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Games Like Abiotic Factor

60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Survival, Multiplayer, Crafting, Open World.

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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.

Reviews: Overwhelmingly Positive — 96% — of 52,861 reviews
Released: 2025-07-22
Developer: Deep Field Games
Publisher: Playstack
Genres: Action, Adventure, RPG, Simulation
Platforms: Windows
Median playtime: 19.3 hrs
Mean playtime: 42.7 hrs
Players ≥ 1 hr: 95%

Overview

Abiotic Factor stands out because it mixes co-op survival crafting with a distinctly scientific, facility-bound setting full of strange threats, scavenging, and improvised base-building. The best alternatives capture that same loop of gathering resources, fortifying a home base, and pushing deeper into dangerous worlds with friends, especially when they lean into sci-fi, mystery, or tightly structured exploration rather than pure sandbox freedom.

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  1. #1 Grounded
    97% matchVery Positive90% of 92,875 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: Open World Survival Craft 32%, Survival 16.5%, Base Building 15.2%, Crafting 11%, Multiplayer 8.1%

    Why You'll Like It: Its co-op survival, handcrafted world progression, quirky science theme, and heavy emphasis on building safe bases while exploring hostile spaces make it the closest overall match.

  2. #2 The Planet Crafter
    96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 67,314 reviews2024
    Dev: Miju Games
    Windows
    Median: 21.1 hrsMean: 37.2 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: Open World Survival Craft 25.1%, Base Building 12.4%, Online Co-Op 10.4%, Crafting 9.2%, Survival 8.6%

    Why You'll Like It: It delivers a similarly satisfying sci-fi survival loop of scavenging, crafting, and steadily transforming a hostile environment into a livable home.

  3. #3 Forever Skies
    96% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,284 reviews2025
    Dev: Far From Home
    Windows
    Median: 7.4 hrsMean: 32.0 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 25.5%, Base Building 13.4%, Science 12.9%, Crafting 11.2%, Survival 9.9%

    Why You'll Like It: This first-person sci-fi survival game shares Abiotic Factor’s scavenging-driven progression, atmospheric exploration, and mobile base-building in a hazardous world.

  4. #4 Voidtrain
    95% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,176 reviews2025
    Dev: HypeTrain Digital
    Windows
    Median: 8.3 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: Open World Survival Craft 34.5%, Base Building 11%, Online Co-Op 9.8%, Crafting 9.4%, Survival 9.2%

    Why You'll Like It: Like Abiotic Factor, it blends co-op survival crafting with surreal science-fiction exploration and a highly upgradeable traveling base.

  5. #5 Volcanoids
    94% matchVery Positive83% of 9,214 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 Survival Craft 27.8%, Online Co-Op 11.2%, Crafting 10.9%, Base Building 10.8%, Survival 9.5%

    Why You'll Like It: Its first-person co-op survival, crafting, and constant pressure to build and defend a unique mechanical base feel very close to Abiotic Factor’s moment-to-moment loop.

  6. #6 Subnautica
    94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 344,093 reviews2018
    Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 13.4 hrsMean: 40.0 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 36.2%, Survival 13%, Base Building 12%, Crafting 10.7%, Aliens 6.2%

    Why You'll Like It: Although single-player, it nails the same feeling of surviving through smart crafting, exploration, and base-building in an alien science-fiction environment full of unknown threats.

  7. #7 ICARUS
    93% matchMostly Positive74% of 62,078 reviews2021
    Dev: RocketWerkz
    Windows
    Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 44.6 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 26.6%, Base Building 11.7%, Survival 10.6%, Online Co-Op 10.2%, Crafting 9.1%

    Why You'll Like It: Its session-based co-op survival, base-building, and constant resource pressure scratch a similar itch for groups that enjoy planning, crafting, and expeditions.

  8. #8 Enshrouded
    92% matchVery Positive86% of 98,202 reviews2024
    Dev: Keen Games GmbH
    Windows
    Median: 18.3 hrsMean: 44.1 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 19.5%, Online Co-Op 16.5%, Survival 16.2%, Crafting 14.3%, Multiplayer 8%

    Why You'll Like It: While fantasy-themed, it matches Abiotic Factor’s appeal through cooperative exploration, strong progression, and a very rewarding build-and-push-deeper gameplay loop.

  9. #9 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
    91% matchMostly Positive79% of 34,087 reviews2020
    Dev: Eleon Game Studios
    Windows
    Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 76.7 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 29.7%, Survival 10.6%, Crafting 10.3%, Building 9.1%, Sandbox 7.8%

    Why You'll Like It: This is a strong fit if you want more sci-fi survival crafting with multiplayer, base construction, and a heavier emphasis on tech progression and exploration.

  10. #10 Subnautica: Below Zero
    91% matchVery Positive90% of 102,346 reviews2021
    Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 15.9 hrsMean: 30.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%

    Dive into a freezing underwater adventure on an alien planet. Below Zero is set two years after the original Subnautica. Return to Planet 4546B to uncover the truth behind a deadly cover-up. Survive by building habitats, crafting tools, & diving deeper into the world of Subnautica.

    Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.7%, Survival 12.3%, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 8.4%, Aliens 7.2%

    Why You'll Like It: It keeps the survival-crafting and sci-fi exploration strengths of Subnautica while leaning even more into directed progression and story discovery.

  11. #11 ASTRONEER
    90% matchVery Positive92% of 136,711 reviews2019
    Dev: System Era Softworks
    Windows
    Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 44.1 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 34.1%, Base Building 12.9%, Survival 12.1%, Crafting 8.6%, Sandbox 7.4%

    Why You'll Like It: It captures the lighter side of sci-fi survival crafting with cooperative exploration, base expansion, and constant resource-driven progression.

  12. #12 Core Keeper
    89% matchVery Positive93% of 63,205 reviews2024
    Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
    Windows · Linux
    Median: 12.0 hrsMean: 33.7 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 24.7%, Base Building 13%, Crafting 11.6%, Online Co-Op 11.4%, Survival 10.3%

    Why You'll Like It: Despite the top-down view, it shares the same addictive formula of co-op survival, crafting, base-building, and gradually unlocking deeper, more dangerous areas.

  13. #13 No Man's Sky
    89% matchVery Positive85% of 402,164 reviews2016
    Dev: Hello Games
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 20.2 hrsMean: 70.4 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%, Survival 10.7%, Sci-fi 8.5%, Crafting 7.8%, Sandbox 7.6%

    Why You'll Like It: It offers broad sci-fi survival, crafting, and base-building with co-op, making it a great choice for players who want Abiotic Factor’s systems in a bigger universe.

  14. #14 Raft
    88% matchVery Positive93% of 368,916 reviews2022
    Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
    Windows
    Median: 14.5 hrsMean: 36.8 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 35.9%, Survival 15.7%, Crafting 10.2%, Base Building 9%, Multiplayer 8.1%

    Why You'll Like It: Its co-op survival rhythm of scavenging, crafting, fortifying a home base, and venturing out for progression feels very familiar even in a different setting.

  15. #15 Satisfactory
    87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 265,414 reviews2024
    Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
    Windows
    Median: 31.8 hrsMean: 108.4 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 17.1%, Crafting 15.2%, Building 9.8%, Sandbox 8.6%

    Why You'll Like It: It is less survival-focused, but its first-person sci-fi base expansion and satisfying engineering progression strongly overlap with Abiotic Factor’s crafting appeal.

  16. #16 Stationeers
    86% matchVery Positive88% of 8,897 reviews2017
    Dev: RocketWerkz
    Windows
    Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 81.9 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 14.2%, Survival 12.4%, Building 10.4%

    Why You'll Like It: This is a more hardcore take on sci-fi survival and base management, ideal if you enjoy Abiotic Factor’s improvised scientific problem-solving.

  17. #17 Space Engineers
    86% matchVery Positive89% of 133,238 reviews2019
    Dev: Keen Software House
    Windows
    Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 95.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    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 22.3%, Survival 16.5%, Building 14.3%, Sandbox 14%, PvE 10.3%

    Why You'll Like It: If the engineering side of Abiotic Factor appeals to you, this offers deeper sci-fi construction, systems management, and multiplayer problem-solving.

  18. #18 Nightingale
    85% matchMixed67% of 17,841 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 29.4%, Online Co-Op 12.3%, Base Building 11.4%, Crafting 10.6%, Survival 10.5%

    Why You'll Like It: Its multiplayer survival crafting, portal-based exploration, and mix of strange worlds and base-building echo Abiotic Factor’s dimensional weirdness.

  19. #19 Sunkenland
    84% matchVery Positive81% of 22,996 reviews2023
    Dev: Vector3 Studio
    Windows
    Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 17.9 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 38%, Base Building 13.3%, Survival 12.6%, Crafting 10.3%, Multiplayer 6.2%

    Why You'll Like It: It delivers a familiar co-op survival-crafting loop centered on scavenging dangerous locations and reinforcing a customizable home base.

  20. #20 The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™
    84% matchVery Positive82% of 11,474 reviews2024
    Dev: Free Range GamesPub: North Beach Games
    Windows
    Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 20.4 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: Open World Survival Craft 28.2%, Base Building 14%, Online Co-Op 11.8%, Crafting 11.1%, Survival 10.1%

    Why You'll Like It: Its subterranean co-op survival, base-building, and steady push through dangerous enclosed spaces make it structurally very close to Abiotic Factor.

  21. #21 Valheim
    83% matchVery Positive94% of 529,829 reviews2021
    Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 25.6 hrsMean: 76.1 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 31.2%, Online Co-Op 12.7%, Survival 10.7%, Base Building 10.4%, Crafting 9.4%

    Why You'll Like It: It is less sci-fi, but the co-op progression, base-building, boss-gated advancement, and shared survival workload are excellent parallels.

  22. #22 Lightyear Frontier
    82% matchVery Positive84% of 4,206 reviews2024
    Dev: FRAME BREAK
    Windows
    Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    In Lightyear Frontier you use your powerful trusty mech to farm on a large beautiful alien planet. Settle your homestead, farm and deliver produce to remote colonies, gather and manage resources, build, craft, explore, expand, improve your mech, meet neighbors, and make a place to call your own.

    Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.2%, Base Building 14.4%, Online Co-Op 13%, Crafting 12.6%, Survival 8.7%

    Why You'll Like It: For a calmer variation, it offers co-op sci-fi homesteading, resource gathering, and modular base-building with a strong exploration loop.

  23. #23 Once Human
    81% matchMostly Positive77% of 167,251 reviews2024
    Dev: Starry Studio
    Windows
    Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 50.2 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 38.2%, Base Building 18.3%, Online Co-Op 16.1%, Survival 14.3%, Multiplayer 8.3%

    Why You'll Like It: Its supernatural sci-fi setting, crafting, survival systems, and bizarre anomaly-infused world align well with Abiotic Factor’s paranormal research-facility vibe.

  24. #24 Breathedge
    82% matchVery Positive82% of 16,026 reviews2021
    Dev: RedRuins SoftworksPub: HypeTrain Digital
    Windows
    Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    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 36.2%, Base Building 13.6%, Survival 11.2%, Crafting 9.5%, Sandbox 8.8%

    Why You'll Like It: Though single-player and more comedic, it shares Abiotic Factor’s first-person sci-fi scavenging, crafting, and survival in a hazardous environment.

  25. #25 Scrap Mechanic
    81% matchVery Positive92% of 117,049 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: Crafting 17.3%, Building 15.8%, Survival 15.2%, Base Building 13.9%, Sandbox 13.2%

    Why You'll Like It: This offers inventive co-op crafting and base-building with a playful science-fiction tone and lots of room for creative problem-solving.

  26. #26 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
    79% matchVery Positive82% of 9,646 reviews2024
    Dev: Merge GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
    Windows
    Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 15.1 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 27.3%, Base Building 12.8%, Online Co-Op 11.2%, Survival 10.5%, Crafting 10.3%

    Why You'll Like It: This has a Grounded-like focus on co-op survival, crafting, and base-building in a hostile oversized world, making it a natural backup pick.

  27. #27 Sons Of The Forest
    78% matchVery Positive88% of 299,895 reviews2024
    Dev: Endnight Games LtdPub: Newnight
    Windows
    Median: 14.9 hrsMean: 32.0 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 21.9%, Base Building 20.5%, Crafting 14.5%, Multiplayer 10.8%, Building 9.2%

    Why You'll Like It: Its co-op survival, dangerous exploration, unsettling mysteries, and practical base defense make it a good fit for players who like Abiotic Factor’s tension.

  28. #28 Starbound
    80% matchVery Positive90% of 122,901 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 41%, Sandbox 11%, Online Co-Op 10.1%, Crafting 9.9%, Survival 9.3%

    Why You'll Like It: It offers a broader sandbox take on sci-fi survival crafting with exploration, building, and gear progression across strange worlds.

  29. #29 MISERY
    77% matchVery Positive85% of 17,893 reviews2025
    Dev: Platypus EntertainmentPub: Ytopia
    Windows · Linux
    Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%

    MISERY is a 1–5 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 24.2%, Online Co-Op 13.2%, Base Building 11.6%, Survival 10.8%, Crafting 10.5%

  30. #30 Necesse
    76% matchVery Positive93% of 26,780 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 40.5%, Crafting 9.9%, Survival 8.9%, Base Building 8.8%, Sandbox 7.9%

  31. #31 StarRupture
    77% matchVery Positive81% of 10,861 reviews2026
    Dev: Creepy Jar
    Windows
    Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 18.9 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: Open World Survival Craft 26%, Base Building 13.1%, Crafting 10.2%, Survival 9.5%, Online Co-Op 8.7%

  32. #32 The Forest
    78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 665,921 reviews2018
    Dev: Endnight Games Ltd
    Windows
    Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 37.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%

    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 50.8%, Survival 17.9%, Crafting 11.4%, Building 7.2%, Sandbox 4.2%

    Why You'll Like It: It similarly combines cooperative survival, crafting, and hostile exploration with a memorable sense of place and constant pressure outside your base.

  33. #33 Grounded 2
    76% matchVery Positive81% of 19,870 reviews2025
    Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
    Windows
    Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 20.6 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: Open World Survival Craft 24.1%, Base Building 15.5%, Survival 15.5%, Crafting 11.1%, Online Co-Op 9.4%

  34. #34 VEIN
    73% matchVery Positive90% of 9,542 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: Base Building 22.4%, Survival 20.6%, Crafting 14.8%, Sandbox 10%, Immersive Sim 9%

  35. #35 The Riftbreaker
    75% matchVery Positive90% of 23,181 reviews2021
    Dev: EXOR Studios
    Windows
    Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 22.6 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 18.6%, Online Co-Op 16.8%, Co-op Campaign 15.6%, Crafting 10.6%, Survival 10.5%

  36. #36 ANEURISM IV
    74% matchMostly Positive78% of 5,833 reviews2025
    Dev: Vellocet
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 28.0 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 13.7%, Immersive Sim 13%, Survival 12.2%, Sandbox 12.1%

  37. #37 Species: Unknown
    73% matchVery Positive95% of 6,260 reviews2025
    Dev: WanadevStudio
    Windows
    Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 7.3 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 25.4%, Aliens 19.7%, FPS 11.3%, Sci-fi 9.8%, PvE 9.4%

  38. #38 Saleblazers
    75% matchVery Positive88% of 1,877 reviews2023
    Dev: AIRSTRAFE INTERACTIVE
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 10.5 hrsMean: 19.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%

    Fight. Sell. Survive. Live off the land, build your perfect shop, and defend against nightly horrors in this open world survival shop simulator for 1-8 players.

    Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.9%, Co-op Campaign 19.9%, Base Building 11.6%, Online Co-Op 10.5%, Crafting 10%

  39. #39 Nuclear Nightmare
    74% matchVery Positive81% of 17,749 reviews2024
    Dev: BG Productions
    Windows
    Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 5.1 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 38%, Aliens 15.5%, Sci-fi 10.5%, Multiplayer 9%, First-Person 8.7%

  40. #40 Barotrauma
    71% matchVery Positive94% of 84,235 reviews2023
    Dev: FakeFishPub: Daedalic Entertainment
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 54.3 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 43.6%, Multiplayer 27%, Sci-fi 20%, Simulation 9.4%

  41. #41 Survival Machine
    72% matchMostly Positive74% of 669 reviews2025
    Dev: Grape PickersPub: Games Operators
    Windows
    Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%

    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: Open World Survival Craft 28.4%, Base Building 13.2%, Online Co-Op 12.2%, Crafting 11.4%, Survival 10%

  42. #42 Keplerth
    73% matchVery Positive85% of 4,121 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: Survival 17.8%, Sandbox 15.8%, Building 14.4%, Sci-fi 10.9%, Base Building 10.3%

  43. #43 Tinkerlands
    70% matchVery Positive86% of 3,746 reviews2025
    Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
    Windows
    Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 13.7 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 34.3%, Online Co-Op 14.4%, Survival 11.3%, Crafting 10.9%, Sandbox 9.7%

  44. #44 Eden Crafters
    70% matchVery Positive86% of 2,214 reviews2024
    Dev: Osaris Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.5 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: Open World Survival Craft 30.3%, Base Building 14.3%, Crafting 12.1%, Online Co-Op 10.6%, Survival 8.5%

  45. #45 Urge
    72% matchVery Positive90% of 476 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 33.2%, Base Building 15.3%, Crafting 11.7%, Survival 10.4%, Sandbox 9.1%

  46. #46 Drift: Space Survival
    71% matchMixed70% of 76 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 31.4%, Online Co-Op 12.6%, Survival 10.3%, Crafting 10.1%, Base Building 8.8%

  47. #47 Planetaries
    70% matchMixed59% of 222 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 25.7%, Base Building 11.1%, Online Co-Op 11.1%, Crafting 10.1%, Survival 9%

  48. #48 Green Hell
    69% matchVery Positive85% of 94,379 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 36.5%, Survival 13.2%, Online Co-Op 11.6%, Crafting 9.2%, Base Building 8.5%

  49. #49 Dune: Awakening
    67% matchMostly Positive70% of 74,372 reviews2025
    Dev: Funcom
    Windows
    Median: 47.7 hrsMean: 95.2 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: Open World Survival Craft 24.1%, Base Building 11.6%, Online Co-Op 10.1%, Crafting 9.6%, Survival 8.6%

  50. #50 Life Not Supported
    69% matchMixed68% of 170 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 29.1%, Base Building 13.5%, Crafting 12.2%, Survival 10.2%, Building 7.8%

  51. #51 Void Crew
    66% matchVery Positive87% of 8,134 reviews2024
    Dev: Hutlihut GamesPub: Focus Entertainment
    Windows
    Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 16.4 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 28.9%, Multiplayer 21.9%, PvE 14.2%, Sci-fi 11.8%, First-Person 8.9%

  52. #52 Techtonica
    67% matchMixed65% of 3,183 reviews2024
    Dev: Fire Hose Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 17.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%

    Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.

    Why similar: Base Building 19.5%, Crafting 13.6%, Building 12.5%, Online Co-Op 10.8%, Sandbox 10%

  53. #53 Solace Crafting
    69% 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 26.9%, Base Building 11.6%, Crafting 11.3%, Online Co-Op 10.2%, Survival 10.2%

  54. #54 Len's Island
    66% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,615 reviews2025
    Dev: Flow Studio
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%

    An open-world survival crafting game for 1–8 players, blending intense dungeon crawling and ARPG combat with peaceful farming and creative building. Take on quests and explore a vast, procedurally-generated world full of danger and discovery.

    Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34%, Crafting 12.2%, Base Building 11.9%, Survival 11.6%, Building 10%

  55. #55 Outpost Zero
    71% matchMixed49% of 846 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 36.1%, Survival 15%, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 8.9%, Multiplayer 7.5%

  56. #56 Rem Survival
    68% matchMostly Positive76% of 802 reviews2021
    Dev: Immortal Hand Studios
    Windows · Linux
    Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 47.3 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 33.5%, Base Building 14.7%, Crafting 13.5%, Survival 11.7%, Building 8.8%

  57. #57 Lost Rift
    65% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,413 reviews2025
    Dev: People Can Fly
    Windows
    Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 8.3 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 27.3%, Base Building 13.1%, Crafting 11.5%, Online Co-Op 10.9%, Survival 9.8%

  58. #58 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
    64% matchVery Positive91% of 7,161 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 29.2%, Base Building 13%, Online Co-Op 10.5%, Crafting 9.9%, Survival 6.8%

  59. #59 Cubic Odyssey
    64% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,483 reviews2025
    Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
    Windows
    Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%

    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 33.2%, Base Building 15.7%, Sandbox 9.7%, Building 9.4%, Sci-fi 7.8%

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