- #1 Raft
97% matchVery Positive93% of 372,032 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.6 hrsMean: 37.3 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.8% ★, Survival 13.6%, Multiplayer 9%, Crafting 8.8%, Base Building 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive ocean-survival experience that mirrors the core loop of building a floating base while scavenging resources from the sea.
- #2 Stranded Deep
96% matchMostly Positive74% of 47,389 reviews2022
Dev: Beam Team GamesPub: Beam Team Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 20.9 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Take the role of a plane crash survivor stranded somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Come face to face with some of the most life threatening scenarios that will result in a different experience each time you play. Scavenge. Discover. Survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.3% ★, Survival 13.2%, Crafting 9.9%, Multiplayer 8.7%, Open World 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on island-hopping and ocean survival, requiring you to manage resources while navigating the dangers of the open sea.
- #3 Sunkenland
96% matchVery Positive81% of 23,216 reviews2023
Dev: Vector3 Studio
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 18.5 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 31.3% ★, Underwater 18.1% ★, Base Building 10.5%, Survival 10.1%, Crafting 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: It features a post-apocalyptic water world where you must build a base, defend against raiders, and scavenge sunken ruins.
- #4 Subnautica
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 365,018 reviews2018
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 39.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.8% ★, Underwater 18.1% ★, Survival 10.1%, Base Building 9.2%, Crafting 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: It offers the gold standard for underwater survival, exploration, and base-building in a hostile alien ocean.
- #5 Voidtrain
94% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,447 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.5% ★, Base Building 10.1%, Crafting 8.6%, Survival 8.5%, Online Co-Op 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: It utilizes a unique mobile base mechanic where you build and upgrade a train traveling through an interdimensional void, similar to the raft-building loop.
- #6 Green Hell
93% matchVery Positive85% of 97,093 reviews2019
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.1% ★, Survival 12.1%, Online Co-Op 9.9%, Multiplayer 8.8%, Crafting 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: This game provides a hardcore survival experience that tests your ability to manage health and resources in a dangerous, isolated environment.
- #7 Survival: Fountain of Youth
92% matchVery Positive86% of 4,339 reviews2024
Dev: Odinsoft Inc.Pub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 18.7 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Survival: Fountain of Youth is a challenging single-player open-world adventure game set on the Caribbean islands. Survive as a shipwrecked 16th-century explorer, craft tools and shelter, and uncover the secrets of both an ancient civilization and your own fate.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.3% ★, Underwater 13.2% ★, Base Building 12%, Crafting 9.9%, Survival 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: This title emphasizes realistic island survival, crafting, and exploration with a strong focus on resource management.
- #8 Aloft
91% matchVery Positive84% of 3,576 reviews2025
Dev: Astrolabe Interactive Inc.Pub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Soar the skies in Aloft, the co-op sandbox survival game set in a world of floating islands. Build any island into a skyship, your home in the clouds. Find lost knowledge, cure the fungal corruption, and brave the hurricane to restore the ecosystem.
Why similar: Farming 21.2% ★, Open World Survival Craft 19.5% ★, Crafting 10.7%, Survival 9.2%, Building 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: You build and manage a floating island base, offering a similar sense of verticality and mobile base management to raft-based games.
- #9 Forever Skies
90% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,446 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 32.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A first-person survival game set on a post-apocalyptic, ecologically ruined Earth. Play solo or with up to 3 friends as you build, upgrade, and fly a high-tech airship. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and face dangers on the surface as you hunt for a cure to save humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.8% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Crafting 11.5%, Survival 10.1%, Open World 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: Set on a ruined Earth, you pilot and expand a high-tech airship that serves as your mobile base and primary survival tool.
- #10 Volcanoids
91% matchVery Positive83% of 9,267 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.
Why similar: Base Building 15.1%, Crafting 13.6%, Sandbox 11.2%, Online Co-Op 10.9%, Survival 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: You operate a mobile drill-ship base that must be upgraded and maintained, providing a similar sense of progression to a raft.
- #11 Project Castaway
88% matchMixed67% of 1,723 reviews2026
Dev: Mardonpol Inc.
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Project Castaway is a survival crafting title set in the Pacific Ocean. Live the life of a stranded castaway, with only yourself - and the island's inhabitants - for company! Sail the ocean, hunt, explore unique islands and gather resources as you fight for survival.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24% ★, Underwater 13.6% ★, Online Co-Op 9.4%, Base Building 8.8%, Survival 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the struggle of surviving on a deserted island, emphasizing crafting and exploration.
- #12 Subsistence
89% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,685 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 39.9 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.2% ★, Survival 12.4%, Crafting 11.3%, Base Building 8.4%, Open World 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: It features intense survival mechanics and complex base-building that rewards careful planning and resource gathering.
- #13 Scrapnaut
87% matchMixed70% of 827 reviews2021
Dev: SpiffyBitPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements. Explore an open world with different biomes, take care of oxygen, manage your farms, generate electricity, build your home and much more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.9% ★, Building 10.7%, Online Co-Op 10.6%, Survival 10.6%, Base Building 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game with a focus on base building and crafting in a stylized, challenging open world.
- #14 KeepUp Survival
86% matchMixed64% of 743 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 84%
KeepUp Survival is an open base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and unfold your own story on a mysterious island.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.3% ★, Inventory Management 12.7%, Base Building 11.5%, Crafting 10.3%, Survival 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game that provides a variety of building and crafting options in an open-world setting.
- #15 Force of Nature
86% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,202 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 35.3% ★, Crafting 13.2%, Survival 11.3%, Sandbox 8.4%, Open World 8%
Why You'll Like It: It combines survival, crafting, and exploration with a top-down perspective that makes base management very accessible.
- #16 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
84% matchVery Positive82% of 9,989 reviews2024
Dev: Merge GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.5% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Survival 9.2%, Online Co-Op 9.1%, Crafting 9%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique perspective on survival and crafting, requiring players to build bases in a world where they are tiny.
- #17 The Infected
84% matchVery Positive84% of 6,935 reviews2020
Dev: DigX Studios
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 68%
The Infected is a sandbox, first-person, open-world survival game. Build bases, craft, farm, hunt, and survive changing seasons. Choose whether to face the hybrid “Vambies” or turn them off for a pure survival experience.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.2% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 11%, Survival 9.4%, Open World 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game that emphasizes base building and defense against environmental threats and creatures.
- #18 Grounded
83% matchVery Positive90% of 93,832 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.3 hrsMean: 41.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.1% ★, Survival 14.6%, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 9.7%, Multiplayer 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: A highly polished survival game that excels in base building and resource management within a hostile environment.
- #19 Out of Reach
85% matchMixed57% of 3,046 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.2 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 35.8% ★, Survival 12.1%, Crafting 10.2%, Open World 9.3%, Building 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: It features island-based survival with a strong emphasis on building and defending your territory against other players.
- #20 Pacific Drive
82% matchVery Positive83% of 25,653 reviews2024
Dev: Ironwood StudiosPub: Kepler Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 16.5 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 19.4%, Crafting 18.7%, Base Building 17.4%, Sandbox 12%, Building 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: While land-based, the core gameplay revolves around maintaining and upgrading a mobile vehicle base, which feels very similar to managing a raft.
- #21 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
81% matchVery Positive91% of 7,431 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Survive, craft, and automate in this free prologue set on one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters, an open-world game where you play solo or with friends to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.2% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Crafting 8.7%, Online Co-Op 8.5%, Open World 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on terraforming and building in a water-heavy environment, emphasizing resource management.
- #22 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 26% ★, Base Building 10.8%, Crafting 10.6%, 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.
- #23 Valheim
79% matchVery Positive94% of 534,015 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 25.8 hrsMean: 76.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.3% ★, Online Co-Op 10.9%, Survival 9.8%, Base Building 9.3%, Crafting 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: While set in a fantasy world, its building mechanics and survival systems are among the best in the genre for players who enjoy construction.
- #24 Drift: Space Survival
81% matchMostly Positive70% of 77 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 31.9% ★, Online Co-Op 11.6%, Survival 10.2%, Crafting 10%, Base Building 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: It applies the raft-survival formula to a space setting, where you scavenge debris to expand your mobile station.
- #25 ICARUS
79% matchMostly Positive74% of 63,962 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 46.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.1% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Survival 10.9%, Online Co-Op 9.8%, Crafting 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: A session-based survival game that requires quick crafting and base building to survive harsh planetary conditions.
- #26 Crushed
80% matchMixed54% of 311 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 30.3% ★, Survival 10.1%, Base Building 9.7%, Crafting 9.5%, Open World 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game that focuses on gathering, crafting, and building in a vast, open-world environment.
- #27 Away From Life
77% matchMixed69% of 157 reviews2026
Dev: Cursor GamesPub: IZilla Games
Windows
You survived a helicopter crash; going home is your top priority. Live as a castaway - survive the dangers of the islands by using your environment to find food, build shelter, craft tools to extend your stay, explore the secrets of the islands and their surrounding waters, and carve your way home.
Why similar: Underwater 16.3% ★, Base Building 10.7%, Crafting 9.8%, Sandbox 8.7%, Building 8.3%
- #28 Oceaneers
75% matchVery Positive89% of 80 reviews2026
Dev: Barrel Smash Studios
Windows
A sci-fi survival-crafting colony sim set in a flooded world of floating islands. Build a colony, craft gear, design rafts, fend off sharks, manage your survivors, and explore island bunkers to uncover lost Float-Tech from an old-world corporation.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.7% ★, Underwater 18.7% ★, Crafting 10.9%, Base Building 10.7%, Survival 10.1%
- #29 Reign Of Kings
78% matchMixed57% of 14,891 reviews2015
Dev: Code}{atch
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 47.8 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 33.3% ★, Survival 11.4%, Crafting 11.2%, Open World 10.1%, Building 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: It features a robust building system and survival mechanics set in a medieval world, focusing on territorial control.
- #30 Project Cobalt
76% 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 21.7% ★, Inventory Management 13.2%, Crafting 10.4%, Survival 9%, Resource Management 8.8%
- #31 Vantage: Primitive Survival Game
77% 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 21.3% ★, Farming 13.6% ★, Inventory Management 13.4%, Online Co-Op 8.6%, Crafting 8.1%
- #32 Len's Island
74% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,720 reviews2025
Dev: Flow Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
An open-world survival crafting game for 1–8 players, blending intense dungeon crawling and ARPG combat with peaceful farming and creative building. Take on quests and explore a vast, procedurally-generated world full of danger and discovery.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.9% ★, Farming 22.3% ★, Crafting 8.7%, Base Building 8.4%, Survival 8.3%
- #33 Shamania
75% matchMostly Positive77% of 145 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 26% ★, Crafting 11.7%, Open World 9.8%, Survival 9.6%, Online Co-Op 8.1%
- #34 Frost Survival VR
74% matchVery Positive88% of 168 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 12.1%, Base Building 11.9%, Survival 9.7%, Crafting 8.7%
- #35 Satisfactory
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 270,461 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 32.6 hrsMean: 110.0 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 14.1% ★, Crafting 12.2%, Open World 10.3%, Resource Management 9.1%
- #36 Cube Life: Island Survival
76% 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 44.6% ★, Sandbox 10.1%, Crafting 9.9%, Building 9.8%, Survival 9.6%
- #37 Longvinter
73% matchMixed67% of 7,565 reviews2025
Dev: Uuvana Studios
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 42.7 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 25.5% ★, Crafting 12.7%, Survival 12%, Open World 9.9%, Multiplayer 9.4%
- #38 Wild Omission
73% matchVery Positive89% of 63 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 22.2% ★, Inventory Management 10.3%, Crafting 9.7%, Survival 8.5%, Open World 7.6%
- #39 Tinkerlands
71% matchVery Positive86% of 3,833 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Explore, craft, and fight your way through uncharted islands — solo or with up to 4 players in co-op! Tinkerlands is an exciting survival adventure where you will build your settlement, craft useful tools to survive, and even use magic!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.7% ★, Online Co-Op 11.6%, Sandbox 10.2%, Survival 9.8%, Crafting 9.4%
- #40 Eden Crafters
70% matchVery Positive86% of 2,425 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.4% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 10.2%, Online Co-Op 8.4%, Sandbox 8.1%
- #41 Crazy Islands
72% matchMostly Positive71% 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 29.6% ★, Online Co-Op 11.3%, Survival 10.5%, Base Building 10.3%, Sandbox 8.9%
- #42 Among Trees
71% matchMixed68% of 2,222 reviews2021
Dev: FJRD Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.2 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 26.7% ★, Farming 18.5% ★, Survival 9.2%, Crafting 8.4%, Open World 8%
- #43 Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts
72% matchMostly Negative37% of 369 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 29.4% ★, Crafting 10.4%, Survival 10%, Open World 9.4%, Building 8.2%
- #44 Forager
70% matchVery Positive90% of 43,424 reviews2019
Dev: HopFrogPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 22.4 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 31.6% ★, Farming Sim 12.9%, Crafting 11.2%, Survival 10.1%, Base Building 7%
- #45 Forgotten Seas
69% matchMostly Positive77% of 580 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 22.1% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Online Co-Op 12.1%, Crafting 12%, Survival 10.8%
- #46 Under A New Sun
69% matchMostly Positive77% of 384 reviews2023
Dev: New Horizon Games
Windows
While searching for a new home, an unexpected failure in your ship has left you stranded on a planet surprisingly similar to Earth. Discover a vast open world, hunt for food, develop technologies, and build yourself a new home to survive!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.7% ★, Underwater 14.1% ★, Crafting 10.8%, Base Building 10.5%, Survival 10.5%
- #47 Palworld
66% matchVery Positive94% of 421,232 reviews2024
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 34.5 hrsMean: 70.8 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 27.2% ★, Open World 11.5%, Survival 10.9%, Crafting 8.6%, Online Co-Op 8.4%
- #48 ASTRONEER
68% matchVery Positive92% of 137,959 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.2 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 30.7% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Survival 10.7%, Open World 10.3%, Multiplayer 8.3%
- #49 Urge
69% matchVery Positive90% of 498 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 29.7% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 10.2%, Sandbox 9.6%, Survival 9.1%
- #50 Dinkum
64% matchVery Positive92% of 28,725 reviews2025
Dev: James BendonPub: KRAFTON, Inc.
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 28.7 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 29.5% ★, Farming 17.8% ★, Farming Sim 14.6%, Crafting 7.8%, Online Co-Op 7%
- #51 Starsand
68% matchMixed66% of 1,241 reviews2022
Dev: Tunnel Vision StudioPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 6.9 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 25.1% ★, Inventory Management 14.1%, Base Building 10.5%, Crafting 9.3%, Survival 8.8%
- #52 Wilderness
70% 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 31% ★, Inventory Management 13.9%, Survival 11.2%, Base Building 10.7%, Crafting 9.8%
- #53 The Planet Crafter
64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 70,189 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.5 hrsMean: 37.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.3% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Online Co-Op 9.9%, Crafting 9.3%, Survival 8.8%
- #54 Night of the Dead
66% matchMostly Positive77% of 11,782 reviews2024
Dev: Jackto Studios
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 32.7 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 25.1% ★, Base Building 10.5%, Online Co-Op 9.7%, Crafting 9.4%, Sandbox 8%
- #55 The Survivalists
67% matchMostly Positive76% of 10,012 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 24% ★, Crafting 12.5%, Online Co-Op 11.5%, Base Building 10.5%, Survival 10.5%
- #56 My Island
66% matchMixed66% of 1,712 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 42.9% ★, Survival 13%, Crafting 9.8%, Open World 9.1%, Multiplayer 7.4%