Games Like The Wild Eight

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 22.1%, Open World 8.8%, Crafting 4.5%, Sandbox 2.5%

Why You'll Like It: It offers the most authentic and challenging cold-weather survival experience that mirrors the Alaskan setting of the seed game.

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 61.7% ★, Survival 24.2%, Multiplayer 3.3%, Co-op 3.1%, Open World 2.1%

Why You'll Like It: This isometric survival game perfectly captures the brutal, cooperative, and crafting-heavy loop found in The Wild Eight.

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 44.1% ★, Survival 17.3%, Multiplayer 8.7%, Open World 6.3%, Online Co-Op 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game provides an intense, realistic survival experience that forces players to manage their health and resources in a hostile wilderness.

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 47.9% ★, Survival 20.7%, Open World 7.9%, Crafting 6.4%, Online Co-Op 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: Set in a post-apocalyptic frozen wasteland, this game focuses heavily on survival, base management, and enduring harsh weather.

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%, Crafting 23.2%, Multiplayer 20.2%, Adventure 5.8%, Atmospheric 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the snowy, survival-focused atmosphere while adding a layer of social deduction and team-based cooperation.

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 41.6% ★, Survival 15.3%, Open World 8.4%, Online Co-Op 7.3%, Multiplayer 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: It excels at cooperative exploration and survival, offering a rewarding progression system similar to the crafting loop in The Wild Eight.

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 40.4% ★, Survival 24.5%, Multiplayer 8.4%, Co-op 8%, Open World 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: It maintains the isometric perspective and crafting-focused survival mechanics while adding a layer of zombie-based combat.

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 41.5% ★, Survival 17.8%, Multiplayer 8.1%, Crafting 7.6%, Open World 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: This session-based survival game emphasizes environmental hazards and the need for careful preparation before venturing into the wild.

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% ★, Survival 20.4%, Open World 9%, Crafting 6.5%, Survival Horror 2.5%

Why You'll Like It: It features a strong focus on cooperative survival and uncovering a dark, mysterious narrative within a dangerous open world.

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 41.9% ★, Survival 19.7%, Multiplayer 9.1%, Co-op 9.1%, Crafting 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: A highly cooperative survival game that requires constant resource management and base building to survive in a dangerous environment.

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 37.8% ★, Survival 15.7%, Open World 8%, Multiplayer 7.9%, Co-op 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: This title offers a unique perspective on exploration and survival, emphasizing crafting and base-building in a vast, dangerous world.

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 37.7% ★, Survival 20.8%, Co-op 9.3%, Multiplayer 9.1%, Crafting 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game provides a polished cooperative survival experience with a strong emphasis on exploration and crafting in a hostile environment.

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 50.8%, Open World 28%, Horror 5.7%, Adventure 3.9%, Crafting 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: This atmospheric survival game places players in a mysterious, hostile open world where exploration and resource management are key.

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 15.2%, Co-op 14.8%, Crafting 12.6%, Multiplayer 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: A cooperative open-world game that focuses on exploration and survival against mechanical threats in a desolate landscape.

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 48.9% ★, Survival 17.9%, Crafting 8.1%, Open World 7.6%, Multiplayer 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A hardcore survival game that focuses on base building, crafting, and managing resources in a challenging wilderness.

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 48.2% ★, Survival 18.7%, Open World 9.4%, Crafting 7.6%, Multiplayer 5%

Why You'll Like It: While set in an ocean, it captures the same sense of mystery, isolation, and the desperate need to craft tools to survive an alien landscape.

Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.7% ★, Survival 16.8%, Crafting 9.8%, Open World 7.5%, Multiplayer 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: This sandbox survival game combines crafting, exploration, and combat in a way that mirrors the core loop of The Wild Eight.

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 46.3% ★, Survival 16.2%, Open World 7.9%, Crafting 6.5%, Multiplayer 6%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that features a fantasy-themed frozen setting and a focus on crafting and combat.

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 32%, Open World 19.2%, Crafting 14.2%, Multiplayer 12.7%, Online Co-Op 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: This isometric survival game features deep crafting and base-building mechanics that will feel familiar to fans of the genre.

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 41.4% ★, Survival 23.4%, Open World 9.8%, Multiplayer 8.6%, Online Co-Op 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers deep crafting and cooperative survival mechanics that are essential for enduring waves of enemies in an open 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 42.9% ★, Survival 28.3%, Crafting 8.6%, Sandbox 4.8%, Open World 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: The original isometric survival experience that set the standard for challenging, crafting-focused gameplay with a unique art style.

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% ★, 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 that emphasizes scavenging and environmental survival.

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 40.7% ★, Survival 23%, Open World 10%, Crafting 8.4%, Multiplayer 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer-focused survival game that emphasizes vehicle maintenance and base building in a challenging open world.

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

Why You'll Like It: A cooperative survival game that adds a layer of automation and crafting to the traditional survival formula.

The dead have risen and civilization has fallen. Now it's up to you to gather survivors, scavenge for resources and build a community in a post-apocalyptic world – a world where you define what it means to survive in this ultimate zombie survival simulation.

Why similar: Survival 36.5%, Open World 19.8%, Multiplayer 13.6%, Co-op 12.5%, Online Co-Op 8%

Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes community survival and resource management, requiring players to make difficult choices to keep their group alive.

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: Survival 25.7%, Co-op 14.6%, Open World 14.1%, Crafting 13.6%, Multiplayer 12.4%

Why You'll Like It: An accessible multiplayer survival game that emphasizes crafting, base building, and scavenging in a post-apocalyptic world.

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 39.7% ★, Survival 18.8%, Co-op 10.1%, Multiplayer 9.9%, Online Co-Op 8.1%

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 44.4% ★, Survival 12.9%, Co-op 8.6%, Multiplayer 6.7%, Open World 6.7%

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 42.8% ★, Survival 15.2%, Multiplayer 8.2%, Co-op 7.1%, Crafting 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: An isometric survival game with a snowy setting and pixel art that captures the core themes of cold-weather survival.

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 49.7% ★, Survival 18.4%, Multiplayer 8.4%, Open World 7.6%, Crafting 6.9%

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 40.5% ★, Survival 13.2%, Open World 9.1%, Co-op 8.5%, Multiplayer 7.1%

“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 38.5% ★, Survival 24.5%, Crafting 9.1%, Co-op 8.4%, Multiplayer 6%

Why You'll Like It: The original isometric survival game that focuses on crafting, resource management, and surviving against hordes of enemies.

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 16.2%, Crafting 15.1%, Mystery 13.9%, Sandbox 10.5%

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 46.5% ★, Survival 17.2%, Open World 9.2%, Crafting 8.9%, Mystery 7.5%

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 18.3%, Open World 10.5%, Crafting 7.3%, Multiplayer 4.7%

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 47.4% ★, Survival 18.7%, Open World 10%, Crafting 6.8%, Multiplayer 6.6%

Outlaws of the Old West is a massively multiplayer survival MMO with a huge world, thousands of items and a modular building system. Survive the wild, build your own homestead, defeat villainous bandits and work with others to tame the Wild West.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 52.4% ★, Survival 19.4%, Open World 10.9%, Multiplayer 8.5%, Crafting 3.7%

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 22.8%, Open World 13.3%, Co-op 11.4%, Multiplayer 11.3%, Mystery 10.7%

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 39.5% ★, Survival 13.9%, Open World 8%, Co-op 7.2%, Online Co-Op 7.1%

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 40.9% ★, Survival 15.4%, Open World 9.2%, Crafting 8%, Multiplayer 6.5%

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%, Open World 16.3%, Multiplayer 12.1%, Crafting 11.4%, Co-op 9.4%

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 33.6% ★, Survival 17.1%, Co-op 8.5%, Open World 8.5%, Multiplayer 8%

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 29.7%, Open World 15.4%, Co-op 14.8%, Multiplayer 12.9%, Crafting 9.8%

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 45.4% ★, Survival 17.1%, Crafting 9.8%, Open World 9.7%, Co-op 5.3%

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 34.4% ★, Survival 13.8%, Co-op 10.1%, Crafting 8.9%, Open World 7.4%

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 46.6% ★, Survival 18.8%, Open World 10.8%, Crafting 6.9%, Sandbox 4.3%

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 53.7% ★, Survival 17.9%, Crafting 7.6%, Sandbox 6.3%, Open World 6.3%

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 43.1% ★, Survival 16.2%, Crafting 9.3%, Open World 8.4%, Online Co-Op 6.7%

'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 40.7% ★, Survival 14%, Open World 8.7%, Crafting 8.3%, Multiplayer 7.9%

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 43.1% ★, Survival 15.2%, Co-op 10.3%, Open World 9.1%, Crafting 7%

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 29.8%, Co-op 15.7%, Multiplayer 14.4%, Crafting 12%, Online Co-Op 4.9%

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 37.7% ★, Survival 28%, Crafting 9.7%, Open World 8.3%, Survival Horror 4.1%

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 46.9% ★, Survival 14.9%, Co-op 9.3%, Open World 9%, Multiplayer 8%

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 40.2% ★, Survival 16.9%, Crafting 9.7%, Open World 9.5%, Multiplayer 8.4%

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 48.7% ★, Survival 18.2%, Open World 8.9%, Crafting 7.6%, Multiplayer 7%

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 15.2%, Open World 9.3%, Co-op 8.7%, Crafting 8.4%

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 42.9% ★, Survival 16.4%, Open World 10%, Multiplayer 8.8%, Co-op 7.8%