- #1 Elacoria
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lightborn68
Windows
Explore an endless open world — vast in width, length, and depth — filled with mysteries to uncover. Join up to 8 friends to survive, farm, mine, build, and fight together in a living world with day-night cycles, seasons, and dynamic weather.
Why similar: Sandbox 17.1%, Building 15.5%, Survival 15.5%, Open World 15.3%, Crafting 12.5%
- #2 Winter is coming
96% match4 user reviews0% of 4 reviews2026
Dev: mantou
Windows
"Winter is Coming" is an open world survival simulation game independently developed by "mantou", in this game, you will be on an island as an island survival contestant, As time goes by and the weather gets colder, Pack enough food to last the last winter before it gets cold enough!
Why similar: Modern 19.2%, Survival 16%, Building 13.6%, Sandbox 11.9%, Open World 11.6%
- #3 The Resonance Initiative
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Blackfield Studios
Windows
In this open-world factory sandbox you need to harness unique power waveforms to run your machines. Use everything as fuel, from plant life to fallen enemies. Explore the world to uncover new foes and resources to exploit as your empire grows.
Why similar: Automation 25.6%, Building 16.7%, Crafting 15.8%, Survival 12.2%, Sandbox 11.1%
- #4 Portal Knights
94% matchVery Positive83% of 22,346 reviews2017
Dev: Keen Games GmbHPub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 21.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
The world of Elysia needs YOU! Join this cooperative, 3D sandbox action RPG to level up your character, craft epic weapons, conquer enemies in real-time, and build almost anything! Craft your adventure. Forge your hero. Become the ultimate Portal Knight!
Why similar: Sandbox 19.3%, Building 17.4%, Crafting 16.5%, Survival 14.8%, Multiplayer 13.7%
- #5 Light No Fire
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hello Games
Windows
A game about adventure, building, survival and exploration together. Set on a fantasy planet the size of Earth.
Why similar: Survival 13.7%, Sandbox 13.4%, Open World 10.7%, Building 10.5%, Action RPG 9.7%
- #6 Guluo Monster Story
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 原谅大叔Pub: 古罗小骷髅
Windows
古罗魔物记,异世界的穿越之旅,即将开始,注意你的网络状况,活着离开这里!
Why similar: Survival 21.8%, Open World 13.5%, Building 13%, Crafting 11.8%, RPG 10.8%
- #7 The Black Bahr
92% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Zeynova Production
Windows
The Black Bahr is a sandbox colony simulation RPG blending ocean exploration, crew management, and dynamic faction politics. Freely chart your course as a pirate, merchant, or honorable captain, shaping your destiny across the open seas.
Why similar: Sandbox 14.7%, Survival 13.8%, Crafting 12.9%, Building 11.6%, Open World 11%
- #8 Keplerth
91% matchVery Positive84% of 4,159 reviews2022
Dev: TAROPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Welcome to Keplerth! Try to survive on a hostile alien planet in this 2D sandbox RPG, where you can choose to live alone or fight side by side with your friends in the online multiplayer mode. Survive, build, farm, fight, and explore your way to victory in this open-world adventure!
Why similar: Sandbox 18.8%, Building 17.6%, Survival 17.5%, Open World 12.9%, Multiplayer 8.3%
- #9 Red Frost
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DRAGO entertainment
Windows · Mac
A story-driven, first person perspective, post-apocalyptic survival adventure set in the rough winter climates of last century’s Russia.
Why similar: Survival 15.6%, Crafting 13.8%, Building 13.6%, Sandbox 11.7%, Open World 10.2%
- #10 Conan Exiles - Public Beta Client
91% matchPositive92% of 24 reviews2018
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 38%
A Public Beta Client for Conan Exiles.
Why similar: Building 16.9%, Survival 16.5%, Crafting 16%, Sandbox 13.9%, Open World 12%
- #11 Krasnaya Factory
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kickback games
Windows
Produce weapons, automate your production, and complete contracts to gain more money and expand your factory. A war is waging against the aliens. You will need to support the war effort by producing an ever-increasing amount of weapons. And always stay ready to defend your factories.
Why similar: Automation 23%, Crafting 16%, Building 14%, Open World 10.4%, Sandbox 10%
- #12 Layer Land
89% matchMixed51% of 37 reviews2026
Dev: PUDDING Co. Ltd.
Windows
Layerland is a sandbox survival game set in a world that mirrors Earth’s terrain. Travel through gates, capture monsters as pets, and team up to battle, gather, craft, and build.
Why similar: Automation 18.6%, Crafting 13.2%, Survival 13.1%, Building 12.8%, Sandbox 11%
- #13 Sandustry
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 3,449 reviews2026
Dev: Lantto GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Explore and mine fully destructible worlds. Automate increasingly complex production chains. Delve deep to uncover an ancient civilization’s powerful secrets and learn to love the sand in this factory game where every pixel is a valuable resource.
Why similar: Automation 20.4%, Sandbox 13.6%, Building 13.5%, Crafting 13.5%, Survival 11.8%
- #14 Shards of Azuria
88% matchMixed60% of 101 reviews2019
Dev: Blue Potion Games
Windows
Shards of Azuria is an isometric, craft and build RPG. Create a character and a new world, then start your adventure by waking up in town. You are greeted by the locals of Azuria and begin to find your way around.
Why similar: Crafting 21.9%, Sandbox 16.7%, Survival 15.4%, Building 14%, RPG 9.6%
- #15 Force of Nature 2: Ghost Keeper
86% matchMostly Positive80% of 2,353 reviews2021
Dev: A.Y.stdPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 16.6 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Force of Nature 2: Ghost Keeper offers incredible adventures full of mystery, danger, exploration and magic. This game combines the genres of Survival, Sandbox, Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Resource Management
Why similar: Crafting 14.9%, Survival 14.5%, Sandbox 13.2%, Building 12.8%, Open World 11.5%
- #16 Craftopia
85% matchMostly Positive76% of 20,210 reviews2020
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Craftopia is the brand new multiplayer survival action game made in Japan. We combined many features we find enjoyable, such as hunting, farming, hack-and-slash, building, automation to develop this game.
Why similar: Crafting 19.3%, Survival 16.8%, Open World 15.7%, Sandbox 11.7%, Building 10.7%
- #17 Everwind
83% matchVery Positive81% of 3,756 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 14.1 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: Building 14.3%, Crafting 14%, Survival 13.4%, Sandbox 13.1%, Action RPG 10.8%
- #18 Medieval Dynasty
84% 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: Building 18%, Crafting 17.3%, Survival 12.1%, Sandbox 10.4%, Multiplayer 9%
- #19 Digger Online
84% matchMixed49% of 17,911 reviews2015
Dev: DiggerGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Sanbox multiplayer building game with additional game mods
Why similar: Survival 14.4%, Realistic 12.6%, Sandbox 12.5%, Building 11.5%, Story Rich 11.1%
- #20 Enshrouded
81% matchVery Positive86% of 104,779 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.9 hrsMean: 46.5 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: Survival 18.2%, Open World 15.2%, Crafting 14.2%, Building 11.1%, Multiplayer 11%
- #21 The Stormy Islands
82% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2023
Dev: SeMaxYa
Windows
Survive mother nature, prepare for the different seasons protecting yourself from cold, heat, hunger and thirst. Beware of Tornadoes, Storms, Tsunamis and predatory animals, on a variety of islands where each one will have to adapt to its limited resources.
Why similar: Survival 19.4%, Sandbox 19.2%, Open World 13.7%, Crafting 12.5%, Realistic 10.6%
- #22 Shamania
81% 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: Crafting 16%, Automation 15.7%, Survival 14.7%, Sandbox 12%, Open World 11.9%
- #23 Scrap Mechanic
77% matchVery Positive92% of 122,134 reviews2026
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.4 hrsMean: 64.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!
Why similar: Building 20.6%, Sandbox 16.6%, Crafting 16%, Survival 15.7%, Open World 11.8%
- #24 Better Late Than DEAD
82% matchMostly Negative28% of 910 reviews2016
Dev: Odin Game StudioPub: Excalibur Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 30 minMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 33%
Awaking on an island with no memory, you have just one memento of the life you led before… A child's photograph. Who is this? You must search the island for useful tools that will aid in your escape. As time passes and hopes of survival hang by a thread, you realise that this island is not as it seems.
Why similar: Survival 28.2%, Crafting 18.3%, Open World 15.1%, Sandbox 12.9%, Multiplayer 12.4%
- #25 Factory Trashcension
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Factory Trashcension
Windows
Factory Trashcension is a first-person open-world factory creation and optimization game with unlimited possibilities. Play with your friends and design efficient factories to TRASHCEND without worries and explore a v a p o r w a v e inspired universe!
Why similar: Automation 24.9%, Crafting 15.6%, Building 14.4%, Sandbox 14.3%, Multiplayer 10.4%
- #26 CaptMeow
79% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2021
Dev: Christopher V. CostelloPub: ChristophercGaming LLC
Windows
Capt. Meow is an Action RPG game
Why similar: Sandbox 18.1%, Action RPG 15.2%, Building 12.6%, Survival 11.4%, RPG 9.7%
- #27 Satisfactory
75% 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: Automation 27.8%, Crafting 14.7%, Building 13.4%, Sandbox 11.2%, Open World 10.9%
- #28 Genesis Online
80% matchMostly Negative32% of 1,886 reviews2015
Dev: Shumkov Dmitriy
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 2.6 hrs≥1hr: 21%
Genesis Online! First Person Multiplayer Adventure game in an editable procedural cubic world.
Why similar: Survival 25.8%, Sandbox 20.8%, Multiplayer 17.9%, Open World 14.1%, Building 10%
- #29 Zombie Watch Part II
78% matchMixed64% of 11 reviews2023
Dev: Wildlak
Windows
First-person single-player / survival / RPG game with zombies and wildlife.
Why similar: Sandbox 16.2%, Action RPG 14%, Building 13.1%, Crafting 11.7%, Realistic 10.6%
- #30 ATOM RPG 2
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: AtomTeam
Windows · Mac · Linux
A New Open-World Era of ATOM Begins! 1,225 km² of the Caspian Wastes! Open-world survival game with a story-rich CRPG soul, co-op or alone, vehicles, sandbox, crafting, and strange encounters.
Why similar: Survival 13.3%, Sandbox 12.6%, Action RPG 11.1%, Crafting 10.9%, Open World 10.8%
- #31 Rebirthing
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Quater Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Create and explore endless worlds, fight, craft and build. Play alone or with friends. Travel the planets. Enjoy freedom, creativity and fantasy.
Why similar: Sandbox 20.2%, Survival 15.7%, Multiplayer 12.9%, Crafting 11.7%, RPG 10.2%
- #32 Technicity
76% matchMostly Positive78% of 241 reviews2022
Dev: Osaris GamesPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 53%
A first-person city-building game with powerful tools that allow you to build faster and bigger. Design your own construction blocks and furniture in factories, terraform the open world, build roads and use vehicles to travel to different cities that you or your friends create in solo or coop mode.
Why similar: Modern 18.8%, Automation 17.4%, Building 12.1%, Crafting 11.7%, Sandbox 11.5%
- #33 Sea Warden
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alcedo Games
Windows
Sea Warden is a co-op survival adventure set on the back of Ao, a giant sea turtle journeying across a shattered world. Build, craft, explore, and defend your living base as you travel between forgotten islands in search of lost knowledge and stranded souls.
Why similar: Survival 19.6%, Crafting 15.4%, Building 13.6%, Multiplayer 12.7%, Open World 12.5%
- #34 Direland
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: KAIJIUUUUU
Windows
A sandbox survival craft game set in a vast world. Explore the wilderness, defeat monsters, gather materials, and conquer colossal bosses.
Why similar: Sandbox 24.1%, Crafting 23.1%, Survival 19.1%, Open World 12.2%, RPG 9.4%
- #35 Black Gold: Oil Drilling Simulator
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CreativeForge Games
Windows
Step into the grit of the early 20th-century oil boom. Build your drilling empire from the dirt up chop timber, maintain rusty machinery, and manage a rugged crew. Strike black gold, overcome ruthless crises, and turn raw earth into an unimaginable fortune. The rush begins now.
Why similar: Automation 25.6%, Building 16.4%, Crafting 14.4%, Realistic 12%, Management 9.3%
- #36 The Adventurer’s Trial
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: HY Studio
Windows
Every adventurer must face the Trial — a boundless pixel-art sandbox where you can explore, build, mine, farm, and challenge epic bosses. Play solo or with up to 3 friends in thrilling top-down adventures.
Why similar: Sandbox 21.3%, Crafting 17%, Open World 11.7%, Multiplayer 10.2%, Automation 8.1%
- #37 Signalfall
71% matchMixed63% of 19 reviews2026
Dev: Fallen Relay
Windows
Crash-land on a hostile planet and build automated extraction outposts to survive. Defend your operations, manage power networks, and send resources to orbit to unlock new technologies.
Why similar: Automation 19.8%, Survival 17.4%, Crafting 17%, Building 16.8%, Sandbox 12.2%
- #38 Forest Of Fear
73% matchMixed52% of 24 reviews2024
Dev: Richard BuenoPub: Two Void Studios
Windows
On a mission to explore a secret island discovered by the military, your plane crashes, leaving you as the sole survivor. Now, on the Island of the Condemned, your only concern is to survive and escape at any cost.
Why similar: Survival 13.9%, Building 13.4%, Crafting 13.2%, Sandbox 12.8%, Open World 10.3%
- #39 Symbiosis
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Aberratic
Windows
A solo or coop hero-shooter set in a procedural alien world. Explore, build, evolve, and fight side-by-side against waves of mechanical hybrids. Wishlist now!
Why similar: Building 13.6%, Crafting 13.5%, Survival 13.5%, Sandbox 12.4%, Action RPG 10.7%
- #40 Blightrest
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Zero Hype Games
Windows
Blightrest is a co-op survival action game set in a dark, open world where every decision brings you closer to either salvation or eternal damnation. Master survival, build fortifications, banish demons with ancient rituals, and explore the Wastes where even shadows have eyes.
Why similar: Survival 17.2%, Crafting 15.3%, Open World 14.4%, Building 9.5%, RPG 8.2%
- #41 Survive The Island
73% matchMixed53% of 83 reviews2021
Dev: PhantomCore StudioPub: PhantomCore PUBLISHING
Windows
survive the island you survive from skeletons and humans you can build and mine and level up your stats you can build whatever you want you can raid enemies you can mine and cut down trees and you have to hunt for your own food and you can grow your own crops and you can craft weapons
Why similar: Sandbox 18.6%, Building 15.4%, Action RPG 14.4%, Survival 13.7%, RPG 12.1%
- #42 The Maker Way
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Brave Games Inc.
Windows
Build creative machines, rovers, drones or robots. Use them to gather resources, discover new machine parts, source energy, construct bases and battle enemy factions in a physics-based open world.
Why similar: Automation 21%, Crafting 17.5%, Sandbox 16.3%, Building 14.7%, Survival 12.1%
- #43 Untitled Automation Game
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Galactic Circuit Studio
Windows
Destroy every sentient being on a planet far, far away from Earth using automation cubes and a little magic!
Why similar: Automation 25%, Building 16.2%, Sandbox 14.8%, Crafting 12.9%, Management 10.2%
- #44 Fronimus
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: StayOnSofa
Windows
Fronimus is an automation-focused game about building factories, featuring nonlinear step by step progression
Why similar: Automation 29.7%, Sandbox 15.8%, Building 15.7%, Open World 12.4%, Crafting 10.1%
- #45 XenoHaven
67% matchVery Positive86% of 69 reviews2025
Dev: Miniverse GamePub: OKJOY
Windows
In XenoHaven, gather resources to build shelters, enslave alien beasts to work for you, and run restaurants and shops. Delve into dark underground dungeons, defeat swarming insectoids and mighty bosses, and craft powerful gear to conquer the alien world.
Why similar: Sandbox 16.4%, Survival 15.5%, Crafting 13.7%, Building 13.6%, Automation 13.2%
- #46 KINGDOMS
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 4,086 reviews2015
Dev: Oreol
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 70%
KINGDOMS is a procedural medieval RPG in a randomly generated open world. The main feature of KINGDOMS is a smart AI system that completely controls NPC behavior. As the player, you can fully interact with this massive world and become any person you want to be.
Why similar: Building 20%, Survival 16.3%, Open World 15.9%, Crafting 14.6%, Sandbox 13.9%
- #47 Substructure
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dubious DesignPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Harness the power of automation in this factory game set on a rogue planet in the far reaches of the solar system. Dig down and explore the depths of an alien world, exploit its resources across complex production chains, and travel towards the core to uncover its deepest secrets.
Why similar: Automation 24.7%, Crafting 13.8%, Sandbox 13.7%, Survival 11.9%, Building 10.9%
- #48 Lost in Tropics
69% matchNegative10% of 31 reviews2024
Dev: Lukas GameLabsPub: SIG Publishing
Windows
Lost in Tropics: Embark on an unforgettable survival adventure where the lush, unpredictable tropics become your testing ground. In this immersive game, you find yourself stranded on a mysterious island, where every corner hides both breathtaking beauty and perilous challenges.
Why similar: Survival 17.7%, Building 16.8%, Sandbox 15.4%, Crafting 13.7%, Open World 12.6%
- #49 Premortal VR
69% matchPositive86% of 22 reviews2023
Dev: Voigon Ltd.
Windows
Premortal VR is a medieval VR-only game. Explore and survive the procedurally-generated wilderness. Gather resources and craft gear. Build formidable bases. Overcome all boss trials to ascend!
Why similar: Sandbox 17.8%, Building 14.3%, Crafting 12.2%, Open World 11.9%, Survival 11.8%
- #50 Far Out
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bekardo
Windows
Explore procedurally generated worlds, discover unique, randomly generated resources, create tools and machines in a free-form crafting system and progress from sticks and stones to space rockets in a sandbox loop of discovering and inventing
Why similar: Automation 22.4%, Sandbox 20%, Building 14%, RPG 13.8%, Crafting 12.7%
- #51 Escalate
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bastion Entertainment
Windows
A system-heavy RPG sandbox with interlocking skills and progression systems. Build your island, master your abilities, and face the Observer to unlock new features that evolve your gameplay.
Why similar: Sandbox 22.8%, Action RPG 16%, Automation 15.9%, RPG 12.1%, Building 9.8%
- #52 Just Us
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: eelDev
Windows
After global warming drowns most of the planet, only fragments of land remain above the rising seas. Among them lies a lonely island—once part of Sweden. Here, a couple struggles to survive the new world, searching for warmth, food, and meaning in the cold remnants of humanity.
Why similar: Survival 29.3%, Crafting 24.9%, Open World 14.8%, Multiplayer 13.5%, Building 9.9%
- #53 Return from Core
66% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,809 reviews2025
Dev: 顽核社 Funcore ClubPub: 2P Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Mine, build, and explore with Monster Girl companions in this underground sandbox adventure. Uncover lost tech, automate production, and forge bonds with allies as you fight to survive and journey back to the surface.
Why similar: Automation 25.3%, Survival 15.6%, Crafting 13.7%, Sandbox 13.5%, Building 10%
- #54 Steamwrecked
66% matchMixed64% of 42 reviews2026
Dev: sTeam
Windows
Ascend the skies and escape the hot desert caused by humanity's over usage of fossil fuels. Find blueprints, scavenge and craft items to build your airship to soar the skies up to society once more. Can you survive this tragedy or fall prey to the harsh nature of this decaying world?
Why similar: Sandbox 27.8%, Survival 24.3%, Building 15.1%, Crafting 14.1%, Adventure 9.4%
- #55 Start Over
67% matchMixed61% of 379 reviews2024
Dev: EY-Studio
Windows
Embark on an unpredictable survival journey in Start Over. Solo, co-op, online, explore diverse landscapes, craft through 4 tech tiers, encounter wildlife, and trade or raid for resources. Choose your path, defend against waves, and shape your destiny in a dynamic world. Are you ready to Start Over?
Why similar: Crafting 15.5%, Survival 15.3%, Building 14.6%, Sandbox 14.2%, Realistic 9.5%