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An open-world desert survival game with crafting, base construction, and mystic mysteries, offering a short, mixed-experience campaign.

Above Snakes: Prologue
A relaxing Wild West survival-crafting prologue where you rebuild a settlement and expand a tile-based world, with farming, hunting, and base building.
2023-03-24

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An open-world desert survival game with crafting, base construction, and mystic mysteries, offering a short, mixed-experience campaign.

Above Snakes: Prologue
A relaxing Wild West survival-crafting prologue where you rebuild a settlement and expand a tile-based world, with farming, hunting, and base building.
2023-03-24

Wildmender

A desert gardening survival game where you cultivate a spring, explore an open world, and defend against wraith corruption, with fun but unfinished gameplay that reviewers clocked around 30 hours.

2023-09-28

Adventure
Survival
Strategy
Third person
Indie
Simulator
Open world

Sands of Aura

An open-world action-RPG about sailing a sand-buried fantasy realm, fighting souls-like combat, and reviving a dying world in roughly 25 hours.

2023-10-27

Action
Adventure
Fantasy
Third person
Indie
Role-playing (RPG)

Dune: Awakening

A sprawling Dune-set open-world survival RPG with base building, crafting, sandworm threats, and co-op/PvP, but reviewers note combat feels rough and servers can be sparse while playtime runs very long.

2025-06-10

Action
Science fiction
Adventure
Third person
Role-playing (RPG)
Open world

Arid

A free, student-made survival game in the Atacama Desert where you explore abandoned mines, craft to endure the sun, and uncover mysteries in a tense, roughly five-hour adventure.

2021-06-29

Action
First person
Adventure
Survival
Simulator
Open world

Under the Sand REDUX - a road trip simulator

A chill single-player road trip sim about driving and looting through a sandy world in around 10 hours.

2020-09-25

First person
Adventure
Survival
Indie
Simulator
Open world
Racing

Survival: Fountain of Youth

A challenging single-player open-world survival adventure in the 16th-century Caribbean, featuring crafting, exploration, and a substantial, sometimes grindy campaign.

2024-05-21

Action
First person
Adventure
Survival
Indie
Simulator
Historical
Open world
Sandbox

Stranded Deep

A Pacific plane-crash survival game focused on crafting, exploration, and co-op, with a lonely atmosphere and a moderate ~15-24 hour playtime among reviewers.

2022-08-10

Action
First person
Adventure
Horror
Survival
Indie
Simulator
Sandbox

Sable

A combat-free desert exploration adventure that reviewers find zen and atmospheric, with a median playthrough near 20 hours.

2021-09-23

Science fiction
Platform
Puzzle
Adventure
Third person
Indie
Role-playing (RPG)
Open world

Atlas Fallen: Reign Of Sand

A desert action RPG with co-op, magic combat against giant monsters, and a roughly 28-hour campaign whose interesting mechanics are undercut by camera and polish issues.

2023-08-09

Action
Adventure
Fantasy
Third person
Role-playing (RPG)
Mystery

Sands of Salzaar

A lengthy single-player desert strategy RPG blending troop command, faction warfare, and character customization.

2021-12-15

Adventure
Strategy
Fantasy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Role-playing (RPG)
Sandbox

My Time at Sandrock

A cozy desert life-sim RPG about building a workshop, gathering resources, and saving a town through a huge story campaign.

2023-11-02

Action
Adventure
Third person
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Simulator
Role-playing (RPG)
Sandbox
Kids

Above Snakes: Prologue