- #1 Forever Skies
97% matchMostly Positive78% of 8,950 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 30.6 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 25.9% ★, Base Building 14.1%, Post-apocalyptic 10.7%, Crafting 10.7%, Survival 9.9%
- #2 Atomfall
96% matchMostly Positive78% of 5,687 reviews2025
Dev: Rebellion
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A nuclear disaster has left an area of Britain in tatters. Atomfall, a new survival-action game, will see you explore, scavenge, craft, barter and fight your way through beautifully recreated scenery in search of answers.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 32%, Open World 22.9%, Survival 15%, Action 6.7%, Stealth 6.4%
- #3 HumanitZ
96% matchMostly Positive74% of 13,984 reviews2026
Dev: Yodubzz StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 19.8% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Survival 11.6%, Isometric 11.5%, Post-apocalyptic 11%
- #4 Beyond the Map
94% matchMostly Positive78% of 748 reviews2025
Dev: Glitch Goblins
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Isometric survival ARPG set in a procedurally generated fantasy world. Build your base, gear up, and venture out, chasing stronger enemies and better loot.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.2% ★, Isometric 13.5%, Base Building 13.4%, Loot 13.3%, Crafting 9.3%
- #5 Brinefall
95% matchMixed42% of 100 reviews2023
Dev: Qwerty StudioPub: Gamera Interactive
Windows
Embark on an epic journey in Brinefall, where you'll gather resources and construct your own village while exploring a vast open-world filled with secrets and mysteries. Battle fierce enemies and collect valuable loot in this unique blend of sandbox and RPG gameplay.
Why similar: Base Building 16.9%, Isometric 15.8%, Loot 14.6%, Crafting 13.3%, Survival 12.1%
- #6 Surviving the Aftermath
94% matchMostly Positive71% of 4,570 reviews2021
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 18.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 33.6%, Base Building 21%, Survival 20.9%, Open World 7.6%, Isometric 5.3%
- #7 DYSMANTLE
93% matchVery Positive91% of 11,572 reviews2021
Dev: 10tons Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 25.3 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: Base Building 18.2%, Survival 17.6%, Crafting 16.6%, Open World 16.3%, Loot 13.9%
- #8 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
92% matchVery Positive82% of 10,429 reviews2024
Dev: Max Ent Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 16.1 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 33.6% ★, Base Building 16.5%, Survival 13%, Crafting 11.9%, Open World 10.7%
- #9 Survivalist: Invisible Strain
91% matchVery Positive87% of 4,502 reviews2025
Dev: BobPub: Ginormocorp Incorporated
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 83%
It's ten years since the infection started. Long-established settlements are collapsing, one by one, for unknown reasons. Survivors are running to the hills to escape, hoping for safety in remote places. As another refugee, you're here to carve out a new life for yourself - by any means necessary.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.6% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Post-apocalyptic 13%, Stealth 10.3%, Open World 8.6%
- #10 KeepUp Survival
91% 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 34.3% ★, Base Building 16.2%, Survival 13%, Crafting 13%, Open World 12.2%
- #11 StarRupture
90% matchVery Positive81% of 13,247 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 26.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.2% ★, Base Building 17.7%, Crafting 12.5%, Survival 12.3%, Open World 11.6%
- #12 ALL WILL FALL
89% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,385 reviews2026
Dev: All Parts ConnectedPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Build massive ocean cities and lead your people to prosperity in this post-apocalyptic survival colony sim. Featuring a physics-based 3D construction system, complex resource management, exploration, difficult political decisions, supply chains, and a robust sandbox mode.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35% ★, Base Building 18.9%, Post-apocalyptic 18.2%, Resource Management 10%, Economy 8.4%
- #13 Rem Survival
89% matchMostly Positive75% of 803 reviews2021
Dev: Immortal Hand Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 47.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Scavenge abandoned ruins, craft gear from scrap and salvaged materials, and fight the environment itself as hunger, exposure, and exhaustion push you to your limits. There are no second chances—only adaptation or death.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.8% ★, Base Building 16.7%, Crafting 13.9%, Survival 12.8%, Open World 11.8%
- #14 Decision: Red Daze
88% matchMostly Positive74% of 896 reviews2022
Dev: FlyAnvilPub: Nordcurrent Labs
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Decision: Red Daze is an action RPG with a unique mix of survival and tower defense mechanics. Explore an apocalyptic wasteland, build a safe haven, and lead your team of specialists in a hopeless world, searching for a cure for the infectious disease that turns people into monsters.
Why similar: Base Building 18.4%, Post-apocalyptic 16.9%, Survival 16.8%, Open World 14.9%, Isometric 13.6%
- #15 XERA: Survival
87% matchMixed66% of 7,941 reviews2021
Dev: Spotted Kiwi Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 24.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Action-focused, open world survival shooter, PvPvE against fellow mercenaries and lethal XOIDS. Raid for resources alone or with team-mates, build and defend your base, stash your gear and survive against the odds. You are the hunters. You are the hunted. And the robots never sleep…
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.3% ★, Base Building 17.9%, Post-apocalyptic 13.1%, Crafting 12.2%, Survival 11.7%
- #16 Urge
86% matchVery Positive90% of 520 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 33% ★, Base Building 15.8%, Post-apocalyptic 13%, Crafting 11%, Survival 10.4%
- #17 Voidtrain
85% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,810 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 15.9 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 43% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Survival 11.5%, Crafting 11%, Open World 9.6%
- #18 Force of Nature
86% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,209 reviews2016
Dev: A.Y.std
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.1% ★, Crafting 15.6%, Survival 14.1%, Open World 10.2%, Base Building 6.5%
- #19 Survival Machine
84% matchMostly Positive71% of 805 reviews2026
Dev: Grape PickersPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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: Base Building 24.5%, Crafting 18.5%, Resource Management 17.4%, Survival 15.8%, Combat 9.3%
- #20 Far Lands
84% matchMixed65% of 170 reviews2024
Dev: Scalpel Softworks
Windows
Far Lands is an open-world survival game. Fight mercenaries, steal their loot and vehicles. Build and defend your base from zombies. Gather resources, craft better gear and loot different points of interest. Want to play with friends? Join them on Co-op!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.2% ★, Base Building 17.8%, Crafting 14.6%, Survival 13.7%, Open World 10.7%
- #21 Machine Mind
82% matchMostly Positive73% of 591 reviews2026
Dev: Chudo-Yudo GamesPub: Targem Games
Windows · Mac
Machine Mind is an action game in a post-apocalyptic setting with elements of survival and RTS. You will fight, craft modules, build your transport, develop and protect your base. You can control other vehicles to automate operations. Discover all the secrets of the destroyed world!
Why similar: Base Building 18%, Isometric 15.9%, Tactical 13.5%, Crafting 13.1%, Resource Management 12.9%
- #22 Survive the Nights
80% matchMixed66% of 6,719 reviews2025
Dev: a2z Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Hardcore open-world survival where preparation is everything. Scavenge, craft, fortify during the day. When night falls, the infected hunt in numbers. Play solo or with friends in a brutal post-apocalyptic sandbox where survival is earned through smart decisions. How many Nights will you survive?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.2% ★, Post-apocalyptic 24.7%, Survival 18.1%, Combat 8.5%, Action 3.9%
- #23 Craterbound
82% matchMixed53% of 99 reviews2022
Dev: Daniel Marquez
Windows
Crash-land onto a unique and hostile alien world and begin your fight to survive. Face its inhabitants, upgrade your technology, create outposts & bases, and find a way to repair your ship. Explore the beautifully strange terrain, all while blasting and crafting your way off of the planet.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35% ★, Base Building 15.5%, Survival 12.3%, Crafting 11.9%, Open World 11.9%
- #24 Survivalist
81% matchVery Positive80% of 2,569 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% ★, Survival 17.8%, Base Building 13.3%, Post-apocalyptic 12.6%, Open World 11%
- #25 Ruins To Fortress
79% matchMixed65% of 181 reviews2024
Dev: NimbleBeasts
Windows · Linux
Explore a post-apocalyptic island, craft, build, tear down enemy bases, defend and nuke your rivals! Life's about surviving in this multiplayer game, no matter what it takes!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.2% ★, Base Building 14.8%, Crafting 12.2%, Survival 11.8%, Open World 10.3%
- #26 GRAV
81% matchMixed47% of 6,921 reviews2015
Dev: BitMonster, Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 60%
GRAV is a sand box experience where you explore a multitude of planets, hunt strange alien creatures, build and defend outposts, craft weapons and armor, and attempt to survive against other players in a hostile environment.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.1% ★, Base Building 15.4%, Survival 14.5%, Open World 12.3%, Crafting 9.7%
- #27 Crystalfall
79% matchMostly Negative25% of 2,156 reviews2026
Dev: CRG Studio
Windows
Crystalfall is a steampunk Action RPG where your ground loot matters and your skills offer endless procedural customization. Survive in a world destroyed by a mysterious asteroid and grow more powerful with steampunk weapons and lootable skills in an infinite endgame.
Why similar: Loot 22.1%, Isometric 21.9%, Post-apocalyptic 20.2%, Crafting 14.7%, RPG 9.2%
- #28 CleanFall
77% matchVery Positive93% of 543 reviews2025
Dev: Humanyoyo
Windows
CleanFall is a survival rogue-like that prizes player freedom and creativity. Build mobile death machines to fight off ravenous hordes, craft and alchemize gun turrets, and tunnel through subterranean ecosystems crawling with nameless horrors.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.8% ★, Post-apocalyptic 16.5%, Base Building 16.1%, Crafting 13%, Open World 11.6%
- #29 The Last Haven
78% matchMixed61% of 1,535 reviews2023
Dev: Thunder Devs.
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 30.5%, Post-apocalyptic 25.2%, Survival 14.4%, Resource Management 10.2%, Crafting 8.5%
- #30 SurrounDead
76% matchVery Positive91% of 26,489 reviews2022
Dev: ZurvivorPub: PlaySurrounDead
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 16.7 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 19.8% ★, Survival 16.2%, Post-apocalyptic 16%, Open World 14.7%, Loot 11.8%
- #31 Machinefall
76% matchNo user reviews82% of 101 reviews2026
Dev: by Jan Zizka
Windows
Machinefall is a post-apocalyptic real time strategy game set on a fully playable global map. Lead humanity’s last survivors as they build bases, gather resources, and wage massive battles against an overwhelming machine swarm. Progress through technological eras from Stone Age to Atomic Age.
Why similar: Base Building 24.4%, Real Time Tactics 22.2%, Post-apocalyptic 20.5%, Resource Management 18.6%, Tactical 12.2%
- #32 Nomad
78% matchMixed60% of 4,634 reviews2015
Dev: Diminished Studios
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Try and survive in the world of Nomad. Build a base and protect it from raiding players. Scavenge food, weapons and medical supplies across the island. Team up with others and make a base. Make your mark on the world of Nomad.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.2% ★, Survival 17.9%, Open World 12.8%, Crafting 10.3%, Post-apocalyptic 5.3%
- #33 Plains of Pain
75% matchVery Positive83% of 933 reviews2023
Dev: Cobra Byte Digital
Windows
Enter a living post-apocalyptic sandbox where the world doesn't wait for you. Build, craft, trade, earn the trust of factions, and forge your own path through a brutal procedural wasteland.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.4% ★, Base Building 14.2%, Post-apocalyptic 13.9%, Crafting 10.6%, Survival 9.9%
- #34 Survive The Island
77% matchMixed53% of 83 reviews2021
Dev: PhantomCore StudioPub: PhantomCore PUBLISHING
Windows
survive the island you survive from skeletons and humans you can build and mine and level up your stats you can build whatever you want you can raid enemies you can mine and cut down trees and you have to hunt for your own food and you can grow your own crops and you can craft weapons
Why similar: Base Building 19.3%, Survival 17.8%, RPG 17%, Crafting 15.9%, Open World 12.2%
- #35 The Last Caretaker
73% matchVery Positive86% of 13,056 reviews2025
Dev: Channel37 Ltd
Windows
Median: 19.6 hrsMean: 36.3 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Explore a drowned Earth, restore lost systems, and raise the last human seeds in this first-person survival-crafting adventure. Build, scavenge, defend, and launch humanity back to the stars.
Why similar: Base Building 19.4%, Post-apocalyptic 16.5%, Crafting 15.5%, Survival 13.9%, Resource Management 13.3%
- #36 Urban Strife
73% matchMostly Positive71% of 666 reviews2026
Dev: White Pond GamesPub: MicroProse Software
Windows
Old school TBS, post-apoc survival and RPG. Recruit deranged locals in your militia, ally local factions and fight those you hate. Haul loot back and rebuild your shelter, doctor your wounds, and fix your guns. People need feeding, booze needs brewing and there is an end of the world to enjoy.
Why similar: Base Building 18.8%, Post-apocalyptic 18.7%, Survival 14.3%, Isometric 14%, Crafting 13.9%
- #37 Solace Crafting
74% matchMostly Positive72% of 898 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 34.5% ★, Base Building 15.3%, Crafting 13.6%, Survival 12.9%, Open World 11.2%
- #38 Night of the Dead
71% matchMostly Positive77% of 11,856 reviews2024
Dev: Jackto Studios
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 32.1 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 37.7% ★, Base Building 16.9%, Crafting 13.6%, Open World 12.1%, Survival 12%
- #39 Post-Apo Builder
73% matchMixed43% of 68 reviews2025
Dev: Septarian GamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Build your own city in a post-apocalyptic future. Scavenge and fight for resources, everything counts! Restore civilization on the ashes of the fallen world! Explore wastelands to gather resources, protect and take care of your people! Fight off raiders, wild tribesman and natural disasters.
Why similar: Base Building 27.6%, Post-apocalyptic 27.2%, Real Time Tactics 21.9%, Crafting 14%, Tactical 6%
- #40 Project Cobalt
72% matchMostly Positive73% of 55 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 28.2% ★, Crafting 13%, Resource Management 12%, Economy 12%, Survival 12%
- #41 Encased: A Sci-Fi Post-Apocalyptic RPG
72% matchMostly Positive77% of 4,794 reviews2021
Dev: Dark Crystal GamesPub: Prime Matter
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
A tactical sci-fi RPG set in an alternative 1970's, where an enormous and inexplicable artifact –the Dome– is discovered in a remote desert. Fight enemies, explore the anomalous wasteland, level up your character, join one of the forces in the ruined world.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 28.7%, Isometric 20.7%, RPG 10.2%, Open World 9%, Tactical 8.6%
- #42 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 52.2% ★, Survival 17.1%, Open World 11.4%, Crafting 9.8%, RPG 3.7%
- #43 Subterrain: Mines of Titan
71% matchMostly Positive76% of 741 reviews2024
Dev: Pixellore IncPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Awaken from an abandoned stasis pod and discover a doomed mining camp on Titan in an uncompromising turn-based survival RPG. Survive the evolving horrors that lurk below and craft equipment, research new gear, fight against overwhelming odds, or even discover your true fate.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 25.1%, Survival 21%, Crafting 17.2%, Tactical 13.2%, RPG 11.2%
- #44 Infection Free Zone
70% matchVery Positive81% of 18,524 reviews2024
Dev: Jutsu GamesPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 18.7 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 42.3%, Post-apocalyptic 37.5%, Survival 18.1%, Singleplayer 2.1%
- #45 Nightingale
70% matchMixed66% of 18,038 reviews2024
Dev: Inflexion Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 24.0 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 35.4% ★, Base Building 14.3%, Survival 12.6%, Crafting 12%, Open World 11.6%
- #46 Ascent of Ashes
70% matchMixed70% of 303 reviews2025
Dev: Vivid Storm Interactive
Windows
A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors. Engage raiders, aliens, Remnant soldiers and other factions in real-time-with-pause combat. Or use stealth to outwit them. Explore the massive world. Survive at all costs
Why similar: Real Time Tactics 22.7%, Base Building 22.3%, Isometric 16.7%, Crafting 16%, Survival 15.7%
- #47 Space Trash Scavenger
68% matchVery Positive84% of 525 reviews2024
Dev: SquarePlay GamesPub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Grab your jetpack and explore procedural asteroid fields, derelict spaceships and abandoned outposts. Build and automate your Space Rig to process scavenged trash. Craft, trade and fight your way home in this interstellar, open-world survival sandbox.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.5% ★, Crafting 14.2%, Survival 12.7%, Base Building 12.7%, Open World 11.2%
- #48 Warriors' Wrath
71% matchMixed81% of 170 reviews2016
Dev: Storm Sharks Production
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Loot. Craft. Build. Defend. Fight. Survive
Why similar: RPG 47.3%, Action 29.5%, Adventure 23.2%
- #49 Planetaries
69% matchMixed58% of 226 reviews2024
Dev: EY-Studio
Windows
Experience a vast Sci-fi open-world survival TD game set on a distant planet deep in the universe. Craft, build, mine, trade, explore, and survive in this alien world. Collect Data and defend against waves of enemies seeking to banish you. Enjoy the adventure in Singleplayer or Multiplayer.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34% ★, Base Building 15.2%, Crafting 12.6%, Survival 11.9%, Open World 11.5%
- #50 Heat Death: Survival Train
67% matchMostly Positive78% of 718 reviews2024
Dev: Mass Game DevsPub: LightOnDevs
Windows
Heat Death is a sci-fi survival game where you can build, upgrade, and customize your battle train to explore and survive a frozen world! This train is not only your shelter and vehicle, but also your weapon and ally to face hostile drones, deadly storms, and hidden mysteries of an unknown world!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.4% ★, Post-apocalyptic 14.8%, Base Building 14.8%, Crafting 12.6%, Survival 10.9%
- #51 Start Over
69% matchMixed61% of 379 reviews2024
Dev: EY-Studio
Windows
Embark on an unpredictable survival journey in Start Over. Solo, co-op, online, explore diverse landscapes, craft through 4 tech tiers, encounter wildlife, and trade or raid for resources. Choose your path, defend against waves, and shape your destiny in a dynamic world. Are you ready to Start Over?
Why similar: Base Building 25.2%, Crafting 19.7%, Survival 18.3%, Open World 11.8%, Exploration 8.4%
- #52 Subsistence
69% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,766 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 46.3% ★, Survival 15.6%, Crafting 13.5%, Base Building 11.2%, Open World 10.7%
- #53 Outbreak Island
66% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,082 reviews2025
Dev: Tiny Magicians
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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: Survival 17.7%, Base Building 16.7%, Post-apocalyptic 15.9%, Crafting 14.1%, Open World 11.4%
- #54 After the Collapse
68% matchMostly Positive78% of 212 reviews2022
Dev: Anarkis Gaming
Windows
ATC is a base building game set in a post-apocalyptic world featuring urban environments. Build a base across several layers with dozens of survivors. Fight other factions for the control of the remaining production centers and explore the world to find long forgotten resources and technologies.
Why similar: Base Building 28.4%, Post-apocalyptic 20.7%, Survival 19.4%, Crafting 15.5%, Resource Management 10.9%
- #55 The Planet Crafter
63% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 73,089 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.7 hrsMean: 38.5 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 32.5% ★, Base Building 16.8%, Survival 11.1%, Crafting 11.1%, Open World 9.4%
- #56 The Glade
68% matchMixed60% of 116 reviews2021
Dev: Michael Schade
Windows
The Glade is a beautiful open world survival set on a stylized island which has been struck all over from large and mysterious meteorites creating a bridge for evil creatures from another world to enter and destroy anything in their path.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.5% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Crafting 14.3%, Post-apocalyptic 13.4%, Open World 12.5%
- #57 INCUR Survival
67% matchVery Positive83% of 109 reviews2022
Dev: INCUR
Windows
A survival open-world game, where you can gather resources, Hunt, Craft tools and armor, Tame Animals, Ride Animals, Build, and defend your base from creatures, and other players.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.4% ★, Crafting 15.2%, Survival 14%, Open World 12.7%, Exploration 7.3%