Games like Project Castaway
If Project Castaway is your kind of game, the closest matches are Stranded Deep, Sunkenland and Green Hell — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, immersive and crafting progression. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Project Castaway is an open-world survival crafting game set in the Pacific Ocean where players take on the role of a stranded castaway fighting for survival. The game features crafting progression, survival mechanics, difficulty settings, and procedural generation that creates new map layouts and island configurations with each playthrough. Players can customize survival conditions such as sunburn and cold exposure. The title offers online cooperative multiplayer and has received a 68% positive rating from 1023 Steam reviews. Priced at $10.99 USD, Project Castaway is not currently supported on Steam Deck.
About Project Castaway: Project Castaway is a survival crafting title set in the Pacific Ocean. Live the life of a stranded castaway, with only yourself - and the island's inhabitants - for company! Sail the ocean, hunt, explore unique islands and gather resources as you fight for survival.
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Stranded Deep
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Project Castaway.
Top pick for Project Castaway fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Project Castaway.
Take the role of a plane crash survivor stranded somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Come face to face with some of the most life threatening scenarios that will result in a different experience each time you play. Scavenge. Discover. Survive.
Sunkenland
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Project Castaway.
Second-strongest match for Project Castaway fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Project Castaway.
Get ready for a Waterworld-themed survival game with modular base building, sunken city scavenging, crafting, base defense, and invasions of NPC clans for resources and territory. Ready for the water apocalypse?
Green Hell
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Project Castaway.
Third-strongest match for Project Castaway fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Project Castaway.
Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.
Survival: Fountain of Youth
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Project Castaway.
Ranked #4 for Project Castaway fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Project Castaway.
Survival: Fountain of Youth is a challenging single-player open-world adventure game set on the Caribbean islands. Survive as a shipwrecked 16th-century explorer, craft tools and shelter, and uncover the secrets of both an ancient civilization and your own fate.
Force of Nature
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Project Castaway.
Ranked #5 for Project Castaway fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Project Castaway.
Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres
The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an immersive mood with Project Castaway.
Ranked #6 for Project Castaway fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Project Castaway.
A survival crafting adventure set in the Fourth Age of Middle-earth. Lead the Dwarves to reclaim Moria - mine, build, and battle through procedurally generated depths alone or with up to 8 players in co-op. It is time to return to Moria!
Smalland: Survive the Wilds
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Project Castaway.
Ranked #7 for Project Castaway fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Project Castaway.
Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.
Voidtrain
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Project Castaway.
Ranked #8 for Project Castaway fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Project Castaway.
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
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Stranded Deep
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Project Castaway.
Reviewers of Project Castaway cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Project Castaway.
Take the role of a plane crash survivor stranded somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Come face to face with some of the most life threatening scenarios that will result in a different experience each time you play. Scavenge. Discover. Survive.
Sons Of The Forest
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Project Castaway.
Reviewers of Project Castaway cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Project Castaway.
Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends, in this terrifying new open-world survival horror simulator.
Raft
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation with Project Castaway.
Reviewers of Project Castaway cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Project Castaway.
Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!
Green Hell
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Project Castaway.
Reviewers of Project Castaway cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Project Castaway.
Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.
Windrose
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Project Castaway.
Reviewers of Project Castaway cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Project Castaway.
Embark on a PvE survival adventure in the Age of Piracy. Fight on land and sea, solo or with friends. Build, craft and explore vast open world filled with dark secrets. Master soulslite combat and take on challenging bosses, command your ship and plunder unspoken treasures!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Project Castaway at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Project Castaway on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Project Castaway.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Project Castaway on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with Project Castaway.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~59% under Project Castaway on Steam right now. Shares Action with Project Castaway.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Project Castaway on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Project Castaway.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Project Castaway on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Project Castaway.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~91% under Project Castaway on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Project Castaway.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~73% under Project Castaway on Steam right now. Shares Action with Project Castaway.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
OneShot
WHY THIS
Priced ~45% under Project Castaway on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and Casual with Project Castaway.
OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Project Castaway.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Project Castaway.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Project Castaway.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Project Castaway.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Project Castaway.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Project Castaway.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
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Frequently asked about Project Castaway
- Does Project Castaway work on Steam Deck?
- Project Castaway is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Project Castaway cost?
- Project Castaway is listed on Steam at 10.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Project Castaway have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Project Castaway supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Project Castaway?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Project Castaway are Stranded Deep, Sunkenland, Green Hell.
- Who developed Project Castaway?
- Project Castaway was developed by Mardonpol Inc..
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