- #1 Portal Knights
97% matchVery Positive83% of 22,116 reviews2017
Dev: Keen Games GmbHPub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 21.2 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 26.2%, Crafting 19.1%, RPG 13.4%, Building 11.2%, Survival 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly mirrors the voxel-based RPG structure of the seed, featuring distinct worlds, class-based progression, and boss battles.
- #2 Terraria
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,511,859 reviews2011
Dev: Re-Logic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 33.2 hrsMean: 149.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46% ★, Sandbox 16.5%, Crafting 9.7%, Survival 7%, Open World 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: The definitive 2D sandbox RPG that focuses on exploration, boss progression, and extensive crafting systems.
- #3 DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS™ 2
96% matchVery Positive92% of 7,831 reviews2019
Dev: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 11.3 hrsMean: 48.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%
DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS™ 2 is a block-building RPG set in a fantasy land threatened by an evil cult. Explore, battle, build and harvest in the charming single-player campaign or build big projects in the online sandbox mode for up to 4-players.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.2% ★, Sandbox 11.5%, RPG 10.3%, Crafting 7%, Building 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: It offers the most polished experience of combining structured RPG storytelling with creative voxel building and exploration.
- #4 Planet Explorers
95% 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 43% ★, Sandbox 15.7%, Open World 10.1%, Crafting 8.5%, Survival 5.4%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based open-world game that leans heavily into RPG mechanics, questing, and vehicle/weapon crafting.
- #5 Enshrouded
94% matchVery Positive86% of 98,202 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.3 hrsMean: 44.1 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: Open World 22.4%, Crafting 18.9%, Survival 15.1%, Sandbox 14.4%, RPG 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: A modern voxel-based survival RPG that emphasizes deep building mechanics alongside a structured fantasy questing system.
- #6 Creativerse
94% 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 31.5% ★, Voxel 12.7% ★, Sandbox 11.7%, Crafting 10.3%, Open World 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel sandbox that emphasizes exploration and building with a vibrant, fantasy-inspired aesthetic.
- #7 Necesse
91% 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 48.9% ★, Sandbox 11.5%, Crafting 9%, Open World 8.3%, Survival 5.7%
Why You'll Like It: Combines top-down sandbox building with deep RPG progression, boss fights, and settlement management.
- #8 Citadel: Forged with Fire
93% matchMixed68% of 5,882 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: Open World Survival Craft 35.5% ★, Open World 12.3%, Sandbox 10.2%, Dragons 9.6% ★, RPG 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: This game captures the fantasy magic and creature-taming aspects of the seed game within a massive open-world survival setting.
- #9 Boundless
92% matchMixed70% of 2,766 reviews2018
Dev: Monumental, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 33.0 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: Open World Survival Craft 37.7% ★, Sandbox 13.2%, Voxel 11.4% ★, Crafting 10%, Open World 9%
Why You'll Like It: Features voxel-based exploration across multiple unique worlds with a strong focus on character growth and crafting.
- #10 Realms of Magic
90% matchVery Positive81% of 986 reviews2022
Dev: Polished Games
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Embark on a journey through the Old Kingdom in Realms of Magic - a sandbox RPG where you customize your character, choose your path, and immerse yourself in the fantasy world as a knight, wizard, miner, lumberjack, farmer, and more. After all, this is YOUR adventure.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 51.6% ★, Sandbox 11%, RPG 10.7%, Open World 7.9%, Crafting 4.9%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D sandbox RPG that captures the fantasy progression and world-building feel of the seed game.
- #11 Dark and Light
91% matchMixed52% of 11,804 reviews2017
Dev: Snail Games USA
Windows
Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 49.3 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: Open World Survival Craft 25.7% ★, Sandbox 16.6%, Open World 14.6%, Dragons 10.8% ★, Survival 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: A fantasy-themed survival game that emphasizes magic, creature taming, and large-scale exploration.
- #12 Rising World
89% matchVery Positive86% of 5,845 reviews2014
Dev: JIW-Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 21.3 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Rising World is a voxel based open-world sandbox game, featuring a procedurally generated world, playable in single and multi-player.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.8% ★, Voxel 14.8% ★, Sandbox 13.4%, Crafting 11.6%, Survival 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based survival game that provides extensive building tools and a focus on environmental exploration.
- #13 Solace Crafting
88% 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 39.4% ★, Crafting 12.5%, Sandbox 11.6%, Open World 9.4%, Survival 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on infinite exploration and RPG-style character leveling within a vast, procedurally generated world.
- #14 Core Keeper
86% 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 36% ★, Sandbox 14.6%, Crafting 12.7%, Open World 10.9%, Survival 8%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down sandbox adventure that excels at rewarding exploration with RPG-style progression and boss encounters.
- #15 Blockscape
89% matchMixed46% of 898 reviews2014
Dev: ioneo
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 49%
The ultimate block building game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 52.6% ★, Sandbox 14.5%, Crafting 7.8%, Open World 6.8%, Survival 4.7%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on high-fidelity voxel building and exploration with a similar aesthetic to the seed game.
- #16 Craftopia
87% matchMostly Positive77% of 19,974 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: Open World Survival Craft 35% ★, Crafting 15.7%, Open World 14.4%, Sandbox 11.2%, Survival 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: An ambitious mix of survival, crafting, and RPG elements that allows for diverse character builds and exploration.
- #17 Tinkerlands
84% matchVery Positive86% of 3,746 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 13.7 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 40.7% ★, Sandbox 13.8%, Crafting 9.8%, Open World 9.2%, Survival 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: A pixel-art survival game that balances exploration with RPG progression and combat against fantasy threats.
- #18 Wurm Unlimited
86% matchMostly Positive71% of 3,128 reviews2015
Dev: Code Club ABPub: Plug In Digital
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Wurm Unlimited is the standalone version of the fantasy sandbox world Wurm Online, the MMORPG where the players are in charge! A pioneer in the ideas of player influence, crafting and adventure, it is now one of the most deep and feature packed true sandbox experiences available.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.9% ★, Sandbox 14.4%, Crafting 11%, Open World 10.2%, RPG 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: Offers deep, skill-based progression and complex crafting in a persistent fantasy sandbox environment.
- #19 Windforge
85% matchMixed68% of 616 reviews2014
Dev: Snowed In Studios
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 43%
WindForge is a side-scrolling block-building game where you explore hostile skies in an ever-changing Steampunk world. Everything you see can be created or destroyed, creating an RPG without barriers that rewards creative problem solving and improvisation.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.1% ★, Sandbox 16.2%, Crafting 11.5%, RPG 10%, Open World 7%
Why You'll Like It: A steampunk-themed sandbox that incorporates RPG elements and unique aerial exploration mechanics.
- #20 Junk Jack
84% matchMostly Positive78% of 468 reviews2016
Dev: Pixbits
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 21.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Make the world truly yours in Junk Jack, a relaxing sandbox experience focused on building and improving your home. Discover new planets, tame and breed creatures, cook foods, collect animal companions, farm exotic plants, collect fish, grow flowers, play with your friends!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.7% ★, Sandbox 16.2%, Crafting 11.4%, Survival 7.6%, Building 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D sandbox game that prioritizes discovery, crafting, and RPG-like character progression.
- #21 Alchemist's Awakening
83% matchMostly Positive73% of 496 reviews2019
Dev: OsarisGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Enter a world full of magic, mystery, beautiful landscapes and dangerous creatures. Build your own destiny, by yourself or with some friends, gather materials, use elements as attacks, recombine them into building blocks... and use your Alchemist's power to give life to any shape you built.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.4% ★, Sandbox 15.4%, Crafting 13.6%, Open World 9.9%, Survival 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox RPG that allows players to use elemental magic and tame creatures in an open world.
- #22 Cubic Castles
82% matchMostly Positive74% of 4,272 reviews2014
Dev: Cosmic Cow LLC
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Your blocks, your castle, your world! Build anything you can dream up and explore with other players! Cubic Castles is a mini-MMO that combines the best of block-building and 3D platform action! Create fantastic parkour challenges, explore worlds made by other players, or even make friend!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.8% ★, Sandbox 14.1%, Crafting 9.8%, Open World 9.8%, Building 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer sandbox that emphasizes building and social interaction within a voxel world.
- #23 Valheim
79% 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 48.4% ★, Crafting 11%, Open World 10.8%, Survival 8.8%, Sandbox 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: While more survival-focused, it provides a compelling fantasy world with strong RPG progression and creature encounters.
- #24 Crea
82% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,406 reviews2016
Dev: Siege Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 19.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Progress with every slain monster, learn over 80 skills through talents, craft hundreds of items, and explore vast procedurally-generated worlds in this ever-expanding sandbox RPG!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46% ★, Sandbox 16.2%, Crafting 11.3%, RPG 6.3%, Survival 5.3%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D sandbox RPG that features a robust crafting system and character development paths.
- #25 Total Miner
81% matchMostly Positive78% of 760 reviews2017
Dev: Brandon Moore
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 36.8 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Total Miner is an open world voxel sandbox game. It is primarily designed for creative RPG game builders, but also has two action/adventure style game modes where you can just jump in and play.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.8% ★, Sandbox 12.9%, Voxel 10.9% ★, Open World 7.4%, Crafting 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based sandbox that includes RPG elements and survival mechanics in a classic blocky style.
- #26 Savage Lands
81% matchMixed55% of 6,679 reviews2021
Dev: Last Bastion Studios LLC
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Your fight for survival begins on the frozen shores of Tarvhas, where bitter cold and vicious creatures conspire to defeat the unprepared. Uncover the land’s dark history as you and fellow explorers traverse an unforgiving and hostile world to tame the Savage Lands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.8% ★, Dragons 13.9% ★, Sandbox 8.8%, Crafting 8.2%, Open World 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused fantasy game that features dragon encounters and harsh environmental challenges.
- #27 Cube Life: Island Survival
80% matchMixed69% of 177 reviews2018
Dev: Cypronia
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Cube Life: Island Survival is an open-world, block building, survival game, taking place on a beautiful remote island. Imagine being shipwrecked and stranded left for dead, with only your will to survive. You must explore, build, craft, and fight your way to stay alive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 51.4% ★, Sandbox 11.8%, Crafting 8.8%, Open World 8.3%, Survival 6%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based survival game that focuses on exploration and building in an island setting.
- #28 Re.poly
79% 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 39.5% ★, Sandbox 14.3%, Crafting 12.5%, Open World 9.8%, Survival 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based survival game that focuses on crafting and exploration in an open-world environment.
- #29 Dawnlands
78% matchMixed52% of 3,131 reviews2023
Dev: SEASUN GAMES PTE. LTD.
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Dawnlands is an Open-World Survival Crafting cross-platform game with a massive world and epic lore. A variety of biomes, relics, and puzzles dot the landscape... an ancient land, lain dormant for centuries, is waiting to be awoken. New stories are waiting to be written.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.9% ★, Crafting 12.2%, Sandbox 11.8%, Open World 8.9%, Survival 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that blends building mechanics with RPG-lite progression and exploration.
- #30 Cubic Odyssey
76% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,483 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Embark on a galactic journey in Cubic Odyssey, an open-world adventure where you explore vibrant planets, craft tools, build vehicles, and fight the Red Darkness. Uncover ancient mysteries, and shape a universe full of life, danger, and limitless possibilities!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44% ★, Sandbox 15.3%, Open World 8.7%, Building 7.3%, Crafting 7.2%
- #31 CastleMiner Z
78% matchVery Positive81% of 11,088 reviews2014
Dev: DigitalDNA Games
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 66%
CastleMiner Z is an infinite world filled with deep places to explore, and horrifying monsters to slay. Build structures out of blocks, craft weapons and tools from raw materials, and explore the vast and frightening world around you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.1% ★, Sandbox 11.8%, Dragons 9.8% ★, Survival 8.5%, Crafting 8%
- #32 Dragon And Home
76% matchMixed60% of 1,378 reviews2021
Dev: HIG
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Dragon and Home is a sandbox MMORPG where players can choose freely how they desire to play. Whether you want to play as a courageous adventurer, or you want to experience the tranquil rural lifestyles, growing plants, and feeding animals with your friends in the Homeland, you can find it all.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41% ★, Sandbox 14.6%, Open World 10.9%, Crafting 8.2%, RPG 7.5%
- #33 Feel The Snow
75% matchVery Positive87% of 3,024 reviews2019
Dev: Owlet
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Choose one of the characters and start your journey. The game has many interesting things in store: building, crafting, puzzles, bosses, mystery, laughs, quests etc.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.3% ★, Crafting 11%, Sandbox 10.6%, Survival 8.3%, Open World 7.1%
- #34 Astral Terra
77% 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 38.3% ★, Sandbox 12.2%, Voxel 10% ★, Open World 9.4%, Crafting 7.4%
- #35 Wurm Online
74% matchMixed63% of 2,510 reviews2020
Dev: Code Club AB
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 38.6 hrs≥1hr: 47%
A sandbox MMORPG that has pushed the boundaries on what it means to be open world and stood the test of time. Dig, mine, shape the world around you and make your lasting mark!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.4% ★, Sandbox 22.7%, RPG 11.1%, Building 6.6%, Adventure 5.2%
- #36 Lucid Blocks
69% matchVery Positive94% of 2,772 reviews2026
Dev: Lucy B. Locks
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Explore, build, and survive in a cryptic expanse oozing with dreamlike oddities and esoteric critters.
Why similar: Voxel 23.4% ★, Sandbox 21.5%, Open World 15.2%, Crafting 13.9%, Building 7.8%
- #37 Forager
72% matchVery Positive90% of 43,003 reviews2019
Dev: HopFrogPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 22.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 50.1% ★, Crafting 13.7%, Sandbox 9.9%, Survival 8.7%, Open World 4.4%
- #38 Force of Nature
74% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,198 reviews2016
Dev: A.Y.std
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.1% ★, Crafting 13.4%, Sandbox 11.2%, Survival 8.1%, Open World 8.1%
- #39 Deep Despair
73% matchMixed67% of 280 reviews2020
Dev: BekkerDev Studio
Windows
Median: 10.6 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Deep Despair is a Minecraft-style survival sandbox. Travel, collect resources, craft items, dig, build, grow crops and survive. Freedom of action is limited only by your imagination!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.1% ★, Sandbox 12.1%, RPG 12%, Crafting 11.8%, Open World 9%
- #40 Starbound
71% matchVery Positive90% of 122,901 reviews2016
Dev: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.2 hrsMean: 64.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.1% ★, Sandbox 15.5%, Crafting 8.8%, Open World 6.6%, Survival 5.8%
- #41 Everwind
69% matchVery Positive82% of 2,069 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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: Sandbox 22.7%, Crafting 16.4%, Open World 16.2%, RPG 12.3%, Survival 12.1%
- #42 Trove
72% matchVery Positive80% of 92,653 reviews2015
Dev: gamigo US Inc.
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 49.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Grab your friends, hone your blades, and set off for an epic procedurally generated adventure in Trove! Battle the Shadow in realms filled with dungeons and items created by your fellow players. Whether hunting treasure or building realms of your own, it’s never been this good to be square!
Why similar: Sandbox 20.8%, Voxel 19.3% ★, Crafting 15.6%, Open World 14.7%, RPG 9.5%
- #43 Milkcraft
73% matchMixed55% of 237 reviews2021
Dev: Milkcraft Studio
Windows
Milkcraft is a multiplayer RPG social sandbox game. In this mysterious world of Norse mythology, you can freely build your own territory and village, or start a survival adventure to challenge the dark dragon. Come with Us!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.5% ★, Sandbox 12.2%, Voxel 11.5% ★, Open World 10.8%, RPG 7.7%
- #44 CHKN
73% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,718 reviews2016
Dev: Katapult
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Behold, the miracle of life… packed into cubes! Create fantastic creatures in an open-world sandbox game like no other. Explore, craft, and survive—all with the help of your very own creations.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.1% ★, Sandbox 16.5%, Crafting 11.6%, Open World 11.2%, Survival 8.3%
- #45 RuneScape: Dragonwilds
67% 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 38.4% ★, Dragons 11.5% ★, Open World 10.9%, Crafting 9.7%, Survival 7.5%
- #46 FortressCraft Evolved!
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,055 reviews2015
Dev: ProjectorGamesPub: Digital Tribe
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 72%
FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.7% ★, Sandbox 12.9%, Crafting 11.1%, Voxel 7.7% ★, Building 6%
- #47 Dragon Forge
70% matchMixed50% of 113 reviews2022
Dev: Legend Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Become a powerful dragon & automate massive factories! Dragon Forge is an incremental base building adventure game. Uncurse & explore a huge fantasy world full of quests. Gather resources & craft upgrades to become unstoppable! Discover over 100 fables of ancient wisdom at the Dragon Forge.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.9% ★, Dragons 14.1% ★, Sandbox 12.9%, Open World 10.1%, Crafting 9.1%
- #48 Life is Feudal: Your Own
70% matchMixed66% of 12,039 reviews2015
Dev: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 58.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Hardcore and realistic; LiF is a Medieval multiplayer sandbox RPG, with free terraforming, a rich crafting system and preset and modular building construction. With engaging survival aspects, no target physics-based combat and a unique formation system - along with numerous other features - LiF is not for the faint of heart!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.3% ★, Sandbox 12.7%, Crafting 11.7%, Open World 10.7%, Survival 7.4%
- #49 Crafting Block World
71% matchMixed46% of 52 reviews2019
Dev: IO Games
Windows
Crafting Block World is an adventure with sandbox elements that will help you build your ideal world!
Why similar: Voxel 25.2% ★, Sandbox 22.1%, Crafting 11.6%, Survival 11.4%, Open World 9.8%
- #50 Planet Centauri
66% matchMostly Positive77% of 2,359 reviews2024
Dev: Permadeath
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Dive into an epic adventure alone or with friends! Explore hidden dungeons, capture and tame fearsome monsters, build and defend your village. Craft powerful weapons, master magical spells, and transform an planet into the cradle of a new civilization!
Why similar: Sandbox 27.2%, Crafting 20.4%, Open World 17.3%, RPG 11.8%, Building 10.1%
- #51 PixARK
68% matchMostly Positive73% of 12,998 reviews2019
Dev: Snail Games USA
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 40.2 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: Sandbox 19.2%, Open World 16.3%, Survival 14.5%, Voxel 11.9% ★, Crafting 11.4%
- #52 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
65% 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 40.7% ★, Sandbox 11.6%, Crafting 11.5%, Open World 9.4%, Survival 8.3%
- #53 Len's Island
64% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,615 reviews2025
Dev: Flow Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 43.8% ★, Sandbox 13.3%, Crafting 11.8%, Open World 9.6%, Survival 8%
- #54 Tinkertown
66% matchMixed67% of 1,340 reviews2023
Dev: Headup
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Gather your friends and come to Tinkertown - A refreshing new Multiplayer Sandbox Experience! Explore magical places filled with loot, danger, and creativity.
Why similar: RPG 21.9%, Sandbox 19.1%, Crafting 17.3%, Adventure 12.5%, Open World 12.3%
- #55 Blockstorm
68% matchMostly Positive80% of 6,348 reviews2015
Dev: GhostSharkPub: IndieGala
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Blockstorm is a FPS game set in a world made of destructible blocks. All maps and characters included in the game are made with the same tools that are available to the public. You can build everything in Blockstorm, and you can destroy it.
Why similar: Sandbox 26.9%, Voxel 26.1% ★, Building 13.9%, Action 12.8%, Open World 10.4%
- #56 Novus Inceptio
70% matchMixed52% of 1,300 reviews2015
Dev: McMagic Productions
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Warning: This is an Early Access game! Welcome to an enigmatic world, where a new gaming experience in exploring, building and surviving is waiting just for you. Experience a sandbox world with survival elements, and join us in creating a full version of the game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.3% ★, Sandbox 13%, Crafting 11.1%, Open World 9.6%, Survival 7.4%
