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2022PCPlayStationXboxNintendo SwitchSteam Deck verified69 % positive16.79 €

A survival game set in a mysterious desert world where you hunt, gather, craft and build while exploring dangerous dunes.

  • Resources and survival
  • Open world
  • Building and crafting
  • Lots to discover

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Sons of the Forest

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2024PC88 % positive28.99 €

Fits your focus: Systems like Starsand.

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.

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Green Hell

  • Systems like Starsand

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.

Raft

  • Systems like Starsand

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.

Conan Exiles

  • Systems like Starsand

A survival sandbox set in the brutal world of Conan the Barbarian: you build bases and whole cities, endure hunger, cold and enemies, and rise from a lowly exile to a mighty warrior. Playable solo, in co-op, or on persistent online servers with siege warfare.

The Forest

  • Systems like Starsand

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.

Stranded Deep

  • Systems like Starsand

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.

Breathedge

  • Systems like Starsand

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.

7 Days to Die

  • Systems like Starsand

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.

Keplerth

  • Systems like Starsand

You wake up with nothing on a hostile alien planet and must gather, craft and fight your way through a 2D sandbox survival adventure while uncovering the planet's secrets.

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