- #1 Rising World
97% matchVery Positive86% of 6,019 reviews2014
Dev: JIW-Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 21.4 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 24.7% ★, Voxel 20.8% ★, Building 9.2%, Crafting 9%, Sandbox 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A first-person voxel survival sandbox centered on procedurally generated worlds, mining, crafting, terraforming, and highly flexible building.
- #2 Portal Knights
96% matchVery Positive83% of 22,395 reviews2017
Dev: Keen Games GmbHPub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 21.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
The world of Elysia needs YOU! Join this cooperative, 3D sandbox action RPG to level up your character, craft epic weapons, conquer enemies in real-time, and build almost anything! Craft your adventure. Forge your hero. Become the ultimate Portal Knight!
Why similar: Sandbox 14.9%, Building 13.6%, Crafting 13.6%, Survival 10.4%, Multiplayer 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: It combines colorful block-based building and resource gathering with accessible co-op exploration and light RPG progression.
- #3 Teravit
96% matchMostly Negative32% of 219 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 9.9%, Crafting 9.9%, Sandbox 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: A colorful multiplayer voxel sandbox focused on freely building, exploring generated environments, and sharing adventures with friends.
- #4 Total Miner
95% matchMostly Positive78% of 770 reviews2017
Dev: Brandon Moore
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 36.5 hrs≥1hr: 41%
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 26.6% ★, Voxel 17.1% ★, Sandbox 9%, Building 7.4%, Open World 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: This block-building survival game closely mirrors Creativerse's loop of mining resources, crafting gear, exploring caves, and constructing bases.
- #5 LEGO® Worlds
94% matchMostly Positive78% of 15,661 reviews2017
Dev: TT GamesPub: Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.6 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 18.1%, Sandbox 16.7%, Open World 15.7%, Multiplayer 9.8%, Family Friendly 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a playful procedural brick sandbox with unrestricted building, exploration, vehicles, and cooperative discovery.
- #6 Blockscape
94% matchMixed46% of 899 reviews2014
Dev: ioneo
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 48%
The ultimate block building game. Start with nothing and build an empire. Smooth voxel worlds, settlers, crafting, vehicles, and Steam multiplayer. Survival or Just Build — every item in your inventory is also a building block.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.8% ★, Sandbox 11.7%, Crafting 7.9%, Building 7.4%, Voxel 7.3% ★
Why You'll Like It: It is a first-person voxel sandbox built around mining, crafting, survival systems, and creating structures in destructible worlds.
- #7 Ylands
93% matchMixed64% of 8,453 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 26.2% ★, Crafting 10.7%, Building 8.6%, Online Co-Op 8.3%, Open World 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: Ylands mixes colorful survival exploration, gathering, crafting, and extensive building with online co-op and player-made scenarios.
- #8 Block Story™
92% matchVery Positive84% of 2,156 reviews2015
Dev: Big Cube Interactive, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 8.4 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 23% ★, Voxel 17.5% ★, Crafting 8.8%, Sandbox 8.6%, Building 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: Its Minecraft-like voxel worlds add quests, creatures, crafting, and RPG advancement to open-ended building and exploration.
- #9 Trove
91% matchMostly Positive80% of 92,789 reviews2015
Dev: gamigo US Inc.
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 49.2 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% ★, Sandbox 11.8%, Crafting 11.1%, Building 10.9%, Open World 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: Its bright voxel worlds, collectible classes, dungeon exploration, and social building make it a more MMO-oriented alternative to Creativerse.
- #10 PixARK
91% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,659 reviews2019
Dev: Snail Games USA
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 40.0 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Enter a world of mystery, danger, ancient dinosaurs, mythical beasts, and cubes! Work by yourself or with a tribe of others to gather materials, craft useful items, tame wild creatures, and build huge bases to survive in PixARK!
Why similar: Voxel 17.4% ★, Survival 15.8%, Open World 13.2%, Sandbox 12.3%, Crafting 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: PixARK brings voxel construction and harvesting to a creature-filled survival world where players tame dinosaurs and build fortified bases.
- #11 Scrap Mechanic
88% matchVery Positive92% of 123,030 reviews2026
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 65.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!
Why similar: Building 16.5%, Crafting 13.4%, Sandbox 13.1%, Open World 11.3%, Survival 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: Its inventive construction system supports elaborate vehicles and bases, while Survival mode adds harvesting, farming, combat, and co-op exploration.
- #12 Cubic Castles
90% matchMostly Positive74% of 4,283 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 34.7% ★, Building 14%, Sandbox 10.9%, Open World 9.6%, Crafting 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: This social voxel game centers on building imaginative custom worlds, collecting materials, and visiting creations made by other players.
- #13 DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS™ 2
89% matchVery Positive92% of 8,103 reviews2019
Dev: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 11.1 hrsMean: 46.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS™ 2 is a block-building RPG set in a fantasy land threatened by an evil cult. Explore, battle, build and harvest in the charming single-player campaign or build big projects in the online sandbox mode for up to 4-players.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.5% ★, Building 10.9%, Sandbox 9.5%, Voxel 8.1% ★, Crafting 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: A charming block-building adventure with deep crafting, farming, town development, exploration, and optional multiplayer islands.
- #14 Planet Explorers
89% matchMixed62% of 6,818 reviews2016
Dev: Pathea Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Planet Explorers is an open world sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.3% ★, Sandbox 11.9%, Open World 9.6%, Crafting 8%, Survival 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: This sci-fi sandbox emphasizes open-world survival, mining, crafting, custom construction, and exploration across alien terrain.
- #15 Terraria
87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,558,339 reviews2011
Dev: Re-Logic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 33.9 hrsMean: 152.6 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32% ★, Sandbox 12%, Crafting 8.7%, Survival 8.5%, Building 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: Its dense crafting progression, destructible exploration, building freedom, bosses, and co-op survival create a strong sandbox alternative in 2D.
- #16 Enshrouded
86% matchVery Positive86% of 106,050 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.9 hrsMean: 46.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.
Why similar: Open World 15.7%, Survival 14.1%, Online Co-Op 13.7%, Crafting 12.8%, Building 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: It offers cooperative survival, crafting, gliding exploration, and unusually freeform voxel-based terrain and base construction.
- #17 Valheim
84% matchVery Positive94% of 555,289 reviews2026
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 26.9 hrsMean: 81.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.2% ★, Online Co-Op 10.3%, Survival 9%, Building 8.7%, Crafting 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: Valheim delivers satisfying co-op survival exploration and exceptionally flexible base building across a large procedurally generated world.
- #18 Starbound
86% matchVery Positive90% of 123,321 reviews2016
Dev: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.0 hrsMean: 64.5 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 34% ★, Sandbox 11.4%, Crafting 8.1%, Online Co-Op 7.5%, Survival 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: Although 2D, it captures the same sandbox appeal through procedural planets, mining, crafting, building, and multiplayer base creation.
- #19 Core Keeper
83% matchVery Positive93% of 66,787 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.3 hrsMean: 34.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.4% ★, Crafting 10%, Building 9.5%, Sandbox 9.2%, Open World 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: This underground sandbox adventure centers on excavating, crafting, farming, building a home base, and exploring with friends.
- #20 Necesse
82% matchVery Positive93% of 29,166 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.9% ★, Sandbox 8.4%, Crafting 8.2%, Open World 7.7%, Survival 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: Necesse combines survival crafting and settlement building with procedural exploration, NPC management, and approachable multiplayer co-op.
- #21 Eco
85% matchVery Positive81% of 14,085 reviews2018
Dev: Strange Loop Games
Windows
Median: 16.7 hrsMean: 91.6 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 37.2% ★, Crafting 16.5%, Sandbox 12.9%, Open World 12.8%, Survival 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: Eco focuses on cooperative gathering, crafting, housing, and world-shaping, with an interconnected player economy and environmental simulation.
- #22 7 Days to Die
81% matchVery Positive87% of 405,507 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.4 hrsMean: 111.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 24.8% ★, Voxel 19.6% ★, Survival 12.2%, Online Co-Op 8.6%, Open World 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: A harsher first-person survival sandbox where scavenging, crafting, digging, and building defenses are central to surviving hostile worlds.
- #23 CastleMiner Z
84% matchVery Positive81% of 11,161 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 37.3% ★, Survival 11.8%, Sandbox 9.7%, Crafting 8.3%, Open World 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: It is a straightforward first-person block survival game focused on mining, crafting, base building, and hostile creature encounters.
- #24 Staxel
82% matchMostly Positive78% of 4,839 reviews2019
Dev: PlukitPub: Balor Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Grow your farm, meet the villagers, and join your friends online in building your world.
Why similar: Voxel 26.9% ★, Sandbox 12.2%, Building 12.2%, Online Co-Op 11.2%, Open World 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: This relaxed voxel life sim emphasizes farming, gathering, fishing, crafting, decorating, and helping develop a friendly village.
- #25 ASTRONEER
80% matchVery Positive92% of 139,497 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.2% ★, Open World 10.2%, Survival 10%, Sandbox 8.3%, Co-op 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: A gentler exploration sandbox where players reshape terrain, gather resources, build bases, and connect machinery across alien planets.
- #26 Craftopia
81% matchMostly Positive76% of 20,264 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 24.1% ★, Crafting 14%, Open World 13%, Survival 10.4%, Sandbox 8%
Why You'll Like It: It blends survival gathering, crafting, construction, automation, dungeons, and co-op exploration in a colorful open world.
- #27 Colony Survival
79% matchVery Positive92% of 9,016 reviews2017
Dev: Pipliz
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 28.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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: Survival 16.6%, Building 16.6%, Voxel 13% ★, Sandbox 12.9%, Open World 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: It pairs first-person block building and resource gathering with colony management and nightly defense against attacking monsters.
- #28 Space Engineers
78% matchVery Positive89% of 134,498 reviews2019
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 96.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.
Why similar: Building 17.9%, Sandbox 16.6%, Co-op 15.2%, Open World 14.7%, Survival 14.7%
Why You'll Like It: Space Engineers trades fantasy voxels for engineering-focused block construction, letting players mine, build vehicles, and survive in open space.
- #29 Wurm Unlimited
78% matchMostly Positive71% of 3,138 reviews2015
Dev: Code Club ABPub: Plug In Digital
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 18.8 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 29.9% ★, Sandbox 11.2%, Crafting 10.7%, Open World 10%, Building 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: Its persistent sandbox world supports deep crafting, terraforming, housing, farming, and communal settlement building for players who want more simulation depth.
- #30 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
76% matchMostly Positive78% of 34,438 reviews2020
Dev: Eleon Game Studios
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 77.1 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 23% ★, Voxel 18.4% ★, Building 9.2%, Co-op 9%, Crafting 7.8%
- #31 Tinkerlands
73% matchVery Positive86% of 4,122 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.4 hrsMean: 14.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Explore, craft, and fight your way through uncharted islands — solo or with up to 4 players in co-op! Tinkerlands is an exciting survival adventure where you will build your settlement, craft useful tools to survive, and even use magic!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.3% ★, Online Co-Op 9.9%, Sandbox 9.3%, Crafting 8.1%, Survival 8.1%
- #32 Boundless
77% matchMixed69% of 2,779 reviews2018
Dev: Monumental, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 32.8 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Shape your citizen, forge your destiny and sculpt your world in this epic voxel sandbox MMO built on endless possibility.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.1% ★, Voxel 19.9% ★, Sandbox 10.2%, Crafting 9.7%, Open World 8.8%
- #33 Cube World
77% matchMostly Negative37% of 18,738 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 26.4% ★, Open World 13.4%, Online Co-Op 8.4%, Multiplayer 7.5%, Co-op 6.1%
- #34 Allumeria
71% matchVery Positive93% of 602 reviews2026
Dev: Infinimelon
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 73%
A classic voxel sandbox combined with in-depth progression through exploration, dungeon crawling and boss battles. Spend every minute discovering new weapons, abilities, resources, enemies, structures, mechanics and tools. With a strong focus on discovery, variety and creativity, the world is yours.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25% ★, Crafting 9.6%, Sandbox 9.3%, Building 9.3%, Online Co-Op 8.5%
- #35 TerraTech
74% matchVery Positive91% of 25,032 reviews2018
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 32.4 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 27.1% ★, Building 14.6%, Sandbox 11.9%, Open World 9.9%, Crafting 9.5%
- #36 Angeldust
75% 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 13.1%, Open World 12.2%, Sandbox 12%, Multiplayer 9%
- #37 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
71% matchVery Positive82% of 10,551 reviews2024
Dev: Max Ent Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.4% ★, Crafting 8.3%, Online Co-Op 8.2%, Survival 8.2%, Building 8%
- #38 Solace Crafting
72% matchMostly Positive71% of 899 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 22.7% ★, Crafting 9.4%, Survival 8%, Online Co-Op 7.7%, Building 7.7%
- #39 Genesis Online
75% 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 19.1%, Sandbox 17%, Open World 14%, Multiplayer 13.4%, Voxel 8.8% ★
- #40 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 26.5% ★, Voxel 16.2% ★, Sandbox 8.8%, Open World 8.6%, Survival 8.1%
- #41 Tinkertown
70% matchMixed67% of 1,345 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 13.2%, Sandbox 11.7%, RPG 11.6%, Online Co-Op 10.2%, Building 10.1%
- #42 Lay of the Land
67% matchVery Positive80% of 1,234 reviews2026
Dev: Southern Cross Interactive
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 4.0 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 29.6% ★, Sandbox 12%, Open World 9.6%, Building 9.1%, Crafting 8.7%
- #43 Mini World: CREATA
70% matchMixed59% of 4,555 reviews2018
Dev: MINOVATE HONG KONG LIMITED
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 56.1 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%, Sandbox 18.2%, Open World 13.1%, Online Co-Op 12.4%, Survival 11.4%
- #44 Cubic Odyssey
66% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,754 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 32.4% ★, Building 11.8%, Sandbox 11.2%, Co-op 10.6%, Action-Adventure 7.4%
- #45 Crafting Block World
70% matchMixed47% of 55 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 36.1% ★, Sandbox 14.1%, Survival 12.2%, Building 10%, Crafting 9.2%
- #46 Nomad
69% 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 43.4% ★, Survival 14.8%, Open World 11%, Multiplayer 10.7%, Crafting 9.5%
- #47 Everwind
63% matchVery Positive81% of 3,899 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Everwind is a novel take on RPG and Sandbox Survival genre in First-Person-Perspective. Embark on the adventure with your friends - Build a base on a flying island-ship, gather resources, craft, loot, and fight while you rise above the clouds to uncover the mysteries of this world!
Why similar: Crafting 12.4%, Online Co-Op 12.2%, Building 12.2%, Sandbox 11%, Co-op 10.7%
- #48 Force of Nature
68% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,209 reviews2016
Dev: A.Y.std
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.8% ★, Crafting 12.7%, Survival 10.3%, Sandbox 8.6%, Building 7.9%
- #49 Trailmakers
65% matchVery Positive92% of 39,576 reviews2019
Dev: Flashbulb
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Build the ultimate vehicle and explore a vast open world filled with challenges and adventure. Play solo or team up with friends in multiplayer to conquer the toughest obstacles. With a thrilling campaign mode and endless creative possibilities, Trailmakers is the ultimate sandbox for adventurers.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 15.3%, Family Friendly 12.1%, Building 10.7%, Crafting 10.4%, Sandbox 9.9%
- #50 Crea
68% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,408 reviews2016
Dev: Siege Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 18.9 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 37.7% ★, Sandbox 13.9%, Crafting 12.1%, Survival 7.6%, Building 6.3%
- #51 Shamania
64% matchMostly Positive74% of 171 reviews2026
Dev: Totem Keepers Games
Windows
Shamania is an open world survival game where you can CRAFT, FIGHT, and EXPLORE a vibrant sandbox world with friends in CO-OP. Expand your base as a hub for survival, gather resources, and master professions to unlock new tools and opportunities!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.7% ★, Crafting 11.3%, Open World 9.5%, Survival 8.8%, Sandbox 7.9%
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63% matchVery Positive85% of 157 reviews2026
Dev: Sagestone Games
Windows
Explore, Build, Farm, Craft and Fight in this survival sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Delve deep to uncover the secret of the invading 'Faults' and restore stability to the land.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.8% ★, Sandbox 9.8%, Crafting 9.3%, Building 8.8%, Survival 8.5%
