- #1 Creativerse
97% 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: Open World Survival Craft 34.7% ★, Building 14%, Sandbox 10.9%, Open World 9.6%, Crafting 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a vibrant, cooperative block-building experience with smooth sandbox crafting mechanics.
- #2 Trove
96% 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: Building 17.5%, Massively Multiplayer 16%, Sandbox 15.9%, Open World 14.5%, Crafting 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: Shares the same cute, voxel-based massively multiplayer sandbox gameplay and block-building freedom.
- #3 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: Building 23.4%, Sandbox 21.5%, Crafting 15.5%, Multiplayer 14.9%, Survival 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: Combines charming 3D block-building and platforming action with RPG progression and multiplayer exploration.
- #4 Pixel Worlds: MMO Sandbox
95% matchMostly Positive75% of 7,992 reviews2017
Dev: Social First Oy
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 72.9 hrs≥1hr: 53%
Pixel Worlds is a free-to-play sandbox MMO where players build worlds, craft items, explore dungeons, farm resources, and trade in a player-driven economy, all within a shared online universe rebuilt as a fresh start for a fair and stable long-term experience.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 33.7%, Sandbox 22.6%, Multiplayer 13.1%, Crafting 6.9%, Open World 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: Captures the community-driven, 2D/3D pixelated mini-MMO economy and building style.
- #5 DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS™ 2
94% 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 52.6% ★, Building 14.1%, Sandbox 10.3%, Crafting 6.3%, Open World 3.5%
Why You'll Like It: Delivers a polished, cute adventure centered heavily on creative building and cooperative exploration.
- #6 8BitMMO
94% matchMixed60% of 4,325 reviews2015
Dev: Archive Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 23.6 hrs≥1hr: 33%
8BitMMO is a retro-style 2D massively multiplayer game! It's a giant construction sandbox -- you can build a home or a castle in a persistent streaming world. Found and manage your own city. Fight evil LawyerCats and engage in Player vs Player battle.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 25.3%, Building 21.7%, Sandbox 16.7%, Open World 10.7%, Multiplayer 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A massive multiplayer sandbox world where players can build anything together in a retro style.
- #7 Terraria
92% 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 43.7% ★, Sandbox 13.3%, Building 10.8%, Crafting 7.7%, Multiplayer 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: The quintessential 2D sandbox adventure focusing on exploration, crafting, and building.
- #8 Boundless
93% 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 35.1% ★, Massively Multiplayer 16.1%, Sandbox 10.3%, Building 10.1%, Open World 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: A massively multiplayer voxel sandbox where players explore, build, and trade across interconnected worlds.
- #9 LEGO® Worlds
91% 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 30%, Sandbox 23.2%, Open World 22.3%, Multiplayer 14.4%, Adventure 3.9%
Why You'll Like It: Offers an open-world block-building sandbox filled with cute charm, exploration, and creative freedom.
- #10 Deepworld
91% matchMixed61% of 738 reviews2015
Dev: Bytebin
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Deepworld is a massively-multiplayer 2D crafting adventure game. Mine and craft your way through a persistent online universe where there's always something new to discover. Battle frightening monsters, mysterious automatons, and other players in PvP!
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 39.2%, Sandbox 23.6%, Survival 9%, Crafting 8.4%, Multiplayer 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D massively multiplayer crafting game featuring steampunk aesthetics and deep sandbox building.
- #11 Dragon And Home
90% matchMixed60% of 1,381 reviews2021
Dev: HIG
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Dragon and Home is a sandbox MMORPG where players can choose freely how they desire to play. Whether you want to play as a courageous adventurer, or you want to experience the tranquil rural lifestyles, growing plants, and feeding animals with your friends in the Homeland, you can find it all.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.6% ★, Sandbox 10.7%, Open World 10.4%, Building 9.3%, Massively Multiplayer 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: A cooperative open-world sandbox MMORPG focusing on community building and cozy adventures.
- #12 Palia
87% matchVery Positive86% of 44,545 reviews2024
Dev: Singularity 6 Corporation
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 26.6 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Discover a welcoming world in Palia, a free-to-play fantasy life sim adventure where you can craft, explore, and create the life and home of your dreams. With nearly endless ways to make Palia your home, you’ll find relaxation and joy in every corner of this vibrant, heartwarming world.
Why similar: Building 31.3%, Multiplayer 21.5%, Crafting 20.2%, MMORPG 9.2% ★, Co-op 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: A cozy, community-focused multiplayer online game emphasizing building, crafting, and friendly social interaction.
- #13 Starbound
88% 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 47.6% ★, Sandbox 12.9%, Building 8.6%, Crafting 7.2%, Open World 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: Features intergalactic sandbox exploration, block building, and cozy multiplayer crafting.
- #14 Junk Jack
89% matchMostly Positive78% of 478 reviews2016
Dev: Pixbits
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 21.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Make the world truly yours in Junk Jack, a relaxing sandbox experience focused on building and improving your home. Discover new planets, tame and breed creatures, cook foods, collect animal companions, farm exotic plants, collect fish, grow flowers, play with your friends!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.4% ★, Sandbox 13.1%, Building 11.5%, Crafting 9.1%, Multiplayer 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: A relaxing 2D sandbox game focused on building, farming, and exploring charming procedural worlds.
- #15 The Survivalists
86% matchMostly Positive76% of 10,123 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 39.9% ★, Crafting 13.5%, Sandbox 11%, Open World 10.2%, Multiplayer 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: A cute, colorful island-survival sandbox with crafting, building, and multiplayer co-op.
- #16 Forager
86% matchVery Positive89% of 44,137 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 51% ★, Crafting 11.7%, Sandbox 8.6%, Building 8.1%, Survival 7%
Why You'll Like It: A cute open-world exploration and crafting game driven by resource gathering and base building.
- #17 CastleMiner Z
85% 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 50.8% ★, Sandbox 10.8%, Multiplayer 8.7%, Open World 8.5%, Survival 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: A classic block-building survival game heavily focused on cooperative multiplayer building.
- #18 Tinkerlands
82% 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 39.6% ★, Sandbox 11.3%, Building 10.9%, Open World 9.7%, Crafting 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: A charming, survival-craft sandbox experience set in a vibrant pixelated archipelago.
- #19 Feel The Snow
82% matchVery Positive87% of 3,062 reviews2019
Dev: Owlet
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Choose one of the characters and start your journey. The game has many interesting things in store: building, crafting, puzzles, bosses, mystery, laughs, quests etc.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.9% ★, Multiplayer 9.4%, Crafting 9.1%, Sandbox 8.9%, Open World 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: A whimsical, snow-covered open-world survival crafting game with co-op multiplayer.
- #20 Milkcraft
84% matchMixed55% of 237 reviews2021
Dev: Milkcraft Studio
Windows
Milkcraft is a multiplayer RPG social sandbox game. In this mysterious world of Norse mythology, you can freely build your own territory and village, or start a survival adventure to challenge the dark dragon. Come with Us!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.3% ★, Massively Multiplayer 17.7%, Building 10.8%, Open World 10.5%, Sandbox 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: A casual open-world survival craft game with charming multiplayer social elements.
- #21 Blockscape
84% 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 53.2% ★, Sandbox 12.4%, Building 9.4%, Open World 7.6%, Crafting 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: Features detailed block-based terrain manipulation and beautiful sandbox building mechanics.
- #22 Villagers and Heroes
83% matchMixed61% of 3,462 reviews2014
Dev: Mad Otter Games
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 44%
The Cozy MMO where adventure and home share the same world. Explore a vast fantasy realm, battle monsters, master crafting and gathering, build a home, and grow a village with friends old and new—free to play.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 33.2%, Open World 21.4%, Crafting 20.7%, MMORPG 15.2% ★, Cute 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: A cozy MMORPG emphasizing crafting, home-building, and a friendly community vibe.
- #23 Wild Terra 2: New Lands
81% matchMixed52% of 4,220 reviews2022
Dev: Juvty Worlds
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 28.1 hrs≥1hr: 38%
MMORPG full of details that create a unique immersion and the spirit of adventure! Play your role in the life-filled medieval world controlled by players.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.7% ★, Massively Multiplayer 16.6%, Sandbox 10.3%, Building 9.7%, Crafting 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox MMORPG where players build, craft, and shape the persistent game world together.
- #24 Cube World
81% 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: Open World 34.1%, Multiplayer 19.8%, Crafting 11.6%, Sandbox 10.8%, Co-op 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: An action-packed voxel adventure featuring blocky worlds and exploration-heavy gameplay.
- #25 Craft The World
79% matchVery Positive88% of 17,114 reviews2014
Dev: Dekovir EntertainmentPub: Dekovir Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 38.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Craft The World is a unique sandbox strategy game, the mix of Dungeon Keeper, Terraria and Dwarf Fortress. Explore a random generated world populated by dangerous creatures, build a dwarf fortress, gather resources, and craft all the items, weapons, and armor you need.
Why similar: Building 28.3%, Sandbox 22.1%, Crafting 19.7%, Open World 12.3%, Survival 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: A strategic sandbox crafting game where you manage a group of dwarves building robust strongholds.
- #26 Wurm Online
80% matchMixed62% of 2,578 reviews2020
Dev: Code Club AB
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 39.6 hrs≥1hr: 47%
A sandbox MMORPG that has pushed the boundaries on what it means to be open world and stood the test of time. Dig, mine, shape the world around you and make your lasting mark!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.5% ★, Massively Multiplayer 20.7%, Sandbox 15.2%, Building 11.1%, MMORPG 6.1% ★
Why You'll Like It: A deep sandbox MMORPG where players can terraform the land and construct massive buildings.
- #27 Cultivation Tales
79% matchMostly Negative38% of 13,640 reviews2024
Dev: Ac Games
Windows
Median: 22.0 hrsMean: 64.7 hrs≥1hr: 98%
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: Open World Survival Craft 31.5% ★, Massively Multiplayer 15.1%, Building 14.8%, Sandbox 12.5%, Open World 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world sandbox survival and building game with multiplayer co-op features.
- #28 Necesse
74% 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 47.6% ★, Sandbox 9.3%, Building 9.2%, Open World 8.7%, Crafting 7.2%
- #29 Cubic Odyssey
76% 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 49.7% ★, Building 17.6%, Sandbox 13.9%, Co-op 5.4%, Open World 5%
- #30 Allumeria
75% 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 36.8% ★, Building 13.3%, Sandbox 11.2%, Crafting 9.1%, Open World 9%
- #31 Angeldust
78% 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: Massively Multiplayer 39.3%, Building 14.7%, Open World 11.2%, Sandbox 10.8%, Multiplayer 8.6%
- #32 BLOCKADE 3D
76% matchMixed59% of 25,388 reviews2014
Dev: Novalink
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 58%
BLOCKADE 3D! First Person Shooter in an editable procedural cubic world. A large arsenal of weapons, 4 teams at the same time and up to 32 players on one map. A large number of game modes!
Why similar: Building 29%, Multiplayer 20.4%, Massively Multiplayer 14%, Sandbox 13.7%, Open World 7.4%
- #33 Genesis Online
77% 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: Sandbox 20.7%, Multiplayer 17.4%, Open World 17.4%, Survival 13%, Building 12%
- #34 Core Keeper
69% 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 32.3% ★, Building 13.9%, Sandbox 11.2%, Open World 11.1%, Crafting 9.7%
- #35 Spiral Knights
73% matchVery Positive84% of 24,247 reviews2011
Dev: Grey Havens
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 47.5 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Join the ranks of the Spiral Knights. Stranded on an alien world, you must explore the ever-changing Clockworks beneath its surface.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 44.8%, Multiplayer 16.6%, MMORPG 9.1% ★, Open World 7.3%, Co-op 5.7%
- #36 Aberoth
74% matchMixed64% of 1,457 reviews2015
Dev: Jarbit
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 24 minMean: 36.8 hrs≥1hr: 35%
Aberoth is a fantasy massively multiplayer online role playing game with charming retro graphics and tons of freedom.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 43.1%, Open World 23.2%, MMORPG 9.1% ★, Multiplayer 8.6%, Adventure 5.1%
- #37 TerraTech
71% 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 35.8% ★, Building 18.7%, Sandbox 12.8%, Open World 10.9%, Crafting 8%
- #38 Wild Terra Online
73% matchMixed60% of 1,846 reviews2017
Dev: Juvty Worlds
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Wild Terra Online is a sandbox RPG, in a completely player-controlled medieval world. You will have to survive in a forest full of predators, build a shelter and improve your crafts skills, tame animals and fight for treasures. You can become anyone and do whatever you want!
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 26.5%, Sandbox 15.6%, Open World 13.1%, Building 11.7%, Crafting 8.3%
- #39 Miniland Adventure
71% matchMostly Positive74% of 334 reviews2023
Dev: Imilkowski DevPub: Gameparic
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 52%
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: Open World Survival Craft 45.4% ★, Sandbox 15.8%, Building 15.1%, Crafting 10.4%, Survival 7.4%
- #40 Block Story™
72% 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 40.1% ★, Building 13.3%, Sandbox 12.2%, Open World 10.1%, Crafting 9.9%
- #41 Growtopia
72% matchMostly Negative27% of 2,493 reviews2024
Dev: Ubisoft Abu DhabiPub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 36%
Growtopia is a 2D sandbox game, that brings together millions of players in an expansive pixel world. Collaborate in building anything you can imagine, become anyone you want to be, and delve into numerous mini-games. Unleash your creativity and join the massive universe in Growtopia today!
Why similar: Sandbox 21.3%, Building 19.3%, MMORPG 13.8% ★, Massively Multiplayer 11.9%, Crafting 11.2%
- #42 PixARK
70% 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: Massively Multiplayer 21.9%, Open World 15%, Sandbox 13.7%, Building 11.9%, Multiplayer 10.2%
- #43 Citadel: Forged with Fire
71% matchMixed68% of 5,895 reviews2019
Dev: Blue Isle StudiosPub: Blue Isle Publishing
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 19.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
This massive online sandbox RPG features elements of magic, spellcasting, building, exploring and crafting. As a newly minted apprentice of the magic arts, you will set off to the dangerous world of Ignus. Tame mighty beasts, forge alliances, explore uncharted territories or fight for dominance!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.6% ★, Massively Multiplayer 17.3%, Open World 12.7%, Sandbox 8.1%, Crafting 5.5%
- #44 Magicite
70% matchVery Positive85% of 7,591 reviews2014
Dev: Sean YoungPub: SmashGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Explore, craft, and survive in this Multiplayer RPG Platformer with permanent death! Featuring many Rogue-like elements, Magicite randomly generates each underground dungeon for you and your friends to delve deep into.
Why similar: Crafting 26.1%, Multiplayer 25.3%, Survival 10.5%, Co-op 10.4%, Sandbox 9.1%
- #45 Shamania
66% 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 37% ★, Open World 11.8%, Crafting 10.8%, Building 9.6%, Sandbox 9.6%
- #46 Wurm Unlimited
70% 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 37.2% ★, Building 11.5%, Sandbox 11.3%, Open World 10.3%, Crafting 8.5%
- #47 Planet Centauri
66% matchMostly Positive77% of 2,395 reviews2024
Dev: Permadeath
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.7 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: Sandbox 21.1%, Building 20.1%, Open World 17.4%, Crafting 15.7%, Multiplayer 12.3%
- #48 Playcraft
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 700 reviews2023
Dev: Bebop Games
Windows
Playcraft is a multiplayer game-creation sandbox accessible to anyone!
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 23.5%, Building 18.3%, Sandbox 16%, Open World 12.7%, Multiplayer 10.3%
- #49 Ylands
68% 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 45.6% ★, Building 14.4%, Crafting 12%, Open World 11.1%, Multiplayer 9.8%
- #50 Palworld
61% matchVery Positive95% of 490,433 reviews2026
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 41.0 hrsMean: 86.8 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: Open World Survival Craft 40% ★, Open World 14.5%, Multiplayer 9.3%, Crafting 8.2%, Building 7.2%
- #51 Planet Explorers
68% 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 43.9% ★, Sandbox 13.6%, Open World 11.2%, Building 8.8%, Crafting 7.2%
- #52 Digger Online
69% matchMixed49% of 17,911 reviews2015
Dev: DiggerGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Sanbox multiplayer building game with additional game mods
Why similar: Building 19.9%, Sandbox 18%, Open World 17.7%, Multiplayer 13%, Survival 10.5%
- #53 Teravit
68% 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: Building 25.2%, Sandbox 18.1%, Crafting 15.9%, Multiplayer 13.1%, Survival 8.7%
- #54 Castle Story
67% matchMixed65% of 10,656 reviews2017
Dev: Sauropod Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Castle Story is a creative voxel-based strategy game in which you can build castles one brick at a time using an army of little creatures called Bricktrons. Design and build your own castles, expand your territory in a vast landscape and defend your Bricktrons against onslaughts of hostile creatures.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.1% ★, Building 23.6%, Sandbox 15.4%, Multiplayer 7.4%, Open World 6.3%
