Most played competitive survival games
Shared hunger, harsh land and other people trying to take your loot shape these most played competitive survival crafting games. In Rust you start with almost nothing and raise walls, traps and weapons while watching for raids, while DayZ leaves you to track food, health and cold across towns full of strangers. SCUM adds detailed body needs to the same fight for shelter and supplies, so you keep gathering, cooking and building because someone else wants what you carry.
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Rust
Rust drops you naked on an island with a rock and a torch, and everything from bears to hunger to other survivors wants that to be your last night. For survival crafting games fans, it is gathering, crafting and base building with the stakes turned all the way up, where one good run home with full pockets can keep your heart pounding.
86% of 1,180,969 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 117,000$39.99DayZ
DayZ drops you with almost nothing into a post-apocalyptic sandbox shared with up to 60 strangers, and your only job is to stay alive. You loot, hunt, craft, cook, build and read your own hunger and health, with infected, wolves and other survivors in the way. For survival crafters, it is hunger and cold with real stakes.
78% of 390,996 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 33,545$49.99Unturned
You scavenge towns for supplies, hunt for food, craft gear and build a fortified base, then risk it all on runs for airdrops and deadzones. Best with friends, whether you team up against bandits or raid each other.
91% of 565,136 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17,301FreeARK: Survival Ascended
Wake up barefoot on a strange island, punch a tree, and work your way up to riding a dinosaur. ARK: Survival Ascended is a big, unruly survival sandbox about taming, breeding, building, and fighting your way up the food chain, alone or in a tribe.
60% of 110,171 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 24,055$44.99Black Desert
Black Desert is an open-world action MMORPG with a long list of hands-on professions. If survival crafting games appeal for the slow loop of gathering, cooking, and making things, this gives you that loop inside a large fantasy world, with fast-paced combat and castle sieges around it.
75% of 63,379 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13,811$9.99Once Human
Once Human drops you in a strange, polluted wilderness where dinner can hurt you as much as the monsters. You gather, craft, build a movable home, and tune about 100 guns while your Sanity decides how much health you get to keep. Weird, roomy, and built for survival crafters who like their base with a side of cosmic horror.
79% of 195,650 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 20,305FreeThe Isle
The Isle is open-world survival where you are the wildlife: a dinosaur hatching small and vulnerable on a large island of forest, plains, mountains and swamps. You track scent, hunt or graze, drink, grow through life stages, and avoid 100+ other hungry players. No crafting or base building here, just eat, grow and survive.
80% of 114,477 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18,792$19.99ARK: Survival Evolved
You wake up naked and hungry on a dinosaur island, and hours later you are riding a raptor past your own wooden fort. ARK: Survival Evolved is a big, unruly survival crafting game about taming, building, farming and staying fed, best with friends and patience for grind.
83% of 589,559 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18,712$14.99Raft
You wake on four planks with a plastic hook and an empty stomach. Raft turns that into a floating home: hook debris, grow food, research new gear, and sail toward islands with a story to untangle, while a shark circles. Best with friends and dividing the chores.
93% of 325,610 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10,069$19.99SCUM
SCUM drops you on a huge island prison as a televised contestant, with deep body simulation behind every meal, wound and workout. You scavenge towns and bunkers, hunt, craft, build a base and fight puppets, mutants and other prisoners. Brutal at first, rich once the systems click, and worth it for survival crafters who want consequences.
74% of 99,206 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8,793$44.99Dune: Awakening
Arrakis wants you dead, dry, and eaten. You chase shade, squeeze water from fallen enemies, raise a base piece by piece, and build buggies and ornithopters until the sandworm comes anyway. A survival crafting game with a full Dune story that works solo or with others.
72% of 69,290 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8,146$49.99V Rising
Awaken as a weakened vampire, hunt settlements for blood, dodge the burning sun, and raise a castle in a dark open world. Gather wood, stone and stranger things, unlock techniques from bosses, craft gear and coffins, and take on rivals solo or with friends.
89% of 111,174 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5,022$34.99
