- #1 Deadside
97% matchMostly Positive76% of 40,566 reviews2024
Dev: Bad Pixel
Windows
Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 44.7 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 21.4% ★, Base Building 10.7%, Survival 8.4%, Crafting 8.2%, Open World 6%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore multiplayer shooter focusing on realistic gunplay and survival in a vast open post-apocalyptic world.
- #2 Rust
96% matchVery Positive87% of 1,402,448 reviews2018
Dev: Facepunch Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 52.8 hrsMean: 431.0 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 25.3% ★, Survival 17.4%, Crafting 12.8%, Open World 9.3%, Multiplayer 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: Features the same core tense open-world survival gameplay centered around base-building and hostile PvP encounters.
- #3 SCUM
96% matchMostly Positive74% of 127,189 reviews2025
Dev: Gamepires
Windows
Median: 11.9 hrsMean: 105.4 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Welcome to SCUM, a ruthless open-world survival game where deep character customization defines the prisoner you become. Loot, craft, hunt, build, and fight to outlast a hostile island where every choice can change your fate. Stay alive. Stay dangerous. Become harder to kill.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.5% ★, Massively Multiplayer 13.8%, Survival 10.6%, Crafting 9.7%, Open World 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: Combines deep survival mechanics with tactical shooter combat and open-world survival elements.
- #4 DayZ
95% matchMostly Positive78% of 470,116 reviews2018
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 39.7 hrsMean: 281.7 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 14.8%, Post-apocalyptic 13.9%, Open World 10.6%, Multiplayer 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: Delivers a hardcore open-world survival experience with realistic looting, persistent threat, and dangerous player interactions.
- #5 Once Human
94% matchMostly Positive79% of 189,842 reviews2024
Dev: Starry Studio
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 52.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Once Human is a Strange Worlds 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 22.8% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Post-apocalyptic 8.6%, Crafting 8.5%, Survival 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: Offers an open-world multiplayer survival experience featuring base building and weird supernatural threats.
- #6 Subsistence
94% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,861 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 40.4 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 39.5% ★, Survival 12.2%, Crafting 10.8%, Base Building 9.5%, Open World 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game focusing on base building and defending against hostile wildlife and AI.
- #7 Miscreated
93% matchMixed66% of 31,592 reviews2018
Dev: Entrada Interactive LLC
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 38.2 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 41.5% ★, Survival 13.4%, Open World 9.1%, Post-apocalyptic 7.8%, Multiplayer 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic multiplayer survival game featuring open-world exploration, base building, and hostile threats.
- #8 Lost Light
92% matchMixed55% of 28,188 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 10.8%, Massively Multiplayer 9.7%, Shooter 9%
Why You'll Like It: A tactical looter-shooter where you scavenge for gear and fight for survival in a dangerous environment.
- #9 Will To Live Online
91% matchMixed69% of 18,412 reviews2018
Dev: AlphaSoft LLC
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 35.1 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 29.1% ★, Massively Multiplayer 12.1%, Post-apocalyptic 11.9%, Crafting 10.9%, Survival 9%
Why You'll Like It: An MMORPG shooter set in a grim post-apocalyptic wasteland with strong survival elements.
- #10 Hunt: Showdown 1896
90% matchMostly Positive74% of 279,228 reviews2019
Dev: Crytek
Windows
Median: 13.3 hrsMean: 184.4 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 23.5%, FPS 21.1%, Multiplayer 20.9%, PvP 17.7%, Shooter 13.1%
Why You'll Like It: Emphasizes high-stakes PvPvE extraction and tense tactical gunfights against both AI and players.
- #11 Next Day: Survival
91% 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 22.5%, Post-apocalyptic 16.6%, Open World 16%, Multiplayer 11.9%, Crafting 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: A survival shooter set in a fictional post-apocalyptic region filled with hostile players and dangerous AI.
- #12 Vigor
89% matchMixed46% of 8,036 reviews2024
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 7.7 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 24.4% ★, Post-apocalyptic 14.2%, Third-Person Shooter 12.7%, Base Building 10.3%, Multiplayer 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on tense shelter-building and high-stakes extraction shooter gameplay in post-war Norway.
- #13 Dysterra
89% matchMixed56% of 773 reviews2025
Dev: Reality MagiQ
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 60%
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 26.2% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Post-apocalyptic 9.9%, Crafting 9.9%, Survival 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi multiplayer survival shooter featuring base building, crafting, and fierce combat.
- #14 DeadPoly
88% matchMostly Positive78% of 6,250 reviews2022
Dev: TFL Games
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 64%
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 21.6% ★, Looter Shooter 10.3% ★, Base Building 9.5%, Post-apocalyptic 8.4%, Third-Person Shooter 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: A low-poly survival shooter featuring open-world exploration, crafting, and base building.
- #15 Night of the Dead
85% matchMostly Positive77% of 11,888 reviews2024
Dev: Jackto Studios
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 32.0 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 29.8% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 10%, Survival 8.6%, Open World 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: Combines open-world survival mechanics with intensive base building and tower defense against hordes.
- #16 Infestation: The New Z
87% matchMixed54% of 33,897 reviews2016
Dev: Fredaikis ABPub: OP Productions LLC
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 28.9 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 22.6%, Open World 17.4%, Massively Multiplayer 15.6%, Multiplayer 15.3%, FPS 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer zombie survival shooter focusing on open-world exploration and fast-paced PvP combat.
- #17 SURVIVAL: Postapocalypse Now
86% matchMixed56% of 8,877 reviews2019
Dev: TB Games
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.5 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 40.7% ★, Survival 12.9%, Post-apocalyptic 8.6%, Open World 7.7%, Multiplayer 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game focusing on scavenging, crafting, and post-apocalyptic survival.
- #18 Rem Survival
86% matchMostly Positive76% of 809 reviews2021
Dev: Immortal Hand Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 47.4 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 31.1% ★, Base Building 14%, Crafting 11%, Survival 9.8%, Massively Multiplayer 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: A survival crafting game with open-world exploration and building mechanics.
- #19 Marauders
84% matchMixed67% of 21,449 reviews2022
Dev: Small Impact Games
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 33.1 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 42.6% ★, FPS 15.7%, Open World 14.1%, PvP 14%, Shooter 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: A tactical sci-fi extraction shooter where players loot, craft, and survive in hostile space environments.
- #20 The Front
82% matchMixed67% of 10,771 reviews2025
Dev: Samar Studio
Windows
Median: 10.7 hrsMean: 44.8 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 28.2% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Crafting 9.7%, Survival 9%, Massively Multiplayer 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: A military-themed open-world survival crafting game featuring modern weaponry and base defense.
- #21 7 Days to Die
81% matchVery Positive87% of 405,507 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.4 hrsMean: 111.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 28.4% ★, Survival 13.6%, Base Building 13.2%, Post-apocalyptic 9.7%, Open World 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A classic zombie survival game combining crafting, base building, and open-world exploration.
- #22 Outlaws of the Old West
84% matchMixed59% of 6,297 reviews2019
Dev: Virtual Basement LLCPub: Wandering Wizard
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 22.6 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 42.1% ★, Survival 13%, Massively Multiplayer 12.4%, Open World 10.7%, Multiplayer 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival MMO featuring base building and multiplayer sandbox gameplay.
- #23 ICARUS
82% matchMostly Positive75% of 68,864 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.4 hrsMean: 46.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.5% ★, Base Building 14.6%, Survival 11.8%, Crafting 9.6%, Multiplayer 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: A session-based PvE survival game focused on exploration, crafting, and withstanding harsh environments.
- #24 Dead District: Survival
83% matchMixed47% of 500 reviews2023
Dev: BadBit Games
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.6 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 12.6%, Base Building 11.4%, Third-Person Shooter 10.1%, Survival 9.8%, Crafting 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer survival game set in a dangerous open world overrun by threats.
- #25 ZERO Sievert
80% matchVery Positive85% of 15,588 reviews2024
Dev: CABO StudioPub: Modern Wolf
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 23.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Now with over 600,000 copies sold, ZERO Sievert is a tense top-down extraction shooter that challenges you to scavenge a procedurally-generated wasteland, loot gear, and explore what’s left of a devastated world. When the odds are stacked against you, you’ll need to do more than just survive...
Why similar: Looter Shooter 26.2% ★, Post-apocalyptic 18.7%, Survival 17.9%, Base Building 16.2%, Open World 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival shooter featuring intense scavenging and tactical combat in a wasteland.
- #26 ARK: Survival Evolved
81% matchVery Positive83% of 778,394 reviews2017
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 202.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.5% ★, Survival 12%, Base Building 9.1%, Crafting 8.8%, Open World 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: A massive open-world survival crafting game with base building and multiplayer servers.
- #27 State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition
79% matchVery Positive83% of 70,161 reviews2020
Dev: Undead LabsPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 39.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
The dead have risen and civilization has fallen. Now it's up to you to gather survivors, scavenge for resources and build a community in a post-apocalyptic world – a world where you define what it means to survive in this ultimate zombie survival simulation.
Why similar: Base Building 28%, Survival 22.4%, Open World 17.8%, Multiplayer 12%, Post-apocalyptic 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on community building, scavenging, and survival in a zombie-infested open world.
- #28 Project Zomboid
79% matchVery Positive94% of 484,416 reviews2013
Dev: The Indie Stone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 15.9 hrsMean: 89.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33% ★, Survival 18.2%, Open World 11%, Post-apocalyptic 9.5%, Multiplayer 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: An uncompromisingly realistic zombie survival sandbox with deep crafting and base fortification.
- #29 Taora : Beginning
76% matchVery Positive87% of 2,240 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% ★, Third-Person Shooter 12.2%, Base Building 12.1%, Post-apocalyptic 9.8%, Sandbox 8.8%
- #30 Stay Out
77% matchMixed69% of 31,337 reviews2019
Dev: MOBITECH LLC
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 19.5 hrs≥1hr: 37%
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 14.3%, Multiplayer 12.2%, PvP 10.2%
- #31 Survive the Nights
74% matchMixed66% of 6,793 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 23.3% ★, Looter Shooter 14.2% ★, Post-apocalyptic 11.2%, Massively Multiplayer 10.3%, Survival 9.3%
- #32 Nomad
78% 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 42.7% ★, Survival 14.2%, Multiplayer 10.6%, Open World 9.2%, Crafting 8.4%
- #33 Karagon (Survival Robot Riding FPS)
75% 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 25.6% ★, Looter Shooter 13.6% ★, Base Building 10.9%, Crafting 8.9%, Survival 8.1%
- #34 Undawn
74% matchMixed54% of 6,611 reviews2023
Dev: Lightspeed StudiosPub: Level Infinite
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 41.3 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 12.6%, Survival 12%, Open World 11.2%, Crafting 10.5%
- #35 DARKEST DAYS
73% matchMixed49% of 5,176 reviews2025
Dev: NHN
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 42%
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%, Survival 14.9%, Open World 14.5%, Base Building 14.4%, Multiplayer 12.1%
- #36 Hurtworld
72% matchMostly Positive76% of 31,099 reviews2019
Dev: Bankroll Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 64.2 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 30.3% ★, Survival 14.5%, Crafting 10.3%, Open World 9.2%, FPS 9.1%
- #37 DUCKSIDE
70% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,110 reviews2024
Dev: tinyBuild RigaPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 22.8 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 25.3% ★, Crafting 9.6%, Post-apocalyptic 9.5%, Base Building 9%, Third-Person Shooter 8.9%
- #38 HumanitZ
69% matchMostly Positive74% of 14,430 reviews2026
Dev: Yodubzz StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 15.7 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 21.2% ★, Base Building 14.6%, Survival 11.4%, Crafting 10.1%, Post-apocalyptic 9.4%
- #39 Outerstellar
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 186 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 24% ★, Base Building 11.4%, Survival 8.8%, Crafting 8.5%, Massively Multiplayer 8.1%
- #40 Last Oasis
71% matchMixed62% of 24,230 reviews2020
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 17.8 hrsMean: 120.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Nomadic Survival MMO. Build wooden walking machines to travel to new lands. Create clans and fight for territory. Resources deplete fast, so take your sword and scavenge, pirate, and trade to stay alive.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 21.1%, Survival 15.4%, Open World 11.9%, Crafting 11.1%, Building 8%
- #41 Fragmented
73% 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 44.7% ★, Survival 13.3%, Open World 8.1%, Crafting 7.8%, Multiplayer 7.3%
- #42 Mesorift Survival
69% matchMostly Positive72% of 152 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 27.7% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Survival 9.4%, Looter Shooter 9.2% ★, Open World 8.5%
- #43 Ruins To Fortress
69% matchMixed66% of 184 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 30.3% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Crafting 9.1%, Looter Shooter 8.5% ★, Survival 8.5%
- #44 Muck
67% matchVery Positive93% of 184,764 reviews2021
Dev: Dani
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Muck is a survival-roguelike. Collect resources, find items & build a base to survive for as long as you can.
Why similar: Survival 23%, Crafting 18.8%, Base Building 17%, Multiplayer 14.2%, Building 12.6%
- #45 No One Survived
67% matchMixed64% of 7,844 reviews2025
Dev: Cat Play Studio
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 22.7 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 22.2%, Open World 16.5%, Crafting 15.3%, Post-apocalyptic 14%, Multiplayer 12.1%
- #46 Outpost Zero
71% matchMixed48% of 853 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 37% ★, Survival 13.9%, Base Building 13.4%, Multiplayer 9%, Open World 8.6%
- #47 Taora : Survival
68% matchMixed59% of 421 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 22.8% ★, Looter Shooter 13.9% ★, Base Building 10.2%, Post-apocalyptic 9.8%, Crafting 9.4%
- #48 Out of Reach
70% matchMixed57% of 3,051 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 36.6% ★, Survival 11.6%, Crafting 9.4%, Open World 8.2%, Massively Multiplayer 7.8%
- #49 Not Quite Dead: Open World Survival
66% matchMixed62% of 247 reviews2026
Dev: Voidecho Studio
Windows
Open world zombie survival Coop game with base building, looting, crafting, vehicles, and exploration.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.1% ★, Third-Person Shooter 17.4%, Post-apocalyptic 15.8%, Multiplayer 10.7%, Open World 8.8%
- #50 Hired Ops
68% matchMixed68% of 16,161 reviews2021
Dev: Absolut Soft LLC
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 16.2 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 33.5%, Multiplayer 25.5%, Massively Multiplayer 16.8%, Shooter 14.4%, Action 5.3%
- #51 Lost Rift
65% matchMixed69% of 1,717 reviews2025
Dev: People Can Fly
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 27.7% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Crafting 10.3%, Massively Multiplayer 10.1%, Survival 9%
- #52 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
64% matchVery Positive91% of 7,668 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Survive, craft, and automate in this free prologue set on one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters, an open-world game where you play solo or with friends to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.3% ★, Base Building 16.2%, Crafting 10.4%, Multiplayer 9%, Open World 8.6%
- #53 Project Asteroids
67% matchMixed56% of 132 reviews2024
Dev: PAEB Studio
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 14.5%, Crafting 13.9%, Survival 12.7%, Base Building 11.8%, Open World 10.1%
