- #1 The Forest
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 670,097 reviews2018
Dev: Endnight Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 37.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.4% ★, Survival 17.2%, Open World 14.7%, Crafting 13.3%, First-Person 4.7%
Why You'll Like It: A quintessential first-person survival game that perfectly mirrors the island-based base building and PvE combat found in The Glade.
- #2 Sons Of The Forest
96% matchVery Positive88% of 304,972 reviews2024
Dev: Endnight Games LtdPub: Newnight
Windows
Median: 15.1 hrsMean: 32.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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: Open World 22.6%, Survival 22.3%, Base Building 20.7%, Crafting 17.9%, First-Person 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: This sequel elevates the island survival experience with advanced building mechanics and a more immersive, dangerous open world.
- #3 Grounded
96% 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 33.4% ★, Survival 18%, Base Building 16.8%, Crafting 14.6%, Open World 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game features a unique stylized art direction and rewarding survival mechanics that emphasize base building and exploration.
- #4 Valheim
95% 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 36% ★, Open World 14%, Crafting 13.9%, Survival 13%, Base Building 12.7%
Why You'll Like It: While set in a fantasy realm, its stylized aesthetic and deep focus on base building and PvE progression align closely with the feel of The Glade.
- #5 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 36.3% ★, Survival 13.8%, Crafting 13.7%, Open World 13.5%, Base Building 12.8%
Why You'll Like It: An exceptional survival game that excels at creating a sense of wonder and danger on an alien world, much like the meteorite-struck island in The Glade.
- #6 7 Days to Die
93% matchVery Positive87% of 399,251 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 16.9 hrsMean: 108.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 33.6% ★, Survival 18.6%, Base Building 16%, Open World 15.2%, Post-apocalyptic 14.5%
Why You'll Like It: A premier post-apocalyptic survival game that focuses heavily on fortifying bases against waves of enemies.
- #7 The Infected
94% 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 29.1% ★, Base Building 15.1%, Crafting 15%, Open World 12.8%, Survival 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: A singleplayer-focused survival game that emphasizes base building and defending against AI threats in an open world.
- #8 Dysterra
92% 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: Open World Survival Craft 24.1% ★, PvE 13.5%, Crafting 13.2%, Base Building 12.4%, Post-apocalyptic 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic survival game that blends crafting and base building with intense PvE combat encounters.
- #9 Green Hell
91% 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 40.5% ★, Survival 15.5%, Crafting 13%, Open World 11.1%, Base Building 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: This title offers a more hardcore, realistic take on island survival that will challenge players who enjoy the survival aspects of The Glade.
- #10 Stranded Deep
91% 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 46% ★, Survival 16.7%, Crafting 15.3%, Open World 13.4%, First-Person 5.3%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses purely on the island survival experience, requiring players to craft and build to survive in a hostile environment.
- #11 Nightingale
90% matchMixed67% of 17,932 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 31.6% ★, Crafting 14.6%, Open World 13.2%, Base Building 13%, Survival 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival craft game that emphasizes exploration and building in mysterious, otherworldly environments.
- #12 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
89% 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 30.6% ★, Base Building 15.2%, Crafting 14.7%, Survival 12.4%, Open World 12.3%
Why You'll Like It: Features a stylized world and creative building mechanics that feel very similar to the core loop of The Glade.
- #13 Outbreak Island
89% 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: Crafting 19.2%, Survival 18.8%, Base Building 17.2%, Post-apocalyptic 16.1%, Open World 14.6%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game set on an island filled with mystery and danger, mirroring the setting and atmosphere of The Glade.
- #14 Raft
88% 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 40.3% ★, Survival 18.6%, Crafting 14.7%, Base Building 10.7%, Open World 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: While set on the ocean, it captures the same satisfying loop of gathering resources and expanding a base to survive against threats.
- #15 Ylands
87% matchMixed64% of 8,392 reviews2019
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 46%
Adventure awaits you and your friends in the world of Ylands! Gather resources, craft tools, construct anything and everything, and explore the lands! Build a ship and set sail, encountering mythical animals, a wide variety of sea-life, enemies of all kinds and much more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30% ★, Crafting 15.9%, Base Building 14.2%, Open World 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8%
Why You'll Like It: A colorful, stylized exploration and survival game that allows for significant creative freedom in building.
- #16 Volcanoids
86% 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: Crafting 24.3%, Base Building 22.5%, Open World 17.5%, Survival 15.8%, First-Person 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a unique twist on base building with mobile bases, providing a fresh take on the survival-craft genre.
- #17 Muck
85% 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: Crafting 23.3%, Survival 22.7%, Open World 16.3%, Base Building 14.9%, First-Person 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced, stylized survival game that combines base building and roguelike elements for a challenging PvE experience.
- #18 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 26.9% ★, Crafting 13.8%, Base Building 13%, Open World 12.3%, Survival 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: A dedicated open-world survival game that prioritizes base building and resource management.
- #19 Unturned
84% matchVery Positive91% of 562,983 reviews2017
Dev: Smartly Dressed Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 72.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
You're a survivor in the zombie infested ruins of society, and must work with your friends and forge alliances to remain among the living.
Why similar: Crafting 21.9%, Post-apocalyptic 19.8%, Open World 18.2%, Survival 17%, First-Person 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: Its low-poly, stylized aesthetic and focus on survival against zombies make it a great thematic match for The Glade.
- #20 Craterbound
84% matchMixed54% 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 31% ★, Crafting 14.3%, Base Building 14%, Open World 13.4%, Survival 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on exploration and survival in a space-themed setting, sharing the discovery-based gameplay of The Glade.
- #21 Solace Crafting
83% 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 30.3% ★, Crafting 16.3%, Base Building 13.8%, Open World 12.6%, Survival 12%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a vast open world with deep crafting and building systems for players who enjoy the sandbox elements of the genre.
- #22 Forever Skies
81% 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 25% ★, Crafting 14.1%, Base Building 13.9%, Open World 11.7%, Post-apocalyptic 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: This post-apocalyptic survival game features high-stakes exploration and base building in a dangerous, ruined world.
- #23 ICARUS
81% 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 32.5% ★, Base Building 15%, Crafting 14.2%, Survival 13.7%, Open World 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: A session-based survival game that focuses on PvE challenges and crafting, perfect for players who enjoy the action-survival loop.
- #24 Radiation Island
82% 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: Open World Survival Craft 49% ★, Survival 20%, Open World 11.8%, Crafting 10.5%, Action 3.6%
Why You'll Like It: An adventure-focused survival game that tasks players with exploring a mysterious island filled with dangers.
- #25 Strayed
79% matchMostly Positive79% of 370 reviews2024
Dev: Crustacean Interactive
Windows
Strayed is a fast paced open world VR survival game where every session feels like a new adventure. Start with nothing on a fresh island, gather materials, craft weapons, build bases, and battle other players for the best loot.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.3% ★, Crafting 14.3%, Base Building 11.9%, Open World 11.5%, Post-apocalyptic 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game that emphasizes looting and exploration in an open-world environment.
- #26 Rust
78% matchVery Positive87% of 1,363,157 reviews2018
Dev: Facepunch Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 52.5 hrsMean: 421.6 hrs≥1hr: 96%
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 28.3% ★, Survival 22.6%, Crafting 20.8%, Open World 16.1%, Post-apocalyptic 4.8%
Why You'll Like It: While known for its multiplayer, its core survival and base-building mechanics are the gold standard for the genre.
- #27 Doomed Lands
80% matchMixed46% of 63 reviews2023
Dev: Nibb GamesPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A diabolical demon dooms a teeming island to destruction. Five legendary lieutenants and their minions descend every seven days…but that allows ample time to prepare. Survive, craft, train, and gear up to defend the island!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.8% ★, Base Building 15.5%, Crafting 14.6%, Survival 11.8%, PvE 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: Blends survival and base building with roguelike mechanics to create a tense, action-packed experience.
- #28 Conan Exiles Enhanced
78% matchMostly Positive79% of 115,037 reviews2018
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 17.1 hrsMean: 111.9 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Conan Exiles Enhanced is an open world survival game set in the mythical lands of Hyboria, now fully upgraded to Unreal Engine 5 with stunning visuals and improved performance. SURVIVE, BUILD, and DOMINATE alone or with friends in a world brimming with adventure!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.2% ★, Survival 20.7%, Open World 20.6%, Crafting 18.3%, Action 1.6%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a massive open world with complex base building and survival mechanics that cater to fans of the genre.
- #29 Trials of Wilderness
79% 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: Open World Survival Craft 21% ★, Base Building 14.6%, Open World 13.5%, Crafting 12.4%, Survival 12%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game centered on PvE action and exploration, perfect for those who enjoy the combat-heavy side of survival games.
- #30 Wild Omission
77% 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 30.7% ★, Crafting 17.7%, Open World 13.9%, Survival 12.6%, Base Building 10.9%
- #31 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
75% 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 36.2% ★, Base Building 17.1%, Crafting 15.8%, Open World 13.6%, Survival 8.8%
- #32 Survival: Fountain of Youth
74% 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 31.2% ★, Base Building 15.6%, Crafting 15.4%, Survival 12.3%, Open World 10.7%
- #33 ToGather:Island
77% matchVery Positive83% of 53 reviews2019
Dev: Studio KamiiPub: Todak Studios
Windows
ToGather:Island is an open world survival game set in a science-fantasy archipelago
Why similar: Crafting 30.4%, Survival 24.8%, Open World 12.7%, Action-Adventure 10.7%, Colorful 6.7%
- #34 Ruins To Fortress
75% 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: Open World Survival Craft 32.5% ★, Crafting 14.1%, Base Building 12.9%, Open World 11.1%, Survival 10.5%
- #35 Mesorift Survival
73% 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: Open World Survival Craft 32.1% ★, Open World 15.2%, Base Building 14%, Survival 12.5%, PvE 10.8%
- #36 Dawn of Defiance
73% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,797 reviews2024
Dev: Traega EntertainmentPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
You are the Defier, a Spartan beginning your afterlife on the Crossroads. In this Greek myth-inspired survival craft, ascend from weak soldier to god-like anti-hero. Build impressive Greek structures, craft legendary gear, and break the seals of the Underworld with up to 3 friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.1% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Survival 12.5%, PvE 11.3%, Open World 11%
- #37 SurrounDead
72% matchVery Positive92% of 24,802 reviews2022
Dev: ZurvivorPub: PlaySurrounDead
Windows
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 15.9 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 20.3% ★, Open World 19.5%, Survival 17.8%, Post-apocalyptic 17%, Base Building 10.8%
- #38 Len's Island
71% 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 33.3% ★, Crafting 15.3%, Open World 12.7%, Base Building 12.4%, Survival 12%
- #39 Far Lands
74% matchMixed65% of 167 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 22.7% ★, Crafting 14.9%, Base Building 13.7%, Survival 10.9%, Open World 10.4%
- #40 Nomad
76% 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 43.5% ★, Survival 16.8%, Open World 14.6%, Crafting 12.4%, Post-apocalyptic 4.8%
- #41 Re.poly
73% 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: Open World Survival Craft 30.5% ★, Crafting 16.3%, Base Building 13.7%, Open World 13.1%, Survival 11.9%
- #42 My Island
72% 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 48.2% ★, Survival 15.8%, Crafting 14.4%, Open World 13.6%, Base Building 4.1%
- #43 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,680 reviews2021
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Experience the first stages of terraforming an entire planet in this space survival open world terraforming crafting game prologue. Explore, survive, collect, build your base then create oxygen, heat and pressure to make an hostile planet livable for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.1% ★, Base Building 16%, Crafting 15.2%, Survival 13.3%, Open World 13.2%
- #44 Deadside
69% matchMostly Positive76% of 40,248 reviews2024
Dev: Bad Pixel
Windows
Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 44.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
An Open World Survival Shooter blending hardcore PVP and PVE action. Secure precious loot in safe zones or build your own fortress in the wild. With intense gunfights, stunning visuals, and performance smooth enough for any system, the challenge awaits!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.3% ★, Post-apocalyptic 14.9%, Survival 13.9%, Open World 13.3%, Base Building 10%
- #45 XERA: Survival
71% 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: Open World Survival Craft 28.8% ★, Base Building 15.7%, Crafting 14.3%, Post-apocalyptic 11.4%, Open World 10.7%
- #46 Survive the Fall
68% 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: Open World Survival Craft 27.4% ★, Base Building 14.8%, Crafting 14.5%, Post-apocalyptic 13.5%, Open World 12.4%
- #47 INCUR Survival
70% 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: Open World Survival Craft 33.3% ★, Crafting 15.9%, Open World 12.5%, Survival 11.3%, First-Person 7.2%
- #48 Mist Survival
69% matchMostly Positive76% of 14,126 reviews2018
Dev: Dimension 32 Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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 35.2% ★, Survival 18.6%, Open World 15.7%, Base Building 12.5%, Crafting 10.8%
- #49 The Island
71% 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: Open World Survival Craft 39.6% ★, Crafting 17.5%, Open World 16.3%, Survival 14.8%, First-Person 6.8%
- #50 Alchemist's Awakening
70% matchMostly Positive73% of 497 reviews2019
Dev: OsarisGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Enter a world full of magic, mystery, beautiful landscapes and dangerous creatures. Build your own destiny, by yourself or with some friends, gather materials, use elements as attacks, recombine them into building blocks... and use your Alchemist's power to give life to any shape you built.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.8% ★, Crafting 21.9%, Open World 16.2%, Survival 12.9%, Action 3.2%
- #51 Survival Machine
66% matchMostly Positive74% of 687 reviews2025
Dev: Grape PickersPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Build your base on a moving Machine, travel through biomes with different resources, and prepare for the night when a zombie threat is much higher than during the day. Would you go solo or explore this new world with your best friends?
Why similar: Crafting 23.7%, Base Building 21.8%, Survival 14.6%, PvE 14.6%, Action-Adventure 9.2%
- #52 DeadPoly
67% 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: Open World Survival Craft 29.1% ★, Crafting 14.6%, Post-apocalyptic 14.3%, Base Building 13.3%, Survival 11.3%
- #53 Plains of Pain
66% matchVery Positive84% of 757 reviews2023
Dev: Cobra Byte Digital
Windows
Survive a brutal open world alone or with friends. Explore a procedural wasteland scorched by chaos. Build and defend your base, trade for what you need, complete deadly quests, and fight to claim faction outposts before someone else does.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.4% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Crafting 13.4%, Post-apocalyptic 13%, Open World 11.3%
- #54 Heat Death: Survival Train
65% matchMostly Positive79% of 673 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 30.5% ★, Crafting 16.2%, Base Building 14.2%, Post-apocalyptic 14.1%, Survival 10.9%
- #55 Apocalypse Island
67% 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: Post-apocalyptic 22.6%, Survival 19.7%, Crafting 14%, Open World 10.6%, First-Person 8.5%
- #56 Cube Life: Island Survival
69% 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 52.1% ★, Crafting 15.2%, Open World 14.7%, Survival 12.1%, Adventure 3.4%
- #57 Project: Mist
64% matchMixed69% of 122 reviews2026
Dev: Chicken Launcher
Windows
Explore a remote island solo or in MULTIPLAYER co-op in this open-world survival horror. Manipulate objects and enemies with the Gravity Gun, build a moving train base, fight giant creatures, catch critters, upgrade your gear, and survive a hostile world shaped by abandoned, mysterious facilities.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.5% ★, Crafting 16.5%, Post-apocalyptic 16%, Open World 14.7%, Survival 10.8%
