Games Like Subsistence

Subsistence

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).

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Sunkenland

80% 👍 OF 23K
About This Game

Get ready for a Waterworld-themed survival game with modular base building, sunken city scavenging, crafting, base defense, and invasions of NPC clans for resources and territory. Ready for the water apocalypse?

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Dive Sunken Cities
  • …Build Ocean Bases
  • …Defend Against Raids
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MEMORIES OF MARS

60% 👍 OF 1.7K
About This Game

Survive the extreme conditions on Mars. Compete or cooperate with others to gather resources, 3D print your equipment and build your base, unveil the story behind the abandoned mining operations and, ultimately, escape the Red Planet.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …3D-Print Mars Gear
  • …Build a Martian Base
  • …Explore Abandoned Mines
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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
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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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Green Hell

85% 👍 OF 101K
About This Game

Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Inspect Your Wounds
  • …Test Unknown Plants
  • …Balance Four Nutrients
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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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Necesse

93% 👍 OF 29K
About This Game

Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …dump your whole inventory into a sorting chest and have villagers route everything into the right storage by your rules.
  • …bring 10+ settlers with you on an expedition, where bosses scale up with every extra follower you add.
  • …sail to the edge of the world, assemble map fragments into treasure charts, and reveal new islands with dungeons, hostile settlements, and pirate bosses.
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Project Castaway

65% 👍 OF 1.9K
About This Game

Project Castaway is a survival crafting title set in the Pacific Ocean. Live the life of a stranded castaway, with only yourself - and the island's inhabitants - for company! Sail the ocean, hunt, explore unique islands and gather resources as you fight for survival.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Build a Raft Home
  • …Voyage Between Islands
  • …Scavenge Shipwrecks
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Stranded Deep

74% 👍 OF 47K
About This Game

Take the role of a plane crash survivor stranded somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Come face to face with some of the most life threatening scenarios that will result in a different experience each time you play. Scavenge. Discover. Survive.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Dive Shipwrecks
  • …Build Sailing Rafts
  • …Track Survival Vitals