Away From Life
You wake up after a helicopter crash with one job: get home.
67% of 238 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$12.99
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Stranded Deep
After a plane crash leaves you alone in the Pacific, you scavenge islands, craft tools and shelter, watch hunger, thirst and sunstroke, and sail, motor or fly toward escape. Tense water, calm beaches, and a long road to self-rescue.
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74% of 43,958 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 331$19.99Away From Life
You wake up after a helicopter crash with one job: get home. Away From Life leaves you on remote islands to hunt for food, build shelter, craft tools, and poke around on land and under the water for a way back. Bring a friend if you want, since starving together beats starving alone.
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67% of 238 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$12.99Escape The Pacific
Raw, real survival in the Pacific. Build a modular floating base. Master realistic sailing mechanics. Face challenging Pacific-like weather & seasons. Hunt, craft, build & navigate using Sun Dial, Sextant & Triangulation. Explore an endless island cluster-based world. Simulate real life scenarios!
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66% of 720 Steam reviews are positive$14.99Raft
You wake on four planks with a plastic hook and an empty stomach. Raft is an ocean survival game about fishing trash from the water, growing that wreck into a floating home, and sailing it toward islands with a story to untangle, alone or with friends and one very persistent shark.
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93% of 325,649 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10,069$19.9930 Days On Ship: Castaway – The First Days
A castaway survival game on a container ship wrecked in the Pacific. Three days to pry open cargo containers, craft tools, hunt, build shelter and keep hunger and thirst at bay, with pirates camped nearby. A short, scrappy first-person survival trip where every crate might hold dinner or something much stranger.
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68% of 257 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 29FreeSurvival: Fountain of Youth
A 16th-century castaway survival adventure in the Caribbean. Washed ashore after a storm, you craft tools, build a camp, hunt dangerous beasts and sail between 11 islands hunting clues to the Fountain of Youth and your lost shipmates. Play solo or with up to three friends, and plan every day before the sun runs out.
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85% of 4,205 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 268$9.79Lost World
Lost World is a survival video game with single and co-op modes. Open world and first person view.
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55% of 252 Steam reviews are positive$7.99Under A New Sun
Your colony ship drops you on an Earth-like planet instead of waking you at your destination. Hunt, craft, build a home and sail between tropical islands, working at real looms and forges with your hands. A calm, beautiful survival game with a mystery underneath.
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76% of 390 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 22$12.59Forsaken Isle
Stranded on a desert island, explore, craft, build and fight in this action survival game!
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70% of 462 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$8.99Better Late Than DEAD
Awaking on an island with no memory, you have just one memento of the life you led before… A child's photograph. Who is this? You must search the island for useful tools that will aid in your escape. As time passes and hopes of survival hang by a thread, you realise that this island is not as it seems.
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28% of 609 Steam reviews are positive$4.99Windbound
Shipwrecked on the Forbidden Islands, Kara has nothing but her hands and her wits. Scavenge, craft, hunt, and build yourself a boat to sail between procedurally generated islands, chasing the mystery of a beautiful, hostile paradise. A survival game where the sea is both your road and your biggest problem.
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60% of 1,030 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$19.99Project Cobalt
⚗️ Project Cobalt is a survival action game set on a hostile island 🌴. Scavenge containers, mine resources, craft tools, hunt animals, and endure storms as you fight hunger, disease, and exhaustion all while uncovering the dark truth behind a failed experiment.
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66% of 38 Steam reviews are positive$10.99
Cheaper than Project Castaway
Escape The Pacific
Raw, real survival in the Pacific. Build a modular floating base. Master realistic sailing mechanics. Face challenging Pacific-like weather & seasons.
66% of 720 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Survival: Fountain of Youth
Craft, build and sail from island to island, following old clues toward a legend while keeping your camp alive.
85% of 4,205 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 268$9.79
Under A New Sun
Survive on a lush alien planet by hunting, crafting, building and sailing from island to island.
76% of 390 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 22$12.59
Lost World
Lost World is a survival video game with single and co-op modes. Open world and first person view.
55% of 252 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Forsaken Isle
Stranded on a desert island, explore, craft, build and fight in this action survival game!
70% of 462 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$8.99
Better Late Than DEAD
Awaking on an island with no memory, you have just one memento of the life you led before… A child's photograph. Who is this?
28% of 609 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Project Cobalt
⚗️ Project Cobalt is a survival action game set on a hostile island 🌴.
66% of 38 Steam reviews are positive$10.99
My Island
Wash up in a colorful tropical open world, then hunt, farm, build and sail your way to a warm homeland.
65% of 1,660 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Out of Reach
You’re a castaway stranded in the middle of nowhere. Storm is gone, the worst certainly not. Look for food and resources, craft gear, make shelters.
54% of 2,393 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$14.99
OceanCraft
OceanCraft is a game about surviving alone - or with your friends on a self build vehicle in the ocean.
82% of 51 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
KeepUp Survival
KeepUp Survival is an open-world base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world.
62% of 686 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$14.99
Hidden gems like Project Castaway
Bootstrap Island
A realistic VR survival roguelike on a merciless 17th-century island.
81% of 1,415 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$24.99
Voyagers of Nera
Gather, craft and settle island villages across a bright open ocean, alone or with friends.
83% of 2,055 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 66$29.99
Outbreak Island
Search a fog-bound island for your missing father while the dead rise after dark and a ruined farm slowly becomes your stronghold.
78% of 1,005 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 20$14.99
Tinkerlands
Gather, craft and grow a cozy island settlement, with boss fights and friends welcome whenever you feel like it.
85% of 3,670 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 64$12.99
Forgotten Seas
You are lost in the Bermuda Void, where the ocean is endless and dry land precious.
75% of 480 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$24.99
Project: Mist
Scavenge a monster-haunted island, build a moving base on rails, and uncover its secrets alone or with friends.
72% of 325 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 19$17.99
Card Survival: Tropical Island
Turn cards into food, tools and shelter while the island tests your body and your mind.
94% of 2,982 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 99$12.49
The Last Caretaker
Salvage, build and sail a flooded Earth while raising the last of humankind in your machine-run complex.
86% of 14,164 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,848$34.99
Survival: Fountain of Youth
Craft, build and sail from island to island, following old clues toward a legend while keeping your camp alive.
85% of 4,205 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 268$9.79
30 Days On Ship: Castaway – The First Days
A castaway survival game on a container ship wrecked in the Pacific.
68% of 257 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 29Free
IfSunSets
Gather, craft and fortify on a cursed island, then hold your ground when the dead rise at dusk.
74% of 2,373 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 64$19.99
Forsaken Isle
Stranded on a desert island, explore, craft, build and fight in this action survival game!
70% of 462 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$8.99
Newest games like Project Castaway
Mayday: The Survival Island
Wash up alone, build a cozy homestead, and hop island to island by raft while a quiet mystery unfolds around you.
85% of 187 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 208$11.19
Survival Project: Island
After a shipwreck you wake alone on a strange island, and staying alive is entirely on you.
83% of 29 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$4.99
Project Cobalt
⚗️ Project Cobalt is a survival action game set on a hostile island 🌴.
66% of 38 Steam reviews are positive$10.99
Lou's Lagoon
Rebuild a tropical archipelago, one salvaged resource and one flight at a time, while searching for your missing uncle.
76% of 151 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 27$24.99
30 Days On Ship: Castaway – The First Days
A castaway survival game on a container ship wrecked in the Pacific.
68% of 257 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 29Free
Project: Mist
Scavenge a monster-haunted island, build a moving base on rails, and uncover its secrets alone or with friends.
72% of 325 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 19$17.99
Away From Life
You wake up after a helicopter crash with one job: get home.
67% of 238 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$12.99
Oceaneers
Manage a band of survivors, keep your islands afloat and send expeditions across a flooded world.
86% of 112 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$24.99
Bootstrap Island
A realistic VR survival roguelike on a merciless 17th-century island.
81% of 1,415 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$24.99
Dig Island
You crash on a tropical island and dig your way off it. Shovel in hand, you go deeper for rarer ores, keep generators fed, cook fish to stay fed…
86% of 360 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$14.99
Whisper of the Swallows
Survive blizzards and night creatures in a procedurally generated wilderness, building a sanctuary alone or with up to six players.
88% of 213 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 16$19.99
The Gold River Project
Camp, craft and explore a vast Pacific Northwest wilderness while piecing together what the reserve is hiding from you.
62% of 671 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 29$24.99