- #1 Raft
97% matchVery Positive93% of 377,470 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.7 hrsMean: 37.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.4% ★, Survival 13.7%, Co-op 10.9%, Multiplayer 9.3%, Open World 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: Like Arctico, it features cooperative exploration and base building while traveling through an expansive, isolated environment.
- #2 The Planet Crafter
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 73,089 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.7 hrsMean: 38.5 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.1% ★, Co-op 10.5%, Survival 10.1%, Open World 9.1%, Base Building 9%
Why You'll Like It: This game shares a peaceful, exploration-heavy approach to survival where you transform a barren world into a habitable one.
- #3 Among Trees
96% matchMixed68% of 2,233 reviews2021
Dev: FJRD Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Escape to an enchanting, living sandbox surrounded by wildlife and nature. Scavenge materials and craft tools to turn your small cabin into a warm, well-supplied home. Survive by fishing, cooking and growing your own food. Be careful though, the forest is as dangerous as it is wonderful.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.2% ★, Survival 10.9%, Open World 10.4%, Crafting 6.4%, Base Building 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the quiet, atmospheric, and nature-focused survival experience found in Arctico.
- #4 The Long Dark
95% matchVery Positive89% of 123,417 reviews2017
Dev: Hinterland Studio Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 47.4 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 54.7% ★, Survival 15.8%, Open World 10.8%, Crafting 4.1%, Exploration 3.3%
Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive Arctic survival experience, focusing on atmospheric exploration and managing the elements in a frozen wilderness.
- #5 ASTRONEER
94% matchVery Positive92% of 139,015 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.9% ★, Open World 10.7%, Survival 10.2%, Co-op 8.4%, Multiplayer 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: A cooperative exploration and base-building game that emphasizes discovery and creative construction in a stylized, open world.
- #6 Subnautica
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 378,847 reviews2018
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.3 hrsMean: 39.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.9% ★, Survival 12.4%, Open World 10.7%, Base Building 7%, Crafting 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a masterclass in exploration-driven survival, rewarding players for discovering new biomes and building bases in a beautiful, alien world.
- #7 Forever Skies
93% matchMostly Positive78% of 8,950 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 30.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A first-person survival game set on a post-apocalyptic, ecologically ruined Earth. Play solo or with up to 3 friends as you build, upgrade, and fly a high-tech airship. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and face dangers on the surface as you hunt for a cure to save humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.1% ★, Co-op 11%, Open World 9.7%, Survival 9.6%, Base Building 8%
Why You'll Like It: It features a unique vehicle-based survival mechanic and base management that mirrors the exploration loop of Arctico.
- #8 Valheim
92% matchVery Positive94% of 540,690 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 26.0 hrsMean: 78.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.8% ★, Survival 10.4%, Open World 9.9%, Co-op 7.4%, Multiplayer 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: This title excels at cooperative base building and exploration within a vast, procedurally generated world that feels both dangerous and beautiful.
- #9 ICARUS
91% matchMostly Positive75% of 67,515 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 46.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.4% ★, Survival 11.2%, Open World 8.1%, Multiplayer 7.6%, Co-op 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: A session-based survival game that emphasizes exploration and base building in a variety of challenging, beautiful biomes.
- #10 Stranded Deep
91% matchMostly Positive74% of 47,770 reviews2022
Dev: Beam Team GamesPub: Beam Team Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 20.9 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Take the role of a plane crash survivor stranded somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Come face to face with some of the most life threatening scenarios that will result in a different experience each time you play. Scavenge. Discover. Survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.9% ★, Survival 12.6%, Open World 8.9%, Multiplayer 8.6%, Crafting 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on island-hopping survival, crafting, and exploration, mirroring the isolated nature of Arctico.
- #11 Voidtrain
90% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,810 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.8% ★, Co-op 9.9%, Survival 8.4%, Open World 7.5%, Multiplayer 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: It features a unique vehicle-based survival mechanic where you build and upgrade a train while exploring an interdimensional void.
- #12 Sunkenland
89% matchVery Positive80% of 23,803 reviews2023
Dev: Vector3 Studio
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 20.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Get ready for a Waterworld-themed survival game with modular base building, sunken city scavenging, crafting, base defense, and invasions of NPC clans for resources and territory. Ready for the water apocalypse?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.4% ★, Co-op 12.1%, Survival 10.8%, Open World 7.1%, Base Building 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a strong cooperative survival and base-building loop set in an expansive, water-based open world.
- #13 Pacific Drive
89% matchVery Positive83% of 26,666 reviews2024
Dev: Ironwood StudiosPub: Kepler Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 16.7 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Face the supernatural dangers of the Olympic Exclusion Zone with a car as your only lifeline in this driving survival adventure! Scavenge resources, load up your trusty station wagon, and drive like hell to make it through alive.
Why similar: Survival 27.3%, Crafting 16.5%, Base Building 14.9%, Exploration 9.4%, Building 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on vehicle maintenance and exploration in a mysterious, hostile environment, providing a similar sense of reliance on your transport.
- #14 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
88% matchVery Positive82% of 10,429 reviews2024
Dev: Max Ent Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 16.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.4% ★, Survival 10.4%, Open World 9%, Co-op 8.9%, Base Building 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: It combines exploration and base building with a unique perspective, focusing on surviving in a vast, natural environment.
- #15 Windbound
87% matchMixed59% of 1,175 reviews2020
Dev: 5 Lives StudiosPub: Deep Silver
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 62%
The Forbidden Islands are Calling, Unlock their Secrets. Shipwrecked on an island, explore, adapt and navigate the land and perilous seas to stay alive.
Why similar: Survival 34.9%, Crafting 20.2%, Adventure 16.3%, Open World 10.6%, Indie 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on exploration and survival while traversing a vast ocean, emphasizing the journey and the tools you build to survive.
- #16 Subsistence
86% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,766 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 40.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.6% ★, Survival 12.1%, Open World 8.9%, Multiplayer 7.5%, Crafting 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game that emphasizes base building and resource gathering in a challenging, open-world environment.
- #17 Scrapnaut
86% matchMixed70% of 837 reviews2021
Dev: SpiffyBitPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements. Explore an open world with different biomes, take care of oxygen, manage your farms, generate electricity, build your home and much more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.3% ★, Survival 11.3%, Co-op 11.1%, Multiplayer 8.3%, Open World 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: A cooperative survival and base-building game with a charming art style and a focus on resource management.
- #18 Green Hell
84% matchVery Positive85% of 101,308 reviews2019
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 18.4 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 45.2% ★, Survival 12.4%, Multiplayer 9.3%, Open World 7.8%, Co-op 5.7%
Why You'll Like It: While more intense, it offers a deep survival simulation set in a lush, immersive natural environment that requires careful resource management.
- #19 Salt
85% matchMostly Positive77% of 2,251 reviews2018
Dev: Lavaboots Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Salt is an open world exploration game where you sail from island to island looking for loot and new discoveries! Relax and explore at your own pace, picking a direction and setting sail across a vast ocean filled with quests, merchants, ruins, pirates, and other mysterious places.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47% ★, Open World 13.2%, Survival 12.5%, Crafting 7.2%, Multiplayer 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: An exploration-focused survival game that emphasizes sailing and discovering islands in a vast, open ocean.
- #20 Project Castaway
83% matchMixed66% of 1,849 reviews2026
Dev: Mardonpol Inc.
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Project Castaway is a survival crafting title set in the Pacific Ocean. Live the life of a stranded castaway, with only yourself - and the island's inhabitants - for company! Sail the ocean, hunt, explore unique islands and gather resources as you fight for survival.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.2% ★, Co-op 10.8%, Survival 9.3%, Open World 8.5%, Base Building 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on island survival and exploration, emphasizing the struggle to survive in an isolated, natural setting.
- #21 Breathedge
84% matchVery Positive81% of 17,661 reviews2021
Dev: RedRuins SoftworksPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Survive in outer space! Together with your immortal chicken, discover the truth behind your sudden spaceship crash. Craft tools, pilot vehicles, and even control space stations to survive and explore the wreckage.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.1% ★, Survival 11.2%, Base Building 8.1%, Open World 6.8%, Crafting 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a survival experience in the isolation of space, focusing on crafting and exploration to survive.
- #22 Medieval Dynasty
82% matchVery Positive90% of 52,032 reviews2021
Dev: Render CubePub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 11.6 hrsMean: 36.1 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%, Crafting 13.9%, Survival 13.7%, Open World 13.4%, Multiplayer 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: It blends survival and base building with a focus on establishing a life in a realistic, nature-rich wilderness.
- #23 Grounded
81% matchVery Positive90% of 95,505 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.5 hrsMean: 41.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.1% ★, Survival 14.3%, Co-op 11.3%, Multiplayer 9.4%, Base Building 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on exploration and creative base building in a large, immersive world that makes the player feel small and vulnerable.
- #24 Ylands
82% matchMixed64% of 8,445 reviews2019
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 46%
Adventure awaits you and your friends in the world of Ylands! Gather resources, craft tools, construct anything and everything, and explore the lands! Build a ship and set sail, encountering mythical animals, a wide variety of sea-life, enemies of all kinds and much more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.6% ★, Open World 9.1%, Co-op 8.7%, Multiplayer 8.1%, Nature 8%
Why You'll Like It: A colorful, exploration-heavy game that allows for significant creativity in building and survival.
- #25 Don't Starve Together
80% matchVery Positive95% of 541,972 reviews2016
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 64.6 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 67.3% ★, Survival 18.5%, Co-op 4.1%, Multiplayer 3.8%, Open World 2.8%
Why You'll Like It: A highly cooperative survival game with a distinct, atmospheric art style and deep crafting mechanics.
- #26 Solace Crafting
81% matchMostly Positive72% of 898 reviews2022
Dev: Big Kitty Games
Windows · Linux
Embark on an adventure set in a fantasy survival RPG. Visit a borderless, open world where you manage resources to construct your base and new types of equipment to support your conquest.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.1% ★, Survival 10.2%, Open World 9.4%, Co-op 7.9%, Multiplayer 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that emphasizes crafting and exploration in a vast, fantasy-inspired landscape.
- #27 Solarpunk™
77% matchVery Positive82% of 4,341 reviews2026
Dev: CyberwavePub: rokaplay
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Solarpunk is a survival game in a technologically advanced world of floating islands. Alone or together with your friends, you can construct buildings, grow food, craft gadgets and hop on your airship to explore distant islands in the sky.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34% ★, Co-op 10%, Open World 8.5%, Survival 8.1%, Base Building 7.4%
- #28 No Man's Sky
78% matchVery Positive85% of 414,381 reviews2016
Dev: Hello Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 20.1 hrsMean: 70.7 hrs≥1hr: 94%
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.2% ★, Open World 14.9%, Survival 9.3%, Multiplayer 6.9%, Exploration 5.1%
Why You'll Like It: Offers unparalleled freedom in exploration and base building across a vast, procedurally generated universe.
- #29 KeepUp Survival
79% matchMixed64% of 749 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 84%
KeepUp Survival is an open-world base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and shape your own story on a mysterious island.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.7% ★, Co-op 10.3%, Open World 9.9%, Survival 9.9%, Base Building 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: Features a strong focus on survival, building, and exploration in an open-world setting.
- #30 Northern Lights
79% 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 44.5% ★, Open World 11.8%, Survival 11.6%, Snow 8.8% ★, Crafting 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game specifically set in the Arctic, focusing on the harsh realities of cold-weather exploration.
- #31 Island Beekeeper
76% matchMostly Positive73% of 186 reviews2026
Dev: Akuseru Studio
Windows
Build your apiary on islands above the clouds, travel on your medocycle, crossbreed bees with unique traits and create a cozy home in the sky. Grow plants, explore islands and send healing honey down to Earth, where people still hope for your help.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.2% ★, Co-op 10.3%, Survival 8.8%, Multiplayer 7.2%, Open World 6.7%
- #32 Feel The Snow
77% matchVery Positive87% of 3,059 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 45.9% ★, Survival 11.4%, Co-op 9.3%, Multiplayer 9.1%, Open World 7.5%
- #33 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
75% matchVery Positive91% of 7,602 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Survive, craft, and automate in this free prologue set on one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters, an open-world game where you play solo or with friends to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.2% ★, Open World 9.4%, Multiplayer 8.7%, Base Building 8.2%, Survival 7.1%
- #34 The Gold River Project
75% matchMixed63% of 659 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%
- #35 Junk Jack
78% 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 49.1% ★, Survival 11.3%, Crafting 7.7%, Multiplayer 7.3%, Sandbox 6%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D exploration and sandbox survival game that emphasizes discovery and creative building.
- #36 Frost Survival VR
74% matchVery Positive89% of 174 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% ★, Survival 10.7%, Snow 8.2% ★, Base Building 8%, Open World 7.4%
- #37 Lodventure
76% matchMostly Positive74% of 164 reviews2023
Dev: Sky Games
Windows
Embark on a 1-4 players Co-op survival adventure in an open world wilderness in search of a myth called the Lod Stone. Build your house, sow your crops, brew potions, tame a horse and discover powerful abilities. Venture into dangerous dungeons, fight unique bosses to find the Lod stone.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.6% ★, Co-op 11.3%, Open World 9.8%, Survival 9.5%, Base Building 5.9%
- #38 Longvinter
73% matchMixed67% of 7,664 reviews2025
Dev: Uuvana Studios
Windows
Median: 2.6 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 32.6% ★, Survival 11.8%, Open World 10.6%, Multiplayer 9.6%, Crafting 7.9%
- #39 Aloft
72% matchVery Positive84% of 3,682 reviews2025
Dev: Astrolabe Interactive Inc.Pub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 14.3 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 31.5% ★, Co-op 12.3%, Survival 11.5%, Open World 8.7%, Crafting 8.5%
- #40 Force of Nature
73% 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 46.5% ★, Survival 11.5%, Open World 8.8%, Crafting 8.6%, Multiplayer 5.4%
- #41 The Wild Eight
73% matchMixed68% of 8,109 reviews2019
Dev: Eight PointsPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 7.7 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 47.1% ★, Survival 14.8%, Co-op 9.3%, Open World 9%, Multiplayer 8%
- #42 Out of Reach
74% matchMixed57% of 3,051 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
You’re a castaway stranded in the middle of nowhere. Storm is gone, the worst certainly not. Look for food and resources, craft gear, make shelters. These are the basics, you need much more to stay alive on this cut-off-the-world, yet not desert island. Build & burn, sail & explore, be Out of Reach!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.9% ★, Survival 12%, Open World 10%, Multiplayer 6.9%, Crafting 6.4%
- #43 Camping Simulator: The Squad
71% matchMixed58% of 1,085 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%, Nature 11.4%, Crafting 11.2%, Sandbox 7.2%
- #44 Outbound
68% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,098 reviews2026
Dev: Square Glade Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Explore a colorful world and build your own cozy home on wheels. Craft workstations, and source energy from the sun, wind, or water. Upgrade and customize your vehicle, grow crops, and live sustainably off-grid with up to 4 players.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.7% ★, Open World 11.4%, Nature 9.9%, Base Building 9.7%, Crafting 8.1%
- #45 ArkCraft: The Rebirth of the World
69% matchMostly Positive74% of 182 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 44.8% ★, Open World 13.5%, Base Building 10.5%, Survival 10.2%, Crafting 9.6%
- #46 Escape The Pacific
71% matchMixed67% of 761 reviews2018
Dev: Gamers4Gamers Team
Windows
Raw, real survival in the Pacific. Build a modular floating base. Master realistic sailing mechanics. Face challenging Pacific-like weather & seasons. Hunt, craft, build & navigate using Sun Dial, Sextant & Triangulation. Explore an endless island cluster-based world. Simulate real life scenarios!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.2% ★, Open World 11.1%, Survival 11%, Crafting 8%, Nature 7.2%
- #47 Shamania
67% matchMostly Positive74% of 162 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 36.5% ★, Open World 11.6%, Survival 10.5%, Co-op 9%, Crafting 8.1%
- #48 Eden Crafters
66% matchVery Positive85% of 2,630 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40% ★, Open World 9.5%, Base Building 8.6%, Survival 8.4%, Co-op 8.2%
- #49 Volcanoids
68% matchVery Positive83% of 9,332 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.
Why similar: Co-op 14.6%, Survival 13.1%, Open World 12.8%, Base Building 11.4%, Crafting 10.5%
- #50 Crushed
70% matchMixed54% of 318 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 41.9% ★, Survival 10.8%, Open World 10.8%, Crafting 6.4%, Base Building 6.4%
- #51 Ranch Simulator: Build, Hunt, Farm
66% matchMostly Positive79% of 47,912 reviews2023
Dev: Toxic DogPub: Excalibur Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Builder. Farmer. Hunter. Trader. Ranching certainly isn’t your average job. Think you have the skills to turn your family’s rundown homestead into the most prosperous ranch in the valley? Then it’s time to head out into the wilderness in this captivating single and multiplayer open-world simulator.
Why similar: Co-op 26.6%, Open World 25.9%, Multiplayer 21%, Sandbox 11.1%, Relaxing 9.1%
- #52 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 40.8% ★, Survival 11.3%, Co-op 8.2%, Open World 8.1%, Base Building 6.7%
- #53 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 41.6% ★, Survival 11.6%, Open World 11.2%, Crafting 8.3%, Base Building 8.1%
- #54 Satisfactory
63% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 278,339 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 33.2 hrsMean: 112.6 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 21.5% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Open World 13%, Co-op 11.9%, Multiplayer 9.2%
- #55 Omega Crafter
66% matchMostly Positive79% of 575 reviews2025
Dev: Preferred Networks
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 39.6% ★, Co-op 10.8%, Survival 10.2%, Open World 9.9%, Multiplayer 8.2%
- #56 Tinkerlands
65% matchVery Positive86% of 4,087 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Explore, craft, and fight your way through uncharted islands — solo or with up to 4 players in co-op! Tinkerlands is an exciting survival adventure where you will build your settlement, craft useful tools to survive, and even use magic!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.3% ★, Survival 10.2%, Open World 10.1%, Co-op 9.2%, Multiplayer 7.2%
- #57 Novus Inceptio
70% 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 43.1% ★, Open World 11.5%, Survival 11.4%, Base Building 7.8%, Crafting 7.7%
- #58 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 46.7% ★, Survival 11.6%, Crafting 7.3%, Base Building 6.1%, Building 4.5%
