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2015PEGI 16PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, Steam Deck playable74 % positive15.99 €

After a plane crash you're stranded in the Pacific, scavenging scattered islands for food, water and shelter while building rafts and fending off sharks. Its UI-light, physics-based crafting and beautiful yet dangerous ocean setting define the experience.

  • Resources and survival
  • Building and crafting
  • Open world
  • Sandbox with your own goals

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In short: Games like Stranded Deep

Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Stranded Deep special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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Green Hell

93 %Match

2019USK 18PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, Steam Deck verified84 % positive20.99 €

Brings what grabs you about Stranded Deep: scarce resources and survival, an open world as well as lots to discover.

A punishing jungle survival sim set in the Amazon that tracks nutrition, infections, parasites and wounds alongside your character's fraying sanity. A dark story campaign and a co-op mode round it out.

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The Forest

Open world

After a plane crash you build shelters and traps in a dense forest while tribes of cannibals stalk and attack you. Creepy mutant-filled caves and the mystery of your missing son drive the exploration, and it's best played with friends in co-op.

Planet Crafter

Building and crafting

You terraform a hostile planet by gathering resources, building bases and machines, and watching a barren wasteland slowly gain atmosphere, water and life. The blend of calm survival and visible, large-scale progress is what makes it special.

Raft

Resources and survival

You begin on a tiny raft in the middle of the ocean, collecting debris, expanding your floating home and exploring islands while sharks circle. Solo or in co-op, survival turns into a laid-back crafting and discovery voyage with a mysterious story.

Sons of the Forest

Resources and survival

Stranded on a remote island, you craft, build and fight to survive while cannibals and mutants hunt you. Play solo or in co-op, delve into dark caves, and fortify a base, with AI companions helping along the way.

Subsistence

Resources and survival

A first-person open-world survival sandbox where you build a base, research technology and endure changing seasons while fending off wildlife, harsh weather and AI hunters who build bases of their own. Playable solo or in co-op.

7 Days to Die

Resources and survival

A zombie survival sandbox built on crafting, looting, base building and skill progression, where every seventh night a massive horde tests your fortifications. Played solo or in co-op, it blends first-person shooting with tower-defense tension.

Space Engineers

Open world

A physics-driven space sandbox where you engineer ships, stations and rovers block by block, mine asteroids and watch your creations get realistically torn apart. Its huge creative and technical freedom shines brightest with friends in co-op.

Survisland

Open world

You are cast alone onto a vast, procedurally generated archipelago and must master hunger, thirst and the harsh wilderness. Its realism focus turns every decision into a meaningful survival challenge that rewards ingenuity.

Ark: Survival Evolved

Resources and survival

Stranded on an island full of dinosaurs, you gather resources, build bases and tame prehistoric beasts to ride and fight alongside you. On multiplayer servers it becomes a harsh, time-hungry struggle of tribes, raids and alliances.

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