Survival & Crafting Game Templates
Gather, build, and endure. Harsh environments where staying alive is the game.
Survival and crafting games are about turning scarcity into progress. You start with nothing, gather what the world gives you, craft your first tools, and build a foothold against hunger, cold, the dark, or whatever the world throws at you. The genre covers open-world survival craft, base building, zombie and post-apocalyptic settings, voxel sandboxes, and space survival.
These templates give you the survival loop already turning. Resource gathering, an inventory, a crafting system with recipes, placeable building pieces, and survival meters like health, hunger, or stamina are wired together so the gather, craft, and build cycle works from the start. That loop is the heart of the genre and the most interconnected part to build, so having it intact lets you focus on the world and the threats.
Summer Engine is an AI game engine compatible with Godot 4, so you expand the world by describing it. Ask for a new craftable shelter, a night that spawns tougher enemies, a recipe that needs two gathered materials, or a hunger system that drains faster in the cold, and the AI builds the data, scripts, and scenes with you. You play your own survival run between changes, so the difficulty curve stays fair.
Crafting Survival
Build a survival game where players gather raw materials, craft tools and shelters, and push back against hunger, cold, and hostile wildlife. Describe your vision and Summer Engine builds the foundation with you.
Open World Survival Craft
Build an expansive open world survival game where the map is the progression system. Players discover biomes, unlock new crafting options, and face escalating threats as they push further from their starting point.
Base Building Survival
Create a survival game centered on constructing and fortifying a base against waves of enemies, environmental threats, and resource scarcity. The base is the game.
Zombie Survival
Build a zombie survival game where players scavenge a ruined world, manage supplies, and avoid or fight the undead. Every decision in the first hour sets up the rest of the game.
Post-Apocalyptic Survival
Build a post-apocalyptic survival game where players navigate the ruins of civilization, trade and fight with survivor factions, and try to carve out a place in a world that no longer has a rule book.
Extraction Survival
Build an extraction survival game where players gear up, drop into a dangerous zone, scavenge what they can, and fight to reach an extraction point before time runs out or enemies take everything.
Voxel Sandbox
Build a voxel world game where players mine terrain, construct structures block by block, and interact with a fully destructible and constructible environment. The world is the canvas.
Minecraft-Style Voxel World
Build a Minecraft-style infinite voxel world with block-by-block construction, survival mechanics, crafting table recipes, multiple dimensions, redstone-like logic circuits, and a day/night cycle where darkness brings danger.
Terraria-Style 2D Sandbox
Build a Terraria-style 2D side-scrolling sandbox with layered world generation, boss progression that transforms the world, emergent class systems from equipment, NPC housing, extensive crafting chains, and hundreds of unique weapons.
Building Sandbox
Build a construction sandbox where players design and place modular building pieces to create anything from houses to cities to impossible structures. Creativity is the game.
Physics Sandbox
Create a physics sandbox where players construct vehicles, contraptions, and structures, then test them against gravity, collisions, and destruction. The experiment is the game.
Space Survival
Build a space survival game where players mine asteroids, build space stations, manage life support, and survive in an environment that will kill them in a dozen different ways the moment they make a mistake.