- #1 Green Hell
97% matchVery Positive85% of 102,938 reviews2019
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 38.2% ★, Survival 12.7%, Multiplayer 8.8%, Online Co-Op 8.8%, Crafting 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: The game emphasizes realistic survival through its unique body inspection system and complex crafting requirements in a hostile environment.
- #2 SCUM
96% matchMostly Positive74% of 127,189 reviews2025
Dev: Gamepires
Windows
Median: 11.9 hrsMean: 105.4 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Welcome to SCUM, a ruthless open-world survival game where deep character customization defines the prisoner you become. Loot, craft, hunt, build, and fight to outlast a hostile island where every choice can change your fate. Stay alive. Stay dangerous. Become harder to kill.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.8% ★, Survival 10.7%, Open World 9.2%, Crafting 9%, Nudity 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: It provides an unparalleled level of detail regarding metabolism, character simulation, and realistic survival mechanics.
- #3 Subsistence
96% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,861 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 40.4 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 41.9% ★, Survival 12.9%, Crafting 10.5%, Building 8.1%, Open World 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore survival game that emphasizes base building and realistic resource management against an unforgiving AI.
- #4 Survival: Fountain of Youth
95% matchVery Positive85% of 4,528 reviews2024
Dev: Odinsoft Inc.Pub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.4 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 33.2% ★, Survival 11.3%, Crafting 10.4%, Building 8.9%, Sandbox 8%
Why You'll Like It: This island-based survival game offers a realistic approach to crafting, exploration, and resource management.
- #5 Project Zomboid
94% matchVery Positive94% of 484,416 reviews2013
Dev: The Indie Stone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 15.9 hrsMean: 89.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.1% ★, Survival 18.2%, Open World 10.8%, Sandbox 8.9%, Multiplayer 8%
Why You'll Like It: It features an incredibly deep simulation of survival mechanics, including health, nutrition, and realistic character needs.
- #6 Stranded Deep
94% matchMostly Positive74% of 47,919 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 42.8% ★, Survival 13.3%, Crafting 9%, Multiplayer 8.4%, Open World 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the core island survival loop, requiring players to craft tools and manage resources to survive in a remote setting.
- #7 The Long Dark
93% matchVery Positive89% of 123,946 reviews2017
Dev: Hinterland Studio Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 47.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 50.9% ★, Survival 17.7%, Open World 10%, Crafting 6.5%, Sandbox 5%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore survival experience that focuses on realistic environmental challenges and the constant struggle against the elements.
- #8 ICARUS
92% matchMostly Positive75% of 68,864 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.4 hrsMean: 46.7 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 32.9% ★, Survival 11.9%, Online Co-Op 9%, Crafting 9%, Building 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: Features session-based survival with a strong focus on realistic environmental hazards and complex crafting trees.
- #9 Conan Exiles Enhanced
91% matchMostly Positive79% of 117,692 reviews2018
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 17.2 hrsMean: 114.1 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 27.8% ★, Survival 13.6%, Building 10.9%, Open World 10%, Nudity 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: Features extensive building and survival mechanics that require players to master the harsh conditions of its open world.
- #10 My Island
91% matchMixed66% of 1,739 reviews2024
Dev: SnowBaby Games
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 47%
MyIsland is a relaxed and beautiful survival game,You will drift and survive on the tropical islands, hunt and travel, build houses and development farming, and create your own warm homeland.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.6% ★, Survival 13.2%, Crafting 8.6%, Open World 8.3%, Multiplayer 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that mirrors the island-based crafting and exploration loop of Survisland.
- #11 Mist Survival
90% matchMostly Positive76% of 14,394 reviews2018
Dev: Dimension 32 Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 15.1 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 44.2% ★, Survival 20.1%, Open World 12.3%, Crafting 8.5%, Sandbox 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: Combines realistic survival elements with a focus on environmental threats and base fortification.
- #12 DayZ
89% matchMostly Positive78% of 470,116 reviews2018
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 39.7 hrsMean: 281.7 hrs≥1hr: 96%
How long can you survive a post-apocalyptic world? A land overrun with an infected "zombie" population, where you compete with other survivors for limited resources. Will you team up with strangers and stay strong together? Or play as a lone wolf to avoid betrayal? This is DayZ – this is your story.
Why similar: Survival 26.5%, Online Co-Op 16.9%, Sandbox 16%, Open World 15.3%, Multiplayer 12.4%
Why You'll Like It: The definitive hardcore survival experience that requires players to manage realistic needs while navigating a dangerous open world.
- #13 Rust
89% matchVery Positive87% of 1,402,448 reviews2018
Dev: Facepunch Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 52.8 hrsMean: 431.0 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 25.8% ★, Survival 17.7%, Crafting 11.9%, Building 9.4%, Open World 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: A benchmark for multiplayer sandbox survival that emphasizes resource gathering, crafting, and base defense.
- #14 Sons Of The Forest
86% matchVery Positive88% of 321,117 reviews2024
Dev: Endnight Games LtdPub: Newnight
Windows
Median: 15.0 hrsMean: 32.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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 22.9%, Open World 16.8%, Multiplayer 13.6%, Crafting 13.4%, Building 12.8%
Why You'll Like It: Offers advanced building mechanics and realistic survival interactions within a highly detailed, hostile environment.
- #15 Medieval Dynasty
87% matchVery Positive90% of 52,440 reviews2021
Dev: Render CubePub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 11.6 hrsMean: 36.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.
Why similar: Building 19.9%, Crafting 17.8%, Survival 12.4%, Open World 10.2%, Sandbox 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: Combines deep survival simulation with village management, requiring realistic resource gathering and crafting.
- #16 Escape The Pacific
88% matchMixed67% of 762 reviews2018
Dev: Gamers4Gamers Team
Windows
Raw, real survival in the Pacific. Build a modular floating base. Master realistic sailing mechanics. Face challenging Pacific-like weather & seasons. Hunt, craft, build & navigate using Sun Dial, Sextant & Triangulation. Explore an endless island cluster-based world. Simulate real life scenarios!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.5% ★, Building 10.1%, Crafting 10%, Survival 9.8%, Open World 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on realistic island survival, requiring players to build rafts and manage resources with high attention to detail.
- #17 The Forest
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 683,269 reviews2018
Dev: Endnight Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 37.4 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 47.1% ★, Survival 15%, Open World 9.4%, Crafting 8.6%, Building 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a foundational experience for realistic building and survival in a dangerous, isolated wilderness.
- #18 Sunkenland
84% matchVery Positive80% of 24,007 reviews2023
Dev: Vector3 Studio
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 20.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 44.8% ★, Survival 13.4%, Crafting 9.9%, Multiplayer 8.1%, Open World 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: A water-based survival game with deep crafting and base-building mechanics set in a flooded world.
- #19 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
84% matchVery Positive82% of 10,551 reviews2024
Dev: Max Ent Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 30% ★, Survival 10.6%, Building 10%, Crafting 9.2%, Online Co-Op 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Survival gameplay that emphasizes building and environmental interaction from a unique, small-scale perspective.
- #20 7 Days to Die
82% matchVery Positive87% of 405,507 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.4 hrsMean: 111.0 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 32.3% ★, Survival 15.4%, Building 10.2%, Open World 9.2%, Online Co-Op 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: Known for its deep crafting and base-building mechanics that allow for significant environmental manipulation.
- #21 Out of Reach
85% matchMixed57% of 3,051 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
You’re a castaway stranded in the middle of nowhere. Storm is gone, the worst certainly not. Look for food and resources, craft gear, make shelters. These are the basics, you need much more to stay alive on this cut-off-the-world, yet not desert island. Build & burn, sail & explore, be Out of Reach!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.5% ★, Survival 13.1%, Crafting 9.8%, Open World 9.1%, Building 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: Island-based survival that emphasizes crafting, building, and exploration in a multiplayer sandbox.
- #22 Starsand
83% matchMixed66% of 1,268 reviews2022
Dev: Tunnel Vision StudioPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Starsand is a mystic survival game set among the dunes of an arcane desert. An open-world full of danger, vast environments and mysterious happenings await you! Explore, hunt, craft, build – and SURVIVE.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.2% ★, Survival 11.7%, Crafting 11.1%, Building 10%, Open World 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: A desert survival game that challenges players with realistic environmental hazards and resource scarcity.
- #23 Hurtworld
82% matchMostly Positive76% of 31,099 reviews2019
Dev: Bankroll Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 64.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Hurtworld is a hardcore multiplayer survival FPS with a focus on competitive gunplay and strategic map control. Built for hardcore gamers, Hurtworld aims to punish.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.7% ★, Survival 16.1%, Crafting 10.6%, Building 10.5%, Open World 10%
Why You'll Like It: Hardcore survival that emphasizes resource management and survival against both the environment and other players.
- #24 Pacific Drive
79% matchVery Positive83% of 26,975 reviews2024
Dev: Ironwood StudiosPub: Kepler Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 16.9 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Face the supernatural dangers of the Olympic Exclusion Zone with a car as your only lifeline in this driving survival adventure! Scavenge resources, load up your trusty station wagon, and drive like hell to make it through alive.
Why similar: Survival 25.9%, Crafting 22%, Building 17.2%, Sandbox 14.7%, Exploration 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on realistic vehicle maintenance and survival in a hostile, supernatural environment.
- #25 Northern Lights
81% matchMixed67% of 299 reviews2020
Dev: MadGoat Studio
Windows
Northern Lights is an open world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the arctic tundra. Clinging to life, you must use real-life survival techniques to gather resources, craft, and hunt while tending to your health and sanity. Can you survive your way out of the mysterious island?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.2% ★, Survival 11.4%, Crafting 10.6%, Sandbox 9.7%, Open World 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on realistic survival in a cold, harsh environment where resource management is critical.
- #26 Eco
80% matchVery Positive81% of 14,085 reviews2018
Dev: Strange Loop Games
Windows
Median: 16.7 hrsMean: 91.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Build a civilization of real people, working together to advance society and stop a meteor, all without destroying the ecosystem in the process.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.3% ★, Crafting 13%, Survival 10.3%, Open World 10.1%, Sandbox 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: A complex simulation game where players must manage resources and crafting to prevent environmental collapse.
- #27 Life is Feudal: Your Own
81% matchMixed66% of 12,071 reviews2015
Dev: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 57.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Hardcore and realistic; LiF is a Medieval multiplayer sandbox RPG, with free terraforming, a rich crafting system and preset and modular building construction. With engaging survival aspects, no target physics-based combat and a unique formation system - along with numerous other features - LiF is not for the faint of heart!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.6% ★, Survival 11%, Crafting 10.9%, Building 10.4%, Open World 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore survival game that features realistic crafting, building, and terraforming mechanics.
- #28 The Last Plague: Blight
76% matchVery Positive88% of 1,514 reviews2024
Dev: Original Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 15.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
The Last Plague: Blight is an authentic survival experience rooted in realism and immersion. Endure the hazards of a brutal open world, uncover the origins of a mysterious disease, and become humanity’s final hope of ending the Blight.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.7% ★, Crafting 9.7%, Building 9.4%, Survival 8.6%, Difficult 8.5%
- #29 Force of Nature
78% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,209 reviews2016
Dev: A.Y.std
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.7% ★, Crafting 12%, Survival 11.5%, Building 8.4%, Sandbox 8.1%
- #30 KeepUp Survival
77% matchMixed64% of 751 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 32.3% ★, Survival 11.1%, Crafting 10.5%, Open World 9.3%, Sandbox 9%
- #31 Rem Survival
77% matchMostly Positive76% of 809 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 38.9% ★, Crafting 12.7%, Building 12.5%, Survival 12.3%, Open World 10%
- #32 Crushed
78% matchMixed53% of 321 reviews2020
Dev: NipoBoxPub: NipoBox Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Crushed — is an Singleplayer and Multiplayer First-Person Survival Sandbox in an Open World! Challenge the wild and be ready to survive in harsh conditions. Explore the world, get resources, cook food, build a house, farm, hunt, and enjoy nature.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.3% ★, Survival 10.7%, Building 9.3%, Crafting 8.9%, Open World 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that emphasizes crafting, building, and exploration in an open world.
- #33 Project Castaway
75% matchMixed65% of 1,893 reviews2026
Dev: Mardonpol Inc.
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 7.5 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 31.6% ★, Survival 9.6%, Online Co-Op 9.5%, Sandbox 8.4%, Building 8.4%
- #34 Better Late Than DEAD
79% matchMostly Negative28% of 910 reviews2016
Dev: Odin Game StudioPub: Excalibur Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 30 minMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 33%
Awaking on an island with no memory, you have just one memento of the life you led before… A child's photograph. Who is this? You must search the island for useful tools that will aid in your escape. As time passes and hopes of survival hang by a thread, you realise that this island is not as it seems.
Why similar: Survival 26.5%, Crafting 17.3%, Open World 16.3%, Multiplayer 11.6%, Sandbox 11.4%
Why You'll Like It: Island survival that focuses on the basic necessities of crafting and exploration to stay alive.
- #35 Wrongworld
75% matchVery Positive94% of 557 reviews2018
Dev: Sludj Games
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Crash-landed on a surreal, low-poly world filled with freakish inhabitants, choose between permadeath and non-permadeath modes and embark on an epic (and ridiculous) survival adventure. Will you manage to stay alive as you unravel the mysteries of Wrongworld and search for a way home?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.3% ★, Survival 10.9%, Building 8.1%, Sandbox 7.6%, Crafting 7.4%
- #36 CrossWorlds: Escape
76% matchMixed64% of 158 reviews2020
Dev: Another Reality
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 97%
CrossWorlds: Escape is a hardcore game in which you will have to deploy all your skills to survive in a huge open world that is susceptible to changes in weather, seasons and various natural phenomena.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.4% ★, Survival 11.2%, Crafting 10.8%, Sandbox 10.3%, Difficult 9.7%
- #37 This Land Is My Land
73% matchMixed68% of 4,660 reviews2021
Dev: Game-Labs
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 21.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Experience the frontier as a chief of a Native American tribe and resist the onset of the settlers. Explore the vast world full of hostile humans and animals while defining your narrative through the decisions you make.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.7% ★, Survival 14.3%, Open World 10.8%, Crafting 9.3%, Multiplayer 7%
- #38 INCUR Survival
73% matchVery Positive81% of 112 reviews2022
Dev: INCUR
Windows
A survival open-world game, where you can gather resources, Hunt, Craft tools and armor, Tame Animals, Ride Animals, Build, and defend your base from creatures, and other players.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.7% ★, Building 13.2%, Crafting 10.8%, Survival 10.5%, Open World 8.4%
- #39 Stone Rage
74% matchMixed49% of 167 reviews2020
Dev: Mountainwheel Games
Windows
Stone Rage is a prehistoric, open-world survival game. Play as a Cro-Magnon or Neanderthal and shape-shift into beasts as you secure your place in a harsh landscape of dangerous animals, scarce resources, and unforgiving climates. Make friends and enemies. Build. Fight. Survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.3% ★, Survival 12.7%, Sandbox 10.9%, Open World 10.4%, Building 5.4%
- #40 The Infected
71% matchVery Positive84% of 7,020 reviews2020
Dev: DigX Studios
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 18.5 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 32.6% ★, Building 11.5%, Crafting 10.6%, Survival 10.2%, Open World 9%
- #41 Tinkerlands
68% matchVery Positive86% of 4,122 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.4 hrsMean: 14.5 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 32.9% ★, Online Co-Op 9.8%, Survival 9.8%, Sandbox 9.6%, Building 8.7%
- #42 The Island
72% matchMixed46% of 105 reviews2021
Dev: Ibis Games
Windows
The Island - "Island") - a computer game with an open world and a first-person view in the genre of survival.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.4% ★, Building 13.9%, Survival 13.4%, Crafting 11.6%, Open World 10.7%
- #43 Savage Lands
70% matchMixed54% of 6,690 reviews2021
Dev: Last Bastion Studios LLC
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Your fight for survival begins on the frozen shores of Tarvhas, where bitter cold and vicious creatures conspire to defeat the unprepared. Uncover the land’s dark history as you and fellow explorers traverse an unforgiving and hostile world to tame the Savage Lands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41% ★, Survival 12.1%, Online Co-Op 8.7%, Crafting 8.6%, Open World 8.4%
- #44 Short Snow | Cold Survival Game
69% matchMixed54% of 173 reviews2025
Dev: MubDev
Windows
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 36.4% ★, Survival 13.1%, Open World 10.6%, Crafting 9.2%, Sandbox 8.2%
- #45 Delivery from the Pain:Survival / 末日方舟:生存
70% matchVery Positive81% of 1,017 reviews2019
Dev: HuaYiTianXinPub: DigiPotato
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%
You'll play as a survivor in a world overrun by zombies. Explore and interact with other survivors, making tough choices about whether to help or exploit them. Defend against zombies, collect resources, craft, and fortify your shelter. Use strategy to escape this world and return to safety.
Why similar: Survival 27.8%, Building 21.3%, Open World 17.5%, Nudity 11.9%, Simulation 8.8%
- #46 Journey Of Life
70% matchMixed56% of 755 reviews2021
Dev: Hyperion Studio Limited
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 46%
You have experienced the sudden loss of your wealth, which has compelled you to abandon your previous life and begin anew. By venturing into the game world, you can construct settlements and forge alliances with other players, ensuring that you will always have exciting challenges to undertake.
Why similar: Building 13.9%, Crafting 13.9%, Survival 13.6%, Sandbox 12.2%, Open World 10.9%
- #47 Spirit Animal Survival
67% matchMixed70% of 136 reviews2026
Dev: TRUEFX GAMES Pub: TRUEFX GAMES
Windows
SAS is an Open World Multiplayer PVP and CO-OP Survival Game. Set in a vast environment that features Building, Crafting, Taming, Riding, Flying and Exploring Wildlife, Dinos and Dragons as well as Horrific Creatures and Instances with the ability to Morph into Spirit Animals.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.5% ★, Building 10.5%, Survival 9.6%, Crafting 9%, Nudity 8.7%
- #48 The Swordsmen X: Survival
71% matchMostly Negative27% of 573 reviews2023
Dev: 上海润梦网络科技有限公司
Windows
A martial art open world adventure game that combines survival and crafting. Developed with UE4, it creates a vivid world of 256 square kilometers. Cultivate yourself by collecting, crafting, exploring and other methods. Confront complex natural environment and challenges from other warriors.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39% ★, Sandbox 10.8%, Survival 10.4%, Open World 8.9%, Building 8.4%
- #49 Re.poly
69% matchVery Positive91% of 137 reviews2019
Dev: Hinkfoot Studios
Windows
Re.Poly is a relaxed yet deep indie survival game in a low-poly style that blends exploration, combat, building, and adventure. Whether alone or with friends, create your own world, write your own story, and decide how you want to play.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.9% ★, Crafting 12.2%, Survival 12.1%, Sandbox 11.2%, Open World 9.7%
- #50 Valheim
63% matchVery Positive94% of 555,289 reviews2026
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 26.9 hrsMean: 81.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32% ★, Survival 9.9%, Online Co-Op 9.3%, Building 9.2%, Open World 7.8%
- #51 Fragmented
71% matchMixed43% of 1,964 reviews2017
Dev: Above and Beyond Technologies
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Stranded in a hostile alien world, you must fight to survive. Hunt, harvest, craft, advance skills, and build using local resources along with technology from your voyage.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.2% ★, Survival 12.9%, Open World 7.6%, Crafting 7%, Multiplayer 6.7%
- #52 Eden Island
68% matchMixed61% of 257 reviews2024
Dev: Moon Studio
Windows
Eden Island is a beautiful survival game. As a survivor, you will explore and survive on a realistic tropical island, craft weapons against beasts, farm and hunt, build your own home.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.8% ★, Building 13.5%, Crafting 12.3%, Survival 12.2%, Sandbox 10.7%
- #53 Mad Island
65% matchVery Positive92% of 4,697 reviews2024
Dev: EmadePlus
Windows
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 77%
This survival game is packed with features including crafting, exploring, building, excavation, farming, fishing, capturing creatures, torture, battle, and a story with many forks along the way. The objective is to escape the island, but is that really your only choice?
Why similar: Nudity 27%, Open World Survival Craft 22.3% ★, Survival 14.8%, Open World 13.3%, Sandbox 10.7%
- #54 Last Whisper
67% matchMixed66% of 196 reviews2024
Dev: 12Studio
Windows
Last Whisper Survival is a cooperative zombie survival game where exploration of the open world is key. As you venture further, you'll need to upgrade your gear and level up your character and skill tree to handle the increasing challenges as you move through the world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.9% ★, Survival 11.9%, Online Co-Op 11.2%, Building 10.3%, Open World 7.8%
- #55 AREAZ
69% matchMixed60% of 106 reviews2019
Dev: Project Solutions
Windows
True survival techniques: you live on what you discover. Everything here is connected - fire and rain, meat and predators, calories and every move you make. Day and night decide what is possible - being in the right place at the right hour is a skill. Your choices, your survival.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.4% ★, Survival 11.3%, Crafting 11%, Nudity 10.5%, Open World 9%
- #56 The Gold River Project
65% matchMixed63% of 686 reviews2026
Dev: Fairview Games Inc.
Windows
The Gold River Project™ is a camping trip gone wrong in the Pacific Northwest. Explore, craft, build, and survive in this open-world experiment that traps you and up to 4 friends in this single player or co-op survival adventure game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.8% ★, Survival 9.8%, Open World 9.6%, Crafting 8.9%, Online Co-Op 7.8%
