The Best Survival Games

Update : Subnautica 2 added at rank #1.
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Subnautica 2 (2026)

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Mac OS IOS iPhone Android Xbox Series X/s PC Windows Playstation 5 Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch

Subnautica 2 is an underwater survival adventure set on an all-new alien world, developed by Unknown Worlds. Play alone or with friends in 4-player co-op. Adapt to survive by building custom bases and crafting tools. Explore the unknown to uncover the mysteries hidden within the depths.


  • underwater
  • survival
  • horror
  • open-world
  • cooperative
  • exploration

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Grounded 2 (2025)

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Shrunk again, but the world is much larger. In this open-world, single-player or co-op survival adventure, craft weapons and armor, build your base, and traverse the playground on your buggy. But something else is out there—and it hasn’t forgotten you.


  • survival
  • crafting
  • park
  • open-world
  • cooperative
  • base-building
  • survival-crafting
  • exploration
  • sandbox

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Abiotic Factor (2025)

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Playstation 5 Xbox One PC Windows Xbox Series X

Abiotic Factor is a survival crafting experience for 1-6 players set in the depths of an underground research facility. Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the world’s greatest minds must survive against the universe’s biggest threats.


  • survival
  • crafting
  • cooperative
  • open-world
  • sci-fi
  • base-building
  • campaign
  • aliens

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Forsaken Isle (2025)

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PC Windows

Stranded on a desert island, explore, craft, build and fight in this action survival game!

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  • crafting
  • survival
  • pixel
  • sandbox
  • rpg
  • burton
  • casual
  • farming
  • pirates
  • adventure

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Dune: Awakening (2025)

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PC Windows

Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival RPG where you can fully immerse yourself in the epic world of Dune. Alone or with friends, explore a vast open world Arrakis, survive the sandworms, build a home, craft an ornithopter, and unravel the mystery of the missing Fremen.

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  • survival
  • mmo
  • multiplayer
  • crafting
  • open-world
  • resource

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Exile (2025)

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web browser Linux Android Mac OS PC Windows

A survival city-builder unlike any other—shaped by rolling hills, guide generations, and grow without limits. No cap on scale, no slowdown, just strategy and survival at your pace.


  • survival
  • retro
  • sci-fi
  • colony
  • old-school
  • platform
  • scroller
  • perma-death
  • pixel
  • city-building
  • simulation
  • rpg
  • metroid
  • shoot-em-up
  • exploration

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Tinkerlands (2025)

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early access PC Windows

Explore, craft, and fight your way through uncharted islands — solo or with up to 4 players in co-op! Tinkerlands is an exciting survival adventure where you will build your settlement, craft useful tools to survive, and even use magic!

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  • crafting
  • survival
  • open-world
  • building
  • sandbox
  • pixel
  • cooperative
  • procedural
  • 2d
  • replay-value
  • exploration

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Survivalist: Invisible Strain (2025)

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Xbox One Xbox Series X PC Windows

It's ten years since the infection started. Long-established settlements are collapsing, one by one, for unknown reasons. Survivors are running to the hills to escape, hoping for safety in remote places. As another refugee, you're here to carve out a new life for yourself - by any means necessary.

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  • open-world
  • survival
  • crafting
  • colony
  • conversation
  • hunting
  • post-apocalyptic
  • base-building
  • stealth
  • simulation
  • character
  • procedural
  • choices
  • zombies
  • customization

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Dinosaur World (2025)

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early access Android PC Windows

Dinosaur World is a survival game about dinosaurs. You can tame and hunt dinosaurs, ride them, grow crops, craft a variety of weapons, build houses and furniture.


  • base-building
  • survival
  • building
  • dinosaurs
  • documentary
  • crafting

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RuneScape: Dragonwilds (2025)

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early access PC Windows IOS iPhone

On RuneScape’s forgotten continent of Ashenfall, dragons have awoken. Gather, build, skill and craft to survive in this co-operative (1-4) survival crafting game. Only by mastering survival and uncovering ancient secrets can they hope to slay the Dragon Queen—alone or with allies.

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  • survival
  • crafting
  • open-world
  • cooperative
  • building
  • multiplayer
  • base-building
  • dragon
  • fantasy
  • farming

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