- #1 Red Rust Pioneers
97% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: fish in a bottlePub: Rusty Robot
Windows
Build a new life in the Wild West open world of Red Rust Valley, alone or with up to 4 players in co-op. Hunt, farm, raise animals and craft through the changing seasons in this survival game as your camp grows from a canvas tent to a homestead. Free land, open skies, and a world worth exploring.
Why similar: Western 22.9% ★, Open World Survival Craft 20.7% ★, Base Building 8.7%, Crafting 7.9%, Online Co-Op 7.8%
- #2 Zeverland
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Quantum Quirks
Windows
Welcome to Zeverland. Common sense is your best weapon against the Zeds. After figuring out the "not dying" part, grab some friends to save the world. Find a cure, build a rocket, or a tower too high for Zeds to climb. Nothing's off limits. You're here at the very start of the apocalypse. Go wild!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.4% ★, Base Building 10.8%, Crafting 9.3%, Online Co-Op 8.5%, Zombies 8.2%
- #3 Afterlife West
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: violarte
Windows
The Veil falls at sundown — and the West stops belonging to the living. AFTERLIFE WEST is co-op frontier survival where you build a ranch by day, hunt Wanted Legends across cursed biomes, and defend your crew through nights that shouldn't be survivable. Saddle up. Sunrise is earned, not given.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30% ★, Western 26.9% ★, Online Co-Op 8.8%, Survival 8.4%, Crafting 7.5%
- #4 The Rotting Chronicles
95% 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 25.1% ★, Zombies 10.4%, Base Building 9.9%, Crafting 9.1%, Survival 8.1%
- #5 HumanitZ
94% matchMostly Positive74% of 13,392 reviews2026
Dev: Yodubzz StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 77%
HumanitZ is an isometric, open-world sandbox survival game set in a world ended by a zombie outbreak. Survive alone or with friends by scavenging, crafting, building, and fighting to last as long as ‘humanly’ possible. You can’t change the past, but you can fight for the future of humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 17.1% ★, Base Building 10.6%, Zombies 10.4%, Survival 9%, Crafting 8.9%
- #6 Plains of Pain
94% matchVery Positive83% of 869 reviews2023
Dev: Cobra Byte Digital
Windows
Survive in a post-apocalyptic open-world sandbox alone or with friends. Explore a procedural wasteland scorched by heat and chaos. Build a base, develop skills, craft tools and weapons, trade for what you need, complete deadly quests, earn faction reputation, or take part in faction wars.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.3% ★, Base Building 10.1%, Crafting 8.4%, Online Co-Op 8.3%, Sandbox 7.5%
- #7 Road to Eden
93% matchMixed64% of 408 reviews2019
Dev: Zouking
Windows
Road to Eden is a third-person multiplayer survival coop game, set within the post-apocalyptic ruins of a world destroyed by an alien invasion. You wake up at the side of the road with no memory and must team up with other survivors to make the long and dangerous journey to Eden.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.6% ★, Crafting 10.3%, Base Building 9.5%, Survival 8.7%, Sandbox 7.8%
- #8 Green Hell
92% matchVery Positive85% of 99,313 reviews2019
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 18.5 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 35% ★, Survival 11.6%, Online Co-Op 9.8%, Crafting 8.4%, Base Building 7.6%
- #9 Outlaws of the Old West
91% matchMixed59% of 6,290 reviews2019
Dev: Virtual Basement LLCPub: Wandering Wizard
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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: Western 33.3% ★, Open World Survival Craft 30.6% ★, Survival 9.6%, Open World 8.5%, Multiplayer 5.2%
- #10 Nighthold
91% 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 38.4% ★, Base Building 9.3%, Crafting 8%, Sandbox 7%, Online Co-Op 6.9%
- #11 Polygon Survival
90% matchMixed41% of 27 reviews2023
Dev: Performance Artist
Windows
Polygon Survival is a low-poly zombie survival shooter with simple building and crafting. You find yourself in a mini world of zombie apocalypse and your only goal here is survival.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.8% ★, Zombies 10.9%, Crafting 10.6%, Base Building 9.8%, Survival 9.2%
- #12 Whisper of the Swallows
88% matchVery Positive85% of 171 reviews2026
Dev: Blown Leaves
Windows
Brave a savage, unforgiving procedurally generated world where extreme weather and the nightmares of the dark will hunt you down. Alone or in co-op, survive, build, and explore to turn a cursed hellscape into your sanctuary of light.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.4% ★, Crafting 10.9%, Base Building 10.1%, Sandbox 9.1%, Survival 9%
- #13 Heat
89% matchMixed49% of 2,935 reviews2020
Dev: Code}{atch
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 28.9 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Survive the wilderness, build a home, raise a family, and expand your territory. Gain power as President, deliver justice as Sheriff, fight for your tribe as Chief, or show some southern hospitality as Governor. Begin your new life in 19th century America.
Why similar: Western 38.8% ★, Open World Survival Craft 18.7% ★, Survival 11.9%, Open World 10.1%, Multiplayer 6.8%
- #14 Nord
89% 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 35.3% ★, Online Co-Op 12.3%, Survival 9.6%, Base Building 9.1%, Post-apocalyptic 6.9%
- #15 Aurendor
87% 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 30.7% ★, Online Co-Op 11%, Base Building 10.4%, Crafting 9.8%, Survival 9.5%
- #16 In the Van
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cosmic Tofu
Windows · Mac
A cozy post-apocalyptic survival game where your van is your home, your shelter, and your key to survival. Scavenge, craft, and uncover the stories the dead left behind.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.9% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Crafting 10.2%, Survival 9.4%, Sandbox 9.2%
- #17 Solace Crafting
86% matchMostly Positive72% of 894 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 27.4% ★, Base Building 11%, Crafting 11%, Survival 9.4%, Online Co-Op 9.1%
- #18 Cataclysm Upon Us
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 7Dev Studios
Windows · Linux
Cataclysm Upon Us is an open world survival RPG. Craft, fight, and build in a world overrun by mutants, zombies and other abominations. Uncover secrets, embrace mutations and cybernetic enhancements. Every decision shapes your journey in this haunting cataclysm. Can you survive the chaos?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.9% ★, Survival 9.4%, Crafting 9%, Open World 8.8%, Sandbox 8.6%
- #19 Above Snakes: Prologue
84% matchVery Positive90% of 1,866 reviews2023
Dev: Square Glade GamesPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 53%
In the prologue of Above Snakes, you awake in a destroyed settlement and help the survivors rebuild it. After that, expand the world with world pieces, craft, farm, hunt, build a base, and fight to find out more about what happened.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.8% ★, Western 20.3% ★, Crafting 10.3%, Base Building 9.9%, Zombies 7.2%
- #20 Grounded 2
82% matchVery Positive81% of 22,174 reviews2025
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.4 hrsMean: 22.6 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 23.9% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Survival 13%, Crafting 10%, Open World 8.8%
- #21 Crushed
84% matchMixed54% of 316 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 30.3% ★, Survival 9.5%, Base Building 9.4%, Crafting 9.3%, Open World 8.7%
- #22 Desert Skies
83% matchMixed57% of 469 reviews2019
Dev: White_Rabbit_Games
Windows
Desert Skies takes survival to the air! Build an airship and fly on an adventure through the deserts of the Wild West. Look for places to land and scavenge for loot, expand your airship and craft new equipment, but beware the dangers lurking beneath the sands!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.2% ★, Western 21.5% ★, Crafting 9.7%, Survival 8.1%, Base Building 7%
- #23 Zector 7
81% match6 user reviews50% of 6 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 22.4% ★, Base Building 10.4%, Zombies 9.9%, Crafting 8.7%, Survival 8.5%
- #24 Shamania
80% matchMostly Positive74% of 154 reviews2026
Dev: Totem Keepers Games
Windows
Shamania is an open world survival game where you can CRAFT, FIGHT, and EXPLORE a vibrant sandbox world with friends in CO-OP. Expand your base as a hub for survival, gather resources, and master professions to unlock new tools and opportunities!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28% ★, Crafting 12.5%, Open World 9.9%, Survival 9.7%, Online Co-Op 8.4%
- #25 Mist Survival
81% matchMostly Positive76% of 14,180 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 32.7% ★, Survival 15%, Zombies 12.9%, Base Building 10.2%, Open World 10.2%
- #26 Valheim
79% matchVery Positive94% of 536,933 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 25.9 hrsMean: 77.4 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 31.7% ★, Online Co-Op 11.3%, Survival 9.9%, Base Building 9.8%, Crafting 9.1%
- #27 Wildsite
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Vividdi Entertainment
Windows · Linux
Crash-landed on an unknown planet filled with plasma and toxic weather. Your only hope? Bob, a sarcastic-genius AI who will question your every survival decision. Explore, build your mobile base and try to avoid death alongside up to 3 friends in Co-op.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Online Co-Op 10.9%, Crafting 10.4%, Survival 9.3%
- #28 The Last Viking
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NoBrain Studio
Windows
Play as a young viking, learn to survive and fight in the wilderness. To fulfill your destiny, explore an island alone or in cooperation with friends, build structures, confront Norse gods and mythological creatures. Will you be the last Viking?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 18.5% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Online Co-Op 12.1%, Survival 10.8%, Open World 10.1%
- #29 Grounded
77% matchVery Positive90% of 94,772 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.3 hrsMean: 41.5 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 30.9% ★, Survival 14.5%, Base Building 13.7%, Crafting 10.1%, Multiplayer 7.8%
- #30 Frontier of Madness
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Qwerty Studio
Windows
Build fight and explore in a multiplayer survival sandbox game mixing the hard west cowboy genre with a Lovecraftian vibe. Will you survive together or succumb to madness?
Why similar: Western 28.6% ★, Open World Survival Craft 21.9% ★, Sandbox 9.8%, Crafting 9.6%, Open World 8%
- #31 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
76% matchVery Positive82% of 10,269 reviews2024
Dev: Merge GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 27% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 9.7%, Online Co-Op 9.7%, Survival 9.5%
- #32 LifeZ - Survival
78% 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 33.7% ★, Zombies 13%, Survival 11.6%, Base Building 10.7%, Crafting 7.4%
- #33 Planetaries
75% matchMixed58% of 226 reviews2024
Dev: EY-Studio
Windows
Experience a vast Sci-fi open-world survival TD game set on a distant planet deep in the universe. Craft, build, mine, trade, explore, and survive in this alien world. Collect Data and defend against waves of enemies seeking to banish you. Enjoy the adventure in Singleplayer or Multiplayer.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.8% ★, Base Building 10.8%, Online Co-Op 10.2%, Crafting 10.1%, Survival 8.6%
- #34 Nightingale
74% matchMixed66% of 17,987 reviews2024
Dev: Inflexion Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 23.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Nightingale is an open world survival crafting game, where you’ll adventure across the mysterious and dangerous Fae Realms. As a daring Realmwalker, you’ll defeat monstrous enemies, survive hostile environments, and build elaborate estates in a visually stunning Gaslamp Fantasy world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.2% ★, Online Co-Op 11%, Base Building 11%, Crafting 10.4%, Survival 9.9%
- #35 Road Survival: Bigger on the Inside
75% 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 26.7% ★, Base Building 11%, Online Co-Op 9.2%, Crafting 8.8%, Survival 8.1%
- #36 Fallen Region
76% matchMixed42% of 198 reviews2020
Dev: WayUpGamesPub: HandMade Games
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Fallen Region is a third-person survival sandbox game in an open, post-apocalyptic world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 18.7% ★, Zombies 11.3%, Survival 10.9%, Crafting 8.6%, Base Building 8.1%
- #37 Far Lands
74% matchMixed65% of 170 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 26.9% ★, Base Building 14.3%, Crafting 13.2%, Survival 11.2%, Open World 8.6%
- #38 Re.poly
73% matchVery Positive91% of 137 reviews2019
Dev: Hinkfoot Studios
Windows
Re.Poly is a relaxed yet deep indie survival game in a low-poly style that blends exploration, combat, building, and adventure. Whether alone or with friends, create your own world, write your own story, and decide how you want to play.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.1% ★, Crafting 11.6%, Base Building 11.5%, Survival 9.9%, Sandbox 9.7%
- #39 Necesse
70% matchVery Positive93% of 27,498 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 14.9 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 38.9% ★, Crafting 9.1%, Sandbox 8.5%, Base Building 8%, Open World 7.9%
- #40 This Land Is My Land
73% matchMixed68% of 4,625 reviews2021
Dev: Game-Labs
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 21.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Experience the frontier as a chief of a Native American tribe and resist the onset of the settlers. Explore the vast world full of hostile humans and animals while defining your narrative through the decisions you make.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.8% ★, Western 27.4% ★, Survival 10.7%, Open World 8.9%, Crafting 8.2%
- #41 Short Snow | Cold Survival Game
72% matchMixed53% of 159 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 31% ★, Survival 11.1%, Open World 10%, Crafting 9.3%, Base Building 8.8%
- #42 Fade to Silence
73% matchMixed63% of 1,329 reviews2019
Dev: Black Forest GamesPub: THQ Nordic
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Fade to Silence is a single-player and co-op survival adventure set in a post-apocalyptic world that is frozen in an eternal winter. Snow and ice have shaped a merciless landscape. Nature is corrupted. Monstrous creatures out of an Eldritch horror dream roam the frozen wasteland.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.4% ★, Survival 14.1%, Crafting 9.1%, Open World 8.4%, Base Building 8.1%
- #43 Dawn of Defiance
70% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,820 reviews2024
Dev: Traega EntertainmentPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
You are the Defier, a Spartan beginning your afterlife on the Crossroads. In this Greek myth-inspired survival craft, ascend from weak soldier to god-like anti-hero. Build impressive Greek structures, craft legendary gear, and break the seals of the Underworld with up to 3 friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.3% ★, Online Co-Op 11.6%, Base Building 10.7%, Survival 9.7%, Crafting 7.2%
- #44 Reckfell
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: verkme
Windows
Survival is your only goal in Reckfell. The world is unforgiving - its creatures, the environment, and even other survivors will stop at nothing to end you. You must do whatever it takes to stay alive for one more day.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.6% ★, Crafting 11.2%, Base Building 11.1%, Survival 9.2%, Sandbox 8.6%
- #45 Project Zomboid
71% matchVery Positive94% of 458,026 reviews2013
Dev: The Indie Stone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 15.0 hrsMean: 84.2 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 27.1% ★, Survival 15%, Zombies 14.5%, Open World 9.7%, Sandbox 7.8%
- #46 Subsistence
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,723 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 5.0 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 41.2% ★, Survival 12.8%, Crafting 12.2%, Base Building 9%, Open World 8.6%
- #47 GRAV
72% matchMixed47% of 6,921 reviews2015
Dev: BitMonster, Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 11.6 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: Open World Survival Craft 38.1% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Survival 12%, Open World 10%, Crafting 8.9%
- #48 DeadPoly
69% matchMostly Positive78% of 6,038 reviews2022
Dev: TFL Games
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 64%
DeadPoly is a polygon arcade zombie survival looter shooter with base building, crafting, scavenging, leveling, questing, and more, but your only goal is survival, everything else is optional.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.1% ★, Zombies 9.2%, Base Building 9.2%, Online Co-Op 8.7%, Crafting 8.6%
- #49 SpiritBorn
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Highforge Studios
Windows
An open-world survival crafting RPG set among floating islands. Gather resources, craft powerful tools, unlock spirit abilities to soar between skybound realms and reclaim your lost godhood.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.6% ★, Crafting 12%, Survival 11%, Base Building 10.8%, Open World 9.9%
- #50 MISERY
67% matchVery Positive84% of 24,347 reviews2025
Dev: Platypus EntertainmentPub: Ytopia
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 10.3 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 22.1% ★, Online Co-Op 10.6%, Base Building 9.9%, Survival 9.6%, Crafting 8.9%
- #51 CastleMiner Z
70% matchVery Positive81% of 11,148 reviews2014
Dev: DigitalDNA Games
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 66%
CastleMiner Z is an infinite world filled with deep places to explore, and horrifying monsters to slay. Build structures out of blocks, craft weapons and tools from raw materials, and explore the vast and frightening world around you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36% ★, Zombies 11.5%, Survival 11.1%, Sandbox 8.4%, Crafting 7.7%
- #52 THE LAST BREATH
69% match6 user reviews17% of 6 reviews2023
Dev: Y Games
Windows
Survive the post-apocalypse world. There's a predator who's going after you. This is Online and local party games enjoyed by 1 to 5 players. you have to Survive in an end-of-life world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.7% ★, Base Building 10.3%, Crafting 9.7%, Survival Horror 8.8%, Survival 8.7%
- #53 Endure or Perish
68% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2024
Dev: Ascent Gaming Studios
Windows
Endure or Perish is an open world survival game played in the FP view. In order to survive you will need to gather resources from the land, manage your inventory, and build a base that you can retreat to when the going gets hard. Can you adapt and overcome? The choice is yours: endure or perish.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.9% ★, Zombies 10.7%, Base Building 9.9%, Survival Horror 8.9%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #54 Undercraft
68% 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 32.4% ★, Online Co-Op 11%, Sandbox 10.7%, Survival 10.2%, Crafting 7.9%
- #55 SkyCraft
67% 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 31.1% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Online Co-Op 11.2%, Crafting 10.8%, Survival 9.8%
- #56 ICARUS
67% matchMostly Positive75% of 64,831 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 46.3 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 30.3% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Survival 11%, Online Co-Op 10.1%, Crafting 9.8%
- #57 Lost Track
67% 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 31.7% ★, Online Co-Op 12.9%, Base Building 12.3%, Survival 11.6%, Crafting 10.4%
- #58 ENDALOR
65% matchMostly Positive70% of 255 reviews2026
Dev: Diorite Games
Windows
An immersive medieval dark fantasy survival game with RPG elements for 1-4 players. Set in a hand crafted open world. Explore, survive, build, craft, fight and conquer your way through the dark, brutal and mysterious lands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.7% ★, Online Co-Op 10.5%, Base Building 9.9%, Survival 9.1%, Crafting 8.7%
- #59 Force of Nature
68% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,205 reviews2016
Dev: A.Y.std
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.4% ★, Crafting 14.5%, Survival 11.8%, Sandbox 8.9%, Open World 8.3%