- #1 Skull and Bones
97% matchMixed66% of 5,009 reviews2024
Dev: Ubisoft SingaporePub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 26.8 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Skull and Bones is an open world naval action RPG where ship combat, build choice, and sailing skill define your pirate legend. Conquer rival ships and mythical beasts in a vast ocean of up to 20 players.
Why similar: Pirates 30.9% ★, Naval Combat 28.3% ★, Open World 11.2%, Sailing 8.8% ★, Multiplayer 5.5%
Why You'll Like It: It offers an online open-sea pirate fantasy centered on upgrading a fleet, fighting naval battles, trading, and cooperating or competing with other players.
- #2 Salt 2: Shores of Gold
96% matchVery Positive85% of 2,370 reviews2025
Dev: Lavaboots Studios
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Salt 2 is a pirate-themed open world adventure focused on exploration, crafting, and survival. Play solo or with up to 5 friends, sailing the sea with your ship as a mobile base. Discover islands full of quests, towns, caves, and secrets. Level up, craft gear, hunt, fish, and customize your ship.
Why similar: Sailing 30.5% ★, Pirates 27.8% ★, Open World 11.3%, Survival 10.8%, Crafting 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: This open-world sailing survival RPG emphasizes captaining a customizable ship, exploring islands, crafting equipment, and tackling pirate-themed adventures alone or in co-op.
- #3 Forgotten Seas
96% matchMostly Positive76% of 605 reviews2025
Dev: Pangea Game StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
You are lost in the Bermuda Void, where the ocean is endless and dry land precious. Craft your Ship-in-a-Bottle, then experience survival on the high seas. Sail for new land, build camps, hunt for treasures, trade for goods - then defend your ship from dreaded pirates stalking this strange realm!
Why similar: Pirates 24.5% ★, Sailing 17.2% ★, Naval Combat 16% ★, Survival 8.9%, Crafting 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: It directly combines pirate exploration, ship construction, naval battles, island survival, crafting, and multiplayer sandbox progression.
- #4 Last Oasis
95% matchMixed62% of 24,230 reviews2020
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 17.8 hrsMean: 120.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Nomadic Survival MMO. Build wooden walking machines to travel to new lands. Create clans and fight for territory. Resources deplete fast, so take your sword and scavenge, pirate, and trade to stay alive.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 26.9%, Survival 17.7%, Open World 14.8%, Crafting 9.6%, MMORPG 7.3% ★
Why You'll Like It: Although its vehicles are land-based, it shares ATLAS's MMO survival loop of clan warfare, mobile player-built vessels, crafting, territory pressure, and raiding.
- #5 Naval Action
94% matchMixed52% of 14,828 reviews2019
Dev: Bermuda Computer Club
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 89.1 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Or were you deaf or were you blind when you left your two fine legs behind, Or was it sailing on the sea when you got the cannonball to your knee, I too was young and I was slim and I had a leg for every limb, But now I’ve got no legs at all, they were both shot away by a cannonball.
Why similar: Sailing 24.8% ★, Pirates 22.3% ★, Naval Combat 20.3% ★, MMORPG 10.6% ★, Open World 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: This persistent multiplayer naval sandbox delivers especially detailed Age-of-Sail ship handling, fleet combat, trading, and factional conflict.
- #6 Blackwake
94% matchVery Positive81% of 26,057 reviews2020
Dev: Mastfire Studios Pty Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Blackwake is a multiplayer naval FPS focused on teamwork and cooperation. Fire the cannons, sink enemy ships or board them with firearms and steel.
Why similar: Pirates 41.4% ★, Naval Combat 30.6% ★, Sailing 14.2% ★, Multiplayer 6.2%, Open World 3.6%
Why You'll Like It: It captures ATLAS's most chaotic crew moments through multiplayer battles where players jointly sail, repair, reload, and fight aboard pirate ships.
- #7 ARK: Survival Evolved
92% matchVery Positive83% of 778,394 reviews2017
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 202.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!
Why similar: Survival 24.6%, Open World 18.4%, Crafting 13.7%, Massively Multiplayer 12.5%, Multiplayer 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: Created with much of the same survival-sandbox DNA, it offers huge multiplayer worlds, deep crafting, tribe bases, raids, exploration, and buildable watercraft.
- #8 Raft
91% 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: Survival 28.5%, Crafting 13.6%, Open World 13.3%, Multiplayer 12%, Online Co-Op 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: Raft delivers a strong co-op survival-and-crafting loop built around expanding a seafaring home, scavenging the ocean, and visiting story islands.
- #9 Out of Reach
93% 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: Survival 19.5%, Open World 15.2%, Massively Multiplayer 14.7%, Pirates 14.1% ★, Crafting 12.1%
Why You'll Like It: This first-person multiplayer survival game mixes island exploration, base building, resource gathering, player conflict, and sailing between dangerous shores.
- #10 ARK: Survival Ascended
90% matchMixed60% of 118,321 reviews2023
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows
Median: 27.2 hrsMean: 198.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 21.4%, Open World 18.6%, Massively Multiplayer 13.2%, Crafting 12.1%, Multiplayer 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: The modernized ARK version retains the large-server tribal survival, base-building, crafting, exploration, and sea-travel systems that overlap with ATLAS.
- #11 Windward
91% matchMostly Positive80% of 3,634 reviews2015
Dev: Tasharen Entertainment Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Windward is an action-filled multiplayer sandbox game that puts you in control of a ship sailing the high seas of a large procedurally-generated world.
Why similar: Pirates 35.4% ★, Naval Combat 31.5% ★, Sailing 11.2% ★, Open World 5.1%, Sandbox 4%
Why You'll Like It: This accessible co-op naval sandbox lets players sail a large procedural world, trade, fight pirates, improve ships, and support faction-controlled ports.
- #12 Caribbean Legend
89% matchMostly Positive76% of 3,263 reviews2024
Dev: BlackMark Studio
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 43.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
An open-world RPG, set in the Golden Age of Caribbean piracy. Embark on a 200-hour-long adventure, plunder cities and ships, explore the unknown, discover treasures, forge friendships, earn bounties on your head, and charm the ladies on your path to ultimate freedom!
Why similar: Pirates 34.5% ★, Sailing 23.8% ★, Naval Combat 18.6% ★, Open World 11.7%, Sandbox 4.7%
Why You'll Like It: It is a deep single-player pirate sandbox featuring free sailing, boarding actions, trading, quests, crew management, and a reactive Caribbean world.
- #13 The Pirate: Caribbean Hunt
89% matchVery Positive83% of 4,657 reviews2016
Dev: Home Net Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 46%
Hail to the Captain! Sail into the heart of the Caribbean in the Age of Piracy - the time of black flags and white skulls, blue waves and golden opportunities. Hoist the Jolly Roger and grab the steering wheel to sail through battles and raids, ransoms and treasures, to become the Crimson King of the Antilles!
Why similar: Pirates 37.7% ★, Naval Combat 36.3% ★, Sailing 12.4% ★, Open World 5.9%, Multiplayer 4.5%
Why You'll Like It: Its campaign and free-roam modes revolve around commanding a pirate fleet, attacking merchant ships, trading, upgrading vessels, and conquering the Caribbean.
- #14 Salt
88% 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: Pirates 27.1% ★, Sailing 16.4% ★, Survival 14.8%, Open World 14.5%, Crafting 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: Salt is a relaxed first-person ocean survival game about sailing between islands, gathering supplies, crafting gear, and exploring a procedurally generated world.
- #15 Dune: Awakening
85% matchMostly Positive71% of 79,582 reviews2025
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 43.1 hrsMean: 98.6 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Dune: Awakening is a single- and multiplayer Open World Survival game with immersive adventure and RPG gameplay. Explore, build, craft, and unravel a cinematic Dune story as you rise from survival to greatness on the most legendary planet in the universe. Just remember: the sandworm always comes.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 17.1%, Survival 12.7%, Open World 12.2%, Crafting 10.3%, Online Co-Op 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: This shared-world survival game similarly combines crafting, player bases, faction conflict, guild cooperation, exploration, and dangerous PvP zones on a massive map.
- #16 Age of Water
86% matchMostly Positive70% of 3,522 reviews2025
Dev: Three Whales StudioPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 38.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Age of Water is an online adventure game set on a post-apocalyptic Earth completely covered in water. Sail through storms, fight and trade, capture other people's boats or build your own, extract resources from the bottom of the ocean and reveal the secrets of the Age of Water world.
Why similar: Pirates 35.2% ★, Massively Multiplayer 19.2%, Open World 13.4%, Crafting 11.8%, MMORPG 11.6% ★
Why You'll Like It: It replaces sails with post-apocalyptic boats but keeps the core appeal of open-water exploration, customizable vessels, scavenging, combat, and online progression.
- #17 Valheim
83% matchVery Positive94% of 555,289 reviews2026
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 26.9 hrsMean: 81.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Why similar: Survival 19.7%, Open World 17.3%, Online Co-Op 15.1%, Crafting 12.7%, Multiplayer 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: Its co-op survival progression, player-built settlements, dangerous exploration, and genuinely important sailing make it a strong non-pirate alternative.
- #18 Tempest: Pirate Action RPG
87% matchMixed69% of 2,624 reviews2016
Dev: HeroCraftPub: HeroCraft PC
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Tempest is a Pirate Open World Action RPG where you rove the seas across three continents filled with dozens of colonies and forts, hundreds of quests and countless ships to plunder. Customize your ship, trade, challenge fellow pirates and face mythical monsters such as the Kraken and Leviathan!
Why similar: Pirates 48.4% ★, Sailing 23.6% ★, Open World 10.6%, Multiplayer 4.8%, RPG 4.4%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on commanding and upgrading a pirate ship, recruiting a crew, pursuing loot, and engaging in arcade-style naval combat across an open sea.
- #19 Sea Dogs: To Each His Own
86% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,362 reviews2012
Dev: BlackMark Studio
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 47.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
1654 AC. The Caribbean. A place of opportunities and mysteries.
Why similar: Pirates 34.3% ★, Sailing 25.2% ★, Naval Combat 22.4% ★, Open World 7.6%, Sandbox 4.8%
Why You'll Like It: This pirate RPG provides free-roaming Caribbean exploration, capturable ships, naval combat, trading, colony interactions, and extensive captain progression.
- #20 Buccaneers!
84% matchVery Positive81% of 411 reviews2022
Dev: Skyward Digital
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Become a fearless captain in Buccaneers!, a classic pirate RPG. Join a band of pirates or a naval power and fight for supremacy in the Caribbean. Build and customise your fleet to take on any foe and rewrite history!
Why similar: Pirates 30% ★, Sailing 27.7% ★, Naval Combat 22.7% ★, Open World 9.7%, Sandbox 4.7%
Why You'll Like It: This co-op pirate adventure emphasizes sailing with friends, exploring an open Caribbean, trading, fighting at sea, and building a reputation as a captain.
- #21 Ylands
84% 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: Sailing 39% ★, Crafting 12.7%, Open World 12.5%, Online Co-Op 9.4%, Base Building 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: Ylands offers cooperative crafting, survival-style exploration, custom construction, and the ability to build and sail vehicles across varied islands.
- #22 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
82% matchMostly Positive78% of 34,438 reviews2020
Dev: Eleon Game Studios
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 77.1 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!
Why similar: Survival 21.6%, Open World 20.3%, Crafting 15.5%, Sandbox 9.3%, Multiplayer 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: It translates ATLAS's survival sandbox loop into space with multiplayer servers, construction, resource gathering, faction combat, and fully player-built vessels.
- #23 Survival: Fountain of Youth
81% matchVery Positive85% of 4,528 reviews2024
Dev: Odinsoft Inc.Pub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Survival: Fountain of Youth is a challenging single-player open-world adventure game set on the Caribbean islands. Survive as a shipwrecked 16th-century explorer, craft tools and shelter, and uncover the secrets of both an ancient civilization and your own fate.
Why similar: Survival 26.6%, Crafting 20.2%, Open World 18.9%, Base Building 14.1%, Sandbox 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: This island survival adventure emphasizes crafting, building shelters, managing needs, exploring the Caribbean, and using boats to reach new regions.
- #24 Windrose
79% matchVery Positive87% of 53,040 reviews2026
Dev: Kraken Express
Windows
Median: 20.3 hrsMean: 33.3 hrs≥1hr: 95%
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: Pirates 24.1% ★, Naval Combat 18.2% ★, Sailing 17.7% ★, Survival 7.8%, Crafting 6.6%
- #25 King of Seas
82% matchMixed59% of 782 reviews2021
Dev: 3DCloudsPub: Team17
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 60%
King of Seas is an ARPG adventure game set in a nautical pirate world. Embark on an epic adventure across the seven seas where you’ll discover lost islands and treasures, fight rival pirates and menacing monsters, and become the most legendary pirate of all time!
Why similar: Pirates 29.8% ★, Sailing 27.5% ★, Naval Combat 25.3% ★, Open World 9.3%, RPG 3.3%
Why You'll Like It: This pirate action RPG provides procedural sea exploration, ship customization, trading, quests, and real-time naval combat in a lighter format.
- #26 Uncharted Waters Origin
81% matchMixed46% of 1,761 reviews2023
Dev: KOEI TECMO GAMES CO., LTD.Pub: LINE Games Corporation
Windows
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 106.1 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Commemorating 30 years of the Uncharted Waters seriesSail through the vast oceans, massive worlds and contentsOpen world exploration RPG Uncharted Waters Origin
Why similar: Sailing 31% ★, MMORPG 21.2% ★, Massively Multiplayer 16.4%, Open World 9.4%, Online Co-Op 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: This online maritime RPG centers on sailing a vast world, trading between ports, developing ships, discovering locations, and participating in naval battles.
- #27 World of Sea Battle
77% matchMostly Positive75% of 8,956 reviews2025
Dev: Thera Interactive
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 26.1 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Set sail in World of Sea Battle, an action-packed open-world MMO in the Golden Age of Sail! Command historic ships, battle in PvP & PvE, shape the economy, and engage in territorial guild wars in your quest for glory across the high seas!
Why similar: Sailing 23.2% ★, Pirates 23.1% ★, Naval Combat 20.6% ★, Massively Multiplayer 12.9%, Open World 8.3%
- #28 Tortuga - A Pirate's Tale
79% matchMixed57% of 171 reviews2024
Dev: Gaming Minds StudiosPub: Kalypso Media
Windows
Tortuga - A Pirate’s Tale tells the journey of a pirate captain with a lust for gold and glory who assumes command of a fleet of pirate ships to strike the Caribbean.
Why similar: Pirates 33% ★, Naval Combat 31.6% ★, Sailing 29.9% ★, Sandbox 3.5%, Exploration 1.9%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a strategic pirate career focused on assembling a fleet, managing captains, trading, completing contracts, and fighting tactical naval battles.
- #29 Blood and Gold: Caribbean!
80% matchMixed60% of 1,278 reviews2015
Dev: Snowbird Games
Windows
Median: 9.4 hrsMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
'Blood & Gold: Caribbean!' is a blend of economic strategy and open-world RPG, set in the pirate era of XVII Century Caribbean. The game is based on the significantly improved Mount & Blade: Warband engine.
Why similar: Pirates 53.9% ★, Sailing 22% ★, Naval Combat 11.1% ★, Open World 3.6%, RPG 3.6%
Why You'll Like It: Its Mount-and-Blade-style pirate sandbox includes captaining ships, naval battles, boarding, trading, recruiting crews, and building influence in the Caribbean.
- #30 Conan Exiles Enhanced
76% matchMostly Positive79% of 117,692 reviews2018
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 17.2 hrsMean: 114.1 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: Survival 23.9%, Open World 19.6%, Massively Multiplayer 12.9%, Crafting 12.7%, Multiplayer 6.8%
- #31 PixARK
77% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,659 reviews2019
Dev: Snail Games USA
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 40.0 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Enter a world of mystery, danger, ancient dinosaurs, mythical beasts, and cubes! Work by yourself or with a tribe of others to gather materials, craft useful items, tame wild creatures, and build huge bases to survive in PixARK!
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 21.7%, Survival 20.6%, Open World 16.4%, Crafting 8.3%, Multiplayer 7.4%
- #32 Dark and Light
78% matchMixed52% of 11,837 reviews2017
Dev: Snail Games USA
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 49.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Dark and Light is a vast sandbox survival RPG set in a world dominated by powerful elemental forces. Find your way in a meticulously crafted world, featuring breathtaking landscapes, a wide variety of mythical creatures, and limitless possibility to craft, build, and unlock dozens of powerful weapons, spells, and skills.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 23.6%, Open World 17.1%, Survival 16.8%, MMORPG 15% ★, Sandbox 7%
- #33 New World: Aeternum
74% matchMixed67% of 297,329 reviews2021
Dev: Amazon Game Studios
Windows
Median: 58.8 hrsMean: 197.6 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Experience a thrilling action RPG set on the supernatural island of Aeternum. Forge your destiny on an adventure filled with danger and opportunity.
Why similar: MMORPG 29.6% ★, Massively Multiplayer 25%, Open World 17.4%, Crafting 5.5%, RPG 4.8%
- #34 Citadel: Forged with Fire
75% matchMixed68% of 5,895 reviews2019
Dev: Blue Isle StudiosPub: Blue Isle Publishing
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 19.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
This massive online sandbox RPG features elements of magic, spellcasting, building, exploring and crafting. As a newly minted apprentice of the magic arts, you will set off to the dangerous world of Ignus. Tame mighty beasts, forge alliances, explore uncharted territories or fight for dominance!
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 22.4%, Open World 18.1%, Survival 14.3%, MMORPG 13.5% ★, Crafting 7.4%
- #35 Outlaws of the Old West
76% matchMixed59% of 6,297 reviews2019
Dev: Virtual Basement LLCPub: Wandering Wizard
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Outlaws of the Old West is a massively multiplayer survival MMO with a huge world, thousands of items and a modular building system. Survive the wild, build your own homestead, defeat villainous bandits and work with others to tame the Wild West.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 25.4%, Survival 24%, Open World 21.5%, Multiplayer 9.6%, Crafting 6.7%
- #36 Pax Dei
72% matchMixed57% of 11,377 reviews2025
Dev: Mainframe Industries
Windows
Median: 18.5 hrsMean: 76.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Welcome to a vast, social sandbox MMO inspired by the legends of the medieval era. Here, myths are real, ghosts exist, and magic is unquestioned. Join thousands of players as you explore the land, build your home, forge your reputation, and craft your own stories. What world will you make?
Why similar: MMORPG 27.2% ★, Open World 14.8%, Crafting 13.3%, Base Building 8.6%, Sandbox 7.7%
- #37 Piratopia
73% matchVery Positive83% of 1,055 reviews2021
Dev: Adi ZhavoPub: Project 99 Games
Windows · Mac
Set sail in the open seas and plunder solo, PvE or PvP. Trade goods for ship upgrades or equipments to hunt the Kraken, all in the same Server. Dominate by yourself or with maties. Arrrr for free!
Why similar: Pirates 22% ★, Sailing 19.7% ★, Naval Combat 18.9% ★, MMORPG 9% ★, Massively Multiplayer 9%
- #38 Myth of Empires
71% matchMixed68% of 17,631 reviews2024
Dev: Angela GamePub: Imperium Interactive Entertainment
Windows
Median: 15.0 hrsMean: 228.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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: MMORPG 28.6% ★, Open World 15.4%, Survival 15.2%, Online Co-Op 9.4%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #39 Life is Feudal: MMO
75% matchMixed40% of 7,352 reviews2018
Dev: LTG
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 45.6 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Experience the hardcore reality of the Middle Ages. Master survival, engage in deep-rooted RPG elements, navigate a bustling economy, build communities, and employ diplomatic strategy to thrive in Abella's vast expanse.
Why similar: MMORPG 24.8% ★, Massively Multiplayer 17.4%, Survival 13.4%, Crafting 10%, Open World 9.4%
- #40 Everwind
70% 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: Survival 16.4%, Open World 16.1%, Crafting 14%, Online Co-Op 13.1%, Sandbox 7.8%
- #41 Maelstrom
73% matchVery Positive83% of 2,584 reviews2019
Dev: Gunpowder Games, Inc.Pub: Forthright Entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 53%
Command the seas in Maelstrom! Engage in fast-paced naval battles with powerful warships and colossal sea monsters. Customize your fleet and dominate the Abyssal Ocean. Are you ruthless enough to survive?
Why similar: Pirates 26.1% ★, Sailing 25.8% ★, Naval Combat 16.5% ★, Massively Multiplayer 10.8%, Survival 5%
- #42 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
70% 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: Survival 18.5%, Open World 14.9%, Crafting 13.2%, Online Co-Op 12.4%, Base Building 9.4%
- #43 Mortal Online 2
72% matchMixed60% of 13,925 reviews2022
Dev: Star Vault AB
Windows
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 151.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Step into Nave, a vast fantasy sandbox world with a player-driven economy, persistent housing, and deep crafting systems. Engage in first-person, full-loot PvP combat with other players and perilous foes. Build, explore, and conquer in an unforgiving world. The land is yours—who will you become?
Why similar: MMORPG 27.1% ★, Massively Multiplayer 13.6%, Open World 13.5%, Survival 10.3%, Crafting 9.5%
- #44 Soulmask
68% matchMostly Positive77% of 22,506 reviews2026
Dev: CampFire StudioPub: Qooland Games
Windows
Median: 13.9 hrsMean: 69.3 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: Naval Combat 27.5% ★, Survival 14.1%, Open World 13.3%, Crafting 12.1%, Base Building 8%
- #45 Boundless
71% matchMixed69% of 2,779 reviews2018
Dev: Monumental, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 32.8 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Shape your citizen, forge your destiny and sculpt your world in this epic voxel sandbox MMO built on endless possibility.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 25.9%, Open World 16.3%, MMORPG 15.7% ★, Crafting 13.1%, Survival 10.8%
- #46 Lost Skies
68% matchMixed61% of 2,995 reviews2025
Dev: Bossa StudiosPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Chart a course in a breathtaking, but fractured world. Explore ancient ruins, master advanced technology, and craft your very own skyship to brave nature’s fury and colossal threats in Lost Skies. Team up with friends or go it alone in this awe-inspiring cooperative survival adventure.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 21.7%, Open World 17.1%, Base Building 15.4%, Crafting 13.5%, Sandbox 11%
- #47 Wild Terra 2: New Lands
70% matchMixed52% of 4,220 reviews2022
Dev: Juvty Worlds
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 28.1 hrs≥1hr: 38%
MMORPG full of details that create a unique immersion and the spirit of adventure! Play your role in the life-filled medieval world controlled by players.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 23.2%, MMORPG 18.4% ★, Crafting 10.1%, Survival 9.6%, Open World 9.3%
- #48 Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition
67% matchVery Positive89% of 373,680 reviews2020
Dev: Rare LtdPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 22.0 hrsMean: 86.3 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Sea of Thieves is a smash-hit pirate adventure game, offering the quintessential pirate experience of plundering lost treasures, intense battles, vanquishing sea monsters and more. Dive in with this revised edition of the game, which includes access to digital bonus media.
Why similar: Pirates 30.4% ★, Sailing 24% ★, Open World 12.2%, Online Co-Op 7.7%, Multiplayer 6.7%
- #49 Captain Bones: Prologue
69% matchVery Positive85% of 553 reviews2021
Dev: World of Poly
Windows
Captain Bones is an action-adventure game set in an open pirate world. You must have survival skills to make ship battles and treasure hunts with your crew.
Why similar: Pirates 25.8% ★, Sailing 22.1% ★, Naval Combat 19.8% ★, Survival 9.3%, Open World 8.6%
- #50 Sea of Craft
68% matchMostly Positive74% of 455 reviews2023
Dev: Wizard Games
Windows
Hello! Captain! “Sea Of Craft” is a sandbox ocean-building game with realistic physics simulation. In “Sea of Craft”, you can build your exclusive ship with hundreds of materials, and explore intriguing stages on planet Beella as well as adventures of wonders in the great ocean!
Why similar: Pirates 39.2% ★, Open World 14.1%, Crafting 13.8%, Online Co-Op 6.9%, Sandbox 5.7%
- #51 Reign Of Kings
69% matchMixed57% of 14,891 reviews2015
Dev: Code}{atch
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 47.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Struggle to survive in a harsh medieval world. Hunt wildlife, mine resources, build structures, and craft weapons and armor in order to protect yourself. You may form a guild, bring war to all opposition, and try to seize the throne and become king!
Why similar: Survival 24%, Open World 21.5%, Crafting 17.5%, Multiplayer 9.9%, Online Co-Op 6.7%
- #52 Ashes of Creation
66% matchMostly Negative36% of 19,083 reviews2025
Dev: Intrepid Studios, Inc
Windows
Median: 13.6 hrsMean: 76.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Ashes of Creation is an old-school take on the modern MMORPG set in a living, reactive world where your choices shape civilization. In this PvX open world sandbox, players will build cities, forge empires, and lay siege to foes. Uncover the Ancients as you fight to reclaim the fallen world of Verra.
Why similar: MMORPG 45.4% ★, Crafting 19.2%, RPG 9.3%, Base Building 8.1%, Exploration 5.9%
- #53 Nightingale
66% matchMixed66% of 18,084 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: Survival 18.5%, Open World 16.8%, Online Co-Op 13.8%, Crafting 13.7%, Multiplayer 8.9%
- #54 SCUM
63% matchMostly Positive74% of 127,189 reviews2025
Dev: Gamepires
Windows
Median: 11.9 hrsMean: 105.4 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Welcome to SCUM, a ruthless open-world survival game where deep character customization defines the prisoner you become. Loot, craft, hunt, build, and fight to outlast a hostile island where every choice can change your fate. Stay alive. Stay dangerous. Become harder to kill.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 25.3%, Survival 17.4%, Open World 16.8%, Crafting 12.1%, Online Co-Op 10.7%
- #55 Terror of the Seven Seas
66% matchMostly Positive79% of 109 reviews2024
Dev: Cutthroat Games
Windows
Become a Mighty Captain in a Age of sail naval combat game, set in all of the Seven Seas! Sail the entire world: conquering, boarding, plundering, exploring and trading along the way! Gather your crew, ready your ship, hoist your sails and enter a world of swashbuckling and piracy!
Why similar: Pirates 29.2% ★, Sailing 28.9% ★, Naval Combat 26% ★, Open World 10.1%, Exploration 2.4%