- #1 Grounded
97% matchVery Positive90% of 95,977 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.6 hrsMean: 41.9 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: Open World Survival Craft 32.8% ★, Survival 16.8%, Base Building 14.9%, Crafting 10.7%, Multiplayer 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: Its cooperative scavenging, inventive crafting progression, defended player bases, and dangerous interconnected world capture Abiotic Factor's playful-but-tense survival loop.
- #2 The Planet Crafter
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 74,281 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.7 hrsMean: 38.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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: Open World Survival Craft 26.2% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Online Co-Op 9.9%, Crafting 9%, Survival 9%
Why You'll Like It: This is a similarly satisfying co-op survival-crafting game centered on gathering resources, building a functional base, and steadily transforming a hostile alien environment.
- #3 Voidtrain
96% matchMostly Positive73% of 9,990 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 14.8 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: Open World Survival Craft 35.4% ★, Base Building 11%, Survival 9.5%, Online Co-Op 9.3%, Crafting 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: Voidtrain combines first-person co-op crafting, bizarre dimensional exploration, escalating threats, and a customizable traveling base in a way that suits Abiotic Factor players.
- #4 Forever Skies
95% matchMostly Positive78% of 9,059 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 30.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A first-person survival game set on a post-apocalyptic, ecologically ruined Earth. Play solo or with up to 3 friends as you build, upgrade, and fly a high-tech airship. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and face dangers on the surface as you hunt for a cure to save humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.3% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Science 12.7%, Crafting 11%, Survival 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: Its first-person sci-fi survival, exploration of abandoned research locations, and customizable mobile base make it an especially close atmospheric alternative.
- #5 Enshrouded
94% matchVery Positive86% of 106,050 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.9 hrsMean: 46.8 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 19.7%, Survival 17.1%, Online Co-Op 16%, Crafting 14.2%, Multiplayer 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: Its cooperative world exploration, extensive building, resource-driven gear progression, and hazardous regions offer a polished fantasy counterpart to Abiotic Factor's loop.
- #6 Core Keeper
94% matchVery Positive93% of 66,787 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.3 hrsMean: 34.9 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 25.3% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 11.5%, Survival 11%, Online Co-Op 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: Its underground exploration, boss progression, flexible base construction, farming, and multiplayer survival loop translate Abiotic Factor's expedition-and-home-base rhythm into a top-down format.
- #7 Valheim
93% matchVery Positive94% of 555,289 reviews2026
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 26.9 hrsMean: 81.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.4% ★, Online Co-Op 12.2%, Survival 11%, Base Building 10.3%, Crafting 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: Valheim delivers exceptional co-op survival progression through dangerous biomes, meaningful preparation, crafting tiers, boss-gated exploration, and robust base-building.
- #8 ICARUS
92% matchMostly Positive75% of 68,864 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.4 hrsMean: 46.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 27.7% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Survival 11%, Online Co-Op 9.8%, Crafting 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: ICARUS is ideal for players who enjoy preparing tools and bases with friends before making increasingly risky expeditions into hostile environments.
- #9 Once Human
91% matchMostly Positive79% of 189,842 reviews2024
Dev: Starry Studio
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 52.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Once Human is a Strange Worlds 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 24.7% ★, Base Building 11.4%, Crafting 10%, Survival 10%, Online Co-Op 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: This paranormal survival game features strange containment-style sci-fi horror, cooperative exploration, crafting, and highly customizable player territory systems.
- #10 Raft
91% matchVery Positive93% of 379,035 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.8 hrsMean: 38.0 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 36.7% ★, Survival 16.1%, Crafting 10.1%, Base Building 8.9%, Multiplayer 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: Raft emphasizes cooperative resource gathering, crafting stations, expanding a shared home base, and venturing into threatening story locations for new technology.
- #11 ASTRONEER
90% matchVery Positive92% of 139,497 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 Survival Craft 34.9% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Survival 12.4%, Crafting 8.4%, Sandbox 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: ASTRONEER offers a gentler but deeply rewarding co-op sci-fi sandbox built around exploration, terrain manipulation, research, automation, and planetary bases.
- #12 Subnautica
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 380,795 reviews2018
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.3 hrsMean: 39.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.8% ★, Survival 13.2%, Base Building 11.7%, Crafting 10.4%, Aliens 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: Although solo, its exceptional first-person survival crafting, environmental mystery, layered exploration, and base-building create a similarly compelling scientific survival adventure.
- #13 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
89% matchVery Positive82% of 10,551 reviews2024
Dev: Max Ent Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 28.2% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Survival 11%, Online Co-Op 10.6%, Crafting 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: The miniature-scale wilderness makes routine scavenging feel dangerous while supporting cooperative crafting, exploration, mounts, and elaborate player-built shelters.
- #14 Barotrauma
88% matchVery Positive94% of 90,078 reviews2023
Dev: FakeFishPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.1 hrsMean: 56.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Barotrauma is a 2D co-op submarine simulator – in space, with survival horror and RPG elements. Steer your submarine, complete missions, fight monsters, fix leaks, operate machinery, man the guns and craft items, and stay alert: danger in Barotrauma doesn’t announce itself!
Why similar: Survival 44.8%, Multiplayer 26.5%, Sci-fi 19.7%, Simulation 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: Barotrauma trades the research complex for a submarine, but its chaotic co-op survival, specialized roles, crafting, repairs, monsters, and systemic disasters feel very compatible.
- #15 Satisfactory
87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 280,086 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 33.5 hrsMean: 113.6 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 23.4%, Open World Survival Craft 17.8% ★, Crafting 15.1%, Building 9.7%, Sandbox 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: Players who most enjoy Abiotic Factor's construction and workshop progression will appreciate its first-person co-op building and elaborate resource-processing systems.
- #16 Sons Of The Forest
85% matchVery Positive88% of 321,117 reviews2024
Dev: Endnight Games LtdPub: Newnight
Windows
Median: 15.0 hrsMean: 32.4 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 23%, Base Building 20.2%, Crafting 14.5%, Multiplayer 10.6%, Building 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: Its first-person co-op survival, unsettling exploration, scavenged crafting, defensive building, and mysterious underground discoveries closely fit the tense side of Abiotic Factor.
- #17 Necesse
84% matchVery Positive93% of 29,166 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 41.7% ★, Crafting 9.6%, Survival 9.1%, Base Building 8.8%, Sandbox 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: Necesse offers a compact multiplayer survival sandbox with exploration, settlement building, crafting, recruitable NPCs, and boss-driven technological advancement.
- #18 Volcanoids
86% matchVery Positive83% of 9,358 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.9 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: Base Building 15.5%, Crafting 13.7%, Online Co-Op 11.4%, Survival 11.3%, Building 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: Its mobile drillship acts as a distinctive upgradeable base while players explore hostile islands, gather materials, craft equipment, and fend off mechanical enemies.
- #19 Nightingale
86% matchMixed66% of 18,084 reviews2024
Dev: Inflexion Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 24.0 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 30.4% ★, Online Co-Op 11.7%, Base Building 11.4%, Survival 10.8%, Crafting 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: Its shared-realm expeditions, portal-driven exploration, crafting tiers, estate building, and supernatural world design make it a strong co-op progression game.
- #20 7 Days to Die
84% matchVery Positive87% of 405,507 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.4 hrsMean: 111.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 29.1% ★, Survival 15.3%, Base Building 12.6%, Online Co-Op 10.4%, Building 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: Its scavenging, crafting progression, multiplayer bases, environmental hazards, and regular defensive crises provide a harsher open-world survival alternative.
- #21 Palworld
82% matchVery Positive95% of 490,433 reviews2026
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 41.0 hrsMean: 86.8 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 34.1% ★, Survival 14.1%, Online Co-Op 10.8%, Crafting 10.6%, Base Building 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: Palworld blends cooperative survival crafting and broad base automation with exploration and creature-assisted resource production on a large hostile map.
- #22 The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™
83% matchVery Positive81% of 12,511 reviews2024
Dev: Free Range GamesPub: North Beach Games
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 19.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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: Open World Survival Craft 29% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Online Co-Op 11.4%, Crafting 11%, Survival 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: This is a focused co-op survival-crafting campaign about delving deeper into a dangerous enclosed environment while rebuilding a safe and increasingly capable base.
- #23 The Riftbreaker
82% matchVery Positive90% of 24,991 reviews2021
Dev: EXOR Studios
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 20.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 19.1%, Online Co-Op 16.1%, Co-op Campaign 15.5% ★, Survival 11.2%, Crafting 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: This sci-fi action-builder combines hazardous-world exploration, resource extraction, defenses, and a steadily expanding automated base network.
- #24 Project Zomboid
81% matchVery Positive94% of 484,416 reviews2013
Dev: The Indie Stone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 15.9 hrsMean: 89.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 39.4% ★, Survival 23.8%, Sandbox 9.7%, Crafting 9.5%, Multiplayer 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: Project Zomboid provides one of Steam's deepest cooperative survival sandboxes, with meticulous scavenging, fortified safehouses, crafting, and constant resource pressure.
- #25 Scrap Mechanic
78% matchVery Positive92% of 123,030 reviews2026
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 65.6 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: Crafting 17.2%, Survival 15.8%, Building 15.8%, Base Building 14%, Sandbox 13.1%
Why You'll Like It: Scrap Mechanic's survival mode offers cooperative gathering, farming, base defense, and extraordinarily flexible vehicle and machine construction.
- #26 Stationeers
81% matchVery Positive88% of 9,306 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 85.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!
Why similar: Science 20.9%, Base Building 17.2%, Crafting 14.1%, Survival 12.9%, Building 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: Stationeers is a more demanding sci-fi survival builder focused on managing atmospheric systems, power, food, machinery, and functional multiplayer space bases.
- #27 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
80% matchMostly Positive78% of 34,438 reviews2020
Dev: Eleon Game Studios
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 77.1 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.7% ★, Survival 10.9%, Crafting 10.2%, Building 8.9%, Sandbox 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: Empyrion combines sci-fi survival with co-op exploration, construction of highly customizable bases and vehicles, hostile planets, and spacefaring progression.
- #28 No Man's Sky
79% matchVery Positive85% of 421,258 reviews2016
Dev: Hello Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 20.1 hrsMean: 70.9 hrs≥1hr: 94%
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.7% ★, Survival 10.9%, Sci-fi 8.3%, Crafting 7.6%, Sandbox 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: Its co-op planetary exploration, resource gathering, technology upgrades, freighter and settlement systems, and flexible base-building make for a vast sci-fi alternative.
- #29 MISERY
77% matchVery Positive84% of 26,185 reviews2025
Dev: Platypus EntertainmentPub: Ytopia
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 83%
MISERY is a 1–10 player co-op survival game set in a nuclear disaster zone. Here, every day is a struggle: search radioactive ruins for resources, build your bunker, craft weapons, and explore a weird, procedurally-generated world with your friends. Beware of anomalies, monsters, and armed bandits.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25% ★, Online Co-Op 12.6%, Survival 12.2%, Base Building 11.5%, Crafting 10%
- #30 Space Engineers
79% matchVery Positive89% of 134,498 reviews2019
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 96.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.
Why similar: Base Building 22.4%, Survival 17.2%, Building 14.3%, Sandbox 13.9%, PvE 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: Its physics-heavy engineering sandbox lets groups scavenge resources and construct detailed spacecraft, stations, vehicles, and survival infrastructure together.
- #31 Deep Rock Galactic
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 380,437 reviews2020
Dev: Ghost Ship GamesPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 76.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Deep Rock Galactic is a 1-4 player co-op FPS featuring dwarven space miners, procedurally-generated destructible environments, and endless hordes of alien monsters. Explore cave systems, mine for minerals, and work together to survive!
Why similar: FPS 23.7%, Survival 19%, PvE 18.8%, Sci-fi 15.8%, Exploration 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: While it lacks persistent base-building, its co-op-first subterranean sci-fi expeditions, corporate-lab humor, dangerous creatures, and teamwork-heavy resource runs match Abiotic Factor's mission energy.
- #32 StarRupture
77% matchVery Positive81% of 13,607 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 27.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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: Open World Survival Craft 27% ★, Base Building 13%, Crafting 10.1%, Survival 9.7%, Online Co-Op 8.3%
- #33 Grounded 2
76% matchVery Positive81% of 24,763 reviews2025
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 13.2 hrsMean: 26.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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: Open World Survival Craft 28.5% ★, Survival 15.7%, Base Building 15.3%, Crafting 10.6%, Online Co-Op 8%
- #34 GRAIN ROT
75% matchVery Positive89% of 2,361 reviews2026
Dev: Beck & Branch GamesPub: Neem Interactive
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A horror co-op extraction builder set in a scorched wasteland where everything burns. Descend with your friends into shifting ruins, rip out furniture, and scavenge for loot before the Corrupted close in. Make it back alive, then rebuild the Outpost to better your chances for the next run.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 24.6%, Base Building 22.9%, Crafting 19.2%, Building 14.9%, PvE 9.6%
- #35 Species: Unknown
74% matchVery Positive94% of 11,374 reviews2025
Dev: WanadevStudio
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Species: Unknown is a 1 to 4 players co-op survival horror. Complete high-risk missions aboard an abandoned ship while being hunted by an unknown creature. Survive and upgrade your gear to face each new threat that lurks in the dark.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 25.7%, Aliens 19.7%, FPS 11.6%, Sci-fi 10%, Multiplayer 8.9%
- #36 Breathedge
76% matchVery Positive81% of 18,514 reviews2021
Dev: RedRuins SoftworksPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Survive in outer space! Together with your immortal chicken, discover the truth behind your sudden spaceship crash. Craft tools, pilot vehicles, and even control space stations to survive and explore the wreckage.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.6% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Survival 11.3%, Crafting 9%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #37 ANEURISM IV
75% matchMostly Positive75% of 6,312 reviews2025
Dev: Vellocet
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 31.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
A dystopian simulator where your choices shape a decaying city. Join other players to protect the metropolis from ruin, hasten its downfall, or simply work in the factories. With no set goals or rules, every action has consequences in a world teetering on the brink.
Why similar: Crafting 18.1%, Online Co-Op 13.2%, Immersive Sim 13.2%, Survival 12.7%, Sandbox 12%
- #38 Nuclear Nightmare
74% matchVery Positive81% of 19,279 reviews2024
Dev: BG Productions
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Venture forth as part of a specialized team of fellow players tasked with retrieving classified materials, evading the black goo virus, and the nightmarish entities it has spawned. With time running out before the US government initiates a devastating nuclear strike to contain the spreading menace.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 37.4%, Aliens 15.5%, Sci-fi 10.4%, Multiplayer 9.6%, First-Person 8.9%
- #39 Subnautica 2
71% matchVery Positive91% of 128,024 reviews2026
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows
Median: 10.6 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Subnautica 2 is an underwater survival adventure set on an all-new alien world, developed by Unknown Worlds. Play alone or with friends in 4-player co-op. Adapt to survive by building custom bases and crafting tools. Explore the unknown to uncover the mysteries hidden within the depths.
Why similar: Survival 30.2%, Multiplayer 17.2%, Exploration 12.5%, Base Building 10.4%, Sandbox 9.2%
- #40 Everwind
72% matchVery Positive81% of 3,899 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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: Online Co-Op 18.4%, Crafting 17.8%, Survival 16%, Building 12.9%, Sandbox 12.2%
- #41 Starbound
73% matchVery Positive90% of 123,321 reviews2016
Dev: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.0 hrsMean: 64.5 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 42.1% ★, Sandbox 10.7%, Crafting 9.7%, Online Co-Op 9.6%, Survival 9.5%
- #42 Urge
73% matchVery Positive90% of 524 reviews2021
Dev: EnDrew
Windows
Fight, build, explore, survive, while the dynamic player-caused hazardous fog is slowly changing the rules of the world around you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34% ★, Base Building 15.1%, Crafting 11.5%, Survival 10.7%, Building 8.9%
- #43 Last Breath
71% matchVery Positive84% of 80 reviews2026
Dev: Mx
Windows
Last Breath is a solo/cooperative terraforming survival game. Dig through terrain, build powerful machines, and restore life to a dead planet. Work together to survive, automate, and reshape the world from the ground up, literally.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.8% ★, Survival 12.6%, Base Building 11.9%, Online Co-Op 11.2%, Crafting 9.1%
- #44 Romestead
70% matchMostly Positive77% of 5,129 reviews2026
Dev: BeartwigsPub: Three Friends
Windows
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Rome has fallen! Rebuild civilization in this action-adventure survival game for 1-8 players. Fight hordes of the walking dead, build settlements, restore the Roman gods... or kick back and farm with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27% ★, Crafting 14.8%, Base Building 13.3%, Survival 12.3%, Online Co-Op 11.1%
- #45 Void Crew
70% matchVery Positive86% of 8,473 reviews2024
Dev: Hutlihut GamesPub: Focus Entertainment
Windows
Median: 9.2 hrsMean: 16.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Void Crew is a Chaotic, Co-op Roguelite game for 1 to 6 players: Outfit your spaceship and crew for thrilling quests, brave fierce enemies in Space Battles... and try not to panic!
Why similar: Online Co-Op 24.1%, Multiplayer 16.7%, PvE 15.3%, Sci-fi 13.6%, First-Person 9.8%
- #46 Drift: Space Survival
73% matchMostly Positive70% of 77 reviews2023
Dev: KAR Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
You were deep in uncharted space on a research mission. Disaster struck. Together with your friends, explore a mysterious asteroid field and mine whatever resources possible to build what you need to survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.4% ★, Online Co-Op 12%, Survival 10.6%, Crafting 10%, Base Building 8.8%
- #47 Subsistence
72% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,861 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 40.4 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 40.9% ★, Survival 13.9%, Crafting 12.1%, Base Building 9.2%, Building 6.2%
- #48 Occupy Mars: The Game
68% matchMixed70% of 3,170 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 36.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Survive and colonize Mars alone or in online co-op. Build and upgrade your base, craft equipment, mine resources, produce water, oxygen and food, explore an open world, and repair complex machinery in a technical survival sandbox.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.1% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Crafting 10.6%, Online Co-Op 10.5%, Survival 9.4%
- #49 VEIN
67% matchVery Positive88% of 12,706 reviews2025
Dev: Ramjet Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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: Base Building 22.9%, Survival 22.5%, Crafting 14.4%, Sandbox 9.6%, Multiplayer 8.9%
- #50 Planetaries
70% matchMixed58% of 228 reviews2024
Dev: EY-Studio
Windows
Experience a vast Sci-fi open-world survival TD game set on a distant planet deep in the universe. Craft, build, mine, trade, explore, and survive in this alien world. Collect Data and defend against waves of enemies seeking to banish you. Enjoy the adventure in Singleplayer or Multiplayer.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.6% ★, Base Building 11%, Online Co-Op 10.6%, Crafting 10%, Survival 9.3%
- #51 Tinkerlands
67% matchVery Positive86% of 4,122 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.4 hrsMean: 14.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 35.5% ★, Online Co-Op 13.7%, Survival 11.6%, Crafting 10.7%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #52 Outpost Zero
71% matchMixed48% of 853 reviews2019
Dev: Symmetric GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Outpost Zero blends the genres of Multiplayer Base Building Survival and Simulation games in a Sci-Fi universe. On a lawless alien world, robotic scouts are tasked with building an Outpost for human colonists. Command AI minions, colonize the planet, and survive the perils of Gaiya.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37% ★, Survival 15.3%, Base Building 12.5%, Crafting 8.7%, Multiplayer 7.3%
- #53 Cubic Odyssey
67% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,754 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Embark on a galactic journey in Cubic Odyssey, an open-world adventure where you explore vibrant planets, craft tools, build vehicles, and fight the Red Darkness. Uncover ancient mysteries, and shape a universe full of life, danger, and limitless possibilities!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.1% ★, Base Building 16.9%, Building 9.9%, Sandbox 9.7%, Sci-fi 8.3%
- #54 Rem Survival
69% matchMostly Positive76% of 809 reviews2021
Dev: Immortal Hand Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 47.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Scavenge abandoned ruins, craft gear from scrap and salvaged materials, and fight the environment itself as hunger, exposure, and exhaustion push you to your limits. There are no second chances—only adaptation or death.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.3% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Crafting 13.2%, Survival 11.9%, Building 8.6%
- #55 Away From Life
67% matchMixed67% of 238 reviews2026
Dev: Cursor GamesPub: IZilla Games
Windows
You survived a helicopter crash; going home is your top priority. Live as a castaway - survive the dangers of the islands by using your environment to find food, build shelter, craft tools to extend your stay, explore the secrets of the islands and their surrounding waters, and carve your way home.
Why similar: Base Building 15%, Crafting 13.8%, Survival 12.1%, Building 10.1%, Sandbox 9.8%
- #56 Life Not Supported
69% matchMixed67% of 173 reviews2023
Dev: YETIBYTES
Windows · Linux
You are the lone survivor orbiting a potential new home planet, tethered to what’s left of your ship. Gather nearby debris and assemble a make-shift vessel in an attempt to survive the harsh realities of space. Maybe you'll live long enough to uncover the truth behind the ship's malfunction...
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 12.1%, Survival 10.5%, Building 7.6%
- #57 Eden Crafters
65% matchVery Positive85% of 2,696 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.4% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 11.5%, Online Co-Op 9.8%, Survival 8.4%
- #58 Lost Rift
65% matchMixed69% of 1,717 reviews2025
Dev: People Can Fly
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Lost Rift is a first person survival adventure shooter that blends cooperative base building with multiplayer PvE or PvP extraction expeditions. Journey solo or in teams of up to 5 players across a vast archipelago, craft gear, build bases, defeat raiders, and become legendary.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.2% ★, Base Building 13%, Crafting 11.4%, Online Co-Op 10.4%, Survival 10.1%
- #59 Fragmented
69% matchMixed43% of 1,964 reviews2017
Dev: Above and Beyond Technologies
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Stranded in a hostile alien world, you must fight to survive. Hunt, harvest, craft, advance skills, and build using local resources along with technology from your voyage.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.6% ★, Survival 14.9%, Crafting 8.7%, Multiplayer 6%, Sandbox 5.8%
- #60 Green Hell
65% matchVery Positive85% of 102,938 reviews2019
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 37.3% ★, Survival 13.6%, Online Co-Op 11.1%, Crafting 9%, Base Building 8.3%