- #1 CHKN
97% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,718 reviews2016
Dev: Katapult
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.9 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: Creature Collector 27.3%, Sandbox 18.6%, Open World 16.2%, Survival 14.6%, Multiplayer 11%
- #2 SPORE™ Galactic Adventures
96% matchVery Positive89% of 7,556 reviews2009
Dev: EA - MaxisPub: Electronic Arts
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 36.7 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Take Your Creature From Zero To Galactic HeroGet out of your starship and turn your Spore creatures into legendary Space Captains. For the first time, beam down with your allies to take on action-packed, planetside adventures. Complete quests, collect rewards, and even create your own missions.
Why similar: God Game 28.3% ★, Open World 16.9%, Sandbox 16.8%, Simulation 12.1%, Exploration 7.1%
- #3 Creativerse
96% 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: Sandbox 18.1%, Open World 15.8%, Survival 14.7%, Multiplayer 11%, Third Person 7.9%
- #4 Palworld
94% matchVery Positive94% of 417,805 reviews2024
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 34.2 hrsMean: 70.0 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!
Why similar: Creature Collector 33.6%, Open World 20.3%, Survival 16.6%, Multiplayer 12%, Sandbox 10.2%
- #5 SPORE™
95% matchVery Positive93% of 70,545 reviews2008
Dev: Maxis™Pub: Electronic Arts
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Be the architect of your own universe with Spore, an exciting single-player adventure. From Single Cell to Galactic God, evolve your creature in a universe of your own creations.
Why similar: God Game 48.9% ★, Sandbox 18%, Open World 16.8%, Simulation 7.2%, Exploration 6.7%
- #6 Strange Seed
93% matchVery Positive86% of 358 reviews2025
Dev: Chronicle Games LtdPub: Slug Disco
Windows
You’re a lowly blob, but with the ability to evolve any DNA you eat, you don’t have to stay that way. Upgrade parts to fight, run, fly and overcome your environment. Mammals, birds, insects, dinosaurs... everything is on your menu!
Why similar: God Game 37% ★, Creature Collector 20.1%, Character Customization 12.9%, Simulation 5.9%, Third Person 5.9%
- #7 Angeldust
94% matchMixed64% of 1,423 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: Open World 24.2%, Sandbox 23.2%, RPG 18.8%, Multiplayer 16.8%, Exploration 7.4%
- #8 Omega Crafter
92% matchMostly Positive79% of 560 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 23%, Survival 20.3%, Multiplayer 15.9%, Sandbox 14.8%, Procedural Generation 9.1%
- #9 Creature Keeper
91% matchMixed69% of 127 reviews2025
Dev: Fervir GamesPub: Graffiti Games
Windows
Creature Keeper is an action-adventure RPG where you Befriend Creatures and fight alongside them in real time. Explore a mysterious world and uncover the truth behind a strange sickness spreading across the land. Power up your team, fill out your Bestiary, and embark on your journey of destiny!
Why similar: Creature Collector 34.7%, Collectathon 20.6%, Survival 13.3%, Exploration 7.4%, Fantasy 6.5%
- #10 The Sandbox Evolution - Craft a 2D Pixel Universe!
91% matchMixed42% of 1,512 reviews2016
Dev: PIXOWL INC.
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 43%
Use your godly powers to craft amazing pixel worlds or destroy the universe! Play with physics, over 200 elements and controllable heroes. Make your own games or levels, and then share your creations online. There are no limits to your creativity and imagination!
Why similar: God Game 42.3% ★, Sandbox 33.2%, Multiplayer 8.4%, Simulation 8.3%, Physics 7.8%
- #11 Cassette Beasts
88% matchVery Positive94% of 10,531 reviews2023
Dev: Bytten StudioPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Collect awesome monsters to use during turn-based battles in this open-world RPG, now with online multiplayer mode. Combine any two monster forms using Cassette Beasts’ Fusion System to create unique and powerful new ones!
Why similar: Creature Collector 35.5%, Collectathon 26.9%, Open World 18.6%, Exploration 7.8%, RPG 7%
- #12 Boundless
89% matchMixed70% of 2,766 reviews2018
Dev: Monumental, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 33.0 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: Sandbox 33.4%, Open World 29.3%, Survival 16.9%, RPG 7.1%, Multiplayer 5.5%
- #13 Day of Dragons
89% matchMixed65% of 7,699 reviews2019
Dev: Beawesome Games
Windows
Median: 8.4 hrsMean: 48.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Day of Dragons is an online creature survival game set in a large, beautiful, sandbox open world with multiple biomes and distinct creatures. Rule the world as one of several dragon species, or play as an elemental.
Why similar: Sandbox 20%, Survival 18.2%, Open World 17.2%, Multiplayer 13.3%, Fantasy 7.2%
- #14 Cubic Castles
87% matchMostly Positive74% of 4,272 reviews2014
Dev: Cosmic Cow LLC
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: Sandbox 30.5%, Open World 27.3%, Multiplayer 19.8%, Survival 13.9%, Adventure 4.6%
- #15 Scrap Mechanic
85% matchVery Positive92% of 117,049 reviews2016
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.1 hrsMean: 57.3 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: Sandbox 19.6%, Open World 17.3%, Survival 15.8%, Multiplayer 11.9%, Moddable 11.6% ★
- #16 Birthdays the Beginning
86% matchMixed64% of 965 reviews2017
Dev: Arc System WorksPub: NIS America, Inc.
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
The origins of the world are yours to decide in this engaging and open-ended builder experience! Shape the geography, control the temperature, and give rise to diverse lifeforms. Witness the birth of an entirely new ecosystem, made with your very own hands!
Why similar: God Game 63.5% ★, Sandbox 23.4%, Simulation 11.5%, Singleplayer 1.6%
- #17 Towers of Aghasba
83% matchMixed69% of 2,016 reviews2024
Dev: Dreamlit inc.
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Explore a stunning open-world filled with majestic creatures and quirky characters. Nurture the barren land into vibrant ecosystems and flex your creativity as you build a thriving civilization in balance with nature.
Why similar: Creature Collector 31.4%, Open World 14.8%, Sandbox 13.4%, Character Customization 12.4%, Third Person 6.2%
- #18 shutterbuds
84% matchMixed40% of 173 reviews2025
Dev: Drunkey Monkey GamesPub: Champlain College
Windows
Explore a National Park with up to 3 of your photojournalist friends. Take jobs from top magazine brands, then hit the trail in search of interesting landmarks and goofy creatures to photograph. Use your pay to buy useful items and cosmetics. You’ll be sure to make the front page in a flash!
Why similar: Creature Collector 31.9%, Sandbox 15.9%, Open World 13.7%, Character Customization 13%, Multiplayer 7.3%
- #19 SPORE™ Creepy & Cute Parts Pack
84% matchVery Positive89% of 2,124 reviews2008
Dev: Maxis™Pub: Electronic Arts
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Add horror and humor to your universe. Make grotesque beasts or cuddly critters, then watch them do the robot, zombie walk, break dance and more! Includes over 100 new items. 60 New parts 48 New paint options 24 New animations
Why similar: God Game 42.2% ★, Open World 15.1%, Simulation 13.1%, Sandbox 12.3%, Character Customization 9.2%
- #20 Playcraft
82% matchMostly Positive79% of 700 reviews2023
Dev: Bebop Games
Windows
Playcraft is a multiplayer game-creation sandbox accessible to anyone!
Why similar: Sandbox 23.4%, Open World 18.6%, Survival 15.4%, Multiplayer 13.7%, Third Person 9%
- #21 Heliopedia
82% matchVery Positive88% of 212 reviews2021
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 50%
A fictional universe sandbox/exploration game. 🪐☄️✨ Shape your own solar system by terraforming planets. Find new species and make beautiful ecosystems . . . or breed destruction with volcanos, lightning storms and wildfires!
Why similar: God Game 43% ★, Creature Collector 27.7%, Sandbox 16.4%, Simulation 7.3%, Exploration 5.6%
- #22 Yaoling: Mythical Journey
79% matchVery Positive90% of 3,444 reviews2025
Dev: RAYKA STUDIO
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 22.0 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Yaoling: Mythical Journey is a creature collecting Eastern fantasy RPG featuring an world filled with rich stories and unique Yaolings. Tasked to uncover a mysterious evil, you embark on a journey with your Yaolings, forming new friendships, engage in intense battles, and face countless challenges!
Why similar: Creature Collector 34.1%, Sandbox 17.2%, Open World 17.2%, RPG 6.6%, Exploration 6.5%
- #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: Survival 18.4%, Open World 18.1%, Sandbox 17.3%, Multiplayer 13%, RPG 6.4%
- #24 Temtem
78% matchVery Positive81% of 39,217 reviews2022
Dev: CremaPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 12.7 hrsMean: 42.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Temtem is an online creature-collection adventure. Tame 165 unique creatures across 7 vibrant islands, battle other tamers, tackle mythical Lairs, chase Luma & Umbra variants, and breed your favorite Tems - with friends by your side! Dive into a colorful monster catching adventure, so Temtem up!
Why similar: Creature Collector 39.7%, Collectathon 18%, Multiplayer 14.9%, Character Customization 13.9%, RPG 5.5%
- #25 Creature Clicker - Capture, Train, Ascend!
81% matchMixed49% of 595 reviews2017
Dev: ColloseusXPub: Phat Phrog Studios
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 23.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
A new creature collecting clicker game in which your goal is to capture all of the 50+ creatures, level them up to make them do more DPS and ascend them to gain better abilities. Unlock legendary variants and defeat all of the raid bosses & every hour get a steam creature you can trade, buy or sell!
Why similar: Creature Collector 51.8%, Sandbox 25%, RPG 11.9%, Fantasy 9.2%, Singleplayer 2.1%
- #26 Alchemist's Awakening
79% matchMostly Positive73% of 496 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: Sandbox 36.7%, Open World 30.4%, Survival 25.7%, Fantasy 7.1%
- #27 Spire Horizon Online
77% matchMixed68% of 346 reviews2024
Dev: Mendoka
Windows
Spire Horizon Online is an MMORPG where players become skeleton adventurers on a quest to find their capybara friend. Choose from a variety of classes, battle numerous monsters, and explore diverse regions.
Why similar: Open World 24.9%, Creature Collector 14.3%, Multiplayer 10.8%, Fantasy 10.3%, Exploration 10%
- #28 Super Mining Mechs
76% matchVery Positive88% of 784 reviews2024
Dev: Delayed Victory
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Build your own Super Mining Mech and explore the underground in search of new natural resources. Customize your mech with unlockable parts to dig deeper than ever - by yourself or with up to 7 friends in online co-op multiplayer! So, what are you waiting for? There’s mining to be done!
Why similar: Collectathon 28.8%, Sandbox 21.1%, Character Customization 20%, Open World 15.7%, Procedural Generation 11.8%
- #29 Border Town
76% matchVery Positive81% of 299 reviews2025
Dev: GoHoGamesPub: 2P Games
Windows
Restore the former glory of Border Town in an open-world sandbox RPG set in a fantastical realm. Explore the world, craft tools and weapons, cultivate fields, and socialise with your neighbours while dealing with dark forces that threaten to destroy everything you have built.
Why similar: Sandbox 22.3%, Open World 20.9%, Survival 16.3%, Creature Collector 10.8%, RPG 7.2%
- #30 Project 5: Sightseer
78% matchMostly Positive72% of 543 reviews2019
Dev: Tasharen Entertainment Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 28.9 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Open world multiplayer sandbox/RPG game. Explore, gather, build, research, and fight to protect what's yours -- by yourself or together with your friends.
Why similar: Sandbox 36.7%, Open World 23.2%, RPG 18.8%, Adventure 12.5%, Multiplayer 8.8%
- #31 Botworld Odyssey
75% matchMostly Positive77% of 266 reviews2024
Dev: Featherweight Games
Windows
Venture out into a huge open world to discover new bots and collect rare scrap to build them. Deploy your bots in tactical auto-battles on your quest to become the world’s greatest Botmaster.
Why similar: Creature Collector 34%, Collectathon 24.6%, Open World 17.5%, Multiplayer 8.1%, RPG 6.3%
- #32 Re.poly
77% matchVery Positive92% of 135 reviews2019
Dev: Hinkfoot Studios
Windows
Re.Poly is a relaxed yet deep indie survival game in a low-poly style that blends exploration, combat, building, and adventure. Whether alone or with friends, create your own world, write your own story, and decide how you want to play.
Why similar: Sandbox 20%, Open World 17.7%, Survival 17.2%, Multiplayer 9.1%, Action-Adventure 7.1%
- #33 Necesse
71% matchVery Positive93% of 26,780 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 14.6 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: Sandbox 24.5%, Open World 22.8%, Survival 19.1%, Multiplayer 16.4%, RPG 6.6%
- #34 Fun with Ragdolls: The Game
74% matchVery Positive88% of 5,115 reviews2019
Dev: Jadon BarnesPub: Fun & Simple
Windows · Mac
Median: 30 minMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 37%
Become a ragdoll and create your own environments in Sandbox Mode, explore worlds created by others, or just flop around your destructible sets! Fun with Ragdolls®: The Game lets you enjoy everything you love about ragdolls!
Why similar: Sandbox 36.5%, Physics 19.8%, Simulation 12.1%, Multiplayer 10.3%, Moddable 9.7% ★
- #35 Tinkertown
73% matchMixed67% of 1,340 reviews2023
Dev: Headup
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 6.0 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 24%, Open World 20%, Multiplayer 17.7%, RPG 17.5%, Adventure 12%
- #36 Miscreation: Evolve Your Creature!
75% matchMixed61% of 227 reviews2019
Dev: Chronicle Games Ltd
Windows
Evolve your creature to survive Yggsdrasil! You are a newborn blob at the base of the divine tree. Collect legs, arms, tails, wings and other parts, then combine them in your own body to become the optimal creature!
Why similar: Adventure 72.3%, Singleplayer 27.7%
- #37 FANTATALE
73% matchMixed56% of 105 reviews2024
Dev: Teeny Studio Inc.
Windows
Battle, level up, and decorate freely—an endless fantasy adventure awaits
Why similar: Open World 34.3%, Character Customization 29.6%, Fantasy 13.3%, RPG 11.9%, Exploration 11%
- #38 Atlas Architect
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 225 reviews2021
Dev: Danial RashidiPub: Rashidi Interactive
Windows
A creative game where your imagination is your limit.
Why similar: God Game 35.9% ★, Sandbox 20.1%, Procedural Generation 15.1%, Open World 10.6%, Exploration 7.8%
- #39 Planet Centauri
70% matchMostly Positive77% of 2,359 reviews2024
Dev: Permadeath
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 13.6 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: Creature Collector 32.4%, Sandbox 20.7%, Open World 17%, Multiplayer 10.9%, Exploration 7.8%
- #40 Cultivation Tales
72% matchMostly Negative38% of 13,640 reviews2024
Dev: Ac Games
Windows
Median: 23.8 hrsMean: 66.1 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Cultivation Tales is an open world survival craft online game. You will experience collecting, crafting, hunting, fighting, building, researching, in a wild mythical world. Fight for your clan and yourself, from mortal to divinity!
Why similar: Sandbox 26.1%, Survival 18.9%, Open World 18.2%, Multiplayer 9.8%, Action-Adventure 7.2%
- #41 Teravit
72% matchMostly Negative32% of 215 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: Collectathon 20.5%, Sandbox 17.2%, Character Customization 16.2%, Survival 13.8%, Multiplayer 11.2%
- #42 Piworld
69% matchMostly Positive75% of 134 reviews2025
Dev: Ahaha studio
Windows
Piworld is a unique multiplayer game where everyone can find something to do to suit their desires. Try out different roles: from a simple fisherman to an adventurer. Explore the world alone or with friends, fight evil, develop your skills, and create your own story.
Why similar: Sandbox 28.5%, Open World 26.8%, Survival 24.8%, Simulation 13%, Adventure 6.9%
- #43 Longvinter
68% matchMixed67% of 7,526 reviews2025
Dev: Uuvana Studios
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 39.9 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Fish, farm, craft, gather, cook, loot or steal from other players and build a campsite or a village with your friends in an open-world multiplayer sandbox game without rules!
Why similar: Survival 24.2%, Open World 23.1%, Sandbox 20.7%, Multiplayer 18.9%, Exploration 6.2%
- #44 Shamania
68% matchMostly Positive78% of 140 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 22.3%, Survival 18.7%, Sandbox 18.2%, Multiplayer 13.5%, Character Customization 10%
- #45 Modiverse
71% matchMixed57% of 67 reviews2021
Dev: Deep Voodoo Games
Windows
An open multiplayer sandbox game; includes tools, props, levels, NPCs, character models, game-modes and much more! Make your own using our mod kit!
Why similar: Survival 61.9%, Physics 38.1%
- #46 Serin Fate
70% matchMostly Positive74% of 567 reviews2021
Dev: VethergenPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 49%
Evil is afoot... Wielding your new Magic, bound into mysterious Monster-infested lands to uncover ancient relics and restore the Fate Stone. Along the way, explore the depths of every nook to find creatures, garner ingredients, train in Witchery, and craft new equipment.
Why similar: Creature Collector 32.9%, Sandbox 18.1%, Open World 17.4%, Exploration 6.9%, Fantasy 6.9%
- #47 Animal Fight Club
70% matchVery Positive81% of 295 reviews2019
Dev: Marco AmadeiPub: Corvostudio di Amadei Marco
Windows · Mac
Median: 42 minMean: 16.7 hrs≥1hr: 39%
Invent new creatures by mixing real or legendary animals in thousands of possible combinations, create an army and fight in the singleplayer campaign or in online multiplayer against friends or random challengers!
Why similar: Simulation 68.5%, Adventure 31.5%
- #48 Hybrids Arena
71% matchMixed55% of 413 reviews2016
Dev: Abstract Software Inc.
Windows
Pick 2 animals from a giant list, and the game will use an algorithm to morph them together! Each hybrid has its own unique stats and perks, and you test them against your friends in a natural-selection kind of way. There are millions of possibilities.
Why similar: Character Customization 49.4%, Simulation 32.6%, Multiplayer 18%
- #49 Monster Lab Simulator: Prologue
67% matchMostly Positive71% of 92 reviews2025
Dev: Round3 StudiosPub: Kiki Games
Windows
Monster Lab Simulator is a creature collector where you create, raise, and battle monsters in your own lab. Synthesize essences, hatch eggs, expand your collection, and build the ultimate team!
Why similar: Creature Collector 46.1%, Collectathon 31.5%, Simulation 16.2%, RPG 6.2%
- #50 Miniland Adventure
68% matchMostly Positive74% of 328 reviews2023
Dev: Imilkowski DevPub: Gameparic
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 54%
The world doesn't generate itself - you do it, shape the world as you wish! Start with nothing, and build dream houses for goblins and yourself while exploring, collecting resources, crafting, building, fighting, farming... and more!
Why similar: God Game 27% ★, Sandbox 23.8%, Survival 18.6%, Collectathon 16.2%, Exploration 5.3%
- #51 Dark and Light
69% matchMixed52% of 11,804 reviews2017
Dev: Snail Games USA
Windows
Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 49.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Dark and Light is a vast sandbox survival RPG set in a world dominated by powerful elemental forces. Find your way in a meticulously crafted world, featuring breathtaking landscapes, a wide variety of mythical creatures, and limitless possibility to craft, build, and unlock dozens of powerful weapons, spells, and skills.
Why similar: Open World 25.5%, Sandbox 22.5%, Survival 22%, RPG 8.1%, Fantasy 7.1%
- #52 TerraTech
66% matchVery Positive91% of 24,455 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: Sandbox 27.6%, Open World 23.5%, Multiplayer 14.1%, Survival 13.6%, Physics 5.8%
- #53 Vilmonic
69% matchMostly Positive72% of 85 reviews2018
Dev: Bludgeonsoft
Windows · Mac · Linux
Vilmonic is an artificial life simulator and genetics and evolution sandbox game. Protect and breed unique pixel-art life forms where pixels and color have meaning. Craft tools and buildings and change the environment. Find ancient tech and fend off haywire zombitons. Craft Farm Breed Evolve!
Why similar: God Game 35.4% ★, Creature Collector 19.9%, Sandbox 14.1%, Character Customization 9.5%, Open World 8.1%
- #54 Drake Hollow
66% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,787 reviews2020
Dev: The Molasses FloodPub: CD PROJEKT RED
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Build and defend villages of vegetable folk from deadly feral beasts in the blighted world of The Hollow. Explore, gather, and fight! You can even invite your friends. Can you craft the perfect village?
Why similar: Sandbox 20.1%, Open World 19.1%, Survival 16.9%, Multiplayer 12.3%, Character Customization 12%
- #55 In Next Life
64% matchMixed68% of 115 reviews2026
Dev: Dual DecadePub: Wereviz AB
Windows · Mac
An online multiplayer game of crafting, survival, civilization building, and player collaboration. Start in the stone age and live, build, and invent your way to higher civilization. Live and die as well as you can, to gain the experience you need to achieve even more in your next life!
Why similar: Sandbox 21.2%, Survival 19.1%, Open World 18.4%, Multiplayer 13.3%, Simulation 9%
- #56 Party Maker Farm Fest
67% matchMixed65% of 205 reviews2021
Dev: Forestlight Games
Windows
Builder. Designer. Renovator. Unleash your creativity in over a dozen unique places, get the right equipment, prepare the space, use what you find. Have a crazy farm party, here we go!
Why similar: Sandbox 36.1%, Open World 35.1%, Simulation 22.1%, Adventure 6.6%