Best Survival Crafting Games
TOP: survival games with crafting and building. A true survivor can establish life anywhere there are any resources. Here we have gathered the best games with crafting, building, and survival on a raft, on an island, in the forest, on another planet, and even underground or underwater. In games with crafting and building, where survival is essential, even the ground beneath your feet can be used for crafting items and building a house, while branches and stones become tools.
Almost every survival game has some form of item creation from resources, as well as base building. Otherwise, it's impossible! In such games, you need to survive the night, build a house, a bed, figure out how to sleep, make weapons, an axe, and a shovel - to survive.
Action, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Open world, Crafting, Online
February 2, 2021
VGTimes:
7.8/10
Players:
8.4/10
Steam:
94/100
Metacritic:
90/100
A fantasy sandbox with survival elements. You can play alone or with others, exploring the world and gathering resources, finding and raiding tombs, building bases...
Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Indie, Fantasy, Open world, Survival, Online
January 19, 2024
VGTimes:
8.0/10
Players:
8.2/10
Steam:
95/100
Metacritic:
79/100
An arcade action-survival game from a third-person perspective in a vast open world with the key mechanic of taming unusual creatures called Pal. They resemble...
Action, Adventure, Online, First-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Sandbox, Indie, Survival, Crafting
August 15, 2011
Players:
7.6/10
Metacritic:
83/100
An exciting sandbox game focused on freedom of action and exploration of a virtually endless open world. Created through procedural generation, it is filled with...
Action, First-person view, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Survival horror, Crafting, Online, Open world, Exploration
February 24, 2023
Players:
8.2/10
Steam:
88/100
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, Adventure, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Open world, Crafting, Online, Horror
May 14, 2026
Players:
8.2/10
Steam:
93/100
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, Shooter, Adventure, Simulation, Online, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Survival, Open world, Space, Exploration
August 9, 2016
Players:
7.9/10
Steam:
82/100
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...
Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Tactics, Roguelike, Survival
October 17, 2018
Players:
8.8/10
Steam:
91/100
Metacritic:
87/100
RimWorld is a sci-fi survival simulator on an alien planet with real-time strategy elements and a top-down view. Under your control is a small group of people who...
Action, Horror, Online, Third-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Free game, Cooperative (co-op), Open world, Survival
July 9, 2024
Players:
7.6/10
Steam:
80/100
Metacritic:
71/100
Post-apocalyptic sandbox with survival elements and an open world. Players set out to conquer a world torn apart by a war with demons. The opening of the mysterious...
Simulation, Action, Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Open world
April 30, 2018
Players:
7.9/10
Steam:
95/100
The Forest is an adventure action-horror game with survival elements set in an open world and presented from a first-person perspective. The main character is the...
Role-playing game, Shooter, Adventure, Horror, Online, MMO, First-person view, Free game, Open world, Post-apocalyptic
December 4, 2014
Players:
6.4/10
Steam:
67/100
A free open-world MMO shooter that's a mix of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl and Minecraft. Initially, the project was a fan modification for Minecraft, but...
Adventure, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Science fiction, Survival, Crafting, Business / Management
June 13, 2025
VGTimes:
8.7/10
Players:
9.1/10
Steam:
88/100
Metacritic:
85/100
Simple worker Jan Dolski finds himself on an uninhabited planet. Since the hero has no assistants, he begins to create alters — other versions of himself...
Role-playing game, Shooter, Online, Third-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Cooperative (co-op), Open world
November 14, 2018
Players:
4.3/10
Steam:
75/100
Metacritic:
51/100
A new game in the Fallout universe is a prequel to all parts of the series without exception. The events begin with Vault 76, the first among those built. It is...
Action, Adventure, Simulation, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Construction
March 24, 2022
Players:
8.7/10
Steam:
95/100
Metacritic:
81/100
An adventure survival simulator set on a hostile planet. The main task is to make the planet suitable for life. To do this, you have to explore it, collect minerals...
Action, First-person view, Online, Futurism (Future), Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Open world, Crafting
July 28, 2020
Players:
8.3/10
Steam:
92/100
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...
Action, Racing, Post-apocalyptic, Roguelike, Science fiction, Survival, Exploration, Survival horror
February 21, 2024
Players:
8.9/10
Steam:
82/100
Metacritic:
78/100
A racing survival game in which the main emphasis is on control and interaction with the car. The game takes place in the northwestern regions of the United States...
Action, Fantasy, First-person view, Online, Indie, Dungeons, Cooperative (co-op), Exploration, Adventure, Medieval era
August 8, 2023
Players:
7.4/10
Steam:
67/100
Hardcore action about clearing an underground fortress in the spirit of Escape from Tarkov. Players must not only find riches but also stay alive — otherwise, all...
Action, Online, First-person view, Science fiction, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Open world, Crafting
October 26, 2023
Players:
7/10
Steam:
60/100
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...
Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Simulation, Survival, Sandbox, Space
July 22, 2016
Players:
8.5/10
Steam:
88/100
Metacritic:
81/100
Starbound is an indie adventure role-playing arcade game with platformer and action elements. You are forced to flee your planet by hijacking a ship. Fleeing from...
Adventure, Simulation, Third-person view, Sandbox, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Fantasy, Construction, Crafting, Online
June 20, 2024
Players:
7.8/10
Steam:
79/100
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...
Strategy, God Simulator, In real time, Futurism (Future), Sandbox, Casual game, Open world, City Building
August 28, 2018
Players:
8.6/10
Steam:
79/100
A god simulator where you can create your own planets, civilizations and empires. During the course of the game, gamers will have to conduct technological and...
Survival, First-person view, Shooter, Construction, Crafting, Sandbox, Exploration, Open world, Simulation
August 25, 2022
Players:
7.7/10
Steam:
45/100
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...
Action, Survival, Online, Shooter, Third-person view, Crafting, Exploration, Sandbox, Construction, Post-apocalyptic, Open world, Zombies, MMO
August 12, 2022
Players:
6.2/10
Steam:
48/100
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...
Arcade, Role-playing game, Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval
April 13, 2018
Anticipation Rating:
8.9/10
Terraria: Otherworld is a more varied variation on the original game. You will have access to an extensive skill tree, strategic elements, as well as an exciting...
Role-playing game, Simulation, Action, Adventure, Business / Management, Third-person view, Open world, Farm Simulator
January 15, 2019
Players:
8.5/10
Steam:
91/100
Metacritic:
73/100
My Time at Portia is an action-adventure role-playing game with a third-person view and elements of a management simulator. You have to go to a colorful open world...
Crafting, Open world, Survival, Exploration, Construction, Sandbox, Adventure, Fantasy, Dungeons, Action, Role-playing game
May 4, 2023
Steam:
40/100
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...
Action, Adventure, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Open world, Construction, Crafting, Procedural generation
2026
Anticipation Rating:
8/10
Survival on a huge map of Greece. The main goal is to become a demigod by destroying the bosses of each biome. There is a co-op for up to nine...
Action, Shooter, MMO, Flight Simulator, First-person view, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Free game, Space, Sandbox, Open world
November 27, 2014
Players:
10/10
Steam:
66/100
StarMade is a first-person action game with a mixture of shooter, massively multiplayer game, flight simulator, indie game and shareware game from developers from...
Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Horror, Futurism (Future), Indie, Survival, Top-down view, Crafting
January 21, 2016
Players:
9.7/10
Steam:
79/100
Subterrain is an action-horror adventure with RPG elements and a top-down view. In the game you will play as one Doctor West, apparently the only survivor of an...
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