- #1 Palworld
97% matchVery Positive94% of 421,232 reviews2024
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 34.5 hrsMean: 70.8 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26% ★, Open World 18%, Survival 12.8%, Crafting 11.7%, Multiplayer 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the same core DNA of creature collection combined with survival, base-building, and automation mechanics.
- #2 Omega Crafter
96% matchMostly Positive80% of 566 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 22.6% ★, Crafting 14.3%, Open World 14.1%, Survival 10.9%, Multiplayer 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses heavily on automation and survival in an open world, mirroring the technical progression found in Craftopia.
- #3 Enshrouded
96% matchVery Positive86% of 101,648 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.7 hrsMean: 45.6 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 24.3%, Crafting 17.6%, Survival 17.2%, Multiplayer 9.6%, Online Co-Op 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: This title combines deep voxel-based building with action-RPG combat and survival elements in a vast open world.
- #4 Core Keeper
94% matchVery Positive93% of 64,481 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.0 hrsMean: 34.1 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 14.8%, Crafting 14.7%, Survival 11.5%, Sandbox 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down sandbox that perfectly blends mining, automation, and boss-fighting progression in a persistent world.
- #5 Scrap Mechanic
95% matchVery Positive92% of 117,481 reviews2016
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.2 hrsMean: 58.2 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 19.1%, Survival 15.1%, Building 13.1%, Sandbox 12%
Why You'll Like It: It excels in creative building and mechanical automation, allowing players to construct complex machines similar to Craftopia's systems.
- #6 Valheim
94% matchVery Positive94% of 534,015 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 25.8 hrsMean: 76.9 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 29.6% ★, Open World 14.1%, Crafting 12.4%, Survival 12.2%, Multiplayer 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a highly rewarding survival and building experience with a strong emphasis on boss progression and exploration.
- #7 Satisfactory
92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 270,461 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 32.6 hrsMean: 110.0 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 15.1% ★, Automation 9.9%, Multiplayer 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: If you enjoy the automation and factory-building aspects of Craftopia, this game offers the most polished experience in that genre.
- #8 Terraria
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,524,255 reviews2011
Dev: Re-Logic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 33.5 hrsMean: 150.1 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% ★, Crafting 12.7%, Survival 11.3%, Sandbox 10.9%, Open World 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: The quintessential sandbox experience that provides endless crafting, exploration, and RPG-style progression.
- #9 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
91% matchVery Positive82% of 9,989 reviews2024
Dev: Merge GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 15.2 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% ★, Crafting 13%, Open World 12.3%, Survival 11.6%, Multiplayer 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique perspective on survival, focusing on building and exploration in a world where you are tiny.
- #10 V Rising
90% matchVery Positive89% of 134,242 reviews2024
Dev: Stunlock Studios
Windows
Median: 21.0 hrsMean: 57.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Awaken as a Vampire. Hunt for blood in nearby settlements to regain your strength and evade the scorching sun to survive. Raise your castle and thrive in an ever-changing, open world full of mystery. Gain allies online and conquer the land of the living.
Why similar: Open World 22.8%, Crafting 19%, Survival 18.3%, Multiplayer 10.4%, Building 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-action game that features excellent base-building and a combat system that feels as fluid as Craftopia's hack-and-slash.
- #11 Portal Knights
91% matchVery Positive83% of 22,235 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 16.3%, Sandbox 16%, Multiplayer 13.9%, Building 12.7%
Why You'll Like It: It blends action-RPG combat with sandbox building in a way that feels very accessible and similar to Craftopia's structure.
- #12 Necesse
89% matchVery Positive93% of 27,199 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 14.8 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 33.7% ★, Open World 12.1%, Crafting 11.4%, Survival 8.9%, Sandbox 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game that integrates colony management and automation with traditional RPG exploration.
- #13 DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS™ 2
89% matchVery Positive92% of 7,920 reviews2019
Dev: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 47.8 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 43.3% ★, Crafting 11.2%, Sandbox 9.2%, Building 9%, RPG 7%
Why You'll Like It: This game masterfully combines RPG storytelling with creative building and farming mechanics.
- #14 Nightingale
88% matchMixed67% of 17,932 reviews2024
Dev: Inflexion Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 24.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Nightingale is an open world survival crafting game, where you’ll adventure across the mysterious and dangerous Fae Realms. As a daring Realmwalker, you’ll defeat monstrous enemies, survive hostile environments, and build elaborate estates in a visually stunning Gaslamp Fantasy world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.3% ★, Open World 14.5%, Crafting 14.1%, Survival 12.1%, Multiplayer 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: A Victorian-fantasy survival game that emphasizes crafting and exploration through interconnected realms.
- #15 Starbound
87% matchVery Positive90% of 122,999 reviews2016
Dev: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.1 hrsMean: 64.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 35.2% ★, Crafting 11.8%, Sandbox 10.4%, Open World 10.3%, Survival 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a massive, procedurally generated universe with deep crafting, building, and RPG questing elements.
- #16 Len's Island
86% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,720 reviews2025
Dev: Flow Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 32.9% ★, Crafting 16.4%, Open World 15.4%, Survival 13.5%, Building 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: This game balances relaxing farming and building with intense dungeon-crawling combat.
- #17 ARK: Survival Ascended
86% matchMixed60% of 105,775 reviews2023
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows
Median: 27.6 hrsMean: 196.8 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 23.4%, Survival 20.3%, Crafting 18.2%, Multiplayer 10.7%, Building 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: A premier survival game that focuses on taming creatures and building massive bases in a dangerous open world.
- #18 Dinkum
84% matchVery Positive92% of 28,725 reviews2025
Dev: James BendonPub: KRAFTON, Inc.
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 28.7 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% ★, Crafting 16.2%, Sandbox 8.5%, Building 7.8%, Multiplayer 7%
Why You'll Like It: A relaxing farming and town-building sim that captures the lighter, more social side of Craftopia's gameplay.
- #19 7 Days to Die
84% matchVery Positive87% of 399,251 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 16.9 hrsMean: 108.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 29.7% ★, Survival 18.7%, Open World 16.5%, Multiplayer 8.8%, Sandbox 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game that emphasizes base defense and looting, perfect for players who enjoy the combat-survival mix of Craftopia.
- #20 No Man's Sky
85% matchVery Positive85% of 406,987 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 38.7% ★, Open World 22.8%, Survival 11.6%, Crafting 9.7%, Sandbox 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: It offers unparalleled scale in exploration, base-building, and resource management across a vast, procedurally generated galaxy.
- #21 Raft
83% matchVery Positive93% of 372,032 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.6 hrsMean: 37.3 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 31.7% ★, Survival 16.6%, Crafting 12.5%, Open World 10.3%, Multiplayer 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: It turns survival into a unique building challenge where you must expand your base while navigating a hazardous ocean.
- #22 Myth of Empires
82% matchMixed67% of 17,381 reviews2024
Dev: Angela GamePub: Imperium Interactive Entertainment
Windows
Median: 15.3 hrsMean: 229.9 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 29.5% ★, Open World 14.8%, Survival 11%, Sandbox 9.5%, Building 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: A massive sandbox survival game that focuses on building, crafting, and large-scale warfare.
- #23 Soulmask
81% matchMostly Positive77% of 21,464 reviews2026
Dev: CampFire StudioPub: Qooland Games
Windows
Median: 13.8 hrsMean: 68.1 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 26.8% ★, Open World 15.9%, Crafting 13.8%, Survival 12.3%, Sandbox 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: It features complex colony management and survival mechanics that allow you to recruit NPCs to automate your base.
- #24 Project Zomboid
82% matchVery Positive94% of 450,585 reviews2013
Dev: The Indie Stone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 15.0 hrsMean: 83.6 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 27.1% ★, Survival 19.6%, Open World 17.1%, Crafting 9.5%, Multiplayer 8%
Why You'll Like It: While more grounded, it offers the most complex survival and base-building systems available for those who crave depth.
- #25 Don't Starve Together
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 531,653 reviews2016
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 64.7 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 56.5% ★, Survival 24.7%, Open World 4.6%, Multiplayer 4.3%, Crafting 4%
Why You'll Like It: A challenging survival game with a distinct art style that emphasizes crafting, exploration, and cooperative play.
- #26 Keplerth
80% matchVery Positive85% of 4,138 reviews2022
Dev: TAROPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 16.1 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 23.6%, Survival 19.1%, Sandbox 15.4%, Building 12.8%, Crafting 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that focuses on exploration and crafting in a procedurally generated world.
- #27 Saleblazers
79% matchVery Positive83% of 2,039 reviews2023
Dev: AIRSTRAFE INTERACTIVE
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.5 hrsMean: 19.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
You’re a humble shopkeeper trying to live a peaceful new life, finding yourself surrounded by warring factions and dangerous creatures. Will you be able to carve out a new home for yourself and your customers in this open-world survival shopkeeping simulator?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.1% ★, Crafting 20.3%, Open World 19.1%, Survival 15%, Online Co-Op 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: It adds a unique shop-keeping mechanic to the standard open-world survival formula, creating a fun economic loop.
- #28 Shamania
78% matchMostly Positive77% of 145 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 23.4% ★, Crafting 15%, Open World 14.5%, Survival 10.6%, Multiplayer 6.8%
- #29 Last Oasis
79% matchMixed62% of 24,224 reviews2020
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 17.9 hrsMean: 121.2 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 23.4%, Survival 21.2%, Crafting 18.1%, Building 9%, Sandbox 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game that focuses on nomadic base-building and action-oriented combat in a harsh, shifting world.
- #30 Longvinter
77% matchMixed67% of 7,565 reviews2025
Dev: Uuvana Studios
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 42.7 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 24.4% ★, Crafting 17.2%, Open World 15.5%, Survival 14.2%, Multiplayer 9.7%
- #31 Boundless
78% matchMixed70% of 2,767 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 32.9% ★, Open World 16.8%, Crafting 16.1%, Sandbox 10.6%, Survival 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world sandbox that emphasizes building and crafting across multiple interconnected planets.
- #32 Tinkerlands
74% matchVery Positive86% of 3,833 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 13.9 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 27.5% ★, Open World 13.2%, Crafting 12.1%, Survival 10.8%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #33 Force of Nature
77% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,202 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% ★, Crafting 17.5%, Survival 13%, Open World 12.2%, Sandbox 7.4%
- #34 Tribes of Midgard
75% matchMostly Positive76% of 23,133 reviews2021
Dev: NorsfellPub: Gearbox Publishing
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 19.5 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 47.9% ★, Survival 15.7%, Multiplayer 11.8%, Online Co-Op 10.9%, Co-op 6.1%
- #35 Cloudheim
72% matchVery Positive83% of 1,488 reviews2025
Dev: Noodle Cat Games
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 34.9%, Online Co-Op 14.9%, Building 14.8%, Multiplayer 12.6%, Co-op 7.8%
- #36 StarRupture
71% matchVery Positive81% of 12,313 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 22.6 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 26.4% ★, Crafting 14.3%, Open World 14.1%, Survival 11.5%, Sandbox 7.8%
- #37 Re:Legend
75% matchMixed55% of 2,024 reviews2022
Dev: Magnus Games StudioPub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 1.8 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 36.7%, Multiplayer 16.7%, Online Co-Op 11.6%, RPG 11.1%, Co-op 9.2%
- #38 Everwind
71% matchVery Positive82% of 3,221 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 12.8 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 17.9%, Survival 13.9%, Sandbox 10.3%, Building 9.8%
- #39 Aloft
72% matchVery Positive84% of 3,576 reviews2025
Dev: Astrolabe Interactive Inc.Pub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 23.1% ★, Crafting 18%, Survival 13.4%, Open World 12.5%, Building 9.2%
- #40 FANTASY LIFE i: The Girl Who Steals Time
71% matchVery Positive92% of 13,327 reviews2025
Dev: LEVEL5 Inc.
Windows
Median: 32.2 hrsMean: 53.6 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 28.8%, Crafting 17.4%, RPG 15.3%, Online Co-Op 9.8%, Multiplayer 9.6%
- #41 Eden Crafters
70% matchVery Positive86% of 2,425 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.3 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 27.5% ★, Crafting 15.1%, Open World 12.8%, Survival 9.2%, Sandbox 7.8%
- #42 WILD HEARTS™
74% matchMixed47% of 12,955 reviews2023
Dev: KOEI TECMO GAMES CO., LTD.Pub: Electronic Arts
Windows
Median: 17.4 hrsMean: 38.6 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 21.2%, Multiplayer 20.9%, Building 12.3%, RPG 12.3%, Co-op 12.1%
- #43 Cultivation Tales
73% 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 27.5% ★, Open World 14.9%, Survival 13.4%, Sandbox 11.8%, Building 10.2%
- #44 GRAV
76% matchMixed47% of 6,921 reviews2015
Dev: BitMonster, Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 60%
GRAV is a sand box experience where you explore a multitude of planets, hunt strange alien creatures, build and defend outposts, craft weapons and armor, and attempt to survive against other players in a hostile environment.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.3% ★, Open World 16.2%, Survival 14.7%, Crafting 12%, Sandbox 8.1%
- #45 Citadel: Forged with Fire
73% matchMixed68% of 5,884 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 29.5% ★, Open World 21.8%, Survival 13.1%, Crafting 10.7%, Sandbox 7.8%
- #46 Night of the Dead
69% matchMostly Positive77% of 11,782 reviews2024
Dev: Jackto Studios
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 32.7 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 27.2% ★, Crafting 14.5%, Open World 13.7%, Survival 10.4%, Sandbox 8%
- #47 Dark and Light
73% matchMixed52% of 11,819 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 20.9% ★, Survival 19%, Sandbox 12.4%, Crafting 8.2%
- #48 Sun Haven
69% matchVery Positive81% of 24,867 reviews2023
Dev: Pixel Sprout Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.9 hrsMean: 31.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 40.4%, Multiplayer 28.6%, RPG 14%, Character Customization 12.3%, Adventure 3.8%
- #49 Re.poly
70% 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 29.5% ★, Crafting 17.1%, Open World 15.6%, Survival 13.2%, Sandbox 9.8%
- #50 Scrapnaut
70% matchMixed70% of 827 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 22.5% ★, Survival 13.4%, Crafting 13%, Open World 11.3%, Building 9.9%
- #51 The Planet Crafter
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 70,189 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.5 hrsMean: 37.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 28.6% ★, Crafting 14.3%, Open World 13%, Survival 11.7%, Building 7.8%
- #52 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 25.5% ★, Crafting 14.8%, Open World 13%, Survival 11.5%, Multiplayer 7.2%
- #53 ICARUS
67% matchMostly Positive74% of 63,962 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 46.0 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 29.4% ★, Survival 14.1%, Crafting 13.9%, Open World 12.4%, Multiplayer 8.1%
- #54 PixARK
68% matchMostly Positive73% of 13,071 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 21.8%, Crafting 13.9%, Sandbox 11.7%, Multiplayer 10.8%
- #55 Voidtrain
64% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,447 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 33.4% ★, Crafting 12.6%, Open World 11.8%, Survival 10.8%, Multiplayer 7.1%
- #56 Feel The Snow
67% matchVery Positive87% of 3,047 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 32.9% ★, Crafting 14.1%, Survival 13%, Open World 10.5%, Multiplayer 8.9%
- #57 DreamWorld: Sandbox MMO
66% matchMixed69% of 54 reviews2026
Dev: DreamWorld Realities, Inc.
Windows
Build incredible structures with powerful tools. Explore the world with all players on one server. Battle bosses, farm, craft, and socialize with friends. How will you shape DreamWorld?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.7% ★, Open World 15.6%, Crafting 14.6%, Survival 10.5%, Sandbox 8.9%
- #58 Subsistence
68% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,685 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 39.9 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.2% ★, Crafting 15.2%, Survival 14.4%, Open World 12.9%, Multiplayer 7.6%
