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Forager The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!

Similarity 65%
Price -97% 0.64€
Rating 8.8
Release 18 Apr 2019
Wrongworld 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?

Similarity 64%
Price -86% 1.03€
Rating 8.7
Release 11 May 2018
RuneScape: Dragonwilds On RuneScape’s forgotten continent of Ashenfall, dragons have awoken. Gather, build, skill and craft to survive in this co-operative (1-4) survival crafting game. Only by mastering survival and uncovering ancient secrets can they hope to slay the Dragon Queen—alone or with allies.

Similarity 64%
Price 29.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 15 Apr 2025
Forever Skies A first-person survival game set on a post-apocalyptic, ecologically ruined Earth. Play solo or with up to 3 friends as you build, upgrade, and fly a high-tech airship. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and face dangers on the surface as you hunt for a cure to save humanity.

Similarity 64%
Price -52% 14.02€
Rating 7.9
Release 14 Apr 2025
Once Human 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.

Similarity 64%
Price Free to play
Rating 7.6
Release 09 Jul 2024
Salt Salt is an open world exploration game where you sail from island to island looking for loot and new discoveries! Relax and explore at your own pace, picking a direction and setting sail across a vast ocean filled with quests, merchants, ruins, pirates, and other mysterious places.

Similarity 64%
Price -41% 8.96€
Rating 7.4
Release 06 Feb 2018
ASTRONEER 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.

Similarity 64%
Price -80% 6.26€
Rating 9.1
Release 05 Feb 2019
Rem Survival Tackle starvation, dehydration, thermal conditions, radiation poisoning, and toxic gas inhalation while trying to keep your sanity intact. Shack up, cook some chicken, and make friends or enemies as you discover, explore, learn, build, and develop your skills needed for a true survival experience.

Similarity 64%
Price 15.79€
Rating 7.2
Release 05 Mar 2021
ICARUS ICARUS is a PvE survival game for up to eight players. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Survive the Open World, complete timed Missions or build your Outpost. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.

Similarity 63%
Price 33.99€
Rating 7.2
Release 03 Dec 2021
Smalland: Survive the Wilds 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.

Similarity 63%
Price -81% 6.74€
Rating 8.1
Release 15 Feb 2024
Stranded Deep 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.

Similarity 62%
Price 15.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 10 Aug 2022
Half Dead Half dead is a multiplayer sci-fi game about a violent TV show. The players' goal is to survive in a network of rooms full of traps.

Similarity 62%
Price 1.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 01 Aug 2016
Nightingale Nightingale is an open world survival crafting game, where you’ll adventure across the mysterious and dangerous Fae Realms. As a daring Realmwalker, you’ll defeat monstrous enemies, survive hostile environments, and build elaborate estates in a visually stunning Gaslamp Fantasy world.

Similarity 62%
Price -48% 15.29€
Rating 6.7
Release 20 Feb 2024
Valheim A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!

Similarity 62%
Price -50% 9.99€
Rating 9.4
Release 02 Feb 2021
My Island MyIsland is a relaxed and beautiful survival game,You will drift and survive on the tropical islands, hunt and travel, build houses and development farming, and create your own warm homeland.

Similarity 62%
Price 12.00€
Rating 6.6
Release 01 May 2024
Eden Rising Brace yourself for a brand new action-packed Open World. Explore a huge world to gather materials for gear and defenses. Use everything at your disposal to defend your bases and defeat hordes of hostile monsters. Play solo or up to 8-player online!

Similarity 61%
Price Free to play
Rating 6.3
Release 17 May 2019
KeepUp Survival KeepUp Survival is an open base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and unfold your own story on a mysterious island.

Similarity 61%
Price 14.79€
Rating 6.3
Release 05 Mar 2024
Grounded 2 Shrunk again, but the world is much larger. In this open-world, single-player or co-op survival adventure, craft weapons and armor, build your base, and traverse the playground on your buggy. But something else is out there—and it hasn’t forgotten you.

Similarity 61%
Price 29.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 29 Jul 2025
Scrapnaut Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements. Explore an open world with different biomes, take care of oxygen, manage your farms, generate electricity, build your home and much more!

Similarity 61%
Price -96% 0.56€
Rating 6.8
Release 15 Sep 2021
Remains Remains - survival in outer space orbiting the planet. Explore the area. Find a way to restore oxygen. Create tools for your needs. Beware of the dangers of outer space. Build your shelter in orbit and try not to die!

Similarity 61%
Price 7.79€
Rating 7.3
Release 08 Jun 2021
Omega Crafter Adventure in a vast open-world survival craft game with your programmable sidekick Grammi! Program the Grammi to collect materials, build your town, craft weapons and armor to challenge strong enemies! Play alone or with friends online!

Similarity 60%
Price 24.50€
Rating 7.6
Release 14 May 2025
The Planet Crafter 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.

Similarity 60%
Price 23.99€
Rating 9.4
Release 10 Apr 2024
Palworld Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!

Similarity 60%
Price -25% 21.74€
Rating 9.3
Release 18 Jan 2024
Tinkerlands Explore, craft, and fight your way through uncharted islands — solo or with up to 4 players in co-op! Tinkerlands is an exciting survival adventure where you will build your settlement, craft useful tools to survive, and even use magic!

Similarity 60%
Price -80% 2.64€
Rating 8.1
Release 23 May 2025