- #1 Myth of Empires
97% matchMixed68% of 17,631 reviews2024
Dev: Angela GamePub: Imperium Interactive Entertainment
Windows
Median: 15.0 hrsMean: 228.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Myth of Empires is a multiplayer war sandbox game featuring a high degree of freedom and multiple civilizations. Players must survive, craft, create, and lead troops in their quest to conquer PVE or PVP territory and build their own empire. Xizhou Civilization Pack is now officially released!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.5% ★, Survival 14.4%, Building 14.2%, Open World 13.4%, Sandbox 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: Its persistent multiplayer world combines medieval survival, large-scale fortress construction, NPC recruitment, crafting, mounts, and territorial warfare in a way that closely mirrors Conan's clan-driven gameplay.
- #2 ARK: Survival Evolved
96% matchVery Positive83% of 778,394 reviews2017
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 202.1 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 35.8% ★, Survival 17%, Open World 11.7%, Building 8.6%, Crafting 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: It offers the same addictive loop of gathering, crafting, building defended bases, taming helpers and creatures, and surviving on multiplayer servers, with dinosaurs replacing Hyborian beasts.
- #3 Dune: Awakening
96% matchMostly Positive71% of 79,582 reviews2025
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 43.1 hrsMean: 98.6 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Dune: Awakening is a single- and multiplayer Open World Survival game with immersive adventure and RPG gameplay. Explore, build, craft, and unravel a cinematic Dune story as you rise from survival to greatness on the most legendary planet in the universe. Just remember: the sandworm always comes.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.8% ★, Survival 12.2%, Open World 10.8%, Building 9.7%, Crafting 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: It is a persistent open-world survival MMO built around resource gathering, base building, faction conflict, exploration, and the constant environmental threat of Arrakis.
- #4 Soulmask
95% matchMostly Positive77% of 22,506 reviews2026
Dev: CampFire StudioPub: Qooland Games
Windows
Median: 13.9 hrsMean: 69.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. Possess any of your tribespeople, recruit followers, and build a thriving automated civilization. Survive, expand, and forge your own legacy across a vast ancient open world — together with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.5% ★, Survival 18.3%, Open World 15.8%, Crafting 13.6%, Sandbox 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: This tribal open-world survival game emphasizes building, crafting, combat, NPC tribesmen management, and a harsh ancient-world atmosphere similar to Conan Exiles.
- #5 Enshrouded
94% matchVery Positive86% of 106,050 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.9 hrsMean: 46.8 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: Survival 22.9%, Open World 22.4%, Crafting 12.6%, Building 10.6%, Multiplayer 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: Its fantasy setting, flexible voxel-based castle building, action-RPG progression, bosses, and cooperative survival make it an excellent PvE-focused Conan alternative.
- #6 ARK: Survival Ascended
94% matchMixed60% of 118,321 reviews2023
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows
Median: 27.2 hrsMean: 198.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!
Why similar: Survival 24.2%, Open World 19.3%, Building 12.9%, Crafting 11.9%, Multiplayer 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: This modernized ARK version retains the core appeal of dangerous open-world survival, elaborate construction, creature taming, and multiplayer tribe warfare.
- #7 SCUM
93% matchMostly Positive74% of 127,189 reviews2025
Dev: Gamepires
Windows
Median: 11.9 hrsMean: 105.4 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Welcome to SCUM, a ruthless open-world survival game where deep character customization defines the prisoner you become. Loot, craft, hunt, build, and fight to outlast a hostile island where every choice can change your fate. Stay alive. Stay dangerous. Become harder to kill.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.6% ★, Survival 13.2%, Open World 11.7%, Massively Multiplayer 9.3%, Nudity 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: Its demanding survival systems, open-world scavenging, player-built shelters, character development, and high-stakes multiplayer PvP appeal to players who enjoy Conan's harsher side.
- #8 Valheim
91% matchVery Positive94% of 555,289 reviews2026
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 26.9 hrsMean: 81.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.1% ★, Survival 15.1%, Open World 12.2%, Building 10%, Crafting 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: Valheim pairs exploration, boss-driven progression, satisfying structural building, crafting, and cooperative Viking survival in a mythic world full of dangerous creatures.
- #9 Citadel: Forged with Fire
92% matchMixed68% of 5,895 reviews2019
Dev: Blue Isle StudiosPub: Blue Isle Publishing
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 19.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
This massive online sandbox RPG features elements of magic, spellcasting, building, exploring and crafting. As a newly minted apprentice of the magic arts, you will set off to the dangerous world of Ignus. Tame mighty beasts, forge alliances, explore uncharted territories or fight for dominance!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.2% ★, Open World 16.7%, Survival 14.3%, Massively Multiplayer 10.9%, Crafting 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: A magical fantasy survival sandbox with flying, spellcasting, taming, RPG progression, and large player-built strongholds, it shares Conan's mystical sandbox spirit.
- #10 Dark and Light
91% matchMixed52% of 11,837 reviews2017
Dev: Snail Games USA
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 49.7 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: Survival 20.3%, Open World Survival Craft 19.4% ★, Open World 19%, Massively Multiplayer 13.8%, Sandbox 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Its fantasy survival gameplay features gathering, crafting, building, creature taming, magic, and multiplayer servers in a setting close to Conan's sword-and-sorcery tone.
- #11 Rust
90% matchVery Positive87% of 1,402,448 reviews2018
Dev: Facepunch Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 52.8 hrsMean: 431.0 hrs≥1hr: 96%
The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.
Why similar: Survival 23%, Open World Survival Craft 22% ★, Open World 12.4%, Crafting 11.1%, Building 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Rust delivers a more PvP-focused version of Conan's resource competition, raidable bases, alliances, betrayals, and persistent-server survival tension.
- #12 V Rising
89% matchVery Positive89% of 137,392 reviews2024
Dev: Stunlock Studios
Windows
Median: 20.9 hrsMean: 58.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Awaken as a Vampire. Hunt for blood in nearby settlements to regain your strength and evade the scorching sun to survive. Raise your castle and thrive in an ever-changing, open world full of mystery. Gain allies online and conquer the land of the living.
Why similar: Survival 21.8%, Open World 19.1%, Crafting 12.3%, Building 10.7%, Massively Multiplayer 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: Its action combat, resource progression, castle construction, servant system, and PvE or PvP servers provide a focused gothic alternative to Conan's domination fantasy.
- #13 Nightingale
89% matchMixed66% of 18,084 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 29.8% ★, Survival 14.8%, Open World 12.3%, Building 10.5%, Crafting 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: This shared-world survival-crafting RPG offers ornate base building, exploration across magical realms, gear progression, and a fantasy setting suited to cooperative play.
- #14 Last Oasis
88% matchMixed62% of 24,230 reviews2020
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 17.8 hrsMean: 120.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Nomadic Survival MMO. Build wooden walking machines to travel to new lands. Create clans and fight for territory. Resources deplete fast, so take your sword and scavenge, pirate, and trade to stay alive.
Why similar: Survival 21.9%, Open World 16.9%, Massively Multiplayer 16.1%, Building 10.7%, Crafting 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: The nomadic survival MMO combines clan warfare, crafting, mobile player-built bases, and survival in a hostile desert world.
- #15 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
86% matchVery Positive82% of 10,551 reviews2024
Dev: Max Ent Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 16.3 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 27.8% ★, Survival 15%, Open World 11.1%, Building 10.1%, Crafting 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: It provides cooperative survival, crafting, customizable base building, exploration, and creature taming in a distinctive miniature-scale wilderness.
- #16 Pax Dei
86% matchMixed57% of 11,377 reviews2025
Dev: Mainframe Industries
Windows
Median: 18.5 hrsMean: 76.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Welcome to a vast, social sandbox MMO inspired by the legends of the medieval era. Here, myths are real, ghosts exist, and magic is unquestioned. Join thousands of players as you explore the land, build your home, forge your reputation, and craft your own stories. What world will you make?
Why similar: Open World 25.6%, Crafting 21.8%, Sandbox 14.8%, Multiplayer 12%, PvP 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: Its social sandbox design centers on player-built settlements, crafting professions, open-world exploration, guild cooperation, and PvP conflict in a low-fantasy medieval world.
- #17 Bellwright
85% matchVery Positive80% of 21,714 reviews2024
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 12.8 hrsMean: 41.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Establish and expand your own settlements, liberate the land and assist its villagers, and recruit others to your cause while learning more about a life you had to leave behind. Command your forces, prove your valor through combat, and cement yourself as the hero of your people.
Why similar: Survival 26.1%, Open World 21.3%, Crafting 14.8%, Building 13.1%, Multiplayer 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: Bellwright combines third-person medieval survival, crafting, settlement construction, villager management, and combat against occupying forces.
- #18 Reign Of Kings
87% matchMixed57% of 14,891 reviews2015
Dev: Code}{atch
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 47.8 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 31.9% ★, Survival 15.5%, Open World 12.8%, Crafting 9.8%, Building 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: Its medieval multiplayer sandbox revolves around gathering, castle building, siege warfare, player politics, and brutal close-quarters combat.
- #19 The Front
84% matchMixed67% of 10,771 reviews2025
Dev: Samar Studio
Windows
Median: 10.7 hrsMean: 44.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
The Front is a survival open-world crafting sandbox game. You are a resistance fighter sent back in time to stop the rise of a tyrannical empire. Collect resources, craft tech, build shelters, and fight monsters to accomplish your mission.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.9% ★, Survival 13.6%, Open World 10.7%, Building 10.3%, Crafting 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: It offers open-world survival, extensive base construction, vehicle crafting, raiding, and PvP in a more modern post-apocalyptic setting.
- #20 ICARUS
83% matchMostly Positive75% of 68,864 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.4 hrsMean: 46.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.8% ★, Survival 17.6%, Open World 10.8%, Crafting 9.4%, Building 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: This mission-based survival game rewards careful gathering, crafting, construction, hunting, and weather preparation, especially for players who enjoy Conan's PvE survival loop.
- #21 7 Days to Die
81% matchVery Positive87% of 405,507 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.4 hrsMean: 111.0 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 31.1% ★, Survival 22.6%, Open World 13.9%, Building 10.7%, Multiplayer 7%
Why You'll Like It: Its open-world crafting, skill progression, fortified-base design, loot-driven exploration, and recurring siege defense offer a tense survival alternative.
- #22 ATLAS
84% matchMixed47% of 42,929 reviews2018
Dev: Grapeshot Games
Windows
Median: 12.5 hrsMean: 111.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Set sail for the ultimate pirate experience! Embark on a grand adventure alongside thousands of other players in one of the largest game worlds ever built (and even claim a piece of it to call your own). Build your ship, assemble your crew, sail the high seas, and become a pirate legend!
Why similar: Survival 23.9%, Open World 19.6%, Massively Multiplayer 12.9%, Crafting 12.7%, Multiplayer 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: This pirate survival sandbox supports large-scale construction, crew management, exploration, taming, and multiplayer territorial conflict across an oceanic world.
- #23 Green Hell
82% matchVery Positive85% of 102,938 reviews2019
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.8% ★, Survival 18.7%, Open World 10%, Crafting 8.2%, Multiplayer 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: Green Hell offers an especially grounded and punishing survival experience with crafting, shelter construction, exploration, and optional cooperative play.
- #24 Palworld
79% matchVery Positive95% of 490,433 reviews2026
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 41.0 hrsMean: 86.8 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 29.5% ★, Survival 17%, Open World 16.7%, Crafting 8.5%, Multiplayer 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: It mixes open-world survival, resource automation, base building, creature collection, and multiplayer progression in an accessible sandbox format.
- #25 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
82% matchMostly Positive78% of 34,438 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 29.4% ★, Survival 14.5%, Open World 12.5%, Building 12%, Crafting 9%
Why You'll Like It: It transposes Conan's gather-build-explore-survive formula to space, with detailed construction, hostile planets, factions, and multiplayer servers.
- #26 Once Human
80% matchMostly Positive79% of 189,842 reviews2024
Dev: Starry Studio
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 52.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Once Human is a Strange Worlds Survival Game set in a strange, post-apocalyptic future. Unite with friends to fight monstrous enemies, uncover secret plots, compete for resources, and build your own territory. Once, you were merely human. Now, you have the power to remake the world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.1% ★, Survival 14%, Open World 12.5%, Building 10.3%, Crafting 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: Its free-to-play multiplayer world combines base construction, crafting, territory systems, combat, and supernatural open-world survival.
- #27 Medieval Dynasty
81% matchVery Positive90% of 52,440 reviews2021
Dev: Render CubePub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 11.6 hrsMean: 36.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.
Why similar: Building 20.8%, Crafting 18.6%, Survival 18.3%, Open World 15.3%, Multiplayer 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: Its first-person medieval survival and building systems emphasize creating a lasting homestead and managing a growing settlement rather than pure combat.
- #28 Grounded
79% matchVery Positive90% of 95,977 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.6 hrsMean: 41.9 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 32.5% ★, Survival 23.1%, Open World 10.2%, Crafting 9.8%, Multiplayer 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: Grounded has excellent cooperative crafting, creative base building, environmental exploration, and escalating survival threats, albeit with a lighter tone.
- #29 ASKA
78% matchVery Positive80% of 12,267 reviews2024
Dev: Sand Sailor StudioPub: Thunderful Publishing
Windows
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 29.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
A new Viking age dawns with you at its helm. Forge a thriving colony from nothing in this mythic open-world survival sim. Earn the gods' favor and survive in a land ruled by ancient terrors and unforgiving seasons. Rally unique villagers, expand your settlement and defend your tribe - solo or co-op!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30% ★, Survival 15.2%, Open World 10.3%, Building 9.7%, Crafting 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: ASKA blends Viking survival, village construction, NPC worker assignment, exploration, and cooperative play for players who enjoy building a functioning settlement.
- #30 Sengoku Dynasty
78% matchMostly Positive75% of 7,879 reviews2024
Dev: SuperkamiPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 7.5 hrsMean: 16.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Sengoku Dynasty is the ultimate feudal Japan experience: build villages, grow your community, and shape the open world through combat or economy. The choice is yours alone - or that of up to 4 players in multiplayer co-op!
Why similar: Survival 22.2%, Open World 19.6%, Building 15.8%, Crafting 14%, Multiplayer 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: This feudal Japan survival game centers on crafting, village building, resource management, exploration, and cooperative progression in a historical setting.
- #31 Miscreated
77% matchMixed66% of 31,592 reviews2018
Dev: Entrada Interactive LLC
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 38.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Miscreated is a multiplayer online hardcore survival game set in a post-apocalyptic future. You will need to survive against mutants, players, and even mother nature herself.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.3% ★, Survival 20.3%, Open World 13.9%, Crafting 6.5%, Multiplayer 6.1%
- #32 Life is Feudal: Your Own
77% matchMixed66% of 12,071 reviews2015
Dev: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 57.9 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 33.1% ★, Survival 14.4%, Open World 13.7%, Crafting 10.2%, Building 9.7%
- #33 Hurtworld
76% matchMostly Positive76% of 31,099 reviews2019
Dev: Bankroll Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 64.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Hurtworld is a hardcore multiplayer survival FPS with a focus on competitive gunplay and strategic map control. Built for hardcore gamers, Hurtworld aims to punish.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.3% ★, Survival 21.4%, Open World 13.7%, Crafting 10%, Building 10%
- #34 Renown
73% matchMixed58% of 1,591 reviews2025
Dev: RDBK Studios
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Renown is an intense medieval multiplayer survival experience set in a vast, ever-evolving world. Whether alone or rallying allies, gather resources, build powerful strongholds, and engage in brutal battles for dominance.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.1% ★, Survival 13.3%, Open World 11.3%, Building 10.1%, Crafting 9.8%
- #35 Savage Lands
74% matchMixed54% of 6,690 reviews2021
Dev: Last Bastion Studios LLC
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.4 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 38.4% ★, Survival 17.2%, Open World 12.4%, Crafting 8.8%, Sandbox 5.6%
- #36 Outlaws of the Old West
75% matchMixed59% of 6,297 reviews2019
Dev: Virtual Basement LLCPub: Wandering Wizard
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Outlaws of the Old West is a massively multiplayer survival MMO with a huge world, thousands of items and a modular building system. Survive the wild, build your own homestead, defeat villainous bandits and work with others to tame the Wild West.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.1% ★, Survival 18.9%, Open World 15.6%, Massively Multiplayer 9.7%, Multiplayer 6.9%
- #37 Age of Conan: Unchained
75% matchMixed69% of 2,940 reviews2013
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Age of Conan: Unchained is an award-winning and critically acclaimed massively multiplayer online game set in the sexy, savage and brutal world of Conan the Barbarian. Tread in the footsteps of the greatest fantasy hero of all time, and explore the vast reaches of Hyboria.
Why similar: Nudity 26.9%, Massively Multiplayer 24.1%, Multiplayer 13.4%, Gore 10.7%, RPG 8%
- #38 PixARK
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,659 reviews2019
Dev: Snail Games USA
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 40.0 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 24.2%, Open World 17.7%, Massively Multiplayer 12.3%, Building 9.4%, Crafting 8.5%
- #39 Deadside
70% matchMostly Positive76% of 40,566 reviews2024
Dev: Bad Pixel
Windows
Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 44.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
An Open World Survival Shooter blending hardcore PVP and PVE action. Secure precious loot in safe zones or build your own fortress in the wild. With intense gunfights, stunning visuals, and performance smooth enough for any system, the challenge awaits!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.9% ★, Survival 18%, Open World 12.9%, Crafting 11.5%, Multiplayer 6.6%
- #40 Heat
74% matchMixed49% of 2,935 reviews2020
Dev: Code}{atch
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 28.8 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Survive the wilderness, build a home, raise a family, and expand your territory. Gain power as President, deliver justice as Sheriff, fight for your tribe as Chief, or show some southern hospitality as Governor. Begin your new life in 19th century America.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23% ★, Survival 22%, Open World 17.3%, Multiplayer 8.6%, Building 7%
- #41 New World: Aeternum
71% matchMixed67% of 297,329 reviews2021
Dev: Amazon Game Studios
Windows
Median: 58.8 hrsMean: 197.6 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Experience a thrilling action RPG set on the supernatural island of Aeternum. Forge your destiny on an adventure filled with danger and opportunity.
Why similar: Open World 26.8%, Massively Multiplayer 20.3%, Open World Survival Craft 15.3% ★, Crafting 8%, Multiplayer 6.4%
- #42 Subsistence
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,861 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 38.1% ★, Survival 17.9%, Open World 11.2%, Crafting 10.4%, Building 8.1%
- #43 Wild Terra 2: New Lands
72% matchMixed52% of 4,220 reviews2022
Dev: Juvty Worlds
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 28.1 hrs≥1hr: 38%
MMORPG full of details that create a unique immersion and the spirit of adventure! Play your role in the life-filled medieval world controlled by players.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.4% ★, Massively Multiplayer 11.2%, Survival 9.6%, Building 9.2%, Crafting 8.8%
- #44 Mortal Online 2
71% matchMixed60% of 13,925 reviews2022
Dev: Star Vault AB
Windows
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 151.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Step into Nave, a vast fantasy sandbox world with a player-driven economy, persistent housing, and deep crafting systems. Engage in first-person, full-loot PvP combat with other players and perilous foes. Build, explore, and conquer in an unforgiving world. The land is yours—who will you become?
Why similar: Open World 19.7%, Survival 16.5%, Crafting 13.1%, Sandbox 11.3%, Massively Multiplayer 10.5%
- #45 Windrose
67% matchVery Positive87% of 53,040 reviews2026
Dev: Kraken Express
Windows
Median: 20.3 hrsMean: 33.3 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Embark on a PvE survival adventure in the Age of Piracy. Fight on land and sea, solo or with friends. Build, craft and explore vast open world filled with dark secrets. Master soulslite combat and take on challenging bosses, command your ship and plunder unspoken treasures!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.2% ★, Survival 16.6%, Crafting 12.2%, Building 11%, Open World 9.7%
- #46 Dawn of Defiance
69% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,856 reviews2024
Dev: Traega EntertainmentPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
You are a fallen Spartan, cast into the realm between the living and the Underworld. In this survival adventure inspired by Greek myth, hunt, craft and build a home worthy of legend with up to 3 friends. Raid the gods' temples, defeat legendary creatures and loot the iconic weapons of the Olympians.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.8% ★, Survival 16.4%, Open World 10.8%, Building 9.3%, Crafting 7.4%
- #47 No One Survived
68% matchMixed64% of 7,844 reviews2025
Dev: Cat Play Studio
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 22.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%
This is a multiplayer cooperative open world construction survival sandbox game, where you and your friends must find supplies and build shelters in this world. You have to keep an eye on your character's needs state at all times, a bad state is likely to lead to death.
Why similar: Survival 26.8%, Open World 19.9%, Crafting 12.2%, Building 10.6%, Multiplayer 8.4%
- #48 Frozen Flame
70% matchMixed62% of 2,997 reviews2022
Dev: Dreamside InteractivePub: Ravenage Games
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A challenging exploration and survival adventure, set in the dying world of Dragons. Only those who harness the power of Frozen Flame have the means to survive the harsh conditions of the realm and able to muster the strength to cleanse it for good.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.2% ★, Survival 12.8%, Open World 11.4%, Building 10%, Crafting 8.9%
- #49 My Island
69% matchMixed66% of 1,739 reviews2024
Dev: SnowBaby Games
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 47%
MyIsland is a relaxed and beautiful survival game,You will drift and survive on the tropical islands, hunt and travel, build houses and development farming, and create your own warm homeland.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.7% ★, Survival 18%, Open World 11.6%, Crafting 8.4%, Building 6.5%
- #50 Life is Feudal: MMO
72% matchMixed40% of 7,352 reviews2018
Dev: LTG
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 45.6 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Experience the hardcore reality of the Middle Ages. Master survival, engage in deep-rooted RPG elements, navigate a bustling economy, build communities, and employ diplomatic strategy to thrive in Abella's vast expanse.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.2% ★, Survival 14.9%, Building 9.8%, Crafting 9.7%, Open World 9.6%
- #51 Rem Survival
69% matchMostly Positive76% of 809 reviews2021
Dev: Immortal Hand Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 47.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Scavenge abandoned ruins, craft gear from scrap and salvaged materials, and fight the environment itself as hunger, exposure, and exhaustion push you to your limits. There are no second chances—only adaptation or death.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.7% ★, Survival 14.8%, Open World 12.4%, Crafting 10.9%, Building 10.8%
- #52 Outward Definitive Edition
68% matchMostly Positive73% of 31,430 reviews2022
Dev: Nine Dots StudioPub: Prime Matter
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 18.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
No remarkable journey is achieved without great effort. In Outward, the cold of the night or an infected wound can be as dangerous as a predator lurking in the dark. Explore the vast world of Aurai solo or in Co-op. The Definitive Edition features both DLCs and quality of life improvements.
Why similar: Open World 33.1%, Survival 26.4%, RPG 10.2%, Online Co-Op 8.1%, Co-op 7.2%
- #53 Valnir Rok Survival RPG
71% matchMixed44% of 980 reviews2017
Dev: encurio
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 42%
Valnir Rok is a multiplayer survival roleplaying game in a Viking setting with quests by bestselling author Giles Kristian. Explore a huge open world, craft items, cook meals, build houses and found clan cities. Raid other clans or place bounties. Pray to the gods and survive.
Why similar: Survival 20.9%, Open World 19.5%, Open World Survival Craft 18.5% ★, Massively Multiplayer 12.3%, Multiplayer 7.2%
- #54 Gloria Victis: Medieval MMORPG
65% matchMixed68% of 12,038 reviews2026
Dev: gamigo US
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 26.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Gloria Victis is an MMORPG with an emphasis on realism, set in a low-fantasy medieval open world. Enjoy MMO with skill-based non-target combat, open PVP with territory control, deep crafting system and player-driven economy – all that served with beautiful graphics and an immersive atmosphere.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.4% ★, Open World 18.9%, Massively Multiplayer 14.1%, Survival 10.8%, Crafting 9%
- #55 Everwind
65% matchVery Positive81% of 3,899 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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: Survival 17.5%, Open World 15.7%, Building 14.2%, Crafting 12.9%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #56 Mortal Online
70% matchMixed52% of 2,961 reviews2015
Dev: Star Vault AB
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 20.9 hrs≥1hr: 47%
Mortal Online is a first-person medieval fantasy MMORPG, set in a huge, open, unforgiving world. Choose your race, choose your playstyle, choose a profession, choose where to place your loyalties - if you have any...
Why similar: Open World 22.6%, Massively Multiplayer 17.2%, Survival 16%, Sandbox 10.5%, Nudity 9.6%
- #57 Spirit Animal Survival
65% matchMixed70% of 136 reviews2026
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 23% ★, Survival 12.2%, Open World 10.6%, Building 9.5%, Nudity 9%
- #58 RuneScape: Dragonwilds
63% matchVery Positive81% of 32,495 reviews2026
Dev: Jagex Ltd
Windows
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 20.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
On RuneScape's forgotten continent of Ashenfall, dragons have awoken. Gather, build, skill and craft in this co-operative survival adventure. Only by mastering survival and uncovering ancient secrets can you hope to face the ferocious Dragon Queen.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.2% ★, Survival 14.5%, Open World 14.4%, Building 8.8%, Crafting 8.3%
- #59 Out of Reach
68% matchMixed57% of 3,051 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.1 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 34.4% ★, Survival 16.6%, Open World 11.8%, Crafting 8.9%, Building 8%