- #1 Wild Indigo Ranch
97% matchMostly Positive71% of 460 reviews2024
Dev: Funday Games
Windows
Wild Indigo Ranch is a cozy cowboy-life RPG for 1-4 players. Start a new life on the prairie, explore the frontier, build the finest ranch in the West, and ride into the sunset.
Why similar: Western 26.8% ★, Cozy 14%, Crafting 10.3%, Building 10.3%, Open World 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the specific Wild West aesthetic and focus on homestead building and life-simulation elements.
- #2 Len's Island
96% 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 29.9% ★, Building 11.3%, Crafting 10.4%, Open World 10.3%, Sandbox 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: It combines relaxing farming and base-building with exploration and light survival mechanics in an open-world setting.
- #3 My Time at Sandrock
96% matchVery Positive88% of 28,280 reviews2023
Dev: Pathea Games
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 39.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Travel to the desert community of Sandrock and take on the role of a fledgling Builder. Use your trusty toolset to gather resources, construct machines, and turn your run-down workshop into a well-oiled production facility to save the town from the jaws of economic ruin!
Why similar: Building 22.2%, Crafting 20.3%, Sandbox 18.7%, Open World 17.3%, RPG 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers a similar desert-themed setting with a heavy emphasis on crafting, building, and community interaction.
- #4 I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival
94% matchVery Positive85% of 4,518 reviews2024
Dev: MandragoraPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 8.8 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
I Am Future is a relaxing single-player survival game about building a cozy rooftop camp amid a flooded post-apocalyptic city. Set up a farm, go fishing, tinker with gadgets, craft new tools, manage a team of cute robots to automate and expand your base, explore the mysterious world, and chill out!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 17.5% ★, Cozy 13.7%, Crafting 9.6%, Open World 8.8%, Building 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a relaxing, low-stress take on the survival-crafting genre with a focus on base customization and resource management.
- #5 Among Trees
95% matchMixed68% of 2,216 reviews2021
Dev: FJRD Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Escape to an enchanting, living sandbox surrounded by wildlife and nature. Scavenge materials and craft tools to turn your small cabin into a warm, well-supplied home. Survive by fishing, cooking and growing your own food. Be careful though, the forest is as dangerous as it is wonderful.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.4% ★, Open World 9.9%, Crafting 8.6%, Survival 8%, Base Building 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a highly atmospheric, solitary survival experience that prioritizes exploration and base-building in a beautiful wilderness.
- #6 Wildmender
94% matchVery Positive85% of 2,104 reviews2023
Dev: Muse GamesPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A desert gardening survival game. Start from a tiny spring and cultivate a blooming garden. Explore a vast world amid the sands and uncover its mysteries. Can you defend against the relentless forces of nature and mysterious wraith corruption, to bring life to a dying world?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.1% ★, Base Building 14.6%, Crafting 13%, Survival 9.6%, RPG 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: This title captures the cozy, nature-focused side of survival where you transform a harsh desert into a thriving garden.
- #7 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
93% 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 28.7% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Crafting 10.5%, Open World 10.3%, Building 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: It features deep base-building and exploration mechanics that reward players for interacting with the environment.
- #8 Stranded Sails - Explorers of the Cursed Islands
92% matchMostly Positive74% of 975 reviews2019
Dev: Alchemist InteractivePub: rokaplay
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Farm, cook, craft and decorate in this casual open world farming adventure! Set up camp with your crew after being shipwrecked on a mysterious archipelago. Your quest is to survive, explore and uncover the secrets of the Cursed Islands. Take care of your crew to build relationships and earn rewards!
Why similar: Cozy 27%, Open World 16.6%, Crafting 16.1%, Relaxing 9.6%, Exploration 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: This game blends exploration and farming with a cozy, wholesome aesthetic that mirrors the relaxing pace of Above Snakes.
- #9 Starsand
91% matchMixed66% of 1,227 reviews2022
Dev: Tunnel Vision StudioPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Starsand is a mystic survival game set among the dunes of an arcane desert. An open-world full of danger, vast environments and mysterious happenings await you! Explore, hunt, craft, build – and SURVIVE.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.7% ★, Open World 11.6%, Base Building 11.6%, Crafting 10.9%, Survival 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: This survival game is set in a vast desert landscape, focusing on exploration and building shelters to withstand the elements.
- #10 Medieval Dynasty
90% matchVery Positive91% of 49,970 reviews2021
Dev: Render CubePub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 35.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.
Why similar: Crafting 19.1%, Building 18.6%, Base Building 12.9%, Open World 12.8%, Sandbox 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: While set in a different era, it provides a similar depth of base-building, survival, and life-simulation in an open world.
- #11 Raft
89% 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 39.4% ★, Survival 14.3%, Crafting 10.9%, Open World 9.4%, Base Building 9%
Why You'll Like It: It is a quintessential survival-crafting game that emphasizes building and expanding your base while exploring a vast, open world.
- #12 DYSMANTLE
89% matchVery Positive91% of 11,317 reviews2021
Dev: 10tons Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 25.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Ascend from your shelter. Ruin everything. Escape the wretched island. ⚔️🔨🎣🌱🌵🍰 Explore. Fight. Level up. Survive. Gather. Craft. Harvest. Hunt. Build. Farm. Solve puzzles. Fish. Cook. Live. Enjoy the bittersweet post-apocalypse.
Why similar: Open World 18.9%, Crafting 17.3%, Base Building 16.2%, Survival 14.7%, Sandbox 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a satisfying survival experience where almost everything in the environment can be broken down for crafting resources.
- #13 Desert Skies
91% matchMixed57% of 461 reviews2019
Dev: White_Rabbit_Games
Windows
Desert Skies takes survival to the air! Build an airship and fly on an adventure through the deserts of the Wild West. Look for places to land and scavenge for loot, expand your airship and craft new equipment, but beware the dangers lurking beneath the sands!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.9% ★, Western 20.3% ★, Crafting 10.1%, Survival 7.5%, Building 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique take on survival by allowing players to build a mobile base in a desert environment, echoing the Western survival theme.
- #14 The Planet Crafter
87% 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 30.4% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Building 10.8%, Crafting 10.8%, Open World 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the satisfying loop of terraforming and building, providing a relaxing yet rewarding progression system.
- #15 No Place Like Home
88% matchMostly Positive79% of 4,046 reviews2022
Dev: Chicken LauncherPub: Awaken Realms
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Humanity Trashed the Earth and left for Mars. Only few remained. EXPLORE the world. Clean the environment, CRAFT with recycled resources. Domesticate animals. Rebuild your village. Restore environment and run your own post-apo FARM as there is No Place Like Home!
Why similar: Base Building 19%, Crafting 18.3%, Building 14.1%, Open World 10.6%, Female Protagonist 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique, eco-friendly survival experience where cleaning up the world is a core part of the building and exploration loop.
- #16 Outpath
86% matchVery Positive94% of 2,905 reviews2023
Dev: David Moralejo SánchezPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 13.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 12.5%, Sandbox 10.5%, Building 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: This game simplifies the survival-crafting genre into a relaxing, clicker-style base-building experience.
- #17 Roots of Pacha
86% matchVery Positive94% of 4,347 reviews2023
Dev: Soda Den
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 21.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
The charming and relaxing stone-age farming sim where you live in a thriving community exploring the wonderful world of Pacha. Discover "ideas," domesticate crops, befriend animals, and help your village grow. Play co-op with friends or explore the early days of civilization in single-player.
Why similar: Cozy 21.8%, Crafting 18.1%, Building 15.6%, Sandbox 14.3%, Relaxing 11%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a cozy, community-driven approach to survival and building that emphasizes exploration and discovery.
- #18 Necesse
84% 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 38.5% ★, Open World 10.2%, Sandbox 9.4%, Crafting 9.1%, Building 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: This sandbox survival game offers deep crafting and base-building mechanics that allow for significant player creativity.
- #19 Sun Haven
84% matchVery Positive81% of 24,588 reviews2023
Dev: Pixel Sprout Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.8 hrsMean: 31.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Build your farm and relationships with townsfolk, or forge ahead on a quest of magic, monsters, and dragons. Level up through a skill tree in 8 person multiplayer, or adventure solo!
Why similar: Crafting 31%, Relaxing 20.1%, RPG 16.5%, Exploration 11.5%, Simulation 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game provides a relaxing, fantasy-themed take on farming and exploration with a strong emphasis on base development.
- #20 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 34.4% ★, Open World 12%, Building 10.5%, Base Building 10.3%, Crafting 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: It is a premier survival-crafting experience that excels in building mechanics and atmospheric exploration.
- #21 Outlaws of the Old West
85% matchMixed59% of 6,287 reviews2019
Dev: Virtual Basement LLCPub: Wandering Wizard
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 22.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Outlaws of the Old West is a massively multiplayer survival MMO with a huge world, thousands of items and a modular building system. Survive the wild, build your own homestead, defeat villainous bandits and work with others to tame the Wild West.
Why similar: Western 32.9% ★, Open World Survival Craft 32.6% ★, Open World 11.7%, Survival 9.3%, Base Building 5.2%
Why You'll Like It: It is a direct thematic match, focusing on survival and building within a harsh, open-world Wild West setting.
- #22 Grounded
82% 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 35.5% ★, Base Building 15.2%, Survival 15.1%, Crafting 11.8%, Open World 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: It features a highly polished survival loop with creative base-building and exploration in a unique, immersive environment.
- #23 Grow: Song of the Evertree
82% matchVery Positive81% of 2,538 reviews2021
Dev: Prideful SlothPub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Grow your own worlds and nurture a deep natural connection with everything they hold. See your actions change the world for better! Bring the Evertree back to life in this breathtaking world-crafting sandbox, with life management and adventure elements.
Why similar: Open World 25.3%, Sandbox 23.5%, Exploration 11.6%, Atmospheric 9.8%, Colorful 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the creative and relaxing aspects of world-building and nature management.
- #24 Forager
81% matchVery Positive90% of 43,003 reviews2019
Dev: HopFrogPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 22.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.2% ★, Crafting 13.8%, Survival 10.6%, Base Building 8.1%, Sandbox 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: It is a fast-paced, addictive survival-crafting game that focuses on gathering, building, and expanding your territory.
- #25 Kynseed
80% matchVery Positive83% of 3,619 reviews2022
Dev: PixelCount Studios
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Embark on a lifetime of adventure in a beautiful world of creativity and intrigue. Raise a family, customise your farm, run a business, craft items, and battle some marvellously malevolent monsters.
Why similar: Crafting 21.6%, Sandbox 20.2%, Open World 19.4%, Relaxing 11.5%, Exploration 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: This game provides a deep, sandbox-style life simulation with crafting and exploration that feels rewarding and cozy.
- #26 Spirit of the Island
81% matchMixed66% of 1,862 reviews2022
Dev: 1M Bits HordePub: META Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A beautiful Life Sim Sandbox RPG with Cross-Platform Online COOP set on a tropical Archipelago. Build your farm, grow crops and animals, craft various items, cook dishes, gather resources, build shops and museum to attract visitors, and turn a desolate Island into a prosperous tourist destination!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39% ★, Open World 15.6%, Sandbox 14.9%, Relaxing 9.5%, Exploration 7%
Why You'll Like It: It combines tropical exploration with farming and survival, maintaining a cozy and relaxing atmosphere throughout.
- #27 Pathless Woods
79% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,093 reviews2024
Dev: AniYa Games Studio
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Embark on a cozy open-world survival journey inspired by ancient China's heritage. Gather resources, cultivate crops, build your dream home, and defend it from marauders. Team up with friends to explore and uncover a world where adventure meets serenity.
Why similar: Open World 15.1%, Crafting 14.9%, Base Building 13.8%, Sandbox 13.3%, Building 12.6%
Why You'll Like It: It features sandbox survival and building mechanics in a beautiful, open-world environment inspired by ancient China.
- #28 Ikonei Island: An Earthlock Adventure
79% matchMostly Positive76% of 456 reviews2023
Dev: Snowcastle Games
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Ikonei Island is yours to discover! Explore and gather resources. Farm the land, craft tools and gear, and build your base or a cozy home. Befriend magical creatures and fight monsters with your friends or solo!
Why similar: Cozy 21.8%, Building 15.9%, Crafting 13.8%, Relaxing 12.6%, Exploration 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on exploration and relaxing simulation, allowing players to build and customize their own island home.
- #29 AETHUS
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,163 reviews2026
Dev: Pawsmonaut Games
Windows
Explore a vast underground world to mine and craft hundreds of items while building up your modular Outpost on the surface, to prospect for gems, refine resources and farm hydroponic crops in this top-down sci-fi survival-crafter where the story always provides a reason to dig deeper.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.4% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Crafting 11.4%, Open World 10.8%, Building 10.4%
- #30 Above Snakes: Prologue
77% matchVery Positive90% of 1,860 reviews2023
Dev: Square Glade GamesPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 53%
In the prologue of Above Snakes, you awake in a destroyed settlement and help the survivors rebuild it. After that, expand the world with world pieces, craft, farm, hunt, build a base, and fight to find out more about what happened.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 18.9% ★, Western 13.2% ★, Isometric 8.1%, Crafting 7.3%, Cozy 7.3%
- #31 Aground
78% matchVery Positive94% of 1,965 reviews2020
Dev: Fancy Fish Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
As one of the last human survivors, you find yourself stranded on an uninhabited island. With a few other victims of the crash, can you craft, mine, and build your way to survival?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.1% ★, Base Building 14.3%, Open World 13.4%, Building 12.6%, Sandbox 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a compelling progression system that starts with basic survival and expands into complex crafting and building.
- #32 Aloft
75% matchVery Positive84% of 3,496 reviews2025
Dev: Astrolabe Interactive Inc.Pub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Soar the skies in Aloft, the co-op sandbox survival game set in a world of floating islands. Build any island into a skyship, your home in the clouds. Find lost knowledge, cure the fungal corruption, and brave the hurricane to restore the ecosystem.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.3% ★, Crafting 13.3%, Building 12.5%, Survival 9.8%, Open World 9.6%
- #33 The Survivalists
78% matchMostly Positive76% of 9,935 reviews2020
Dev: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 71%
A living world full of surprises, secrets and danger awaits in The Survivalists, an adventure-filled survival sandbox set in The Escapists universe. Explore, build, craft and even train monkeys with up to three friends in a desperate bid to survive. Have you got what it takes to be a Survivalist?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.3% ★, Crafting 15.7%, Base Building 12.5%, Survival 11.2%, Open World 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: This game features a sandbox survival loop with crafting and building mechanics that are easy to pick up and play.
- #34 ArkCraft: The Rebirth of the World
76% matchMostly Positive75% of 171 reviews2024
Dev: ZD Yazilim
Windows
In this open-world crafting and building game, you explore an ancient world full of dangers and secrets. Collect animals and plants, build bases and master the craft as you build your ark and save civilization from destruction by the flood and then rebuild it.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.6% ★, Base Building 14%, Crafting 13.3%, Open World 13.2%, Survival 7.7%
- #35 Miniland Adventure
77% matchMostly Positive74% of 328 reviews2023
Dev: Imilkowski DevPub: Gameparic
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 54%
The world doesn't generate itself - you do it, shape the world as you wish! Start with nothing, and build dream houses for goblins and yourself while exploring, collecting resources, crafting, building, fighting, farming... and more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.3% ★, Sandbox 13.4%, Crafting 11%, Base Building 10.8%, Building 10.6%
- #36 Wild West Legacy
75% matchMostly Negative37% of 2,108 reviews2024
Dev: Moon Punch StudioPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Conquer the Wild West. Explore the open world of a fictitious American Midwest and survive the harsh environment. Convince other settlers to join you and manage your ever-growing settlements. Build a home, take care of your farm and become a legend in Wild West Legacy.
Why similar: Western 31.2% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 12%, Open World 11.8%, Building 11.3%
- #37 Lodventure
74% matchMostly Positive74% of 161 reviews2023
Dev: Sky Games
Windows
Embark on a 1-4 players Co-op survival adventure in an open world wilderness in search of a myth called the Lod Stone. Build your house, sow your crops, brew potions, tame a horse and discover powerful abilities. Venture into dangerous dungeons, fight unique bosses to find the Lod stone.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.7% ★, Open World 11.1%, Base Building 9.2%, Crafting 9.1%, Survival 8.3%
- #38 Tales of Morrow
74% matchMixed47% of 94 reviews2024
Dev: GameMechanic
Windows
Create your tale! Build your home, fight, farm, and explore an old civilization while developing your skills and abilities in this relaxing and adventurous experience. You decide your fate!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.9% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Crafting 11.1%, Building 10.6%, Survival 6.7%
- #39 Black Skylands
72% matchVery Positive84% of 4,328 reviews2023
Dev: Hungry Couch GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Become the captain of an airship and explore the world of the skies, gather resources and build powerful weapons, uncover ancient secrets and fight beneath your ship's sails.
Why similar: Open World 18.3%, Base Building 17.5%, Sandbox 15.2%, Crafting 12.1%, Survival 10.8%
- #40 Solace Crafting
73% 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 28.7% ★, Crafting 11.7%, Base Building 11.2%, Open World 10.8%, Building 9.6%
- #41 KeepUp Survival
72% matchMixed65% of 734 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
KeepUp Survival is an open base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and unfold your own story on a mysterious island.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.6% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Open World 12.5%, Crafting 11.9%, Sandbox 10.2%
- #42 Retreat To Enen
73% matchMixed61% of 401 reviews2022
Dev: Head WestPub: indie.io
Windows
Base building simulator 1500 years in the future. Journey to the Island of Enen to forage, craft, build, hunt, meditate, and explore across three vast biomes. Discover secrets and create the retreat of your dreams. With over 160 unique items to gather, craft, and build, every home will be unique.
Why similar: Base Building 14.1%, Sandbox 13%, Open World 12.3%, Crafting 11.4%, Building 11.1%
- #43 Space Trash Scavenger
70% matchVery Positive84% of 514 reviews2024
Dev: SquarePlay GamesPub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Grab your jetpack and explore procedural asteroid fields, derelict spaceships and abandoned outposts. Build and automate your Space Rig to process scavenged trash. Craft, trade and fight your way home in this interstellar, open-world survival sandbox.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.3% ★, Crafting 11.5%, Open World 10.2%, Sandbox 9.3%, Building 9.3%
- #44 Beyond the Map
70% matchMostly Positive77% of 659 reviews2025
Dev: Glitch Goblins
Windows
Isometric survival ARPG set in a procedurally generated fantasy world. Build your base, gear up, and venture out, chasing stronger enemies and better loot.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.3% ★, Isometric 14.1%, Base Building 11.7%, Crafting 9.6%, Building 7.5%
- #45 MewnBase
70% matchVery Positive93% of 1,428 reviews2023
Dev: Cairn4
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 73%
MewnBase is a space-cat survival and base-building game. Scavenge around a barren planet for items to keep you fed. Explore and collect resources. Craft items and grow your base to help you survive.
Why similar: Base Building 18.3%, Crafting 15.9%, Sandbox 13.6%, Building 12.8%, Open World 11.6%
- #46 Scrapnaut
71% matchMostly Positive70% of 824 reviews2021
Dev: SpiffyBitPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements. Explore an open world with different biomes, take care of oxygen, manage your farms, generate electricity, build your home and much more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25% ★, Building 14.1%, Sandbox 10.4%, Survival 10.2%, Crafting 10.1%
- #47 Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles
71% matchVery Positive82% of 3,207 reviews2017
Dev: Prideful Sloth
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Unwind and enjoy the slow life in Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles, a relaxing open-world adventure game. Yonder is set in the world of Gemea. A natural island paradise with eight distinct environments ranging from tropical beaches to snow-capped summits.
Why similar: Open World 26.8%, Crafting 18%, Relaxing 10.9%, Building 10.9%, Sandbox 10.8%
- #48 My Time at Portia
69% matchVery Positive92% of 44,040 reviews2019
Dev: Pathea GamesPub: Focus Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 36.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Start a new life in the enchanting town of Portia! Restore your Pa's neglected workshop to its former glory by fulfilling commissions, growing crops, raising animals, and befriending the quirky inhabitants of this charming post-apocalyptic land!
Why similar: Open World 20.8%, Crafting 20.2%, Building 12.9%, Sandbox 10.5%, RPG 8.7%
- #49 Tribe: Primitive Builder
68% matchVery Positive81% of 760 reviews2023
Dev: Space Boat StudiosPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Chill out as you explore the beautiful, realistic island of exiles. Gather resources, craft tools, construct buildings and settlements. Manage tribe and automate your gameplay. Discover 4 lands, a storyline and save the inhabitants of the island.
Why similar: Base Building 20.2%, Crafting 18.8%, Building 18.3%, Survival 12.8%, Exploration 8.2%
- #50 Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure
66% matchVery Positive84% of 2,178 reviews2025
Dev: Massive MiniteamPub: HandyGames
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Oddsparks is a blend of automation and real-time strategy for both the die-hard fans of the automation genre and the automation-curious. Explore a strange fantasy world, uncover the mysteries of the past, automate your workshops, and go on adventures with your odd & adorable Sparks!
Why similar: Building 22.3%, Cozy 18.6%, Base Building 14.5%, Open World 13.2%, Sandbox 12%
- #51 Force of Nature
71% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,198 reviews2016
Dev: A.Y.std
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.5% ★, Crafting 13.3%, Open World 9.7%, Survival 9.7%, Sandbox 9%
- #52 Runika: A World of Little Legends
69% matchVery Positive87% of 105 reviews2022
Dev: Pascal DittrichPub: padSoft
Windows
Build a farm… to save the world. Runika blends a cozy 2D sandbox with an unfolding story about a world being pulled into the mysterious Rift. Grow crops at your own pace, build your farm, gather resources, craft your own equipment, and uncover what awakens within the Rift.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.3% ★, Sandbox 12.8%, Crafting 11.5%, Building 10.3%, Open World 9.7%
- #53 My Island
67% matchMixed67% of 1,706 reviews2024
Dev: SnowBaby Games
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 48%
MyIsland is a relaxed and beautiful survival game,You will drift and survive on the tropical islands, hunt and travel, build houses and development farming, and create your own warm homeland.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.9% ★, Survival 12.1%, Open World 12%, Crafting 10.7%, Building 7.2%
- #54 XenoHaven
66% matchVery Positive86% of 64 reviews2025
Dev: Miniverse GamePub: OKJOY
Windows
In XenoHaven, gather resources to build shelters, enslave alien beasts to work for you, and run restaurants and shops. Delve into dark underground dungeons, defeat swarming insectoids and mighty bosses, and craft powerful gear to conquer the alien world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.9% ★, Open World 12.4%, Base Building 12%, Sandbox 11%, Crafting 9.6%
- #55 Towers of Aghasba
67% matchMixed69% of 2,016 reviews2024
Dev: Dreamlit inc.
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Explore a stunning open-world filled with majestic creatures and quirky characters. Nurture the barren land into vibrant ecosystems and flex your creativity as you build a thriving civilization in balance with nature.
Why similar: Cozy 18.5%, Base Building 14.7%, Open World 13.9%, Crafting 13.6%, Building 12.4%
- #56 Miniland Adventure: Prologue
67% matchVery Positive87% of 721 reviews2023
Dev: Imilkowski DevPub: Gameparic
Windows
Miniland: Prologue is just part of the gameplay that awaits you in the full game. Your task is to build your world and fight against your enemies. The world doesn't generate itself - you do it, shape the world as you wish! Start with nothing, and build dream houses for goblins and yourself!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.1% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Sandbox 10.9%, Crafting 10.8%, Building 9.8%
- #57 HammerHelm
69% matchMostly Positive80% of 384 reviews2021
Dev: SuperSixStudiosPub: SOEDESCO
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
HammerHelm is a unique blend of third-person adventuring and strategic town building. Create your dwarf character and build a flourishing town above ground. Complete quests, craft weapons and armor, defeat dangerous enemies and be the leader your townspeople need!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27% ★, Building 14.2%, Crafting 13.4%, Open World 12.4%, Base Building 10.8%
- #58 Forever Skies
64% 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 28.4% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Crafting 12.1%, Open World 12%, Building 9.8%
- #59 ASKA
65% matchMostly Positive80% of 11,320 reviews2024
Dev: Sand Sailor StudioPub: Thunderful Publishing
Windows
Median: 11.2 hrsMean: 28.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A new Viking age dawns with you at its helm. Forge a thriving colony from nothing in this mythic open-world survival sim. Earn the gods' favor and survive in a land ruled by ancient terrors and unforgiving seasons. Rally unique villagers, expand your settlement and defend your tribe - solo or co-op!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.9% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Sandbox 10.6%, Crafting 9.1%, Building 8.7%
