- #1 Deadside
97% matchMostly Positive76% of 40,248 reviews2024
Dev: Bad Pixel
Windows
Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 44.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
An Open World Survival Shooter blending hardcore PVP and PVE action. Secure precious loot in safe zones or build your own fortress in the wild. With intense gunfights, stunning visuals, and performance smooth enough for any system, the challenge awaits!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.5% ★, Survival 9.4%, Post-apocalyptic 9.3%, Base Building 7.8%, Open World 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore extraction-lite survival shooter that mirrors the tactical, open-world PvPvE feel of XERA.
- #2 Rust
96% matchVery Positive87% of 1,363,157 reviews2018
Dev: Facepunch Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 52.5 hrsMean: 421.6 hrs≥1hr: 96%
The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25% ★, Survival 17.3%, Crafting 12.9%, Open World 9.2%, Multiplayer 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: The definitive open-world survival game featuring intense base building, high-stakes PvP, and constant resource management.
- #3 Once Human
96% matchMostly Positive78% of 173,391 reviews2024
Dev: Starry Studio
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 50.9 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Once Human is a multiplayer open-world survival game set in a strange, post-apocalyptic future. Unite with friends to fight monstrous enemies, uncover secret plots, compete for resources, and build your own territory. Once, you were merely human. Now, you have the power to remake the world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.8% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Massively Multiplayer 10.9%, Post-apocalyptic 10.4%, Survival 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: A modern, large-scale open-world survival game that combines base building with supernatural PvE threats and multiplayer action.
- #4 SCUM
95% matchMostly Positive74% of 124,053 reviews2025
Dev: Gamepires
Windows
Median: 11.9 hrsMean: 103.1 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Traverse punishing environments, looting, crafting and evading the constant threats to your life. The unprecedented levels of character customization and progression are your ultimate tools for survival.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.2% ★, Massively Multiplayer 13.8%, Survival 10.6%, Crafting 9.9%, Open World 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: Offers deep, realistic survival mechanics and intense open-world PvP that appeals to players who enjoy complex gear management.
- #5 Gray Zone Warfare
94% matchMostly Positive72% of 75,457 reviews2024
Dev: MADFINGER Games, a.s.
Windows
Median: 15.4 hrsMean: 47.9 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Enter a high-stakes PvE-first open-world tactical shooter set on a quarantined Southeast Asian island torn apart by faction warfare. Deploy as an elite operator, fight solo or with your squad to carry out missions, earn reputation, and explore the truth behind the Event igniting the conflict.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 15.7%, Open World 14.9%, FPS 14.4%, Survival 12.7%, Multiplayer 11%
Why You'll Like It: A tactical extraction shooter that focuses on high-stakes missions and realistic survival in a dangerous, persistent open world.
- #6 Subsistence
94% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,685 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 39.9 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39% ★, Survival 12.2%, Crafting 11%, Base Building 9.7%, Multiplayer 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore sandbox survival game featuring persistent base building and AI-driven threats that keep the pressure high.
- #7 Lost Light
93% matchMixed56% of 27,818 reviews2022
Dev: NetEase Games
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 21.8 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Join the "Firefly" task force and unveil the sinister plot behind the exclusion zone in the world of Lost Light. You could either scavenge for supplies or go out with guns blazing and plunder. Survive the brutal domain where danger lurks in every corner!
Why similar: Looter Shooter 21.6% ★, Survival 13.8%, Multiplayer 11%, Massively Multiplayer 9.7%, Shooter 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: A free-to-play extraction shooter that emphasizes gear customization, looting, and survival against other players.
- #8 Vigor
92% matchMixed46% of 7,746 reviews2024
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 45%
Outlive the apocalypse! Dive into intense Encounters and extract the most valuable spoils the Outlands have to offer! Loot, shoot, and build to become the absolute Outlander and explore the landscape of a post-war Norway in Vigor, a free-to-play looter shooter.
Why similar: Looter Shooter 24.2% ★, Post-apocalyptic 14.3%, Third-Person Shooter 12.6%, Base Building 10.3%, Multiplayer 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: An extraction-based survival game that centers on building up a home base while risking everything in dangerous encounters.
- #9 Marauders
91% matchMixed68% of 21,396 reviews2022
Dev: Small Impact Games
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 30.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Marauders is a tactical first-person multiplayer looter shooter set in a sci-fi universe. As a space pirate, work solo, or in a squad with up to 3 other players to navigate a hostile battleground, hunt for loot, craft new weapons and gear, and salvage what you’ll need to survive.
Why similar: Looter Shooter 42.8% ★, FPS 15.5%, PvP 14.3%, Open World 13.9%, Shooter 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi extraction shooter that emphasizes looting, gear stashing, and combat in hostile, atmospheric environments.
- #10 DeadPoly
91% matchMostly Positive77% of 5,910 reviews2022
Dev: TFL Games
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 63%
DeadPoly is a polygon arcade zombie survival looter shooter with base building, crafting, scavenging, leveling, questing, and more, but your only goal is survival, everything else is optional.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.1% ★, Looter Shooter 10.3% ★, Base Building 9.6%, Post-apocalyptic 8.4%, Crafting 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: A low-poly survival shooter that captures the core loop of looting, building, and surviving against zombies and players.
- #11 7 Days to Die
89% matchVery Positive87% of 399,251 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 16.9 hrsMean: 108.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.1% ★, Survival 13.5%, Base Building 13.4%, Post-apocalyptic 9.7%, Open World 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on base defense and survival against waves of enemies, perfect for those who enjoy the building aspect of XERA.
- #12 Miscreated
90% matchMixed66% of 31,585 reviews2018
Dev: Entrada Interactive LLC
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 38.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Miscreated is a multiplayer online hardcore survival game set in a post-apocalyptic future. You will need to survive against mutants, players, and even mother nature herself.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.2% ★, Survival 13.4%, Open World 9%, Post-apocalyptic 7.8%, Multiplayer 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic survival game with a strong emphasis on exploration, scavenging, and PvP combat.
- #13 Hunt: Showdown 1896
89% matchMostly Positive74% of 271,844 reviews2019
Dev: Crytek
Windows
Median: 13.5 hrsMean: 179.5 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Hunt: Showdown 1896 is the brutally rewarding extraction shooter. Track twisted monsters and overcome ruthless PvP. Take bounties in corrupted backwaters lost to history. With a team, you might survive. Die with nothing or get out with everything.
Why similar: Open World 23.2%, Multiplayer 21.2%, FPS 20.7%, PvP 18.1%, Shooter 12.9%
Why You'll Like It: Provides the ultimate PvPvE extraction experience where players must survive against both lethal AI and rival mercenaries.
- #14 DayZ
88% matchMostly Positive78% of 461,119 reviews2018
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 39.8 hrsMean: 275.7 hrs≥1hr: 96%
How long can you survive a post-apocalyptic world? A land overrun with an infected "zombie" population, where you compete with other survivors for limited resources. Will you team up with strangers and stay strong together? Or play as a lone wolf to avoid betrayal? This is DayZ – this is your story.
Why similar: Survival 17.9%, Massively Multiplayer 14.7%, Post-apocalyptic 13.9%, Open World 10.4%, Multiplayer 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: The classic hardcore open-world survival game that defines the genre's tension and high-stakes looting.
- #15 Hurtworld
87% matchMostly Positive76% of 31,099 reviews2019
Dev: Bankroll Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 63.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Hurtworld is a hardcore multiplayer survival FPS with a focus on competitive gunplay and strategic map control. Built for hardcore gamers, Hurtworld aims to punish.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30% ★, Survival 14.5%, Crafting 10.5%, Open World 9.1%, FPS 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced survival game that prioritizes PvP combat and base building in a challenging, resource-scarce environment.
- #16 Will To Live Online
86% matchMixed69% of 18,236 reviews2018
Dev: AlphaSoft LLC
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 35.0 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Will To Live is a MMORPG-shooter whose action takes place in a severe post-apocalyptic world. Explore the world, engage in fights with mutants and other survivors, join the clans in the struggle for existence and prove your right to Live.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.9% ★, Survival 17.5%, Post-apocalyptic 13.8%, Open World 10.7%, Multiplayer 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic MMORPG that focuses on survival, exploration, and combat in a harsh, irradiated world.
- #17 Next Day: Survival
86% matchMixed62% of 10,257 reviews2018
Dev: SOFF GamesPub: Last Level
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 21.6 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Next Day is a multi-player SURVIVAL game with elements of RPG, in an imaginary country in Eastern Europe. Carry out an array of tasks, learn skills, and develop your character. Have shootouts with opponents and earn a reputation.
Why similar: Survival 22.4%, Post-apocalyptic 16.6%, Open World 15.8%, Multiplayer 12.1%, Crafting 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic survival game that blends RPG elements with open-world PvP and crafting.
- #18 Stay Out
85% matchMixed69% of 30,217 reviews2019
Dev: MOBITECH LLC
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 36%
Stay Out - is a MMORPG with shooter elements, based on spirit of “stalking” - an urban exploration, searching and exploring mysterious, abandoned and forgotten by humanity pieces of our planet.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 19%, Survival 15.7%, Open World 14.1%, Multiplayer 12.2%, PvP 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric MMORPG survival game that emphasizes shooter mechanics and dangerous, post-apocalyptic exploration.
- #19 ARK: Survival Ascended
82% matchMixed60% of 105,775 reviews2023
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows
Median: 27.6 hrsMean: 196.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!
Why similar: Base Building 16.2%, Survival 15.3%, Open World 12.1%, Crafting 11.8%, Multiplayer 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: Combines deep base construction and survival with creature-based threats and competitive multiplayer elements.
- #20 Karagon (Survival Robot Riding FPS)
84% matchMixed47% of 107 reviews2023
Dev: Tbjbu2 Originals
Windows
Survive, shoot, construct, and ride killer elemental robots. Craft equipment, explore multi-floor buildings, build and farm, uncover schematics, and progress through technology tiers. Alone or with friends in this brutal post apocalyptic open world survival robot riding crafting shooter game!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.3% ★, Looter Shooter 13.7% ★, Base Building 11%, Crafting 9%, Survival 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: Directly matches the robot-themed survival and FPS mechanics found in XERA.
- #21 Taora : Beginning
82% matchVery Positive87% of 2,235 reviews2023
Dev: Tulpar Games
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Taora : Beginning offers the limited introduction experience to Taora : Survival, an open world survival game with unique character building and crafting. Build and upgrade your base, and survive the zombie apocalypse!
Why similar: Looter Shooter 20.2% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Third-Person Shooter 12%, Post-apocalyptic 9.8%, Sandbox 9%
Why You'll Like It: A looter-shooter that incorporates sandbox survival elements and base management.
- #22 Survive the Nights
81% matchMixed66% of 6,549 reviews2025
Dev: a2z Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Hardcore open-world survival where preparation is everything. Scavenge, craft, fortify during the day. When night falls, the infected hunt in numbers. Play solo or with friends in a brutal post-apocalyptic sandbox where survival is earned through smart decisions. How many Nights will you survive?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.1% ★, Looter Shooter 14.3% ★, Post-apocalyptic 11.2%, Massively Multiplayer 10.3%, Survival 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: Prioritizes base fortification and tactical survival against waves of enemies in a persistent multiplayer world.
- #23 Out of Reach
84% matchMixed57% of 3,046 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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: Open World Survival Craft 36.2% ★, Survival 11.6%, Crafting 9.6%, Open World 8.1%, Massively Multiplayer 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on survival and base building in a unique open-world setting with a strong emphasis on naval combat and exploration.
- #24 Fragmented
83% matchMixed43% of 1,964 reviews2017
Dev: Above and Beyond Technologies
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 41%
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: Open World Survival Craft 44.3% ★, Survival 13.3%, Open World 8%, Crafting 8%, Multiplayer 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi survival game that pits players against hostile alien environments and other survivors in a race for resources.
- #25 Dead District: Survival
79% matchMixed48% of 473 reviews2023
Dev: BadBit Games
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Open-world survival sandbox with base-building, crafting, farming and multiplayer. Explore a dangerous island, fight, build and stay alive.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 12.5%, Base Building 11.6%, Third-Person Shooter 10%, Crafting 9.8%, Survival 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: An action-oriented survival game that focuses on scavenging and base building in a hostile, zombie-infested landscape.
- #26 Outlaws of the Old West
80% matchMixed59% of 6,290 reviews2019
Dev: Virtual Basement LLCPub: Wandering Wizard
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 22.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Outlaws of the Old West is a massively multiplayer survival MMO with a huge world, thousands of items and a modular building system. Survive the wild, build your own homestead, defeat villainous bandits and work with others to tame the Wild West.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.6% ★, Survival 13.1%, Massively Multiplayer 12.4%, Open World 10.6%, Multiplayer 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that features extensive building and crafting mechanics in a western setting.
- #27 Outerstellar
78% matchMostly Positive72% of 170 reviews2023
Dev: Strange Horizons Ltd
Windows
Stranded on a hostile and deadly planet, you must gather resources, build shelter, and fight to survive each night. But the secrets of this world await in a gripping sci-fi survival PvP game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.7% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Survival 8.8%, Crafting 8.6%, Massively Multiplayer 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: A space-themed survival game that combines base building and exploration with shooter mechanics.
- #28 HumanitZ
74% matchMostly Positive75% of 12,839 reviews2026
Dev: Yodubzz StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 14.8 hrs≥1hr: 76%
HumanitZ is an isometric, open-world sandbox survival game set in a world ended by a zombie outbreak. Survive alone or with friends by scavenging, crafting, building, and fighting to last as long as ‘humanly’ possible. You can’t change the past, but you can fight for the future of humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Survival 11%, Crafting 10.3%, Post-apocalyptic 9.5%
- #29 Dysterra
75% matchMixed56% of 763 reviews2025
Dev: Reality MagiQ
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 65%
On a future post-apocalyptic Earth, build, craft, and loot other players’ bases to survive long enough to board the rocket and escape the dangerous robots and mercenaries that inhabit Ararat Island. Manipulate the weather and use earthquakes to change when the server wipe occurs in DYSTERRA!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.9% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 10%, Post-apocalyptic 9.9%, Survival 8.5%
- #30 SURVIVAL: Postapocalypse Now
77% matchMixed56% of 8,877 reviews2019
Dev: TB Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Want to survive? - Arm yourself and survive. Crafting, shooting, transport and much more awaits you in the Survival game. What happened to the world around and why he died - you may find out. But is this the main question now?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.4% ★, Survival 12.9%, Post-apocalyptic 8.6%, Open World 7.6%, Multiplayer 6.8%
- #31 Rem Survival
76% matchMostly Positive76% of 802 reviews2021
Dev: Immortal Hand Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 47.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Scavenge abandoned ruins, craft gear from scrap and salvaged materials, and fight the environment itself as hunger, exposure, and exhaustion push you to your limits. There are no second chances—only adaptation or death.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.8% ★, Base Building 14.3%, Crafting 11.2%, Survival 9.8%, Massively Multiplayer 8.6%
- #32 Nomad
77% matchMixed60% of 4,634 reviews2015
Dev: Diminished Studios
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Try and survive in the world of Nomad. Build a base and protect it from raiding players. Scavenge food, weapons and medical supplies across the island. Team up with others and make a base. Make your mark on the world of Nomad.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.3% ★, Survival 14.2%, Multiplayer 10.9%, Open World 9.1%, Crafting 8.5%
- #33 Undawn
74% matchMixed54% of 6,561 reviews2023
Dev: Lightspeed StudiosPub: Level Infinite
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 40.4 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Explore, adapt, and survive in Undawn, a free-to-play open-world survival RPG for mobile and PC developed by LightSpeed Studios and published by Level Infinite. Embark on an adventure with other survivors four years after a worldwide disaster where hordes of infected roam a shattered world.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 15.4%, Post-apocalyptic 12.5%, Survival 11.9%, Open World 11%, Crafting 10.6%
- #34 DARKEST DAYS
73% matchMixed49% of 4,909 reviews2025
Dev: NHN
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 41%
DARKEST DAYS is a zombie shooting RPG set in a post-apocalyptic world devastated by a sudden zombie outbreak. Explore a dark yet captivating open world, build a sanctuary with fellow survivors, grow stronger, and fight for survival.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 15.8%, Base Building 14.9%, Survival 14.7%, Open World 14.1%, Multiplayer 12.3%
- #35 Night of the Dead
71% matchMostly Positive77% of 11,782 reviews2024
Dev: Jackto Studios
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 32.7 hrs≥1hr: 83%
'Night of the Dead' is an open-world game that combines elements of exploration, tower defense, survival, and crafting. Traverse a world dominated by zombies while collecting various resources and powerful equipment. Build a fortress to survive the hordes of zombies that swarm every night!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.3% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Crafting 10.2%, Survival 8.6%, Open World 7.7%
- #36 The Front
69% matchMixed67% of 10,771 reviews2025
Dev: Samar Studio
Windows
Median: 10.6 hrsMean: 44.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
The Front is a survival open-world crafting sandbox game. You are a resistance fighter sent back in time to stop the rise of a tyrannical empire. Collect resources, craft tech, build shelters, and fight monsters to accomplish your mission.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.7% ★, Base Building 13%, Crafting 9.9%, Survival 9%, Massively Multiplayer 8.8%
- #37 Mesorift Survival
70% matchMostly Positive74% of 119 reviews2025
Dev: Meik.W Interactive
Windows
Mesorift Survival is a classic survival game with PvP and PvE elements, set in a tropical open world with three islands. Gather resources, build a base, craft weapons, and survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.6% ★, Base Building 12%, Survival 9.3%, Looter Shooter 9.3% ★, Open World 8.4%
- #38 Ruins To Fortress
70% matchMixed64% of 176 reviews2024
Dev: NimbleBeasts
Windows · Linux
Explore a post-apocalyptic island, craft, build, tear down enemy bases, defend and nuke your rivals! Life's about surviving in this multiplayer game, no matter what it takes!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.9% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 9.2%, Looter Shooter 8.5% ★, Survival 8.5%
- #39 Infestation: The New Z
73% matchMixed54% of 33,897 reviews2016
Dev: Fredaikis ABPub: OP Productions LLC
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 28.3 hrs≥1hr: 59%
The New Z is a FREE TO PLAY multi-game mode experience. SURVIVE with friends and gather loot, stash and trade. Go into wars against other groups in a massive OPEN WORLD or face them 5 v 5 in COMPETITIVE.
Why similar: Survival 22.7%, Open World 17.2%, Multiplayer 15.7%, Massively Multiplayer 15.6%, FPS 8.3%
- #40 Plains of Pain
70% matchVery Positive84% of 757 reviews2023
Dev: Cobra Byte Digital
Windows
Survive a brutal open world alone or with friends. Explore a procedural wasteland scorched by chaos. Build and defend your base, trade for what you need, complete deadly quests, and fight to claim faction outposts before someone else does.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.3% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Post-apocalyptic 9.7%, Crafting 8.7%, Survival 7.8%
- #41 DUCKSIDE
68% matchMostly Positive73% of 3,021 reviews2024
Dev: tinyBuild RigaPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 18.8 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Imagine DayZ or Rust but you're a duck. A persistent world survival game with PVP, PVE, crafting, base building and hat wearing ducks, wielding weapons.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25% ★, Crafting 9.8%, Post-apocalyptic 9.6%, Base Building 9.2%, Third-Person Shooter 8.8%
- #42 Outpost Zero
72% matchMixed49% of 850 reviews2019
Dev: Symmetric GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Outpost Zero blends the genres of Multiplayer Base Building Survival and Simulation games in a Sci-Fi universe. On a lawless alien world, robotic scouts are tasked with building an Outpost for human colonists. Command AI minions, colonize the planet, and survive the perils of Gaiya.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.5% ★, Survival 13.8%, Base Building 13.6%, Multiplayer 9.2%, Open World 8.4%
- #43 Taora : Survival
69% matchMixed61% of 405 reviews2024
Dev: Tulpar Games
Windows
Taora is an open world survival game with unique character building and crafting. Build and upgrade your base, and survive the zombie apocalypse !
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.6% ★, Looter Shooter 13.9% ★, Base Building 10.4%, Post-apocalyptic 9.8%, Crafting 9.5%
- #44 Project Asteroids
68% matchMixed57% of 129 reviews2024
Dev: Aleksandr Serdiuk
Windows
In the vastness of space, you are a lone robot desperately trying to survive. Build, explore, and fight for your life as you face deadly threats in the asteroid belt. This hardcore game shows no mercy—dangers lurk at every step, ready to destroy you at any moment.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 14.4%, Crafting 14%, Survival 12.6%, Base Building 11.9%, Open World 9.9%
- #45 Lost Rift
66% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,554 reviews2025
Dev: People Can Fly
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Lost Rift is a first person survival adventure shooter that blends cooperative base building with multiplayer PvE or PvP extraction expeditions. Journey solo or in teams of up to 5 players across a vast archipelago, craft gear, build bases, defeat raiders, and become legendary.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.4% ★, Base Building 14%, Crafting 10.4%, Massively Multiplayer 10.1%, Survival 9%
- #46 No One Survived
65% matchMixed65% of 7,645 reviews2025
Dev: Cat Play Studio
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%
This is a multiplayer cooperative open world construction survival sandbox game, where you and your friends must find supplies and build shelters in this world. You have to keep an eye on your character's needs state at all times, a bad state is likely to lead to death.
Why similar: Survival 21.9%, Open World 16.1%, Crafting 15.5%, Post-apocalyptic 13.9%, Multiplayer 12.3%
- #47 GRAV
71% matchMixed47% of 6,921 reviews2015
Dev: BitMonster, Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 60%
GRAV is a sand box experience where you explore a multitude of planets, hunt strange alien creatures, build and defend outposts, craft weapons and armor, and attempt to survive against other players in a hostile environment.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.4% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Survival 11.8%, Open World 9%, Crafting 8.3%
- #48 Palworld
64% matchVery Positive94% of 421,232 reviews2024
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 34.5 hrsMean: 70.8 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.8% ★, Survival 11.6%, Open World 11.2%, Base Building 9.6%, Crafting 9%
- #49 Hired Ops
67% matchMixed68% of 16,077 reviews2021
Dev: Absolut Soft LLC
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 16.1 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Hired Ops is a session-based online shooter dedicated to fierce conflicts between rival mercenary groups battling on a global scale.
Why similar: FPS 32.9%, Multiplayer 26.3%, Massively Multiplayer 16.9%, Shooter 14.1%, Action 5.2%
- #50 BEACHED
68% matchMixed65% of 3,688 reviews2021
Dev: Gradient Studios
Windows
A free-to-play, low-poly, open-world survival shooter where you’ll battle other players, explore massive monuments, and fight to stay alive. Build and fortify your base to defend against enemy raids, gather resources, and conquer a harsh, competitive world. Survival means doing whatever it takes.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.4% ★, Massively Multiplayer 12.2%, Survival 10.1%, Third-Person Shooter 8.8%, Open World 8.8%
- #51 SurrounDead
65% matchVery Positive92% of 24,802 reviews2022
Dev: ZurvivorPub: PlaySurrounDead
Windows
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
SurrounDead is an open world survival game. Taking place in a world ravaged by an apocalyptic catastrophe. The dead reign free and will stop at nothing to kill you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23% ★, Survival 17.5%, Post-apocalyptic 15.4%, Open World 14.2%, Base Building 12.2%
- #52 Wild Terra Online
69% matchMixed60% of 1,839 reviews2017
Dev: Juvty Worlds
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Wild Terra Online is a sandbox RPG, in a completely player-controlled medieval world. You will have to survive in a forest full of predators, build a shelter and improve your crafts skills, tame animals and fight for treasures. You can become anyone and do whatever you want!
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 22.3%, Survival 14.8%, Open World 12.3%, Sandbox 12.3%, Base Building 11.2%
