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% ★, Sandbox 7.7%, Open World 7.5%, Crafting 7.5%, Survival 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its top-down pixel presentation, multiplayer survival crafting, settlement building, and progression through exploration make it one of the strongest Core Keeper alternatives.

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.6% ★, Sandbox 11.6%, Survival 8.7%, Crafting 8.4%, Building 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: It is the closest overall match, combining 2D mining, crafting, building, farming, exploration, and memorable boss progression in a huge co-op sandbox.

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 16.1%, Building 15%, Open World 14.5%, Survival 14.3%, Base Building 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: This top-down pixel sandbox shares Core Keeper's mix of survival systems, crafting, base-building, exploration, and combat-driven 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 13.4%, Sandbox 11.8%, Open World 10.4%, Online Co-Op 10.1%, Building 10%

Why You'll Like It: Its top-down pixel world, co-op play, building, digging, crafting, and boss fights feel very close to Core Keeper's overall structure.

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 29.5% ★, Sandbox 11.1%, Crafting 7.8%, Survival 7.3%, Online Co-Op 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: If you love gathering resources, crafting stations, building bases, and exploring ever-expanding worlds in 2D, Starbound hits many of the same notes.

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 22.2%, Survival 16.7%, Crafting 16.5%, Sandbox 15.4%, Building 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: It mirrors Core Keeper's underground focus with cavern exploration, mining, farming, crafting, and base-building at the center of the experience.

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 23.9% ★, Building 10.1%, Crafting 9.4%, Base Building 9.1%, Survival 9%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the same satisfying loop of building up a home, farming, crafting better gear, and diving into dangerous areas for progression.

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 24.3% ★, Survival 13.7%, Base Building 12.5%, Co-op 9.9%, Crafting 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Although it uses a different perspective, its co-op exploration, base-building, resource gathering, and creature-filled progression echo Core Keeper's adventure loop.

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 18.3% ★, Crafting 10.8%, Online Co-Op 9.5%, Base Building 9%, Survival 9%

Why You'll Like It: This is another co-op survival sandbox built around gathering, crafting, base-building, exploration, and steadily unlocking more efficient ways to survive.

A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.1% ★, Online Co-Op 9.7%, Survival 9.1%, Base Building 8.7%, Open World 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers the same co-op rhythm of harvesting resources, expanding a base, crafting upgrades, exploring new biomes, and taking down major bosses.

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 15.9%, Open World 13.7%, Survival 13.4%, Crafting 12%, Online Co-Op 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its isometric view, resource tiers, base-building, co-op play, and boss-gated advancement create a progression feel very similar to Core Keeper.

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 18.1%, Crafting 16.4%, Building 16.1%, Survival 13.2%, Multiplayer 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its blend of action-RPG combat, blocky mining, crafting, building, and co-op boss progression makes it a natural fit for Core Keeper fans.

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% ★, Crafting 12.8%, Survival 11.5%, Base Building 8%, Sandbox 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: While lighter on survival, it delivers a similarly addictive gather-craft-upgrade loop full of mining, farming, exploration, and constant progression.

CryoFall is a sci-fi colony simulation survival game set on a forgotten planet in a distant future. Master technology, agriculture, trading, industry, cybernetics, exploration, and more!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.3% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Crafting 13.5%, Building 11.6%, Sandbox 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: CryoFall offers top-down multiplayer survival with extensive crafting, tech progression, farming, and base development in a persistent sandbox world.

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 22.4%, Co-op 4.6%, Multiplayer 4.2%, Open World 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: This is a great pick if you want another top-down co-op survival sandbox where exploration, crafting, and building a sustainable base are essential.

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 34.3% ★, Sandbox 14.1%, Crafting 12.2%, Survival 8.1%, Building 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: Crea is a strong Terraria-style sandbox with crafting, building, exploration, and RPG progression that should appeal to anyone who likes Core Keeper's sandbox side.

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: Base Building 15.7%, Open World 15.2%, Survival 13.2%, Online Co-Op 12.1%, Crafting 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: It trades pixel art for 3D but keeps the appeal of co-op exploration, base-building, resource gathering, and pushing into dangerous new zones for upgrades.

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 23.5% ★, Open World 12.2%, Survival 10.6%, Crafting 8.4%, Online Co-Op 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its open-world co-op crafting, base-building, automation, and boss progression make it a good fit if you want Core Keeper's loop on a larger scale.

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 18.8% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Crafting 12.6%, Open World 12%, Survival 11%

Why You'll Like It: It mixes top-down exploration, crafting, farming, building, and survival progression in a way that overlaps strongly with Core Keeper's systems.

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 25.4% ★, Base Building 11%, Crafting 10.6%, Open World 9.9%, Survival 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its top-down gathering, crafting, building, and exploration loop captures Core Keeper's constant sense of unlocking better gear and new possibilities.

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 36.2% ★, Crafting 10.8%, Co-op 10.3%, Building 9.4%, Online Co-Op 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: This is a more relaxed take on gathering, building, farming, and co-op sandbox progression for players who especially enjoy Core Keeper's cozy side.

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 23.4% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Building 11.3%, Open World 11%, Survival 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Aground nails the same mining-heavy upgrade loop, pushing you to dig deeper, craft more, and steadily expand what your base and tools can do.

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 22.8% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Online Co-Op 9.3%, Crafting 9.1%, Building 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: This one leans harder into base-building and resource progression than combat, but it offers the same satisfying feeling of transforming a hostile world through crafting.

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 26.4%, Multiplayer 23.5%, Pixel Graphics 19.4%, Combat 12%, Exploration 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: It is less survival-focused, yet its pixel-art farming, crafting, exploration, and multiplayer progression match the softer, more homey side of Core Keeper.

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 30.2% ★, Sandbox 12.3%, Crafting 10.8%, Survival 10.2%, Building 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its colorful 2D worlds emphasize digging, crafting, farming, and creative base-building in a way that overlaps well with Core Keeper's cozy sandbox feel.

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% ★, Open World 10.3%, Base Building 10.3%, Survival 9.8%, Sandbox 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: ASTRONEER focuses more on peaceful co-op exploration and base-building, but its resource loop and discovery-driven progression are very Core Keeper-friendly.

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 20.7% ★, Base Building 10.6%, Survival 8.8%, Crafting 8.5%, Online Co-Op 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its co-op survival crafting, building, and exploration progression make it a solid choice if you want more danger and discovery with friends.

Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.3% ★, Survival 13.1%, Co-op 9.8%, Crafting 8.5%, Multiplayer 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Raft offers another excellent co-op survival experience where your home base grows alongside your gear and exploration options.

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% ★, Online Co-Op 9.5%, Sandbox 9.1%, Survival 8.3%, Open World 8.3%

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 10.6%, Online Co-Op 10.3%, Building 10.2%, Open World 9.7%, Sandbox 9.5%

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 28.8% ★, Survival 10.5%, Crafting 9.8%, Co-op 8%, Multiplayer 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: This pixel-art co-op survival adventure shares a similarly cozy look and a familiar loop of gathering, crafting, exploring, and building up safety in a hostile world.

DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS™ 2 is a block-building RPG set in a fantasy land threatened by an evil cult. Explore, battle, build and harvest in the charming single-player campaign or build big projects in the online sandbox mode for up to 4-players.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.1% ★, Building 13.2%, Sandbox 11.9%, Crafting 9%, Co-op 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: It blends charming exploration, building, farming, crafting, and light combat in a way that scratches a similar cozy-adventure itch.

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 24.9% ★, Base Building 13%, Crafting 11.6%, Online Co-Op 11.2%, Survival 10.6%

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 28.5% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Building 11.4%, Sandbox 11.1%, Co-op 10.7%

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% ★, Base Building 9.1%, Co-op 8.3%, Crafting 7.8%, Survival 7.7%

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 25.7%, Combat 15.9%, Pixel Graphics 13.2%, Exploration 12.2%, Atmospheric 10%

A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.2% ★, Crafting 10.1%, Building 9.6%, Online Co-Op 9.3%, Sandbox 9.2%

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 30.8% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Online Co-Op 12.7%, Survival 9.3%, Co-op 9.1%

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 29.4%, Online Co-Op 18.1%, Multiplayer 17.7%, Pixel Graphics 16.3%, Procedural Generation 8.4%

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 18.4%, Open World Survival Craft 12.4% ★, Crafting 12.1%, Open World 11.1%, Building 10.2%

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 18.2% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Survival 12.3%, Co-op 9.2%, Open World 9.2%

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 15.7%, Crafting 14.7%, Open World 13.7%, Building 12.2%, Co-op 9.9%

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 37.2%, Procedural Generation 28.5%, Action 9.7%, Adventure 8.9%, Indie 6.9%

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 20.7%, Online Co-Op 11.8%, Multiplayer 11.1%, Co-op 9%, Crafting 8.4%

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 23.6% ★, Base Building 14.6%, Sandbox 11%, Crafting 10.1%, Survival 9%

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 33.4%, Sandbox 20.2%, Pixel Graphics 17.9%, Building 15.9%, Adventure 3.3%

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 21.9% ★, Crafting 12.3%, Survival 11.7%, Open World 10.4%, Sandbox 8.8%

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 27.5%, Online Co-Op 20.6%, Pixel Graphics 13.6%, Multiplayer 10.3%, Exploration 7.6%

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 23.8%, Sandbox 22%, Open World 19.4%, Exploration 11.5%, Pixel Graphics 9.8%

Unleash your inner miner as you commandeer a high-tech Mining Mech! Mine for valuable resources and upgrade your mech for even bigger hauls as you explore the underground. Fun to play alone or with up to 7 friends in online co-op multiplayer!

Why similar: Co-op 16.5%, Online Co-Op 16.4%, Crafting 13.5%, Procedural Generation 12.5%, Sandbox 12.1%

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%, Online Co-Op 17.4%, Building 16.9%, Co-op 14.2%, Open World 12.2%

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 29.5%, Procedural Generation 23.8%, Pixel Graphics 15.6%, Combat 13.2%, Action 6.7%

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 33.2%, Pixel Graphics 17.1%, Multiplayer 15.9%, Combat 12.8%, Action 8.4%

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 29.2% ★, Survival 12.1%, Sandbox 11.9%, Crafting 11.4%, Open World 7.3%

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 24.2% ★, Base Building 13%, Crafting 10.5%, Online Co-Op 10%, Survival 9.5%

Keep Digging is a digging survival craft game for up to 8 players. Explore a procedurally generated 5000m underground world, bring back ores, blueprints, and fossils, then use the smelter, forge, and enchantments to build your gear! Team up in co-op or compete for items in PvP.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 16.2%, Crafting 15.6%, Sandbox 15.5%, Co-op 14.8%, Procedural Generation 14.3%

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 18.9%, Co-op 15%, Multiplayer 14.2%, Survival 11.3%, Pixel Graphics 11.1%

Grow your farm, meet the villagers, and join your friends online in building your world.

Why similar: Sandbox 16.3%, Building 15.9%, Online Co-Op 14.8%, Open World 14.2%, Co-op 11.3%

The world doesn't generate itself - you do it, shape the world as you wish! Start with nothing, and build dream houses for goblins and yourself while exploring, collecting resources, crafting, building, fighting, farming... and more!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.5% ★, Sandbox 13.2%, Survival 11.7%, Base Building 11.4%, Crafting 11%

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 22.3% ★, Base Building 9.4%, Online Co-Op 9.2%, Crafting 8.8%, Survival 8.8%