- #1 Forever Skies
97% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,446 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 32.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A first-person survival game set on a post-apocalyptic, ecologically ruined Earth. Play solo or with up to 3 friends as you build, upgrade, and fly a high-tech airship. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and face dangers on the surface as you hunt for a cure to save humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.8% ★, Crafting 13.8%, Co-op 13.1%, Survival 11.6%, Building 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: It features a similar focus on piloting a customizable airship as your primary mobile base while exploring a ruined world.
- #2 Raft
96% matchVery Positive93% of 372,032 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.6 hrsMean: 37.3 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.9% ★, Survival 16.4%, Co-op 12.9%, Crafting 11.2%, Building 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive experience for expanding a floating base while surviving in a vast, open environment.
- #3 The Planet Crafter
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 70,189 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.5 hrsMean: 37.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 27.9% ★, Crafting 13.3%, Building 12.9%, Co-op 12.2%, Survival 12%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the satisfying progression of terraforming a hostile environment and building expansive bases to support your survival.
- #4 Voidtrain
95% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,447 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 14.0 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: Open World Survival Craft 29.9% ★, Co-op 11.6%, Crafting 10.7%, Survival 10.1%, Building 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: The core gameplay revolves around building and upgrading a mobile base that travels through a surreal, floating dimension.
- #5 Lightyear Frontier
94% matchVery Positive84% of 4,457 reviews2024
Dev: FRAME BREAK
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
In Lightyear Frontier you use your powerful trusty mech to farm on a large beautiful alien planet. Settle your homestead, farm and deliver produce to remote colonies, gather and manage resources, build, craft, explore, expand, improve your mech, meet neighbors, and make a place to call your own.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.9% ★, Agriculture 18.2% ★, Crafting 14.1%, Co-op 10.1%, Survival 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a similarly chill, atmospheric experience focused on farming and exploration using a customizable mech.
- #6 Lost Skies
94% matchMixed61% of 2,893 reviews2025
Dev: Bossa StudiosPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 12.1 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: Open World Survival Craft 41% ★, Crafting 11.7%, Sandbox 11.2%, Open World 8.1%, Character Customization 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the essence of Aloft by focusing on exploration of floating islands and co-op airship construction.
- #7 ASTRONEER
93% 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 26.5% ★, Survival 11.8%, Co-op 9.6%, Open World 9%, Crafting 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: The game excels at colorful, creative exploration and base-building on unique planetary surfaces.
- #8 Volcanoids
92% matchVery Positive83% of 9,267 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.8 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: Crafting 16.3%, Building 14.3%, Co-op 13.5%, Survival 12.3%, Sandbox 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: You operate a drill-ship that serves as your mobile base, allowing you to survive and explore a volcanic landscape.
- #9 Len's Island
91% 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: Farming 28.7% ★, Open World Survival Craft 20.2% ★, Building 10%, Crafting 9.5%, Survival 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: It blends relaxing farming and base-building with dungeon-crawling exploration in a vibrant, colorful world.
- #10 TerraTech Worlds
91% 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 24.5% ★, Crafting 13.1%, Building 11.9%, Co-op 11.4%, Survival 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: It provides deep modular building mechanics that allow you to create custom vehicles for exploring alien worlds.
- #11 Dinkum
89% matchVery Positive92% of 28,725 reviews2025
Dev: James BendonPub: KRAFTON, Inc.
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 28.7 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 22.6% ★, Farming 21.7% ★, Agriculture 16.4% ★, Crafting 8.1%, Co-op 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: A relaxing farming and town-building simulator that captures the casual, community-focused side of survival games.
- #12 Echoes of Elysium
90% matchMixed63% of 519 reviews2026
Dev: Loric Games, Inc.Pub: Snail Games USA
Windows
Survive the skies in Echoes of Elysium, a co-op airship survival RPG. Build and customize your floating fortress, gather resources, and explore a vast procedural clockwork world with up to 6 friends. Battle land and skyborne threats while uncovering mysteries in a paradise on the brink.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.2% ★, Crafting 12.7%, Building 11.4%, Co-op 11.2%, Survival 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on flight and vehicular survival within a high-fantasy, floating island setting.
- #13 Nightingale
89% 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 28.1% ★, Crafting 13.3%, Survival 12.6%, Building 12.6%, Co-op 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: It combines survival and crafting with a portal-hopping mechanic that leads to diverse, atmospheric realms.
- #14 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
88% matchVery Positive82% of 9,989 reviews2024
Dev: Merge GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24% ★, Crafting 11.9%, Survival 11.6%, Building 11.1%, Co-op 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: The game features unique vertical exploration and base-building from the perspective of a tiny creature in a massive world.
- #15 Eden Crafters
87% matchVery Positive86% of 2,425 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.1% ★, Crafting 14.6%, Building 11.5%, Survival 9.8%, Co-op 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: This title emphasizes the automation and base-building aspects of survival, perfect for players who enjoy optimizing their home.
- #16 Valheim
86% matchVery Positive94% of 534,015 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 25.8 hrsMean: 76.9 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 29.4% ★, Survival 12.6%, Building 11.8%, Crafting 11.6%, Co-op 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a highly rewarding co-op survival experience with deep building mechanics and a strong sense of adventure.
- #17 ICARUS
86% matchMostly Positive74% of 63,962 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 46.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.4% ★, Survival 14.2%, Crafting 12.7%, Building 10.3%, Co-op 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: This session-based survival game emphasizes building and resource management in a challenging, beautiful wilderness.
- #18 Everwind
84% 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 15.4%, Building 14.6%, Co-op 13.9%, Survival 12.7%, Sandbox 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: This open-world survival game focuses on exploration and RPG elements in a fantasy-inspired setting.
- #19 Subnautica
85% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 365,018 reviews2018
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 39.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37% ★, Survival 16.7%, Crafting 14.3%, Open World 10.4%, Sandbox 5.5%
Why You'll Like It: It is the gold standard for atmospheric survival and exploration in a beautiful, alien ecosystem.
- #20 Tinkerlands
83% 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 27.5% ★, Crafting 11.4%, Survival 11.3%, Building 10.2%, Co-op 10%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that emphasizes exploration and crafting in a charming, pixel-art environment.
- #21 Scrapnaut
84% matchMixed70% of 827 reviews2021
Dev: SpiffyBitPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements. Explore an open world with different biomes, take care of oxygen, manage your farms, generate electricity, build your home and much more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 19.7% ★, Building 14.6%, Survival 12.3%, Co-op 11.9%, Crafting 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a top-down survival experience with a focus on building and managing resources in a stylized world.
- #22 Project Castaway
81% matchMixed67% of 1,723 reviews2026
Dev: Mardonpol Inc.
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Project Castaway is a survival crafting title set in the Pacific Ocean. Live the life of a stranded castaway, with only yourself - and the island's inhabitants - for company! Sail the ocean, hunt, explore unique islands and gather resources as you fight for survival.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.6% ★, Co-op 12.7%, Survival 11.1%, Crafting 10.2%, Building 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the survival and exploration aspects of island life with a strong emphasis on co-op gameplay.
- #23 Voyagers of Nera
81% matchVery Positive85% of 2,367 reviews2025
Dev: Treehouse Games
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 12.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Voyagers of Nera is a cooperative survival-crafting game where you must survive a magical ocean world brimming with lost spirits and deadly monsters. Sail to distant islands, build beautiful villages and surf across the waves with up to 10 players.
Why similar: Sailing 22.2% ★, Open World Survival Craft 20.3% ★, Crafting 11.9%, Building 11.1%, Co-op 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes cooperative sailing and exploration, capturing the adventurous spirit of navigating a world of islands.
- #24 Among Trees
82% matchMixed68% of 2,222 reviews2021
Dev: FJRD Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.2 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: Farming 23.6% ★, Open World Survival Craft 21.5% ★, Survival 9.5%, Crafting 9.1%, Building 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: It is a highly atmospheric survival game that prioritizes the beauty of the wilderness and quiet, methodical base-building.
- #25 Sunkenland
80% matchVery Positive81% of 23,216 reviews2023
Dev: Vector3 Studio
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 18.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Get ready for a Waterworld-themed survival game with modular base building, sunken city scavenging, crafting, base defense, and invasions of NPC clans for resources and territory. Ready for the water apocalypse?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.8% ★, Co-op 15.3%, Survival 14%, Crafting 12%, Open World 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: This water-based survival game focuses on building bases and exploring the ocean, similar to the island-hopping loop of Aloft.
- #26 Ylands
82% 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 23.3% ★, Sailing 20.9% ★, Crafting 12.7%, Building 9.9%, Co-op 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a highly creative sandbox environment where players can explore and build in a colorful, low-poly world.
- #27 Cubic Odyssey
79% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,584 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Embark on a galactic journey in Cubic Odyssey, an open-world adventure where you explore vibrant planets, craft tools, build vehicles, and fight the Red Darkness. Uncover ancient mysteries, and shape a universe full of life, danger, and limitless possibilities!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.7% ★, Building 16.8%, Co-op 16.2%, Sandbox 12.2%, Crafting 5.3%
Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi sandbox game that encourages base-building and exploration in a modular, block-based universe.
- #28 Lodventure
79% matchMostly Positive74% of 161 reviews2023
Dev: Sky Games
Windows
Embark on a 1-4 players Co-op survival adventure in an open world wilderness in search of a myth called the Lod Stone. Build your house, sow your crops, brew potions, tame a horse and discover powerful abilities. Venture into dangerous dungeons, fight unique bosses to find the Lod stone.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.2% ★, Co-op 13.1%, Survival 11.2%, Crafting 10.9%, Building 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a cooperative survival experience centered on exploring and building within a vast, open world.
- #29 Outbound
77% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,416 reviews2026
Dev: Square Glade Games
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Explore a colorful world and build your own cozy home on wheels. Craft workstations, and source energy from the sun, wind, or water. Upgrade and customize your vehicle, grow crops, and live sustainably off-grid with up to 4 players.
Why similar: Farming 26.6% ★, Open World Survival Craft 17.3% ★, Crafting 10.9%, Building 10.4%, Sandbox 6.8%
- #30 Breathedge
78% matchVery Positive82% of 16,224 reviews2021
Dev: RedRuins SoftworksPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Survive in outer space! Together with your immortal chicken, discover the truth behind your sudden spaceship crash. Craft tools, pilot vehicles, and even control space stations to survive and explore the wreckage.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.6% ★, Survival 15%, Crafting 13.4%, Sandbox 11.5%, Open World 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: An ironic space-survival game that tasks you with building and maintaining a base while navigating a hazardous environment.
- #31 Breakwaters: Crystal Tides
78% matchMixed63% of 997 reviews2021
Dev: Soaring Pixels Games
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Survive in a world ravaged by massive Titans and an ever changing ocean sim. Displace water to find resources for building and crafting unique items. Swim, sail, and fly to explore new islands and fight Titans.
Why similar: Sailing 19.9% ★, Building 15.1%, Survival 13.3%, Crafting 12.1%, Sandbox 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: The game features unique water-manipulation mechanics that change how you explore and build in an island-based world.
- #32 Scrap Mechanic
76% 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: Building 20.5%, Crafting 17.3%, Survival 14.6%, Sandbox 12.4%, Open World 10.9%
- #33 Grounded
74% matchVery Positive90% of 93,832 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.3 hrsMean: 41.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.1% ★, Survival 18.7%, Co-op 14.3%, Crafting 13.1%, Multiplayer 8.8%
- #34 Stranded Deep
75% matchMostly Positive74% of 47,389 reviews2022
Dev: Beam Team GamesPub: Beam Team Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 20.9 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Take the role of a plane crash survivor stranded somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Come face to face with some of the most life threatening scenarios that will result in a different experience each time you play. Scavenge. Discover. Survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35% ★, Survival 15.1%, Crafting 11.9%, Open World 7.7%, Multiplayer 7.4%
- #35 The Last Caretaker
73% matchVery Positive86% of 11,047 reviews2025
Dev: Channel37 Ltd
Windows
Median: 17.2 hrsMean: 32.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Explore a drowned Earth, restore lost systems, and raise the last human seeds in this first-person survival-crafting adventure. Build, scavenge, defend, and launch humanity back to the stars.
Why similar: Sailing 26.4% ★, Crafting 18.4%, Survival 15%, Sandbox 11.8%, Open World 10.8%
- #36 I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival
73% matchVery Positive85% of 4,559 reviews2024
Dev: MandragoraPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 8.8 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
I Am Future is a relaxing single-player survival game about building a cozy rooftop camp amid a flooded post-apocalyptic city. Set up a farm, go fishing, tinker with gadgets, craft new tools, manage a team of cute robots to automate and expand your base, explore the mysterious world, and chill out!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 17.9% ★, Agriculture 17.9% ★, Crafting 13.2%, Building 11.9%, Sandbox 8.8%
- #37 Survive on Raft
77% matchMixed63% of 1,253 reviews2019
Dev: Megame LLC
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Survive on Raft is a Survival Sandbox Simulator on the Raft in the middle of the ocean! Fight with shark, build base, craft, loot islands, farm and survive. Play solo or with friends.
Why similar: Farming 21.2% ★, Open World Survival Craft 19.5% ★, Crafting 10.7%, Survival 9.2%, Building 8.7%
- #38 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
73% matchVery Positive91% of 7,431 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 28.9% ★, Crafting 12.9%, Building 9.9%, Survival 8.4%, Open World 8.3%
- #39 Luma Island
72% matchVery Positive84% of 12,297 reviews2024
Dev: Feel Free Games
Windows
Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 24.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Get ready to explore, farm, fish, mine, craft, and raise magical Lumas as you solve puzzles and embark on quests across Luma Island. Play solo, or team up with friends in 1-4 player online co-op. Choose relaxing Cozy, challenging Adventure, or epic Hero mode to match your mood and playstyle.
Why similar: Crafting 19.7%, Building 18.3%, Co-op 15.8%, Open World 9.2%, Character Customization 8.8%
- #40 Escape The Pacific
76% matchMixed68% of 754 reviews2018
Dev: Gamers4Gamers Team
Windows
Raw, real survival in the Pacific. Build a modular floating base. Master realistic sailing mechanics. Face challenging Pacific-like weather & seasons. Hunt, craft, build & navigate using Sun Dial, Sextant & Triangulation. Explore an endless island cluster-based world. Simulate real life scenarios!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.2% ★, Sailing 19.1% ★, Crafting 12.4%, Building 10.6%, Survival 10.3%
- #41 Subsistence
75% 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 35.2% ★, Survival 15%, Crafting 14.4%, Building 9.5%, Open World 8%
- #42 My Island
71% matchMixed66% of 1,712 reviews2024
Dev: SnowBaby Games
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 48%
MyIsland is a relaxed and beautiful survival game,You will drift and survive on the tropical islands, hunt and travel, build houses and development farming, and create your own warm homeland.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.7% ★, Survival 15.1%, Crafting 11.9%, Open World 8.3%, Building 7.8%
- #43 KeepUp Survival
71% 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 25.9% ★, Crafting 13.6%, Co-op 12.7%, Survival 12.2%, Open World 9%
- #44 Survival: Fountain of Youth
70% matchVery Positive86% of 4,339 reviews2024
Dev: Odinsoft Inc.Pub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 18.7 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Survival: Fountain of Youth is a challenging single-player open-world adventure game set on the Caribbean islands. Survive as a shipwrecked 16th-century explorer, craft tools and shelter, and uncover the secrets of both an ancient civilization and your own fate.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30% ★, Crafting 15.2%, Survival 14.1%, Building 11.3%, Sandbox 8.6%
- #45 Drift: Space Survival
72% matchMostly Positive70% of 77 reviews2023
Dev: KAR Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
You were deep in uncharted space on a research mission. Disaster struck. Together with your friends, explore a mysterious asteroid field and mine whatever resources possible to build what you need to survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.6% ★, Crafting 13.8%, Survival 13.5%, Building 12.1%, Sandbox 7.2%
- #46 Above Snakes
71% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,962 reviews2023
Dev: Square Glade GamesPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 12.2 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 24.5% ★, Crafting 13.2%, Building 12.5%, Survival 9.8%, Open World 9.7%
- #47 Starbound
70% matchVery Positive90% of 122,999 reviews2016
Dev: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.1 hrsMean: 64.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.5% ★, Sandbox 11.1%, Crafting 10.6%, Survival 9.5%, Building 8.1%
- #48 Lost Rift
69% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,554 reviews2025
Dev: People Can Fly
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Lost Rift is a first person survival adventure shooter that blends cooperative base building with multiplayer PvE or PvP extraction expeditions. Journey solo or in teams of up to 5 players across a vast archipelago, craft gear, build bases, defeat raiders, and become legendary.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.7% ★, Crafting 18.7%, Survival 15.1%, Character Customization 9.9%, Multiplayer 8%
- #49 Dawn of Defiance
68% 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 32.1% ★, Survival 14%, Building 11.3%, Crafting 10.4%, Open World 7.9%
- #50 Omega Crafter
68% 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 24% ★, Crafting 14.4%, Survival 12.1%, Co-op 11.1%, Building 10.1%
- #51 Arctico
69% matchMostly Positive71% of 2,460 reviews2022
Dev: Claudio Norori
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Explore Arctico with your dog sled, kayak, and up to 3 friends! Build and customize your base camp, gather resources and samples, set up labs, and take good care of your dogs in this peaceful island.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.2% ★, Co-op 12.4%, Survival 11.6%, Open World 8.7%, Crafting 8.7%
- #52 Flotsam
66% matchVery Positive81% of 4,361 reviews2025
Dev: Pajama Llama GamesPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.
Why similar: Building 21.9%, Survival 21.4%, Sandbox 18.6%, Open World 15.7%, Colorful 9.4%
- #53 Out of Reach
70% matchMixed57% of 3,046 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
You’re a castaway stranded in the middle of nowhere. Storm is gone, the worst certainly not. Look for food and resources, craft gear, make shelters. These are the basics, you need much more to stay alive on this cut-off-the-world, yet not desert island. Build & burn, sail & explore, be Out of Reach!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.8% ★, Survival 14.3%, Crafting 12.6%, Building 9.7%, Open World 8.7%
- #54 Pathless Woods
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,102 reviews2024
Dev: AniYa Games Studio
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Embark on a cozy open-world survival journey inspired by ancient China's heritage. Gather resources, cultivate crops, build your dream home, and defend it from marauders. Team up with friends to explore and uncover a world where adventure meets serenity.
Why similar: Crafting 18.6%, Building 15.3%, Survival 14.6%, Sandbox 12.1%, Open World 11.7%
- #55 Forgotten Seas
66% matchMostly Positive77% of 580 reviews2025
Dev: Pangea Game StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
You are lost in the Bermuda Void, where the ocean is endless and dry land precious. Craft your Ship-in-a-Bottle, then experience survival on the high seas. Sail for new land, build camps, hunt for treasures, trade for goods - then defend your ship from dreaded pirates stalking this strange realm!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 16.6% ★, Sailing 15.4% ★, Crafting 12.1%, Building 11.8%, Co-op 11.8%
- #56 Desert Skies
69% matchMixed57% of 464 reviews2019
Dev: White_Rabbit_Games
Windows
Desert Skies takes survival to the air! Build an airship and fly on an adventure through the deserts of the Wild West. Look for places to land and scavenge for loot, expand your airship and craft new equipment, but beware the dangers lurking beneath the sands!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.3% ★, Crafting 15.3%, Survival 12.7%, Building 10.7%, Multiplayer 7%
- #57 Shamania
65% 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 24.1% ★, Crafting 14.7%, Survival 11.5%, Co-op 9.8%, Open World 9.3%
- #58 Rising World
67% 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 26.3% ★, Crafting 13.1%, Building 12.9%, Co-op 10.7%, Survival 10.5%
- #59 Enshrouded
63% 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: Survival 19.9%, Crafting 18.4%, Open World 16.6%, Building 13.2%, Multiplayer 9.4%
