Competitive survival hidden gems
These competitive hidden gems ask you to gather, craft and hold a base while real opponents do the same. In Strayed you start with almost nothing and work toward protected outposts while others chase the same supplies, and in Haven & Hearth farming and building matter because neighbors can rob you or break your walls. Keep Digging adds group trips below ground where bringing material back decides how far you get.
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Keep Digging
Keep Digging is a first-person digging survival craft game for survival crafters who like a tight gather-and-upgrade loop. You dig through a 5000m procedurally generated underground, haul ores, blueprints and fossils back to base, then smelt, forge and enchant better gear so you can push deeper next time, solo or with up to 8 players in co-op or PvP.
79% of 2,960 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 19$6.99Piworld
Build a home, claim land with a totem, cook fresh meals, fight bosses and other players. The map gets wiped now and then, but your character keeps every skill, so no hour is wasted.
78% of 220 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5FreeMesozoic Dawn
You hatch as a small juvenile dinosaur in a low-poly wilderness and must eat, drink, and stay out of teeth until you can nest and evolve. Growth plus nesting unlocks larger species across sea, land, and air, with organs, climate, and body-part damage keeping every hunt tense.
75% of 212 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 30FreePlains of Pain
A scorched procedural wasteland where the sun can kill you faster than bandits. You manage thirst, hunger and heat, craft weapons and gear, purify water, and build a base that can grow into a supplied settlement, solo or in co-op.
84% of 1,039 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 37$19.99Cryptid Farm
Cultivate a thriving farm to survive in this peaceful horror farming game! Play online with up to 16 players in the same lobby. Work together with your fellow farmers to repair your tractor and escape the farm, try not to fall victim to the eerie and mysterious creatures that lurk nearby.
96% of 153 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$4.99Strayed
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.
76% of 430 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 117$14.99Mesorift Survival
You wash up on a tropical beach with nothing, and the jungle already has teeth. Mesorift Survival is a classic open-world survival crafting game across three islands: chop wood, mine stone, craft an axe and pickaxe, then build a base while dinosaurs wander past ruined bunkers and radio towers.
69% of 152 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$9.99MULTIPLAYER CAVEMEN
MULTIPLAYER CAVEMEN - The Village is being taken over by DinoSaurs. Can You and Your Pack Survive ?
80% of 199 Steam reviews are positive$0.99In Next Life
An online multiplayer game of crafting, survival, civilization building, and player collaboration. Start in the stone age and live, build, and invent your way to higher civilization. Live and die as well as you can, to gain the experience you need to achieve even more in your next life!
66% of 156 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3FreeHaven & Hearth
Death is permanent and other players can rob or raze you, so every fence and smoked sausage matters.
72% of 1,038 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 45FreeEverlast: Undying Tale
A bright fantasy action RPG where you gather, fish, cook, and craft your way through a world overrun by the undead. Level skills by using them, build up a personal home base, and join shared events to rebuild ruined zones, solo or with up to 100 players per server.
75% of 178 Steam reviews are positive$24.99DUCKSIDE
DUCKSIDE is Rust with feathers: a persistent open-world survival game where every survivor is a duck with a gun and a hat. You harvest, craft weapons and tools, build a loot shelter, raid nests, and fly over the island looking for trouble and treasure.
71% of 2,712 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$5.99
