- #1 Survivalist
97% matchVery Positive80% of 2,560 reviews2015
Dev: BobPub: Ginormocorp Incorporated
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
It's one year after the collapse of civilization and self-centered hedge fund manager Joe Wheeler emerges from his specially constructed bunker in search of food. This is a huge open-world RPG where you have the freedom to play how you want - but your choices have consequences.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21% ★, RTS 13.1%, Base Building 12%, Post-apocalyptic 11.9%, Survival 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: The predecessor to the seed game, sharing the same core DNA of zombie survival, base management, and NPC interaction.
- #2 Kenshi
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 110,425 reviews2018
Dev: Lo-Fi Games
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 70.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.
Why similar: Open World 21.9%, Base Building 15.2%, Post-apocalyptic 14.4%, Survival 13%, RTS 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: Offers an unparalleled sandbox experience where you build a faction from nothing in a harsh, unforgiving post-apocalyptic world.
- #3 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
96% matchVery Positive81% of 2,242 reviews2018
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.4% ★, Base Building 17.7%, Post-apocalyptic 16.6%, Survival 9.6%, Crafting 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: Directly mirrors the colony-sim and survival hybrid mechanics while dealing with a demonic apocalypse.
- #4 Project Zomboid
95% matchVery Positive94% of 440,877 reviews2013
Dev: The Indie Stone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 14.8 hrsMean: 82.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 41.7% ★, Survival 16.5%, Open World 14.4%, Post-apocalyptic 14.1%, Crafting 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: Provides the most detailed and systemic survival simulation available, focusing on realistic base management and long-term survival.
- #5 State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition
94% matchVery Positive83% of 67,089 reviews2020
Dev: Undead LabsPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 9.1 hrsMean: 39.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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: Base Building 26.4%, Open World 19.3%, Survival 16.8%, Post-apocalyptic 13.2%, Online Co-Op 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on managing a community of survivors and defending your base against zombie threats in an open world.
- #6 RimWorld
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 236,346 reviews2018
Dev: Ludeon Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 59.1 hrsMean: 259.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.5% ★, Base Building 23.5%, Survival 10.7%, Procedural Generation 9.7%, Open World 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for colony management, featuring deep social systems and emergent storytelling that mirrors the community-building aspects of the seed game.
- #7 Stranded: Alien Dawn
92% matchVery Positive85% of 10,890 reviews2023
Dev: Haemimont GamesPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 24.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7% ★, Base Building 24.1%, Hunting 17.1% ★, Survival 12.4%, Crafting 10%
Why You'll Like It: A robust colony-sim that forces you to manage resources and defend your base against environmental threats on an alien planet.
- #8 Mist Survival
93% matchMostly Positive76% of 14,042 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 46.1% ★, Survival 15.1%, Base Building 14.5%, Open World 13.8%, Crafting 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: Captures the gritty, atmospheric open-world survival experience with a strong emphasis on base fortification.
- #9 HumanitZ
91% matchMostly Positive75% of 11,640 reviews2026
Dev: Yodubzz StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%
HumanitZ is an isometric, open-world sandbox survival game set in a world ended by a zombie outbreak. Survive alone or with friends by scavenging, crafting, building, and fighting to last as long as ‘humanly’ possible. You can’t change the past, but you can fight for the future of humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25% ★, Base Building 15.7%, Post-apocalyptic 13.4%, Open World 10.9%, Online Co-Op 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: A modern open-world zombie survival game that emphasizes base building and scavenging in a hostile environment.
- #10 Soulmask
90% matchVery Positive81% of 17,627 reviews2024
Dev: CampFire StudioPub: Qooland Games
Windows
Median: 13.7 hrsMean: 66.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Choose your path across a primeval continent shaped by the Mask's power. From lush rainforests to scorched sands, recruit and lead unique tribesmen, build automated production lines, and construct everything from local bases to colossal airships, uncover the secrets of the Mask
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.7% ★, Colony Sim 19.9% ★, Hunting 15.9% ★, Base Building 9.9%, Open World 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: Combines deep open-world survival with the ability to recruit and manage a tribe of NPCs to automate your base.
- #11 Sheltered 2
91% matchMixed46% of 2,183 reviews2021
Dev: UnicubePub: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 68%
A brutal survival management simulator set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Keep your faction of survivors alive, maintain your shelter and scavenge the ravaged world for resources. Befriend and trade with the factions you meet or conquer them by force.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.5% ★, Post-apocalyptic 20.8%, Base Building 17.4%, Survival 10.8%, Character Customization 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the gritty reality of resource management and survival within a post-apocalyptic shelter environment.
- #12 The Infected
89% matchVery Positive85% of 6,893 reviews2020
Dev: DigX Studios
Windows
Median: 3.6 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 38.9% ★, Base Building 17.8%, Open World 11.4%, Crafting 10.5%, Survival 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: Features deep base-building and survival mechanics that require constant maintenance and defense against threats.
- #13 Dead State: Reanimated
89% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,543 reviews2014
Dev: DoubleBear Productions
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Dead State is a narrative-driven survival RPG set at the dawn of the undead apocalypse. Drawing inspiration from classic RPGs like Fallout, X-Com, and Suikoden, Dead State combines strategic, turn-based combat with base building mechanics, character creation, and social management.
Why similar: Survival 34.5%, Post-apocalyptic 24.9%, RPG 22.2%, Open World 9.4%, Base Building 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: An RPG that emphasizes the social and political challenges of leading a group of survivors in a post-apocalyptic shelter.
- #14 Night of the Dead
87% matchMostly Positive77% of 11,732 reviews2024
Dev: Jackto Studios
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 32.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
'Night of the Dead' is an open-world game that combines elements of exploration, tower defense, survival, and crafting. Traverse a world dominated by zombies while collecting various resources and powerful equipment. Build a fortress to survive the hordes of zombies that swarm every night!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.3% ★, Hunting 16.7% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Online Co-Op 9.3%, Open World 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: Blends open-world survival with tower defense mechanics, perfect for players who enjoy fortifying their base against waves of enemies.
- #15 SurrounDead
86% matchVery Positive92% of 23,544 reviews2022
Dev: ZurvivorPub: PlaySurrounDead
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 15.2 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 24.2% ★, Post-apocalyptic 19.4%, Open World 15.5%, Survival 13.2%, Base Building 11.6%
Why You'll Like It: A solid open-world zombie survival experience that focuses on exploration, looting, and building a secure base.
- #16 Necesse
85% matchVery Positive93% of 26,780 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49% ★, Base Building 9.9%, Open World 9.6%, Crafting 8.1%, Survival 7%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down colony sim with RPG elements that allows for deep base building and exploration.
- #17 Subsistence
88% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,601 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 40.0 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 51.6% ★, Survival 11.4%, Base Building 11.4%, Crafting 10.8%, Open World 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a challenging open-world survival experience with a heavy focus on crafting and base building.
- #18 This Land Is My Land
86% matchMixed68% of 4,601 reviews2021
Dev: Game-Labs
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 21.7 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 41.1% ★, Stealth 15.2%, Open World 11.1%, Survival 9.8%, Crafting 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on territory control and survival against overwhelming odds, emphasizing strategic movement and base management.
- #19 No One Survived
84% matchMixed65% of 7,577 reviews2025
Dev: Cat Play Studio
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 22.9 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: Open World 19.5%, Post-apocalyptic 19%, Survival 18.1%, Crafting 13.3%, Online Co-Op 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game that emphasizes realistic crafting and base building in a world overrun by zombies.
- #20 The Last Haven
84% matchMixed61% of 1,526 reviews2023
Dev: Thunder Devs.
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
The world after a nuclear war. Manage the settlement, learn technology, make decisions, produce weapons, ammunition, organize defense, raid for supplies on other areas, do not let residents die, survive the nuclear winter.
Why similar: Base Building 24.6%, Post-apocalyptic 21.6%, RTS 13.5%, Colony Sim 10.3% ★, Survival 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: A colony management game set in a post-apocalyptic world where you must rebuild society from the ground up.
- #21 Forever Skies
82% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,284 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.4 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 33.2% ★, Base Building 16.3%, Post-apocalyptic 13%, Open World 10.4%, Crafting 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a unique post-apocalyptic survival experience with a mobile base that you must constantly upgrade and maintain.
- #22 Winter Survival
83% matchMixed63% of 751 reviews2025
Dev: DRAGO entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Winter Survival is a story-driven survival game where trauma turns reality into a reflection of your breaking mind. Battle cold, hunger, hallucinations, and adapt to the wilderness as it adapts to you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.9% ★, Hunting 19.3% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Open World 9.2%, Stealth 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the harsh reality of survival and resource management in a cold, unforgiving environment.
- #23 Going Medieval
81% matchVery Positive89% of 20,287 reviews2026
Dev: Foxy VoxelPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 30.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.9% ★, Base Building 19.4%, Procedural Generation 13.7%, Crafting 10.7%, Survival 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that focuses on building and defending a settlement in a historical, survival-focused setting.
- #24 The Survivalists
82% matchMostly Positive76% of 9,935 reviews2020
Dev: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 71%
A living world full of surprises, secrets and danger awaits in The Survivalists, an adventure-filled survival sandbox set in The Escapists universe. Explore, build, craft and even train monkeys with up to three friends in a desperate bid to survive. Have you got what it takes to be a Survivalist?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.3% ★, Hunting 12.9% ★, Base Building 10.8%, Online Co-Op 10.3%, Crafting 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: A lighter, more accessible take on survival and colony management featuring monkey-based automation.
- #25 7 Days to Die
79% matchVery Positive87% of 396,805 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 16.8 hrsMean: 107.4 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 27.9% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Post-apocalyptic 11.3%, Survival 9.5%, Open World 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: The quintessential zombie survival base-builder that emphasizes crafting and fortification against nightly hordes.
- #26 Solace Crafting
81% matchMostly Positive72% of 891 reviews2022
Dev: Big Kitty Games
Windows · Linux
Embark on an adventure set in a fantasy survival RPG. Visit a borderless, open world where you manage resources to construct your base and new types of equipment to support your conquest.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.2% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Online Co-Op 9.7%, Crafting 9.4%, Open World 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: Offers an open-world survival experience with a heavy emphasis on crafting and building your own sanctuary.
- #27 DYSMANTLE
80% matchVery Positive91% of 11,317 reviews2021
Dev: 10tons Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 25.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Ascend from your shelter. Ruin everything. Escape the wretched island. ⚔️🔨🎣🌱🌵🍰 Explore. Fight. Level up. Survive. Gather. Craft. Harvest. Hunt. Build. Farm. Solve puzzles. Fish. Cook. Live. Enjoy the bittersweet post-apocalypse.
Why similar: Hunting 21% ★, Base Building 18.5%, Open World 15.5%, Crafting 13.2%, Survival 12.7%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on exploration and the satisfaction of breaking down the world to build your own survival infrastructure.
- #28 Clanfolk
79% matchVery Positive92% of 3,737 reviews2022
Dev: MinMax Games Ltd.Pub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.
Why similar: Colony Sim 47.2% ★, Crafting 17.4%, Open World 16.9%, RPG 10.7%, Simulation 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that emphasizes survival through the seasons and managing the needs of your growing family.
- #29 Valheim
78% matchVery Positive94% of 529,829 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 25.6 hrsMean: 76.1 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 38.7% ★, Online Co-Op 12.2%, Base Building 12%, Open World 10%, Survival 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: Features excellent base-building and survival progression in a vast, procedurally generated world.
- #30 Survive the Fall
77% matchMixed69% of 656 reviews2025
Dev: Angry Bulls StudioPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Explore, loot and fight in an open world action game set in a post-apocalyptic future after a devastating meteor strike. Assemble your team and take the fight to the enemy or choose a stealthy approach to gain the upper hand. Expand your base to research new gear and get ready to survive the fall.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.1% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Post-apocalyptic 13%, Stealth 10.5%, Open World 8.5%
- #31 Conan Exiles
78% matchMostly Positive79% of 111,441 reviews2018
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 16.9 hrsMean: 111.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
An online multiplayer survival game, now with sorcery, set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian. Survive in a vast open world sandbox, build your home into a kingdom, and dominate your enemies in single or multiplayer.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.6% ★, Open World 15.9%, Survival 14.8%, Crafting 11.1%, Online Co-Op 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: Provides large-scale survival and base-building mechanics with a focus on conquering the environment.
- #32 Plains of Pain
77% matchVery Positive85% of 692 reviews2023
Dev: Cobra Byte Digital
Windows
Survive a brutal open world alone or with friends. Explore a procedural wasteland scorched by chaos. Build and defend your base, trade for what you need, complete deadly quests, and fight to claim faction outposts before someone else does.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.8% ★, Post-apocalyptic 11.9%, Base Building 11.7%, Procedural Generation 9%, Online Co-Op 8.5%
- #33 Infection Free Zone
75% matchVery Positive80% of 17,172 reviews2024
Dev: Jutsu GamesPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Choose any real region from the world. Choose your base of operations, then rebuild and readapt the buildings around you to create a self-sustaining settlement. Take charge of a group of survivors from your city. And when the night falls - Defend the zone from the infected!
Why similar: Base Building 23.9%, Colony Sim 23.9% ★, Post-apocalyptic 22.5%, RTS 17.9%, Survival 7.5%
- #34 Nested Lands
74% matchMostly Positive73% of 344 reviews2026
Dev: 1M Bits HordePub: META Publishing
Windows
Nested Lands is a ruthless medieval RPG game featuring in-depth village building, large-scale social management and combats. Gather survivors, build a settlement, craft, master your skills, survive, and endure alone or in online co-op.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.2% ★, Open World Survival Craft 20.3% ★, Base Building 9.3%, Online Co-Op 7%, Open World 6%
- #35 Out of Reach
76% matchMixed57% of 3,044 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.2 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 46.6% ★, Open World 10.9%, Survival 10.6%, Crafting 9.2%, Hunting 8.6% ★
- #36 iZolated
74% matchMostly Positive71% of 116 reviews2024
Dev: Crooked RoadPub: LT-Games
Windows
iZolated - This is a post-apocalyptic 2D action game with elements of survival and RPG, which throws you into a harsh open world where the slightest mistake costs you your life. Find equipment, engage in fights, and prove that you are the top of the food chain in this chaos!
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 15.3%, Open World Survival Craft 15.2% ★, Base Building 13%, Character Customization 11.3%, Procedural Generation 10.3%
- #37 Sailing alone:Aftermath
73% matchMixed66% of 61 reviews2025
Dev: MLStudio
Windows
You are just an ordinary person, with only a small boat serving as your home, struggling to find a way to survive in the ruthless ocean of the post-apocalyptic world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.2% ★, Post-apocalyptic 15.5%, Base Building 15%, Survival 6.5%, Third Person 5.5%
- #38 Crushed
76% matchMixed55% of 307 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 36.8% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Post-apocalyptic 10.4%, Open World 10.1%, Survival 8.2%
- #39 CryoFall
73% matchMostly Positive79% of 6,397 reviews2021
Dev: AtomicTorch StudioPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
CryoFall is a sci-fi colony simulation survival game set on a forgotten planet in a distant future. Master technology, agriculture, trading, industry, cybernetics, exploration, and more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.3% ★, Colony Sim 24.8% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 8.6%, Character Customization 7.8%
- #40 Fragmented
75% 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 53.8% ★, Survival 11.5%, Open World 10.1%, Crafting 7.2%, Online Co-Op 5.1%
- #41 Wildmender
71% matchVery Positive85% of 2,104 reviews2023
Dev: Muse GamesPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A desert gardening survival game. Start from a tiny spring and cultivate a blooming garden. Explore a vast world amid the sands and uncover its mysteries. Can you defend against the relentless forces of nature and mysterious wraith corruption, to bring life to a dying world?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.1% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Third Person 11.2%, Character Customization 8.9%, Online Co-Op 8.8%
- #42 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
70% matchVery Positive82% of 9,646 reviews2024
Dev: Merge GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 15.1 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 30.9% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Online Co-Op 9.8%, Open World 8.3%, Crafting 7.8%
- #43 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 40.9% ★, Base Building 16.8%, Open World 11.2%, Crafting 11.1%, Survival 9.3%
- #44 The Last Plague: Blight
69% matchVery Positive89% of 1,349 reviews2024
Dev: Original Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
The Last Plague: Blight is an authentic survival experience rooted in realism and immersion. Endure the hazards of a brutal open world and uncover the origins of a mysterious disease. You are humanity’s final hope in ending the Blight
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.1% ★, Base Building 16.9%, Post-apocalyptic 13.4%, Third Person 10.7%, Survival 10%
- #45 LifeZ - Survival
73% matchMixed68% of 240 reviews2018
Dev: iDs Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
LifeZ - Survival is a third-person sandbox-survival game. Build your hideout, search for water and food, mine resources and fight against zombies and finally find ways to contact the outside world and leave Catastrophie Area.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.7% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Survival 9.8%, Post-apocalyptic 8.6%, Crafting 6.1%
- #46 How to Survive 2
72% matchMixed69% of 10,988 reviews2016
Dev: Eko SoftwarePub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 15.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Dead or Alive? Make up your mind, stranger. We don’t like that undead business here in Louisiana…Survive solo or with friends as you look to fulfill your basic needs of food, water and shelter, crafting your own tools and weapons while you secure your camp and face flesh hungry zombies.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.6% ★, Survival 15.7%, Base Building 11.6%, Open World 10.5%, Crafting 9.2%
- #47 VEIN
67% matchVery Positive90% of 9,542 reviews2025
Dev: Ramjet Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 13.9 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: Base Building 19.4%, Post-apocalyptic 17.5%, Open World 15%, Survival 12.5%, Crafting 9.3%
- #48 ICARUS
70% matchMostly Positive74% of 62,078 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 44.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 37.5% ★, Base Building 15.4%, Online Co-Op 11.1%, Survival 9.7%, Open World 8.7%
- #49 SURVIVAL: Postapocalypse Now
71% matchMixed56% of 8,877 reviews2019
Dev: TB Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Want to survive? - Arm yourself and survive. Crafting, shooting, transport and much more awaits you in the Survival game. What happened to the world around and why he died - you may find out. But is this the main question now?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 54.4% ★, Post-apocalyptic 13.5%, Survival 12.4%, Open World 10.7%, Crafting 5.9%
- #50 Outbreak Island
67% matchVery Positive80% of 906 reviews2025
Dev: Tiny Magicians
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Survive on a remote Island, where a mysterious Outbreak awakens bloodthirsty monsters at night. Craft, build and defend your base in the brutal world of Outbreak Island, an open-world sandbox survival horror game.
Why similar: Base Building 19.5%, Post-apocalyptic 19.3%, Survival 14.8%, Crafting 13%, Open World 12.5%
- #51 The Wild Eight
70% matchMostly Positive70% of 7,155 reviews2019
Dev: Eight PointsPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
The Wild Eight is an intense survival action-adventure set in the frozen wilderness of Alaska. Team up with friends in online co-op or go solo, explore the mysterious land, craft weapons and fight to live another day.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 52.4% ★, Survival 14.2%, Open World 10.6%, Online Co-Op 8.2%, Crafting 8.2%
- #52 Radiation Island
71% matchVery Positive80% of 623 reviews2016
Dev: Atypical Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Radiation Island is a survival adventure game where you craft your own destiny in a huge open world environment. As part of the Philadelphia Experiment you have become stranded in a parallel, alternate reality. Discover this new and mysterious world, with all its surprises.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 62.5% ★, Survival 15.8%, Open World 10.1%, Crafting 7.1%, Action 4.5%
- #53 Taora : Survival
68% matchMixed63% of 395 reviews2024
Dev: Tulpar Games
Windows
Taora is an open world survival game with unique character building and crafting. Build and upgrade your base, and survive the zombie apocalypse !
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.9% ★, Hunting 14.2% ★, Post-apocalyptic 12.1%, Base Building 9.8%, Online Co-Op 8.6%
- #54 MISERY
65% matchVery Positive85% of 17,893 reviews2025
Dev: Platypus EntertainmentPub: Ytopia
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
MISERY is a 1–5 player co-op survival game set in a nuclear disaster zone. Here, every day is a struggle: search radioactive ruins for resources, build your bunker, craft weapons, and explore a weird, procedurally-generated world with your friends. Beware of anomalies, monsters, and armed bandits.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.3% ★, Post-apocalyptic 14.2%, Base Building 11.7%, Online Co-Op 11.1%, Procedural Generation 8.9%
- #55 State of Decay: YOSE
69% matchVery Positive82% of 12,799 reviews2015
Dev: Undead LabsPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 17.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Make your stand against the collapse of society in the ultimate zombie survival-fantasy game. Explore an open world full of dangers and opportunities that respond to your every decision. Recruit a community of playable survivors, each with their own unique skills and talents.
Why similar: Base Building 23.9%, Open World 20.1%, Survival 18.1%, Post-apocalyptic 16.8%, Third Person 6.5%
- #56 The Gold River Project
67% matchMixed67% of 526 reviews2026
Dev: Fairview Games Inc.
Windows
The Gold River Project™ invites you and your friends on an open world camping trip gone wrong. Alone or together, you must explore, craft, build, and survive the increasingly harsh environments of the Pacific Northwest wilderness as you uncover the experiment trapping you inside.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.8% ★, Open World 12%, Online Co-Op 9.9%, Third Person 9.2%, Crafting 8.6%
- #57 Aground
68% matchVery Positive94% of 1,965 reviews2020
Dev: Fancy Fish Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
As one of the last human survivors, you find yourself stranded on an uninhabited island. With a few other victims of the crash, can you craft, mine, and build your way to survival?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.1% ★, Base Building 14.8%, Post-apocalyptic 12.6%, Open World 9.9%, Online Co-Op 8.5%
- #58 Short Snow | Cold Survival Game
67% matchMixed55% of 102 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 41.6% ★, Open World 13.1%, Base Building 11.9%, Survival 10.9%, Crafting 8.9%
- #59 State of Decay
69% matchVery Positive85% of 17,512 reviews2013
Dev: Undead LabsPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 19.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
The end is here. Life as you knew it has gone to hell after the mother of all zombie outbreaks. Now you and the few scattered survivors must band together to survive and rebuild in a 3rd-person action game set in a dynamic open world.
Why similar: Open World 21.1%, Post-apocalyptic 19.5%, Survival 19.3%, Base Building 14.4%, Third Person 8.4%
- #60 Aground Zero
66% matchVery Positive82% of 122 reviews2025
Dev: Fancy Fish Games
Windows · Linux
The world has ended. You are deep underground, and all alone with a cheery AI companion. You will have to mine and build to survive, and search for other survivors to help you. Will you be able to reach the surface? And what will you find when you get there?
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.3% ★, Post-apocalyptic 13.6%, Base Building 13.1%, Character Customization 11.4%, Open World 8.1%
