- #1 The Forest
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 665,921 reviews2018
Dev: Endnight Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 37.0 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 46.1% ★, Survival 17.2%, Open World 14.7%, Crafting 13.5%, First-Person 4.8%
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 299,895 reviews2024
Dev: Endnight Games LtdPub: Newnight
Windows
Median: 14.9 hrsMean: 32.0 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 22.4%, Survival 22.1%, Base Building 20.9%, Crafting 17.9%, First-Person 7.7%
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 92,875 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.2 hrsMean: 40.8 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 33.1% ★, Survival 18.1%, Base Building 16.9%, Crafting 14.8%, 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 529,829 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 25.6 hrsMean: 76.1 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 35.7% ★, Crafting 14.1%, Open World 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 The Infected
94% matchVery Positive85% of 6,893 reviews2020
Dev: DigX Studios
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 18.5 hrs≥1hr: 68%
The Infected is a sandbox, first-person, open-world survival game. Build bases, craft, farm, hunt, and survive changing seasons. Choose whether to face the hybrid “Vambies” or turn them off for a pure survival experience.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.9% ★, Base Building 15.1%, Crafting 15.1%, Open World 12.8%, Survival 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: A singleplayer-focused survival game that emphasizes base building and defending against AI threats in an open world.
- #6 Subnautica
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 344,093 reviews2018
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.4 hrsMean: 40.0 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 36.1% ★, Crafting 13.8%, Survival 13.8%, 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.
- #7 7 Days to Die
92% matchVery Positive87% of 396,805 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 16.8 hrsMean: 107.4 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 33.4% ★, Survival 18.6%, Base Building 16.1%, 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.
- #8 Dysterra
93% matchMixed56% of 755 reviews2025
Dev: Reality MagiQ
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 67%
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 23.9% ★, PvE 13.7%, Crafting 13.3%, 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 94,379 reviews2019
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 18.7 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 40.2% ★, Survival 15.4%, Crafting 13.1%, Open World 11.1%, Base Building 10%
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 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
91% matchVery Positive82% of 9,646 reviews2024
Dev: Merge GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 30.4% ★, Base Building 15.3%, Crafting 14.9%, Survival 12.4%, Open World 12.2%
Why You'll Like It: Features a stylized world and creative building mechanics that feel very similar to the core loop of The Glade.
- #11 Nightingale
90% matchMixed67% of 17,841 reviews2024
Dev: Inflexion Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 23.9 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 31.3% ★, Crafting 14.7%, Open World 13.1%, Base Building 13.1%, Survival 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival craft game that emphasizes exploration and building in mysterious, otherworldly environments.
- #12 Stranded Deep
89% matchMostly Positive74% of 47,062 reviews2022
Dev: Beam Team GamesPub: Beam Team Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 21.1 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 45.7% ★, Survival 16.7%, Crafting 15.4%, 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.
- #13 Raft
88% matchVery Positive93% of 368,916 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.5 hrsMean: 36.8 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 40.1% ★, Survival 18.6%, Crafting 14.8%, Base Building 10.8%, 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.
- #14 Volcanoids
89% matchVery Positive83% of 9,214 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: Open World Survival Craft 32.1% ★, Crafting 16.3%, Open World 13.5%, Base Building 13.3%, Survival 11.6%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a unique twist on base building with mobile bases, providing a fresh take on the survival-craft genre.
- #15 Ylands
87% matchMixed64% of 8,354 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 29.7% ★, Crafting 16%, Base Building 14.3%, Open World 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: A colorful, stylized exploration and survival game that allows for significant creative freedom in building.
- #16 KeepUp Survival
86% matchMixed65% of 734 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.7 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 26.7% ★, Crafting 13.9%, Base Building 13%, Open World 12.2%, Survival 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: A dedicated open-world survival game that prioritizes base building and resource management.
- #17 Outbreak Island
85% matchVery Positive80% of 906 reviews2025
Dev: Tiny Magicians
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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 19.4%, Survival 18.7%, Base Building 17.3%, Post-apocalyptic 16%, Open World 14.5%
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.
- #18 Unturned
84% matchVery Positive91% of 561,138 reviews2017
Dev: Smartly Dressed Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 71.6 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 22.1%, Post-apocalyptic 19.8%, Open World 18.1%, Survival 16.9%, 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.
- #19 Craterbound
86% 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 30.7% ★, Crafting 14.4%, Base Building 14.1%, 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.
- #20 Solace Crafting
84% 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% ★, Crafting 16.4%, Base Building 13.9%, 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.
- #21 Forever Skies
81% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,284 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.4 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 24.8% ★, Crafting 14.2%, Base Building 14%, 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.
- #22 ICARUS
82% matchMostly Positive74% of 62,078 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 44.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 32.2% ★, Base Building 15.1%, Crafting 14.3%, Survival 13.6%, 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.
- #23 Muck
81% matchVery Positive93% of 182,033 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 23.5%, Survival 22.6%, Open World 16.2%, 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.
- #24 Radiation Island
83% matchVery Positive80% of 623 reviews2016
Dev: Atypical Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 48.8% ★, Survival 20.1%, Open World 11.8%, Crafting 10.6%, 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 Positive78% of 332 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 37.1% ★, Crafting 14.4%, Base Building 12%, 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 1,344,289 reviews2018
Dev: Facepunch Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 52.0 hrsMean: 416.6 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 28.1% ★, Survival 22.6%, Crafting 20.9%, 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 27.5% ★, Base Building 15.5%, Crafting 14.7%, Survival 11.8%, PvE 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: Blends survival and base building with roguelike mechanics to create a tense, action-packed experience.
- #28 Conan Exiles
78% matchMostly Positive79% of 111,441 reviews2018
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 16.9 hrsMean: 111.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
An online multiplayer survival game, now with sorcery, set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian. Survive in a vast open world sandbox, build your home into a kingdom, and dominate your enemies in single or multiplayer.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.8% ★, Survival 20.8%, Open World 20.6%, Crafting 18.5%, 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% matchMixed69% of 120 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 20.8% ★, Base Building 14.6%, Open World 13.4%, Crafting 12.5%, 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 Positive88% of 59 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 30.4% ★, Crafting 17.8%, Open World 13.9%, Survival 12.6%, Base Building 10.9%
- #31 Dawn of Defiance
74% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,736 reviews2024
Dev: Traega EntertainmentPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 33.7% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Survival 12.5%, PvE 11.5%, Open World 11%
- #32 Survival: Fountain of Youth
73% matchVery Positive86% of 4,270 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% ★, Base Building 15.7%, Crafting 15.5%, Survival 12.3%, Open World 10.6%
- #33 Ruins To Fortress
75% matchMixed62% of 164 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 32.2% ★, Crafting 14.2%, Base Building 12.9%, Open World 11.1%, Survival 10.6%
- #34 Len's Island
73% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,615 reviews2025
Dev: Flow Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 33.1% ★, Crafting 15.4%, Open World 12.7%, Base Building 12.4%, Survival 12%
- #35 ToGather:Island
76% 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 30.5%, Survival 24.8%, Open World 12.6%, Action-Adventure 10.6%, Colorful 6.7%
- #36 Nomad
77% 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 43.3% ★, Survival 16.9%, Open World 14.6%, Crafting 12.6%, Post-apocalyptic 4.8%
- #37 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
72% matchVery Positive91% of 7,161 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in this free prologue introducing one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters – an upcoming open-world game that challenges you, alone or with friends, to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.9% ★, Base Building 17.1%, Crafting 15.9%, Open World 13.7%, Survival 8.8%
- #38 Re.poly
75% matchVery Positive92% of 135 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 30.3% ★, Crafting 16.5%, Base Building 13.8%, Open World 13.1%, Survival 12%
- #39 Mesorift Survival
73% matchMostly Positive77% of 101 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 31.8% ★, Open World 15.1%, Base Building 14.1%, Survival 12.5%, PvE 11.1%
- #40 Far Lands
74% matchMixed66% of 166 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 22.5% ★, Crafting 15%, Base Building 13.7%, Survival 10.9%, Open World 10.4%
- #41 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,643 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 31.8% ★, Base Building 16%, Crafting 15.3%, Survival 13.3%, Open World 13.2%
- #42 My Island
72% matchMixed67% of 1,706 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% ★, Survival 15.8%, Crafting 14.6%, Open World 13.7%, Base Building 4.1%
- #43 SurrounDead
70% matchVery Positive92% of 23,544 reviews2022
Dev: ZurvivorPub: PlaySurrounDead
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 15.2 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% ★, Open World 19.2%, Survival 17.8%, Post-apocalyptic 17.2%, Base Building 11%
- #44 INCUR Survival
70% matchVery Positive84% of 103 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 33.1% ★, Crafting 16%, Open World 12.4%, Survival 11.4%, First-Person 7.3%
- #45 Survive the Fall
69% matchMixed69% of 656 reviews2025
Dev: Angry Bulls StudioPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 8.5 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 27.2% ★, Base Building 14.9%, Crafting 14.6%, Post-apocalyptic 13.4%, Open World 12.4%
- #46 Nighthold: Number 1
68% matchMostly Positive72% of 356 reviews2025
Dev: 2 Zombie GamesPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 1.3 hrs≥1hr: 26%
Investigate a starship crash, explore a hostile world, build shelters and survive nightly attacks of the Rot. Tear down any structure and experience total freedom of action.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.3% ★, Base Building 15.3%, Crafting 15.2%, Survival 12.1%, Open World 10.2%
- #47 XERA: Survival
70% matchMixed66% of 7,888 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 28.5% ★, Base Building 15.8%, Crafting 14.4%, Post-apocalyptic 11.4%, Survival 10.7%
- #48 Alchemist's Awakening
71% matchMostly Positive73% of 496 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 45.6% ★, Crafting 22.1%, Open World 16.2%, Survival 12.9%, Action 3.2%
- #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 39.3% ★, Crafting 17.6%, Open World 16.3%, Survival 14.9%, First-Person 6.9%
- #50 The Gold River Project
66% matchMixed67% of 526 reviews2026
Dev: Fairview Games Inc.
Windows
The Gold River Project™ invites you and your friends on an open world camping trip gone wrong. Alone or together, you must explore, craft, build, and survive the increasingly harsh environments of the Pacific Northwest wilderness as you uncover the experiment trapping you inside.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.1% ★, Open World 16%, Crafting 14.8%, Survival 12%, First-Person 8.2%
- #51 Mist Survival
68% matchMostly Positive76% of 14,042 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% ★, Survival 18.7%, Open World 15.7%, Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 10.9%
- #52 Plains of Pain
66% matchVery Positive85% of 692 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 26.1% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 13.5%, Post-apocalyptic 13%, Open World 11.2%
- #53 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 51.9% ★, Crafting 15.4%, Open World 14.7%, Survival 12.1%, Adventure 3.4%
- #54 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 22.5%, Survival 19.7%, Crafting 14.1%, Open World 10.5%, First-Person 8.6%
- #55 StarRupture
63% matchVery Positive81% of 10,861 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 32.5% ★, Base Building 17.6%, Crafting 16.6%, Open World 14.3%, Survival 12.6%
- #56 Deadside
63% matchMostly Positive76% of 40,013 reviews2024
Dev: Bad Pixel
Windows
Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 44.2 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 30.1% ★, Post-apocalyptic 15%, Survival 13.9%, Open World 13.3%, Base Building 10.1%
- #57 Project Cobalt
65% matchMostly Positive73% of 54 reviews2025
Dev: OxygenStudio
Windows
⚗️ Project Cobalt is a survival action game set on a hostile island 🌴. Scavenge containers, mine resources, craft tools, hunt animals, and endure storms as you fight hunger, disease, and exhaustion all while uncovering the dark truth behind a failed experiment.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.8% ★, Crafting 19.6%, Open World 16%, Survival 13.9%, First-Person 9%