- #1 UnReal World
97% matchVery Positive95% of 1,350 reviews2016
Dev: Sami Maaranen (creator)Pub: Enormous Elk
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 18.7 hrs≥1hr: 71%
The cult classic open-ended wilderness survival roguelike taking place in the ancient North, iron-age Finland. Throughout the years, UnReal World has been praised for its incredible depth, realism, atmos and immersion. Lose yourself in the most intricate, detailed and enchanting iron-age game world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.9% ★, Traditional Roguelike 23.6% ★, Survival 10%, Crafting 8.7%, Roguelike 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A classic wilderness survival roguelike that shares the same focus on realistic survival, hunting, and crafting in a harsh environment.
- #2 Stoneshard
96% matchMostly Positive75% of 33,430 reviews2020
Dev: Ink Stains GamesPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 36.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Stoneshard is a hardcore turn-based RPG about the harsh life of a medieval mercenary: travel with your own caravan, descend into procedurally generated dungeons, learn new skills, survive hunger and injuries - and remember, every mistake can mean death and loss of progress.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.4% ★, Survival 13.8%, Roguelike 13.5%, Turn-Based 11.3%, RPG 9%
Why You'll Like It: A gritty, turn-based roguelike RPG that features challenging combat and survival mechanics similar to Wayward.
- #3 NEO Scavenger
96% matchVery Positive90% of 5,359 reviews2014
Dev: Blue Bottle Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
NEO Scavenger is a game where you must survive in the wasteland long enough to figure out who you are. Each turn, you must decide where to go, how to scavenge for supplies, and how to deal with anything and anyone you encounter.
Why similar: Survival 27.8%, Roguelike 14.3%, Turn-Based 14%, Crafting 13.8%, Grid-Based Movement 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore turn-based survival game that emphasizes scavenging and tactical decision-making in a post-apocalyptic world.
- #4 Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
95% matchVery Positive92% of 496 reviews2023
Dev: CleverRavenPub: KorGgenT
Windows · Linux
The epitome of a modern traditional roguelike: with turn-based play and a RPG-like skill progression system, it hearkens back to some of the major aspects of this genre. This game has an incredible depth, with a deep inventory system, vehicles and boats, NPCs with their own stories, and more.
Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 42.1% ★, Survival 16.2%, Roguelike 13.8%, Sandbox 10.4%, Pixel Graphics 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: This is the gold standard for deep, turn-based survival simulation with complex crafting and environmental interaction.
- #5 Elin
94% matchVery Positive94% of 8,596 reviews2024
Dev: Lafrontier
Windows
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 64.0 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Successor to the roguelike RPG "Elona". Adventure, survival, crafting, home-building, myths passed down, and stories of humans and Elea spun. What scars will you leave on the land of Ylva?
Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 42.6% ★, Roguelike 15.3%, Open World 10.7%, Sandbox 10.2%, Pixel Graphics 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox roguelike that provides deep open-world exploration, crafting, and survival elements in a charming pixel-art style.
- #6 The Doors of Trithius
94% matchVery Positive94% of 851 reviews2021
Dev: Jake Donkersgoed
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 75%
The Doors of Trithius is an open-world RPG roguelike. Engage in tactical turn-based combat in a living world of warring factions, wandering behemoths, and ancient magic. Level your skills, cook, craft, and explore dungeons. Will you follow the story, or let adventure be your guide?
Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 40.2% ★, Roguelike 13.1%, Survival 12.8%, Turn-Based 9.3%, Open World 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: A procedural, turn-based roguelike that focuses on exploration and survival in a dangerous, ever-changing world.
- #7 Caves of Qud
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 12,086 reviews2024
Dev: Freehold GamesPub: Kitfox Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 34.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Inhabit a deeply-simulated science fantasy world and chisel through layers of thousand-year-old civilizations. Build a character from over a hundred mutations and cybernetics. The award-winning sandbox roguelike & RPG full of robots, deep lore, and sentient plants.
Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 35.8% ★, Turn-Based 17.5%, Survival 12.4%, Open World 11.8%, Roguelike 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: Offers an incredibly deep, procedural world with complex simulation and turn-based exploration that appeals to fans of traditional roguelikes.
- #8 Card Survival: Tropical Island
92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 2,951 reviews2022
Dev: WinterSpring Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 45.4 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Card Survival is a card-based survival experience. Stranded on a desert island you must use your wits and skills to stay alive. Use cards and combine them together to explore, gather resources and craft useful tools.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.5% ★, Survival 23%, Crafting 16.9%, Roguelike 9.9%, Turn-Based 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: A highly detailed survival game that uses a card-based interface to manage complex needs and crafting on a deserted island.
- #9 Terminus: Zombie Survivors
91% matchVery Positive94% of 4,386 reviews2024
Dev: Longplay Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 13.2 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Terminus: Zombie Survivors is a 2D turn-based survival roguelike set during a zombie apocalypse. Each journey is unique, and every decision can mean the difference between life and death. Can you brave hunger, cold, and the undead in order to reach the Terminus and find salvation?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.5% ★, Survival 14.9%, Roguelike 10.9%, Crafting 9.5%, Sandbox 7%
Why You'll Like It: A turn-based, roguelike survival game that requires careful resource management and strategic movement.
- #10 Soulash 2
91% matchVery Positive86% of 2,323 reviews2023
Dev: Artur Smiarowski
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 25.4 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Soulash 2 is a sandbox RPG roguelike with a procedurally generated open world, simulated history, skill-based progression system, customizable abilities, material-based crafting, building, trading, and the possibility of total mayhem. Will you save your world or destroy it?
Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 35.9% ★, Crafting 13.9%, Survival 13.2%, Sandbox 10.8%, Open World 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox RPG that features a massive procedural world and focuses on player agency and survival-oriented progression.
- #11 Necesse
89% 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 47.7% ★, Survival 10.8%, Crafting 10.2%, Sandbox 7.3%, Open World 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down, open-world survival game that blends crafting, base-building, and exploration with roguelike elements.
- #12 Don't Starve
90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 112,271 reviews2013
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 28.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.1% ★, Survival 24.9%, Crafting 12.8%, Sandbox 7%, Roguelike 4.5%
Why You'll Like It: A quintessential survival game with a unique art style and a heavy emphasis on crafting and managing hunger in a hostile world.
- #13 Project Zomboid
89% matchVery Positive94% of 440,877 reviews2013
Dev: The Indie Stone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 14.8 hrsMean: 82.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.5% ★, Survival 24.2%, Open World 9.5%, Crafting 8.5%, Sandbox 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: While real-time, it offers the most comprehensive and punishing survival experience that matches the depth of Wayward's mechanics.
- #14 Dwarf Fortress
88% matchVery Positive95% of 30,806 reviews2022
Dev: Bay 12 GamesPub: Kitfox Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 38.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.
Why similar: Survival 42.6%, Sandbox 27.1%, Simulation 10.3%, Roguelike 7.7%, Crafting 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: The Adventure mode provides an unparalleled level of simulation, survival, and procedural storytelling in a fantasy wilderness.
- #15 Vagabond
87% matchMostly Positive78% of 98 reviews2023
Dev: Pierre Vigier
Windows · Linux
Explore procedurally generated living worlds in this 2D sandbox RPG. Meet hundreds of characters in cities, complete quests, craft powerful items, buy and furnish your home or fight monsters in dungeons.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.6% ★, Crafting 11.4%, Sandbox 9.8%, Open World 8.8%, Survival 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox RPG that focuses on procedural generation and open-world survival in a way that mirrors the freedom of Wayward.
- #16 Forager
86% matchVery Positive90% of 43,003 reviews2019
Dev: HopFrogPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 22.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.6% ★, Survival 15.2%, Crafting 14.2%, Pixel Graphics 8%, Sandbox 5.8%
Why You'll Like It: A crafting-heavy, top-down game that captures the addictive loop of gathering resources and expanding your territory.
- #17 Kenshi
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 110,425 reviews2018
Dev: Lo-Fi Games
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 70.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.
Why similar: Survival 28.4%, Open World 21.6%, Sandbox 20%, Crafting 14.5%, RPG 10%
Why You'll Like It: A brutal open-world sandbox where survival is a constant struggle, offering deep base-building and exploration.
- #18 Forsaken Isle
85% matchMostly Positive71% of 512 reviews2025
Dev: Smoodlez
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Stranded on a desert island, explore, craft, build and fight in this action survival game!
Why similar: Survival 31.4%, Crafting 25.1%, Pixel Graphics 15.2%, Sandbox 12.4%, RPG 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game that focuses on crafting and exploration on a dangerous, procedurally generated island.
- #19 Aground
84% matchVery Positive94% of 1,965 reviews2020
Dev: Fancy Fish Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
As one of the last human survivors, you find yourself stranded on an uninhabited island. With a few other victims of the crash, can you craft, mine, and build your way to survival?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.5% ★, Survival 18.6%, Open World 10.9%, Sandbox 9.6%, Pixel Graphics 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: An exploration and survival game that starts in a primitive state and progresses through technological tiers.
- #20 The Survivalists
84% 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 35.4% ★, Crafting 16.6%, Survival 16.4%, Sandbox 7.5%, Open World 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on crafting and survival on a procedural island, featuring cooperative play and base-building mechanics.
- #21 Tinkerlands
82% matchVery Positive86% of 3,746 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 13.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Explore, craft, and fight your way through uncharted islands — solo or with up to 4 players in co-op! Tinkerlands is an exciting survival adventure where you will build your settlement, craft useful tools to survive, and even use magic!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.6% ★, Survival 13.6%, Crafting 11%, Sandbox 8.8%, Open World 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game with pixel-art graphics that focuses on exploration, crafting, and combat.
- #22 ZERO Sievert
81% matchVery Positive85% of 14,699 reviews2024
Dev: CABO StudioPub: Modern Wolf
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 23.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Now with over 500,000 copies sold, ZERO Sievert is a tense top-down extraction shooter that challenges you to scavenge a procedurally-generated wasteland, loot gear, and explore what’s left of a devastated world. When the odds are stacked against you, you’ll need to do more than just survive...
Why similar: Survival 42.6%, Pixel Graphics 17.8%, Open World 17.4%, Top-Down 8.9%, Simulation 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down, hardcore survival shooter that emphasizes scavenging, gear management, and tactical exploration.
- #23 ZED ZONE
81% matchVery Positive80% of 3,539 reviews2023
Dev: Leven LiuPub: INDIECN
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 66%
A great catastrophe has come, and you, who are on duty, crash and trapped in a Zed Zone. There are zombies and monsters everywhere, In order to escape, by collecting materials, upgrading skills, building shelters, defeating zombie waves and mysterious mechs, chasing a glimmer of hope.
Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 23.2% ★, Survival 16.5%, Crafting 13.2%, Roguelike 9.3%, Sandbox 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic survival game with a focus on realistic mechanics and scavenging in an open world.
- #24 Out of Reach
83% 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 49.3% ★, Survival 17.9%, Crafting 12.6%, Open World 8.3%, Sandbox 4.6%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game set on a remote island that focuses on crafting, building, and defending against environmental threats.
- #25 Salt
82% matchMostly Positive76% of 2,246 reviews2018
Dev: Lavaboots Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Salt is an open world exploration game where you sail from island to island looking for loot and new discoveries! Relax and explore at your own pace, picking a direction and setting sail across a vast ocean filled with quests, merchants, ruins, pirates, and other mysterious places.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.3% ★, Survival 16.7%, Crafting 12.7%, Open World 9.7%, Sandbox 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world exploration game that emphasizes survival and discovery while sailing across a vast ocean.
- #26 Solace Crafting
79% 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 40.1% ★, Survival 15.7%, Crafting 14.7%, Open World 8.1%, Sandbox 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game that emphasizes crafting and building in a massive, procedurally generated open world.
- #27 Realms of Magic
79% matchVery Positive81% of 986 reviews2022
Dev: Polished Games
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Embark on a journey through the Old Kingdom in Realms of Magic - a sandbox RPG where you customize your character, choose your path, and immerse yourself in the fantasy world as a knight, wizard, miner, lumberjack, farmer, and more. After all, this is YOUR adventure.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 53.8% ★, Sandbox 7.4%, RPG 7.4%, Survival 7.1%, Open World 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world RPG that incorporates survival and crafting elements within a traditional fantasy setting.
- #28 Deep Despair
80% matchMixed67% of 280 reviews2020
Dev: BekkerDev Studio
Windows
Median: 10.6 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Deep Despair is a Minecraft-style survival sandbox. Travel, collect resources, craft items, dig, build, grow crops and survive. Freedom of action is limited only by your imagination!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.4% ★, Survival 15.3%, Crafting 13.9%, RPG 8%, Sandbox 8%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused RPG that features crafting and exploration in a block-based, top-down world.
- #29 Starbound
77% matchVery Positive90% of 122,901 reviews2016
Dev: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.2 hrsMean: 64.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.9% ★, Survival 11.3%, Crafting 10.1%, Sandbox 10%, Open World 5.5%
- #30 Wrongworld
78% matchVery Positive94% of 538 reviews2018
Dev: Sludj Games
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Crash-landed on a surreal, low-poly world filled with freakish inhabitants, choose between permadeath and non-permadeath modes and embark on an epic (and ridiculous) survival adventure. Will you manage to stay alive as you unravel the mysteries of Wrongworld and search for a way home?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 51.7% ★, Survival 14.3%, Crafting 9.1%, Sandbox 6.6%, Open World 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: A quirky survival game that challenges players to craft and explore in a dangerous, procedurally generated landscape.
- #31 Dig or Die
77% matchVery Positive90% of 4,268 reviews2018
Dev: Gaddy Games
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Crash land on a hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it. But be warned... this planet is merciless. Build strong, and smart; else physics may flood or destroy your only hopes of survival.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.5% ★, Survival 17%, Crafting 13.5%, Sandbox 9.8%, Open World 5.7%
- #32 Stranded Deep
76% 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 51.4% ★, Survival 18.4%, Crafting 11.7%, Open World 7.2%, Multiplayer 5.4%
- #33 Under A New Sun
73% 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 48.4% ★, Survival 17%, Crafting 14.8%, Open World 9.4%, Sandbox 5.5%
- #34 FortressCraft Evolved!
75% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,055 reviews2015
Dev: ProjectorGamesPub: Digital Tribe
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 72%
FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.6% ★, Crafting 14.4%, Survival 12%, Sandbox 9.4%, Open World 5.1%
- #35 Keplerth
72% matchVery Positive85% of 4,121 reviews2022
Dev: TAROPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Welcome to Keplerth! Try to survive on a hostile alien planet in this 2D sandbox RPG, where you can choose to live alone or fight side by side with your friends in the online multiplayer mode. Survive, build, farm, fight, and explore your way to victory in this open-world adventure!
Why similar: Survival 26.5%, Sandbox 17.6%, Open World 14.9%, Crafting 10.5%, RPG 6.4%
- #36 Cube Life: Island Survival
75% matchMixed69% of 177 reviews2018
Dev: Cypronia
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Cube Life: Island Survival is an open-world, block building, survival game, taking place on a beautiful remote island. Imagine being shipwrecked and stranded left for dead, with only your will to survive. You must explore, build, craft, and fight your way to stay alive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 54.4% ★, Survival 12.5%, Crafting 10.8%, Sandbox 8.1%, Open World 7.4%
- #37 Edge of Space
76% matchMostly Negative33% of 2,729 reviews2015
Dev: Handyman StudiosPub: Reverb Triple XP
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Suit up as an operative of the Ark Corporation, sent to the farthest reaches of the universe in search of habitable planets to terraform. However, after the long space journey you awaken from cryosleep to find that your ship has gone way off course and is disabled near a strange new world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 51.9% ★, Sandbox 11.6%, Crafting 10.8%, Survival 8.9%, Open World 3.8%
- #38 Radiation Island
74% matchVery Positive80% of 623 reviews2016
Dev: Atypical Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Radiation Island is a survival adventure game where you craft your own destiny in a huge open world environment. As part of the Philadelphia Experiment you have become stranded in a parallel, alternate reality. Discover this new and mysterious world, with all its surprises.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 55.7% ★, Survival 22.5%, Crafting 8.2%, Open World 6.5%, Adventure 3.1%
- #39 The Long Dark
71% matchVery Positive90% of 117,376 reviews2017
Dev: Hinterland Studio Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 46.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies -- only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 55.1% ★, Survival 21.9%, Open World 8.3%, Crafting 7.6%, Sandbox 4.1%
- #40 Raft
69% 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 47.7% ★, Survival 21.7%, Crafting 11.9%, Multiplayer 6.4%, Open World 6.1%
- #41 Nomad
73% 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 51.4% ★, Survival 19.7%, Crafting 10.1%, Open World 8.3%, Multiplayer 6.6%
- #42 Don't Starve Together
69% 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: Open World Survival Craft 65.3% ★, Survival 24.8%, Crafting 2.9%, Multiplayer 2.2%, Open World 2.1%
- #43 BIG LOOT
70% matchMixed68% of 79 reviews2025
Dev: Reverie Clouds
Windows
Roguelike caravan survival game about risk, loot, and smart trading. Every run is a journey of hard choices, clever upgrades, and the eternal question: Do I play it safe... or go for the BIG LOOT?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.6% ★, Crafting 13.1%, Roguelike 12.8%, Survival 11.6%, Open World 6.5%
- #44 Feel The Snow
70% matchVery Positive87% of 3,024 reviews2019
Dev: Owlet
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Choose one of the characters and start your journey. The game has many interesting things in store: building, crafting, puzzles, bosses, mystery, laughs, quests etc.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.5% ★, Survival 14.3%, Crafting 11.2%, Pixel Graphics 7.4%, Sandbox 6.1%
- #45 Alchemist's Awakening
72% matchMostly Positive73% of 496 reviews2019
Dev: OsarisGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Enter a world full of magic, mystery, beautiful landscapes and dangerous creatures. Build your own destiny, by yourself or with some friends, gather materials, use elements as attacks, recombine them into building blocks... and use your Alchemist's power to give life to any shape you built.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49% ★, Crafting 16%, Survival 13.6%, Sandbox 10.1%, Open World 8.4%
- #46 Fragmented
73% matchMixed43% of 1,964 reviews2017
Dev: Above and Beyond Technologies
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Stranded in a hostile alien world, you must fight to survive. Hunt, harvest, craft, advance skills, and build using local resources along with technology from your voyage.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 52.4% ★, Survival 17.9%, Crafting 9.1%, Open World 7.1%, Sandbox 5.5%
- #47 CrossWorlds: Escape
71% 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 41.8% ★, Survival 15.2%, Crafting 13.7%, Sandbox 9.1%, Open World 8.4%
- #48 Subterrain: Mines of Titan
68% matchMostly Positive76% of 714 reviews2024
Dev: Pixellore IncPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 14.5 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Awaken from an abandoned stasis pod and discover a doomed mining camp on Titan in an uncompromising turn-based survival RPG. Survive the evolving horrors that lurk below and craft equipment, research new gear, fight against overwhelming odds, or even discover your true fate.
Why similar: Survival 31.4%, Grid-Based Movement 23.8%, Inventory Management 13.8%, RPG 11.9%, Pixel Graphics 11%
- #49 Core Keeper
65% 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 35.1% ★, Survival 15.2%, Crafting 14.4%, Sandbox 9.3%, Open World 8.9%
- #50 Shards of Azuria
71% matchMixed60% of 101 reviews2019
Dev: Blue Potion Games
Windows
Shards of Azuria is an isometric, craft and build RPG. Create a character and a new world, then start your adventure by waking up in town. You are greeted by the locals of Azuria and begin to find your way around.
Why similar: Crafting 29.4%, Survival 22.1%, Sandbox 14.7%, RPG 10.6%, Pixel Graphics 10.3%
- #51 Subterrain
70% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,385 reviews2016
Dev: Pixellore Inc
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Uncompromising Sci-Fi survival on Mars! Manage the entire colony single-handed! Craft, Research, Explore and Fight against evolving mutants. Vast open world and randomly generated levels to explore! Can you survive long enough to escape the horror?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33% ★, Survival 23.9%, Crafting 16.5%, Roguelike 7.5%, Open World 7.3%
- #52 The Gold River Project
67% 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 48.7% ★, Survival 15.4%, Crafting 13.1%, Open World 10.1%, Multiplayer 5.3%
- #53 Odd Realm
66% matchVery Positive85% of 992 reviews2024
Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Forge a new kingdom in a land recovering from the Fracture. Which of the surviving races will you lead to rebuild, explore, and conquer the unknown? The dwindling yet immortal Ancients? The bold and resourceful Humans? The life stealing Ardyn? Or the secretive Gwdir who shape living groves?
Why similar: Survival 25.6%, Crafting 22.4%, Pixel Graphics 14.2%, Roguelike 11.7%, Sandbox 8.2%
- #54 Doomed Lands
69% matchMixed46% of 63 reviews2023
Dev: Nibb GamesPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A diabolical demon dooms a teeming island to destruction. Five legendary lieutenants and their minions descend every seven days…but that allows ample time to prepare. Survive, craft, train, and gear up to defend the island!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.5% ★, Survival 15.8%, Roguelike 13.9%, Crafting 13.5%, Pixel Graphics 6.5%
- #55 Savage Lands
68% 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 46.5% ★, Survival 15.7%, Crafting 10.6%, Open World 7.3%, Sandbox 6.4%
- #56 Lodventure
67% 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 46.7% ★, Survival 15.9%, Crafting 12.5%, Open World 9.1%, Sandbox 6.7%
- #57 Card Survival: Fantasy Forest
66% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,083 reviews2025
Dev: WinterSpring Games
Windows · Mac
Card Survival: Fantasy Forest is a card-based deep survival simulator and the next installment in the Card Survival Series. Carve yourself a home in a primordial forest that has a will of its own. A day-to-day life simulator in a world where nature reigns with mystery, beauty and sometimes cruelty.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37% ★, Survival 13.8%, Roguelike 10.6%, Turn-Based 9.3%, Crafting 8.4%
- #58 Project Castaway
64% 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 45.9% ★, Survival 15.8%, Crafting 11.7%, Sandbox 9.3%, Open World 8.1%
