- #1 Palworld
97% matchVery Positive94% of 425,619 reviews2024
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 34.3 hrsMean: 71.0 hrs≥1hr: 96%
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 26.2% ★, Open World 18.2%, Survival 12.9%, Crafting 11.7%, Multiplayer 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the same core DNA of creature collection, survival, and base building with a similar chaotic, genre-blending feel.
- #2 Valheim
96% matchVery Positive94% of 536,933 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 25.9 hrsMean: 77.4 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 29.9% ★, Open World 14.2%, Crafting 12.3%, Survival 12.1%, Multiplayer 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a highly rewarding progression loop of exploration, base building, and challenging combat in a vast open world.
- #3 Core Keeper
96% matchVery Positive93% of 65,308 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.0 hrsMean: 34.5 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 22.5% ★, Open World 14.9%, Crafting 14.7%, Survival 11.5%, Sandbox 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: This game excels at blending automation, survival, and dungeon crawling in a top-down perspective that feels very similar to Craftopia's loop.
- #4 Terraria
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,534,723 reviews2011
Dev: Re-Logic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 33.6 hrsMean: 150.8 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 33.2% ★, Crafting 12.7%, Survival 11.3%, Sandbox 10.8%, Open World 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: As the gold standard for sandbox RPGs, it provides a massive variety of crafting, combat, and exploration that mirrors the depth of Craftopia.
- #5 Enshrouded
94% matchVery Positive86% of 103,247 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.8 hrsMean: 46.1 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 24.5%, Crafting 17.5%, Survival 17.3%, Multiplayer 9.5%, Online Co-Op 8%
Why You'll Like It: It combines deep voxel-based building with action-RPG combat and survival elements in a beautiful, expansive world.
- #6 Omega Crafter
94% matchMostly Positive79% of 570 reviews2025
Dev: Preferred Networks
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 25.3% ★, Crafting 13.6%, Open World 12.3%, Survival 10.3%, Multiplayer 7%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses heavily on the automation and survival aspects, allowing players to program helpers to manage their base.
- #7 Nightingale
93% matchMixed66% of 17,987 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 28.5% ★, Open World 14.5%, Crafting 14.1%, Survival 12.2%, Multiplayer 8%
Why You'll Like It: It features a unique multi-world survival system with a strong focus on crafting and Victorian-era fantasy exploration.
- #8 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
92% matchVery Positive82% of 10,269 reviews2024
Dev: Merge GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 25.2% ★, Crafting 13%, Open World 12.4%, Survival 11.6%, Multiplayer 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique perspective on survival and building, focusing on exploration and crafting in a world where you are tiny.
- #9 V Rising
91% matchVery Positive89% of 135,460 reviews2024
Dev: Stunlock Studios
Windows
Median: 21.1 hrsMean: 57.6 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 23.5%, Crafting 19%, Survival 18.6%, Multiplayer 9.3%, Sandbox 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: It features a polished action-RPG combat system paired with sophisticated base building and survival mechanics.
- #10 Satisfactory
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 274,659 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 32.8 hrsMean: 111.2 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 18.1%, Open World Survival Craft 15.3% ★, Automation 9.8%, Multiplayer 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: If you enjoy the automation and factory-building aspects of Craftopia, this game provides the ultimate first-person logistics experience.
- #11 Necesse
90% matchVery Positive93% of 27,498 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 14.9 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 33.9% ★, Open World 12.1%, Crafting 11.4%, Survival 8.9%, Sandbox 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: This top-down sandbox game captures the spirit of exploration, base management, and RPG progression in a charming pixel-art style.
- #12 Grounded
89% matchVery Positive90% of 94,772 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.3 hrsMean: 41.5 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 29.9% ★, Survival 18.3%, Crafting 14%, Open World 11.6%, Multiplayer 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a polished, high-quality survival experience with creative base building and unique environmental exploration.
- #13 Scrap Mechanic
89% matchVery Positive92% of 117,933 reviews2016
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.2 hrsMean: 58.5 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 19.2%, Survival 15.1%, Building 13.1%, Sandbox 12%
Why You'll Like It: It is the best choice for players who enjoy the creative engineering and vehicle-building aspects of sandbox games.
- #14 No Man's Sky
88% matchVery Positive85% of 411,162 reviews2016
Dev: Hello Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 20.1 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 38.8% ★, Open World 22.8%, Survival 11.6%, Crafting 9.6%, Sandbox 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: It offers an unparalleled sense of scale with crafting, base building, and exploration across a procedurally generated universe.
- #15 Dinkum
86% matchVery Positive92% of 28,918 reviews2025
Dev: James BendonPub: KRAFTON, Inc.
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 28.8 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 43.4% ★, Crafting 16.1%, Sandbox 8.5%, Building 7.8%, Multiplayer 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the relaxing side of Craftopia, focusing on farming, town building, and life-sim elements in an Australian-inspired setting.
- #16 DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS™ 2
87% matchVery Positive92% of 8,005 reviews2019
Dev: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 47.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 43.6% ★, Crafting 11.2%, Sandbox 9.1%, Building 9%, RPG 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: It perfectly blends a structured RPG story with creative building and farming mechanics.
- #17 Portal Knights
86% matchVery Positive83% of 22,312 reviews2017
Dev: Keen Games GmbHPub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 5.6 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 16.4%, Sandbox 16%, Multiplayer 13.9%, Building 12.7%
Why You'll Like It: It bridges the gap between sandbox building and traditional action-RPG questing in a vibrant, block-based world.
- #18 Soulmask
84% matchMostly Positive77% of 21,914 reviews2026
Dev: CampFire StudioPub: Qooland Games
Windows
Median: 13.8 hrsMean: 68.6 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% ★, Crafting 16.8%, Open World 15.5%, Survival 12.6%, Sandbox 9%
Why You'll Like It: It features deep tribe management and survival mechanics that allow for complex base building and automation.
- #19 ARK: Survival Ascended
85% matchMixed60% of 110,562 reviews2023
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows
Median: 26.3 hrsMean: 195.3 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: Open World 23.5%, Survival 20.4%, Crafting 18.2%, Multiplayer 10.8%, Building 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: It is the definitive experience for players who enjoy taming creatures and building massive bases in a dangerous open world.
- #20 ICARUS
84% matchMostly Positive75% of 64,831 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 46.3 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 29.7% ★, Survival 14.1%, Crafting 13.8%, Open World 12.4%, Multiplayer 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: This session-based survival game offers a high-stakes experience with a focus on crafting and mission-driven exploration.
- #21 Len's Island
82% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,790 reviews2025
Dev: Flow Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 12.2 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 33.2% ★, Crafting 16.2%, Open World 15.4%, Survival 13.6%, Building 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: It combines dungeon crawling and combat with a relaxing farming and building experience on a beautiful island.
- #22 Myth of Empires
83% matchMixed67% of 17,444 reviews2024
Dev: Angela GamePub: Imperium Interactive Entertainment
Windows
Median: 15.2 hrsMean: 229.6 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 29.7% ★, Open World 14.8%, Survival 11%, Sandbox 9.5%, Building 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a massive sandbox experience with a focus on large-scale building, crafting, and medieval warfare.
- #23 7 Days to Die
81% matchVery Positive87% of 402,373 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.0 hrsMean: 109.1 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 29.9% ★, Survival 18.7%, Open World 16.5%, Multiplayer 8.7%, Sandbox 8%
Why You'll Like It: It is a classic survival game that excels at base defense, crafting, and exploration in a post-apocalyptic setting.
- #24 Raft
81% matchVery Positive93% of 374,777 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.6 hrsMean: 37.5 hrs≥1hr: 95%
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 31.9% ★, Survival 16.6%, Crafting 12.5%, Open World 10.4%, Multiplayer 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique survival challenge where you must constantly expand and automate your base while drifting across an endless ocean.
- #25 ASTRONEER
82% matchVery Positive92% of 138,510 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.1% ★, Open World 16.5%, Survival 12.8%, Crafting 10.4%, Multiplayer 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a relaxing yet deep experience centered on planetary exploration, resource gathering, and base building.
- #26 Project Zomboid
80% matchVery Positive94% of 458,026 reviews2013
Dev: The Indie Stone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 15.0 hrsMean: 84.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.3% ★, Survival 19.7%, Open World 17.2%, Crafting 9.4%, Multiplayer 8%
Why You'll Like It: It offers the most realistic and punishing survival experience, perfect for players who want deep, complex mechanics.
- #27 Don't Starve Together
79% matchVery Positive95% of 537,789 reviews2016
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 64.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 56.7% ★, Survival 24.7%, Open World 4.6%, Multiplayer 4.3%, Crafting 4%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a challenging and stylized survival experience that emphasizes crafting and resource management with friends.
- #28 Shamania
78% matchMostly Positive74% of 154 reviews2026
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 23.6% ★, Crafting 15%, Open World 14.7%, Survival 10.7%, Multiplayer 6.7%
- #29 Tinkerlands
78% matchVery Positive86% of 3,973 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 14.0 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 27.8% ★, Open World 13.2%, Crafting 12%, Survival 10.8%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #30 Kenshi
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 114,228 reviews2018
Dev: Lo-Fi Games
Windows
Median: 9.4 hrsMean: 70.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.
Why similar: Open World 26.3%, Crafting 21.9%, Survival 16%, Sandbox 13.3%, Building 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: It is a brutal, open-ended sandbox RPG that allows for complete freedom in how you build your base and interact with the world.
- #31 Longvinter
76% matchMixed67% of 7,607 reviews2025
Dev: Uuvana Studios
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 44.0 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 24.6% ★, Crafting 17.2%, Open World 15.5%, Survival 14.2%, Multiplayer 9.7%
- #32 Force of Nature
77% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,205 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 33.2% ★, Crafting 17.5%, Survival 13%, Open World 12.3%, Sandbox 7.3%
- #33 Aloft
74% matchVery Positive84% of 3,637 reviews2025
Dev: Astrolabe Interactive Inc.Pub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Soar the skies in Aloft, the co-op sandbox survival game set in a world of floating islands. Build any island into a skyship, your home in the clouds. Find lost knowledge, cure the fungal corruption, and brave the hurricane to restore the ecosystem.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.2% ★, Crafting 17.9%, Survival 13.4%, Open World 12.5%, Building 9.2%
- #34 StarRupture
72% matchVery Positive81% of 12,866 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 24.2 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 26.7% ★, Crafting 14.3%, Open World 14.2%, Survival 11.5%, Sandbox 7.7%
- #35 Night of the Dead
73% matchMostly Positive77% of 11,822 reviews2024
Dev: Jackto Studios
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 32.3 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 27.4% ★, Crafting 14.4%, Open World 13.8%, Survival 10.4%, Sandbox 8%
- #36 Last Oasis
75% matchMixed62% of 24,228 reviews2020
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 17.9 hrsMean: 121.1 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 23.6%, Survival 21.2%, Crafting 18.1%, Building 9%, Sandbox 8.6%
- #37 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 27.7% ★, Open World 14.9%, Survival 13.4%, Sandbox 11.8%, Building 10.2%
- #38 Re:Legend
75% matchMixed55% of 2,024 reviews2022
Dev: Magnus Games StudioPub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 67%
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 36.8%, Multiplayer 16.7%, Online Co-Op 11.6%, RPG 11.1%, Co-op 9.2%
- #39 Dark and Light
76% matchMixed52% of 11,821 reviews2017
Dev: Snail Games USA
Windows
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 49.2 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 25.5%, Open World Survival Craft 21.1% ★, Survival 19%, Sandbox 12.3%, Crafting 8.1%
- #40 Cloudheim
71% matchVery Positive82% of 1,859 reviews2025
Dev: Noodle Cat Games
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 35.3%, Online Co-Op 14.9%, Building 14.7%, Multiplayer 12.4%, Co-op 7.8%
- #41 Keplerth
72% matchVery Positive84% of 4,145 reviews2022
Dev: TAROPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 7.9 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 23.7%, Survival 19.1%, Sandbox 15.3%, Building 12.7%, Crafting 10.3%
- #42 Citadel: Forged with Fire
73% matchMixed68% of 5,891 reviews2019
Dev: Blue Isle StudiosPub: Blue Isle Publishing
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 18.9 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 29.7% ★, Open World 21.8%, Survival 13.1%, Crafting 10.7%, Sandbox 7.8%
- #43 The Planet Crafter
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 71,525 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.5 hrsMean: 38.3 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 28.8% ★, Crafting 14.3%, Open World 13.1%, Survival 11.8%, Building 7.8%
- #44 Tribes of Midgard
71% matchMostly Positive76% of 23,177 reviews2021
Dev: NorsfellPub: Gearbox Publishing
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 19.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 48.2% ★, Survival 15.7%, Multiplayer 11.7%, Online Co-Op 10.9%, Co-op 6%
- #45 Volcanoids
71% matchVery Positive83% of 9,298 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.9 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: Crafting 21.2%, Open World 17.5%, Survival 14.5%, Sandbox 11.4%, Building 10.4%
- #46 Life is Feudal: Your Own
73% matchMixed66% of 12,061 reviews2015
Dev: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 58.0 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 31.3% ★, Open World 16.1%, Crafting 15%, Survival 11.8%, Sandbox 8.1%
- #47 Farever
68% matchMostly Positive75% of 8,262 reviews2026
Dev: Shiro Games
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 21.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Forge your legend in a forgotten realm! Farever is an online multiplayer action RPG set in a vast fantasy open world. Alone or with friends, embark on an epic journey together! Explore wild lands and dangerous dungeons, craft powerful gear, and carve your path through dynamic combat and platforming.
Why similar: Open World 25.2%, Crafting 20.9%, Online Co-Op 13.3%, Sandbox 12.7%, Multiplayer 8.7%
- #48 Eden Crafters
67% matchVery Positive86% of 2,537 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.7% ★, Crafting 15.1%, Open World 12.9%, Survival 9.2%, Sandbox 7.8%
- #49 Feel The Snow
70% matchVery Positive87% of 3,053 reviews2019
Dev: Owlet
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Choose one of the characters and start your journey. The game has many interesting things in store: building, crafting, puzzles, bosses, mystery, laughs, quests etc.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.1% ★, Crafting 14%, Survival 13%, Open World 10.5%, Multiplayer 8.9%
- #50 Voidtrain
67% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,612 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 14.0 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 33.6% ★, Crafting 12.6%, Open World 11.8%, Survival 10.8%, Multiplayer 7.1%
- #51 Solarpunk™
67% matchVery Positive82% of 3,137 reviews2026
Dev: CyberwavePub: rokaplay
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Solarpunk is a survival game in a technologically advanced world of floating islands. Alone or together with your friends, you can construct buildings, grow food, craft gadgets and hop on your airship to explore distant islands in the sky.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.7% ★, Crafting 14.4%, Open World 12.6%, Survival 9.8%, Sandbox 7.7%
- #52 The Survivalists
70% matchMostly Positive76% of 10,061 reviews2020
Dev: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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 25% ★, Crafting 18.4%, Survival 13.3%, Open World 12.4%, Sandbox 7.4%
- #53 Witchspire
66% matchVery Positive83% of 1,706 reviews2026
Dev: Envar Games
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Step into the ultimate open-world witch adventure. Befriend and battle creatures, and conjure up a sanctuary alongside other witches in co-op or single-player.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.8% ★, Crafting 21.3%, Open World 19.3%, Online Co-Op 9.1%, Multiplayer 9%
- #54 Boundless
70% matchMixed69% of 2,770 reviews2018
Dev: Monumental, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 32.9 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 33.1% ★, Open World 16.8%, Crafting 16.1%, Sandbox 10.5%, Survival 8.4%
- #55 Re.poly
69% matchVery Positive91% of 137 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 29.7% ★, Crafting 17%, Open World 15.6%, Survival 13.2%, Sandbox 9.7%
- #56 WILD HEARTS™
68% matchMixed47% of 13,009 reviews2023
Dev: KOEI TECMO GAMES CO., LTD.Pub: Electronic Arts
Windows
Median: 17.0 hrsMean: 38.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 20.9%, Building 12.3%, RPG 12.3%, Co-op 12%
- #57 Everwind
64% matchVery Positive81% of 3,601 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 18.6%, Open World 18.1%, Survival 13.9%, Sandbox 10.2%, Building 9.8%
- #58 Solace Crafting
67% matchMostly Positive72% of 894 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 25.7% ★, Crafting 14.8%, Open World 13.1%, Survival 11.5%, Multiplayer 7.2%
