- #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 34.3% ★, Building 14.1%, Sandbox 11.1%, Crafting 9.6%, Open World 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a similar voxel-based sandbox experience with a strong focus on building and exploration in a shared online environment.
- #2 Pixel Worlds: MMO Sandbox
96% matchMostly Positive76% of 7,855 reviews2017
Dev: Social First Oy
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 71.0 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 33.4%, Sandbox 22.9%, Multiplayer 13.3%, Crafting 7%, Open World 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: It is a 2D social sandbox MMO that mirrors the block-building and player-driven world design of the seed game.
- #3 Trove
96% matchMostly Positive80% of 92,685 reviews2015
Dev: gamigo US Inc.
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 49.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Grab your friends, hone your blades, and set off for an epic procedurally generated adventure in Trove! Battle the Shadow in realms filled with dungeons and items created by your fellow players. Whether hunting treasure or building realms of your own, it’s never been this good to be square!
Why similar: Building 17.6%, Sandbox 16.1%, Massively Multiplayer 15.9%, Open World 14.2%, Crafting 12.1%
Why You'll Like It: This voxel-based MMORPG captures the same cute, blocky aesthetic and social building mechanics found in Cubic Castles.
- #4 Boundless
95% matchMixed70% of 2,767 reviews2018
Dev: Monumental, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 32.9 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Shape your citizen, forge your destiny and sculpt your world in this epic voxel sandbox MMO built on endless possibility.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.8% ★, Massively Multiplayer 16%, Sandbox 10.6%, Building 10.3%, Open World 9%
Why You'll Like It: This game features a vast, interconnected voxel universe where players can build, trade, and explore together.
- #5 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%, Building 21.8%, Sandbox 16.9%, Open World 10.5%, Multiplayer 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: This retro-styled sandbox MMO focuses heavily on player-created structures and community interaction.
- #6 Portal Knights
94% matchVery Positive83% of 22,235 reviews2017
Dev: Keen Games GmbHPub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 21.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
The world of Elysia needs YOU! Join this cooperative, 3D sandbox action RPG to level up your character, craft epic weapons, conquer enemies in real-time, and build almost anything! Craft your adventure. Forge your hero. Become the ultimate Portal Knight!
Why similar: Building 23.4%, Sandbox 21.6%, Crafting 15.6%, Multiplayer 15.1%, Survival 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: It combines action-RPG elements with sandbox building, offering a similar sense of adventure and creative freedom.
- #7 Terraria
92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,524,255 reviews2011
Dev: Re-Logic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 33.5 hrsMean: 150.1 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.2% ★, Sandbox 13.5%, Building 10.9%, Crafting 7.8%, Multiplayer 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: While more focused on combat and progression, it remains the gold standard for 2D block-based sandbox building and exploration.
- #8 Deepworld
93% matchMixed61% of 738 reviews2015
Dev: Bytebin
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 12.6 hrs≥1hr: 42%
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 38.8%, Sandbox 24%, Survival 8.9%, Crafting 8.5%, Multiplayer 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D steampunk-themed sandbox MMO that emphasizes crafting, building, and social exploration.
- #9 Dragon And Home
91% matchMixed60% of 1,378 reviews2021
Dev: HIG
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 59%
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 35.3% ★, Sandbox 11%, Open World 10.2%, Building 9.4%, Massively Multiplayer 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: This sandbox MMORPG allows players to build their own homes and explore vast, open worlds with others.
- #10 Necesse
89% matchVery Positive93% of 27,199 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 14.8 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.8% ★, Sandbox 9.6%, Building 9.3%, Open World 8.6%, Crafting 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down sandbox game that balances base-building, survival, and multiplayer exploration in a pixelated world.
- #11 Forager
89% matchVery Positive90% of 43,424 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 50.4% ★, Crafting 11.9%, Sandbox 8.7%, Building 8.2%, Survival 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: This addictive game focuses on gathering, crafting, and expanding your territory, capturing the satisfying loop of sandbox progression.
- #12 Junk Jack
90% matchMostly Positive79% of 469 reviews2016
Dev: Pixbits
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 21.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 43.9% ★, Sandbox 13.3%, Building 11.6%, Crafting 9.3%, Multiplayer 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: A charming 2D sandbox game that emphasizes exploration, crafting, and building in a procedurally generated world.
- #13 Blockscape
91% matchMixed46% of 898 reviews2014
Dev: ioneo
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 49%
The ultimate block building game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 52.8% ★, Sandbox 12.6%, Building 9.5%, Open World 7.4%, Crafting 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a highly detailed voxel-building experience that focuses on creating complex structures in a sandbox setting.
- #14 Core Keeper
85% matchVery Positive93% of 64,481 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.0 hrsMean: 34.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32% ★, Building 14.1%, Sandbox 11.3%, Open World 10.7%, Crafting 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down multiplayer sandbox that combines mining, building, and boss-fighting in a mysterious underground world.
- #15 DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS™ 2
86% matchVery Positive92% of 7,920 reviews2019
Dev: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 47.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS™ 2 is a block-building RPG set in a fantasy land threatened by an evil cult. Explore, battle, build and harvest in the charming single-player campaign or build big projects in the online sandbox mode for up to 4-players.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 52.3% ★, Building 14.1%, Sandbox 10.5%, Crafting 6.3%, Open World 3.5%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a polished building-focused RPG experience that rewards creative construction and community building.
- #16 CastleMiner Z
87% matchVery Positive81% of 11,113 reviews2014
Dev: DigitalDNA Games
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 66%
CastleMiner Z is an infinite world filled with deep places to explore, and horrifying monsters to slay. Build structures out of blocks, craft weapons and tools from raw materials, and explore the vast and frightening world around you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 50.4% ★, Sandbox 11%, Multiplayer 8.9%, Open World 8.4%, Crafting 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a classic block-building survival experience with a focus on multiplayer combat and exploration.
- #17 Cube World
88% matchMostly Negative37% of 18,707 reviews2019
Dev: Picroma
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Cube World is a voxel-based action RPG with a focus on exploration. It takes place in a procedurally generated fantasy world made up entirely of cubes.
Why similar: Open World 33.4%, Multiplayer 20.1%, Crafting 11.8%, Sandbox 11%, Co-op 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: This voxel-based adventure game focuses on exploration and character progression in a colorful, blocky world.
- #18 Tinkerlands
84% matchVery Positive86% of 3,833 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Explore, craft, and fight your way through uncharted islands — solo or with up to 4 players in co-op! Tinkerlands is an exciting survival adventure where you will build your settlement, craft useful tools to survive, and even use magic!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.1% ★, Sandbox 11.5%, Building 11.1%, Open World 9.5%, Crafting 8%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-crafting game that features pixel-art aesthetics and a focus on building and exploring new lands.
- #19 Genesis Online
86% 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 21%, Multiplayer 17.7%, Open World 17%, Survival 12.9%, Building 12.1%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival MMO that encourages players to build and explore together in a persistent world.
- #20 Feel The Snow
83% matchVery Positive87% of 3,047 reviews2019
Dev: Owlet
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 7.4 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 46.4% ★, Multiplayer 9.6%, Crafting 9.3%, Sandbox 9.1%, Open World 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: A cute, winter-themed sandbox game that combines survival, building, and adventure in a pixelated world.
- #21 Wurm Online
82% matchMixed63% of 2,533 reviews2020
Dev: Code Club AB
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 39.2 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 29.1% ★, Massively Multiplayer 20.7%, Sandbox 15.4%, Building 11.3%, MMORPG 6% ★
Why You'll Like It: A deep, complex sandbox MMO where players can terraform the land and build massive structures from scratch.
- #22 Craftopia
81% matchMostly Positive77% of 20,035 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 33.2% ★, Open World 14.8%, Crafting 12.8%, Building 10.2%, Sandbox 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: This open-world game blends elements of survival, building, and automation, offering a vast playground for creative players.
- #23 Cubic Odyssey
80% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,584 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Embark on a galactic journey in Cubic Odyssey, an open-world adventure where you explore vibrant planets, craft tools, build vehicles, and fight the Red Darkness. Uncover ancient mysteries, and shape a universe full of life, danger, and limitless possibilities!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.2% ★, Building 17.8%, Sandbox 14.2%, Co-op 5.5%, Open World 4.9%
Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi themed sandbox that focuses on base-building and cooperative exploration in a block-based universe.
- #24 Milkcraft
82% 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% ★, Massively Multiplayer 17.7%, Building 11%, Open World 10.3%, Sandbox 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: A free-to-play sandbox MMO that emphasizes social interaction and creative building in a blocky environment.
- #25 My Time at Sandrock
78% matchVery Positive88% of 28,550 reviews2023
Dev: Pathea Games
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 39.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Travel to the desert community of Sandrock and take on the role of a fledgling Builder. Use your trusty toolset to gather resources, construct machines, and turn your run-down workshop into a well-oiled production facility to save the town from the jaws of economic ruin!
Why similar: Building 27.9%, Sandbox 19.3%, Crafting 16.9%, Open World 14.9%, Multiplayer 14.4%
Why You'll Like It: While more life-sim focused, it features deep building and crafting mechanics within a charming, social community.
- #26 Rising World
81% matchVery Positive86% of 5,890 reviews2014
Dev: JIW-Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 21.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Rising World is a voxel based open-world sandbox game, featuring a procedurally generated world, playable in single and multi-player.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.6% ★, Building 15.6%, Sandbox 11.9%, Crafting 10.2%, Multiplayer 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: This sandbox game offers deep building mechanics with a focus on realism and freedom in an open, voxel-based environment.
- #27 Wild Terra 2: New Lands
79% matchMixed52% of 3,445 reviews2022
Dev: Juvty Worlds
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 31.6 hrs≥1hr: 42%
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 33.4% ★, Massively Multiplayer 16.6%, Sandbox 10.3%, Building 10%, Crafting 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused sandbox MMO that allows players to build and develop their own settlements in a harsh wilderness.
- #28 DreamWorld: Sandbox MMO
76% matchMixed69% of 54 reviews2026
Dev: DreamWorld Realities, Inc.
Windows
Build incredible structures with powerful tools. Explore the world with all players on one server. Battle bosses, farm, craft, and socialize with friends. How will you shape DreamWorld?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.7% ★, Massively Multiplayer 14.1%, Building 11.2%, Sandbox 9%, Open World 8.5%
- #29 Angeldust
78% matchMixed64% of 1,428 reviews2019
Dev: Frank LucasPub: Metagaming B.V.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 42 minMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 40%
ADVENTURE. ANYWHERE! Explore endless magical worlds and battle fearsome creatures alongside millions of friends. Ride your own horse, bear or moa and discover the many game world wonders. Unleash your imagination by crafting beautiful buildings.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 39%, Building 14.8%, Open World 11%, Sandbox 10.9%, Multiplayer 8.8%
- #30 Cultivation Tales
76% 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: Open World Survival Craft 31.1% ★, Building 15%, Massively Multiplayer 15%, Sandbox 12.7%, Open World 8.6%
- #31 Villagers and Heroes
77% matchMixed61% of 3,439 reviews2014
Dev: Mad Otter Games
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Enter a magical, 3D fantasy world filled with hundreds of unique locales, immersive lore, and exciting quests -- and it's all free to play. Join thousands of players from around the world, and be part of a one of a kind community.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 35.7%, Open World 14.2%, Multiplayer 10.2%, Sandbox 9.9%, Crafting 8.8%
- #32 Spiral Knights
75% matchVery Positive84% of 24,051 reviews2011
Dev: Grey Havens
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 46.7 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 44.6%, Multiplayer 17%, MMORPG 9.1% ★, Open World 7.2%, Co-op 5.8%
- #33 BLOCKADE 3D
75% 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 29.1%, Multiplayer 20.7%, Massively Multiplayer 13.8%, Sandbox 13.8%, Open World 7.3%
- #34 Miniland Adventure
73% matchMostly Positive74% of 330 reviews2023
Dev: Imilkowski DevPub: Gameparic
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 53%
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 44.8% ★, Sandbox 16%, Building 15.3%, Crafting 10.6%, Survival 7.4%
- #35 Omega Crafter
71% matchMostly Positive80% of 566 reviews2025
Dev: Preferred Networks
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Adventure in a vast open-world survival craft game with your programmable sidekick Grammi! Program the Grammi to collect materials, build your town, craft weapons and armor to challenge strong enemies! Play alone or with friends online!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.4% ★, Building 11.4%, Open World 11.3%, Crafting 10.5%, Multiplayer 9%
- #36 Aberoth
74% matchMixed64% of 1,457 reviews2015
Dev: Jarbit
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 24 minMean: 37.0 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%, Open World 22.9%, MMORPG 9.1% ★, Multiplayer 8.8%, Adventure 5%
- #37 Wild Terra Online
74% matchMixed60% of 1,839 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 26.3%, Sandbox 15.9%, Open World 12.9%, Building 11.8%, Crafting 8.5%
- #38 Growtopia
73% matchMostly Negative27% of 2,344 reviews2024
Dev: Ubisoft Abu DhabiPub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 35%
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 21.6%, Building 19.4%, MMORPG 13.7% ★, Massively Multiplayer 11.7%, Crafting 11.4%
- #39 Block Story™
72% matchVery Positive83% of 2,006 reviews2015
Dev: Big Cube Interactive, LLC
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 46%
There isn’t much better than a wide open game world in which you have essentially no limits and can alter the very landscape in which you play – that is, unless you add dragons, of course…
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.5% ★, Building 13.5%, Sandbox 12.4%, Crafting 10.2%, Open World 10.1%
- #40 Magicite
72% matchVery Positive85% of 7,589 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 26.3%, Multiplayer 25.6%, Co-op 10.5%, Survival 10.3%, Sandbox 9.2%
- #41 Citadel: Forged with Fire
71% matchMixed68% of 5,884 reviews2019
Dev: Blue Isle StudiosPub: Blue Isle Publishing
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 18.9 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 33.3% ★, Massively Multiplayer 17.1%, Open World 12.5%, Sandbox 8.4%, Crafting 5.7%
- #42 Wurm Unlimited
71% matchMostly Positive71% of 3,133 reviews2015
Dev: Code Club ABPub: Plug In Digital
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 18.9 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 36.7% ★, Building 11.7%, Sandbox 11.5%, Open World 10.2%, Crafting 8.7%
- #43 TerraTech
69% matchVery Positive91% of 24,617 reviews2018
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 33.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
TerraTech is an open-world, sandbox adventure game, where you design and build your own creations through a mix of crafting, combat and discovery. Design vehicles from a huge library of blocks. Scavenge, craft and buy new parts to survive and become the ultimate planetary prospector.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.4% ★, Building 18.8%, Sandbox 13%, Open World 10.7%, Crafting 8.2%
- #44 FortressCraft Evolved!
70% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,057 reviews2015
Dev: ProjectorGamesPub: Digital Tribe
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 72%
FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.4% ★, Building 13.8%, Sandbox 11.7%, Crafting 9.9%, Open World 6.2%
- #45 Shamania
66% matchMostly Positive77% of 145 reviews2025
Dev: Totem Keepers Games
Windows
Shamania is an open world survival game where you can CRAFT, FIGHT, and EXPLORE a vibrant sandbox world with friends in CO-OP. Expand your base as a hub for survival, gather resources, and master professions to unlock new tools and opportunities!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.6% ★, Open World 11.6%, Crafting 11%, Sandbox 9.8%, Building 9.7%
- #46 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 23.3%, Building 18.4%, Sandbox 16.2%, Open World 12.4%, Multiplayer 10.5%
- #47 Castle Story
68% matchMixed65% of 10,553 reviews2017
Dev: Sauropod Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 11.8 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 31.6% ★, Building 23.6%, Sandbox 15.6%, Multiplayer 7.5%, Open World 6.2%
- #48 Astral Terra
70% 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 42.3% ★, Sandbox 11.7%, Open World 11.3%, Building 11.2%, Crafting 7.1%
- #49 Teravit
69% matchMostly Negative32% of 216 reviews2023
Dev: CyberStep, Inc.
Windows
Welcome to "Teravit", a sandbox game created by players! With its three elements of "Create, Play, and Share", you can travel to the world of adventure and endless creation, alone or with friends!
Why similar: Building 25.2%, Sandbox 18.2%, Crafting 16%, Multiplayer 13.2%, Survival 8.6%
- #50 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 20%, Sandbox 18.2%, Open World 17.3%, Multiplayer 13.2%, Survival 10.4%
- #51 PixARK
67% matchMostly Positive73% of 13,071 reviews2019
Dev: Snail Games USA
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 40.2 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Enter a world of mystery, danger, ancient dinosaurs, mythical beasts, and cubes! Work by yourself or with a tribe of others to gather materials, craft useful items, tame wild creatures, and build huge bases to survive in PixARK!
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 21.8%, Open World 14.7%, Sandbox 13.9%, Building 12%, Multiplayer 10.3%
- #52 MilMo
67% matchMostly Positive78% of 692 reviews2018
Dev: Dohi Sweden AB
Windows · Mac
Median: 36 minMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 38%
Create a hero and join your friends in an amazing world of action and adventure!
Why similar: Multiplayer 30.9%, MMORPG 23.8% ★, 3D Platformer 16.3%, Cute 13%, Adventure 7.8%
- #53 Mini World: CREATA
68% matchMixed59% of 4,493 reviews2018
Dev: MINOVATE HONG KONG LIMITED
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 54.1 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Mini World is a 3D free sandbox game about adventure, exploration, and creating your dream worlds. There is no grinding or leveling up. No IAP gate that locks features from free to play players. Everyone can enjoy the game’s full features with great freedom
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 27.3%, Sandbox 18.3%, Crafting 15.3%, Open World 13.1%, Multiplayer 9.6%
