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 36.7% ★, Survival 24%, Crafting 21.3%, Open World 7.8%, Adventure 6%

Why You'll Like It: This title emphasizes open-world exploration and sailing mechanics in a way that feels like a direct spiritual successor to Windbound's maritime focus.

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 49.9%, Crafting 26.5%, Adventure 8.8%, Open World 7.4%, Multiplayer 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: It perfectly mirrors the core loop of Windbound by focusing on survival while navigating a vast ocean on a customizable vessel.

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 quintessential island-hopping survival experience where resource management and crafting are essential for staying alive.

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 26.5%, Crafting 19.6%, Sailing 15.6% ★, Adventure 10.6%, RPG 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: An exploration-focused survival game that prioritizes the freedom of sailing between islands to uncover 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 25.6%, Adventure 11.2%, Open World 9.7%, Exploration 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: While underwater-focused, it provides the same sense of wonder and terror found in exploring mysterious, isolated environments.

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

Why similar: Survival 43.6%, Crafting 17.3%, Adventure 15.9%, Female Protagonist 8.2%, Indie 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the desperate survival-on-the-water aesthetic, requiring players to manage resources while navigating a dangerous, flowing environment.

A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!

Why similar: Survival 35.7%, Crafting 25.7%, Adventure 10.1%, Open World 9.9%, Indie 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: The sailing and exploration mechanics are deeply satisfying, offering a similar sense of adventure as you traverse vast, procedurally generated seas.

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

Why similar: Female Protagonist 33.1%, Adventure 24.7%, Open World 19.1%, Exploration 14.5%, Third Person 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses heavily on the peaceful, atmospheric exploration of a flooded world, capturing the serene side of Windbound's sailing.

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 30.9%, Adventure 14.8%, Open World 8.2%, Exploration 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a challenging island survival experience with a strong emphasis on exploration and crafting within a historical setting.

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 10.8%, Open World 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: The focus on breaking down the environment to craft better gear and survive an open world aligns well with Windbound's gameplay loop.

Get ready for a Waterworld-themed survival game with modular base building, sunken city scavenging, crafting, base defense, and invasions of NPC clans for resources and territory. Ready for the water apocalypse?

Why similar: Survival 42.4%, Crafting 28.3%, Adventure 12.5%, Open World 8.1%, Exploration 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: This water-based survival game focuses on scavenging and building, closely mirroring the island-survival loop of the seed game.

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 36.1%, Crafting 30.7%, Adventure 14.9%, Open World 9.7%, Exploration 6%

Why You'll Like It: It combines island exploration, base building, and dungeon crawling, making it a great fit for fans of Windbound's diverse gameplay.

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 25.3%, Adventure 17.2%, Female Protagonist 10.7%, Indie 8.7%

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

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 29.4%, Crafting 24.1%, RPG 18.1%, Adventure 10.9%, Open World 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: This survival-crafting game offers expansive world-hopping mechanics that reward players for exploring and adapting to new environments.

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 10.3%, Open World 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a massive open-world survival experience where exploration and environmental navigation are key to progression.

Face the supernatural dangers of the Olympic Exclusion Zone with a car as your only lifeline in this driving survival adventure! Scavenge resources, load up your trusty station wagon, and drive like hell to make it through alive.

Why similar: Survival 41.4%, Crafting 32.6%, Adventure 16.4%, Exploration 7%, Multiplayer 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: While land-based, it features a unique vehicle-maintenance and survival loop that captures the same 'protect your vessel' feeling as Windbound.

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 29.4%, Female Protagonist 24.7%, Open World 13.7%, Exploration 10.7%, Indie 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the fluid movement and sense of discovery in a stylized open world, focusing on archery and exploration.

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 25.7%, Sailing 25.4% ★, Crafting 24.4%, Adventure 13%, Open World 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game features floating islands and sailing-like traversal, capturing the verticality and exploration spirit of the seed game.

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 28.7%, Adventure 20.7%, Female Protagonist 17.9%, Open World 9.8%, Indie 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: The focus on climbing, exploration, and overcoming massive obstacles provides a similar sense of scale and adventure.

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 22.5%, Crafting 20.5%, Adventure 13.4%, Female Protagonist 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game features a strong female protagonist and a survival-crafting loop set in a dark, mysterious world.

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 40.6%, Crafting 35.8%, Open World 12.8%, Exploration 9.7%, Singleplayer 1.1%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on building custom airships to explore a shattered world, offering a similar sense of freedom and vessel-based progression.

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 71.3%, Female Protagonist 19.9%, Singleplayer 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the emotional, atmospheric side of exploring a lonely, water-filled world.

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 32.4%, RPG 28.1%, Adventure 15.2%, Female Protagonist 15.2%, Exploration 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes exploration and crafting through a unique, stylized lens that feels tonally consistent with Windbound.

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 19.3%, Open World 9.4%, Adventure 9%

Why You'll Like It: The open-world sky-sailing mechanics provide a similar sense of freedom and exploration as the sea-sailing in Windbound.

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%, RPG 18.2%, Adventure 8.9%, Roguelike 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: A deep survival-crafting game that emphasizes the struggle of living off the land on a mysterious, isolated island.

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: A survival-crafting game that starts with a shipwreck and expands into a massive exploration and base-building experience.

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 31.4% ★, Survival 25.1%, Crafting 24.3%, Adventure 7.1%, Open World 5%

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 31.6%, RPG 29.1%, Adventure 18.5%, Open World 10.5%, Exploration 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the island-exploration and survival aspects, albeit with a more cozy and farming-oriented tone.

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 45.6% ★, Crafting 26.4%, Adventure 13.8%, Exploration 5.7%, Third Person 5.3%

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

Why similar: Survival 32%, Crafting 24.2%, RPG 19.4%, Adventure 16.2%, Indie 7.2%

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

Why similar: RPG 34.2%, Adventure 25.4%, Open World 19.4%, Exploration 8.4%, Roguelike 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: The focus on exploration and survival in a mysterious, isolated setting mirrors the core tension of Windbound.

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 26.3%, Roguelike 21.5%, Exploration 20.4%, Third Person 19.8%, Singleplayer 12%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a blend of exploration and action in a stylized open world that rewards players for venturing into the unknown.

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 28.1%, RPG 27.2%, Adventure 14.2%, Indie 11.5%, Open World 8.9%

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 28% ★, RPG 26.3%, Adventure 18.9%, Indie 10.6%, Open World 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: While more combat-focused, it provides the best naval-sailing experience for those who enjoyed the boat mechanics in Windbound.

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 27.9% ★, Survival 26.2%, Crafting 23.8%, Adventure 12.5%, Exploration 4.8%

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 46.1%, Adventure 29.8%, Indie 15.4%, Female Protagonist 8.6%

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%

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 38.6%, Female Protagonist 29.9%, Indie 15.7%, Exploration 8.8%, Singleplayer 3.9%

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 38.6% ★, Crafting 25.5%, Adventure 14.2%, Open World 7%, Exploration 5.1%

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 21.8%, RPG 17.5%, Open World 10.2%, Adventure 9.2%

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 35.9% ★, Survival 17.2%, RPG 16.1%, Crafting 11.2%, Adventure 9.9%

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%, RPG 21.9%, Adventure 12.5%, Open World 7.8%

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 23.7%, RPG 19.4%, Adventure 9.9%, Open World 7%

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 29.1% ★, Survival 27%, Crafting 19.2%, Open World 7.7%, Adventure 7.1%

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 28.8%, Female Protagonist 25.6%, Indie 16.4%, Open World 14.6%, Exploration 10.9%

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 24.8%, RPG 23.7%, Adventure 21.6%, Survival 19.2%, Indie 7.9%

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 31.9% ★, Survival 24%, Crafting 22.4%, Adventure 8.3%, Open World 7.1%

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

Why similar: Adventure 40.3%, Survival 37.4%, Indie 22.3%

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%, Adventure 17%, Open World 10.5%, Indie 8.6%

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 42.9%, Female Protagonist 21.6%, Adventure 17%, Exploration 8.8%, Open World 5.9%

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 38.3%, Crafting 23.5%, Adventure 12.4%, RPG 9.5%, Open World 8.5%

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 33%, Adventure 24.2%, Female Protagonist 21.8%, Exploration 8.8%, Third Person 8%

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 61%, Indie 33.3%, Singleplayer 5.7%

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 29.7%, Adventure 15.7%, Open World 9.4%, Exploration 6.5%

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 24.5%, RPG 23.2%, Open World 8.8%, Adventure 7.3%

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%, Survival 29.8%, Adventure 11.4%, Female Protagonist 10.6%, Exploration 6.3%

Welcome to Fern Island! As Abrill, become immersed in the island’s culture, uncover its deepest secrets, and master magical trades. Overcome the challenges of the island to demonstrate your mastery of magic and become the most well known witch around!

Why similar: Adventure 37.3%, Female Protagonist 29.1%, Open World 16.4%, Exploration 9.3%, Third Person 7.9%

A Robinson Crusoe–inspired VR roguelike survival adventure set in the 17th century. Shipwrecked on a ruthless tropical island, you must survive without guidance. Trust your instincts as you face wild beasts, nature’s fury, and a mysterious local tribe.

Why similar: Survival 45%, Adventure 23%, Open World 13.3%, Roguelike 8.8%, Exploration 7.2%

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 30.7%, Adventure 28.3%, Open World 14.4%, Third Person 13%, Exploration 9%