- #1 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
97% matchMostly Positive79% of 34,087 reviews2020
Dev: Eleon Game Studios
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 76.7 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% ★, Sandbox 10.8%, Building 7.8%, Open World 7.3%, Crafting 6.9%
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 396,805 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 16.8 hrsMean: 107.4 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 46.3% ★, Sandbox 11%, Survival 10.7%, Open World 8.2%, Voxel 7.2% ★
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 5,845 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 47.4% ★, Sandbox 12.5%, Crafting 8.4%, Building 8.1%, Voxel 7.8% ★
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: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 63%
A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.1% ★, Sandbox 12%, Crafting 8.1%, Building 7.5%, Voxel 7.4% ★
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 133,238 reviews2019
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 95.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 27%, Building 17.1%, Open World 16%, Survival 14.7%, 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 3,055 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 51.3% ★, Sandbox 12.2%, Crafting 8.1%, Building 7.1%, Survival 5.4%
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 2,766 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 48.3% ★, Sandbox 13.6%, Crafting 8%, Open World 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 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 56.9% ★, Sandbox 10.7%, Open World 6.5%, Crafting 6.5%, 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 Eco
92% matchVery Positive81% of 13,777 reviews2018
Dev: Strange Loop Games
Windows
Median: 16.8 hrsMean: 88.2 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 48.1% ★, Sandbox 14.3%, Building 9.1%, Crafting 8.2%, Open World 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: A unique voxel-based survival game that emphasizes complex resource management and building within a delicate ecosystem.
- #10 Planet Explorers
91% 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 50.8% ★, Sandbox 14.9%, Open World 8.1%, Crafting 6.2%, Survival 5.3%
Why You'll Like It: Offers an ambitious open-world voxel adventure with deep crafting and vehicle construction systems.
- #11 Dig or Die
90% matchVery Positive90% of 4,268 reviews2018
Dev: Gaddy Games
Windows
Median: 4.2 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 52.4% ★, Sandbox 14.6%, Survival 8.7%, Crafting 8.6%, Open World 5.5%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D voxel survival game that challenges players to build robust defenses against increasingly difficult waves of enemies.
- #12 TerraTech
89% matchVery Positive91% of 24,455 reviews2018
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 33.0 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% ★, Sandbox 15.2%, Building 10.9%, Open World 8.5%, Crafting 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on voxel-based vehicle construction and combat, allowing for creative designs that interact with the environment.
- #13 Block Story™
89% matchVery Positive83% of 1,973 reviews2015
Dev: Big Cube Interactive, LLC
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 45%
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 52.6% ★, Sandbox 14.5%, Crafting 7.8%, Open World 6.8%, Survival 4.7%
Why You'll Like It: Integrates voxel-based building with traditional RPG elements and quest-driven exploration.
- #14 Force of Nature
88% 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 52.5% ★, Sandbox 10.2%, Crafting 9.4%, Survival 7.7%, Open World 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-crafting game that blends exploration and base-building with light RPG progression.
- #15 Solace Crafting
86% 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 46.7% ★, Sandbox 11.1%, Crafting 9.1%, Survival 7.8%, Open World 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: Features a massive, seamless open world with a focus on exploration, crafting, and building at your own pace.
- #16 GRAV
87% matchMixed47% of 6,921 reviews2015
Dev: BitMonster, Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 11.5 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 57.9% ★, Sandbox 11.6%, Survival 8.9%, Open World 8.5%, Crafting 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that emphasizes base-building and exploration in a hostile, alien environment.
- #17 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 48.6% ★, Sandbox 14.1%, Open World 8.4%, Crafting 8.3%, Building 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: Provides an incredibly deep and complex sandbox survival experience with extensive crafting and terraforming capabilities.
- #18 Total Miner
84% 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 47.3% ★, Sandbox 13%, Open World 6.3%, Building 6.3%, Voxel 6.2% ★
Why You'll Like It: A classic voxel sandbox experience that offers a variety of modes for both creative builders and survivalists.
- #19 Astral Terra
85% 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 48.4% ★, Sandbox 12.3%, Open World 8.1%, Survival 7%, Building 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based survival adventure that encourages exploration and creative building in a fantasy setting.
- #20 Tinkerlands
81% 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 48.1% ★, Sandbox 13.1%, Open World 7.4%, Crafting 7.1%, Survival 7%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-crafting game that focuses on exploration and building in a charming, pixelated world.
- #21 Novus Inceptio
84% 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 48.3% ★, Sandbox 12.8%, Crafting 8.4%, Open World 8%, 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.
- #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 59.3% ★, Sandbox 10.9%, Building 6.9%, Open World 6.5%, Crafting 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: A straightforward voxel-based survival game that focuses on gathering resources and building shelters.
- #23 Re.poly
81% 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 49.9% ★, Sandbox 14.4%, Crafting 9.7%, Open World 8.4%, 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.
- #24 Feel The Snow
80% 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 55.6% ★, Sandbox 10%, Survival 8.1%, Crafting 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
79% matchMixed63% of 2,175 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 47.1% ★, Sandbox 13.2%, Crafting 8.9%, Building 8%, Open World 7.7%
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 Windforge
79% 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 51.6% ★, Sandbox 17.1%, Crafting 9.4%, Open World 6.3%, Building 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: A unique side-scrolling sandbox game that emphasizes building and flying custom airships.
- #27 Alchemist's Awakening
78% 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 58.3% ★, Sandbox 14.8%, Crafting 10.1%, Open World 8.1%, Survival 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: Allows players to explore and build in a voxel world while mastering alchemy and creature taming.
- #28 StarMade
78% matchMixed68% of 2,981 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 31.6%, Open World 15.3%, Building 14.1%, Voxel 11.5% ★, Crafting 9%
- #29 Life is Feudal: Your Own
77% 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 51.1% ★, Sandbox 11.7%, Open World 8.4%, Crafting 8.3%, Survival 7.1%
- #30 Scrap Mechanic
75% matchVery Positive92% of 117,049 reviews2016
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.1 hrsMean: 57.3 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 24.2%, Building 17.9%, Crafting 15.4%, Open World 14%, Survival 12.9%
- #31 Brickadia
72% matchVery Positive87% of 1,234 reviews2025
Dev: Brickadia, LLC
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 29.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 28.4%, Multiplayer 13.9%, Co-op 3%, Casual 3%
- #32 Medieval Engineers
77% matchMixed52% of 7,282 reviews2015
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 16.8 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 27.9%, Building 20.3%, Open World 14.2%, Crafting 11.5%, Survival 8.6%
- #33 Crafting Block World
76% 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: Sandbox 25.8%, Voxel 16.6% ★, Survival 13.8%, Building 10.8%, Crafting 10.5%
- #34 RealmCraft
76% matchMostly Positive76% of 51 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 27.5%, Building 13.9%, Crafting 13.8%, Survival 10.7%, Voxel 8.9% ★
- #35 Castle Story
75% matchMixed65% of 10,510 reviews2017
Dev: Sauropod Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 11.7 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 39.1% ★, Sandbox 17.8%, Building 13.4%, Survival 6.6%, Crafting 5.4%
- #36 Wild Omission
73% matchVery Positive88% of 59 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 46.2% ★, Sandbox 12.4%, Crafting 9.7%, Building 8.2%, Open World 8.2%
- #37 ASTRONEER
72% matchVery Positive92% of 136,711 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 44.1 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 50.8% ★, Sandbox 10.6%, Open World 8.9%, Survival 8%, Crafting 5.9%
- #38 CrossWorlds: Escape
74% matchMixed64% of 157 reviews2020
Dev: Another Reality
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 97%
CrossWorlds: Escape is a hardcore game in which you will have to deploy all your skills to survive in a huge open world that is susceptible to changes in weather, seasons and various natural phenomena.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 51% ★, Sandbox 13.7%, Crafting 8.9%, Open World 8.4%, Survival 7.9%
- #39 CastleMiner Z
73% 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 59% ★, Sandbox 11.8%, Survival 8.8%, Crafting 6.2%, Open World 6.1%
- #40 StarRupture
69% matchVery Positive81% of 10,861 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 49.7% ★, Sandbox 12.8%, Crafting 9.1%, Open World 8.5%, Survival 8%
- #41 Gunscape
74% 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 29.5%, Building 15.6%, Multiplayer 14.4%, Open World 12.5%, Survival 10.8%
- #42 Out of Reach
73% matchMixed57% of 3,044 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 56.2% ★, Survival 8.7%, Crafting 7.7%, Open World 7.7%, Sandbox 6.4%
- #43 Everwind
68% 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 24.2%, Open World 14.7%, Building 14.6%, Crafting 13.6%, Survival 13.4%
- #44 Star Crafter
70% matchMixed69% of 104 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 50.2% ★, Crafting 9.9%, Sandbox 9.9%, Voxel 6.4% ★, Survival 5.9%
- #45 Urge
70% matchVery Positive90% of 476 reviews2021
Dev: EnDrew
Windows
Fight, build, explore, survive, while the dynamic player-caused hazardous fog is slowly changing the rules of the world around you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 50.6% ★, Sandbox 13.3%, Crafting 8.3%, Building 8.2%, Open World 7.1%
- #46 Escape The Pacific
71% matchMixed68% of 754 reviews2018
Dev: Gamers4Gamers Team
Windows
Raw, real survival in the Pacific. Build a modular floating base. Master realistic sailing mechanics. Face challenging Pacific-like weather & seasons. Hunt, craft, build & navigate using Sun Dial, Sextant & Triangulation. Explore an endless island cluster-based world. Simulate real life scenarios!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.7% ★, Sandbox 12.2%, Crafting 9.2%, Open World 8.2%, Building 7.8%
- #47 Cubic Castles
71% 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 52.5% ★, Sandbox 12.7%, Building 9.5%, Open World 7.5%, Crafting 6.8%
- #48 Terraria
68% 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 52.6% ★, Sandbox 15.1%, Crafting 6.8%, Survival 6.6%, Building 6.1%
- #49 Dark and Light
71% 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 38.4% ★, Sandbox 19.9%, Open World 14.8%, Survival 12.8%, Crafting 5%
- #50 Island Paradise
66% matchMostly Positive76% of 107 reviews2025
Dev: GSG
Windows
Island Paradise is a survival game where you build, upgrade, customize your own island and use nearby resources to create a home for generations to come!
Why similar: Sandbox 21.7%, Crafting 19.8%, Open World 19%, Building 17%, Multiplayer 8.1%
- #51 Eden Crafters
66% matchVery Positive86% of 2,214 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in Eden Crafters, a solo and co-op open-world game that challenges you to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Temper the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 51.4% ★, Sandbox 12.9%, Crafting 9.6%, Open World 7.7%, Building 7.5%
- #52 Volcanoids
68% matchVery Positive83% of 9,214 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48% ★, Sandbox 10.3%, Crafting 8.7%, Open World 7.9%, Survival 7.2%
- #53 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%, Crafting 33.6%, Survival 28.5%, First-Person 4%
- #54 Signs of Life
69% matchMostly Positive76% of 841 reviews2014
Dev: Sweet Dog Studios
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Signs of Life is a sci-fi survival sandbox platformer with a combination of procedurally generated and hand-crafted content. You'll explore mysterious locations, Mine blocks for resources, and meet strange (and some familiar) creatures, some of which don't even want to kill you and eat your corpse.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 55.9% ★, Sandbox 14.6%, Crafting 7.7%, Survival 6.7%, Building 5.1%
- #55 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 47% ★, Sandbox 11%, Crafting 8.6%, Building 8%, Open World 7.9%
- #56 Forager
66% 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 57.9% ★, Crafting 9.8%, Sandbox 9.2%, Survival 8.4%, Building 4.3%
- #57 Palworld
63% matchVery Positive94% of 417,805 reviews2024
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 34.2 hrsMean: 70.0 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.9% ★, Open World 11%, Survival 9.1%, Sandbox 8.4%, Crafting 7.6%