- #1 The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™
97% matchVery Positive82% of 11,474 reviews2024
Dev: Free Range GamesPub: North Beach Games
Windows
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 20.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A survival crafting adventure set in the Fourth Age of Middle-earth. Lead the Dwarves to reclaim Moria - mine, build, and battle through procedurally generated depths alone or with up to 8 players in co-op. It is time to return to Moria!
Why similar: Dwarf 33.4% ★, Open World Survival Craft 22.6% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Online Co-Op 9%, Crafting 8.6%
- #2 Voidtrain
96% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,176 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 13.8 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 30.2% ★, Trains 20.6% ★, Base Building 9.5%, Online Co-Op 8.2%, Crafting 7.9%
- #3 On The Train
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: EastUp Interactive
Windows
In a post-apocalyptic world overrun by zombies, your only sanctuary is a moving train. Build it into a powerful fortress, gather resources, and survive relentless challenges. Play solo or CO-OP, defend against zombie attacks, endure harsh survival conditions, and face this perilous journey together.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.5% ★, Trains 18.5% ★, Base Building 9.5%, Crafting 8%, Survival 7.9%
- #4 Volcanoids
95% matchVery Positive83% of 9,214 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.1% ★, Steampunk 17.8% ★, Online Co-Op 10.1%, Base Building 10.1%, Crafting 9.8%
- #5 Railborn
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Washbear Studio
Windows
Railborn is a survival game where you build your train piece by piece. Navigate a world entangled by branching tracks. Find rare plants to cultivate on your farms. Upgrade your train - manage its power systems, direct resource flow, and distribute water. Designed for 1 to 4 players.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.6% ★, Trains 20.7% ★, Base Building 13%, Online Co-Op 11.1%, Survival 8.6%
- #6 Plains of Pain
94% 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 24.3% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Post-apocalyptic 9.9%, Online Co-Op 9.9%, Crafting 9.3%
- #7 Survival Machine
92% matchMostly Positive74% of 669 reviews2025
Dev: Grape PickersPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Build your base on a moving Machine, travel through biomes with different resources, and prepare for the night when a zombie threat is much higher than during the day. Would you go solo or explore this new world with your best friends?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.5% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Online Co-Op 11.7%, Crafting 11%, Survival 9.7%
- #8 Crushed
93% 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 32.2% ★, Base Building 10.7%, Survival 10.7%, Crafting 9.9%, Post-apocalyptic 8%
- #9 Grounded
91% matchVery Positive90% of 92,875 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.2 hrsMean: 40.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.1% ★, Survival 16%, Base Building 15.2%, Crafting 10.6%, Co-op 8.1%
- #10 Scrapnaut
91% matchMostly Positive70% of 824 reviews2021
Dev: SpiffyBitPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements. Explore an open world with different biomes, take care of oxygen, manage your farms, generate electricity, build your home and much more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.2% ★, Online Co-Op 11.8%, Survival 11.1%, Base Building 9.8%, Crafting 9.3%
- #11 Ways
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: HAGAKI PRODUCTIONS
Windows
Survive in a procedurally generated PvPvE world with friends in first-person. Complete quests, craft weapons, build bases, and wreak havoc on enemies.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.8% ★, Base Building 11%, Crafting 10.1%, Online Co-Op 9.7%, Zombies 8.6%
- #12 UNKNOWN REGION
89% matchMixed47% of 47 reviews2020
Dev: SYDNEY GAMES
Windows
You are one of the chosen survivors to set up your life in UNKNOWN REGION. Life has forever changed after an unknown virus has wiped out humanity. Navigate through the region to discover mutated humans and creatures. You will be challenged to test your survival skills.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.3% ★, Base Building 14.8%, Post-apocalyptic 12.9%, Crafting 11.3%, Survival 7.6%
- #13 Frostrail
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: FakeFishPub: Shiro Unlimited
Windows
Through the frost, death follows the tracks. Dive into a ruthless survival FPS, solo or co-op. Explore, scavenge, craft and fight to endure a frozen, corrupted world. Operate and upgrade your steam-powered train through an unforgiving wasteland, where every choice is a matter of survival.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29% ★, Trains 21.1% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 11.2%, Survival 9.8%
- #14 Green Hell
88% 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 39.7% ★, Survival 13.9%, Online Co-Op 12%, Crafting 9.6%, Base Building 9.2%
- #15 Moonrite
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Haki Studios
Windows
A survival crafting game where you craft spirit companions with different materials to fight, work, and survive. Build your spiritual village and explore a beautiful anime-inspired world to defy ancient gods that rule the material and spiritual.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.9% ★, Base Building 17.6%, Online Co-Op 13.2%, Survival 11.6%, Crafting 8.8%
- #16 Aurendor
86% matchMixed47% of 17 reviews2023
Dev: Telescope Studios
Windows
Aurendor is an open world survival game. Players must gather resources, cook their meals and fight dangerous creatures to survive and build a home for themselves. Aurendor also offers a multiplayer game option. Players can play together by cooperating with or battling other survivors.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.9% ★, Online Co-Op 13.3%, Base Building 12.3%, Survival 11.1%, Crafting 10.9%
- #17 ExoTrain
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Harpoon Games
Windows
Build your base on the train. Explore the exoplanet, fight dangerous wildlife, and discover what happened to the human colony on this planet. Upgrade your train and combine gear modules for perfect survival. Play solo or co-op with friends!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.4% ★, Trains 25.2% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 8.5%, Survival 6.9%
- #18 Good Heavens!
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Nowhere Studios
Windows
Good Heavens! Is an open-world crafting and building RPG. Embark on a solo adventure or team up with up friends, picking your tool of choice – sword, wand, or carpenter's hammer. Navigate the quirky races and cultures of the promised lands and restore them to their, ahem, intended glory.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.9% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Online Co-Op 12.2%, Survival 10.8%, Crafting 10.4%
- #19 Nightingale
84% matchMixed67% of 17,841 reviews2024
Dev: Inflexion Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 23.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Nightingale is an open world survival crafting game, where you’ll adventure across the mysterious and dangerous Fae Realms. As a daring Realmwalker, you’ll defeat monstrous enemies, survive hostile environments, and build elaborate estates in a visually stunning Gaslamp Fantasy world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32% ★, Online Co-Op 12.8%, Base Building 12.4%, Crafting 11.1%, Survival 11.1%
- #20 Polygon Survival
82% matchMixed41% of 27 reviews2023
Dev: Performance Artist
Windows
Polygon Survival is a low-poly zombie survival shooter with simple building and crafting. You find yourself in a mini world of zombie apocalypse and your only goal here is survival.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.5% ★, Post-apocalyptic 12.3%, Zombies 12%, Crafting 12%, Base Building 11.7%
- #21 LifeZ - Survival
83% matchMixed68% of 240 reviews2018
Dev: iDs Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
LifeZ - Survival is a third-person sandbox-survival game. Build your hideout, search for water and food, mine resources and fight against zombies and finally find ways to contact the outside world and leave Catastrophie Area.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.8% ★, Zombies 13.9%, Survival 13.4%, Base Building 12.4%, Crafting 8.1%
- #22 Heat Death: Survival Train
81% matchMostly Positive79% of 660 reviews2024
Dev: Mass Game DevsPub: LightOnDevs
Windows
Heat Death is a sci-fi survival game where you can build, upgrade, and customize your battle train to explore and survive a frozen world! This train is not only your shelter and vehicle, but also your weapon and ally to face hostile drones, deadly storms, and hidden mysteries of an unknown world!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.6% ★, Trains 19% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Crafting 11.8%, Post-apocalyptic 11.3%
- #23 The Rotting Chronicles
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bad Rhino Studios
Windows
The Rotting Chronicles is a survival action game set in a zombie-ravaged city where you must fight, scavenge, craft, and rebuild to survive. Run solo or with up to 3 friends as you grow your survival skills and find the best strategy to survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.5% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Zombies 12%, Crafting 10.8%, Survival 10.1%
- #24 Raft
80% matchVery Positive93% of 368,916 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.5 hrsMean: 36.8 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 38.5% ★, Survival 16.2%, Crafting 10.6%, Base Building 9.7%, Co-op 8.4%
- #25 Undercraft
81% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2022
Dev: PlayUndercraft
Windows
Create your world in this sandbox game where you can dig, build, explore, fight, and farm. Have a different experience in a day or night adventure. Explore a procedurally generated world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.2% ★, Online Co-Op 12.7%, Survival 11.4%, Procedural Generation 10.8%, Base Building 8.7%
- #26 Lost Track
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Junkyard Games
Windows
Survive alongside your companions in the outskirts of a town after a supernatural experimental accident. Gather survival resources, upgrade your vehicles and mobile fortress, and explore unknown areas to gradually uncover the truth behind the experiment…
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.1% ★, Online Co-Op 14.9%, Base Building 13.9%, Survival 12.9%, Crafting 10.9%
- #27 Grounded 2
78% matchVery Positive81% of 19,870 reviews2025
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 20.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Shrunk again, but the world is much larger. In this open-world, single-player or co-op survival adventure, craft weapons and armor, build your base, and traverse the playground on your buggy. But something else is out there—and it hasn’t forgotten you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.1% ★, Base Building 16.1%, Survival 15.6%, Crafting 11.2%, Online Co-Op 9.4%
- #28 Core Keeper
77% matchVery Positive93% of 63,205 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.0 hrsMean: 33.7 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 25.1% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Crafting 11.3%, Online Co-Op 11%, Survival 10.1%
- #29 The Survivalists
79% matchMostly Positive76% of 9,935 reviews2020
Dev: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.9 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 26.5% ★, Crafting 13.6%, Online Co-Op 13.3%, Base Building 12%, Survival 11.4%
- #30 VECTOR ZONE
78% matchMostly Negative31% of 29 reviews2024
Dev: Survival Sphere Studios
Windows
VECTOR ZONE is a gripping survival game where the weight of leadership rests on your shoulders. Set in a post-apocalyptic world teeming with dangers, your task is to manage a camp of diverse NPC survivors and lead them to safety while constructing vital structures for their survival.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.7% ★, Base Building 14.9%, Crafting 11.1%, Survival 10.9%, Post-apocalyptic 9.4%
- #31 MISERY
75% matchVery Positive85% of 17,893 reviews2025
Dev: Platypus EntertainmentPub: Ytopia
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
MISERY is a 1–5 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 23.6% ★, Online Co-Op 12.3%, Base Building 11.2%, Post-apocalyptic 11.2%, Survival 10.2%
- #32 SkyCraft
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: ADIAN
Windows
Skycraft is an open-world survival game for 1-10 players, set in infinite procedurally-generated floating islands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.2% ★, Online Co-Op 13.1%, Base Building 13%, Crafting 11.6%, Survival 11.1%
- #33 Wildsite
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Vividdi Entertainment
Windows
Crash-landed on an unknown planet filled with plasma and toxic weather. Your only hope? Bob, a sarcastic-genius AI who will question your every survival decision. Explore, build your mobile base and try to avoid death alongside up to 3 friends in Co-op.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.3% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Online Co-Op 13.3%, Crafting 11.7%, Survival 11%
- #34 How to Survive
76% matchVery Positive83% of 17,095 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 29.7% ★, Zombies 17.5%, Survival 17%, Crafting 12.7%, Online Co-Op 7%
- #35 Solace Crafting
75% matchMostly Positive72% of 891 reviews2022
Dev: Big Kitty Games
Windows · Linux
Embark on an adventure set in a fantasy survival RPG. Visit a borderless, open world where you manage resources to construct your base and new types of equipment to support your conquest.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.3% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 12.6%, Survival 11.4%, Online Co-Op 11.3%
- #36 EverRail
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Aesir Interactive GmbH
Windows
EverRail is a Single- and up to 4 Player Co-Op open world survival craft odyssey set in a frozen procedural world. Ride the rails! Glide through the air! Brave the cold on foot! Craft, upgrade, explore lost places, gather resources on expeditions, and build your train from the inside out.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.3% ★, Trains 24.3% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 10.8%, Survival 9.2%
- #37 Valheim
73% 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 35.4% ★, Online Co-Op 13.8%, Survival 11.7%, Base Building 11.7%, Crafting 10.3%
- #38 Stormforge
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Roboto Games
Windows
Stormforge is an open-world survival crafting game for 1 to 8 players. You are Stormforged, with the ability to brave and harness power from magical storms. Explore, fight, forage, craft, build, and defeat bosses in this epic, fantasy game. Survive the Storms and thrive!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.9% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Survival 11%, Online Co-Op 10.7%, Crafting 10.1%
- #39 Zector 7
73% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2024
Dev: SocksandGoats Studios
Windows
Craft, Build and Fight alongside your friends across this deadly open-world. Use both modern day and sci-fi tech as you Loot, Harvest and Trade for resources, gear and vehicles in order to survive the wasteland.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.4% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Post-apocalyptic 11.4%, Zombies 11.1%, Survival 10.3%
- #40 Nighthold
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 2 Zombie GamesPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Build shelters, interact with rescuees, battle against the Rot and raiders to survive another night in this Sandbox RPG. Play Solo or team up with friends in Online Сo-op.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.2% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Crafting 9.5%, Online Co-Op 8.9%, Survival 8.6%
- #41 7 Days to Die
70% 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 26.1% ★, Survival 13.2%, Base Building 11.7%, Zombies 11%, Online Co-Op 9.7%
- #42 Times of Survival
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Can Games Studio
Windows
Times of Survival is a co-op zombie survival game with souls-like inspired combat system, set in a post-apocalyptic world. Fortify your base, fight hordes of zombies and battle epic bosses. Explore, craft, and master punishing combat while building your settlement and leading survivors to hope.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.3% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Zombies 10.7%, Post-apocalyptic 10.4%, Survival 9.9%
- #43 Drift: Space Survival
72% matchMixed70% of 76 reviews2023
Dev: KAR Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
You were deep in uncharted space on a research mission. Disaster struck. Together with your friends, explore a mysterious asteroid field and mine whatever resources possible to build what you need to survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.6% ★, Online Co-Op 14.4%, Survival 12%, Crafting 11.7%, Base Building 10.5%
- #44 Welcome to ParadiZe
71% matchMixed67% of 1,247 reviews2024
Dev: Eko SoftwarePub: Nacon
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Paradise isn't exactly what you hoped for: it's infested with zombies! Thankfully, you can control them. Capture them and teach them to farm or fight. They will help you defend our camp while you explore the world looking for… a new paradise.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 19.5% ★, Zombies 11.9%, Online Co-Op 11.6%, Base Building 11.4%, Post-apocalyptic 11%
- #45 Dawn of the Dying
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cube Game Studio
Windows
In a brutal open world, standing still means death. Explore together in a co-op survival FPS where crafting, building, and fighting with friends is the only way forward.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.3% ★, Crafting 12.2%, Online Co-Op 11.5%, Survival 11%, Base Building 8%
- #46 Subsistence
71% 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 45.6% ★, Survival 15%, Crafting 13.6%, Base Building 10.7%, Multiplayer 5.3%
- #47 Return to Nangrim
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sycoforge
Windows
Return to Nangrim is a dark first-person fantasy adventure with survival and RPG elements. Craft, explore, and survive an abandoned world. So grab your axe and shield and reclaim the mountains together with your animal companion! The epic world of Nangrim awaits you, also in VR.
Why similar: Dwarf 63.2% ★, Crafting 8.9%, Base Building 8%, Survival 7.4%, Zombies 7.2%
- #48 Elysium
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Artifika Games
Windows · Mac
Wake up on a paradise-like abandoned island with your friends. Explore the lands of an ancient civilization and uncover the mysteries behind their collapse as you build, craft, and tame corrupted machines. Most importantly, survive the unwelcome lands of Elysium!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.9% ★, Base Building 14%, Online Co-Op 12.5%, Crafting 10.9%, Survival 9.8%
- #49 KYORA
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PugstormPub: Chucklefish
Windows · Linux
Delve into KYORA, a mystical multiplayer sandbox adventure, where every pixel is yours to shape, mine, build or explode.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.6% ★, Online Co-Op 11.2%, Base Building 11%, Survival 10.5%, Crafting 10.3%
- #50 ICARUS
69% matchMostly Positive74% of 62,078 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 44.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 33.2% ★, Base Building 14.5%, Survival 12.8%, Online Co-Op 12.2%, Crafting 10.9%
- #51 RuneScape: Dragonwilds
67% matchVery Positive81% of 23,948 reviews2025
Dev: Jagex Ltd
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
On RuneScape’s forgotten continent of Ashenfall, dragons have awoken. Gather, build, skill and craft to survive in this co-operative (1-4) survival crafting game. Only by mastering survival and uncovering ancient secrets can they hope to slay the Dragon Queen—alone or with allies.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.7% ★, Online Co-Op 12.5%, Survival 11.9%, Base Building 11.2%, Crafting 10.9%
- #52 Necesse
66% matchVery Positive93% of 26,780 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.5% ★, Crafting 10.5%, Base Building 9.6%, Survival 9.4%, Online Co-Op 7.8%
- #53 Whisper of the Swallows
66% matchVery Positive87% of 144 reviews2026
Dev: Blown Leaves
Windows
Brave a savage and unforgiving procedurally-generated world where extreme weather and the nightmares of the dark are your greatest enemies. Alone or in co-op, survive, build, and explore to transform a cursed hellscape into your sanctuary of light.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.2% ★, Crafting 13.1%, Base Building 12.8%, Online Co-Op 11.8%, Survival 11.5%
- #54 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
66% 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 31.2% ★, Base Building 14.5%, Online Co-Op 12.2%, Survival 11.6%, Crafting 11.3%
- #55 Life Not Supported
67% matchMixed68% of 170 reviews2023
Dev: YETIBYTES
Windows · Linux
You are the lone survivor orbiting a potential new home planet, tethered to what’s left of your ship. Gather nearby debris and assemble a make-shift vessel in an attempt to survive the harsh realities of space. Maybe you'll live long enough to uncover the truth behind the ship's malfunction...
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.2% ★, Base Building 15.3%, Crafting 13.4%, Survival 11.3%, Procedural Generation 7.1%
- #56 Fade to Silence
69% matchMixed63% of 1,317 reviews2019
Dev: Black Forest GamesPub: THQ Nordic
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.8 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 43.4% ★, Survival 16.8%, Crafting 10.4%, Base Building 9.8%, Online Co-Op 8.8%
- #57 Miscreated
68% 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 45.8% ★, Survival 15.7%, Zombies 11.4%, Post-apocalyptic 8.9%, Crafting 7.8%
- #58 HUNKER DOWN
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: munkgames
Windows
How long can you survive a post-apocalyptic world? A land overrun with an infected "zombie" population, where you compete with other survivors for limited resources.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.5% ★, Base Building 16%, Crafting 13.9%, Zombies 13.7%, Post-apocalyptic 12.7%
- #59 Survivalist
68% matchVery Positive80% of 2,560 reviews2015
Dev: BobPub: Ginormocorp Incorporated
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
It's one year after the collapse of civilization and self-centered hedge fund manager Joe Wheeler emerges from his specially constructed bunker in search of food. This is a huge open-world RPG where you have the freedom to play how you want - but your choices have consequences.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 19.9% ★, Survival 16.4%, Zombies 15.2%, Base Building 12.1%, Post-apocalyptic 9.9%