- #1 Kalahari’s End
97% matchMixed60% of 10 reviews2026
Dev: Owlfig Games
Windows
After your plane crashes, You find yourself in one of the largest abandoned tourist locations in South Africa. Build, Craft, and create your character while combatting the intense heat of the Kalahari Desert in this upcoming realistic open-world survival simulation game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.4% ★, Hunting 11.4% ★, Cooking 10.1%, Crafting 7.3%, Open World 6.9%
- #2 In Next Life
96% matchMixed66% of 149 reviews2026
Dev: Dual DecadePub: Wereviz AB
Windows · Mac
An online multiplayer game of crafting, survival, civilization building, and player collaboration. Start in the stone age and live, build, and invent your way to higher civilization. Live and die as well as you can, to gain the experience you need to achieve even more in your next life!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.8% ★, Hunting 11.3% ★, Historical 8.8%, Cooking 8.4%, Open World 7.8%
- #3 Primal Survival
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Quantum Box
Windows · Linux
A realistic prehistoric survival game where you play as Homo habilis or Homo erectus. Craft primitive tools, build shelter, hunt massive beasts, and survive the harsh forces of nature in a vast multiplayer world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.1% ★, Hunting 13.3% ★, Historical 10.3%, Open World 8.9%, Crafting 6.9%
- #4 Survival: Fountain of Youth
95% matchVery Positive86% of 4,471 reviews2024
Dev: Odinsoft Inc.Pub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 34.4% ★, Historical 9.9%, Open World 8.2%, Crafting 7.6%, Survival 7.4%
- #5 Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey
94% matchMostly Positive79% of 11,936 reviews2020
Dev: Panache Digital GamesPub: Private Division
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Survive your evolution in Neogene Africa starting 10 million years ago. Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is a third-person open world survival game where you Explore, Expand, and Evolve to advance your clan to the next generation in the exciting new adventure from Panache Digital Games.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.1% ★, Open World 12.1%, Historical 9.8%, Survival 8.1%, Immersive Sim 7.8%
- #6 Primal Man Simulator
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: RD Games
Windows
Primal Man Simulator is a complex survival simulator where the player becomes one of the evolutionary precursors of modern homo sapiens, trying to live through another day in an unwelcoming forests of Europe.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.8% ★, Open World 13.1%, Crafting 10%, Survival 9.3%, Base Building 5.7%
- #7 Winter Survival
93% matchMixed63% of 775 reviews2025
Dev: DRAGO entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
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 32.3% ★, Hunting 16.5% ★, Cooking 11.8%, Open World 10%, Survival 6.9%
- #8 SpiritBorn
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Highforge Studios
Windows
An open-world survival crafting RPG set among floating islands. Gather resources, craft powerful tools, unlock spirit abilities to soar between skybound realms and reclaim your lost godhood.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.9% ★, Open World 12.4%, Crafting 9.1%, Survival 8.7%, Building 7.2%
- #9 Animallica
91% matchMixed70% of 908 reviews2022
Dev: Animallica Games Studio
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
In Animallica you are racing against extinction after a deadly virus ravaged the world. As the lone survivor of the last conservation center on Earth, the fate of every single animal and plant species lies in your hands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.8% ★, Hunting 17% ★, Crafting 9.6%, Survival 7.9%, Open World 7.8%
- #10 Out of Reach
91% matchMixed57% of 3,051 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 48.3% ★, Open World 11.7%, Survival 9.7%, Crafting 8.1%, Hunting 7.3% ★
- #11 Force of Nature
90% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,207 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 49.6% ★, Crafting 11%, Open World 10.4%, Survival 9.3%, Building 6%
- #12 My Island
89% matchMixed66% of 1,734 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 56.2% ★, Open World 11.1%, Survival 10%, Crafting 7.6%, Building 4.6%
- #13 Nighthold
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 2 Zombie GamesPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Build shelters, interact with rescuees, battle against the Rot and raiders to survive another night in this Sandbox RPG. Play Solo or team up with friends in Online Сo-op.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 53.6% ★, Open World 8.2%, Crafting 6.7%, Base Building 6.2%, Survival 6.1%
- #14 No Light
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 匠门电子科技有限公司
Windows
When wake up, you in a strange world. You must learn to be strong in this dangerous and dark world. Look for all the materials that can live, light the torch in hand, this light may be the last hope, but don't forget, in this boundless darkness, the light will also let "them" See you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 54.3% ★, Building 10.1%, Crafting 9.1%, Survival 8.3%, Exploration 6.9%
- #15 Middle Ages: Peasants & Knights
86% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Neronian Studios
Windows
Survive in an open world inspired by 14th century Europe. Immerse yourself in crafting based on real historical methods and experience true inventory system and realistic resource management. Take control of your destiny and embrace a world full of possibilities.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.8% ★, Open World 10.7%, Historical 9.2%, Survival 7.9%, Crafting 7.5%
- #16 The Store is Closed
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ziggy
Windows
The Store is Closed is a coop survival game set in an infinite furniture store. When the lights go out, the staff attack. You’ll need to craft weapons, and build fortifications to survive the night. Explore the underground SCP laboratories and build towers to the sky to find a way out.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.4% ★, Cooking 10.6%, Immersive Sim 8.5%, Crafting 8.3%, Base Building 7.7%
- #17 Unforged
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lisowi Studios
Windows
A dark survival experience where you must explore a mysterious wilderness, gather resources, craft tools, and survive the horrors that emerge after nightfall. The wilderness is unforgiving. The night is worse.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42% ★, Crafting 9.9%, Survival 9.5%, Cooking 9%, Open World 8.4%
- #18 Bromeliad
84% matchMixed61% of 28 reviews2021
Dev: Gorka Games Studios
Windows
In Bromeliad you are stranded on a pacific island where you are a Human-Bear. You will have to survive, gathering materials to build tools and bases. You will need to hunt for food, explore, tame animals, then, at night strange creatures will appear. Survive and find an element to return to normal.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.7% ★, Open World 13.1%, Crafting 10.3%, Survival 8.9%, Building 7.4%
- #19 Far North Survival
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FrogVille Games
Windows
FAR NORTH SURVIVAL is an open-world survival game set in the unique setting of a vast ice-bound area beyond the Arctic Circle.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.9% ★, Open World 12.9%, Survival 9.1%, Crafting 8.8%, Building 8.7%
- #20 Primitive
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Wildlands Interactive
Windows
Welcome to the brutal reality of the Stone Age. Fight, conquer, dominate! An open world full of traps and unexpected events, breathtaking views, dynamic changes in weather conditions, deadly beasts, and hostile tribes - welcome to "Primitive" and dare to survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35% ★, Hunting 22.9% ★, Open World 14%, Survival 9%, Crafting 8.2%
- #21 Landless
84% 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 33.7% ★, Hunting 13.2% ★, Open World 10.1%, Survival 9.9%, Base Building 7.1%
- #22 Northern Lights
82% matchMixed67% of 296 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 38.5% ★, Hunting 12.3% ★, Open World 11.3%, Immersive Sim 9.3%, Crafting 8%
- #23 Stranded Deep
81% matchMostly Positive74% of 47,763 reviews2022
Dev: Beam Team GamesPub: Beam Team Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 21.0 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Take the role of a plane crash survivor stranded somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Come face to face with some of the most life threatening scenarios that will result in a different experience each time you play. Scavenge. Discover. Survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 56.2% ★, Open World 11.4%, Survival 11.1%, Crafting 8.4%, Building 4.3%
- #24 Starvoly
81% matchMixed58% of 12 reviews2021
Dev: Zeratd Gaming
Windows
Starvoly is a singleplayer, survival and crafting game.In this struggle for survival, you have to think not only of yourself but also of the needy villagers.Maybe your pet will accompany you on this road. What do you think? Can you survive ?But be wary of the giant spiders!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.7% ★, Hunting 13.3% ★, Crafting 8.8%, Cooking 8.1%, Survival 7.8%
- #25 The Forest
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 680,259 reviews2018
Dev: Endnight Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 37.3 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 56.8% ★, Open World 12.6%, Survival 11.5%, Crafting 7.3%, Building 5.4%
- #26 BugOut
80% matchMostly Negative41% of 37 reviews2018
Dev: A2G Studios
Windows
First Person, Exploring, Surviving, Hunting, Foraging, Buiding, Hoarding, Looting, Prepping, Crafting Work against Time and Survive, Storms, Earthquakes, Nuclear Events, Radical Weather, and much more
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43% ★, Crafting 9.9%, Open World 8.9%, Survival 8.5%, Cooking 7.6%
- #27 Under Canopies
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: NovemtailsPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Forget the stress of survival. In this cozy open-world sim, you don't fight nature, you join it. Build your dream cabin piece by piece, cook complex meals with crops you watered yourself, and fill your photo album with rare wildlife. A serene experience where the only enemy is inefficiency.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47% ★, Open World 13.3%, Survival 9.3%, Cooking 6.8%, Building 4.6%
- #28 Subsistence
79% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,764 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 55.6% ★, Open World 11.5%, Survival 10.8%, Crafting 9.9%, Building 6%
- #29 Gravehollow
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Silo Snowdash
Windows
Explore a living, procedurally generated world where creatures and characters act independently of you. Hunt, gather, craft, build, and fight to survive as you uncover the mystery of Gravehollow, where cheating death can awaken dangers best left undisturbed.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.5% ★, Open World 12.5%, Crafting 9.5%, Survival 8.6%, Base Building 7.5%
- #30 Nightingale
77% matchMixed66% of 18,030 reviews2024
Dev: Inflexion Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 23.9 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 41.4% ★, Open World 12%, Crafting 8.6%, Survival 8.5%, Building 7.4%
- #31 INMATE: Survival
77% matchMixed57% of 74 reviews2023
Dev: SV Games
Windows
INMATE: Survival is an open world survival game, where you play the role of a prisoner sentenced to stay on a 4*4 km Island with many types of enemies both humans and animals.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.6% ★, Hunting 15.7% ★, Open World 11.6%, Crafting 8.9%, Survival 7.8%
- #32 ArkCraft: The Rebirth of the World
76% matchMostly Positive74% of 182 reviews2024
Dev: ZD Yazilim
Windows
In this open-world crafting and building game, you explore an ancient world full of dangers and secrets. Collect animals and plants, build bases and master the craft as you build your ark and save civilization from destruction by the flood and then rebuild it.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.8% ★, Open World 13%, Historical 12.7%, Crafting 10%, Base Building 8.8%
- #33 Quiet Town
76% match7 user reviews14% of 7 reviews2022
Dev: mudpill
Windows
1
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.4% ★, Cooking 12%, Crafting 9.1%, Base Building 8.6%, Survival 8.5%
- #34 Far Cry® Primal
74% matchVery Positive86% of 41,009 reviews2016
Dev: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 26.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
The award-winning Far Cry franchise returns with its innovative open world gameplay, bringing together massive beasts, breathtaking environments, and unpredictable savage encounters. Welcome to the Stone Age, a time of danger and adventure.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.3% ★, Hunting 23.1% ★, Open World 20.3%, Survival 11.4%, Crafting 6.8%
- #35 The Long Dark
74% matchVery Positive89% of 123,328 reviews2017
Dev: Hinterland Studio Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 47.4 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 60.2% ★, Survival 13.2%, Open World 13.1%, Crafting 5.5%, Exploration 5.3%
- #36 Blockscape
75% matchMixed46% of 898 reviews2014
Dev: ioneo
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 49%
The ultimate block building game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 64.1% ★, Open World 10.1%, Crafting 7.3%, Survival 6.2%, Building 6%
- #37 Wrongworld
73% matchVery Positive94% of 551 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 57.9% ★, Open World 10.1%, Survival 8.8%, Crafting 6.7%, Building 5.8%
- #38 RivenWorld: The First Era
73% matchMixed67% of 42 reviews2023
Dev: GameFocal
Windows
Do you have what it takes to endure the ruthless medieval realm? Introducing RivenWorld, a vast and immersive open-world sandbox survival multiplayer game set in the merciless medieval era.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.9% ★, Open World 11.8%, Immersive Sim 8.8%, Crafting 7.5%, Survival 7.3%
- #39 Stoneheart
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Longhouse Games
Windows
Adventure awaits in this RPG, with action, survival, crafting and base-building! Arriving in new lands, far from known civilization and with only a mysterious pendant, you will determine your own path. Will you survive the epic quest for the Stoneheart?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.8% ★, Open World 12.7%, Crafting 8.2%, Survival 7.3%, Building 6.6%
- #40 Cube Life: Island Survival
73% matchMixed69% of 177 reviews2018
Dev: Cypronia
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Cube Life: Island Survival is an open-world, block building, survival game, taking place on a beautiful remote island. Imagine being shipwrecked and stranded left for dead, with only your will to survive. You must explore, build, craft, and fight your way to stay alive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 58.8% ★, Open World 11.5%, Building 7.9%, Crafting 7.7%, Survival 7.4%
- #41 Oldowan
72% matchMixed63% of 16 reviews2023
Dev: Broussard Boi
Windows
Oldowan is a first-person casual survival sandbox game that is focused on very early humanity and how it developed. The crafting is all based on real practices, but the survival aspects are relaxed. Play solo or with 1-3 friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.5% ★, Open World 11.5%, Crafting 8.6%, Historical 8.2%, Survival 7.9%
- #42 Odd Woods
71% matchMostly Positive73% of 44 reviews2022
Dev: Matt
Windows
Odd Woods is a survival crafting game in a forest environment. Build your base during the day to withstand the attacks of horror creatures at night. Explore, farm and hunt wildlife to survive another day.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.6% ★, Open World 13.3%, Crafting 9.2%, Survival 9.1%, Base Building 9%
- #43 Ancient the Dimensions
71% matchNegative9% of 11 reviews2025
Dev: HEADSTONE STUDIO
Windows
Immerse yourself in an epic Survival Action RPG adventure, exploring a vast fantasy fairy tale world to build your own sanctuary and survive against extraordinary mythical creatures. Enhance your equipment, weapons, and skills to battle ruthless empires and interdimensional visitors.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.6% ★, Open World 12.8%, Crafting 8.9%, Survival 8.7%, Building 7.7%
- #44 ARCANA
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Thomas RandallPub: bald
Windows
An Open World Survival Crafting game where you harness magic to advance. Discover new crafting recipies, expand your base, and conquer your enemies.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 55.4% ★, Survival 10.4%, Open World 8.7%, Crafting 7.8%, Building 6.4%
- #45 Under A New Sun
70% matchMostly Positive76% of 397 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 47.3% ★, Open World 13.4%, Crafting 9.6%, Survival 9.3%, Base Building 7.4%
- #46 COLDNIGHTS
70% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Addiekin Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Learn how to survive, craft and build the essentials, find source of food and construct necessary shelter before the snow starts falling. And may be someday, after building a bridge, you will find your way back home. Keep building bridges.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.3% ★, Cooking 10.9%, Crafting 9.1%, Open World 8.6%, Survival 7.9%
- #47 Planet Explorers
71% matchMixed62% of 6,818 reviews2016
Dev: Pathea Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Planet Explorers is an open world sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 53.8% ★, Open World 15.3%, Crafting 8.1%, Survival 7.3%, Building 5.8%
- #48 Twilight Tails
69% matchMixed52% of 44 reviews2025
Dev: Prokopchuk Pavlo
Windows
Twilight Tails is a captivating game where you become a raccoon navigating a challenging forest. Fight for territory, survive changing seasons, and evolve in multiplayer adventures. Conquer the jungle, rule survival!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.3% ★, Hunting 21.2% ★, Immersive Sim 10.2%, Open World 9.8%, Survival 8.2%
- #49 KeepUp Survival
68% matchMixed64% of 749 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 84%
KeepUp Survival is an open-world base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and shape your own story on a mysterious island.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.1% ★, Open World 11.8%, Immersive Sim 10%, Crafting 8.6%, Survival 8.1%
- #50 Among Trees
68% matchMixed68% of 2,232 reviews2021
Dev: FJRD Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Escape to an enchanting, living sandbox surrounded by wildlife and nature. Scavenge materials and craft tools to turn your small cabin into a warm, well-supplied home. Survive by fishing, cooking and growing your own food. Be careful though, the forest is as dangerous as it is wonderful.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.7% ★, Open World 11.3%, Cooking 10.5%, Survival 8.2%, Crafting 7.6%
- #51 Green Hell
67% matchVery Positive85% of 101,099 reviews2019
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 18.4 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 53.7% ★, Survival 11.3%, Open World 10.3%, Crafting 7.8%, Base Building 5.6%
- #52 Vortex: The Gateway
69% matchMixed57% of 398 reviews2016
Dev: StormCube Games
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 53%
Vortex: The Gateway is an open world survival horror game with two game modes. If you want to survive then be alert, sneak, build and fight. Meanwhile life back on Earth changes dramatically. What changes? You will get bits of information through your adventure. Prepare for the worst!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 60.8% ★, Open World 12.6%, Survival 11.8%, Crafting 8.6%, Building 4.7%
- #53 Outpost Zero
69% matchMixed48% of 853 reviews2019
Dev: Symmetric GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Outpost Zero blends the genres of Multiplayer Base Building Survival and Simulation games in a Sci-Fi universe. On a lawless alien world, robotic scouts are tasked with building an Outpost for human colonists. Command AI minions, colonize the planet, and survive the perils of Gaiya.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.1% ★, Open World 12.3%, Survival 11.6%, Base Building 7.8%, Crafting 6.9%
- #54 Eldercraft: Mountaineers
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Derivative Synergistics
Windows
In this first-person, non-combat RPG, scale a vast fantasy mountain. Craft gear, survive the ascent, and forge your own routes up to lost treasures. Trade these treasures to buy and upgrade gear so that you can climb higher. Reach the peak and uncover the mystery of this teleporting mountain.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.1% ★, Open World 12.8%, Survival 9.2%, Base Building 8.8%, Crafting 8.5%
- #55 Unhinged
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Unifiq Games
Windows
Survive a brutal corporate death game on an alien planet. Craft and assemble components into machines and automated production systems. Harness power, cultivate exotic plants, brew herbal tonics and synthesize chaotic drugs, all while managing your sanity in a detailed mental simulation.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.5% ★, Open World 12.9%, Crafting 9%, Survival 8.8%, Base Building 6.7%
- #56 Necesse
64% matchVery Positive93% of 28,684 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 15.1 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 55.8% ★, Open World 11.2%, Crafting 7.7%, Survival 6.9%, Building 5.8%
- #57 Survive or Die
66% match6 user reviews33% of 6 reviews2023
Dev: Imperian Online - Pardubice
Windows
Survive Or Die is a first-person survival game. It takes place in an open world that is full of traps and mysteries. You are an outlaw who has escaped from death in prison. Can you escape all the manhunts? Can you survive the pitfalls the mysterious valley holds at night?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.5% ★, Hunting 14.3% ★, Open World 11.2%, Crafting 8.2%, Survival 7.3%
- #58 XenoHaven
65% matchVery Positive86% of 69 reviews2025
Dev: Miniverse GamePub: OKJOY
Windows
In XenoHaven, gather resources to build shelters, enslave alien beasts to work for you, and run restaurants and shops. Delve into dark underground dungeons, defeat swarming insectoids and mighty bosses, and craft powerful gear to conquer the alien world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.9% ★, Open World 14.9%, Base Building 9.3%, Survival 9%, Crafting 8.9%