 9.7%, Survival 9.2%, Crafting 7.7%
- #44 SurrounDead
71% matchVery Positive92% of 25,236 reviews2022
Dev: ZurvivorPub: PlaySurrounDead
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%
SurrounDead is an open world survival game. Taking place in a world ravaged by an apocalyptic catastrophe. The dead reign free and will stop at nothing to kill you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28% ★, Survival 20.2%, Open World 12%, Post-apocalyptic 10.7%, Base Building 10%
- #45 Age of Water
71% matchMostly Positive70% of 3,493 reviews2025
Dev: Three Whales StudioPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 38.7 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 27%, Post-apocalyptic 23.2%, Open World 20.6%, Multiplayer 7.3%, Shooter 5.9%
- #46 Grounded 2
69% matchVery Positive81% of 21,894 reviews2025
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.4 hrsMean: 22.4 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 28.3% ★, Survival 14.5%, Base Building 12.5%, Co-op 12.1%, Crafting 7.9%
- #47 Aloft
70% matchVery Positive84% of 3,616 reviews2025
Dev: Astrolabe Interactive Inc.Pub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 14.3 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 33.9% ★, Co-op 15.3%, Survival 14%, Crafting 12%, Open World 6.7%
- #48 Len's Island
69% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,768 reviews2025
Dev: Flow Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
An open-world survival crafting game for 1–8 players, blending intense dungeon crawling and ARPG combat with peaceful farming and creative building. Take on quests and explore a vast, procedurally-generated world full of danger and discovery.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.9% ★, Survival 12.6%, Base Building 10.8%, Crafting 9.6%, Open World 7.3%
- #49 DREADZONE
70% matchMixed51% of 1,193 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 15.9%, Crafting 12%, Open World 10%
- #50 Rem Survival
71% matchMostly Positive76% of 802 reviews2021
Dev: Immortal Hand Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 47.4 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 40.5% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Survival 12.1%, Crafting 10.3%, Open World 7.4%
- #51 Solarpunk™
68% matchVery Positive82% of 2,601 reviews2026
Dev: CyberwavePub: rokaplay
Windows
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Solarpunk is a survival game in a technologically advanced world of floating islands. Alone or together with your friends, you can construct buildings, grow food, craft gadgets and hop on your airship to explore distant islands in the sky.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.7% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Co-op 12%, Survival 9.7%, Crafting 9.2%
- #52 Soulmask
66% matchMostly Positive77% of 21,804 reviews2026
Dev: CampFire StudioPub: Qooland Games
Windows
Median: 13.8 hrsMean: 68.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. Possess any of your tribespeople, recruit followers, and build a thriving automated civilization. Survive, expand, and forge your own legacy across a vast ancient open world — together with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.2% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Survival 10.8%, Co-op 10.6%, Crafting 9.2%
- #53 Grounded
67% matchVery Positive90% of 94,448 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.3 hrsMean: 41.5 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 34.7% ★, Survival 15.3%, Co-op 12.1%, Base Building 11.8%, Multiplayer 8.1%
- #54 Night of the Dead
67% matchMostly Positive77% of 11,799 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 40.8% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Survival 11.1%, Crafting 9.8%, Multiplayer 7.6%
- #55 Abiotic Factor
64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 56,173 reviews2025
Dev: Deep Field GamesPub: Playstack
Windows
Median: 20.1 hrsMean: 44.9 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 38.6% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Survival 12.7%, Crafting 10.2%, Multiplayer 6.1%
- #56 Eden Crafters
65% matchVery Positive86% of 2,494 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 13.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.3% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 9.5%, Survival 9.1%, Co-op 9%
- #57 Scrapnaut
69% matchMixed70% of 831 reviews2021
Dev: SpiffyBitPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements. Explore an open world with different biomes, take care of oxygen, manage your farms, generate electricity, build your home and much more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.5% ★, Co-op 12.5%, Survival 12.5%, Base Building 9%, Crafting 7.8%
- #58 Oceaneers
65% matchVery Positive90% of 89 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 30.4% ★, Underwater 26% ★, Survival 12.4%, Base Building 11.2%, Crafting 9.8%
- #59 Outbreak Island
65% matchMostly Positive80% of 996 reviews2025
Dev: Tiny Magicians
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 21.2%, Base Building 16.1%, Crafting 13.1%, Sandbox 12.2%, Post-apocalyptic 10.2%