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Games like Way Home

2018PC

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.

Sandbox with your own goals
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Best alternative overall: Stranded Deep 92% match – Sandbox with your own goals
To play together: Space Engineers 87% match – with co-op
Newest alternative: Occupy Mars: The Game 86% match – released 2026

Best match

Stranded Deep

92 %Match

2015PCPlayStationXboxNintendo SwitchSteam 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.

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Sandbox with your own goals

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Survisland

Sandbox with your own goals

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Survivalcraft

Gameplay comes before story

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.

Under the Ocean

Pure single-player experience

As a shipwreck survivor you fight hunger, thirst, disease and wildlife on a deserted island, building a home using items that combine in many unexpected ways.

Space Engineers

Sandbox with your own goals

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Subsistence

Sandbox with your own goals

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.

Force of Nature

Gameplay comes before story

An indie open-world sandbox survival game that mixes combat, crafting, building and farming. Players gather resources and build up their own livelihood.

Occupy Mars: The Game

Sandbox with your own goals

A technical survival sandbox set on Mars where you build a base, mine resources, produce water and oxygen, grow crops and repair broken equipment to colonize the planet.

Out of Reach

Pure single-player experience

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.