- #1 V Rising
78% matchVery Positive89% of 131,808 reviews2024
Dev: Stunlock Studios
Windows
Median: 21.0 hrsMean: 57.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Awaken as a Vampire. Hunt for blood in nearby settlements to regain your strength and evade the scorching sun to survive. Raise your castle and thrive in an ever-changing, open world full of mystery. Gain allies online and conquer the land of the living.
Why similar: Base Building 17.9%, Open World 17.2%, Survival 15.4%, Online Co-Op 11.3%, Crafting 11.2%
- #2 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
77% matchVery Positive82% of 9,613 reviews2024
Dev: Merge GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.
Why similar: Base Building 15.6%, Survival 13.4%, Open World 12.6%, Online Co-Op 12.2%, Crafting 10.5%
- #3 Grounded 2
76% matchVery Positive81% of 19,779 reviews2025
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 11.3 hrsMean: 20.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Shrunk again, but the world is much larger. In this open-world, single-player or co-op survival adventure, craft weapons and armor, build your base, and traverse the playground on your buggy. But something else is out there—and it hasn’t forgotten you.
Why similar: Survival 19%, Base Building 18.3%, Open World 14.9%, Crafting 10.9%, Online Co-Op 9.9%
- #4 Nightingale
77% matchMixed67% of 17,828 reviews2024
Dev: Inflexion Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 23.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Nightingale is an open world survival crafting game, where you’ll adventure across the mysterious and dangerous Fae Realms. As a daring Realmwalker, you’ll defeat monstrous enemies, survive hostile environments, and build elaborate estates in a visually stunning Gaslamp Fantasy world.
Why similar: Open World 14.6%, Base Building 14.4%, Online Co-Op 13.8%, Survival 13.8%, Crafting 11.1%
- #5 Dune: Awakening
74% matchMostly Positive70% of 74,162 reviews2025
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 47.8 hrsMean: 95.1 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival RPG where you can fully immerse yourself in the epic world of Dune. Alone or with friends, explore a vast open world Arrakis, survive the sandworms, build a home, craft an ornithopter, and unravel the mystery of the missing Fremen.
Why similar: Base Building 14.3%, Open World 12.4%, Online Co-Op 11.2%, Survival 11.1%, Crafting 9.9%
- #6 Force of Nature 2: Ghost Keeper
75% matchMostly Positive80% of 2,318 reviews2021
Dev: A.Y.stdPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 16.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Force of Nature 2: Ghost Keeper offers incredible adventures full of mystery, danger, exploration and magic. This game combines the genres of Survival, Sandbox, Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Resource Management
Why similar: Base Building 16.7%, Open World 16.6%, Survival 13.9%, Crafting 12.8%, Building 8%
- #7 Valheim
74% matchVery Positive94% of 529,241 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 25.6 hrsMean: 76.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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!
Why similar: Open World 15.2%, Online Co-Op 15.1%, Survival 14.8%, Base Building 13.7%, Crafting 10.4%
- #8 RuneScape: Dragonwilds
73% matchVery Positive81% of 23,832 reviews2025
Dev: Jagex Ltd
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 13.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
On RuneScape’s forgotten continent of Ashenfall, dragons have awoken. Gather, build, skill and craft to survive in this co-operative (1-4) survival crafting game. Only by mastering survival and uncovering ancient secrets can they hope to slay the Dragon Queen—alone or with allies.
Why similar: Open World 17.6%, Survival 14.4%, Online Co-Op 13.1%, Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 10.5%
- #9 Keplerth
74% matchVery Positive85% of 4,120 reviews2022
Dev: TAROPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Welcome to Keplerth! Try to survive on a hostile alien planet in this 2D sandbox RPG, where you can choose to live alone or fight side by side with your friends in the online multiplayer mode. Survive, build, farm, fight, and explore your way to victory in this open-world adventure!
Why similar: Open World 19.3%, Survival 17.5%, Building 11.4%, Sandbox 10.5%, Base Building 9.7%
- #10 Drake Hollow
75% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,787 reviews2020
Dev: The Molasses FloodPub: CD PROJEKT RED
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Build and defend villages of vegetable folk from deadly feral beasts in the blighted world of The Hollow. Explore, gather, and fight! You can even invite your friends. Can you craft the perfect village?
Why similar: Open World 17.2%, Online Co-Op 15.2%, Survival 15%, Base Building 12.6%, Multiplayer 9.1%
- #11 Core Keeper
73% matchVery Positive93% of 63,039 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.0 hrsMean: 33.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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.
Why similar: Base Building 15.6%, Open World 14.8%, Survival 12.9%, Online Co-Op 12.3%, Crafting 11.7%
- #12 ARK: Survival Ascended
72% matchMixed60% of 99,899 reviews2023
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows
Median: 28.8 hrsMean: 196.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!
Why similar: Open World 17.7%, Survival 17.5%, Base Building 15.4%, Crafting 10.9%, Multiplayer 8.8%
- #13 Scrap Mechanic
73% matchVery Positive92% of 116,970 reviews2016
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.1 hrsMean: 57.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!
Why similar: Open World 17%, Survival 15.1%, Crafting 13.7%, Base Building 13.2%, Building 12.7%
- #14 Craftopia
72% matchMostly Positive77% of 19,967 reviews2020
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Craftopia is the brand new multiplayer survival action game made in Japan. We combined many features we find enjoyable, such as hunting, farming, hack-and-slash, building, automation to develop this game.
Why similar: Open World 24%, Crafting 17.6%, Survival 17.2%, Multiplayer 9.6%, Online Co-Op 8.1%
- #15 Sons Of The Forest
70% matchVery Positive88% of 298,411 reviews2024
Dev: Endnight Games LtdPub: Newnight
Windows
Median: 14.9 hrsMean: 31.7 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends, in this terrifying new open-world survival horror simulator.
Why similar: Survival 21%, Open World 20.5%, Base Building 18.9%, Multiplayer 11.2%, Crafting 11.1%
- #16 ICARUS
71% matchMostly Positive74% of 61,628 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 44.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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.
Why similar: Base Building 17.3%, Survival 16.4%, Online Co-Op 13.5%, Open World 13%, Crafting 11.3%
- #17 Survival Machine
69% matchMostly Positive74% of 668 reviews2025
Dev: Grape PickersPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Build your base on a moving Machine, travel through biomes with different resources, and prepare for the night when a zombie threat is much higher than during the day. Would you go solo or explore this new world with your best friends?
Why similar: Base Building 17%, Online Co-Op 14.1%, Open World 13.6%, Survival 13.4%, Crafting 12.2%
- #18 Grounded
69% matchVery Positive90% of 92,775 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.2 hrsMean: 40.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?
Why similar: Survival 22.9%, Base Building 20.3%, Open World 12.7%, Crafting 12.2%, Multiplayer 12.1%
- #19 Dawn of Defiance
69% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,732 reviews2024
Dev: Traega EntertainmentPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
You are the Defier, a Spartan beginning your afterlife on the Crossroads. In this Greek myth-inspired survival craft, ascend from weak soldier to god-like anti-hero. Build impressive Greek structures, craft legendary gear, and break the seals of the Underworld with up to 3 friends.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 15.5%, Base Building 15.1%, Survival 14.5%, Open World 12.2%, Crafting 8.2%
- #20 VEIN
66% matchVery Positive90% of 9,414 reviews2025
Dev: Ramjet Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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.
Why similar: Open World 19.3%, Base Building 18.9%, Survival 18.2%, Crafting 10.5%, Multiplayer 8.1%
- #21 The Survivalists
68% matchMostly Positive76% of 9,929 reviews2020
Dev: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 71%
A living world full of surprises, secrets and danger awaits in The Survivalists, an adventure-filled survival sandbox set in The Escapists universe. Explore, build, craft and even train monkeys with up to three friends in a desperate bid to survive. Have you got what it takes to be a Survivalist?
Why similar: Online Co-Op 15.5%, Survival 15.3%, Base Building 15%, Crafting 14.7%, Open World 12.6%
- #22 The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™
67% matchVery Positive82% of 11,420 reviews2024
Dev: Free Range GamesPub: North Beach Games
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 20.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A survival crafting adventure set in the Fourth Age of Middle-earth. Lead the Dwarves to reclaim Moria - mine, build, and battle through procedurally generated depths alone or with up to 8 players in co-op. It is time to return to Moria!
Why similar: Base Building 18%, Online Co-Op 13.5%, Survival 13.5%, Crafting 11.9%, Open World 9.1%
- #23 Palworld
65% matchVery Positive94% of 417,268 reviews2024
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 34.1 hrsMean: 69.9 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!
Why similar: Open World 21.2%, Survival 17.1%, Online Co-Op 12.2%, Base Building 11.7%, Crafting 10.8%
- #24 Scrapnaut
67% matchMixed70% of 823 reviews2021
Dev: SpiffyBitPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements. Explore an open world with different biomes, take care of oxygen, manage your farms, generate electricity, build your home and much more!
Why similar: Survival 15.7%, Online Co-Op 14.5%, Base Building 12.8%, Open World 11.7%, Building 11.2%
- #25 Frozen Flame
67% matchMixed63% of 2,965 reviews2022
Dev: Dreamside InteractivePub: Ravenage Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A challenging exploration and survival adventure, set in the dying world of Dragons. Only those who harness the power of Frozen Flame have the means to survive the harsh conditions of the realm and able to muster the strength to cleanse it for good.
Why similar: Base Building 15.7%, Open World 13.3%, Online Co-Op 13.1%, Survival 11.7%, Crafting 10.2%
- #26 Conan Exiles
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 111,387 reviews2018
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 16.9 hrsMean: 111.2 hrs≥1hr: 94%
An online multiplayer survival game, now with sorcery, set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian. Survive in a vast open world sandbox, build your home into a kingdom, and dominate your enemies in single or multiplayer.
Why similar: Survival 22.5%, Open World 21.4%, Crafting 13.1%, Building 10.8%, Multiplayer 8.4%
- #27 No One Survived
63% matchMixed65% of 7,559 reviews2025
Dev: Cat Play Studio
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 22.9 hrs≥1hr: 77%
This is a multiplayer cooperative open world construction survival sandbox game, where you and your friends must find supplies and build shelters in this world. You have to keep an eye on your character's needs state at all times, a bad state is likely to lead to death.
Why similar: Survival 22.8%, Open World 21.8%, Crafting 13.1%, Multiplayer 10.6%, Online Co-Op 9.6%
- #28 State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition
65% matchVery Positive83% of 67,002 reviews2020
Dev: Undead LabsPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 9.1 hrsMean: 39.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
The dead have risen and civilization has fallen. Now it's up to you to gather survivors, scavenge for resources and build a community in a post-apocalyptic world – a world where you define what it means to survive in this ultimate zombie survival simulation.
Why similar: Base Building 24.4%, Open World 23.5%, Survival 23.1%, Online Co-Op 10.9%, Multiplayer 10.4%
- #29 Vampires: Bloodlord Rising
63% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,402 reviews2026
Dev: Mehuman GamesPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 75%
In this dark, open-world adventure, you awaken as a Vampire Lord. Build and customize your castle. Hunt for blood, fight, craft, and gather. Command your loyal servants. Shapeshift into a bat to explore the night and survive the relentless Inquisition, solo or in 4-player co-op.
Why similar: Base Building 17%, Open World 14.7%, Online Co-Op 13.4%, Survival 12.9%, Crafting 12%
- #30 Bellwright
63% matchVery Positive81% of 18,854 reviews2024
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 12.9 hrsMean: 41.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Establish and expand your own settlements, liberate the land and assist its villagers, and recruit others to your cause while learning more about a life you had to leave behind. Command your forces, prove your valor through combat, and cement yourself as the hero of your people.
Why similar: Open World 21.6%, Survival 20.8%, Online Co-Op 15.8%, Crafting 15.1%, Building 9.2%
- #31 Everwind
62% matchVery Positive82% of 1,594 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Everwind is a novel take on RPG and Sandbox Survival genre in First-Person-Perspective. Embark on the adventure with your friends - Build a base on a flying island-ship, gather resources, craft, loot, and fight while you rise above the clouds to uncover the mysteries of this world!
Why similar: Open World 15.8%, Online Co-Op 14.2%, Survival 14%, Crafting 10.8%, Building 9.2%
- #32 Green Hell
64% matchVery Positive85% of 94,082 reviews2019
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 18.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.
Why similar: Survival 20.4%, Online Co-Op 15.4%, Open World 14.1%, Base Building 12.6%, Multiplayer 12.4%
- #33 Towers of Aghasba
63% matchMixed69% of 2,016 reviews2024
Dev: Dreamlit inc.
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Explore a stunning open-world filled with majestic creatures and quirky characters. Nurture the barren land into vibrant ecosystems and flex your creativity as you build a thriving civilization in balance with nature.
Why similar: Base Building 17.5%, Open World 15.7%, Crafting 12.6%, Action RPG 10.1%, Building 8.7%
- #34 Volcanoids
64% matchVery Positive83% of 9,208 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.
Why similar: Open World 15.2%, Base Building 14.8%, Online Co-Op 13.8%, Survival 13.6%, Crafting 12.5%
- #35 Tinkerlands
62% matchVery Positive86% of 3,739 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 13.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Explore, craft, and fight your way through uncharted islands — solo or with up to 4 players in co-op! Tinkerlands is an exciting survival adventure where you will build your settlement, craft useful tools to survive, and even use magic!
Why similar: Online Co-Op 16.9%, Open World 16.7%, Survival 15.4%, Crafting 11.9%, Sandbox 9%
- #36 Satisfactory
60% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 264,678 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 31.7 hrsMean: 108.1 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Why similar: Base Building 27.3%, Open World 18.5%, Crafting 14.8%, Multiplayer 9.9%, Building 9.7%
- #37 Raft
61% matchVery Positive93% of 368,269 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.5 hrsMean: 36.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!
Why similar: Survival 23.9%, Multiplayer 13.3%, Base Building 13.2%, Open World 13.1%, Crafting 12.5%
- #38 HumanitZ
60% matchMostly Positive75% of 11,511 reviews2026
Dev: Yodubzz StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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.
Why similar: Base Building 18.2%, Open World 16.9%, Survival 16.2%, Crafting 12.6%, Online Co-Op 11.8%
- #39 Necesse
59% matchVery Positive93% of 26,732 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. 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!
Why similar: Open World 16.2%, Survival 13.3%, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 11.9%, Multiplayer 9.6%
- #40 Medieval Dynasty
60% matchVery Positive91% of 49,891 reviews2021
Dev: Render CubePub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 11.6 hrsMean: 35.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.
Why similar: Crafting 18.3%, Base Building 16%, Open World 15.1%, Survival 14.1%, Building 13.7%
- #41 IfSunSets
59% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,119 reviews2024
Dev: POLYMORPHPub: Smilegate
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 28.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
「IfSunSets」 is a survival RPG adventure game. During the day, secure necessary supplies across the island, and survive the night against strong and terrifying monsters that track you down. You can utilize resources you've secured to build a base to fend off threatening monsters.
Why similar: Base Building 15.3%, Open World 13.7%, Online Co-Op 12.5%, Survival 12.1%, Crafting 11.5%
- #42 The Planet Crafter
57% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 67,071 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.0 hrsMean: 37.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
Why similar: Base Building 20.3%, Online Co-Op 15.3%, Survival 14.7%, Open World 14.5%, Crafting 12.6%
- #43 The Riftbreaker
59% matchVery Positive90% of 23,018 reviews2021
Dev: EXOR Studios
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 22.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
The Riftbreaker is a solo or Co-op base-building, survival game with Action-RPG elements for up to 4 players. Hack & slash countless hordes of enemies. Build up your base, craft powerful weapons and research new inventions to survive.
Why similar: Base Building 21.8%, Online Co-Op 17.6%, Survival 12.8%, Crafting 10.4%, Multiplayer 10%
- #44 Portal Knights
59% matchVery Positive83% of 22,115 reviews2017
Dev: Keen Games GmbHPub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 21.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
The world of Elysia needs YOU! Join this cooperative, 3D sandbox action RPG to level up your character, craft epic weapons, conquer enemies in real-time, and build almost anything! Craft your adventure. Forge your hero. Become the ultimate Portal Knight!
Why similar: Survival 18.4%, Crafting 18.3%, Multiplayer 15%, Building 13.9%, Sandbox 13.4%
- #45 Sengoku Dynasty
56% matchMostly Positive75% of 7,339 reviews2024
Dev: SuperkamiPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Sengoku Dynasty is the ultimate feudal Japan experience: build villages, grow your community, and shape the open world through combat or economy. The choice is yours alone - or that of up to 4 players in multiplayer co-op!
Why similar: Base Building 19.2%, Open World 16.5%, Survival 14.8%, Online Co-Op 11.8%, Crafting 11.7%
- #46 Subsistence
59% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,591 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 39.9 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).
Why similar: Survival 21.7%, Open World 17.3%, Crafting 15.9%, Base Building 14.4%, Multiplayer 10.9%
- #47 The Front
56% matchMixed68% of 10,744 reviews2025
Dev: Samar Studio
Windows
Median: 10.6 hrsMean: 44.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
The Front is a survival open-world crafting sandbox game. You are a resistance fighter sent back in time to stop the rise of a tyrannical empire. Collect resources, craft tech, build shelters, and fight monsters to accomplish your mission.
Why similar: Base Building 17.6%, Survival 14.7%, Open World 14.6%, Crafting 13.1%, Online Co-Op 9.6%
- #48 StarRupture
55% matchVery Positive81% of 10,595 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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.
Why similar: Base Building 19.7%, Open World 16.2%, Survival 14.9%, Crafting 12.8%, Online Co-Op 11.7%
- #49 Voidtrain
55% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,131 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
Why similar: Base Building 16.3%, Survival 14.3%, Open World 13.9%, Online Co-Op 13.1%, Crafting 11.7%
- #50 ASTRONEER
57% matchVery Positive92% of 136,550 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 44.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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.
Why similar: Open World 20.2%, Base Building 18.1%, Survival 17.7%, Multiplayer 11.5%, Crafting 10%
- #51 7 Days to Die
54% matchVery Positive87% of 396,447 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 16.8 hrsMean: 107.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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!
Why similar: Survival 20.3%, Base Building 16.7%, Open World 15.9%, Online Co-Op 12.9%, Multiplayer 9.1%
- #52 Symbiosis
56% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Aberratic
Windows
A solo or coop hero-shooter set in a procedural alien world. Explore, build, evolve, and fight side-by-side against waves of mechanical hybrids. Wishlist now!
Why similar: Base Building 14.9%, Online Co-Op 12.5%, Open World 11.8%, Survival 11%, Crafting 9.7%
- #53 Eden Crafters
54% matchVery Positive87% of 2,201 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 13.4 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in Eden Crafters, a solo and co-op open-world game that challenges you to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Temper the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Base Building 20.3%, Open World 15.6%, Crafting 14.3%, Online Co-Op 13.5%, Survival 12.5%
- #54 ASKA
55% matchMostly Positive80% of 11,270 reviews2024
Dev: Sand Sailor StudioPub: Thunderful Publishing
Windows
Median: 11.1 hrsMean: 28.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A new Viking age dawns with you at its helm. Forge a thriving colony from nothing in this mythic open-world survival sim. Earn the gods' favor and survive in a land ruled by ancient terrors and unforgiving seasons. Rally unique villagers, expand your settlement and defend your tribe - solo or co-op!
Why similar: Base Building 17.2%, Online Co-Op 14%, Survival 13.4%, Open World 11.6%, Crafting 9.8%
- #55 Creativerse
56% matchMostly Positive78% of 30,868 reviews2017
Dev: Playful Corp.
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 63%
A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.
Why similar: Open World 14.9%, Online Co-Op 14.2%, Survival 13.7%, Crafting 13%, Building 9.6%
- #56 To-Gather
55% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Poeka Studio
Windows
When a cult disrupted the peace 200 years ago by summoning terrible creatures, they couldn't reverse their mistake! Gather resources, Explore the abandoned Island and battle the curse with your friends before it takes over your home!
Why similar: Base Building 16.3%, Open World 15%, Survival 13.7%, Online Co-Op 13.6%, Crafting 9.9%
- #57 Abiotic Factor
53% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 52,673 reviews2025
Dev: Deep Field GamesPub: Playstack
Windows
Median: 19.2 hrsMean: 42.6 hrs≥1hr: 95%
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.
Why similar: Base Building 19.5%, Online Co-Op 16.5%, Survival 16.2%, Crafting 14.3%, Multiplayer 8%
- #58 Occupy Mars: The Game
53% matchMostly Positive70% of 3,002 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 30.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.
Why similar: Base Building 18.7%, Open World 16.9%, Crafting 13.8%, Survival 13.5%, Online Co-Op 13.2%
- #59 The Last Viking
55% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NoBrain Studio
Windows
Play as a young viking, learn to survive and fight in the wilderness. To fulfill your destiny, explore an island alone or in cooperation with friends, build structures, confront Norse gods and mythological creatures. Will you be the last Viking?
Why similar: Open World 15.6%, Base Building 15.4%, Survival 14.1%, Online Co-Op 14.1%, Multiplayer 8.6%
- #60 Night of the Dead
54% matchMostly Positive77% of 11,724 reviews2024
Dev: Jackto Studios
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 32.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
'Night of the Dead' is an open-world game that combines elements of exploration, tower defense, survival, and crafting. Traverse a world dominated by zombies while collecting various resources and powerful equipment. Build a fortress to survive the hordes of zombies that swarm every night!
Why similar: Base Building 16.5%, Open World 14.7%, Online Co-Op 14.3%, Survival 12.6%, Crafting 12.1%