- #1 Bellwright
97% matchVery Positive81% of 19,796 reviews2024
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 12.7 hrsMean: 41.4 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%, Open World 23.9%, Crafting 17.2%, Multiplayer 9.8%, RPG 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: Features deep leadership and rebellion mechanics that mirror the struggle to reclaim territory from oppressive forces.
- #2 Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey
96% matchMostly Positive79% of 11,558 reviews2020
Dev: Panache Digital GamesPub: Private Division
Windows
Median: 1.7 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 42% ★, Survival 14.1%, Open World 12.5%, Crafting 8.4%, Historical 5.1%
Why You'll Like It: Centers on tribal evolution and exploration, emphasizing the struggle for survival in a vast, unforgiving landscape.
- #3 Medieval Dynasty
96% matchVery Positive90% of 50,786 reviews2021
Dev: Render CubePub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 11.8 hrsMean: 36.2 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 20.3%, Survival 18.9%, Open World 16.2%, Multiplayer 10.1%, Historical 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: Combines survival and crafting with the management of a growing settlement, similar to the tribal development aspects of the seed game.
- #4 Far Cry® Primal
95% matchVery Positive86% of 39,924 reviews2016
Dev: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 26.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
The award-winning Far Cry franchise returns with its innovative open world gameplay, bringing together massive beasts, breathtaking environments, and unpredictable savage encounters. Welcome to the Stone Age, a time of danger and adventure.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.4% ★, Open World 20.2%, Survival 18.8%, Stealth 11.3%, Crafting 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: Captures the tribal survival and stealth-heavy gameplay within a prehistoric, wilderness-focused open world.
- #5 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 49% ★, Survival 16.9%, Open World 9.3%, Multiplayer 8.3%, Crafting 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a hardcore survival experience that emphasizes realistic wilderness navigation and resource management.
- #6 Generation Zero®
94% 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 23.6%, Open World 22.4%, Crafting 16.4%, Multiplayer 11.7%, Sandbox 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on guerrilla warfare and stealth tactics against a technologically superior occupying force in an open world.
- #7 Mist Survival
93% matchMostly Positive76% of 14,126 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 46% ★, Survival 21.9%, Open World 14.2%, Crafting 6.9%, Sandbox 3.2%
Why You'll Like It: A stealth-focused survival game that requires careful planning and resource management to avoid hostile threats.
- #8 Kenshi
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 112,221 reviews2018
Dev: Lo-Fi Games
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 71.1 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 32.6%, Survival 27.2%, Sandbox 13.2%, Crafting 10.9%, RPG 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: Offers an incredibly harsh open world where you must build a faction and survive against overwhelming odds.
- #9 Subsistence
92% 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 49.7% ★, Survival 16.1%, Open World 10.3%, Crafting 9.7%, Multiplayer 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: A pure survival experience that emphasizes crafting and building in a hostile, open-world environment.
- #10 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
90% 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 39.4% ★, Survival 14.5%, Open World 11%, Crafting 9.3%, Multiplayer 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: Combines base building and survival with a unique perspective on exploring a dangerous, oversized natural world.
- #11 The Front
89% matchMixed67% of 10,771 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 40.9% ★, Survival 13.8%, Open World 11%, Crafting 10.1%, Multiplayer 7%
Why You'll Like It: Features extensive base-building and survival mechanics with a focus on defending against waves of enemies.
- #12 Life is Feudal: Your Own
91% matchMixed66% of 12,061 reviews2015
Dev: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 58.2 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 44.8% ★, Survival 13.4%, Open World 13%, Crafting 9.8%, Sandbox 5.3%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on realistic survival and community building in a medieval setting.
- #13 State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition
89% matchVery Positive83% of 68,064 reviews2020
Dev: Undead LabsPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 39.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 34.6%, Open World 28.2%, Multiplayer 12.5%, Co-op 4.9%, Sandbox 4.3%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on community management, base defense, and tactical survival in a hostile, changing environment.
- #14 The Long Dark
88% 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 54.7% ★, Survival 19.9%, Open World 11.8%, Crafting 5.4%, Sandbox 2.6%
Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for wilderness survival, focusing on the constant struggle against the elements and wildlife.
- #15 Survival: Fountain of Youth
86% matchVery Positive86% of 4,339 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 41.4% ★, Survival 14.8%, Crafting 10%, Open World 9.8%, Historical 6%
Why You'll Like It: An exploration-heavy survival game that rewards careful planning and resource gathering.
- #16 Wild West Legacy
85% matchMostly Negative37% of 2,125 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 40.8% ★, Survival 16.3%, Open World 14.7%, Crafting 12.6%, RPG 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: A simulation-heavy Western survival game that focuses on crafting and frontier life.
- #17 Outward Definitive Edition
83% 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: Open World 34.8%, Survival 27.2%, RPG 16.8%, Multiplayer 7%, Co-op 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: An RPG-survival hybrid that forces players to prepare and plan for every journey into the wild.
- #18 Reign Of Kings
84% 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 45.9% ★, Survival 15.3%, Open World 12.9%, Crafting 10%, Multiplayer 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on medieval survival and the struggle for power in a persistent open world.
- #19 Outlaws of the Old West
84% matchMixed59% of 6,290 reviews2019
Dev: Virtual Basement LLCPub: Wandering Wizard
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 22.7 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 36.5% ★, Western 29.7% ★, Survival 11.9%, Open World 10%, Multiplayer 5.1%
Why You'll Like It: A Western survival game that focuses on building, crafting, and surviving in a harsh frontier.
- #20 The Wild Eight
82% matchMixed68% of 8,077 reviews2019
Dev: Eight PointsPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.0 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 47.2% ★, Survival 18.7%, Open World 9.9%, Crafting 6.9%, Multiplayer 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: Features isometric survival and mystery-solving in a harsh, frozen wilderness.
- #21 Life is Feudal: MMO
82% matchMixed40% of 7,344 reviews2018
Dev: LTG
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 45.5 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 41.4% ★, Survival 13.6%, Crafting 9.1%, Open World 9%, Historical 8%
Why You'll Like It: A large-scale survival experience centered on community building and faction warfare.
- #22 Force of Nature
81% 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 46.5% ★, Survival 14.5%, Crafting 11.2%, Open World 9.7%, Sandbox 4.6%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that blends crafting and exploration with a variety of biomes.
- #23 Hunt: Showdown 1896
79% matchMostly Positive74% of 271,844 reviews2019
Dev: Crytek
Windows
Median: 13.5 hrsMean: 179.5 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Hunt: Showdown 1896 is the brutally rewarding extraction shooter. Track twisted monsters and overcome ruthless PvP. Take bounties in corrupted backwaters lost to history. With a team, you might survive. Die with nothing or get out with everything.
Why similar: Western 50.3% ★, Open World 21.4%, Multiplayer 12.4%, FPS 8.4%, Co-op 5%
Why You'll Like It: While more tactical and PvP-focused, it perfectly captures the gritty, atmospheric Western aesthetic.
- #24 Desperados III
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 16,346 reviews2020
Dev: Mimimi GamesPub: THQ Nordic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 17.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Desperados III is a story-driven, hardcore tactical stealth game, set in a ruthless Wild West scenario. Play smart if you want to succeed. A good plan can make the difference between survival and finding yourself at the business end of a pistol.
Why similar: Western 48% ★, Stealth 40.2%, Historical 3%, Survival 2.6%, Third Person 2.2%
Why You'll Like It: A tactical stealth game that captures the tension and planning required for successful Western-themed missions.
- #25 Desert Skies
80% matchMixed57% of 464 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 44.5% ★, Western 17.4% ★, Stealth 10.3%, Survival 9.1%, Crafting 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: A unique survival game that tasks players with building and maintaining a mobile base in a desert environment.
- #26 Dark and Light
79% matchMixed52% of 11,819 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 29.6% ★, Survival 21.3%, Open World 20.3%, Sandbox 7.8%, RPG 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: A fantasy-themed survival game that offers extensive crafting and base-building in a massive world.
- #27 Plains of Pain
76% matchVery Positive84% of 757 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 39.2% ★, Survival 13%, Open World 11.6%, Crafting 9.7%, Multiplayer 6.5%
- #28 Savage Lands
77% 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 45.5% ★, Survival 14%, Open World 10.3%, Crafting 7.4%, Multiplayer 5.1%
- #29 My Island
76% matchMixed66% of 1,712 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 54.1% ★, Survival 16%, Open World 10.6%, Crafting 7.9%, Multiplayer 6.1%
- #30 Heat
78% 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 33% ★, Open World Survival Craft 21.3% ★, Survival 14.2%, Open World 11.4%, Multiplayer 6.4%
- #31 Nomad
77% 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 49.5% ★, Survival 17.3%, Open World 11.5%, Multiplayer 8.7%, Crafting 6.9%
- #32 Out of Reach
75% 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 48.8% ★, Survival 16.1%, Open World 11.8%, Crafting 9%, Multiplayer 6.1%
- #33 SCUM
69% matchMostly Positive74% of 124,053 reviews2025
Dev: Gamepires
Windows
Median: 11.9 hrsMean: 103.1 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 40.5% ★, Survival 13.9%, Open World 12.5%, Crafting 8.7%, Violent 5.4%
- #34 Next Day: Survival
73% matchMixed62% of 10,257 reviews2018
Dev: SOFF GamesPub: Last Level
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 21.6 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Next Day is a multi-player SURVIVAL game with elements of RPG, in an imaginary country in Eastern Europe. Carry out an array of tasks, learn skills, and develop your character. Have shootouts with opponents and earn a reputation.
Why similar: Survival 35.1%, Open World 25.7%, Multiplayer 12.5%, Crafting 11.4%, RPG 3.9%
- #35 Wilderness
75% 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 44.9% ★, Survival 15.8%, Open World 9.8%, Crafting 9.2%, Multiplayer 5.4%
- #36 Nested Lands
70% matchMostly Positive72% of 444 reviews2026
Dev: 1M Bits HordePub: META Publishing
Windows
Nested Lands is a ruthless medieval RPG game featuring in-depth village building, large-scale social management and combats. Gather survivors, build a settlement, craft, master your skills, survive, and endure alone or in online co-op.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.9% ★, Survival 13%, Open World 11.7%, Crafting 10.1%, Multiplayer 6.6%
- #37 Fragmented
74% 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 50.1% ★, Survival 15.6%, Open World 9.7%, Crafting 6.3%, Multiplayer 5.8%
- #38 Trail of Ayash
71% 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 39.5% ★, Survival 14.1%, Open World 13.9%, Crafting 9.9%, Historical 7.1%
- #39 KeepUp Survival
70% 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 41% ★, Survival 14.7%, Open World 13%, Crafting 10.3%, Multiplayer 7%
- #40 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 43.3% ★, Survival 15.1%, Open World 13%, Sandbox 5.9%, RPG 4.8%
- #41 Hold Your Own
72% 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 28.5%, Crafting 21.7%, Open World 21.4%, Sandbox 9.3%, FPS 7.2%
- #42 The Gold River Project
68% 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 43.5% ★, Open World 12.9%, Survival 12.5%, Crafting 8.3%, Multiplayer 6.6%
- #43 Crushed
72% matchMixed54% of 311 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 43.7% ★, Survival 14.3%, Open World 12.4%, Crafting 8.8%, Sandbox 5%
- #44 Landless
73% 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 41.9% ★, Survival 20.3%, Open World 12.4%, Crafting 9.3%, RPG 6.5%
- #45 Winter Survival
68% 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 41.5% ★, Survival 14.8%, Stealth 14.5%, Open World 12.7%, Crafting 7.2%
- #46 Shamania
67% matchMostly Positive77% of 145 reviews2025
Dev: Totem Keepers Games
Windows
Shamania is an open world survival game where you can CRAFT, FIGHT, and EXPLORE a vibrant sandbox world with friends in CO-OP. Expand your base as a hub for survival, gather resources, and master professions to unlock new tools and opportunities!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.3% ★, Survival 14.1%, Open World 13.7%, Crafting 11.4%, Multiplayer 6.9%
- #47 INCUR Survival
69% matchVery Positive82% of 107 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 47.6% ★, Survival 14.6%, Open World 12.3%, Crafting 11.1%, Third Person 4.4%
- #48 GRAV
71% matchMixed47% of 6,921 reviews2015
Dev: BitMonster, Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 60%
GRAV is a sand box experience where you explore a multitude of planets, hunt strange alien creatures, build and defend outposts, craft weapons and armor, and attempt to survive against other players in a hostile environment.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.3% ★, Survival 15.6%, Open World 12.3%, Crafting 7.3%, Multiplayer 5.4%
- #49 INMATE: Survival
69% 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 48% ★, Survival 15.6%, Open World 13.9%, Crafting 11.8%, Simulation 3.4%
- #50 Westland Survival
67% matchMixed59% of 492 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 50.3% ★, Crafting 15.1%, Multiplayer 8.5%, Sandbox 7.9%, RPG 7.6%
- #51 The Last Plague: Blight
65% matchVery Positive89% of 1,393 reviews2024
Dev: Original Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 13.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 61.2% ★, Survival 18.9%, Third Person 7%, Sandbox 6.9%, Co-op 3.7%
- #52 Badiya: Desert Survival
70% matchMixed49% of 342 reviews2016
Dev: Semaphore
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 43%
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 43.8% ★, Survival 14.2%, Open World 12.6%, Crafting 10.6%, Sandbox 6.3%
- #53 Len's Island
63% 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 50.2% ★, Survival 16.4%, Open World 13.3%, Crafting 11.3%, Sandbox 6.2%
- #54 Far Lands
66% matchMixed65% of 167 reviews2024
Dev: Scalpel Softworks
Windows
Far Lands is an open-world survival game. Fight mercenaries, steal their loot and vehicles. Build and defend your base from zombies. Gather resources, craft better gear and loot different points of interest. Want to play with friends? Join them on Co-op!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.1% ★, Survival 17.7%, Crafting 13.2%, Open World 13%, Violent 4.1%
- #55 Hostile Planet: Survival
67% 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 39.1% ★, Survival 18.2%, Open World 12.8%, Crafting 11.9%, Sandbox 4.5%