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by Expansive Worlds, Avalanche Studios
Hunt - Explore - SurviveThe most realistic prehistoric survival game ever created. Featuring a huge Cretaceous environment populated by horrifying dinosaur all-stars, such as T-Rex, Triceratops, Utahraptor, Velociraptor and Quetzalcoatlus.
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$44.99ARK: Survival Ascended
Oct 25 · Studio Wildcard, Grove Street Games, Instinct Games
Both: Survival · Open World · Dinosaurs
ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!
SurvivalOpen WorldMultiplayerDinosaursBase BuildingCraftingBuildingAdventureSandboxAction👍 106,877
$29.99Palworld
Jul 9 · Pocketpair
Both: Open World · Survival · Co-op
Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!
Open WorldSurvivalCreature CollectorMultiplayerOpen World Survival CraftOnline Co-OpCraftingIndieCo-opAdventure👍 412,343
-25%$29.99Monster Hunter Wilds
Feb 27 · CAPCOM Co., Ltd.
Both: Hunting · Co-op · Open World
The unbridled force of nature runs wild and relentless, with environments transforming drastically from one moment to the next. This is a story of monsters and humans and their struggles to live in harmony in a world of duality.
HuntingActionMultiplayerOnline Co-OpCo-opCharacter CustomizationOpen WorldDragonsThird PersonAction RPG👍 201,168
$11.99Collision Course
May 29 · Crynosaurs
Both: Dinosaurs · Survival · Open World
An asteroid is hurtling toward the planet! Sneak, scavenge and blast your way through an immersive prehistoric world filled with Humans, Dinosaurs, Droids and Mother Nature’s fury!
AdventureActionIndieDinosaursSurvivalEarly AccessOpen WorldFirst-PersonMultiplayerFPS👍 302
$19.99Core Keeper
Aug 27 · Pugstorm
Both: Open World · Survival · Co-op
Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
Open WorldSurvivalExplorationPixel GraphicsMultiplayerSandboxCraftingBuildingCo-opBase Building👍 50,086
$34.99Smalland: Survive the Wilds
Feb 15 · Max Ent Games Ltd
Both: Survival · Open World · Co-op
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.
SurvivalMultiplayerOpen World Survival CraftBase BuildingOnline Co-OpOpen WorldCraftingBuildingCo-opExploration👍 8,088
$29.99Soulmask
Apr 9 · CampFire Studio
Both: Survival · Open World · Hunting
Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. Possess any of your tribespeople, recruit followers, and build a thriving automated civilization. Survive, expand, and forge your own legacy across a vast ancient open world — together with friends.
SurvivalBase BuildingOpen WorldCraftingPvEPvPHuntingSandboxAdventureSingleplayer👍 18,451
$29.99Sons Of The Forest
Feb 22 · Endnight Games Ltd
Both: Survival · Open World · Co-op
Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends, in this terrifying new open-world survival horror simulator.
SurvivalOpen WorldMultiplayerCo-opSurvival HorrorBase BuildingHorrorCraftingBuildingFirst-Person👍 284,737
A Twisted Path to Renown
Dec 17 · Game-Labs
Both: Survival · Hunting
Try to survive the wilds of 1899 America. Join intense raids, craft vital items, and make deals with others. Build and expand your Homestead - a cradle of your farming, mining, prospecting and uniting your lands into businesses and production. Forge your legacy and build your path to renown.
Extraction ShooterWesternSurvivalHuntingOnline Co-OpEarly AccessCombatStealthMultiplayerHistorical👍 435
$19.99Longvinter
Feb 21 · Uuvana Studios
Both: Survival · Open World · Co-op
Fish, farm, craft, gather, cook, loot or steal from other players and build a campsite or a village with your friends in an open-world multiplayer sandbox game without rules!
MultiplayerSurvivalCraftingOpen WorldOpen World Survival CraftSandboxPvPCo-opBuildingAdventure👍 6,951
$29.99RuneScape: Dragonwilds
6 days ago · Jagex Ltd
Both: Open World · Survival · Co-op
On RuneScape's forgotten continent of Ashenfall, dragons have awoken. Gather, build, skill and craft in this co-operative survival adventure. Only by mastering survival and uncovering ancient secrets can you hope to face the ferocious Dragon Queen.
Open WorldSurvivalMultiplayerOpen World Survival CraftCo-opOnline Co-OpEarly AccessCraftingBuildingBase Building👍 28,410
$24.99Survive the Fall
May 22 · Angry Bulls Studio
Both: Survival · Open World
Explore, loot and fight in an open world action game set in a post-apocalyptic future after a devastating meteor strike. Assemble your team and take the fight to the enemy or choose a stealthy approach to gain the upper hand. Expand your base to research new gear and get ready to survive the fall.
SingleplayerSurvivalBase BuildingOpen WorldOpen World Survival CraftPost-apocalypticStealthActionRPGCrafting👍 592
$23.99The Planet Crafter
Apr 10 · Miju Games
Both: Survival · Co-op · Open World
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.
Base BuildingOpen World Survival CraftSurvivalOnline Co-OpCo-opBuildingCraftingSpaceOpen WorldExploration👍 68,913
$19.99Planetaries
Aug 15 · EY-Studio
Both: Survival · Open World · Co-op
Experience a vast Sci-fi open-world survival TD game set on a distant planet deep in the universe. Craft, build, mine, trade, explore, and survive in this alien world. Collect Data and defend against waves of enemies seeking to banish you. Enjoy the adventure in Singleplayer or Multiplayer.
Open World Survival CraftSurvivalOpen WorldOnline Co-OpMultiplayerBuildingCraftingExplorationBase BuildingCo-op👍 214
$29.99Valheim
12 days ago · Iron Gate AB
Both: Survival · Open World · Co-op
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!
Open World Survival CraftSurvivalOnline Co-OpOpen WorldMultiplayerBuildingCraftingBase BuildingExplorationCo-op👍 465,813
$9.99Fera: The Sundered Tribes
Sep 17 · Massive Damage, Inc.
Both: Open World · Hunting
Fera: The Sundered Tribes is an enthralling mixture of monster hunting survival action RPG with village building and tribe management with groundbreaking aerial traversal and combat mechanics.
Early AccessMultiplayerOnline Co-OpSimulationAction RPGOpen WorldHuntingColony SimBase BuildingThird Person👍 394
$16.99No One Survived
Dec 27 · Cat Play Studio
Both: Survival · Open World · Co-op
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.
SurvivalOpen WorldZombiesMultiplayerCraftingSurvival HorrorPost-apocalypticExplorationBuildingCo-op👍 6,970
$44.99SCUM
Jun 17 · Gamepires
Both: Open World · Survival
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.
Open World Survival CraftOpen WorldSurvivalMassively MultiplayerNudityZombiesCraftingSingleplayerActionRealistic👍 98,571
$19.99ZERO Sievert
Oct 23 · CABO Studio
Both: Survival · Open World
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...
Extraction ShooterSurvivalPost-apocalypticLooter ShooterPixel GraphicsTop-DownShooterOpen WorldSingleplayerAction👍 14,387
$19.99HumanitZ
Feb 6 · Yodubzz Studios
Both: Survival · Open World
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.
SurvivalZombiesOpen WorldMultiplayerBase BuildingCraftingSandboxIsometricPost-apocalypticShooter👍 11,166
$24.99Bootstrap Island
Mar 12 · Maru VR
Both: Survival · Open World
A highly realistic VR survival roguelike adventure set on a ruthless 17th-century tropical island. Shipwrecked and alone, you must survive without guidance as you face wild beasts, nature’s fury, and a mysterious local tribe. Every decision is yours. Your survival is in your own hands!
SurvivalAdventureOpen WorldVRLife SimRoguelikeActionNatureAtmosphericSimulation👍 1,366
$1.99TRAPPED
Jun 16 · Cheap Fun Games, Forthright Indie Team
Both: Open World · Survival · Co-op
Something has gone terribly wrong in TRAPPED Alaska. Except for you, and a handful of survivors, the whole town has been emptied. Everywhere, what should be water has been replaced by a black semi-sentient sludge that seems to change everything it touches. And it’s rising...
ActionAdventureIndieStrategyOpen WorldSurvivalViolentMultiplayerEarly AccessCo-op👍 248
$39.99Enshrouded
Jan 24 · Keen Games GmbH
Both: Open World · Survival
You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.
Open WorldSurvivalBase BuildingMultiplayerOnline Co-OpCraftingRPGAdventureExplorationBuilding👍 93,460
$44.997 Days to Die
Jul 25 · The Fun Pimps
Both: Survival · Open World
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!
SurvivalZombiesMultiplayerOpen WorldOpen World Survival CraftBase BuildingPost-apocalypticOnline Co-OpVoxelBuilding👍 279,474
$34.99V Rising
May 8 · Stunlock Studios
Both: Survival · Open World
Awaken as a Vampire. Hunt for blood in nearby settlements to regain your strength and evade the scorching sun to survive. Raise your castle and thrive in an ever-changing, open world full of mystery. Gain allies online and conquer the land of the living.
VampiresSurvivalOpen WorldBase BuildingMultiplayerCraftingOnline Co-OpPvEBuildingPvP👍 110,532
-50%$24.99Dune: Awakening
Jun 10 · Funcom
Both: Survival · Open World
Dune: Awakening is a single- and multiplayer Open World Survival game with immersive adventure and RPG gameplay. Explore, build, craft, and unravel a cinematic Dune story as you rise from survival to greatness on the most legendary planet in the universe. Just remember: the sandworm always comes.
Open World Survival CraftSurvivalMultiplayerOpen WorldBase BuildingRPGAdventurePvPExplorationPvE👍 67,053
$2.99Polygeddon
Apr 17 · Digital Dreamworks, Gamesforfarm
Both: Survival · Open World · Co-op
You are on an island where everyone wants to kill you, ranging from weather conditions to dangerous enemies, your goal is to survive. Survive alone or together. Build, craft, grow, explore, fight!
ZombiesPost-apocalypticSurvivalOpen WorldRPGMultiplayerExplorationCo-opSandboxAdventure
$24.99Len's Island
Jun 19 · Flow Studio
Both: Survival · Open World
An open-world survival crafting game for 1–8 players, blending intense dungeon crawling and ARPG combat with peaceful farming and creative building. Take on quests and explore a vast, procedurally-generated world full of danger and discovery.
Open World Survival CraftSurvivalFarmingBuildingDungeon CrawlerOpen WorldNatureCraftingSandboxExploration👍 5,936
$26.99Wild West Legacy
Aug 22 · Moon Punch Studio
Both: Survival · Open World
Conquer the Wild West. Explore the open world of a fictitious American Midwest and survive the harsh environment. Convince other settlers to join you and manage your ever-growing settlements. Build a home, take care of your farm and become a legend in Wild West Legacy.
WesternSimulationSurvivalOpen WorldCraftingBase BuildingBuildingRPGLife SimFirst-Person👍 1,705
-55%$13.49Forever Skies
Apr 14 · Far From Home
Both: Co-op · Survival · Open World
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.
SingleplayerCo-opExplorationSurvivalBase BuildingOpen WorldCraftingOpen World Survival CraftAdventureAction👍 8,139
-60%$9.99Deadside
Dec 5 · Bad Pixel
Both: Survival · Open World
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!
SurvivalCraftingPvPOpen World Survival CraftMultiplayerBase BuildingFPSOpen WorldPost-apocalypticSandbox👍 34,563
$19.99Terminus: Zombie Survivors
Aug 19 · Longplay Studios
Both: Survival · Open World
Terminus: Zombie Survivors is a 2D turn-based survival roguelike set during a zombie apocalypse. Each journey is unique, and every decision can mean the difference between life and death. Can you brave hunger, cold, and the undead in order to reach the Terminus and find salvation?
SurvivalZombiesRoguelikeOpen World Survival CraftTurn-Based StrategyOpen WorldSandboxRPGPixel GraphicsExploration👍 4,341
$14.99My Island
May 1 · SnowBaby Games
Both: Survival · Open World
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.
Open World Survival CraftSurvivalMultiplayerOpen WorldCraftingAdventureSimulationSexual ContentBuildingCharacter Customization👍 1,653
$18.99Winter Survival
Nov 19 · DRAGO entertainment
Both: Survival · Open World
Winter Survival is a story-driven survival game where trauma turns reality into a reflection of your breaking mind. Battle cold, hunger, hallucinations, and adapt to the wilderness as it adapts to you.
SurvivalOpen World Survival CraftCookingOpen WorldAtmosphericExplorationSingleplayerAdventureFirst-PersonBase Building👍 595
-29%$4.96Warm
3 days ago · OutHereGaming LLC
Both: Survival · Open World · Co-op
A wilderness survival game set in an endless Alaskan night. Keep campfires alive, gather wood, craft torches, survive freezing blizzards and wolves, and search abandoned campsites for the cabin that might save you.
SurvivalSurvival HorrorOnline Co-OpOpen WorldAtmosphericHorrorFirst-PersonCo-opCraftingExploration
$59.99S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl
Nov 20 · GSC Game World
Both: Open World · Survival
Enter the Chornobyl Anomalous Zone — a vast open world where anomalies, mutants, and rivals stand in your way. Explore, scavenge, and try to survive in this brutal and dangerous land. Evolving with every update, now overhauled and crowned with UPDATE 2.0.
Open WorldFPSPost-apocalypticSurvivalAtmosphericSingleplayerShooterExplorationRPGStory Rich👍 107,448
-20%$15.99Pathless Woods
Apr 2 · AniYa Games Studio
Both: Open World · Survival
Embark on a cozy open-world survival journey inspired by ancient China's heritage. Gather resources, cultivate crops, build your dream home, and defend it from marauders. Team up with friends to explore and uncover a world where adventure meets serenity.
Open WorldCraftingSurvivalSandboxSimulationFarming SimBuildingCity BuilderBase Building3D👍 951
$29.99Paleo Pines
Sep 26 · Italic Pig
Both: Dinosaurs
Welcome to Paleo Pines, a charming island known for its friendly dinosaurs, quirky townsfolk, and mysterious past. Befriend dinos and enlist their help to fix up your ranch and farm crops to create your cozy dino sanctuary! Then set out with your companion, Lucky, to uncover the island’s secrets.
DinosaursFarming SimExplorationRelaxingIndieCasualSimulationCuteSingleplayerColorful👍 2,100
$14.99Survisland / 实境求生
Apr 14 · Super Trampers Studio
Both: Survival · Open World
Survisland is a super hardcore sandbox survival game that pays great attention to restoring the real survival experience. The character has rich and realistic actions and reactions to , and the process logic of making props is no different from reality.
Open World Survival CraftSurvivalMultiplayerBuildingSimulationNudityActionSandboxCraftingOpen World👍 1,469
$19.99Spirit Animal Survival
8 days ago · TRUEFX GAMES
Both: Survival · Open World
SAS is an Open World Multiplayer PVP and CO-OP Survival Game. Set in a vast environment that features Building, Crafting, Taming, Riding, Flying and Exploring Wildlife, Dinos and Dragons as well as Horrific Creatures and Instances with the ability to Morph into Spirit Animals.
SurvivalOpen WorldOpen World Survival CraftBuildingNudityMultiplayerCraftingExplorationSandboxOnline Co-Op
$17.99Folklore Hunter
Jan 30 · Liquid Donkey Games
Both: Hunting
You’re a world-renowned hunter of supernatural beasts. Track down urban legends from all over the world, set traps, solve disturbing puzzles, and defeat the beasts before you succumb to their otherworldly presence.
HorrorMultiplayerSurvival HorrorOnline Co-OpPsychological HorrorViolentEarly AccessMythologyHuntingFPS👍 1,217
$29.99Night of the Dead
May 31 · Jackto Studios
Both: Open World · Survival
'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!
Open World Survival CraftZombiesTower DefenseMultiplayerSingleplayerOnline Co-OpOpen WorldCraftingSurvivalBase Building👍 10,381
$29.99TerraTech Worlds
Mar 22 · Payload Studios
Both: Co-op · Survival · Open World
TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment
Early AccessBase BuildingOpen World Survival CraftSandboxCraftingCo-opSurvivalOpen WorldBuildingMultiplayer👍 2,029
$19.99Project Castaway
Mar 17 · Mardonpol Inc.
Both: Co-op · Survival · Open World
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.
Open World Survival CraftCo-opOnline Co-OpExplorationSurvivalSandboxFirst-PersonOpen WorldMultiplayerBase Building👍 1,820
$29.99Myth of Empires
Feb 21 · Angela Game
Both: Open World · Survival
Myth of Empires is a multiplayer war sandbox game featuring a high degree of freedom and multiple civilizations. Players must survive, craft, create, and lead troops in their quest to conquer PVE or PVP territory and build their own empire. Xizhou Civilization Pack is now officially released!
BuildingOpen World Survival CraftSandboxMMORPGOpen WorldSurvivalBase BuildingMultiplayerWarCharacter Customization👍 15,523
$6.99Nuclear Nightmare
Oct 20 · BG Productions
Both: Co-op · Open World
Venture forth as part of a specialized team of fellow players tasked with retrieving classified materials, evading the black goo virus, and the nightmarish entities it has spawned. With time running out before the US government initiates a devastating nuclear strike to contain the spreading menace.
Online Co-OpSurvival HorrorHorrorCo-opFirst-PersonPsychological HorrorMultiplayerAtmosphericExplorationOpen World👍 15,409
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$27.99Survival: Fountain of Youth
May 21 · Odinsoft Inc.
Both: Survival
Survival: Fountain of Youth is a challenging single-player open-world adventure game set on the Caribbean islands. Survive as a shipwrecked 16th-century explorer, craft tools and shelter, and uncover the secrets of both an ancient civilization and your own fate.
SurvivalOpen World Survival CraftBase BuildingExplorationCraftingSingleplayerSimulationViolentAdventureRealistic👍 4,097
$19.99Dread Dawn
Sep 30 · Kioop
Both: Survival · Open World
This is an open-world zombie survival game set in a quarantined city. You play as a student left behind due to missing the evacuation convoy. Together with classmates and other survivors, you must defend the school, survive, and await rescue.
ZombiesSurvivalExplorationSandboxOpen WorldBase BuildingTower DefenseAdventureRPGAtmospheric👍 2,113
$19.99Cultivation Tales
Apr 17 · Ac Games
Both: Survival · Open World
Cultivation Tales is an open world survival craft online game. You will experience collecting, crafting, hunting, fighting, building, researching, in a wild mythical world. Fight for your clan and yourself, from mortal to divinity!
SandboxBuildingOnline Co-OpSurvivalActionMassively MultiplayerOpen World Survival CraftAdventureOpen WorldSingleplayer👍 12,560
$21.99Alaskan Road Truckers
Oct 18 · Road Studio S.A.
Both: Open World · Survival
Brave the challenging conditions of Alaskan life in the definitive trucker simulator. Be the master of your own destiny as you take jobs, transport cargo and experience a sense of freedom on foot and in your cab.
Automobile SimDrivingOpen WorldRealisticSurvivalExplorationImmersive SimSimulationAdventureAtmospheric👍 2,713
$19.99Eden Crafters
May 7 · Osaris Games
Both: Open World · Survival
Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
AutomationOpen World Survival CraftBase BuildingCraftingSandboxOpen WorldOnline Co-OpBuildingSurvivalAdventure👍 2,515
$6.99Another Try 2
Apr 17 · Hoki Wolf Studio
Both: Survival
The virus has devastated cities and lands. Most of the population died, the rest turned into the walking dead. You're one of the last survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another day.
Early AccessSurvivalAdventurePost-apocalypticZombiesExplorationLootCraftingDrivingAction👍 1,002

