Games like Desert Skies
Games like Desert Skies include Rust, ARK: Survival Evolved, Raft, Terraria, and The Forest. We matched them by the tags players give Desert Skies on Steam (Open World Survival Craft, Action, Indie, Adventure, and Survival): closest matches first, and among equally close ones the better-known games.

Rust
Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Multiplayer

ARK: Survival Evolved
Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Multiplayer

Raft
Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Multiplayer

Terraria
Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Multiplayer

The Forest
Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Adventure

Green Hell
Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Multiplayer

Palworld
Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Multiplayer

Valheim
Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Multiplayer

Once Human
Shared: Action · Open World Survival Craft · Survival

Don't Starve Together
Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Multiplayer

Stranded Deep
Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Multiplayer

Subnautica: Below Zero
Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Multiplayer

Subnautica
Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Crafting

Sons Of The Forest
Shared: Survival · Multiplayer · Crafting

Don't Starve
Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Adventure

Grounded
Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Multiplayer

ARK: Survival Ascended
Shared: Survival · Multiplayer · Adventure

Subsistence
Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Multiplayer

No Man's Sky
Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Multiplayer

Forager
Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Indie · Survival

Grounded 2
Shared: Survival · Adventure · Multiplayer

ICARUS
Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Multiplayer

7 Days to Die
Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Multiplayer

Scrap Mechanic
Shared: Survival · Multiplayer · Building