- #1 Guns of Icarus Online
97% matchVery Positive90% of 14,675 reviews2012
Dev: Muse Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Assemble your crew, take to the skies in the premier PvP airship combat game. Guns of Icarus Online is all about flying massive airships, shooting big turret weapons, and working as a team for supremacy of the skies. Everyone as one, victory or death, together.
Why similar: Steampunk 74.8% ★, Team-Based 6.1%, Multiplayer 4.3%, Co-op 3.4%, Flight 3.4%
- #2 Volcanoids
96% matchVery Positive83% of 9,332 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.9 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: Steampunk 26.4% ★, Building 11.5%, Online Co-Op 10%, Sandbox 8.5%, Crafting 6.8%
- #3 Avorion
96% matchVery Positive90% of 14,549 reviews2020
Dev: Boxelware
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18.8 hrsMean: 99.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A procedural co-op space sandbox where players can build their own space ships out of dynamically scalable blocks. Fight epic space battles, explore, mine, trade, wage wars and build your own empire to save your galaxy from being torn apart by an unknown enemy.
Why similar: Flight 26.2%, Vehicular Combat 23%, Building 19.7%, Sandbox 14.5%, PvE 8.7%
- #4 Airships: Conquer the Skies
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 6,597 reviews2018
Dev: David Stark
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 37.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Construct mighty steampunk airships and fly them into battle, waging war and conquering the skies!
Why similar: Vehicular Combat 33.7%, Steampunk 26.3% ★, Building 17.2%, PvP 9.8%, Multiplayer 8.3%
- #5 Guns of Icarus Alliance
94% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,439 reviews2017
Dev: Muse Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 42 minMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Own the skies in steam-powered airships! Guns of Icarus Alliance is a team-based online game that pits co-op crews against both rival teams and an AI that learns your tactics. Players become part of the story as each battle shapes history in an ever-changing steampunk world.
Why similar: Indie 38.2%, Steampunk 30.2% ★, Team-Based 7.9%, Multiplayer 6.6%, Co-op 5.7%
- #6 Space Engineers
94% matchVery Positive89% of 134,313 reviews2019
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 96.4 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: Building 18.4%, Sandbox 13.3%, PvP 10.7%, Multiplayer 10.1%, Co-op 9.8%
- #7 Lost Skies
93% matchMixed61% of 2,976 reviews2025
Dev: Bossa StudiosPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 17.0 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Chart a course in a breathtaking, but fractured world. Explore ancient ruins, master advanced technology, and craft your very own skyship to brave nature’s fury and colossal threats in Lost Skies. Team up with friends or go it alone in this awe-inspiring cooperative survival adventure.
Why similar: Vehicular Combat 28.9%, Online Co-Op 17.2%, Sandbox 10.2%, Flight 10.2%, Base Building 8.8%
- #8 Scrap Mechanic
91% matchVery Positive92% of 122,134 reviews2026
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.4 hrsMean: 64.5 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: Building 24.5%, Sandbox 15.1%, Multiplayer 11.3%, Crafting 10.8%, Open World 8.6%
- #9 TerraTech
92% matchVery Positive91% of 24,920 reviews2018
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 32.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
TerraTech is an open-world, sandbox adventure game, where you design and build your own creations through a mix of crafting, combat and discovery. Design vehicles from a huge library of blocks. Scavenge, craft and buy new parts to survive and become the ultimate planetary prospector.
Why similar: Building 23.6%, Sandbox 15%, Vehicular Combat 14.5%, Multiplayer 9.5%, Crafting 8.3%
- #10 Stormworks: Build and Rescue
91% matchVery Positive91% of 59,745 reviews2020
Dev: Geometa
Windows · Mac
Median: 17.4 hrsMean: 113.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Join a world where you design, create and pilot your own air sea rescue service. Release your inner hero as you battle fierce storms out at sea to rescue those in need.
Why similar: Flight 26.9%, Building 21%, Sandbox 17.7%, PvP 10.5%, Base Building 10.2%
- #11 Everwind
89% matchVery Positive81% of 3,756 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 14.1 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%, Building 17.8%, Sandbox 12.5%, Multiplayer 9.9%, Co-op 9.9%
- #12 Starbase
90% matchMixed56% of 6,753 reviews2021
Dev: Frozenbyte
Windows
Median: 14.3 hrsMean: 91.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Starbase is a hybrid voxel/vertex-based space MMO with a fully destructible and infinitely expanding universe, with a focus on building and designing spaceships and stations, exploration, resource gathering, crafting, trading, and combat.
Why similar: Building 31.2%, Sandbox 18.8%, Open World 13.4%, Crafting 10.5%, Multiplayer 8.8%
- #13 From the Depths
89% matchVery Positive89% of 12,793 reviews2020
Dev: Brilliant Skies Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 40.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Over 1000 unique components allow you to build and command voxel vehicles from the deep ocean to outer space! Forge strategies, allegiances and fleets strong enough to destroy eight deadly factions of the planet and reign supreme. A genre-defying mashup of simulation, building, RTS and RPG.
Why similar: Vehicular Combat 35.3%, Building 21.8%, Sandbox 14.9%, Crafting 10.2%, Multiplayer 10.1%
- #14 Echoes of Elysium
88% matchMixed63% of 557 reviews2026
Dev: Loric Games, Inc.Pub: Snail Games USA
Windows
Ever wanted to live on an airship? Now you have to. Echoes of Elysium is a co-op survival RPG where your airship is home, workshop, and war machine. Build a custom flying fortress, crew up with up to 6 players, and battle soul-powered clockwork beasts across a gorgeous, fractured sky.
Why similar: Vehicular Combat 25.9%, Flight 20.7%, Building 13.5%, Sandbox 9.5%, Crafting 7.8%
- #15 Interstellar Rift
86% matchMixed68% of 1,666 reviews2020
Dev: Split PolygonPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 33.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Interstellar Rift is an open world starship simulator with an emphasis on ship construction and multi-player interaction. Survive in a hostile galaxy with your own custom designed and constructed starship. Invite other players to join your crew or fight them across the galaxy!
Why similar: Building 27.6%, Sandbox 18.7%, Crafting 14.7%, PvP 14.7%, Open World 11.7%
- #16 Stationeers
86% matchVery Positive88% of 9,229 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 85.3 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: Building 26.2%, Sandbox 18.8%, Crafting 14.4%, Base Building 14%, Multiplayer 13.6%
- #17 Trailmakers
84% matchVery Positive92% of 38,735 reviews2019
Dev: Flashbulb
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Build the ultimate vehicle and explore a vast open world filled with challenges and adventure. Play solo or team up with friends in multiplayer to conquer the toughest obstacles. With a thrilling campaign mode and endless creative possibilities, Trailmakers is the ultimate sandbox for adventurers.
Why similar: Vehicular Combat 20.3%, Flight 20.3%, Online Co-Op 17%, Building 11.8%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #18 Executive Assault
85% matchVery Positive85% of 1,459 reviews2015
Dev: Hesketh Studios Ltd
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Executive Assault is an indie real-time strategy/first-person shooter where you can not only build your base and create armies, but also take control of your units and fight as one of them.
Why similar: Strategy 21.8%, FPS 14.9%, Base Building 12.7%, Multiplayer 11.1%, Action 9.5%
- #19 Crossout
84% matchMostly Positive75% of 69,758 reviews2017
Dev: Targem GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 56.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Crossout - the postapocalyptic MMO action game where you can create a unique design for an armoured vehicle from dozens of parts and then drive it into multiplayer battles raging on land and in the skies alike.
Why similar: Vehicular Combat 28.1%, Building 11.4%, Online Co-Op 11.2%, Multiplayer 8.7%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #20 AirMech
81% matchVery Positive84% of 10,862 reviews2018
Dev: Carbon Games
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 67%
AirMech® Strike is a fast paced Action-RTS game that can be played solo, coop, or competitively online. Earn Kudos and Experience in battle and unlock a wide collection of AirMechs and Units while you practice the perfect strategy to emerge victorious!
Why similar: Multiplayer 24.2%, Online Co-Op 21.5%, Strategy 19.7%, PvP 10%, Co-op 9.6%
- #21 Medieval Engineers
82% matchMixed52% of 7,324 reviews2015
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 16.9 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Medieval Engineers is a sandbox game about engineering, construction and the maintenance of architectural works and mechanical equipment using medieval technology. Players build castles; construct mechanical devices and underground mining. There is an entire planet to explore!
Why similar: Building 32.9%, Sandbox 20.8%, Multiplayer 11.7%, Open World 10.3%, Crafting 9.6%
- #22 Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander
79% matchVery Positive94% of 12,820 reviews2022
Dev: Walternate Realities
Windows
Median: 19.2 hrsMean: 41.1 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Design and simulate the starships of your dreams! Command your ship or fleet in epic battles and manage your crew while exploring a dangerous galaxy. Play alone or with friends, test your ships in online PvP, and let your imagination reach for the stars!
Why similar: Building 35.2%, Online Co-Op 28.6%, Multiplayer 16.4%, Strategy 13.7%, Indie 6.1%
- #23 Scrapnaut
80% matchMixed70% of 837 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: Building 19.6%, Online Co-Op 16.3%, Steampunk 13.3% ★, Sandbox 11%, Multiplayer 10%
- #24 AirBuccaneers
82% matchMixed61% of 694 reviews
Dev: LudoCraft Ltd.
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Welcome to the ancient North, once the cradle of culture and peace, but is now corrupted by magic and inhabited by nasty bandits sowing destruction in airships.Choose to be a vicious Buccaneer or an infamous Viking and take a glider to the skies. Your goal is to drop enemy vessels and secure dominance of the ancient North.
Why similar: Multiplayer 21.5%, Team-Based 19.4%, Strategy 18%, Action 14.6%, Indie 12.8%
- #25 TerraTech Worlds
78% matchMixed63% of 2,287 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 22.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment
Why similar: Building 18.8%, Vehicular Combat 16.7%, Sandbox 14.2%, Base Building 10.8%, Crafting 10.7%
- #26 GRAV
81% matchMixed47% of 6,921 reviews2015
Dev: BitMonster, Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 60%
GRAV is a sand box experience where you explore a multitude of planets, hunt strange alien creatures, build and defend outposts, craft weapons and armor, and attempt to survive against other players in a hostile environment.
Why similar: Sandbox 21.4%, Base Building 15.7%, Multiplayer 15.7%, Open World 15.3%, Crafting 13.6%
- #27 Forever Skies
77% matchMostly Positive78% of 8,950 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 30.6 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: Building 21.3%, Co-op 15.2%, Crafting 14.1%, Base Building 13.5%, Multiplayer 12.6%
- #28 Iron Armada
78% matchMostly Positive77% of 177 reviews2024
Dev: Bluedrake42Pub: Drakeling Labs
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 833.3 hrs≥1hr: 53%
Iron Armada is a multiplayer, space-faring combat game where players must team up to build a fleet of ships in order to survive the perils of space and defeat the opposing player faction. Build ships of all shapes and sizes, mine resources, and scavenge parts with friends to conquer the universe!
Why similar: Strategy 55.6%, Action 33.2%, Multiplayer 7.9%, Indie 3.4%
- #29 Executive Assault 2
77% matchVery Positive83% of 1,764 reviews2023
Dev: Hesketh Studios Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%
The RTS/FPS phenomenon has moved into space! Build your base on an asteroid, command fleets of starships for epic battles, pilot fighters, mine and trade resources, assemble robots to defend or assault other stations. Take sole command or share the glory as you fight for control of the quadrant.
Why similar: Building 28.5%, Base Building 13.5%, Strategy 11.9%, Multiplayer 11.9%, FPS 9.5%
- #30 CubeGun
79% matchMixed60% of 321 reviews2014
Dev: candyrocketstudio
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 35%
A Sandbox Multiplayer Airship Shooting Game.Design battleships with weapons in a "rock paper scissors" mechanic.Shoot or Collide enemy ships into pieces.Challenge players all over the world with ships designed by yourself!
Why similar: Sandbox 33.1%, Multiplayer 25.5%, Building 14.9%, Action 9.8%, Crafting 8.9%
- #31 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
76% matchMostly Positive78% of 34,392 reviews2020
Dev: Eleon Game Studios
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 77.1 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!
Why similar: Building 19.4%, Sandbox 12.3%, Co-op 11.9%, PvP 9.6%, Multiplayer 9.1%
- #32 Building Destruction
76% matchMostly Positive74% of 121 reviews2023
Dev: 180°
Windows
Multiplayer sandbox with destructible environment. Destroy different maps, build your own, and play with your friends and other people online
Why similar: Building 22.5%, Sandbox 17.5%, PvP 12.9%, Online Co-Op 11%, Multiplayer 8%
- #33 Project 5: Sightseer
75% matchMostly Positive72% of 550 reviews2019
Dev: Tasharen Entertainment Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 28.4 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Open world multiplayer sandbox/RPG game. Explore, gather, build, research, and fight to protect what's yours -- by yourself or together with your friends.
Why similar: Building 36.6%, Sandbox 24.5%, Action 12.7%, Open World 10%, Indie 8.9%
- #34 Skyformer
72% matchVery Positive83% of 87 reviews2026
Dev: Weatherfused
Windows
Create an automated system that terraforms a planet with an army of drones. Craft and build bases, set up a weather monitoring system, prepare to survive different types of storms, and take control of the climate and biomes! Play alone or up to 4 player co-op.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 17.7%, Building 14.3%, Co-op 11%, Crafting 10.6%, Base Building 10.4%
- #35 StarRupture
71% matchVery Positive81% of 13,247 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 26.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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: Online Co-Op 17.1%, Sandbox 14.7%, Co-op 12.4%, Multiplayer 12.2%, Base Building 12.1%
- #36 Airship: Kingdoms Adrift
73% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,058 reviews2023
Dev: Revolution IndustryPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 21.2 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Welcome to Suthseg! As the newly commissioned airship captain, forge a mercantile empire across the archipelago, until the great powers of Europa turn their attention toward it. Build up a fleet, chart trade routes, establish industries, and explore the frontier at your airship's helm!
Why similar: Steampunk 37.3% ★, Sandbox 18.3%, PvP 15.1%, PvE 8.5%, Strategy 7.4%
- #37 Angels Fall First
70% matchVery Positive81% of 4,045 reviews2026
Dev: Strangely Interactive Ltd
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 63%
From commanding the battle standing on the bridge of your flagship all the way down to tactical infantry firefights - AFF brings together all the combat you ever loved in a rich science fiction setting. Boarding, pilotable capital ships, deep weapon customization and full Bot support included!
Why similar: Multiplayer 18.9%, Co-op 16.7%, PvP 16.6%, FPS 14.5%, First-Person 9.8%
- #38 Voidtrain
70% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,810 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 15.9 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: Online Co-Op 17%, Building 14.6%, Co-op 11.7%, Multiplayer 11.3%, Sandbox 10%
- #39 Gimbal
75% matchMostly Positive72% of 244 reviews2013
Dev: 8888888 LABS
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 31%
Gimbal is the multiplayer shooter with buildable vehicles. Customize your weaponry, engines, and accessories, and then take to the skies against other pilots in real time.
Why similar: Vehicular Combat 37.2%, Building 22%, Sandbox 13.5%, Multiplayer 11.9%, Shooter 4.9%
- #40 Mechanic Miner
74% matchMixed58% of 210 reviews2020
Dev: Hello John
Windows
Put your mechanical skills to the test in a physics-based sandbox where ingenuity and creativity are the ultimate key to survival. Construct fantastical machines, gather resources, acquire new technologies to battle dangerous enemies and use your imagination to shape your world.
Why similar: Steampunk 33.5% ★, Vehicular Combat 21.1%, Building 17.3%, Sandbox 11.9%, Crafting 9.3%
- #41 StarMade
74% matchMixed68% of 2,991 reviews2014
Dev: Schine GmbH
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 18.8 hrs≥1hr: 54%
The ultimate space sandbox. Participate in epic fleet battles, form alliances, strive to dominate entire galaxies and harness the universe’s resources for your industrious empire or the destruction of others. Customise your experience, the universe is yours!
Why similar: Sandbox 25.1%, Building 24.4%, Multiplayer 13.6%, Open World 11.9%, Crafting 8%
- #42 Dieselpunk Wars
73% matchMixed63% of 157 reviews2021
Dev: Image Power S.A.Pub: CreativeForge Games S.A.
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Dieselpunk Wars is a vehicle building game, focused on combat with advanced physics and damage simulation. Use over 300 elements to build a war machine of your dreams. Construct vehicles that ride on the ground, soar through the skies, or dive underwater. Prepare for combat and test your skills!
Why similar: Steampunk 26.9% ★, Vehicular Combat 24.4%, Flight 18.3%, Building 14.9%, Sandbox 11%
- #43 Granvir
69% matchVery Positive91% of 876 reviews2025
Dev: Airborne GamesPub: GIGATANK 3000
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Granvir is a 3rd person action roguelite mech-builder with co-op multiplayer. Scavenge the battlefield for parts to replace and upgrade your Granvir and weaponry. PIlot your Granvir and manage your campaign between battles to find the best equipment and stay supplied while fighting a guerilla war.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 57.8%, Multiplayer 31.5%, Shooter 10.7%
- #44 War Builder League
73% matchMixed58% of 174 reviews2019
Dev: The Cyber Prophet
Windows
“Build and Fight” multiplayer for mature players. Build your own Machine, join combat and win the battle using tactics and strategy.
Why similar: Building 17.6%, Online Co-Op 14.5%, Team-Based 12.5%, PvP 9.6%, Sandbox 9%
- #45 Aviassembly
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 9,371 reviews2025
Dev: Jelle Booij
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Build and fly your own airplane! Complete missions to earn money, upgrade your plane, and discover new locations in an open world.
Why similar: Flight 32.8%, Building 28%, Sandbox 16.9%, Crafting 9.9%, Open World 6.9%
- #46 Istrolid
71% matchVery Positive87% of 2,693 reviews2016
Dev: treeform
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 50%
In Istrolid you design your own unique spaceships from a large number of parts to fit your strategy and play style. With no set units or factions you are free to create a fleet where each ship has its own balanced strengths and weaknesses, from basic fighters and bombers to hulking battleships and speedy destroyers.
Why similar: Building 43.3%, Strategy 18.4%, Multiplayer 17%, Sandbox 14.2%, Indie 4.9%
- #47 SAND: Raiders of Sophie
68% matchMixed49% of 13,457 reviews2026
Dev: HologryphPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 27.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
In SAND you build your highly customizable walking mech fortress. Squad up or go solo. Scavenge the dunes, gather loot, weapons, priceless artifacts, survive and extract. Clash with other players in a brutal procedurally generated desert set in an alternate 1910.
Why similar: Vehicular Combat 33.9%, Online Co-Op 16.7%, PvP 11.3%, PvE 8.6%, Open World 7.7%
- #48 Desert Skies
71% matchMixed57% of 470 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: Building 23.8%, Multiplayer 17.9%, Crafting 17.8%, Action 10.6%, Base Building 10.5%
- #49 Solarpunk™
66% 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: Building 17.7%, Online Co-Op 17.1%, Sandbox 12.2%, Co-op 10.1%, Crafting 10%
- #50 Brickadia
67% matchVery Positive81% of 1,421 reviews2025
Dev: Brickadia, LLC
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 33.7 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Brickadia is a next-generation brick building sandbox that gives you the tools to create and play, your way. Build massive worlds, invent cool contraptions, and play in them however you like - all with your friends!
Why similar: Vehicular Combat 24.6%, Building 18.8%, Sandbox 15%, Multiplayer 10.4%, Online Co-Op 10.2%
- #51 Subsistence
70% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,766 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 40.4 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: Building 18.7%, Multiplayer 15.1%, Crafting 14.7%, Open World 10.3%, Sandbox 9.8%
- #52 Survival Machine
67% matchMostly Positive71% of 805 reviews2026
Dev: Grape PickersPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Build your base on a moving Machine, travel through biomes with different resources, and prepare for the night when a zombie threat is much higher than during the day. Would you go solo or explore this new world with your best friends?
Why similar: Online Co-Op 20.6%, Building 19%, Crafting 11.1%, Base Building 10.6%, Co-op 10.2%
- #53 Technicity
69% matchMostly Positive78% of 241 reviews2022
Dev: Osaris GamesPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 53%
A first-person city-building game with powerful tools that allow you to build faster and bigger. Design your own construction blocks and furniture in factories, terraform the open world, build roads and use vehicles to travel to different cities that you or your friends create in solo or coop mode.
Why similar: Flight 19.8%, Building 16.4%, Online Co-Op 15.5%, Sandbox 11.9%, Crafting 8.9%
- #54 Starship EVO
68% matchVery Positive84% of 1,522 reviews2020
Dev: Moonfire Entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Mine and craft your way to orbit, build your own starship and explore a vast, dangerous galaxy alongside your crew. For players who love a meaningful survival progression, a unique and elegant building system, and epic space-opera scale.
Why similar: Building 39.8%, Sandbox 23.5%, Action 11%, Multiplayer 9.4%, Open World 8.3%
- #55 Raft
65% matchVery Positive93% of 377,470 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.7 hrsMean: 37.9 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: Multiplayer 17.2%, Building 16.4%, Co-op 14%, Online Co-Op 13.6%, Crafting 10.8%
- #56 Flight of the Icarus
72% matchMixed42% of 253 reviews2010
Dev: Muse Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 12 minMean: 1.3 hrs≥1hr: 17%
Flight of the Icarus is a game where you play as a privateer who owns an airship that helps ferry goods from town to town in a post-apocalyptic world where the skies are dominated by pirates and danger. Shoot down enemy aeroplanes with a variety of deadly weaponry. Keep the ship from falling out the sky.
Why similar: Steampunk 71.5% ★, Action 16.2%, Indie 12.3%
- #57 Black Skylands
66% matchVery Positive84% of 4,496 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: Steampunk 44.8% ★, Sandbox 16.1%, Base Building 11.1%, Open World 10.8%, Crafting 9%