Story-driven survival crafting games

Chopping, foraging and building matter here because characters rely on you, from a hut that walks to a camp you protect, and every chore pushes the plot forward.

Mayday: The Survival Island

Mayday: The Survival Island

Wash up alone, build a cozy homestead, and hop island to island by raft while a quiet mystery unfolds around you.

87% of 134 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 248$11.19
REKA

REKA

REKA is a cozy witch-apprentice builder set in Slavic folklore, where your home walks on chicken legs.

83% of 3,527 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,413$19.99
Breathedge 2

Breathedge 2

A humorous space survival adventure where you play an Ordinary Man hunted by an army of Coffinbots.

86% of 1,821 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 40$19.99
AETHUS

AETHUS

A top-down sci-fi survival crafter where you play Maeve, an ex-mining engineer working her own claim.

94% of 2,097 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 23$19.99
The Gold River Project

The Gold River Project

A camping trip in the Pacific Northwest turns into a survival experiment where you are watched and studied.

62% of 666 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 51$24.99
Survivalist: Invisible Strain

Survivalist: Invisible Strain

Ten years after the infection, you are another refugee trying to carve out a life in the hills.

87% of 4,083 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 145$11.99
荒岛求生:逃出美女岛

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.

92% of 1,173 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$7.49
Magi Scapes

Magi Scapes

Magi Scapes is a cozy pixel-art sandbox where you gather, farm, cook and craft alongside AI companions you design yourself.

69% of 132 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 33$12.59
The Legend of Khiimori

The Legend of Khiimori

You are a courier rider crossing 13th century Mongolia on horseback.

81% of 2,026 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 188$29.99
Wildmender

Wildmender

Wildmender is a desert gardening survival game about turning one small spring into a thriving garden.

85% of 1,808 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 63$8.49
YAR: Forgotten Throne

YAR: Forgotten Throne

YAR: Forgotten Throne is a story-driven open-world RPG set in the Slavic-flavoured lands of Borea, where forests and wildlife are turning dark.

89% of 1,292 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 20$5.99
Winter Survival

Winter Survival

Winter Survival is a story-driven survival game where trauma turns reality into a reflection of your breaking mind.

62% of 604 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$18.99
Primal Planet

Primal Planet

Unveil a heartfelt story of family, dinosaurs, and UFOs! Craft, upgrade, and survive in a realm of primeval predators, savage tribes and... ancient…

88% of 667 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$19.99
Short Snow | Cold Survival Game

Short Snow | Cold Survival Game

A realistic open-world survival experience. After a harrowing plane crash, you find yourself stranded in the wilderness.

51% of 158 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$8.99
Scavland

Scavland

Scavland is a hardcore top-down survival RPG in a grey Soviet wasteland covered by the Mist.

83% of 1,085 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 113$19.99
Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey

Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey

Survive 8 million years of human evolution with a clan of hominids in Neogene Africa.

81% of 9,898 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 95$39.99
Winter Burrow

Winter Burrow

A mouse returns from the big city to find the childhood burrow in ruins and Aunt missing.

89% of 2,985 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 41$10.99
Subnautica: Below Zero

Subnautica: Below Zero

Return to Planet 4546B for a colder, stranger chapter of Subnautica.

90% of 99,774 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 318$29.99
Green Hell

Green Hell

Stranded in the Amazon, you track macros, boil water, and bandage your own legs while something rustles nearby.

84% of 81,160 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6,511$24.99
Cowboy Life Simulator

Cowboy Life Simulator

A first-person Wild West ranch sim where you start over as a failed businessman with a goat, a bag of grain, and an empty plot.

88% of 1,154 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 46$12.34
Subnautica

Subnautica

Crash-land alone on an alien ocean planet and learn to live under it.

97% of 343,949 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3,928$29.99
Crashlands 2

Crashlands 2

You crash back onto Woanope with nothing, then slap, gather, and craft your way back up.

88% of 2,224 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 20$24.99
Praey for the Gods

Praey for the Gods

Praey for the Gods sends you alone onto a frozen island to climb giant beasts and end an endless winter.

82% of 2,507 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$29.99
My Time at Sandrock

My Time at Sandrock

You arrive in Sandrock as its newest Builder with a run-down workshop and a desert full of ruins.

88% of 24,271 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 964$39.99

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