Games like Faraway Islands
Games like Faraway Islands include Terraria, The Forest, Rust, Starbound, and Valheim. We matched them by the tags players give Faraway Islands on Steam (Crafting, Survival, Exploration, Building, and Top-Down): closest matches first, and among equally close ones the better-known games.

Terraria
Shared: Survival · Open World Survival Craft · Crafting

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

Rust
Shared: Crafting · Survival · Building

Starbound
Shared: Survival · Crafting · Open World Survival Craft

Valheim
Shared: Survival · Crafting · Open World Survival Craft

Forager
Shared: Survival · Crafting · Pixel Graphics

Core Keeper
Shared: Survival · Exploration · Crafting

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

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

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

Raft
Shared: Survival · Crafting · Open World Survival Craft

Subnautica
Shared: Survival · Crafting · Open World Survival Craft

Len's Island
Shared: Survival · Building · Open World Survival Craft

Conan Exiles Enhanced
Shared: Survival · Crafting · Building

The Long Dark
Shared: Survival · Exploration · Open World Survival Craft

Necesse
Shared: Survival · Pixel Graphics · Crafting

Once Human
Shared: Survival · Building · Crafting

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

Dune: Awakening
Shared: Survival · Exploration · Open World Survival Craft

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

Palworld
Shared: Survival · Crafting · Open World Survival Craft

ICARUS
Shared: Survival · Crafting · Open World Survival Craft

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

TerraTech
Shared: Building · Crafting · Open World Survival Craft