Games Like The Survivalists

Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 18.3% ★, Crafting 10.7%, Online Co-Op 9.5%, Survival 9.1%, Base Building 9%

Why You'll Like It: It features a similar top-down perspective, deep crafting, and automation mechanics that mirror the monkey-training system in The Survivalists.

Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.8% ★, Crafting 9.9%, Survival 8.3%, Sandbox 7.2%, Online Co-Op 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a similar top-down survival experience with a heavy emphasis on base building, settlement management, and multiplayer exploration.

The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.6% ★, Crafting 16%, Survival 13.4%, Base Building 7.6%, Sandbox 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the same lighthearted, top-down island-hopping feel with a focus on gathering, crafting, and expanding your territory.

Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.2% ★, Crafting 11.1%, Sandbox 10.8%, Survival 10.6%, Multiplayer 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: As a cornerstone of the 2D survival-crafting genre, it provides the same addictive loop of exploration, combat, and base expansion.

You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.4% ★, Sandbox 10.3%, Crafting 10.3%, Online Co-Op 9.5%, Survival 9%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a vast, pixel-art universe to explore with extensive crafting and base-building mechanics that feel very familiar.

Craft, Steal, Brawl and Escape! It’s time to bust out of the toughest prisons in the world as you return to the life of an inmate in The Escapists 2, now with multiplayer! Have you got what it takes to escape?

Why similar: Online Co-Op 22%, Multiplayer 15.7%, Crafting 15.6%, Co-op 13.6%, Sandbox 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Set in the same universe, it shares the distinct art style and strategic planning elements that define the original Survivalists experience.

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 30.6% ★, Survival 15.5%, Crafting 10.8%, Co-op 8.7%, Multiplayer 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: While 3D, it shares the core survival loop of gathering resources from the environment to expand your base while navigating an open-world setting.

Gather your friends and come to Tinkertown - A refreshing new Multiplayer Sandbox Experience! Explore magical places filled with loot, danger, and creativity.

Why similar: Crafting 19.4%, Online Co-Op 14.8%, Sandbox 12.1%, Multiplayer 10.8%, Open World 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer-focused sandbox game that shares the charming pixel-art style and cooperative building elements of The Survivalists.

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 31.3% ★, Crafting 13.9%, Survival 12.4%, Base Building 10.2%, Sandbox 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: This title combines top-down survival and building with dungeon crawling, offering a polished experience for fans of base-management games.

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 22.9% ★, Crafting 10.7%, Online Co-Op 10.5%, Survival 10.3%, Base Building 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique survival perspective with a strong focus on base building and crafting in an expansive, dangerous open world.

Fight and tame alien beasts, craft resources into menacing weaponry, befriend the outlandish locals, and go toe-to-chin with a world-domineering maniac.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.7% ★, Crafting 13.6%, Survival 11.3%, Base Building 10.6%, Open World 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down, crafting-heavy adventure that emphasizes exploration and survival in a vibrant, alien world.

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: Survival 18.5%, Sandbox 15.7%, Open World 13.5%, Crafting 9.3%, Base Building 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: This top-down survival game features extensive crafting and base building in a procedurally generated world that feels very similar to The Survivalists.

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 25.6% ★, Survival 15.2%, Base Building 11.3%, Crafting 10.9%, Co-op 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: This survival game excels at cooperative base building and exploration, providing a high-quality experience for those who enjoy the survival-crafting genre.

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 56.4% ★, Survival 23.8%, Multiplayer 3.8%, Co-op 3.7%, Crafting 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: A quintessential survival game that emphasizes cooperative play, crafting, and managing resources in a challenging environment.

Make the world truly yours in Junk Jack, a relaxing sandbox experience focused on building and improving your home. Discover new planets, tame and breed creatures, cook foods, collect animal companions, farm exotic plants, collect fish, grow flowers, play with your friends!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.2% ★, Crafting 14.2%, Survival 12.5%, Sandbox 11.4%, Multiplayer 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D sandbox game that focuses heavily on exploration and crafting, perfect for players who enjoy the pixelated survival aesthetic.

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 31.8% ★, Survival 13.4%, Online Co-Op 11.4%, Crafting 9.9%, Multiplayer 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A more realistic survival game that tests your ability to craft and manage resources in a harsh, unforgiving jungle environment.

Build and defend villages of vegetable folk from deadly feral beasts in the blighted world of The Hollow. Explore, gather, and fight! You can even invite your friends. Can you craft the perfect village?

Why similar: Online Co-Op 17.1%, Survival 14.9%, Sandbox 11.9%, Open World 11.4%, Base Building 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on building and defending bases in a whimsical world, sharing the cooperative spirit of The Survivalists.

Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements. Explore an open world with different biomes, take care of oxygen, manage your farms, generate electricity, build your home and much more!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.1% ★, Online Co-Op 12%, Survival 11.5%, Crafting 10.5%, Base Building 8%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game with a focus on building and managing a base while exploring a dangerous, stylized world.

Craftopia is the brand new multiplayer survival action game made in Japan. We combined many features we find enjoyable, such as hunting, farming, hack-and-slash, building, automation to develop this game.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25% ★, Crafting 18.4%, Survival 13.4%, Open World 12.4%, Sandbox 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game blends survival, crafting, and automation, allowing players to build complex systems that echo the monkey-automation mechanics.

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 31% ★, Survival 21.7%, Open World 11.2%, Crafting 9.7%, Sandbox 9%

Why You'll Like It: While more hardcore, it offers the most detailed top-down survival and base-building mechanics available for dedicated fans of the genre.

Enter a world of mystery, danger, ancient dinosaurs, mythical beasts, and cubes! Work by yourself or with a tribe of others to gather materials, craft useful items, tame wild creatures, and build huge bases to survive in PixARK!

Why similar: Survival 22%, Open World 13.7%, Crafting 13%, Sandbox 12.4%, Multiplayer 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: It combines survival and crafting with creature taming, providing a similar sense of progression through exploration and base building.

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: Crafting 18.3%, Hunting 17.2% ★, Survival 16.9%, Base Building 13.7%, Open World 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: This top-down survival game focuses on breaking down the environment to craft better gear, mirroring the resource-gathering loop of The Survivalists.

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 27.9% ★, Online Co-Op 12.7%, Survival 11%, Crafting 10.4%, Base Building 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A premier survival-crafting game that emphasizes cooperative exploration and building in a beautifully realized open world.

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 29.3% ★, Crafting 15.2%, Base Building 12.2%, Online Co-Op 11.6%, Open World 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A colorful, exploration-heavy game that allows for creative building and survival in a variety of different biomes.

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 34.9% ★, Survival 16.8%, Crafting 10%, Online Co-Op 7.9%, Open World 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A survival game that emphasizes cooperative play and exploration in a harsh, frozen environment.

Choose one of the characters and start your journey. The game has many interesting things in store: building, crafting, puzzles, bosses, mystery, laughs, quests etc.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.7% ★, Crafting 11.8%, Survival 11.7%, Multiplayer 7.4%, Co-op 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A pixel-art survival game that features crafting and exploration in a snowy, adventure-filled world.

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 33.7% ★, Survival 23.9%, Crafting 15.7%, Sandbox 8.7%, Open World 5%

Why You'll Like It: A solo-focused survival experience that challenges players to master crafting and exploration in a unique, stylized world.

You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?

Why similar: Crafting 26.8%, Multiplayer 21.3%, Sandbox 17%, Pixel Graphics 15.3%, Open World 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: Though more focused on farming, it shares the charming pixel-art style and satisfying progression loops found in many survival-crafting games.

Travel to the desert community of Sandrock and take on the role of a fledgling Builder. Use your trusty toolset to gather resources, construct machines, and turn your run-down workshop into a well-oiled production facility to save the town from the jaws of economic ruin!

Why similar: Crafting 30%, Sandbox 19.1%, Multiplayer 15.5%, Open World 15.5%, Character Customization 12.5%

Why You'll Like It: While more narrative-driven, it features deep crafting and building mechanics that will appeal to fans of the base-management aspect of The Survivalists.

Explore, craft, and fight your way through uncharted islands — solo or with up to 4 players in co-op! Tinkerlands is an exciting survival adventure where you will build your settlement, craft useful tools to survive, and even use magic!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.7% ★, Online Co-Op 12.5%, Crafting 10.4%, Survival 10.1%, Sandbox 8.4%

Rome has fallen! Rebuild civilization in this action-adventure survival game for 1-8 players. Fight hordes of the walking dead, build settlements, restore the Roman gods... or kick back and farm with friends.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 19.9% ★, Crafting 14.3%, Survival 10.6%, Online Co-Op 10%, Base Building 9.4%

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 20.9%, Survival 18.4%, Sandbox 13.4%, Co-op 12.7%, Open World 12.5%

Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer-focused survival game that simplifies the crafting and building process, making it highly accessible for co-op groups.

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: Open World Survival Craft 23.7% ★, Crafting 13.7%, Survival 10.4%, Online Co-Op 9.1%, Open World 8.4%

Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.5% ★, Survival 12.6%, Crafting 10.6%, Open World 10.5%, Online Co-Op 10.1%

HumanitZ is an isometric, open-world sandbox survival game set in a world ended by a zombie outbreak. Survive alone or with friends by scavenging, crafting, building, and fighting to last as long as ‘humanly’ possible. You can’t change the past, but you can fight for the future of humanity.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.2% ★, Crafting 13.7%, Survival 13.5%, Base Building 12.5%, Online Co-Op 10.8%

Shrunk again, but the world is much larger. In this open-world, single-player or co-op survival adventure, craft weapons and armor, build your base, and traverse the playground on your buggy. But something else is out there—and it hasn’t forgotten you.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 19.8% ★, Survival 13.8%, Base Building 11.4%, Crafting 10.9%, Online Co-Op 8%

The Escapists provides players the opportunity of experiencing a light-hearted insight into everyday prison life with the main objective being that of escaping!

Why similar: Crafting 33.7%, Pixel Graphics 15%, Survival 14.5%, Sandbox 8.1%, Multiplayer 6.1%

Embark on a 1-4 players Co-op survival adventure in an open world wilderness in search of a myth called the Lod Stone. Build your house, sow your crops, brew potions, tame a horse and discover powerful abilities. Venture into dangerous dungeons, fight unique bosses to find the Lod stone.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.5% ★, Survival 10.4%, Crafting 10.4%, Co-op 8.6%, Online Co-Op 8.6%

Dinkum is a survival life simulation game set on an island inspired by the rugged Australian outback. Farm, hunt, mine, fish, and forage to gather resources, expand your town, and discover what makes Dinkum so special—either solo or with friends.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.4% ★, Crafting 13.9%, Online Co-Op 12.1%, Co-op 9.3%, Sandbox 8.3%

Fish, farm, craft, gather, cook, loot or steal from other players and build a campsite or a village with your friends in an open-world multiplayer sandbox game without rules!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.6% ★, Crafting 16.2%, Survival 14.3%, Open World 9.2%, Multiplayer 9.1%

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: Open World Survival Craft 25.2% ★, Online Co-Op 12.1%, Survival 9.7%, Crafting 9.1%, Base Building 8.9%

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: Crafting 15.4%, Online Co-Op 15%, Survival 12.4%, Sandbox 9.7%, Co-op 9.6%

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 40.5% ★, Survival 16.1%, Crafting 13%, Multiplayer 8.6%, Open World 8.2%

KeepUp Survival is an open-world base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and shape your own story on a mysterious island.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.9% ★, Crafting 12.9%, Survival 11.4%, Base Building 11%, Open World 8.3%

You awake to discover yourself no longer in the company of good men or a fine seafaring vessel. Treasure... you remember something about treasure. Wayward is a challenging turn-based, top-down, wilderness survival roguelike. Explore, build, and most importantly survive in these unforgiving lands.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.7% ★, Survival 16.4%, Crafting 16.4%, Sandbox 7.4%, Open World 6.9%

Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.4% ★, Crafting 10.3%, Online Co-Op 9.7%, Survival 9.5%, Base Building 9.1%

The world doesn't generate itself - you do it, shape the world as you wish! Start with nothing, and build dream houses for goblins and yourself while exploring, collecting resources, crafting, building, fighting, farming... and more!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.6% ★, Crafting 14.3%, Survival 14.1%, Sandbox 12.1%, Base Building 11.3%

Stranded on a desert island, explore, craft, build and fight in this action survival game!

Why similar: Survival 28.6%, Crafting 28.5%, Sandbox 14.8%, Pixel Graphics 11.6%, Adventure 7.5%

A vibrant blend of survival and action RPG for 1-10 players! Craft legendary items, grow your home base and embark on an epic journey through procedural realms to face towering creatures hel-bent on unleashing Ragnarök. Valhalla can wait, Einherjar!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.7% ★, Online Co-Op 15.7%, Base Building 12.1%, Survival 10.6%, Co-op 7.9%

A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25% ★, Crafting 13.5%, Online Co-Op 12.4%, Survival 10.5%, Sandbox 8.7%

Explore an open world, sci-fi sandbox – in PVP, PVE, and co-op. Build and manage colonies on alien planets, and recruit AI survivors with unique personalities and skills. Craft, build, mine, farm, or get your electric death rifle and say hello to your neighbors.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.9% ★, Crafting 12.4%, Online Co-Op 11.3%, Base Building 10.7%, Co-op 9.9%

Dead or Alive? Make up your mind, stranger. We don’t like that undead business here in Louisiana…Survive solo or with friends as you look to fulfill your basic needs of food, water and shelter, crafting your own tools and weapons while you secure your camp and face flesh hungry zombies.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31% ★, Survival 20.2%, Crafting 12.3%, Base Building 8.4%, Multiplayer 8.1%

Rogue Heroes is a topdown, roguelite adventure game inspired by the Zelda franchise. Play solo or team up with your friends to combat procedurally generated dungeons and take down the evil Titans that threaten to overwhelm the land of Tasos!

Why similar: Online Co-Op 26.6%, Co-op 24.9%, Pixel Graphics 12.6%, Multiplayer 10.6%, Adventure 7.7%

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 36.1% ★, Survival 14.2%, Crafting 13.9%, Base Building 7.9%, Open World 7.5%

Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.9% ★, Survival 12.3%, Base Building 10.5%, Open World 9.4%, Crafting 9.3%

Stranded on a barren moon with nothing but your tools, fuelless ship, and celestial powers of creation, you are destined to recreate what was once lost and be the hero of your own Little Universe! Don't forget to call in up to three of your friends to join your journey in the Splitscreen Co-op Mode!

Why similar: Crafting 25.1%, Survival 19.4%, Sandbox 16.2%, Open World 13.2%, Character Customization 12.4%

Chart a course in a breathtaking, but fractured world. Explore ancient ruins, master advanced technology, and craft your very own skyship to brave nature’s fury and colossal threats in Lost Skies. Team up with friends or go it alone in this awe-inspiring cooperative survival adventure.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.6% ★, Online Co-Op 14.5%, Base Building 13.1%, Crafting 8.7%, Sandbox 8%

Crash land on a hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it. But be warned... this planet is merciless. Build strong, and smart; else physics may flood or destroy your only hopes of survival.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.1% ★, Crafting 14.6%, Survival 14.3%, Sandbox 10.6%, Base Building 6.3%