3 Welcome To The Jungle
La Selva mod by SKIROW
An ambitious project, La Selva drops players in a massive jungle-themed map overflowing with detail. A visually amazing mod that will push lower-end machines to their limits, this download is just one of many Stranded Deep maps created by this modder, all of which can be sampled on the author’s YouTube page.
Packed with unique plants and animals, La Selva’s difficulty arises from its sheer size as players will need to thoroughly search the map to find the best loot. For those who feel like they have exhausted everything there is to do in the survival game, this map should help revitalize the experience for them.
10: Survivor Adventure: Survival Island
Survivor Adventure: Survival Island is a free action-adventure, role-playing, survival, and single-player video game developed by ReeltoReal Games. The game is about a stunning landscape, where the player has to play the role of a character who is stranded on an island. In this game, the player can develop his character and update the character along with the storyline. This game displays a map at the top of the screen due to which the player become aware of enemies who…
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11: Raft Survival
Raft Survival is a free adventure, simulation, role-playing, and single-player video game. In this game, the player is captured on a desolated island and he aims to survive using a boat. This game provides the player with multiple weapons and other items for surviving. The game enables the player to select his favorite character and customize it for changing its look. It has realistic 3D graphics due to which the player can play the game for hours and enjoy the…
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12: Last Day on Earth: Survival
Last Day on Earth: Survival is a free action-adventure, survival, and role-playing video game for teenagers developed by Kefir. This game is about the futuristic post-apocalyptic world where an unknown disease has broken out. Due to that disease, people are becoming zombies and only a few survived. In this game, players have to play the role of a survivor and he aims to survive as long as possible. Furthermore, players have to face infected people, explore the environment, and encounter…
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9 Farm Palm Trees For Wood And Coconuts
Palm Farm mod by Lamacik
While some trees and plants will grow back over time, this is not the case for all of them. As players expand their base, they will likely need to venture further and further away to find more palm trees for wood.
Farming plots are a great way of generating edible fruits, or players can grow yucca trees in them for an endless supply of fibrous leaves. The Palm Farm mod allows players to plant palm trees in these plots. This has many benefits, including regular harvests of coconuts and palm fronds. The wood from felling these trees can also be turned into planks for building basic structures and eventually rafts.
Medieval Dynasty
Medieval Dynasty is a survival game set in the Middle Ages. It combines gameplay elements of four different genres, including survival, strategy, role-playing, and simulation, and it’s ideal if you want a game like Stranded Deep with a new theme.
Players control a character named Racamir, who flees from his settlement after his parents die in a war. You start the game as an inexperienced and poor adventurer in search of a better life. There is a massive, open world to explore in this game.
The game features realistic weather conditions, a day and night cycle, as well as four seasons.
There is a storyline in Medieval Dynasty but the game encourages players to explore the world and learn stuff on their own. Some of the most important skills you’ll need to develop to survive include cultivation of land, farming, and hunting.
The simulation gameplay elements allow you to construct various buildings as well as craft weapons and tools. You will develop your character as you progress the game and interact with many NPCs too. Strategy gameplay elements encourage players to grow a village, manage citizens, and produce goods to consume or trade.
7 Longer Days & Bigger Stacks
Double Stack Size and Longer Day-Night Cycle mod by Carlitox25
Fans looking to make the game easier rather than harder will find plenty of mods to help them excel. Sadly, many files for making animals non-aggressive are now out of date. However, there are other ways to make Beam Team’s brutal survival game more forgiving.
This mod by Carlitox25 increases how many objects players can hold in a single stack. This will make resource gathering much more efficient, especially in the early game. As well as boosting stack size, this download also lengthens the game’s day-night cycle for extra realism. Players who are struggling will have more time to accomplish their goals and find the necessary materials for their building projects, such as constructing their dream raft.
The Forest
The Forest is a survival horror game set in a heavily forested peninsula. The events in the game take place after the main character survives a plane crash, which seems to be a common theme in games like Stranded Deep.
With non-linear gameplay and an open-world environment, players are left to decide how they’ll survive in this scary world.
There are no specific missions that you’ll need to complete here. You only have one goal, and that’s to find your son Timmy who was on the plane with you when it crashed. The game has two different endings that you’ll experience based on your decisions toward the end.
What gives The Forest its creepy elements is that the peninsula you’re stuck on is occupied by cannibalistic mutants. They will always be scary when you encounter them but sometimes they won’t be hostile.
The night and day cycle in this game is a great addition to other survival elements. It’s notable that cannibalistic mutants that live on the peninsula will be more hostile when it’s night.
There are building gameplay elements in The Forest. You can construct a shelter and make traps. There are multiple types of structures you can build, including cabins, shelters, and treehouses. You will need supplies like logs, rocks, and sticks to build a structure.
2 A Mod For Getting Unstuck
Unstuck + Coop Teleport mod by Jan
One issue that can occur when using mods or even during the base game, is that players will find themselves stuck in uneven gaps or between rocks. When this happens, players often need to use cheats to escape the glitch or reload a previous save.
Thankfully, a helpful modder created a way to escape from these situations. This mod will jump the player up and protect them from damage, enabling them to get out of a glitch without losing any precious health. If two friends are playing Stranded Deep co-op, they can also use this mod to teleport to their teammates. This is useful when players have become separated, or if one player is in danger and requires assistance.
1 Home With A View
Lost Homestead mod by GrampyNH
Some maps are designed to be sprawling mazes filled with danger around every corner that test the survival instincts of players. Others aim for a more middle-of-the-road experience, not in terms of quality but challenge. Lost Homestead is not especially huge or cutthroat; in fact, it is quite a welcoming place when compared to most other Stranded Deep maps.
This island is relatively rich in resources and comes with a house that is made to be someone’s home away from home. While there are a few threats, the wildlife is more than manageable. Lost Homestead lives up to its name: this map is for those who want somewhere to lay down their head.
Stranded Deep is available on PS4, Xbox One, and PC.
The Long Dark
The Long Dark is a survival game set in an open-world environment. Just like Stranded Deep, it gives you the option to choose how you’ll experience the game. You have two choices – survival mode and story mode.
If you’re up for a true challenge, you should pick survival mode. The Long Dark is a demanding survival game that takes into account caloric intake, fatigue, body temperature, along with several environmental factors. To survive, you need to find whatever resources you can and utilize them to combat these factors.
To keep your hunger levels low, you can hunt wildlife for food. Some animals may present a threat to you, including bears and wolves.
The game features a full day and night cycle, which is also a notable feature in Stranded Deep. If you’re not careful, your character can die from frostbite, dysentery, hypothermia, and hostile wildlife. There’s a lot to manage and keep an eye on here.
The story mode is more of an adventure game, but it still has some survival elements. This mode doesn’t have a permadeath feature so it won’t matter much if you die in the game. The story follows a pilot who crashed in the Canadian wilderness following a geomagnetic storm.
The map in The Long Dark has twelve regions. Not all are accessible in the story mode.
4 The Perfect Map For Treasure Hunters
Ancient Legends — CUSTOM MAP map by ManlyManFace
The best custom maps for Stranded Deep include hidden secrets, such as special loot, or pieces of narrative that add a fresh context to the survival game. The Ancient Legends map is a great mod for explorers as it sees the protagonist shipwrecked on a mysterious island filled with hidden areas and secrets to discover.
This map isn’t the hardest to survive on, but it is possibly one of the most difficult to complete as it is packed with loot. Players can find treasures and documents in concealed caves, sinkholes, or the wrecks that litter the shore. Obviously, some of these areas are more hazardous than others. Players should ensure they know how to recover their HP in case they become injured during their exploration.
8 A Challenging Map For Skilled Climbers
Rodriguez-Manuel Island mod by Deez
It is possible to climb trees in Stranded Deep; however, rock formations can only be traversed with tactical jumps. This can make descending is much harder than ascending. Jumping back down a steep slope can quickly lead to broken knees, which will require a splint to heal.
Veteran climbers will enjoy the Rodriguez-Manuel map for its incredible verticality. With so little flat ground at the bottom of the island, players will need to get to the top of the large rock pillars in order to build a base. Skilled jumpers will be able to enjoy the spectacular views this island has to offer, and may even be able to locate some of the hidden secrets.
8: Ocean Survival
Ocean Survival is a free survival, action, and single-player video game developed by Candy Mobile. This game revolves around an epic adventure in which the player has to play the role of survival. The story of the game is that a ship sank in the sea due to hitting a huge storm. The person who is left alive is the survivor who gets up in a lifeboat. In this game, the player has to find valuable resources and items for…
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9: Live or Die: Survival Pro
Live or Die: Survival Pro is a paid action-adventure, survival, and single-player video game developed by Not Found Games. The game takes place in a zombie apocalypse in which the player has to play the role of survivor. The main goal of the player is to stay alive as long as possible. This game has multiple heroes for playing and all heroes have unique abilities and attributes. It gives you the option to choose your favorite character or create your…
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10: Survivor Adventure: Survival Island
Survivor Adventure: Survival Island is a free action-adventure, role-playing, survival, and single-player video game developed by ReeltoReal Games. The game is about a stunning landscape, where the player has to play the role of a character who is stranded on an island. In this game, the player can develop his character and update the character along with the storyline. This game displays a map at the top of the screen due to which the player become aware of enemies who…
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11: Raft Survival
Raft Survival is a free adventure, simulation, role-playing, and single-player video game. In this game, the player is captured on a desolated island and he aims to survive using a boat. This game provides the player with multiple weapons and other items for surviving. The game enables the player to select his favorite character and customize it for changing its look. It has realistic 3D graphics due to which the player can play the game for hours and enjoy the…
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12: Last Day on Earth: Survival
Last Day on Earth: Survival is a free action-adventure, survival, and role-playing video game for teenagers developed by Kefir. This game is about the futuristic post-apocalyptic world where an unknown disease has broken out. Due to that disease, people are becoming zombies and only a few survived. In this game, players have to play the role of a survivor and he aims to survive as long as possible. Furthermore, players have to face infected people, explore the environment, and encounter…
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Subnautica
Subnautica is a survival game set in an open-world environment, and it’s one of the best picks on this list for fans of games like Stranded Deep.
The story is set in the distant future. You take control of a character named Ryley Robinson. The spaceship you were on crashes on an alien planet known as 4546B and you’re left to navigate this unfamiliar environment. The planet is an alien ocean world filled with dangerous predators, and it also holds a great mystery that you’ll have to solve.
You will spend most of your time in Subnautica underwater, and there are only two islands that you can explore.
The game features a day and night cycle that has an effect on visibility. There are four different modes to choose from when you start the game. Survival mode is the classic experience you’d expect from a game that’s similar to Stranded Deep.
The freedom mode is a great option if you want the same mechanics featured in survival mode but without thirst and hunger. Choosing the hardcore mode unlocks the permadeath feature and is only for experienced players. Creative mode is perfect in case you don’t want to gather resources and worry about statistics or mapping.
Subnautica has building elements, too. You are able to build underwater habitats you can visit when it’s time to replenish your oxygen supplies and store resources.
Green Hell
It’s hard to find a game with a more realistic take on survival than Green Hell. There are many things that can go wrong in the game, even when you think everything is fine. This game features both single-player and co-op multiplayer modes.
The story follows an anthropologist named Jake Higgins. You control Jake as he navigates through the Amazon rainforest. Your ultimate goal is to find your wife Mia who has been missing for some time after going to make first contact with a tribe known as Yabahuca.
This game is definitely not for the faint of heart. It has strong psychological aspects that emulate what it must feel like to be alone in extreme conditions. Your fight for survival will be full of unexpected events, and very simple actions can have catastrophic results.
Let’s say that you’re tired and want to sleep for a while. Laying down for a quick rest might lead to you waking up with worms burrowing in your skin. You might die due to infected wounds after a successful fight, or eat something that results in stomach parasites.
You will need to be mindful of your actions in Green Hell. It’s a truly gritty and demanding survival game that fans of games like Stranded Deep will get a kick out of.
6 A Tropical Labyrinth Packed With Secrets
Poseidon’s Maze mod by HerjaEldgrim
Stranded Deep is a game of exploration as well as survival. There are many exciting things for players to find while journeying through their tropical archipelago. With such sprawling maps, it’s easy to get lost and it can help to leave small markers, such as piles of twigs to indicate where a player has been before.
Poseidon’s Maze is a map where getting lost is half the fun. Players explore a giant natural labyrinth with towering pillars of rock as its walls. There are many secrets to discover, and hours of explorative gameplay to enjoy. Even veteran survivalists may struggle to stay oriented as they try to reach the oasis in the center of the maze.
5 Save Anywhere Without A Shelter
Waypoints + Save Anywhere mod by Jan
Players will find many ways to die in Stranded Deep, from ravenous sharks to stepping on poisonous purple starfish. In the base game, players will need to gather fibrous leaves, sticks, and palm fronds in order to build a shelter and save their game
For those who would like to save anywhere on the island, a helpful modder on Steam has created a download to do just that. With unlimited saves, players won’t have to constantly return to base to preserve their progress. Another feature of this mod allows players to add waypoints to mark important objects or locations.
Ark: Survival Evolved
Ark: Survival Evolved is one of the most popular survival games to come out in recent years.
This game features both single-player and multiplayer modes. If you’re playing online, you have the freedom to form tribes with other players. Whether you decide to play by yourself or not, your experience will be the same in the beginning.
For the first few hours in the game, you’ll mostly be collecting resources. Once you finish that, you will be ready to learn more about the strange island you’re on, known as Ark. What makes Ark so mysterious is that it’s filled with prehistoric and mythical creatures.
You will run into dinosaurs, phoenixes, griffins, golems, and many other creatures. There are almost 200 creatures in Ark: Survival Evolved. Surviving the island is no easy task and requires you to engage in a number of activities.
Players have to monitor their hunger and thirst. The food available on the island varies in nutritional properties. It’s good to load up on supplies but know that having too much in your inventory will make you slow. Weather can affect everything from sanity to energy levels.
Games like Ark are truly immersive and engaging. If you liked Stranded Deep, this game should be at the top of your to-play list.
Raft
This game has a very interesting and unique concept that is appreciated by many survival fans around the world. It’s one of the best picks for fans of games like Stranded Deep, due to its unique survival mechanics and immsersive gameplay.
In this game, you control a player that is on a small raft with a hook that they can use to catch items. Some of the things you can catch early on include crates, wood, plastic, and barrels. You can use all of these items to make your raft bigger.
Players have the freedom to leave the raft if they want to grab something from the water and can reach it only by swimming. However, leaving the raft may lead to vicious attacks from sharks. It can also pull you away from your raft as a result of the continuous ocean current.
The story behind Raft is quite scary when you take a few moments to think about it.
It takes place in the near future when polar ice caps have melted due to climate change, causing unprecedented floods. There is hardly any dry land where people can settle and nearly everyone who survived the floods is now living on rafts. You control a character who sets out to find habitable land.
Empyrion – Galactic Survival
Empyrion – Galactic Survival is a sandbox adventure and survival game with a heavy focus on exploration.
There isn’t a detailed story in the game, which is completely acceptable for releases in the survival genre. Your character has crashed on an alien planet with a hostile environment and you’ll have to figure out how to survive with the resources at your disposal.
You start with a limited supply of common resources and need to find rarer materials to make crucial equipment. When you start the game, you’ll get several small missions that will explain the mechanics of the game.
Some of the standard survival gameplay elements like fatigue and thirst are absent from Empyrion. However, you will need to control your hunger levels.
The crafting system is where the game really shines. It’s so much fun to craft a variety of items that you’ll use later on. Apart from crafting, you can also build various objects, including spaceships, bases, and ground vehicles.
You get experience points when you mine for resources, craft items, and kill hostile creatures. When you level up you will have perk points to spend to learn or upgrade skills.
You can play Empyrion either by yourself or with other players. If you choose the multiplayer mode, you’ll be able to create and join factions. If you’re in a faction, only members of it will be able to access your spaceships and bases.