Games Like Core Keeper

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 28.5% ★, Open World 7.8%, Sandbox 7.5%, Crafting 7.4%, Survival 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: This top-down pixel sandbox similarly mixes settlement building, farming, dungeon delving, NPC management, and co-op survival adventure.

Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.9% ★, Sandbox 11.5%, Survival 8.9%, Crafting 8.4%, Building 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its 2D sandbox world combines mining, crafting, building, boss progression, and multiplayer exploration in the closest overall match to Core Keeper.

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 23.3% ★, Online Co-Op 9.1%, Sandbox 9%, Open World 8.6%, Survival 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a colorful top-down crafting adventure centered on gathering materials, constructing a base, exploring islands, and fighting bosses with friends.

You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.8% ★, Sandbox 11%, Crafting 7.8%, Survival 7.5%, Online Co-Op 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its procedurally generated 2D worlds support extensive mining, base building, farming, crafting, combat, and online co-op exploration.

Welcome to Keplerth! Try to survive on a hostile alien planet in this 2D sandbox RPG, where you can choose to live alone or fight side by side with your friends in the online multiplayer mode. Survive, build, farm, fight, and explore your way to victory in this open-world adventure!

Why similar: Sandbox 15.9%, Open World 15%, Survival 14.7%, Building 14.6%, Exploration 8%

Why You'll Like It: This top-down survival sandbox pairs procedural exploration and combat with farming, crafting, base building, and recruitable colonists.

Dive into an epic adventure alone or with friends! Explore hidden dungeons, capture and tame fearsome monsters, build and defend your village. Craft powerful weapons, master magical spells, and transform an planet into the cradle of a new civilization!

Why similar: Sandbox 15.6%, Crafting 14.6%, Open World 14.3%, Building 12.1%, Co-op 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers a Terraria-style pixel sandbox of procedurally generated planets, deep crafting, building, combat, and character progression.

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 32.3% ★, Crafting 12.6%, Survival 11.8%, Base Building 7.8%, Sandbox 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its quick, satisfying loop of harvesting, crafting, expanding land, automating production, and clearing dungeons captures Core Keeper's compulsive progression.

Gather your friends and come to Tinkertown - A refreshing new Multiplayer Sandbox Experience! Explore magical places filled with loot, danger, and creativity.

Why similar: Crafting 13.3%, Sandbox 11.8%, Open World 10.9%, Building 9.9%, Online Co-Op 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: This multiplayer pixel-art adventure lets players gather resources, build a town, craft equipment, and venture into dungeons together.

An open-world survival crafting game for 1–8 players, blending intense dungeon crawling and ARPG combat with peaceful farming and creative building. Take on quests and explore a vast, procedurally-generated world full of danger and discovery.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.2% ★, Building 9.9%, Survival 9.3%, Crafting 9.3%, Base Building 9%

Why You'll Like It: It combines gathering and peaceful home building with farming, dungeon combat, exploration, and survival-oriented progression.

Progress with every slain monster, learn over 80 skills through talents, craft hundreds of items, and explore vast procedurally-generated worlds in this ever-expanding sandbox RPG!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.5% ★, Sandbox 14%, Crafting 12.1%, Survival 8.3%, Building 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its side-scrolling sandbox structure emphasizes excavation, construction, crafting, loot-driven combat, and customizable character builds.

A living world full of surprises, secrets and danger awaits in The Survivalists, an adventure-filled survival sandbox set in The Escapists universe. Explore, build, craft and even train monkeys with up to three friends in a desperate bid to survive. Have you got what it takes to be a Survivalist?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 18.5% ★, Crafting 10.7%, Survival 9.3%, Online Co-Op 9.2%, Base Building 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: This co-op survival game revolves around scavenging, crafting tools, building camps, exploring islands, and automating tasks with trained monkeys.

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 24.5% ★, Online Co-Op 9.3%, Survival 9.3%, Open World 9%, Base Building 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its co-op survival progression rewards exploration, resource gathering, elaborate bases, farming, and preparation for increasingly difficult bosses.

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 29% ★, Survival 10.7%, Crafting 9.7%, Co-op 7.8%, Multiplayer 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its snowy pixel-art world supports multiplayer survival, crafting, building, farming, and dungeon-like exploration in a lighthearted style.

Make the world truly yours in Junk Jack, a relaxing sandbox experience focused on building and improving your home. Discover new planets, tame and breed creatures, cook foods, collect animal companions, farm exotic plants, collect fish, grow flowers, play with your friends!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.4% ★, Sandbox 12.2%, Crafting 10.7%, Survival 10.5%, Building 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: This 2D pixel-art sandbox focuses on digging for resources, crafting gear, building elaborate bases, and exploring dangerous worlds.

You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.

Why similar: Open World 16%, Base Building 15.4%, Survival 13.7%, Online Co-Op 11.6%, Crafting 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: It translates the explore-build-craft-boss loop into a larger 3D co-op fantasy world with unusually flexible voxel-based construction.

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 29.4% ★, Survival 12.3%, Sandbox 11.7%, Crafting 11.2%, Open World 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: It is a 2D mining and crafting survival game where gathering materials and fortifying a base against increasingly dangerous creatures are central.

As one of the last human survivors, you find yourself stranded on an uninhabited island. With a few other victims of the crash, can you craft, mine, and build your way to survival?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.6% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Open World 11.4%, Building 11.1%, Survival 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: Aground turns simple pixel-art resource gathering into a substantial crafting, base-building, technology, and exploration progression loop.

Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 55.6% ★, Survival 22.7%, Co-op 4.5%, Multiplayer 4.1%, Open World 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: Although harsher and more roguelike, it provides excellent co-op survival through gathering, crafting, base building, exploration, and creature-filled wilderness.

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 23.6% ★, Open World 12.9%, Survival 11%, Crafting 8.3%, Online Co-Op 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its open-world survival framework includes gathering, crafting, base construction, farming, automation, and cooperative exploration alongside creature collecting.

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 24.5% ★, Survival 14.1%, Base Building 12.1%, Co-op 9.8%, Crafting 9%

Why You'll Like It: Grounded offers a similarly satisfying co-op loop of scavenging, crafting, building a defensible base, and exploring a dangerous compact world.

Fight and tame alien beasts, craft resources into menacing weaponry, befriend the outlandish locals, and go toe-to-chin with a world-domineering maniac.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.5% ★, Base Building 10.7%, Crafting 10.5%, Open World 10.3%, Survival 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: This approachable crafting RPG combines gathering, automated resource production, buildable bases, creature combat, and quest-led exploration.

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: Base Building 16.1%, Open World 14.7%, Survival 14.1%, Crafting 11.9%, Building 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: This survival action game combines a buildable personal castle, resource progression, open-world boss hunting, and co-op play.

Force of Nature 2: Ghost Keeper offers incredible adventures full of mystery, danger, exploration and magic. This game combines the genres of Survival, Sandbox, Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Resource Management

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 18.9% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Open World 12.5%, Crafting 12.5%, Survival 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: This top-down survival adventure features resource gathering, crafting, farming, building, exploration, and combat across a fantasy wilderness.

Dinkum is a survival life simulation game set on an island inspired by the rugged Australian outback. Farm, hunt, mine, fish, and forage to gather resources, expand your town, and discover what makes Dinkum so special—either solo or with friends.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.9% ★, Crafting 10.7%, Co-op 10.2%, Building 9.3%, Sandbox 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: This relaxed multiplayer life-sim offers open-world resource collection, crafting, town development, farming, fishing, and customizable building projects.

Craft The World is a unique sandbox strategy game, the mix of Dungeon Keeper, Terraria and Dwarf Fortress. Explore a random generated world populated by dangerous creatures, build a dwarf fortress, gather resources, and craft all the items, weapons, and armor you need.

Why similar: Crafting 22.5%, Building 20.9%, Sandbox 20%, Survival 14%, Open World 12.4%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the appeal of mining through a destructible 2D world, crafting equipment, constructing defenses, and facing underground threats, with dwarf colony management added.

A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.1% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Crafting 9%, Survival 8.9%, Online Co-Op 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a rewarding co-op-friendly loop of exploration, mining, crafting, base expansion, and gradually transforming a hostile planet.

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 25.2% ★, Open World 10.7%, Base Building 10%, Survival 10%, Sandbox 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its peaceful co-op space sandbox is built around terrain excavation, resource processing, modular base building, and freeform planetary exploration.

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 22.8% ★, Survival 13.4%, Base Building 10.8%, Open World 9.8%, Building 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: The game strongly emphasizes mining, crafting, structural base building, multiplayer survival, and defending your creations from recurring threats.

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 17.9%, Crafting 16.3%, Building 15.9%, Survival 13.6%, Multiplayer 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: It combines block-based building and resource gathering with accessible action-RPG combat, procedural islands, dungeons, and multiplayer support.

Rome has fallen! Rebuild civilization in this action-adventure survival game for 1-8 players. Fight hordes of the walking dead, build settlements, restore the Roman gods... or kick back and farm with friends.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 18.2% ★, Crafting 11.3%, Base Building 9.9%, Survival 9.3%, Procedural Generation 8.9%

Explore, Build, Farm, Craft and Fight in this survival sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Delve deep to uncover the secret of the invading 'Faults' and restore stability to the land.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.1% ★, Sandbox 8.9%, Crafting 8.5%, Survival 8.4%, Building 7.8%

Craftopia is the brand new multiplayer survival action game made in Japan. We combined many features we find enjoyable, such as hunting, farming, hack-and-slash, building, automation to develop this game.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.7% ★, Open World 15.3%, Crafting 14.5%, Survival 11.7%, Sandbox 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its expansive crafting sandbox mixes gathering, farming, building, dungeon exploration, automation, and online co-op in a more playful 3D format.

Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.4% ★, Base Building 9%, Co-op 8.2%, Survival 7.9%, Crafting 7.7%

Build your farm and relationships with townsfolk, or forge ahead on a quest of magic, monsters, and dragons. Level up through a skill tree in 8 person multiplayer, or adventure solo!

Why similar: Crafting 26.1%, Multiplayer 23.4%, Pixel Graphics 19.9%, Combat 11.7%, Exploration 10.3%

Everwind is a novel take on RPG and Sandbox Survival genre in First-Person-Perspective. Embark on the adventure with your friends - Build a base on a flying island-ship, gather resources, craft, loot, and fight while you rise above the clouds to uncover the mysteries of this world!

Why similar: Crafting 10.7%, Open World 10.3%, Building 10.2%, Online Co-Op 10%, Survival 9.6%

Abiotic Factor is a survival crafting experience for 1-6 players set in the depths of an underground research facility. Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the world’s greatest minds must survive against the universe’s biggest threats.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.3% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 11.5%, Survival 11%, Online Co-Op 10.8%

Embark on a galactic journey in Cubic Odyssey, an open-world adventure where you explore vibrant planets, craft tools, build vehicles, and fight the Red Darkness. Uncover ancient mysteries, and shape a universe full of life, danger, and limitless possibilities!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29% ★, Base Building 14.5%, Building 11.3%, Sandbox 11%, Co-op 10.5%

A classic voxel sandbox combined with in-depth progression through exploration, dungeon crawling and boss battles. Spend every minute discovering new weapons, abilities, resources, enemies, structures, mechanics and tools. With a strong focus on discovery, variety and creativity, the world is yours.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.6% ★, Crafting 9.1%, Sandbox 8.9%, Building 8.6%, Survival 8.5%

Shrunk again, but the world is much larger. In this open-world, single-player or co-op survival adventure, craft weapons and armor, build your base, and traverse the playground on your buggy. But something else is out there—and it hasn’t forgotten you.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.5% ★, Survival 12.7%, Base Building 12%, Open World 9.5%, Co-op 8.8%

Defend against waves of alien monsters in this unique roguelike action miner. Dig for resources, collect useful gadgets, and upgrade equipment to increase odds of survival – just hurry back before your dome is destroyed!

Why similar: Procedural Generation 25%, Combat 15.8%, Pixel Graphics 13.6%, Exploration 12.5%, Atmospheric 9.8%

A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.4% ★, Crafting 10%, Building 9.5%, Sandbox 9.2%, Open World 8.9%

A vibrant blend of survival and action RPG for 1-10 players! Craft legendary items, grow your home base and embark on an epic journey through procedural realms to face towering creatures hel-bent on unleashing Ragnarök. Valhalla can wait, Einherjar!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.5% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Online Co-Op 12.3%, Survival 9.6%, Co-op 9%

Wonderia's an open-world, manga-art adventure just waiting to be explored. It's got sci-fi sim elements, deep dungeons, and you can even morph into alien form! Grab up to 7 friends to mine, craft, battle, and level—or farm and fish the day away, if that's more your tempo. There's so much to do!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.3% ★, Online Co-Op 10.4%, Crafting 10.3%, Sandbox 10.3%, Survival 9.7%

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 21% ★, Base Building 10.4%, Survival 9.2%, Crafting 8.5%, Open World 8.1%

Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!

Why similar: Base Building 18.2%, Open World Survival Craft 12.7% ★, Crafting 12%, Open World 11.6%, Building 10.1%

A survival crafting adventure set in the Fourth Age of Middle-earth. Lead the Dwarves to reclaim Moria - mine, build, and battle through procedurally generated depths alone or with up to 8 players in co-op. It is time to return to Moria!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.4% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 10.4%, Survival 9.8%, Online Co-Op 9.7%

Heroes of Hammerwatch is a rogue-lite action-adventure. Explore and battle your way through procedurally generated levels on your own or with up to 3 friends.

Why similar: Co-op 29.3%, Multiplayer 17.9%, Online Co-Op 17.6%, Pixel Graphics 16.6%, Procedural Generation 8.3%

Cube World is a voxel-based action RPG with a focus on exploration. It takes place in a procedurally generated fantasy world made up entirely of cubes.

Why similar: Open World 21.6%, Online Co-Op 11.3%, Multiplayer 11%, Co-op 8.8%, Crafting 8.3%

Nova Lands is a factory building, exploration, and island management game. Explore, engage in combat, and automate your industry. The planet you’re on is full of mysteries, creatures, people, and things to do. Welcome to your new home amongst the stars!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.8% ★, Base Building 14.3%, Sandbox 10.9%, Crafting 10%, Open World 9.3%

Fish, farm, craft, gather, cook, loot or steal from other players and build a campsite or a village with your friends in an open-world multiplayer sandbox game without rules!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22% ★, Crafting 12.1%, Survival 11.9%, Open World 10.9%, Sandbox 8.7%

Build and manage a medieval graveyard while facing ethical dilemmas and making questionable decisions. Welcome to Graveyard Keeper, the most inaccurate medieval cemetery sim of the year.

Why similar: Crafting 34.2%, Sandbox 20.6%, Pixel Graphics 18.7%, Building 16.4%, Adventure 3.4%

An action-adventure roguelike with a bit of RPG tossed in. Adventure deep into the UnderMine and discover powerful relics, deadly enemies, hidden secrets, and a few friends to help along the way.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 37.4%, Procedural Generation 27.7%, Action 10%, Adventure 9.3%, Indie 6.8%

Mine, build, and explore with Monster Girl companions in this underground sandbox adventure. Uncover lost tech, automate production, and forge bonds with allies as you fight to survive and journey back to the surface.

Why similar: Base Building 21.9%, Survival 17.3%, Crafting 16.4%, Sandbox 15.2%, Building 11.1%

Get ready to explore, farm, fish, mine, craft, and raise magical Lumas as you solve puzzles and embark on quests across Luma Island. Play solo, or team up with friends in 1-4 player online co-op. Choose relaxing Cozy, challenging Adventure, or epic Hero mode to match your mood and playstyle.

Why similar: Crafting 18%, Building 16.8%, Online Co-Op 16.8%, Co-op 14%, Open World 12.8%

Embark on a lifetime of adventure in a beautiful world of creativity and intrigue. Raise a family, customise your farm, run a business, craft items, and battle some marvellously malevolent monsters.

Why similar: Crafting 23.3%, Sandbox 21.7%, Open World 20.2%, Exploration 11.6%, Pixel Graphics 10.1%

A rogue-lite action-rpg that offers extensive persistent progression. Build your town, upgrade and equip your heroes, before taking on the ever-changing Dark Citadel - either solo or with a team of friends.

Why similar: Procedural Generation 32%, Pixel Graphics 17.7%, Multiplayer 16.6%, Combat 12.4%, Action 8.5%

Rogue Heroes is a topdown, roguelite adventure game inspired by the Zelda franchise. Play solo or team up with your friends to combat procedurally generated dungeons and take down the evil Titans that threaten to overwhelm the land of Tasos!

Why similar: Co-op 27.4%, Online Co-Op 20%, Pixel Graphics 13.9%, Multiplayer 10.3%, Exploration 7.8%

Delve into the dangerous, ever-shifting labyrinth that is the Undermine. Discover, craft, and combine hundreds of unique items. Pair them with an ever-expanding roster of distinct playable characters for a new run every time! Grab a partner and uncover UnderMine 2's secrets together in local co-op.

Why similar: Co-op 29.6%, Procedural Generation 23.2%, Pixel Graphics 16%, Combat 13%, Action 6.9%

The Riftbreaker is a solo or Co-op base-building, survival game with Action-RPG elements for up to 4 players. Hack & slash countless hordes of enemies. Build up your base, craft powerful weapons and research new inventions to survive.

Why similar: Base Building 18.9%, Online Co-Op 14.8%, Survival 11.3%, Crafting 10.6%, Sandbox 10.4%

Explore, craft, and survive in this Multiplayer RPG Platformer with permanent death! Featuring many Rogue-like elements, Magicite randomly generates each underground dungeon for you and your friends to delve deep into.

Why similar: Crafting 18.8%, Co-op 14.7%, Multiplayer 14.1%, Survival 11.7%, Pixel Graphics 11.3%