- #1 Rust
97% 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 83.3%, Adventure 7%, Action 6.3%, Indie 3.4%
Why You'll Like It: The quintessential multiplayer survival game where base building and high-stakes PvP are the primary focus.
- #2 ARK: Survival Evolved
96% 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: Survival 69.6%, Adventure 10.1%, RPG 9.5%, Action 7.9%, Indie 3%
Why You'll Like It: Features deep base building and taming mechanics within a dangerous, player-populated wilderness.
- #3 SCUM
95% matchMostly Positive74% of 122,922 reviews2025
Dev: Gamepires
Windows
Median: 11.9 hrsMean: 102.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Traverse punishing environments, looting, crafting and evading the constant threats to your life. The unprecedented levels of character customization and progression are your ultimate tools for survival.
Why similar: Survival 61.5%, RPG 24.5%, Action 14%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore survival game that emphasizes realistic mechanics and dangerous encounters with other players.
- #4 Conan Exiles
96% 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: Survival 70.3%, RPG 16.1%, Action 6.9%, Adventure 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a brutal survival experience with extensive building systems and intense clan-based PvP combat.
- #5 V Rising
94% matchVery Positive89% of 132,034 reviews2024
Dev: Stunlock Studios
Windows
Median: 21.0 hrsMean: 57.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Awaken as a Vampire. Hunt for blood in nearby settlements to regain your strength and evade the scorching sun to survive. Raise your castle and thrive in an ever-changing, open world full of mystery. Gain allies online and conquer the land of the living.
Why similar: Survival 81.9%, Action 9.3%, Adventure 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: Combines top-down survival and base building with competitive PvP in a gothic fantasy setting.
- #6 DayZ
94% matchMostly Positive78% of 456,703 reviews2018
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 39.6 hrsMean: 272.0 hrs≥1hr: 96%
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. Will you team up with strangers and stay strong together? Or play as a lone wolf to avoid betrayal? This is DayZ – this is your story.
Why similar: Survival 74.1%, Action 13.4%, Adventure 12.6%
Why You'll Like It: The definitive open-world survival game where the threat of other players is just as significant as the environment.
- #7 Valheim
93% 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: Survival 71.1%, Adventure 10.4%, Action 10.1%, Indie 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a rewarding survival and building loop that can be played cooperatively or in competitive environments.
- #8 Deadside
92% matchMostly Positive76% of 40,013 reviews2024
Dev: Bad Pixel
Windows
Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 44.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
An Open World Survival Shooter blending hardcore PVP and PVE action. Secure precious loot in safe zones or build your own fortress in the wild. With intense gunfights, stunning visuals, and performance smooth enough for any system, the challenge awaits!
Why similar: Survival 78.9%, Action 11%, Adventure 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore extraction-style survival game that prioritizes realistic combat and player interaction.
- #9 7 Days to Die
91% 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: Survival 87.3%, Action 12.7%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on voxel-based base building and survival against both environmental threats and other survivors.
- #10 Hurtworld
91% matchMostly Positive76% of 31,099 reviews2019
Dev: Bankroll Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 63.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Hurtworld is a hardcore multiplayer survival FPS with a focus on competitive gunplay and strategic map control. Built for hardcore gamers, Hurtworld aims to punish.
Why similar: Survival 82.3%, Adventure 7.9%, Action 7.1%, Indie 2.7%
Why You'll Like It: A stylized multiplayer survival game that emphasizes fast-paced combat and resource competition.
- #11 Reign Of Kings
90% 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: Survival 67%, RPG 12.8%, Action 8.3%, Adventure 8%, Indie 3.9%
Why You'll Like It: A medieval-themed survival game where players fight for control and build defensive structures.
- #12 Miscreated
89% 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: Survival 89.1%, Action 7.5%, Indie 3.5%
Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic survival game that focuses on scavenging and player-versus-player conflict.
- #13 VEIN
86% matchVery Positive90% of 9,542 reviews2025
Dev: Ramjet Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
VEIN is a post-apocalyptic survival multiplayer sandbox game. Gather supplies to survive, explore abandoned buildings, defend your home, and rebuild society, whether alone or with friends.
Why similar: Survival 68.4%, RPG 21.5%, Action 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: A zombie-focused survival game that prioritizes base building and exploration in a dangerous open world.
- #14 Last Oasis
89% matchMixed62% of 24,198 reviews2020
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 17.9 hrsMean: 121.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Nomadic Survival MMO. Build wooden walking machines to travel to new lands. Create clans and fight for territory. Resources deplete fast, so take your sword and scavenge, pirate, and trade to stay alive.
Why similar: Survival 50.7%, RPG 20.1%, Action 11.1%, Adventure 10.5%, Indie 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: Features unique nomadic survival mechanics and large-scale clan warfare in a desert world.
- #15 Subsistence
88% 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: Survival 86.6%, Action 7.1%, Adventure 4.4%, Indie 1.9%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that allows for detailed base building while managing threats from AI and other players.
- #16 Unturned
86% matchVery Positive91% of 561,138 reviews2017
Dev: Smartly Dressed Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 71.6 hrs≥1hr: 76%
You're a survivor in the zombie infested ruins of society, and must work with your friends and forge alliances to remain among the living.
Why similar: Survival 58.4%, Action 14.8%, Adventure 14%, Indie 12.7%
Why You'll Like It: An accessible indie survival game that features surprisingly deep base building and multiplayer combat.
- #17 Outlaws of the Old West
87% matchMixed59% of 6,287 reviews2019
Dev: Virtual Basement LLCPub: Wandering Wizard
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 22.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Outlaws of the Old West is a massively multiplayer survival MMO with a huge world, thousands of items and a modular building system. Survive the wild, build your own homestead, defeat villainous bandits and work with others to tame the Wild West.
Why similar: Survival 61.1%, RPG 14.3%, Adventure 8.5%, Indie 8.1%, Action 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: A western-themed survival game that emphasizes building, crafting, and player interaction in an open world.
- #18 XERA: Survival
85% matchMixed66% of 7,888 reviews2021
Dev: Spotted Kiwi Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 24.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Action-focused, open world survival shooter, PvPvE against fellow mercenaries and lethal XOIDS. Raid for resources alone or with team-mates, build and defend your base, stash your gear and survive against the odds. You are the hunters. You are the hunted. And the robots never sleep…
Why similar: Survival 83.8%, Action 16.2%
Why You'll Like It: A loot-focused survival game that emphasizes PvP combat and gear progression.
- #19 Don't Starve Together
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 528,033 reviews2016
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 64.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Why similar: Survival 94.7%, Adventure 3.2%, Indie 1.4%, Action 0.8%
Why You'll Like It: A challenging cooperative survival game that requires careful resource management and base defense.
- #20 GRAV
84% matchMixed47% of 6,921 reviews2015
Dev: BitMonster, Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 60%
GRAV is a sand box experience where you explore a multitude of planets, hunt strange alien creatures, build and defend outposts, craft weapons and armor, and attempt to survive against other players in a hostile environment.
Why similar: Survival 66.5%, RPG 12.9%, Adventure 8.7%, Action 7.9%, Indie 4.1%
Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi sandbox survival game that allows for large-scale base building and exploration.
- #21 ATLAS
83% matchMixed47% of 42,842 reviews2018
Dev: Grapeshot Games
Windows
Median: 12.5 hrsMean: 112.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Set sail for the ultimate pirate experience! Embark on a grand adventure alongside thousands of other players in one of the largest game worlds ever built (and even claim a piece of it to call your own). Build your ship, assemble your crew, sail the high seas, and become a pirate legend!
Why similar: Survival 60.8%, RPG 20.1%, Adventure 12.8%, Action 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: A massive multiplayer survival game focused on seafaring, base building, and territorial control.
- #22 Nomad
84% 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: Survival 76.1%, Adventure 9.8%, Action 9.2%, Indie 4.9%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game that strips away complex mechanics to focus on the core loop of looting and player combat.
- #23 Lost Rift
79% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,413 reviews2025
Dev: People Can Fly
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Lost Rift is a first person survival adventure shooter that blends cooperative base building with multiplayer PvE or PvP extraction expeditions. Journey solo or in teams of up to 5 players across a vast archipelago, craft gear, build bases, defeat raiders, and become legendary.
Why similar: Survival 69.3%, Action 15.6%, Adventure 15.1%
Why You'll Like It: An extraction-based survival game that challenges players to gather loot and survive against other players.
- #24 Project Winter
81% matchVery Positive83% of 19,060 reviews2019
Dev: Other Ocean InteractivePub: Other Ocean Group
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 23.6 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Project Winter 2.0: Cabin Fever is an 8-player survival and social deception game where teamwork is vital, but betrayal is inevitable. Face the wilderness, uncover traitors, and survive paranoia in this streamlined yet chaotic multiplayer experience.
Why similar: Survival 65.9%, Adventure 17.4%, Action 16.6%
Why You'll Like It: Adds a layer of social deception to the survival genre, forcing players to manage resources while identifying traitors.
- #25 Sons Of The Forest
78% 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 83.2%, Adventure 10%, Action 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: An expanded survival experience with advanced building mechanics and a focus on surviving against overwhelming odds.
- #26 Wild Terra Online
82% matchMixed60% of 1,830 reviews2017
Dev: Juvty Worlds
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Wild Terra Online is a sandbox RPG, in a completely player-controlled medieval world. You will have to survive in a forest full of predators, build a shelter and improve your crafts skills, tame animals and fight for treasures. You can become anyone and do whatever you want!
Why similar: Survival 46.8%, RPG 27%, Indie 10%, Adventure 8.4%, Action 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down sandbox survival game that emphasizes player-driven economies and base construction.
- #27 The Forest
79% 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: Survival 79.3%, Adventure 10%, Action 7.1%, Indie 3.7%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on intense survival and base building while fending off aggressive threats in a hostile environment.
- #28 BEACHED
81% matchMixed65% of 3,675 reviews2021
Dev: Gradient Studios
Windows
A free-to-play, low-poly, open-world survival shooter where you’ll battle other players, explore massive monuments, and fight to stay alive. Build and fortify your base to defend against enemy raids, gather resources, and conquer a harsh, competitive world. Survival means doing whatever it takes.
Why similar: Survival 67%, Action 16.8%, Adventure 16.2%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game focused on island exploration and resource management in a multiplayer environment.
- #29 Rem Survival
80% 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: Survival 52.4%, RPG 16.4%, Action 10.7%, Adventure 10.4%, Indie 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: A straightforward survival game that focuses on crafting, building, and surviving in an open world.
- #30 SurvivalZ
78% matchMixed60% of 316 reviews2019
Dev: RewindApp
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 36%
A virus ravaged the planet, and you are one of the last survivors! Alone or in groups you will have to survive in a hostile world populated by living dead!
Why similar: Survival 52.5%, Action 16.3%, Adventure 16.3%, Indie 14.9%
Why You'll Like It: An indie survival title that provides a simple, action-oriented experience for multiplayer fans.
- #31 Countrified
77% matchMixed57% of 111 reviews2021
Dev: Avelar Studios
Windows
Countrified is an online Survival simulator focused on player interaction. Hunt, build, control regions, survive, kill, die and more in our world!
Why similar: Survival 38.8%, RPG 23.3%, Adventure 13.7%, Action 13%, Indie 11.2%
- #32 Renown
73% matchMixed60% of 1,544 reviews2025
Dev: RDBK Studios
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Renown is an intense medieval multiplayer survival experience set in a vast, ever-evolving world. Whether alone or rallying allies, gather resources, build powerful strongholds, and engage in brutal battles for dominance.
Why similar: Survival 49.6%, RPG 18.7%, Action 11.2%, Adventure 11%, Indie 9.5%
- #33 Grim
73% matchMixed59% of 145 reviews2025
Dev: Spoonfed InteractivePub: Beyond Frames
Windows
GRIM is an Exclusive VR Multiplayer Survival game where you must immerse yourself, stranded on a secluded part of Earth. Survival is not just a choice but a grueling battle against nature and other players. Gather resources, craft, and build your base, all to stay alive.
Why similar: Survival 69.4%, Action 16.2%, Adventure 14.3%
- #34 Outerstellar
74% matchMostly Positive73% of 168 reviews2023
Dev: Strange Horizons Ltd
Windows
Stranded on a hostile and deadly planet, you must gather resources, build shelter, and fight to survive each night. But the secrets of this world await in a gripping sci-fi survival PvP game.
Why similar: Survival 81.5%, Action 18.5%
- #35 Mesorift Survival
71% 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: Survival 70.9%, Action 15.6%, Adventure 13.5%
- #36 Ostrofa
75% matchMixed64% of 84 reviews2020
Dev: Normunds Petrovs
Windows · Mac
Be prepared to survive in a custom-generated, low poly environment, fighting against other players from all over the world.
Why similar: Action 36.2%, Adventure 33%, Indie 30.8%
- #37 Exile to Death
76% matchMixed47% of 99 reviews2018
Dev: Aleksei MilchakovPub: Manifestors Games Studio
Windows
Median: 9.4 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 99%
Explore the world , collect resources , craft items , build a fortified house and kill other players to survive. BUT don't forget about cyborgs...
Why similar: Survival 39.3%, RPG 21%, Action 16.8%, Indie 12.9%, Adventure 10.1%
- #38 Plains of Pain
72% 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: Survival 56.8%, RPG 27.7%, Action 15.6%
- #39 Woodlands
76% matchMostly Negative29% of 295 reviews2017
Dev: Acuze Interactives
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 25%
Survive. Build shelter. Build a fire. Scavenge and kill for materials. Craft. Eat and drink. Do what you need to do to survive.
Why similar: Survival 44.8%, Indie 22%, Action 17%, Adventure 16.1%
- #40 Warriors' Wrath
74% matchMixed81% of 170 reviews2016
Dev: Storm Sharks Production
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Loot. Craft. Build. Defend. Fight. Survive
Why similar: RPG 35.9%, Action 23.8%, Adventure 21.5%, Indie 18.8%
- #41 One Last Day
75% matchMixed62% of 103 reviews2015
Dev: Bloodwolf Studio
Windows · Mac
[Alpha] Explore, hunt, be hunted, kill, destroy, build... Fight in a colorful, devastated world that everyone is trying to take for themselves. Do it yours, but remember your main goal at the start of the day; try to survive one last day.
Why similar: Survival 40.5%, Adventure 20.6%, Action 20.6%, Indie 18.3%
- #42 Dysterra
70% matchMixed56% of 755 reviews2025
Dev: Reality MagiQ
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 67%
On a future post-apocalyptic Earth, build, craft, and loot other players’ bases to survive long enough to board the rocket and escape the dangerous robots and mercenaries that inhabit Ararat Island. Manipulate the weather and use earthquakes to change when the server wipe occurs in DYSTERRA!
Why similar: Survival 49.4%, RPG 25.1%, Action 13.2%, Adventure 12.3%
- #43 Hurricane
73% matchMixed57% of 167 reviews2017
Dev: Because I Can
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Hurricane is a 3rd person multiplayer survival game in open fantasy world.
Why similar: RPG 31%, Adventure 19.5%, Action 17.7%, Survival 17.3%, Indie 14.4%
- #44 Palworld
65% 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: Survival 63.2%, RPG 11.4%, Adventure 9.7%, Indie 9.6%, Action 6.1%
- #45 Far Lands
69% 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: Survival 67.6%, Action 16.5%, Adventure 16%
- #46 Death World
71% matchMixed46% of 56 reviews2020
Dev: Millenium Games
Windows
After a long night you wake up alone in the bunker as a bunker security guard. Hunt, kill, gather. Do anything to survive.
Why similar: RPG 39.5%, Action 23%, Indie 19.8%, Adventure 17.6%
- #47 Survive The Island
70% 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: RPG 38.3%, Survival 37.9%, Action 23.8%
- #48 Mists of Noyah
69% matchMixed66% of 780 reviews2022
Dev: Pyxeralia
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 13.4 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Hunt during the day, be hunted during the NIGHT! Mists of Noyah is a co-op survival game with many RPG elements. Fight factions that evolve over the days and bizarre monsters that will terrify you at night! Strengthen your base by rescuing survivors from around the world.
Why similar: RPG 31.5%, Survival 28.3%, Indie 17.3%, Action 17.1%, Adventure 5.9%
- #49 Project 5: Sightseer
69% matchMostly Positive72% of 543 reviews2019
Dev: Tasharen Entertainment Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 28.9 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Open world multiplayer sandbox/RPG game. Explore, gather, build, research, and fight to protect what's yours -- by yourself or together with your friends.
Why similar: RPG 38.6%, Adventure 22.4%, Action 20.9%, Indie 18.1%
- #50 Carth
67% matchMixed58% of 73 reviews2024
Dev: Deidre Reay Studios LLC
Windows
Carth is a survival rpg set in a ravaged open world. You will need to explore, build, and fight to thrive. Gain extraordinary skills as you take on an incredible evil. Join together or go at it alone as you attempt to survive Carth.
Why similar: RPG 65%, Adventure 35%
- #51 MULTIPLAYER CAVEMEN
67% matchMostly Positive77% of 248 reviews2023
Dev: Archor WrightPub: Archor Games
Windows
MULTIPLAYER CAVEMEN - The Village is being taken over by DinoSaurs. Can You and Your Pack Survive ?
Why similar: RPG 52.3%, Survival 36.2%, Indie 11.5%
- #52 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: Survival 83.6%, Action 16.4%
- #53 Silent North
67% matchMostly Negative35% of 108 reviews2025
Dev: Combat Waffle StudiosPub: Beyond Frames Entertainment
Windows
Silent North thrusts you into the Swiss Alps, battling the elements, Infected, and other players. Fight solo or team up, scavenging gear and essentials. Intense PVPVE action ensures constant danger. Adapt, be resilient, and survive in this unpredictable, ever-changing landscape
Why similar: Survival 42.1%, RPG 27.4%, Action 15.9%, Adventure 14.6%
- #54 Valnir Rok Survival RPG
70% matchMixed44% of 980 reviews2017
Dev: encurio
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 42%
Valnir Rok is a multiplayer survival roleplaying game in a Viking setting with quests by bestselling author Giles Kristian. Explore a huge open world, craft items, cook meals, build houses and found clan cities. Raid other clans or place bounties. Pray to the gods and survive.
Why similar: Survival 51.7%, RPG 24.7%, Action 9.6%, Indie 7.1%, Adventure 7%
- #55 Polygeddon
66% 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: Survival 51.3%, RPG 25.6%, Adventure 11.7%, Action 11.4%
- #56 Dead Matter
68% matchMostly Negative21% of 882 reviews2023
Dev: QI Games
Windows
After a rampant viral outbreak causes global society to collapse, you must survive the harsh wilderness of the Canadian Rockies amidst vast hordes of Infected and rival survivors.
Why similar: Survival 65.7%, Action 18.5%, Adventure 15.8%
- #57 Strayed
66% matchMostly Positive78% of 332 reviews2024
Dev: Crustacean Interactive
Windows
Strayed is a fast paced open world VR survival game where every session feels like a new adventure. Start with nothing on a fresh island, gather materials, craft weapons, build bases, and battle other players for the best loot.
Why similar: Survival 66.4%, Action 17.1%, Adventure 16.5%