- #1 Portal Knights
97% matchVery Positive83% of 22,235 reviews2017
Dev: Keen Games GmbHPub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 5.6 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 19.2%, Crafting 16.6%, Building 15%, Survival 11.5%, RPG 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: It perfectly mirrors the blend of voxel-based building and structured RPG questing found in the seed game.
- #2 DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS™ 2
96% matchVery Positive92% of 7,920 reviews2019
Dev: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 47.8 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 42.6% ★, Sandbox 10.2%, Building 9.9%, RPG 8.5%, Crafting 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: This title excels at combining creative block-based building with a narrative-driven RPG experience.
- #3 Terraria
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,524,255 reviews2011
Dev: Re-Logic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 33.5 hrsMean: 150.1 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 37.8% ★, Sandbox 14.1%, Crafting 9.7%, Survival 8.6%, Building 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a massive focus on RPG-style progression, boss fights, and exploration within a destructible 2D world.
- #4 Cube World
95% matchMostly Negative37% of 18,707 reviews2019
Dev: Picroma
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Cube World is a voxel-based action RPG with a focus on exploration. It takes place in a procedurally generated fantasy world made up entirely of cubes.
Why similar: Voxel 30.6% ★, Open World 17.3%, RPG 7.9%, Crafting 7.8%, Sandbox 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses heavily on voxel-based exploration and RPG character classes, capturing the sense of adventure found in the seed.
- #5 Enshrouded
94% matchVery Positive86% of 101,648 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.7 hrsMean: 45.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.
Why similar: Open World 19.3%, Crafting 16.2%, Survival 15.9%, Building 11%, Sandbox 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: A modern voxel-based survival RPG that emphasizes exploration, base building, and character progression in a dangerous open world.
- #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 22.5% ★, Voxel 17.7% ★, Crafting 9%, Sandbox 8.7%, Building 8%
Why You'll Like It: A polished voxel sandbox that offers a more accessible and visually vibrant take on the block-building genre.
- #7 PixARK
93% matchMostly Positive73% of 13,071 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: Voxel 15.4% ★, Survival 14.6%, Sandbox 13.4%, Open World 13.3%, Crafting 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: It directly captures the creature-taming and survival-crafting aspects of the seed game within a voxel environment.
- #8 Necesse
91% matchVery Positive93% of 27,199 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 14.8 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.4% ★, Sandbox 9.9%, Crafting 9.2%, Open World 8.3%, Survival 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: It combines top-down survival-crafting with complex RPG progression and settlement management.
- #9 Planet Explorers
92% 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 36% ★, Sandbox 13.7%, Open World 10.3%, Crafting 8.7%, Survival 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: This title features a deep focus on voxel-based terrain manipulation and sci-fi RPG questing.
- #10 Citadel: Forged with Fire
91% matchMixed68% of 5,884 reviews2019
Dev: Blue Isle StudiosPub: Blue Isle Publishing
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 18.9 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 29.7% ★, Open World 12.5%, Dragons 11% ★, Sandbox 8.9%, Survival 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on magic, spellcasting, and creature taming in an open-world survival setting.
- #11 Valheim
90% matchVery Positive94% of 534,015 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 25.8 hrsMean: 76.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.2% ★, Crafting 10.9%, Survival 10.7%, Open World 10.7%, Building 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a compelling survival-crafting experience with strong RPG elements and epic boss encounters.
- #12 Starbound
89% matchVery Positive90% of 122,999 reviews2016
Dev: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.1 hrsMean: 64.2 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 40.4% ★, Sandbox 13.5%, Crafting 9%, Survival 7.3%, Open World 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: This space-faring adventure offers deep RPG mechanics, questing, and building across a vast, procedurally generated universe.
- #13 Boundless
89% matchMixed70% of 2,767 reviews2018
Dev: Monumental, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 32.9 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 30.4% ★, Voxel 17.8% ★, Sandbox 11.1%, Crafting 9.9%, Open World 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a massive voxel universe with RPG character development and interconnected world exploration.
- #14 CastleMiner Z
88% matchVery Positive81% of 11,113 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 37.8% ★, Dragons 10.8% ★, Survival 10.2%, Sandbox 9.8%, Crafting 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: A classic voxel-based survival game that focuses on combat and exploration in a dangerous world.
- #15 Rising World
87% matchVery Positive86% of 5,890 reviews2014
Dev: JIW-Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 21.2 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 30% ★, Voxel 21.2% ★, Crafting 10.5%, Sandbox 10.2%, Building 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: This game provides a highly realistic voxel-based building experience with survival and RPG elements.
- #16 7 Days to Die
84% matchVery Positive87% of 399,251 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 16.9 hrsMean: 108.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.7% ★, Voxel 20.3% ★, Survival 12.9%, Open World 9.8%, Sandbox 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based survival game that incorporates RPG-style skill trees and intense base-building mechanics.
- #17 Junk Jack
86% matchMostly Positive79% of 469 reviews2016
Dev: Pixbits
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 21.9 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 38.8% ★, Sandbox 14.1%, Crafting 11.7%, Survival 9.5%, Building 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D voxel adventure that emphasizes exploration, crafting, and RPG-like discovery.
- #18 Tinkerlands
83% matchVery Positive86% of 3,833 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Explore, craft, and fight your way through uncharted islands — solo or with up to 4 players in co-op! Tinkerlands is an exciting survival adventure where you will build your settlement, craft useful tools to survive, and even use magic!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.7% ★, Sandbox 11.5%, Crafting 9.6%, Open World 9%, Survival 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-crafting game that features RPG elements and exploration in a pixel-art world.
- #19 Blockscape
86% 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 45.4% ★, Sandbox 13%, Crafting 8.3%, Open World 7.2%, Building 7%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a pure voxel sandbox experience with a focus on building and world alteration.
- #20 Alchemist's Awakening
85% matchMostly Positive73% of 497 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 42.9% ★, Crafting 14.8%, Sandbox 14.2%, Open World 10.7%, Survival 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on crafting and creature taming within an open-world voxel environment.
- #21 Wurm Unlimited
84% matchMostly Positive71% of 3,133 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 33.3% ★, Sandbox 12.5%, Crafting 11.3%, Open World 10.4%, Building 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: A deep, complex survival RPG that allows for massive world alteration and character skill progression.
- #22 Feel The Snow
82% matchVery Positive87% of 3,047 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 38.8% ★, Crafting 11.1%, Survival 10.2%, Sandbox 9.1%, Open World 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: This title blends survival-crafting with RPG questing and a charming winter-themed world.
- #23 Total Miner
82% matchMostly Positive78% of 767 reviews2017
Dev: Brandon Moore
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 36.0 hrs≥1hr: 40%
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 30.1% ★, Voxel 17% ★, Sandbox 10.7%, Building 7.5%, Open World 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel sandbox that offers both creative building and survival-based RPG modes.
- #24 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 33.5% ★, Dragons 15.3% ★, Survival 8.7%, Crafting 8.1%, Open World 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: This game provides a gritty survival experience with RPG elements and high-fantasy threats.
- #25 Cubic Castles
81% matchMostly Positive74% of 4,273 reviews2014
Dev: Raptisoft
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 39.5% ★, Building 13.5%, Sandbox 12.4%, Crafting 10.2%, Open World 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer-focused voxel game that emphasizes building and social exploration.
- #26 Unturned
78% matchVery Positive91% of 562,983 reviews2017
Dev: Smartly Dressed Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 72.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
You're a survivor in the zombie infested ruins of society, and must work with your friends and forge alliances to remain among the living.
Why similar: Crafting 17%, Sandbox 16.3%, Survival 13.8%, Open World 13.7%, FPS 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based survival game that incorporates RPG elements and multiplayer combat.
- #27 Dark and Light
80% matchMixed52% of 11,819 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 21.5% ★, Open World 15%, Sandbox 14.5%, Survival 13%, Dragons 12.6% ★
Why You'll Like It: A massive open-world survival game focused on magic, RPG progression, and creature taming.
- #28 CHKN
79% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,732 reviews2016
Dev: Katapult
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.0 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 31.9% ★, Sandbox 14.3%, Crafting 12%, Building 11.7%, Open World 11.4%
Why You'll Like It: It features a unique creature-creation system that fits perfectly with the sandbox and exploration themes of the seed.
- #29 Re.poly
79% matchVery Positive91% of 137 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 31.9% ★, Crafting 12.4%, Sandbox 12%, Open World 9.7%, Survival 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-crafting game that focuses on building and exploration within a voxel-based open world.
- #30 Eco
78% matchVery Positive81% of 13,905 reviews2018
Dev: Strange Loop Games
Windows
Median: 16.8 hrsMean: 89.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Build a civilization of real people, working together to advance society and stop a meteor, all without destroying the ecosystem in the process.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.4% ★, Sandbox 14.8%, Building 13.7%, Crafting 13%, Open World 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-crafting game that emphasizes long-term progression and world-altering building mechanics.
- #31 Cubic Odyssey
76% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,584 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 40.8% ★, Sandbox 14.1%, Building 12.7%, Co-op 8.4%, RPG 7.6%
- #32 Lay of the Land
75% matchMostly Positive79% of 971 reviews2026
Dev: Southern Cross Interactive
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Lay of the Land is a sandbox adventure game set in a fantasy world where everything is physically simulated. Use the environment to your advantage and Explore, Fight, Loot and Build your way through mysterious lands.
Why similar: Voxel 29.2% ★, Sandbox 14.2%, Open World 10.7%, Crafting 9.7%, Building 9.2%
- #33 Windforge
77% matchMixed68% of 619 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 34.5% ★, Sandbox 14.8%, Crafting 12.5%, RPG 8.5%, Building 7.6%
- #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 30% ★, Voxel 15.2% ★, Sandbox 9.9%, Open World 9%, Survival 7.8%
- #35 RuneScape: Dragonwilds
72% matchVery Positive81% of 25,015 reviews2025
Dev: Jagex Ltd
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 15.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
On RuneScape’s forgotten continent of Ashenfall, dragons have awoken. Gather, build, skill and craft to survive in this co-operative (1-4) survival crafting game. Only by mastering survival and uncovering ancient secrets can they hope to slay the Dragon Queen—alone or with allies.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.8% ★, Dragons 12.2% ★, Open World 10.4%, Crafting 9.3%, Survival 8.7%
- #36 Crafting Block World
76% matchMixed47% of 53 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 32.9% ★, Sandbox 15.4%, Survival 11.4%, Crafting 9.6%, Building 9.4%
- #37 Cube Life: Island Survival
75% 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 44.6% ★, Sandbox 10.6%, Building 9.8%, Crafting 9.4%, Open World 8.8%
- #38 Solace Crafting
73% 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 30.9% ★, Crafting 12%, Sandbox 9.5%, Survival 9.3%, Open World 9%
- #39 Voxile
72% matchMostly Positive75% of 106 reviews2025
Dev: VoxRay Games, Inc.
Windows
Quest, craft, loot, build, destroy, and shoot your way through gorgeous voxel islands! Encounter mutated wildlife, discover secrets, and find out what went wrong in both pre-designed adventure and procedural survival worlds. Play in Early Access today--alone or with friends!
Why similar: Voxel 25.8% ★, Crafting 12%, Sandbox 9.7%, Open World 9.6%, Building 9.5%
- #40 Force of Nature
74% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,202 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 39.3% ★, Crafting 13.9%, Survival 10.3%, Sandbox 9.9%, Open World 8.3%
- #41 Realms of Magic
71% matchVery Positive81% of 990 reviews2022
Dev: Polished Games
Windows
Median: 3.3 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 47.1% ★, Sandbox 10.6%, RPG 9.4%, Open World 9%, Crafting 5.5%
- #42 Crea
73% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,407 reviews2016
Dev: Siege Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 19.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 39.8% ★, Sandbox 14.6%, Crafting 12%, Survival 6.8%, Building 5.7%
- #43 Everwind
69% matchVery Positive82% of 3,221 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Everwind is a novel take on RPG and Sandbox Survival genre in First-Person-Perspective. Embark on the adventure with your friends - Build a base on a flying island-ship, gather resources, craft, loot, and fight while you rise above the clouds to uncover the mysteries of this world!
Why similar: Crafting 14.6%, Sandbox 13.7%, Building 12.9%, Open World 12%, Survival 10.8%
- #44 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
67% matchVery Positive82% of 9,989 reviews2024
Dev: Merge GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.1% ★, Crafting 11.2%, Survival 9.9%, Building 9.8%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #45 Dragon And Home
70% 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 35.2% ★, Sandbox 13%, Open World 11.4%, Survival 8.9%, Crafting 8.6%
- #46 ARK: Survival Evolved
68% matchVery Positive83% of 767,761 reviews2017
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 201.1 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: Open World Survival Craft 38.7% ★, Survival 10.6%, Crafting 9.3%, Open World 9%, Building 7.8%
- #47 Milkcraft
70% 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 36.1% ★, Voxel 18.3% ★, Open World 10.7%, Sandbox 10.4%, Building 8.7%
- #48 Angeldust
70% matchMixed64% of 1,428 reviews2019
Dev: Frank LucasPub: Metagaming B.V.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 42 minMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 40%
ADVENTURE. ANYWHERE! Explore endless magical worlds and battle fearsome creatures alongside millions of friends. Ride your own horse, bear or moa and discover the many game world wonders. Unleash your imagination by crafting beautiful buildings.
Why similar: RPG 18.9%, Sandbox 16.1%, Building 15.7%, Open World 15.2%, Co-op 7.5%
- #49 Novus Inceptio
71% matchMixed52% of 1,302 reviews2015
Dev: McMagic Productions
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 5.8 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 31.7% ★, Crafting 11%, Sandbox 10.9%, Open World 9.5%, Survival 8.9%
- #50 FortressCraft Evolved!
69% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,057 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 36.4% ★, Voxel 12.4% ★, Crafting 11.4%, Sandbox 11.2%, Building 9.5%
- #51 Omega Crafter
65% matchMostly Positive80% of 566 reviews2025
Dev: Preferred Networks
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Adventure in a vast open-world survival craft game with your programmable sidekick Grammi! Program the Grammi to collect materials, build your town, craft weapons and armor to challenge strong enemies! Play alone or with friends online!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31% ★, Crafting 13.1%, Open World 11.1%, Survival 9.9%, Building 8.6%
- #52 Shamania
65% matchMostly Positive77% of 145 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 32.4% ★, Crafting 13.8%, Open World 11.5%, Sandbox 10.3%, Survival 9.8%
- #53 Lodventure
66% matchMostly Positive74% of 161 reviews2023
Dev: Sky Games
Windows
Embark on a 1-4 players Co-op survival adventure in an open world wilderness in search of a myth called the Lod Stone. Build your house, sow your crops, brew potions, tame a horse and discover powerful abilities. Venture into dangerous dungeons, fight unique bosses to find the Lod stone.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.1% ★, Open World 10.5%, Crafting 10.5%, Survival 9.7%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #54 Nightingale
65% matchMixed67% of 17,932 reviews2024
Dev: Inflexion Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 24.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Nightingale is an open world survival crafting game, where you’ll adventure across the mysterious and dangerous Fae Realms. As a daring Realmwalker, you’ll defeat monstrous enemies, survive hostile environments, and build elaborate estates in a visually stunning Gaslamp Fantasy world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.4% ★, Crafting 11.8%, Building 10.5%, Open World 10.4%, Survival 10.1%
- #55 Genesis Online
69% 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: Sandbox 21.4%, Survival 20.6%, Open World 16.3%, Voxel 9.2% ★, Building 8.9%
- #56 Castle Story
66% matchMixed65% of 10,553 reviews2017
Dev: Sauropod Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 11.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Castle Story is a creative voxel-based strategy game in which you can build castles one brick at a time using an army of little creatures called Bricktrons. Design and build your own castles, expand your territory in a vast landscape and defend your Bricktrons against onslaughts of hostile creatures.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.8% ★, Building 17.9%, Sandbox 16.4%, Survival 8.4%, Voxel 8.4% ★
