- #1 Above Snakes
97% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,985 reviews2023
Dev: Square Glade GamesPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 3.3 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 19.2% ★, Western 13.4% ★, Isometric 8.1%, Crafting 7.3%, Cozy 7%
Why You'll Like It: This is the full version of the seed game, offering the complete experience of the tile-based world-building and survival mechanics.
- #2 DYSMANTLE
96% matchVery Positive91% of 11,503 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 17.8%, Zombies 15.7%, Base Building 15.4%, Open World 12.9%, Survival 12.4%
Why You'll Like It: An isometric survival game where you explore a post-apocalyptic world, craft tools, and build bases while uncovering the mystery of what happened.
- #3 I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival
96% matchVery Positive85% of 4,592 reviews2024
Dev: MandragoraPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 14.6 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 23.9% ★, Cozy 12.5%, Crafting 12.5%, Base Building 9.4%, Open World 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the cozy side of survival, tasking you with building a base and managing resources in a peaceful, abandoned world.
- #4 Core Keeper
94% matchVery Positive93% of 65,308 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.0 hrsMean: 34.5 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 31.6% ★, Crafting 13.9%, Base Building 13.4%, Open World 9.7%, Survival 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: An isometric survival-crafting game that excels at exploration and base-building within a mysterious, procedurally generated underground world.
- #5 Forager
95% matchVery Positive90% of 43,749 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 47.4% ★, Crafting 16%, Survival 10%, Base Building 8.7%, Sandbox 5.7%
Why You'll Like It: Features a similar isometric perspective and addictive loop of gathering, crafting, and expanding your territory one tile at a time.
- #6 Necesse
94% matchVery Positive93% of 27,498 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 14.9 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 47.3% ★, Crafting 10.7%, Base Building 8.4%, Open World 7.8%, Survival 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival-crafting game that focuses heavily on base-building, resource management, and exploring diverse biomes.
- #7 Len's Island
92% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,790 reviews2025
Dev: Flow Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 12.2 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 39.2% ★, Crafting 12.9%, Base Building 11.1%, Survival 8.7%, Open World 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: Combines isometric survival and crafting with a strong focus on building beautiful bases and exploring islands.
- #8 Among Trees
93% matchMixed68% of 2,229 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% ★, Crafting 10.4%, Base Building 8.7%, Survival 8%, Open World 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a highly atmospheric survival experience set in a beautiful wilderness, focusing on exploration and home-building.
- #9 My Time at Sandrock
90% matchVery Positive88% of 28,759 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 33.9%, Open World 19.1%, Sandbox 18.8%, RPG 12.5%, Female Protagonist 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: A life-sim and building game that tasks you with revitalizing a desert town through crafting and exploration.
- #10 Crashlands
91% matchVery Positive89% of 6,716 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 11.1%, Open World 8.3%, Survival 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: An isometric action-RPG that emphasizes crafting, base-building, and exploration across a vibrant, alien world.
- #11 Don't Starve
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 113,056 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 45.3% ★, Survival 18%, Crafting 15.7%, Sandbox 7.6%, Open World 5.5%
Why You'll Like It: A classic isometric survival game with a distinct, atmospheric art style and deep crafting mechanics.
- #12 The Planet Crafter
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 71,525 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.5 hrsMean: 38.3 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 39.3% ★, Base Building 15.6%, Crafting 13.1%, Survival 8.7%, Open World 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-crafting game where you transform a desolate planet into a habitable world, mirroring the expansionist feel of the seed game.
- #13 No Place Like Home
89% matchMostly Positive78% of 4,089 reviews2022
Dev: Chicken LauncherPub: Awaken Realms
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 13.8 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 24.1%, Base Building 23.2%, Female Protagonist 12.8%, Relaxing 11.7%, RPG 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: A cozy, post-apocalyptic game where you clean up the world, farm, and build a home in a charming isometric environment.
- #14 Project Zomboid
88% matchVery Positive94% of 458,026 reviews2013
Dev: The Indie Stone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 15.0 hrsMean: 84.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 13.5%, Open World 10%, Crafting 8%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a deep, isometric survival experience with extensive base-building and crafting mechanics for those who want more challenge.
- #15 Graveyard Keeper
87% matchVery Positive85% of 54,094 reviews2018
Dev: Lazy Bear GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 27.4 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 54%, Sandbox 19.9%, RPG 18.3%, Adventure 5.8%, Singleplayer 2%
Why You'll Like It: An isometric management and crafting game that shares the cozy, top-down aesthetic and focus on building up your own plot of land.
- #16 Dinkum
84% matchVery Positive92% of 28,918 reviews2025
Dev: James BendonPub: KRAFTON, Inc.
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 28.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Dinkum is a survival life simulation game set on an island inspired by the rugged Australian outback. Farm, hunt, mine, fish, and forage to gather resources, expand your town, and discover what makes Dinkum so special—either solo or with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 54.9% ★, Crafting 13.8%, Relaxing 9.8%, Sandbox 7.2%, Exploration 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: A cozy survival game set in the Australian outback where you build your own town and explore the wilderness.
- #17 Littlewood
86% matchVery Positive93% of 6,812 reviews2020
Dev: Sean YoungPub: SmashGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.0 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 19.8%, Open World 15.2%, Sandbox 14.8%, RPG 12.3%
Why You'll Like It: A cozy game that lets you rebuild a world after a great battle, focusing on exploration and town-building at your own pace.
- #18 Stardew Valley
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 1,020,318 reviews2016
Dev: ConcernedApe
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 22.7 hrsMean: 84.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Why similar: Crafting 27.8%, Relaxing 25.5%, RPG 16.2%, Sandbox 15.4%, Open World 13.7%
Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for cozy, isometric life-sims that feature farming, crafting, and community building.
- #19 Roots of Pacha
85% matchVery Positive94% of 4,483 reviews2023
Dev: Soda Den
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 21.4 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 26.2%, Cozy 22.2%, Relaxing 17.5%, Sandbox 12.7%, Exploration 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused farming sim that emphasizes community building and technological progression in a prehistoric setting.
- #20 Sun Haven
83% matchVery Positive81% of 25,114 reviews2023
Dev: Pixel Sprout Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.8 hrsMean: 31.4 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 33.8%, Relaxing 24.2%, RPG 18.5%, Exploration 13.2%, Adventure 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: A fantasy-themed farming and RPG game that offers a relaxing atmosphere and plenty of crafting and exploration.
- #21 Outpath
82% matchVery Positive93% of 3,073 reviews2023
Dev: David Moralejo SánchezPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 38.7% ★, Base Building 17.1%, Crafting 17%, Relaxing 8.9%, Sandbox 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: A relaxing, clicker-inspired survival game that focuses on gathering resources and crafting to expand your reach.
- #22 Craftopia
84% matchMostly Positive76% of 20,099 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% ★, Crafting 20.9%, Open World 15.3%, Survival 11.4%, Sandbox 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that blends crafting, farming, and exploration with a wide variety of mechanics.
- #23 Nova Lands
82% matchVery Positive89% of 3,465 reviews2023
Dev: BEHEMUTTPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Nova Lands is a factory building, exploration, and island management game. Explore, engage in combat, and automate your industry. The planet you’re on is full of mysteries, creatures, people, and things to do. Welcome to your new home amongst the stars!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.3% ★, Base Building 16.6%, Crafting 13.1%, Sandbox 8.8%, Open World 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: An isometric survival and automation game that focuses on exploring new islands and building efficient production chains.
- #24 Spiritfarer®: Farewell Edition
81% matchVery Positive95% of 52,669 reviews2020
Dev: Thunder Lotus
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 15.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Spiritfarer® is a cozy management game about dying. As ferrymaster to the deceased, build a boat to explore the world, care for your spirit friends, and release them into the afterlife. The Spiritfarer Farewell Edition includes the heartwarming base game and three major content updates.
Why similar: Crafting 24.2%, Relaxing 23.5%, Female Protagonist 19.2%, Exploration 14.7%, Atmospheric 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: A management and exploration game with a cozy atmosphere that focuses on building and maintaining a home on the water.
- #25 Kynseed
81% matchVery Positive83% of 3,766 reviews2022
Dev: PixelCount Studios
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 12.0 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 26.7%, Open World 15.9%, Relaxing 15.7%, Sandbox 15.2%, Exploration 13%
Why You'll Like It: An isometric life-sim that features deep crafting and world-building elements in a charming, hand-drawn world.
- #26 Slime Rancher
80% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 154,977 reviews2017
Dev: Monomi Park
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 21.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Slime Rancher is the tale of Beatrix LeBeau, a plucky, young rancher who sets out for a life a thousand light years away from Earth on the ‘Far, Far Range’ where she tries her hand at making a living wrangling slimes.
Why similar: Open World 27.9%, Exploration 22.8%, Sandbox 14.2%, Female Protagonist 11.2%, Adventure 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: A colorful, cozy exploration and base-building game where you manage a farm of creatures in an open world.
- #27 Townscaper
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 21,548 reviews2021
Dev: Oskar StålbergPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac
Median: 42 minMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 43%
Instant town building toy. Place housing blocks and watch them transform, piece by piece, into idyllic ocean-side towns, pastoral gardens, or sweeping cities on the sea.
Why similar: Relaxing 24.3%, Sandbox 21.3%, Open World 19.1%, Stylized 13.4%, Atmospheric 11.6%
Why You'll Like It: While not a survival game, it perfectly captures the satisfying, tile-based building mechanics found in the seed game.
- #28 Valheim
78% matchVery Positive94% of 536,933 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 25.9 hrsMean: 77.4 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 44.1% ★, Crafting 12.3%, Base Building 11.7%, Survival 9.7%, Open World 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game that excels at building and exploration, providing a rewarding sense of progression in a vast world.
- #29 Terraria
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,534,723 reviews2011
Dev: Re-Logic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 33.6 hrsMean: 150.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.1% ★, Crafting 12.7%, Sandbox 10.7%, Survival 9.1%, Open World 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: A massive 2D exploration and crafting game that offers endless possibilities for base-building and survival.
- #30 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,689 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% ★, Base Building 14.3%, Crafting 13%, Survival 9.7%, Open World 8.9%
- #31 Miniland Adventure: Prologue
76% 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 38.2% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Crafting 13.1%, Survival 9.1%, Sandbox 8%
- #32 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
73% matchVery Positive91% of 7,488 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 42.3% ★, Base Building 15.1%, Crafting 13.3%, Open World 9%, Sandbox 6.7%
- #33 ArkCraft: The Rebirth of the World
75% matchMostly Positive74% of 180 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 34.6% ★, Crafting 14.3%, Base Building 14%, Open World 9.4%, Survival 6.8%
- #34 Saloon Simulator: Prologue
73% matchVery Positive87% of 868 reviews2024
Dev: Glivi Games S.A.Pub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.0 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 13%, Atmospheric 5.4%, Adventure 2.6%
- #35 Fantastic Haven: Prologue
73% matchMostly Positive76% 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 33.5%, Exploration 25.9%, Atmospheric 16.4%, Colorful 13.1%, Relaxing 10.4%
- #36 Tales of Morrow
74% 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% ★, Base Building 14.2%, Crafting 12.6%, Relaxing 7.2%, Exploration 6.4%
- #37 Solarpunk™
68% matchVery Positive82% of 3,137 reviews2026
Dev: CyberwavePub: rokaplay
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 31.4% ★, Base Building 12%, Crafting 11.9%, Cozy 10.8%, Open World 7.1%
- #38 Romestead
69% matchMostly Positive76% of 4,222 reviews2026
Dev: BeartwigsPub: Three Friends
Windows
Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 31.5% ★, Crafting 16.8%, Base Building 12.8%, Survival 9.3%, Open World 7.4%
- #39 Under A New Sun
72% matchMostly Positive76% of 391 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 41% ★, Crafting 13.2%, Base Building 11.3%, Open World 9.3%, Survival 9%
- #40 My Time at Portia
71% matchVery Positive92% of 44,196 reviews2019
Dev: Pathea GamesPub: Focus Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 36.0 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 29.5%, Open World 20%, RPG 12.7%, Sandbox 9.2%, Relaxing 8.8%
- #41 LifeZ - Survival
75% 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 37.5% ★, Zombies 13.6%, Base Building 10.2%, Survival 9.2%, Crafting 8%
- #42 Miniland Adventure
72% matchMostly Positive74% of 332 reviews2023
Dev: Imilkowski DevPub: Gameparic
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 53%
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 39.3% ★, Crafting 13.2%, Base Building 12.1%, Survival 9.8%, Sandbox 9.8%
- #43 Outpath: First Journey
70% 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 41.3% ★, Base Building 19.6%, Crafting 18.9%, Relaxing 9.5%, Atmospheric 6.1%
- #44 Force of Nature 2: Prologue
71% matchMostly Positive77% of 79 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 17.4%, Base Building 12.1%, Sandbox 11.3%, RPG 9.4%
- #45 Solace Crafting
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 894 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 36.7% ★, Crafting 14.2%, Base Building 12.6%, Survival 8.9%, Open World 8.7%
- #46 Lodventure
70% matchMostly Positive74% of 162 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 38.9% ★, Crafting 11%, Base Building 10.3%, Open World 8.9%, Survival 8.2%
- #47 Animallica
69% matchMixed70% of 908 reviews2022
Dev: Animallica Games Studio
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%
In Animallica you are racing against extinction after a deadly virus ravaged the world. As the lone survivor of the last conservation center on Earth, the fate of every single animal and plant species lies in your hands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.7% ★, Crafting 17.1%, Survival 9.9%, Open World 7%, Adventure 5.3%
- #48 Stranded Sails - Prologue
69% matchVery Positive82% of 153 reviews2021
Dev: Alchemist Interactive
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 8.2 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 28.4%, RPG 17.9%, Exploration 17%, Atmospheric 10.8%, Relaxing 9.4%
- #49 Viking Frontiers: Prologue
66% matchMostly Positive78% of 487 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 26.7%, RPG 25.7%, Survival 19.5%, Adventure 14.8%, Open World 12.1%
- #50 XenoHaven
65% 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 32% ★, Base Building 14.2%, Crafting 12.3%, Open World 10.4%, Survival 8.7%
- #51 Cafe Owner Simulator: Prologue
68% matchMixed66% of 1,460 reviews2022
Dev: Second RealityPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 60%
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 23.3%, Sandbox 16.2%, Exploration 13.9%, Atmospheric 12.1%
- #52 Border Town
65% matchMostly Positive80% of 305 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 21.6%, Sandbox 18.3%, Survival 17.1%, RPG 12.4%, Base Building 12.1%
- #53 KeepUp Survival
66% matchMixed64% of 744 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 35.6% ★, Crafting 13.2%, Base Building 13%, Open World 9.2%, Survival 8.7%
- #54 Summer in Mara Prologue
67% 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 25%, Female Protagonist 21.9%, Relaxing 20%, Open World 16.5%, Exploration 9.2%