- #1 Lost in Tropics
97% matchNegative10% of 29 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 17.1%, Open World 16%, Building 14.2%, Sandbox 12%, Exploration 6.4%
- #2 90° North
96% 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 18.7%, Sandbox 11.3%, Simulation 10.7%, Building 10.5%, Open World 9.9%
- #3 Red Frost
96% 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 16.6%, Open World 14.1%, Building 12.6%, Sandbox 10.1%, Realistic 7.8%
- #4 Elacoria
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lightborn68
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 24.4%, Survival 18.8%, Sandbox 16.8%, Building 16.6%, Exploration 9.9%
- #5 Age of Survival
94% matchVery Negative12% of 245 reviews2025
Dev: Silky Sullivan
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 6.8 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 25.8%, Open World 16.6%, Building 13.6%, Modern 7.6%, Sandbox 6.8%
- #6 Gates of Eden
94% 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: Sandbox 15.1%, 3D Platformer 14.1%, Action-Adventure 12.7%, Action 10.4%, Adventure 9.1%
- #7 Breakwaters: Crystal Tides
93% matchMixed63% of 997 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 17.6%, Open World 16.4%, Building 16.4%, Sandbox 13.6%, Action-Adventure 9.3%
- #8 Street Life: It’s Mine Now!
92% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Ling Chen
Windows
Homeless survival management game. Survive winter, pay debts, and avoid being a medical research guinea pig. Scavenge, repair, run a stall or shop for a legal living. Break in, steal, and sell on the black market. Or build a gang, recruit a crew, and fight street bullies. Choose your path. Survive.
Why similar: Survival 19.4%, Modern 18.7%, Open World 17.6%, 3D Platformer 9.8%, Simulation 7.5%
- #9 The Stormy Islands
91% 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 20.7%, Open World 19.1%, Sandbox 16.5%, Realistic 8.5%, First-Person 8.2%
- #10 Keplerth
91% matchVery Positive85% of 4,138 reviews2022
Dev: TAROPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 16.1 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 19.6%, Open World 18.8%, Building 17.3%, Sandbox 16.9%, Exploration 9.3%
- #11 Forest Of Fear
90% matchMixed54% of 24 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 14.4%, Open World 14%, Building 12.2%, Sandbox 10.7%, Action-Adventure 8.9%
- #12 Alterworld
89% matchPositive90% of 10 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 19.3%, Building 14.4%, Survival 13.1%, Open World 11%, Adventure 10.5%
- #13 Computer Physics Simulator 2020
89% matchNegative14% of 21 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 18.8%, Open World 16.2%, Sandbox 15.9%, Exploration 9%, Realistic 8.1%
- #14 Gengu Survival
88% match4 user reviews25% of 4 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 20.4%, Sandbox 15.2%, Building 11.3%, Open World 9.1%, First-Person 8.6%
- #15 Beyond Reason
86% 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 22.2%, Open World 20.5%, Exploration 10.7%, First-Person 7%, Combat 6.6%
- #16 Ka Mate
87% 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 27.8%, Open World 23.7%, Action-Adventure 12.1%, Action 11.4%, Adventure 10.8%
- #17 Lost In Dimensions
86% 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 14.1%, Sandbox 13%, Action-Adventure 11.9%, Building 11.5%, Action 10.4%
- #18 Desperate Island
85% 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 16.9%, Action-Adventure 14.8%, Open World 13.5%, Exploration 10.1%, First-Person 8.7%
- #19 Cat Simulator : Animals on Farm
84% matchVery Positive96% of 136 reviews2021
Dev: Avelog Games
Windows
Sneak up on your enemies, help Farmer, Goat and Piggy, and start a family!
Why similar: Open World 16%, Survival 15.1%, Sandbox 11.2%, Realistic 10.8%, Life Sim 8.9%
- #20 Azure Archipelago
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Azure Studios
Windows
Azure Archipelago is a survival game with 2 core modes, story and sandbox. In sandbox play with modulators, mods, and or friends on servers or local multiplayer. If that doesn't interest you tackle the campaign in story mode to save your friends and company from a frosty fate.
Why similar: Modern 19.2%, Survival 16%, Building 13.6%, Sandbox 12.1%, Open World 11.5%
- #21 You Were There -君はそこにいた-
82% 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 26.9%, Survival 22.6%, Action-Adventure 22.2%, Adventure 13.2%, 3D 8.5%
- #22 ROGUE PROTOCOL
83% 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 19.7%, Survival 18.6%, Sandbox 12.6%, Action-Adventure 10.4%, Simulation 6.6%
- #23 Lost Dunes
82% 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 22.7%, Survival 18.3%, Building 16.4%, Exploration 9.9%, Adventure 7.9%
- #24 Start Over
81% matchMixed62% of 377 reviews2024
Dev: EY-Studio
Windows
Embark on an unpredictable survival journey in Start Over. Solo, co-op, online, explore diverse landscapes, craft through 4 tech tiers, encounter wildlife, and trade or raid for resources. Choose your path, defend against waves, and shape your destiny in a dynamic world. Are you ready to Start Over?
Why similar: Survival 16.4%, Building 13.8%, Sandbox 12.3%, Open World 10.7%, Action-Adventure 7.7%
- #25 Astraeus Odyssey
80% 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 13.9%, Building 13.4%, Adventure 10.4%, Realistic 9.7%, Survival 9.6%
- #26 Yggdrasil
81% match3 user reviews0% of 3 reviews2019
Dev: Team Yggdrasil
Windows
Shape the world, the way you see fit!
Why similar: Open World 14.5%, Building 14%, Survival 13.3%, Sandbox 12.2%, Adventure 11.3%
- #27 The Almamula
78% 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 21.4%, Open World 13.6%, Sandbox 12.8%, Building 10.2%, Action 9.7%
- #28 Creatures Inc
79% 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 27.9%, Open World 16.5%, Building 12.4%, Sandbox 10%, Simulation 9.6%
- #29 Tides of Despair
77% 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 20.4%, Open World 18.9%, Building 17%, Sandbox 12.4%, Exploration 6.4%
- #30 Hold Your Own
78% matchMixed68% of 574 reviews2017
Dev: DistrictWare inc.
Windows
A single player open world sandbox, crafting and survival FPS game set in a multi-island land where you'll fight to survive. Build your base, hunt and craft to defend yourself from aggressive wildlife, enemies or friends. Do you have what it takes to Hold Your Own?
Why similar: Survival 19.8%, Open World 16.2%, Building 13.7%, Sandbox 12.3%, Exploration 6%
- #31 SNOW HELL
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SURVGAME
Windows
The crash is just the beginning. Trapped in the frozen hell of Siberia, you must fight for every single day. Use the wreckage, build shelter, find food, and face deadly threats. Rescue may never come – how long can you survive?
Why similar: Sandbox 13.8%, Building 11.8%, Survival 10.7%, Action-Adventure 10.6%, Open World 9.6%
- #32 Inferno Sentinel
76% 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 29.1%, Action-Adventure 17.2%, Survival 16.5%, Action 10.9%, 3D 8.4%
- #33 MASS INVASION
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Going Gold Games
Windows
Mass Invasion is an open-world co-op survival horror tactical shooter where you must survive against zombie hordes and alien invaders while searching for your pregnant wife.
Why similar: Open World 14.5%, Survival 14.4%, Building 13.3%, Sandbox 10.9%, Realistic 8.7%
- #34 Delivery Guy
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tim Melnikov
Windows
In this game you will come a long way turning from a fat sluggard into a VIP delivery guy who rushes along roofs like a parkourer. And that all takes place during the time of pandemics.
Why similar: Open World 19.3%, Survival 19.2%, Modern 18.8%, 3D Platformer 9.1%, Life Sim 8.5%
- #35 Wildlands Resurgence
74% match6 user reviews33% of 6 reviews2024
Dev: PhantomCore StudioPub: PhantomCore PUBLISHING
Windows
section for a game where players need to survive from wildlife, mine resources, craft items and structures, and even form tribes:
Why similar: Sandbox 18.2%, Building 17.1%, Survival 15.4%, Open World 12.5%, First-Person 8.5%
- #36 "Otherworldly: Beginning of the Rift" Pre-Alpha
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 18 reviews2024
Dev: 67 StudioPub: Good Face Team
Windows
Is an immersive adventure that challenges you to explore unknown dimensions, solve intricate puzzles, and make choices that impact the unfolding mystery. Dive into the unknown, uncover hidden secrets, and prepare for an experience that could change everything you thought you knew.
Why similar: 3D Platformer 16.1%, Survival 15.7%, Sandbox 13.5%, Open World 10.9%, Action-Adventure 8.6%
- #37 SLOMI
73% 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 18.1%, Open World 16.2%, Action 15.1%, Adventure 14.4%, Action-Adventure 10.7%
- #38 Rise of Ages
75% 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 26.7%, Open World 24.5%, Sandbox 14.5%, Action 10.4%, Adventure 8.9%
- #39 Tragedy is approaching
72% 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: Action-Adventure 17.4%, Open World 17.4%, Survival 15.2%, Action 13%, Exploration 11.3%
- #40 Bolu
73% matchMixed40% of 20 reviews2022
Dev: Lophius Games
Windows
Bolu is a survival and building game with a story set in Lake Abant.
Why similar: Survival 14.2%, Action-Adventure 13.6%, Building 13.1%, Open World 12.9%, Realistic 11.3%
- #41 Bum Simulator
70% matchVery Positive88% of 4,691 reviews2023
Dev: Ragged Games
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Bum Simulator is a sandbox game bursting with inappropriate humor and memorable characters. You live on the streets of Bumsville. Do you have what it takes to adapt, survive and become an urban legend?
Why similar: Survival 18.9%, Open World 18.6%, Sandbox 12.4%, Simulation 11.2%, Building 9.5%
- #42 Trauma Island: Dream Doctor
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SJR Team
Windows
Enter a child’s mind through memory-editing therapy and survive a strange world filled with hostile creatures. In Trauma-Island, gather resources, craft tools, build shelters, and collect memory fragments to heal trauma in this open-world survival experience.
Why similar: 3D Platformer 15.7%, Action-Adventure 11.2%, Building 10.9%, Survival 9.9%, Life Sim 8.4%
- #43 News Reacts
72% matchPositive96% of 25 reviews2022
Dev: Net Get Games
Windows
Suddenly one morning you are accused of terrorism! In a slightly weird city you are always in the wrong place equipped only with your brain but with NO weaponry. You are hunted by authorities, special forces, panic-stricken citizens and the news media.
Why similar: Modern 17.9%, Survival 17.4%, Open World 14.2%, Action-Adventure 12.1%, Realistic 9.3%
- #44 Kingdom Of Peace
70% matchMixed48% of 25 reviews2025
Dev: Prosuntal Games Studio
Windows
In Kingdom of Peace you play as Racław, a hero who faces war, danger and difficult decisions. Explore medieval kingdoms, engage in intrigue, fight and create your own destiny, and finally create your own settlement!
Why similar: Survival 13.4%, Building 13.1%, Open World 12.1%, Action-Adventure 11.1%, Realistic 8%
- #45 CAPTAIN FIRAT
69% matchPositive83% of 18 reviews2025
Dev: FIRAT ÖZDEMİRPub: AMİRAL GAMES
Windows
The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place, especially if you're stranded on an island full of cursed skeletons. Find ways to escape from this island together with the villagers on the island.
Why similar: Survival 31.1%, Open World 12.6%, Exploration 12.3%, Life Sim 11.8%, Action-Adventure 11%
- #46 Steamwrecked
69% matchMixed66% of 38 reviews2026
Dev: sTeam
Windows
Ascend the skies and escape the hot desert caused by humanity's over usage of fossil fuels. Find blueprints, scavenge and craft items to build your airship to soar the skies up to society once more. Can you survive this tragedy or fall prey to the harsh nature of this decaying world?
Why similar: Survival 27%, Sandbox 25%, Building 14.7%, Adventure 10.9%, Exploration 9.4%
- #47 Clifton
70% matchNo user reviews2026
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 20.4%, Realistic 11.9%, Adventure 9.5%, Action-Adventure 8.7%
- #48 Climbing Is Hard
68% 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 25.2%, Action-Adventure 14.7%, Open World 14.4%, Exploration 13.6%, First-Person 7.5%
- #49 Unfear Day
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Norman Studio
Windows
it is an open world multiplayer survival game that combines sandbox and simulation elements, including base building, NPC recruitment, community building, and the fusion of zombie growth elements and major event elements.
Why similar: Survival 17.3%, Open World 16.8%, Building 15.4%, Sandbox 12.8%, 3D Platformer 12.3%
- #50 Initial Civilization
68% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Sun Peiyi
Windows
A vast 6 handred-square-kilometer world evolves gradually step by step from the wild primitive age all the way to the advanced interstellar age, where countless spaceships are carefully built one after another to boldly explore the boundless outer space.
Why similar: Survival 24.2%, Building 18.9%, Open World 13.8%, 3D Platformer 8.8%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #51 Escape: Sierra Leone
71% matchMixed55% of 47 reviews2016
Dev: Reborn Games Inc.
Windows
Escape: Sierra Leone is a single-player exploration-based survival first-person game. With a strong focus on complete freedom, realism, interacting with a vibrant world, and no forced objectives or quests.
Why similar: Survival 21%, Open World 19.3%, Simulation 16.1%, Adventure 15.4%, Realistic 10.2%
- #52 JCB Pioneer: Mars
71% 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 20.4%, Building 19.5%, Open World 16.9%, Simulation 11.4%, Action 10.3%
- #53 Maze Breaker
67% 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 20.8%, Action-Adventure 17.6%, Building 15.4%, Open World 12.8%, Exploration 10.2%
- #54 Last Antagonist
68% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Grupo AntagonistaPub: Antagonista Games
Windows
Survive relentless waves of enemies on an abandoned island. Each battle is more intense than the last—only the most persistent will make it to the end.
Why similar: Sandbox 19.7%, Open World 16%, Action-Adventure 13.5%, First-Person 11.7%, Survival 10.1%
- #55 Exot
66% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: PH Networks
Windows
Discover a still unexplored region of space: the Exot galaxy. With your C.L.I.C. as your only ally, obtain the resources necessary for your survival. Develop your ship, improve your workshops, face creatures to conquer these hostile lands.
Why similar: Survival 20.1%, Building 17.9%, Open World 16.5%, Sandbox 15.9%, Exploration 8.3%
- #56 No More Giants
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Evo Interactive
Windows
Search for answers in a desolate, dangerous world as you pilot the giant. Utilize a variety of safeguards to protect yourself from a fierce military force & unravel the story about the giant's powerful past.
Why similar: Open World 21.3%, Action-Adventure 18%, Survival 17.2%, Exploration 15.6%, 3D 7.9%
- #57 Zombie Watch Part II
67% matchMixed64% of 11 reviews2023
Dev: Wildlak
Windows
First-person single-player / survival / RPG game with zombies and wildlife.
Why similar: Sandbox 15.5%, Building 13.6%, Action-Adventure 12.8%, Survival 11.3%, Realistic 9.4%
- #58 Journey Center Earth
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PlaySimulation Studio
Windows · Mac
Get ready to go deep underground! As you descend thousands of kilometers beneath the surface, you’ll uncover hidden caves, lost civilizations, colossal creatures, and mysterious sources of power. Every layer you dig reveals new secrets… and new dangers.
Why similar: 3D Platformer 14.6%, Action-Adventure 13%, Survival 11%, Action 9.9%, Simulation 9.5%