Games like Survival: Fountain of Youth
If Survival: Fountain of Youth is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Infected, Project Castaway and The Planet Crafter — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its building mechanics are intuitive, atmospheric and immersive. 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 →Survival: Fountain of Youth is an open-world island survival game from Odinsoft, published by Twin Sails Interactive and CE-Asia in 2024. As a shipwrecked 16th-century explorer in the Caribbean, players craft tools and shelter, explore multiple islands dotted with ruins, and uncover an ancient civilization's secrets alongside a personal fate. It runs 84% positive across 1,747 Steam reviews and is Playable on Steam Deck. Reviewers describe an atmospheric, immersive experience and credit the intuitive building mechanics, the rich narrative full of mysteries, and the variety of environments and creatures. Priced at $27.99 and falling under action and adventure, it pairs crafting and base-building with a story-driven push across its island landscape.
About Survival: Fountain of Youth: 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.
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The Infected
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Survival: Fountain of Youth.
Top pick for Survival: Fountain of Youth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Survival: Fountain of Youth.
The Infected is a sandbox, first-person, open-world survival game. Build bases, craft, farm, hunt, and survive changing seasons. Choose whether to face the hybrid “Vambies” or turn them off for a pure survival experience.
Project Castaway
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Survival: Fountain of Youth.
Second-strongest match for Survival: Fountain of Youth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Survival: Fountain of Youth.
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.
The Planet Crafter
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Survival: Fountain of Youth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Survival: Fountain of Youth.
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
Voidtrain
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Survival: Fountain of Youth.
Ranked #4 for Survival: Fountain of Youth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Survival: Fountain of Youth.
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.
Mist Survival
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Ranked #5 for Survival: Fountain of Youth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Survival: Fountain of Youth.
MIST SURVIVAL is a Single-player, survival stealth sandbox game Players will experience the Apocalypse stimulation in the form of virus pandemic, the players have to deal with it to survive through the difficulties such as finding shelter and food, threats from the environment and climate: wild animals, bandits, infected, and dense mist t
Medieval Dynasty
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Survival: Fountain of Youth.
Ranked #6 for Survival: Fountain of Youth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Survival: Fountain of Youth.
Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.
Breathedge
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Ranked #7 for Survival: Fountain of Youth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Survival: Fountain of Youth.
Survive in outer space! Together with your immortal chicken, discover the truth behind your sudden spaceship crash. Craft tools, pilot vehicles, and even control space stations to survive and explore the wreckage.
Soulmask
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Survival: Fountain of Youth.
Ranked #8 for Survival: Fountain of Youth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Survival: Fountain of Youth.
Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. Possess any of your tribespeople, recruit followers, and build a thriving automated civilization. Survive, expand, and forge your own legacy across a vast ancient open world — together with friends.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Survival: Fountain of Youth
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REMNANT II®
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Survival: Fountain of Youth.
Reviewers of Survival: Fountain of Youth cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Survival: Fountain of Youth.
REMNANT II® pits survivors of humanity against new deadly creatures and god-like bosses across terrifying worlds. Play solo or co-op with two other friends to explore the depths of the unknown to stop an evil from destroying reality itself.
Abiotic Factor
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Survival: Fountain of Youth.
Reviewers of Survival: Fountain of Youth cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Survival: Fountain of Youth.
Abiotic Factor is a survival crafting experience for 1-6 players set in the depths of an underground research facility. Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the world’s greatest minds must survive against the universe’s biggest threats.
Uprising: Kingdom Come
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Reviewers of Survival: Fountain of Youth cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Survival: Fountain of Youth.
Uprising: Kingdom Come is an immersive survival strategy game set in the turbulent 1800s, where you lead a group of people from bondage to freedom and beyond. Traverse the vast and beautiful countryside of Virginia. As your group evades capture and grows into a massive formidable army.
Tribe Nation
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Reviewers of Survival: Fountain of Youth cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Survival: Fountain of Youth.
Tribe Nation is a real-time strategy with roguelike elements, set during the Gallic Wars. Lead your Celtic tribe across Europe in search of a new homeland. Strategize on a randomly generated hex battlefields, adapt to unexpected events, craft, upgrade, and equip. Make your tribe a nation.
The Planet Crafter
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Survival: Fountain of Youth cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Survival: Fountain of Youth.
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
The Forest
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Survival: Fountain of Youth.
Reviewers of Survival: Fountain of Youth cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Survival: Fountain of Youth.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
Escape from Tarkov
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Survival: Fountain of Youth.
Reviewers of Survival: Fountain of Youth cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Simulation with Survival: Fountain of Youth.
Escape from Tarkov is the original extraction FPS where every raid is a gamble with death. Prep your raid, bleed, endure and fight through ruthless PMC players and Scavs, gain tactical advantage and cling to your loot — only extraction decides if you live or lose it all.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Survival: Fountain of Youth at current Steam store prices.
Terraria
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Priced ~64% under Survival: Fountain of Youth on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Survival: Fountain of Youth.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~82% under Survival: Fountain of Youth on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Survival: Fountain of Youth.
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.
Stardew Valley
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Priced ~46% under Survival: Fountain of Youth on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Survival: Fountain of Youth.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Lethal Company
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Priced ~64% under Survival: Fountain of Youth on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Survival: Fountain of Youth.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~64% under Survival: Fountain of Youth on Steam right now. Shares Action with Survival: Fountain of Youth.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Survival: Fountain of Youth.
Priced ~46% under Survival: Fountain of Youth on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Survival: Fountain of Youth.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
People Playground
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Priced ~64% under Survival: Fountain of Youth on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Survival: Fountain of Youth.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Portal 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~64% under Survival: Fountain of Youth on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Survival: Fountain of Youth.
The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!
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 Indie with Survival: Fountain of Youth.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Survival: Fountain of Youth.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Survival: Fountain of Youth.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Survival: Fountain of Youth.
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. Shares Indie with Survival: Fountain of Youth.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
93, Kuindzhi
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Survival: Fountain of Youth.
Kuindzhi, 93 is an atmospheric first-person narrative vignette about an 18-year-old boy from Donbas. The story takes us to March 2022, when the world changed forever — into a space where the past, fears, and doubts find their voice.
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Simulation with Survival: Fountain of Youth.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
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Frequently asked about Survival: Fountain of Youth
- Does Survival: Fountain of Youth run on Steam Deck?
- Survival: Fountain of Youth is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Survival: Fountain of Youth cost?
- Survival: Fountain of Youth is listed on Steam at 27.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Survival: Fountain of Youth?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Survival: Fountain of Youth are The Infected, Project Castaway, The Planet Crafter.
- Who developed Survival: Fountain of Youth?
- Survival: Fountain of Youth was developed by Odinsoft Inc. and published by Twin Sails Interactive, CE-Asia.
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