- #1 Pirates
97% matchMostly Positive77% of 913 reviews2021
Dev: F.P. Games
Windows
(Sandbox Game) You play as a pirate on a remote island, surviving alone or with other players as you battle hostile skeletons. Construct a shelter and gather resources to fortify your survival.
Why similar: Action RPG 19.8%, Sandbox 19.8%, RPG 15.8%, Building 14.9%, Third Person 10.3%
- #2 Outbreak Island
96% matchMostly Positive79% of 963 reviews2025
Dev: Tiny Magicians
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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: Sandbox 22%, Survival 15.1%, Building 12.3%, Base Building 11.3%, RPG 11%
- #3 Eden Island
96% matchMixed61% of 255 reviews2024
Dev: Moon Studio
Windows
Eden Island is a beautiful survival game. As a survivor, you will explore and survive on a realistic tropical island, craft weapons against beasts, farm and hunt, build your own home.
Why similar: Sandbox 20.1%, Building 17.5%, Base Building 16.4%, Survival 14.6%, Crafting 14%
- #4 Dead District: Survival
95% matchMixed48% of 473 reviews2023
Dev: BadBit Games
Windows
Median: 2.5 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: Sandbox 19.5%, Survival 16.1%, Crafting 14%, Base Building 13.7%, Action 9.6%
- #5 Polygeddon
94% matchMixed41% of 66 reviews2025
Dev: Digital Dreamworks
Windows
You are on an island where everyone wants to kill you, ranging from weather conditions to dangerous enemies, your goal is to survive. Survive alone or together. Build, craft, grow, explore, fight!
Why similar: Sandbox 19.4%, RPG 15.1%, Survival 14.8%, Crafting 12.3%, Open World 10.4%
- #6 Nomad
94% 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: Survival 34.5%, Open World 18.3%, Crafting 17.8%, Multiplayer 15.1%, Action 8.9%
- #7 Forsaken Isle
92% matchMostly Positive71% of 513 reviews2025
Dev: Smoodlez
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Stranded on a desert island, explore, craft, build and fight in this action survival game!
Why similar: Survival 25.2%, Sandbox 23.7%, Crafting 20.3%, RPG 18.6%, Action 11.5%
- #8 Hold Your Own
93% matchMixed68% of 574 reviews2017
Dev: DistrictWare inc.
Windows
A single player open world sandbox, crafting and survival FPS game set in a multi-island land where you'll fight to survive. Build your base, hunt and craft to defend yourself from aggressive wildlife, enemies or friends. Do you have what it takes to Hold Your Own?
Why similar: Sandbox 16.4%, Survival 14.6%, Crafting 14.2%, Building 13.3%, Base Building 12.6%
- #9 Apocalypse Island
91% matchMixed41% of 66 reviews2025
Dev: Bettini Games
Windows
As an ex-scientist on a mission, you find yourself in a toxic and infected island, where humans are no where to be seen. Build, explore and survive.
Why similar: Survival 26%, Sandbox 22.4%, Action 14.4%, Crafting 12.9%, 3D 10.9%
- #10 The Island
91% matchMixed46% of 103 reviews2021
Dev: Ibis Games
Windows
The Island - "Island") - a computer game with an open world and a first-person view in the genre of survival.
Why similar: Building 27.2%, Survival 24.2%, Crafting 19.8%, Open World 16.3%, Action 9.8%
- #11 Trials of Wilderness
90% matchMixed68% of 122 reviews2021
Dev: MightByte Games
Windows
You are alone on an island, trying desperately to survive amongst the village tribes of savages. To do this you need food, water, and shelter. Hunt animals, plant crops, tame and breed animals, make weapons, armors and potions, raid villages, defend your base, fight with big creatures...
Why similar: Survival 22.2%, Base Building 22.1%, Crafting 16%, Open World 15.3%, Action 12.9%
- #12 Muck
88% matchVery Positive93% of 183,134 reviews2021
Dev: Dani
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Muck is a survival-roguelike. Collect resources, find items & build a base to survive for as long as you can.
Why similar: Survival 20.6%, Building 16.2%, Crafting 14.8%, Base Building 11.1%, Open World 9.1%
- #13 Re.poly
89% matchVery Positive91% of 137 reviews2019
Dev: Hinkfoot Studios
Windows
Re.Poly is a relaxed yet deep indie survival game in a low-poly style that blends exploration, combat, building, and adventure. Whether alone or with friends, create your own world, write your own story, and decide how you want to play.
Why similar: Sandbox 15.9%, Action RPG 14.8%, Survival 11%, Crafting 10.5%, Base Building 10.3%
- #14 Ruins To Fortress
89% matchMixed64% of 176 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: Base Building 20.5%, Survival 20.5%, Crafting 19.1%, Open World 13.3%, Multiplayer 9.2%
- #15 XERA: Survival
86% matchMixed66% of 7,908 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: Base Building 15.6%, Sandbox 13.7%, Survival 13%, Crafting 12.1%, Building 11.9%
- #16 My Island
86% 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: Survival 27.8%, Crafting 17.8%, Building 15.6%, Open World 14.8%, Multiplayer 9.3%
- #17 Wild Terra Online
87% matchMixed60% of 1,839 reviews2017
Dev: Juvty Worlds
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Wild Terra Online is a sandbox RPG, in a completely player-controlled medieval world. You will have to survive in a forest full of predators, build a shelter and improve your crafts skills, tame animals and fight for treasures. You can become anyone and do whatever you want!
Why similar: Sandbox 22.4%, RPG 16.9%, Survival 14.3%, Building 10.9%, Open World 9.9%
- #18 Island Paradise
85% matchMostly Positive75% of 110 reviews2025
Dev: GSG
Windows
Island Paradise is a survival game where you build, upgrade, customize your own island and use nearby resources to create a home for generations to come!
Why similar: Building 24.3%, Sandbox 23.5%, Crafting 21.1%, Open World 16.5%, Multiplayer 8.3%
- #19 INMATE: Survival
84% 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: Building 22.8%, Survival 19.3%, Crafting 18.6%, Open World 13.7%, Action 9.3%
- #20 INCUR Survival
82% matchVery Positive82% of 107 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: Building 22.4%, Survival 16.4%, Crafting 16.1%, Open World 11.1%, Third Person 11.1%
- #21 Everwind
80% matchVery Positive82% of 3,221 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Everwind is a novel take on RPG and Sandbox Survival genre in First-Person-Perspective. Embark on the adventure with your friends - Build a base on a flying island-ship, gather resources, craft, loot, and fight while you rise above the clouds to uncover the mysteries of this world!
Why similar: Action RPG 16.2%, Sandbox 15.6%, Building 13.4%, RPG 11.1%, Survival 10.9%
- #22 GRAV
84% 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: Sandbox 20%, Survival 18.6%, Base Building 15.6%, Open World 11.7%, Crafting 11.2%
- #23 Gone: Survival
83% matchMixed44% of 310 reviews2020
Dev: Coden StudioPub: Conglomerate 5
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Gone Survival is a first-person survival game for one player. Where you have many opportunities and a completely open world
Why similar: Sandbox 17.6%, Building 16%, Survival 14.2%, Base Building 13.7%, Crafting 13.3%
- #24 Pirates Journey
81% matchMixed59% of 104 reviews2024
Dev: 2MEDYA
Windows
You and your crew have been shipwrecked on a tropical island in the late 1600s. At the beginning of the adventure, you find yourself with only a few basic supplies, including ropes, sticks, and stones. With skill and cunning, you can survive on the island and thrive as a pirate crew.
Why similar: Building 15.2%, Survival 13.2%, Action RPG 13.1%, Base Building 12.4%, RPG 11%
- #25 Project Cobalt
79% 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: Sandbox 22.4%, Building 18%, Survival 16.2%, Crafting 15.9%, Open World 11.5%
- #26 Survival Is Not Enough
82% matchMostly Negative35% of 52 reviews2017
Dev: Fixer Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Survival Is Not Enough is an open world first person zombie survival game. You wake up in a mysterious island and find out that you're infected. To survive you need to: build a shelter; protect yourself from dangers of this island; kill animals for food; kill zombies for underblood to cure yourself from zombie virus; The better you're...
Why similar: RPG 57%, Action 43%
- #27 Fragmented
81% 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: Survival 20.8%, Sandbox 15.3%, Building 11.3%, Crafting 10.7%, Open World 10.3%
- #28 Age of Survival
79% matchVery Negative12% of 245 reviews2025
Dev: Silky Sullivan
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Age of Survival is survival simulation crafting game from Silky Sullivan. Your player has been stranded on an island not far off of the coast of Africa where you will encounter many creatures, and players alike.
Why similar: Survival 23.3%, Building 16.2%, Crafting 13.9%, Sandbox 11.2%, Open World 11%
- #29 KeepUp Survival
77% 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: Sandbox 20.6%, Survival 16.3%, Base Building 16.2%, Crafting 14.7%, Open World 11.5%
- #30 Len's Island
75% 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: Sandbox 18.4%, Building 17.5%, Survival 14%, Crafting 12.4%, Base Building 11.8%
- #31 DreamWorld: Sandbox MMO
76% matchMixed69% of 54 reviews2026
Dev: DreamWorld Realities, Inc.
Windows
Build incredible structures with powerful tools. Explore the world with all players on one server. Battle bosses, farm, craft, and socialize with friends. How will you shape DreamWorld?
Why similar: Sandbox 16.5%, Base Building 13.7%, Building 13.5%, Crafting 10.2%, Survival 10%
- #32 Project 5: Sightseer
78% matchMostly Positive72% of 545 reviews2019
Dev: Tasharen Entertainment Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 28.9 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Open world multiplayer sandbox/RPG game. Explore, gather, build, research, and fight to protect what's yours -- by yourself or together with your friends.
Why similar: RPG 26.3%, Sandbox 25.1%, Building 22.7%, Action 14.8%, Open World 8.3%
- #33 Survival In Africa
78% matchMixed51% of 68 reviews2021
Dev: Mambo
Windows
'Survival In Africa' is an RPG-type survival game that survives using items and crafted items that are dropped when various monsters are defeated.
Why similar: Survival 51.9%, 3D 22.9%, Open World 22.7%, Singleplayer 2.5%
- #34 Dysterra
75% matchMixed56% of 763 reviews2025
Dev: Reality MagiQ
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 65%
On a future post-apocalyptic Earth, build, craft, and loot other players’ bases to survive long enough to board the rocket and escape the dangerous robots and mercenaries that inhabit Ararat Island. Manipulate the weather and use earthquakes to change when the server wipe occurs in DYSTERRA!
Why similar: Sandbox 17.8%, Base Building 13.8%, RPG 12.9%, Crafting 12.5%, Survival 12.4%
- #35 Out of Reach
77% 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: Survival 21.5%, Building 15.7%, Crafting 15.4%, Sandbox 13.2%, Open World 12.5%
- #36 Island Notes
73% matchVery Positive82% of 776 reviews2025
Dev: KangBaoGame
Windows
Shipwrecked on a mysterious island, choose self-preservation or alliances. Master base-building, farming, fishing, romance and pet taming in this morally-charged survival simulator that blends strategy with human drama. Forge bonds, conquer nature, and evolve your humanity.
Why similar: Sandbox 33.9%, RPG 24.4%, Open World 17.3%, 3D 8.4%, FPS 7.8%
- #37 Exile to Death
76% matchMixed67% of 324 reviews2018
Dev: Aleksei MilchakovPub: Manifestors Games Studio
Windows
Median: 9.4 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 99%
Explore the world , collect resources , craft items , build a fortified house and kill other players to survive. BUT don't forget about cyborgs...
Why similar: RPG 28.5%, Survival 26%, Action 23.7%, Crafting 21.8%
- #38 Shamania
72% 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: Sandbox 16.2%, Crafting 14%, Survival 13.5%, Building 10.6%, Open World 10.5%
- #39 Force of Nature
74% 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: Sandbox 18.3%, Survival 16.6%, Crafting 16.5%, Building 13.2%, Open World 8.9%
- #40 Orion Sandbox Enhanced
73% matchVery Positive94% of 1,140 reviews2018
Dev: y8.com
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 65%
This is a 2D crafting survival sandbox game. You will be able to explore a huge 2D side-view world, building houses, crafting tools, weapons and armour from the resources you collect. There is a day/night cycle and each night many dangerous monsters can be found and defeated.
Why similar: Sandbox 35.8%, RPG 28.8%, Action 19.3%, Survival 11.5%, Multiplayer 4.7%
- #41 Mesorift Survival
71% matchMostly Positive74% of 119 reviews2025
Dev: Meik.W Interactive
Windows
Mesorift Survival is a classic survival game with PvP and PvE elements, set in a tropical open world with three islands. Gather resources, build a base, craft weapons, and survive.
Why similar: Survival 18.5%, Base Building 17%, Third Person 13.9%, Open World 13.8%, Action 8.6%
- #42 DYSMANTLE
71% matchVery Positive91% of 11,423 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: Survival 18.7%, Crafting 16%, Base Building 15.6%, Sandbox 15.5%, RPG 14.1%
- #43 Cultivation Tales
72% matchMostly Negative38% of 13,640 reviews2024
Dev: Ac Games
Windows
Median: 23.8 hrsMean: 66.1 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Cultivation Tales is an open world survival craft online game. You will experience collecting, crafting, hunting, fighting, building, researching, in a wild mythical world. Fight for your clan and yourself, from mortal to divinity!
Why similar: Sandbox 21.3%, Building 16.6%, Survival 12.4%, Action RPG 12.2%, RPG 10.6%
- #44 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: Sandbox 27.9%, Building 23.4%, Survival 17.9%, Crafting 15.8%, Open World 13.4%
- #45 Warlocks Quarry
71% matchVery Positive91% of 86 reviews2022
Dev: Sub Orbital Software
Windows
Use your skills in looting, fighting, exploring and base building to survive and progress in Warlocks world.
Why similar: Action RPG 29.4%, Sandbox 27.9%, Building 14.6%, Action 13.6%, 3D 7.7%
- #46 Keplerth
70% matchVery Positive85% of 4,138 reviews2022
Dev: TAROPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 16.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Welcome to Keplerth! Try to survive on a hostile alien planet in this 2D sandbox RPG, where you can choose to live alone or fight side by side with your friends in the online multiplayer mode. Survive, build, farm, fight, and explore your way to victory in this open-world adventure!
Why similar: Sandbox 24%, Building 17.9%, Survival 15.3%, RPG 11.3%, Open World 10.8%
- #47 DeadPoly
69% matchMostly Positive77% of 5,910 reviews2022
Dev: TFL Games
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 63%
DeadPoly is a polygon arcade zombie survival looter shooter with base building, crafting, scavenging, leveling, questing, and more, but your only goal is survival, everything else is optional.
Why similar: Sandbox 18.3%, Building 14.8%, Survival 14%, Base Building 13.5%, Crafting 12.7%
- #48 Rem Survival
70% 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: Building 17.3%, Base Building 16.3%, Survival 15.7%, Crafting 15.4%, Open World 10.7%
- #49 Away From Life
66% 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: Sandbox 19.8%, Building 16.5%, Base Building 13.8%, Crafting 12.9%, Survival 12.8%
- #50 Adventure Craft
70% matchVery Positive82% of 225 reviews2017
Dev: Edible Entertainment
Windows
Adventure Craft is a challenging procedurally generated sandbox RPG with roguelike elements. Hunt monsters, horde loot, and craft weapons and armor, to survive in a vast ever-changing RPG world full of action, extreme danger and wonderful surprises.
Why similar: Sandbox 17.3%, Action RPG 15.6%, Building 13.6%, Base Building 12.7%, RPG 10.6%
- #51 Project Castaway
65% 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: Sandbox 19.4%, Survival 14%, Building 13.4%, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 10.4%
- #52 Survival: Lost Way
69% matchMostly Negative36% of 291 reviews2023
Dev: SimplePlanPub: SimplePlan Studio
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
An open-world post-apocalyptic survival sandbox. Scavenge, craft, build, and survive solo or in co-op.
Why similar: Survival 20.1%, Crafting 19.3%, Building 15.2%, Base Building 12.3%, Action 11.7%
- #53 Survive on Raft
69% matchMixed63% of 1,253 reviews2019
Dev: Megame LLC
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Survive on Raft is a Survival Sandbox Simulator on the Raft in the middle of the ocean! Fight with shark, build base, craft, loot islands, farm and survive. Play solo or with friends.
Why similar: Sandbox 20.9%, Base Building 15.9%, Building 15.7%, Survival 15.5%, Crafting 14.6%
- #54 Fargone
67% matchMixed69% of 585 reviews2022
Dev: RedDot Games
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 45%
Fargone is an RPG-based survival game with a strong focus on creating a living, breathing world through dynamic events, and NPC interactions. Set in a fictional land known only as The Barrens, you must survive by any means, whether that be alone or by allying yourself with a faction.
Why similar: Sandbox 15.1%, Action RPG 13%, Building 12.3%, Base Building 10.3%, RPG 10.1%
- #55 Survive the Fall
66% matchMixed69% of 663 reviews2025
Dev: Angry Bulls StudioPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Explore, loot and fight in an open world action game set in a post-apocalyptic future after a devastating meteor strike. Assemble your team and take the fight to the enemy or choose a stealthy approach to gain the upper hand. Expand your base to research new gear and get ready to survive the fall.
Why similar: Base Building 19.3%, Survival 17.7%, RPG 16.9%, Crafting 16.1%, Open World 12.1%
- #56 BEACHED
67% matchMixed65% of 3,688 reviews2021
Dev: Gradient Studios
Windows
A free-to-play, low-poly, open-world survival shooter where you’ll battle other players, explore massive monuments, and fight to stay alive. Build and fortify your base to defend against enemy raids, gather resources, and conquer a harsh, competitive world. Survival means doing whatever it takes.
Why similar: Sandbox 29.8%, Survival 20.7%, Open World 14.9%, Third Person 13.5%, Action 11.1%
- #57 Karagon (Survival Robot Riding FPS)
68% matchMixed47% of 107 reviews2023
Dev: Tbjbu2 Originals
Windows
Survive, shoot, construct, and ride killer elemental robots. Craft equipment, explore multi-floor buildings, build and farm, uncover schematics, and progress through technology tiers. Alone or with friends in this brutal post apocalyptic open world survival robot riding crafting shooter game!
Why similar: Action RPG 15.2%, Building 12.1%, Survival 11.8%, Base Building 11.4%, Crafting 11.3%
- #58 Radiation Island
68% matchVery Positive81% of 629 reviews2016
Dev: Atypical Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Radiation Island is a survival adventure game where you craft your own destiny in a huge open world environment. As part of the Philadelphia Experiment you have become stranded in a parallel, alternate reality. Discover this new and mysterious world, with all its surprises.
Why similar: Survival 42.1%, Action 19.8%, Crafting 15.5%, Open World 15.2%, Multiplayer 6%
- #59 Hollow Island
67% matchVery Positive85% of 96 reviews2020
Dev: Edym Pixels
Windows
Shape your own destiny: Explore, dig for riches, fish, grow crops, cook food, brew and sell potions, expand your property, fight monsters, build camps and hoard your treasures!
Why similar: Action RPG 30.8%, Crafting 24.1%, Building 20.7%, Open World 16.5%, Action 6.9%