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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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Green Hell

96 %Match

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

Fits your focus: Combat like Stranded Deep and Systems like Stranded Deep.

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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Raft

  • Combat like Stranded Deep
  • Systems 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.

Planet Crafter

  • Combat like Stranded Deep
  • Systems like Stranded Deep

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.

The Forest

  • Combat like Stranded Deep
  • Systems like Stranded Deep

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.

Sons of the Forest

  • Combat like Stranded Deep
  • Systems like Stranded Deep

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.

Survivalcraft

  • Combat like Stranded Deep
  • Systems like Stranded Deep

You are marooned in an endless blocky world and must fend for yourself by mining, crafting, hunting and building shelter. Its appeal lies in the near-limitless freedom to build and the ability to construct complex electrical machines.

Subsistence

  • Combat like Stranded Deep
  • Systems like Stranded Deep

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.

Wildmender

  • Combat like Stranded Deep
  • Systems like Stranded Deep

In a parched desert world you bring land and plants back to life, grow gardens and survive thirst and dangers, solo or with up to three friends. Restoring and exploring take priority over combat.

7 Days to Die

  • Systems like Stranded Deep

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.

Breathedge

  • Combat like Stranded Deep
  • Systems like Stranded Deep

A comedic space survival adventure: after a ship crash you craft gear, explore wreckage and uncover a mystery alongside an immortal chicken. Absurd dialogue and sci-fi parodies give it its charm.

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