Games Like Windbound

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: Survival 43.4%, Crafting 26.7%, Adventure 9.8%, Open World 8.9%, Multiplayer 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the core loop of being shipwrecked on a desert island and having to craft tools and rafts to explore the surrounding ocean.

Salt 2 is a pirate-themed open world adventure focused on exploration, crafting, and survival. Play solo or with up to 5 friends, sailing the sea with your ship as a mobile base. Discover islands full of quests, towns, caves, and secrets. Level up, craft gear, hunt, fish, and customize your ship.

Why similar: Sailing 35.9% ★, Survival 24.3%, Crafting 21.6%, Open World 7.9%, Adventure 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses heavily on sailing, exploration, and crafting within a vast, procedurally generated open world.

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: Survival 49.8%, Crafting 26.6%, Adventure 8.8%, Open World 7.3%, Multiplayer 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive sailing and survival experience that perfectly mirrors the boat-building and ocean-navigation mechanics of Windbound.

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: Survival 36.9%, Crafting 31%, Adventure 14.7%, Open World 8.1%, Exploration 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: An immersive survival experience that tasks you with island-hopping and managing resources in a beautiful, historical setting.

Soar the skies in Aloft, the co-op sandbox survival game set in a world of floating islands. Build any island into a skyship, your home in the clouds. Find lost knowledge, cure the fungal corruption, and brave the hurricane to restore the ecosystem.

Why similar: Survival 25.9%, Sailing 24.8% ★, Crafting 24.7%, Adventure 13%, Open World 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a unique twist on exploration by allowing you to sail floating islands through the sky, echoing the navigation focus of Windbound.

A rogue-like river journey through the backwaters of a forgotten post-societal America. Forage, craft, evade predators.

Why similar: Survival 43.7%, Crafting 17.4%, Adventure 15.8%, Female Protagonist 8%, Indie 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: It features a similar journey-based survival structure where you navigate a perilous river on a makeshift raft while managing hunger and thirst.

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: Survival 36%, Crafting 30.8%, Adventure 14.8%, Open World 9.7%, Exploration 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: Combines island exploration, building, and dungeon crawling with a relaxing aesthetic that feels like a lighter take on the survival genre.

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: Survival 26.6%, Crafting 19.7%, Sailing 15.2% ★, Adventure 10.7%, RPG 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A pure exploration game that emphasizes sailing across an endless ocean to discover hidden islands and secrets.

Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.

Why similar: Survival 38.5%, Crafting 25.7%, Adventure 11.2%, Open World 9.6%, Exploration 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: While set underwater, it provides the ultimate sense of exploration, survival, and discovery in a mysterious, alien ocean environment.

Windward is an action-filled multiplayer sandbox game that puts you in control of a ship sailing the high seas of a large procedurally-generated world.

Why similar: Sailing 27.4% ★, RPG 26.5%, Adventure 19%, Indie 10.7%, Open World 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on naval combat and sailing mechanics, making it a great choice for players who enjoyed the ship-steering aspects of the seed game.

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: Survival 29.3%, Crafting 24.2%, RPG 18.1%, Adventure 10.9%, Open World 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a vast, multi-realm survival experience with a heavy emphasis on exploration and crafting in strange, beautiful landscapes.

Chart a course in a breathtaking, but fractured world. Explore ancient ruins, master advanced technology, and craft your very own skyship to brave nature’s fury and colossal threats in Lost Skies. Team up with friends or go it alone in this awe-inspiring cooperative survival adventure.

Why similar: Adventure 40.4%, Crafting 36%, Open World 12.8%, Exploration 9.7%, Singleplayer 1.1%

Why You'll Like It: Features massive open-world exploration with a focus on building custom airships to travel between floating islands.

A fiercely formidable sci-fi survival game, set on a hostile alien world that wants you dead! Alone, or with a crew, do you have what it takes to survive?

Why similar: Survival 31.2%, Crafting 25.4%, Adventure 17.1%, Female Protagonist 10.4%, Indie 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi survival game that emphasizes exploration, crafting, and managing your environment on a hostile alien planet.

Ascend from your shelter. Ruin everything. Escape the wretched island. ⚔️🔨🎣🌱🌵🍰 Explore. Fight. Level up. Survive. Gather. Craft. Harvest. Hunt. Build. Farm. Solve puzzles. Fish. Cook. Live. Enjoy the bittersweet post-apocalypse.

Why similar: Survival 29.2%, Crafting 24%, RPG 18.6%, Adventure 10.7%, Open World 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Features a satisfying loop of exploring a ruined open world, gathering resources, and crafting better gear to survive.

Smoke and Sacrifice sees Sachi, a mother forced to give up her son, adventure into a grotesque underworld on a quest that will lead her to a darker truth.

Why similar: RPG 25.2%, Survival 22.6%, Crafting 20.7%, Adventure 13.4%, Female Protagonist 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: Shares the female protagonist and crafting-heavy survival focus while offering a unique, story-driven narrative.

Voyagers of Nera is a cooperative survival-crafting game where you must survive a magical ocean world brimming with lost spirits and deadly monsters. Sail to distant islands, build beautiful villages and surf across the waves with up to 10 players.

Why similar: Sailing 44.8% ★, Crafting 26.8%, Adventure 14%, Exploration 5.8%, Third Person 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on cooperative sailing and exploration, making it a great choice for those who want to share the oceanic journey.

Stranded on a desert island, explore, craft, build and fight in this action survival game!

Why similar: Survival 31.4%, Crafting 24.4%, RPG 19.5%, Adventure 16.3%, Indie 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A pixel-art survival game that challenges you to explore and thrive on a dangerous, procedurally generated island.

Farm, cook, craft and decorate in this casual open world farming adventure! Set up camp with your crew after being shipwrecked on a mysterious archipelago. Your quest is to survive, explore and uncover the secrets of the Cursed Islands. Take care of your crew to build relationships and earn rewards!

Why similar: Crafting 31.7%, RPG 29.1%, Adventure 18.5%, Open World 10.5%, Exploration 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: A more cozy, farming-focused take on the shipwrecked survival theme that still emphasizes island exploration.

In Windscape you play as a young girl living on your parents’ farm, set in a lovely world made up of floating islands in the sky. As you discover the world you learn that something has gone terribly wrong - islands are breaking apart and falling from the sky!

Why similar: RPG 46.3%, Adventure 29.8%, Indie 15.5%, Female Protagonist 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person adventure game that captures the spirit of exploration and fantasy world-building found in the seed game.

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: Survival 43.5%, RPG 34.2%, Open World 13.4%, Exploration 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Starts as a simple survival game but expands into a deep exploration and crafting experience as you progress through different islands.

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: Survival 46%, Crafting 26%, Adventure 9.7%, Open World 8.4%, Multiplayer 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a high-stakes, realistic survival experience that tests your ability to adapt to a hostile, untamed environment.

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 47.1%, Crafting 24.6%, Adventure 11.4%, Open World 10.3%, Exploration 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: An intense survival game that starts with a shipwreck and forces you to explore, build, and defend yourself in a dangerous wilderness.

BELOW is a solitary journey through the haunted depths of a forbidden isle. Explore. Survive. Discover.

Why similar: RPG 34.2%, Adventure 25.3%, Open World 19.3%, Exploration 8.4%, Roguelike 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on atmospheric exploration and survival in a mysterious, challenging environment.

You awake to discover yourself no longer in the company of good men or a fine seafaring vessel. Treasure... you remember something about treasure. Wayward is a challenging turn-based, top-down, wilderness survival roguelike. Explore, build, and most importantly survive in these unforgiving lands.

Why similar: Survival 31.7%, Crafting 24.1%, RPG 18.2%, Adventure 8.8%, Roguelike 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: A traditional, roguelike-inspired survival game that focuses on the granular details of crafting and surviving in the wild.

Adventure awaits you and your friends in the world of Ylands! Gather resources, craft tools, construct anything and everything, and explore the lands! Build a ship and set sail, encountering mythical animals, a wide variety of sea-life, enemies of all kinds and much more!

Why similar: Sailing 37.8% ★, Crafting 25.7%, Adventure 14.3%, Open World 7.1%, Exploration 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: A colorful, sandbox-style game that allows for significant freedom in building, exploring, and surviving on various islands.

Embark on a PvE survival adventure in the Age of Piracy. Fight on land and sea, solo or with friends. Build, craft and explore vast open world filled with dark secrets. Master soulslite combat and take on challenging bosses, command your ship and plunder unspoken treasures!

Why similar: Sailing 30.8% ★, Survival 25.3%, Crafting 24.6%, Adventure 7.2%, Open World 5.1%

When humans get too lonely, they turn into monsters… Set sail across a beautiful and evolving world of darkness and light, and discover what it means to be human.

Why similar: Adventure 71.6%, Female Protagonist 19.5%, Singleplayer 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: While more narrative-focused, it captures the emotional weight of a lone protagonist navigating a flooded, mysterious world.

Everwind is a novel take on RPG and Sandbox Survival genre in First-Person-Perspective. Embark on the adventure with your friends - Build a base on a flying island-ship, gather resources, craft, loot, and fight while you rise above the clouds to uncover the mysteries of this world!

Why similar: Survival 25.4%, Crafting 24.1%, RPG 21.8%, Adventure 12.5%, Open World 7.8%

Survive in outer space! Together with your immortal chicken, discover the truth behind your sudden spaceship crash. Craft tools, pilot vehicles, and even control space stations to survive and explore the wreckage.

Why similar: Survival 36.1%, Crafting 25.1%, Adventure 14.7%, Indie 10%, Open World 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: Though set in space, it is essentially a survival-crafting game about navigating a vast, empty environment with limited resources.

Fear everything and nothing for death brings you closer to victory in this challenging open world action-roguelite. As the Vessel of an ancient power you must use steel and skill to complete your mission in a dangerous fantasy world inspired by Scandinavian folklore.

Why similar: Open World 26.2%, Roguelike 21.7%, Exploration 20.4%, Third Person 19.7%, Singleplayer 12%

Why You'll Like It: An action-oriented exploration game that features a unique traversal system and a vast, open world to discover.

Sands of Aura is an open-world action adventure with a fantasy setting of a realm in its twilight--a world buried beneath a sea of sand. Sail across the sandseas to return life to a dying world in an unforgettable experience that is equal parts engaging story and unrelenting, souls-like combat.

Why similar: Crafting 28.2%, RPG 27.1%, Adventure 14.1%, Indie 11.5%, Open World 8.9%

Wytchwood is a crafting adventure game set in a land of gothic fables and fairytales. As the old witch of the woods, explore a strange countryside, collect magic ingredients, brew sorcerous spells, and pass judgement upon a capricious cast of characters.

Why similar: Crafting 32.6%, RPG 28.2%, Adventure 15.2%, Female Protagonist 14.8%, Exploration 6.3%

Join Norah, a woman plagued by a mysterious illness, in her search for her missing husband in this adventure puzzle game set on a lush island paradise. Immerse yourself in stunning visuals and unlock forbidden secrets in a moving tale of mystery and love.

Why similar: Adventure 38.8%, Female Protagonist 29.3%, Indie 15.9%, Exploration 8.9%, Singleplayer 3.9%

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: Survival 31.5%, Crafting 22.4%, RPG 14.5%, Adventure 11.9%, Open World 8.4%

Stranded at an Island, the Vessel is broked, do whatever it takes to survive.

Why similar: Adventure 40.2%, Survival 37.5%, Indie 22.4%

Why You'll Like It: A straightforward survival and exploration game that leans into the indie aesthetic and island-based gameplay.

Boat, climb, interact and explore in the beautiful ruins of a sunken world.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 32.5%, Adventure 24.8%, Open World 19.2%, Exploration 14.7%, Third Person 4.2%

You are just an ordinary person, with only a small boat serving as your home, struggling to find a way to survive in the ruthless ocean of the post-apocalyptic world.

Why similar: Sailing 35.2% ★, Survival 17.3%, RPG 16.3%, Crafting 11.3%, Adventure 10%

From the creators of ABZÛ, The Pathless is the mythic adventure of an archer and an eagle in a vast forest. Become the Hunter, a master of archery who travels to a mystical island to dispel a curse of darkness that grips the world.

Why similar: Adventure 29.5%, Female Protagonist 24.2%, Open World 13.8%, Exploration 10.8%, Indie 9.7%

You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.

Why similar: Survival 30.3%, Crafting 21.9%, RPG 17.5%, Open World 10.1%, Adventure 9.1%

Venture into Lovecraft’s legendary Dreamlands and join an epic struggle to save humanity. Master occult powers, unique weapons, and special combat abilities to vanquish powerful enemies. Explore, adventure, survive, and find a way to break the curse that threatens the waking world.

Why similar: Survival 33.2%, Adventure 24.3%, Female Protagonist 21.4%, Exploration 8.9%, Third Person 8.1%

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: Survival 26.1%, Crafting 23.8%, RPG 19.4%, Adventure 9.9%, Open World 7%

You are lost in the Bermuda Void, where the ocean is endless and dry land precious. Craft your Ship-in-a-Bottle, then experience survival on the high seas. Sail for new land, build camps, hunt for treasures, trade for goods - then defend your ship from dreaded pirates stalking this strange realm!

Why similar: Sailing 27.2% ★, Survival 26.5%, Crafting 24.1%, Adventure 12.5%, Exploration 4.9%

You’re shipwrecked on a lost mythical island. As backpacker Alex, you must befriend the forgotten gods of Greek mythology and restore their memories. Explore the dynamic island and its story sandbox to build new friendships, solve the mystery and save the gods.

Why similar: Adventure 28.9%, Female Protagonist 25.1%, Indie 16.6%, Open World 14.7%, Exploration 11.1%

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 24.9%, RPG 23.7%, Adventure 21.5%, Survival 19.2%, Indie 7.9%

Praey for the Gods is a boss climbing open world adventure game where you play a lone hero sent to the edge of a dying frozen land to explore and solve the secrets of a never ending winter. Grapple, glide and grab hold of massive beasts as you fight to survive and return the world to proper order.

Why similar: Survival 28.9%, Adventure 20.7%, Female Protagonist 17.5%, Open World 9.8%, Indie 7.2%

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: Survival 29.1%, Crafting 23.1%, RPG 17.1%, Adventure 10.2%, Open World 7.4%

Embark on an epic adventure in Under the Island! A 2D action-adventure steeped in ‘90s charm, step into the shoes of Nia, and battle fierce monsters, solve clever puzzles, and explore a world alive with mystery as you race to save your new home before it’s too late.

Why similar: RPG 43.1%, Female Protagonist 21.2%, Adventure 17.1%, Exploration 8.9%, Open World 5.9%

After a freak storm over the Atlantic, you find yourself stranded on the shores of a mysterious island. Do you have what it takes to escape the Lost Sea?

Why similar: Adventure 60.9%, Indie 33.4%, Singleplayer 5.7%

Kidnapped for no clear reason to a dazzling yet mysterious island on the Mediterranean Sea, a young girl has to find a way to escape. Armed with only her wits, agility, and the will to stay alive, she must make her getaway or Die Young.

Why similar: Survival 31.2%, Crafting 25.1%, Adventure 16.9%, Open World 10.4%, Indie 8.6%

Survive in a world ravaged by massive Titans and an ever changing ocean sim. Displace water to find resources for building and crafting unique items. Swim, sail, and fly to explore new islands and fight Titans.

Why similar: Sailing 28.4% ★, Survival 27.2%, Crafting 19.5%, Open World 7.8%, Adventure 7.1%

Raw, real survival in the Pacific. Build a modular floating base. Master realistic sailing mechanics. Face challenging Pacific-like weather & seasons. Hunt, craft, build & navigate using Sun Dial, Sextant & Triangulation. Explore an endless island cluster-based world. Simulate real life scenarios!

Why similar: Sailing 31.3% ★, Survival 24.2%, Crafting 22.7%, Adventure 8.3%, Open World 7.1%

Albatroz is a backpacking adventure RPG that will take you through majestic landscapes in search of your lost sibling. A tale about knowing when to let go and start over.

Why similar: RPG 31.1%, Survival 29.9%, Adventure 11.4%, Female Protagonist 10.4%, Exploration 6.4%

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: Survival 32.9%, Crafting 24.6%, RPG 23.2%, Open World 8.8%, Adventure 7.2%

A first-person survival game set on a post-apocalyptic, ecologically ruined Earth. Play solo or with up to 3 friends as you build, upgrade, and fly a high-tech airship. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and face dangers on the surface as you hunt for a cure to save humanity.

Why similar: Survival 32.1%, Crafting 29.8%, Adventure 15.6%, Open World 9.4%, Exploration 6.5%

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: Survival 40.5%, Crafting 20.1%, RPG 16.1%, Open World 8.4%, Indie 5.5%

A single-player, third person horror action-adventure game set on a remote spiritual island retreat. To survive you must craft, fight, and escape the psychedelic horrors set loose when a spiritual ritual goes wrong and awakens a dimension of cosmic terror.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 30.1%, Adventure 28.4%, Open World 14.5%, Third Person 13.1%, Exploration 9.1%

Shipwrecked on a mysterious island, choose self-preservation or alliances. Master base-building, farming, fishing, romance and pet taming in this morally-charged survival simulator that blends strategy with human drama. Forge bonds, conquer nature, and evolve your humanity.

Why similar: RPG 50.5%, Adventure 31.1%, Open World 17.7%, Singleplayer 0.7%

Take care of your own island and sail with your boat in this cozy farming adventure! Relax and unwind exploring a tropical archipelago or harvesting your own crops while helping others. Discover the story of Summer in Mara, with farming, crafting and exploring mechanics.

Why similar: Crafting 47.5%, Female Protagonist 21.1%, Adventure 20%, Exploration 11.5%

Become the captain of an airship and explore the world of the skies, gather resources and build powerful weapons, uncover ancient secrets and fight beneath your ship's sails.

Why similar: Survival 24.7%, RPG 22.8%, Crafting 19.4%, Open World 9.4%, Adventure 9%