- #1 Terraria
97% 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 43.2% ★, Sandbox 15.7%, Crafting 9.1%, Survival 6.8%, Multiplayer 4.6%
Why You'll Like It: As the definitive 2D sandbox RPG, it shares the core loop of exploration, boss progression, and extensive crafting found in Crea.
- #2 Necesse
96% 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 47.7% ★, Sandbox 11.4%, Crafting 8.8%, Survival 5.8%, Multiplayer 4.5%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down sandbox that emphasizes base building, boss progression, and RPG-style combat in a procedurally generated world.
- #3 Starbound
96% 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 47.1% ★, Sandbox 15.4%, Crafting 8.6%, Survival 5.9%, Building 3.6%
Why You'll Like It: This space-faring sandbox offers a similar 2D side-scrolling experience with deep RPG elements, questing, and procedural planet generation.
- #4 Core Keeper
95% 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 34.3% ★, Sandbox 14.1%, Crafting 12.2%, Survival 8.1%, Building 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: This title excels at blending mining and crafting with structured boss fights and character upgrades in a persistent, underground sandbox environment.
- #5 It Lurks Below
94% matchVery Positive83% of 1,279 reviews2019
Dev: Graybeard GamesPub: Skystone Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 73%
It Lurks Below is an action-oriented, survival RPG in a randomly generated world. Fight through the massive underground dungeon, customize your character with random items and find out what evil lurks below.
Why similar: Sandbox 24.8%, Survival 17.7%, Crafting 17.4%, RPG 15.2%, Pixel Graphics 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: Created by the lead developer of Diablo, this game perfectly mirrors Crea's focus on combining survival mechanics with complex RPG character classes and talent trees.
- #6 Planet Centauri
93% matchMostly Positive77% of 2,370 reviews2024
Dev: Permadeath
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.6 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 23.9%, Crafting 17.9%, Building 8.1%, Open World 7.7%, Multiplayer 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a high degree of customization and creature interaction within a 2D sandbox world that feels very similar to the gameplay loop of Crea.
- #7 Signs of Life
94% 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 46.5% ★, Sandbox 15.4%, Crafting 10.5%, Survival 7%, Building 3.9%
Why You'll Like It: This game captures the sci-fi survival and crafting elements of Crea, focusing on exploration and resource management in a hostile environment.
- #8 Aground
91% matchVery Positive94% of 1,985 reviews2020
Dev: Fancy Fish Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 46.1% ★, Sandbox 15.5%, Survival 10.3%, Building 8.4%, Open World 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: This game features a compelling progression system that starts with basic survival and evolves into advanced technology and magic, much like Crea's growth arc.
- #9 Junk Jack
92% matchMostly Positive79% of 469 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 43.8% ★, Sandbox 15.5%, Crafting 10.8%, Survival 7.5%, Building 4.8%
Why You'll Like It: This 2D sandbox focuses heavily on discovery, farming, and crafting, providing a relaxing yet progression-heavy experience.
- #10 Feel The Snow
91% 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 45% ★, Crafting 10.5%, Sandbox 10.2%, Survival 8.3%, Multiplayer 5.7%
Why You'll Like It: This 2D adventure game combines survival mechanics with a snowy, atmospheric world and light RPG progression.
- #11 Dig or Die
90% matchVery Positive90% of 4,269 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 43.9% ★, Sandbox 15.5%, Crafting 11.8%, Survival 9.2%, Open World 3.5%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the survival and base-building aspects of the genre, requiring players to constantly upgrade their gear to survive increasingly difficult waves of enemies.
- #12 Tinkerlands
89% 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 39.7% ★, Sandbox 13.6%, Crafting 9.5%, Survival 7.3%, Building 4.7%
Why You'll Like It: A recent addition to the genre that focuses on exploration and survival in a vibrant pixel-art world with satisfying combat.
- #13 Crashlands
89% matchVery Positive90% of 6,682 reviews2016
Dev: Butterscotch Shenanigans
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Fight and tame alien beasts, craft resources into menacing weaponry, befriend the outlandish locals, and go toe-to-chin with a world-domineering maniac.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.6% ★, Sandbox 13.1%, Crafting 12%, Survival 7.8%, Building 5.3%
Why You'll Like It: A story-driven 2D survival RPG that features a massive world to explore and a robust crafting system that rewards player progression.
- #14 Tinkertown
88% matchMixed67% of 1,342 reviews2023
Dev: Headup
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Gather your friends and come to Tinkertown - A refreshing new Multiplayer Sandbox Experience! Explore magical places filled with loot, danger, and creativity.
Why similar: Sandbox 19.7%, Crafting 17.7%, RPG 14.3%, Multiplayer 8.5%, Adventure 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: A charming multiplayer sandbox that focuses on adventure and building, making it a great choice for those who enjoy the collaborative aspects of Crea.
- #15 Forager
87% matchVery Positive90% of 43,424 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 48.8% ★, Crafting 13.4%, Sandbox 9.8%, Survival 8.9%, Pixel Graphics 3.7%
Why You'll Like It: While more focused on gathering and expansion, its addictive progression loop and crafting systems will appeal to fans of Crea's sandbox nature.
- #16 Realms of Magic
86% matchVery Positive81% of 990 reviews2022
Dev: Polished Games
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Embark on a journey through the Old Kingdom in Realms of Magic - a sandbox RPG where you customize your character, choose your path, and immerse yourself in the fantasy world as a knight, wizard, miner, lumberjack, farmer, and more. After all, this is YOUR adventure.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 55% ★, Sandbox 12.1%, RPG 7.4%, Crafting 5.2%, Open World 4.4%
Why You'll Like It: This game leans heavily into the RPG side of the sandbox genre, offering a vast open world with deep character customization and questing.
- #17 Creativerse
86% 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 37.3% ★, Sandbox 14.1%, Crafting 12.2%, Survival 7.6%, Building 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: A creative-focused sandbox that allows for complex building and exploration, perfect for players who enjoy the construction side of Crea.
- #18 Portal Knights
84% 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: Sandbox 26.8%, Crafting 19.4%, Survival 11.5%, Building 10.4%, Multiplayer 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: This game blends voxel-based building with RPG class systems and boss fights, offering a 3D take on the Crea experience.
- #19 Vagabond
84% matchMostly Positive77% of 99 reviews2023
Dev: Pierre Vigier
Windows · Linux
Explore procedurally generated living worlds in this 2D sandbox RPG. Meet hundreds of characters in cities, complete quests, craft powerful items, buy and furnish your home or fight monsters in dungeons.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.5% ★, Sandbox 16.9%, Crafting 10.9%, Open World 5.9%, RPG 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox RPG that emphasizes freedom and procedural generation, allowing players to carve their own path in a large, open world.
- #20 Windforge
85% matchMixed68% of 619 reviews2014
Dev: Snowed In Studios
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 43%
WindForge is a side-scrolling block-building game where you explore hostile skies in an ever-changing Steampunk world. Everything you see can be created or destroyed, creating an RPG without barriers that rewards creative problem solving and improvisation.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.5% ★, Sandbox 17%, Crafting 12%, RPG 6.7%, Building 4.3%
Why You'll Like It: This game features unique steampunk-inspired 2D exploration and building mechanics that align well with Crea's creative freedom.
- #21 Len's Island
81% 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 47% ★, Sandbox 14.5%, Crafting 12.8%, Survival 9%, Building 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: A beautiful blend of dungeon crawling, farming, and building that captures the satisfying progression of a sandbox RPG.
- #22 Force of Nature
83% 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 47.2% ★, Crafting 13.7%, Sandbox 11.6%, Survival 8.6%, Building 4.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game combines survival, crafting, and exploration with a focus on gathering resources to build a base and survive in a hostile world.
- #23 Solace Crafting
81% 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 40.3% ★, Crafting 12.8%, Sandbox 12%, Survival 8.4%, Building 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a massive open world with a focus on crafting and survival, allowing players to build and explore at their own pace.
- #24 Boundless
82% 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 46% ★, Sandbox 16.4%, Crafting 12.3%, Building 5.7%, Open World 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: This massively multiplayer sandbox allows for extensive building and exploration across different worlds, appealing to the social side of Crea.
- #25 Edge of Space
82% 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 48.7% ★, Sandbox 16.9%, Crafting 8.8%, Survival 4.5%, Multiplayer 2.8%
Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi survival sandbox that focuses on exploration and gear progression in a dangerous, procedurally generated galaxy.
- #26 Alchemist's Awakening
79% matchMostly Positive73% of 497 reviews2019
Dev: OsarisGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Enter a world full of magic, mystery, beautiful landscapes and dangerous creatures. Build your own destiny, by yourself or with some friends, gather materials, use elements as attacks, recombine them into building blocks... and use your Alchemist's power to give life to any shape you built.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 52% ★, Sandbox 16.7%, Crafting 14.7%, Survival 7.7%, Open World 5.4%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on crafting and creature taming in an open-world sandbox, providing a unique twist on the survival genre.
- #27 Rising World
78% matchVery Positive86% of 5,890 reviews2014
Dev: JIW-Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 21.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Rising World is a voxel based open-world sandbox game, featuring a procedurally generated world, playable in single and multi-player.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.5% ★, Sandbox 14.8%, Crafting 12.7%, Survival 7.9%, Building 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox game that emphasizes building and mining, offering a more realistic take on the survival and crafting loop.
- #28 Astral Terra
80% matchMixed50% of 152 reviews2015
Dev: Tethys Interactive LLC
Windows
Explore, Adventure, Craft, Build, Survive. How will you shape your world? Astral Terra is a Smooth Voxel, Procedurally Generated Open World game with RPG and Survival Elements!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.1% ★, Sandbox 14.5%, Crafting 8.8%, Survival 8.2%, Open World 5.7%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world sandbox that focuses on exploration and survival, providing a vast landscape for players to build and adventure in.
- #29 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 50.5% ★, Sandbox 12.8%, Survival 9.7%, Crafting 9.4%, Open World 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi survival game that focuses on base building and combat in a large, open environment.
- #30 Planet Explorers
77% matchMixed62% of 6,817 reviews2016
Dev: Pathea Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Planet Explorers is an open world sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.3% ★, Sandbox 17.1%, Crafting 9.1%, Survival 6.1%, Open World 5.5%
- #31 Shamania
74% 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 39.7% ★, Crafting 13.9%, Sandbox 12.3%, Survival 8.4%, Open World 5.9%
- #32 Novus Inceptio
78% matchMixed52% of 1,302 reviews2015
Dev: McMagic Productions
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Warning: This is an Early Access game! Welcome to an enigmatic world, where a new gaming experience in exploring, building and surviving is waiting just for you. Experience a sandbox world with survival elements, and join us in creating a full version of the game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.3% ★, Sandbox 14.5%, Crafting 12.3%, Survival 8.5%, Building 5.7%
Why You'll Like It: This survival game features a unique take on character progression and world-building, focusing on long-term survival and crafting.
- #33 Cube World
77% matchMostly Negative37% of 18,707 reviews2019
Dev: Picroma
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Cube World is a voxel-based action RPG with a focus on exploration. It takes place in a procedurally generated fantasy world made up entirely of cubes.
Why similar: Open World 16.7%, Crafting 14.6%, Sandbox 13.6%, Multiplayer 13.2%, RPG 12.2%
- #34 Roguelands
75% matchVery Positive80% of 3,731 reviews2016
Dev: Sean YoungPub: SmashGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Embark on an epic journey in this hardcore Multiplayer RPG! As a Galactic Cadet, you and your Combat Squad of friends must brave hostile worlds in search of valuable loot and resources. Craft powerful gear, slay otherworldly creatures, and save the galaxy.
Why similar: Multiplayer 16%, RPG 14.4%, Crafting 11.5%, Survival 9.7%, Co-op 9.4%
- #35 Shards of Azuria
76% matchMixed60% of 101 reviews2019
Dev: Blue Potion Games
Windows
Shards of Azuria is an isometric, craft and build RPG. Create a character and a new world, then start your adventure by waking up in town. You are greeted by the locals of Azuria and begin to find your way around.
Why similar: Crafting 25.1%, Sandbox 22.6%, Survival 11.6%, RPG 10.2%, Adventure 8.3%
- #36 Salt
75% matchMostly Positive76% of 2,246 reviews2018
Dev: Lavaboots Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Salt is an open world exploration game where you sail from island to island looking for loot and new discoveries! Relax and explore at your own pace, picking a direction and setting sail across a vast ocean filled with quests, merchants, ruins, pirates, and other mysterious places.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.3% ★, Crafting 11.9%, Sandbox 11.7%, Survival 9.7%, Open World 6.5%
- #37 Cubic Odyssey
71% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,584 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 52.2% ★, Sandbox 17.5%, Building 7.8%, RPG 6.5%, Co-op 5.3%
- #38 Magicite
73% matchVery Positive85% of 7,589 reviews2014
Dev: Sean YoungPub: SmashGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Explore, craft, and survive in this Multiplayer RPG Platformer with permanent death! Featuring many Rogue-like elements, Magicite randomly generates each underground dungeon for you and your friends to delve deep into.
Why similar: Crafting 22.2%, RPG 11.7%, Multiplayer 11.4%, Survival 9.8%, Sandbox 7.7%
- #39 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
71% 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 40.7% ★, Sandbox 11.8%, Crafting 11.6%, Survival 8.7%, Building 6%
- #40 Omega Crafter
70% 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 38.5% ★, Crafting 13.3%, Sandbox 9.5%, Survival 8.6%, Multiplayer 6%
- #41 FortressCraft Evolved!
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,057 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 48.7% ★, Sandbox 14.6%, Crafting 12.4%, Survival 6.4%, Building 6.2%
- #42 Deep Despair
73% matchMixed67% of 280 reviews2020
Dev: BekkerDev Studio
Windows
Median: 10.4 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Deep Despair is a Minecraft-style survival sandbox. Travel, collect resources, craft items, dig, build, grow crops and survive. Freedom of action is limited only by your imagination!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.7% ★, Sandbox 13.5%, Crafting 13.1%, Survival 8.9%, RPG 8.5%
- #43 Voidtrain
68% 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 50% ★, Crafting 10.3%, Sandbox 9.4%, Survival 7.5%, Multiplayer 5%
- #44 Life is Feudal: Your Own
72% matchMixed66% of 12,061 reviews2015
Dev: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 58.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Hardcore and realistic; LiF is a Medieval multiplayer sandbox RPG, with free terraforming, a rich crafting system and preset and modular building construction. With engaging survival aspects, no target physics-based combat and a unique formation system - along with numerous other features - LiF is not for the faint of heart!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.5% ★, Sandbox 13.2%, Crafting 12%, Survival 8%, Open World 5.6%
- #45 CastleMiner Z
70% matchVery Positive81% of 11,113 reviews2014
Dev: DigitalDNA Games
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 66%
CastleMiner Z is an infinite world filled with deep places to explore, and horrifying monsters to slay. Build structures out of blocks, craft weapons and tools from raw materials, and explore the vast and frightening world around you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 51.2% ★, Sandbox 13%, Survival 9.7%, Crafting 8.7%, Multiplayer 5.6%
- #46 Citadel: Forged with Fire
69% 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 43.9% ★, Sandbox 12.9%, Survival 9%, Crafting 8.7%, Open World 7.8%
- #47 Wurm Unlimited
70% matchMostly Positive71% of 3,133 reviews2015
Dev: Code Club ABPub: Plug In Digital
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Wurm Unlimited is the standalone version of the fantasy sandbox world Wurm Online, the MMORPG where the players are in charge! A pioneer in the ideas of player influence, crafting and adventure, it is now one of the most deep and feature packed true sandbox experiences available.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.8% ★, Sandbox 15.3%, Crafting 11.6%, Survival 6.7%, Building 5.5%
- #48 HAINYA WORLD
68% matchVery Positive82% of 100 reviews2023
Dev: NETWORKGO
Windows
You are an adventurer, you need to explore this continent, make good use of the resources of this continent to arm yourself, explore this world full of monsters and unknown things and survive!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.1% ★, Sandbox 15.3%, Crafting 12.7%, Survival 8.3%, Multiplayer 5.5%
- #49 Blockscape
71% matchMixed46% of 898 reviews2014
Dev: ioneo
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 49%
The ultimate block building game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 56% ★, Sandbox 15.6%, Crafting 8.4%, Survival 5.3%, Building 4.2%
- #50 Block Story™
69% matchVery Positive83% of 2,006 reviews2015
Dev: Big Cube Interactive, LLC
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 46%
There isn’t much better than a wide open game world in which you have essentially no limits and can alter the very landscape in which you play – that is, unless you add dragons, of course…
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.8% ★, Sandbox 14.6%, Crafting 12%, Survival 6.8%, Building 5.7%
- #51 Wayward
69% matchVery Positive86% of 1,357 reviews2016
Dev: Unlok
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 21.5 hrs≥1hr: 61%
You awake to discover yourself no longer in the company of good men or a fine seafaring vessel. Treasure... you remember something about treasure. Wayward is a challenging turn-based, top-down, wilderness survival roguelike. Explore, build, and most importantly survive in these unforgiving lands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.7% ★, Crafting 13.1%, Sandbox 10.6%, Survival 10.3%, RPG 4.2%
- #52 Romestead
65% matchMostly Positive74% of 201 reviews2026
Dev: BeartwigsPub: Three Friends
Windows
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 35.5% ★, Crafting 15.6%, Sandbox 12.8%, Survival 9.1%, RPG 5.8%
- #53 Craftopia
67% matchMostly Positive77% of 20,035 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 36.3% ★, Crafting 16.3%, Sandbox 11.7%, Survival 9.4%, Open World 7.6%
- #54 TerraTech
67% matchVery Positive91% of 24,617 reviews2018
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 33.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
TerraTech is an open-world, sandbox adventure game, where you design and build your own creations through a mix of crafting, combat and discovery. Design vehicles from a huge library of blocks. Scavenge, craft and buy new parts to survive and become the ultimate planetary prospector.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.2% ★, Sandbox 17.6%, Crafting 11.1%, Building 9.1%, Open World 5.9%
- #55 ASTRONEER
66% matchVery Positive92% of 137,959 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.2 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 46.3% ★, Sandbox 12.3%, Survival 9.2%, Crafting 8.8%, Multiplayer 6.3%
- #56 CHKN
68% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,732 reviews2016
Dev: Katapult
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Behold, the miracle of life… packed into cubes! Create fantastic creatures in an open-world sandbox game like no other. Explore, craft, and survive—all with the help of your very own creations.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39% ★, Sandbox 17.1%, Crafting 12%, Survival 8.9%, Building 6.9%
- #57 Wrongworld
67% matchVery Positive94% of 545 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 56.2% ★, Sandbox 11.1%, Crafting 8.5%, Survival 8.3%, Building 4.4%
