Games Like Windbound

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 37.3% ★, Survival 23.7%, Crafting 20.8%, Open World 7.9%, Adventure 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: It shares Windbound's core focus on open-world exploration, island hopping, and sailing across vast, procedural oceans.

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 26.7%, Crafting 19.4%, Sailing 16.5% ★, Adventure 11.1%, RPG 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses heavily on peaceful exploration and sailing across an endless ocean of islands just like Windbound.

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

Why similar: Survival 43.5%, Crafting 17%, Adventure 16.3%, Female Protagonist 8.4%, Indie 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the perilous journey motif of Windbound, requiring you to navigate a wild river system while managing survival needs.

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 45.3%, Crafting 27.4%, Adventure 10.6%, Open World 9.4%, Exploration 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: Like Windbound, it maroons you in a vast oceanic world where you must craft tools and master island survival.

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 30.4%, Adventure 15.2%, Open World 8.3%, Exploration 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: This challenging survival game offers deep crafting and intense exploration across a cluster of mysterious islands.

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: Sailing 26.4% ★, Survival 26.1%, Crafting 24.3%, Adventure 13.6%, Open World 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: It replicates Windbound's sense of nomadic island exploration, replacing oceans with the open sky.

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 31.8% ★, Survival 25.1%, Crafting 23.2%, Adventure 7.3%, Open World 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the seafaring and survival mechanics found in Windbound within a massive open-world sandbox.

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 47.7% ★, Crafting 26.6%, Adventure 14.5%, Exploration 5.8%, Third Person 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: This vibrant cooperative game centers on sailing across magical archipelagos and exploring uncharted islands.

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 41.5%, Crafting 34.9%, Open World 12.9%, Exploration 9.6%, Singleplayer 1.1%

Why You'll Like It: Players explore floating island fragments using gliders and grappling hooks, echoing Windbound's traversal style.

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

Why similar: Survival 31.9%, Crafting 23.8%, RPG 19.5%, Adventure 16.7%, Indie 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A survival crafting game focused on exploring isolated islands and building up your resources to stay alive.

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 25.1%, Survival 22.4%, Crafting 20.1%, Adventure 13.7%, Female Protagonist 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: It features a compelling female protagonist surviving in a harsh, stylized open world full of dark secrets.

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

Why similar: Female Protagonist 34%, Adventure 25.4%, Open World 19.3%, Exploration 14.4%, Third Person 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: It mirrors Windbound's atmospheric, combat-free exploration of sunken ruins using a small boat.

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 36.2%, Crafting 30.1%, Adventure 15.4%, Open World 9.8%, Exploration 6%

Why You'll Like It: Combines relaxing island building and farming with deep cave exploration and survival mechanics.

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 40.3%, Female Protagonist 31.4%, Indie 15.6%, Exploration 8.9%, Singleplayer 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: It features a similar lush, tropical exploration aesthetic combined with a rich narrative-driven mystery.

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 32%, Crafting 25.5%, Adventure 18.2%, Female Protagonist 11.4%, Indie 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi survival game that emphasizes planetary exploration, lore discovery, and crafting to survive hostile biomes.

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 45.8%, Adventure 30.3%, Indie 15%, Female Protagonist 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: An indie fantasy action RPG that shares Windbound's colorful, stylized aesthetic and adventurous spirit.

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 30.3%, Crafting 24.4%, RPG 18.8%, Adventure 11.6%, Open World 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers sprawling realm-walking exploration and deep crafting systems akin to Windbound's gathering loops.

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%, RPG 29.2%, Adventure 19.1%, Open World 10.6%, Exploration 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on shipwreck survival, farming, and exploring a cluster of cursed islands by boat.

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 28.3%, Adventure 21%, Female Protagonist 18.4%, Open World 9.8%, Indie 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: This survival adventure game shares Windbound's atmospheric tone, lonely wilderness, and agile traversal mechanics.

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 43.4%, RPG 34.3%, Open World 13.5%, Exploration 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Starting from a crash landing on a deserted island, you progress from primitive survival to futuristic exploration.

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 26.1%, Crafting 24.3%, RPG 22.5%, Adventure 13.2%, Open World 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game where players harness the wind to explore dangerous lands and build settlements.

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 40.2% ★, Crafting 25.6%, Adventure 15%, Open World 7.3%, Exploration 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: Offers low-poly sandbox exploration across various colorful worlds with strong sailing and crafting elements.

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 27.6%, RPG 27.3%, Adventure 14.6%, Indie 11.3%, Open World 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Features a striking world swallowed by sand where seafaring-style navigation across dunes replaces traditional sailing.

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 29.3%, Crafting 23.5%, RPG 18.6%, Adventure 11%, Open World 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a satisfying open-world progression loop centered on destroying the environment to craft better survival gear.

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 31.7%, RPG 28.1%, Female Protagonist 15.6%, Adventure 15.5%, Exploration 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: Features a craft-focused gameplay loop centered on exploring fairy-tale regions and gathering unique materials.

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 32.3%, Crafting 24%, RPG 18.6%, Adventure 9.3%, Open World 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: A deep, turn-based wilderness survival game focused heavily on realistic crafting and island isolation.

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 29.2% ★, Survival 26.8%, Crafting 23.9%, Adventure 13.2%, Exploration 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: Centers heavily on nautical exploration, pirate survival, and cooperative maritime adventuring.

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 32.6%, Crafting 22.7%, RPG 15%, Adventure 12.6%, Open World 8.7%

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

Why similar: RPG 34.1%, Adventure 25.9%, Open World 19.4%, Exploration 8.3%, Roguelike 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A moody, atmospheric exploration adventure that tests your survival instincts in an isolated environment.

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 22.9%, Crafting 18.9%, Open World 9.5%, Adventure 9.3%

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 71.1%, Female Protagonist 20.5%, Singleplayer 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: An emotional adventure game with striking water-based navigation and atmospheric storytelling.

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 36.9% ★, Survival 17.2%, RPG 16.3%, Crafting 11.1%, Adventure 10.3%

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

Why similar: Adventure 41.1%, Survival 37.1%, Indie 21.8%

Why You'll Like It: An indie survival experience that pits the player against the challenges of an unforgiving 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 29.4% ★, RPG 27.1%, Adventure 19.9%, Indie 10.7%, Open World 7.6%

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 31.5%, Crafting 21.8%, RPG 18.1%, Open World 10.7%, Adventure 9.7%

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 26.8%, Crafting 24%, RPG 20.1%, Adventure 10.5%, Open World 7.3%

Surf the waters of a submerged city! Unravel the past, save the islanders from mysterious sea monsters and discover secrets hidden under the surface.

Why similar: Adventure 59.3%, Female Protagonist 21.9%, Third Person 14.6%, Indie 2.2%, Singleplayer 2%

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 32.5% ★, Survival 23.8%, Crafting 21.9%, Adventure 8.5%, Open World 7.1%

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 29.6% ★, Survival 26.8%, Crafting 18.8%, Open World 7.8%, Adventure 7.2%

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 41.9%, Crafting 20.4%, RPG 16.9%, Open World 8.8%, Indie 5.6%

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 29.8%, Female Protagonist 25.1%, Open World 13.7%, Exploration 10.5%, Indie 9.2%

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 26.8%, Roguelike 21%, Exploration 20.4%, Third Person 20%, Singleplayer 11.8%

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 24.3%, RPG 23.8%, Adventure 22.2%, Survival 19.1%, Indie 7.7%

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 29.2%, Female Protagonist 26.1%, Indie 15.9%, Open World 14.5%, Exploration 10.7%

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 42.5%, Female Protagonist 22.1%, Adventure 17.2%, Exploration 8.6%, Open World 5.8%

MyIsland is a relaxed and beautiful survival game,You will drift and survive on the tropical islands, hunt and travel, build houses and development farming, and create your own warm homeland.

Why similar: Survival 40%, Crafting 23.5%, Adventure 13%, RPG 9.7%, Open World 8.9%

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 62.1%, Indie 32.4%, Singleplayer 5.5%

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 32.5%, Adventure 24.6%, Female Protagonist 22.3%, Exploration 8.6%, Third Person 8%

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 33.5%, Crafting 24.5%, RPG 23.7%, Open World 9.1%, Adventure 7.6%

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 30.9%, Survival 29.5%, Adventure 11.7%, Female Protagonist 10.9%, Exploration 6.2%

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 46%, Female Protagonist 22.2%, Adventure 20.5%, Exploration 11.3%

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: Survival 27.5%, Crafting 22.8%, Adventure 21.9%, Indie 12.1%, Open World 8.7%

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%, Adventure 31.5%, Open World 17.8%, Singleplayer 0.7%

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 31.2%, Adventure 28.6%, Open World 14.2%, Third Person 12.8%, Exploration 8.8%

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 52.5%, Crafting 27.4%, Adventure 9.6%, Open World 7.8%, Indie 1.8%

Survive on a deserted island with no modern tools or electricity. Gather resources, craft everything you need, and adapt to changing seasons including winter conditions. No zombies, no supernatural. Man vs nature survival. Your adventure, your choice.

Why similar: Survival 35.4%, Crafting 31.7%, Adventure 11.4%, Open World 10.3%, Exploration 5%

Here, you can freely sail your ship, explore the endless ocean, and find hidden islands and treasures!

Why similar: RPG 32.8%, Survival 26.7%, Adventure 20.3%, Sailing 7.7% ★, Open World 5.1%

A Tropical Open-World adventure. Climb, glide, swim, and sail your boat around a beautiful archipelago in this physics-driven sandbox. Take control of any animal or object you can find, and Jam on your fully playable Ukulele.

Why similar: Adventure 43.4%, Open World 23.9%, Exploration 13.5%, Third Person 13%, Singleplayer 6.2%