- #1 Bellwright
97% matchVery Positive81% of 18,990 reviews2024
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 41.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Establish and expand your own settlements, liberate the land and assist its villagers, and recruit others to your cause while learning more about a life you had to leave behind. Command your forces, prove your valor through combat, and cement yourself as the hero of your people.
Why similar: Survival 29.9%, Open World 24.8%, Crafting 18.1%, Multiplayer 10.2%, RPG 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: Features a strong focus on leading a rebellion and managing a settlement, mirroring the strategic resistance elements of the seed game.
- #2 Trail of Ayash
96% matchMixed64% of 55 reviews2024
Dev: Nowsky
Windows
Trail of Ayash is an innovative and exciting open world game focused on the indigenous people, their struggles. Our world is a unique version of the lands dominated by the myths and legends of Its Inhabitants. Various tribes interact with one another, engaging in diplomacy, war, and expansion.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.6% ★, Survival 12.5%, Open World 12.3%, America 11.8% ★, Crafting 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world RPG that directly explores Native American folklore and history in a survival-focused landscape.
- #3 Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey
96% matchMostly Positive79% of 11,316 reviews2020
Dev: Panache Digital GamesPub: Private Division
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Survive your evolution in Neogene Africa starting 10 million years ago. Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is a third-person open world survival game where you Explore, Expand, and Evolve to advance your clan to the next generation in the exciting new adventure from Panache Digital Games.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.8% ★, Survival 14.1%, Open World 12.6%, Crafting 8.5%, Historical 5.2%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on tribal survival and exploration through the lens of evolution, capturing the primitive and immersive feel of the seed game.
- #4 Outlaws of the Old West
95% matchMixed59% of 6,287 reviews2019
Dev: Virtual Basement LLCPub: Wandering Wizard
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 22.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 36.3% ★, Western 29.8% ★, Survival 12%, Open World 10%, Multiplayer 5.1%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-crafting game set in the American frontier that emphasizes the challenges of the Wild West era.
- #5 Medieval Dynasty
94% matchVery Positive91% of 49,970 reviews2021
Dev: Render CubePub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 35.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.
Why similar: Crafting 21.4%, Survival 19.8%, Open World 17%, Multiplayer 10.7%, Historical 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: Combines deep survival and crafting mechanics with settlement management, offering a similar sense of building a legacy in a harsh wilderness.
- #6 Heat
94% matchMixed49% of 2,935 reviews2020
Dev: Code}{atch
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 28.5 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Survive the wilderness, build a home, raise a family, and expand your territory. Gain power as President, deliver justice as Sheriff, fight for your tribe as Chief, or show some southern hospitality as Governor. Begin your new life in 19th century America.
Why similar: Western 31% ★, Open World Survival Craft 19.8% ★, Survival 13.3%, Open World 10.7%, America 6.1% ★
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer survival game set in the American West that captures the rugged spirit of the frontier.
- #7 Survival: Fountain of Youth
93% matchVery Positive86% of 4,270 reviews2024
Dev: Odinsoft Inc.Pub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 18.7 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Survival: Fountain of Youth is a challenging single-player open-world adventure game set on the Caribbean islands. Survive as a shipwrecked 16th-century explorer, craft tools and shelter, and uncover the secrets of both an ancient civilization and your own fate.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.3% ★, Survival 14.8%, Crafting 10.1%, Open World 9.8%, Historical 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: An exploration-heavy survival game that emphasizes resource management and discovery in a dangerous, untamed environment.
- #8 The Front
92% matchMixed68% of 10,753 reviews2025
Dev: Samar Studio
Windows
Median: 10.6 hrsMean: 44.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
The Front is a survival open-world crafting sandbox game. You are a resistance fighter sent back in time to stop the rise of a tyrannical empire. Collect resources, craft tech, build shelters, and fight monsters to accomplish your mission.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.8% ★, Survival 14.2%, Open World 11.3%, Crafting 10.4%, Multiplayer 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: Features extensive base-building and resistance mechanics against hostile forces, aligning with the tactical combat of the seed game.
- #9 Mist Survival
91% matchMostly Positive76% of 14,042 reviews2018
Dev: Dimension 32 Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 73%
MIST SURVIVAL is a Single-player, survival stealth sandbox game Players will experience the Apocalypse stimulation in the form of virus pandemic, the players have to deal with it to survive through the difficulties such as finding shelter and food, threats from the environment and climate: wild animals, bandits, infected, and dense mist t
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.7% ★, Survival 22%, Open World 14.2%, Crafting 7%, Sandbox 3.2%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on stealth and survival against both human and supernatural threats, mirroring the tactical stealth gameplay of the seed game.
- #10 Green Hell
91% matchVery Positive85% of 94,379 reviews2019
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 18.7 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 49.7% ★, Survival 17.2%, Open World 9.5%, Multiplayer 8.5%, Crafting 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: Offers an intense, realistic survival experience in a dense wilderness where every decision impacts your ability to resist the environment.
- #11 Subsistence
90% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,601 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 40.0 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 50.4% ★, Survival 16.4%, Open World 10.5%, Crafting 10%, Multiplayer 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that focuses on long-term base building and resource management in a challenging environment.
- #12 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
89% matchVery Positive82% of 9,646 reviews2024
Dev: Merge GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 15.1 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 40.4% ★, Survival 14.9%, Open World 11.3%, Crafting 9.7%, Multiplayer 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: Combines survival and exploration with a unique perspective, focusing on building and thriving in a dangerous, large-scale world.
- #13 Life is Feudal: Your Own
89% matchMixed66% of 12,039 reviews2015
Dev: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 58.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Hardcore and realistic; LiF is a Medieval multiplayer sandbox RPG, with free terraforming, a rich crafting system and preset and modular building construction. With engaging survival aspects, no target physics-based combat and a unique formation system - along with numerous other features - LiF is not for the faint of heart!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.1% ★, Survival 13.6%, Open World 13.2%, Crafting 10%, Sandbox 5.3%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a realistic survival and building experience that rewards careful planning and cooperation in a medieval-inspired setting.
- #14 Conan Exiles
88% matchMostly Positive79% of 111,441 reviews2018
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 16.9 hrsMean: 111.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
An online multiplayer survival game, now with sorcery, set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian. Survive in a vast open world sandbox, build your home into a kingdom, and dominate your enemies in single or multiplayer.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38% ★, Survival 19.9%, Open World 15.1%, Crafting 9.6%, Multiplayer 6%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a brutal survival experience with tribal themes and large-scale base building in a vast, dangerous open world.
- #15 Kenshi
87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 110,425 reviews2018
Dev: Lo-Fi Games
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 70.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.
Why similar: Open World 32.5%, Survival 27.3%, Sandbox 13.1%, Crafting 11%, RPG 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival RPG that allows for deep tactical control and the development of a faction in a hostile, unforgiving world.
- #16 Valheim
86% matchVery Positive94% of 529,829 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 25.6 hrsMean: 76.1 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 46.9% ★, Survival 15.4%, Open World 12.7%, Crafting 9%, Multiplayer 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: A highly acclaimed survival game that emphasizes exploration, base building, and overcoming powerful enemies in a mythical wilderness.
- #17 Force of Nature
85% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,198 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 46.8% ★, Survival 14.8%, Crafting 11.4%, Open World 9.9%, Sandbox 4.7%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that blends exploration and crafting with a focus on building up your presence in a new land.
- #18 Sons Of The Forest
82% matchVery Positive88% of 299,895 reviews2024
Dev: Endnight Games LtdPub: Newnight
Windows
Median: 14.9 hrsMean: 32.0 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 32.7%, Open World 25.5%, Crafting 14.3%, Multiplayer 14.1%, Sandbox 4.6%
Why You'll Like It: An immersive survival game that emphasizes exploration, crafting, and defending your territory against hostile inhabitants.
- #19 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 45.3% ★, Survival 14.1%, Open World 10.3%, Crafting 7.5%, Multiplayer 5.1%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game that focuses on exploration and combat in a dark, fantasy-inspired wilderness.
- #20 7 Days to Die
79% matchVery Positive87% of 396,805 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 16.8 hrsMean: 107.4 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 42.9% ★, Survival 21.6%, Open World 13.5%, Multiplayer 7.8%, Sandbox 5.2%
Why You'll Like It: Features robust base-building and survival mechanics that require strategic planning to defend against waves of enemies.
- #21 The Wild Eight
82% matchMostly Positive70% of 7,155 reviews2019
Dev: Eight PointsPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
The Wild Eight is an intense survival action-adventure set in the frozen wilderness of Alaska. Team up with friends in online co-op or go solo, explore the mysterious land, craft weapons and fight to live another day.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.4% ★, Survival 19.3%, Open World 10.2%, Crafting 7.1%, Multiplayer 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game set in a harsh, frozen wilderness that focuses on exploration and uncovering the mysteries of the environment.
- #22 The Long Dark
81% matchVery Positive90% of 117,376 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 54.9% ★, Survival 20.1%, Open World 11.9%, Crafting 5.5%, Sandbox 2.6%
Why You'll Like It: A quintessential survival experience that focuses on the harsh realities of the wilderness and the struggle to stay alive.
- #23 Rust
81% matchVery Positive87% of 1,344,289 reviews2018
Dev: Facepunch Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 52.0 hrsMean: 416.6 hrs≥1hr: 96%
The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33% ★, Survival 24%, Open World 13.1%, Crafting 12%, Multiplayer 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore survival game that emphasizes territory control, crafting, and navigating the dangers of an open world.
- #24 Desert Skies
83% matchMixed57% of 461 reviews2019
Dev: White_Rabbit_Games
Windows
Desert Skies takes survival to the air! Build an airship and fly on an adventure through the deserts of the Wild West. Look for places to land and scavenge for loot, expand your airship and craft new equipment, but beware the dangers lurking beneath the sands!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.3% ★, Western 17.5% ★, Stealth 10.4%, Survival 9.1%, Crafting 7%
Why You'll Like It: Features a unique survival mechanic involving a mobile base, perfect for players who enjoy the nomadic feel of the frontier.
- #25 The Infected
77% matchVery Positive85% of 6,893 reviews2020
Dev: DigX Studios
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 18.5 hrs≥1hr: 68%
The Infected is a sandbox, first-person, open-world survival game. Build bases, craft, farm, hunt, and survive changing seasons. Choose whether to face the hybrid “Vambies” or turn them off for a pure survival experience.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.6% ★, Survival 14.6%, Open World 13.7%, Crafting 11.4%, Sandbox 5.7%
- #26 Wild West Legacy
77% matchMostly Negative37% of 2,108 reviews2024
Dev: Moon Punch StudioPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Conquer the Wild West. Explore the open world of a fictitious American Midwest and survive the harsh environment. Convince other settlers to join you and manage your ever-growing settlements. Build a home, take care of your farm and become a legend in Wild West Legacy.
Why similar: Western 40.9% ★, Survival 16.3%, Open World 14.6%, Crafting 12.6%, RPG 5.9%
- #27 Reign Of Kings
78% matchMixed57% of 14,891 reviews2015
Dev: Code}{atch
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 47.7 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 46.1% ★, Survival 15.6%, Open World 13%, Crafting 10.1%, Multiplayer 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: A medieval survival game that focuses on territory control and the struggle for power in an open world.
- #28 Landless
79% matchMixed44% of 194 reviews2017
Dev: CodeBullet
Windows
Explore and conquer the high seas in this post-apocalyptic sandbox water world survival game where you must fight, build, and craft to survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.7% ★, Survival 20.4%, Open World 12.4%, Crafting 9.3%, RPG 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: A unique survival game set in a flooded world that emphasizes exploration and base management.
- #29 My Island
75% matchMixed67% of 1,706 reviews2024
Dev: SnowBaby Games
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 48%
MyIsland is a relaxed and beautiful survival game,You will drift and survive on the tropical islands, hunt and travel, build houses and development farming, and create your own warm homeland.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 53.9% ★, Survival 16.1%, Open World 10.6%, Crafting 8%, Multiplayer 6.2%
- #30 Life is Feudal: MMO
78% matchMixed40% of 7,330 reviews2018
Dev: LTG
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 45.7 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Experience the hardcore reality of the Middle Ages. Master survival, engage in deep-rooted RPG elements, navigate a bustling economy, build communities, and employ diplomatic strategy to thrive in Abella's vast expanse.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.2% ★, Survival 13.6%, Crafting 9.2%, Open World 9%, Historical 8.1%
- #31 Rem Survival
74% 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 41.4% ★, Survival 13.9%, Open World 11.8%, Crafting 10.6%, Multiplayer 4.1%
- #32 Plains of Pain
73% matchVery Positive85% of 692 reviews2023
Dev: Cobra Byte Digital
Windows
Survive a brutal open world alone or with friends. Explore a procedural wasteland scorched by chaos. Build and defend your base, trade for what you need, complete deadly quests, and fight to claim faction outposts before someone else does.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.2% ★, Survival 13.5%, Open World 11.9%, Crafting 10.1%, Multiplayer 6.8%
- #33 Wilderness
76% matchMostly Negative28% of 86 reviews2020
Dev: Horizon Studios
Windows
Survive in the wild nature by playing as an animal or as a human. Play as an animal and survive by your own or build a herd to stay protected. Have babies and protect them from predators. Play as a human and craft items, build a house, customize your character and more.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.9% ★, Survival 16.3%, Open World 10.1%, Crafting 9.5%, Multiplayer 5.6%
- #34 Nomad
75% matchMixed60% of 4,634 reviews2015
Dev: Diminished Studios
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Try and survive in the world of Nomad. Build a base and protect it from raiding players. Scavenge food, weapons and medical supplies across the island. Team up with others and make a base. Make your mark on the world of Nomad.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.9% ★, Survival 17.6%, Open World 11.6%, Multiplayer 8.9%, Crafting 7.1%
- #35 Survivalist: Invisible Strain
70% matchVery Positive87% of 4,190 reviews2025
Dev: BobPub: Ginormocorp Incorporated
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 41.1% ★, Stealth 15.2%, Open World 11.1%, Survival 9.8%, Crafting 7.4%
- #36 Hold Your Own
74% matchMixed68% of 574 reviews2017
Dev: DistrictWare inc.
Windows
A single player open world sandbox, crafting and survival FPS game set in a multi-island land where you'll fight to survive. Build your base, hunt and craft to defend yourself from aggressive wildlife, enemies or friends. Do you have what it takes to Hold Your Own?
Why similar: Survival 28.6%, Crafting 21.7%, Open World 21.3%, Sandbox 9.3%, FPS 7.2%
- #37 Out of Reach
73% matchMixed57% of 3,044 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.2 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 49.3% ★, Survival 16.5%, Open World 11.9%, Crafting 9.1%, Multiplayer 6.2%
- #38 Cowboy Life Simulator
68% matchVery Positive91% of 1,091 reviews2025
Dev: Odd QubitPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 14.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
“Cowboy Life Simulator” is an immersive and relaxing ranching sim where you step into the boots of a failed businessman starting fresh on the frontier. Buy your first goat, meet the locals, explore vibrant lands, and build your dream ranch in a world full of stories and adventure!
Why similar: Western 41.5% ★, Survival 16.3%, Open World 15.1%, Crafting 9.4%, RPG 5.8%
- #39 INMATE: Survival
72% matchMixed57% of 74 reviews2023
Dev: SV Games
Windows
INMATE: Survival is an open world survival game, where you play the role of a prisoner sentenced to stay on a 4*4 km Island with many types of enemies both humans and animals.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.8% ★, Survival 15.7%, Open World 13.9%, Crafting 11.8%, Simulation 3.4%
- #40 Westland Survival
70% matchMixed59% of 439 reviews2025
Dev: Helio GamesPub: Helio Games
Windows · Mac
Saddle up for the ultimate survival adventure in the untamed Wild West! Build your homestead, tame the wilderness, bounty hunt the outlaws, and duel against the dangers that lurk on the frontier. Do you have what it takes to be a legend of the West?
Why similar: Western 44.2% ★, Crafting 13.3%, America 12.2% ★, Multiplayer 7.5%, Sandbox 6.9%
- #41 INCUR Survival
71% matchVery Positive84% of 103 reviews2022
Dev: INCUR
Windows
A survival open-world game, where you can gather resources, Hunt, Craft tools and armor, Tame Animals, Ride Animals, Build, and defend your base from creatures, and other players.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.3% ★, Survival 14.7%, Open World 12.3%, Crafting 11.2%, Third Person 4.4%
- #42 The Gold River Project
69% matchMixed67% of 526 reviews2026
Dev: Fairview Games Inc.
Windows
The Gold River Project™ invites you and your friends on an open world camping trip gone wrong. Alone or together, you must explore, craft, build, and survive the increasingly harsh environments of the Pacific Northwest wilderness as you uncover the experiment trapping you inside.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.6% ★, Open World 13.3%, Survival 13%, Crafting 8.7%, Multiplayer 6.9%
- #43 Stone Rage
73% matchMixed49% of 167 reviews2020
Dev: Mountainwheel Games
Windows
Stone Rage is a prehistoric, open-world survival game. Play as a Cro-Magnon or Neanderthal and shape-shift into beasts as you secure your place in a harsh landscape of dangerous animals, scarce resources, and unforgiving climates. Make friends and enemies. Build. Fight. Survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.1% ★, Survival 15.1%, Open World 13%, Sandbox 5.9%, RPG 4.8%
- #44 Hostile Planet: Survival
71% matchMixed65% of 99 reviews2022
Dev: Aliens Developers
Windows
Hostile Planet: Survival is a harsh adventure on an uncharted planet that full of danger and trials.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.9% ★, Survival 18.2%, Open World 12.8%, Crafting 12%, Sandbox 4.5%
- #45 Winter Survival
68% matchMixed63% of 751 reviews2025
Dev: DRAGO entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 57%
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 41.3% ★, Survival 14.8%, Stealth 14.6%, Open World 12.7%, Crafting 7.2%
- #46 Dark and Light
71% matchMixed52% of 11,804 reviews2017
Dev: Snail Games USA
Windows
Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 49.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Dark and Light is a vast sandbox survival RPG set in a world dominated by powerful elemental forces. Find your way in a meticulously crafted world, featuring breathtaking landscapes, a wide variety of mythical creatures, and limitless possibility to craft, build, and unlock dozens of powerful weapons, spells, and skills.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.5% ★, Survival 21.4%, Open World 20.3%, Sandbox 7.8%, RPG 7.3%
- #47 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 50.4% ★, Survival 15.9%, Open World 9.8%, Crafting 6.4%, Multiplayer 5.9%
- #48 SCUM
66% matchMostly Positive74% of 122,922 reviews2025
Dev: Gamepires
Windows
Median: 11.9 hrsMean: 102.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Traverse punishing environments, looting, crafting and evading the constant threats to your life. The unprecedented levels of character customization and progression are your ultimate tools for survival.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.3% ★, Survival 13.9%, Open World 12.5%, Crafting 8.7%, Violent 5.4%
- #49 Miscreated
69% matchMixed66% of 31,585 reviews2018
Dev: Entrada Interactive LLC
Windows
Median: 5.5 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 17.7%, Open World 12.3%, Multiplayer 6.2%, Crafting 5.9%
- #50 KeepUp Survival
67% matchMixed65% of 734 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.7 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 42.5% ★, Survival 15.3%, Open World 13.4%, Crafting 10.8%, Multiplayer 7.4%
- #51 Badiya: Desert Survival
70% matchMixed49% of 342 reviews2016
Dev: Semaphore
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 42%
Badiya is a Sandbox Survival RPG set in the WWI era desert lands. Badiya challenges you to brave the sands, take part in wars, ply the spice routes, or hunt for treasure as you strive to fulfill your ambitions.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.6% ★, Survival 14.3%, Open World 12.6%, Crafting 10.7%, Sandbox 6.3%
- #52 Crushed
69% matchMixed55% of 307 reviews2020
Dev: NipoBoxPub: NipoBox Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Crushed — is an Singleplayer and Multiplayer First-Person Survival Sandbox in an Open World! Challenge the wild and be ready to survive in harsh conditions. Explore the world, get resources, cook food, build a house, farm, hunt, and enjoy nature.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.3% ★, Survival 14.6%, Open World 12.6%, Crafting 9%, Sandbox 5.1%
- #53 Radiation Island
67% matchVery Positive80% of 623 reviews2016
Dev: Atypical Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Radiation Island is a survival adventure game where you craft your own destiny in a huge open world environment. As part of the Philadelphia Experiment you have become stranded in a parallel, alternate reality. Discover this new and mysterious world, with all its surprises.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 56.2% ★, Survival 20.9%, Open World 9.4%, Crafting 6%, Multiplayer 3.2%
- #54 The Last Plague: Blight
63% matchVery Positive89% of 1,349 reviews2024
Dev: Original Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
The Last Plague: Blight is an authentic survival experience rooted in realism and immersion. Endure the hazards of a brutal open world and uncover the origins of a mysterious disease. You are humanity’s final hope in ending the Blight
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 63.3% ★, Survival 19.7%, Third Person 7.4%, Sandbox 7.2%, Action 1.4%
- #55 Freeman: Guerrilla Warfare
66% matchMixed65% of 12,384 reviews2019
Dev: KK Game Studio
Windows
Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 21.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
In the anarchic world of Freeman: Guerrilla Warfare, only the mightiest warlord rules. Start with a pistol and a few militias, you will set yourself on a wild and ambitious journey towards world domination. Enjoy the immersive combination of intense FPS and sandbox strategy.
Why similar: Open World 30.6%, RPG 15.4%, FPS 14.7%, Sandbox 13.2%, First-Person 7.9%