Survival: Lost Way
An open-world post-apocalyptic survival sandbox. Scavenge, craft, build, and survive solo or in co-op.
34% of 247 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
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Project: Mist
Project: Mist drops you on a foggy island full of monsters, abandoned facilities and dark secrets. You survive with a Gravity Gun, a train you build into a moving base, and a cooking pot full of strange critters. Play the story campaign alone or with up to three friends. It is rough in places, and the atmosphere makes up for it.
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72% of 325 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 29$17.99Survival: Lost Way
An open-world post-apocalyptic survival sandbox. Scavenge, craft, build, and survive solo or in co-op.
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34% of 247 Steam reviews are positive$6.99Outbreak Island
A remote island, a cryptic message from your missing father, and a strange beam that wakes the dead every night. Scavenge by day, refuel abandoned machines and face monsters after dark, and turn a ruined farm into a home worth defending. Open-world survival horror with a mystery at its core.
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78% of 1,003 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18$14.99Vorax
In the gripping world of VORAX survival takes on a new terrifying dimension. As you step into this Open World Survival Horror game brace yourself for a journey where every moment is a battle for survival. Every choice, every move, every breath could be your last. Are you ready to face the unknown?
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62% of 113 Steam reviews are positive$13.99Under A New Sun
While searching for a new home, an unexpected failure in your ship has left you stranded on a planet surprisingly similar to Earth. Discover a vast open world, hunt for food, develop technologies, and build yourself a new home to survive!
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76% of 390 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$17.99Frozen State
Frozen State is a brutal, survival game set in a world embraced by the man-made ice age meant to protect mankind from pestilent hybrids. Bitter cold and numbing fear are the constant companions in the journey through the retro-futuristic Frozen State world.
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63% of 515 Steam reviews are positive$11.99Better 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$4.99The Infected
A first-person survival sandbox where you build a homestead, farm, hunt and mine through changing seasons, with hunger, thirst and cold to manage. The twist: the hybrid Vambies are optional. Turn them off and it becomes a pure survival-building game, or keep them on and fight.
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84% of 6,620 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 110$15.99Far Lands
Far Lands is an open-world survival game. Fight mercenaries, steal their loot and vehicles. Build and defend your base from zombies. Gather resources, craft better gear and loot different points of interest. Want to play with friends? Join them on Co-op!
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62% of 154 Steam reviews are positive$10.99Sons Of The Forest
Sent to find a missing billionaire, you crash on a remote island full of cannibals and mutants. You chop trees, raise cabins, and fight back with axes, pistols, and stun batons, alone or with friends. Free, scary, and strangely peaceful between attacks.
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88% of 289,526 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 15,413$29.99Starsand
Starsand is a mystic survival game set among the dunes of an arcane desert. An open-world full of danger, vast environments and mysterious happenings await you! Explore, hunt, craft, build – and SURVIVE.
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69% of 817 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$19.99Evil Mountains
Evil mountains is an open world survival game that combines aliens, horror, crafting, base building and tower defence. The game takes place at a remote place somewhere in the Himalayan mountains. Here you'll discover that aliens are real, and you are their prey
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57% of 35 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Cheaper than Vortex: The Gateway
INCUR Survival
A survival open-world game, where you can gather resources, Hunt, Craft tools and armor, Tame Animals, Ride Animals, Build, and defend your base…
80% of 100 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
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
Shadows of Kurgansk
“Shadows of Kurgansk” is an adventure game, where you need to survive in an area full of danger and mystery.
66% of 204 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Green Project
Wake from cryosleep to a fungus-choked Earth, then farm, craft and plant trees at your own pace until the world around you visibly turns green again.
80% of 1,434 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$5.99
Dig or Die
Dig for resources, craft laser weapons and turrets, and engineer a base that survives the monsters it made angry.
90% of 3,863 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$5.39
Hostile Planet: Survival
Hostile Planet: Survival is a harsh adventure on an uncharted planet that full of danger and trials.
62% of 99 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
Andarilho
A backpack, a hostile little world, and everything you need to scavenge, craft, build and drive to stay alive.
65% of 1,207 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$4.99
Arctic Anxiety
Survival simulator in extreme conditions. The game takes place in the Arctic ocean. The pilot of a cargo plane makes a hard landing on the water.
55% of 285 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Scrapnaut
Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements.
69% of 735 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$1.39
Unknown Planet
Your spacecraft has crash landed on an alien planet. Explore this unknown world, mine the resources, build your base, grow farms, craft equipment…
97% of 32 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Wrongworld
Crash-landed on a surreal, low-poly world filled with freakish inhabitants, choose between permadeath and non-permadeath modes and embark on an epic…
94% of 488 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
Hidden gems like Vortex: The Gateway
LIFE EFFECT Survival
A harsh open world after an alien invasion, seen from first or third person.
85% of 558 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 30$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 210 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$19.99
Frost Survival VR
Sandbox Survival in VR. Face a frozen wilderness solo or in co-op - build a shelter, craft tools, hunt for food, and manage your resources to endure…
89% of 170 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Bootstrap Island
A realistic VR survival roguelike on a merciless 17th-century island.
81% of 1,415 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 15$24.99
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 1,003 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18$14.99
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: 29$17.99
Urge
Fight, build, explore, survive, while the dynamic player-caused hazardous fog is slowly changing the rules of the world around you.
90% of 506 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$17.99
Under A New Sun
While searching for a new home, an unexpected failure in your ship has left you stranded on a planet surprisingly similar to Earth.
76% of 390 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$17.99
Away From Life
You wake up after a helicopter crash with one job: get home.
67% of 237 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$12.99
INCUR Survival
A survival open-world game, where you can gather resources, Hunt, Craft tools and armor, Tame Animals, Ride Animals, Build, and defend your base…
80% of 100 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Stranded: Alien Dawn
A small group of survivors, one unforgiving alien planet, and you in charge.
83% of 9,925 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 563$34.99
Green Project
Wake from cryosleep to a fungus-choked Earth, then farm, craft and plant trees at your own pace until the world around you visibly turns green again.
80% of 1,434 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$5.99
Newest games like Vortex: The Gateway
Signs of Life
Mine ore, build a base and piece together a crashed world in a 2D survival sandbox, alone or with a friend.
76% of 735 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$9.74
Project Cobalt
⚗️ Project Cobalt is a survival action game set on a hostile island 🌴.
66% of 38 Steam reviews are positive$10.99
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: 29$17.99
Away From Life
You wake up after a helicopter crash with one job: get home.
67% of 237 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$12.99
LIFE EFFECT Survival
A harsh open world after an alien invasion, seen from first or third person.
85% of 558 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 30$14.99
Project Castaway
Craft, build and sail between Pacific islands, alone or with a friend, while loneliness plays tricks on your mind.
64% of 1,845 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 32$19.99
Bootstrap Island
A realistic VR survival roguelike on a merciless 17th-century island.
81% of 1,415 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 15$24.99
HumanitZ
Scavenge ruined cities, build a shelter worth defending, and see how long you last in a grim open world.
74% of 11,623 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,332$19.99
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 210 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$19.99
INFLUXIS
Explore a mesmerizing alien world, filled with deep bioluminescent wonders and horrors alike.
63% of 257 Steam reviews are positiveFree
No One Survived
Scavenge, craft and build a real home in a grim zombie world, then hold it when the dead close in, alone or with friends.
64% of 7,023 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 100$16.99
Survive the Nights
Scavenge, fortify a shelter and get ready before dark, then survive the night alone or with friends in a grim, tense zombie world.
68% of 4,799 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 69$19.99