- #1 Forsaken Isle
97% matchMostly Positive71% of 512 reviews2025
Dev: Smoodlez
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Stranded on a desert island, explore, craft, build and fight in this action survival game!
Why similar: Crafting 28.3%, Survival 26.4%, Pixel Graphics 15.6%, RPG 9.5%, Adventure 6.7%
- #2 SCP – Containment Breach
96% matchVery Positive99% of 497 reviews2026
Dev: Undertow GamesPub: SCP-CB Community Preservation Project
Windows
A procedural first-person horror adventure. You are on your own after something goes terribly wrong in this top-secret containment facility. Collect items to aid in your escape and try to uncover the truth, as horror lurks behind every door. Can you make it out alive?
Why similar: Procedural Generation 40.7%, Survival 20.3%, Exploration 18.2%, Action-Adventure 12.7%, Action 8%
- #3 Rebirth of Island
96% matchMixed52% of 101 reviews2016
Dev: Yo_Serjio
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Survive, adapt, and research in the New World, with its rules, dwellers, and their laws. Head the colonization of these locations and ensure the independence and security of your population.
Why similar: Crafting 16.1%, Survival 15.9%, Procedural Generation 15.9%, Strategy 12.6%, RPG 11.9%
- #4 Project Cobalt
94% matchMostly Positive73% of 54 reviews2025
Dev: OxygenStudio
Windows
⚗️ Project Cobalt is a survival action game set on a hostile island 🌴. Scavenge containers, mine resources, craft tools, hunt animals, and endure storms as you fight hunger, disease, and exhaustion all while uncovering the dark truth behind a failed experiment.
Why similar: Crafting 29.7%, Survival 22.9%, Open World 20.1%, Exploration 11.3%, Simulation 7.1%
- #5 Outbreak Island
94% matchVery Positive80% of 906 reviews2025
Dev: Tiny Magicians
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Survive on a remote Island, where a mysterious Outbreak awakens bloodthirsty monsters at night. Craft, build and defend your base in the brutal world of Outbreak Island, an open-world sandbox survival horror game.
Why similar: Survival 26.8%, Crafting 25.5%, Open World 15.9%, Exploration 13.6%, RPG 9.6%
- #6 Radiation Island
93% 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: Survival 39.4%, Crafting 19.2%, Open World 17.6%, Adventure 9%, Action 8.2%
- #7 30 days to survive
92% matchMostly Positive72% of 115 reviews2021
Dev: HeXPub: Laush Studio
Windows
"30 days to survive" - the game is going day, in a world where there is a zombie Apocalypse! The protagonist has to survive 30 days on a randomly generated map full of dead.
Why similar: Crafting 23.3%, Procedural Generation 22.5%, Survival 18.9%, Open World 15%, Simulation 8.1%
- #8 Dig or Die
91% matchVery Positive90% of 4,268 reviews2018
Dev: Gaddy Games
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Crash land on a hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it. But be warned... this planet is merciless. Build strong, and smart; else physics may flood or destroy your only hopes of survival.
Why similar: Crafting 30.6%, Survival 28.8%, Open World 14.9%, Strategy 6.9%, Pixel Graphics 5.7%
- #9 SCP: Daybreak
90% matchMostly Positive74% of 377 reviews2022
Dev: SquiffyDev
Windows
An open-ended, SCP-based, atmospheric, exploration-focused, survival-horror game with puzzle elements and replayability.
Why similar: Puzzle 37%, Simulation 28.2%, Action 18.2%, Adventure 16.7%
- #10 Artificial Extinction
88% matchMostly Positive76% of 262 reviews2020
Dev: 100Hr Games Inc
Windows
You have 9 days to find a safe place on the planet. Your ship is low on fuel and you have to land. Setup sentry guns around you to defend yourself while you collect more fuel for the ship. AI controlled Drones and Tanks attack you trying to find weaknesses in your defenses.
Why similar: Strategy 23.1%, Survival 21.2%, RPG 21.1%, Action 12.8%, Adventure 11.4%
- #11 Card Survival: Tropical Island - The First Days
87% matchMostly Positive76% of 76 reviews2022
Dev: WinterSpring Games
Windows · Mac
Card Survival is a card-based survival experience. Stranded on a desert island you must use your wits and skills to stay alive. Use cards and combine them together to explore, gather resources and craft useful tools.
Why similar: Crafting 26.1%, Simulation 21.3%, Survival 18.7%, Strategy 16.4%, Adventure 13.7%
- #12 Wayward
86% matchVery Positive86% of 1,349 reviews2016
Dev: Unlok
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 21.4 hrs≥1hr: 61%
You awake to discover yourself no longer in the company of good men or a fine seafaring vessel. Treasure... you remember something about treasure. Wayward is a challenging turn-based, top-down, wilderness survival roguelike. Explore, build, and most importantly survive in these unforgiving lands.
Why similar: Crafting 26.9%, Survival 25.7%, Pixel Graphics 14.3%, Open World 13%, RPG 8.5%
- #13 SKYHILL
86% matchMostly Positive78% of 5,576 reviews2015
Dev: MandragoraPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
World War III is over, the world's infested with mutants and your supplies are running out. Fight your way down this damned hotel, from your penthouse on top to the first floor. Craft weapons, search for food and reach the exit. Otherwise you'll be torn apart, starve to death or maybe both...
Why similar: Survival 43.2%, Crafting 19.5%, RPG 10.3%, Simulation 8.7%, Adventure 8.5%
- #14 Polygeddon
85% matchMixed42% of 64 reviews2025
Dev: Digital Dreamworks
Windows
You are on an island where everyone wants to kill you, ranging from weather conditions to dangerous enemies, your goal is to survive. Survive alone or together. Build, craft, grow, explore, fight!
Why similar: Crafting 23.4%, Survival 21.3%, Open World 18.6%, RPG 10.6%, Exploration 10.5%
- #15 iZolated
82% matchMostly Positive71% of 116 reviews2024
Dev: Crooked RoadPub: LT-Games
Windows
iZolated - This is a post-apocalyptic 2D action game with elements of survival and RPG, which throws you into a harsh open world where the slightest mistake costs you your life. Find equipment, engage in fights, and prove that you are the top of the food chain in this chaos!
Why similar: Procedural Generation 19.7%, Crafting 16.7%, Open World 14.7%, Survival 13.1%, Exploration 10%
- #16 Cube Life: Island Survival
84% matchMixed69% of 177 reviews2018
Dev: Cypronia
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Cube Life: Island Survival is an open-world, block building, survival game, taking place on a beautiful remote island. Imagine being shipwrecked and stranded left for dead, with only your will to survive. You must explore, build, craft, and fight your way to stay alive.
Why similar: Crafting 26.2%, Survival 22.6%, Open World 20.8%, Exploration 9.9%, Adventure 8.4%
- #17 Edge of Space
84% matchMostly Negative33% of 2,729 reviews2015
Dev: Handyman StudiosPub: Reverb Triple XP
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Suit up as an operative of the Ark Corporation, sent to the farthest reaches of the universe in search of habitable planets to terraform. However, after the long space journey you awaken from cryosleep to find that your ship has gone way off course and is disabled near a strange new world.
Why similar: Crafting 30.3%, Survival 18.7%, Open World 12.4%, RPG 9.3%, Adventure 6.9%
- #18 Apocalypse Island
82% matchMixed41% of 66 reviews2025
Dev: Bettini Games
Windows
As an ex-scientist on a mission, you find yourself in a toxic and infected island, where humans are no where to be seen. Build, explore and survive.
Why similar: Survival 31.6%, Crafting 20.7%, Open World 12.9%, Action-Adventure 12.6%, Exploration 8.4%
- #19 ToGather:Island
83% matchVery Positive83% of 53 reviews2019
Dev: Studio KamiiPub: Todak Studios
Windows
ToGather:Island is an open world survival game set in a science-fantasy archipelago
Why similar: Crafting 25.3%, Survival 22.4%, Action-Adventure 9.7%, Simulation 9%, Exploration 9%
- #20 Pirates Journey
81% matchMixed60% of 103 reviews2024
Dev: 2MEDYA
Windows
You and your crew have been shipwrecked on a tropical island in the late 1600s. At the beginning of the adventure, you find yourself with only a few basic supplies, including ropes, sticks, and stones. With skill and cunning, you can survive on the island and thrive as a pirate crew.
Why similar: Strategy RPG 26%, Crafting 18.5%, Survival 18%, Open World 14.2%, Action RPG 11.1%
- #21 ZED ZONE
79% matchVery Positive80% of 3,539 reviews2023
Dev: Leven LiuPub: INDIECN
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 66%
A great catastrophe has come, and you, who are on duty, crash and trapped in a Zed Zone. There are zombies and monsters everywhere, In order to escape, by collecting materials, upgrading skills, building shelters, defeating zombie waves and mysterious mechs, chasing a glimmer of hope.
Why similar: Crafting 24.5%, Survival 22.9%, Open World 19.3%, Pixel Graphics 12.5%, RPG 8.7%
- #22 The Gold River Project
77% 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: Crafting 21.8%, Open World 19.5%, Survival 19.1%, Action-Adventure 11.8%, Exploration 10.8%
- #23 About Gretel
80% matchMixed57% of 61 reviews2020
Dev: PAXERT GAMES
Windows
As the Gretel, build, explore and survive in the dangerous forest. Fight to survive against mysterious Druids of the forest. If you can survive, maybe you can find out what happened to your twin brother and who kidnapped him.
Why similar: Crafting 16.4%, Action 15.6%, Adventure 14.1%, Survival 12.3%, Open World 10.4%
- #24 Invasion 2037
79% matchMixed60% of 157 reviews2019
Dev: Little Beavers Games
Windows
Become a survival scientist in a savage post-apocalyptic world where aliens have the control of the world and find a cure, manage your shelter and fight to survive
Why similar: Survival 24.6%, Crafting 21.5%, Open World 15.9%, Simulation 10.9%, Exploration 7.1%
- #25 Aground
76% matchVery Positive94% of 1,965 reviews2020
Dev: Fancy Fish Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
As one of the last human survivors, you find yourself stranded on an uninhabited island. With a few other victims of the crash, can you craft, mine, and build your way to survival?
Why similar: Survival 27.5%, Open World 25.1%, Exploration 15.1%, Pixel Graphics 15%, RPG 12.5%
- #26 Survive The Island
78% matchMixed53% of 81 reviews2021
Dev: PhantomCore StudioPub: PhantomCore PUBLISHING
Windows
survive the island you survive from skeletons and humans you can build and mine and level up your stats you can build whatever you want you can raid enemies you can mine and cut down trees and you have to hunt for your own food and you can grow your own crops and you can craft weapons
Why similar: Action RPG 21.9%, Crafting 19.3%, RPG 18.4%, Survival 18.2%, Open World 11.5%
- #27 Subterrain
78% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,385 reviews2016
Dev: Pixellore Inc
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Uncompromising Sci-Fi survival on Mars! Manage the entire colony single-handed! Craft, Research, Explore and Fight against evolving mutants. Vast open world and randomly generated levels to explore! Can you survive long enough to escape the horror?
Why similar: Survival 28.3%, Crafting 26%, Open World 13.4%, Procedural Generation 11.5%, Exploration 7.5%
- #28 Pixel Horizons
75% matchMixed64% of 58 reviews2025
Dev: Dylan Ranshaw
Windows · Mac · Linux
Stranded on a beautiful island, craft tools, battle beasts, and uncover mythical weapons. Fight to survive, conquer ancient ruins, and master the wild in a high-stakes adventure. Will you prevail? - Created by a UC Santa Cruz Student
Why similar: Action RPG 24.8%, Pixel Graphics 21.2%, Action-Adventure 18.8%, RPG 15.2%, Simulation 12.3%
- #29 Stranded Deep
73% matchMostly Positive74% of 47,062 reviews2022
Dev: Beam Team GamesPub: Beam Team Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 21.1 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: Survival 32.9%, Crafting 27.9%, Open World 20%, Exploration 7.1%, Adventure 3.6%
- #30 INMATE: Survival
76% 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: Crafting 27.2%, Survival 21.2%, Open World 18.7%, Exploration 9.1%, Action-Adventure 8.3%
- #31 Fragmented
77% 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: Survival 34.2%, Crafting 23.3%, Open World 21%, RPG 7.9%, Exploration 5.3%
- #32 Card Survival: Tropical Island
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 2,951 reviews2022
Dev: WinterSpring Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 45.4 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Card Survival is a card-based survival experience. Stranded on a desert island you must use your wits and skills to stay alive. Use cards and combine them together to explore, gather resources and craft useful tools.
Why similar: Survival 32.9%, Crafting 32.3%, Simulation 11.8%, Strategy 10.9%, Adventure 7.6%
- #33 Day D: Tower Rush
75% matchMostly Positive73% of 291 reviews2016
Dev: CreobitPub: 8Floor
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Onwards to the past! Learn the real power of science! Help the professor and his loyal companion deal with hordes of dinosaurs.
Why similar: Strategy 13.7%, RPG 11.8%, Arcade 10.3%, Simulation 10%, Survival 9.5%
- #34 FEROCIOUS
70% matchMixed64% of 718 reviews2025
Dev: OMYOGPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Immerse yourself in a survival FPS adventure. Stranded on a dangerous island, face mercenaries, dinosaurs, and a vibrant yet hostile ecosystem. Explore breathtaking environments and survive the onslaught of intense, fast-paced encounters.
Why similar: Survival 40.2%, Action-Adventure 20.3%, Exploration 20.1%, Action 10.7%, Adventure 8.7%
- #35 Nuclear Day
71% matchMixed67% of 83 reviews2025
Dev: Garden of Dreams
Windows · Mac · Linux
Nuclear Day is a story-based role-playing game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Explore the secrets of this world. Fight monsters. Pass tests and solve puzzles. Become your own in this tragic world.
Why similar: Survival 20.1%, Open World 18.1%, Action RPG 15%, Puzzle 11.3%, RPG 11%
- #36 GearStorm - Armored Survival
74% matchMixed56% of 82 reviews2019
Dev: Iron City Games
Windows · Mac
GearStorm - Armored Survival is a story-driven, open-world sci-fi survival adventure. Discover what led to the Phage, a deadly virus apocalypse and our escape to a alien world. Explore a vast alien planet, build your base, create your colony, acquire vehicles, weapons, and supplies to defend it.
Why similar: Survival 17.5%, RPG 14.4%, Strategy 14.4%, Open World 13.8%, Simulation 12%
- #37 Shards of Azuria
74% matchMixed60% of 101 reviews2019
Dev: Blue Potion Games
Windows
Shards of Azuria is an isometric, craft and build RPG. Create a character and a new world, then start your adventure by waking up in town. You are greeted by the locals of Azuria and begin to find your way around.
Why similar: Crafting 28.2%, Survival 15.8%, RPG 11.3%, Action RPG 10.7%, Pixel Graphics 9%
- #38 CHEMISTS: Area of infection
72% matchMostly Positive74% of 80 reviews2022
Dev: RPAXPub: GAMEPORTAL.CO
Windows
A year after the global catastrophe, you woke up in a hospital and don't remember anything. You have to not only find out what happened, but also try to survive in this harsh dangerous world.
Why similar: Crafting 24.4%, Survival 20.2%, Open World 17.8%, Action-Adventure 10.4%, Exploration 9.4%
- #39 DYSMANTLE
69% matchVery Positive91% of 11,317 reviews2021
Dev: 10tons Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 25.4 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: Crafting 25.7%, Survival 22.7%, Open World 19.4%, RPG 8.4%, Exploration 8.2%
- #40 SCP: Fragmented Minds
67% matchVery Positive92% of 1,168 reviews2025
Dev: HST StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 2.3 hrs≥1hr: 71%
You arrive at Mars Site-113, a decaying monument to the SCP Foundation's ambition—and its failures. Once the most secure facility, now a cradle of horrors calling you to uncover its secrets. Face relentless anomalies, humanity's darkest truths, and a mission that demands survival above all else.
Why similar: Puzzle 23%, Action-Adventure 21%, Exploration 19.5%, Simulation 16.7%, Action 10.2%
- #41 Survival Is Not Enough
73% matchMostly Negative35% of 52 reviews2017
Dev: Fixer Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Survival Is Not Enough is an open world first person zombie survival game. You wake up in a mysterious island and find out that you're infected. To survive you need to: build a shelter; protect yourself from dangers of this island; kill animals for food; kill zombies for underblood to cure yourself from zombie virus; The better you're...
Why similar: RPG 46%, Action 31.4%, Adventure 22.6%
- #42 Island Notes
66% matchVery Positive83% of 737 reviews2025
Dev: KangBaoGame
Windows
Shipwrecked on a mysterious island, choose self-preservation or alliances. Master base-building, farming, fishing, romance and pet taming in this morally-charged survival simulator that blends strategy with human drama. Forge bonds, conquer nature, and evolve your humanity.
Why similar: Open World 54.2%, RPG 30.2%, Adventure 15.6%
- #43 Survival Camp
72% matchMixed45% of 216 reviews2019
Dev: Skeleton Star Game
Windows
The story takes place on Halloween night, when people are wearing masks to revel, the mysterious virus spreads quietly, and the virus engulfed the world instantly. The world is no longer safe. You need to build a camp and survive. Good luck. . .
Why similar: RPG 24.1%, Simulation 20%, Action 12.8%, Adventure 11.9%, Indie 10.9%
- #44 AnimalLaboratory
70% matchMixed42% of 74 reviews2024
Dev: 独立摇滚
Windows
In the distant outer space, there's an exp base. Aliens turn humans into animals with a catalyst for their needs. Different catalysts cause different forms. You're a human who escaped. While exploring and fleeing, you reveal the truth in the lab.
Why similar: Crafting 20.5%, Action-Adventure 15.9%, Puzzle 15.9%, Exploration 12%, Adventure 11.4%
- #45 The Dream Within
67% matchVery Positive90% of 129 reviews2025
Dev: Roaming of Little Hammer
Windows
A pixel-graphics open world survival craft RPG, where player is locked in a deep dream world, survive in this elusive world, forage, hunt, mine, and build up shelters. Find a way to escape.
Why similar: Action RPG 33.5%, Crafting 28.5%, Pixel Graphics 20.4%, RPG 10%, Adventure 4.8%
- #46 Urge
68% matchVery Positive90% of 476 reviews2021
Dev: EnDrew
Windows
Fight, build, explore, survive, while the dynamic player-caused hazardous fog is slowly changing the rules of the world around you.
Why similar: Crafting 29.2%, Survival 23.1%, Open World 19.1%, Exploration 12.3%, Simulation 6.5%
- #47 Dark Days
71% matchMostly Positive71% of 52 reviews2016
Dev: Brutal Studio
Windows
In Dark Days you need to escape the infected island of Colbrook, try to save as many survivors as you can and secure safe houses. Protect your surroundings, search and scavenge locations and ultimately don’t get killed. A 3D top down zombie survival / shooter with a compelling story and character development.
Why similar: Action 55.2%, Indie 44.8%
- #48 Sailing alone:Aftermath
68% matchMixed66% of 61 reviews2025
Dev: MLStudio
Windows
You are just an ordinary person, with only a small boat serving as your home, struggling to find a way to survive in the ruthless ocean of the post-apocalyptic world.
Why similar: Survival 24.6%, Crafting 22.1%, RPG 13.3%, Open World 12.5%, Exploration 10.3%
- #49 Notrium
69% matchVery Positive94% of 72 reviews2015
Dev: Ville Mönkkönen
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 36%
You have crash-landed on Notrium. Your food supplies are running low, and a pack of predatory aliens have your scent. You're out of bullets for your pistol, your only weapon a handful of rocks. A freezing night is setting in, and you are desperately looking for firewood. Can you survive?
Why similar: Crafting 37.6%, Survival 29%, RPG 12.4%, Action 8.3%, Adventure 6.8%
- #50 Better Late Than DEAD
71% matchMostly Negative28% of 909 reviews2016
Dev: Odin Game StudioPub: Excalibur Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 30 minMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 34%
Awaking on an island with no memory, you have just one memento of the life you led before… A child's photograph. Who is this? You must search the island for useful tools that will aid in your escape. As time passes and hopes of survival hang by a thread, you realise that this island is not as it seems.
Why similar: Survival 35.9%, Crafting 29.3%, Open World 22.8%, Action 4.8%, Adventure 4.4%
- #51 24 Hours 'til Rescue
70% matchMostly Negative28% of 88 reviews2016
Dev: J. FletcherPub: BrainCraft Gaming
Windows
Median: 6 minMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 24%
24 Hours ‘Til Rescue plunges you into dynamic, hand-crafted, city overrun by the undead with one, simple premise: to escape the city alive. Yet, with most of the streets barricaded, all of them teeming with enemies, and with rescue not coming for another 24 hours, the chances of survival are slim to none.
Why similar: RPG 33.9%, Open World 24.6%, Action 12.3%, Adventure 11.1%, Indie 9.6%
- #52 Starbound
64% matchVery Positive90% of 122,901 reviews2016
Dev: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.2 hrsMean: 64.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...
Why similar: Crafting 24.2%, Survival 20.1%, Open World 15.3%, Pixel Graphics 11.4%, Exploration 8.9%
- #53 Artificer: Science of Magic
67% matchMixed65% of 95 reviews2020
Dev: Psilocybe GamesPub: Games Operators
Windows
Your exploration ship crashlands on a mysterious planet where apparently magic is real. Learn how to survive in this hostile territory by applying your technical abilities to the arcane. Discover how to cast spells and craft elixirs. Uncover the planet's secrets to find your way out.
Why similar: RPG 33.2%, Crafting 21.8%, Survival 15.4%, Action RPG 12.2%, Exploration 9.2%
- #54 Bootstrap Island
62% matchVery Positive83% of 1,099 reviews2026
Dev: Maru VR
Windows
A Robinson Crusoe–inspired VR roguelike survival adventure set in the 17th century. Shipwrecked on a ruthless tropical island, you must survive without guidance. Trust your instincts as you face wild beasts, nature’s fury, and a mysterious local tribe.
Why similar: Survival 29.8%, Open World 24.7%, Exploration 12.6%, Simulation 11.1%, Action 7.5%
- #55 Entity Researchers: Prologue
66% matchVery Positive84% of 77 reviews2022
Dev: Newbuild-CPub: G-DEVS.com
Windows · Linux
You just got hired by EIRI; researching and battling the Visitors, a dark sci-fi RPG with themes of exploration and survival.
Why similar: Procedural Generation 38.6%, Exploration 22.6%, RPG 20.6%, Pixel Graphics 18.2%