- #1 Palworld
97% matchVery Positive95% of 490,433 reviews2026
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 41.0 hrsMean: 86.8 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 18.4%, Survival 12.8%, Crafting 11.4%, Multiplayer 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: Shares the exact same chaotic blend of open-world survival crafting, monster taming, and third-person action combat.
- #2 Omega Crafter
96% matchMostly Positive79% of 579 reviews2025
Dev: Preferred Networks
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.4 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 25.6% ★, Crafting 13.5%, Open World 12.6%, Survival 10.4%, Multiplayer 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: Combines open-world survival and automation with customizable helper companions reminiscent of Craftopia's systems.
- #3 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
96% matchVery Positive82% of 10,551 reviews2024
Dev: Max Ent Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 16.3 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 25.4% ★, Crafting 12.9%, Open World 12.6%, Survival 11.7%, Multiplayer 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: Presents a vast open-world survival experience from a miniature perspective with heavy base-building elements.
- #4 Valheim
94% matchVery Positive94% of 555,289 reviews2026
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 26.9 hrsMean: 81.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.2% ★, Open World 14.4%, Survival 12.2%, Crafting 12.1%, Multiplayer 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: Features brutal open-world survival, gorgeous Nordic landscapes, and rewarding cooperative building and combat.
- #5 Enshrouded
95% matchVery Positive86% of 106,050 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.9 hrsMean: 46.8 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 25.1%, Survival 17.6%, Crafting 17.2%, Multiplayer 9.4%, Online Co-Op 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a rich voxel-based open world with deep building mechanics and action-RPG exploration.
- #6 Nightingale
94% matchMixed66% of 18,084 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 28.7% ★, Open World 14.8%, Crafting 13.9%, Survival 12.2%, Multiplayer 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: Features realm-hopping survival crafting with Victorian-fantasy aesthetics and cooperative building.
- #7 Core Keeper
93% matchVery Positive93% of 66,787 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.3 hrsMean: 34.9 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 22.7% ★, Open World 15.3%, Crafting 14.5%, Survival 11.7%, Sandbox 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: A charming underground sandbox game featuring crafting, base building, farming, and automation.
- #8 Scrap Mechanic
91% matchVery Positive92% of 123,030 reviews2026
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 65.6 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: Open World 19.5%, Crafting 19.5%, Survival 15.2%, Building 13.1%, Sandbox 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on engineering and sandbox building in a vibrant open-world survival setting.
- #9 Terraria
92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,558,339 reviews2011
Dev: Re-Logic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 33.9 hrsMean: 152.6 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 33.5% ★, Crafting 12.5%, Survival 11.3%, Sandbox 10.7%, Open World 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Delivers the ultimate 2D sandbox adventure filled with complex crafting, boss battles, and progression.
- #10 The Planet Crafter
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 74,281 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.7 hrsMean: 38.8 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 29.2% ★, Crafting 14.1%, Open World 13.3%, Survival 11.9%, Building 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on terraforming a hostile alien planet through large-scale survival crafting and automation.
- #11 DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS™ 2
90% matchVery Positive92% of 8,103 reviews2019
Dev: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 11.1 hrsMean: 46.8 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 11.1%, Building 9%, Sandbox 9%, RPG 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: Provides an upbeat block-building RPG adventure with robust construction and resource management.
- #12 Soulmask
89% matchMostly Positive77% of 22,506 reviews2026
Dev: CampFire StudioPub: Qooland Games
Windows
Median: 13.9 hrsMean: 69.3 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 26.5% ★, Crafting 18.5%, Open World 17.7%, Survival 14.1%, Sandbox 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: A deep primitive survival game featuring tribal recruitment, automation, and massive open-world exploration.
- #13 ASTRONEER
89% matchVery Positive92% of 139,497 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.7 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 30.3% ★, Open World 16.7%, Survival 12.8%, Crafting 10.3%, Multiplayer 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a creative, stylized space-exploration sandbox emphasizing terrain manipulation and base building.
- #14 Len's Island
88% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,974 reviews2025
Dev: Flow Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.8 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 33.4% ★, Crafting 16%, Open World 15.6%, Survival 13.6%, Building 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: Combines fast-paced dungeon crawling, island building, and relaxing farming in an isometric open world.
- #15 Raft
87% matchVery Positive93% of 379,035 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.8 hrsMean: 38.0 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 32.2% ★, Survival 16.7%, Crafting 12.3%, Open World 10.5%, Multiplayer 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: Combines oceanic survival with expansive floating base-building and resource collection.
- #16 My Time at Sandrock
86% matchVery Positive88% of 29,103 reviews2023
Dev: Pathea Games
Windows
Median: 7.7 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 24.7%, Open World 21%, Building 14.9%, Sandbox 13.8%, Multiplayer 12.7%
Why You'll Like It: Blends vibrant community building, farming, and intricate workshop crafting in an open world.
- #17 Necesse
85% matchVery Positive93% of 29,166 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 34.6% ★, Open World 12.3%, Crafting 11.2%, Survival 8.9%, Sandbox 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: An action-adventure sandbox game with colony management, raiding, and crafting in a pixelated world.
- #18 Saleblazers
86% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,249 reviews2023
Dev: AIRSTRAFE INTERACTIVE
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 19.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A shopkeeping adventure for 1-8 players. Cook, fish, fight, and sell your way through a magical island!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34% ★, Crafting 19.3%, Survival 14.3%, Sandbox 10.6%, Building 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: A humorous open-world survival shopkeeping game where you craft items and manage a business.
- #19 V Rising
83% matchVery Positive89% of 137,392 reviews2024
Dev: Stunlock Studios
Windows
Median: 20.9 hrsMean: 58.2 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 24%, Survival 18.8%, Crafting 18.7%, Multiplayer 9.2%, Sandbox 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: An isometric action-RPG that combines gothic castle building with survival and intense combat.
- #20 Satisfactory
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 280,086 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 33.5 hrsMean: 113.6 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: Open World 18.5%, Crafting 18.5%, Open World Survival Craft 15.6% ★, Automation 9.3%, Multiplayer 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses entirely on massive first-person factory building and automation in a lush alien world.
- #21 Night of the Dead
84% matchMostly Positive77% of 11,888 reviews2024
Dev: Jackto Studios
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 32.0 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 27.7% ★, Crafting 14.2%, Open World 14%, Survival 10.5%, Sandbox 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: Combines zombie survival with heavy tower defense and base-building mechanics.
- #22 Grounded
82% matchVery Positive90% of 95,977 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.6 hrsMean: 41.9 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 30.1% ★, Survival 18.4%, Crafting 13.8%, Open World 11.8%, Multiplayer 10%
Why You'll Like It: A cooperative survival crafting game set in a giant backyard with unique exploration and base defense.
- #23 Sons Of The Forest
80% matchVery Positive88% of 321,117 reviews2024
Dev: Endnight Games LtdPub: Newnight
Windows
Median: 15.0 hrsMean: 32.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends, in this terrifying new open-world survival horror simulator.
Why similar: Open World 25.2%, Survival 22.9%, Crafting 17%, Multiplayer 12.2%, Building 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: Delivers a more intense, realistic open-world survival experience with advanced building and companion mechanics.
- #24 Keplerth
81% matchVery Positive84% of 4,170 reviews2022
Dev: TAROPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 16.3 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 24.6%, Survival 19.5%, Sandbox 15.5%, Building 12.9%, Crafting 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D sci-fi sandbox survival game with deep farming, genetics, and base building.
- #25 Eden Crafters
79% matchVery Positive85% of 2,696 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 15.2 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 28.2% ★, Crafting 14.9%, Open World 13.1%, Survival 9.3%, Sandbox 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world game focused on survival, automation, and terraforming.
- #26 Myth of Empires
79% matchMixed68% of 17,631 reviews2024
Dev: Angela GamePub: Imperium Interactive Entertainment
Windows
Median: 15.0 hrsMean: 228.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 29.9% ★, Open World 15%, Survival 11%, Sandbox 9.4%, Building 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: A massive multiplayer sandbox game centered on crafting, warfare, and empire building.
- #27 StarRupture
78% matchVery Positive81% of 13,607 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 27.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 27.1% ★, Open World 14.5%, Crafting 14.1%, Survival 11.6%, Sandbox 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: Combines base-building, combat, and automation on a harsh, volatile alien planet.
- #28 Bellwright
78% matchVery Positive80% of 21,714 reviews2024
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 12.8 hrsMean: 41.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Establish and expand your own settlements, liberate the land and assist its villagers, and recruit others to your cause while learning more about a life you had to leave behind. Command your forces, prove your valor through combat, and cement yourself as the hero of your people.
Why similar: Open World 24.2%, Crafting 20.5%, Survival 20.4%, Building 8.8%, Multiplayer 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Combines medieval village building, rebellion management, and action-survival gameplay.
- #29 Subsistence
81% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,861 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 40.4 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 35.7% ★, Crafting 14.9%, Survival 14.4%, Open World 13.1%, Multiplayer 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore sandbox survival game featuring base building and seasonal challenges against hostile elements.
- #30 Shamania
77% matchMostly Positive74% of 171 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 23.8% ★, Open World 14.9%, Crafting 14.9%, Survival 10.8%, Multiplayer 6.6%
- #31 Portal Knights
77% matchVery Positive83% of 22,395 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 23.3%, Survival 16.5%, Sandbox 15.9%, Multiplayer 13.7%, Building 12.8%
- #32 Longvinter
75% matchMixed67% of 7,713 reviews2025
Dev: Uuvana Studios
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 45.1 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 24.7% ★, Crafting 16.9%, Open World 15.8%, Survival 14.2%, Multiplayer 9.6%
- #33 Tinkerlands
72% matchVery Positive86% of 4,122 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.4 hrsMean: 14.5 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 28% ★, Open World 13.4%, Crafting 11.8%, Survival 10.9%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #34 Force of Nature
75% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,209 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 33.4% ★, Crafting 17.2%, Survival 13%, Open World 12.4%, Sandbox 7.2%
- #35 Dinkum
71% matchVery Positive92% of 29,165 reviews2025
Dev: James BendonPub: KRAFTON, Inc.
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 29.4 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 43.9% ★, Crafting 15.9%, Sandbox 8.4%, Building 7.8%, Multiplayer 6.9%
- #36 Re:Legend
74% matchMixed55% of 2,027 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 36.6%, Multiplayer 16.5%, RPG 11.4%, Online Co-Op 11.3%, Co-op 9.2%
- #37 GRAV
76% matchMixed47% of 6,922 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 35.8% ★, Open World 16.5%, Survival 14.6%, Crafting 11.7%, Sandbox 7.9%
- #38 Last Oasis
73% matchMixed62% of 24,230 reviews2020
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 17.8 hrsMean: 120.6 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 23.9%, Survival 21.3%, Crafting 17.8%, Building 9%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #39 Delverium
70% matchVery Positive85% of 157 reviews2026
Dev: Sagestone Games
Windows
Explore, Build, Farm, Craft and Fight in this survival sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Delve deep to uncover the secret of the invading 'Faults' and restore stability to the land.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28% ★, Crafting 13.4%, Open World 12.1%, Survival 11.2%, Sandbox 8.7%
- #40 Citadel: Forged with Fire
73% matchMixed68% of 5,895 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 30% ★, Open World 22.1%, Survival 13.1%, Crafting 10.5%, Sandbox 7.6%
- #41 Tribes of Midgard
71% matchMostly Positive76% of 23,278 reviews2021
Dev: NorsfellPub: Gearbox Publishing
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 19.7 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 48.7% ★, Survival 15.8%, Multiplayer 11.6%, Online Co-Op 10.6%, Co-op 5.9%
- #42 Dark and Light
74% matchMixed52% of 11,837 reviews2017
Dev: Snail Games USA
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 49.7 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 25.8%, Open World Survival Craft 21.2% ★, Survival 19%, Sandbox 12.1%, Crafting 8%
- #43 Scrapnaut
73% matchMixed70% of 839 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 22.9% ★, Survival 13.4%, Crafting 12.9%, Open World 11.6%, Building 9.9%
- #44 Aloft
69% matchVery Positive83% of 3,782 reviews2025
Dev: Astrolabe Interactive Inc.Pub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 15.5 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 23.4% ★, Crafting 17.7%, Survival 13.5%, Open World 12.7%, Building 9.2%
- #45 Cloudheim
68% matchVery Positive82% of 2,013 reviews2025
Dev: Noodle Cat Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 35.1%, Building 14.9%, Online Co-Op 14.6%, Multiplayer 12.3%, Co-op 7.8%
- #46 Allumeria
67% matchVery Positive93% of 602 reviews2026
Dev: Infinimelon
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 73%
A classic voxel sandbox combined with in-depth progression through exploration, dungeon crawling and boss battles. Spend every minute discovering new weapons, abilities, resources, enemies, structures, mechanics and tools. With a strong focus on discovery, variety and creativity, the world is yours.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.7% ★, Crafting 13.5%, Open World 12.4%, Survival 10.7%, Sandbox 8.2%
- #47 Cultivation Tales
70% matchMostly Negative38% of 13,640 reviews2024
Dev: Ac Games
Windows
Median: 22.0 hrsMean: 64.7 hrs≥1hr: 98%
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 28% ★, Open World 15%, Survival 13.5%, Sandbox 11.6%, Building 10.2%
- #48 Planet Explorers
72% matchMixed62% of 6,818 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 33.4% ★, Open World 16.7%, Crafting 11.7%, Sandbox 10.8%, Survival 9.4%
- #49 Wonderia
67% matchVery Positive83% of 380 reviews2026
Dev: Rock&DashPub: IndieArk
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Wonderia's an open-world, manga-art adventure just waiting to be explored. It's got sci-fi sim elements, deep dungeons, and you can even morph into alien form! Grab up to 7 friends to mine, craft, battle, and level—or farm and fish the day away, if that's more your tempo. There's so much to do!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.2% ★, Crafting 15.3%, Survival 12.2%, Open World 10.7%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #50 Boundless
71% matchMixed69% of 2,779 reviews2018
Dev: Monumental, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 32.8 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 33.3% ★, Open World 17%, Crafting 15.8%, Sandbox 10.3%, Survival 8.4%
- #51 PixARK
70% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,659 reviews2019
Dev: Snail Games USA
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 40.0 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 23.5%, Survival 22%, Crafting 13.7%, Sandbox 11.5%, Multiplayer 10.7%
- #52 Witchspire
65% matchVery Positive83% of 2,161 reviews2026
Dev: Envar Games
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 39.5% ★, Crafting 20.8%, Open World 19.6%, Online Co-Op 8.7%, Multiplayer 8.7%
- #53 WILD HEARTS™
69% matchMixed47% of 13,071 reviews2023
Dev: KOEI TECMO GAMES CO., LTD.Pub: Electronic Arts
Windows
Median: 16.6 hrsMean: 37.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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%, Multiplayer 20.5%, RPG 12.5%, Building 12.4%, Co-op 12%
- #54 Farever
65% matchMostly Positive76% of 9,511 reviews2026
Dev: Shiro Games
Windows
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 24.3 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 26%, Crafting 20.5%, Online Co-Op 13%, Sandbox 12.5%, Multiplayer 8.7%
- #55 RuneScape: Dragonwilds
63% matchVery Positive81% of 32,495 reviews2026
Dev: Jagex Ltd
Windows
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 20.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
On RuneScape's forgotten continent of Ashenfall, dragons have awoken. Gather, build, skill and craft in this co-operative survival adventure. Only by mastering survival and uncovering ancient secrets can you hope to face the ferocious Dragon Queen.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.6% ★, Open World 17%, Crafting 11.9%, Survival 11.8%, Multiplayer 7.6%
- #56 Everwind
64% matchVery Positive81% of 3,899 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 18.5%, Open World 18.5%, Survival 14.1%, Sandbox 10.2%, Building 9.9%
- #57 Volcanoids
68% matchVery Positive83% of 9,358 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%, Open World 17.8%, Survival 14.7%, Sandbox 11.3%, Building 10.4%
- #58 Re.poly
68% 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 29.9% ★, Crafting 16.8%, Open World 15.8%, Survival 13.2%, Sandbox 9.6%
