- #1 Raft
97% 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 41.1% ★, Survival 13.8%, Co-op 11%, Multiplayer 9.2%, Open World 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the focus on building a mobile base while exploring a vast, water-based world with friends.
- #2 The Long Dark
96% matchVery Positive89% of 121,879 reviews2017
Dev: Hinterland Studio Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 46.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies -- only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 54.4% ★, Survival 15.9%, Open World 10.7%, Crafting 4.2%, Exploration 3.3%
Why You'll Like It: It is the definitive cold-climate survival game, focusing on isolation and resource management in a harsh, frozen wilderness.
- #3 ASTRONEER
96% 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 37.6% ★, Open World 10.6%, Survival 10.3%, Co-op 8.4%, Multiplayer 8%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes exploration and creative base building in a vibrant, low-stress environment.
- #4 Subnautica
95% 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 45.5% ★, Survival 12.6%, Open World 10.7%, Base Building 7.1%, Crafting 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: Like Arctico, it excels at atmospheric exploration and base building in a beautiful, often lonely, alien environment.
- #5 The Planet Crafter
94% 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 38.7% ★, Co-op 10.5%, Survival 10.1%, Open World 9.1%, Base Building 9%
Why You'll Like It: This game captures the peaceful, goal-oriented nature of Arctico by focusing on terraforming and base expansion.
- #6 Valheim
93% 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 40.4% ★, Survival 10.6%, Open World 9.9%, Co-op 7.4%, Multiplayer 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a similarly rewarding loop of exploration, base construction, and survival in a vast, atmospheric world.
- #7 Among Trees
94% 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: Open World Survival Craft 40.9% ★, Survival 11%, Open World 10.3%, Crafting 6.5%, Base Building 6%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a highly atmospheric, nature-focused survival experience that mirrors the quiet beauty of Arctico.
- #8 ICARUS
92% 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 36.9% ★, Survival 11.3%, Open World 8.1%, Co-op 7.7%, Base Building 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a session-based survival experience with a strong focus on base building and exploration.
- #9 Green Hell
91% matchVery Positive85% of 97,093 reviews2019
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45% ★, Survival 12.5%, Multiplayer 9.1%, Open World 7.8%, Co-op 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a deep, nature-focused survival experience that challenges players to master their environment.
- #10 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
91% 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 35.1% ★, Survival 10.4%, Co-op 8.9%, Open World 8.9%, Base Building 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: It combines exploration and base building with a unique perspective on nature and survival.
- #11 Stranded Deep
90% 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 48.6% ★, Survival 12.8%, Open World 8.9%, Multiplayer 8.5%, Crafting 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on island survival and crafting, providing a similar loop of exploration and resource management.
- #12 Aloft
89% matchVery Positive84% of 3,576 reviews2025
Dev: Astrolabe Interactive Inc.Pub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Soar the skies in Aloft, the co-op sandbox survival game set in a world of floating islands. Build any island into a skyship, your home in the clouds. Find lost knowledge, cure the fungal corruption, and brave the hurricane to restore the ecosystem.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.2% ★, Co-op 12.4%, Survival 11.6%, Open World 8.7%, Crafting 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a peaceful, sky-based exploration and survival experience with a heavy emphasis on base building.
- #13 Pacific Drive
89% matchVery Positive83% of 25,653 reviews2024
Dev: Ironwood StudiosPub: Kepler Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 16.5 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 26.9%, Crafting 16.7%, Base Building 15.1%, Exploration 9.3%, Building 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: It features a unique vehicle-focused exploration loop that captures the same sense of adventure as Arctico's sledding.
- #14 Forever Skies
88% 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 32.6% ★, Co-op 11.1%, Survival 9.7%, Open World 9.7%, Base Building 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: It features a unique airship-based survival loop that emphasizes exploration and resource gathering.
- #15 The Wild Eight
87% matchMixed68% of 8,077 reviews2019
Dev: Eight PointsPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
The Wild Eight is an intense survival action-adventure set in the frozen wilderness of Alaska. Team up with friends in online co-op or go solo, explore the mysterious land, craft weapons and fight to live another day.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.8% ★, Survival 15%, Co-op 9.4%, Open World 9%, Multiplayer 8%
Why You'll Like It: It centers on survival in a frozen, hostile environment, closely matching the thematic setting of Arctico.
- #16 Voidtrain
85% 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 41.4% ★, Co-op 9.9%, Survival 8.5%, Open World 7.5%, Multiplayer 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: It features a unique vehicle-based exploration mechanic that feels like a natural evolution of Arctico's traversal.
- #17 Windbound
86% matchMixed59% of 1,166 reviews2020
Dev: 5 Lives StudiosPub: Deep Silver
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 6.6 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 35%, Crafting 20.5%, Adventure 16.1%, Open World 10.5%, Indie 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on island-hopping exploration and survival, mirroring the kayak-based travel found in Arctico.
- #18 Subsistence
86% 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 47% ★, Survival 12.3%, Open World 8.9%, Multiplayer 7.4%, Crafting 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a realistic, open-world survival experience with a strong focus on base building and resource gathering.
- #19 Sunkenland
83% 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 43.1% ★, Co-op 12.1%, Survival 10.9%, Base Building 7.1%, Open World 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: It provides an engaging survival and base-building experience set in a flooded, post-apocalyptic world.
- #20 Ylands
84% 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 37.3% ★, Open World 9.1%, Co-op 8.9%, Multiplayer 8%, Base Building 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a colorful, exploration-heavy survival experience with extensive building tools.
- #21 Salt
84% matchMostly Positive76% of 2,246 reviews2018
Dev: Lavaboots Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 8.0 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 46.8% ★, Open World 13.1%, Survival 12.7%, Crafting 7.4%, Multiplayer 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: It is an exploration-focused survival game that emphasizes sailing and discovering new islands.
- #22 Longvinter
81% matchMixed67% of 7,565 reviews2025
Dev: Uuvana Studios
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 42.7 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Fish, farm, craft, gather, cook, loot or steal from other players and build a campsite or a village with your friends in an open-world multiplayer sandbox game without rules!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.4% ★, Survival 12%, Open World 10.6%, Multiplayer 9.5%, Crafting 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a cozy, multiplayer-focused survival experience with a unique aesthetic.
- #23 No Man's Sky
82% matchVery Positive85% of 406,987 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 49% ★, Open World 14.9%, Survival 9.4%, Multiplayer 6.7%, Exploration 5.1%
Why You'll Like It: It is the ultimate exploration and base-building game, offering endless environments to discover.
- #24 Solace Crafting
82% matchMostly Positive72% of 891 reviews2022
Dev: Big Kitty Games
Windows · Linux
Embark on an adventure set in a fantasy survival RPG. Visit a borderless, open world where you manage resources to construct your base and new types of equipment to support your conquest.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.7% ★, Survival 10.3%, Open World 9.4%, Co-op 8%, Multiplayer 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on a vast, open-world survival experience with deep crafting and building mechanics.
- #25 KeepUp Survival
81% 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 34.4% ★, Co-op 10.4%, Survival 9.9%, Open World 9.9%, Base Building 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a straightforward, co-op-focused survival experience with a focus on base building.
- #26 Don't Starve Together
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 531,653 reviews2016
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 64.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 67% ★, Survival 18.7%, Co-op 4.2%, Multiplayer 3.7%, Open World 2.8%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a challenging, atmospheric survival experience that is best enjoyed with friends.
- #27 Sons Of The Forest
78% matchVery Positive88% of 304,972 reviews2024
Dev: Endnight Games LtdPub: Newnight
Windows
Median: 15.1 hrsMean: 32.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends, in this terrifying new open-world survival horror simulator.
Why similar: Survival 18.8%, Open World 16.6%, Co-op 16.3%, Multiplayer 12%, Base Building 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a deep, immersive survival experience with a strong emphasis on exploration and base construction.
- #28 Medieval Dynasty
79% matchVery Positive90% of 50,786 reviews2021
Dev: Render CubePub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 11.8 hrsMean: 36.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.
Why similar: Co-op 15.1%, Crafting 14.2%, Survival 13.5%, Open World 13.1%, Multiplayer 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on long-term base building and management in a beautiful, naturalistic open world.
- #29 Junk Jack
80% matchMostly Positive79% of 469 reviews2016
Dev: Pixbits
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 21.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Make the world truly yours in Junk Jack, a relaxing sandbox experience focused on building and improving your home. Discover new planets, tame and breed creatures, cook foods, collect animal companions, farm exotic plants, collect fish, grow flowers, play with your friends!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.7% ★, Survival 11.4%, Crafting 7.8%, Multiplayer 7.2%, Sandbox 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a sandbox survival experience that emphasizes exploration and creative building.
- #30 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
76% 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 39.9% ★, Open World 9.5%, Multiplayer 8.6%, Base Building 8.4%, Survival 7.1%
- #31 Feel The Snow
77% matchVery Positive87% of 3,047 reviews2019
Dev: Owlet
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Choose one of the characters and start your journey. The game has many interesting things in store: building, crafting, puzzles, bosses, mystery, laughs, quests etc.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.6% ★, Survival 11.5%, Co-op 9.5%, Multiplayer 9.1%, Open World 7.5%
- #32 Breathedge
76% 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 48.4% ★, Survival 11.5%, Base Building 8.5%, Open World 6.8%, Crafting 6.3%
- #33 The Gold River Project
75% matchMixed66% of 568 reviews2026
Dev: Fairview Games Inc.
Windows
The Gold River Project™ is a camping trip gone wrong in the Pacific Northwest. Explore, craft, build, and survive in this open-world experiment that traps you and up to 4 friends in this single player or co-op survival adventure game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.3% ★, Open World 10.9%, Co-op 10.4%, Survival 9.3%, Multiplayer 7.3%
- #34 Project Castaway
74% 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 36.8% ★, Co-op 10.9%, Survival 9.4%, Open World 8.5%, Base Building 6.6%
- #35 Scrapnaut
77% 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 30.1% ★, Survival 11.4%, Co-op 11.3%, Multiplayer 8.1%, Open World 7.7%
- #36 Frost Survival VR
74% matchVery Positive88% of 168 reviews2025
Dev: Wenkly Studio Sp. z o.o.
Windows
Sandbox Survival in VR. Face a frozen wilderness solo or in co-op - build a shelter, craft tools, hunt for food, and manage your resources to endure harsh conditions. Strategize your moves against unpredictable weather and lurking dangers. And remember to keep yourself safe and sane!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.8% ★, Survival 10.7%, Base Building 8.2%, Snow 8.1% ★, Open World 7.4%
- #37 Lodventure
75% 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 38.2% ★, Co-op 11.4%, Open World 9.7%, Survival 9.6%, Base Building 6%
- #38 Camping Simulator: The Squad
73% matchMixed58% of 1,083 reviews2025
Dev: CubeCube Sports Ltd.
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 1.7 hrs≥1hr: 49%
Camping Simulator lets you experience what camp means by preparing your backpack wisely for challenging conditions of nature. You can play all the experiences with up to 8 friends in multiplayer mode or single player mode.
Why similar: Co-op 17.5%, Survival 16.3%, Crafting 11.4%, Nature 11.1%, Sandbox 7.3%
- #39 Tinkerlands
71% 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 41% ★, Survival 10.3%, Open World 10.1%, Co-op 9.2%, Multiplayer 7%
- #40 TerraTech Worlds
73% 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 35.1% ★, Co-op 10.2%, Open World 9.3%, Survival 9.1%, Base Building 8.5%
- #41 Force of Nature
73% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,202 reviews2016
Dev: A.Y.std
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.2% ★, Survival 11.6%, Open World 8.8%, Crafting 8.7%, Multiplayer 5.3%
- #42 Omega Crafter
70% 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 36.2% ★, Open World 11.7%, Survival 11.1%, Co-op 10.4%, Multiplayer 8.8%
- #43 Northern Lights
72% matchMixed67% of 296 reviews2020
Dev: MadGoat Studio
Windows
Northern Lights is an open world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the arctic tundra. Clinging to life, you must use real-life survival techniques to gather resources, craft, and hunt while tending to your health and sanity. Can you survive your way out of the mysterious island?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.2% ★, Open World 11.8%, Survival 11.8%, Snow 8.7% ★, Crafting 7.9%
- #44 Eden Crafters
67% 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 39.6% ★, Open World 9.5%, Base Building 8.7%, Survival 8.4%, Co-op 8.2%
- #45 Len's Island
67% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,720 reviews2025
Dev: Flow Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
An open-world survival crafting game for 1–8 players, blending intense dungeon crawling and ARPG combat with peaceful farming and creative building. Take on quests and explore a vast, procedurally-generated world full of danger and discovery.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40% ★, Survival 10.5%, Open World 9.6%, Nature 8.3%, Crafting 7.1%
- #46 ArkCraft: The Rebirth of the World
69% matchMostly Positive74% of 177 reviews2024
Dev: ZD Yazilim
Windows
In this open-world crafting and building game, you explore an ancient world full of dangers and secrets. Collect animals and plants, build bases and master the craft as you build your ark and save civilization from destruction by the flood and then rebuild it.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.4% ★, Open World 13.5%, Base Building 10.6%, Survival 10.3%, Crafting 9.8%
- #47 Palworld
65% matchVery Positive94% of 421,232 reviews2024
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 34.5 hrsMean: 70.8 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.5% ★, Open World 13.4%, Survival 11.8%, Multiplayer 8.6%, Co-op 8.1%
- #48 Novus Inceptio
71% matchMixed52% of 1,302 reviews2015
Dev: McMagic Productions
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Warning: This is an Early Access game! Welcome to an enigmatic world, where a new gaming experience in exploring, building and surviving is waiting just for you. Experience a sandbox world with survival elements, and join us in creating a full version of the game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.7% ★, Survival 11.5%, Open World 11.5%, Base Building 7.9%, Crafting 7.9%
- #49 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 45.5% ★, Survival 12.1%, Open World 10%, Multiplayer 6.8%, Crafting 6.6%
- #50 Shamania
67% 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 36.2% ★, Open World 11.6%, Survival 10.5%, Co-op 9.1%, Crafting 8.3%
- #51 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,680 reviews2021
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Experience the first stages of terraforming an entire planet in this space survival open world terraforming crafting game prologue. Explore, survive, collect, build your base then create oxygen, heat and pressure to make an hostile planet livable for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.3% ★, Survival 11.8%, Open World 10.2%, Base Building 8.7%, Multiplayer 8.5%
- #52 Crushed
70% matchMixed54% of 311 reviews2020
Dev: NipoBoxPub: NipoBox Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Crushed — is an Singleplayer and Multiplayer First-Person Survival Sandbox in an Open World! Challenge the wild and be ready to survive in harsh conditions. Explore the world, get resources, cook food, build a house, farm, hunt, and enjoy nature.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.5% ★, Survival 10.9%, Open World 10.7%, Crafting 6.6%, Base Building 6.5%
- #53 Satisfactory
63% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 270,461 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 32.6 hrsMean: 110.0 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: Open World Survival Craft 21.1% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Open World 13%, Co-op 12%, Crafting 9.2%
- #54 Wilderness
71% matchMostly Negative28% of 86 reviews2020
Dev: Horizon Studios
Windows
Survive in the wild nature by playing as an animal or as a human. Play as an animal and survive by your own or build a herd to stay protected. Have babies and protect them from predators. Play as a human and craft items, build a house, customize your character and more.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.5% ★, Survival 11.4%, Co-op 8.3%, Open World 8.1%, Base Building 6.8%
- #55 Re.poly
69% matchVery Positive91% of 137 reviews2019
Dev: Hinkfoot Studios
Windows
Re.Poly is a relaxed yet deep indie survival game in a low-poly style that blends exploration, combat, building, and adventure. Whether alone or with friends, create your own world, write your own story, and decide how you want to play.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.2% ★, Survival 11.7%, Open World 11.2%, Crafting 8.5%, Base Building 8.2%
- #56 Drift: Space Survival
68% 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 46.4% ★, Survival 11.7%, Crafting 7.4%, Base Building 6.2%, Building 4.5%
- #57 INCUR Survival
67% matchVery Positive82% of 107 reviews2022
Dev: INCUR
Windows
A survival open-world game, where you can gather resources, Hunt, Craft tools and armor, Tame Animals, Ride Animals, Build, and defend your base from creatures, and other players.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.2% ★, Survival 11.2%, Open World 10.7%, Crafting 8.3%, Building 6%
- #58 Cube Life: Island Survival
69% matchMixed69% of 177 reviews2018
Dev: Cypronia
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Cube Life: Island Survival is an open-world, block building, survival game, taking place on a beautiful remote island. Imagine being shipwrecked and stranded left for dead, with only your will to survive. You must explore, build, craft, and fight your way to stay alive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 55.1% ★, Open World 9.8%, Survival 9.3%, Crafting 6.2%, Building 4.8%
