- #1 Portal Knights
97% 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 15%, Crafting 13.7%, Building 13.6%, Survival 10.3%, Multiplayer 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: It blends block-based building and crafting with colorful fantasy exploration and light RPG progression in a way that feels very close to Creativerse.
- #2 LEGO® Worlds
96% matchMostly Positive78% of 15,583 reviews2017
Dev: TT GamesPub: Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 13.5 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 offers a similarly playful sandbox centered on exploring and reshaping a fully buildable blocky world.
- #3 DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS™ 2
96% matchVery Positive92% of 7,920 reviews2019
Dev: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 47.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS™ 2 is a block-building RPG set in a fantasy land threatened by an evil cult. Explore, battle, build and harvest in the charming single-player campaign or build big projects in the online sandbox mode for up to 4-players.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.3% ★, Building 11%, Sandbox 9.7%, Voxel 8.2% ★, Crafting 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: Its mix of cheerful building, gathering, crafting, and fantasy adventure makes it one of the closest alternatives despite the third-person view.
- #4 Boundless
95% 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 27.7% ★, Voxel 20.1% ★, Sandbox 10.4%, Crafting 9.9%, Open World 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Its persistent voxel worlds, gathering, crafting, base building, and portal-driven exploration strongly overlap with Creativerse’s core appeal.
- #5 Trove
94% matchMostly Positive80% of 92,685 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 29.2% ★, Sandbox 11.9%, Crafting 11.3%, Building 10.9%, Open World 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: Its colorful voxel fantasy world, exploration, and building tools make it a natural fit if you like Creativerse’s lighter, more adventurous side.
- #6 PixARK
94% matchMostly Positive73% of 13,071 reviews2019
Dev: Snail Games USA
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 40.2 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Enter a world of mystery, danger, ancient dinosaurs, mythical beasts, and cubes! Work by yourself or with a tribe of others to gather materials, craft useful items, tame wild creatures, and build huge bases to survive in PixARK!
Why similar: Voxel 17.3% ★, Survival 15.7%, Open World 12.9%, Sandbox 12.5%, Crafting 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: This is a voxel-heavy survival crafting game with open-world building and exploration that scratches a very similar sandbox itch.
- #7 Rising World
93% 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 24% ★, Voxel 21% ★, Building 9.3%, Crafting 9.2%, Sandbox 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes open-ended world building, resource gathering, crafting, and exploration in a first-person sandbox environment.
- #8 Ylands
92% matchMixed64% of 8,392 reviews2019
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 48 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 25.7% ★, Crafting 10.8%, Online Co-Op 8.7%, Building 8.6%, Open World 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: Its stylized sandbox islands encourage exploration, building, crafting, and invention in a similarly imaginative and player-driven way.
- #9 FortressCraft Evolved!
91% 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 32.5% ★, Voxel 13.7% ★, Crafting 11.1%, Sandbox 10.3%, Building 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: It delivers first-person voxel mining, crafting, automation, and large-scale construction in a highly sandbox-driven format.
- #10 Cubic Castles
91% matchMostly Positive74% of 4,273 reviews2014
Dev: Raptisoft
Windows
Median: 42 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 34.3% ★, Building 14.1%, Sandbox 11.1%, Crafting 9.6%, Open World 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on creative construction and exploration in a multiplayer block world with a similarly accessible sandbox feel.
- #11 Cube World
90% 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: Voxel 26.5% ★, Open World 13%, Online Co-Op 8.7%, Multiplayer 7.6%, Co-op 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the voxel fantasy look and open-world adventuring focus, even if it leans more toward combat than construction.
- #12 CastleMiner Z
89% 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 36.7% ★, Survival 11.7%, Sandbox 9.9%, Crafting 8.4%, Multiplayer 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: Its first-person blocky survival gameplay and base building make it a solid match for Creativerse’s more survival-oriented elements.
- #13 Total Miner
89% matchMostly Positive78% of 767 reviews2017
Dev: Brandon Moore
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 36.0 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 25.3% ★, Voxel 17.6% ★, Sandbox 9.3%, Building 7.6%, Open World 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: This is a straightforward block-building survival sandbox with mining, crafting, and first-person exploration very much in the Creativerse vein.
- #14 Staxel
87% matchMostly Positive79% of 4,825 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 11.6%, Open World 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the same relaxing block-world creativity with first-person building, crafting, exploration, and a friendly atmosphere.
- #15 Planet Explorers
88% 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 30.9% ★, Sandbox 12.1%, Open World 9.5%, Crafting 8.2%, Survival 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: It combines open-world exploration, crafting, construction, and survival systems in a way that appeals to Creativerse fans who want more adventure structure.
- #16 Scrap Mechanic
86% matchVery Positive92% of 117,481 reviews2016
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.2 hrsMean: 58.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!
Why similar: Building 16.5%, Crafting 13.5%, Sandbox 13.2%, Survival 11.1%, Open World 11%
Why You'll Like It: Its creativity-first sandbox and survival mode reward building, scavenging, and experimenting much like Creativerse does.
- #17 Block Story™
86% 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 22.5% ★, Voxel 17.7% ★, Crafting 9%, Sandbox 8.7%, Building 8%
Why You'll Like It: It channels the same voxel fantasy sandbox spirit with building, crafting, exploration, and RPG-style progression.
- #18 7 Days to Die
83% matchVery Positive87% of 399,251 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 16.9 hrsMean: 108.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.3% ★, Voxel 19.9% ★, Survival 12.1%, Online Co-Op 8.9%, Building 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: Although much harsher in tone, it offers first-person voxel terrain, gathering, crafting, and base building in a highly interactive world.
- #19 TerraTech
85% 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 26.7% ★, Building 14.6%, Sandbox 12.1%, Open World 9.7%, Crafting 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: While vehicle-focused, it still delivers a satisfying loop of gathering resources, crafting, building, and exploring a colorful open world.
- #20 Colony Survival
84% matchVery Positive92% of 8,872 reviews2017
Dev: Pipliz
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 28.2 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 16.4%, Voxel 13.1% ★, Sandbox 13%, Open World 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: It mixes first-person block building and resource gathering with exploration and a persistent world you develop over time.
- #21 Solace Crafting
84% 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 22.4% ★, Crafting 9.5%, Online Co-Op 8%, Survival 7.9%, Building 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: This is another expansive open-world survival crafter where exploration, building, and long-term progression are central to the experience.
- #22 Terraria
82% 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 31.5% ★, Sandbox 12.2%, Crafting 8.9%, Survival 8.5%, Building 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: It is another sandbox classic built around mining, crafting, building, and adventurous progression, only in a side-scrolling format.
- #23 Valheim
81% matchVery Positive94% of 534,015 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 25.8 hrsMean: 76.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.7% ★, Online Co-Op 10.7%, Survival 8.9%, Building 8.8%, Crafting 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a similarly compelling mix of exploration, resource gathering, crafting, and base building, just with a more mythic survival tone.
- #24 Enshrouded
80% matchVery Positive86% of 101,648 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.7 hrsMean: 45.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.
Why similar: Open World 15.1%, Online Co-Op 14.1%, Survival 13.7%, Crafting 13%, Building 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: Its fantasy setting, strong building tools, crafting loop, and exploration-heavy progression align well with Creativerse’s adventurous sandbox appeal.
- #25 Starbound
82% 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 33.5% ★, Sandbox 11.6%, Crafting 8.2%, Online Co-Op 7.9%, Survival 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: Despite being 2D, it offers the same addictive cycle of exploring worlds, collecting resources, crafting gear, and building bases.
- #26 Eco
81% matchVery Positive81% of 13,905 reviews2018
Dev: Strange Loop Games
Windows
Median: 16.8 hrsMean: 89.4 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 33.1% ★, Building 14.2%, Sandbox 13.2%, Crafting 12.2%, Open World 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: It gives you a deformable world to gather from, craft within, and build across, with a strong emphasis on communal sandbox progression.
- #27 ASTRONEER
79% 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 29.8% ★, Open World 10.1%, Survival 10%, Sandbox 8.4%, Co-op 8%
Why You'll Like It: Its relaxed sandbox exploration, terrain manipulation, gathering, and base building echo Creativerse’s creative and discovery-driven side.
- #28 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
78% 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 22% ★, Online Co-Op 8.5%, Crafting 8.4%, Building 8.1%, Survival 8%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the survival-crafting-plus-exploration appeal well, with a whimsical world and lots of room for building and discovery.
- #29 Grounded
78% matchVery Positive90% of 93,832 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% ★, Survival 14%, Co-op 10.6%, Crafting 10%, Multiplayer 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: If you want more structured survival and building with constant exploration rewards, it delivers a very comparable gameplay loop.
- #30 No Man's Sky
79% matchVery Positive85% of 406,987 reviews2016
Dev: Hello Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 20.2 hrsMean: 70.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.6% ★, Open World 14%, Survival 9.1%, Sandbox 8.8%, Exploration 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: It matches the broad sense of open-ended exploration and base building, even though it swaps voxel fantasy for procedural sci-fi.
- #31 Angeldust
77% matchMixed64% of 1,428 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 12.9%, Sandbox 12.1%, Open World 11.9%, Multiplayer 9.1%
- #32 Tinkerlands
72% 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 25.9% ★, Online Co-Op 10.2%, Sandbox 9.4%, Crafting 8.3%, Survival 8%
- #33 Core Keeper
71% 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 21.2% ★, Crafting 10.1%, Building 9.6%, Online Co-Op 9.3%, Sandbox 9.2%
- #34 Force of Nature
74% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,202 reviews2016
Dev: A.Y.std
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.3% ★, Crafting 12.9%, Survival 10.3%, Sandbox 8.7%, Building 8%
- #35 Genesis Online
76% matchMostly Negative32% of 1,886 reviews2015
Dev: Shumkov Dmitriy
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 2.6 hrs≥1hr: 21%
Genesis Online! First Person Multiplayer Adventure game in an editable procedural cubic world.
Why similar: Survival 19%, Sandbox 17.2%, Multiplayer 13.6%, Open World 13.6%, Voxel 8.8% ★
- #36 Tinkertown
72% 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: Crafting 13.4%, Sandbox 11.8%, RPG 11.4%, Online Co-Op 10.6%, Building 10.1%
- #37 Blockscape
75% 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 40.3% ★, Sandbox 11.9%, Crafting 8%, Building 7.5%, Voxel 7.3% ★
- #38 Necesse
67% 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 34.1% ★, Sandbox 8.6%, Crafting 8.4%, Open World 7.5%, Survival 7.1%
- #39 Teravit
73% matchMostly Negative32% of 216 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 23.4% ★, Building 10.4%, Online Co-Op 10.2%, Crafting 9.9%, Sandbox 9%
- #40 Crea
73% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,407 reviews2016
Dev: Siege Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 19.1 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 7.6%, Building 6.4%
- #41 Astral Terra
74% 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 26.1% ★, Voxel 16.3% ★, Sandbox 8.9%, Open World 8.4%, Survival 8%
- #42 Lay of the Land
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 971 reviews2026
Dev: Southern Cross Interactive
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 64%
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 12.2%, Open World 9.5%, Building 9.1%, Crafting 8.7%
- #43 Mini World: CREATA
71% matchMixed59% of 4,493 reviews2018
Dev: MINOVATE HONG KONG LIMITED
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 54.1 hrs≥1hr: 62%
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%, Online Co-Op 12.8%, Open World 12.7%, Survival 11.3%
- #44 Crafting Block World
71% matchMixed47% of 53 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 36.3% ★, Sandbox 14.2%, Survival 12.1%, Building 10%, Crafting 9.3%
- #45 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
68% matchMostly Positive79% of 34,194 reviews2020
Dev: Eleon Game Studios
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 76.8 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 22.6% ★, Voxel 18.5% ★, Building 9.3%, Co-op 9.1%, Crafting 7.9%
- #46 Cubic Odyssey
66% 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 31.9% ★, Building 11.9%, Sandbox 11.4%, Co-op 10.8%, Action-Adventure 7.2%
- #47 DreamWorld: Sandbox MMO
66% matchMixed69% of 54 reviews2026
Dev: DreamWorld Realities, Inc.
Windows
Build incredible structures with powerful tools. Explore the world with all players on one server. Battle bosses, farm, craft, and socialize with friends. How will you shape DreamWorld?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.4% ★, Building 10.4%, Crafting 10.2%, Sandbox 9.9%, Open World 9.2%
- #48 Everwind
64% matchVery Positive82% of 3,221 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Everwind is a novel take on RPG and Sandbox Survival genre in First-Person-Perspective. Embark on the adventure with your friends - Build a base on a flying island-ship, gather resources, craft, loot, and fight while you rise above the clouds to uncover the mysteries of this world!
Why similar: Online Co-Op 12.6%, Crafting 12.5%, Building 12.1%, Sandbox 11.1%, Co-op 10.9%
- #49 Nightingale
66% matchMixed67% of 17,932 reviews2024
Dev: Inflexion Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 24.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Nightingale is an open world survival crafting game, where you’ll adventure across the mysterious and dangerous Fae Realms. As a daring Realmwalker, you’ll defeat monstrous enemies, survive hostile environments, and build elaborate estates in a visually stunning Gaslamp Fantasy world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.6% ★, Online Co-Op 10.1%, Crafting 9.3%, Building 9.1%, Survival 8.6%
- #50 GRAV
70% 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 37.6% ★, Survival 12.3%, Open World 10.6%, Sandbox 10.1%, Crafting 9.3%
- #51 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 24.9% ★, Sandbox 11.5%, Building 10.9%, Crafting 10.2%, Survival 9.6%
- #52 Shamania
63% 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 24.4% ★, Crafting 11.4%, Open World 9.3%, Survival 8.7%, Sandbox 8%
- #53 Omega Crafter
63% 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 23.8% ★, Crafting 11%, Open World 9.1%, Survival 9%, Co-op 8.2%
