Emotional survival crafting games

Gathering, cooking and building shelter here carry grief, family and memory with you, from a mouse restoring a childhood home to a clan learning to survive together.

REKA

REKA

REKA is a cozy witch-apprentice builder set in Slavic folklore, where your home walks on chicken legs.

83% of 3,567 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,413$19.99
AETHUS

AETHUS

A top-down sci-fi survival crafter where you play Maeve, an ex-mining engineer working her own claim.

94% of 2,097 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 23$19.99
Survivalist: Invisible Strain

Survivalist: Invisible Strain

Ten years after the infection, you are another refugee trying to carve out a life in the hills.

87% of 4,083 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 145$11.99
Casualties: Unknown

Casualties: Unknown

Descend an alien planet's caves as an expendable test subject, patching wounds and crafting tools to survive each layer.

97% of 1,151 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6,079$19.54
Primal Planet

Primal Planet

Unveil a heartfelt story of family, dinosaurs, and UFOs! Craft, upgrade, and survive in a realm of primeval predators, savage tribes and... ancient…

88% of 667 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$19.99
Winter Burrow

Winter Burrow

A mouse returns from the big city to find the childhood burrow in ruins and Aunt missing.

89% of 2,985 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 121$19.99
Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey

Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey

Survive 8 million years of human evolution with a clan of hominids in Neogene Africa.

81% of 9,898 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 95$39.99
Green Hell

Green Hell

Stranded in the Amazon, you track macros, boil water, and bandage your own legs while something rustles nearby.

84% of 81,160 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6,511$24.99
Praey for the Gods

Praey for the Gods

Praey for the Gods sends you alone onto a frozen island to climb giant beasts and end an endless winter.

82% of 2,507 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$29.99
ANGST: A TALE OF SURVIVAL

ANGST: A TALE OF SURVIVAL

Explore a frozen, mysterious land in this top-down survival adventure.

85% of 237 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$7.99
The Alters

The Alters

You crash on a burning planet and survive by cloning yourself.

90% of 15,665 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 408$15.74
Days Gone

Days Gone

Days Gone is an open-world action-adventure about drifter and bounty hunter Deacon St.

92% of 83,463 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2,270$39.99
Dead in Antares

Dead in Antares

Dead in Antares is a turn-based survival management game with RPG elements on an alien planet.

78% of 196 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$19.99
DarkSwitch

DarkSwitch

Grow a vertical settlement on a giant tree and keep the fog from eating it.

77% of 765 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$34.99
DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS™ 2

DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS™ 2

A block-building RPG where you rebuild a world that outlawed building.

92% of 6,946 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 153$49.99
UNDYING - "KINGDOM"

UNDYING - "KINGDOM"

Anling is infected and running out of time, so every day is about keeping her son Cody alive and teaching him to survive without her.

78% of 1,688 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$19.99
Clanfolk

Clanfolk

Clanfolk is a colony sim in the Scottish Highlands where you keep one family alive through the seasons.

91% of 3,816 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 240$29.99
The Long Dark

The Long Dark

A quiet apocalypse in deep snow: you against cold, hunger, wolves and bad weather in northern Canada.

88% of 112,784 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5,128$19.99
Hobo: Tough Life

Hobo: Tough Life

Hobo: Tough Life is an urban survival RPG set in the cold city of Praslav, where you scavenge dumpsters, beg, craft, and build a hideout from scrap…

84% of 8,757 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 75$29.99
Nuclear Day

Nuclear Day

Nuclear Day is a story-based role-playing game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Explore the secrets of this world. Fight monsters.

65% of 144 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1Free
One Hour One Life

One Hour One Life

Born to a stranger, dead in an hour. One Hour One Life compresses a whole lifetime into sixty minutes, where you learn to farm, cook and smith from…

76% of 4,155 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$14.99
RimWorld

RimWorld

Three survivors crash on a distant world with almost nothing.

97% of 211,533 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 21,171$34.99
Kenshi

Kenshi

Kenshi is a free-roaming squad RPG set in a harsh desert world that does not care if you live.

95% of 99,448 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5,067$29.99
The Oregon Trail

The Oregon Trail

The Oregon Trail is a road-west survival run where you build a party, load the wagon, and try to get everyone to Oregon alive.

78% of 1,238 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 71$29.99

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