- #1 ASTRONEER
97% matchVery Positive92% of 139,497 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.7 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 38% ★, Open World 10.7%, Survival 10.2%, Co-op 8.3%, Multiplayer 8%
Why You'll Like It: It shares Arctico's peaceful, rover-assisted exploration loop and emphasis on cozy, open-world base building without intense combat stress.
- #2 Raft
96% matchVery Positive93% of 379,035 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.8 hrsMean: 38.0 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 41.6% ★, Survival 13.7%, Co-op 10.8%, Multiplayer 9.2%, Open World 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: Captures the open-water and island-hopping exploration vibe of Arctico combined with relaxing resource gathering and expansive building.
- #3 The Wild Eight
96% matchMixed68% of 8,131 reviews2019
Dev: Eight PointsPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.9 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 47.3% ★, Survival 14.8%, Co-op 9.2%, Open World 9.1%, Multiplayer 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: Like Arctico, it plunges players into a brutal frozen wilderness where survival relies on crafting, exploration, and cooperative base building.
- #4 Stranded Deep
95% matchMostly Positive74% of 47,919 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 49% ★, Survival 12.7%, Open World 9%, Multiplayer 8.5%, Crafting 6%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on remote island survival, seafaring transport via rafts and boats, and meticulous base camp setup just like Arctico.
- #5 Solarpunk™
94% matchVery Positive81% of 4,581 reviews2026
Dev: CyberwavePub: rokaplay
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: Open World Survival Craft 34.1% ★, Co-op 10%, Open World 8.6%, Survival 8.1%, Base Building 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: Shares the peaceful, eco-friendly approach to survival and building set in vibrant open environments.
- #6 The Planet Crafter
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 74,281 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.7 hrsMean: 38.8 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 39.2% ★, Co-op 10.4%, Survival 10.1%, Open World 9.2%, Base Building 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: Emphasizes the scientific, terraforming, and exploration aspects found in Arctico's sample-gathering gameplay loop.
- #7 Among Trees
93% matchMixed68% of 2,238 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: Open World Survival Craft 41.4% ★, Survival 10.9%, Open World 10.4%, Crafting 6.3%, Base Building 5.8%
Why You'll Like It: Offers the same solitary, atmospheric nature-exploration and cozy cabin-building experience as Arctico.
- #8 ICARUS
92% matchMostly Positive75% of 68,864 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.4 hrsMean: 46.7 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 37.6% ★, Survival 11.3%, Open World 8.1%, Co-op 7.5%, Multiplayer 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: Provides structured wilderness survival expeditions with heavy emphasis on shelter building and resource gathering.
- #9 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
91% matchVery Positive82% of 10,551 reviews2024
Dev: Max Ent Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 16.3 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 35.6% ★, Survival 10.4%, Open World 9.1%, Co-op 8.8%, Base Building 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: Features open-world survival and base building framed around exploring nature from a unique perspective.
- #10 Voidtrain
91% matchMostly Positive73% of 9,990 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 14.8 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 42% ★, Co-op 9.8%, Survival 8.5%, Open World 7.6%, Multiplayer 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: Centers your journey around a customized moving base vehicle, echoing Arctico's dog sled mechanics.
- #11 Breathedge
90% matchVery Positive81% of 18,514 reviews2021
Dev: RedRuins SoftworksPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 48.3% ★, Survival 11.3%, Base Building 8.1%, Open World 6.9%, Crafting 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: Combines light-hearted crafting and survival with vehicular exploration reminiscent of navigating Arctico's ice.
- #12 Green Hell
89% matchVery Positive85% of 102,938 reviews2019
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 45.3% ★, Survival 12.4%, Multiplayer 9.3%, Open World 7.8%, Co-op 5.7%
Why You'll Like It: Offers deep survival mechanics focused on health, crafting, and establishing remote camps in untamed wilderness environments.
- #13 Subsistence
89% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,861 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 47.6% ★, Survival 12.2%, Open World 8.9%, Multiplayer 7.4%, Crafting 7%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on open-world base building, crafting, and surviving against environmental pressures.
- #14 Subnautica
88% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 380,795 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 46% ★, Survival 12.4%, Open World 10.8%, Base Building 7%, Crafting 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: Blends atmospheric oceanic exploration and base building with a sense of wonder and isolation similar to Arctico.
- #15 Aloft
86% matchVery Positive83% of 3,782 reviews2025
Dev: Astrolabe Interactive Inc.Pub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 31.6% ★, Co-op 12.2%, Survival 11.5%, Open World 8.8%, Crafting 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: Emphasizes peaceful island exploration, crafting, and building your home in the sky.
- #16 Scrapnaut
87% matchMixed70% of 839 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 30.5% ★, Survival 11.3%, Co-op 11%, Multiplayer 8.2%, Open World 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: Features base building and survival elements set in an isolated, steampunk-tinged environment.
- #17 Project Castaway
85% matchMixed65% of 1,893 reviews2026
Dev: Mardonpol Inc.
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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 37.4% ★, Co-op 10.7%, Survival 9.4%, Open World 8.6%, Base Building 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: Centers on surviving isolation on remote islands with deep resource management and shelter building.
- #18 Salt
86% matchMostly Positive77% of 2,252 reviews2018
Dev: Lavaboots Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 8.2 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 47.1% ★, Open World 13.3%, Survival 12.5%, Crafting 7.2%, Multiplayer 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: Delivers a relaxing, open-world sailing and island-exploration survival experience akin to Arctico's coastal areas.
- #19 Feel The Snow
84% matchVery Positive87% of 3,062 reviews2019
Dev: Owlet
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 7.3 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 46.1% ★, Survival 11.4%, Co-op 9.3%, Multiplayer 9%, Open World 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: Takes cold-weather survival and base building and presents it in a charming adventure format.
- #20 Island Beekeeper
82% matchMostly Positive74% of 224 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 36.3% ★, Co-op 10.2%, Survival 8.8%, Multiplayer 7.2%, Open World 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: Combines cozy island life simulation with open-world survival and building elements.
- #21 Out of Reach
84% matchMixed57% of 3,051 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 46% ★, Survival 12%, Open World 10.1%, Multiplayer 6.8%, Crafting 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: Offers island survival, crafting, and tribal base building in an open maritime world.
- #22 Ylands
83% matchMixed64% of 8,453 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 37.8% ★, Open World 9.2%, Co-op 8.7%, Multiplayer 8%, Nature 8%
Why You'll Like It: Provides colorful, block-based exploration and island-hopping adventure suited for cooperative play.
- #23 KeepUp Survival
82% matchMixed64% of 751 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 34.8% ★, Co-op 10.2%, Open World 10%, Survival 9.9%, Base Building 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on open-world exploration, hunting, gathering, and base construction in remote lands.
- #24 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
80% matchVery Positive91% of 7,668 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 54%
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 40.4% ★, Open World 9.5%, Multiplayer 8.6%, Base Building 8.2%, Survival 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: Blends cooperative survival, crafting, and base-building mechanics on alien water worlds.
- #25 Volcanoids
81% matchVery Positive83% of 9,358 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: Co-op 14.5%, Survival 13.2%, Open World 12.9%, Base Building 11.3%, Crafting 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: Utilizes a mobile base vehicle that you continuously upgrade and drive across hazardous terrain.
- #26 Lodventure
81% matchMostly Positive74% of 166 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 38.8% ★, Co-op 11.2%, Open World 9.8%, Survival 9.5%, Base Building 5.8%
Why You'll Like It: A cozy indie survival crafting game designed for cooperative exploration in open spaces.
- #27 Solace Crafting
79% matchMostly Positive71% of 899 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 36.3% ★, Survival 10.3%, Open World 9.5%, Co-op 7.9%, Multiplayer 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: Features vast open-world exploration paired with modular building and survival mechanics.
- #28 The Gold River Project
78% matchMixed63% of 686 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 40.5% ★, Open World 10.9%, Co-op 10.3%, Survival 9.2%, Multiplayer 7.4%
- #29 Camping Simulator: The Squad
78% matchMixed57% of 1,095 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 17.4%, Survival 16.4%, Nature 11.4%, Crafting 11.2%, Sandbox 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the peaceful, cooperative outdoor aspects of setting up camp in nature.
- #30 Frost Survival VR
77% matchVery Positive89% of 179 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 34.1% ★, Survival 10.7%, Snow 8.2% ★, Base Building 8%, Open World 7.5%
- #31 Junk Jack
79% matchMostly Positive78% of 478 reviews2016
Dev: Pixbits
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 21.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 49.2% ★, Survival 11.4%, Crafting 7.6%, Multiplayer 7.2%, Sandbox 6%
Why You'll Like It: Offers sandbox crafting and exploration with a strong focus on cozy base building.
- #32 Longvinter
76% matchMixed67% of 7,713 reviews2025
Dev: Uuvana Studios
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 45.1 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 32.7% ★, Survival 11.9%, Open World 10.7%, Multiplayer 9.5%, Crafting 7.9%
- #33 Northern Lights
77% matchMixed67% of 299 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 44.7% ★, Open World 11.9%, Survival 11.7%, Snow 8.8% ★, Crafting 7.6%
- #34 Last Breath
74% matchVery Positive84% of 80 reviews2026
Dev: Mx
Windows
Last Breath is a solo/cooperative terraforming survival game. Dig through terrain, build powerful machines, and restore life to a dead planet. Work together to survive, automate, and reshape the world from the ground up, literally.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.1% ★, Survival 12.9%, Base Building 7.7%, Open World 7.5%, Co-op 7.4%
- #35 Forever Skies
73% matchMostly Positive78% of 9,059 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 30.5 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 33.2% ★, Co-op 11%, Open World 9.8%, Survival 9.6%, Base Building 7.9%
- #36 Necesse
71% matchVery Positive93% of 29,166 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.9% ★, Open World 8.6%, Survival 7.7%, Co-op 7%, Multiplayer 6.6%
- #37 Occupy Mars: The Game
73% matchMixed70% of 3,170 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 36.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Survive and colonize Mars alone or in online co-op. Build and upgrade your base, craft equipment, mine resources, produce water, oxygen and food, explore an open world, and repair complex machinery in a technical survival sandbox.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.4% ★, Survival 10.6%, Open World 10.4%, Base Building 8.8%, Crafting 7.8%
- #38 TerraTech Worlds
74% matchMixed63% of 2,297 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 21.8 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 35.6% ★, Co-op 10%, Open World 9.4%, Survival 9.1%, Base Building 8.3%
- #39 Escape The Pacific
75% matchMixed67% of 762 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 41.3% ★, Open World 11.2%, Survival 11%, Crafting 8%, Nature 7.2%
- #40 Ice Age
72% matchMixed55% of 53 reviews2026
Dev: Sabertooth Studio
Windows
As primitive human, in the wild Ice Age prehistoric world, Hunt and tame wild beasts such as mammoths and sabretooth, build homes, and survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.3% ★, Survival 12%, Base Building 10.8%, Open World 9.4%, Co-op 7.3%
- #41 Outbound
68% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,188 reviews2026
Dev: Square Glade Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 8.1 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: Open World Survival Craft 35.9% ★, Open World 11.5%, Nature 9.9%, Base Building 9.6%, Crafting 8.1%
- #42 Crushed
72% matchMixed53% of 321 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 42% ★, Open World 10.8%, Survival 10.8%, Crafting 6.4%, Base Building 6.4%
- #43 Wilderness
73% 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 40.9% ★, Survival 11.4%, Co-op 8.2%, Open World 8.1%, Base Building 6.7%
- #44 ArkCraft: The Rebirth of the World
69% matchMostly Positive73% of 187 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 45.1% ★, Open World 13.6%, Base Building 10.3%, Survival 10.2%, Crafting 9.5%
- #45 Shamania
68% matchMostly Positive74% of 171 reviews2026
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 36.6% ★, Open World 11.7%, Survival 10.5%, Co-op 8.9%, Crafting 8.1%
- #46 Everwind
67% matchVery Positive81% of 3,899 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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: Co-op 17.3%, Open World 16.8%, Survival 15.9%, Multiplayer 12%, Crafting 11.6%
- #47 Eden Crafters
66% matchVery Positive85% of 2,696 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 15.2 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 40.2% ★, Open World 9.6%, Base Building 8.5%, Survival 8.4%, Co-op 8.1%
- #48 Force of Nature
70% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,209 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 46.7% ★, Survival 11.5%, Open World 8.9%, Crafting 8.5%, Multiplayer 5.3%
- #49 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,722 reviews2021
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
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 39.8% ★, Survival 11.8%, Open World 10.3%, Base Building 8.6%, Multiplayer 8.5%
- #50 Re.poly
70% 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 41.7% ★, Survival 11.7%, Open World 11.3%, Crafting 8.3%, Base Building 8%
- #51 Cube Life: Island Survival
71% matchMixed69% of 177 reviews2018
Dev: Cypronia
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Cube Life: Island Survival is an open-world, block building, survival game, taking place on a beautiful remote island. Imagine being shipwrecked and stranded left for dead, with only your will to survive. You must explore, build, craft, and fight your way to stay alive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 55.5% ★, Open World 9.8%, Survival 9.2%, Crafting 6%, Building 4.7%
- #52 Omega Crafter
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 579 reviews2025
Dev: Preferred Networks
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.4 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 39.8% ★, Co-op 10.7%, Survival 10.2%, Open World 10%, Multiplayer 8.1%
- #53 Satisfactory
64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 280,086 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 33.5 hrsMean: 113.6 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 21.6% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Open World 13.1%, Co-op 11.8%, Multiplayer 9.1%
- #54 Drift: Space Survival
69% 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 46.9% ★, Survival 11.6%, Crafting 7.2%, Base Building 6%, Building 4.4%
- #55 INCUR Survival
69% matchVery Positive81% of 112 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 45.7% ★, Survival 11.1%, Open World 10.8%, Crafting 8.1%, Building 5.9%
- #56 Novus Inceptio
71% matchMixed52% of 1,304 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 43.2% ★, Open World 11.6%, Survival 11.4%, Base Building 7.7%, Crafting 7.7%
- #57 Alchemist's Awakening
70% matchMostly Positive73% of 497 reviews2019
Dev: OsarisGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Enter a world full of magic, mystery, beautiful landscapes and dangerous creatures. Build your own destiny, by yourself or with some friends, gather materials, use elements as attacks, recombine them into building blocks... and use your Alchemist's power to give life to any shape you built.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 57.3% ★, Open World 12.8%, Survival 11.5%, Crafting 10.2%, Sandbox 6.3%
- #58 Ice World
68% matchMixed60% of 1,265 reviews2024
Dev: CoolRabbit Games
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 38%
A blizzard brought a long winter, Humanity on the brink of extinction. you had to face ferocious beasts, mine ice and snow to build a base, and survive in the cold apocalypse.
Why similar: Dogs 19.1% ★, Survival 19%, Base Building 15.3%, Snow 12.6% ★, Crafting 11.9%
