- #1 Palworld
97% 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 23.9% ★, Creature Collector 18.3%, Open World 11.9%, Survival 10.5%, Multiplayer 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: Combines open-world survival and base building with a massive creature-collection system that feels like a more polished evolution of the genre.
- #2 Scrap Mechanic
96% 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: Building 17.4%, Sandbox 15.7%, Open World 13.1%, Crafting 13.1%, Survival 12.8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on creative engineering and modular construction, allowing players to build complex interactive machines in a sandbox environment.
- #3 TerraTech
96% 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 27% ★, Building 15.4%, Sandbox 14.4%, Open World 11.5%, Crafting 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: Features a modular building system where you construct vehicles and bases from blocks, sharing the same satisfying 'snap-together' creative loop as CHKN.
- #4 SPORE™
95% matchVery Positive93% of 70,545 reviews2008
Dev: Maxis™Pub: Electronic Arts
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Be the architect of your own universe with Spore, an exciting single-player adventure. From Single Cell to Galactic God, evolve your creature in a universe of your own creations.
Why similar: Sandbox 32.7%, Open World 28.7%, Funny 15.7%, Simulation 12.2%, Casual 5.5%
Why You'll Like It: It is the definitive experience for procedural creature creation and evolution, mirroring the core appeal of assembling unique life forms.
- #5 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 24.7% ★, Sandbox 11.6%, Building 10.9%, Crafting 10.2%, Survival 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based sandbox survival game that captures the blocky aesthetic and exploration-heavy gameplay of CHKN.
- #6 ARK: Survival Evolved
94% matchVery Positive83% of 763,144 reviews2017
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 200.9 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 37.7% ★, Survival 13.8%, Open World 11%, Building 9.6%, Crafting 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a deep survival experience centered on taming and interacting with a vast array of creatures in a dangerous open world.
- #7 Grounded
93% matchVery Positive90% of 92,875 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.2 hrsMean: 40.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.7% ★, Survival 17.4%, Multiplayer 10.9%, Crafting 10.4%, Open World 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: An immersive survival game where you must navigate a dangerous world, featuring base building and interaction with giant insects.
- #8 Trailmakers
92% matchVery Positive92% of 34,107 reviews2019
Dev: Flashbulb
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Build the ultimate vehicle and explore a vast open world filled with challenges and adventure. Play solo or team up with friends in multiplayer to conquer the toughest obstacles. With a thrilling campaign mode and endless creative possibilities, Trailmakers is the ultimate sandbox for adventurers.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 17.7%, Sandbox 14.7%, Building 14%, Crafting 12.8%, Open World 12.3%
Why You'll Like It: Offers an advanced physics-based modular building system that allows you to create complex machines and creatures to explore open worlds.
- #9 ASTRONEER
91% 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 32.6% ★, Open World 12.9%, Survival 12.4%, Sandbox 10.7%, Multiplayer 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: Features a unique modular base-building system and exploration mechanics set on colorful, procedurally generated planets.
- #10 Besiege
90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 52,104 reviews2020
Dev: Spiderling Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 19.1 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Besiege is a physics building game about constructing medieval machines to annihilate armies, obliterate castles and overcome challenging obstacles. Conquer the campaign or skirmish with friends in Multiplayer!
Why similar: Sandbox 34.8%, Building 32.3%, Multiplayer 19.6%, Simulation 13.3%
Why You'll Like It: A physics-based building game where you assemble machines from modular parts to solve challenges, emphasizing the same creative assembly mechanics.
- #11 LEGO® Worlds
91% matchMostly Positive78% of 15,565 reviews2017
Dev: TT GamesPub: Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 13.5 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 24.2%, Building 23.1%, Open World 21.9%, Multiplayer 13.8%, Funny 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a pure sandbox experience where you can build anything out of digital bricks, focusing on the creative freedom found in CHKN.
- #12 Don't Starve
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 112,271 reviews2013
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 28.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.9% ★, Survival 22.2%, Crafting 12.2%, Sandbox 11.8%, Open World 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: A challenging survival game with a distinct art style that emphasizes crafting and resource management in a hostile environment.
- #13 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
89% 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 27.3% ★, Survival 11.2%, Building 10.4%, Crafting 9.8%, Sandbox 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game that emphasizes exploration and crafting from a tiny perspective, similar to the survival-crafting loop of the seed game.
- #14 Breathedge
88% matchVery Positive82% of 16,026 reviews2021
Dev: RedRuins SoftworksPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Survive in outer space! Together with your immortal chicken, discover the truth behind your sudden spaceship crash. Craft tools, pilot vehicles, and even control space stations to survive and explore the wreckage.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.7% ★, Sandbox 15.3%, Survival 13.8%, Crafting 10.5%, Open World 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game set in space that emphasizes crafting and base management under extreme conditions.
- #15 Slime Rancher
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 151,397 reviews2017
Dev: Monomi Park
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 21.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Slime Rancher is the tale of Beatrix LeBeau, a plucky, young rancher who sets out for a life a thousand light years away from Earth on the ‘Far, Far Range’ where she tries her hand at making a living wrangling slimes.
Why similar: Open World 32.1%, Sandbox 22%, Funny 12%, Adventure 9.7%, Simulation 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on collecting and managing unique creatures in a vibrant world, emphasizing the creature-collector aspect of the seed game.
- #16 Planet Explorers
87% 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 34.8% ★, Sandbox 16%, Open World 12.5%, Survival 8.8%, Crafting 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world sandbox game that allows for significant voxel manipulation and custom vehicle/structure creation.
- #17 Alchemist's Awakening
86% 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 41.5% ★, Sandbox 16.6%, Crafting 14.9%, Open World 13%, Survival 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: Features open-world survival and crafting with a focus on elemental magic and creature interaction.
- #18 Portal Knights
84% 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 23.8%, Building 19.2%, Crafting 17.5%, Survival 15.7%, Multiplayer 15.2%
Why You'll Like It: Blends voxel-based building with action-RPG elements, offering a structured progression system within a sandbox world.
- #19 Boundless
84% 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 34.2% ★, Sandbox 15.1%, Open World 12.5%, Crafting 11.6%, Building 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: A massively multiplayer sandbox game where players can build, craft, and explore across interconnected voxel worlds.
- #20 Blockscape
85% 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 42.5% ★, Sandbox 14.7%, Open World 8.5%, Building 8.3%, Crafting 8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on high-fidelity voxel building and survival, providing a clean sandbox environment for creative projects.
- #21 The Infected
82% matchVery Positive85% of 6,893 reviews2020
Dev: DigX Studios
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 18.5 hrs≥1hr: 68%
The Infected is a sandbox, first-person, open-world survival game. Build bases, craft, farm, hunt, and survive changing seasons. Choose whether to face the hybrid “Vambies” or turn them off for a pure survival experience.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.7% ★, Building 12%, Sandbox 11.6%, Open World 11.5%, Crafting 11.4%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-crafting game that emphasizes base building and defense against environmental threats.
- #22 Wrongworld
82% matchVery Positive94% of 538 reviews2018
Dev: Sludj Games
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Crash-landed on a surreal, low-poly world filled with freakish inhabitants, choose between permadeath and non-permadeath modes and embark on an epic (and ridiculous) survival adventure. Will you manage to stay alive as you unravel the mysteries of Wrongworld and search for a way home?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.8% ★, Survival 11%, Sandbox 9.5%, Open World 8.5%, Building 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: A quirky survival game that emphasizes exploration and crafting in a procedurally generated, dangerous world.
- #23 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 40.8% ★, Sandbox 11.8%, Building 11.2%, Open World 10.1%, Survival 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based survival game that mirrors the island-exploration and crafting themes of CHKN.
- #24 Survival Machine
79% matchMostly Positive74% of 669 reviews2025
Dev: Grape PickersPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Build your base on a moving Machine, travel through biomes with different resources, and prepare for the night when a zombie threat is much higher than during the day. Would you go solo or explore this new world with your best friends?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.8% ★, Sandbox 10.1%, Building 10%, Crafting 9.9%, Survival 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game centered on building and upgrading a mobile base to survive against hordes of enemies.
- #25 Crushed
81% matchMixed55% of 307 reviews2020
Dev: NipoBoxPub: NipoBox Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Crushed — is an Singleplayer and Multiplayer First-Person Survival Sandbox in an Open World! Challenge the wild and be ready to survive in harsh conditions. Explore the world, get resources, cook food, build a house, farm, hunt, and enjoy nature.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.8% ★, Survival 11.7%, Open World 11.5%, Sandbox 11.2%, Building 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-crafting game that focuses on building and resource management in a large open-world setting.
- #26 Among Trees
80% matchMixed68% of 2,216 reviews2021
Dev: FJRD Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Escape to an enchanting, living sandbox surrounded by wildlife and nature. Scavenge materials and craft tools to turn your small cabin into a warm, well-supplied home. Survive by fishing, cooking and growing your own food. Be careful though, the forest is as dangerous as it is wonderful.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.5% ★, Survival 12.6%, Open World 11.8%, Sandbox 10.8%, Crafting 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric survival game that focuses on building a cozy home in a beautiful, dangerous forest.
- #27 Force of Nature
81% 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 34.8% ★, Crafting 12.8%, Survival 12.2%, Sandbox 10.6%, Open World 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: Combines survival, crafting, and exploration in a top-down perspective with a strong emphasis on sandbox progression.
- #28 Creature Crafter
77% matchVery Positive88% of 821 reviews2022
Dev: Daniel Lochner
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 34.8 hrs≥1hr: 50%
Create your own creatures to explore online worlds with friends and collect new parts to upgrade your stats and abilities! Complete quests, battle enemies, challenge friends to minigames, or just have fun roleplaying — the possibilities are endless when your imagination is the limit!
Why similar: Creature Collector 27.3%, Sandbox 18.6%, Open World 16.2%, Survival 14.6%, Multiplayer 11%
- #29 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 37.3% ★, Survival 13.5%, Sandbox 11.8%, Open World 8.8%, Multiplayer 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: A classic voxel-based survival game that focuses on crafting and defending against waves of enemies.
- #30 Shamania
76% matchMostly Positive78% of 140 reviews2025
Dev: Totem Keepers Games
Windows
Shamania is an open world survival game where you can CRAFT, FIGHT, and EXPLORE a vibrant sandbox world with friends in CO-OP. Expand your base as a hub for survival, gather resources, and master professions to unlock new tools and opportunities!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.3% ★, Open World 12.2%, Crafting 12.1%, Survival 11%, Sandbox 10.5%
- #31 Reign Of Kings
79% matchMixed57% of 14,891 reviews2015
Dev: Code}{atch
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 47.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Struggle to survive in a harsh medieval world. Hunt wildlife, mine resources, build structures, and craft weapons and armor in order to protect yourself. You may form a guild, bring war to all opposition, and try to seize the throne and become king!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.3% ★, Survival 12.1%, Open World 11.6%, Crafting 10.7%, Building 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-crafting game that focuses on building and medieval-themed open-world interaction.
- #32 XenoHaven
76% matchVery Positive86% of 64 reviews2025
Dev: Miniverse GamePub: OKJOY
Windows
In XenoHaven, gather resources to build shelters, enslave alien beasts to work for you, and run restaurants and shops. Delve into dark underground dungeons, defeat swarming insectoids and mighty bosses, and craft powerful gear to conquer the alien world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.1% ★, Sandbox 15%, Open World 13.7%, Survival 12.2%, Building 11.1%
- #33 Wobbly Life
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 33,276 reviews2025
Dev: RubberBandGames
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 25.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Wobbly Life is a vibrant open-world physics sandbox. Play with your friends online or in local co-op, with exciting jobs, mini games and wacky story missions. Earn cash to spend in the world on clothes, vehicles and houses. There is a whole Wobbly World out there to explore!
Why similar: Sandbox 20.7%, Open World 18.2%, Multiplayer 13.9%, Funny 9.9%, Online Co-Op 9.5%
- #34 Subnautica
74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 344,093 reviews2018
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.4 hrsMean: 40.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.4% ★, Survival 14.4%, Open World 12.3%, Crafting 10.6%, Horror 7.6%
- #35 The Isle
75% matchVery Positive80% of 107,823 reviews2015
Dev: Afterthought LLC
Windows
Median: 12.4 hrsMean: 123.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Experience fierce open world survival gameplay as you attempt to stay alive on an unforgiving island inhabited by dinosaurs! Hunt. Grow. Survive.
Why similar: Survival 27.8%, Open World 24.7%, Multiplayer 17.4%, Sandbox 10%, Simulation 8.6%
- #36 Spirit Animal Survival
77% matchMostly Positive71% of 129 reviews2018
Dev: TRUEFX GAMES Pub: TRUEFX GAMES
Windows
SAS is an Open World Multiplayer PVP and CO-OP Survival Game. Set in a vast environment that features Building, Crafting, Taming, Riding, Flying and Exploring Wildlife, Dinos and Dragons as well as Horrific Creatures and Instances with the ability to Morph into Spirit Animals.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.4% ★, Creature Collector 14.7%, Building 10.1%, Sandbox 9.9%, Open World 9.3%
- #37 PixARK
75% 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: Survival 21.6%, Open World 18.5%, Sandbox 17.9%, Multiplayer 12.2%, Building 11.6%
- #38 Creature Kitchen
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive100% of 4,359 reviews2026
Dev: The Rat Zone
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A creepy-cozy cooking simulator where you befriend local wildlife and feed them their favorite snacks! With a strange house to search and forest to explore, the witching hour has only begun.
Why similar: Creature Collector 46.9%, Sandbox 25.9%, Simulation 7.6%, Horror 5.9%, First-Person 4.6%
- #39 Feed and Grow: Fish
73% matchMostly Positive78% of 20,772 reviews2016
Dev: Old B1oodPub: Greens s.r.o.
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Hunt and eat other fish - simply, grow into larger beasts!
Why similar: Survival 28.2%, Multiplayer 19%, Open World 16.9%, Simulation 14.5%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #40 One Hour One Life
73% matchVery Positive81% of 4,579 reviews2018
Dev: Jason Rohrer
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 67%
A multiplayer survival game of parenting and civilization building. Get born to another player as your mother. Live an entire life in one hour. Have babies of your own in the form of other players. Leave a legacy for the next generation as you help to rebuild civilization from scratch.
Why similar: Life Sim 17.3%, Crafting 16.9%, Survival 16.3%, Building 16.1%, Open World 14.8%
- #41 In Next Life
71% matchMixed68% of 115 reviews2026
Dev: Dual DecadePub: Wereviz AB
Windows · Mac
An online multiplayer game of crafting, survival, civilization building, and player collaboration. Start in the stone age and live, build, and invent your way to higher civilization. Live and die as well as you can, to gain the experience you need to achieve even more in your next life!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.2% ★, Crafting 10.5%, Sandbox 10.3%, Survival 9.5%, Building 9.4%
- #42 Creatures Inc
74% matchMixed54% of 162 reviews2019
Dev: Little Beavers Games
Windows
Creatures Inc is an open world survival experience where taming creatures is the key to survival. Explore a hostile world solo or in 2 player online co-op, make impactful choices, upgrade your character, and turn deadly creatures into powerful allies.
Why similar: Survival 28.4%, Open World 17.4%, Building 15%, Sandbox 14.7%, Simulation 13.3%
- #43 Signs of Life
73% 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 38% ★, Sandbox 15.6%, Survival 10.9%, Crafting 10.8%, Building 8.2%
- #44 Eden Crafters
69% 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 32% ★, Sandbox 12.6%, Crafting 12.2%, Building 10.9%, Open World 10.8%
- #45 Feel The Snow
71% 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 35.3% ★, Survival 12.4%, Crafting 10.5%, Sandbox 10%, Multiplayer 9.6%
- #46 Life is Feudal: Your Own
72% 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 33.4% ★, Open World 12.4%, Sandbox 12.1%, Survival 11.2%, Crafting 11.2%
- #47 Omega Crafter
69% matchMostly Positive79% of 560 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 26.8% ★, Open World 12.1%, Crafting 11.8%, Survival 11.5%, Building 9.3%
- #48 Tinkerlands
67% 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 28.7% ★, Sandbox 12.3%, Survival 10.1%, Open World 10%, Online Co-Op 9.9%
- #49 Core Keeper
66% 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 23.4% ★, Sandbox 12%, Building 11.1%, Open World 10.8%, Crafting 10.6%
- #50 Planetary Life
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 743 reviews2025
Dev: Sotenbox
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Manipulate climate, add plants and evolve creatures in this planet and life sandbox simulation game. From cells to civilizations, spread life throughout the whole planet. Or just enjoy watching your creation burn!
Why similar: Sandbox 41%, Life Sim 30.4%, Simulation 15.2%, Funny 13.4%
- #51 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 23.2% ★, Open World 20.2%, Sandbox 18.9%, Survival 18.7%, Crafting 6.3%
- #52 Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts
70% matchMostly Negative36% of 365 reviews2023
Dev: EFNSOFT
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 36%
Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts is a Multiplayer Survival Horror game for up to 4 players. Set in the Middle of the Unknown, you can craft, build, explore and discover secrets in the exciting first chapter from EFNSOFT.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.3% ★, Open World 10.3%, Survival 10.2%, Building 9.6%, Crafting 9.5%
- #53 Lucid Blocks
64% 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: Sandbox 21%, Open World 18%, Building 14.4%, Crafting 13.7%, Survival 12%
- #54 Duck Creator
68% matchVery Positive94% of 230 reviews2021
Dev: Weakfish Studio
Windows
Duck Creator, Create your own Duck!
Why similar: Sandbox 37.3%, Funny 16.5%, Simulation 14.6%, Building 12.9%, Casual 7.6%
- #55 Wild Omission
67% 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 25.8% ★, Crafting 11.1%, Sandbox 10.9%, Building 10.8%, Survival 10.8%
- #56 GRAV
70% 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 39.8% ★, Survival 14.7%, Open World 13.1%, Sandbox 12.5%, Crafting 9.4%
- #57 Aloft
65% matchVery Positive84% of 3,496 reviews2025
Dev: Astrolabe Interactive Inc.Pub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Soar the skies in Aloft, the co-op sandbox survival game set in a world of floating islands. Build any island into a skyship, your home in the clouds. Find lost knowledge, cure the fungal corruption, and brave the hurricane to restore the ecosystem.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.8% ★, Building 13.3%, Crafting 12.9%, Survival 12.3%, Sandbox 10.7%
- #58 INCUR Survival
67% matchVery Positive84% of 103 reviews2022
Dev: INCUR
Windows
A survival open-world game, where you can gather resources, Hunt, Craft tools and armor, Tame Animals, Ride Animals, Build, and defend your base from creatures, and other players.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.9% ★, Building 15.2%, Crafting 12.8%, Survival 12.4%, Open World 11.8%