- #1 Citadel: Forged with Fire
97% matchMixed68% of 5,884 reviews2019
Dev: Blue Isle StudiosPub: Blue Isle Publishing
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
This massive online sandbox RPG features elements of magic, spellcasting, building, exploring and crafting. As a newly minted apprentice of the magic arts, you will set off to the dangerous world of Ignus. Tame mighty beasts, forge alliances, explore uncharted territories or fight for dominance!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.5% ★, Open World 14.9%, Sandbox 10.7%, Survival 10.4%, Crafting 9.3%
- #2 Dark and Light
96% matchMixed52% of 11,819 reviews2017
Dev: Snail Games USA
Windows
Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 49.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Dark and Light is a vast sandbox survival RPG set in a world dominated by powerful elemental forces. Find your way in a meticulously crafted world, featuring breathtaking landscapes, a wide variety of mythical creatures, and limitless possibility to craft, build, and unlock dozens of powerful weapons, spells, and skills.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.6% ★, Open World 17.9%, Sandbox 17.5%, Survival 15.5%, Crafting 7.3%
- #3 Radiation Island
96% matchVery Positive81% of 629 reviews2016
Dev: Atypical Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Radiation Island is a survival adventure game where you craft your own destiny in a huge open world environment. As part of the Philadelphia Experiment you have become stranded in a parallel, alternate reality. Discover this new and mysterious world, with all its surprises.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 59.9% ★, Survival 16.1%, Open World 8.8%, Crafting 8.8%, Action 3.7%
- #4 Force of Nature
95% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,202 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 49.4% ★, Crafting 16.5%, Survival 11.2%, Sandbox 11%, Open World 9.1%
- #5 Astral Terra
94% matchMixed50% of 152 reviews2015
Dev: Tethys Interactive LLC
Windows
Explore, Adventure, Craft, Build, Survive. How will you shape your world? Astral Terra is a Smooth Voxel, Procedurally Generated Open World game with RPG and Survival Elements!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.4% ★, Sandbox 13.2%, Open World 11.8%, Survival 10.2%, Crafting 10.2%
- #6 Realms of Magic
93% matchVery Positive81% of 990 reviews2022
Dev: Polished Games
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Embark on a journey through the Old Kingdom in Realms of Magic - a sandbox RPG where you customize your character, choose your path, and immerse yourself in the fantasy world as a knight, wizard, miner, lumberjack, farmer, and more. After all, this is YOUR adventure.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 59.3% ★, Sandbox 11.8%, Open World 9.8%, Crafting 6.5%, Survival 5.2%
- #7 Novus Inceptio
94% matchMixed52% of 1,302 reviews2015
Dev: McMagic Productions
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Warning: This is an Early Access game! Welcome to an enigmatic world, where a new gaming experience in exploring, building and surviving is waiting just for you. Experience a sandbox world with survival elements, and join us in creating a full version of the game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.2% ★, Crafting 14.7%, Sandbox 13.6%, Open World 11.7%, Survival 11%
- #8 Alchemage
92% matchMostly Positive71% of 310 reviews2020
Dev: 量子艺界(QUANTUM ARTS)
Windows
Begin your otherworldly life from scratch—with nothing but a single magic staff in hand. Shape the world with your own hands, build the home you love, or unleash the powers of alchemy and magic to battle relentless monsters from beyond.Set forth, Warlock!
Why similar: Sandbox 55.2%, Action 24.4%, Indie 20.4%
- #9 Swords 'n Magic and Stuff
91% matchVery Positive93% of 1,181 reviews2020
Dev: Kindred Games
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Grab your friends and set out for adventure in this cozy, multiplayer, open world RPG! Explore, quest and craft your way through a densely packed open world. Level up 6 different classes and buy land to build and decorate your home to settle down in this medieval fantasy world.
Why similar: Crafting 34.3%, Open World 30.8%, Magic 24.9%, Fantasy 10%
- #10 Shamania
90% matchMostly Positive77% of 145 reviews2025
Dev: Totem Keepers Games
Windows
Shamania is an open world survival game where you can CRAFT, FIGHT, and EXPLORE a vibrant sandbox world with friends in CO-OP. Expand your base as a hub for survival, gather resources, and master professions to unlock new tools and opportunities!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.1% ★, Crafting 17.3%, Open World 13.3%, Sandbox 12.1%, Survival 11.3%
- #11 Re.poly
89% matchVery Positive91% of 137 reviews2019
Dev: Hinkfoot Studios
Windows
Re.Poly is a relaxed yet deep indie survival game in a low-poly style that blends exploration, combat, building, and adventure. Whether alone or with friends, create your own world, write your own story, and decide how you want to play.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42% ★, Crafting 15.3%, Sandbox 13.9%, Open World 11%, Survival 10.8%
- #12 Solace Crafting
89% 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 44.6% ★, Crafting 16.3%, Sandbox 12.1%, Survival 11.6%, Open World 11.3%
- #13 Ars Notoria
87% matchMixed63% of 301 reviews2025
Dev: XRON SoftwarePub: Lilith Games
Windows
Ars Notoria is an open-world survival crafting game set in a rich fantasy world. Learn six distinct schools of magic, gather resources, build your base, expand your influence, and stand against the ever-shifting threat of the Enthralled. You are the one destined to change the kingdom.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.9% ★, Crafting 14.9%, Sandbox 13.9%, Open World 10.5%, Survival 10%
- #14 DreamWorld: Sandbox MMO
86% matchMixed69% of 54 reviews2026
Dev: DreamWorld Realities, Inc.
Windows
Build incredible structures with powerful tools. Explore the world with all players on one server. Battle bosses, farm, craft, and socialize with friends. How will you shape DreamWorld?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.7% ★, Crafting 14.2%, Sandbox 13.7%, Open World 12.1%, Survival 9.4%
- #15 ASTRONEER
86% matchVery Positive92% of 137,959 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 50% ★, Open World 13.7%, Survival 12.3%, Sandbox 12%, Crafting 11%
- #16 GRAV
88% 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: Open World Survival Craft 51.2% ★, Survival 12.2%, Open World 11.7%, Sandbox 11.7%, Crafting 10.9%
- #17 Dune: Awakening
84% matchMostly Positive70% of 76,118 reviews2025
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 47.7 hrsMean: 97.4 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival RPG where you can fully immerse yourself in the epic world of Dune. Alone or with friends, explore a vast open world Arrakis, survive the sandworms, build a home, craft an ornithopter, and unravel the mystery of the missing Fremen.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.5% ★, Crafting 15.5%, Sandbox 14%, Open World 11.9%, Survival 11%
- #18 Nightingale
85% matchMixed67% of 17,932 reviews2024
Dev: Inflexion Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 24.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Nightingale is an open world survival crafting game, where you’ll adventure across the mysterious and dangerous Fae Realms. As a daring Realmwalker, you’ll defeat monstrous enemies, survive hostile environments, and build elaborate estates in a visually stunning Gaslamp Fantasy world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 52.6% ★, Crafting 16.5%, Open World 13.4%, Survival 13%, Action 2.2%
- #19 Len's Island
84% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,720 reviews2025
Dev: Flow Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 47.3% ★, Crafting 14.8%, Sandbox 13.2%, Survival 11.2%, Open World 11%
- #20 Creativerse
83% matchMostly Positive78% of 30,868 reviews2017
Dev: Playful Corp.
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 63%
A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.9% ★, Crafting 15.8%, Sandbox 14.3%, Open World 11.2%, Survival 10.5%
- #21 Tinkerlands
81% matchVery Positive86% of 3,833 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Explore, craft, and fight your way through uncharted islands — solo or with up to 4 players in co-op! Tinkerlands is an exciting survival adventure where you will build your settlement, craft useful tools to survive, and even use magic!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.8% ★, Sandbox 14.5%, Crafting 12.9%, Open World 11.1%, Survival 10.6%
- #22 Feel The Snow
82% matchVery Positive87% of 3,047 reviews2019
Dev: Owlet
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Choose one of the characters and start your journey. The game has many interesting things in store: building, crafting, puzzles, bosses, mystery, laughs, quests etc.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 51.6% ★, Crafting 13.9%, Survival 11.8%, Sandbox 10.6%, Open World 8.2%
- #23 Boundless
81% matchMixed70% of 2,767 reviews2018
Dev: Monumental, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 32.9 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Shape your citizen, forge your destiny and sculpt your world in this epic voxel sandbox MMO built on endless possibility.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.9% ★, Sandbox 15.4%, Crafting 14.8%, Open World 12.1%, Survival 7.1%
- #24 Starsand
80% matchMixed66% of 1,241 reviews2022
Dev: Tunnel Vision StudioPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 47.7% ★, Crafting 15.7%, Open World 12.6%, Sandbox 12.2%, Survival 11.8%
- #25 Omega Crafter
78% matchMostly Positive80% of 566 reviews2025
Dev: Preferred Networks
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Adventure in a vast open-world survival craft game with your programmable sidekick Grammi! Program the Grammi to collect materials, build your town, craft weapons and armor to challenge strong enemies! Play alone or with friends online!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43% ★, Crafting 17.2%, Open World 13.4%, Survival 11.9%, Sandbox 9.6%
- #26 Everwind
77% matchVery Positive82% of 3,221 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Everwind is a novel take on RPG and Sandbox Survival genre in First-Person-Perspective. Embark on the adventure with your friends - Build a base on a flying island-ship, gather resources, craft, loot, and fight while you rise above the clouds to uncover the mysteries of this world!
Why similar: Crafting 30.1%, Sandbox 26.4%, Open World 22.9%, Survival 20.6%
- #27 Planet Explorers
79% matchMixed62% of 6,817 reviews2016
Dev: Pathea Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Planet Explorers is an open world sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.6% ★, Sandbox 16.6%, Open World 12.3%, Crafting 11.3%, Survival 8.1%
- #28 Force of Nature 2: Ghost Keeper
78% matchVery Positive80% of 2,332 reviews2021
Dev: A.Y.stdPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 16.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Force of Nature 2: Ghost Keeper offers incredible adventures full of mystery, danger, exploration and magic. This game combines the genres of Survival, Sandbox, Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Resource Management
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.3% ★, Crafting 17.2%, Sandbox 14.1%, Open World 13.7%, Survival 11.8%
- #29 Alchemy Factory
74% matchVery Positive90% of 2,293 reviews2025
Dev: D5 CopperheadPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 23.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Craft your workshop as an alchemist! Harness arcane devices to automate crafting. Sell alchemical goods, fulfill commissions, and rise to become a renowned alchemy magnate. Multiplayer Supported! Invite master designers to (ahem) contribute their expertise—let them optimize your production lines!
Why similar: Sandbox 49.9%, Crafting 48.7%, Indie 1.4%
- #30 StarsOne
79% matchMostly Positive74% of 537 reviews2016
Dev: IllusoryWorldEntertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 96%
You’ll see an unexplored world full of dangers, mysteries and adventures. You will explore randomly generated planets, develop industry, conduct trade, plant colonies, explore outer space.
Why similar: Sandbox 40%, Survival 39.5%, Action 11.4%, Indie 9.1%
- #31 Palworld
73% matchVery Positive94% of 421,232 reviews2024
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 34.5 hrsMean: 70.8 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46% ★, Open World 15.9%, Survival 13.1%, Crafting 13%, Sandbox 8.8%
- #32 Angeldust
77% matchMixed64% of 1,428 reviews2019
Dev: Frank LucasPub: Metagaming B.V.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 42 minMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 40%
ADVENTURE. ANYWHERE! Explore endless magical worlds and battle fearsome creatures alongside millions of friends. Ride your own horse, bear or moa and discover the many game world wonders. Unleash your imagination by crafting beautiful buildings.
Why similar: Sandbox 34.5%, Open World 32.3%, Action 14.9%, Indie 12.4%, Fantasy 5.8%
- #33 Dawn of Defiance
74% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,797 reviews2024
Dev: Traega EntertainmentPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
You are the Defier, a Spartan beginning your afterlife on the Crossroads. In this Greek myth-inspired survival craft, ascend from weak soldier to god-like anti-hero. Build impressive Greek structures, craft legendary gear, and break the seals of the Underworld with up to 3 friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 52.9% ★, Survival 12.7%, Crafting 11.4%, Sandbox 10.8%, Open World 10.4%
- #34 Rising World
76% matchVery Positive86% of 5,890 reviews2014
Dev: JIW-Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 21.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Rising World is a voxel based open-world sandbox game, featuring a procedurally generated world, playable in single and multi-player.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 52.7% ★, Crafting 17.4%, Sandbox 15.8%, Survival 11.6%, Indie 2.5%
- #35 Life is Feudal: Your Own
76% matchMixed66% of 12,061 reviews2015
Dev: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 58.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Hardcore and realistic; LiF is a Medieval multiplayer sandbox RPG, with free terraforming, a rich crafting system and preset and modular building construction. With engaging survival aspects, no target physics-based combat and a unique formation system - along with numerous other features - LiF is not for the faint of heart!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.2% ★, Crafting 14.7%, Sandbox 12.7%, Open World 12.4%, Survival 10.5%
- #36 Necesse
70% matchVery Positive93% of 27,199 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 14.8 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 54.8% ★, Sandbox 11.8%, Crafting 11.7%, Open World 9.8%, Survival 8.3%
- #37 The Last Alchemist
73% matchMostly Positive78% of 165 reviews2024
Dev: Vile MonarchPub: Marvelous Europe
Windows
Master the wonders of alchemy! Solve alchemical puzzles by transforming and combining Essences. Craft items, tools and machines. Explore the enchanting world, gather peculiar resources, and befriend the Agari, adorable mushroom folk who will help you find the cure for your mysterious disease.
Why similar: Crafting 80.4%, Fantasy 19.6%
- #38 SURVIVAL: Postapocalypse Now
75% matchMixed56% of 8,877 reviews2019
Dev: TB Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Want to survive? - Arm yourself and survive. Crafting, shooting, transport and much more awaits you in the Survival game. What happened to the world around and why he died - you may find out. But is this the main question now?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 60.4% ★, Survival 14.6%, Open World 10.8%, Crafting 8.4%, Sandbox 3.6%
- #39 Alchemist Simulator
75% matchMostly Positive76% of 421 reviews2020
Dev: Art Games Studio S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Become the mystical alchemist, choose your contracts wisely as they will shape the world around you, discover the long forgotten magical recipes, upgrade your lab and become the most powerful alchemist of all times.
Why similar: Crafting 45.4%, Survival 25.5%, Magic 20.7%, Fantasy 8.4%
- #40 Elsewhere
71% matchVery Positive96% of 71 reviews2025
Dev: Four White Cats
Windows
A sandbox crafting adventure with quests, magic, automation, and exploration. Gather resources, build your base, unlock new technologies, and shape your own path through a world full of secrets and progression. Inspired by classic Minecraft modpacks with many new and unique features.
Why similar: Crafting 27.4%, Sandbox 25.3%, Survival 18%, Open World 17.5%, Magic 11.8%
- #41 Ylands
73% matchMixed64% of 8,392 reviews2019
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 46%
Adventure awaits you and your friends in the world of Ylands! Gather resources, craft tools, construct anything and everything, and explore the lands! Build a ship and set sail, encountering mythical animals, a wide variety of sea-life, enemies of all kinds and much more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 62.6% ★, Crafting 22.6%, Open World 14.8%
- #42 TerraTech
71% matchVery Positive91% of 24,617 reviews2018
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 33.0 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: Open World Survival Craft 44.5% ★, Sandbox 17.2%, Crafting 13.8%, Open World 13.1%, Survival 7.7%
- #43 Savage Lands
72% matchMixed55% of 6,679 reviews2021
Dev: Last Bastion Studios LLC
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Your fight for survival begins on the frozen shores of Tarvhas, where bitter cold and vicious creatures conspire to defeat the unprepared. Uncover the land’s dark history as you and fellow explorers traverse an unforgiving and hostile world to tame the Savage Lands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 50.6% ★, Crafting 11.5%, Survival 11.4%, Open World 10.1%, Sandbox 9.8%
- #44 Enshrouded
68% matchVery Positive86% of 101,648 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.7 hrsMean: 45.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.
Why similar: Open World 27.8%, Crafting 25.3%, Survival 22.8%, Sandbox 15.1%, Fantasy 4.3%
- #45 CHKN
72% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,732 reviews2016
Dev: Katapult
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Behold, the miracle of life… packed into cubes! Create fantastic creatures in an open-world sandbox game like no other. Explore, craft, and survive—all with the help of your very own creations.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.8% ★, Sandbox 16.5%, Crafting 14.7%, Open World 13%, Survival 11.8%
- #46 ArkCraft: The Rebirth of the World
69% matchMostly Positive74% of 177 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 50.9% ★, Crafting 19.8%, Open World 14.9%, Survival 10.6%, Sandbox 3.8%
- #47 Whisper of the Swallows
67% matchVery Positive86% of 163 reviews2026
Dev: Blown Leaves
Windows
Brave a savage, unforgiving procedurally generated world where extreme weather and the nightmares of the dark will hunt you down. Alone or in co-op, survive, build, and explore to turn a cursed hellscape into your sanctuary of light.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.1% ★, Crafting 15.4%, Sandbox 14%, Survival 10.6%, Open World 10.1%
- #48 KeepUp Survival
69% matchMixed64% of 743 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 10.6 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 44.8% ★, Crafting 15.6%, Sandbox 13.2%, Open World 12.5%, Survival 11.7%
- #49 Magisterium: Fantasy Craft
69% matchMostly Positive70% of 240 reviews2023
Dev: The Spiteful GamesPub: The Spiteful Games
Windows
A grinding medieval fantasy life sim with a detailed complex crafting system complemented by survival and RPG elements. Grind resources, craft items, trade with locals, master professions, fulfill quests and explore the world to uncover its long-lost secrets.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 58.3% ★, Crafting 20.7%, Survival 13.1%, Fantasy 4.9%, Action 3%
- #50 Subsistence
70% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,685 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 39.9 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 54.4% ★, Crafting 14.7%, Survival 12.8%, Open World 9.9%, Sandbox 6.7%
- #51 Cube Life: Island Survival
71% matchMixed69% of 177 reviews2018
Dev: Cypronia
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Cube Life: Island Survival is an open-world, block building, survival game, taking place on a beautiful remote island. Imagine being shipwrecked and stranded left for dead, with only your will to survive. You must explore, build, craft, and fight your way to stay alive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 56% ★, Sandbox 11.8%, Crafting 11.1%, Open World 9.6%, Survival 8.5%
- #52 Renown
67% matchMixed59% of 1,558 reviews2025
Dev: RDBK Studios
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Renown is an intense medieval multiplayer survival experience set in a vast, ever-evolving world. Whether alone or rallying allies, gather resources, build powerful strongholds, and engage in brutal battles for dominance.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.5% ★, Crafting 16.4%, Sandbox 13.2%, Open World 11.9%, Survival 11.3%
- #53 Wild Omission
68% matchVery Positive89% of 63 reviews2023
Dev: Telephone Studios
Windows
Wild Omission is an open world sandbox survival game with severe weather set in an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.5% ★, Crafting 16.7%, Sandbox 13.1%, Open World 11.8%, Survival 11.5%
- #54 Signs of Life
70% matchMostly Positive76% of 841 reviews2014
Dev: Sweet Dog Studios
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Signs of Life is a sci-fi survival sandbox platformer with a combination of procedurally generated and hand-crafted content. You'll explore mysterious locations, Mine blocks for resources, and meet strange (and some familiar) creatures, some of which don't even want to kill you and eat your corpse.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 51.7% ★, Sandbox 15.5%, Crafting 13.4%, Survival 9.6%, Open World 5.8%
- #55 TerraTech Worlds
67% matchMixed63% of 2,228 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 21.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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: Open World Survival Craft 46.2% ★, Crafting 16.4%, Sandbox 14.8%, Open World 11.8%, Survival 10.8%
- #56 RuneScape: Dragonwilds
63% matchVery Positive81% of 25,015 reviews2025
Dev: Jagex Ltd
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 15.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
On RuneScape’s forgotten continent of Ashenfall, dragons have awoken. Gather, build, skill and craft to survive in this co-operative (1-4) survival crafting game. Only by mastering survival and uncovering ancient secrets can they hope to slay the Dragon Queen—alone or with allies.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.3% ★, Open World 13.7%, Crafting 13.3%, Survival 11.5%, Sandbox 8%
- #57 Scrap Mechanic
66% matchVery Positive92% of 117,481 reviews2016
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.2 hrsMean: 58.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!
Why similar: Crafting 27.6%, Sandbox 26.6%, Open World 21%, Survival 19.3%, Action 3.1%
- #58 Wild Terra Online
68% matchMixed60% of 1,839 reviews2017
Dev: Juvty Worlds
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Wild Terra Online is a sandbox RPG, in a completely player-controlled medieval world. You will have to survive in a forest full of predators, build a shelter and improve your crafts skills, tame animals and fight for treasures. You can become anyone and do whatever you want!
Why similar: Sandbox 29.2%, Open World 22%, Survival 20.9%, Crafting 19.9%, Indie 4.3%