- #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 25.6% ★, Open World 17.9%, Survival 12.9%, Crafting 11.8%, Multiplayer 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: This game is the closest relative to Craftopia, sharing its core blend of creature-taming, automation, and open-world survival.
- #2 Enshrouded
96% matchVery Positive86% of 98,202 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.3 hrsMean: 44.1 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: Open World 24%, Crafting 17.6%, Survival 17.2%, Multiplayer 9.6%, Online Co-Op 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a highly polished experience that combines deep base-building with RPG progression and exploration.
- #3 Core Keeper
96% 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 22.3% ★, Crafting 14.8%, Open World 14.6%, Survival 11.3%, Sandbox 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: Perfect for those who enjoy the top-down automation, exploration, and survival aspects of Craftopia.
- #4 Valheim
95% matchVery Positive94% of 529,829 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 25.6 hrsMean: 76.1 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 29.2% ★, Open World 14.1%, Crafting 12.5%, Survival 12.2%, Multiplayer 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: A definitive open-world survival game that excels in building mechanics and rewarding exploration.
- #5 DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS™ 2
94% matchVery Positive92% of 7,831 reviews2019
Dev: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 11.3 hrsMean: 48.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 42.6% ★, Crafting 11.3%, Sandbox 9.3%, Building 9.1%, RPG 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: Excellent for players who love the RPG-driven building and questing aspects of the seed game.
- #6 Omega Crafter
94% 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 22.2% ★, Crafting 14.4%, Open World 14.1%, Survival 10.9%, Multiplayer 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: Shares a strong focus on automation and survival within a vibrant, expansive open world.
- #7 Scrap Mechanic
93% 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: Crafting 19.8%, Open World 18.9%, Survival 15.1%, Building 13.1%, Sandbox 12%
Why You'll Like It: The best choice for players who want to focus on complex mechanical building and engineering.
- #8 Terraria
92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,511,859 reviews2011
Dev: Re-Logic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 33.2 hrsMean: 149.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.6% ★, Crafting 12.8%, Survival 11.3%, Sandbox 10.9%, Open World 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: The ultimate sandbox experience that inspired many modern crafting games with its massive variety of items and bosses.
- #9 Nightingale
91% matchMixed67% of 17,841 reviews2024
Dev: Inflexion Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 23.9 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 27.9% ★, Open World 14.5%, Crafting 14.2%, Survival 12.2%, Multiplayer 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a unique Victorian-fantasy aesthetic combined with procedural survival and crafting gameplay.
- #10 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
91% 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 24.7% ★, Crafting 13.1%, Open World 12.2%, Survival 11.6%, Multiplayer 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a similar 'small-scale' survival perspective with excellent building and exploration.
- #11 V Rising
90% matchVery Positive89% of 132,034 reviews2024
Dev: Stunlock Studios
Windows
Median: 21.0 hrsMean: 57.1 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: Open World 22.6%, Crafting 19.1%, Survival 18.2%, Multiplayer 10.4%, Building 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: Combines top-down action combat with deep base-building and survival in a gothic open world.
- #12 Necesse
89% matchVery Positive93% of 26,780 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.4% ★, Open World 12.2%, Crafting 11.5%, Survival 8.9%, Sandbox 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down sandbox that balances combat, boss progression, and base-building perfectly.
- #13 ARK: Survival Ascended
89% matchMixed60% of 100,735 reviews2023
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows
Median: 28.6 hrsMean: 195.6 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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: Open World 23%, Survival 20.3%, Crafting 18.3%, Multiplayer 10.8%, Building 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on the creature-taming and large-scale survival elements found in Craftopia.
- #14 Soulmask
88% matchVery Positive81% of 17,627 reviews2024
Dev: CampFire StudioPub: Qooland Games
Windows
Median: 13.7 hrsMean: 66.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Choose your path across a primeval continent shaped by the Mask's power. From lush rainforests to scorched sands, recruit and lead unique tribesmen, build automated production lines, and construct everything from local bases to colossal airships, uncover the secrets of the Mask
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.4% ★, Crafting 15.2%, Open World 14.8%, Survival 11.7%, Sandbox 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: Deepens the survival experience with colony management and mask-based progression systems.
- #15 Dinkum
86% matchVery Positive92% of 28,435 reviews2025
Dev: James BendonPub: KRAFTON, Inc.
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 28.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 42.5% ★, Crafting 16.3%, Sandbox 8.6%, Building 7.8%, Multiplayer 7%
Why You'll Like It: A relaxing take on the survival-building genre with strong farming and town-management elements.
- #16 Conan Exiles
87% matchMostly Positive79% of 111,441 reviews2018
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 16.9 hrsMean: 111.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
An online multiplayer survival game, now with sorcery, set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian. Survive in a vast open world sandbox, build your home into a kingdom, and dominate your enemies in single or multiplayer.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.2% ★, Open World 17.2%, Survival 16.1%, Crafting 13.6%, Building 8%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a gritty, high-stakes survival experience with extensive base-building and combat.
- #17 Grounded
85% 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 29.3% ★, Survival 18.4%, Crafting 14.2%, Open World 11.5%, Multiplayer 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: Features a unique perspective-based survival experience with creative building and exploration.
- #18 Portal Knights
86% 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: Crafting 23.4%, Survival 16.3%, Sandbox 16%, Multiplayer 13.9%, Building 12.7%
Why You'll Like It: A classic blend of RPG progression and voxel-based building across different worlds.
- #19 Len's Island
84% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,615 reviews2025
Dev: Flow Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 32.5% ★, Crafting 16.5%, Open World 15.4%, Survival 13.6%, Building 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: Blends dungeon crawling with satisfying base-building and exploration in a beautiful island setting.
- #20 No Man's Sky
84% matchVery Positive85% of 402,164 reviews2016
Dev: Hello Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 20.2 hrsMean: 70.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.4% ★, Open World 22.8%, Survival 11.7%, Crafting 9.8%, Sandbox 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: Offers vast procedural exploration and deep crafting systems across a massive, seamless universe.
- #21 My Time at Sandrock
83% matchVery Positive88% of 28,280 reviews2023
Dev: Pathea Games
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 39.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Travel to the desert community of Sandrock and take on the role of a fledgling Builder. Use your trusty toolset to gather resources, construct machines, and turn your run-down workshop into a well-oiled production facility to save the town from the jaws of economic ruin!
Why similar: Crafting 25%, Open World 20.2%, Building 14.9%, Sandbox 14.2%, Multiplayer 12.9%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the satisfying loop of crafting, building, and community interaction in a charming setting.
- #22 Myth of Empires
82% matchMixed67% of 17,261 reviews2024
Dev: Angela GamePub: Imperium Interactive Entertainment
Windows
Median: 15.4 hrsMean: 230.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 28.9% ★, Open World 14.6%, Survival 11%, Sandbox 9.5%, Building 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a massive sandbox environment with complex social, combat, and building systems.
- #23 Saleblazers
82% matchVery Positive88% of 1,877 reviews2023
Dev: AIRSTRAFE INTERACTIVE
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.5 hrsMean: 19.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Fight. Sell. Survive. Live off the land, build your perfect shop, and defend against nightly horrors in this open world survival shop simulator for 1-8 players.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.7% ★, Crafting 20.5%, Open World 19.1%, Survival 15.1%, Online Co-Op 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: Unique for its shop-keeping mechanics mixed with open-world survival and co-op adventure.
- #24 Volcanoids
81% matchVery Positive83% of 9,214 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27% ★, Crafting 14.9%, Open World 14.1%, Survival 11.3%, Multiplayer 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: Features a unique mobile base-building mechanic centered on automation and survival.
- #25 Last Oasis
81% matchMixed62% of 24,198 reviews2020
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 17.9 hrsMean: 121.0 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: Open World 23.2%, Survival 21.2%, Crafting 18.1%, Building 9%, Sandbox 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on nomadic survival and action in a harsh, shifting world that requires constant movement.
- #26 Keplerth
78% matchVery Positive85% of 4,121 reviews2022
Dev: TAROPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: Open World 23.5%, Survival 19%, Sandbox 15.5%, Building 12.8%, Crafting 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game with deep crafting and procedural exploration in a sci-fi setting.
- #27 Longvinter
77% matchMixed67% of 7,526 reviews2025
Dev: Uuvana Studios
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 39.9 hrs≥1hr: 69%
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 24.1% ★, Crafting 17.4%, Open World 15.5%, Survival 14.2%, Multiplayer 9.8%
- #28 StarRupture
76% matchVery Positive81% of 10,861 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26% ★, Crafting 14.4%, Open World 14.1%, Survival 11.6%, Sandbox 7.8%
- #29 Boundless
79% 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 32.5% ★, Open World 16.8%, Crafting 16.3%, Sandbox 10.7%, Survival 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based sandbox that emphasizes multiplayer exploration and building across multiple planets.
- #30 Dark and Light
80% 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 25.4%, Open World Survival Craft 20.7% ★, Survival 19.1%, Sandbox 12.5%, Crafting 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: A high-fantasy survival game with strong magic, taming, and building elements.
- #31 Shamania
77% 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 23.1% ★, Crafting 15.1%, Open World 14.5%, Survival 10.7%, Multiplayer 6.8%
- #32 Citadel: Forged with Fire
79% matchMixed68% of 5,882 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 29.2% ★, Open World 21.8%, Survival 13.2%, Crafting 10.8%, Sandbox 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on magic-based combat and large-scale base construction in a fantasy setting.
- #33 RuneScape: Dragonwilds
74% matchVery Positive81% of 23,948 reviews2025
Dev: Jagex Ltd
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
On RuneScape’s forgotten continent of Ashenfall, dragons have awoken. Gather, build, skill and craft to survive in this co-operative (1-4) survival crafting game. Only by mastering survival and uncovering ancient secrets can they hope to slay the Dragon Queen—alone or with allies.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.2% ★, Open World 16.1%, Crafting 12.4%, Survival 11.7%, Multiplayer 7.6%
- #34 Night of the Dead
75% matchMostly Positive77% of 11,732 reviews2024
Dev: Jackto Studios
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 32.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
'Night of the Dead' is an open-world game that combines elements of exploration, tower defense, survival, and crafting. Traverse a world dominated by zombies while collecting various resources and powerful equipment. Build a fortress to survive the hordes of zombies that swarm every night!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.8% ★, Crafting 14.6%, Open World 13.7%, Survival 10.5%, Sandbox 8.1%
- #35 Planet Explorers
78% 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 32.6% ★, Open World 16.5%, Crafting 12.1%, Sandbox 11.2%, Survival 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: An early pioneer of the open-world survival crafting genre with extensive voxel building tools.
- #36 Satisfactory
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 265,414 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 31.8 hrsMean: 108.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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: Crafting 18.6%, Open World 18%, Open World Survival Craft 14.9% ★, Automation 10%, Multiplayer 9%
- #37 Tinkerlands
73% 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 27% ★, Open World 13.2%, Crafting 12.1%, Survival 10.9%, Sandbox 8.6%
- #38 Re:Legend
75% matchMixed55% of 2,021 reviews2022
Dev: Magnus Games StudioPub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Adventure with friends in a beautiful world of wonder and fantastic creatures. Build, craft, farm and fish, as you raise and breed amazing pet companions!
Why similar: Crafting 36.7%, Multiplayer 16.7%, Online Co-Op 11.7%, RPG 11.1%, Co-op 9.2%
- #39 Cultivation Tales
74% matchMostly Negative38% of 13,640 reviews2024
Dev: Ac Games
Windows
Median: 23.8 hrsMean: 66.1 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Cultivation Tales is an open world survival craft online game. You will experience collecting, crafting, hunting, fighting, building, researching, in a wild mythical world. Fight for your clan and yourself, from mortal to divinity!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.2% ★, Open World 14.8%, Survival 13.5%, Sandbox 11.9%, Building 10.3%
- #40 Aloft
71% 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 22.7% ★, Crafting 18.1%, Survival 13.4%, Open World 12.4%, Building 9.3%
- #41 The Planet Crafter
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 67,314 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.1 hrsMean: 37.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 28% ★, Crafting 14.5%, Open World 12.9%, Survival 11.7%, Building 7.9%
- #42 Dawnlands
73% matchMixed52% of 3,131 reviews2023
Dev: SEASUN GAMES PTE. LTD.
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Dawnlands is an Open-World Survival Crafting cross-platform game with a massive world and epic lore. A variety of biomes, relics, and puzzles dot the landscape... an ancient land, lain dormant for centuries, is waiting to be awoken. New stories are waiting to be written.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.2% ★, Crafting 14.3%, Open World 12%, Survival 10.8%, Multiplayer 7.5%
- #43 Eden Crafters
70% 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 28.2% ★, Crafting 15.9%, Open World 13.4%, Survival 9.6%, Sandbox 8.3%
- #44 Force of Nature
73% 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 32.6% ★, Crafting 17.7%, Survival 13.1%, Open World 12.3%, Sandbox 7.4%
- #45 Creativerse
72% 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 23.3% ★, Crafting 14.3%, Open World 12.7%, Survival 10.4%, Sandbox 8.1%
- #46 Cloudheim
69% matchVery Positive83% of 1,367 reviews2025
Dev: Noodle Cat Games
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Master chaotic physics-based combat inspired by Zelda and Devil May Cry. Explore islands and dungeons, smash monsters, loot and craft powerful gear, and grow your home in the sky. Play solo or online co-op with up to 4 players.
Why similar: Crafting 34.8%, Online Co-Op 15.1%, Building 14.8%, Multiplayer 12.4%, Co-op 7.8%
- #47 ICARUS
70% matchMostly Positive74% of 62,078 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 44.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 29% ★, Survival 14.1%, Crafting 14%, Open World 12.5%, Multiplayer 8.2%
- #48 Scrapnaut
71% matchMostly Positive70% of 824 reviews2021
Dev: SpiffyBitPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements. Explore an open world with different biomes, take care of oxygen, manage your farms, generate electricity, build your home and much more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.2% ★, Survival 13.4%, Crafting 13.1%, Open World 11.2%, Building 9.9%
- #49 WILD HEARTS™
71% matchMixed47% of 12,859 reviews2023
Dev: KOEI TECMO GAMES CO., LTD.Pub: Electronic Arts
Windows
Median: 19.0 hrsMean: 39.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Master ancient tech to hunt down giant beasts. WILD HEARTS™ is a twist on the hunting genre where technology gives you a fighting chance against giant nature-infused beasts. Hunt alone or with friends.
Why similar: Crafting 21.3%, Multiplayer 20.7%, Building 12.3%, RPG 12.3%, Co-op 12.1%
- #50 Voidtrain
67% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,176 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 33.2% ★, Crafting 12.7%, Open World 11.7%, Survival 10.8%, Multiplayer 7.2%
- #51 FANTASY LIFE i: The Girl Who Steals Time
66% matchVery Positive92% of 13,218 reviews2025
Dev: LEVEL5 Inc.
Windows
Median: 32.1 hrsMean: 53.0 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Step into this Slow-Life RPG where you can freely switch between 14 unique jobs, so called "Lives," and enjoy a carefree life in a fantasy world. Fish, cook, shape the island to your liking, or team up with friends to battle monsters across the vast world.
Why similar: Open World 28.6%, Crafting 17.2%, RPG 15.3%, Online Co-Op 10.1%, Multiplayer 9.7%
- #52 Grounded 2
66% matchVery Positive81% of 19,870 reviews2025
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 20.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 21.5% ★, Survival 16.9%, Open World 15%, Crafting 14.1%, Multiplayer 9.2%
- #53 Solace Crafting
69% matchMostly Positive72% of 891 reviews2022
Dev: Big Kitty Games
Windows · Linux
Embark on an adventure set in a fantasy survival RPG. Visit a borderless, open world where you manage resources to construct your base and new types of equipment to support your conquest.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.2% ★, Crafting 14.9%, Open World 13%, Survival 11.6%, Multiplayer 7.3%
- #54 Tribes of Midgard
68% matchMostly Positive76% of 23,072 reviews2021
Dev: NorsfellPub: Gearbox Publishing
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 19.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 47.4% ★, Survival 15.8%, Multiplayer 11.9%, Online Co-Op 11.1%, Co-op 6.1%
- #55 Re.poly
69% matchVery Positive92% of 135 reviews2019
Dev: Hinkfoot Studios
Windows
Re.Poly is a relaxed yet deep indie survival game in a low-poly style that blends exploration, combat, building, and adventure. Whether alone or with friends, create your own world, write your own story, and decide how you want to play.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.1% ★, Crafting 17.2%, Open World 15.6%, Survival 13.2%, Sandbox 9.8%
- #56 Sengoku Dynasty
66% matchMostly Positive75% of 7,351 reviews2024
Dev: SuperkamiPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 15.6 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: Open World 21.8%, Crafting 19.9%, Survival 17.4%, Building 10.7%, Multiplayer 10.1%
- #57 Drake Hollow
68% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,787 reviews2020
Dev: The Molasses FloodPub: CD PROJEKT RED
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Build and defend villages of vegetable folk from deadly feral beasts in the blighted world of The Hollow. Explore, gather, and fight! You can even invite your friends. Can you craft the perfect village?
Why similar: Open World 23.4%, Survival 18.1%, Sandbox 13.8%, Multiplayer 11.6%, Online Co-Op 9.9%
- #58 PixARK
67% 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: Open World 22.9%, Survival 21.7%, Crafting 14%, Sandbox 11.7%, Multiplayer 10.9%
- #59 Dawn of Defiance
65% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,736 reviews2024
Dev: Traega EntertainmentPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
You are the Defier, a Spartan beginning your afterlife on the Crossroads. In this Greek myth-inspired survival craft, ascend from weak soldier to god-like anti-hero. Build impressive Greek structures, craft legendary gear, and break the seals of the Underworld with up to 3 friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.7% ★, Survival 13.6%, Open World 12.8%, Crafting 11.1%, Online Co-Op 7.8%
