- #1 90° North
97% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Ambient Games
Windows
Survive a brutal three-day expedition to the North Pole. Gather wood, build shelters, manage cold, and make hard choices. Every decision matters in this intense, minimalist survival journey to the literal edge of the world.
Why similar: Survival 26.4%, Exploration 9.7%, Sandbox 9.4%, Open World 9%, Adventure 9%
- #2 Tides of Despair
96% matchMixed42% of 19 reviews2023
Dev: Survival Poly Games
Windows
After a shipwreck, you are one of the survivors. To Survive you will need to fight for your life.
Why similar: Survival 19.5%, Open World 17.8%, Building 13.9%, Inventory Management 13.5%, Sandbox 9.8%
- #3 Wilderness Edge
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Envying CentaurPub: Envying Centaur Gaming
Windows
Wilderness Edge is a open world survival multiplayer game. You must rely on your instincts to forage for resources, build shelter, and hunt for sustenance to survive. In this PVP/ PVE you may have to rely on your friends or enemies to survive.
Why similar: Inventory Management 23.3%, Survival 15%, Action-Adventure 12.4%, Open World 12.4%, Action 12%
- #4 Elcom
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lightborn38
Windows · Linux
Explore an endless open world — vast in width, length, and depth — filled with mysteries to uncover. Join up to 8 friends to survive, farm, mine, build, and fight together in a living world with day-night cycles, seasons, and dynamic weather.
Why similar: Open World 26.2%, Survival 20.6%, Building 15.4%, Sandbox 15.1%, Exploration 10.1%
- #5 Gates of Eden
93% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: Li Create
Windows
Imagine "Doom" but in Heaven. Demons, evil creatures, and rebellious warriors have taken over the Kingdom, and it's your job to restore order to paradise. Fight to protect the Garden of Eden and defeat the Prince of Darkness.
Why similar: 3D Platformer 14.1%, Sandbox 13.8%, Action-Adventure 13%, Action 11.9%, Adventure 10.6%
- #6 Ka Mate
94% matchMixed40% of 35 reviews2021
Dev: 2645Interactive
Windows
An adventurous TV presenter goes to New Zealand. He want to find this place to investigate the story of Maori & Haka Dance. The adventurous who encounters with unexpected events will have to struggle for life against wildlife.
Why similar: Survival 29.5%, Open World 24.7%, Action 12.4%, Adventure 12.1%, Action-Adventure 11.7%
- #7 Maze Breaker
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: AsBar
Windows
Survive in a constantly changing maze, explore, and uncover the hidden secrets of this world. Your final choice will determine the ending.
Why similar: Survival 20.4%, Action-Adventure 15.9%, Building 12.9%, Inventory Management 12.8%, Open World 12.3%
- #8 Last Float
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: LapsaDev
Windows
Explore and survive in this shattered world. Build, defend, and repair your raft. Search for secrets and uncover information about what happened - and most importantly, don't drown!
Why similar: Survival 26.3%, Inventory Management 17.3%, Sandbox 15.8%, Action 9.1%, Open World 9%
- #9 Death Dream
91% matchMostly Positive76% of 25 reviews2021
Dev: Artem Forge
Windows
You wake up but in a deadly dream! survive in an open nightmare endless world, every night you will be attacked by monsters and every day it will be harder to survive, collect resources, build a base and explore the world in your nightmare dream
Why similar: Inventory Management 18.6%, Survival 18.3%, Open World 17.2%, Building 13.7%, Sandbox 11.8%
- #10 Clifton
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: OverLimits Games
Windows
You’re on holiday on a tropical island with your friends, but you find your tour guide DEAD on the beach, and someone on the island wants you to be next. Work together, search for materials and weapons to defend yourselves, build a raft and escape. Will you make it out alive?
Why similar: Survival 21.9%, Open World 20%, Adventure 10%, Inventory Management 8.8%, Action-Adventure 8%
- #11 Desperate Island
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Endurance Games
Windows
In the game Desperate Island, the player takes on the role of a survivor on a deserted island and must use the island's resources to survive and overcome the challenges posed by nature. The player must search for food and water and create shelters.
Why similar: Survival 18%, Action-Adventure 14.5%, Open World 14.1%, Exploration 10%, Adventure 8.8%
- #12 Red Frost
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DRAGO entertainment
Windows · Mac
A story-driven, first person perspective, post-apocalyptic survival adventure set in the rough winter climates of last century’s Russia.
Why similar: Survival 19.1%, Open World 16%, Building 12.4%, Sandbox 9.5%, Action 8.7%
- #13 You Were There -君はそこにいた-
88% match3 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: MATRE
Windows
You wake up in a hallway that you've never seen before. When you stand up, you see a girl. When you try to ask her something, she runs off as if she's fleeing. You chase after the girl, and set off to unravel the mystery of this situation.
Why similar: 3D Platformer 25.6%, Survival 23.8%, Action-Adventure 21.5%, Adventure 14.6%, 3D 8.6%
- #14 Tragedy is approaching
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pervomens games
Windows
A first-person survival game set in a post-Soviet wasteland. Explore abandoned locations, fight the infected, scavenge resources, and build a base to survive
Why similar: Open World 18.4%, Action-Adventure 17.2%, Survival 16.4%, Action 14.5%, Exploration 11.3%
- #15 Keplerth
86% matchVery Positive85% of 4,121 reviews2022
Dev: TAROPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Welcome to Keplerth! Try to survive on a hostile alien planet in this 2D sandbox RPG, where you can choose to live alone or fight side by side with your friends in the online multiplayer mode. Survive, build, farm, fight, and explore your way to victory in this open-world adventure!
Why similar: Survival 21.6%, Open World 20.5%, Building 16.4%, Sandbox 15.5%, Exploration 9.6%
- #16 Breakwaters: Crystal Tides
86% matchMixed63% of 996 reviews2021
Dev: Soaring Pixels Games
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 66%
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: Survival 20%, Open World 18.3%, Building 15.8%, Sandbox 12.7%, Action-Adventure 9.7%
- #17 Project Cobalt
84% matchMostly Positive73% of 54 reviews2025
Dev: OxygenStudio
Windows
⚗️ Project Cobalt is a survival action game set on a hostile island 🌴. Scavenge containers, mine resources, craft tools, hunt animals, and endure storms as you fight hunger, disease, and exhaustion all while uncovering the dark truth behind a failed experiment.
Why similar: Inventory Management 20.9%, Survival 15.9%, Open World 15%, Building 11.3%, Sandbox 9.9%
- #18 Lost in Tropics
85% matchNegative11% of 28 reviews2024
Dev: Lukas GameLabsPub: SIG Publishing
Windows
Lost in Tropics: Embark on an unforgettable survival adventure where the lush, unpredictable tropics become your testing ground. In this immersive game, you find yourself stranded on a mysterious island, where every corner hides both breathtaking beauty and perilous challenges.
Why similar: Survival 20.2%, Open World 18.4%, Building 14.3%, Sandbox 11.7%, Action 7.1%
- #19 Alterworld
84% match9 user reviews89% of 9 reviews2024
Dev: Poonpoonza
Windows
Explore the infinite world! Play with the fully destructible voxel terrain! Craft and split items! Build and customize a house or any building! And many more! This is the ultimate sandbox survival game where you can do almost anything you can dream!
Why similar: Sandbox 17.5%, Survival 14.5%, Building 13.5%, Adventure 12.2%, Open World 11.9%
- #20 No More Heroes
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 生汽橘子
Windows
"No More Heroes" is a 2.5D survival-exploration game. You find yourself in a world of unknown Yin-Yang and Five Elements forces. Gather food and materials, construct buildings and tools, forge weapons, combat dangerous entities, and confront unexpected events. Do whatever it takes to survive.
Why similar: Survival 24.8%, Open World 19.5%, Sandbox 13%, Adventure 9.2%, Action 9%
- #21 The Stormy Islands
82% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2023
Dev: SeMaxYa
Windows
Survive mother nature, prepare for the different seasons protecting yourself from cold, heat, hunger and thirst. Beware of Tornadoes, Storms, Tsunamis and predatory animals, on a variety of islands where each one will have to adapt to its limited resources.
Why similar: Survival 23.7%, Open World 21.4%, Sandbox 15.5%, Exploration 8%, First-Person 7.8%
- #22 Age of Survival
82% matchVery Negative12% of 245 reviews2025
Dev: Silky Sullivan
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Age of Survival is survival simulation crafting game from Silky Sullivan. Your player has been stranded on an island not far off of the coast of Africa where you will encounter many creatures, and players alike.
Why similar: Survival 30.2%, Open World 19%, Building 13.5%, Sandbox 6.6%, Simulation 5.8%
- #23 Last of Humanity
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Divine Games, inc.
Windows
Welcome to Last of Humanity, an online open-world sandbox multiplayer zombie survival game. Travel the zombie wasteland as you attempt to rebuild society controlling key locations to manufacture & produce equipment for survival. Forage, Craft and shoot your way to survival from the dead and living.
Why similar: Inventory Management 14.8%, Survival 14.3%, Building 13.7%, Sandbox 13.6%, Exploration 8.3%
- #24 Bandit the game
81% matchMostly Positive78% of 40 reviews2019
Dev: Adrian Ubiorski
Windows
Bandit the game is an open-world RPG with unique quests, character development, intense combat and interesting exploration. With optional elements: tower defense, city/base building and gang management.
Why similar: Inventory Management 20.4%, Survival 18.4%, Open World 15%, Building 11.1%, Sandbox 11%
- #25 EXELIO
78% matchMixed53% of 16 reviews2026
Dev: AI Frog Interactive, Inc.
Windows
In "Exelio," you'll face an ever-changing environment and various threats while acquiring the knowledge and skills needed to survive in uncharted lands. Explore a world where beautiful nature and harsh realities collide, and delve into its mysteries as you carve out your own fate.
Why similar: Survival 28.3%, 3D Platformer 13.4%, Action 11.1%, Adventure 10.4%, Action-Adventure 9.9%
- #26 Beyond Reason
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SilentMoon
Windows
Beyond reason is a knowledge-based time-loop game about surviving a tiny open world. Master fluid first person combat, while uncovering the island's secrets. When you die, you take nothing but your knowledge of the world into the next loop.
Why similar: Survival 24.9%, Open World 22.5%, Exploration 11.2%, Adventure 6.9%, First-Person 6.5%
- #27 Elusive World
80% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2021
Dev: PistolizedCannon
Windows
FEATURES: - Survive against wild animals, common bandits, and overpowering rulers. - Collect ingredients to craft from simple arrows for your bow to complex Ice Sword. - Rich coming-of-age adventure. Single-player, story-driven RPG.
Why similar: Inventory Management 33.2%, Survival 21.4%, Open World 16.8%, Exploration 9.3%, Adventure 7.9%
- #28 ROGUE PROTOCOL
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TeamMATTO
Windows · Mac
Immerse yourself in the gigantic world filled with mysteries, violence and tension. Fight against mutants and armed forces, explore, join operations, do jobs, earn credits, buy, trade, upgrade and plan to escape from the rogue planet and its protocol!
Why similar: Open World 21.2%, Survival 20.4%, Sandbox 11.3%, Action-Adventure 10.4%, Action 7.2%
- #29 Gengu Survival
77% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: Gengu Games
Windows
Survive on an open-world island with unlockable abilities that help you on your journey in Gengu Survival. Craft new items as you level up and build your own base wherever you want. But be aware, there is something strange on this island...
Why similar: Survival 23.3%, Sandbox 14.3%, Building 11%, Open World 10.1%, First-Person 8.2%
- #30 Computer Physics Simulator 2020
79% matchNegative15% of 20 reviews2020
Dev: Technologies&Simulators
Windows
Computer Physics Simulator 2020 - A Message Beyond the Pixels. Over time, few players have fully grasped the subtle message woven—intentionally or not—into this game fabric. Beneath its minimalist surface a bit other, introspective story about persistence and the strange, often weight of struggles.
Why similar: Survival 21.3%, Open World 18%, Sandbox 14.8%, Exploration 9.5%, First-Person 7%
- #31 Lost In Dimensions
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: IdecoGames
Windows
This is a survival game where you must unveil the story and find your truth. Decide your fate and avoid trouble in the form of military bandits and keep an eye out for those pesky sharks! Explore dimensions, islands and discover civilisations. Good luck!
Why similar: 3D Platformer 14.3%, Action-Adventure 12.2%, Action 12%, Sandbox 11.9%, Building 11%
- #32 The Almamula
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gaucho Forge
Windows · Linux
A curse is sweeping across northeastern Argentina, and only a few gauchos have the grit to venture forth. Explore alone or with others, build your home, and hunt down the Almamula.
Why similar: Survival 23%, Open World 14.4%, Sandbox 11.3%, Action 10.8%, Action-Adventure 9.4%
- #33 Inferno Sentinel
75% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: Inferno Core
Windows
You will survive for a certain amount of time in each level and will move on to the next levels after facing the final boss. Monsters spawn around the character, and you will acquire weapons that will make your character stronger against them.
Why similar: 3D Platformer 28.3%, Survival 17.8%, Action-Adventure 17%, Action 12.1%, Adventure 9.4%
- #34 SLOMI
76% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2023
Dev: Bright Futur
Windows
You are casual pilot of cargo plane, that transporting wheat grain from point A to point B, your job is routine. And once *BOOM* your plane crashed, you landed at mistery land that you need to explore and main thing Survive! Become a truly colonizer and try to escape it, good luck lost soul.
Why similar: Survival 19.2%, Open World 16.9%, Action 16.6%, Adventure 16.1%, Action-Adventure 10.4%
- #35 Girl Island
73% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: Little Fish Studio
Windows
This is a casual island survival game.
Why similar: Survival 22.8%, Building 15.7%, 3D Platformer 10.8%, Inventory Management 10.8%, Sandbox 9%
- #36 Escape From The Island
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: LunarNeo
Windows
Escape From The Island is a 2D, pixel-art survival game in which, as a castaway on a dangerous, uninhabited island, you collect supplies, build a shelter and fight for survival while discovering the secrets of this island.
Why similar: Survival 26.2%, Open World 17.5%, Inventory Management 14.3%, Action-Adventure 14.3%, Action 8.8%
- #37 Ugmania
75% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2023
Dev: ErroneousCreationist
Windows · Mac
A sandbox survival game set in a universe full of procedurally generated worlds to explore and conquer!
Why similar: Inventory Management 29.5%, Survival 18.9%, Open World 16.1%, Sandbox 12.6%, First-Person 6.7%
- #38 Iridio
71% matchVery Positive91% of 109 reviews2025
Dev: KR Games
Windows
Seized by criminals, the island designated for your research needs your help. Join Yatziri and the Wazhari tribe to liberate their hostages, explore hidden secrets, craft essential items and weapons, and strategically use fire and water in challenging puzzles and life-or-death battles for survival.
Why similar: Inventory Management 20.2%, Open World 16.3%, Survival 15.6%, Action-Adventure 11.7%, Exploration 7.2%
- #39 The Last Market
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Burhan Yıldırım
Windows
The Last Market is an open-world game set in a post-apocalyptic world where you run your own market in a safe zone for survivors. Fight zombies, collect sellable items, and grow your market by selling them.
Why similar: Inventory Management 20.2%, Open World 17.3%, Survival 13.7%, Building 11.8%, Action 10.2%
- #40 My Funeral Home
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: My Funeral Home
Windows
Start your own funeral home business and whether it is the right fit for you. Build your hearse, transfer the remains, prepare bodies for burial, and make a decent income. With all the work, there’s little room for downtime. Death knows how to keep you busy.
Why similar: Open World 18.5%, Inventory Management 17.9%, Building 14.3%, Action-Adventure 11.9%, Exploration 7.1%
- #41 Forest Of Fear
72% matchMixed62% of 21 reviews2024
Dev: Richard BuenoPub: Two Void Studios
Windows
On a mission to explore a secret island discovered by the military, your plane crashes, leaving you as the sole survivor. Now, on the Island of the Condemned, your only concern is to survive and escape at any cost.
Why similar: Survival 16.9%, Open World 16.1%, Building 12.2%, Sandbox 10.4%, Action-Adventure 9.6%
- #42 Creatures Inc
74% matchMixed54% of 162 reviews2019
Dev: Little Beavers Games
Windows
Creatures Inc is an open world survival experience where taming creatures is the key to survival. Explore a hostile world solo or in 2 player online co-op, make impactful choices, upgrade your character, and turn deadly creatures into powerful allies.
Why similar: Survival 30.6%, Open World 17.7%, Building 11.6%, Action 10.6%, Sandbox 9%
- #43 Lost Dunes
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ManualDevPub: Manual Studios
Windows
Lost Dunes, the RPG, Exploration, Combat, Building game, explore the ancient dunes, help the locals, build pyramids, fight, and get your revenge on the bandits who pillaged your home!
Why similar: Open World 25%, Survival 20.5%, Building 15.7%, Exploration 10.3%, Adventure 9.3%
- #44 Where's the Boat
71% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: KetaGames
Windows
Where's the Boat is a sandbox open world survival crafting game set on an archipelago of deserted islands. Gather resources, craft tools, tend to your needs and travel from island to island in search for a way back to civilization.
Why similar: Inventory Management 26.5%, Survival 19.7%, Open World 17%, Sandbox 12.4%, Exploration 8.1%
- #45 Rise of Ages
72% matchMixed44% of 217 reviews2019
Dev: Anguis Game StudioPub: 99Gamers Digital
Windows
Rise of Ages is a sandbox game, allowing you to explore, build, found cities, make wars and evolve technologies to reach the highest level of a civilization and then travel to other planets! The game begins in prehistory and will advance ages, one by one, as the player evolves.
Why similar: Survival 29%, Open World 26%, Sandbox 12.9%, Action 11.7%, Adventure 10.1%
- #46 Flesh & Fiber
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tactical_Nerd
Windows
Flesh & Fiber is a survival horror game where players scavenge, craft, and build their way from primitive stone tools to advanced military technology in a world slowly succumbing to a mysterious parasitic infection. Fight to survive as nature turns against you.
Why similar: Inventory Management 22.8%, Action-Adventure 16.2%, Action 14.8%, Adventure 13.2%, Open World 11.8%
- #47 Fossil Keeper
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: A Little More Games
Windows
Dig up and collect fossils from Dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures, build complete skeletons from them, then display them in your customisable museum! Earn museum donations and renown in order to gain access to more dig sites, unlocking new species for you to collect.
Why similar: Inventory Management 18.3%, Sandbox 15.3%, Adventure 12.9%, Building 12.8%, Simulation 9.8%
- #48 Astraeus Odyssey
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Maris Games
Windows
Astraeus Odyssey is a 1–4 player co-op sci-fi survival game where you explore alien worlds, build bases, and struggle to keep your crew alive after the fall of your home planet. You’ll manage resources, navigate hostile environments, and endure supernatural threats as you search for a new home.
Why similar: Action-Adventure 14.4%, Building 12.8%, Adventure 12.3%, Survival 10.8%, Exploration 9.6%
- #49 Above The Horizon
68% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: BigUpdate Games
Windows
Above The Horizon is terraformation survival crafting game where you crash landed above the planet "Lunaris". The rest of your colonization team landed safely on the planet... so it's up to you to get back to the planet and terraform it along the way!
Why similar: Sandbox 20%, Survival 15.1%, Adventure 14.1%, Open World 11.8%, Exploration 11.5%
- #50 Climbing Is Hard
67% matchNo user reviews100% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: FirstStep
Windows
Brutal. Relentless. Unforgiving. The mountain mocks your every move. You will fall. You will fail. You will wonder why you dared to climb at all.
Why similar: 3D Platformer 24.8%, Open World 15.5%, Action-Adventure 14.7%, Exploration 13.8%, 3D 7.5%
- #51 Deathtouch
67% match8 user reviews75% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: RichoPOV
Windows
DEATHTOUCH is an open-world horror game where exploration leads to hidden secrets—and lurking nightmares. Uncover mysterious locations, navigate eerie environments, and survive terrifying encounters in a world that feels truly alive.
Why similar: Survival 30.3%, Open World 22.8%, Adventure 11.9%, Exploration 10.5%, Action 9.4%
- #52 Vosphia
69% matchMixed45% of 31 reviews2023
Dev: Vosphia Studios
Windows
Vosphia is a single-player RPG set in a medieval fantasy world. Explore the vast world of Vosphia and meet dangerous enemies to fight, build your own personalized base, craft and equip customized items, and create your own story in the world of Vosphia!
Why similar: Inventory Management 21.4%, Open World 20.2%, Survival 15.9%, Action-Adventure 11.1%, Adventure 6.9%
- #53 Yggdrasil
70% match3 user reviews0% of 3 reviews2019
Dev: Team Yggdrasil
Windows
Shape the world, the way you see fit!
Why similar: Open World 16%, Survival 15%, Building 13.4%, Adventure 13.4%, Sandbox 11.3%
- #54 JCB Pioneer: Mars
70% matchMixed42% of 153 reviews2017
Dev: AtomicomPub: GamesCo
Windows
JCB Pioneer: Mars drops you onto the surface of The Red Planet. Your mission: To survive and prepare Mars for future human colonization.
Why similar: Survival 22.2%, Building 18.1%, Open World 18%, Action 11.5%, Adventure 10.9%
- #55 Tornado Chaser
65% matchPositive100% of 12 reviews2026
Dev: maxdev
Windows
Tornado Chaser is a fast-paced multiplayer game where you risk everything to get up close and personal with deadly twisters Drive through violent storms, launch data probes into the heart of tornadoes, and sell the data to fund better gear, faster trucks, and harder drinks.
Why similar: Open World 22.3%, Survival 22.2%, Sandbox 9.3%, Action 7.9%, Action-Adventure 7.7%
- #56 G.E.T.
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Konnex Interactive
Windows
G.E.T. (Gather, Explore, Technologize) is a 3D first person open world adventure-survival game. On your journey you will progress through different ages, beginning from the stone age and finishing in the far future.
Why similar: Inventory Management 26.2%, Survival 18.9%, Open World 16.9%, Action-Adventure 10.8%, Exploration 7.2%
- #57 Blu Caligo
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Eostrix Studio
Windows
Step into the shoes of a nameless exile left to die on a Mediterranean island in this first-person horror adventure. Explore an open world of haunting beauty, craft your weapons, and confront threats emerging from the depths of the island at dusk.
Why similar: Inventory Management 27.4%, Survival 18.5%, Open World 16.8%, Action-Adventure 11.6%, Exploration 8.1%
- #58 From Nothing
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Power Hobo Games
Windows
Build systems, sustain life, and transform a barren moon into a living world. In this 2D survival-crafting RPG, preparation and infrastructure matter more than reflexes... because when the winter eclipse comes, only what you’ve built will keep you alive.
Why similar: Survival 23.4%, Inventory Management 20.8%, Open World 19.8%, Exploration 11.1%, Sandbox 10.4%