Gamers who thrive on immersive survival experiences will love Green Hell's intense journey through the Amazon rainforest. This game tests mental and physical endurance with its realistic survival elements and need for resourcefulness. If you're looking for similar thrills, try The Long Dark, where you'll manage resources and battle the cold in a post-apocalyptic wilderness. Subnautica offers a mix of exploration and survival in an alien ocean, while The Forest challenges you to craft and unravel eerie secrets after a plane crash in a mysterious woodland. Check out these games and more below, and submit your votes to help create the ultimate fan-ranked list of open world survival games like Green Hell.
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You survive a passenger jet crash. You find yourself in a mysterious forest. You fight to live against cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, and survive in this first-person survival horror simulator.
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Find a missing billionaire on a remote island. You enter a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends, in this new open-world survival horror simulator.
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The Long Dark is an exploration-survival experience. Wired magazine calls it the pinnacle of a genre. The game challenges solo players to think while exploring a frozen wilderness after a geomagnetic disaster. You face only the cold and Mother Nature's threats; there are no zombies.
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Beam Team Games made and published Stranded Deep. Players release the game on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC in 2020. Set in the Pacific Ocean, a plane crash survivor faces life-threatening scenarios in the middle of the ocean.
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Dive into a freezing underwater adventure on an alien planet. Below Zero takes place two years after the original Subnautica. Return to Planet 4546B to uncover a deadly cover-up. Survive by building habitats, crafting tools, and diving deeper into Subnautica's world.
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Valheim is a brutal exploration and survival game for 1 to 10 players. It features a procedurally-generated world inspired by Norse mythology. Craft powerful weapons, build longhouses, and slay mighty foes to prove yourself to Odin.
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Descend into an alien underwater world full of wonder and danger. Craft equipment, pilot submarines, and outsmart wildlife to explore coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more. You must survive.
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This Land Is My Land offers frontier action. It is an open-world stealth game with a hostile environment that changes based on player actions.
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Redbeet Interactive made and published the open-world survival indie game Raft through Axolot Games. Players launch the game on PC in 2018. Trapped on a small raft, players use an old plastic hook to gather materials and craft items to survive the ocean.
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Facepunch Studios made and released Rust in February 2018 for Microsoft Windows, OS X, and Linux. Rust features only multiplayer. Players must survive in the wilderness using gathered or stolen materials. Manage hunger, thirst, and health to avoid death. Bears and wolves exist, but since it is multiplayer-only, other players present the main threat. Combat involves firearms and primitive weapons, like bows. Attack helicopters, controlled by non-player characters, sometimes appear.
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UnReal World mixes roguelike RPG and survival simulation. It is set in the Far North long ago. Players praise its depth, realism, atmosphere, and immersion. The game is completely open-ended. You choose your life: fisherman, hermit, adventurer, hunter, trapper, or tradesman. You enter a detailed, enchanting iron-age world where northern folklore, knowledge, and ways of life matter.
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Icarus offers an alien world to explore, survive in, and make money if you dare. It is a multiplayer co-operative survival game with persistent metagame progression.
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Join the crew of an interdimensional express. Discover a new, mysterious world filled with amazing creatures, dangers, and surprises. Upgrade your train, gather new materials, and build better weapons. Play single-player or online with up to four people.
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The world is vast, beautiful, and dangerous, especially when you shrink to ant size. Explore, build, and survive together in this first-person, multiplayer, survival-adventure. Can you survive the giant insect hordes and fight the backyard's dangers?
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Experience a big adventure on a small scale. Enjoy multiplayer survival in a huge, dangerous world. Preparation matters when you are small and at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons and armor, tame and ride creatures, build camps, and explore a strange new land.
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