- #1 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
97% matchMostly Positive78% of 34,392 reviews2020
Dev: Eleon Game Studios
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 77.1 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.6% ★, Sandbox 10.6%, Building 7.7%, Open World 7.3%, Crafting 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: Allows for extensive voxel-based ship and base construction across a variety of procedurally generated planets.
- #2 7 Days to Die
96% matchVery Positive87% of 405,507 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.3 hrsMean: 110.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 46.9% ★, Sandbox 10.8%, Survival 10.7%, Open World 8.3%, Building 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: Combines voxel-based terrain destruction and building with intense survival and base-defense gameplay.
- #3 Rising World
96% matchVery Positive86% of 5,974 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 48.4% ★, Sandbox 12.2%, Crafting 8.1%, Building 8%, Voxel 7.7% ★
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on realistic, high-fidelity voxel building and exploration with a strong emphasis on creative freedom.
- #4 Creativerse
95% matchMostly Positive78% of 30,868 reviews2017
Dev: Playful Corp.
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 15.6 hrs≥1hr: 63%
A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.6% ★, Sandbox 11.8%, Crafting 7.9%, Building 7.5%, Voxel 7.3% ★
Why You'll Like It: Provides a polished, colorful voxel sandbox experience with intuitive building tools and exploration mechanics.
- #5 Space Engineers
94% matchVery Positive89% of 134,313 reviews2019
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 96.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.
Why similar: Sandbox 26.8%, Building 17.1%, Open World 16.3%, Survival 14.8%, Multiplayer 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: Features advanced voxel-based construction and physics-driven engineering in a vast space setting.
- #6 FortressCraft Evolved!
94% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,063 reviews2015
Dev: ProjectorGamesPub: Digital Tribe
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 13.5 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 51.9% ★, Sandbox 11.9%, Crafting 7.9%, Building 7.1%, Survival 5.3%
Why You'll Like It: Blends voxel-based building with complex automation and logistics systems for a deep technical experience.
- #7 Boundless
93% matchMixed70% of 2,774 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 48.9% ★, Sandbox 13.3%, Open World 7.9%, Crafting 7.8%, Voxel 6.6% ★
Why You'll Like It: Features a massive, interconnected voxel universe with a heavy focus on building and community-driven exploration.
- #8 Necesse
91% matchVery Positive93% of 28,807 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 15.3 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 57.8% ★, Sandbox 10.4%, Open World 6.5%, Crafting 6.3%, Survival 5.5%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down, voxel-inspired survival game that excels at base-building and progression-based exploration.
- #9 Planet Explorers
92% matchMixed62% of 6,818 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 51.4% ★, Sandbox 14.6%, Open World 8.1%, Crafting 6%, Survival 5.3%
Why You'll Like It: Offers an ambitious open-world voxel adventure with deep crafting and vehicle construction systems.
- #10 Eco
91% matchVery Positive81% of 14,049 reviews2018
Dev: Strange Loop Games
Windows
Median: 16.7 hrsMean: 90.6 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 52.2% ★, Sandbox 13.4%, Crafting 10.7%, Open World 9.2%, Survival 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: A unique voxel-based survival game that emphasizes complex resource management and building within a delicate ecosystem.
- #11 TerraTech
90% matchVery Positive91% of 24,920 reviews2018
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 32.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
TerraTech is an open-world, sandbox adventure game, where you design and build your own creations through a mix of crafting, combat and discovery. Design vehicles from a huge library of blocks. Scavenge, craft and buy new parts to survive and become the ultimate planetary prospector.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.7% ★, Sandbox 15%, Building 10.8%, Open World 8.6%, Crafting 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on voxel-based vehicle construction and combat, allowing for creative designs that interact with the environment.
- #12 Block Story™
89% matchVery Positive84% of 2,113 reviews2015
Dev: Big Cube Interactive, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 47%
There isn’t much better than a wide open game world in which you have essentially no limits and can alter the very landscape in which you play – that is, unless you add dragons, of course…
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.7% ★, Sandbox 12.8%, Crafting 8.1%, Open World 7.2%, Building 7%
Why You'll Like It: Integrates voxel-based building with traditional RPG elements and quest-driven exploration.
- #13 Dig or Die
89% matchVery Positive90% of 4,284 reviews2018
Dev: Gaddy Games
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Crash land on a hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it. But be warned... this planet is merciless. Build strong, and smart; else physics may flood or destroy your only hopes of survival.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 53% ★, Sandbox 14.3%, Survival 8.6%, Crafting 8.5%, Open World 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D voxel survival game that challenges players to build robust defenses against increasingly difficult waves of enemies.
- #14 Solace Crafting
87% matchMostly Positive72% of 898 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 47.3% ★, Sandbox 10.9%, Crafting 8.9%, Survival 7.7%, Open World 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: Features a massive, seamless open world with a focus on exploration, crafting, and building at your own pace.
- #15 GRAV
88% matchMixed47% of 6,921 reviews2015
Dev: BitMonster, Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 60%
GRAV is a sand box experience where you explore a multitude of planets, hunt strange alien creatures, build and defend outposts, craft weapons and armor, and attempt to survive against other players in a hostile environment.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 58.5% ★, Sandbox 11.4%, Survival 8.8%, Open World 8.5%, Crafting 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that emphasizes base-building and exploration in a hostile, alien environment.
- #16 Force of Nature
86% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,209 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 53.2% ★, Sandbox 10%, Crafting 9.2%, Survival 7.6%, Open World 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-crafting game that blends exploration and base-building with light RPG progression.
- #17 Wurm Unlimited
85% matchMostly Positive71% of 3,138 reviews2015
Dev: Code Club ABPub: Plug In Digital
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 18.8 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 49.3% ★, Sandbox 13.8%, Open World 8.5%, Crafting 8.1%, Building 7%
Why You'll Like It: Provides an incredibly deep and complex sandbox survival experience with extensive crafting and terraforming capabilities.
- #18 Astral Terra
86% 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 48.9% ★, Sandbox 12.1%, Open World 8.1%, Survival 6.9%, Building 5.8%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based survival adventure that encourages exploration and creative building in a fantasy setting.
- #19 Total Miner
84% matchMostly Positive78% of 767 reviews2017
Dev: Brandon Moore
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 37.1 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 49% ★, Sandbox 12.3%, Open World 6.2%, Building 6%, Voxel 6% ★
Why You'll Like It: A classic voxel sandbox experience that offers a variety of modes for both creative builders and survivalists.
- #20 Novus Inceptio
84% matchMixed52% of 1,304 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 48.9% ★, Sandbox 12.5%, Crafting 8.2%, Open World 8.1%, Survival 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: Features a complex survival system with a focus on crafting and building in a persistent open world.
- #21 Re.poly
82% 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 50.5% ★, Sandbox 14.2%, Crafting 9.5%, Open World 8.5%, Survival 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-crafting game that utilizes a low-poly voxel aesthetic to create a unique sandbox experience.
- #22 Cube Life: Island Survival
83% 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 59.7% ★, Sandbox 11%, Building 6.8%, Open World 6.5%, Crafting 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: A straightforward voxel-based survival game that focuses on gathering resources and building shelters.
- #23 Tinkerlands
79% matchVery Positive86% of 4,087 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 14.2 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 49% ★, Sandbox 12.8%, Open World 7.4%, Survival 7%, Crafting 7%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-crafting game that focuses on exploration and building in a charming, pixelated world.
- #24 Feel The Snow
81% matchVery Positive87% of 3,059 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 56.2% ★, Sandbox 9.8%, Survival 8.1%, Crafting 7.8%, Open World 5.7%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-crafting game that features a winter-themed world with a focus on exploration and building.
- #25 TerraTech Worlds
80% matchMixed63% of 2,287 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 22.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.6% ★, Sandbox 13%, Crafting 8.7%, Building 7.9%, Open World 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: An evolution of the original, focusing on expanded base-building and survival in a persistent, voxel-based open world.
- #26 Alchemist's Awakening
78% 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 58.9% ★, Sandbox 14.5%, Crafting 9.9%, Open World 8.1%, Survival 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: Allows players to explore and build in a voxel world while mastering alchemy and creature taming.
- #27 Windforge
79% matchMixed68% of 620 reviews2014
Dev: Snowed In Studios
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 11.2 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 51.8% ★, Sandbox 17%, Crafting 9.2%, Open World 6.5%, Building 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: A unique side-scrolling sandbox game that emphasizes building and flying custom airships.
- #28 ASTRONEER
75% matchVery Positive92% of 139,015 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 51.3% ★, Sandbox 10.5%, Open World 8.9%, Survival 7.9%, Crafting 5.8%
- #29 StarMade
78% matchMixed68% of 2,991 reviews2014
Dev: Schine GmbH
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 18.8 hrs≥1hr: 54%
The ultimate space sandbox. Participate in epic fleet battles, form alliances, strive to dominate entire galaxies and harness the universe’s resources for your industrious empire or the destruction of others. Customise your experience, the universe is yours!
Why similar: Sandbox 31.4%, Open World 15.6%, Building 14.1%, Voxel 11.7% ★, Crafting 8.9%
- #30 Castle Story
77% matchMixed65% of 10,635 reviews2017
Dev: Sauropod Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 11.9 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 39.7% ★, Sandbox 17.6%, Building 13.3%, Survival 6.6%, Crafting 5.3%
- #31 Colony Survival
76% matchVery Positive92% of 8,976 reviews2017
Dev: Pipliz
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 28.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!
Why similar: Sandbox 22%, Survival 17.8%, Building 16.9%, Open World 12.5%, Crafting 10.2%
- #32 Scrap Mechanic
71% 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: Sandbox 24.1%, Building 18%, Crafting 15.2%, Open World 14.3%, Survival 12.9%
- #33 Subsistence
76% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,766 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 40.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 59.1% ★, Survival 8.7%, Crafting 8.2%, Open World 6.8%, Sandbox 6.2%
- #34 Medieval Engineers
77% matchMixed52% of 7,324 reviews2015
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 16.9 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Medieval Engineers is a sandbox game about engineering, construction and the maintenance of architectural works and mechanical equipment using medieval technology. Players build castles; construct mechanical devices and underground mining. There is an entire planet to explore!
Why similar: Sandbox 27.7%, Building 20.3%, Open World 14.5%, Crafting 11.3%, Survival 8.7%
- #35 Voxel Eras
73% matchVery Positive94% of 54 reviews2025
Dev: Destiny Hailstorm
Windows · Linux
Voxel Eras is a game about collecting, crafting, and automating within an infinite 3D voxel world. Taking your humble workshop made with your own two fists through eras of technology. Design, build, and evolve your operations, all in the name of progress.
Why similar: Sandbox 28.2%, Crafting 17%, Building 16.6%, Voxel 14.4% ★, Open World 10.8%
- #36 Voxel Turf
75% matchVery Positive88% of 577 reviews2017
Dev: L Twigger
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 13.4 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Voxel Turf is a block based urban sandbox. Build cities, blow up buildings, complete missions or fight for territory. Build a real estate empire, or perhaps just drive around and blow stuff up. Its your choice!
Why similar: Sandbox 34.6%, Voxel 19% ★, Open World 17.4%, Building 8.7%, Simulation 6.6%
- #37 Stonehearth
74% matchMostly Positive75% of 13,072 reviews2018
Dev: Radiant EntertainmentPub: (none)
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 38.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.
Why similar: Sandbox 28.6%, Building 18.8%, Survival 14.3%, Crafting 10.3%, Voxel 8.8% ★
- #38 Sandustry
69% 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: Open World Survival Craft 44.2% ★, Sandbox 13.9%, Crafting 9%, Building 8.3%, Open World 8%
- #39 Cubic Castles
74% matchMostly Positive74% of 4,277 reviews2014
Dev: Raptisoft
Windows
Median: 48 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 53.1% ★, Sandbox 12.5%, Building 9.4%, Open World 7.5%, Crafting 6.7%
- #40 Brickadia
70% matchVery Positive81% of 1,421 reviews2025
Dev: Brickadia, LLC
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 33.7 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Brickadia is a next-generation brick building sandbox that gives you the tools to create and play, your way. Build massive worlds, invent cool contraptions, and play in them however you like - all with your friends!
Why similar: Sandbox 49.2%, Building 28.5%, Multiplayer 13.8%, Co-op 3%, Casual 3%
- #41 Wild Omission
71% matchVery Positive88% of 80 reviews2023
Dev: Telephone Studios
Windows
Wild Omission is an open world sandbox survival game with severe weather set in an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.7% ★, Sandbox 12.2%, Crafting 9.5%, Open World 8.3%, Building 8.1%
- #42 Gunscape
73% matchMixed66% of 1,254 reviews2016
Dev: Blowfish Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 42 minMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 42%
Gunscape provides easy-to-use tools based on a block-placement interface everybody's already familiar with to create all types of maps. Don't like building stuff? Then just blast your way through hordes of monsters or duel with other players!
Why similar: Sandbox 29.3%, Building 15.6%, Multiplayer 14.4%, Open World 12.8%, Survival 10.8%
- #43 RealmCraft
73% matchMostly Positive77% of 52 reviews2018
Dev: Tellurion Mobile
Windows
RealmCraft is the original Sandbox Game. Build Cubes & Explore 30+ Blueprint Worlds in 3D. Try to Survive & Use 100+ Types of Blocks to Build Your Unique Town.
Why similar: Sandbox 27.4%, Building 13.9%, Crafting 13.7%, Survival 10.8%, Voxel 9% ★
- #44 Out of Reach
72% matchMixed57% of 3,051 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
You’re a castaway stranded in the middle of nowhere. Storm is gone, the worst certainly not. Look for food and resources, craft gear, make shelters. These are the basics, you need much more to stay alive on this cut-off-the-world, yet not desert island. Build & burn, sail & explore, be Out of Reach!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 56.8% ★, Survival 8.6%, Open World 7.7%, Crafting 7.5%, Sandbox 6.3%
- #45 Everwind
67% 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: Sandbox 22.4%, Crafting 15.6%, Open World 14.7%, Building 14.7%, Survival 12.9%
- #46 Star Crafter
68% matchMixed70% of 106 reviews2025
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
A space survival crafting mining base building and star system building game. Craft rockets to create planets and Dyson Rings, mine and craft advanced materials, terraform the terrain, manage electricity, farm food, and more as you watch the star system evolve into stunning, ever-changing views.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 50.8% ★, Sandbox 9.7%, Crafting 9.6%, Voxel 6.3% ★, Survival 5.9%
- #47 LEGO® Worlds
70% matchMostly Positive78% of 15,639 reviews2017
Dev: TT GamesPub: Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 13.4 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Experience a galaxy of Worlds made entirely from LEGO bricks. EXPLORE gigantic landscapes, DISCOVER countless surprises, and CREATE anything you can imagine by building with LEGO bricks.
Why similar: Sandbox 32.8%, Open World 21.2%, Building 21%, Multiplayer 9.2%, Voxel 3.7% ★
- #48 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
66% matchVery Positive91% of 7,602 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Survive, craft, and automate in this free prologue set on one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters, an open-world game where you play solo or with friends to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 52.4% ★, Sandbox 10.6%, Crafting 7.9%, Open World 7.6%, Building 6.2%
- #49 Eden Crafters
66% matchVery Positive85% of 2,630 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 51.1% ★, Sandbox 12.4%, Crafting 9.1%, Open World 7.5%, Building 7.2%
- #50 Plains of Pain
68% matchVery Positive83% of 933 reviews2023
Dev: Cobra Byte Digital
Windows
Enter a living post-apocalyptic sandbox where the world doesn't wait for you. Build, craft, trade, earn the trust of factions, and forge your own path through a brutal procedural wasteland.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.2% ★, Sandbox 13.8%, Crafting 8.8%, Open World 8.2%, Survival 7.5%
- #51 Forager
68% matchVery Positive89% of 43,959 reviews2019
Dev: HopFrogPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 22.4 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 58.5% ★, Crafting 9.6%, Sandbox 9%, Survival 8.3%, Building 4.3%
- #52 StarRupture
65% matchVery Positive81% of 13,247 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 26.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 50.5% ★, Sandbox 12.5%, Crafting 8.9%, Open World 8.5%, Survival 7.9%
- #53 Voxile
67% matchMostly Positive75% of 113 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: Sandbox 18.3%, Voxel 14.9% ★, Crafting 14.7%, Open World 13.4%, Building 12.4%
- #54 Crafting Block World
70% matchMixed47% of 55 reviews2019
Dev: IO Games
Windows
Crafting Block World is an adventure with sandbox elements that will help you build your ideal world!
Why similar: Sandbox 25.6%, Voxel 16.7% ★, Survival 13.8%, Building 10.8%, Crafting 10.4%
- #55 Planetaries
67% matchMixed58% of 226 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 47.6% ★, Sandbox 10.8%, Crafting 8.4%, Open World 8%, Building 7.9%
- #56 Modiverse
69% matchMixed57% of 67 reviews2021
Dev: Deep Voodoo Games
Windows
An open multiplayer sandbox game; includes tools, props, levels, NPCs, character models, game-modes and much more! Make your own using our mod kit!
Why similar: Building 34.1%, Crafting 33.3%, Survival 28.7%, First-Person 4%