- #1 Necesse
74% 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 Survival Craft 35.6% ★, Crafting 8%, Sandbox 6.8%, Survival 6.8%, Open World 6.7%
- #2 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
75% 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: Open World Survival Craft 24.1% ★, Online Co-Op 9%, Base Building 8.9%, Crafting 8.3%, Survival 8.1%
- #3 Valheim
75% 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 Survival Craft 28.4% ★, Online Co-Op 10.6%, Survival 8.6%, Building 7.9%, Crafting 7.9%
- #4 Raft
74% 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: Open World Survival Craft 32.6% ★, Survival 12.5%, Multiplayer 8.6%, Crafting 8.5%, Co-op 7.8%
- #5 Nightingale
74% 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 Survival Craft 26.9% ★, Online Co-Op 10.3%, Crafting 8.8%, Survival 8.4%, Building 8.4%
- #6 Tinkerlands
73% 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: Open World Survival Craft 28.9% ★, Online Co-Op 11.2%, Survival 8.4%, Crafting 8.4%, Sandbox 8.1%
- #7 Green Hell
74% 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: Open World Survival Craft 34.9% ★, Survival 11.1%, Online Co-Op 10.2%, Multiplayer 8.3%, Crafting 8%
- #8 Core Keeper
72% 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: Open World Survival Craft 21.8% ★, Crafting 9.4%, Online Co-Op 9.2%, Base Building 9%, Building 8.7%
- #9 ICARUS
73% 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: Open World Survival Craft 27.5% ★, Online Co-Op 9.7%, Survival 9.6%, Base Building 9.5%, Crafting 8.6%
- #10 Subsistence
73% 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: Open World Survival Craft 37.9% ★, Survival 11.3%, Crafting 10.8%, Open World 7.2%, Multiplayer 7.1%
- #11 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
70% matchVery Positive91% of 7,147 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in this free prologue introducing one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters – an upcoming open-world game that challenges you, alone or with friends, to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.6% ★, Base Building 10.1%, Online Co-Op 9.4%, Crafting 8.9%, Multiplayer 7.3%
- #12 Craftopia
71% 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 Survival Craft 26.2% ★, Crafting 14.3%, Open World 12%, Survival 10.8%, Multiplayer 7.5%
- #13 Palworld
67% 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 Survival Craft 28.2% ★, Survival 10.2%, Open World 10.2%, Online Co-Op 8.9%, Crafting 8.4%
- #14 Starbound
69% matchVery Positive90% of 122,884 reviews2016
Dev: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.2 hrsMean: 64.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.2% ★, Sandbox 9.9%, Online Co-Op 8.5%, Crafting 8.2%, Survival 7.4%
- #15 Conan Exiles
69% 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: Open World Survival Craft 27.8% ★, Survival 13.4%, Building 10.6%, Open World 10.2%, Crafting 10.1%
- #16 Planet Explorers
70% matchMixed62% of 6,817 reviews2016
Dev: Pathea Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Planet Explorers is an open world sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.2% ★, Sandbox 11.2%, Open World 9.7%, Crafting 8.9%, Survival 7.8%
- #17 Creativerse
69% 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 Survival Craft 23.3% ★, Online Co-Op 9.5%, Crafting 9.2%, Building 8.7%, Survival 7.5%
- #18 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: Open World Survival Craft 24.9% ★, Crafting 12.2%, Online Co-Op 12.1%, Survival 9.8%, Base Building 9%
- #19 Out of Reach
68% matchMixed57% of 3,044 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
You’re a castaway stranded in the middle of nowhere. Storm is gone, the worst certainly not. Look for food and resources, craft gear, make shelters. These are the basics, you need much more to stay alive on this cut-off-the-world, yet not desert island. Build & burn, sail & explore, be Out of Reach!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38% ★, Survival 11.7%, Crafting 10.2%, Open World 8.5%, Building 7.7%
- #20 Enshrouded
64% matchVery Positive86% of 97,939 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.3 hrsMean: 43.9 hrs≥1hr: 94%
You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.
Why similar: Base Building 13.7%, Online Co-Op 13.5%, Survival 12.6%, Open World 12.6%, Crafting 11.6%
- #21 The Front
63% 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: Open World Survival Craft 27.3% ★, Crafting 9.8%, Base Building 9.6%, Building 9%, Survival 8.5%
- #22 ARK: Survival Evolved
64% matchVery Positive83% of 762,696 reviews2017
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 200.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.8% ★, Survival 11.4%, Crafting 8.9%, Building 8%, Open World 8%
- #23 Forager
63% matchVery Positive90% of 42,942 reviews2019
Dev: HopFrogPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 22.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.3% ★, Crafting 13.4%, Survival 11.6%, Base Building 7.3%, Sandbox 6.6%
- #24 Life is Feudal: Your Own
64% matchMixed66% of 12,035 reviews2015
Dev: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 57.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Hardcore and realistic; LiF is a Medieval multiplayer sandbox RPG, with free terraforming, a rich crafting system and preset and modular building construction. With engaging survival aspects, no target physics-based combat and a unique formation system - along with numerous other features - LiF is not for the faint of heart!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37% ★, Crafting 11.8%, Survival 10.3%, Open World 10%, Building 9.6%
- #25 Force of Nature 2: Ghost Keeper
62% 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: Open World Survival Craft 22.9% ★, Crafting 12.8%, Base Building 12%, Survival 10.7%, Open World 10.2%
- #26 Night of the Dead
60% 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: Open World Survival Craft 26.8% ★, Online Co-Op 10.4%, Crafting 9.4%, Base Building 9.2%, Building 8.5%
- #27 Sunkenland
60% matchVery Positive81% of 22,978 reviews2023
Dev: Vector3 Studio
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 17.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Get ready for a Waterworld-themed survival game with modular base building, sunken city scavenging, crafting, base defense, and invasions of NPC clans for resources and territory. Ready for the water apocalypse?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.6% ★, Survival 10.7%, Base Building 10.1%, Co-op 9.2%, Crafting 9.1%
- #28 Myth of Empires
60% matchMixed67% of 17,256 reviews2024
Dev: Angela GamePub: Imperium Interactive Entertainment
Windows
Median: 15.8 hrsMean: 231.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Myth of Empires is a multiplayer war sandbox game featuring a high degree of freedom and multiple civilizations. Players must survive, craft, create, and lead troops in their quest to conquer PVE or PVP territory and build their own empire. Xizhou Civilization Pack is now officially released!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.1% ★, Building 10.9%, Base Building 9.2%, Sandbox 8.4%, Online Co-Op 8.2%
- #29 Abiotic Factor
57% 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: Open World Survival Craft 29% ★, Online Co-Op 12.2%, Crafting 11.2%, Base Building 11%, Survival 9.8%
- #30 The Forest
59% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 664,531 reviews2018
Dev: Endnight Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 37.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.4% ★, Survival 15%, Crafting 9.9%, Open World 9.9%, Building 8%
- #31 Once Human
58% matchMostly Positive77% of 166,819 reviews2024
Dev: Starry Studio
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 50.1 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Once Human is a multiplayer open-world survival game set in a strange, post-apocalyptic future. Unite with friends to fight monstrous enemies, uncover secret plots, compete for resources, and build your own territory. Once, you were merely human. Now, you have the power to remake the world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.2% ★, Online Co-Op 11.7%, Base Building 11.4%, Survival 10%, Open World 8.5%
- #32 Don't Starve
59% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 112,218 reviews2013
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 28.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.3% ★, Survival 21.2%, Crafting 13.4%, Sandbox 8.9%, Open World 5.4%
- #33 ASKA
57% 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: Open World Survival Craft 25.9% ★, Online Co-Op 10.7%, Base Building 10.1%, Survival 8.3%, Crafting 7.9%
- #34 Ylands
59% matchMixed64% of 8,347 reviews2019
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 46%
Adventure awaits you and your friends in the world of Ylands! Gather resources, craft tools, construct anything and everything, and explore the lands! Build a ship and set sail, encountering mythical animals, a wide variety of sea-life, enemies of all kinds and much more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.6% ★, Crafting 10.9%, Base Building 10.1%, Online Co-Op 9.3%, Building 8.4%
- #35 HumanitZ
55% 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: Open World Survival Craft 22.8% ★, Base Building 12%, Crafting 11.5%, Survival 11.4%, Online Co-Op 10.2%
- #36 CastleMiner Z
59% matchVery Positive81% of 11,087 reviews2014
Dev: DigitalDNA Games
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 66%
CastleMiner Z is an infinite world filled with deep places to explore, and horrifying monsters to slay. Build structures out of blocks, craft weapons and tools from raw materials, and explore the vast and frightening world around you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.4% ★, Survival 12.4%, Sandbox 8.5%, Crafting 8.5%, Multiplayer 8.3%
- #37 Project Zomboid
57% matchVery Positive94% of 439,650 reviews2013
Dev: The Indie Stone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 14.8 hrsMean: 82.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.3% ★, Survival 17.2%, Open World 10.6%, Multiplayer 8.3%, Sandbox 8.3%
- #38 Don't Starve Together
56% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 527,643 reviews2016
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 64.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 61.8% ★, Survival 19.9%, Multiplayer 4.1%, Co-op 3.5%, Crafting 2.9%
- #39 Portal Knights
57% 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: Crafting 16.1%, Building 15.5%, Sandbox 15%, Multiplayer 12.6%, Survival 12.5%
- #40 Wild Terra 2: New Lands
57% matchMixed52% of 3,306 reviews2022
Dev: Juvty Worlds
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 32.1 hrs≥1hr: 43%
MMORPG full of details that create a unique immersion and the spirit of adventure! Play your role in the life-filled medieval world controlled by players.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.1% ★, Crafting 10.3%, Sandbox 10.1%, Building 9.4%, Survival 7%
- #41 7 Days to Die
53% 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: Open World Survival Craft 29.4% ★, Survival 13.6%, Online Co-Op 10.5%, Base Building 10.4%, Building 9%
- #42 XERA: Survival
56% matchMixed66% of 7,886 reviews2021
Dev: Spotted Kiwi Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 24.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Action-focused, open world survival shooter, PvPvE against fellow mercenaries and lethal XOIDS. Raid for resources alone or with team-mates, build and defend your base, stash your gear and survive against the odds. You are the hunters. You are the hunted. And the robots never sleep…
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.9% ★, Base Building 13%, Crafting 11.3%, Survival 9.9%, Building 8.3%
- #43 How to Survive 2
57% matchMixed69% of 10,986 reviews2016
Dev: Eko SoftwarePub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 15.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Dead or Alive? Make up your mind, stranger. We don’t like that undead business here in Louisiana…Survive solo or with friends as you look to fulfill your basic needs of food, water and shelter, crafting your own tools and weapons while you secure your camp and face flesh hungry zombies.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.1% ★, Survival 17%, Crafting 10%, Multiplayer 8.7%, Open World 8.1%
- #44 No One Survived
53% 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 17.3%, Open World 13.2%, Crafting 12.8%, Multiplayer 9.9%, Building 9.8%
- #45 Deadside
53% matchMostly Positive76% of 39,995 reviews2024
Dev: Bad Pixel
Windows
Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 44.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
An Open World Survival Shooter blending hardcore PVP and PVE action. Secure precious loot in safe zones or build your own fortress in the wild. With intense gunfights, stunning visuals, and performance smooth enough for any system, the challenge awaits!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.5% ★, Survival 13.6%, Open World 10%, Base Building 8.8%, Crafting 8.2%
- #46 Farlight 84
54% matchMostly Positive76% of 54,891 reviews2023
Dev: Farlight Games
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 29.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Hey Lightcatchers! Are you ready for massive 60-player shootouts? Enjoy fast-paced hero shooter action in Farlight 84!
Why similar: Multiplayer 37.9%, Survival 29.1%, Third Person 17.6%, Adventure 8.2%, 3D 7.1%
- #47 RuneScape: Dragonwilds
52% 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 Survival Craft 25.6% ★, Online Co-Op 9.2%, Survival 8.3%, Open World 8.1%, Crafting 7.8%
- #48 Mist Survival
55% matchMostly Positive76% of 14,035 reviews2018
Dev: Dimension 32 Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 73%
MIST SURVIVAL is a Single-player, survival stealth sandbox game Players will experience the Apocalypse stimulation in the form of virus pandemic, the players have to deal with it to survive through the difficulties such as finding shelter and food, threats from the environment and climate: wild animals, bandits, infected, and dense mist t
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.3% ★, Survival 18.3%, Open World 11.8%, Base Building 10.9%, Crafting 9%
- #49 Citadel: Forged with Fire
55% matchMixed68% of 5,882 reviews2019
Dev: Blue Isle StudiosPub: Blue Isle Publishing
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 19.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
This massive online sandbox RPG features elements of magic, spellcasting, building, exploring and crafting. As a newly minted apprentice of the magic arts, you will set off to the dangerous world of Ignus. Tame mighty beasts, forge alliances, explore uncharted territories or fight for dominance!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.5% ★, Open World 12.9%, Survival 10.9%, Crafting 8%, Sandbox 8%
- #50 Where Winds Meet
51% matchVery Positive87% of 104,757 reviews2025
Dev: Everstone StudioPub: NetEase Games
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 28.6 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Where Winds Meet is an epic Wuxia open-world action-adventure RPG set in ancient China at the tenth century. Players will assume the role of a young sword master as they embark on a journey to uncover the mysteries of their own identity. Let the wind carry your legend on an epic journey to the East!
Why similar: Open World 29.9%, Online Co-Op 28.4%, Multiplayer 22.9%, RPG 7.2%, Adventure 5.8%
- #51 Miscreated
55% matchMixed66% of 31,585 reviews2018
Dev: Entrada Interactive LLC
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 38.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Miscreated is a multiplayer online hardcore survival game set in a post-apocalyptic future. You will need to survive against mutants, players, and even mother nature herself.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.8% ★, Survival 15.6%, Open World 10.9%, Multiplayer 8.3%, Crafting 8.1%
- #52 Dispatch
50% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 167,325 reviews2025
Dev: AdHoc Studio
Windows
Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Dispatch is a superhero workplace comedy where choices matter. Manage a dysfunctional team of misfit heroes and strategize who to send to emergencies around the city, all while balancing office politics, personal relationships, and your own quest to become a hero. All episodes out now!
Why similar: Singleplayer 56.8%, Adventure 43.2%
- #53 PEAK
50% matchVery Positive95% of 302,229 reviews2025
Dev: Team PEAKPub: Aggro Crab
Windows
Median: 7.5 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 94%
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Why similar: Online Co-Op 35.3%, Multiplayer 23.9%, Co-op 21%, Exploration 10.3%, Adventure 5.9%
- #54 Blood Strike
51% matchVery Positive81% of 17,562 reviews2025
Dev: NetEase Games
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Gather your friends and dive into the action-packed Battle Royale, Squad Fight, or Hot Zone like there's no tomorrow! Blood Strike offers a wide range of playable Strikers, each with a unique active and passive ability letting you deploy drones, shield walls and everything in between.
Why similar: Multiplayer 52.8%, Survival 28.1%, Adventure 9.7%, Third Person 9.5%
- #55 R.E.P.O.
50% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 368,800 reviews2025
Dev: semiwork
Windows
Median: 10.7 hrsMean: 21.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 38.4%, Multiplayer 21.6%, Co-op 18.4%, Survival 12.2%, Exploration 5.8%
- #56 Throne and Liberty
52% matchMixed67% of 67,786 reviews2024
Dev: NCSOFTPub: Amazon Game Studios
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 76.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Throne and Liberty captures the essence of classic MMORPGs while introducing new gameplay elements, depth and excitement at every turn. Gather your guild, prepare for battle, and set forth for throne... and liberty!
Why similar: Open World 25.2%, Multiplayer 12.7%, Online Co-Op 12%, Crafting 10.1%, RPG 10%
- #57 Solace Crafting
54% matchMostly Positive72% of 891 reviews2022
Dev: Big Kitty Games
Windows · Linux
Embark on an adventure set in a fantasy survival RPG. Visit a borderless, open world where you manage resources to construct your base and new types of equipment to support your conquest.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.1% ★, Crafting 9.3%, Online Co-Op 8.4%, Base Building 8.2%, Survival 8%
- #58 Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
50% matchVery Positive94% of 174,983 reviews2025
Dev: Warhorse StudiosPub: Deep Silver
Windows
Median: 53.8 hrsMean: 73.4 hrs≥1hr: 95%
A thrilling story-driven action RPG, with a rich open world, set in 15th century Medieval Europe. Experience the ultimate medieval adventure - through the eyes of young Henry - as you embark on a journey of epic proportions.
Why similar: Open World 52.5%, RPG 24.5%, Adventure 11.2%, Singleplayer 6.7%, 3D 5.1%