- #1 Soulmask
97% matchMostly Positive77% of 21,464 reviews2026
Dev: CampFire StudioPub: Qooland Games
Windows
Median: 13.8 hrsMean: 68.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. Possess any of your tribespeople, recruit followers, and build a thriving automated civilization. Survive, expand, and forge your own legacy across a vast ancient open world — together with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 18.9% ★, Colony Sim 16%, Automation 10%, Base Building 9.7%, Sandbox 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: This game mirrors ASKA's focus on recruiting and managing a tribe of NPCs to automate tasks while you explore and survive.
- #2 Valheim
96% 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 29% ★, Online Co-Op 11.3%, Base Building 9.7%, Survival 9.4%, Building 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: It is the definitive Viking survival experience, offering the same core loop of exploration, crafting, and base-building in a mythic world.
- #3 Bellwright
96% matchVery Positive81% of 19,796 reviews2024
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 12.7 hrsMean: 41.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Establish and expand your own settlements, liberate the land and assist its villagers, and recruit others to your cause while learning more about a life you had to leave behind. Command your forces, prove your valor through combat, and cement yourself as the hero of your people.
Why similar: Survival 18.9%, Online Co-Op 17.2%, Crafting 14%, Open World 13.5%, Building 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: It combines third-person survival with complex settlement management and rebellion mechanics against a hostile world.
- #4 Sengoku Dynasty
95% matchMostly Positive75% of 7,526 reviews2024
Dev: SuperkamiPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 7.5 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Sengoku Dynasty is the ultimate feudal Japan experience: build villages, grow your community, and shape the open world through combat or economy. The choice is yours alone - or that of up to 4 players in multiplayer co-op!
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.7%, Base Building 14.4%, Survival 10%, Online Co-Op 9.5%, Crafting 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a similar blend of survival, crafting, and village-building set in a beautiful, historically inspired Japanese landscape.
- #5 Medieval Dynasty
94% 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: Crafting 15.5%, Building 15%, Base Building 14.6%, Survival 11.6%, Sandbox 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: This is the foundational title for the genre, focusing heavily on building a village and managing the needs of your growing population.
- #6 Going Medieval
94% matchVery Positive89% of 20,881 reviews2026
Dev: Foxy VoxelPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 31.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.4%, Base Building 19.9%, Sandbox 15%, Survival 13.5%, Crafting 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: This colony-sim provides deep building mechanics and survival challenges that require careful planning and resource management.
- #7 Enshrouded
93% matchVery Positive86% of 101,648 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.7 hrsMean: 45.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.
Why similar: Base Building 17.3%, Online Co-Op 13.9%, Survival 13.4%, Open World 11.7%, Crafting 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a polished survival experience with a heavy emphasis on creative building and exploration in a vast, dangerous world.
- #8 Stranded: Alien Dawn
92% matchVery Positive84% of 11,043 reviews2023
Dev: Haemimont GamesPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 24.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.
Why similar: Base Building 26.6%, Colony Sim 26.6%, Survival 18.4%, Crafting 11.8%, Resource Management 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: This title excels at managing a small group of survivors in a hostile environment, focusing on base-building and strategic defense.
- #9 V Rising
91% matchVery Positive89% of 134,242 reviews2024
Dev: Stunlock Studios
Windows
Median: 21.0 hrsMean: 57.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Awaken as a Vampire. Hunt for blood in nearby settlements to regain your strength and evade the scorching sun to survive. Raise your castle and thrive in an ever-changing, open world full of mystery. Gain allies online and conquer the land of the living.
Why similar: Base Building 18.6%, Survival 14.5%, Online Co-Op 12.5%, Open World 11.2%, Crafting 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: It features excellent base-building and survival progression that rewards players for establishing a strong, defensible home base.
- #10 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
90% 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 25% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Online Co-Op 9.8%, Survival 9.1%, Sandbox 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers a unique perspective on survival and base-building, emphasizing exploration and crafting in a dangerous, oversized environment.
- #11 Frozenheim
91% matchMixed70% of 3,869 reviews2022
Dev: Paranoid InteractivePub: Untold Tales
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Lead your Viking clan onto unknown shores and carve out a future for your people in the fjords of Frozenheim. Gather resources, expand, and watch your settlement grow to a bustling town that will withstand the harshness of winter and wrath of other clans.
Why similar: Vikings 37.8% ★, Colony Sim 17.5%, Base Building 11%, Online Co-Op 9.5%, Resource Management 9%
Why You'll Like It: It is a Viking-themed city-builder that emphasizes resource management and base defense in a harsh, cold climate.
- #12 Farthest Frontier
88% matchVery Positive86% of 24,477 reviews2025
Dev: Crate Entertainment
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 26.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.7%, Base Building 20.1%, Building 19.4%, Resource Management 13.8%, Survival 13%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a complex and rewarding colony-building experience where managing the survival of your villagers is the primary challenge.
- #13 Tribes of Midgard
89% matchMostly Positive76% of 23,133 reviews2021
Dev: NorsfellPub: Gearbox Publishing
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 19.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
A vibrant blend of survival and action RPG for 1-10 players! Craft legendary items, grow your home base and embark on an epic journey through procedural realms to face towering creatures hel-bent on unleashing Ragnarök. Valhalla can wait, Einherjar!
Why similar: Vikings 31.6% ★, Open World Survival Craft 23.9% ★, Online Co-Op 9.6%, Base Building 9.3%, Survival 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the Viking aesthetic and cooperative survival elements, focusing on defending your base against waves of enemies.
- #14 Land of the Vikings
89% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,222 reviews2023
Dev: Laps GamesPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Land of the Vikings is a survival colony sim game. Build and lead your village, and expand it into a thriving city. A wise Jarl must manage resources, survive harsh conditions, and guide their fellow Vikings to work together through social conflict. Skál!
Why similar: Vikings 41.5% ★, Colony Sim 21.3%, Base Building 8.5%, Sandbox 7.4%, Survival 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: This colony-sim is directly focused on the challenges of leading a Viking settlement through seasonal changes and environmental threats.
- #15 Necesse
86% matchVery Positive93% of 27,199 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 14.8 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 33.7% ★, Sandbox 8.3%, Base Building 7.4%, Automation 7%, Survival 7%
Why You'll Like It: This top-down title combines colony management with survival crafting and dungeon exploration in a procedurally generated world.
- #16 Kenshi
87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 112,221 reviews2018
Dev: Lo-Fi Games
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 71.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.
Why similar: Sandbox 22.9%, Open World 19.1%, Survival 18.4%, Base Building 15.9%, Building 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: This sandbox survival game allows for deep squad management and base-building in a brutal, unforgiving open world.
- #17 ICARUS
86% 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 27.7% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Survival 10.4%, Online Co-Op 10.2%, Crafting 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a session-based survival experience with a strong focus on building, crafting, and preparing for harsh planetary conditions.
- #18 Nightingale
85% matchMixed67% of 17,932 reviews2024
Dev: Inflexion Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 24.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Nightingale is an open world survival crafting game, where you’ll adventure across the mysterious and dangerous Fae Realms. As a daring Realmwalker, you’ll defeat monstrous enemies, survive hostile environments, and build elaborate estates in a visually stunning Gaslamp Fantasy world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.1% ★, Online Co-Op 11.3%, Base Building 11%, Survival 9.5%, Crafting 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: This survival game features unique crafting and exploration mechanics set in a visually striking, gaslamp-fantasy world.
- #19 Aloft
84% 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 25.8% ★, Survival 11.8%, Crafting 11.3%, Building 10.6%, Co-op 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique survival experience where you build and manage a base on floating islands while navigating a dangerous sky.
- #20 The Planet Crafter
82% 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 23.2% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Automation 9.3%, Online Co-Op 9.2%, Survival 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses heavily on base-building and environmental survival, rewarding players for transforming a desolate world.
- #21 Conan Exiles Enhanced
84% matchMostly Positive79% of 115,037 reviews2018
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 17.1 hrsMean: 111.9 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Conan Exiles Enhanced is an open world survival game set in the mythical lands of Hyboria, now fully upgraded to Unreal Engine 5 with stunning visuals and improved performance. SURVIVE, BUILD, and DOMINATE alone or with friends in a world brimming with adventure!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.5% ★, Survival 15.1%, Open World 10.1%, Building 9.8%, Crafting 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: This robust survival game features extensive building mechanics and a thrall system that allows you to capture and manage NPCs.
- #22 Eden Crafters
82% 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 20.9% ★, Automation 11.4%, Base Building 9.9%, Colony Sim 9.1%, Online Co-Op 7%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the satisfying progression of automation and base-building to survive on a hostile planet.
- #23 Dawn of Defiance
83% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,797 reviews2024
Dev: Traega EntertainmentPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
You are the Defier, a Spartan beginning your afterlife on the Crossroads. In this Greek myth-inspired survival craft, ascend from weak soldier to god-like anti-hero. Build impressive Greek structures, craft legendary gear, and break the seals of the Underworld with up to 3 friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30% ★, Online Co-Op 12.6%, Base Building 11.4%, Survival 9.9%, Sandbox 7%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a cooperative survival experience set in a mythic world, focusing on building and overcoming environmental challenges.
- #24 Astro Colony
81% matchVery Positive82% of 2,526 reviews2022
Dev: Terad Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.3%, Base Building 16.6%, Automation 15.7%, Resource Management 8.7%, Sandbox 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a complex colony-management experience set in space, focusing on automation and resource logistics.
- #25 Voidtrain
79% 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 31.4% ★, Base Building 10.2%, Online Co-Op 8.6%, Survival 8%, Co-op 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: It combines survival and base-building with a unique train-based exploration mechanic in a surreal, interdimensional setting.
- #26 Subsistence
81% 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 37.5% ★, Survival 12.1%, Crafting 9.1%, Base Building 8.9%, Multiplayer 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: This hardcore survival game emphasizes long-term base-building and resource management against AI and environmental threats.
- #27 Grounded
78% matchVery Positive90% of 93,832 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.3 hrsMean: 41.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.8% ★, Survival 13.9%, Base Building 13.8%, Multiplayer 8.7%, Co-op 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: It is a highly polished survival and base-building game that emphasizes exploration and resource gathering in a dangerous backyard.
- #28 Raft
78% 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 31.9% ★, Survival 13.2%, Multiplayer 8.7%, Co-op 8.2%, Base Building 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers a unique take on survival and base-building as you expand your floating home while navigating an endless ocean.
- #29 Windrose
76% matchVery Positive88% of 44,950 reviews2026
Dev: Kraken Express
Windows
Median: 19.2 hrsMean: 31.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Embark on a PvE survival adventure in the Age of Piracy. Fight on land and sea, solo or with friends. Build, craft and explore vast open world filled with dark secrets. Master soulslite combat and take on challenging bosses, command your ship and plunder unspoken treasures!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.2% ★, Online Co-Op 14.5%, Survival 11.2%, Crafting 11%, Base Building 10.8%
- #30 RuneScape: Dragonwilds
77% matchVery Positive81% of 25,015 reviews2025
Dev: Jagex Ltd
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 15.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
On RuneScape’s forgotten continent of Ashenfall, dragons have awoken. Gather, build, skill and craft to survive in this co-operative (1-4) survival crafting game. Only by mastering survival and uncovering ancient secrets can they hope to slay the Dragon Queen—alone or with allies.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.9% ★, Online Co-Op 10.2%, Survival 9.3%, Base Building 9%, Open World 8%
- #31 StarRupture
77% matchVery Positive81% of 12,313 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 19.7% ★, Colony Sim 13%, Automation 10.6%, Base Building 9.9%, Survival 6.8%
- #32 Volcanoids
79% matchVery Positive83% of 9,267 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.
Why similar: Base Building 15.3%, Sandbox 11.6%, Online Co-Op 11.1%, Crafting 10.5%, Survival 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: It features a unique base-building mechanic where your home is a mobile drill ship that you must upgrade and defend.
- #33 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
80% matchMixed66% of 5,998 reviews2017
Dev: MindillusionPub: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 30.7 hrs≥1hr: 63%
LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.
Why similar: Colony Sim 48.6%, Resource Management 12%, Survival 10.3%, Building 8.6%, Open World 5.1%
Why You'll Like It: This detailed city-builder focuses on the survival of a medieval village, requiring careful management of food, warmth, and labor.
- #34 Everwind
76% matchVery Positive82% of 3,221 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Everwind is a novel take on RPG and Sandbox Survival genre in First-Person-Perspective. Embark on the adventure with your friends - Build a base on a flying island-ship, gather resources, craft, loot, and fight while you rise above the clouds to uncover the mysteries of this world!
Why similar: Online Co-Op 14.2%, Sandbox 12.1%, Survival 11.2%, Crafting 10.7%, Building 10.4%
- #35 Occupy Mars: The Game
75% matchMostly Positive70% of 3,070 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 34.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.6%, Base Building 12.1%, Sandbox 9.5%, Online Co-Op 9.2%, Crafting 8.3%
- #36 Omega Crafter
74% 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 24% ★, Automation 14.7%, Survival 9.1%, Crafting 8.6%, Online Co-Op 7.5%
- #37 Tinkerlands
73% 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 30.2% ★, Online Co-Op 12.1%, Sandbox 10.7%, Survival 9.4%, Crafting 7.4%
- #38 Viking Frontiers
75% matchMixed54% of 522 reviews2025
Dev: BLUM EntertainmentPub: GameHunters
Windows
Survival of your people - that's the only thing that matters. Become the leader of a newly founded Viking settlement and lead it to safety and glory. Gather, build, craft, hunt, raid and follow your Gods to endure hardships of nature and save your clan from violent destruction.
Why similar: Vikings 58.4% ★, Sandbox 18.2%, Open World 15%, Simulation 6.4%, Singleplayer 1.9%
- #39 Sapiens
74% matchVery Positive83% of 2,122 reviews2022
Dev: Majic Jungle
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 18.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.9%, Base Building 16.6%, Survival 10.3%, Building 9.8%, Crafting 9.8%
- #40 Sunkenland
73% 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 36.2% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Survival 11.3%, Co-op 9.8%, Crafting 7.7%
- #41 Saleblazers
72% matchVery Positive83% of 2,039 reviews2023
Dev: AIRSTRAFE INTERACTIVE
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.5 hrsMean: 19.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
You’re a humble shopkeeper trying to live a peaceful new life, finding yourself surrounded by warring factions and dangerous creatures. Will you be able to carve out a new home for yourself and your customers in this open-world survival shopkeeping simulator?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.4% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Online Co-Op 12.4%, Survival 9.9%, Crafting 9.6%
- #42 Kingdoms Reborn
72% matchVery Positive91% of 9,605 reviews2020
Dev: Earthshine
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 24.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A city builder with simulated citizens, set in a procedurally-generated world map. Grow your kingdom through the eras from a tiny medieval hamlet into a prosperous global empire! Cooperate or compete in real-time with your friends in multiplayer mode.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.1%, Base Building 18.9%, Multiplayer 9.6%, Resource Management 8.6%, Co-op 8.1%
- #43 Viking Frontiers: Prologue
71% matchMostly Positive78% of 478 reviews2025
Dev: BLUM EntertainmentPub: GameHunters
Windows
Survival of your people - that's the only thing that matters. Become the leader of a newly founded Viking settlement and lead it to safety and glory. Gather, build, craft, hunt, raid and follow your Gods to endure hardships of nature and save your clan from violent destruction.
Why similar: Sandbox 31.3%, Vikings 25.8% ★, Survival 19.3%, Simulation 13.6%, Open World 8.7%
- #44 Len's Island
70% 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 33.8% ★, Base Building 12%, Survival 11%, Sandbox 10.8%, Building 10.2%
- #45 Niffelheim
73% matchMostly Positive71% of 2,332 reviews2018
Dev: Ellada Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Your avatar is a brave warrior who has fallen in battle. But instead of well-deserved peace in Asgard, his soul is trapped in the harsh world of Niffelheim. Survive in this hostile world, ransack the neighbor lands, explore dangerous dungeons and find your way to Valhalla
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.1% ★, Base Building 10.4%, Online Co-Op 8.9%, Sandbox 8.8%, Crafting 8%
- #46 Norland
70% matchVery Positive82% of 9,913 reviews2024
Dev: Long JauntPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 18.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3%, Base Building 16.4%, Sandbox 12.2%, Survival 10.4%, Building 10%
- #47 ARK: Survival Ascended
71% matchMixed60% of 105,775 reviews2023
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows
Median: 27.6 hrsMean: 196.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!
Why similar: Survival 19.1%, Base Building 18.6%, Open World 13.7%, Crafting 12.3%, Sandbox 12%
- #48 Dune: Awakening
69% matchMostly Positive70% of 76,118 reviews2025
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 47.7 hrsMean: 97.4 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival RPG where you can fully immerse yourself in the epic world of Dune. Alone or with friends, explore a vast open world Arrakis, survive the sandworms, build a home, craft an ornithopter, and unravel the mystery of the missing Fremen.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.9% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Online Co-Op 10.5%, Sandbox 9.3%, Survival 8.8%
- #49 Forever Skies
69% 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 26.1% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Survival 9.6%, Crafting 9%, Co-op 8.6%
- #50 VEIN
67% matchVery Positive89% of 10,247 reviews2025
Dev: Ramjet Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 14.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
VEIN is a post-apocalyptic survival multiplayer sandbox game. Gather supplies to survive, explore abandoned buildings, defend your home, and rebuild society, whether alone or with friends.
Why similar: Base Building 18.8%, Survival 16.2%, Open World 12.2%, Sandbox 10.4%, Co-op 10%
- #51 Dawn of Man
70% matchVery Positive87% of 17,712 reviews2019
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 30.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.
Why similar: Colony Sim 56.4%, Survival 18.6%, Sandbox 9.9%, Open World 5%, Simulation 4.8%
- #52 The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™
68% matchVery Positive82% of 11,900 reviews2024
Dev: Free Range GamesPub: North Beach Games
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 19.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
A survival crafting adventure set in the Fourth Age of Middle-earth. Lead the Dwarves to reclaim Moria - mine, build, and battle through procedurally generated depths alone or with up to 8 players in co-op. It is time to return to Moria!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.7% ★, Base Building 14.3%, Online Co-Op 11.5%, Survival 9.7%, Crafting 8.8%
- #53 Clanfolk
68% matchVery Positive92% of 3,845 reviews2022
Dev: MinMax Games Ltd.Pub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 18.1 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.1%, Sandbox 17%, Crafting 15.1%, Building 14%, Open World 11.2%
- #54 Pioneers of Pagonia
66% matchVery Positive82% of 5,292 reviews2025
Dev: Envision Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Rebuild hope in a world that was lost in the fog. Lead your Pioneers across the isles of Pagonia, unite scattered tribes, raise thriving communities and discover the history of your people as you reclaim your world in the new story campaign.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.7%, Base Building 16.3%, Online Co-Op 14.3%, Resource Management 10.8%, Building 10.4%
- #55 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
66% 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 23.7% ★, Base Building 10.7%, Automation 10.2%, Online Co-Op 8.1%, Sandbox 6.5%
- #56 Northgard: Definitive Edition
68% matchVery Positive85% of 68,241 reviews2018
Dev: Shiro Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 28.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Northgard: Definitive Edition is a critically acclaimed real-time strategy game based on Norse mythology. Lead your clan, uncover the secrets of a mysterious newfound continent and defeat your enemies to conquer the Throne!
Why similar: Vikings 36.7% ★, Colony Sim 18.8%, Base Building 12.2%, Building 7.2%, Resource Management 6.6%
- #57 Mind the Vikings
71% matchMixed43% of 83 reviews2018
Dev: Miso Games
Windows
Start with nothing and build up your viking settlement in harsh Nordic climate in this survival strategy town building game. Start with nothing and prepare for winter. Set forth on raids on other viking settlements and defend yourself from them.
Why similar: Base Building 21.9%, Sandbox 21.4%, Survival 20.4%, Building 17.2%, Crafting 12.3%
- #58 Myth of Empires
66% matchMixed67% of 17,381 reviews2024
Dev: Angela GamePub: Imperium Interactive Entertainment
Windows
Median: 15.3 hrsMean: 229.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Myth of Empires is a multiplayer war sandbox game featuring a high degree of freedom and multiple civilizations. Players must survive, craft, create, and lead troops in their quest to conquer PVE or PVP territory and build their own empire. Xizhou Civilization Pack is now officially released!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.1% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Sandbox 11.1%, Building 9.8%, Survival 8.8%
- #59 Nested Lands
66% matchMostly Positive72% of 444 reviews2026
Dev: 1M Bits HordePub: META Publishing
Windows
Nested Lands is a ruthless medieval RPG game featuring in-depth village building, large-scale social management and combats. Gather survivors, build a settlement, craft, master your skills, survive, and endure alone or in online co-op.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.8% ★, Online Co-Op 13%, Sandbox 11.3%, Survival 10.5%, Crafting 10.1%
- #60 Blacksmith Master
65% matchVery Positive84% of 2,580 reviews2025
Dev: Untitled StudioPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.7%, Base Building 16.3%, Sandbox 12.1%, Survival 10.6%, Building 10.3%
