Games Like The Forest

Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends, in this terrifying new open-world survival horror simulator.

Why similar: Survival 28.5%, Open World 18.4%, Survival Horror 12%, Crafting 10.5%, Horror 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its direct sequel expands The Forest's first-person crafting, freeform building, cave exploration, co-op play, and terrifying mutant encounters.

Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 53% ★, Survival 17.5%, Open World 8%, Crafting 6.8%, Survival Horror 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: This is an especially close match for its first-person wilderness survival, detailed crafting, shelter building, hostile natives, and psychologically unsettling jungle atmosphere.

7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.1% ★, Survival 20.9%, Open World 11%, Building 6.7%, Horror 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its scavenging, crafting, fortification building, open-world exploration, and recurring undead assaults closely suit players who enjoy preparing a base against escalating threats.

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 48.8% ★, Survival 22.6%, Open World 8.5%, Crafting 8.4%, Horror 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers cooperative first-person survival, resource gathering, creative base building, and dangerous creature-filled exploration in a dense backyard wilderness.

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 38.6% ★, Survival 12%, Open World 9.3%, Crafting 7.9%, Building 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: This first-person solo-focused survival game emphasizes collecting supplies, constructing and defending a home, managing needs, and surviving mutant attacks in the wilderness.

A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 51.6% ★, Survival 15.8%, Open World 11%, Crafting 7.8%, Building 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its open-world survival loop combines gathering, building substantial bases, sailing into unknown territory, and fighting frightening creatures, albeit in a Viking-fantasy setting.

MIST SURVIVAL is a Single-player, survival stealth sandbox game Players will experience the Apocalypse stimulation in the form of virus pandemic, the players have to deal with it to survive through the difficulties such as finding shelter and food, threats from the environment and climate: wild animals, bandits, infected, and dense mist t

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.6% ★, Survival 21%, Open World 11.3%, Crafting 5.6%, Zombies 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the lonely, tense appeal of scavenging and building a defended refuge in an open world stalked by infected enemies.

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 55% ★, Survival 17.1%, Open World 8.8%, Crafting 7.2%, Building 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its shipwreck-survival premise, first-person crafting, island exploration, and shelter building make it a natural fit for the isolated survival side of The Forest.

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 47.2% ★, Survival 15.4%, Open World 9.7%, Horror 8%, Crafting 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Although set underwater, it has the same compelling loop of exploring a dangerous unknown world, gathering materials, crafting tools, and building safe bases amid horror-tinged threats.

THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies -- only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 55.6% ★, Survival 19.2%, Open World 9.6%, Crafting 4.5%, First-Person 2%

Why You'll Like It: Its deliberate, atmospheric survival emphasizes lonely exploration, scarce resources, environmental danger, and the tension of trying to stay alive far from safety.

The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.8% ★, Survival 25.8%, Open World 11.8%, Crafting 11%, Building 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: It shares open-world resource gathering, crafting, and highly flexible base construction, but shifts much of the danger toward competitive player-versus-player encounters.

Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 54.6% ★, Survival 16.9%, Open World 10%, Crafting 7.2%, Building 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its expansive maps, gathering and crafting progression, elaborate base building, and constant creature threats make it a strong survival-sandbox alternative.

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 49.5% ★, Survival 17.8%, Open World 9.4%, Crafting 8.4%, Building 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on first-person PvE survival expeditions where players gather resources, build weatherproof shelters, hunt wildlife, and endure a hostile alien wilderness.

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 53.3% ★, Survival 21.1%, Open World 7.8%, Crafting 7.7%, Building 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: The game delivers a satisfying cooperative survival loop of gathering debris, expanding a player-built home, and exploring dangerous isolated locations.

Welcome to SCUM, a ruthless open-world survival game where deep character customization defines the prisoner you become. Loot, craft, hunt, build, and fight to outlast a hostile island where every choice can change your fate. Stay alive. Stay dangerous. Become harder to kill.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.2% ★, Survival 15.9%, Open World 12.1%, Crafting 8.5%, Sandbox 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its demanding open-world survival systems, scavenging, crafting, and base-building give it a similarly unforgiving sandbox feel, especially in multiplayer.

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 46.3% ★, Survival 15.6%, Crafting 9%, Open World 8.7%, Building 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: This single-player survival adventure centers on exploring islands, managing injuries and needs, crafting equipment, and building up a secure camp.

How long can you survive a post-apocalyptic world? A land overrun with an infected "zombie" population, where you compete with other survivors for limited resources. Will you team up with strangers and stay strong together? Or play as a lone wolf to avoid betrayal? This is DayZ – this is your story.

Why similar: Survival 33.2%, Open World 16.8%, Survival Horror 12.3%, Horror 11.9%, Sandbox 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: It provides tense survival scavenging, crafting, wilderness travel, and player-built shelters in a hostile world where every encounter can be dangerous.

Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 70.2% ★, Survival 23.1%, Open World 2.6%, Crafting 1.8%, Sandbox 0.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its co-op wilderness survival, crafting, base making, and bizarre night-time monsters provide a stylized but genuinely punishing alternative.

Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.4% ★, Survival 22.7%, Open World 11.8%, Crafting 5.3%, Zombies 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: Despite its isometric viewpoint, it excels at tense scavenging, survival management, safehouse fortification, and the constant threat of an overwhelming hostile population.

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 46.5% ★, Survival 16.3%, Open World 10.3%, Crafting 8.9%, Building 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: It offers co-op survival crafting and base building in a natural world made threatening by its tiny-scale perspective and enormous insects.

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 48.5% ★, Survival 15.7%, Open World 11.1%, Crafting 8.9%, Building 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its first-person survival crafting, shared exploration, base construction, and eerie fantasy realms suit players wanting a more magical take on the formula.

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 58.2% ★, Survival 17.3%, Open World 8.3%, Crafting 8%, Sandbox 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its scavenging, modular base construction, open-water exploration, and raids create a strong survival-builder loop with a more post-apocalyptic flavor.

You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.

Why similar: Survival 33%, Open World 27.7%, Crafting 16.1%, Building 10.3%, Sandbox 5%

Why You'll Like It: It combines accessible co-op crafting and exceptionally flexible building with exploration of a dangerous, fog-covered open world full of hostile monsters.

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 44.8% ★, Survival 15.6%, Open World 11.5%, Crafting 9.9%, Building 7%

Why You'll Like It: It pairs first-person scavenging and crafting with exploration of a ruined world, using an upgradeable airship as a mobile survival base.

Abiotic Factor is a survival crafting experience for 1-6 players set in the depths of an underground research facility. Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the world’s greatest minds must survive against the universe’s biggest threats.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 51.6% ★, Survival 18.1%, Crafting 11.1%, Building 6.9%, Sandbox 4%

Why You'll Like It: It translates co-op survival crafting and improvised base defense into a strange science facility filled with paranormal threats and unsettling exploration.

The Wild Eight is an intense survival action-adventure set in the frozen wilderness of Alaska. Team up with friends in online co-op or go solo, explore the mysterious land, craft weapons and fight to live another day.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 54.1% ★, Survival 20.3%, Open World 9%, Crafting 6.4%, Survival Horror 2.5%

Why You'll Like It: It combines cooperative survival crafting, shelter construction, exploration, and harsh environmental pressure in an isolated snowy wilderness.

Dive into a freezing underwater adventure on an alien planet. Below Zero is set two years after the original Subnautica. Return to Planet 4546B to uncover the truth behind a deadly cover-up. Survive by building habitats, crafting tools, & diving deeper into the world of Subnautica.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.8% ★, Survival 14.7%, Open World 9.5%, Horror 7.1%, Crafting 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: This more compact follow-up preserves the exploratory crafting and base-building tension of Subnautica while adding colder, more land-based survival areas.

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 59.2% ★, Survival 13.7%, Open World 12.7%, Crafting 8.7%, Exploration 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: This open-ended zombie survival sandbox emphasizes scavenging, recruiting survivors, building communities, and defending against dynamic threats.

The dead have risen and civilization has fallen. Now it's up to you to gather survivors, scavenge for resources and build a community in a post-apocalyptic world – a world where you define what it means to survive in this ultimate zombie survival simulation.

Why similar: Survival 45.6%, Open World 31%, Zombies 9.2%, Horror 4.3%, Sandbox 4%

Why You'll Like It: Its zombie-infested open world rewards supply runs, survivor management, base upgrades, and careful exploration, though it is more community-focused than The Forest.

Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.7% ★, Survival 26.4%, Crafting 9.1%, Open World 5.6%, Sandbox 3.6%

Miscreated is a multiplayer online hardcore survival game set in a post-apocalyptic future. You will need to survive against mutants, players, and even mother nature herself.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 57.7% ★, Survival 18.5%, Open World 10.8%, Crafting 5.2%, Zombies 2.8%

Explore a strange island in this open-world survival horror. Use the Gravity Gun to manipulate objects and enemies, build a moving train base, fight giant creatures, catch critters, upgrade your gear, and uncover the dark secrets hidden within its abandoned facilities. Play alone or with friends.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.4% ★, Survival 11.2%, Open World 9.9%, Horror 8.4%, Survival Horror 8.2%

Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 55.6% ★, Survival 17%, Open World 9.1%, Crafting 8.7%, Building 5.2%

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 39.7% ★, Survival 11.3%, Open World 7.9%, Survival Horror 7.2%, Crafting 7.1%

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 45.7% ★, Survival 14.5%, Open World 10.1%, Crafting 7.5%, Building 5.7%

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: Open World Survival Craft 57.2% ★, Survival 20%, Open World 7.4%, Crafting 4.8%, Horror 3.1%

A realistic open-world survival experience. After a harrowing plane crash, you find yourself stranded in the wilderness. Battling freezing temperatures and hunger, you face an unknown virus that slowly paralyzes muscles, leaving its victims motionless and at the mercy of the unforgiving cold.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.3% ★, Survival 15.9%, Open World 11.3%, Crafting 7%, Survival Horror 5.4%

Your fight for survival begins on the frozen shores of Tarvhas, where bitter cold and vicious creatures conspire to defeat the unprepared. Uncover the land’s dark history as you and fellow explorers traverse an unforgiving and hostile world to tame the Savage Lands.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 55.7% ★, Survival 16.3%, Open World 10%, Crafting 7.3%, Sandbox 3.3%

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 40.8% ★, Survival 12.8%, Open World 9.6%, Crafting 7.5%, Horror 6.7%

Vortex: The Gateway is an open world survival horror game with two game modes. If you want to survive then be alert, sneak, build and fight. Meanwhile life back on Earth changes dramatically. What changes? You will get bits of information through your adventure. Prepare for the worst!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 54% ★, Survival 16.5%, Open World 8.8%, Crafting 6.7%, Survival Horror 4.7%

Winter Survival is a story-driven survival game where trauma turns reality into a reflection of your breaking mind. Battle cold, hunger, hallucinations, and adapt to the wilderness as it adapts to you.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.8% ★, Survival 14.8%, Open World 10.7%, Crafting 6.1%, Survival Horror 6%

CastleMiner Z is an infinite world filled with deep places to explore, and horrifying monsters to slay. Build structures out of blocks, craft weapons and tools from raw materials, and explore the vast and frightening world around you.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 52.8% ★, Survival 16.1%, Open World 7.7%, Crafting 6.1%, Sandbox 3.7%

A solar flare has struck and every living soul is turning into a rotting and aggressive ghoul.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.7% ★, Survival 15.3%, Open World 9.4%, Crafting 8.9%, Building 7.7%

Hostile Planet: Survival is a harsh adventure on an uncharted planet that full of danger and trials.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.4% ★, Survival 18.7%, Open World 11%, Crafting 10.4%, Building 7.4%

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 45.8% ★, Survival 13.3%, Open World 9.4%, Crafting 8.7%, Building 8.1%

Crash-landed on a surreal, low-poly world filled with freakish inhabitants, choose between permadeath and non-permadeath modes and embark on an epic (and ridiculous) survival adventure. Will you manage to stay alive as you unravel the mysteries of Wrongworld and search for a way home?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 57.2% ★, Survival 13.7%, Open World 7.8%, Crafting 5.8%, Building 4.9%

Brave a savage, unforgiving procedurally generated world where extreme weather and the nightmares of the dark will hunt you down. Alone or in co-op, survive, build, and explore to turn a cursed hellscape into your sanctuary of light.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.6% ★, Survival 14%, Open World 9.2%, Crafting 9.1%, Building 7.1%

First-person action survival game set in a post-apocalyptic open world overrun by flesh-hungry zombies. Roam a city devastated by a mysterious virus epidemic. Scavenge for supplies, craft weapons, and face hordes of the infected.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.1% ★, Survival 13.6%, Open World 11.7%, Survival Horror 10.6%, Horror 10%

The Island - "Island") - a computer game with an open world and a first-person view in the genre of survival.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 50% ★, Survival 16%, Open World 11.3%, Crafting 8.7%, Building 8%

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 49% ★, Survival 15.4%, Open World 11%, Crafting 10%, Building 7.5%

⚗️ 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 37.7% ★, Survival 14.5%, Open World 10.7%, Crafting 9.4%, Building 7.1%

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 47.4% ★, Survival 14.6%, Open World 10.7%, Crafting 7.7%, Building 6.2%

THE HIGHRISE is a first-person survival game set in a high-rise building that has been sealed off by an alien monster invasion. Gather resources to make fighting weapons and survival tools. You must find and send a rescue signal at the end of your desperate survival.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.3% ★, Survival 12.2%, Open World 10.6%, Crafting 9.2%, Survival Horror 9.1%

Miasmata is a first-person survival/adventure game, developed from the ground-up by brothers Joe and Bob Johnson. You play as Robert Hughes, a plague-stricken scientist on a journey to discover a cure. Your adventure begins on the shores of a remote and mysterious island.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.2% ★, Survival 28.5%, Open World 10.1%, Horror 4.9%, Exploration 3.5%

Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 52.3% ★, Survival 15.5%, Crafting 10.2%, Open World 8.7%, Building 5.4%

The award-winning Far Cry franchise returns with its innovative open world gameplay, bringing together massive beasts, breathtaking environments, and unpredictable savage encounters. Welcome to the Stone Age, a time of danger and adventure.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40% ★, Survival 22.1%, Open World 19.9%, Crafting 7.5%, First-Person 3.5%

Want to survive? - Arm yourself and survive. Crafting, shooting, transport and much more awaits you in the Survival game. What happened to the world around and why he died - you may find out. But is this the main question now?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 59.2% ★, Survival 18.6%, Open World 9.5%, Crafting 4.8%, Building 2.5%

Unturned is an open-world zombie survival sandbox game. As one of the few not yet turned, you must fight to remain among the living.

Why similar: Survival 29.7%, Open World 20.5%, Crafting 17.8%, Sandbox 8.3%, Zombies 6.5%