- #1 Raft
97% matchVery Positive93% of 368,916 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.5 hrsMean: 36.8 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 31.5% ★, Survival 13.6%, Multiplayer 9%, Crafting 8.9%, Base Building 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive ocean-survival experience that mirrors the core mechanics of expanding a floating base while scavenging debris.
- #2 Stranded Deep
96% matchMostly Positive74% of 47,062 reviews2022
Dev: Beam Team GamesPub: Beam Team Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 21.1 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 39% ★, Survival 13.3%, Crafting 10%, Multiplayer 8.7%, Open World 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes the isolation of being lost at sea, requiring players to manage resources while hopping between small islands.
- #3 Sunkenland
95% matchVery Positive81% of 22,996 reviews2023
Dev: Vector3 Studio
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 17.9 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 30.9% ★, Underwater 18.2% ★, Base Building 10.6%, Survival 10.1%, Crafting 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: It features a post-apocalyptic water world where you must build bases, dive for loot, and defend against mutants, closely matching the survival loop.
- #4 Subnautica
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 344,093 reviews2018
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.4 hrsMean: 40.0 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 28.6% ★, Underwater 18.2% ★, Survival 10.2%, Base Building 9.3%, Crafting 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: While more focused on underwater exploration, it provides the same sense of dread and wonder as you build bases in a hostile aquatic environment.
- #5 Aloft
94% matchVery Positive84% of 3,496 reviews2025
Dev: Astrolabe Interactive Inc.Pub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Soar the skies in Aloft, the co-op sandbox survival game set in a world of floating islands. Build any island into a skyship, your home in the clouds. Find lost knowledge, cure the fungal corruption, and brave the hurricane to restore the ecosystem.
Why similar: Farming 21.2% ★, Open World Survival Craft 19.3% ★, Crafting 10.8%, Survival 9.2%, Building 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Instead of an ocean, you navigate floating islands, but the core mechanic of building and maintaining a mobile base remains identical.
- #6 Survival Machine
93% matchMostly Positive74% of 669 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: Open World Survival Craft 25.6% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Online Co-Op 10.2%, Crafting 10.2%, Survival 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: This game features a moving base that you must upgrade and defend, capturing the same feeling of constant progression found in raft-based games.
- #7 Project Castaway
91% matchMixed67% of 1,632 reviews2026
Dev: Mardonpol Inc.
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 69%
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 23.7% ★, Underwater 13.7% ★, Online Co-Op 9.4%, Base Building 8.9%, Survival 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: A realistic survival game set in the Pacific Ocean that focuses on crafting, building, and surviving the harsh realities of island life.
- #8 Drift: Space Survival
92% matchMixed70% of 76 reviews2023
Dev: KAR Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
You were deep in uncharted space on a research mission. Disaster struck. Together with your friends, explore a mysterious asteroid field and mine whatever resources possible to build what you need to survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.5% ★, Online Co-Op 11.7%, Survival 10.3%, Crafting 10.1%, Base Building 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: It effectively translates the 'raft' formula into a space setting, requiring you to scavenge and expand your vessel while drifting through the void.
- #9 Green Hell
90% matchVery Positive85% of 94,379 reviews2019
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 18.7 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 33.8% ★, Survival 12.1%, Online Co-Op 9.9%, Multiplayer 8.7%, Crafting 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: While set in a jungle, it offers the most intense and rewarding survival and crafting mechanics for players who enjoy high-stakes management.
- #10 Scrapnaut
89% matchMostly Positive70% of 824 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 21.7% ★, Online Co-Op 10.7%, Building 10.7%, Survival 10.6%, Base Building 9%
Why You'll Like It: This top-down survival game focuses on building and resource gathering in a world that requires constant adaptation.
- #11 Survival: Fountain of Youth
88% matchVery Positive86% of 4,270 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 26% ★, Underwater 13.3% ★, Base Building 12%, Crafting 9.9%, Survival 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a deep exploration and crafting experience that rewards players for managing their survival needs in a tropical archipelago.
- #12 Force of Nature
89% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,198 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 34.9% ★, Crafting 13.3%, Survival 11.4%, Sandbox 8.5%, Open World 8%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that combines exploration, crafting, and base building in a procedurally generated world.
- #13 KeepUp Survival
87% matchMixed65% of 734 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.7 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 26.1% ★, Inventory Management 12.8%, Base Building 11.6%, Crafting 10.3%, Survival 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a broad survival experience with a strong focus on base building and managing your character's needs.
- #14 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
84% matchVery Positive91% of 7,161 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in this free prologue introducing one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters – an upcoming open-world game that challenges you, alone or with friends, to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.9% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Crafting 8.7%, Online Co-Op 8.6%, Open World 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes the construction and automation aspects of survival within an ocean-themed environment.
- #15 Out of Reach
86% 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 35.4% ★, Survival 12.2%, Crafting 10.3%, Open World 9.4%, Building 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game focused on island exploration and building, offering a similar sense of progression through crafting.
- #16 OceanCraft
86% matchVery Positive85% of 60 reviews2021
Dev: FlodLabPub: FlodLab UG (haftungsbeschraenkt)
Windows
OceanCraft is a game about surviving alone - or with your friends on a self build vehicle in the ocean.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 57.2% ★, Survival 16.7%, Online Co-Op 8%, Crafting 7.7%, Multiplayer 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: This game leans heavily into the sailing and building aspects of ocean survival, allowing for creative raft designs.
- #17 Subsistence
85% 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 36.9% ★, Survival 12.4%, Crafting 11.4%, Base Building 8.5%, Open World 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A challenging survival game that emphasizes base building and defending your territory against AI threats.
- #18 Longvinter
82% matchMixed67% of 7,526 reviews2025
Dev: Uuvana Studios
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 39.9 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Fish, farm, craft, gather, cook, loot or steal from other players and build a campsite or a village with your friends in an open-world multiplayer sandbox game without rules!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.3% ★, Crafting 12.7%, Survival 12.1%, Open World 9.9%, Multiplayer 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer survival game that emphasizes crafting and building in an open-world setting.
- #19 Vantage: Primitive Survival Game
84% matchMixed59% of 75 reviews2021
Dev: Crystal Dragon
Windows
Vantage is a passion project created by a solo developer where your main objective is simple... to stay alive! You explore the massive world searching for food, creating primitive tools and weapons to hunt, and craft other items to make life easier. Play Online/Offline Multiplayer or Single Player.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21% ★, Farming 13.6% ★, Inventory Management 13.5%, Online Co-Op 8.6%, Crafting 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: A simulation-heavy survival game that focuses on the basics of crafting and managing resources in a hostile environment.
- #20 Solace Crafting
82% 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 25.8% ★, Base Building 10.8%, Crafting 10.7%, Survival 9.6%, Online Co-Op 9%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers a massive open world with deep crafting and building systems for players who enjoy long-term survival projects.
- #21 Project Cobalt
81% matchMostly Positive73% of 54 reviews2025
Dev: OxygenStudio
Windows
⚗️ Project Cobalt is a survival action game set on a hostile island 🌴. Scavenge containers, mine resources, craft tools, hunt animals, and endure storms as you fight hunger, disease, and exhaustion all while uncovering the dark truth behind a failed experiment.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.4% ★, Inventory Management 13.3%, Crafting 10.4%, Survival 9%, Resource Management 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game that emphasizes resource management and crafting in an open-world setting.
- #22 Crushed
83% 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 30% ★, Survival 10.2%, Base Building 9.8%, Crafting 9.5%, Open World 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game that focuses on crafting and exploration, providing a solid foundation for those who enjoy open-world survival.
- #23 Shamania
79% matchMostly Positive78% of 140 reviews2025
Dev: Totem Keepers Games
Windows
Shamania is an open world survival game where you can CRAFT, FIGHT, and EXPLORE a vibrant sandbox world with friends in CO-OP. Expand your base as a hub for survival, gather resources, and master professions to unlock new tools and opportunities!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.7% ★, Crafting 11.8%, Open World 9.9%, Survival 9.6%, Online Co-Op 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a blend of crafting and survival that encourages players to explore and build at their own pace.
- #24 Wild Omission
80% matchVery Positive88% of 59 reviews2023
Dev: Telephone Studios
Windows
Wild Omission is an open world sandbox survival game with severe weather set in an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22% ★, Inventory Management 10.4%, Crafting 9.8%, Survival 8.5%, Open World 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: This title provides a standard survival experience with crafting and multiplayer elements suitable for fans of the genre.
- #25 Crazy Islands
78% matchMostly Positive72% of 74 reviews2025
Dev: Ge-Aivan
Windows
Welcome to "Crazy Islands", a 3D survival game for 1-4 players that takes you into a world full of mystery and challenges. On this isolated archipelago, you will face ancient gods, cruel natural environment and unknown dangers. Only wisdom and courage can help you survive in this unknown land.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.2% ★, Online Co-Op 11.4%, Survival 10.6%, Base Building 10.3%, Sandbox 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game that emphasizes exploration and building across various islands, keeping the gameplay loop fresh.
- #26 Sailing alone:Aftermath
78% 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 37.6% ★, Base Building 16.7%, Survival 10.6%, Crafting 8.5%, Multiplayer 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the sailing and survival aspects of being stranded in a post-apocalyptic ocean world.
- #27 Len's Island
76% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,615 reviews2025
Dev: Flow Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
An open-world survival crafting game for 1–8 players, blending intense dungeon crawling and ARPG combat with peaceful farming and creative building. Take on quests and explore a vast, procedurally-generated world full of danger and discovery.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.7% ★, Farming 22.3% ★, Crafting 8.8%, Base Building 8.4%, Survival 8.4%
- #28 Cube Life: Island Survival
79% 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 44.2% ★, Sandbox 10.1%, Crafting 10%, Building 9.8%, Survival 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based survival game that focuses on building and exploration, offering a familiar gameplay loop for survival fans.
- #29 Arctico
76% matchMostly Positive71% of 2,417 reviews2022
Dev: Claudio Norori
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Explore Arctico with your dog sled, kayak, and up to 3 friends! Build and customize your base camp, gather resources and samples, set up labs, and take good care of your dogs in this peaceful island.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.5% ★, Survival 11%, Open World 10.5%, Multiplayer 8.6%, Base Building 8.6%
- #30 Satisfactory
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 265,414 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 31.8 hrsMean: 108.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Why similar: Base Building 18.6%, Open World Survival Craft 13.9% ★, Crafting 12.2%, Open World 10.3%, Resource Management 9.2%
- #31 Remains
75% matchMostly Positive76% of 316 reviews2021
Dev: SoloQ
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Remains - survival in outer space orbiting the planet. Explore the area. Find a way to restore oxygen. Create tools for your needs. Beware of the dangers of outer space. Build your shelter in orbit and try not to die!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.1% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 12.2%, Survival 10.1%, Building 9.6%
- #32 Volcanoids
75% matchVery Positive83% of 9,214 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: Open World Survival Craft 25.7% ★, Crafting 10%, Base Building 9.7%, Online Co-Op 9.7%, Survival 8.7%
- #33 Forager
74% matchVery Positive90% of 43,003 reviews2019
Dev: HopFrogPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 22.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.3% ★, Farming Sim 13%, Crafting 11.2%, Survival 10.1%, Base Building 7%
- #34 Frost Survival VR
73% matchVery Positive88% of 161 reviews2025
Dev: Wenkly Studio Sp. z o.o.
Windows
Sandbox Survival in VR. Face a frozen wilderness solo or in co-op - build a shelter, craft tools, hunt for food, and manage your resources to endure harsh conditions. Strategize your moves against unpredictable weather and lurking dangers. And remember to keep yourself safe and sane!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.1% ★, Inventory Management 12.3%, Base Building 12.1%, Survival 9.9%, Crafting 8.9%
- #35 Hide & Hold Out - H2o
77% matchMixed54% of 630 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 46.8% ★, Survival 14%, Crafting 9.6%, Multiplayer 8.2%, Open World 8.2%
- #36 Tinkerlands
72% matchVery Positive86% of 3,746 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 13.7 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 30.2% ★, Online Co-Op 11.8%, Sandbox 10.3%, Survival 9.9%, Crafting 9.5%
- #37 Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts
74% matchMostly Negative36% of 365 reviews2023
Dev: EFNSOFT
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 36%
Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts is a Multiplayer Survival Horror game for up to 4 players. Set in the Middle of the Unknown, you can craft, build, explore and discover secrets in the exciting first chapter from EFNSOFT.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.1% ★, Crafting 10.5%, Survival 10.1%, Open World 9.4%, Building 8.2%
- #38 Among Trees
73% matchMixed68% of 2,216 reviews2021
Dev: FJRD Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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 26.5% ★, Farming 18.5% ★, Survival 9.2%, Crafting 8.5%, Open World 8%
- #39 Dead District: Survival
72% matchMixed49% of 465 reviews2023
Dev: BadBit Games
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Open-world survival sandbox with base-building, crafting, farming and multiplayer. Explore a dangerous island, fight, build and stay alive.
Why similar: Crafting 15.6%, Base Building 15.5%, Survival 15.3%, Sandbox 12.5%, Multiplayer 11.4%
- #40 Urge
71% matchVery Positive90% of 476 reviews2021
Dev: EnDrew
Windows
Fight, build, explore, survive, while the dynamic player-caused hazardous fog is slowly changing the rules of the world around you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.4% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 10.3%, Sandbox 9.6%, Survival 9.1%
- #41 Under A New Sun
71% matchMostly Positive76% of 368 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 31.4% ★, Underwater 14.2% ★, Crafting 10.9%, Base Building 10.6%, Survival 10.5%
- #42 ASTRONEER
70% matchVery Positive92% of 136,711 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 44.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.4% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Survival 10.7%, Open World 10.3%, Multiplayer 8.3%
- #43 Wilderness
73% matchMostly Negative28% of 86 reviews2020
Dev: Horizon Studios
Windows
Survive in the wild nature by playing as an animal or as a human. Play as an animal and survive by your own or build a herd to stay protected. Have babies and protect them from predators. Play as a human and craft items, build a house, customize your character and more.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.7% ★, Inventory Management 14.1%, Survival 11.2%, Base Building 10.7%, Crafting 9.9%
- #44 Grounded
68% matchVery Positive90% of 92,875 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.2 hrsMean: 40.8 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 28.8% ★, Survival 14.7%, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 9.8%, Multiplayer 9.2%
- #45 Forgotten Seas
68% matchMostly Positive77% of 572 reviews2025
Dev: Pangea Game StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
You are lost in the Bermuda Void, where the ocean is endless and dry land precious. Craft your Ship-in-a-Bottle, then experience survival on the high seas. Sail for new land, build camps, hunt for treasures, trade for goods - then defend your ship from dreaded pirates stalking this strange realm!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.8% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Online Co-Op 12.2%, Crafting 12%, Survival 10.8%
- #46 Starsand
70% matchMixed66% of 1,227 reviews2022
Dev: Tunnel Vision StudioPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 24.8% ★, Inventory Management 14.2%, Base Building 10.5%, Crafting 9.3%, Survival 8.8%
- #47 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
67% 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 24.3% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Survival 9.2%, Online Co-Op 9.2%, Crafting 9%
- #48 Palworld
65% matchVery Positive94% of 417,805 reviews2024
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 34.2 hrsMean: 70.0 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.8% ★, Open World 11.5%, Survival 10.9%, Crafting 8.7%, Online Co-Op 8.6%
- #49 Rem Survival
69% 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 32.1% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Crafting 12.8%, Survival 11.1%, Open World 10%
- #50 Dinkum
65% matchVery Positive92% of 28,435 reviews2025
Dev: James BendonPub: KRAFTON, Inc.
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 28.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Dinkum is a survival life simulation game set on an island inspired by the rugged Australian outback. Farm, hunt, mine, fish, and forage to gather resources, expand your town, and discover what makes Dinkum so special—either solo or with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.2% ★, Farming 17.8% ★, Farming Sim 14.7%, Crafting 7.8%, Online Co-Op 7.1%
- #51 The Forest
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 665,921 reviews2018
Dev: Endnight Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 37.0 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 43.2% ★, Survival 15.1%, Open World 10.4%, Crafting 9.6%, Building 6.9%
- #52 Reign Of Kings
70% matchMixed57% of 14,891 reviews2015
Dev: Code}{atch
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 47.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Struggle to survive in a harsh medieval world. Hunt wildlife, mine resources, build structures, and craft weapons and armor in order to protect yourself. You may form a guild, bring war to all opposition, and try to seize the throne and become king!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33% ★, Survival 11.5%, Crafting 11.3%, Open World 10.1%, Building 8.5%
- #53 Eden Crafters
66% matchVery Positive86% of 2,214 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in Eden Crafters, a solo and co-op open-world game that challenges you to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Temper the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.9% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Crafting 10.6%, Online Co-Op 8.8%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #54 The Survivalists
68% 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 23.7% ★, Crafting 12.6%, Online Co-Op 11.6%, Base Building 10.6%, Survival 10.5%
- #55 My Island
67% matchMixed67% of 1,706 reviews2024
Dev: SnowBaby Games
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 48%
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 42.6% ★, Survival 13.1%, Crafting 9.9%, Open World 9.1%, Multiplayer 7.4%
