Games Like Windbound

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 26.3%, Adventure 9%, Open World 7.4%, Multiplayer 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: Like Windbound, this game centers on surviving while navigating a vast ocean on a makeshift vessel you build and expand.

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

Why similar: Survival 43.6%, Crafting 17.2%, Adventure 16.1%, Female Protagonist 8.2%, Indie 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: This title captures the same sense of desperate, river-based survival and journeying through a post-societal wilderness.

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 26.5%, Adventure 10%, Open World 9%, Multiplayer 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: It mirrors the island-hopping survival experience of Windbound, focusing on scavenging and crafting to stay alive after a shipwreck.

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 36.8% ★, Survival 23.9%, Crafting 21%, Open World 7.9%, Adventure 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses heavily on the sailing and exploration aspects, allowing players to navigate an infinite open ocean of islands.

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 25.4%, Adventure 11.4%, Open World 9.7%, Exploration 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a masterclass in atmospheric exploration and survival within a beautiful yet perilous aquatic environment.

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 30.7%, Adventure 15%, Open World 8.2%, Exploration 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging survival game that emphasizes exploration, crafting, and managing resources across a chain 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: Survival 25.7%, Sailing 25.4% ★, Crafting 24.2%, Adventure 13.1%, Open World 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: It features a unique take on sailing and exploration where you navigate floating islands in the sky using a glider and ship.

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

Why similar: Female Protagonist 32.9%, Adventure 24.9%, Open World 19.2%, Exploration 14.4%, Third Person 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game captures the serene, exploration-heavy side of Windbound, focusing on navigating a flooded world by boat.

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 19.1%, Open World 9.5%, Adventure 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: It replaces the ocean with the sky, offering a similar sense of freedom as you pilot your own airship to explore floating islands.

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 30.4%, Adventure 15.1%, Open World 9.8%, Exploration 6%

Why You'll Like It: This game combines exploration and survival with a relaxing building mechanic, perfect for those who enjoy the island-life aspect of Windbound.

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 25.1%, Adventure 17.4%, Female Protagonist 10.8%, Indie 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-crafting game that tasks you with exploring a vibrant, dangerous alien planet to find a way home.

Spiritfarer® is a cozy management game about dying. As ferrymaster to the deceased, build a boat to explore the world, care for your spirit friends, and release them into the afterlife. The Spiritfarer Farewell Edition includes the heartwarming base game and three major content updates.

Why similar: Crafting 31.6%, Adventure 23.8%, Female Protagonist 19.5%, Indie 16.5%, Exploration 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: While more narrative-driven, it shares the core loop of managing a ship and exploring a vast, beautiful world.

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 25.5%, Adventure 10.2%, Open World 10%, Indie 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: It features deep survival and crafting mechanics with a heavy emphasis on sailing across procedurally generated oceans to discover new lands.

Traverse a dried-out seabed littered with the remains of a decaying civilization. Keep your unique vessel going, overcome numerous obstacles and withstand the hazardous weather conditions. How far can you make it? What will you find?

Why similar: Survival 40.3%, Adventure 30.1%, Indie 14.8%, Exploration 10%, Singleplayer 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the emotional journey of maintaining and navigating a unique vehicle across a desolate, beautiful landscape.

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 23.7%, RPG 18.7%, Adventure 10.9%, Open World 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the satisfying loop of scavenging and crafting as you explore a large, open world to uncover its secrets.

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 13.5%, Exploration 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-crafting game that starts with a shipwreck and evolves into a complex journey of exploration and technology.

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 42.8%, Crafting 33%, Adventure 16.9%, Exploration 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Though it uses a car instead of a boat, the focus on maintaining your vehicle to survive a hostile, shifting environment is very similar.

LOSE YOUR MIND. EAT YOUR CREW. DIE. Take the helm of your steamship and set sail for the unknown! Sunless Sea is a game of discovery, loneliness and frequent death, set in the award-winning Victorian Gothic universe of Fallen London.

Why similar: Survival 34.7%, RPG 23.1%, Adventure 14.9%, Exploration 9.2%, Indie 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: A dark, atmospheric exploration game where sailing and managing your ship's resources are central to surviving a mysterious world.

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 23.9%, RPG 18.2%, Adventure 11.1%, Open World 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: It features a Victorian-fantasy setting with a strong emphasis on survival, crafting, and traversing through different portal-connected realms.

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 32.1%, RPG 28.2%, Adventure 15.4%, Female Protagonist 15.2%, Exploration 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes exploration and gathering materials to craft items, set within a charming and mysterious folklore-inspired world.

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 22.5%, Crafting 20.4%, Adventure 13.5%, Female Protagonist 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: It features a strong female protagonist and a dark, survival-focused narrative that requires constant crafting to survive the environment.

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 46.2%, Crafting 25.7%, Adventure 9.8%, Open World 8.5%, Multiplayer 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: A hardcore survival experience that emphasizes the struggle of living off the land in an unforgiving, isolated environment.

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 71.2%, Female Protagonist 20.2%, Singleplayer 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the lonely, atmospheric nature of Windbound's exploration, focusing on emotional discovery in a flooded landscape.

Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.

Why similar: Survival 46.7%, Crafting 23.1%, Adventure 11.8%, Indie 6.8%, Open World 4%

Why You'll Like It: It shares a similar stylized aesthetic and a focus on gathering resources to survive in a strange, often hostile world.

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 38.5% ★, Crafting 25.3%, Adventure 14.4%, Open World 7.1%, Exploration 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: A colorful, sandbox-style game that encourages exploration, sailing, and building across various unique islands.

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 24.3%, Adventure 14.7%, Indie 9.8%, Open World 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a survival-crafting experience set in the vast, empty reaches of space, requiring constant resource management and exploration.

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%, Crafting 35.4%, Open World 12.8%, Exploration 9.7%, Singleplayer 1.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on building custom airships to explore a world of floating islands, mirroring the nautical freedom of Windbound.

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 27.9% ★, RPG 26.3%, Adventure 19.1%, Indie 10.5%, Open World 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A dedicated sailing and combat game that allows you to explore vast oceans and build your own naval legacy.

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 31.3% ★, Survival 25.2%, Crafting 23.5%, Adventure 7.2%, Open World 5.1%

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 23.9%, RPG 18.3%, Adventure 9%, Open World 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: A traditional survival-crafting game that focuses on the gritty details of island living and resource management.

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

Why similar: Survival 31.9%, Crafting 24%, RPG 19.5%, Adventure 16.4%, Indie 7.2%

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 45.5% ★, Crafting 26.2%, Adventure 14%, Exploration 5.7%, Third Person 5.3%

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 27.8%, RPG 27.2%, Adventure 14.3%, Indie 11.4%, Open World 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 23.9%, RPG 21.9%, Adventure 12.6%, Open World 7.9%

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 30%, Indie 15.3%, Female Protagonist 8.6%

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 26.4%, Crafting 19.3%, Sailing 15.7% ★, Adventure 10.7%, RPG 9.3%

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 19.9%, RPG 16.2%, Open World 8.5%, Indie 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused game that emphasizes exploration and base building on a dangerous alien planet.

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 22.2%, RPG 14.5%, Adventure 12%, Open World 8.5%

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 31.3%, RPG 29.2%, Adventure 18.8%, Open World 10.6%, Exploration 7.5%

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 26.3%, Crafting 23.6%, Adventure 12.7%, Exploration 4.8%

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 29.6%, Female Protagonist 24.8%, Open World 13.7%, Exploration 10.6%, Indie 9.4%

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 29.2%, Crafting 22.9%, RPG 17%, Adventure 10.3%, Open World 7.5%

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

Why similar: RPG 34.1%, Adventure 25.6%, Open World 19.4%, Exploration 8.3%, Roguelike 8%

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 30.5%, Crafting 21.5%, RPG 17.6%, Open World 10.3%, Adventure 9.3%

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 35.8% ★, Survival 17.1%, RPG 16.1%, Crafting 11.1%, Adventure 10%

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% ★, Survival 24%, Crafting 22.3%, Adventure 8.4%, Open World 7.1%

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

Why similar: Adventure 40.6%, Survival 37.3%, Indie 22.1%

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 28.6%, Adventure 20.8%, Female Protagonist 18%, Open World 9.8%, Indie 7.1%

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 23.6%, RPG 19.5%, Adventure 10%, Open World 7.1%

You’re a castaway stranded in the middle of nowhere. Storm is gone, the worst certainly not. Look for food and resources, craft gear, make shelters. These are the basics, you need much more to stay alive on this cut-off-the-world, yet not desert island. Build & burn, sail & explore, be Out of Reach!

Why similar: Survival 41.8%, Crafting 28.4%, Open World 10.3%, Adventure 9.1%, Indie 3.7%

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 29.1%, Female Protagonist 25.6%, Indie 16.3%, Open World 14.7%, Exploration 10.9%

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 17.1%, Exploration 8.7%, Open World 5.9%

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 26.6%, Roguelike 21.2%, Exploration 20.4%, Third Person 19.9%, Singleplayer 11.9%

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 24.6%, RPG 23.7%, Adventure 21.9%, Survival 19.1%, Indie 7.8%

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 31.1%, Crafting 24.9%, Adventure 17.2%, Open World 10.6%, Indie 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 32.8%, Adventure 24.4%, Female Protagonist 21.8%, Exploration 8.8%, Third Person 8.1%

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 61.5%, Indie 32.9%, Singleplayer 5.6%

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 31%, Survival 29.7%, Adventure 11.5%, Female Protagonist 10.6%, Exploration 6.3%

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 24.3%, RPG 23.3%, Open World 8.8%, Adventure 7.4%