- #1 Forever Skies
97% 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: Open World Survival Craft 24.1% ★, Crafting 13.6%, Co-op 13%, Survival 11.6%, Building 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: Features a high-altitude survival experience where you maintain and upgrade a customizable airship as your primary base.
- #2 Echoes of Elysium
96% 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: Open World Survival Craft 23.4% ★, Crafting 12.6%, Building 11.4%, Co-op 11.1%, Survival 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: Combines sky-based exploration with vehicular combat and survival mechanics in a world of floating ruins.
- #3 Lost Skies
96% 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: Open World Survival Craft 41.5% ★, Crafting 11.5%, Sandbox 11%, Open World 8.1%, Character Customization 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on exploring a vast world of floating islands with a heavy emphasis on co-op airship construction and traversal.
- #4 Solarpunk™
95% 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: Farming 21.2% ★, Open World Survival Craft 18.9% ★, Crafting 10%, Building 9.2%, Co-op 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: Captures the cozy, sky-island aesthetic of Aloft with a focus on sustainable technology and base building.
- #5 Raft
94% 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: Open World Survival Craft 30.1% ★, Survival 16.4%, Co-op 12.8%, Crafting 11.1%, Building 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: The quintessential mobile-base survival game that tasks you with expanding your vessel while navigating a dangerous, ever-changing environment.
- #6 Voidtrain
94% 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: Open World Survival Craft 30.3% ★, Co-op 11.5%, Crafting 10.6%, Survival 10.1%, Building 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a unique take on the mobile-base genre by having you build and upgrade a train that traverses an interdimensional void.
- #7 The Planet Crafter
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 73,089 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.7 hrsMean: 38.5 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 28.2% ★, Crafting 13.1%, Building 12.9%, Co-op 12.2%, Survival 12%
Why You'll Like It: Centers on the rewarding process of terraforming a hostile world, mirroring the restoration themes found in Aloft.
- #8 Lightyear Frontier
92% matchVery Positive84% of 4,679 reviews2024
Dev: FRAME BREAK
Windows
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 13.2 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 25.1% ★, Agriculture 18.2% ★, Crafting 13.9%, Co-op 10.1%, Survival 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a cozy, mech-based survival experience that emphasizes farming and exploration on an alien planet.
- #9 Pacific Drive
91% matchVery Positive83% of 26,666 reviews2024
Dev: Ironwood StudiosPub: Kepler Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 16.7 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Face the supernatural dangers of the Olympic Exclusion Zone with a car as your only lifeline in this driving survival adventure! Scavenge resources, load up your trusty station wagon, and drive like hell to make it through alive.
Why similar: Survival 23.2%, Crafting 22.9%, Building 15.4%, Sandbox 11.3%, Atmospheric 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: While terrestrial, it mirrors the 'vehicle-as-a-home' gameplay loop by requiring you to maintain and upgrade your car to survive a surreal environment.
- #10 Eden Crafters
90% matchVery Positive85% of 2,630 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 14.0 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 28.4% ★, Crafting 14.4%, Building 11.5%, Survival 9.8%, Co-op 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: Combines automation and terraforming, perfect for players who enjoy the technical side of building and restoring ecosystems.
- #11 Windbound
91% matchMixed59% of 1,175 reviews2020
Dev: 5 Lives StudiosPub: Deep Silver
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 62%
The Forbidden Islands are Calling, Unlock their Secrets. Shipwrecked on an island, explore, adapt and navigate the land and perilous seas to stay alive.
Why similar: Survival 25.7%, Sailing 25.4% ★, Crafting 24.2%, Adventure 13.1%, Open World 5.7%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on island-hopping and survival, capturing the feeling of navigating a vast, fragmented world by sea.
- #12 Breathedge
89% matchVery Positive81% of 17,661 reviews2021
Dev: RedRuins SoftworksPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 38.5% ★, Survival 14.8%, Crafting 12.8%, Sandbox 11.3%, Open World 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: A space-based survival game that emphasizes crafting and resource management while navigating a hazardous, floating debris field.
- #13 Outbound
89% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,098 reviews2026
Dev: Square Glade Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 7.9 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 26.5% ★, Open World Survival Craft 17.6% ★, Crafting 10.8%, Building 10.5%, Open World 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: A cozy, exploration-focused survival game that emphasizes sustainable living and modular base construction.
- #14 ASTRONEER
88% matchVery Positive92% of 139,015 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.6 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 26.7% ★, Survival 11.8%, Co-op 9.5%, Open World 9.1%, Crafting 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on voxel-based exploration and base building, allowing for creative manipulation of the environment on various planets.
- #15 Grounded
87% matchVery Positive90% of 95,505 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.5 hrsMean: 41.8 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 29.3% ★, Survival 18.7%, Co-op 14.3%, Crafting 12.8%, Multiplayer 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: Features exceptional exploration and base-building mechanics that make the environment feel massive and full of discovery.
- #16 Dinkum
86% matchVery Positive92% of 29,064 reviews2025
Dev: James BendonPub: KRAFTON, Inc.
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 29.1 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 22.9% ★, Farming 21.7% ★, Agriculture 16.3% ★, Crafting 8%, Co-op 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a relaxing, farming-sim approach to survival and base building in a charming, open-world setting.
- #17 No Man's Sky
86% matchVery Positive85% of 414,381 reviews2016
Dev: Hello Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 20.1 hrsMean: 70.7 hrs≥1hr: 94%
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.4% ★, Open World 13.7%, Survival 11.7%, Crafting 8.7%, Sandbox 8%
Why You'll Like It: Offers unparalleled freedom in space exploration, base building, and ship customization across diverse planetary environments.
- #18 Len's Island
85% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,866 reviews2025
Dev: Flow Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.8 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: Farming 28.7% ★, Open World Survival Craft 20.4% ★, Building 10%, Crafting 9.4%, Survival 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Blends fast-paced dungeon crawling with deep building mechanics in a beautiful, island-based world.
- #19 Sunkenland
84% matchVery Positive80% of 23,803 reviews2023
Dev: Vector3 Studio
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 20.0 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 34% ★, Co-op 15.2%, Survival 14%, Crafting 12%, Open World 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: A water-based survival game that focuses on building modular bases and exploring a flooded, post-apocalyptic world.
- #20 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
84% matchVery Positive82% of 10,429 reviews2024
Dev: Max Ent Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 16.1 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 24.2% ★, Crafting 11.8%, Survival 11.7%, Building 11.1%, Co-op 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a unique perspective on survival and base building, emphasizing verticality and exploration in a miniature world.
- #21 Everwind
83% 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: Crafting 15.4%, Building 14.6%, Co-op 13.8%, Survival 12.8%, Sandbox 10%
Why You'll Like It: A co-op survival game that emphasizes exploration and building in a vast, open-world environment.
- #22 Valheim
82% matchVery Positive94% of 540,690 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 26.0 hrsMean: 78.0 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 29.8% ★, Survival 12.6%, Building 11.7%, Crafting 11.5%, Open World 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Renowned for its atmospheric survival and building systems that encourage exploration of a vast, procedurally generated world.
- #23 Nightingale
81% matchMixed66% of 18,038 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 28.4% ★, Crafting 13.1%, Survival 12.6%, Building 12.6%, Co-op 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on portal-based exploration and survival, offering a distinct aesthetic and deep crafting systems.
- #24 Among Trees
82% matchMixed68% of 2,233 reviews2021
Dev: FJRD Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Escape to an enchanting, living sandbox surrounded by wildlife and nature. Scavenge materials and craft tools to turn your small cabin into a warm, well-supplied home. Survive by fishing, cooking and growing your own food. Be careful though, the forest is as dangerous as it is wonderful.
Why similar: Farming 23.6% ★, Open World Survival Craft 21.7% ★, Survival 9.5%, Crafting 9%, Building 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on atmospheric survival and exploration in a beautiful, dense forest setting.
- #25 Subnautica
80% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 378,847 reviews2018
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.3 hrsMean: 39.8 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 37.2% ★, Survival 16.7%, Crafting 14.1%, Open World 10.5%, Sandbox 5.5%
Why You'll Like It: Sets the gold standard for atmospheric survival and exploration, rewarding players for uncovering the secrets of a mysterious, alien world.
- #26 Tinkerlands
79% matchVery Positive86% of 4,087 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 14.2 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 27.8% ★, Survival 11.3%, Crafting 11.3%, Building 10.1%, Co-op 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that emphasizes crafting and exploration in a charming, pixel-art world.
- #27 Volcanoids
81% 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: Crafting 16.2%, Building 14.3%, Co-op 13.5%, Survival 12.4%, Sandbox 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: Features a unique steampunk setting where you pilot a drill-ship that acts as your mobile base while exploring a volcanic island.
- #28 Voyagers of Nera
77% matchVery Positive85% of 2,598 reviews2025
Dev: Treehouse Games
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 12.9 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 22.1% ★, Open World Survival Craft 20.6% ★, Crafting 11.8%, Building 11.1%, Co-op 10.7%
- #29 ICARUS
78% matchMostly Positive75% of 67,515 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 46.4 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 28.8% ★, Survival 14.3%, Crafting 12.6%, Building 10.2%, Co-op 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a session-based survival experience that emphasizes preparation and building in a challenging, atmospheric environment.
- #30 Scrapnaut
79% 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: Open World Survival Craft 19.9% ★, Building 14.7%, Survival 12.2%, Co-op 11.8%, Crafting 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: Features top-down survival and base building with a focus on resource management and exploration.
- #31 Island Beekeeper
77% matchMostly Positive73% of 186 reviews2026
Dev: Akuseru Studio
Windows
Build your apiary on islands above the clouds, travel on your medocycle, crossbreed bees with unique traits and create a cozy home in the sky. Grow plants, explore islands and send healing honey down to Earth, where people still hope for your help.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.9% ★, Co-op 12%, Building 10.8%, Survival 10.4%, Crafting 10.4%
- #32 Project Castaway
76% matchMixed66% of 1,849 reviews2026
Dev: Mardonpol Inc.
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 26.9% ★, Co-op 12.6%, Survival 11.2%, Crafting 10.1%, Building 9.8%
- #33 Ylands
78% matchMixed64% of 8,445 reviews2019
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 54 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 23.5% ★, Sailing 20.8% ★, Crafting 12.7%, Building 9.8%, Co-op 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox exploration game that offers a wide variety of tools for building and adventuring across colorful, diverse islands.
- #34 The Last Caretaker
73% matchVery Positive86% of 13,056 reviews2025
Dev: Channel37 Ltd
Windows
Median: 19.6 hrsMean: 36.3 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 26.2% ★, Crafting 18.5%, Survival 15.2%, Sandbox 11.7%, Open World 11.1%
- #35 Scrap Mechanic
70% 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 20.5%, Crafting 17.2%, Survival 14.6%, Sandbox 12.4%, Open World 11%
- #36 Breakwaters: Crystal Tides
76% matchMixed62% of 1,000 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 10.2%
- #37 Lodventure
75% matchMostly Positive74% of 164 reviews2023
Dev: Sky Games
Windows
Embark on a 1-4 players Co-op survival adventure in an open world wilderness in search of a myth called the Lod Stone. Build your house, sow your crops, brew potions, tame a horse and discover powerful abilities. Venture into dangerous dungeons, fight unique bosses to find the Lod stone.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.5% ★, Co-op 13%, Survival 11.2%, Crafting 10.8%, Building 8.6%
- #38 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
72% matchVery Positive91% of 7,602 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Survive, craft, and automate in this free prologue set on one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters, an open-world game where you play solo or with friends to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.1% ★, Crafting 12.6%, Building 9.9%, Survival 8.6%, Open World 8.3%
- #39 Stranded Deep
73% matchMostly Positive74% of 47,770 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 35.2% ★, Survival 15.1%, Crafting 11.8%, Open World 7.8%, Multiplayer 7.3%
- #40 I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival
71% matchVery Positive85% of 4,645 reviews2024
Dev: MandragoraPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 14.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
I Am Future is a relaxing single-player survival game about building a cozy rooftop camp amid a flooded post-apocalyptic city. Set up a farm, go fishing, tinker with gadgets, craft new tools, manage a team of cute robots to automate and expand your base, explore the mysterious world, and chill out!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 18.1% ★, Agriculture 17.9% ★, Crafting 13.1%, Building 11.8%, Sandbox 8.7%
- #41 Drift: Space Survival
74% 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 32.9% ★, Crafting 13.7%, Survival 13.5%, Building 12.1%, Sandbox 7.1%
- #42 Luma Island
71% matchVery Positive84% of 12,657 reviews2024
Dev: Feel Free Games
Windows
Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 24.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 19.6%, Building 18.3%, Co-op 15.7%, Open World 9.3%, Character Customization 8.7%
- #43 TerraTech Worlds
73% 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: Open World Survival Craft 24.8% ★, Crafting 13%, Building 11.9%, Co-op 11.3%, Survival 10.4%
- #44 Escape The Pacific
74% matchMixed67% of 761 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 23.4% ★, Sailing 19.1% ★, Crafting 12.3%, Building 10.6%, Survival 10.3%
- #45 Above Snakes
71% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,990 reviews2023
Dev: Square Glade GamesPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Piece by piece, create your own world in this relaxing Wild West-inspired worldbuilder. Craft, farm, hunt, build your base, and explore.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.7% ★, Crafting 13.1%, Building 12.5%, Survival 9.8%, Open World 9.8%
- #46 Survival: Fountain of Youth
69% matchVery Positive85% of 4,480 reviews2024
Dev: Odinsoft Inc.Pub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 30.3% ★, Crafting 15.1%, Survival 14.1%, Building 11.1%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #47 Starbound
69% matchVery Positive90% of 123,281 reviews2016
Dev: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.0 hrsMean: 64.4 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 33.8% ★, Sandbox 11%, Crafting 10.5%, Survival 9.5%, Building 8.1%
- #48 KeepUp Survival
70% matchMixed64% of 749 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 84%
KeepUp Survival is an open-world base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and shape your own story on a mysterious island.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.1% ★, Crafting 13.5%, Co-op 12.5%, Survival 12.3%, Open World 9%
- #49 Solace Crafting
70% matchMostly Positive72% of 898 reviews2022
Dev: Big Kitty Games
Windows · Linux
Embark on an adventure set in a fantasy survival RPG. Visit a borderless, open world where you manage resources to construct your base and new types of equipment to support your conquest.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.9% ★, Crafting 14%, Survival 12.1%, Building 11.2%, Co-op 9.2%
- #50 Lost Rift
68% matchMixed70% of 1,693 reviews2025
Dev: People Can Fly
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 34% ★, Crafting 18.6%, Survival 15.2%, Character Customization 9.8%, Multiplayer 8%
- #51 My Island
68% matchMixed66% of 1,734 reviews2024
Dev: SnowBaby Games
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 47%
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 39.2% ★, Survival 15.2%, Crafting 11.7%, Open World 8.3%, Building 7.7%
- #52 Dawn of Defiance
67% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,842 reviews2024
Dev: Traega EntertainmentPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 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 32.3% ★, Survival 14.1%, Building 11.2%, Crafting 10.3%, Open World 8%
- #53 Cubic Odyssey
66% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,720 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 36% ★, Building 16.8%, Co-op 16.1%, Sandbox 12.1%, Crafting 5.3%
- #54 Skyformer
65% 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: Open World Survival Craft 28.3% ★, Crafting 14.5%, Co-op 13.3%, Survival 12.2%, Building 10.3%
- #55 Forgotten Seas
66% matchMostly Positive77% of 594 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 16.8% ★, Sailing 15.4% ★, Crafting 12%, Building 11.8%, Co-op 11.7%
- #56 Subsistence
68% 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: Open World Survival Craft 35.6% ★, Survival 15%, Crafting 14.2%, Building 9.5%, Open World 8%
- #57 Out of Reach
69% matchMixed57% of 3,051 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.1 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 33.1% ★, Survival 14.3%, Crafting 12.5%, Building 9.6%, Open World 8.8%
- #58 Salt
67% matchMostly Positive77% of 2,251 reviews2018
Dev: Lavaboots Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Salt is an open world exploration game where you sail from island to island looking for loot and new discoveries! Relax and explore at your own pace, picking a direction and setting sail across a vast ocean filled with quests, merchants, ruins, pirates, and other mysterious places.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31% ★, Survival 13.6%, Crafting 12.8%, Sailing 11.3% ★, Open World 10.5%
