- #1 Streets of Rogue 2
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Matt DabrowskiPub: tinyBuild
Windows · Mac · Linux
Streets of Rogue 2 is a crazy, immersive RPG sandbox set in a vast randomly generated open world where freedom and fun are dialed up to 11. Fight, sneak, hack, farm, build, steal, or talk your way to power as you try to topple a corrupt president in countless possible ways – solo or with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.2% ★, Action Roguelike 10.4%, Base Building 8.5%, Sandbox 8.4%, Crafting 8.2%
- #2 Whisper of the Swallows
96% matchVery Positive86% of 166 reviews2026
Dev: Blown Leaves
Windows
Brave a savage, unforgiving procedurally generated world where extreme weather and the nightmares of the dark will hunt you down. Alone or in co-op, survive, build, and explore to turn a cursed hellscape into your sanctuary of light.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.9% ★, Crafting 11%, Survival 9.4%, Sandbox 9.2%, Base Building 8.7%
- #3 Deus Mantle
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 1SPEED
Windows
Craft, build, fight monsters, discover new technologies and explore an infinite procedurally generated world! Delve into unknown worlds to uncover ancient secrets and return home.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.7% ★, Crafting 10.2%, Base Building 9.1%, Survival 9%, Sandbox 8.8%
- #4 CrossWorlds: Escape
95% matchMixed64% of 158 reviews2020
Dev: Another Reality
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 97%
CrossWorlds: Escape is a hardcore game in which you will have to deploy all your skills to survive in a huge open world that is susceptible to changes in weather, seasons and various natural phenomena.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.2% ★, Crafting 10.4%, Base Building 10.1%, Nature 10%, Survival 9.5%
- #5 EverRail
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Aesir Interactive
Windows
A survival crafting adventure set in an infinite frozen world, where your train is your only refuge. Build and expand it into a moving fortress as you journey alone or with up to 4 players. Rescue survivors to stay alive, every loss costs a passenger. Stop for too long, and you risk losing it all.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.1% ★, Crafting 9.8%, Base Building 8.9%, Survival 7.8%, Online Co-Op 7.7%
- #6 Road Survival: Bigger on the Inside
94% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Folded Worlds
Windows
In a toxic, zombie-ridden wasteland, survival is brutal. Upgrade your RV into a foldable-space mobile base—farm, craft, gather resources, and fend off the undead to build your last safe haven.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.9% ★, Base Building 9.4%, Crafting 8.8%, Survival 8.3%, Online Co-Op 7.7%
- #7 Mayday: The Survival Island
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pequi studiosPub: indie.io
Windows
After a mysterious crash, you awaken alone on a strange island. Survive by hunting, farming, and crafting, then explore a vast archipelago filled with secrets, ancient ruins, and magical totems. Build your base, uncover the truth, and escape—if you can.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.8% ★, Crafting 10.1%, Base Building 9.4%, Survival 8.3%, Sandbox 8.2%
- #8 Aniverse
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: AniLab
Windows
Chop trees, cook meals, build your home and play music to control the wild! Explore a procedurally generated world and survive your way through art.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38% ★, Crafting 10%, Open World 9.8%, Procedural Generation 9.6%, Sandbox 8.9%
- #9 Solace Crafting
91% 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 30.2% ★, Crafting 11.6%, Survival 10.2%, Base Building 9.9%, Online Co-Op 8%
- #10 Primal Man Simulator
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: RD Games
Windows
Primal Man Simulator is a complex survival simulator where the player becomes one of the evolutionary precursors of modern homo sapiens, trying to live through another day in an unwelcoming forests of Europe.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.1% ★, Crafting 13.4%, Survival 12.2%, Open World 9.8%, Base Building 8.2%
- #11 Cannibal Crossing
89% matchMixed62% of 258 reviews2022
Dev: Everplay InteractivePub: Rocketcat Games
Windows
Cannibal Crossing is an action-survival game where you explore the randomly generated town of Earlsboro while scavenging, fighting hordes of enemies, building a base, and searching for a way to escape! Meet survivors with new abilities and lots of cannibals. Includes a co-op mode for 1-4 players!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.2% ★, Action Roguelike 12.8%, Base Building 11%, Online Co-Op 9.4%, Crafting 8.8%
- #12 Core Keeper
88% matchVery Positive93% of 65,043 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.1 hrsMean: 34.4 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 24.4% ★, Crafting 10.6%, Base Building 9.9%, Survival 9.4%, Sandbox 8.9%
- #13 Nighthold
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 2 Zombie GamesPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Build shelters, interact with rescuees, battle against the Rot and raiders to survive another night in this Sandbox RPG. Play Solo or team up with friends in Online Сo-op.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.4% ★, Crafting 8.7%, Base Building 8.6%, Survival 7.7%, Sandbox 7.6%
- #14 Plains of Pain
87% matchVery Positive83% of 831 reviews2023
Dev: Cobra Byte Digital
Windows
Survive a brutal open world alone or with friends. Explore a procedural wasteland scorched by chaos. Build and defend your base, trade for what you need, complete deadly quests, and fight to claim faction outposts before someone else does.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.1% ★, Base Building 9.7%, Crafting 9.5%, Sandbox 8.4%, Procedural Generation 8.2%
- #15 The Survivalists
86% matchMostly Positive76% of 10,037 reviews2020
Dev: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 71%
A living world full of surprises, secrets and danger awaits in The Survivalists, an adventure-filled survival sandbox set in The Escapists universe. Explore, build, craft and even train monkeys with up to three friends in a desperate bid to survive. Have you got what it takes to be a Survivalist?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.5% ★, Crafting 13%, Survival 10.7%, Online Co-Op 9.8%, Base Building 9.2%
- #16 Terra Taker
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dream Craft
Windows
Terra Taker is an open-world survival crafting game where you build megastructures to terraform a fantasy planet. Gather resources, build automated bases, and transform floating islands, tornadoes, snowfields, lava zones, and lightning-scorched lands into a new paradise for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.7% ★, Crafting 11.4%, Base Building 11.1%, Survival 9.2%, Sandbox 8.3%
- #17 ARCANA
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Thomas RandallPub: bald
Windows
An Open World Survival Crafting game where you harness magic to advance. Discover new crafting recipies, expand your base, and conquer your enemies.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.4% ★, Survival 12.5%, Crafting 9.5%, Sandbox 9.3%, Procedural Generation 8.3%
- #18 Dawn of Defiance
84% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,809 reviews2024
Dev: Traega EntertainmentPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
You are the Defier, a Spartan beginning your afterlife on the Crossroads. In this Greek myth-inspired survival craft, ascend from weak soldier to god-like anti-hero. Build impressive Greek structures, craft legendary gear, and break the seals of the Underworld with up to 3 friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.5% ★, Survival 10.2%, Online Co-Op 10%, Base Building 9.4%, Crafting 7.4%
- #19 Last Breath
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: MxCreationLab
Windows
Last Breath is a solo/cooperative terraforming survival game. Dig through terrain, build powerful machines, and restore life to a dead planet. Work together to survive, automate, and reshape the world from the ground up, literally.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.7% ★, Survival 12.7%, Base Building 10.8%, Online Co-Op 9.7%, Crafting 9.6%
- #20 Cubits
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mango Nebula Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Take control of a talkative little Cubit, who knows he lives inside a game, and do your best to ensure both of you survive in this harsh, unforgiving world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.5% ★, Crafting 12.6%, Survival 11%, Sandbox 9.5%, Open World 7.3%
- #21 Moonrite
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Haki Studios
Windows
A survival crafting game where you craft spirit companions with different materials to fight, work, and survive. Build your spiritual village and explore a beautiful anime-inspired world to defy ancient gods that rule the material and spiritual.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.4% ★, Base Building 14%, Survival 11.2%, Online Co-Op 10.1%, Crafting 8.7%
- #22 SkyCraft
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: ADIAN
Windows
Skycraft is an open-world survival game for 1-10 players, set in infinite procedurally-generated floating islands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.2% ★, Crafting 11.1%, Survival 10.3%, Base Building 10%, Online Co-Op 9.6%
- #23 Romestead
79% matchMostly Positive75% of 3,870 reviews2026
Dev: BeartwigsPub: Three Friends
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 13.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Rome has fallen! Rebuild civilization in this action-adventure survival game for 1-8 players. Fight hordes of the walking dead, build settlements, restore the Roman gods... or kick back and farm with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.1% ★, Crafting 12.8%, Survival 9.9%, Base Building 9.4%, Procedural Generation 9.2%
- #24 Force of Nature
82% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,204 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 42.1% ★, Crafting 14.8%, Survival 12.4%, Sandbox 9.1%, Open World 7.9%
- #25 SpiritBorn
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Highforge Studios
Windows
An open-world survival crafting RPG set among floating islands. Gather resources, craft powerful tools, unlock spirit abilities to soar between skybound realms and reclaim your lost godhood.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.4% ★, Crafting 12.4%, Survival 11.6%, Base Building 9.6%, Open World 9.4%
- #26 Under A New Sun
80% matchMostly Positive76% of 388 reviews2023
Dev: New Horizon Games
Windows
While searching for a new home, an unexpected failure in your ship has left you stranded on a planet surprisingly similar to Earth. Discover a vast open world, hunt for food, develop technologies, and build yourself a new home to survive!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.8% ★, Crafting 11.8%, Survival 11.2%, Base Building 9.7%, Open World 9.2%
- #27 Undercraft
79% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2022
Dev: PlayUndercraft
Windows
Create your world in this sandbox game where you can dig, build, explore, fight, and farm. Have a different experience in a day or night adventure. Explore a procedurally generated world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35% ★, Sandbox 11.1%, Survival 10.9%, Procedural Generation 10.5%, Online Co-Op 9.5%
- #28 Cabin Rush
78% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2023
Dev: Gamerly Games
Windows
Explore and gather resources to build traps, towers, and walls to protect your cabin from increasingly difficult waves of monsters.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.4% ★, Action Roguelike 14.2%, Base Building 13.9%, Open World 6.5%, Crafting 6.2%
- #29 Ancient the Dimensions
77% matchNegative9% of 11 reviews2025
Dev: HEADSTONE STUDIO
Windows
Immerse yourself in an epic Survival Action RPG adventure, exploring a vast fantasy fairy tale world to build your own sanctuary and survive against extraordinary mythical creatures. Enhance your equipment, weapons, and skills to battle ruthless empires and interdimensional visitors.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34% ★, Crafting 11.1%, Survival 10.7%, Base Building 10.1%, Open World 8.9%
- #30 Wild
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DzernPub: Dzern and Unverändert
Windows
Wild is a survival game inspired by the "7vsWild" series. The goal is to survive, fight against dangerous animals, and build your shelter. For that, you are only allowed to take one bottle as equipment, so prepare it well in advance.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.7% ★, Survival 15.6%, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 10.6%, Nature 7.4%
- #31 ICARUS
76% matchMostly Positive75% of 64,520 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 46.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.6% ★, Survival 11.7%, Base Building 10.9%, Crafting 10.2%, Online Co-Op 8.8%
- #32 Nightingale
75% matchMixed66% of 17,965 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 33.4% ★, Crafting 11.1%, Survival 10.8%, Base Building 9.9%, Online Co-Op 9.8%
- #33 Stormforge
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Roboto Games
Windows
Stormforge is an open-world survival crafting game for 1 to 8 players. You are Stormforged, with the ability to brave and harness power from magical storms. Explore, fight, forage, craft, build, and defeat bosses in this epic, fantasy game. Survive the Storms and thrive!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.9% ★, Survival 10.3%, Crafting 9.7%, Open World 9%, Base Building 8.9%
- #34 Lodventure
75% matchMostly Positive74% of 162 reviews2023
Dev: Sky Games
Windows
Embark on a 1-4 players Co-op survival adventure in an open world wilderness in search of a myth called the Lod Stone. Build your house, sow your crops, brew potions, tame a horse and discover powerful abilities. Venture into dangerous dungeons, fight unique bosses to find the Lod stone.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35% ★, Survival 10.3%, Crafting 9.8%, Base Building 8.9%, Open World 8.7%
- #35 Aurendor
74% matchMixed47% of 17 reviews2023
Dev: Telescope Studios
Windows
Aurendor is an open world survival game. Players must gather resources, cook their meals and fight dangerous creatures to survive and build a home for themselves. Aurendor also offers a multiplayer game option. Players can play together by cooperating with or battling other survivors.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.7% ★, Crafting 11%, Survival 10.9%, Online Co-Op 10.3%, Base Building 10%
- #36 Green Hell
74% matchVery Positive85% of 98,679 reviews2019
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 18.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.1% ★, Survival 13.7%, Crafting 9.7%, Online Co-Op 9.5%, Base Building 7.5%
- #37 Cosmorists
73% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2024
Dev: Stellar Roots
Windows
You find yourself completely alone on a different yet very familiar looking planet. Explore the planet, craft tools, fight enemies, and build bases! Do science to learn new technologies that will allow interplanetary travel and better tools at your disposal!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.9% ★, Crafting 11.3%, Sandbox 10.5%, Survival 10.2%, Open World 9.5%
- #38 Emberhaven
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: The Third Variable Co., Ltd.Pub: Jexar Games Co., Ltd.
Windows
Survive in a procedurally generated fantasy world overrun by creeping corruption. Build impenetrable strongholds, tend your farms, forge deadly weapons, and fend off hordes of mutated abominations to defend your last sanctuary.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.2% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Crafting 10.8%, Survival 9.8%, Sandbox 9.7%
- #39 Valheim
72% matchVery Positive94% of 535,809 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 36.1% ★, Survival 11.1%, Online Co-Op 10.3%, Crafting 10%, Base Building 9.2%
- #40 VIFA
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NavySparkStudio
Windows
Vifa is a survival-building game where each hero character brings unique talents that change how you play. Team up with friends, craft and build your base, deploy worker bots to gather resources, and assemble powerful mechs to defend your home.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.1% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Sandbox 10.4%, Crafting 8.5%, Survival 7.6%
- #41 Rocksowers
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: bemad
Windows · Linux
Co-op Survival Sandbox meets Bullet Hell. Explore the corrupted surface on a moving base, scavenge for resources and craft GAME-BREAKING weapons using many unique modules to defeat ever-stronger foes. Fight to reclaim what The Bloom took from humanity!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.5% ★, Sandbox 12.4%, Survival 11.9%, Crafting 10.4%, Open World 7.5%
- #42 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
70% matchVery Positive91% of 7,475 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Survive, craft, and automate in this free prologue set on one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters, an open-world game where you play solo or with friends to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.2% ★, Base Building 11.4%, Crafting 10.4%, Online Co-Op 8.4%, Sandbox 7.8%
- #43 AstroPlanet
71% matchMixed67% of 43 reviews2025
Dev: VIVA
Windows
AstroPlanet is a sandbox game where you find yourself in the role of an astronaut whose ship has crashed on a planet with an inhospitable atmosphere. Your task is not only to survive, but also to turn this world into a habitable place.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.9% ★, Crafting 14.2%, Base Building 13.2%, Sandbox 12.9%, Open World 7.6%
- #44 Wildsite
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Vividdi Entertainment
Windows · Linux
Crash-landed on an unknown planet filled with plasma and toxic weather. Your only hope? Bob, a sarcastic-genius AI who will question your every survival decision. Explore, build your mobile base and try to avoid death alongside up to 3 friends in Co-op.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.2% ★, Crafting 11.4%, Base Building 10.5%, Survival 10.4%, Online Co-Op 10%
- #45 GreenMars: Expedition 744
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 744 Interactive
Windows
A sci-fi survival game where you explore a full planet, gather resources, build your base, deploy terraforming machines and drones, and begin turning hostile Martian terrain into the foundation of a new civilisation.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.2% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Survival 10.1%, Sandbox 9.7%, Online Co-Op 8.1%
- #46 TROLLHEIM: GNOMES
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Trollheim
Windows
TROLLHEIM: GNOMES is a reimagined classic survival crafting game where you play as tiny gnomes in an ancient Nordic wilderness. Brave the elements, encounter the mythical Väsen that dwell within it and build your home among the trees, by yourself or with up to 7 friends. The Dark Forest found you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.5% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Survival 11.1%, Crafting 11.1%, Nature 8.4%
- #47 Arid
70% matchVery Positive87% of 1,951 reviews2021
Dev: Sad Viscacha StudioPub: Breda University of Applied Sciences
Windows
Discover the mysteries of the Atacama, explore the abandoned mining networks, evade the scorching sun and survive the environment in one of the most arid place in the world. Arid is a FREE survival game made by students from Breda University.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.1% ★, Crafting 12.2%, Survival 11%, Nature 10.1%, Sandbox 9.8%
- #48 Len's Island
68% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,768 reviews2025
Dev: Flow Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
An open-world survival crafting game for 1–8 players, blending intense dungeon crawling and ARPG combat with peaceful farming and creative building. Take on quests and explore a vast, procedurally-generated world full of danger and discovery.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.3% ★, Crafting 9.6%, Nature 9.4%, Survival 9%, Sandbox 7.9%
- #49 The Rotting Chronicles
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bad Rhino Studios
Windows
The Rotting Chronicles is a survival action game set in a zombie-ravaged city where you must fight, scavenge, craft, and rebuild to survive. Run solo or with up to 3 friends as you grow your survival skills and find the best strategy to survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.3% ★, Crafting 10.9%, Base Building 10.1%, Survival 9.9%, Resource Management 8.3%
- #50 Claycrafter
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: scoz
Windows
Gather resources, build structures, and craft increasingly wondrous items to unlock the secrets of a mysterious world made entirely out of clay.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38% ★, Crafting 14.5%, Resource Management 11%, Sandbox 10.8%, Simulation 7.2%
- #51 Astoaria
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Feres Studio
Windows
A sandbox open-world survival set in a dynamic world of floating islands, each with its own ecosystem and climate. Explore and thrive by strategically exploiting these environments. Harness energy, strategically farm, craft your airship and much more, while uncovering the mysteries of this world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.4% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Procedural Generation 10.4%, Sandbox 9.7%, Crafting 9.3%
- #52 XenoHaven
66% matchVery Positive86% of 69 reviews2025
Dev: Miniverse GamePub: OKJOY
Windows
In XenoHaven, gather resources to build shelters, enslave alien beasts to work for you, and run restaurants and shops. Delve into dark underground dungeons, defeat swarming insectoids and mighty bosses, and craft powerful gear to conquer the alien world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.7% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Sandbox 11.6%, Crafting 11.3%, Survival 11.2%
- #53 Forager
67% matchVery Positive90% of 43,651 reviews2019
Dev: HopFrogPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 22.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.1% ★, Crafting 14.1%, Survival 12.3%, Sandbox 7.4%, Base Building 7.4%
- #54 Drift: Space Survival
67% matchMostly Positive70% of 77 reviews2023
Dev: KAR Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
You were deep in uncharted space on a research mission. Disaster struck. Together with your friends, explore a mysterious asteroid field and mine whatever resources possible to build what you need to survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.6% ★, Crafting 11.4%, Survival 11.4%, Online Co-Op 10.9%, Base Building 8.3%
- #55 Good Heavens!
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Nowhere Studios
Windows · Mac
Good Heavens! is an open-world crafting and building RPG for solo and online co-op up to 8 players. Explore mysterious biomes, build your base, master six distinct tech trees, rebuild fallen cities, and help a clumsy God restore his world on the brink of collapse.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.2% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Crafting 11.1%, Online Co-Op 9.9%, Sandbox 8.6%
- #56 Alchemist's Awakening
68% matchMostly Positive73% of 497 reviews2019
Dev: OsarisGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Enter a world full of magic, mystery, beautiful landscapes and dangerous creatures. Build your own destiny, by yourself or with some friends, gather materials, use elements as attacks, recombine them into building blocks... and use your Alchemist's power to give life to any shape you built.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.8% ★, Crafting 15.7%, Sandbox 13%, Survival 11%, Open World 10%
- #57 Nimoyd - Survival Sandbox
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Nudge Nudge Games
Windows
You’ve crash-landed on Earth in 2702. Craft, dig, fight through a vast and colorful post-apocalyptic open world full of wonder, generated cities, dungeons, aliens, mechs, and an underworld. Find love. Or beat the ultimate Underlord!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.3% ★, Crafting 12.2%, Survival 11.6%, Sandbox 11.2%, Procedural Generation 10.9%