- #1 The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™
97% matchVery Positive81% of 12,511 reviews2024
Dev: Free Range GamesPub: North Beach Games
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 19.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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: Dwarves 33.1% ★, Open World Survival Craft 23.3% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Online Co-Op 8.8%, Crafting 8.5%
- #2 EverRail
96% matchMostly Positive71% of 411 reviews2026
Dev: Aesir Interactive
Windows
Every passenger is a life. Every death brings the end closer. An open world survival crafting game where you explore, scavenge, and craft to endure on the frozen exomoon Inara. Command and upgrade your ever-moving train, solo or with up to 4 players. Move or freeze.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21% ★, Trains 18% ★, Base Building 9.8%, Post-apocalyptic 8.3%, Online Co-Op 8.2%
- #3 Voidtrain
96% matchMostly Positive73% of 9,990 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 14.8 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 31% ★, Trains 20.3% ★, Base Building 9.5%, Survival 7.9%, Online Co-Op 7.8%
- #4 Zeverland
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Quantum Quirks
Windows
Welcome to Zeverland, survive & craft together with your friends in a deceptively cute apocalypse, with no limits! Everything is interactive like the real world—dismantle toilets, strap zombie heads to bats, or weld a bed to your RV. Then, try to repair bridges, make vaccines, and relight the world!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.9% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 9.8%, Online Co-Op 9.4%, Zombies 9.3%
- #5 On The Train
94% 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 28.4% ★, Trains 18.2% ★, Base Building 9.4%, Survival 8%, Crafting 7.9%
- #6 Railborn
94% matchNo user reviews2027
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 28.6% ★, Trains 20.9% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Online Co-Op 10.5%, Survival 8.6%
- #7 Road Survival: Bigger on the Inside
93% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Folded Worlds
Windows
In a toxic, zombie-ridden wasteland, survival is brutal. Upgrade your RV into a foldable-space mobile base—farm, craft, gather resources, and fend off the undead to build your last safe haven.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.9% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Crafting 10%, Survival 8.9%, Zombies 8.9%
- #8 Nord
92% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Nord Studios
Windows
NORD is a story-driven survival game set in a flooded Swedish archipelago. Alone or with friends, engineer your raft to navigate a strange, petrifying ocean.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.9% ★, Online Co-Op 13.4%, Survival 10.7%, Base Building 9.9%, Post-apocalyptic 9.1%
- #9 Underdrift: The Chinese Nether World
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 滑稽猫
Windows
“Underdrift: The Chinese Nether World” is a survival crafting game themed on the Chinese Hundred Ghosts. Discover islands in the realm of the afterlife, defeat various ghosts, gather resources, craft Chinese cuisine and ancient technology, and embark on a naval adventure unlike any other.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.9% ★, Steampunk 18.2% ★, Online Co-Op 11.5%, Base Building 10.6%, Crafting 9.8%
- #10 Plains of Pain
91% matchVery Positive83% of 1,036 reviews2023
Dev: Cobra Byte Digital
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Enter a living post-apocalyptic sandbox where the world doesn't wait for you. Build, craft, trade, earn the trust of factions, and forge your own path through a brutal procedural wasteland.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.2% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Post-apocalyptic 10.1%, Online Co-Op 9.4%, Crafting 9.2%
- #11 Grounded
89% matchVery Positive90% of 95,977 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.6 hrsMean: 41.9 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 33% ★, Survival 16.1%, Base Building 14.8%, Crafting 10.3%, Co-op 8%
- #12 Crushed
90% matchMixed53% of 321 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 32.9% ★, Survival 10.7%, Base Building 10.4%, Crafting 9.7%, Post-apocalyptic 8.1%
- #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 29.5% ★, Trains 21.3% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Crafting 10.8%, Survival 9.9%
- #14 Scrapnaut
88% matchMixed70% of 839 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 23.9% ★, Online Co-Op 11.3%, Survival 11.2%, Base Building 9.7%, Crafting 9.3%
- #15 Ways
86% 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 24.5% ★, Base Building 10.8%, Crafting 10%, Online Co-Op 9.2%, Zombies 8.9%
- #16 UNKNOWN REGION
87% 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 34% ★, Base Building 14.5%, Post-apocalyptic 13%, Crafting 11%, Survival 7.6%
- #17 Green Hell
86% matchVery Positive85% of 102,938 reviews2019
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 40.4% ★, Survival 14%, Online Co-Op 11.5%, Crafting 9.4%, Base Building 9%
- #18 Moonrite
85% 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 42% ★, Base Building 17.3%, Online Co-Op 12.6%, Survival 11.7%, Crafting 8.7%
- #19 Aurendor
84% 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 34.9% ★, Online Co-Op 12.6%, Base Building 12.1%, Survival 11.2%, Crafting 10.7%
- #20 LifeZ - Survival
84% 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 36.9% ★, Zombies 14%, Survival 13.2%, Base Building 12%, Crafting 7.8%
- #21 Nightingale
82% matchMixed66% of 18,084 reviews2024
Dev: Inflexion Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 24.0 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 33% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Online Co-Op 12.2%, Survival 11.2%, Crafting 10.9%
- #22 Polygon Survival
82% matchMostly Negative39% of 28 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 33% ★, Post-apocalyptic 12.3%, Zombies 12.2%, Crafting 11.7%, Base Building 11.4%
- #23 Grounded 2
80% matchVery Positive81% of 24,763 reviews2025
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 13.2 hrsMean: 26.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 29.4% ★, Base Building 15.7%, Survival 15.4%, Crafting 10.5%, Online Co-Op 8%
- #24 Heat Death: Survival Train
81% matchMostly Positive78% of 730 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 30.3% ★, Trains 18.8% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 11.5%, Post-apocalyptic 11.4%
- #25 The Rotting Chronicles
81% 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 30.3% ★, Zombies 12.3%, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 10.6%, Survival 10.1%
- #26 No Light at Sea
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Bluehood Games
Windows
Turn an abandoned lighthouse into your last refuge. Salvage, fish and craft alone or in online co-op for up to 4 players. Brave the storms, rebuild floor by floor and uncover what lurks behind the legends of Brittany. Bring back the light. Before you lose your bearings.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.2% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Online Co-Op 12.4%, Survival 11.4%, Crafting 10.8%
- #27 VECTOR ZONE
79% 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 33.3% ★, Base Building 14.5%, Survival 10.9%, Crafting 10.8%, Post-apocalyptic 9.3%
- #28 Raft
78% matchVery Positive93% of 379,035 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.8 hrsMean: 38.0 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 39.4% ★, Survival 16.4%, Crafting 10.4%, Base Building 9.5%, Co-op 8.3%
- #29 ExoTrain
77% matchMostly Positive78% of 37 reviews2026
Dev: Harpoon Games
Windows
Build your base on the train. Explore the exoplanet, face dangerous wildlife, and discover what happened to the human colony on this planet. Upgrade your train and combine gear to survive in a hostile environment. Play solo or team up with friends in co-op!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.3% ★, Trains 24.5% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Crafting 9.8%, Survival 6.3%
- #30 Undercraft
78% 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 35.3% ★, Online Co-Op 12.1%, Survival 11.5%, Procedural Generation 10.5%, Base Building 8.6%
- #31 Lost Track
77% 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 34.3% ★, Online Co-Op 14.1%, Base Building 13.6%, Survival 13.1%, Crafting 10.9%
- #32 Core Keeper
74% matchVery Positive93% of 66,787 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.3 hrsMean: 34.9 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 25.7% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Crafting 11.3%, Survival 10.6%, Online Co-Op 10.5%
- #33 The Survivalists
76% matchMostly Positive76% of 10,123 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 27.3% ★, Crafting 13.5%, Online Co-Op 12.8%, Base Building 11.9%, Survival 11.6%
- #34 MISERY
74% matchVery Positive84% of 26,185 reviews2025
Dev: Platypus EntertainmentPub: Ytopia
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 83%
MISERY is a 1–10 player co-op survival game set in a nuclear disaster zone. Here, every day is a struggle: search radioactive ruins for resources, build your bunker, craft weapons, and explore a weird, procedurally-generated world with your friends. Beware of anomalies, monsters, and armed bandits.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.1% ★, Post-apocalyptic 11.8%, Online Co-Op 11.7%, Survival 11.2%, Base Building 11.1%
- #35 Zector 7
75% match7 user reviews57% of 7 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 14.6% ★, Online Co-Op 12%, Base Building 11.3%, Crafting 10.5%, Survival 10%
- #36 Valheim
72% matchVery Positive94% of 555,289 reviews2026
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 26.9 hrsMean: 81.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.6% ★, Online Co-Op 13.2%, Survival 11.8%, Base Building 11.6%, Crafting 10.1%
- #37 SkyCraft
75% 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 34.2% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Online Co-Op 12.5%, Crafting 11.4%, Survival 11.2%
- #38 How to Survive
76% matchVery Positive83% of 17,106 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 30.4% ★, Zombies 17.8%, Survival 17%, Crafting 12.4%, Online Co-Op 6.5%
- #39 Solace Crafting
73% matchMostly Positive71% of 899 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 32.3% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 12.5%, Survival 11.5%, Online Co-Op 10.8%
- #40 Wildsite
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Vividdi Entertainment
Windows · Linux
Crash-land on a sci-fi planet plagued by toxic plasma storms. Alongside Bob, your sarcastic AI companion, build and shrink your base to move it anywhere. Fight with primitive or plasma weapons in this survival-craft adventure solo or with up to 3 friends in online co-op!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.3% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Online Co-Op 12.6%, Crafting 11.5%, Survival 11.1%
- #41 Fifth Sun: New Fire
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Daedralus
Windows
Survive the world of Mesoamerican mythology - alone or with friends. Gather, build, and survive your way through hostile wilds. Raid dungeons, appease the gods, and slay their monsters to offer them as sacrifices at the grand altar to reignite the Fifth Sun and open the gateway to the past suns.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.3% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Online Co-Op 11.5%, Crafting 10.8%, Survival 10.2%
- #42 Once Human
71% matchMostly Positive79% of 189,842 reviews2024
Dev: Starry Studio
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 52.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Once Human is a Strange Worlds Survival Game set in a strange, post-apocalyptic future. Unite with friends to fight monstrous enemies, uncover secret plots, compete for resources, and build your own territory. Once, you were merely human. Now, you have the power to remake the world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.9% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Crafting 10.4%, Post-apocalyptic 10.4%, Online Co-Op 10.3%
- #43 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 26.9% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Zombies 10.9%, Post-apocalyptic 10.4%, Survival 10%
- #44 Nighthold
71% 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 46.1% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Crafting 9.2%, Survival 8.6%, Online Co-Op 8.4%
- #45 7 Days to Die
70% matchVery Positive87% of 405,507 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.4 hrsMean: 111.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 26.8% ★, Survival 13.4%, Base Building 11.5%, Zombies 11.3%, Post-apocalyptic 9.3%
- #46 Drift: Space Survival
71% matchMostly Positive70% of 77 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 38.6% ★, Online Co-Op 13.7%, Survival 12.1%, Crafting 11.5%, Base Building 10.4%
- #47 Lesion
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SocksandGoats Studios
Windows
Explore, scavenge, build, drive, and survive together in a high-fidelity open-world zombie sandbox. Hunt down biological Lesions and reclaim the world from the infected.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.5% ★, Zombies 12.3%, Base Building 12.2%, Post-apocalyptic 11.9%, Crafting 10.6%
- #48 Last Breath
68% matchVery Positive84% of 80 reviews2026
Dev: Mx
Windows
Last Breath is a solo/cooperative terraforming survival game. Dig through terrain, build powerful machines, and restore life to a dead planet. Work together to survive, automate, and reshape the world from the ground up, literally.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.7% ★, Survival 14.4%, Base Building 14.2%, Online Co-Op 13%, Crafting 10.5%
- #49 Dawn of the Dying
69% 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 28.2% ★, Crafting 12%, Survival 11.1%, Online Co-Op 10.9%, Base Building 8%
- #50 Welcome to ParadiZe
69% matchMixed68% of 1,403 reviews2024
Dev: Eko SoftwarePub: Nacon
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 11.0 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 20.1% ★, Zombies 12.3%, Base Building 11.2%, Online Co-Op 11.1%, Post-apocalyptic 11.1%
- #51 Subsistence
70% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,861 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 40.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.6% ★, Survival 15%, Crafting 13.3%, Base Building 10.4%, Multiplayer 5.2%
- #52 ICARUS
69% matchMostly Positive75% of 68,864 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.4 hrsMean: 46.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.3% ★, Base Building 14.2%, Survival 13%, Online Co-Op 11.7%, Crafting 10.6%
- #53 Elysium
68% matchNo user reviews2027
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 30.8% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Online Co-Op 11.9%, Crafting 10.7%, Survival 9.9%
- #54 KYORA
67% 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 33.4% ★, Base Building 10.8%, Online Co-Op 10.7%, Survival 10.6%, Crafting 10.2%
- #55 Necesse
65% matchVery Positive93% of 29,166 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 45.7% ★, Crafting 10.1%, Base Building 9.6%, Survival 9.4%, Online Co-Op 7.4%
- #56 In the Van
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cosmic Tofu
Windows · Mac
A cozy post-apocalyptic survival game where your van is your home and your key to survival. Scavenge, craft, and uncover the stories the dead left behind to find a way out.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.6% ★, Base Building 14.3%, Crafting 11.9%, Zombies 11.4%, Survival 11.3%
- #57 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 24% ★, Base Building 15.6%, Zombies 14%, Crafting 13.6%, Post-apocalyptic 12.7%
- #58 RuneScape: Dragonwilds
64% matchVery Positive81% of 32,495 reviews2026
Dev: Jagex Ltd
Windows
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 20.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
On RuneScape's forgotten continent of Ashenfall, dragons have awoken. Gather, build, skill and craft in this co-operative survival adventure. Only by mastering survival and uncovering ancient secrets can you hope to face the ferocious Dragon Queen.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.5% ★, Survival 12.2%, Online Co-Op 12.1%, Base Building 11.1%, Crafting 10.6%
- #59 Miscreated
68% matchMixed66% of 31,592 reviews2018
Dev: Entrada Interactive LLC
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 38.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Miscreated is a multiplayer online hardcore survival game set in a post-apocalyptic future. You will need to survive against mutants, players, and even mother nature herself.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.4% ★, Survival 15.6%, Zombies 11.5%, Post-apocalyptic 8.8%, Crafting 7.6%