Early Access
Games tagged Open World Survival Craft, or tagged with both Survival and Crafting. One slice of the Early Access catalog, scored the same way as every other genre. Filtered to actively updated.
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Survive in a harsh and dangerous world after an alien invasion. Gather resources, craft equipment, fight mutants and massive monsters, use weapons, vehicles and robots, explore territories, defend strongholds and fight for survival.
LIFE EFFECT · Last signal today · 86% positive · 13 playing
Consistency
Irregular
47/100
VEIN is a post-apocalyptic survival multiplayer sandbox game. Gather supplies to survive, explore abandoned buildings, defend your home, and rebuild society, whether alone or with friends.
Ramjet Studios · Last signal today · 87% positive · 1.4k playing
Consistency
Irregular
58/100
The Last Plague: Blight is an authentic survival experience rooted in realism and immersion. Endure the hazards of a brutal open world, uncover the origins of a mysterious disease, and become humanity’s final hope of ending the Blight.
Original Studios · Last signal today · 88% positive · 40 playing
Consistency
Irregular
47/100
You've been exiled to The Mirk - an unforgiving swampland where every step could be your last. You must constantly make choices: what paths to take, which tree to shelter under, what beasts to engage or avoid, what items to bring into the darkness of dungeons, and what treasures to leave behind.
Edym Pixels · Last signal today · 96% positive · 12 playing
Consistency
Irregular
47/100
Stardeus is a deep colony sim set on a broken starship manned by drones and hibernating human survivors. As the AI, have your drones repair your ship, save your crew and travel the stars in this beautiful simulation.
Kodo Linija · Last signal today · 87% positive · 22 playing
Consistency
Rarely updated
18/100
Go on a trip through time! Experience the freedom of traveling into any date, hour and minute in time between the years 1 and 3033 AD! Help your best friend Edward in his scientific affairs! Watch out for the Time Agents & avoid yourself!
Lost in Days Studio · Last signal today · 97% positive · 11 playing
Consistency
Consistent
65/100
Rising World is a voxel based open-world sandbox game, featuring a procedurally generated world, playable in single and multi-player.
JIW-Games · Last signal today · 86% positive · 81 playing
Consistency
Sporadic
35/100
Explore a drowned Earth, restore lost systems, and raise the last human seeds in this first-person survival-crafting adventure. Build, scavenge, defend, and launch humanity back to the stars.
Channel37 Ltd · Last signal today · 86% positive · 3.5k playing
Consistency
Irregular
58/100
Every block of this planet is real, including fluids! Dig it, flood it, process it. FluxWerks is a factory automation game on a fully destructible voxel world with physical fluid and heat simulation. Dig anywhere, automate everything, and survey a world that was supposed to be empty.
Metallibitti Oy · Last signal yesterday · 92% positive · 41 playing
Consistency
Sporadic
29/100
Build a grand totalitarian colony and personally storm roguelite battlefields with your soldiers. Shape citizens fears, loyalties, bonds, and feuds. Capture enemies, convert them into true believers. Sacrifice the weak. Feed the strong. Wield absolute power and make every life bend to your will.
Multiverse · Last signal 4 days ago · 91% positive · 161 playing
Consistency
Consistent
65/100
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.
Zurvivor · Last signal 4 days ago · 91% positive · 766 playing
Consistency
Sporadic
29/100
Good Heavens! is an open-world crafting and building RPG for solo and online co-op up to 8 players. Explore mysterious biomes, build your base, master six distinct tech trees, rebuild fallen cities, and help a clumsy God restore his world on the brink of collapse.
Nowhere Studios · Last signal 4 days ago · 91% positive · 10 playing
Consistency
Sporadic
29/100
Soulash 2 is a sandbox RPG roguelike with a procedurally generated open world, simulated history, skill-based progression system, customizable abilities, material-based crafting, building, trading, and the possibility of total mayhem. Will you save your world or destroy it?
Artur Smiarowski · Last signal 5 days ago · 85% positive · 51 playing
Consistency
Consistent
64/100
Keep co-op worlds alive, even when the host is offline. SaveSync is a save syncing, backup, and sharing tool built for co-op games. Seamlessly transfer save files between friends. No more manual copy-pasting or paying for dedicated servers.
SaveSync · Last signal 5 days ago · 93% positive · 1.1k playing
Consistency
Consistent
73/100
A classic voxel sandbox combined with in-depth progression through exploration, dungeon crawling and boss battles. Spend every minute discovering new weapons, abilities, resources, enemies, structures, mechanics and tools. With a strong focus on discovery, variety and creativity, the world is yours.
Infinimelon · Last signal 6 days ago · 93% positive · 25 playing
Consistency
Sporadic
29/100
Grow the TerraBeast you live on from a tiny patch of land into a whimsical world! In this fully hand-sculpted, playful systemic sandbox, you'll explore vibrant biomes, farm, craft, build, and befriend the wild OddFauna to create a thriving ecosystem.
North Channel · Last signal 7 days ago · 89% positive · 4 playing
Consistency
Irregular
53/100
DWARF COMBAT! Stonewards is a 1-4 player co-op first-person roguelite defense game. Lead a crew of stubborn dwarves from your base camp to aid nearby kingdoms, mine deep for resources, forge powerful upgrades, and hold the line against relentless monster attacks.
Banana Tiger Studio · Last signal 7 days ago · 94% positive · 186 playing
Consistency
Sporadic
23/100
Build a living factory and automate the Swarm. Harvest resources, construct mega factories, and grow a colony of specialized biomechanical bugs. Balance growth, efficiency, and creep spread before hostile robots squish you for trying to consume their world.
Mitchy Studios · Last signal 11 days ago · 91% positive · 0 playing
Consistency
Irregular
41/100
You wander into the dangerous Asran Exclusion Zone. You will have to survive hunger, thirst, dangerous factions, radioactive emissions and the wild life. Remember, this is no man's home and you are not the hero.
radrunner · Last signal 11 days ago · 87% positive · 10 playing
Consistency
Irregular
58/100
Re.Poly is a relaxed yet deep indie survival game in a low-poly style that blends exploration, combat, building, and adventure. Whether alone or with friends, create your own world, write your own story, and decide how you want to play.
Hinkfoot Studios · Last signal 12 days ago · 91% positive · 0 playing
Consistency
Sporadic
29/100
Explore, Build, Farm, Craft and Fight in this survival sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Delve deep to uncover the secret of the invading 'Faults' and restore stability to the land.
Sagestone Games · Last signal 17 days ago · 86% positive · 25 playing
Consistency
Sporadic
27/100
A sci-fi survival-crafting colony sim set in a flooded world of floating islands. Build a colony, craft gear, design rafts, fend off sharks, manage your survivors, and explore island bunkers to uncover lost Float-Tech from an old-world corporation.
Barrel Smash Studios · Last signal 21 days ago · 88% positive · 6 playing
Consistency
Consistent
77/100
Survive on the edge of space! Craft and upgrade tools, scavenge resources, and save a galaxy gone completely off the rails. Can Ordinary Man save the galaxy with the help of the immortal Chicken and some duct tape?
RedRuins Softworks · Last signal 21 days ago · 87% positive · 69 playing
Consistency
Rarely updated
8/100
Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..
The Indie Stone · Last signal 22 days ago · 94% positive · 44k playing
Consistency
Consistent
60/100