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Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Stranded Deep. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Stranded Deep.
Release Date: 14/06/2020
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Day and Night and Open World
Among Trees is a game you play in a forested wilderness full of creatures and fauna. It's handcrafted by a small team and creates a vibrant world to explore. Play involves hunting for resources and animals to hunt but this isn't a game about combat or...
Release Date: 08/12/2021
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person and Open World
Voidtrain is a shooting strategy game where you build a futuristic train to explore a post-apocalyptic Void with floating islands and aliens all about you. You gather resources to strategically build new carriages that help you fend off soldiers and...
Release Date: 08/08/2006, updated in 2022
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Day and Night, Grid, Open World and Pixels
Dwarf Fortress is a longstanding strategy game set in a fantasy world where you control a group of dwarves wanting to construct a wealthy fortress. It's unusual not only for it's text-based appearance but for it's expansive scope, and intricately...
Release Date: 30/01/2019, updated in 2021
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Day and Night and Open World
Subnautica: Below Zero is an open-world adventure game that follows the original game, Subnautica. You play a scientist on an alien planet searching for clues about the research team that vanished there. What develops is a light...
Release Date: 23/05/2018
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person and Day and Night
Raft is a survival game where you work to build a raft while stranded at sea. You start the game on a small raft with only a hook made of old plastic, which you use to pull in floating barrels and planks of wood.
Release Date: 01/12/2021
Platforms: PC
Components: 3D Third-Person, Day and Night, Open World and Weather
Icarus is an adventure survival game where up to eight players work together to endure the wilderness. Your task is to survive the brutal environment as you explore, harvest, craft and hunt. Like Ark and Minecraft, but this stands out for the level of...
33 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Stranded Deep. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Stranded Deep.
Release Date: 11/04/2016, updated in 2018
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Day and Night and Open World
Subnautica is an open-world adventure where you explore the ocean on an alien planet after crashlanding. You collect resources and fight creatures to survive. This enables you to establish an underwater base, gain new craft and equipment and explore...
Release Date: 22/09/2014
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Cartoon, Day and Night and Open World
The Long Dark is a thoughtful exploration-survival game where you have crash-landed in the icy Canadian wilderness after a global disaster and must find a way to survive. Through exploring, crafting and fighting you must look after your body...
Release Date: 25/03/2021, updated in 2022
Platforms: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Hand-Made
Dorfromantik is a peaceful village-building strategy puzzle game for one player inspired by tile-based board-games like Carcassonne. You have a stack of hexagonal tiles and work to match their edges while creating areas of towns, forests and fields to...
Release Date: 24/03/2003, updated in 2013
Platforms: GameCube and Wii U
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon, Day and Night and Open World
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker is an adventure game in the Zelda series. This one is set on a group of islands in a vast sea, and follows Link as he attempts to save his sister from the sorcerer Ganon. This soon develops into a struggle to find the...
Release Date: 19/01/2017, updated in 2023
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Open World
Bed Wars is a game played on Minecraft (since 2017) or Roblox servers (since 2021). It's a team game where you start on an island and must protect your bed and build bridges to attack other teams' beds. The trick is the ecosystem of items and crafting...
Release Date: 30/05/2014
Platforms: PC and PS4
Components: 3D First-Person, Day and Night and Open World
Forest is a survival horror game where you are the only passenger to live after a plane crash. You explore a mysterious forest to find food, shelter and safety but soon have to battle strange cannibalistic people.
Release Date: 13/05/2020
Platforms: Android, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person and Open World
Island Saver is action-adventure about cleaning up litter and goop to make money. It's created by Natwest with the aim of teaching children how to manage money. Unusually for a game with ideological ambitions, it's also a lot of fun.
Release Date: 31/05/2019
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Blocks, Day and Night, Open World and Pixels
PixArk is an adventure game similar to the more complex (and violent) game Ark: Survival Evolved. With a simpler interface and Minecraft=style block building, it's a survival game that never gets too scary while also inviting ambitious play and...
Release Date: 20/01/2016
Platforms: PC
Components: 3D Third-Person, Blocks, Cartoon and Open World
Scrap Mechanic is an open world-building game. You collect materials that are used to design machines, vehicles and buildings. You start at the site of a crashed spaceship, with just a few items and must hunt for supplies, fuel and food in order to...
Release Date: 01/01/2011, updated in 2020
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Wii U, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person and Blocks
Skyblock is a game played on Minecraft servers where you start on a bare island floating in the sky and must gather resources to thrive and reach other players. It's the Minecraft equivalent to being washed up on a desert island and is hugely popular....
Release Date: 16/03/2022, updated in 2022
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Hand-Made
Tunic is an action adventure game where you play a small small fox who wakes with no memory of where he is. You push through trees, pick up weapons and learn new moves to discover an expanse of forests, caves and landscapes. You can do anything from the...
Release Date: 09/11/2007, updated in 2010
Platforms: Wii
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Day and Night and Open World
Endless Ocean (Endless Ocean: Blue World in the US) and its sequel Endless Ocean 2: Adventures of the Deep are versions of a diving adventure game where you explore the Manaurai Sea to identify different fish and recover artefacts. As experience is...
Release Date: 15/03/2018
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4 and Xbox One
Components: 2D Overhead and Day and Night
Surviving Mars is a colony simulation game based on the real geography of Mars. You build and maintain a liveable habitat while balancing resources and researching new ways to adapt to the hostile environment. You receive occasional rockets from Earth...
Release Date: 05/09/2019, updated in 2021
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 3D First-Person, Day and Night and Open World
Green Hell is an intentionally hard open-world survival game. You are abandoned in the Amazonian rain forest with no equipment or food, just your wits. In order to survive, you must utilise real-world survival technics to build your shelter; start...
Release Date: 18/08/2021
Platforms: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Everdale is an online strategy game where you build a village. With the help of friends you develop a society that survives on the basis of savvy cooperation. Unlike other civilisation games though, there is no fighting or combat. The focus is on...
Release Date: 14/08/2020, updated in 2022
Platforms: Mac, PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid, Open World and Pixels
Factorio is a construction strategy game where you crash-land on an alien planet and must harvest resources to create industry to build a rocket to escape (or fall in love with running your factory and stay on longer).
Release Date: 15/02/2022
Platforms: Mac and PC
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon and Open World
Arctico is a meditative, exploration and base-building game where you play a lone scientist on a quest to continue your mentor's legacy and grow food in the arctic. You explore the vast frigid wilds of the island of Arctico with your sledge dogs, create...
Release Date: 01/08/2020
Platforms: PC, PS4, Stadia, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon and Open World
Windbound is an adventure game where you hunt, explore and craft to survive. But unlike games like Zelda when you die you start over and the world is endlessly changing for each new adventure. It's an exacting...
Release Date: 23/11/2017, updated in 2019
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Distrust is a survival game where you try to survive after a helicopter crash at an arctic base. Inspired by The Thing film, this is a horror game that initially seems to be about surviving the wild, but soon descends into something darker and...
Release Date: 21/11/2022
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Day and Night and Weather
Climber: Sky is the Limit is a survival climbing adventure, where you scale the peaks of the highest and most famous mountains in the world. Plan the best route, select the correct equipment and avoid dangerous hazards as you ascend. It's a unique blend...
Release Date: 01/08/2018
Platforms: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Open World
Llama Villa is a simulation game about managing a llama farm. You buy a llama, sell the wool and build him a mansion to live in with lots of llama friends. It's a super simple point-and-place building game where you can make the villa of your Dreams but...
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Cartoon, Day and Night, Open World and Weather
Wildmender is a world building game where you unearth the past in the desert. Play involves exploring to discover what has gone before, so you can restore the environment for your future. You work to revive withering plant life, cultivate a garden and...
Release Date: 06/12/2018
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 15+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Day and Night, Open World and Weather
Kenshi is a single player role-play game where you have complete control over your character and how they live their life. With no central story, it allows you to go anywhere and play however you like, be that as a city dweller who never ventures into...
Release Date: 28/09/2021
Platforms: PC, PS4 and PS5
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Open World and Weather
Away: The Survival Series is an open world narrative game about wildlife. It's a bit like playing inside a nature documentary. You explore, glide between the treetops, fight predators and find food on an island that has survived after a cataclysmic...
Release Date: 18/02/2021
Platforms: Switch
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
Gemini is a fighting game where you defend a Crystal from waves of enemies. It's super simple in both visuals and gameplay. As you defend each wave you can collect coins to upgrade your character and purchase weapons. It's a great introduction to tower...
Release Date: 15/04/2021, updated in 2022
Platforms: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Ashwalkers is an adventure survival game where you play a small group facing the aftermath of an apocalyptic volcano. You journey through a wild landscape, encountering dangers and strangers. It's a challenge of survival notable for its understated...
Release Date: 10/11/2022
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Common'hood is a squatter simulator where you craft the means to survive in an abandoned factory. You work to create a thriving community by growing food, constructing shelters, workshops, and eventually high-tech manufacturing. It stands out for the...
Release Date: 26/01/2022
Platforms: PC
Components: 3D Third-Person, Day and Night, Open World and Weather
Dread Hunger is a strategy survival game where you venture into the arctic wastes to find coal and food to keep your ship running, while trying to uncover the players who are two secret killers. In many ways like the hugely popular [link to...
Release Date: 05/08/2022
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Open World
Retreat to Enen is a peaceful survival game where you explore a tropical island and make your life there. With no hostile creatures, you craft a base that must exist alongside nature rather than treating it as an endless resource. The ecological premise...
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC
Components: 3D Third-Person, Day and Night and Open World
Skye is an open-world survival game set in Viking times. You explore a vast 1:4 scale map of the Isle of Skye as you barter with locals, survive the brutal weather, grow crops and hunt animals. The varied and detailed ever-changing world and the expanse...
Release Date: 23/02/2023
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Day and Night and Open World
Sons of the Forest is an open-world survival game where you build a base, gather resources to survive, and fight off cannibals and Lovecraftian monsters. It follows up The Forest and you similarly explore, hunt wildlife for...
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon and Open World
Loddlenaut is an ecological adventure where you are sent to clean up a polluted ocean planet. You explore the sea, cleaning up waste products and repurposing marine debris while taking care of friendly alien creatures. It stands out for its laid-back...
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Day and Night, Open World and Weather
Rooted is an open-world survival game where you eke out an existence in a post-apocalyptic America where nature has retaken the cities and villages. You construct a base, scavenge for resources, and infiltrate the territories of rival survivors and...
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