Best Open World Survival Craft games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our open world survival craft game recommendations are based on a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews. We believe that player feedback is the most reliable indicator of a game's true quality and enjoyment. Our algorithm evaluates user reviews to identify open world survival craft games that consistently deliver exceptional experiences. This means you can be confident that our lists feature only the best open world survival craft games on Steam, validated by the community itself.

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DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS

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!

Price -35% 18.23€
Rating 8.4
Release 13 Feb 2024

黄毛漂流记

You encountered a storm at sea and unexpectedly arrived at this small island. On this island, you can start a new life through activities like planting, construction, fishing, and more. Experience the storyline with various NPCs as you join the team to build and develop the small island!

Price 1.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 05 Feb 2024

Palworld

Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!

Price 28.99€
Rating 9.3
Release 18 Jan 2024

Outpath

An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!

Price -28% 10.62€
Rating 9.0
Release 16 Oct 2023

The Front

The Front is a survival open-world crafting sandbox game. You are a resistance fighter sent back in time to stop the rise of a tyrannical empire. Collect resources, craft tech, build shelters, and fight monsters to accomplish your mission.

Price -22% 15.30€
Rating 6.6
Release 11 Oct 2023

Saleblazers

How long can you survive on a hostile island as a humble shopkeeper? Live off the land, build a cozy shop, and defend against nightly horrors in this open world survival shop simulator for 1-8 players.

Price 28.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 29 Sep 2023

Wildmender

A desert gardening survival game. Start from a tiny spring and cultivate a blooming garden. Explore a vast world amid the sands and uncover its mysteries. Can you defend against the relentless forces of nature and mysterious wraith corruption, to bring life to a dying world?

Price -33% 16.74€
Rating 8.3
Release 28 Sep 2023

Sunkenland

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?

Price -29% 13.78€
Rating 8.0
Release 25 Aug 2023

Bee Island

Take control of the hive and protect it from enemies. Build factories and defence, research technologies and, if necessary, use nuclear weapons, but do not let the enemies harm the queen!

Price 9.75€
Rating 7.9
Release 25 Aug 2023

The Rule of Land: Pioneers

This is a survival game. After the coronation, human beings had to move into the underground. Fifty years later, some people thought the disaster was over and organized a survival competition on the surface. Some brave people took part in the competition . You are one of them.

Price 8.99€
Rating 6.5
Release 18 Jul 2023

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.

Price 28.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 22 Jun 2023

Nova Lands

Nova Lands is a factory building, exploration, and island management game. Explore, engage in combat, and automate your industry. The planet you’re on is full of mysteries, creatures, people, and things to do. Welcome to your new home amongst the stars!

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 22 Jun 2023

Anarchy: Wolf's law

Anarchy: Wolf's Law — action, fun, and total control! Capture territories, grow your business, and spread chaos. Strengthen regional power, develop production, and destroy rivals. A dynamic shooter with RPG, survival, and management elements.

Price -70% 4.49€
Rating 7.5
Release 08 Jun 2023

Above Snakes

Piece by piece, create your own world in this relaxing Wild West-inspired worldbuilder. Craft, farm, hunt, build your base, and explore.

Price -89% 2.83€
Rating 7.3
Release 25 May 2023

Occupy Mars: The Game

Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.

Price -73% 6.53€
Rating 7.1
Release 10 May 2023

Voidtrain

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.

Price 29.99€
Rating 7.3
Release 09 May 2023

Zumbi Blocks 2 Open Alpha

Loot. Kill. Survive. Can you escape ? (probably not) Zumbi Blocks 2 is the official sequel to the 2013 free browser zombie game. Stuck on an island, cut off from the rest of humanity, you wake up. The secret to breaking free from this place lies asleep, underground. From the soil, zumbies emerge.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.6
Release 15 Apr 2023

Beyond Contact

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?

Price -80% 3.99€
Rating 6.9
Release 04 Apr 2023

Atrio: The Dark Wild

Keep your disposable android-body alive by automating everything. Automate farming, foraging, crafting and capturing - and even assimilate creatures into your production lines during your impossible mission to relight the world.

Price 16.79€
Rating 7.8
Release 10 Jan 2023

Stars End

Stars End is a sci-fi survival sandbox set on the wild frontier of a distant star system. Play solo or host your own server as you craft, build, and battle to survive in a galaxy shaped by danger, discovery, and your own grit.

Price 19.50€
Rating 6.2
Release 08 Jan 2023

Outpath: First Journey

Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!

Price Free to play
Rating 9.4
Release 17 Dec 2022

Frozen Flame

A challenging exploration and survival adventure, set in the dying world of Dragons. Only those who harness the power of Frozen Flame have the means to survive the harsh conditions of the realm and able to muster the strength to cleanse it for good.

Price -72% 8.35€
Rating 6.5
Release 17 Nov 2022

Starsand

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.

Price -94% 1.00€
Rating 6.5
Release 17 Nov 2022

WW2: Bunker Simulator

During WWII you are an American soldier who captured the german bunker in Normandy. You must defend it at all costs and survive this World War II. Complete missions, cook & shoot, search the bodies for medicines, ammo, and food to survive. WW2: Bunker Simulator is a mix of fps and simulator.

Price -41% 5.93€
Rating 7.2
Release 10 Oct 2022

Grounded

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?

Price 39.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 27 Sep 2022

Card Survival: Tropical Island

Card Survival is a card-based survival experience. Stranded on a desert island you must use your wits and skills to stay alive. Use cards and combine them together to explore, gather resources and craft useful tools.

Price 20.99€
Rating 9.1
Release 16 Sep 2022

Lighthouse Keeper

You are tasked with taking care of the old Lighthouse in a small island. Repair its broken parts, hunt for food to get by, gather materials to craft stuff to help you along your journey through 11 islands.

Price 9.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 23 Aug 2022

Spirit of the Island

A beautiful Life Sim Sandbox RPG with Cross-Platform Online COOP set on a tropical Archipelago. Build your farm, grow crops and animals, craft various items, cook dishes, gather resources, build shops and museum to attract visitors, and turn a desolate Island into a prosperous tourist destination!

Price -93% 1.00€
Rating 6.5
Release 17 Aug 2022

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.

Price 15.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 10 Aug 2022

Solace 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.

Price 14.79€
Rating 7.1
Release 01 Aug 2022

Captain Bones : A Pirate's Journey

Captain Bones is an action-adventure game set in an open pirate world. You must have survival skills to make ship battles and treasure hunts with your crew.

Price 16.79€
Rating 8.0
Release 27 Jul 2022

Realms of Magic

Embark on a journey through the Old Kingdom in Realms of Magic - a sandbox RPG where you customize your character, choose your path, and immerse yourself in the fantasy world as a knight, wizard, miner, lumberjack, farmer, and more. After all, this is YOUR adventure.

Price 16.79€
Rating 7.7
Release 20 Jul 2022

Dinkum

G'Day there! Get ready to start a new fair Dinkum life. Explore an island inspired by the wild Australian outback, featuring tropical eucalyptus forests, scorching deserts, and cool billabongs.

Price -20% 13.43€
Rating 9.1
Release 14 Jul 2022

SurrounDead

SurrounDead is an open world survival game. Taking place in a world ravaged by an apocalyptic catastrophe. The dead reign free and will stop at nothing to kill you.

Price -85% 1.78€
Rating 8.7
Release 24 Jun 2022

Raft

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!

Price 19.99€
Rating 9.2
Release 20 Jun 2022

Fabled Lands

Fabled Lands is a challenging old-school narrative RPG set in an open world. Complete quests, fight, trade goods and develop your character. Explore a vast land of adventure: travel across the war-torn kingdom, survive the plains of howling darkness, and escape the Court of Hidden Faces.

Price 18.49€
Rating 7.6
Release 26 May 2022

Animallica

In Animallica you are racing against extinction after a deadly virus ravaged the world. As the lone survivor of the last conservation center on Earth, the fate of every single animal and plant species lies in your hands.

Price 4.99€
Rating 6.8
Release 05 Mar 2022

Arctico

Explore Arctico with your dog sled, kayak, and parachute! Build and customize your base camp, gather resources and samples, set up labs, and take good care of your dogs in this peaceful island.

Price -80% 1.99€
Rating 7.0
Release 15 Feb 2022

DeadPoly

DeadPoly is a polygon arcade zombie survival looter shooter with base building, crafting, scavenging, leveling, questing, and more, but your only goal is survival, everything else is optional.

Price 9.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 12 Jan 2022

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.

Price 33.99€
Rating 7.1
Release 03 Dec 2021

Len's Island

Discover, survive, and thrive in Len’s Island, where intense dungeon crawling meets open-world action RPG. Master skill-based combat, craft powerful items, build and defend your homestead, and find solace in farming. Your journey, your destiny.

Price -50% 14.49€
Rating 8.3
Release 26 Nov 2021

Urge

Fight, build, explore, survive, while the dynamic player-caused hazardous fog is slowly changing the rules of the world around you.

Price 14.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 15 Nov 2021

Among Trees

Escape to an enchanting, living sandbox surrounded by wildlife and nature. Scavenge materials and craft tools to turn your small cabin into a warm, well-supplied home. Survive by fishing, cooking and growing your own food. Be careful though, the forest is as dangerous as it is wonderful.

Price 14.99€
Rating 6.7
Release 10 Nov 2021

This Land Is My Land

Experience the frontier as a chief of a Native American tribe and resist the onset of the settlers. Explore the vast world full of hostile humans and animals while defining your narrative through the decisions you make.

Price 28.99€
Rating 6.7
Release 20 Oct 2021

New World: Aeternum

Experience a thrilling action RPG set on the supernatural island of Aeternum. Forge your destiny on an adventure filled with danger and opportunity.

Price 59.99€
Rating 6.8
Release 28 Sep 2021

XERA: 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…

Price Free to play
Rating 6.6
Release 26 Sep 2021

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!

Price -80% 2.31€
Rating 6.8
Release 15 Sep 2021

BEACHED

A free-to-play, low-poly, open-world survival shooter where you’ll battle other players, explore massive monuments, and fight to stay alive. Build and fortify your base to defend against enemy raids, gather resources, and conquer a harsh, competitive world. Survival means doing whatever it takes.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.4
Release 04 Aug 2021