H1Z1
http://www.reddit.com/r/h1z1/wiki/index
Still in development Hell, looks promising with zombies, pvp and crafting. They have an idea floating about that if enough people want a a certain type of ruleset you can vote (once per account per year) to create that server to play on. I'm hoping that means pvp permadeath full loot etc.
Rust
It has permadeath crafting etc but the servers are hosted individually and not permanent and this is why i haven't tried it, besides watching a few videos of people running around naked with a rock killing each other.
Day Z
Have yet to try this but after watching gameplay videos its basically a full loot game not sure about crafting items. I saw nothing about crafting structures so it looks like you basically forage the place for weapons and food while hiding from zombies and killing people you meet. Yes you can kill people and take their stuff and they're dead but i didn't see any character progression so just make another character and start foraging again.
The Repopulation
https://www.therepopulation.com
Looks good graphically has a well thought out crafting path, persistant world, house construction and pvp it looked great until I read
:/The Hardcore ruleset is tailored towards players who are looking for a more PvP centric experience. Under the normal ruleset the protected areas are safe from non consensual PvP. However, on the hardcore servers the game world offers no safety areas and the only protection you would have is from faction guards or other players. We are still in the process of finalizing the exact mechanics of this ruleset. We currently are discussion a variety of those mechanics in our forums if you or your guild is interested in providing feedback.
Colonies-Online
http://www.colonies-online.com/
Diablo type of graphical display little guy but with guns. It has crafting base building raiding pvp etc but the penalty for death is loss of durability and cash and after watching a raid video where they destroy some guys base while killing the owner every time he popped back up was ok to watch i dont know what to really make of it.
Space Engineers
http://www.spaceengineersgame.com/features.html
This game is sort of a Minecraft in space kinda game where you can build ships and bases, mine asteroids good graphics and looks fun if your into small servers that can be private/public and only hold up to 16 people. If they made a persistent world i could see this being so much fun building massive ships and flying around nuking peoples bases or just ramming into other peoples bases

So yeah that's the ones I have been looking at that held promise if anyone sees better ones or if i misread the features of any please let me know. Just trying to find a new place that holds more promise then log in glut and maybe one day be strong enough to break into a base that has exactly the same items that everyone else has.