- #1 PlanetSmith
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Incandescent Games
Windows
PlanetSmith is a sandbox survival RPG set across fully spherical, procedurally generated voxel worlds. Explore alien planets, build anything you can imagine, fight dangerous creatures, and seamlessly launch into space to continue your adventure across a living solar system.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.1% ★, Voxel 18.3% ★, Sandbox 10.6%, Base Building 10.3%, Procedural Generation 8.3%
- #2 The Store is Closed
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ziggy
Windows
The Store is Closed is a coop survival game set in an infinite furniture store. When the lights go out, the staff attack. You’ll need to craft weapons, and build fortifications to survive the night. Explore the underground SCP laboratories and build towers to the sky to find a way out.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.3% ★, Cooking 17%, Base Building 12.1%, Crafting 10.2%, Online Co-Op 10%
- #3 Far North
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Legnd
Windows
Far North is a captivating survival game set deep inside the procedurally generated North. Alone or together with friends you can build, farm, cook, hunt and increase your various skills in order to survive the dynamic seasons and thrive in the North.
Why similar: Cooking 20.8%, Open World Survival Craft 18% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Sandbox 11.5%, Procedural Generation 9%
- #4 Across the Wonderlands
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Covenant.dev
Windows
The most whimsical open-world survival crafting game! Build your magical base dimension, craft bizarre dishes, and face off against quirky foes as you journey through enchanting fables to uncover the mystery of the fallen star.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.8% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Crafting 10.2%, Open World 9.2%, Online Co-Op 9%
- #5 Core Keeper
94% matchVery Positive93% of 63,205 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.0 hrsMean: 33.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 18.7% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Sandbox 10.9%, Crafting 10.7%, Open World 9.9%
- #6 Whisper of the Swallows
94% matchVery Positive87% of 144 reviews2026
Dev: Blown Leaves
Windows
Brave a savage and unforgiving procedurally-generated world where extreme weather and the nightmares of the dark are your greatest enemies. Alone or in co-op, survive, build, and explore to transform a cursed hellscape into your sanctuary of light.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.3% ★, Sandbox 12.1%, Crafting 11.8%, Base Building 11%, Online Co-Op 9.2%
- #7 Creativerse
93% matchMostly Positive78% of 30,868 reviews2017
Dev: Playful Corp.
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 63%
A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 19.3% ★, Voxel 17.4% ★, Sandbox 10.3%, Crafting 10.2%, Online Co-Op 9%
- #8 Pirate Island
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Asmo
Windows
Get ready for a pirate-themed open world survival game with modular base building, sunken island scavenging, crafting, exploring and getting treasures. Ready for the treasure hunter adventure?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.6% ★, Cooking 17.3%, Base Building 12.2%, Sandbox 11%, Crafting 9.1%
- #9 PsychWorld
91% match5 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2023
Dev: Hunter LePage
Windows · Linux
Explore a vast procedurally generated world where you never know what you'll see next. Explore and loot the world, finding your way through ancient structures such as the Catacombs. Slaughter enemies, grow your defenses, and escape the prison that is your mind. Just make sure you're not followed...
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22% ★, Voxel 21.3% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Crafting 11.8%, Procedural Generation 11.2%
- #10 Undercraft
91% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2022
Dev: PlayUndercraft
Windows
Create your world in this sandbox game where you can dig, build, explore, fight, and farm. Have a different experience in a day or night adventure. Explore a procedurally generated world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.8% ★, Sandbox 13.6%, Procedural Generation 12.1%, Online Co-Op 10.9%, Crafting 8.3%
- #11 Solace Crafting
90% matchMostly Positive72% of 891 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 24.1% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Crafting 12.3%, Sandbox 10.2%, Open World 10.2%
- #12 Aurendor
89% matchMixed47% of 17 reviews2023
Dev: Telescope Studios
Windows
Aurendor is an open world survival game. Players must gather resources, cook their meals and fight dangerous creatures to survive and build a home for themselves. Aurendor also offers a multiplayer game option. Players can play together by cooperating with or battling other survivors.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.2% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Online Co-Op 11.8%, Crafting 11.1%, Open World 11%
- #13 The Rotting Chronicles
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bad Rhino Studios
Windows
The Rotting Chronicles is a survival action game set in a zombie-ravaged city where you must fight, scavenge, craft, and rebuild to survive. Run solo or with up to 3 friends as you grow your survival skills and find the best strategy to survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.4% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 10.8%, Open World 9.8%, Online Co-Op 8.7%
- #14 Re.poly
88% matchVery Positive92% of 135 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 24.6% ★, Sandbox 12.7%, Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 12.5%, Open World 10.7%
- #15 Good Heavens!
87% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Nowhere Studios
Windows
Good Heavens! Is an open-world crafting and building RPG. Embark on a solo adventure or team up with up friends, picking your tool of choice – sword, wand, or carpenter's hammer. Navigate the quirky races and cultures of the promised lands and restore them to their, ahem, intended glory.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.1% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Sandbox 11.2%, Online Co-Op 10.8%, Open World 10.8%
- #16 Stormforge
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Roboto Games
Windows
Stormforge is an open-world survival crafting game for 1 to 8 players. You are Stormforged, with the ability to brave and harness power from magical storms. Explore, fight, forage, craft, build, and defeat bosses in this epic, fantasy game. Survive the Storms and thrive!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.1% ★, Open World 11.4%, Base Building 10.8%, Crafting 9.9%, Sandbox 9.4%
- #17 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
86% matchVery Positive82% of 9,646 reviews2024
Dev: Merge GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.4% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 10.7%, Online Co-Op 10.1%, Sandbox 9.6%
- #18 Nighthold
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 2 Zombie GamesPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Build shelters, interact with rescuees, battle against the Rot and raiders to survive another night in this Sandbox RPG. Play Solo or team up with friends in Online Сo-op.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.4% ★, Base Building 11%, Sandbox 10%, Crafting 9.4%, Open World 7.9%
- #19 Green Hell
84% matchVery Positive85% of 94,379 reviews2019
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 18.7 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 33.1% ★, Online Co-Op 11.1%, Crafting 10.1%, Base Building 9.2%, Open World 9.2%
- #20 Mewnition
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mewsubi
Windows
A co-op adventure game for 1-16 players, set in a voxel environment teeming with gargantuan beasts and powerful artifacts. Forage for resources, fortify your arenas, and fight fearsome foes as you reshape the world and uncover the truth of how it came to be.
Why similar: Voxel 25% ★, Sandbox 16.8%, Action-Adventure 11.7%, Crafting 11.2%, Procedural Generation 9.2%
- #21 Realmcraft VR
82% matchMostly Positive78% of 18 reviews2024
Dev: Tellurion Mobile
Windows
RealmCraft is an immersive 3D sandbox VR adventure in a blocky world, blending creativity and survival. Explore a vast procedurally generated open world, mine resources, craft tools, and build anything. Fight hostile mobs, find treasures, and enjoy smooth, intuitive VR gameplay.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.6% ★, Voxel 21.4% ★, Sandbox 13.7%, Open World 11.3%, Procedural Generation 10.9%
- #22 Astral Terra
84% matchMixed50% of 152 reviews2015
Dev: Tethys Interactive LLC
Windows
Explore, Adventure, Craft, Build, Survive. How will you shape your world? Astral Terra is a Smooth Voxel, Procedurally Generated Open World game with RPG and Survival Elements!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29% ★, Voxel 16.8% ★, Sandbox 13.2%, Open World 12.5%, Crafting 9.1%
- #23 Cataclysm Upon Us
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 7Dev Studios
Windows · Linux
Cataclysm Upon Us is an open world survival RPG. Craft, fight, and build in a world overrun by mutants, zombies and other abominations. Uncover secrets, embrace mutations and cybernetic enhancements. Every decision shapes your journey in this haunting cataclysm. Can you survive the chaos?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.7% ★, Sandbox 12.2%, Open World 11.6%, Crafting 10.5%, Survival Horror 9.1%
- #24 Miner Rogue
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Voxelblade Studio
Windows
In a fully destructible world, gather resources, build, and craft items. Fight back with your friends against the corruption spreading across the land. But don't dig too deep, because you might end up in hell.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25% ★, Sandbox 12.7%, Crafting 11.3%, Online Co-Op 11.2%, Open World 9.7%
- #25 Surviving Skeleton Island
80% matchPositive80% of 20 reviews2025
Dev: Bert Games
Windows
Surviving Skeleton Island is an open world survival crafting RPG set in a primitive 3D low poly island world of 12 unique biomes. Explore, hunt, craft, build, farm and fish to survive, while quests and clues unveil the secrets of the island, and your past. Forge your destiny and plot your escape!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.2% ★, Cooking 15.9%, Crafting 12.2%, Sandbox 12%, Open World 10.1%
- #26 Grounded 2
78% matchVery Positive81% of 19,870 reviews2025
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 20.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Shrunk again, but the world is much larger. In this open-world, single-player or co-op survival adventure, craft weapons and armor, build your base, and traverse the playground on your buggy. But something else is out there—and it hasn’t forgotten you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.5% ★, Base Building 15.8%, Open World 11.7%, Crafting 11.5%, Sandbox 10%
- #27 FOUNDRY
79% matchVery Positive81% of 3,508 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 45.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.
Why similar: Voxel 17.2% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Crafting 10.6%, Sandbox 10.4%, Procedural Generation 9.4%
- #28 Plains of Pain
78% matchVery Positive85% of 692 reviews2023
Dev: Cobra Byte Digital
Windows
Survive a brutal open world alone or with friends. Explore a procedural wasteland scorched by chaos. Build and defend your base, trade for what you need, complete deadly quests, and fight to claim faction outposts before someone else does.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.5% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Sandbox 11.2%, Crafting 10.4%, Procedural Generation 10.2%
- #29 Planet Explorers
79% matchMixed62% of 6,817 reviews2016
Dev: Pathea Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Planet Explorers is an open world sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.9% ★, Sandbox 17.7%, Open World 14%, Crafting 10.8%, Voxel 6.7% ★
- #30 Winter Survival
76% matchMixed63% of 751 reviews2025
Dev: DRAGO entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Winter Survival is a story-driven survival game where trauma turns reality into a reflection of your breaking mind. Battle cold, hunger, hallucinations, and adapt to the wilderness as it adapts to you.
Why similar: Cooking 22%, Open World Survival Craft 22% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Open World 9.9%, Survival Horror 8.8%
- #31 Vagabond
77% matchMostly Positive78% of 98 reviews2023
Dev: Pierre Vigier
Windows · Linux
Explore procedurally generated living worlds in this 2D sandbox RPG. Meet hundreds of characters in cities, complete quests, craft powerful items, buy and furnish your home or fight monsters in dungeons.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.6% ★, Sandbox 14.1%, Procedural Generation 12.6%, Open World 12.1%, Crafting 10.3%
- #32 Solitude
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Amuzo Limited
Windows
Beached upon the coast of a haunted land you must survive the trials of an ancient malevolent force which seeks freedom from its shackles. Battle against the horrors of the night, build shelters to weather the elements, scavenge for supplies and uncover the mystery at the heart of the island.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23% ★, Base Building 16.9%, Crafting 14.3%, Survival Horror 13.7%, Open World 11.9%
- #33 Aniverse
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: AniLab
Windows
Chop trees, cook meals, build your home and play music to control the wild! Explore a procedurally generated world and survive your way through art.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.1% ★, Open World 13.6%, Procedural Generation 12.3%, Sandbox 12.1%, Crafting 11.2%
- #34 Dawn of Defiance
74% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,736 reviews2024
Dev: Traega EntertainmentPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 26.7% ★, Online Co-Op 12.3%, Base Building 12.2%, Open World 8.8%, Sandbox 8.6%
- #35 Astoaria
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Feres Studio
Windows
A sandbox open-world survival set in a dynamic world of floating islands, each with its own ecosystem and climate. Explore and thrive by strategically exploiting these environments. Harness energy, strategically farm, craft your airship and much more, while uncovering the mysteries of this world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.2% ★, Base Building 14.5%, Procedural Generation 12.3%, Sandbox 12.3%, Crafting 9.7%
- #36 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
73% matchVery Positive91% of 7,161 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in this free prologue introducing one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters – an upcoming open-world game that challenges you, alone or with friends, to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.4% ★, Base Building 14.1%, Crafting 10.9%, Open World 10.1%, Sandbox 10.1%
- #37 KYORA
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PugstormPub: Chucklefish
Windows · Linux
Delve into KYORA, a mystical multiplayer sandbox adventure, where every pixel is yours to shape, mine, build or explode.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.8% ★, Sandbox 13.1%, Base Building 10.5%, Crafting 10.3%, Online Co-Op 9.8%
- #38 Wildsite
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Vividdi Entertainment
Windows
Crash-landed on an unknown planet filled with plasma and toxic weather. Your only hope? Bob, a sarcastic-genius AI who will question your every survival decision. Explore, build your mobile base and try to avoid death alongside up to 3 friends in Co-op.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.4% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 12.1%, Online Co-Op 12%, Open World 11.3%
- #39 Kalahari’s End
72% match6 user reviews67% of 6 reviews2026
Dev: Owlfig Games
Windows
After your plane crashes, You find yourself in one of the largest abandoned tourist locations in South Africa. Build, Craft, and create your character while combatting the intense heat of the Kalahari Desert in this upcoming realistic open-world survival simulation game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.1% ★, Cooking 21.3%, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 11.9%, Sandbox 8.6%
- #40 Streets of Rogue 2
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Matt DabrowskiPub: tinyBuild
Windows · Mac · Linux
Streets of Rogue 2 is a crazy, immersive RPG sandbox set in a vast randomly generated open world where freedom and fun are dialed up to 11. Fight, sneak, hack, farm, build, steal, or talk your way to power as you try to topple a corrupt president in countless possible ways – solo or with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.6% ★, Sandbox 12.1%, Base Building 11.9%, Open World 10.8%, Crafting 9.7%
- #41 Nighthold: Number 1
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 356 reviews2025
Dev: 2 Zombie GamesPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 1.3 hrs≥1hr: 26%
Investigate a starship crash, explore a hostile world, build shelters and survive nightly attacks of the Rot. Tear down any structure and experience total freedom of action.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.9% ★, Base Building 15.9%, Sandbox 14.7%, Crafting 13.2%, Open World 9.5%
- #42 StaudSoft's Synthetic World Beta
75% matchMixed58% of 26 reviews2015
Dev: StaudSoft
Windows · Mac · Linux
Welcome to StaudSoft's Synthetic World! It allows you via a seed to create a unique landscape with mountains, oceans, trees and beaches. Although it looks like a normal game engine, everything in the game is based on voxels. So everything you see can be changed.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.5% ★, Voxel 19.7% ★, Sandbox 13.1%, Crafting 12.5%, Procedural Generation 10.2%
- #43 IfSunSets
71% matchMostly Positive75% of 2,127 reviews2024
Dev: POLYMORPHPub: Smilegate
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 28.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
「IfSunSets」 is a survival RPG adventure game. During the day, secure necessary supplies across the island, and survive the night against strong and terrifying monsters that track you down. You can utilize resources you've secured to build a base to fend off threatening monsters.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 19.7% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Survival Horror 10.7%, Crafting 10.2%, Sandbox 10.1%
- #44 Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts
71% matchMostly Negative36% of 365 reviews2023
Dev: EFNSOFT
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 36%
Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts is a Multiplayer Survival Horror game for up to 4 players. Set in the Middle of the Unknown, you can craft, build, explore and discover secrets in the exciting first chapter from EFNSOFT.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28% ★, Crafting 12.4%, Open World 12.2%, Survival Horror 11.8%, Sandbox 9.9%
- #45 Mayday: The Survival Island
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pequi studiosPub: indie.io
Windows
After a mysterious crash, you awaken alone on a strange island. Survive by hunting, farming, and crafting, then explore a vast archipelago filled with secrets, ancient ruins, and magical totems. Build your base, uncover the truth, and escape—if you can.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.6% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 11.7%, Sandbox 11.6%, Online Co-Op 10%
- #46 THE SIREEN
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lucy Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
You are trying to prevent the spread of a top secret invention to the islands from an accidental Laboratory explosion on an island You are maybe the last people left on the island , Crafts, you build houses, you hunt. a new open world survival horror simulator
Why similar: Cooking 15.5%, Survival Horror 15.5%, Base Building 14%, Open World 13.3%, Crafting 11.9%
- #47 Shamania
68% matchMostly Positive78% of 140 reviews2025
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 26% ★, Crafting 14.6%, Open World 13.3%, Sandbox 11.4%, Online Co-Op 9.4%
- #48 Necesse
67% matchVery Positive93% of 26,780 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 14.6 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 35.3% ★, Sandbox 11.8%, Crafting 10.5%, Open World 10.5%, Base Building 9.2%
- #49 Cryptfall
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Fat Raccoon
Windows
In this 4-player co-op survival craft game, you and your friends are trapped inside a cursed, ever-changing board game. As members of the Mystery Club, you must uncover the secrets of Cryptfall, craft powerful tools, and defeat terrifying Cryptids to escape—before the island consumes you!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.5% ★, Crafting 11.3%, Base Building 10.6%, Sandbox 10.5%, Procedural Generation 8.6%
- #50 Short Snow | Cold Survival Game
69% matchMixed55% of 102 reviews2025
Dev: MubDev
Windows
A realistic open-world survival experience. After a harrowing plane crash, you find yourself stranded in the wilderness. Battling freezing temperatures and hunger, you face an unknown virus that slowly paralyzes muscles, leaving its victims motionless and at the mercy of the unforgiving cold.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.9% ★, Open World 13.3%, Crafting 10.8%, Sandbox 10.7%, Base Building 10.3%
- #51 The Survivalists
70% matchMostly Positive76% of 9,935 reviews2020
Dev: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 71%
A living world full of surprises, secrets and danger awaits in The Survivalists, an adventure-filled survival sandbox set in The Escapists universe. Explore, build, craft and even train monkeys with up to three friends in a desperate bid to survive. Have you got what it takes to be a Survivalist?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.2% ★, Crafting 14.4%, Online Co-Op 12.4%, Base Building 12.2%, Sandbox 10.3%
- #52 SkyCraft
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: ADIAN
Windows
Skycraft is an open-world survival game for 1-10 players, set in infinite procedurally-generated floating islands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.6% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Crafting 12.2%, Online Co-Op 12%, Open World 11.7%
- #53 Under a Rock
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Nordic TrollsPub: Gameforge 4D GmbH
Windows
A procedural open-world survival craft game for 1-10 players. Explore a primitive but dangerous place with a different evolutionary path; here, wildlife is oversized, Neanderthals still exist, and curses are real.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27% ★, Online Co-Op 12.2%, Base Building 10.5%, Sandbox 9.3%, Crafting 8.7%
- #54 Planetaries
67% matchMixed59% of 222 reviews2024
Dev: EY-Studio
Windows
Experience a vast Sci-fi open-world survival TD game set on a distant planet deep in the universe. Craft, build, mine, trade, explore, and survive in this alien world. Collect Data and defend against waves of enemies seeking to banish you. Enjoy the adventure in Singleplayer or Multiplayer.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.4% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 11.7%, Online Co-Op 11.1%, Open World 10.7%
- #55 Valheim
66% matchVery Positive94% of 529,829 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 25.6 hrsMean: 76.1 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 29.2% ★, Online Co-Op 12.5%, Base Building 11.6%, Open World 11.5%, Crafting 10.7%
- #56 Isoterra
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: YAWPGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build bases and outposts, gather resources, craft items, train skills, rescue NPCs and fight for your survival. But be careful, the farther you explore this infinite world the more dangerous and rewarding it is.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.8% ★, Cooking 17.4%, Sandbox 12.4%, Base Building 12.4%, Procedural Generation 8.6%
- #57 ENDALOR
65% matchMixed68% of 79 reviews2026
Dev: Diorite Games
Windows
An immersive medieval dark fantasy survival game with RPG elements for 1-4 players. Set in a hand crafted open world. Explore, survive, build, craft, fight and conquer your way through the dark, brutal and mysterious lands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.7% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Online Co-Op 11.4%, Open World 10.7%, Crafting 10%
- #58 RuneScape: Dragonwilds
64% matchVery Positive81% of 23,948 reviews2025
Dev: Jagex Ltd
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 13.8 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 27.2% ★, Open World 13.6%, Online Co-Op 11.2%, Crafting 11.1%, Base Building 10.9%