The Open World Survival Craft Zone

Open survival games about gathering, crafting, building, hunger, threats, and exploration.

Latest Standouts

Recent releases that landed well, newest first, filtered to games with enough reviews to trust the score.

Permafrost - Permafrost is a story-driven survival sandbox set in a frozen, post-apocalyptic world. Discover a vast lore-rich open world, alone or in co-op with up to 4 players. Explore, scavenge, craft, and build a network of shelters to outlast the cold.
Honeycomb: The World Beyond - Honeycomb: The World Beyond is a sci-fi survival adventure set on the vibrant alien planet of Sota7. Adapt by building your base and crafting essential tools. Explore diverse biomes and use your bioengineering experience to uncover mysteries and secure humanity's future.
Din's Champion - The evil goddess seeks to devour and remake the world… and you are what stands in her way. Fight and kill, expand your skill tree, craft and build, and lead the world’s people to victory in Din’s Champion, a multiplayer fantasy action-RPG where every choice matters, and the choices are endless.
Island Beekeeper - Build your apiary on islands above the clouds, travel on your medocycle, crossbreed bees with unique traits and create a cozy home in the sky. Grow plants, explore islands and send healing honey down to Earth, where people still hope for your help.
Wonderia - Wonderia's an open-world, manga-art adventure just waiting to be explored. It's got sci-fi sim elements, deep dungeons, and you can even morph into alien form! Grab up to 7 friends to mine, craft, battle, and level—or farm and fish the day away, if that's more your tempo. There's so much to do!
EverRail - Every passenger is a life. Every death brings the end closer. An open world survival crafting game where you explore, scavenge, and craft to endure on the frozen exomoon Inara. Command and upgrade your ever-moving train, solo or with up to 4 players. Move or freeze.
Skillwood - Skillwood is a relaxing woodcutter simulator inspired by survival simulators and incremental games. Chop wood, mine stone, trade with NPCs, upgrade forests, unlock new trees or new areas and prestige to do even better next run.

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Beyond Contact - Players say: On Ketern, a Space Corps responder gathers resources, researches technology and builds to survive alien hazards and aid a planet in crisis. Players like: Story And Setting · Exploration And Biomes · Crafting And Progression ·
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A fiercely formidable sci-fi survival game, set on a hostile alien world that wants you dead! Alone, or with a crew, do you have what it takes to survive?

Green Hell - Players say: Stranded in the Amazon, anthropologist Jake Higgins must craft, hunt, treat injuries, and survive while searching for his wife. Players like: Layered Survival Systems · Jungle Atmosphere · Learning By Experiment ·
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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.

Feel The Snow - Players say: As a snow creature, explore a winter world, rescue your village, craft gear, build shelter, and battle dark creatures solo or in co-op. Players like: Cozy winter atmosphere · Cute pixel art · Co-op with friends ·
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Choose one of the characters and start your journey. The game has many interesting things in store: building, crafting, puzzles, bosses, mystery, laughs, quests etc.

Arctico - Players say: Continue your late mentor’s Arctic research by exploring an icy island with sled dogs, gathering samples, and building an outpost. Players like: Calm Arctic Atmosphere · Dog Sled Travel · Relaxed Exploration ·
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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.

The Survivalists - Players say: Stranded on a changing archipelago, gather, craft, build, and train monkeys to help you survive and find a way to escape. Players like: Monkeys Handle Tasks · Co-op Island Adventures · Charming Pixel Art ·
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A living world full of surprises, secrets and danger awaits in The Survivalists, an adventure-filled survival sandbox set in The Escapists universe. Explore, build, craft and even train monkeys with up to three friends in a desperate bid to survive. Have you got what it takes to be a Survivalist?

Tribes of Midgard - Players say: Explore procedural Norse realms, gather and craft gear, and defend a village from Ragnarök’s forces alone or in co-op. Players like: Co-op With Friends · Exploration and Crafting · Boss Fights ·
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A vibrant blend of survival and action RPG for 1-10 players! Craft legendary items, grow your home base and embark on an epic journey through procedural realms to face towering creatures hel-bent on unleashing Ragnarök. Valhalla can wait, Einherjar!  

ASTRONEER - Players say: As a space explorer, reshape alien terrain, gather resources, build automated bases, and travel between planets alone or in co-op. Players like: Relaxed Planetary Exploration · Satisfying Terrain Shaping · Modular Base Building ·
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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.

The Long Dark - Players say: Survive alone in a post-disaster Canadian winter by scavenging, crafting, and managing hunger, thirst, fatigue, and cold. Players like: Survival Sandbox · Lonely Winter Atmosphere · Exploration and Planning ·
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THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies -- only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.

SCUM - Players say: As a prisoner stranded on a hostile island, scavenge, craft, and manage your body while facing Puppets, creatures, and other players. Players like: Detailed Body Simulation · Large Island Exploration · Stealthy Mech Encounters ·
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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.

Forgotten Seas - Players say: Stranded in the Bermuda Void, gather and build on shifting islands, then bottle and deploy ships to explore, hunt treasure, and fight pirates. Players like: Sailing And Exploration · Base Building · Pirate Atmosphere ·
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You are lost in the Bermuda Void, where the ocean is endless and dry land precious. Craft your Ship-in-a-Bottle, then experience survival on the high seas. Sail for new land, build camps, hunt for treasures, trade for goods - then defend your ship from dreaded pirates stalking this strange realm!

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Wrongworld - Players say: Crash-land on a randomly generated alien world, gather and craft to survive, build a home, and search for a way back. Players like: Absurd Humor · Strange Discoveries · Survival Mechanics ·
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Crash-landed on a surreal, low-poly world filled with freakish inhabitants, choose between permadeath and non-permadeath modes and embark on an epic (and ridiculous) survival adventure. Will you manage to stay alive as you unravel the mysteries of Wrongworld and search for a way home?

Conan Exiles Enhanced - Players say: Stranded in Hyboria, gather resources, brave harsh biomes, build a settlement, capture thralls, and explore or fight alone or online. Players like: Creative Base Building · Varied World Exploration · Useful Thrall Companions ·
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Conan Exiles Enhanced is an open world survival game set in the mythical lands of Hyboria, now fully upgraded to Unreal Engine 5 with stunning visuals and improved performance. SURVIVE, BUILD, and DOMINATE alone or with friends in a world brimming with adventure!

Hidden Gems

Well-liked but under-played: strong scores, small review counts.

helionaut - An open-world galaxy adventure game ✨🚀🌠 Explore a procedurally-generated universe filled with diverse micro-planets, asteroid belts and UFOs. 👽
Brigand: Oaxaca - Players say: In post-apocalyptic Oaxaca, survive a punishing first-person RPG of combat, scavenging, skill-building, and branching choices. Players like: Deep RPG Systems · Distinctive Atmosphere · Flexible Combat Tactics ·
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Brigand: Oaxaca is a highly difficult post-apocalyptic RPG/FPS set in Mexico. Emphasis is on challenge, a branching story with multiple endings, and total freedom of action (kill friendly characters, rob stores, jump across roofs, etc.).

Primitier - Primitier is a highly flexible VR sandbox game, where you can create tools and machinery by freely cutting and connecting objects in a vast world based on physics simulation.
CleanFall - Players say: Guide a cleaning bot toward the planet’s core, mining underground layers and building a turret-laden craft to survive. Players like: Distinctive Genre Blend · Creative Turret Building · Turret Fusion Experiments ·
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CleanFall is a survival rogue-like that prizes player freedom and creativity. Build mobile death machines to fight off ravenous hordes, craft and alchemize gun turrets, and tunnel through subterranean ecosystems crawling with nameless horrors.

DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS - Players say: As Alefgard’s Builder, gather block-based materials, craft gear, and rebuild settlements through a chapter-based RPG adventure. Players like: Story-Led Quests · Charming Dragon Quest · Creative Town Building ·
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The beloved block-building RPG, DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS, is bringing its handy crafting features to Steam! Weave your own tale as you build your own unique buildings and towns to restore Alefgard to it's former glory!

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Urge - Players say: After a crash, survive a monster-filled wasteland where your bodily waste fuels vehicles—and careless use thickens deadly fog. Players like: Unusual Fog Mechanic · Creative Base Building · Creepy Atmosphere ·
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Fight, build, explore, survive, while the dynamic player-caused hazardous fog is slowly changing the rules of the world around you.

Penkura - Penkura is a sci-fi base-building survival game where you construct a colony from a top-down command system, explore an alien world in first person, and use programmable bots to gather resources, build, repair, and keep your base alive.
Frost Survival VR - Sandbox Survival in VR. Face a frozen wilderness solo or in co-op - build a shelter, craft tools, hunt for food, and manage your resources to endure harsh conditions. Strategize your moves against unpredictable weather and lurking dangers. And remember to keep yourself safe and sane!
Whisper of the Swallows - Brave a savage, unforgiving procedurally generated world where extreme weather and the nightmares of the dark will hunt you down. Alone or in co-op, survive, build, and explore to turn a cursed hellscape into your sanctuary of light.
No Man's Home - You wander into the dangerous Asran Exclusion Zone. You will have to survive hunger, thirst, dangerous factions, radioactive emissions and the wild life. Remember, this is no man's home and you are not the hero.

Top Rated

Defining examples of the genre, all rated 85%+ across 1,000+ reviews.

Terraria - Players say: Explore a randomly generated 2D world, mine and craft gear, build a home, and fight increasingly dangerous monsters and bosses. Players like: Deep Gear Progression · Replayable Adventures · Creative Building ·
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Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

Subnautica - Players say: Stranded on an alien ocean, gather, craft and build your way into deeper waters while managing survival and avoiding predators. Players like: Immersive Ocean Exploration · Tense Sound And Atmosphere · Beautiful Underwater World ·
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Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.

Satisfactory - Players say: As a FICSIT employee on an alien world, explore for resources and build first-person factories that automate production. Players like: Factory Optimization · Rebuilding Production Lines · Conveyor-Belt Networks ·
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Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!

Don't Starve - Players say: As Wilson, stranded in a hostile, procedurally generated wilderness, gather resources, craft tools, and fight to survive. Players like: Distinctive Hand-Drawn Art · Discovery Through Survival · Randomized World Exploration ·
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Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.

The Forest - Players say: After a plane crash, search for your missing son while crafting shelter, exploring caves, and surviving cannibal mutants. Players like: Base Building · Co-op Chaos · Cave Exploration ·
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As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.

The Planet Crafter - Players say: Stranded on a barren planet, gather resources, craft survival gear, and build machines that gradually create a living world. Players like: Visible Planet Transformation · Relaxed No-Combat Survival · Satisfying Progression ·
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A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.

Abiotic Factor - Players say: As a stranded GATE scientist, scavenge a breached underground lab, craft improvised gear, and explore solo or with up to five others. Players like: Interconnected Facility · Rewarding Crafting Progression · Distinctive Sci-Fi Setting ·
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Abiotic Factor is a survival crafting experience for 1-6 players set in the depths of an underground research facility. Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the world’s greatest minds must survive against the universe’s biggest threats.

The Planet Crafter: Prologue - Players say: Survive on a barren planet by gathering resources, building terraforming machines, and gradually creating conditions for life. Players like: Visible Planet Changes · Relaxing Base Building · Steady Terraforming Progress ·
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Experience the first stages of terraforming an entire planet in this space survival open world terraforming crafting game prologue. Explore, survive, collect, build your base then create oxygen, heat and pressure to make an hostile planet livable for humanity.

Don't Starve Together - Players say: Gather, craft, and build in a strange wilderness, balancing food, sanity, and seasonal threats to survive alone or with friends. Players like: Co-op Survival Stories · Distinctive Hand-Drawn Art · Replayable Survival Loop ·
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Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.

Dying Light - Players say: Trapped in zombie-stricken Harran, an agent races across rooftops, scavenges supplies, crafts weapons, and faces deadly nights. Players like: Fluid Rooftop Parkour · Tense Night Chases · Satisfying Melee Combat ·
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First-person action survival game set in a post-apocalyptic open world overrun by flesh-hungry zombies. Roam a city devastated by a mysterious virus epidemic. Scavenge for supplies, craft weapons, and face hordes of the infected.