- #1 The Long Dark
97% matchVery Positive89% of 121,879 reviews2017
Dev: Hinterland Studio Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 46.9 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 53.8% ★, Survival 22.2%, Open World 8.8%, Crafting 4.6%, Sandbox 2.5%
Why You'll Like It: The definitive cold-weather survival experience that mirrors the harsh, freezing atmosphere of the seed game.
- #2 Don't Starve Together
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 531,653 reviews2016
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 64.7 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 61.6% ★, Survival 24.3%, Multiplayer 3.3%, Co-op 3.1%, Open World 2.1%
Why You'll Like It: Features a similar isometric perspective, punishing survival mechanics, and a heavy emphasis on cooperative play.
- #3 Project Winter
96% matchVery Positive82% of 19,070 reviews2019
Dev: Other Ocean InteractivePub: Other Ocean Group
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 23.5 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 39.9%, Crafting 23.2%, Multiplayer 20.2%, Adventure 5.8%, Atmospheric 4.8%
Why You'll Like It: Combines survival and resource gathering in a frozen landscape with a unique social deduction twist.
- #4 Core Keeper
94% matchVery Positive93% of 64,481 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.0 hrsMean: 34.1 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 32.9% ★, Survival 15.1%, Open World 9.2%, Co-op 8.8%, Crafting 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down, co-op survival-crafting game that emphasizes exploration and progression in a mysterious environment.
- #5 Fade to Silence
95% matchMixed63% of 1,325 reviews2019
Dev: Black Forest GamesPub: THQ Nordic
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.8 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 47.7% ★, Survival 20.7%, Open World 7.8%, Crafting 6.4%, Online Co-Op 4.4%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on surviving a supernatural, frozen post-apocalyptic world with similar resource management needs.
- #6 Green Hell
94% 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 44% ★, Survival 17.3%, Multiplayer 8.7%, Open World 6.3%, Online Co-Op 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: Provides an intense, realistic survival experience that tests your ability to manage health and resources in a hostile wilderness.
- #7 Valheim
93% 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 41.4% ★, Survival 15.3%, Open World 8.4%, Online Co-Op 7.4%, Multiplayer 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a deep co-op survival experience with a focus on harsh environments, base building, and progression.
- #8 Frozen State
92% 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 37.6% ★, Survival 27.9%, Crafting 9.8%, Open World 8.3%, Survival Horror 4.1%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game set in a frozen, post-apocalyptic environment that shares the seed game's bleak atmosphere.
- #9 Grounded
90% 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 37.6% ★, Survival 20.8%, Co-op 9.3%, Multiplayer 9.1%, Crafting 7%
Why You'll Like It: A polished co-op survival game with a strong focus on base building and overcoming environmental threats.
- #10 Niffelheim
91% matchMostly Positive71% of 2,332 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 34.3% ★, Survival 13.8%, Co-op 10.1%, Crafting 8.9%, Open World 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D survival game with a strong focus on mythology, crafting, and base defense in a cold, unforgiving world.
- #11 The Survivalists
91% matchMostly Positive76% of 10,012 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 34.8% ★, Survival 16.8%, Crafting 10.1%, Online Co-Op 8%, Co-op 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down co-op survival game that shares the crafting and exploration focus of the seed game.
- #12 Voidtrain
89% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,447 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 14.0 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 44.3% ★, Survival 12.9%, Co-op 8.6%, Multiplayer 6.7%, Open World 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: A unique co-op survival game that introduces a mobile base mechanic in an otherworldly setting.
- #13 Stranded Deep
89% 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 49.6% ★, Survival 18.4%, Multiplayer 8.4%, Open World 7.5%, Crafting 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the isolation and resource management of survival in a hostile, albeit tropical, environment.
- #14 ICARUS
88% 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 41.2% ★, Survival 17.8%, Multiplayer 8.1%, Crafting 7.6%, Open World 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: A session-based survival game that emphasizes preparation and managing environmental hazards in a dangerous wilderness.
- #15 DYSMANTLE
87% matchVery Positive91% of 11,423 reviews2021
Dev: 10tons Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 25.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: Survival 36.9%, Open World 21.2%, Crafting 18.6%, Sandbox 7.8%, RPG 4%
Why You'll Like It: Features isometric exploration and survival in an open world where you must scavenge and craft to survive.
- #16 Raft
86% 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 41.7% ★, Survival 19.7%, Multiplayer 9.1%, Co-op 9.1%, Crafting 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: A co-op survival game that requires constant resource management and base expansion while navigating a dangerous world.
- #17 How to Survive 2
86% matchMixed69% of 11,001 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 40.3% ★, Survival 24.6%, Multiplayer 8.5%, Co-op 8%, Open World 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: An isometric survival game that emphasizes base building and defense against hordes of enemies.
- #18 V Rising
83% matchVery Positive89% of 134,242 reviews2024
Dev: Stunlock Studios
Windows
Median: 21.0 hrsMean: 57.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Awaken as a Vampire. Hunt for blood in nearby settlements to regain your strength and evade the scorching sun to survive. Raise your castle and thrive in an ever-changing, open world full of mystery. Gain allies online and conquer the land of the living.
Why similar: Survival 29.8%, Open World 17.6%, Crafting 13.4%, Multiplayer 13.4%, Online Co-Op 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: An isometric survival and base-building game with a compelling progression loop and combat focus.
- #19 DESOLATE
85% matchMixed67% of 8,039 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 50.9%, Open World 27.8%, Horror 5.7%, Adventure 3.9%, Crafting 3.5%
Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric survival game set in a mysterious, hostile open world filled with supernatural threats.
- #20 Force of Nature
84% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,202 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 47.6% ★, Survival 16.8%, Crafting 9.9%, Open World 7.5%, Multiplayer 5.3%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival and crafting game that focuses on sandbox exploration and resource gathering.
- #21 Savage Lands
84% matchMixed55% of 6,679 reviews2021
Dev: Last Bastion Studios LLC
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.5 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 46.2% ★, Survival 16.2%, Open World 7.9%, Crafting 6.5%, Multiplayer 6%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that focuses on fantasy-themed threats and crafting in a harsh environment.
- #22 Outward Definitive Edition
81% matchMostly Positive73% of 30,822 reviews2022
Dev: Nine Dots StudioPub: Prime Matter
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 17.9 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%, Open World 23.9%, Co-op 16%, Online Co-Op 11.1%, Multiplayer 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore survival and exploration RPG that forces players to manage their needs in a challenging open world.
- #23 Feel The Snow
82% matchVery Positive87% of 3,047 reviews2019
Dev: Owlet
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 7.4 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 42.6% ★, Survival 15.2%, Multiplayer 8.2%, Co-op 7.2%, Crafting 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: A pixel-art survival game set in a snowy, adventure-filled world that mirrors the seed game's setting.
- #24 7 Days to Die
79% 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 41.2% ★, Survival 23.4%, Open World 9.8%, Multiplayer 8.7%, Online Co-Op 7%
Why You'll Like It: Offers deep co-op survival mechanics with a heavy emphasis on base defense and scavenging.
- #25 Subsistence
82% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,685 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 39.9 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 48.7% ★, Survival 17.9%, Crafting 8.2%, Open World 7.6%, Multiplayer 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a realistic survival experience in an open-world environment with a focus on crafting and base building.
- #26 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
80% 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 37.6% ★, Survival 15.7%, Multiplayer 8%, Open World 7.9%, Co-op 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: A co-op survival game that focuses on exploration and crafting from a unique, small-scale perspective.
- #27 Miscreated
81% matchMixed66% of 31,585 reviews2018
Dev: Entrada Interactive LLC
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 38.3 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 51.9% ★, Survival 19.9%, Open World 9.3%, Multiplayer 7.1%, Crafting 5%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer survival game set in a post-apocalyptic open world with a focus on scavenging and combat.
- #28 Survive the Nights
78% matchMixed66% of 6,549 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 39.5% ★, Survival 18.8%, Co-op 10.1%, Multiplayer 9.9%, Online Co-Op 8.2%
- #29 Hurtworld
79% matchMostly Positive76% of 31,099 reviews2019
Dev: Bankroll Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 63.5 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 40.5% ★, Survival 23.1%, Open World 10%, Crafting 8.5%, Multiplayer 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer survival game that emphasizes harsh environmental conditions and resource competition.
- #30 Terraria
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,524,255 reviews2011
Dev: Re-Logic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 33.5 hrsMean: 150.1 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.1% ★, Survival 14.2%, Multiplayer 7.4%, Crafting 7%, Sandbox 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: The quintessential sandbox survival and crafting experience that offers endless exploration and progression.
- #31 Len's Island
76% 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 46.3% ★, Survival 17.2%, Open World 9.3%, Crafting 9%, Mystery 7.5%
- #32 The Gold River Project
77% matchMixed66% of 568 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 40.4% ★, Survival 13.2%, Open World 9.1%, Co-op 8.5%, Multiplayer 7.1%
- #33 MISERY
75% matchVery Positive83% of 23,009 reviews2025
Dev: Platypus EntertainmentPub: Ytopia
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 33.5% ★, Survival 16.8%, Co-op 8.6%, Open World 8.4%, Multiplayer 8.1%
- #34 Reign Of Kings
77% matchMixed57% of 14,891 reviews2015
Dev: Code}{atch
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 47.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Struggle to survive in a harsh medieval world. Hunt wildlife, mine resources, build structures, and craft weapons and armor in order to protect yourself. You may form a guild, bring war to all opposition, and try to seize the throne and become king!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.8% ★, Survival 17%, Open World 9.5%, Crafting 8.4%, Multiplayer 7.6%
- #35 ANGST: A TALE OF SURVIVAL
73% matchVery Positive87% of 210 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 26.3%, Open World 16.1%, Crafting 15.2%, Mystery 14%, Sandbox 10.6%
- #36 Lodventure
74% matchMostly Positive74% of 161 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 42.9% ★, Survival 15.2%, Co-op 10.4%, Open World 9.1%, Crafting 7.1%
- #37 Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts
76% matchMostly Negative37% of 369 reviews2023
Dev: EFNSOFT
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 2.7 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 40.8% ★, Survival 15.4%, Open World 9.2%, Crafting 8%, Multiplayer 6.5%
- #38 Short Snow | Cold Survival Game
74% matchMixed53% of 148 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 43.4% ★, Survival 18.4%, Open World 10.5%, Crafting 7.4%, Sandbox 4.7%
- #39 Tinkerlands
71% matchVery Positive86% of 3,833 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 13.9 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 39.3% ★, Survival 14%, Open World 8%, Co-op 7.2%, Online Co-Op 7.1%
- #40 The Legacy
72% matchMixed53% of 65 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 22.7%, Open World 13.3%, Co-op 11.4%, Multiplayer 11.3%, Mystery 10.8%
- #41 Fragmented
75% 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 50.4% ★, Survival 17.9%, Open World 7.4%, Multiplayer 6.8%, Crafting 5.4%
- #42 Out of Reach
73% matchMixed57% of 3,046 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 48.6% ★, Survival 18.3%, Open World 8.9%, Crafting 7.7%, Multiplayer 7.1%
- #43 Rem Survival
72% matchMostly Positive76% of 802 reviews2021
Dev: Immortal Hand Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 47.3 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 45.3% ★, Survival 17.1%, Crafting 9.9%, Open World 9.7%, Co-op 5.3%
- #44 Winter Survival
69% matchMixed63% of 762 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 46.5% ★, Survival 18.9%, Open World 10.8%, Crafting 7%, Sandbox 4.3%
- #45 Generation Zero®
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 41,788 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 23.9%, Open World 15.1%, Co-op 14.9%, Crafting 12.6%, Multiplayer 12.2%
- #46 Whisper of the Swallows
68% matchVery Positive86% of 163 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 42.9% ★, Survival 16.2%, Crafting 9.3%, Open World 8.4%, Online Co-Op 6.7%
- #47 The Forest
69% 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 53.8% ★, Survival 20.5%, Open World 9%, Crafting 6.5%, Survival Horror 2.6%
- #48 Don't Starve
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 112,640 reviews2013
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 28.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 42.8% ★, Survival 28.3%, Crafting 8.7%, Sandbox 4.8%, Open World 4.8%
- #49 Wild Omission
68% 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 40% ★, Survival 16.9%, Crafting 9.8%, Open World 9.5%, Multiplayer 8.4%
- #50 SURVIVAL: Postapocalypse Now
70% matchMixed56% of 8,877 reviews2019
Dev: TB Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.6 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 53.3% ★, Survival 20.1%, Open World 8.2%, Multiplayer 7.1%, Crafting 4.6%
- #51 Sons Of The Forest
64% 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: Survival 29.6%, Open World 15.3%, Co-op 14.8%, Multiplayer 13%, Crafting 9.8%
- #52 No One Survived
65% matchMixed65% of 7,645 reviews2025
Dev: Cat Play Studio
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 22.6 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 31.9%, Open World 16.2%, Multiplayer 12.1%, Crafting 11.5%, Co-op 9.4%
- #53 How to Survive
68% matchVery Positive83% of 17,095 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 38.3% ★, Survival 24.5%, Crafting 9.2%, Co-op 8.4%, Multiplayer 6%
- #54 KeepUp Survival
67% 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 38.9% ★, Survival 15.9%, Co-op 9.6%, Open World 9.3%, Crafting 8.5%
- #55 This Land Is My Land
67% matchMixed68% of 4,612 reviews2021
Dev: Game-Labs
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 21.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Experience the frontier as a chief of a Native American tribe and resist the onset of the settlers. Explore the vast world full of hostile humans and animals while defining your narrative through the decisions you make.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.2% ★, Survival 18.7%, Open World 9.9%, Crafting 6.9%, Multiplayer 6.7%
- #56 Survivalist: Invisible Strain
63% matchVery Positive87% of 4,265 reviews2025
Dev: BobPub: Ginormocorp Incorporated
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 15.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
It's ten years since the infection started. Long-established settlements are collapsing, one by one, for unknown reasons. Survivors are running to the hills to escape, hoping for safety in remote places. As another refugee, you're here to carve out a new life for yourself - by any means necessary.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 52.7% ★, Survival 14.3%, Open World 10.7%, Online Co-Op 8.1%, Crafting 8.1%
- #57 Night of the Dead
64% matchMostly Positive77% of 11,782 reviews2024
Dev: Jackto Studios
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 32.7 hrs≥1hr: 83%
'Night of the Dead' is an open-world game that combines elements of exploration, tower defense, survival, and crafting. Traverse a world dominated by zombies while collecting various resources and powerful equipment. Build a fortress to survive the hordes of zombies that swarm every night!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.5% ★, Survival 14%, Open World 8.7%, Crafting 8.4%, Multiplayer 7.9%
