Popular tense survival crafting games
Danger never feels far away in these popular survival crafting picks, where gathering supplies and raising shelter happens under constant threat. In Subnautica 2 you map strange waters and piece together tools and outposts while something watches from the deep, while Permafrost has you forage through frozen ruins and link shelters to stay ahead of the cold. Enshrouded adds fog-covered ruins full of hostile creatures, so every run for wood or ore means weighing risk against what you carry home.
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Subnautica 2
Subnautica 2 drops you on a new alien ocean with a broken colony mission and a pushy ship AI. You swim, scan strange creatures, gather materials, craft tools and shape custom bases, alone or with up to three friends. Leviathans patrol the deep, ruins wait in the dark, and every trip out tests how far you dare go.
91% of 119,415 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3,019$29.99Mayday: The Survival Island
A mysterious crash leaves you alone on an island, and that is only the start. Hunt, fish, farm and build a homestead, then sail a raft across 24 islands full of ruins, magical totems and secrets. A cozy, colorful survival adventure with a story underneath it all: someone may be watching, and escape is not guaranteed.
86% of 164 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 208$11.19Windrose
A pirate survival crafting game where you gather, craft, build and fight across procedurally generated islands and open sea. Raise a settlement, captain a customizable ship, take on bosses and dungeons solo or with up to 8 friends.
86% of 48,871 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2,885$29.99Enshrouded
Enshrouded is a survival action RPG in the fallen kingdom of Embervale, where a corrupting fog called the Shroud eats the land. You hunt, farm, fish, mine, craft gear, and raise a settlement from a hut while fighting through forests, dunes, peaks and ruins, solo or in co-op with up to 16 players.
86% of 100,251 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 36,581$39.99Whisper of the Swallows
A brutal open-world survival game in a frozen land the gods abandoned. Read the sky, hunt, craft and build a refuge before nightfall, alone or with up to six friends, then push back the darkness one region at a time.
88% of 210 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$19.99Permafrost
Permafrost is a story-driven survival sandbox set on a near-future Earth locked in endless winter after the moon shatters. You play a Rook engineer following a friend's radio signal through frozen cities and wilderness, scavenging, hunting, crafting, and building a network of shelters to outlast the cold, alone or with up to 3 friends and a loyal dog.
71% of 2,070 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 764$24.99Abiotic Factor
Trapped miles underground in the GATE research facility after a containment breach, you survive as a scientist with a PhD, not a soldier. Scavenge offices and labs, craft oddball weapons and traps, build a base, and push through portals and labs with up to five other survival crafters.
95% of 43,085 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3,131$34.99Grounded 2
Shrunk to ant size in a park turned wilderness, you craft weapons and armor, raise rideable insect buggies, and build bases from shelters to underwater outposts. Big predators, co-op survival, and mysteries under the grass make it worth a look for survival crafting games fans.
82% of 22,440 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4,555$29.99Lucid Blocks
Lucid Blocks is a first-person voxel sandbox where you wander an endless procedural dreamscape, fend off manikins, gels and colossal spiders, and learn a strange crafting system that can make almost anything. Built for survival crafters who like slow exploring, odd discoveries and building with hundreds of blocks.
93% of 4,937 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 107$6.99Breathedge 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 1,828 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 40$19.99Project 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 ships and keeping your sanity intact while you work toward building a plane and getting out.
64% of 1,845 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 32$19.99HumanitZ
A zombie outbreak left humans as an endangered species, and you are one of the holdouts. Scavenge ruined cities or live off the land by hunting, fishing, and farming, then craft gear, fortify a base, and push toward the island hiding the outbreak's truth. Solo or co-op, with PvE and PvP servers.
74% of 11,623 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,332$19.99
