Popular competitive survival games

Chopping trees and raising walls here leads straight toward other people, and these popular picks add a competitive edge where your shelter and gear are tested against real rivals. In V Rising you grow a castle and duel other vampires for blood and territory, while SCUM throws you onto a harsh island where scavenging and body care matter in every fight, and Dune: Awakening asks you to manage heat and thirst before facing opponents in the desert. You gather, craft and fortify, then prove the build holds when someone wants to take it.

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1. Mesozoic 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%75% of 213 Steam reviews are positive30Players online now: 30Free

2. 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%79% of 2,959 Steam reviews are positive19Players online now: 19$6.99

3. Piworld

   

   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%78% of 218 Steam reviews are positive5Players online now: 5Free

4. Scrap Mechanic

   

   You crash-land as a robot mechanic on a farm planet where the Farmbots went haywire. In survival you gather, craft, farm, build vehicles and bases, and fight back with hammer and Spudgun, solo or with friends. Creative mode gives you 400+ parts for whatever machine you can dream up.

   92%92% of 109,959 Steam reviews are positive1.3KPlayers online now: 1,274$28.99

5. Mesorift 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.

   70%70% of 151 Steam reviews are positive24Players online now: 24$9.99

6. In 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%66% of 156 Steam reviews are positive3Players online now: 3Free

7. V 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%89% of 111,131 Steam reviews are positive5KPlayers online now: 5,022$34.99

8. Untamed Kingdom

   

   Shadow Stalk Studios is an indie company creating Untamed Kingdom. We want to create a space for everyone to enjoy and explore with friends. Come join us as we adventure through the wilderness!

   58%58% of 337 Steam reviews are positive31Players online now: 31Free

9. SCUM

   

   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%74% of 99,181 Steam reviews are positive8.8KPlayers online now: 8,793$44.99

10. The Front

    

    The Front is a post-apocalyptic survival crafting sandbox where you are a resistance fighter sent back in time to stop a tyrannical empire. Gather resources, craft weapons and tech, build a shelter from hundreds of parts, farm and cook, then defend it with traps and custom war machines.

    66%66% of 9,527 Steam reviews are positive45Players online now: 45$19.99

11. Longvinter

    

    Longvinter drops you on an island with a tent spot and big plans. Fish, farm, cook, craft through 500-odd items, build up a base, then trade, team up, or steal from your neighbours. Cute and scrappy in equal measure, it is best when you make your own job: chef, shopkeeper, berry baron, or island menace.

    68%68% of 6,965 Steam reviews are positive49Players online now: 49$19.99

12. Dune: 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%72% of 69,245 Steam reviews are positive8.1KPlayers online now: 8,146$49.99

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