- #1 Portal Knights
97% matchVery Positive83% of 22,312 reviews2017
Dev: Keen Games GmbHPub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 21.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
The world of Elysia needs YOU! Join this cooperative, 3D sandbox action RPG to level up your character, craft epic weapons, conquer enemies in real-time, and build almost anything! Craft your adventure. Forge your hero. Become the ultimate Portal Knight!
Why similar: Sandbox 15%, Crafting 13.6%, Building 13.6%, Survival 10.3%, Multiplayer 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: It blends colorful block-based building, crafting, exploration, and fantasy combat in a loop that feels very close to Creativerse.
- #2 LEGO® Worlds
96% matchMostly Positive78% of 15,616 reviews2017
Dev: TT GamesPub: Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 13.4 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Experience a galaxy of Worlds made entirely from LEGO bricks. EXPLORE gigantic landscapes, DISCOVER countless surprises, and CREATE anything you can imagine by building with LEGO bricks.
Why similar: Building 18.2%, Sandbox 16.9%, Open World 15.4%, Multiplayer 9.9%, Family Friendly 8%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes freeform world-shaping and playful block building in large procedurally generated environments.
- #3 DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS™ 2
96% matchVery Positive92% of 8,005 reviews2019
Dev: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 47.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS™ 2 is a block-building RPG set in a fantasy land threatened by an evil cult. Explore, battle, build and harvest in the charming single-player campaign or build big projects in the online sandbox mode for up to 4-players.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.5% ★, Building 11%, Sandbox 9.6%, Voxel 8.1% ★, Crafting 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: It pairs charming block construction with light survival and adventure progression across fantasy-themed regions.
- #4 Boundless
95% matchMixed69% of 2,770 reviews2018
Dev: Monumental, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 32.9 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Shape your citizen, forge your destiny and sculpt your world in this epic voxel sandbox MMO built on endless possibility.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.8% ★, Voxel 20% ★, Sandbox 10.4%, Crafting 9.9%, Open World 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: It is a shared-universe voxel sandbox centered on mining, crafting, and building across colorful alien planets.
- #5 Trove
94% matchMostly Positive80% of 92,712 reviews2015
Dev: gamigo US Inc.
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 49.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Grab your friends, hone your blades, and set off for an epic procedurally generated adventure in Trove! Battle the Shadow in realms filled with dungeons and items created by your fellow players. Whether hunting treasure or building realms of your own, it’s never been this good to be square!
Why similar: Voxel 29.1% ★, Sandbox 11.8%, Crafting 11.2%, Building 10.9%, Open World 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the bright voxel look and exploration-heavy feel, though it leans more toward online action-RPG progression.
- #6 Rising World
94% matchVery Positive86% of 5,920 reviews2014
Dev: JIW-Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 21.3 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 24.2% ★, Voxel 20.9% ★, Building 9.3%, Crafting 9.2%, Sandbox 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on open-ended first-person building, terraforming, crafting, and survival in a customizable sandbox world.
- #7 PixARK
93% matchMostly Positive73% of 13,130 reviews2019
Dev: Snail Games USA
Windows
Median: 5.2 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: Voxel 17.2% ★, Survival 15.7%, Open World 13%, Sandbox 12.5%, Crafting 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: It takes voxel building and crafting into a bigger, more dangerous survival sandbox with creatures to tame and explore around.
- #8 Staxel
92% matchMostly Positive78% of 4,833 reviews2019
Dev: PlukitPub: Balor Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Grow your farm, meet the villagers, and join your friends online in building your world.
Why similar: Voxel 26.9% ★, Sandbox 12.3%, Building 12.1%, Online Co-Op 11.5%, Open World 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: It offers cozy first-person voxel exploration, resource gathering, and building with a lighter, more relaxed survival tone.
- #9 Ylands
91% matchMixed64% of 8,418 reviews2019
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 46%
Adventure awaits you and your friends in the world of Ylands! Gather resources, craft tools, construct anything and everything, and explore the lands! Build a ship and set sail, encountering mythical animals, a wide variety of sea-life, enemies of all kinds and much more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.9% ★, Crafting 10.8%, Building 8.6%, Online Co-Op 8.6%, Open World 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: It mixes crafting, exploration, and creative sandbox tools across stylized islands with strong co-op appeal.
- #10 Cube World
91% matchMostly Negative37% of 18,718 reviews2019
Dev: Picroma
Windows
Median: 5.4 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: Voxel 26.5% ★, Open World 13.1%, Online Co-Op 8.7%, Multiplayer 7.5%, Co-op 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: It scratches the same voxel fantasy exploration itch with roaming, discovery, and co-op adventuring.
- #11 Planet Explorers
90% 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 31% ★, Sandbox 12.1%, Open World 9.5%, Crafting 8.1%, Survival 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: It combines open-world survival, crafting, terraforming, and building with a stronger sci-fi adventure wrapper.
- #12 Cubic Castles
89% matchMostly Positive74% of 4,276 reviews2014
Dev: Raptisoft
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Your blocks, your castle, your world! Build anything you can dream up and explore with other players! Cubic Castles is a mini-MMO that combines the best of block-building and 3D platform action! Create fantastic parkour challenges, explore worlds made by other players, or even make friend!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.4% ★, Building 14%, Sandbox 11.1%, Crafting 9.6%, Open World 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: It delivers casual multiplayer block-building and world creation with a similarly accessible sandbox spirit.
- #13 Colony Survival
88% matchVery Positive92% of 8,916 reviews2017
Dev: Pipliz
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 28.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!
Why similar: Building 16.6%, Survival 16.5%, Voxel 13.1% ★, Sandbox 12.9%, Open World 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: It uses blocky first-person building and gathering, but adds a compelling loop of defending your settlement from nightly attacks.
- #14 Teravit
89% matchMostly Negative32% of 217 reviews2023
Dev: CyberStep, Inc.
Windows
Welcome to "Teravit", a sandbox game created by players! With its three elements of "Create, Play, and Share", you can travel to the world of adventure and endless creation, alone or with friends!
Why similar: Voxel 23.5% ★, Building 10.4%, Online Co-Op 10.1%, Crafting 9.9%, Sandbox 9%
Why You'll Like It: It is a cooperative voxel sandbox focused on building, crafting, and dungeon-style exploration.
- #15 Total Miner
86% matchMostly Positive78% of 767 reviews2017
Dev: Brandon Moore
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 37.4 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Total Miner is an open world voxel sandbox game. It is primarily designed for creative RPG game builders, but also has two action/adventure style game modes where you can just jump in and play.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.5% ★, Voxel 17.6% ★, Sandbox 9.3%, Building 7.6%, Open World 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: It is another first-person block sandbox built around mining, crafting, and freely shaping the world.
- #16 Blockscape
87% 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 40.5% ★, Sandbox 11.9%, Crafting 8%, Building 7.5%, Voxel 7.3% ★
Why You'll Like It: It offers procedurally generated voxel terrain and a survival-building loop very much in the Creativerse tradition.
- #17 Solace Crafting
84% 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 22.5% ★, Crafting 9.5%, Online Co-Op 7.9%, Survival 7.9%, Building 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: It expands the open-world crafting and base-building side with huge procedural lands and deeper progression systems.
- #18 Block Story™
85% matchVery Positive84% of 2,061 reviews2015
Dev: Big Cube Interactive, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 8.2 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 22.6% ★, Voxel 17.6% ★, Crafting 9%, Sandbox 8.7%, Building 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: It merges voxel sandbox building with fantasy RPG quests, creatures, and exploration.
- #19 Astral Terra
86% 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 26.2% ★, Voxel 16.3% ★, Sandbox 8.9%, Open World 8.4%, Survival 8%
Why You'll Like It: It is a blocky survival sandbox with procedural worlds, crafting, and creature-filled exploration.
- #20 Valheim
82% matchVery Positive94% of 536,933 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 25.9 hrsMean: 77.4 hrs≥1hr: 93%
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.9% ★, Online Co-Op 10.6%, Survival 8.9%, Building 8.8%, Crafting 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: It is not voxel-based, but its exploration, crafting, and satisfying base-building loop feels very close in spirit.
- #21 Starbound
83% 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 33.7% ★, Sandbox 11.5%, Crafting 8.1%, Online Co-Op 7.8%, Survival 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: It similarly mixes sandbox building, crafting, and exploration, but spreads it across 2D planets.
- #22 Enshrouded
81% matchVery Positive86% of 103,247 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.8 hrsMean: 46.1 hrs≥1hr: 94%
You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.
Why similar: Open World 15.3%, Online Co-Op 14%, Survival 13.8%, Crafting 12.9%, Building 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: It pushes the fantasy survival-building angle further with robust construction and rewarding world exploration.
- #23 Terraria
82% 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 31.7% ★, Sandbox 12.1%, Crafting 8.8%, Survival 8.5%, Building 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the same gather-craft-build-explore progression, just in 2D rather than first-person 3D.
- #24 CastleMiner Z
84% matchVery Positive81% of 11,148 reviews2014
Dev: DigitalDNA Games
Windows
Median: 2.3 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 36.9% ★, Survival 11.7%, Sandbox 9.9%, Crafting 8.3%, Multiplayer 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: It offers block-based first-person survival and building with more combat pressure and a harsher tone.
- #25 Craftopia
81% 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 23.8% ★, Crafting 14.2%, Open World 12.7%, Survival 10.3%, Sandbox 8%
Why You'll Like It: It blends survival crafting, building, and fantasy exploration in a broad sandbox format with a similar progression rhythm.
- #26 ASTRONEER
79% matchVery Positive92% of 138,510 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30% ★, Open World 10.1%, Survival 10%, Sandbox 8.4%, Co-op 8%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on colorful exploration, resource gathering, and base-building in a more relaxed planetary sandbox.
- #27 Eco
80% matchVery Positive81% of 13,962 reviews2018
Dev: Strange Loop Games
Windows
Median: 16.7 hrsMean: 89.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Build a civilization of real people, working together to advance society and stop a meteor, all without destroying the ecosystem in the process.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.9% ★, Crafting 16.7%, Sandbox 13%, Open World 12.6%, Survival 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: It shares voxel terrain manipulation, crafting chains, and collaborative world-building in a more systems-heavy sandbox.
- #28 Grounded
78% matchVery Positive90% of 94,772 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.3 hrsMean: 41.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.1% ★, Survival 14%, Co-op 10.6%, Crafting 9.9%, Multiplayer 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: It translates the survival-crafting-building loop into a different setting, with strong co-op exploration and base construction.
- #29 Hydroneer
79% matchVery Positive86% of 28,157 reviews2020
Dev: Foulball Hangover
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 22.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Hydroneer is a mining and base building sandbox. Dig for gold and other resources to turn a profit and enhance your mining operation. Build a base of operations, forge weapons, go fishing, and dig deep!
Why similar: Sandbox 17.8%, Building 16.6%, Co-op 16.5%, Open World 14.1%, Multiplayer 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on digging, terrain manipulation, and building machinery in a physics-driven voxel world.
- #30 No Man's Sky
78% matchVery Positive85% of 411,162 reviews2016
Dev: Hello Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 20.1 hrsMean: 70.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.7% ★, Open World 14%, Survival 9.1%, Sandbox 8.7%, Exploration 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: It is less blocky, but its huge exploration-and-base-building sandbox appeals to the same creative survival mindset.
- #31 TerraTech
77% matchVery Positive91% of 24,767 reviews2018
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 32.8 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 26.9% ★, Building 14.6%, Sandbox 12.1%, Open World 9.8%, Crafting 9.6%
- #32 Tinkerlands
72% 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 26.1% ★, Online Co-Op 10.2%, Sandbox 9.3%, Crafting 8.2%, Survival 8%
- #33 Angeldust
76% matchMixed64% of 1,433 reviews2019
Dev: Frank LucasPub: Metagaming B.V.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 42 minMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 40%
ADVENTURE. ANYWHERE! Explore endless magical worlds and battle fearsome creatures alongside millions of friends. Ride your own horse, bear or moa and discover the many game world wonders. Unleash your imagination by crafting beautiful buildings.
Why similar: Building 13.7%, RPG 13%, Sandbox 12.1%, Open World 12%, Multiplayer 9.1%
- #34 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
74% matchMostly Positive78% of 34,271 reviews2020
Dev: Eleon Game Studios
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 76.9 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.8% ★, Voxel 18.5% ★, Building 9.3%, Co-op 9.1%, Crafting 7.9%
- #35 Core Keeper
71% 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 21.2% ★, Crafting 10%, Building 9.6%, Sandbox 9.2%, Online Co-Op 9.2%
- #36 Force of Nature
75% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,205 reviews2016
Dev: A.Y.std
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.5% ★, Crafting 12.9%, Survival 10.3%, Sandbox 8.7%, Building 8%
- #37 Genesis Online
77% matchMostly Negative32% of 1,886 reviews2015
Dev: Shumkov Dmitriy
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 20%
Genesis Online! First Person Multiplayer Adventure game in an editable procedural cubic world.
Why similar: Survival 19%, Sandbox 17.2%, Open World 13.7%, Multiplayer 13.6%, Voxel 8.8% ★
- #38 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
70% 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 22.2% ★, Online Co-Op 8.5%, Crafting 8.3%, Building 8.1%, Survival 8%
- #39 Scrap Mechanic
72% matchVery Positive92% of 117,933 reviews2016
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.2 hrsMean: 58.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!
Why similar: Building 16.5%, Crafting 13.5%, Sandbox 13.2%, Survival 11.2%, Open World 11.1%
- #40 Necesse
68% 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 34.2% ★, Sandbox 8.6%, Crafting 8.4%, Open World 7.5%, Survival 7.1%
- #41 Mini World: CREATA
73% matchMixed59% of 4,505 reviews2018
Dev: MINOVATE HONG KONG LIMITED
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 55.0 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Mini World is a 3D free sandbox game about adventure, exploration, and creating your dream worlds. There is no grinding or leveling up. No IAP gate that locks features from free to play players. Everyone can enjoy the game’s full features with great freedom
Why similar: Crafting 19.1%, Sandbox 18.1%, Open World 12.8%, Online Co-Op 12.8%, Survival 11.3%
- #42 Lay of the Land
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,072 reviews2026
Dev: Southern Cross Interactive
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Lay of the Land is a sandbox adventure game set in a fantasy world where everything is physically simulated. Use the environment to your advantage and Explore, Fight, Loot and Build your way through mysterious lands.
Why similar: Voxel 29.8% ★, Sandbox 12.1%, Open World 9.5%, Building 9.1%, Crafting 8.7%
- #43 Tinkertown
70% matchMixed67% of 1,342 reviews2023
Dev: Headup
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 6.2 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: Crafting 13.3%, Sandbox 11.8%, RPG 11.4%, Online Co-Op 10.5%, Building 10.1%
- #44 Crafting Block World
71% matchMixed46% of 54 reviews2019
Dev: IO Games
Windows
Crafting Block World is an adventure with sandbox elements that will help you build your ideal world!
Why similar: Voxel 36.2% ★, Sandbox 14.2%, Survival 12.1%, Building 10%, Crafting 9.3%
- #45 Cubic Odyssey
65% 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 32.1% ★, Building 11.9%, Sandbox 11.3%, Co-op 10.7%, Action-Adventure 7.2%
- #46 Crea
69% 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 37.3% ★, Sandbox 14.1%, Crafting 12.2%, Survival 7.5%, Building 6.3%
- #47 Everwind
63% matchVery Positive81% of 3,601 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Everwind is a novel take on RPG and Sandbox Survival genre in First-Person-Perspective. Embark on the adventure with your friends - Build a base on a flying island-ship, gather resources, craft, loot, and fight while you rise above the clouds to uncover the mysteries of this world!
Why similar: Online Co-Op 12.6%, Crafting 12.5%, Building 12.2%, Sandbox 11.1%, Co-op 10.8%
- #48 Shamania
64% 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 24.4% ★, Crafting 11.4%, Open World 9.4%, Survival 8.7%, Sandbox 8%
- #49 Nightingale
65% matchMixed66% of 17,987 reviews2024
Dev: Inflexion Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 23.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Nightingale is an open world survival crafting game, where you’ll adventure across the mysterious and dangerous Fae Realms. As a daring Realmwalker, you’ll defeat monstrous enemies, survive hostile environments, and build elaborate estates in a visually stunning Gaslamp Fantasy world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.7% ★, Online Co-Op 10%, Crafting 9.3%, Building 9.1%, Survival 8.7%
- #50 StarMade
68% matchMixed68% of 2,989 reviews2014
Dev: Schine GmbH
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 18.8 hrs≥1hr: 54%
The ultimate space sandbox. Participate in epic fleet battles, form alliances, strive to dominate entire galaxies and harness the universe’s resources for your industrious empire or the destruction of others. Customise your experience, the universe is yours!
Why similar: Voxel 25.7% ★, Sandbox 17.7%, Building 13.3%, Open World 12.4%, Crafting 8.2%
- #51 Deepworld
69% matchMixed61% of 738 reviews2015
Dev: Bytebin
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 42%
Deepworld is a massively-multiplayer 2D crafting adventure game. Mine and craft your way through a persistent online universe where there's always something new to discover. Battle frightening monsters, mysterious automatons, and other players in PvP!
Why similar: Sandbox 31.6%, Survival 21.1%, Crafting 14.1%, RPG 12.5%, Adventure 7.9%
- #52 Nomad
68% matchMixed60% of 4,634 reviews2015
Dev: Diminished Studios
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Try and survive in the world of Nomad. Build a base and protect it from raiding players. Scavenge food, weapons and medical supplies across the island. Team up with others and make a base. Make your mark on the world of Nomad.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.1% ★, Survival 14.8%, Multiplayer 10.9%, Open World 10.8%, Crafting 9.6%
