- #1 Green Hell
97% 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 33.7% ★, Survival 17.2%, Base Building 10.6%, Open World 10.2%, Crafting 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: It offers an intense, realistic survival experience in a hostile tropical environment filled with tribal threats.
- #2 The Forest
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 665,921 reviews2018
Dev: Endnight Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 37.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.7% ★, Survival 20.8%, Open World 14.7%, Crafting 10.2%, First-Person 4.2%
Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly mirrors the island survival theme with aggressive tribal enemies and deep base-building mechanics.
- #3 Sons Of The Forest
96% matchVery Positive88% of 299,895 reviews2024
Dev: Endnight Games LtdPub: Newnight
Windows
Median: 14.9 hrsMean: 32.0 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends, in this terrifying new open-world survival horror simulator.
Why similar: Survival 21.8%, Base Building 19.6%, Open World 18.4%, Co-op 18.3%, Crafting 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: As a direct evolution of its predecessor, it provides a highly polished island survival experience with advanced AI and building systems.
- #4 Medieval Dynasty
94% matchVery Positive91% of 49,970 reviews2021
Dev: Render CubePub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 35.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.
Why similar: Crafting 16.3%, Base Building 14.8%, Medieval 14.7%, Co-op 14%, Survival 13%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses heavily on the medieval survival and base-building aspects, allowing you to grow a settlement from scratch.
- #5 Out of Reach
95% matchMixed57% of 3,044 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
You’re a castaway stranded in the middle of nowhere. Storm is gone, the worst certainly not. Look for food and resources, craft gear, make shelters. These are the basics, you need much more to stay alive on this cut-off-the-world, yet not desert island. Build & burn, sail & explore, be Out of Reach!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.2% ★, Survival 15.4%, Open World 12.1%, Hunting 11.6% ★, Crafting 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: This island-based survival game emphasizes base-building and PvP raiding, closely matching the survival-action loop of the seed game.
- #6 Subsistence
94% 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 35.8% ★, Survival 17.2%, Crafting 12.1%, Open World 11.8%, Base Building 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: It is a dedicated survival game that focuses on long-term base-building and defending against AI threats in an open world.
- #7 ARK: Survival Evolved
93% matchVery Positive83% of 763,144 reviews2017
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 200.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.2% ★, Survival 16.6%, Open World 12.6%, Base Building 10.7%, Crafting 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a massive island survival experience where hunting, taming creatures, and building defenses are core to the gameplay.
- #8 Valheim
92% 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 29% ★, Survival 14.1%, Base Building 13.1%, Open World 12.5%, Crafting 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: This title excels at combining medieval-inspired survival with rewarding base-building and exploration in a vast, dangerous world.
- #9 Conan Exiles
91% matchMostly Positive79% of 111,441 reviews2018
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 16.9 hrsMean: 111.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
An online multiplayer survival game, now with sorcery, set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian. Survive in a vast open world sandbox, build your home into a kingdom, and dominate your enemies in single or multiplayer.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.9% ★, Survival 23.8%, Open World 19.6%, Crafting 13.4%, Co-op 7%
Why You'll Like It: It features a brutal medieval-style survival world with significant focus on base-building, raiding, and combat against tribal factions.
- #10 Project Castaway
90% matchMixed67% of 1,632 reviews2026
Dev: Mardonpol Inc.
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Project Castaway is a survival crafting title set in the Pacific Ocean. Live the life of a stranded castaway, with only yourself - and the island's inhabitants - for company! Sail the ocean, hunt, explore unique islands and gather resources as you fight for survival.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.1% ★, Co-op 13.2%, Base Building 13.1%, Survival 11.8%, Open World 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on island survival, crafting, and exploration, mirroring the core loop of the seed game.
- #11 Savage Lands
91% 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 36.8% ★, Survival 16.8%, Open World 13.3%, Crafting 10.4%, PvE 9%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the medieval survival feel by pitting players against mythical creatures and hostile tribes in an unforgiving world.
- #12 Eden Island
89% matchMixed61% of 254 reviews2024
Dev: Moon Studio
Windows
Eden Island is a beautiful survival game. As a survivor, you will explore and survive on a realistic tropical island, craft weapons against beasts, farm and hunt, build your own home.
Why similar: Hunting 27.7% ★, Open World Survival Craft 20.3% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Survival 10.2%, Open World 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: This title features similar island-based survival mechanics, including hunting, mining, and building a home base.
- #13 ICARUS
89% 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 24.3% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Survival 13.7%, Open World 9.3%, Crafting 9%
Why You'll Like It: This session-based survival game features intense hunting, crafting, and base-building mechanics in a hostile wilderness.
- #14 Mist Survival
88% matchMostly Positive76% of 14,042 reviews2018
Dev: Dimension 32 Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 73%
MIST SURVIVAL is a Single-player, survival stealth sandbox game Players will experience the Apocalypse stimulation in the form of virus pandemic, the players have to deal with it to survive through the difficulties such as finding shelter and food, threats from the environment and climate: wild animals, bandits, infected, and dense mist t
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.5% ★, Survival 22.4%, Open World 15.6%, Base Building 14.4%, Crafting 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: It combines survival and base-building with a focus on defending against NPCs and environmental hazards in a dangerous world.
- #15 Rust
86% matchVery Positive87% of 1,344,289 reviews2018
Dev: Facepunch Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 52.0 hrsMean: 416.6 hrs≥1hr: 96%
The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.
Why similar: Survival 27.4%, Open World Survival Craft 25.5% ★, Open World 16.1%, Crafting 15.9%, Co-op 6%
Why You'll Like It: It offers the ultimate high-stakes survival experience with a heavy emphasis on base-building and defending against other players.
- #16 Winter Survival
86% matchMixed63% of 751 reviews2025
Dev: DRAGO entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Winter Survival is a story-driven survival game where trauma turns reality into a reflection of your breaking mind. Battle cold, hunger, hallucinations, and adapt to the wilderness as it adapts to you.
Why similar: Hunting 26.8% ★, Open World Survival Craft 21.3% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Survival 11.3%, Open World 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes the harsh reality of survival, focusing on resource management and environmental adaptation.
- #17 Reign Of Kings
87% matchMixed57% of 14,891 reviews2015
Dev: Code}{atch
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 47.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Struggle to survive in a harsh medieval world. Hunt wildlife, mine resources, build structures, and craft weapons and armor in order to protect yourself. You may form a guild, bring war to all opposition, and try to seize the throne and become king!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.4% ★, Survival 15.6%, Medieval 15.3%, Open World 14.1%, Crafting 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a medieval-themed survival experience with a strong focus on building and multiplayer interaction.
- #18 Stranded Deep
85% 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: Open World Survival Craft 38.2% ★, Survival 18.6%, Open World 12.3%, Crafting 10.8%, Co-op 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the pure island survival experience, requiring players to manage hunger, thirst, and shelter while exploring the ocean.
- #19 Grounded
82% 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 25.7% ★, Survival 18.7%, Base Building 16.6%, Co-op 14%, Crafting 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers excellent survival and base-building mechanics set in a unique, hostile environment that requires clever resource management.
- #20 7 Days to Die
81% 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 33.9% ★, Survival 25.1%, Base Building 20.7%, Open World 17%, Action 3.4%
Why You'll Like It: It provides deep base-building and survival mechanics that require constant preparation against waves of enemies.
- #21 Age of Survival
84% matchVery Negative12% of 245 reviews2025
Dev: Silky Sullivan
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Age of Survival is survival simulation crafting game from Silky Sullivan. Your player has been stranded on an island not far off of the coast of Africa where you will encounter many creatures, and players alike.
Why similar: Survival 23.4%, Hunting 17.4% ★, Open World 14.9%, Crafting 12.6%, Base Building 12.2%
Why You'll Like It: It offers an island survival experience with a focus on crafting, hunting, and exploring a dangerous open world.
- #22 Hold Your Own
84% 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: Base Building 19.9%, Survival 19.8%, Crafting 17.5%, Open World 16%, Realistic 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: This survival game features crafting, base-building, and action-oriented gameplay in a hostile wilderness.
- #23 Crushed
83% 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 29.3% ★, Survival 14.2%, Open World 13.3%, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: It is an open-world survival game that emphasizes building and exploration in a challenging environment.
- #24 Rem Survival
82% matchMostly Positive76% of 802 reviews2021
Dev: Immortal Hand Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 47.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Scavenge abandoned ruins, craft gear from scrap and salvaged materials, and fight the environment itself as hunger, exposure, and exhaustion push you to your limits. There are no second chances—only adaptation or death.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.2% ★, Base Building 16.2%, Survival 13.4%, Open World 12.3%, Crafting 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a standard open-world survival experience with a focus on crafting and base-building.
- #25 INCUR Survival
81% matchVery Positive84% of 103 reviews2022
Dev: INCUR
Windows
A survival open-world game, where you can gather resources, Hunt, Craft tools and armor, Tame Animals, Ride Animals, Build, and defend your base from creatures, and other players.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.1% ★, Survival 14.7%, Open World 13.3%, Crafting 13%, First-Person 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: This action-adventure survival game features building and exploration mechanics similar to the seed game.
- #26 Animallica
80% matchMostly Positive70% of 904 reviews2022
Dev: Animallica Games Studio
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 93%
In Animallica you are racing against extinction after a deadly virus ravaged the world. As the lone survivor of the last conservation center on Earth, the fate of every single animal and plant species lies in your hands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.6% ★, Hunting 25.3% ★, Survival 11.7%, Crafting 10.9%, Open World 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on survival and exploration with a unique emphasis on wildlife and animal management.
- #27 INMATE: Survival
79% 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 26.7% ★, Hunting 26% ★, Survival 13%, Open World 12.4%, Crafting 11.4%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the basics of survival, crafting, and building in an open-world environment.
- #28 Far Lands
78% matchMixed66% of 166 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 20.2% ★, Base Building 15.6%, Survival 12.9%, Crafting 11.3%, Open World 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: This title features survival, crafting, and base-building mechanics within an open-world adventure setting.
- #29 CrossWorlds: Escape
79% matchMixed64% of 157 reviews2020
Dev: Another Reality
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 97%
CrossWorlds: Escape is a hardcore game in which you will have to deploy all your skills to survive in a huge open world that is susceptible to changes in weather, seasons and various natural phenomena.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.4% ★, Base Building 15.1%, Survival 12.6%, Open World 11.8%, Crafting 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: This game provides a sandbox survival experience with a focus on exploration and crafting.
- #30 KeepUp Survival
77% matchMixed65% of 734 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
KeepUp Survival is an open base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and unfold your own story on a mysterious island.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.9% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Co-op 11.2%, Survival 11.1%, Open World 10.5%
- #31 Lodventure
75% matchMostly Positive74% of 161 reviews2023
Dev: Sky Games
Windows
Embark on a 1-4 players Co-op survival adventure in an open world wilderness in search of a myth called the Lod Stone. Build your house, sow your crops, brew potions, tame a horse and discover powerful abilities. Venture into dangerous dungeons, fight unique bosses to find the Lod stone.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.7% ★, Co-op 14.6%, Survival 12.8%, Base Building 12.5%, Open World 12.4%
- #32 Mesorift Survival
74% matchMostly Positive77% of 101 reviews2025
Dev: Meik.W Interactive
Windows
Mesorift Survival is a classic survival game with PvP and PvE elements, set in a tropical open world with three islands. Gather resources, build a base, craft weapons, and survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27% ★, Base Building 15.2%, Open World 14.2%, Survival 14.1%, PvE 11.6%
- #33 Wilderness
77% 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: Hunting 20.9% ★, Open World Survival Craft 19.4% ★, Survival 10.1%, Base Building 9.4%, Co-op 7.1%
- #34 The Gold River Project
73% matchMixed67% of 526 reviews2026
Dev: Fairview Games Inc.
Windows
The Gold River Project™ invites you and your friends on an open world camping trip gone wrong. Alone or together, you must explore, craft, build, and survive the increasingly harsh environments of the Pacific Northwest wilderness as you uncover the experiment trapping you inside.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.9% ★, Open World 13.3%, Co-op 12.8%, Survival 12%, Crafting 9.3%
- #35 Project Cobalt
73% 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: Open World Survival Craft 30.4% ★, Survival 18.3%, Open World 17.5%, Crafting 16.3%, First-Person 8.6%
- #36 Outback
76% matchMixed63% of 60 reviews2018
Dev: Wafflesoft
Windows
Tasmania is a harsh environment and to make things worse, the world is ending. Do you have what it takes to survive?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 16.3% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Survival 12.5%, Open World 12.3%, PvE 10.7%
- #37 Survival: Fountain of Youth
72% matchVery Positive86% of 4,270 reviews2024
Dev: Odinsoft Inc.Pub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 18.7 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Survival: Fountain of Youth is a challenging single-player open-world adventure game set on the Caribbean islands. Survive as a shipwrecked 16th-century explorer, craft tools and shelter, and uncover the secrets of both an ancient civilization and your own fate.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.6% ★, Base Building 17.8%, Survival 14.6%, Crafting 11.6%, Open World 10.4%
- #38 Nomad
76% 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 39.2% ★, Survival 20.3%, Open World 14.5%, Crafting 9.5%, Co-op 6.7%
- #39 Frost Survival VR
71% matchVery Positive88% of 161 reviews2025
Dev: Wenkly Studio Sp. z o.o.
Windows
Sandbox Survival in VR. Face a frozen wilderness solo or in co-op - build a shelter, craft tools, hunt for food, and manage your resources to endure harsh conditions. Strategize your moves against unpredictable weather and lurking dangers. And remember to keep yourself safe and sane!
Why similar: Hunting 23.7% ★, Open World Survival Craft 21% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Survival 12.3%, Crafting 8.5%
- #40 Plains of Pain
73% matchVery Positive85% of 692 reviews2023
Dev: Cobra Byte Digital
Windows
Survive a brutal open world alone or with friends. Explore a procedural wasteland scorched by chaos. Build and defend your base, trade for what you need, complete deadly quests, and fight to claim faction outposts before someone else does.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.1% ★, Base Building 15.9%, Survival 11.9%, Co-op 11.9%, Open World 11.4%
- #41 The Island
75% matchMixed46% of 103 reviews2021
Dev: Ibis Games
Windows
The Island - "Island") - a computer game with an open world and a first-person view in the genre of survival.
Why similar: Hunting 27.7% ★, Open World Survival Craft 26.7% ★, Survival 13.4%, Open World 12.2%, Crafting 10%
- #42 Survive The Island
74% 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: Base Building 22.2%, Survival 22.1%, Crafting 16.1%, Open World 15.2%, Action 12.8%
- #43 Outbreak Island
71% 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 25.9%, Base Building 22.8%, Crafting 16.9%, Open World 16.7%, First-Person 9.4%
- #44 Len's Island
70% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,615 reviews2025
Dev: Flow Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 24.2% ★, Survival 11.7%, Base Building 11.5%, Dungeon Crawler 10.2%, Open World 10.2%
- #45 My Island
72% matchMixed67% of 1,706 reviews2024
Dev: SnowBaby Games
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 48%
MyIsland is a relaxed and beautiful survival game,You will drift and survive on the tropical islands, hunt and travel, build houses and development farming, and create your own warm homeland.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.5% ★, Survival 18.2%, Open World 13%, Crafting 10.6%, Hunting 6.4% ★
- #46 Native Hunter
69% matchMostly Positive79% of 63 reviews2025
Dev: A.P.S
Windows
Inspired by an existing indigenous tribe, where they live on an island called "North Sentinel Island". Native Hunter gives the player the possibility of living the experience in the body of an indigenous person completely isolated from society, just like the Sentinelese do.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.1% ★, Base Building 21.2%, Survival 17.2%, Dungeon Crawler 13.4%, Realistic 5.4%
- #47 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
69% 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 25.8% ★, Base Building 16.4%, Survival 14%, Co-op 11.6%, Open World 11.4%
- #48 Whisper of the Swallows
69% 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 29.5% ★, Base Building 15.1%, Survival 14.6%, Crafting 12.9%, Open World 12.3%
- #49 Short Snow | Cold Survival Game
70% matchMixed55% of 102 reviews2025
Dev: MubDev
Windows
A realistic open-world survival experience. After a harrowing plane crash, you find yourself stranded in the wilderness. Battling freezing temperatures and hunger, you face an unknown virus that slowly paralyzes muscles, leaving its victims motionless and at the mercy of the unforgiving cold.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.7% ★, Survival 15.7%, Open World 14.4%, Base Building 11.5%, Crafting 9.6%
- #50 The Glade
71% matchMixed59% of 113 reviews2021
Dev: Michael Schade
Windows
The Glade is a beautiful open world survival set on a stylized island which has been struck all over from large and mysterious meteorites creating a bridge for evil creatures from another world to enter and destroy anything in their path.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.8% ★, Base Building 14.6%, Open World 13.4%, Crafting 12.5%, Survival 12%
- #51 Under A New Sun
67% matchMostly Positive76% of 368 reviews2023
Dev: New Horizon Games
Windows
While searching for a new home, an unexpected failure in your ship has left you stranded on a planet surprisingly similar to Earth. Discover a vast open world, hunt for food, develop technologies, and build yourself a new home to survive!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.7% ★, Survival 13.7%, Base Building 13.5%, Open World 12.8%, Crafting 10.9%
- #52 Nested Lands
66% matchMostly Positive73% of 344 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 20.1% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Medieval 11.5%, PvE 10.8%, Co-op 10.7%
- #53 Ruins To Fortress
67% matchMixed62% of 164 reviews2024
Dev: NimbleBeasts
Windows · Linux
Explore a post-apocalyptic island, craft, build, tear down enemy bases, defend and nuke your rivals! Life's about surviving in this multiplayer game, no matter what it takes!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29% ★, Base Building 14.8%, Survival 12.7%, Open World 11%, Crafting 10.7%
- #54 Hand Simulator: Survival
67% matchVery Positive86% of 9,917 reviews2019
Dev: HFM Games
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Wild island. Thirst and hunger. Dangerous animals and insects. The perfect place to test your survival skills, especially if you only have empty hands, especially if it is a hand simulator.
Why similar: Survival 38.6%, Realistic 20.3%, First-Person 17.1%, Adventure 9.5%, Action 9%
- #55 Palworld
62% matchVery Positive94% of 417,805 reviews2024
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 34.2 hrsMean: 70.0 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.2% ★, Open World 17.6%, Survival 16.4%, Base Building 11.3%, Co-op 10.8%
- #56 Pirates Journey
66% 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: Base Building 20.9%, Survival 19.1%, Open World 16.4%, Crafting 13.4%, Co-op 10%
- #57 Northern Lights
68% matchMixed67% of 296 reviews2020
Dev: MadGoat Studio
Windows
Northern Lights is an open world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the arctic tundra. Clinging to life, you must use real-life survival techniques to gather resources, craft, and hunt while tending to your health and sanity. Can you survive your way out of the mysterious island?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.4% ★, Hunting 21.4% ★, Survival 13.4%, Open World 12.8%, Crafting 10.7%
- #58 DREADZONE
66% matchMixed51% of 1,171 reviews2025
Dev: Eshed
Windows
Dreadzone is a survival game set in a deadly quarantine zone. Scavenge for resources, craft tools, build shelter, and survive against dangerous animals, zombies, mutants, and other survivors. Explore the zone where desperation drives everyone to do whatever it takes to survive.
Why similar: Base Building 19.5%, Survival 16.3%, Co-op 16.1%, Open World 15.4%, Crafting 12.8%