Games Like The Gold River Project

The Gold River Project

The Gold River Project™ is a camping trip gone wrong in the Pacific Northwest. Explore, craft, build, and survive in this open-world experiment that traps you and up to 4 friends in this single player or co-op survival adventure game.

★ YLANDS ★ ASTRONEER ★ ARCTICO ★ ICARUS ★ VALHEIM ★ DAWNLANDS ★ LODVENTURE ★ DAWN OF DEFIANCE ★ SMALLAND: SURVIVE THE WILDS ★ UNDER A NEW SUN ★ SOLACE CRAFTING ★ VOIDTRAIN ★ WE ♥ IT 
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Ylands

64% 👍 OF 8.5K
About This Game

Adventure awaits you and your friends in the world of Ylands! Gather resources, craft tools, construct anything and everything, and explore the lands! Build a ship and set sail, encountering mythical animals, a wide variety of sea-life, enemies of all kinds and much more!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Build Custom Ships
  • …Sail Between Islands
  • …Craft to Reach Regions
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ASTRONEER

92% 👍 OF 139K
About This Game

Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …build a ramp from a mountain up through the atmosphere until you're literally in space, with the planet rotating under you.
  • …activate alien gateways that teleport you to a planet's center, then solve a system-wide chain that ends above the star.
  • …sculpt terrain into actual architecture: wall off your base, add a lip to catch debris, then roof the whole thing with engineered entrances.
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Arctico

70% 👍 OF 2.5K
About This Game

Explore Arctico with your dog sled, kayak, and up to 3 friends! Build and customize your base camp, gather resources and samples, set up labs, and take good care of your dogs in this peaceful island.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Explore by Dogsled
  • …Paddle Arctic Waters
  • …Build a Science Outpost
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ICARUS

75% 👍 OF 68K
About This Game

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.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Weather-Wrecked Shelters
  • …Drop From Orbit
  • …Tame Working Mounts
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Valheim

94% 👍 OF 552K
About This Game

A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …build a house with a fireplace and die if you forget ventilation.
  • …drag a cart full of ore across the wilderness, then end up building roads and supply routes to get it home.
  • …ship ore and even livestock across islands by building docks and running maritime trade routes.
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Dawnlands

52% 👍 OF 3.2K
About This Game

Dawnlands is an Open-World Survival Crafting cross-platform game with a massive world and epic lore. A variety of biomes, relics, and puzzles dot the landscape... an ancient land, lain dormant for centuries, is waiting to be awoken. New stories are waiting to be written.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Explore Varied Biomes
  • …Build a Home
  • …Craft Survival Gear
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Lodventure

74% 👍 OF 166
About This Game

Embark on a 1-4 players Co-op survival adventure in an open world wilderness in search of a myth called the Lod Stone. Build your house, sow your crops, brew potions, tame a horse and discover powerful abilities. Venture into dangerous dungeons, fight unique bosses to find the Lod stone.

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Dawn of Defiance

77% 👍 OF 1.9K
About This Game

You are a fallen Spartan, cast into the realm between the living and the Underworld. In this survival adventure inspired by Greek myth, hunt, craft and build a home worthy of legend with up to 3 friends. Raid the gods' temples, defeat legendary creatures and loot the iconic weapons of the Olympians.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Raid Olympian Temples
  • …Solve Temple Puzzles
  • …Hunt Mythic Beasts
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Smalland: Survive the Wilds

82% 👍 OF 10K
About This Game

Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Ride Giant Insects
  • …Build a Tree Settlement
  • …Move Your Base
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Voidtrain

73% 👍 OF 10.0K
About This Game

Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Build a Train Base
  • …Hook Floating Salvage
  • …Customize Modular Guns