- #1 The Long Dark
97% matchVery Positive89% of 123,417 reviews2017
Dev: Hinterland Studio Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 47.4 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 8.8%, Crafting 4.5%, Sandbox 2.5%
Why You'll Like It: It is the definitive cold-weather survival experience that perfectly captures the isolation and environmental danger found in The Wild Eight.
- #2 Project Winter
96% 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 40.1%, Crafting 23.1%, Multiplayer 20.1%, Adventure 5.9%, Atmospheric 4.8%
Why You'll Like It: This game combines the harsh snowy survival elements of The Wild Eight with intense social deduction and team-based cooperation.
- #3 Don't Starve Together
96% matchVery Positive95% of 541,972 reviews2016
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 64.6 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 61.9% ★, Survival 24.1%, Multiplayer 3.3%, Co-op 3.1%, Open World 2.1%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the isometric perspective and challenging survival loop while emphasizing cooperative play and a distinct, mysterious art style.
- #4 Core Keeper
94% matchVery Positive93% of 66,104 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.2 hrsMean: 34.7 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% ★, Survival 15.3%, Open World 9.4%, Co-op 8.7%, Crafting 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: An isometric co-op survival game that excels at exploration, crafting, and base building in a mysterious, procedurally generated world.
- #5 Green Hell
95% matchVery Positive85% of 101,308 reviews2019
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 18.4 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 44.2% ★, Survival 17.3%, Multiplayer 8.7%, Open World 6.4%, Online Co-Op 6%
Why You'll Like It: It provides an intense, high-stakes survival experience that forces players to manage their health and resources in a hostile wilderness.
- #6 Raft
94% matchVery Positive93% of 377,470 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.7 hrsMean: 37.9 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% ★, Survival 19.7%, Co-op 9%, Multiplayer 9%, Crafting 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: A highly cooperative survival game that emphasizes resource management and expansion in a dangerous, isolated environment.
- #7 ICARUS
93% matchMostly Positive75% of 67,515 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 46.4 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 41.6% ★, Survival 17.8%, Multiplayer 8%, Open World 7.5%, Crafting 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: This session-based survival game features a harsh, unforgiving wilderness that requires careful preparation and teamwork to survive.
- #8 DYSMANTLE
92% matchVery Positive91% of 11,572 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 37%, Open World 21.5%, Crafting 18.3%, Sandbox 7.8%, RPG 4%
Why You'll Like It: This isometric open-world survival game focuses on exploration and resource gathering, mirroring the satisfying loop of scavenging and crafting.
- #9 Project Zomboid
91% matchVery Positive94% of 475,049 reviews2013
Dev: The Indie Stone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 15.6 hrsMean: 87.1 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 37.1% ★, Survival 24%, Open World 10%, Multiplayer 7.7%, Co-op 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: It offers the deepest isometric survival mechanics available, focusing on realistic resource management and long-term survival planning.
- #10 Stranded Deep
91% matchMostly Positive74% of 47,770 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 49.9% ★, Survival 18.3%, Multiplayer 8.3%, Open World 7.6%, Crafting 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: A pure survival experience that focuses on the struggle against nature and the necessity of crafting to stay alive in an isolated setting.
- #11 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
89% matchVery Positive82% of 10,429 reviews2024
Dev: Max Ent Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 16.1 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 37.9% ★, Survival 15.7%, Open World 8%, Multiplayer 7.8%, Co-op 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique perspective on survival, focusing on exploration and crafting within a vast, dangerous natural world.
- #12 DESOLATE
90% matchMixed66% of 8,063 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 28.1%, Horror 5.7%, Adventure 3.9%, Crafting 3.4%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on exploration and survival in a mysterious, eerie open world that encourages cooperative play.
- #13 Valheim
88% matchVery Positive94% of 540,690 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 26.0 hrsMean: 78.0 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 41.9% ★, Survival 15.2%, Open World 8.5%, Online Co-Op 7.2%, Multiplayer 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a compelling mix of survival, exploration, and base building with a strong emphasis on cooperative progression.
- #14 Generation Zero®
89% matchMostly Positive72% of 42,150 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 15.4%, Co-op 14.8%, Crafting 12.5%, Multiplayer 12.1%
Why You'll Like It: This open-world co-op game captures the sense of mystery and exploration found in The Wild Eight while adding tactical combat.
- #15 Breathedge
86% matchVery Positive81% of 17,661 reviews2021
Dev: RedRuins SoftworksPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 52.9% ★, Survival 17.5%, Crafting 7.2%, Open World 6.3%, Sandbox 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: It translates the survival and resource management loop into a space setting, focusing on exploration and overcoming environmental hazards.
- #16 Subsistence
87% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,766 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 49.1% ★, Survival 17.8%, Crafting 8.1%, Open World 7.6%, Multiplayer 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: A challenging open-world survival game that emphasizes base building, resource gathering, and defense against environmental threats.
- #17 V Rising
83% matchVery Positive89% of 136,761 reviews2024
Dev: Stunlock Studios
Windows
Median: 20.8 hrsMean: 57.9 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 32.1%, Open World 19.4%, Crafting 14.1%, Multiplayer 12.6%, Online Co-Op 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: An isometric survival game that features robust crafting and base-building mechanics set within a dark, atmospheric open world.
- #18 How to Survive 2
86% matchMixed69% of 11,014 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 40.6% ★, Survival 24.5%, Multiplayer 8.4%, Co-op 8%, Open World 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: An isometric survival game that leans into co-op play and crafting, providing a similar gameplay feel to The Wild Eight.
- #19 Voidtrain
82% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,810 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 15.9 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 44.7% ★, Survival 12.8%, Co-op 8.6%, Multiplayer 6.7%, Open World 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: A unique co-op survival game that focuses on traversal and crafting in an ever-changing, mysterious environment.
- #20 Fade to Silence
85% matchMixed62% of 1,336 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% ★, Survival 20.6%, Open World 7.9%, Crafting 6.3%, Online Co-Op 4.3%
Why You'll Like It: Set in a post-apocalyptic frozen wasteland, this game mirrors the cold-weather survival and supernatural mystery of The Wild Eight.
- #21 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 47.9% ★, Survival 16.8%, Crafting 9.7%, Open World 7.6%, Multiplayer 5.3%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that features isometric exploration, crafting, and combat, closely mirroring the core loop of The Wild Eight.
- #22 Savage Lands
84% matchMixed54% of 6,690 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 46.5% ★, Survival 16.1%, Open World 8%, Crafting 6.4%, Multiplayer 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: A brutal survival game set in a fantasy-themed open world that requires players to craft and explore to survive the elements.
- #23 Survive the Nights
81% matchMixed66% of 6,719 reviews2025
Dev: a2z Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 10.9 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 39.8% ★, Survival 18.8%, Co-op 10%, Multiplayer 9.8%, Online Co-Op 8%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the cooperative aspect of survival, emphasizing base defense and resource management against persistent threats.
- #24 The Survivalists
82% matchMostly Positive76% of 10,097 reviews2020
Dev: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.8 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 35.1% ★, Survival 16.8%, Crafting 10%, Online Co-Op 7.8%, Open World 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers a lighthearted take on survival and crafting, emphasizing cooperative play and exploration in an open world.
- #25 Tribes of Midgard
81% matchMostly Positive76% of 23,242 reviews2021
Dev: NorsfellPub: Gearbox Publishing
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 19.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 53.7% ★, Survival 15.7%, Co-op 9.5%, Online Co-Op 9.4%, Multiplayer 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: It blends survival and base defense with a cooperative, action-oriented loop that rewards exploration and resource management.
- #26 Tinkerlands
79% matchVery Positive86% of 4,087 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 14.2 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 39.7% ★, Survival 13.9%, Open World 8.1%, Co-op 7.2%, Online Co-Op 7%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game with pixel graphics that focuses on exploration, crafting, and cooperative play.
- #27 Len's Island
78% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,866 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 46.7% ★, Survival 17.1%, Open World 9.3%, Crafting 8.8%, Mystery 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: An isometric survival game that balances building and farming with exploration and dungeon-crawling elements.
- #28 Hurtworld
79% matchMostly Positive76% of 31,099 reviews2019
Dev: Bankroll Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 64.1 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 40.8% ★, Survival 23%, Open World 10.1%, Crafting 8.4%, Multiplayer 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer survival game that focuses on skill-based combat and resource management in a harsh, unforgiving environment.
- #29 ANGST: A TALE OF SURVIVAL
77% matchVery Positive87% of 229 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 16.3%, Crafting 15%, Mystery 13.9%, Sandbox 10.6%
- #30 The Gold River Project
77% matchMixed63% of 659 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 40.7% ★, Survival 13.2%, Open World 9.1%, Co-op 8.4%, Multiplayer 7.1%
- #31 Out of Reach
80% matchMixed57% of 3,051 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.1 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 48.9% ★, Survival 18.2%, Open World 8.9%, Crafting 7.6%, Multiplayer 7%
Why You'll Like It: This survival game emphasizes exploration and crafting in an open-world setting, focusing on the struggle for survival against nature.
- #32 MISERY
75% matchVery Positive84% of 25,586 reviews2025
Dev: Platypus EntertainmentPub: Ytopia
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 10.8 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 17.2%, Open World 8.6%, Co-op 8.4%, Multiplayer 8.1%
- #33 Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts
78% matchMostly Negative37% of 375 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 41.1% ★, Survival 15.3%, Open World 9.2%, Crafting 7.9%, Multiplayer 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the mystery and exploration aspects of survival, challenging players to uncover secrets in a dangerous world.
- #34 Short Snow | Cold Survival Game
76% matchMixed54% of 168 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 18.3%, Open World 10.6%, Crafting 7.3%, Sandbox 4.7%
- #35 The Legacy
74% 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 22.8%, Open World 13.5%, Co-op 11.3%, Multiplayer 11.2%, Mystery 10.7%
- #36 Rem Survival
75% matchMostly Positive75% of 803 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 45.6% ★, Survival 17%, Open World 9.8%, Crafting 9.7%, Co-op 5.2%
- #37 Miscreated
74% matchMixed66% of 31,591 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 52.2% ★, Survival 19.8%, Open World 9.3%, Multiplayer 7%, Crafting 4.9%
- #38 Winter Survival
71% matchMixed63% of 776 reviews2025
Dev: DRAGO entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.9 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 46.7% ★, Survival 18.7%, Open World 10.9%, Crafting 6.8%, Sandbox 4.3%
- #39 Feel The Snow
72% matchVery Positive87% of 3,059 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 43% ★, Survival 15.1%, Multiplayer 8.1%, Co-op 7.1%, Crafting 7%
- #40 The Forest
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 680,573 reviews2018
Dev: Endnight Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 37.3 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%
- #41 How to Survive
73% matchVery Positive83% of 17,098 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 38.7% ★, Survival 24.4%, Crafting 9.1%, Co-op 8.4%, Multiplayer 5.9%
- #42 Whisper of the Swallows
69% matchVery Positive86% of 191 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 43.2% ★, Survival 16.1%, Crafting 9.2%, Open World 8.5%, Online Co-Op 6.6%
- #43 Lodventure
71% matchMostly Positive74% of 164 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 43.2% ★, Survival 15.1%, Co-op 10.3%, Open World 9.1%, Crafting 7%
- #44 Wild Omission
70% matchVery Positive88% of 80 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 40.4% ★, Survival 16.9%, Crafting 9.6%, Open World 9.6%, Multiplayer 8.3%
- #45 Night of the Dead
67% matchMostly Positive77% of 11,856 reviews2024
Dev: Jackto Studios
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 32.1 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 40.9% ★, Survival 14%, Open World 8.8%, Crafting 8.3%, Multiplayer 7.8%
- #46 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 50.7% ★, Survival 17.8%, Open World 7.4%, Multiplayer 6.7%, Crafting 5.3%
- #47 No One Survived
66% matchMixed64% of 7,777 reviews2025
Dev: Cat Play Studio
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 23.0 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 32.1%, Open World 16.4%, Multiplayer 12%, Crafting 11.3%, Co-op 9.4%
- #48 Frozen State
71% 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 37.8% ★, Survival 27.9%, Crafting 9.7%, Open World 8.4%, Survival Horror 4.1%
- #49 Outlaws of the Old West
70% matchMixed59% of 6,295 reviews2019
Dev: Virtual Basement LLCPub: Wandering Wizard
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 52.7% ★, Survival 19.2%, Open World 10.9%, Multiplayer 8.3%, Crafting 3.6%
- #50 Arctico
68% matchMostly Positive70% of 2,527 reviews2022
Dev: Claudio Norori
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 4.2 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 47.1% ★, Survival 14.8%, Co-op 9.3%, Open World 9%, Multiplayer 8%
- #51 MAZEBOUND: Hunt, Gather, Run!
65% matchVery Positive83% of 635 reviews2026
Dev: Absam Studios
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.0 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 29.9%, Co-op 15.8%, Multiplayer 14.3%, Crafting 11.9%, Online Co-Op 4.9%
- #52 Niffelheim
69% 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 34.6% ★, Survival 13.8%, Co-op 10.1%, Crafting 8.8%, Open World 7.4%
- #53 KeepUp Survival
67% matchMixed64% of 749 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 39.2% ★, Survival 15.9%, Co-op 9.5%, Open World 9.4%, Crafting 8.3%
- #54 This Land Is My Land
67% matchMixed68% of 4,651 reviews2021
Dev: Game-Labs
Windows
Median: 3.7 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 47.5% ★, Survival 18.6%, Open World 10%, Crafting 6.8%, Multiplayer 6.6%
- #55 Northern Lights
68% matchMixed67% of 296 reviews2020
Dev: MadGoat Studio
Windows
Northern Lights is an open world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the arctic tundra. Clinging to life, you must use real-life survival techniques to gather resources, craft, and hunt while tending to your health and sanity. Can you survive your way out of the mysterious island?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.4% ★, Survival 17.6%, Open World 10.5%, Crafting 9.1%, Sandbox 6%
- #56 CrossWorlds: Escape
69% matchMixed64% of 158 reviews2020
Dev: Another Reality
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 97%
CrossWorlds: Escape is a hardcore game in which you will have to deploy all your skills to survive in a huge open world that is susceptible to changes in weather, seasons and various natural phenomena.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43% ★, Survival 16.1%, Open World 9.4%, Crafting 8.6%, Sandbox 5.8%
- #57 SURVIVAL: Postapocalypse Now
68% 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 53.6% ★, Survival 20%, Open World 8.2%, Multiplayer 7%, Crafting 4.5%
