Newest cinematic survival crafting games
Stark landscapes and directed story beats shape this set, with Dune: Awakening, The Alters and Cairn showing how gathering, building and staying alive can carry film-like staging. You manage hunger, shelter and tools while cutscenes, performances and set pieces push the plot forward. Expect tense climbs, harsh deserts and lonely bases where survival tasks stay tied to character choices.
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Among the Trolls
Among the Trolls is a first-person narrative-adventure game where the secret mysteries of Finnish forests are unraveled. Venture deep into the Finnish wilderness to uncover family truths and confront what lies beyond.
33% of 81 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$19.99Breathedge 2
A humorous space survival adventure where you play an Ordinary Man hunted by an army of Coffinbots. You scavenge wreckage, craft and upgrade tools with duct tape, watch your oxygen and temperature, and untangle a galaxy-wide mess with an AI in your suit and an immortal Chicken.
86% of 1,832 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 40$19.99Aeternum Infecti
Aeternum Infecti is a third-person, truly terrifying open-world survival game set in a haunting post-apocalyptic world. Scavenge cities and wilderness for food, medicine, and weapons while evading relentless infected. Explore a vast, desolate land where silence is deadly and survival is everything.
42% of 12 Steam reviews are positive$19.99F.R.A.X: BLACKOUT
FRAX: BLACKOUT is an open-world zombie survival game with Visual Novel-style storytelling. Half exploration, half immersion in a deep story set in a falling Tokyo. Brutal combat, limited bullets, and a charming cast wrapped in a gritty anime aesthetic.
22% of 9 Steam reviews are positive$14.99Dead in Antares
Dead in Antares is a turn-based survival management game with RPG elements on an alien planet. You lead ten crashed specialists, build a camp from the wreck, and balance food, water, fatigue and morale while you research, explore and fight. Worth playing for survival crafters who like the camp-building and resource loop with a long story attached.
78% of 196 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$19.99Cairn
Cairn is a survival climb up Mount Kami, an unclimbed summit, as pro climber Aava. You place hands and feet, read the rock, hammer pitons, and ration food, water and medicine between bivouacs. For survival crafters, the draw is the long, careful resource run where hunger and weather punish poor planning.
94% of 19,595 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 761$29.99荒岛求生：逃出美女岛
After a shipwreck leaves you on a tropical island with six women, you keep everyone fed and alive by picking what to collect and what to combine. Stone plus wood makes an axe, stranger recipes make stranger tools, and your choices shape relationships and multiple endings. A live-action, story-first take on survival for survival crafters who want flirting and crafting over base-building.
92% of 1,174 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$7.49PIONER
PIONER is an open-world MMO shooter set on a grim, Soviet-style island full of anomalies and artifacts. You manage hunger and rest, scavenge materials, and craft weapons at workbenches between story quests, faction missions, and trips into PvP Shadowlands. Worth a look for survival crafters who want their crafting wrapped in a tense, military FPS rather than a quiet base-builder.
61% of 3,233 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$29.99FEROCIOUS
A survival FPS on a hostile prehistoric island. Fight mercenaries with crafted weapons, sneak through mud, and turn the island's dinosaurs into your own weapons. Rough in places, but the gunfights hit hard and the island is a genuinely dangerous, beautiful place to explore.
62% of 766 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$12.49The Alters
You crash on a burning planet and survive by cloning yourself. Build a rolling base, mine resources, and keep a crew of Jans alive while the sun chases you down. Tense, strange, and very human for survival crafting games.
90% of 15,762 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 408$15.74Dune: 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$49.99Eydigard
Eydigard is a third-person co-op action RPG where players shapeshift into animals to fight, explore, and reclaim cursed farms in plague-ridden 1500s Norway. Inspired by Norwegian and Sámi folktales, it blends historical fantasy with challenging boss fights and a grounded, story-rich world.
73% of 55 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
