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by Playcorp Studios
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?
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$19.99Planetaries
Aug 15 · EY-Studio
Both: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Crafting
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
$34.99ICARUS
Dec 3 · RocketWerkz
Both: Survival · Open World Survival Craft · Base Building
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.
SurvivalOpen World Survival CraftMultiplayerBase BuildingOnline Co-OpCraftingOpen WorldExplorationCo-opBuilding👍 55,930
$23.99The Planet Crafter
Apr 10 · Miju Games
Both: Base Building · Open World Survival Craft · Survival
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
-90%$2.49Green Hell
Sep 5 · Creepy Jar
Both: Survival · Open World Survival Craft · Crafting
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.
SurvivalOpen World Survival CraftMultiplayerOnline Co-OpOpen WorldCraftingActionBase BuildingSingleplayerCo-op👍 79,478
$19.99Raft
Jun 20 · Redbeet Interactive
Both: Survival · Open World Survival Craft · Co-op
Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!
SurvivalMultiplayerOpen World Survival CraftCo-opCraftingOpen WorldBuildingBase BuildingOnline Co-OpAdventure👍 323,554
$39.99Grounded
Sep 27 · Obsidian Entertainment
Both: Survival · Co-op · Open World Survival Craft
The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?
SurvivalMultiplayerCo-opOpen World Survival CraftBase BuildingCraftingOpen WorldAdventureOnline Co-OpHorror👍 75,780
$34.99Abiotic Factor
Jul 22 · Deep Field Games
Both: Survival · Open World Survival Craft · Crafting
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.
SurvivalOnline Co-OpOpen World Survival CraftCraftingBase BuildingSci-fiExplorationCo-op CampaignMultiplayerFirst-Person👍 42,120
$19.99GRAV
Jan 8 · BitMonster, Inc.
Both: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Base Building
GRAV is a sand box experience where you explore a multitude of planets, hunt strange alien creatures, build and defend outposts, craft weapons and armor, and attempt to survive against other players in a hostile environment.
Open World Survival CraftSurvivalOpen WorldBase BuildingSandboxMultiplayerCraftingSpaceAdventureCo-op👍 4,451
$13.99Subsistence
Oct 25 · ColdGames
Both: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Crafting
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).
Open World Survival CraftSurvivalMultiplayerCraftingOpen WorldBuildingBase BuildingSandboxCo-opSingleplayer👍 12,466
$10.99Mist Survival
Aug 14 · Dimension 32 Entertainment
Both: Survival · Open World Survival Craft · Base Building
MIST SURVIVAL is a Single-player, survival stealth sandbox game Players will experience the Apocalypse stimulation in the form of virus pandemic, the players have to deal with it to survive through the difficulties such as finding shelter and food, threats from the environment and climate: wild animals, bandits, infected, and dense mist t
SurvivalOpen World Survival CraftZombiesOpen WorldSingleplayerBase BuildingCraftingSandboxAdventureEarly Access👍 13,676
$14.99Starbound
Jul 22 · Chucklefish
Both: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Crafting
You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...
Open World Survival CraftSandboxSurvivalSpaceAdventureCraftingPixel GraphicsOnline Co-OpMultiplayerOpen World👍 120,674
$29.99ASTRONEER
Feb 5 · System Era Softworks
Both: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Base Building
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.
MultiplayerOpen World Survival CraftOpen WorldSpaceSurvivalExplorationBase BuildingCo-opSandboxAdventure👍 118,872
$29.99Subnautica
Jan 23 · Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Both: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Crafting
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.
Open World Survival CraftSurvivalHorrorUnderwaterOpen WorldExplorationCraftingSingleplayerBase BuildingAdventure👍 341,501
$34.99Smalland: Survive the Wilds
Feb 15 · Max Ent Games Ltd
Both: Survival · Open World Survival Craft · Base Building
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
$29.99TerraTech Worlds
Mar 22 · Payload Studios
Both: Base Building · Open World Survival Craft · Crafting
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
$19.99Eden Crafters
May 7 · Osaris Games
Both: Open World Survival Craft · Base Building · Crafting
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
$14.99Don't Starve Together
Apr 21 · Klei Entertainment
Both: Survival · Open World Survival Craft · Co-op
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
SurvivalOpen World Survival CraftMultiplayerCo-opOpen WorldAdventureCraftingOnline Co-OpSandboxDifficult👍 376,215
FreePlanet Explorers
Nov 8 · Pathea Games
Both: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Crafting
Planet Explorers is an open world sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere.
Open World Survival CraftSandboxOpen WorldSurvivalMultiplayerAdventureCraftingRPGExplorationBuilding👍 5,114
$14.99Solace Crafting
Aug 1 · Big Kitty Games
Both: Survival · Open World Survival Craft · Crafting
Embark on an adventure set in a fantasy survival RPG. Visit a borderless, open world where you manage resources to construct your base and new types of equipment to support your conquest.
SurvivalOpen World Survival CraftCraftingMultiplayerOpen WorldRPGBase BuildingOnline Co-OpBuildingSandbox👍 830
$19.99Stranded Deep
Aug 10 · Beam Team Games
Both: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Crafting
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.
Open World Survival CraftSurvivalMultiplayerOpen WorldCraftingFirst-PersonAdventureExplorationRealisticBuilding👍 43,637
-75%$3.74How to Survive 2
Sep 8 · Eko Software
Both: Survival · Open World Survival Craft · Co-op
Dead or Alive? Make up your mind, stranger. We don’t like that undead business here in Louisiana…Survive solo or with friends as you look to fulfill your basic needs of food, water and shelter, crafting your own tools and weapons while you secure your camp and face flesh hungry zombies.
SurvivalZombiesMultiplayerOpen World Survival CraftOpen WorldCo-opCraftingActionRPGAdventure👍 8,643
Osiris: New Dawn
Jan 18 · Fenix Fire Entertainment
Both: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Crafting
Osiris: New Dawn is an unforgiving near future space survival game with a cinematic feel and elements of horror. Play as a Mission Specialist in single or multiplayer to build your planetary base, pilotable vehicles, and controllable drones as you explore a dangerous solar system far from Earth.
Open World Survival CraftHorrorSurvivalSpaceOpen WorldMultiplayerSci-fiBuildingAdventureCrafting👍 13,081
$29.99Fade to Silence
Apr 30 · Black Forest Games
Both: Survival · Open World Survival Craft · Crafting
Fade to Silence is a single-player and co-op survival adventure set in a post-apocalyptic world that is frozen in an eternal winter. Snow and ice have shaped a merciless landscape. Nature is corrupted. Monstrous creatures out of an Eldritch horror dream roam the frozen wasteland.
SurvivalOpen World Survival CraftRPGOpen WorldCraftingOnline Co-OpBase BuildingLovecraftianSingleplayerThird Person👍 1,032
$9.99Fragmented
Aug 15 · Above and Beyond Technologies
Both: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Crafting
Stranded in a hostile alien world, you must fight to survive. Hunt, harvest, craft, advance skills, and build using local resources along with technology from your voyage.
Open World Survival CraftSurvivalMultiplayerOpen WorldActionCraftingSandboxRPGIndieBuilding👍 1,583
-55%$13.49Forever Skies
Apr 14 · Far From Home
Both: Co-op · Survival · Base Building
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
FreeXERA: Survival
Sep 26 · Spotted Kiwi Interactive
Both: Base Building · Open World Survival Craft · Survival
Action-focused, open world survival shooter, PvPvE against fellow mercenaries and lethal XOIDS. Raid for resources alone or with team-mates, build and defend your base, stash your gear and survive against the odds. You are the hunters. You are the hunted. And the robots never sleep…
Base BuildingMultiplayerOpen World Survival CraftFree to PlaySurvivalCraftingOpen WorldPost-apocalypticRobotsBuilding👍 1,889
$24.99Cubic Odyssey
May 14 · Atypical Games
Both: Open World Survival Craft · Base Building · Co-op
Embark on a galactic journey in Cubic Odyssey, an open-world adventure where you explore vibrant planets, craft tools, build vehicles, and fight the Red Darkness. Uncover ancient mysteries, and shape a universe full of life, danger, and limitless possibilities!
Open World Survival CraftRPGAction-AdventureBase BuildingCo-opSandboxSci-fiBuildingExplorationFirst-Person👍 2,407
$12.99FortressCraft Evolved!
Nov 9 · ProjectorGames
Both: Open World Survival Craft · Crafting · Survival
FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.
Open World Survival CraftAutomationSandboxCraftingBuildingSurvivalIndieStrategyBase BuildingAdventure👍 2,653
$19.99Tribes of Midgard
Jul 27 · Norsfell
Both: Open World Survival Craft · Base Building · Survival
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!
Open World Survival CraftOnline Co-OpMultiplayerAction RPGPvEBase BuildingVikingsSurvivalRogueliteCo-op👍 17,468
$19.99Starsand
Nov 17 · Tunnel Vision Studio
Both: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Crafting
Starsand is a mystic survival game set among the dunes of an arcane desert. An open-world full of danger, vast environments and mysterious happenings await you! Explore, hunt, craft, build – and SURVIVE.
Open World Survival CraftSurvivalOpen WorldRealistic3DFirst-PersonExplorationCraftingBase BuildingInventory Management👍 807
$19.99The Forest
Apr 30 · Endnight Games Ltd
Both: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Crafting
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.
Open World Survival CraftSurvivalHorrorOpen WorldCraftingAdventureBuildingSurvival HorrorFirst-PersonAction👍 581,565
$15.99The Infected
Aug 6 · DigX Studios
Both: Open World Survival Craft · Base Building · Survival
The Infected is a sandbox, first-person, open-world survival game. Build bases, craft, farm, hunt, and survive changing seasons. Choose whether to face the hybrid “Vambies” or turn them off for a pure survival experience.
VampiresSingleplayerOpen World Survival CraftBase BuildingOpen WorldEarly AccessSurvivalCraftingActionBuilding👍 6,585
-80%$3.99Outpost Zero
Jul 25 · Symmetric Games
Both: Survival · Open World Survival Craft · Base Building
Outpost Zero blends the genres of Multiplayer Base Building Survival and Simulation games in a Sci-Fi universe. On a lawless alien world, robotic scouts are tasked with building an Outpost for human colonists. Command AI minions, colonize the planet, and survive the perils of Gaiya.
AdventureActionSimulationSurvivalIndieOpen World Survival CraftMultiplayerOpen WorldBase BuildingCrafting👍 579
$29.99Subnautica: Below Zero
May 13 · Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Both: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Base Building
Dive into a freezing underwater adventure on an alien planet. Below Zero is set two years after the original Subnautica. Return to Planet 4546B to uncover the truth behind a deadly cover-up. Survive by building habitats, crafting tools, & diving deeper into the world of Subnautica.
Open World Survival CraftSurvivalUnderwaterSingleplayerOpen WorldHorrorExplorationMultiplayerBase BuildingAdventure👍 99,392
$11.99Dig or Die
Jul 10 · Gaddy Games
Both: Survival · Open World Survival Craft · Crafting
Crash land on a hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it. But be warned... this planet is merciless. Build strong, and smart; else physics may flood or destroy your only hopes of survival.
SurvivalOpen World Survival CraftSandboxCrafting2DOpen WorldIndieTower DefenseStrategyAction👍 3,864
$14.99Signs of Life
Jan 27 · Sweet Dog Studios
Both: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Crafting
Signs of Life is a sci-fi survival sandbox platformer with a combination of procedurally generated and hand-crafted content. You'll explore mysterious locations, mine blocks for resources, and meet strange (and some familiar) creatures, some of which don't even want to kill you and eat your corpse.
Open World Survival CraftSandboxAdventureSurvivalCraftingRPGIndieAction2DSpace👍 713