Best Open World Survival Craft games on PC
Games combine open-world exploration with survival and crafting systems, typically requiring players to gather resources, make equipment, and establish shelter or a base.
- Resource gathering and item crafting
- Open-ended exploration
- Shelter or base construction
Related: Survival, Crafting, Open World, Base Building
203 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
Terraria
2D sandbox adventure built around digging, crafting, and boss fights
97% positive
1.6M reviews
Rust
Open-world multiplayer survival built around crafting, bases, and raids
87% positive
1.4M reviews
ARK: Survival Evolved
Open-world survival crafting with dinosaur taming and base building
83% positive
778K reviews
The Forest
First-person survival horror with base building and mutant cannibals
96% positive
683K reviews
Valheim
Norse open-world survival crafting with co-op building and bosses
94% positive
552K reviews
Don't Starve Together
Difficult open-world survival crafting built for cooperative play
95% positive
543K reviews
Dying Light
Open-world zombie action with first-person parkour and nighttime chases
95% positive
496K reviews
Palworld
Open-world survival RPG combining creature collecting, crafting, and base automation
95% positive
489K reviews
Project Zomboid
Open-world zombie survival sandbox where every mistake can end a life
94% positive
483K reviews
No Man's Sky
Open-world space sandbox across a procedurally generated galaxy
85% positive
420K reviews
7 Days to Die
Open-world zombie survival sandbox built around crafting and base defense
87% positive
401K reviews
Subnautica
First-person underwater survival crafting on a dangerous alien ocean
97% positive
380K reviews
Raft
First-person ocean survival crafting on an expandable floating home
93% positive
379K reviews
New World: Aeternum
Open-world fantasy MMORPG with classless action combat and large-scale PvP battles
67% positive
297K reviews
Satisfactory
First-person factory builder about automating an alien open world
97% positive
280K reviews
Once Human
Open-world multiplayer survival crafting amid monsters and polluted wilderness
79% positive
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ASTRONEER
Open-world space sandbox about reshaping planets and building bases
92% positive
139K reviews
SCUM
Open-world survival sandbox with detailed metabolism, crafting, and base building
74% positive
127K reviews
The Long Dark
First-person survival sandbox against cold, hunger, and wildlife
89% positive
124K reviews
Starbound
Spacefaring sandbox RPG built around exploration, crafting, and colonization
90% positive
123K reviews
Conan Exiles Enhanced
Open-world survival crafting with city building and siege warfare
79% positive
118K reviews
Days Gone
Open-world zombie action with motorcycle travel and massive hordes
93% positive
117K reviews
Don't Starve
Single-player wilderness survival in randomly generated worlds with permanent death
97% positive
113K reviews
Subnautica: Below Zero
Open-world underwater survival adventure with crafting and an arctic mystery
90% positive
108K reviews