Survival crafting games like Stranded

Miss the replayable and retro pull of Stranded? You will find a few strong contenders among these survival crafting games.

Forsaken Isle
Stranded on a desert island, explore, craft, build and fight in this action survival game!
Replayable, Retro
70% of 462 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$8.99
Stranded Without A Phone
Your space ship has crashed landed on a planet that is almost completely covered by ocean. You are the only survivor. Use your survival skills to stay alive long enough to get rescued.
Replayable, Retro, Tense
100% of 26 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$2.99
Stranded B
Slip into the role of a refugee prisoner who has a boat accident while on the run and is stranded on an island. Craft your tools and weapons, collect whatever you can find, and build your own home. Discover, build, hunt, craft, loot, survive!
Replayable, Tense
42% of 12 Steam reviews are positive$24.99
Don't Starve
Don't Starve drops Wilson the Gentleman Scientist into a strange wilderness that wants him dead. You gather grass, wood and stone, keep a fire lit against the dark, cook what you can find, and craft tools, science machines and shelter. Death resets the world, so every run teaches you a little more about staying alive.
Replayable, Retro, Tense
96% of 97,338 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 934$9.99
Wayward
Wayward strands you with bare hands on a procedural wilderness and leaves survival up to you. Gather, craft through more than 750 items, build, tame or fight over 60 creatures, and learn over 30 skills by doing. Turn-based, retro and properly unforgiving, it rewards careful survival crafters who like figuring things out themselves.
Replayable, Retro
86% of 1,215 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$7.99
Rogue Harvest
Rogue Harvest is a finely crafted Rogue-like Open World Adventure - Dig, Mine, Build, Craft, Explore, and Survive in a massive Procedurally Generated World and work to unravel the mystery of how you ended up in this dream like place.
Replayable, Retro, Tense
37% of 19 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Stranded Deep
After a plane crash leaves you alone in the Pacific, you island-hop, dive wrecks, and turn sticks and scrap into tools, shelter, and a motorized raft. Hunger, thirst, sunstroke, and sharks keep every trip honest. Worth playing for survival crafting fans who want a sunny, hands-on castaway sandbox with co-op.
Replayable, Tense
74% of 43,958 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 331$19.99
Aldro
You play as Aldro, a cute slime lost in an unexplored world full of magic and mystery. Explore procedurally generated levels full of strange creatures and resources unique to the area. Cultivate anywhere you choose and gather resources to build and defend your civilization from the dangers outside.
Replayable, Retro, Fast-paced
67% of 46 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Strayed
Strayed is a VR open-world survival game where you wash up with a rock and a torch and build your way up to guns, traps, and a raided-or-raiding base. For survival crafters who want the full loop — gather, craft, hunt, farm, build — played with your actual hands and with other players circling the same loot.
Replayable, Fast-paced, Tense
76% of 430 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 117$14.99
The Flame in the Flood
A rogue-like river journey down a flooded, forgotten America. You steer a raft between islands, hop ashore to forage and craft tools, treat injuries and sickness, dodge wolves, boars and snakes, and push on ahead of the rains. Short, tense runs with a sad folk soundtrack and hand-drawn backwaters that make every stop feel risky and worth it.
Replayable, Tense
76% of 2,713 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$14.99
Forager
Forager is a cute 2D open-world crafting game about turning one small island into a sprawling base. You whack trees and rocks, gather resources, buy new land, and automate production until coins and loot pile up on their own. Relaxed, colorful, and hard to put down.
Replayable, Retro
89% of 35,638 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 162$19.99
Outpost
Outpost brings the perfect mix between survival and roguelite gameplay. Start the game in a randomly generated environment and try to adapt, and make it through as many nights as possible. How long can you survive?
Replayable
87% of 797 Steam reviews are positiveFree

Cheaper than Stranded

Stranded Without A Phone

Your space ship has crashed landed on a planet that is almost completely covered by ocean. You are the only survivor.

$2.99

Forsaken Isle

Stranded on a desert island, explore, craft, build and fight in this action survival game!

$8.99

Don't Starve

Don't Starve drops Wilson the Gentleman Scientist into a strange wilderness that wants him dead.

$9.99

Wayward

Wayward strands you with bare hands on a procedural wilderness and leaves survival up to you.

$7.99

Rogue Harvest

Rogue Harvest is a finely crafted Rogue-like Open World Adventure - Dig, Mine, Build, Craft, Explore, and Survive in a massive Procedurally…

$2.99

Stranded

Test your imagination. build stuff, kill things, explore endless amounts of sea, cave and island. go into it blind and you just might find your way…

$0.99

Aldro

You play as Aldro, a cute slime lost in an unexplored world full of magic and mystery.

$4.99

Romestead

Rome has fallen and the dead walk at night. In Romestead you gather, haul, craft and build your way from a rough camp to a working Roman settlement…

$13.99

Andarilho

Andarilho is a stripped-down first-person survival sandbox: a guy with a backpack, a small map of towns and wilderness, and one job to stay alive.

$4.99

Himno - The Silent Melody

Himno - The Silent Melody is an atmospheric roguelite action RPG.

$11.99

iZolated

iZolated - This is a post-apocalyptic 2D action game with elements of survival and RPG, which throws you into a harsh open world where the slightest…

$5.99

Deep Despair 2

Deep Despair 2 is an open world survival adventure action game with procedural generation and complete freedom of action: building, crafting…

$2.99

Hidden gems like Stranded

Cataclysm: The Last Generation

A turn-based post-apocalyptic survival sim set in modern-day New England, where you scavenge, craft, and adapt against zombies, mutants, aliens, and…

$6.99

The wild darkness

You wake up somewhere strange with nothing, then learn to stay alive there.

Free

Beyond the Map

Washed up after a shipwreck at the edge of the charted seas, you get a procedurally generated fantasy world to survive in.

$19.99

Romestead

Rome has fallen and the dead walk at night. In Romestead you gather, haul, craft and build your way from a rough camp to a working Roman settlement…

$13.99

Soulash 2

Soulash 2 is a sandbox roguelike RPG in a procedurally generated dark fantasy world where you gather materials, craft tailored artifacts, and build…

$18.99

Dino Path Trail

Survive a Wild West where dinosaurs never went extinct. Fight off predators, outlaws, and the elements as you journey across deadly biomes to rescue…

$14.99

Strayed

Strayed is a VR open-world survival game where you wash up with a rock and a torch and build your way up to guns, traps, and a raided-or-raiding base.

$14.99

Forsaken Isle

Stranded on a desert island, explore, craft, build and fight in this action survival game!

$8.99

Craft Hero

Gather resources by day, build and recruit by noon, defend your village by night!

$4.99

Project Castaway

Stranded in the Pacific with a raft to build and an ocean of islands to cross, Project Castaway has you felling trees, hunting, scavenging wrecked…

$19.99

Peregrino

Peregrino is a dark isometric survival adventure where you explore a cursed forest by day and manage your caravan by night.

$16.99

Stranded: Alien Dawn

You crash on an alien planet with a handful of survivors and build from a rough camp to a fortified, high-tech outpost.

$34.99

Newest survival crafting games like Stranded