Top 30 Best Open World Survival Games on PC in 2024

Survival Games are a special genre. They are harsh and unforgiving, but also one of the most beautiful. They will not only beat you down, but also let you appreciate the beauties of the world. Ever since I found survival games 15+ years ago, they have been a stable of my steam library and I have tried most of them. So in this video I bring you my 30 best open world survival games you should play on pc in 2024.
Hope you found the video useful. A like on the video is much appreciated. Share your thoughts down below, what game did I miss?
00:00 Intro
00:24 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
00:50 This War of Mine
1:22 Rust
1:59 ARK: Survival Evolved
2:48 The Long Dark
3:29 Subnautica
4:04 DayZ
4:33 Conan Exiles
5:02 Astroneer
5:33 Sons of The Forest
5:59 Green Hell
6:35 7 Days to Die
7:05 Terraria
7:46 SCUM
8:22 Stranded Deep
8:52 Hurtworld
9:37 Raft
10:12 No Man's Sky
10:54 Don't Starve Together
11:32 Valheim
12:05 Space Engineers
12:50 Starbound
13:21 Project Zomboid
13:57 Medieval Dynasty
14:27 Satisfactory
15:00 Grounded
15:31 Dying Light
16:03 Unturned
16:40 Arid
17:13 Ylands
17:45 More Games HERE
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[@GameGraderReviews]

Hope you found the video useful. A like on the video is much appreciated. Share your thoughts down below, what game did I miss? 00:00 Intro 00:24 Empyrion - Galactic Survival 00:50 This War of Mine 1:22 Rust 1:59 ARK: Survival Evolved 2:48 The Long Dark 3:29 Subnautica 4:04 DayZ 4:33 Conan Exiles 5:02 Astroneer 5:33 Sons of The Forest 5:59 Green Hell 6:35 7 Days to Die 7:05 Terraria 7:46 SCUM 8:22 Stranded Deep 8:52 Hurtworld 9:37 Raft 10:12 No Man's Sky 10:54 Don't Starve Together 11:32 Valheim 12:05 Space Engineers 12:50 Starbound 13:21 Project Zomboid 13:57 Medieval Dynasty 14:27 Satisfactory 15:00 Grounded 15:31 Dying Light 16:03 Unturned 16:40 Arid 17:13 Ylands 17:45 More Games HERE Buy cheap games DIRECTLY from the publisher on Green Man Gaming with greatly discounted prices using the following link: greenmangaming.sjv.io/GameGrader (using the link will support me, with no further cost for you)

[@celladorestark2047]

You should add fountain for youth to this list.

[@celladorestark2047]

Oh and subsistance

[@emptinessence]

nice content, keep it up... also maybe use ai female voice to read the script slowly and clearer... dunno just a thought...

[@sarogamer7832]

Good

[@Stoerenfried_]

WHAT ABOUT ICARUS? I am very disappointed, that this underrated game found not that attention, as it deserves. A massive Crafting and Skill UI, many missions and quests, different playmodes (Open World, Missions, Outposts) and very good DLCs. One of the best survival games out there!

[@troyscarselli7920]

Indeed I also was taken aback by this. Although He did do a fine job.

[@keithbishop4941]

Was also going to mention Icarus was happy with it at launch and loving it again now

[@user-nn6hv3te2q]

this is a great video i love the no nonsense. exactly what i was looking for and so informative.

[@lonewolf0712]

Subnautica 3 is in the works and confirmed to have optional Co-op. They are taking their time and I am glad, too many games get released half baked and full of bugs.

[@Nxtn]

I'm confident shit's gonna be a banger

[@troyscarselli7920]

I enjoyed how you covered from retro to current...

[@nedimmrsic4650]

best video on this topic out there.. you skipped few jewls, but others skipped A LOT.. try Rimworld and Icarus..

[@DarthJaz]

Sweet vid some honorble mensions please try surroundead buddi

[@kopilkaiser8991]

Man I really like your choice of games in the genre you've targeted to review. And indeed the games are very popular in the steam store. You do provide proper unbias reviews. Please keep up the honest work. It is hard to find honest reviewers with strong integrity. 😉😏😁

[@GameGraderReviews]

appreciate the support

[@TheSchwanz47]

2:38 Ah yes, naming your dino after Cera from land before time. Classic.

[@NfMero]

maybe the most Survival games i like No Man's Sky,ARK: Survival Evolved,Satisfactory,Subnautica below zero and Subnautica it give a good hella vibe

[@Chelsey-Cello]

7 Days to Die, Ark and Rust are my favorite survivalcraft RPG. I am not worth my salt in Rust but I enjoy the resource gathering and base-building. 7 Days to Die is very fulfilling if you enjoy looting/harvesting and base-building.

[@AryanNaimee]

hey how can you download it please tell me i like rust game

[@AnimalQuestGaming]

bro earnd a sub and like

[@TheRozanz]

Nice list bro

[@garyt6454]

Would you mind to try Myth of Empires? I like that game a lot.

[@floydpulley3509]

I bought this war of mine after this video; Thanks for the info.

[@GameGraderReviews]

Glad you found the video helpful.

[@steweylil]

sunkenland is a very slept on game. should’ve made the list

[@PixiePeachPomme]

Thanks for making this vid! Think I'll try out Medieval dynasty and stranded deep

[@caanannethken1659]

Stranded deep is fairly old. I thought he was gonna post about a lot of the new ones. Nonetheless, you’ll like Stranded. It takes a difference approach from your typical survival games. Stranded Deep along with Green Hell are two of the hardest games I’ve played.

[@x-CJ-x]

Raft is epic i have over 500 hours. Glad it made this list

[@catalina2473]

thx for the videO👍

[@GameGraderReviews]

My pleasure!

[@theredgarrus5229]

I enjoyed the vid, just wish there were more games i havent already played.

[@abihusmallville]

I doubt that you've played all of them

[@youcantakemygoogleaccount2359]

Which is the best one

[@diego-vw2in]

My favorites: Stranded Deep, The Long Dark, Empyrion Galatic, Dying Light and Space Engineers. But Dying Light and Space Engineers aren't survival game at all :P Btw, u missed one of the best in my opinion: Stationeers. But it's a great list, thanks!

[@Sloccket]

I won't recommend rust it is very mental consuming u have to stay online most of the time so that you can defend a raid

[@tatehenson3611]

Got excited cuz saw decent number if games but yeah this is old news, literally recommended ark ase when ark asa was out same month. Thought i was gonna learn new games but got recommendations if games from ps3 era.

[@HurricaneSA]

It's a list of best games available to play now. Not upcoming games or mediocre games. There might be a ton of "new" survival games that launched recently but most of those are rushed and unfinished or just plain bad. So, blame the developers, not the video. Also, "best" is always subjective so it pays to watch more than one video.

[@abihusmallville]

So, you don't listen right. He didn't say these were new games

[@JonJon-fr1iw]

i can sense this guy asked Chat-gpt to write the voice over.

[@HottestTarkovPlayer]

great video man and i just wanna say this channel is highly underrated

[@koreanjesus8787]

This videos ass tf u on

[@egio787]

Grounded is my favorite game of all time, Valheim is what I’d recommend to anyone I want to get into the survival crafting genre

[@boxingislife471]

I just play DayZ which I can hold my own at, Rust which I cannot hold my own at and Zomboid which I always get too overconfident with and am usually dead by day 5.

[@dam1844]

I play raft and enjoy in world of sea 🏝

[@randellbutler8259]

V Rising!!! Releases 1.0 wed may 8th. my favorite

[@benniehofman8697]

Scum i play this long now its a earley game lots op updates son of the fores also good game

[@Saywhaat15]

I might try Stranded deep, astroneer, the long dark, raft, arid and Ylands

[@domainmojo2162]

Starsand isn't here, but it's a gem!

[@Izachiu]

he just looked at the survival tag in the steam store and picked the top sellers. There is ONE game on this list that’s “new” being less than a year old

[@nicholaspatton7195]

@Izachiu Palworld, Enshrouded, Nightingale. Light No Fire sometime this year too.

[@nohocoolplays4131]

what is the forth game it looks so fire ngl gotta cop

[@pursuitforhappyness1435]

..... i have all but like 3 of these lol i need a new one.

[@mayumitmarikit]

valheim is truly unmatched in many ways. grounded comes close but it really lacks biome variations

[@aFFCorp]

most of the games are just well known survival games which makes this list useless as for most of the people out there they have either already played or know about those games. People don't search for top survival games to find a well known game like rust or dayz but to find something new and interesting to play or hidden gems

[@Mosire69420]

naaaaaaaah i searched for this cuz i never played a survival game just looking for the best in the genre, so shitty opinioin ye?

[@aFFCorp]

@@Mosire69420 How is it a shitty opinion just cuz YOU a person who doesn't play survival games and wanted to play them, for the first time? Sorry, I can't speak for 100% of the player base, cuz there will obviously be exceptions. I have played games in all genres for many years and I knew about or had tried every game on this list. So no my opinion isn't "shitty", just cuz YOU disagree with it. Read my comment again it clearly says "most people", that doesn't include exceptions like you. It's not my problem you're not a seasonal gamer. So you're wrong.

[@vazhakentchiashvili2198]

100%

[@youtubenoob]

Maybe look up a video with keywords like "underrated" or "unknown" in it to find the video you're looking for, you flamer nerd.

[@thiamarcosthiamarcos8936]

Yes, useless. Nothing new...

[@peanutbutter5986]

Icarus for life, also raft doesnt have a skill and tech tree

[@vivekprasad1995]

Are there any free games with these graphics and quality

[@nickbland4623]

Medieval Dynasty is fantastic! - granted the tutorial is rubbish. but once you get past all that..... Magic

[@SyedQasimAli-dd9pv]

😢😢😢😢😢😢. Bro koi aisa vedio banaow jis se ham log koi bii game free main download kr sakein. Keyu k in game ko khelny k Liya paise lagty hain Jo nahi haaa. Or highly compressed hoon plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[@wenidiges_Schnitzel]

Icarus is underrated

[@fatheroftrinity8963]

These are all the big name games of the genre. It's literally the exact same list you'd find in one single google search. for someone called "Game Grader", all you did was list off the games you scrolled passed, and gave a less detailed description than Steam has. get bent dude.

[@royconestoga7326]

Cry harder bud.

[@CrowX-Gaming]

Enshrouded is definitely the best now

[@venkatesh8264]

Days gone, state of decay 2

[@Vorkus01]

is conan exiles worth it now ? i would love to have veteran players answer.

[@henriquegraciano3430]

def yes. ever, but how i allways say. If you need have a life, just try the PvE. You ll enjoy the game trully. *and this advice work for any Survivor online game*

[@peanutbutter5986]

Beyond contact

[@svingarm9283]

Well, 30, but only Medieval Dynasty is worth playing. The others are so bad they are not worth it

[@Taahgs]

Day C

[@diogonz7777]

Im looking for a game like conan exiles wherw you can recruit npc,s and build but with bettee graphic. Anyone ones a game like this?

[@youcantakemygoogleaccount2359]

Days gone

[@tihonkhubiryants9131]

why Icarus is never mentioned??!

[@LaserGadgets]

I was expecting new games. I either already own it or ignored it because its MMO crap.

[@Nuschler22]

Sound effects are always a bad idea. Never seen a top notch channel need to use them.

[@burninghattl8170]

Where are Subsitance?

[@user-ps5ik3nv1y]

well, no man's sky is so good in my opinion.

[@pelvist]

Its a terrible game IMO.

[@MicDubTV]

@@pelvistExplain…

[@gimplekin3629]

did you actually play any of these? you didn't mention and of the good or bad. empyrion is broken and abandoned. why try to do a review video if you're not going to review any of them?

[@worldukplays]

SCUM is great indeed

[@tryusuf6417]

After the misery mode in the long dark game wants you just die

[@SwiggitySwagDopeInTheBag]

Hurt is literally a Rust clone

[@ludwig-nd5lv]

What about atlas

[@AryanNaimee]

hey how can i download a rust game please tell me

[@Valiant1ord]

steam

[@lilphoenixjay]

Sunkenland

[@MorrowPlays]

its ok, needs to be fleshed out a bit more.

[@lilphoenixjay]

@morrowjack3711 still early access would be nice to see what they do

[@Davidjohnson-le1zu]

Project zomboid #1

[@jeckobandit69]

these are old survival, not 2024

[@ChronicBreakdown]

Hurtworld has been dead for years

[@all1284]

This war of mine is open world? I dont think so

[@Snipurfeyyhatesmath]

all these games are great but every human can agree that minecraft is always the best

[@GameGraderReviews]

didn't see the point in adding Minecraft since everyone and their mother knows it :D

[@Okay-pr9fp]

Ark is outdated compared to new survival games, rust loading screens are aweful takes 30-40 mins just to load there’s loads of problems I have with rust, and I played day z along time ago but it was so empty, might of changed nowadays idk, scum is fun but theres just too many better survival games, the only survival games I would recommend is the forest, sons of the forest, project zomboid, green hell, subnatica, raft, terraria and stranded deep

[@udayarajakrishnan1858]

Sunkenland better than subnautica any day

[@reh3884]

I wish open-world survival games didn't pride themselves on all the minutia. One game on Steam has bullet points of all the stuff in it. One of them was "cook food. Eat." Seriously? How the h3ll is that fun? They seem more like big time sucks than fun.

[@selmoo1]

minecraft?

[@k4r4_bin_nemsi]

So u didnt play any of the games and just read us the very basic game description we all find on steam after filtering survival games, filtered by reviews.... Well sorry but no need for that clip.

[@alextreeman7964]

4algo

[@johnsmith-zo6uy]

Hate survival games with NO story like stranded deep

[@jordan75040]

I gotta ask. How did you miss out DayZ?

[@Meryman_]

Because the video is called "best" games, not worst

[@Moonlakes]

4:04?

[@jordan75040]

​@@Meryman_okay buddy

[@jordan75040]

​@@MoonlakesI swear I scanned the chapters and didn't see it

[@rashone748]

Same old shiiite 😑

[@antonasstaskevicius8190]

ICARUS?

[@pelvist]

The devs are already releaseing expansion sized DLC before the game is even finished, which just seems greedy and some of the DLC costs as much as the base game. So youre helping fund development while the game is in early access and theyre out making add on content to milk you some more. Its such a shame really because apart from some bad optimisation and wierd invisible walls here and there, the game is pretty decent.

[@Shuzno]

Do you have a speech impediment?

[@lXFeniXl]

Terraria? a survival? WTF

[@tehdanny682]

Hmmm it's a lot of genres combined, some of it is survival, or sandbox survival more specifically. But I wouldn't personally think of Terraria when I want to play a survival game.

[@itay8516]

you can add minecraft too

[@skyrimle8483]

We are tired of crap FPS games. Isn't there a 3rd survival game?

[@scavyboi]

These are all old as fuck

[@alessandromassi3659]

Sorry but there is no better survival game then Project Zomboid.

[@danielhowe3516]

SCUM is not an MMO and the aim isn't to escape the island. Makes it hard to trust your info on the other games....

[@SwiggitySwagDopeInTheBag]

it definitely is an MMO, among many other things as well

[@danielhowe3516]

@@SwiggitySwagDopeInTheBag I've about 1000 in game hours on scum. I wouldn't call it an MMO lol. But it's a million times better than any MMO I've seen.

[@SwiggitySwagDopeInTheBag]

@@danielhowe3516 I wasnt giving my opinion, I was stating facts. And as harsh as this may sound, your wrong opinion is regardless. SCUM is undoubtedly an MMO, this isnt a point of contention. There are games like ARK and Rust that have people moving the goalposts as to what that term represents, but being limited to 100 players on a server does nothing to negate scum from being an MMO. You have more hours in scum than I do (402), but I knew it was an MMO in the first hour of gameplay

[@danielhowe3516]

@@SwiggitySwagDopeInTheBag it might be an MMO by definition and if it is, it is. A lot of the time there may be only 10 players on a even a popular server. If that's the definition of an MMO, then f*$k my black dog and call me Charlie 🤣

[@stanfordwillis4841]

Your 1000h and opinion don't change the fact that it's an MMO bro@@danielhowe3516

[@IamGhede]

Space Engineers is hot garbage. Expect to download mods if you want a game and not a tech demo. Satisfactory should have stayed an epic exclusive because that whole store is about selling hot garbage. Also it doesn't belong on this list as it is not a survival game it is a subpar factory building game. Valheim is the industry standard nowadays if you ask me. Looking into the future Enshrouded, Derilicts, and Nightinggale are going to be Valheim's sole competition.

[@nstag8r]

subpar factory game? its literally the factory game, the best one by far.

[@AMARFPV]

I was like: oh no he calls Space Engineers garbage. Then i see you calling Satisfactory garbage.... haha Which i ejoyed the crap out of it > 1k hours easily. So i guess its just a difference of taste

[@NikkGaming-ih2gy]

Sons of the forest is crap the first game is way better

[@Gogog74974]

Nahh

[@aironaspudymaitis3695]

It's only got full released recently and first game wasn't that good at start too

[@ethannephilim3314]

Got that right bro 👍

[@NikkGaming-ih2gy]

The forest was way better at early access than sons of thd forest dver will be

[@aironaspudymaitis3695]

@NikkGaming-ih2gy at first release it wasn't

[@hunterfromhalo]

The most useless list ever put on youtube, just take it down so it's not wasting other peoples time.

[@spkz0r]

You call This War of Mine open world survival? Your lack of mental capacity is showing my dude.

[@malachia8590]

What is shown here is your tot boorish attitude

[@rootsharp9946]

the way you talk... I even hated the games I love. Just don'T.