- #1 Forever Skies
97% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,284 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.4 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 23.6% ★, Crafting 13.9%, Co-op 13.1%, Survival 11.6%, Building 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: Features high-altitude airship survival and exploration in a post-apocalyptic world that mirrors the sky-faring mechanics of Aloft.
- #2 Raft
96% matchVery Positive93% of 368,916 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.5 hrsMean: 36.8 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 29.7% ★, Survival 16.4%, Co-op 13%, Crafting 11.3%, Building 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: The definitive experience for building a mobile base while navigating a vast, dangerous environment.
- #3 Lost Skies
96% matchMixed62% of 2,832 reviews2025
Dev: Bossa StudiosPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 40.6% ★, Crafting 11.8%, Sandbox 11.2%, Open World 8%, Character Customization 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on co-op exploration of floating islands and building custom airships to traverse the clouds.
- #4 Voidtrain
95% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,176 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 13.8 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 29.8% ★, Co-op 11.6%, Crafting 10.8%, Survival 10%, Building 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a unique take on mobile base-building where you expand and customize a train traveling through an interdimensional void.
- #5 The Planet Crafter
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 67,314 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.1 hrsMean: 37.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.5% ★, Crafting 13.5%, Building 13%, Co-op 12.3%, Survival 12%
Why You'll Like It: Centers on the rewarding process of terraforming a barren world, mirroring the ecosystem restoration goals found in Aloft.
- #6 Volcanoids
94% matchVery Positive83% of 9,214 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: Open World Survival Craft 24.2% ★, Crafting 12.6%, Survival 10.4%, Building 9.4%, Co-op 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: Features a drill-ship that serves as your mobile base, requiring you to manage resources and defend against environmental threats.
- #7 Lightyear Frontier
93% matchVery Positive84% of 4,206 reviews2024
Dev: FRAME BREAK
Windows
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 24.6% ★, Agriculture 18.2% ★, Crafting 14.2%, Co-op 10.2%, Survival 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: A cozy, mech-based survival game that focuses on farming and base-building in a vibrant, alien environment.
- #8 Subnautica
92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 344,093 reviews2018
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.4 hrsMean: 40.0 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 36.9% ★, Survival 16.8%, Crafting 14.5%, Open World 10.5%, Sandbox 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: Provides an unparalleled atmospheric survival experience with a heavy emphasis on exploration and ecosystem discovery.
- #9 Valheim
91% matchVery Positive94% of 529,829 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 25.6 hrsMean: 76.1 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 29.1% ★, Survival 12.6%, Building 11.8%, Crafting 11.8%, Co-op 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: Combines cooperative survival and building with a strong sense of atmospheric adventure and exploration.
- #10 ASTRONEER
91% matchVery Positive92% of 136,711 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 44.1 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 26.2% ★, Survival 11.9%, Co-op 9.6%, Open World 9%, Crafting 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on exploration and creative base-building in a colorful, low-gravity space setting.
- #11 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
90% matchVery Positive82% of 9,646 reviews2024
Dev: Merge GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 23.8% ★, Crafting 12%, Survival 11.6%, Building 11.2%, Co-op 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a unique perspective on survival by shrinking the player down, emphasizing exploration of a massive, detailed world.
- #12 Nightingale
89% matchMixed67% of 17,841 reviews2024
Dev: Inflexion Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 23.9 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 27.9% ★, Crafting 13.4%, Building 12.7%, Survival 12.6%, Co-op 11%
Why You'll Like It: Features portal-hopping exploration and survival with a distinct aesthetic and deep crafting systems.
- #13 Eden Crafters
89% matchVery Positive86% of 2,214 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in Eden Crafters, a solo and co-op open-world game that challenges you to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Temper the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.8% ★, Crafting 15.3%, Building 12.1%, Survival 10.2%, Co-op 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: Combines automation, crafting, and base-building to transform harsh environments into habitable ones.
- #14 No Man's Sky
88% matchVery Positive85% of 402,164 reviews2016
Dev: Hello Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 20.2 hrsMean: 70.4 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 37.1% ★, Open World 13.5%, Survival 11.7%, Crafting 8.9%, Sandbox 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: Offers vast, colorful procedural worlds to explore with extensive base-building and vehicle customization options.
- #15 Len's Island
86% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,615 reviews2025
Dev: Flow Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 11.9 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% ★, Building 10.1%, Crafting 9.6%, Survival 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Blends cozy farming and building mechanics with dungeon-crawling exploration in a bright, inviting world.
- #16 Dinkum
84% matchVery Positive92% of 28,435 reviews2025
Dev: James BendonPub: KRAFTON, Inc.
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 28.4 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 22.5% ★, Farming 21.8% ★, Agriculture 16.4% ★, Crafting 8.1%, Co-op 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a relaxing, farming-sim experience that focuses on building and community in a unique island setting.
- #17 Windbound
87% matchMixed59% of 1,161 reviews2020
Dev: 5 Lives StudiosPub: Deep Silver
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 63%
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 25.9%, Sailing 24.9% ★, Crafting 24.8%, Adventure 12.9%, Open World 5.7%
Why You'll Like It: Features a beautiful, atmospheric world where sailing and survival are the core pillars of the gameplay loop.
- #18 TerraTech Worlds
86% matchMixed63% of 2,175 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 22.1 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 24.3% ★, Crafting 13.2%, Building 12%, Co-op 11.5%, Survival 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on building custom vehicles and bases in an open-world environment with a strong emphasis on sandbox creativity.
- #19 Scrap Mechanic
85% matchVery Positive92% of 117,049 reviews2016
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.1 hrsMean: 57.3 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 20.4%, Crafting 17.4%, Survival 14.6%, Sandbox 12.4%, Open World 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: Provides deep mechanical building tools that allow for the creation of complex moving vehicles and bases.
- #20 Sunkenland
84% matchVery Positive81% of 22,996 reviews2023
Dev: Vector3 Studio
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 17.9 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 33.5% ★, Co-op 15.4%, Survival 14%, Crafting 12.2%, Multiplayer 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game centered on island exploration and building, though set in an aquatic rather than aerial environment.
- #21 Grounded
82% matchVery Positive90% of 92,875 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.2 hrsMean: 40.8 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 28.8% ★, Survival 18.7%, Co-op 14.5%, Crafting 13.2%, Multiplayer 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: A cooperative survival game that excels at world-building and exploration through a unique, small-scale lens.
- #22 Eco
83% matchVery Positive81% of 13,777 reviews2018
Dev: Strange Loop Games
Windows
Median: 16.8 hrsMean: 88.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Build a civilization of real people, working together to advance society and stop a meteor, all without destroying the ecosystem in the process.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.4% ★, Building 15.5%, Crafting 13.9%, Sandbox 11%, Survival 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: Emphasizes the impact of player actions on the ecosystem, requiring careful management to prevent environmental collapse.
- #23 Survival Machine
81% matchMostly Positive74% of 669 reviews2025
Dev: Grape PickersPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Build your base on a moving Machine, travel through biomes with different resources, and prepare for the night when a zombie threat is much higher than during the day. Would you go solo or explore this new world with your best friends?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.7% ★, Crafting 13.2%, Building 11.7%, Co-op 11.7%, Survival 11%
Why You'll Like It: Features a mobile base that you must defend while traveling through dangerous, procedurally generated landscapes.
- #24 Among Trees
82% matchMixed68% of 2,216 reviews2021
Dev: FJRD Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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 21.3% ★, Survival 9.5%, Crafting 9.2%, Building 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: A highly atmospheric survival game that emphasizes solitude and exploration within a beautiful, dense forest.
- #25 Project Castaway
81% matchMixed67% of 1,632 reviews2026
Dev: Mardonpol Inc.
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 69%
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 26.4% ★, Co-op 12.8%, Survival 11.1%, Crafting 10.3%, Building 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on survival and crafting on remote islands, emphasizing the struggle against the elements.
- #26 Satisfactory
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 265,414 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 31.8 hrsMean: 108.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Why similar: Crafting 16.9%, Open World Survival Craft 14.3% ★, Building 14%, Co-op 13.4%, Open World 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on large-scale base-building and automation in a beautiful, alien open world.
- #27 ICARUS
79% matchMostly Positive74% of 62,078 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 44.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 28.2% ★, Survival 14.2%, Crafting 12.9%, Building 10.3%, Co-op 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: A session-based survival game that challenges players to explore and build in a harsh, alien environment.
- #28 Creativerse
80% 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 22.9% ★, Crafting 13.3%, Building 12.4%, Co-op 11.1%, Survival 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: A colorful, voxel-based survival game that offers extensive creative freedom and atmospheric exploration.
- #29 Everwind
77% matchVery Positive82% of 2,069 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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: Building 14.7%, Co-op 14.5%, Crafting 13.7%, Survival 13.5%, Sandbox 11%
- #30 Echoes of Elysium
77% matchMixed64% of 502 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% ★, Crafting 12.8%, Building 11.4%, Co-op 11.3%, Survival 10.1%
- #31 Ylands
79% matchMixed64% of 8,354 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 23.1% ★, Sailing 21% ★, Crafting 12.8%, Building 9.9%, Co-op 9%
Why You'll Like It: A colorful, low-poly adventure game that offers a wide variety of exploration and building opportunities.
- #32 Tinkerlands
76% matchVery Positive86% of 3,746 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 13.7 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 27.1% ★, Crafting 11.5%, Survival 11.4%, Building 10.2%, Co-op 10.2%
- #33 Boundless
78% matchMixed70% of 2,766 reviews2018
Dev: Monumental, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 33.0 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 33.3% ★, Crafting 15.7%, Building 13%, Sandbox 12.2%, Open World 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based sandbox that encourages exploration across diverse, interconnected worlds with heavy building elements.
- #34 Cubic Odyssey
75% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,483 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 27.8% ★, Building 13.4%, Co-op 13.3%, Sandbox 10.1%, Crafting 8.1%
- #35 Stranded Deep
75% matchMostly Positive74% of 47,062 reviews2022
Dev: Beam Team GamesPub: Beam Team Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 21.1 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 34.7% ★, Survival 15.1%, Crafting 12%, Open World 7.7%, Multiplayer 7.4%
- #36 Scrapnaut
76% matchMostly Positive70% of 824 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 19.5% ★, Building 14.7%, Survival 12.3%, Co-op 12%, Crafting 10.9%
- #37 I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival
72% matchVery Positive85% of 4,518 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: Agriculture 17.9% ★, Open World Survival Craft 17.7% ★, Crafting 13.3%, Building 11.9%, Sandbox 8.8%
- #38 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
71% matchVery Positive91% of 7,161 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in this free prologue introducing one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters – an upcoming open-world game that challenges you, alone or with friends, to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.6% ★, Crafting 13%, Building 9.9%, Survival 8.4%, Open World 8.3%
- #39 The Last Caretaker
71% matchVery Positive85% of 9,793 reviews2025
Dev: Channel37 Ltd
Windows
Median: 18.8 hrsMean: 30.9 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 26.3% ★, Crafting 17.1%, Survival 14.1%, Sandbox 11.1%, Open World 10.4%
- #40 Lodventure
73% 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% ★, Co-op 13.2%, Survival 11.2%, Crafting 11%, Building 8.6%
- #41 Breathedge
73% matchVery Positive82% of 16,026 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% ★, Survival 14.9%, Crafting 13.4%, Sandbox 11.5%, Open World 6.5%
- #42 Breakwaters: Crystal Tides
74% matchMixed63% of 996 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 13.2%, Crafting 12.2%, Sandbox 10.3%
- #43 Survive on Raft
74% matchMixed63% of 1,245 reviews2019
Dev: Megame LLC
Windows
Median: 3.0 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 19.3% ★, Crafting 10.8%, Survival 9.2%, Building 8.7%
- #44 Voyagers of Nera
70% matchVery Positive85% of 2,114 reviews2025
Dev: Treehouse Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 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 28% ★, Crafting 14.8%, Building 13.8%, Co-op 13.4%, Character Customization 8.3%
- #45 KeepUp Survival
71% matchMixed65% of 734 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.7 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 25.7% ★, Crafting 13.7%, Co-op 12.7%, Survival 12.2%, Open World 8.9%
- #46 Escape The Pacific
73% 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% ★, Sailing 19.2% ★, Crafting 12.4%, Building 10.6%, Survival 10.3%
- #47 Luma Island
69% matchVery Positive84% of 12,128 reviews2024
Dev: Feel Free Games
Windows
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 24.3 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 19.8%, Building 18.3%, Co-op 15.8%, Open World 9.1%, Character Customization 8.8%
- #48 IfSunSets
69% matchMostly Positive75% of 2,127 reviews2024
Dev: POLYMORPHPub: Smilegate
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 28.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
「IfSunSets」 is a survival RPG adventure game. During the day, secure necessary supplies across the island, and survive the night against strong and terrifying monsters that track you down. You can utilize resources you've secured to build a base to fend off threatening monsters.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.2% ★, Crafting 13.8%, Co-op 11.8%, Survival 11%, Sandbox 9%
- #49 Above Snakes
70% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,929 reviews2023
Dev: Square Glade GamesPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 11.4 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 24.3% ★, Crafting 13.3%, Building 12.5%, Survival 9.8%, Open World 9.6%
- #50 Omega Crafter
68% matchMostly Positive79% of 560 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 23.8% ★, Crafting 14.5%, Survival 12.1%, Co-op 11.2%, Building 10.1%
- #51 Drift: Space Survival
70% matchMixed70% of 76 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 32.4% ★, Crafting 13.9%, Survival 13.5%, Building 12.2%, Sandbox 7.3%
- #52 My Island
69% matchMixed67% of 1,706 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 38.4% ★, Survival 15.1%, Crafting 12%, Open World 8.3%, Building 7.9%
- #53 Dawn of Defiance
68% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,736 reviews2024
Dev: Traega EntertainmentPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 31.8% ★, Survival 14.1%, Building 11.3%, Crafting 10.5%, Open World 7.9%
- #54 Survival: Fountain of Youth
67% matchVery Positive86% of 4,270 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 29.8% ★, Crafting 15.3%, Survival 14.1%, Building 11.3%, Sandbox 8.6%
- #55 Starbound
68% matchVery Positive90% of 122,901 reviews2016
Dev: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.2 hrsMean: 64.1 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 33.3% ★, Sandbox 11.2%, Crafting 10.7%, Survival 9.5%, Building 8.1%
- #56 Lost Rift
66% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,413 reviews2025
Dev: People Can Fly
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 33.4% ★, Crafting 18.8%, Survival 15.1%, Character Customization 10%, Multiplayer 8.1%
- #57 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 34,087 reviews2020
Dev: Eleon Game Studios
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 76.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.5% ★, Co-op 13%, Building 12.3%, Crafting 10.9%, Survival 10.6%
- #58 Flotsam
64% matchVery Positive80% of 4,240 reviews2025
Dev: Pajama Llama GamesPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 10.9 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 21.8%, Survival 21.4%, Sandbox 18.7%, Open World 15.6%, Colorful 9.4%
- #59 StarRupture
63% matchVery Positive81% of 10,861 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.1% ★, Crafting 13.6%, Co-op 12.7%, Survival 12.1%, Sandbox 8.7%
