- #1 Grounded
97% matchVery Positive90% of 93,832 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.3 hrsMean: 41.5 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 32.4% ★, Survival 16.5%, Base Building 15.1%, Crafting 10.9%, Multiplayer 8%
Why You'll Like It: Like Abiotic Factor, it turns scientific weirdness into a co-op survival sandbox where scavenging, crafting, and fortifying a base drive every expedition.
- #2 The Planet Crafter
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 70,189 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.5 hrsMean: 37.9 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 25.7% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Online Co-Op 10.3%, Crafting 9.2%, Survival 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: It leans more relaxed, but its science-fiction resource loop, base expansion, and environmental progression scratch the same exploratory crafting itch.
- #3 Forever Skies
96% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,446 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.6 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 25.8% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Science 12.8%, Crafting 11.2%, Survival 10%
Why You'll Like It: Another first-person sci-fi survival game built around research, scavenging, and upgrading a mobile home base while exploring a hostile world with friends.
- #4 Voidtrain
95% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,447 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 14.0 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 34.8% ★, Base Building 11%, Online Co-Op 9.7%, Survival 9.3%, Crafting 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: Its co-op crafting and bizarre interdimensional setting echo Abiotic Factor's "science gone very wrong" energy.
- #5 Once Human
94% matchMostly Positive78% of 173,391 reviews2024
Dev: Starry Studio
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 50.9 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 38.6% ★, Base Building 18.3%, Online Co-Op 15.8%, Survival 14.5%, Multiplayer 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: Its anomaly-ridden world, persistent base-building, and co-op survival loop capture a similar mix of sci-fi mystery and crafting progression.
- #6 Volcanoids
94% matchVery Positive83% of 9,267 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: Base Building 15.5%, Crafting 13.8%, Online Co-Op 11.7%, Survival 11%, Sandbox 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: Surviving in a dangerous industrial world while upgrading a moving drill-base feels a lot like Abiotic Factor's base-first approach to hostile exploration.
- #7 Enshrouded
93% matchVery Positive86% of 101,648 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.7 hrsMean: 45.6 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 16.4%, Online Co-Op 16.4%, Crafting 14.3%, Multiplayer 8%
Why You'll Like It: It mixes cooperative exploration, dangerous zones, and substantial base-building in a way that will appeal if you liked Abiotic Factor's longer-term progression.
- #8 Core Keeper
91% matchVery Positive93% of 64,481 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.0 hrsMean: 34.1 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 24.9% ★, Base Building 13%, Crafting 11.6%, Online Co-Op 11.2%, Survival 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: Despite the pixel art, its underground exploration, co-op progression, crafting benches, and home-base loop line up surprisingly well with Abiotic Factor.
- #9 ICARUS
92% matchMostly Positive74% of 63,962 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 46.0 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% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Survival 10.7%, Online Co-Op 10.1%, Crafting 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: Mission-based co-op survival, heavy crafting, and shared base setup make it a strong fit for players who like planned expeditions and resource pressure.
- #10 Raft
91% matchVery Positive93% of 372,032 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.6 hrsMean: 37.3 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 36.2% ★, Survival 15.8%, Crafting 10.2%, Base Building 9%, Multiplayer 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: Its group survival rhythm of scavenging, crafting stations, and steadily turning a fragile shelter into a real base matches Abiotic Factor's progression well.
- #11 The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™
90% matchVery Positive82% of 11,900 reviews2024
Dev: Free Range GamesPub: North Beach Games
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 19.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 28.5% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Online Co-Op 11.6%, Crafting 11.1%, Survival 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: A co-op underground survival-crafting campaign with strong base-building and expedition structure, just swapped from labs to dwarven ruins.
- #12 Barotrauma
89% matchVery Positive94% of 86,224 reviews2023
Dev: FakeFishPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 54.8 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%, Multiplayer 26.9%, Sci-fi 19.8%, Simulation 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: For the claustrophobic co-op chaos side of Abiotic Factor, few games match its constant repairs, scavenging, and disaster management.
- #13 ASTRONEER
89% matchVery Positive92% of 137,959 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.2 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 34.4% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Survival 12.2%, Crafting 8.5%, Sandbox 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a friendlier but very similar satisfaction loop of gathering resources, building tech, and expanding a shared sci-fi foothold.
- #14 Techtonica
88% matchMixed65% of 3,202 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 17.2 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 17.5%, Online Co-Op 14.7%, Crafting 12.1%, Building 11.2%, Immersive Sim 10%
Why You'll Like It: Its first-person underground sci-fi setting and research-driven base progression feel very close to Abiotic Factor's scientist fantasy, just with more automation and less survival danger.
- #15 Valheim
86% matchVery Positive94% of 534,015 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 25.8 hrsMean: 76.9 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 31.6% ★, Online Co-Op 12.6%, Survival 10.8%, Base Building 10.3%, Crafting 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: The setting is different, but the co-op structure of risky outings feeding a steadily better base is pure survival-crafting comfort.
- #16 Breathedge
87% matchVery Positive82% of 16,224 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 36.3% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Survival 11.2%, Crafting 9.4%, Sandbox 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: Its irreverent sci-fi survival tone, scavenging, and makeshift crafting will click if Abiotic Factor's humor and setting were a big part of the draw.
- #17 Sons Of The Forest
84% matchVery Positive88% of 304,972 reviews2024
Dev: Endnight Games LtdPub: Newnight
Windows
Median: 15.1 hrsMean: 32.5 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 22.3%, Base Building 20.4%, Crafting 14.5%, Multiplayer 10.8%, Building 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the first-person co-op survival feel, improvised crafting, and unsettling mystery that make exploring dangerous spaces so compelling.
- #18 Stationeers
86% matchVery Positive88% of 9,014 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 83.9 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 12.6%, Building 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: A much harder sci-fi survival sim, but the appeal of building systems, managing a hostile environment, and thinking like an engineer is extremely compatible.
- #19 Satisfactory
83% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 270,461 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 32.6 hrsMean: 110.0 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 17.4% ★, Crafting 15.2%, Building 9.8%, Sandbox 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: While it's more factory builder than survival game, its first-person sci-fi setting and satisfaction of turning scavenged resources into an elaborate base can still resonate.
- #20 No Man's Sky
85% matchVery Positive85% of 406,987 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 43.4% ★, Survival 10.8%, Sci-fi 8.4%, Crafting 7.7%, Sandbox 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: If the alien exploration and multiplayer base-building mattered more than the facility setting, this is one of the best broad sci-fi alternatives.
- #21 Nightingale
84% matchMixed67% of 17,932 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 29.8% ★, Online Co-Op 12.1%, Base Building 11.4%, Survival 10.6%, Crafting 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: Its realm-hopping co-op survival and crafting progression mirror the expedition-driven side of Abiotic Factor, even though the setting is fantasy-gaslamp.
- #22 The Forest
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 670,097 reviews2018
Dev: Endnight Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 37.2 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 51.2% ★, Survival 17.9%, Crafting 11.3%, Building 7%, Sandbox 4.1%
Why You'll Like It: Its emphasis on scavenging, shelter building, and venturing into terrifying hostile spaces makes it a natural survival-focused follow-up.
- #23 Sunkenland
81% matchVery Positive81% of 23,216 reviews2023
Dev: Vector3 Studio
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 18.5 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 38.4% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Survival 12.7%, Crafting 10.3%, Multiplayer 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: A solid co-op base-building survival game for players who mostly want more gathering, crafting, and defending a home against external threats.
- #24 DESOLATE
82% matchMixed67% of 8,039 reviews2019
Dev: NeargaPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
DESOLATE is a first person horror survival experience. Form a research team with up to 4 players and explore an open world filled with mysteries and unsolved questions, or do it all on your own.
Why similar: Survival 64.5%, First-Person 16.3%, Crafting 8.6%, Adventure 6.3%, Sandbox 4.2%
Why You'll Like It: This co-op survival-horror game blends scavenging, crafting, and anomaly-filled exploration in a way that overlaps nicely with Abiotic Factor's weirder side.
- #25 Subnautica
80% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 365,018 reviews2018
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 39.3 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 36.4% ★, Survival 13.1%, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 10.6%, Aliens 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: Single-player only, but its lonely sci-fi exploration, scanning, and base-building make it a natural pick if the research-and-discovery side mattered most.
- #26 Generation Zero®
81% matchMostly Positive72% of 41,788 reviews2019
Dev: Systemic Reaction™Pub: Avalanche Studios
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 19.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Generation Zero is a stealth-action shooter where you wage guerilla warfare against lethal mechanical enemies. Explore a vast open world map inspired by the Swedish Cold War era, take part in the resistance alone or with up to three friends in seamless co-op.
Why similar: Base Building 18.6%, Crafting 14.9%, Survival 14.3%, FPS 11.1%, Sandbox 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: Co-op scavenging against hostile machines in a reactive world gives a similar "small team versus overwhelming science-fiction threats" vibe.
- #27 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
79% matchVery Positive82% of 9,989 reviews2024
Dev: Merge GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 27.7% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Online Co-Op 11%, Survival 10.6%, Crafting 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: It delivers cooperative survival, vertical exploration, and base progression in a shrunken-world setting that fans of Grounded and Abiotic Factor often enjoy.
- #28 MISERY
77% matchVery Positive83% of 23,009 reviews2025
Dev: Platypus EntertainmentPub: Ytopia
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 24.5% ★, Online Co-Op 13.1%, Base Building 11.7%, Survival 11.3%, Crafting 10.3%
- #29 Necesse
76% matchVery Positive93% of 27,199 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 14.8 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 40.8% ★, Crafting 9.8%, Survival 8.9%, Base Building 8.8%, Sandbox 7.9%
- #30 Scrap Mechanic
79% matchVery Positive92% of 117,481 reviews2016
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.2 hrsMean: 58.2 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 15.7%, Survival 15.4%, Base Building 13.9%, Sandbox 13.1%
Why You'll Like It: Its engineering-heavy co-op survival mode scratches the same build-salvage-improvise loop, with a lighter and more playful tone.
- #31 StarRupture
77% matchVery Positive81% of 12,313 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 22.6 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 26.4% ★, Base Building 13%, Crafting 10.2%, Survival 9.6%, Online Co-Op 8.6%
- #32 Space Engineers
78% matchVery Positive89% of 133,721 reviews2019
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 96.0 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 16.8%, Building 14.3%, Sandbox 13.9%, PvE 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: For players who want more freedom to build, engineer, and survive in a co-op sci-fi sandbox, it hits many of the same systems-heavy notes.
- #33 GTFO
78% matchVery Positive84% of 65,714 reviews2021
Dev: 10 Chambers
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 27.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
GTFO is a hardcore cooperative horror shooter that throws you from gripping suspense to explosive action in a heartbeat. Stealth, strategy, and teamwork are necessary to survive in your deadly, underground prison. Work together or die together.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 41.7%, FPS 24.3%, Multiplayer 16.9%, PvE 9.7%, First-Person 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: It drops the crafting, but its tense co-op expeditions through lethal underground research facilities are a great fit if Abiotic Factor's lab-side danger hooked you.
- #34 Species: Unknown
75% matchVery Positive95% of 7,827 reviews2025
Dev: WanadevStudio
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 25.6%, Aliens 20%, FPS 11.1%, Sci-fi 10%, PvE 8.9%
- #35 Subnautica 2
74% matchVery Positive91% of 98,787 reviews2026
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows
Median: 8.8 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 30.3%, Multiplayer 18%, Exploration 13%, Sandbox 9.7%, Sci-fi 9.4%
- #36 Grounded 2
76% matchVery Positive81% of 21,263 reviews2025
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.0 hrsMean: 22.1 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 25.3% ★, Base Building 15.7%, Survival 15.5%, Crafting 11.1%, Online Co-Op 9.1%
- #37 The Riftbreaker
75% matchVery Positive90% of 23,789 reviews2021
Dev: EXOR Studios
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 22.9 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 18.8%, Online Co-Op 16.6%, Co-op Campaign 15.5% ★, Survival 10.7%, Crafting 10.6%
- #38 Nuclear Nightmare
74% matchVery Positive81% of 18,198 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 37.9%, Aliens 15.4%, Sci-fi 10.4%, Multiplayer 9.3%, First-Person 8.8%
- #39 ANEURISM IV
73% matchMostly Positive77% of 5,988 reviews2025
Dev: Vellocet
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 29.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 18.2%, Online Co-Op 13.6%, Immersive Sim 13%, Survival 12.4%, Sandbox 12.1%
- #40 Lightyear Frontier
73% matchVery Positive84% of 4,457 reviews2024
Dev: FRAME BREAK
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 29.6% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Online Co-Op 12.8%, Crafting 12.6%, Survival 8.7%
- #41 VEIN
71% matchVery Positive89% of 10,247 reviews2025
Dev: Ramjet Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 14.3 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 22.6%, Survival 20.9%, Crafting 14.7%, Sandbox 9.9%, Multiplayer 8.8%
- #42 Dune: Awakening
71% matchMostly Positive70% of 76,118 reviews2025
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 47.7 hrsMean: 97.4 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 24.4% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Online Co-Op 10%, Crafting 9.6%, Survival 8.7%
- #43 Tinkerlands
70% matchVery Positive86% of 3,833 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 13.9 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 34.9% ★, Online Co-Op 14.2%, Survival 11.4%, Crafting 10.8%, Sandbox 9.6%
- #44 Starbound
72% matchVery Positive90% of 122,999 reviews2016
Dev: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.1 hrsMean: 64.2 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 41.4% ★, Sandbox 10.9%, Online Co-Op 10%, Crafting 9.9%, Survival 9.3%
- #45 Everwind
70% matchVery Positive82% of 3,221 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 18.9%, Crafting 17.6%, Survival 15.4%, Building 12.8%, Sandbox 12.2%
- #46 Life Not Supported
73% matchMixed67% of 172 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 29.4% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 12.2%, Survival 10.3%, Building 7.7%
- #47 Urge
72% matchVery Positive90% of 498 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 33.5% ★, Base Building 15.2%, Crafting 11.7%, Survival 10.5%, Building 9%
- #48 Keplerth
71% matchVery Positive85% of 4,138 reviews2022
Dev: TAROPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 16.1 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 18.1%, Sandbox 15.7%, Building 14.3%, Sci-fi 10.9%, Base Building 10.3%
- #49 Eden Crafters
67% matchVery Positive86% of 2,425 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.3 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 29.8% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Crafting 11.6%, Online Co-Op 10.1%, Survival 8.3%
- #50 Drift: Space Survival
70% 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 31.8% ★, Online Co-Op 12.4%, Survival 10.4%, Crafting 10.1%, Base Building 8.8%
- #51 Green Hell
68% matchVery Positive85% of 97,093 reviews2019
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 18.6 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 36.8% ★, Survival 13.3%, Online Co-Op 11.4%, Crafting 9.1%, Base Building 8.4%
- #52 Void Crew
66% matchVery Positive87% of 8,248 reviews2024
Dev: Hutlihut GamesPub: Focus Entertainment
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 16.5 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 28.8%, Multiplayer 22%, PvE 14.1%, Sci-fi 11.8%, First-Person 9%
- #53 Planetaries
69% matchMixed58% of 223 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 26.1% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Online Co-Op 11%, Crafting 10.1%, Survival 9.1%
- #54 Away From Life
67% matchMixed69% of 157 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 13.7%, Survival 11.6%, Building 10.1%, Sandbox 9.9%
- #55 Subsistence
69% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,685 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 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 40.3% ★, Survival 13.7%, Crafting 12.3%, Base Building 9.3%, Multiplayer 6.3%
- #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 33.8% ★, Base Building 14.6%, Crafting 13.4%, Survival 11.8%, Building 8.7%
- #57 Lost Rift
65% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,554 reviews2025
Dev: People Can Fly
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 27.6% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Crafting 11.5%, Online Co-Op 10.8%, Survival 9.9%
- #58 Outpost Zero
69% matchMixed49% of 850 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 36.5% ★, Survival 15.1%, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 8.8%, Multiplayer 7.5%
- #59 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
64% matchVery Positive91% of 7,431 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Survive, craft, and automate in this free prologue set on one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters, an open-world game where you play solo or with friends to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.6% ★, Base Building 13%, Online Co-Op 10.3%, Crafting 9.9%, Survival 6.9%
- #60 Cubic Odyssey
64% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,584 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 36.5% ★, Base Building 17.1%, Building 9.9%, Sandbox 9.9%, Sci-fi 8.3%