Best Open World Survival Games Ever Made
If you enjoy exploring a large map and surviving in harsh conditions in a game, then you are definitely drawn to the Sandbox Survival genre. However, this is a vast theme, and games within it can vary greatly.
Nevertheless, the main idea is always roughly the same - to survive in harsh conditions. For example, on a deserted island or during a zombie apocalypse.
Action, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Open world, Crafting
February 2, 2021
Players:
8.5/10
A fantasy sandbox with survival elements. You can play alone or with others, exploring the world and gathering resources, finding and looting tombs, building bases...
Action, Shooter, Adventure, Simulation, Online, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Survival, Open world
August 9, 2016
Players:
7.9/10
Metacritic:
75/100
No Man's Sky is an adventure simulator with a first-person view set in a futuristic environment. You will embark on a journey to explore space and planets, some of...
Action, Adventure, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Virtual Reality (VR), Survival, Open world
December 14, 2014
Players:
8.7/10
Metacritic:
83/100
A single-player adventure in a vast open world, with a first-person view, survival elements, and sandbox features. Playing the game will evoke feelings that arise...
Action, First-person view, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Survival horror, Crafting, Online, Open world, Exploration
February 24, 2023
Players:
8.1/10
Metacritic:
86/100
Continuation The Forest about survival in the woods. The main character sets out to search for a missing billionaire on a remote island and ends up in a...
Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Zombies, Survival, Online, Open world, Exploration, Sandbox
December 13, 2013
Players:
8.2/10
Metacritic:
41/100
Players find themselves in a world gripped by a zombie apocalypse, where the main task is survival. During the day, they search for resources, build shelters and...
Action, Adventure, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Open world, Crafting
May 14, 2026
Players:
8.2/10
The continuation of the popular survival simulator, the events of which unfold on a new planet. After the failure of a colonization mission, the survivors must...
Action, First-person view, Online, Futurism (Future), Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Open world, Crafting
July 28, 2020
Players:
8.3/10
Metacritic:
61/100
Grounded is a cooperative survival game from Obsidian. The plot tells about children who have shrunk to the size of insects. Now the grass seems huge to them, like...
Role-playing game, Action, Online, Third-person view, Sandbox, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Exploration, Open world, Fantasy, Construction, Crafting
January 24, 2024
Players:
8.4/10
The main character is Born of Flame, the last hope of a dying race. In a bloody struggle for power, the ancestors caused a plague that consumed the world and...
Adventure, Online, Top-down view, Sandbox, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Dungeons, Exploration, Crafting, Farm Simulator
March 8, 2022
Players:
7.7/10
Metacritic:
86/100
An arcade sandbox that you can play with friends in co-op for up to eight people. The main character is an explorer who wakes up in an ancient dungeon filled with...
Adventure, Simulation, Third-person view, Sandbox, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Fantasy, Construction, Crafting
June 20, 2024
Players:
7.8/10
A cooperative game in which the gamer creates the perfect Viking settlement alone or with up to three friends. You need to give commands to settlers, extract...
Action, Shooter, First-person view, Third-person view, Survival, Cooperative (co-op), Open world, Online, Zombies
December 13, 2018
Players:
7/10
DayZ is a multiplayer survival horror game with an open world. Before us is the post-Soviet country of Chernarus, which was struck by an unknown virus. Most of the...
Simulation, Adventure, Third-person view, Survival, Online, Cooperative (co-op), Open world, Construction, Crafting, Exploration, Fantasy
March 29, 2023
Players:
7.7/10
The game takes place in the fantasy world of "shorties" who are trying to expand the territory of their peoples in a wild, unforgiving and ever-changing world...
Sandbox, Survival, Isometric, Simulation, Open world, Crafting, Exploration, Adventure, Construction
May 25, 2023
The player creates his own world from pieces and then explores it. More than a hundred varieties of biomes and their combinations are available. To survive, you can...
Action, Online, First-person view, Science fiction, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Open world, Crafting
October 26, 2023
Players:
6.9/10
Remaster of the survival simulator ARK: Survival Evolved. The updated version of the game is created on the Unreal Engine 5 with support for ray tracing, Nanite...
Action, First-person view, Adventure, Simulation, Survival, Open world, Exploration, Crafting, Construction
April 19, 2023
Players:
8.1/10
The main character of the “survivor” is a member of an expedition who went in search of the source of eternal youth. After a shipwreck, the explorer wakes up on the...
Action, Top-down view, Sandbox, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Open world, Fantasy, Crafting, Procedural generation
December 12, 2019
Players:
6.8/10
A colorful action sandbox that combines exploration, crafting, settlement building, and cooperative play. The procedurally generated world is filled with various...
Action, Survival, Online, Shooter, Third-person view, Crafting, Exploration, Sandbox, Construction, Post-apocalyptic, Open world, Zombies
August 12, 2022
Players:
6.2/10
The game takes place on an island that is filled with various dangers such as traps, wild animals, infected and survivors who are ready to kill for the opportunity...
Survival, First-person view, Shooter, Construction, Crafting, Sandbox, Exploration, Open world, Simulation
August 25, 2022
Players:
7.7/10
A survival simulator in which a large group of people are marooned on a desert island where they try to survive. There are no rules, but there are advantages for...
Role-playing game, Online, Action, Shooter, Adventure, Horror, Stealth, In real time, Third-person view, Post-apocalyptic
December 17, 2012
Players:
6.6/10
Infestation: Survivor Stories is an action role-playing game for several people. One of the most iconic games in survival history returns, bringing classic gameplay...
Crafting, Open world, Survival, Exploration, Construction, Sandbox, Adventure, Fantasy, Dungeons, Action, Role-playing game
May 4, 2023
The game takes place in an unknown world full of strange creatures, dangers and surprises. Collect resources to create items and structures that suit your survival...
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