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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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Raft

91 %Match

2022USK 12PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Steam Deck playable93 % positive20.49 €

Fits your focus: Combat like Stranded Deep.

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.

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Planet Crafter

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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.

Out of Reach

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A survival game where you play a castaway on a remote island, gathering food, crafting gear, building shelter and sailing out to explore your surroundings.

Green Hell

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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.

Space Engineers

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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.

Way Home

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A survival sandbox where you hunt, fish, grow food and craft with a fairly realistic system to stay alive in a hostile environment. You need to plan your actions carefully.

Survisland

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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.

Subsistence

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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.

The Wild Eight

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A survival game set in the frozen Alaskan wilderness after a plane crash, where you gather resources, craft gear and fend off cold, hunger and dangers, solo or in online co-op.

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