- #1 Crashlands 2
97% matchVery Positive88% of 2,418 reviews2025
Dev: Butterscotch Shenanigans
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Slap your way across a vibrant world where interstellar friendships are the key to your survival. Befriend eccentric aliens, craft bizarre weaponry, and stick it to the man in this sequel to the award-winning Action RPG Crashlands.
Why similar: Crafting 18.2%, Building 14.6%, Comedy 11.7%, RPG 11%, Sci-fi 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: As the direct sequel, it continues the signature fast-paced combat, quirky humor, and refined crafting systems of the original.
- #2 Necesse
96% 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 39.3% ★, Crafting 8.4%, Open World 8.4%, Sandbox 8.2%, Survival 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: It combines top-down survival and crafting with colony management, providing a similar sense of progression and exploration in a procedurally generated world.
- #3 Core Keeper
95% 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 25.4% ★, Base Building 10.9%, Crafting 10.6%, Open World 10%, Survival 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: This top-down sandbox adventure perfectly captures the addictive loop of mining, crafting, and base-building in a mysterious, sprawling underground world.
- #4 Forager
96% matchVery Positive90% of 43,749 reviews2019
Dev: HopFrogPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 22.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.5% ★, Crafting 12.7%, Survival 11.2%, Base Building 7.4%, Sandbox 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the satisfying 'just one more thing' loop of gathering, crafting, and expanding your territory in a vibrant, top-down environment.
- #5 Keplerth
94% 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: Sandbox 14%, Open World 13.2%, Survival 13.1%, Building 11.8%, Exploration 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down sandbox survival game that emphasizes exploration, creature taming, and combat against alien threats in a hostile world.
- #6 Terraria
94% 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 38.5% ★, Sandbox 12.3%, Survival 9.6%, Crafting 9.4%, Building 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: The definitive 2D exploration and crafting game that offers endless progression, boss fights, and base-building depth similar to the Crashlands experience.
- #7 Don't Starve
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 113,056 reviews2013
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 28.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38% ★, Survival 20.3%, Crafting 12.5%, Sandbox 9.3%, Open World 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: Shares the quirky, hand-drawn aesthetic and intense survival-crafting loop, challenging players to manage resources while exploring a dangerous, eccentric world.
- #8 Starbound
92% matchVery Positive90% of 123,064 reviews2016
Dev: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.1 hrsMean: 64.3 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 41% ★, Sandbox 11.7%, Crafting 8.7%, Survival 8.1%, Open World 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a massive sci-fi universe to explore, featuring deep crafting, base-building, and combat mechanics that mirror the adventure-heavy feel of Crashlands.
- #9 DYSMANTLE
91% matchVery Positive91% of 11,503 reviews2021
Dev: 10tons Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 25.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Ascend from your shelter. Ruin everything. Escape the wretched island. ⚔️🔨🎣🌱🌵🍰 Explore. Fight. Level up. Survive. Gather. Craft. Harvest. Hunt. Build. Farm. Solve puzzles. Fish. Cook. Live. Enjoy the bittersweet post-apocalypse.
Why similar: Crafting 17.1%, Survival 16.8%, Open World 16.7%, Base Building 15.7%, Sandbox 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: Features a top-down perspective where players explore a post-apocalyptic world, gathering resources by destroying almost everything in sight to craft better gear.
- #10 Black Skylands
91% matchVery Positive84% of 4,434 reviews2023
Dev: Hungry Couch GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Become the captain of an airship and explore the world of the skies, gather resources and build powerful weapons, uncover ancient secrets and fight beneath your ship's sails.
Why similar: Base Building 18.2%, Open World 17.3%, Sandbox 15%, Survival 13.3%, Crafting 12.8%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down open-world game that mixes base-building and exploration with aerial combat, capturing the adventurous spirit of the genre.
- #11 Dig or Die
90% matchVery Positive90% of 4,273 reviews2018
Dev: Gaddy Games
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Crash land on a hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it. But be warned... this planet is merciless. Build strong, and smart; else physics may flood or destroy your only hopes of survival.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37% ★, Survival 12%, Crafting 11.6%, Sandbox 11.3%, Open World 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on survival through crafting and tower defense, requiring players to constantly upgrade their gear to survive the hostile planet's nightly onslaught.
- #12 Slime Rancher
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 154,977 reviews2017
Dev: Monomi Park
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 21.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Slime Rancher is the tale of Beatrix LeBeau, a plucky, young rancher who sets out for a life a thousand light years away from Earth on the ‘Far, Far Range’ where she tries her hand at making a living wrangling slimes.
Why similar: Open World 31.4%, Exploration 19.2%, Sandbox 18.3%, Funny 9%, Adventure 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on exploration, creature collection, and base-building in a colorful, alien environment that evokes a similar sense of wonder.
- #13 Grounded
88% 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 34.6% ★, Survival 15.5%, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 10.4%, Open World 8%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a high-stakes survival and base-building experience where the environment itself is a dangerous, alien-like world that must be mastered.
- #14 The Survivalists
89% 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 28.8% ★, Crafting 13.6%, Survival 11.3%, Base Building 10.6%, Open World 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-crafting game that emphasizes exploration and resource management, featuring unique mechanics like monkey training to assist in tasks.
- #15 Nova Lands
86% matchVery Positive89% of 3,465 reviews2023
Dev: BEHEMUTTPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Nova Lands is a factory building, exploration, and island management game. Explore, engage in combat, and automate your industry. The planet you’re on is full of mysteries, creatures, people, and things to do. Welcome to your new home amongst the stars!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.9% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Sandbox 10.6%, Crafting 10.3%, Survival 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: Combines exploration and base-building with automation elements, providing a relaxing yet rewarding progression loop on a strange planet.
- #16 Aground
87% matchVery Positive94% of 2,004 reviews2020
Dev: Fancy Fish Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
As one of the last human survivors, you find yourself stranded on an uninhabited island. With a few other victims of the crash, can you craft, mine, and build your way to survival?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.6% ★, Base Building 13%, Open World 11%, Survival 10.4%, Building 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D crafting RPG that starts with primitive survival and evolves into advanced technology, mirroring the progression arc found in Crashlands.
- #17 V Rising
85% 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: Base Building 17.4%, Open World 15.6%, Survival 15.2%, Crafting 13.6%, Sandbox 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game that emphasizes combat and base-building, requiring players to gather resources and defeat powerful bosses to progress.
- #18 Crea
86% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,408 reviews2016
Dev: Siege Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 19.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Progress with every slain monster, learn over 80 skills through talents, craft hundreds of items, and explore vast procedurally-generated worlds in this ever-expanding sandbox RPG!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.7% ★, Sandbox 13.1%, Crafting 12%, Survival 7.8%, Building 5.2%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D sandbox RPG that emphasizes crafting and character progression, providing a familiar loop of gathering materials to build better equipment.
- #19 Craftopia
84% matchMostly Positive76% of 20,099 reviews2020
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Craftopia is the brand new multiplayer survival action game made in Japan. We combined many features we find enjoyable, such as hunting, farming, hack-and-slash, building, automation to develop this game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.8% ★, Crafting 15.6%, Open World 15.4%, Survival 12%, Sandbox 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that blends action-RPG combat with extensive crafting and automation, offering a similar sense of freedom and discovery.
- #20 My Time at Portia
82% matchVery Positive92% of 44,196 reviews2019
Dev: Pathea GamesPub: Focus Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 36.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Start a new life in the enchanting town of Portia! Restore your Pa's neglected workshop to its former glory by fulfilling commissions, growing crops, raising animals, and befriending the quirky inhabitants of this charming post-apocalyptic land!
Why similar: Crafting 23.6%, Open World 21.6%, Building 12.6%, Sandbox 11.3%, RPG 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: While more focused on life-sim elements, it shares the core loop of gathering resources and crafting items to progress through a charming, story-driven world.
- #21 Wrongworld
83% matchVery Positive94% of 550 reviews2018
Dev: Sludj Games
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Crash-landed on a surreal, low-poly world filled with freakish inhabitants, choose between permadeath and non-permadeath modes and embark on an epic (and ridiculous) survival adventure. Will you manage to stay alive as you unravel the mysteries of Wrongworld and search for a way home?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.9% ★, Survival 10.2%, Open World 8%, Crafting 7.8%, Sandbox 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-crafting game with a humorous tone that tasks players with exploring a bizarre world while managing their hunger and crafting needs.
- #22 Junk Jack
84% matchMostly Positive78% of 473 reviews2016
Dev: Pixbits
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 21.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Make the world truly yours in Junk Jack, a relaxing sandbox experience focused on building and improving your home. Discover new planets, tame and breed creatures, cook foods, collect animal companions, farm exotic plants, collect fish, grow flowers, play with your friends!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.3% ★, Sandbox 12.2%, Crafting 11.3%, Survival 10.5%, Building 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D sandbox game that focuses heavily on exploration and crafting, offering a similar sense of discovery in a pixelated, procedurally generated world.
- #23 Tinkerlands
80% 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 34.2% ★, Sandbox 10.2%, Survival 9.8%, Open World 9.7%, Crafting 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-crafting game that emphasizes exploration and combat, providing a similar top-down perspective and progression-based gameplay.
- #24 XenoHaven
79% matchVery Positive86% of 69 reviews2025
Dev: Miniverse GamePub: OKJOY
Windows
In XenoHaven, gather resources to build shelters, enslave alien beasts to work for you, and run restaurants and shops. Delve into dark underground dungeons, defeat swarming insectoids and mighty bosses, and craft powerful gear to conquer the alien world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.1% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Open World 10.5%, Sandbox 9.8%, Survival 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused game that tasks players with building a base and crafting gear to survive on an uncharted, alien-infested world.
- #25 Romestead
78% matchMostly Positive76% of 4,222 reviews2026
Dev: BeartwigsPub: Three Friends
Windows
Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Rome has fallen! Rebuild civilization in this action-adventure survival game for 1-8 players. Fight hordes of the walking dead, build settlements, restore the Roman gods... or kick back and farm with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.3% ★, Crafting 12.3%, Base Building 10%, Survival 9.7%, Sandbox 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D crafting and adventure game that focuses on building up a homestead while exploring a world filled with RPG elements and progression.
- #26 Signs of Life
82% matchMostly Positive76% of 841 reviews2014
Dev: Sweet Dog Studios
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Signs of Life is a sci-fi survival sandbox platformer with a combination of procedurally generated and hand-crafted content. You'll explore mysterious locations, Mine blocks for resources, and meet strange (and some familiar) creatures, some of which don't even want to kill you and eat your corpse.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.2% ★, Sandbox 11.6%, Crafting 10.5%, Survival 9.4%, Building 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi survival game that focuses on exploration and crafting, challenging players to survive in a hostile, alien environment.
- #27 FortressCraft Evolved!
81% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,058 reviews2015
Dev: ProjectorGamesPub: Digital Tribe
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 72%
FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.4% ★, Crafting 11.1%, Sandbox 9.8%, Building 8.6%, Base Building 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: Deeply focused on base-building and automation, this game offers a complex progression system for players who enjoy the technical side of crafting.
- #28 Cubic Odyssey
78% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,674 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Embark on a galactic journey in Cubic Odyssey, an open-world adventure where you explore vibrant planets, craft tools, build vehicles, and fight the Red Darkness. Uncover ancient mysteries, and shape a universe full of life, danger, and limitless possibilities!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.2% ★, Base Building 14.3%, Sandbox 10.9%, Building 10.2%, Sci-fi 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: An action-adventure RPG that incorporates survival and base-building elements, encouraging players to explore and craft in a cooperative setting.
- #29 Fragmented
81% matchMixed43% of 1,964 reviews2017
Dev: Above and Beyond Technologies
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Stranded in a hostile alien world, you must fight to survive. Hunt, harvest, craft, advance skills, and build using local resources along with technology from your voyage.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.3% ★, Survival 12.7%, Open World 9%, Crafting 7.8%, Sandbox 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that emphasizes crafting and combat, set on a dangerous alien planet that requires constant vigilance.
- #30 Craft The World
77% matchVery Positive88% of 16,973 reviews2014
Dev: Dekovir EntertainmentPub: Dekovir Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 38.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Craft The World is a unique sandbox strategy game, the mix of Dungeon Keeper, Terraria and Dwarf Fortress. Explore a random generated world populated by dangerous creatures, build a dwarf fortress, gather resources, and craft all the items, weapons, and armor you need.
Why similar: Crafting 22.9%, Sandbox 19.2%, Building 18.5%, Survival 13.7%, Open World 12%
- #31 Streets of Rogue
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 22,924 reviews2019
Dev: Matt DabrowskiPub: tinyBuild
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 15.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Fight, sneak, and hack your way through randomly generated cities. It's like Nuclear Throne meets Deus Ex, mixed with the anarchy of GTA. Rogue-lite meets immersive sim, and goes completely insane.
Why similar: RPG 30.3%, Multiplayer 30%, Funny 15.2%, Adventure 9.2%, Indie 8.8%
- #32 GRAV
79% 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 38.5% ★, Survival 11.6%, Base Building 11%, Open World 10.5%, Sandbox 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi survival game that focuses on exploration and base-building, allowing players to traverse diverse biomes and craft advanced weaponry.
- #33 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
74% 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 29.5% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Survival 10%, Crafting 9.8%, Open World 8.7%
- #34 Curious Expedition
76% matchVery Positive91% of 4,487 reviews2016
Dev: Maschinen-Mensch
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Curious Expedition is a roguelike expedition simulation set in the late 19th century. Together with famous personalities you will venture on unprecedented expeditions to regions never explored before for fame, science and treasures.
Why similar: Exploration 33.3%, RPG 28.5%, Story Rich 20.2%, 2D 12.3%, Singleplayer 5.7%
- #35 Craterbound
77% matchMixed54% of 99 reviews2022
Dev: Daniel Marquez
Windows
Crash-land onto a unique and hostile alien world and begin your fight to survive. Face its inhabitants, upgrade your technology, create outposts & bases, and find a way to repair your ship. Explore the beautifully strange terrain, all while blasting and crafting your way off of the planet.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.1% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 11.2%, Open World 11.1%, Survival 10.8%
- #36 Oxygen Not Included
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 142,307 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 68.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Why similar: Base Building 31.1%, Survival 22.2%, Building 14.3%, Sandbox 10.9%, Open World 5.2%
- #37 Planetaries
74% matchMixed58% of 226 reviews2024
Dev: EY-Studio
Windows
Experience a vast Sci-fi open-world survival TD game set on a distant planet deep in the universe. Craft, build, mine, trade, explore, and survive in this alien world. Collect Data and defend against waves of enemies seeking to banish you. Enjoy the adventure in Singleplayer or Multiplayer.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.2% ★, Base Building 9.9%, Crafting 9.8%, Open World 8.9%, Survival 8.7%
- #38 Caveblazers
75% matchVery Positive85% of 4,520 reviews2017
Dev: Deadpan GamesPub: Yogscast Games
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Caveblazers is a challenging and brutal roguelike platformer. Journey into a mysterious cave, fighting orcs and goblins with an abundance of weapons and magical items! Make friends along the way, then watch in despair as they are crushed in to a bloody pulp under a troll's fist.
Why similar: 2D 42.9%, Adventure 35.7%, Singleplayer 21.4%
- #39 Holy Potatoes! We’re in Space?!
75% matchMixed67% of 981 reviews2017
Dev: Daylight StudiosPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Holy Potatoes! We’re in Space?! is a whacky space exploration game where you manage your very own spaceship, craft hundreds of weapons, and explore the vastness of a veggie-filled universe.
Why similar: Survival 19.8%, Sci-fi 15.9%, RPG 9.6%, Exploration 9.3%, Adventure 8.7%
- #40 ASTRONEER
72% 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 32.6% ★, Open World 10.6%, Survival 10.1%, Base Building 10.1%, Sandbox 7.6%
- #41 Creativerse
73% matchMostly Positive78% of 30,868 reviews2017
Dev: Playful Corp.
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 63%
A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.8% ★, Crafting 11.4%, Sandbox 9.9%, Open World 9.5%, Survival 9.5%
- #42 Breathedge
71% matchVery Positive82% of 16,329 reviews2021
Dev: RedRuins SoftworksPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Survive in outer space! Together with your immortal chicken, discover the truth behind your sudden spaceship crash. Craft tools, pilot vehicles, and even control space stations to survive and explore the wreckage.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.3% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Survival 10.3%, Sandbox 9.8%, Crafting 8.9%
- #43 Palworld
68% 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 33.1% ★, Open World 13.7%, Survival 12%, Crafting 9.5%, Base Building 7.9%
- #44 Planet Centauri
70% matchMostly Positive77% of 2,376 reviews2024
Dev: Permadeath
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 13.7 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Dive into an epic adventure alone or with friends! Explore hidden dungeons, capture and tame fearsome monsters, build and defend your village. Craft powerful weapons, master magical spells, and transform an planet into the cradle of a new civilization!
Why similar: Sandbox 17.5%, Crafting 17.4%, Open World 16%, Building 12.3%, Exploration 9.2%
- #45 AETHUS
67% matchVery Positive95% of 1,920 reviews2026
Dev: Pawsmonaut Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Explore a vast underground world to mine and craft hundreds of items while building up your modular Outpost on the surface, to prospect for gems, refine resources and farm hydroponic crops in this top-down sci-fi survival-crafter where the story always provides a reason to dig deeper.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.6% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Crafting 10.8%, Survival 9.2%, Sandbox 8.8%
- #46 Gaia
73% matchMixed59% of 93 reviews2020
Dev: Eternal Stardust Studios
Windows
A sci-fi base building survival game, featuring raids, agriculture, intelligent AI, natural disasters and more.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.6% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Survival 8.9%, Open World 8.7%, Building 8.2%
- #47 Rogue Heroes: Ruins of Tasos
71% matchMostly Positive78% of 3,692 reviews2021
Dev: Heliocentric StudiosPub: Team17 Digital
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Rogue Heroes is a topdown, roguelite adventure game inspired by the Zelda franchise. Play solo or team up with your friends to combat procedurally generated dungeons and take down the evil Titans that threaten to overwhelm the land of Tasos!
Why similar: RPG 29.3%, Exploration 17.2%, Multiplayer 16.1%, Adventure 13.4%, 2D 11.8%
- #48 Lost Nova
70% matchVery Positive92% of 423 reviews2022
Dev: Jon NielsenPub: HopFrog
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Your spaceship crashed on an alien planet. Explore, salvage, craft, trade, manage and upgrade your way back home!
Why similar: Open World 19.5%, Crafting 19.2%, Exploration 10.7%, Sci-fi 10.5%, Female Protagonist 10.2%
- #49 Neon Abyss
70% matchVery Positive86% of 23,580 reviews2020
Dev: Veewo GamesPub: Team17
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Neon Abyss is a frantic, roguelite action-platformer where you run ‘n’ gun your way into the Abyss. Featuring unlimited item synergies and a unique dungeon evolution system, each run diversifies the experience and every choice alters the ruleset.
Why similar: RPG 42.1%, Adventure 21.5%, 2D 20.8%, Singleplayer 15.6%
- #50 Lodventure
69% matchMostly Positive74% of 162 reviews2023
Dev: Sky Games
Windows
Embark on a 1-4 players Co-op survival adventure in an open world wilderness in search of a myth called the Lod Stone. Build your house, sow your crops, brew potions, tame a horse and discover powerful abilities. Venture into dangerous dungeons, fight unique bosses to find the Lod stone.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.4% ★, Open World 10.1%, Survival 9.8%, Crafting 9.2%, Base Building 9.2%
- #51 Monster Sanctuary
68% matchVery Positive91% of 12,542 reviews2020
Dev: moi rai gamesPub: Team17
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Monster taming meets metroidvania. Collect, train and battle monsters in a lovely side-scroller pixel world.
Why similar: Exploration 25.9%, RPG 23.1%, Story Rich 13.9%, Adventure 11.6%, 2D 11.4%
- #52 Starsand
69% matchMixed66% of 1,246 reviews2022
Dev: Tunnel Vision StudioPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Starsand is a mystic survival game set among the dunes of an arcane desert. An open-world full of danger, vast environments and mysterious happenings await you! Explore, hunt, craft, build – and SURVIVE.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.8% ★, Base Building 10.8%, Crafting 10.3%, Open World 9.7%, Survival 9.6%
- #53 Solace Crafting
69% 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 29.4% ★, Crafting 10.9%, Base Building 10.3%, Survival 9.7%, Open World 8.9%
- #54 TerraTech Worlds
67% matchMixed63% of 2,256 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 21.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.2% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 10.5%, Sandbox 9%, Open World 8.9%
- #55 Don't Starve Together
66% 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 66.2% ★, Survival 21.1%, Open World 3.2%, Crafting 3%, Multiplayer 2.8%
- #56 Shamania
65% 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 30.9% ★, Crafting 12.7%, Open World 11.4%, Survival 10.3%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #57 Blazing Beaks
68% matchVery Positive83% of 2,618 reviews2019
Dev: Applava
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Roguelite - where too much greediness can be fatal. A colorful world with armed birds blazing their way through piles of mutants, monsters and creepy creatures. Lots of mysteries to unravel, secrets to discover and levels to explore.
Why similar: Top-Down 38.9%, Funny 29.6%, 2D 17.1%, Adventure 14.4%
- #58 Edge of Space
71% matchMostly Negative33% of 2,729 reviews2015
Dev: Handyman StudiosPub: Reverb Triple XP
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Suit up as an operative of the Ark Corporation, sent to the farthest reaches of the universe in search of habitable planets to terraform. However, after the long space journey you awaken from cryosleep to find that your ship has gone way off course and is disabled near a strange new world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.8% ★, Sandbox 13.3%, Crafting 9.2%, Survival 6.3%, Open World 4.8%
