- #1 The Long Dark
97% matchVery Positive89% of 123,946 reviews2017
Dev: Hinterland Studio Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 47.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 53.9% ★, Survival 22%, Open World 8.9%, Crafting 4.5%, Sandbox 2.5%
Why You'll Like It: Captures the same punishing, unforgiving cold-weather survival and stark isolation found in The Wild Eight.
- #2 Fade to Silence
96% matchMixed62% of 1,337 reviews2019
Dev: Black Forest GamesPub: THQ Nordic
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Fade to Silence is a single-player and co-op survival adventure set in a post-apocalyptic world that is frozen in an eternal winter. Snow and ice have shaped a merciless landscape. Nature is corrupted. Monstrous creatures out of an Eldritch horror dream roam the frozen wasteland.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.1% ★, Survival 20.6%, Open World 7.9%, Crafting 6.2%, Online Co-Op 4.2%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a similarly grim, frozen wasteland setting where you must manage warmth and lead survivors through harsh conditions.
- #3 Don't Starve Together
96% matchVery Positive95% of 543,644 reviews2016
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 64.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 62% ★, Survival 24.1%, Multiplayer 3.2%, Co-op 3.1%, Open World 2.2%
Why You'll Like It: Shares the cooperative survival loop where managing hunger, weather, and crafting is vital for staying alive.
- #4 Green Hell
95% matchVery Positive85% of 102,938 reviews2019
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 44.3% ★, Survival 17.3%, Multiplayer 8.6%, Open World 6.4%, Online Co-Op 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: Provides an intense survival-crafting challenge against a harsh, unforgiving wilderness environment.
- #5 Feel The Snow
94% matchVery Positive87% of 3,062 reviews2019
Dev: Owlet
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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 43.2% ★, Survival 15.2%, Multiplayer 8%, Co-op 7%, Crafting 7%
Why You'll Like It: Matches the top-down survival style set in a freezing, snowy environment filled with crafting and exploration.
- #6 Project Winter
94% matchVery Positive82% of 19,080 reviews2019
Dev: Other Ocean InteractivePub: Other Ocean Group
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 23.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Project Winter 2.0: Cabin Fever is an 8-player survival and social deception game where teamwork is vital, but betrayal is inevitable. Face the wilderness, uncover traitors, and survive paranoia in this streamlined yet chaotic multiplayer experience.
Why similar: Survival 40.3%, Crafting 23%, Multiplayer 19.9%, Adventure 6%, Atmospheric 4.8%
Why You'll Like It: Combines snowy survival mechanics with team-based communication and hidden threats.
- #7 ICARUS
93% matchMostly Positive75% of 68,864 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.4 hrsMean: 46.7 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 41.9% ★, Survival 17.9%, Multiplayer 8%, Open World 7.6%, Crafting 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: Delivers high-stakes cooperative survival missions in demanding extraterrestrial biomes.
- #8 Valheim
91% matchVery Positive94% of 555,289 reviews2026
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 26.9 hrsMean: 81.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 42% ★, Survival 15.3%, Open World 8.5%, Multiplayer 7.1%, Online Co-Op 7%
Why You'll Like It: Features brutal Nordic-inspired survival and crafting with a heavy emphasis on cooperative exploration.
- #9 Stranded Deep
91% matchMostly Positive74% of 47,919 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 50% ★, Survival 18.4%, Multiplayer 8.2%, Open World 7.7%, Crafting 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: Tests your survival and crafting skills in a hostile, isolated open-world environment.
- #10 Subsistence
92% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,861 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 40.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 49.2% ★, Survival 17.8%, Crafting 8%, Open World 7.7%, Multiplayer 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: Features uncompromising open-world survival crafting where you must build shelters to endure the elements.
- #11 Winter Survival
90% matchMixed63% of 777 reviews2025
Dev: DRAGO entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 56%
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 46.9% ★, Survival 18.7%, Open World 10.9%, Crafting 6.8%, Sandbox 4.3%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses entirely on the grueling reality of trying to stay alive in a freezing mountain wilderness.
- #12 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
89% matchVery Positive82% of 10,551 reviews2024
Dev: Max Ent Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 16.3 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 38.1% ★, Survival 15.8%, Open World 8.1%, Multiplayer 7.7%, Co-op 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: Offers cooperative open-world crafting and survival from a unique perspective against natural hazards.
- #13 Voidtrain
89% matchMostly Positive73% of 9,990 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 14.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 44.9% ★, Survival 12.9%, Co-op 8.5%, Open World 6.8%, Multiplayer 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: Blends open-world survival crafting with cooperative exploration aboard a customizable train.
- #14 Raft
87% matchVery Positive93% of 379,035 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.8 hrsMean: 38.0 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 42.2% ★, Survival 19.8%, Co-op 8.9%, Multiplayer 8.9%, Crafting 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: Combines cooperative crafting and survival progression as you build and expand your mobile base.
- #15 Savage Lands
88% matchMixed54% of 6,690 reviews2021
Dev: Last Bastion Studios LLC
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 46.7% ★, Survival 16.2%, Open World 8%, Crafting 6.3%, Multiplayer 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: Puts your survival and crafting skills to the test in a brutal, hostile open fantasy world.
- #16 How to Survive 2
86% matchMixed69% of 11,020 reviews2016
Dev: Eko SoftwarePub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 15.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 40.7% ★, Survival 24.6%, Multiplayer 8.2%, Open World 7.9%, Co-op 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on cooperative crafting and base building while surviving against hostile threats.
- #17 DESOLATE
86% matchMixed66% of 8,065 reviews2019
Dev: NeargaPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
DESOLATE is a first person horror survival experience. Form a research team with up to 4 players and explore an open world filled with mysteries and unsolved questions, or do it all on your own.
Why similar: Survival 50.6%, Open World 28.2%, Horror 5.7%, Adventure 3.9%, Crafting 3.4%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on cooperative survival and mystery solving in a dangerous, atmospheric open world.
- #18 The Survivalists
85% matchMostly Positive76% of 10,123 reviews2020
Dev: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 71%
A living world full of surprises, secrets and danger awaits in The Survivalists, an adventure-filled survival sandbox set in The Escapists universe. Explore, build, craft and even train monkeys with up to three friends in a desperate bid to survive. Have you got what it takes to be a Survivalist?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.3% ★, Survival 16.9%, Crafting 9.9%, Online Co-Op 7.7%, Open World 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: Combines light survival mechanics with crafting and cooperative adventure on dynamic islands.
- #19 Niffelheim
84% matchMostly Positive71% of 2,338 reviews2018
Dev: Ellada Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Your avatar is a brave warrior who has fallen in battle. But instead of well-deserved peace in Asgard, his soul is trapped in the harsh world of Niffelheim. Survive in this hostile world, ransack the neighbor lands, explore dangerous dungeons and find your way to Valhalla
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.8% ★, Survival 13.9%, Co-op 10%, Crafting 8.8%, Open World 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: Immerses you in a harsh Nordic afterlife requiring resource gathering and survival crafting.
- #20 Outward Definitive Edition
82% matchMostly Positive73% of 31,430 reviews2022
Dev: Nine Dots StudioPub: Prime Matter
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 18.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
No remarkable journey is achieved without great effort. In Outward, the cold of the night or an infected wound can be as dangerous as a predator lurking in the dark. Explore the vast world of Aurai solo or in Co-op. The Definitive Edition features both DLCs and quality of life improvements.
Why similar: Survival 28.1%, Open World 24.4%, Co-op 15.7%, Online Co-Op 10.7%, Multiplayer 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: Delivers an adventurous, challenging cooperative survival RPG emphasizing preparation and harsh environments.
- #21 Frozen Flame
83% matchMixed62% of 2,997 reviews2022
Dev: Dreamside InteractivePub: Ravenage Games
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A challenging exploration and survival adventure, set in the dying world of Dragons. Only those who harness the power of Frozen Flame have the means to survive the harsh conditions of the realm and able to muster the strength to cleanse it for good.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.5% ★, Survival 15%, Open World 9.3%, Crafting 8%, Online Co-Op 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: Explores a mystical open world where cooperative survival and magical crafting are essential.
- #22 Force of Nature
84% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,209 reviews2016
Dev: A.Y.std
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48% ★, Survival 16.8%, Crafting 9.6%, Open World 7.6%, Multiplayer 5.2%
Why You'll Like It: Features open-world survival crafting with exploration and elemental management.
- #23 Necesse
79% matchVery Positive93% of 29,166 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 49% ★, Survival 11.4%, Open World 7.5%, Multiplayer 6.6%, Crafting 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: Features sandbox survival and colony building in a procedurally generated world.
- #24 Hurtworld
82% matchMostly Positive76% of 31,099 reviews2019
Dev: Bankroll Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 64.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Hurtworld is a hardcore multiplayer survival FPS with a focus on competitive gunplay and strategic map control. Built for hardcore gamers, Hurtworld aims to punish.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.9% ★, Survival 23%, Open World 10.2%, Crafting 8.3%, Multiplayer 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: Offers hardcore multiplayer survival crafting in a harsh, unforgiving sandbox environment.
- #25 ASKA
80% matchVery Positive80% of 12,267 reviews2024
Dev: Sand Sailor StudioPub: Thunderful Publishing
Windows
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 29.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
A new Viking age dawns with you at its helm. Forge a thriving colony from nothing in this mythic open-world survival sim. Earn the gods' favor and survive in a land ruled by ancient terrors and unforgiving seasons. Rally unique villagers, expand your settlement and defend your tribe - solo or co-op!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.9% ★, Survival 15.5%, Multiplayer 7.9%, Co-op 7.4%, Online Co-Op 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: Combines tribal survival and village management in a harsh, cold mythological landscape.
- #26 The Legacy
81% matchMixed52% of 66 reviews2025
Dev: Second RealityPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Cooperative survival and horror genre. You and your family have returned to your native land, on which a terrible curse and darkness has fallen. Will you be able to survive in a harsh and dangerous environment and stop the evil? It depends only on you, on your skills and ability to help each other.
Why similar: Survival 22.9%, Open World 13.6%, Co-op 11.2%, Multiplayer 11.1%, Mystery 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: Delivers a chilling survival experience centered on mystery and environmental hazards.
- #27 Survive the Nights
78% matchMixed66% of 6,793 reviews2025
Dev: a2z Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Hardcore open-world survival where preparation is everything. Scavenge, craft, fortify during the day. When night falls, the infected hunt in numbers. Play solo or with friends in a brutal post-apocalyptic sandbox where survival is earned through smart decisions. How many Nights will you survive?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.1% ★, Survival 18.9%, Co-op 9.9%, Multiplayer 9.7%, Online Co-Op 7.8%
- #28 MISERY
76% matchVery Positive84% of 26,185 reviews2025
Dev: Platypus EntertainmentPub: Ytopia
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 83%
MISERY is a 1–10 player co-op survival game set in a nuclear disaster zone. Here, every day is a struggle: search radioactive ruins for resources, build your bunker, craft weapons, and explore a weird, procedurally-generated world with your friends. Beware of anomalies, monsters, and armed bandits.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.7% ★, Survival 17.6%, Open World 8.6%, Co-op 8.3%, Multiplayer 8%
- #29 The Gold River Project
77% matchMixed63% of 686 reviews2026
Dev: Fairview Games Inc.
Windows
The Gold River Project™ is a camping trip gone wrong in the Pacific Northwest. Explore, craft, build, and survive in this open-world experiment that traps you and up to 4 friends in this single player or co-op survival adventure game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.8% ★, Survival 13.2%, Open World 9.2%, Co-op 8.4%, Multiplayer 7.1%
- #30 Green Project
78% matchVery Positive80% of 1,463 reviews2020
Dev: Zerone Games
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Post apocalyptic survival farming, green the world to survive !
Why similar: Survival 69.5%, Simulation 12.7%, Crafting 9.6%, Indie 7.4%, Singleplayer 0.8%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a post-apocalyptic survival experience focused on restoring a ruined ecosystem.
- #31 Windbound
79% matchMixed59% of 1,183 reviews2020
Dev: 5 Lives StudiosPub: Deep Silver
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 62%
The Forbidden Islands are Calling, Unlock their Secrets. Shipwrecked on an island, explore, adapt and navigate the land and perilous seas to stay alive.
Why similar: Survival 43.9%, Crafting 19.6%, Adventure 12.4%, RPG 11%, Open World 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: Emphasizes exploration and survival crafting across a chain of mysterious procedural islands.
- #32 ANGST: A TALE OF SURVIVAL
74% matchVery Positive86% of 239 reviews2025
Dev: Cherrypick GamesPub: Games Operators
Windows
Explore a frozen, mysterious land in this top-down survival adventure. Gather resources, craft tools, and fight to stay alive as you uncover a story of memory and redemption. Try to escape The Hollow.
Why similar: Survival 26.4%, Open World 16.4%, Crafting 14.9%, Mystery 13.8%, Sandbox 10.5%
- #33 Generation Zero®
76% matchMostly Positive72% of 42,281 reviews2019
Dev: Systemic Reaction™Pub: Avalanche Studios
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 19.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Generation Zero is a stealth-action shooter where you wage guerilla warfare against lethal mechanical enemies. Explore a vast open world map inspired by the Swedish Cold War era, take part in the resistance alone or with up to three friends in seamless co-op.
Why similar: Survival 24.1%, Open World 15.5%, Co-op 14.6%, Crafting 12.4%, Multiplayer 11.9%
- #34 Len's Island
73% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,974 reviews2025
Dev: Flow Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 12.2 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 46.8% ★, Survival 17.1%, Open World 9.3%, Crafting 8.7%, Mystery 7.4%
- #35 Out of Reach
77% matchMixed57% of 3,051 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
You’re a castaway stranded in the middle of nowhere. Storm is gone, the worst certainly not. Look for food and resources, craft gear, make shelters. These are the basics, you need much more to stay alive on this cut-off-the-world, yet not desert island. Build & burn, sail & explore, be Out of Reach!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49% ★, Survival 18.2%, Open World 9%, Crafting 7.5%, Multiplayer 6.9%
- #36 How to Survive
75% matchVery Positive83% of 17,106 reviews2014
Dev: Eko SoftwarePub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
“A real Gem” – Destructoid at E3 “Offers a different experience for zombie game veterans” – Co-Optimus“Has a lot more going for it than smashing brains and gory, red goo ... With a surprisingly deep crafting system” – GamesRadarYou're shipwrecked on an isolated island, a desperate castaway in a total freakshow world. How will you survive?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.9% ★, Survival 24.5%, Crafting 9%, Co-op 8.3%, Multiplayer 5.8%
- #37 Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts
75% matchMostly Negative37% of 378 reviews2023
Dev: EFNSOFT
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 2.6 hrs≥1hr: 36%
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 41.3% ★, Survival 15.3%, Open World 9.3%, Crafting 7.8%, Multiplayer 6.4%
- #38 Breathedge
73% matchVery Positive81% of 18,514 reviews2021
Dev: RedRuins SoftworksPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Survive in outer space! Together with your immortal chicken, discover the truth behind your sudden spaceship crash. Craft tools, pilot vehicles, and even control space stations to survive and explore the wreckage.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 53.1% ★, Survival 17.6%, Crafting 7.1%, Open World 6.3%, Sandbox 6.3%
- #39 Miscreated
74% matchMixed66% of 31,592 reviews2018
Dev: Entrada Interactive LLC
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 38.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 52.3% ★, Survival 19.9%, Open World 9.4%, Multiplayer 6.9%, Crafting 4.9%
- #40 Grounded
70% matchVery Positive90% of 95,977 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.6 hrsMean: 41.9 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 38% ★, Survival 20.8%, Co-op 9.3%, Multiplayer 9%, Crafting 6.8%
- #41 Short Snow | Cold Survival Game
72% matchMixed54% of 173 reviews2025
Dev: MubDev
Windows
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 43.5% ★, Survival 18.4%, Open World 10.6%, Crafting 7.1%, Multiplayer 4.8%
- #42 Arctico
71% matchMostly Positive70% of 2,553 reviews2022
Dev: Claudio Norori
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Explore Arctico with your dog sled, kayak, and up to 3 friends! Build and customize your base camp, gather resources and samples, set up labs, and take good care of your dogs in this peaceful island.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.3% ★, Survival 14.8%, Co-op 9.2%, Open World 9.1%, Multiplayer 7.9%
- #43 Rem Survival
71% matchMostly Positive76% of 809 reviews2021
Dev: Immortal Hand Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 47.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Scavenge abandoned ruins, craft gear from scrap and salvaged materials, and fight the environment itself as hunger, exposure, and exhaustion push you to your limits. There are no second chances—only adaptation or death.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.7% ★, Survival 17%, Open World 9.9%, Crafting 9.6%, Co-op 5.2%
- #44 Tinkerlands
68% matchVery Positive86% of 4,122 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.4 hrsMean: 14.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 39.8% ★, Survival 13.9%, Open World 8.2%, Co-op 7.1%, Online Co-Op 6.9%
- #45 The Forest
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 683,269 reviews2018
Dev: Endnight Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 37.4 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 54.1% ★, Survival 20.3%, Open World 9%, Crafting 6.4%, Survival Horror 2.5%
- #46 Whisper of the Swallows
67% matchVery Positive87% of 207 reviews2026
Dev: Blown Leaves
Windows
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 43.4% ★, Survival 16.2%, Crafting 9.1%, Open World 8.5%, Online Co-Op 6.4%
- #47 Lodventure
70% matchMostly Positive74% of 166 reviews2023
Dev: Sky Games
Windows
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 43.4% ★, Survival 15.2%, Co-op 10.2%, Open World 9.2%, Crafting 6.9%
- #48 Wild Omission
69% matchVery Positive88% of 83 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 40.5% ★, Survival 16.9%, Open World 9.7%, Crafting 9.5%, Multiplayer 8.2%
- #49 Fragmented
72% matchMixed43% of 1,964 reviews2017
Dev: Above and Beyond Technologies
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Stranded in a hostile alien world, you must fight to survive. Hunt, harvest, craft, advance skills, and build using local resources along with technology from your voyage.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 50.9% ★, Survival 17.8%, Open World 7.5%, Multiplayer 6.6%, Crafting 5.3%
- #50 SURVIVAL: Postapocalypse Now
70% matchMixed56% of 8,877 reviews2019
Dev: TB Games
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 53.7% ★, Survival 20%, Open World 8.3%, Multiplayer 6.9%, Crafting 4.5%
- #51 Western Rye
67% matchMixed53% of 109 reviews2026
Dev: Nixalon Studios
Windows
Western Rye is an open world survival crafting adventure game set in the old west American Frontier. Create your dream outlaw! Survive the the wild west, farm, build your ranch, endure the weather, fight and forge your legend with friends or alone. In Western Rye, the wild west just got wilder!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.4% ★, Survival 15.2%, Crafting 8.7%, Open World 8.6%, Online Co-Op 6.8%
- #52 Distrust: Polar Survival
69% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,560 reviews2017
Dev: CheerdealersPub: Alawar
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
DISTRUST is an isometric survival adventure with procedural generation on an Arctic research station lost in the endless dark of a polar night. A story-rich fiction with multiple endings that suits both singleplayer fans and co-op enthusiasts.
Why similar: Survival 33.7%, Co-op 16%, Multiplayer 13.9%, Online Co-Op 10.6%, Survival Horror 8.9%
- #53 No One Survived
65% matchMixed64% of 7,844 reviews2025
Dev: Cat Play Studio
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 22.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%
This is a multiplayer cooperative open world construction survival sandbox game, where you and your friends must find supplies and build shelters in this world. You have to keep an eye on your character's needs state at all times, a bad state is likely to lead to death.
Why similar: Survival 32.3%, Open World 16.6%, Multiplayer 11.8%, Crafting 11.3%, Co-op 9.3%
- #54 Abiotic Factor
62% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 59,444 reviews2025
Dev: Deep Field GamesPub: Playstack
Windows
Median: 21.2 hrsMean: 46.5 hrs≥1hr: 95%
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 46.1% ★, Survival 19.1%, Crafting 10.2%, Online Co-Op 8.6%, Multiplayer 7.5%
- #55 Core Keeper
63% matchVery Positive93% of 66,787 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.3 hrsMean: 34.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 33.1% ★, Survival 15.4%, Open World 9.5%, Co-op 8.6%, Crafting 8.2%
- #56 MAZEBOUND: Hunt, Gather, Run!
64% matchVery Positive83% of 704 reviews2026
Dev: Absam Studios
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 79%
In this survival horror, you're surrounded by sea and a towering gate ahead. Walk into the maze, hunt, gather, and run to survive, alone or with friends. Remember: You're not the only one starving...
Why similar: Survival 30.5%, Co-op 15.5%, Multiplayer 14.3%, Crafting 11.7%, Online Co-Op 5%
- #57 Frozen State
69% matchMixed64% of 549 reviews2016
Dev: Flox StudiosPub: Flox Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 42 minMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 42%
Frozen State is a brutal, survival game set in a world embraced by the man-made ice age meant to protect mankind from pestilent hybrids. Bitter cold and numbing fear are the constant companions in the journey through the retro-futuristic Frozen State world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.9% ★, Survival 27.9%, Crafting 9.6%, Open World 8.4%, Survival Horror 4.1%
