Steam PvE Survival Crafting Fest has arrived with huge deals on community favorites! To help you dive right in, Nodecraft is running a 30% discount on your first game server purchase, alongside our free 7-day trials. Check out our full games catalog and jump into multiplayer with your friends today.
Nodecraft Games featured in the fest
From underground research facilities to floating islands in the stars, the survival crafting genre offers endless ways to play. With titles on sale for up to 75% off across PC, Xbox, PlayStation, Switch, and mobile, there's no better opportunity to grab a server and chart your own path. Check out the best survival crafting games featured in the Steam Fest below:
7 Days to Die
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
Abiotic Factor
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.
Aloft
Soar the skies in Aloft, the co-op sandbox survival game set in a world of floating islands. Build any island into a skyship, your home in the clouds. Find lost knowledge, cure the fungal corruption, and brave the hurricane to restore the ecosystem.
Ark: Survival Evolved
In Ark: Survival Evolved, you are stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, and you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!
Astroneer
In Astroneer, interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.
Conan Exiles: Enhanced
Conan Exiles Enhanced is an open world survival game set in the mythical lands of Hyboria, now fully upgraded to Unreal Engine 5 with stunning visuals and improved performance. SURVIVE, BUILD, and DOMINATE alone or with friends in a world brimming with adventure!
Core Keeper
In Core Keeper, explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
DayZ
How long can you survive a post-apocalyptic world? A land overrun with an infected "zombie" population, where you compete with other survivors for limited resources. Will you team up with strangers and stay strong together? Or play as a lone wolf to avoid betrayal? This is DayZ – this is your story.
Don't Starve Together
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve. Check out Don't Starve Together.
Echoes of Elysium
Ever wanted to live on an airship? Now you have to. Echoes of Elysium is a co-op survival RPG where your airship is home, workshop, and war machine. Build a custom flying fortress, crew up with up to 6 players, and battle soul-powered clockwork beasts across a gorgeous, fractured sky.
Enshrouded
In Enshrouded, you are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players. Get ready for Enshrouded 1.0, releasing on 15 October 2026 by grabbing the game on sale before its price increases.
HumanitZ
HumanitZ is an isometric, open-world sandbox survival game set in a world ended by a zombie outbreak. Survive alone or with friends by scavenging, crafting, building, and fighting to last as long as ‘humanly’ possible. You can’t change the past, but you can fight for the future of humanity.
Icarus
ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.
Necesse
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world in Necesse. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
Palworld
Palworld has left early access and players are loving the 1.0 update! Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!
Project Zomboid
Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customizable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..
Romestead
Rome has fallen! Rebuild civilization in this action-adventure survival game for 1-8 players. Fight hordes of the walking dead, build settlements, restore the Roman gods... or kick back and farm with friends. Check out Romestead.
Runescape: Dragonwilds
On RuneScape's forgotten continent of Ashenfall, dragons have awoken. In Runescape: Dragonwilds, gather, build, skill and craft in this co-operative survival adventure. Only by mastering survival and uncovering ancient secrets can you hope to face the ferocious Dragon Queen.
Scum
Welcome to SCUM, a ruthless open-world survival game where deep character customization defines the prisoner you become. Loot, craft, hunt, build, and fight to outlast a hostile island where every choice can change your fate. Stay alive. Stay dangerous. Become harder to kill.
Sons of the Forest
Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. In Sons of the Forest, craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends, in this terrifying new open-world survival horror simulator.
Soulmask
Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. In Soulmask, 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.
Starbound
In Starbound, you’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...
StarRupture
StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.
Terraria
The very world is at your fingertips as you fight for survival, fortune, and glory. Delve deep into cavernous expanses, seek out ever-greater foes to test your mettle in combat, or construct your own city - In the World of Terraria, the choice is yours!
Blending elements of classic action games with the freedom of sandbox-style creativity, Terraria is a unique gaming experience where both the journey and the destination are as unique as the players themselves!
The Forest
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. In The Forest, build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
Valheim
Everyone is excited for Valheim 1.0, launching 9 September 2026. A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Vein
VEIN is a post-apocalyptic survival multiplayer sandbox game. Gather supplies to survive, explore abandoned buildings, defend your home, and rebuild society, whether alone or with friends.
Voyagers of Nera
Voyagers of Nera is a cooperative survival-crafting game where you must survive a magical ocean world brimming with lost spirits and deadly monsters. Sail to distant islands, build beautiful villages and surf across the waves with up to 10 players.
Windrose
Embark on a PvE survival adventure in the Age of Piracy. In Windrose, fight on land and sea, solo or with friends. Build, craft and explore a vast open world filled with dark secrets. Master soulslite combat and take on challenging bosses, command your ship and plunder unspoken treasures!
Why You Should Host a Private Server with Nodecraft
PVE Survival Crafting games are the PERFECT games to host. Here are the key reasons:
Persistent World Progress: Keep your server running 24/7 so base production, automated crafting, and resource gathering continue even when you are offline.
Full Control Over World Settings: Customize difficulty, spawn rates, resource multipliers, day/night cycles, and PvP/PvE rules to match your group's playstyle.
Mod & Plugin Support: Easily install custom mods, community maps, and plugins to add new mechanics, items, or quality-of-life features.
Seamless Multiplayer & Zero Host Lag: Offload performance demands from a single host's PC to dedicated hardware, ensuring smooth performance for everyone.
Private, Safe Community Space: Maintain a troll-free environment with DDoS shield, and password protection or whitelisting so you only play with friends and trusted players.
One-Click Game Swapping: With Nodecraft, easily switch your server between different survival crafting titles without paying for additional server instances or losing saved data.