- #1 Raft
97% matchVery Positive93% of 372,032 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.6 hrsMean: 37.3 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 38.4% ★, Survival 14.4%, Co-op 11.7%, Multiplayer 8%, Base Building 7%
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 Stranded Deep
96% matchMostly Positive74% of 47,389 reviews2022
Dev: Beam Team GamesPub: Beam Team Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 20.9 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 45.7% ★, Survival 13.5%, Crafting 7.5%, Underwater 7.4% ★, 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 Subnautica
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 365,018 reviews2018
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 39.3 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 35.4% ★, Underwater 22.4% ★, Survival 10.9%, Base Building 8.5%, Crafting 6.6%
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 The Front
94% matchMixed67% of 10,771 reviews2025
Dev: Samar Studio
Windows
Median: 10.6 hrsMean: 44.3 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 35.2% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Survival 10.7%, Co-op 9.1%, Crafting 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: This survival game heavily emphasizes base building and defending against organized NPC invasions, mirroring the core tension of Sunkenland.
- #5 Subsistence
95% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,685 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 39.9 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 45.9% ★, Survival 13.4%, Crafting 9%, Base Building 7.8%, Multiplayer 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: A challenging survival game that features deep base-building mechanics and persistent AI hunters that raid your property.
- #6 Project Castaway
94% matchMixed67% of 1,723 reviews2026
Dev: Mardonpol Inc.
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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 29.6% ★, Underwater 16.9% ★, Co-op 10%, Survival 8.5%, Base Building 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: A realistic survival game focused on island hopping and scavenging in a vast, dangerous ocean environment.
- #7 7 Days to Die
92% matchVery Positive87% of 399,251 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 16.9 hrsMean: 108.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 36.1% ★, Survival 16.3%, Base Building 11.7%, Open World 7.3%, Multiplayer 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: It provides the most robust base-defense mechanics, forcing players to fortify their structures against waves of enemies.
- #8 Rust
93% matchVery Positive87% of 1,363,157 reviews2018
Dev: Facepunch Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 52.5 hrsMean: 421.6 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 32.2% ★, Survival 20.9%, Crafting 11.7%, Multiplayer 8.4%, Open World 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for base building and defensive combat, featuring intense player-versus-player raids and resource competition.
- #9 Voidtrain
91% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,447 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.5 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 42.1% ★, Co-op 11.5%, Base Building 9.8%, Survival 9.7%, Crafting 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique take on the 'moving base' survival genre, requiring you to scavenge resources while traveling through a surreal, water-like void.
- #10 Volcanoids
91% matchVery Positive83% of 9,267 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.8 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: It features a unique mobile base-building mechanic where you must defend your drillship against volcanic eruptions and mechanical enemies.
- #11 Survival: Fountain of Youth
90% matchVery Positive86% of 4,339 reviews2024
Dev: Odinsoft Inc.Pub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 18.7 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% ★, Underwater 17.2% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Survival 10.9%, Crafting 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: This title focuses on historical survival and exploration across a tropical archipelago, emphasizing crafting and resource management.
- #12 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
89% matchVery Positive82% of 9,989 reviews2024
Dev: Merge GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 15.2 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 34.9% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Survival 11.6%, Co-op 10.1%, Crafting 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a fresh perspective on survival by shrinking the player down, requiring clever base building and exploration in a hostile natural world.
- #13 Forever Skies
89% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,446 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 32.0 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 31.3% ★, Co-op 12.1%, Base Building 11.8%, Survival 10.4%, Crafting 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: This sci-fi survival game features a high-tech airship base that you must maintain and upgrade while scavenging a ruined, toxic world.
- #14 ICARUS
88% matchMostly Positive74% of 63,962 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 46.0 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% ★, Survival 12.3%, Base Building 11.3%, Co-op 8.5%, Crafting 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: A session-based survival game that challenges you to complete dangerous missions, build temporary bases, and extract before time runs out.
- #15 The Infected
87% matchVery Positive84% of 6,935 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 39.6% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Survival 11.6%, Crafting 10.1%, Open World 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: It combines survival with base building and defense, tasking players with protecting their homes from both wildlife and mutated enemies.
- #16 Enshrouded
85% matchVery Positive86% of 101,648 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.7 hrsMean: 45.6 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%, Crafting 13.6%, Multiplayer 11%
Why You'll Like It: It features highly intuitive voxel-based building and a vast open world that encourages exploration and resource gathering.
- #17 Conan Exiles Enhanced
86% matchMostly Positive79% of 115,037 reviews2018
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 17.1 hrsMean: 111.9 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Conan Exiles Enhanced is an open world survival game set in the mythical lands of Hyboria, now fully upgraded to Unreal Engine 5 with stunning visuals and improved performance. SURVIVE, BUILD, and DOMINATE alone or with friends in a world brimming with adventure!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.9% ★, Survival 18.6%, Open World 10.2%, Crafting 9.9%, Multiplayer 7%
Why You'll Like It: It offers massive-scale base building and intense combat, with a survival loop that rewards aggressive expansion and resource gathering.
- #18 No One Survived
84% matchMixed65% of 7,645 reviews2025
Dev: Cat Play Studio
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 22.6 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 13.2%, Multiplayer 11.6%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game that emphasizes realistic base construction, crafting, and defending against waves of zombies.
- #19 Mist Survival
86% matchMostly Positive76% of 14,126 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 45.9% ★, Survival 19.8%, Base Building 11.1%, Open World 9.1%, Crafting 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on surviving a post-apocalyptic world filled with threats, where base building is essential for protection against the elements and enemies.
- #20 Valheim
84% matchVery Positive94% of 534,015 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 25.8 hrsMean: 76.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 39.4% ★, Survival 11.6%, Base Building 9.4%, Co-op 8.3%, Crafting 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: While set in a different theme, its focus on building complex structures and exploring dangerous, procedurally generated biomes is highly satisfying.
- #21 Deadside
83% matchMostly Positive76% of 40,248 reviews2024
Dev: Bad Pixel
Windows
Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 44.5 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 34.2% ★, Survival 12.7%, Post-apocalyptic 7.7%, Base Building 7.7%, Co-op 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore survival shooter that focuses on open-world exploration, base building, and intense combat against both NPCs and players.
- #22 Nightingale
82% matchMixed67% of 17,932 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 36.6% ★, Survival 11.2%, Base Building 10.2%, Co-op 10%, Crafting 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-crafting game that emphasizes exploration through different realms, featuring unique building styles and magical elements.
- #23 IfSunSets
82% matchMostly Positive75% of 2,232 reviews2024
Dev: POLYMORPHPub: Smilegate
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 28.9 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 30.3% ★, Underwater 22.1% ★, Base Building 10.7%, Co-op 10.4%, Post-apocalyptic 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: This game blends survival and adventure, tasking players with building defenses during the day to survive the horrors that emerge at night.
- #24 SurrounDead
81% matchVery Positive92% of 24,802 reviews2022
Dev: ZurvivorPub: PlaySurrounDead
Windows
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 15.9 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%, Open World 12%, Post-apocalyptic 10.7%, Base Building 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a classic survival experience with a focus on looting, base management, and surviving in a post-apocalyptic landscape.
- #25 Green Hell
81% matchVery Positive85% of 97,093 reviews2019
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 18.6 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 44.2% ★, Survival 13.8%, Multiplayer 8.3%, Base Building 7.4%, Crafting 7%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore survival experience that tests your ability to manage health and resources in a dense, unforgiving jungle environment.
- #26 SCUM
78% matchMostly Positive74% of 124,053 reviews2025
Dev: Gamepires
Windows
Median: 11.9 hrsMean: 103.1 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Traverse punishing environments, looting, crafting and evading the constant threats to your life. The unprecedented levels of character customization and progression are your ultimate tools for survival.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.8% ★, Survival 14.5%, Crafting 10.1%, Open World 9.4%, Sandbox 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: An incredibly detailed survival simulator that offers deep crafting and base-building mechanics for players who enjoy high-stakes realism.
- #27 ARK: Survival Ascended
79% matchMixed60% of 105,775 reviews2023
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows
Median: 27.6 hrsMean: 196.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!
Why similar: Survival 24.1%, Base Building 18.5%, Open World 14.2%, Crafting 13.9%, Multiplayer 12.1%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a massive scale of base building and creature taming, providing a deep survival loop in a dangerous, prehistoric world.
- #28 Windrose
77% matchVery Positive88% of 44,950 reviews2026
Dev: Kraken Express
Windows
Median: 19.2 hrsMean: 31.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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% ★, Survival 13.8%, Crafting 12.1%, Base Building 10.5%, PvE 6.3%
- #29 Survival Machine
79% matchMostly Positive74% of 687 reviews2025
Dev: Grape PickersPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 28.6%, Survival 23.1%, Crafting 22.7%, PvE 10.9%, Exploration 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on building a mobile base on wheels, requiring you to scavenge and defend your machine as you travel through hostile territory.
- #30 VEIN
77% matchVery Positive89% of 10,247 reviews2025
Dev: Ramjet Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 14.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 16.7%, Co-op 14.8%, Open World 11.3%, Crafting 9.6%
- #31 StarRupture
76% matchVery Positive81% of 12,313 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 22.6 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 32.6% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Co-op 11%, Survival 10.2%, Crafting 8.1%
- #32 State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition
78% matchVery Positive83% of 68,064 reviews2020
Dev: Undead LabsPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 39.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
The dead have risen and civilization has fallen. Now it's up to you to gather survivors, scavenge for resources and build a community in a post-apocalyptic world – a world where you define what it means to survive in this ultimate zombie survival simulation.
Why similar: Survival 24.6%, Base Building 22.7%, Co-op 15%, Open World 14.4%, Multiplayer 11%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on community management and base fortification, requiring you to defend your home from constant external threats.
- #33 The Last Caretaker
75% matchVery Positive86% of 11,047 reviews2025
Dev: Channel37 Ltd
Windows
Median: 17.2 hrsMean: 32.0 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%
- #34 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 38.3% ★, Survival 16.7%, Base Building 13%, Crafting 8.5%, Open World 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game set in a flooded world where you must build and manage a floating base to stay alive.
- #35 Voyagers of Nera
75% matchVery Positive85% of 2,367 reviews2025
Dev: Treehouse Games
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 12.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 29.6% ★, Underwater 24.4% ★, Co-op 11%, Base Building 10.9%, Crafting 8.3%
- #36 Everwind
74% matchVery Positive82% of 3,221 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 12.8 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%
- #37 DeadPoly
76% matchMostly Positive77% of 5,910 reviews2022
Dev: TFL Games
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 11.3 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 36.1% ★, Survival 11.5%, Base Building 11.2%, Crafting 9%, Post-apocalyptic 8.2%
- #38 Lost Rift
73% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,554 reviews2025
Dev: People Can Fly
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 37.8% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Survival 11.6%, Crafting 10.1%, Multiplayer 6.9%
- #39 Under A New Sun
74% matchMostly Positive77% of 384 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 37.5% ★, Underwater 16.8% ★, Survival 10.9%, Base Building 9.3%, Crafting 8.3%
- #40 HumanitZ
71% matchMostly Positive75% of 12,839 reviews2026
Dev: Yodubzz StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 14.8 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 28% ★, Survival 13.8%, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 9.7%, Open World 8.1%
- #41 Dawn of Defiance
72% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,797 reviews2024
Dev: Traega EntertainmentPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 9.7 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 41.8% ★, Survival 12.5%, Base Building 11.4%, Multiplayer 6.5%, Crafting 6.5%
- #42 Len's Island
71% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,720 reviews2025
Dev: Flow Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 42.7% ★, Survival 12.6%, Base Building 10.8%, Crafting 9.7%, Open World 7.3%
- #43 KeepUp Survival
73% matchMixed64% of 743 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 84%
KeepUp Survival is an open base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and unfold your own story on a mysterious island.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.3% ★, Co-op 10.8%, Base Building 10.3%, Survival 10.1%, Crafting 7.9%
- #44 The Planet Crafter
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 70,189 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.5 hrsMean: 37.9 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 38.5% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Co-op 11.9%, Survival 11.3%, Crafting 8.8%
- #45 DUCKSIDE
71% matchMostly Positive73% of 3,021 reviews2024
Dev: tinyBuild RigaPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 18.8 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 35.6% ★, Survival 11.4%, Crafting 9.8%, Base Building 8.9%, Post-apocalyptic 7.8%
- #46 Subnautica 2
68% matchVery Positive91% of 98,787 reviews2026
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows
Median: 8.8 hrsMean: 10.7 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 37.1% ★, Survival 15.6%, Co-op 14.5%, Multiplayer 10.1%, Open World 8%
- #47 Grounded 2
69% matchVery Positive81% of 21,263 reviews2025
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.0 hrsMean: 22.1 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 27.9% ★, Survival 14.7%, Base Building 12.7%, Co-op 12%, Crafting 7.9%
- #48 Survive the Nights
70% matchMixed66% of 6,549 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 31.3% ★, Survival 11.8%, Co-op 11.2%, Post-apocalyptic 8.7%, Multiplayer 7.5%
- #49 Age of Water
70% matchMostly Positive70% of 3,485 reviews2025
Dev: Three Whales StudioPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 38.5 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 27.1%, Post-apocalyptic 23.2%, Open World 20.5%, Multiplayer 7.3%, Shooter 5.9%
- #50 Rem Survival
72% 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 40.4% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Survival 12.1%, Crafting 10.3%, Open World 7.4%
- #51 Aloft
69% matchVery Positive84% of 3,576 reviews2025
Dev: Astrolabe Interactive Inc.Pub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 33.8% ★, Co-op 15.3%, Survival 14%, Crafting 12%, Open World 6.6%
- #52 Hide & Hold Out - H2o
73% matchMixed54% of 631 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 58.1% ★, Survival 15%, Crafting 7.6%, Multiplayer 7.4%, Open World 6%
- #53 Dune: Awakening
66% matchMostly Positive70% of 76,118 reviews2025
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 47.7 hrsMean: 97.4 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 35.9% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Survival 11%, Crafting 9.1%, Open World 7%
- #54 Grounded
67% matchVery Positive90% of 93,832 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 15.2%, Co-op 12%, Base Building 11.9%, Multiplayer 8%
- #55 Tinkerlands
66% matchVery Positive86% of 3,833 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Explore, craft, and fight your way through uncharted islands — solo or with up to 4 players in co-op! Tinkerlands is an exciting survival adventure where you will build your settlement, craft useful tools to survive, and even use magic!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.2% ★, Survival 11.9%, Co-op 10.8%, Crafting 8.4%, Open World 7.4%
- #56 DREADZONE
68% matchMixed52% of 1,188 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%
- #57 TerraTech Worlds
67% matchMixed63% of 2,228 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 21.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Co-op 11.2%, Survival 9.9%, Crafting 8.8%
- #58 Breakwaters: Crystal Tides
69% matchMixed63% of 997 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 26.4%, Crafting 17%, Open World 16.2%, Sandbox 14.7%, Base Building 12.8%
- #59 Scrapnaut
68% matchMixed70% of 827 reviews2021
Dev: SpiffyBitPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 4.0 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 12.6%, Survival 12.5%, Base Building 9%, Crafting 7.8%
- #60 Plains of Pain
67% matchVery Positive84% of 757 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 30.8% ★, Base Building 10.7%, Co-op 9.7%, Survival 9.2%, Crafting 7.7%