- #1 Above Snakes
97% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,990 reviews2023
Dev: Square Glade GamesPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Piece by piece, create your own world in this relaxing Wild West-inspired worldbuilder. Craft, farm, hunt, build your base, and explore.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 19.4% ★, Western 13.4% ★, Isometric 8.1%, Crafting 7.3%, Base Building 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: The full version of the seed game offers the complete experience of tile-based world expansion and survival.
- #2 I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival
96% matchVery Positive85% of 4,645 reviews2024
Dev: MandragoraPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 14.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 24.3% ★, Crafting 12.5%, Cozy 11.5%, Base Building 9.5%, Open World 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the cozy, atmospheric survival vibe while focusing on base-building and resource management.
- #3 DYSMANTLE
96% matchVery Positive91% of 11,572 reviews2021
Dev: 10tons Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 25.3 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: Crafting 17.6%, Zombies 15.8%, Base Building 15.2%, Open World 13%, Survival 12.4%
Why You'll Like It: An isometric survival experience that emphasizes exploration, crafting, and rebuilding in a post-apocalyptic setting.
- #4 Core Keeper
94% matchVery Positive93% of 66,104 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.2 hrsMean: 34.7 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 31.7% ★, Crafting 13.8%, Base Building 13.3%, Open World 9.8%, Survival 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: This isometric survival game features deep crafting, base building, and exploration in a procedurally generated world.
- #5 Among Trees
95% matchMixed68% of 2,233 reviews2021
Dev: FJRD Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 35.2% ★, Crafting 10.4%, Base Building 8.6%, Open World 8%, Survival 8%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers a highly atmospheric survival experience with a strong focus on building and interacting with nature.
- #6 Forager
94% matchVery Positive89% of 43,959 reviews2019
Dev: HopFrogPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 22.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.5% ★, Crafting 15.9%, Survival 10%, Base Building 8.7%, Sandbox 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: The game's core loop of expanding your world tile by tile and gathering resources is highly reminiscent of the seed game's mechanics.
- #7 Necesse
92% matchVery Positive93% of 28,807 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 15.3 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 47.7% ★, Crafting 10.5%, Base Building 8.4%, Open World 7.8%, Survival 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game that combines base building, crafting, and exploration with procedural generation.
- #8 Crashlands
93% matchVery Positive90% of 6,745 reviews2016
Dev: Butterscotch Shenanigans
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 13.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Fight and tame alien beasts, craft resources into menacing weaponry, befriend the outlandish locals, and go toe-to-chin with a world-domineering maniac.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.7% ★, Crafting 12.2%, Base Building 11%, Open World 8.3%, Survival 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: An isometric survival RPG that excels in crafting, exploration, and base-building within a vibrant, unique world.
- #9 My Time at Sandrock
91% matchVery Positive88% of 28,958 reviews2023
Dev: Pathea Games
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 39.2 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: Crafting 33.7%, Open World 19.4%, Sandbox 18.6%, RPG 12.6%, Female Protagonist 10%
Why You'll Like It: A cozy life-sim that emphasizes crafting, building, and community interaction in a desert setting.
- #10 My Time at Portia
91% matchVery Positive91% of 44,278 reviews2019
Dev: Pathea GamesPub: Focus Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 35.9 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: Crafting 29.3%, Open World 20.2%, RPG 12.8%, Sandbox 9.2%, Relaxing 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: The predecessor to Sandrock, offering a similar cozy atmosphere focused on crafting and town development.
- #11 No Place Like Home
90% matchMostly Positive78% of 4,097 reviews2022
Dev: Chicken LauncherPub: Awaken Realms
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 13.7 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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: Crafting 24%, Base Building 23.1%, Female Protagonist 12.9%, Relaxing 11.6%, RPG 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: A cozy survival-lite game where you clean up the environment and rebuild, matching the restorative theme of the seed game.
- #12 Project Zomboid
89% matchVery Positive94% of 475,049 reviews2013
Dev: The Indie Stone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 15.6 hrsMean: 87.1 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.4% ★, Zombies 17.3%, Survival 13.4%, Open World 10.1%, Crafting 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: While more hardcore, it provides the definitive isometric survival and base-building experience.
- #13 Outpath: First Journey
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 4,694 reviews2022
Dev: David Moralejo SánchezPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 46%
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. 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 41.5% ★, Base Building 19.6%, Crafting 18.8%, Relaxing 9.5%, Atmospheric 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: An incremental survival game that focuses on world expansion and resource gathering in a relaxing style.
- #14 V Rising
87% matchVery Positive89% of 136,761 reviews2024
Dev: Stunlock Studios
Windows
Median: 20.8 hrsMean: 57.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Awaken as a Vampire. Hunt for blood in nearby settlements to regain your strength and evade the scorching sun to survive. Raise your castle and thrive in an ever-changing, open world full of mystery. Gain allies online and conquer the land of the living.
Why similar: Base Building 24.6%, Crafting 20.4%, Open World 17.7%, Survival 16.3%, Sandbox 9%
Why You'll Like It: This isometric survival game features robust base-building and crafting mechanics set in a dark, atmospheric world.
- #15 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,709 reviews2021
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Experience the first stages of terraforming an entire planet in this space survival open world terraforming crafting game prologue. Explore, survive, collect, build your base then create oxygen, heat and pressure to make an hostile planet livable for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.1% ★, Base Building 14.3%, Crafting 12.9%, Survival 9.6%, Open World 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on survival and base-building with a unique terraforming mechanic that changes the world.
- #16 Miniland Adventure: Prologue
84% 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 38.4% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Crafting 13%, Survival 9.1%, Sandbox 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: Features world-building and survival mechanics with a cozy, pixel-art aesthetic.
- #17 Wildmender
83% matchVery Positive84% of 2,225 reviews2023
Dev: Muse GamesPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 9.2 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 37.7% ★, Base Building 14.6%, Crafting 14%, Relaxing 8.9%, Survival 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: A cozy survival game focused on restoring a desert landscape, which aligns with the rebuilding theme of the seed game.
- #18 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
81% matchVery Positive91% of 7,602 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.1 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 42.6% ★, Base Building 15%, Crafting 13.1%, Open World 9%, Sandbox 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: A survival and base-building game focused on exploration and crafting in an oceanic setting.
- #19 Roots of Pacha
81% matchVery Positive94% of 4,536 reviews2023
Dev: Soda Den
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 21.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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: Crafting 26.6%, Cozy 20.8%, Relaxing 17.8%, Sandbox 12.9%, Exploration 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: A cozy survival and community-building game that emphasizes growth and exploration.
- #20 Graveyard Keeper
82% matchVery Positive85% of 55,062 reviews2018
Dev: Lazy Bear GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 27.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Build and manage a medieval graveyard while facing ethical dilemmas and making questionable decisions. Welcome to Graveyard Keeper, the most inaccurate medieval cemetery sim of the year.
Why similar: Crafting 53.8%, Sandbox 19.8%, RPG 18.4%, Adventure 5.9%, Singleplayer 2%
Why You'll Like It: An isometric management and crafting game with a unique, atmospheric tone and deep building systems.
- #21 Sun Haven
79% matchVery Positive81% of 25,417 reviews2023
Dev: Pixel Sprout Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.6 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 33.6%, Relaxing 24.1%, RPG 18.7%, Exploration 13.2%, Adventure 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: Combines farming, crafting, and RPG elements in a cozy, magical setting.
- #22 Littlewood
80% matchVery Positive93% of 6,824 reviews2020
Dev: Sean YoungPub: SmashGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 17.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
The world has already been saved. Now it's time to rebuild your town, learn new hobbies, and forge lifelong friendships in this peaceful and relaxing RPG.
Why similar: Crafting 28.3%, Relaxing 19.7%, Open World 15.4%, Sandbox 14.7%, RPG 12.3%
Why You'll Like It: A relaxing game focused on town building and exploration after the world has already been saved.
- #23 Aground
79% matchVery Positive94% of 2,018 reviews2020
Dev: Fancy Fish Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 39.2% ★, Base Building 17%, Open World 11.4%, Survival 10.2%, Exploration 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: A crafting and survival game that focuses on progression and building up a settlement from scratch.
- #24 Don't Starve
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 113,372 reviews2013
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 28.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.5% ★, Survival 18%, Crafting 15.6%, Sandbox 7.5%, Open World 5.5%
Why You'll Like It: An isometric survival classic that defined the atmospheric, crafting-heavy survival genre.
- #25 Island Beekeeper
76% matchMostly Positive73% of 186 reviews2026
Dev: Akuseru Studio
Windows
Build your apiary on islands above the clouds, travel on your medocycle, crossbreed bees with unique traits and create a cozy home in the sky. Grow plants, explore islands and send healing honey down to Earth, where people still hope for your help.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.2% ★, Cozy 13.1%, Base Building 10.4%, Crafting 10%, Survival 7.3%
- #26 ArkCraft: The Rebirth of the World
77% matchMostly Positive74% of 182 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 34.7% ★, Crafting 14.2%, Base Building 14%, Open World 9.5%, Survival 6.8%
- #27 Craftopia
78% matchMostly Positive76% of 20,210 reviews2020
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Craftopia is the brand new multiplayer survival action game made in Japan. We combined many features we find enjoyable, such as hunting, farming, hack-and-slash, building, automation to develop this game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.1% ★, Crafting 20.7%, Open World 15.4%, Survival 11.4%, Sandbox 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that offers extensive crafting and base-building mechanics.
- #28 Romestead
72% matchMostly Positive77% of 4,827 reviews2026
Dev: BeartwigsPub: Three Friends
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Rome has fallen! Rebuild civilization in this action-adventure survival game for 1-8 players. Fight hordes of the walking dead, build settlements, restore the Roman gods... or kick back and farm with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.6% ★, Crafting 16.6%, Base Building 12.9%, Survival 9.3%, Open World 7.4%
- #29 Fantastic Haven: Prologue
75% matchMostly Positive75% of 283 reviews2024
Dev: Piece of Cake FabulousPub: Gamera Games
Windows
Save fantasy creatures and protect them until releasing them into their natural habitat. Build your shelter, explore the neighboring region, and encounter a series of events.
Why similar: Sandbox 33.4%, Exploration 26.1%, Atmospheric 16.3%, Colorful 13.1%, Relaxing 10.4%
- #30 Land Above Sea Below Prologue
75% matchVery Positive82% of 146 reviews2023
Dev: Glasscannon StudioPub: Skystone Games
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 31%
Land Above Sea Below Prologue is an atmospheric first chapter of the building strategy and puzzle game where you have to build your island from tiles in order to raise its height as much as possible, to avoid it getting flooded by the constantly rising sea level.
Why similar: Sandbox 48.7%, Open World 41.5%, Atmospheric 5.9%, Adventure 2.8%, Singleplayer 1%
- #31 Tales of Morrow
76% matchMixed46% of 96 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 38.2% ★, Base Building 14.2%, Crafting 12.6%, Relaxing 7.2%, Exploration 6.4%
- #32 Saloon Simulator: Prologue
73% matchVery Positive87% of 871 reviews2024
Dev: Glivi Games S.A.Pub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Saloon Simulator Prologue lets you restore an abandoned Saloon and discover that managing it isn't just about creating drinks and meals. Clean up, organize, and choose the right friends - all to become the most recognizable business in the Wild West!
Why similar: Western 49.4% ★, Crafting 28.6%, Relaxing 12.9%, Atmospheric 5.4%, Adventure 2.7%
- #33 Solarpunk™
71% matchVery Positive82% of 4,341 reviews2026
Dev: CyberwavePub: rokaplay
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Solarpunk is a survival game in a technologically advanced world of floating islands. Alone or together with your friends, you can construct buildings, grow food, craft gadgets and hop on your airship to explore distant islands in the sky.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Crafting 12%, Cozy 10.1%, Open World 7.3%
- #34 Under A New Sun
74% matchMostly Positive76% of 400 reviews2023
Dev: New Horizon Games
Windows
While searching for a new home, an unexpected failure in your ship has left you stranded on a planet surprisingly similar to Earth. Discover a vast open world, hunt for food, develop technologies, and build yourself a new home to survive!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.9% ★, Crafting 13.2%, Base Building 11.3%, Open World 9.5%, Survival 9%
- #35 LifeZ - Survival
77% matchMixed68% of 240 reviews2018
Dev: iDs Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
LifeZ - Survival is a third-person sandbox-survival game. Build your hideout, search for water and food, mine resources and fight against zombies and finally find ways to contact the outside world and leave Catastrophie Area.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.6% ★, Zombies 13.7%, Base Building 10.2%, Survival 9.2%, Crafting 7.9%
- #36 Force of Nature 2: Prologue
74% matchMostly Positive78% of 82 reviews2023
Dev: A.Y.std
Windows
Force of Nature 2: Prologue is an introduction to the world of the main game. Explore one of the many worlds and uncover its mystery. This game combines the genres of Survival, Sandbox, Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Resource Management
Why similar: Isometric 21.4%, Crafting 17.3%, Base Building 12.1%, Sandbox 11.2%, RPG 9.4%
- #37 Doloc Town
69% matchVery Positive95% of 3,537 reviews2026
Dev: RedSaw Games StudioPub: Logoi Games
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Play as a young scavenger and construct your vertical farm one platform at a time under extreme weather. Evolving from a scrap-gathering survivor into an easygoing farming tycoon. Transform the climate, and remake the wasteland into your personal Eden.
Why similar: Cozy 23.7%, Crafting 23.6%, Relaxing 15.1%, Female Protagonist 12.6%, Exploration 10.8%
- #38 Solace Crafting
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 898 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 36.8% ★, Crafting 14.1%, Base Building 12.6%, Survival 8.9%, Open World 8.7%
- #39 Stranded Sails - Prologue
73% matchVery Positive82% of 153 reviews2021
Dev: Alchemist Interactive
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Stranded Sails - Prologue takes place exactly one day before the departure of our heroes and seamlessly follows "Stranded Sails - Explorers of the Cursed Islands". Already in this prologue you can explore, decorate, farm and fight. Are you ready for the great adventure?
Why similar: Crafting 28.3%, RPG 18%, Exploration 17%, Atmospheric 10.7%, Relaxing 9.3%
- #40 Lodventure
72% matchMostly Positive74% of 164 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 39.1% ★, Crafting 10.9%, Base Building 10.3%, Open World 9%, Survival 8.2%
- #41 Cafe Owner Simulator: Prologue
71% matchMixed66% of 1,465 reviews2022
Dev: Second RealityPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Prologue to the Cafe Owner Simulator, where you can restore your own abandoned building, complete tasks at various levels, and start building a restaurant business from zero.
Why similar: Base Building 31.9%, Relaxing 23.2%, Sandbox 16.2%, Exploration 14%, Atmospheric 12.1%
- #42 Stranded Sails - Explorers of the Cursed Islands
71% matchMostly Positive74% of 991 reviews2019
Dev: Alchemist InteractivePub: rokaplay
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.5 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 21.9%, Crafting 20.2%, Open World 14%, Relaxing 13.3%, Exploration 10.9%
- #43 KeepUp Survival
69% matchMixed64% of 749 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 84%
KeepUp Survival is an open-world base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and shape your own story on a mysterious island.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.7% ★, Crafting 13.1%, Base Building 12.9%, Open World 9.3%, Survival 8.8%
- #44 Viking Frontiers: Prologue
68% matchMostly Positive77% of 494 reviews2025
Dev: BLUM EntertainmentPub: GameHunters
Windows
Survival of your people - that's the only thing that matters. Become the leader of a newly founded Viking settlement and lead it to safety and glory. Gather, build, craft, hunt, raid and follow your Gods to endure hardships of nature and save your clan from violent destruction.
Why similar: Sandbox 26.6%, RPG 25.7%, Survival 19.5%, Adventure 14.9%, Open World 12.2%
- #45 XenoHaven
67% matchVery Positive86% of 69 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 31.8% ★, Base Building 14.2%, Crafting 12.2%, Open World 10.5%, Survival 8.7%
- #46 Border Town
66% matchMostly Positive79% of 307 reviews2025
Dev: GoHoGamesPub: 2P Games
Windows
Restore the former glory of Border Town in an open-world sandbox RPG set in a fantastical realm. Explore the world, craft tools and weapons, cultivate fields, and socialise with your neighbours while dealing with dark forces that threaten to destroy everything you have built.
Why similar: Open World 21.8%, Sandbox 18.1%, Survival 17.1%, RPG 12.5%, Base Building 12.1%
- #47 Ikonei Island: An Earthlock Adventure
68% matchMostly Positive74% of 473 reviews2023
Dev: Snowcastle Games
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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 20.8%, Relaxing 20.5%, Crafting 20.4%, Exploration 15.4%, RPG 8.6%
- #48 Miniland Adventure
68% matchMostly Positive74% of 332 reviews2023
Dev: Imilkowski DevPub: Gameparic
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 52%
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 39.5% ★, Crafting 13.1%, Base Building 12.1%, Survival 9.8%, Sandbox 9.7%
- #49 Summer in Mara Prologue
69% matchVery Positive87% of 1,050 reviews2020
Dev: Chibig
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 1.5 hrs≥1hr: 16%
A demo of Summer in Mara. Discover the beginning of this adventure and take care of your island by harvesting your crops, fishing on your pond, and cooking. Enjoy the opening act to this farming adventure.
Why similar: Base Building 24.9%, Female Protagonist 22.1%, Relaxing 19.8%, Open World 16.6%, Exploration 9.2%
- #50 Gaia
70% matchMixed59% of 93 reviews2020
Dev: Eternal Stardust Studios
Windows
A sci-fi base building survival game, featuring raids, agriculture, intelligent AI, natural disasters and more.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.6% ★, Base Building 14.6%, Open World 8.1%, Survival 7.9%, Female Protagonist 7.2%
- #51 WW2 Rebuilder: Germany Prologue
67% matchVery Positive85% of 416 reviews2022
Dev: Madnetic Games
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Visit a part of war-torn Hamburg in the FREE Germany Prologue! Flip, renovate, repair and rebuild places destroyed during World War 2. Get to know the history and stories of civilians. Play an immersive building simulator with grappling storytelling.
Why similar: Crafting 31.8%, Base Building 29.7%, Relaxing 24%, Sandbox 11.9%, Singleplayer 2.5%
- #52 Prologue: Go Wayback!
64% matchMixed61% of 700 reviews2026
Dev: PLAYERUNKNOWN Productions
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 1.4 hrs≥1hr: 26%
Prologue: Go Wayback! is a single-player open-world emergent survival roguelike where every journey is unique. Traverse a new wilderness that is generated for you every time you play. Chart your path, overcome the elements, and write your own story of exploration.
Why similar: Survival 24.6%, Open World 23.9%, Female Protagonist 20.3%, Exploration 16.8%, Atmospheric 8%