- #1 The Planet Crafter
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 70,189 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.5 hrsMean: 37.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.3% ★, Base Building 15.1%, Building 10.1%, Co-op 9.7%, Sandbox 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: This game mirrors the terraforming and base-building progression loop found in Cubic Odyssey perfectly.
- #2 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
96% matchMostly Positive79% of 34,194 reviews2020
Dev: Eleon Game Studios
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 76.8 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.2% ★, Co-op 13.9%, Building 13.1%, Sandbox 10.8%, Sci-fi 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: This title offers deep sci-fi survival mechanics with extensive ship and base construction capabilities.
- #3 No Man's Sky
96% matchVery Positive85% of 406,987 reviews2016
Dev: Hello Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 20.2 hrsMean: 70.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 50.2% ★, Sandbox 10.2%, Sci-fi 9.7%, Open World 6.6%, Space 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: It is the definitive galactic exploration game featuring seamless planet-to-space travel, base building, and survival mechanics.
- #4 ASTRONEER
95% matchVery Positive92% of 137,959 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.1% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Co-op 9.5%, Sandbox 9.3%, Building 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: It features a similar vibrant aesthetic and a heavy focus on vehicle construction and planetary exploration.
- #5 Forever Skies
94% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,446 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 32.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A first-person survival game set on a post-apocalyptic, ecologically ruined Earth. Play solo or with up to 3 friends as you build, upgrade, and fly a high-tech airship. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and face dangers on the surface as you hunt for a cure to save humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.2% ★, Base Building 17%, Co-op 12.9%, Building 10.5%, Sci-fi 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: This first-person survival game centers on a mobile airship base, echoing the vehicle-building focus of the seed game.
- #6 TerraTech Worlds
93% matchMixed63% of 2,228 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 21.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.1% ★, Base Building 15.6%, Building 10.5%, Sandbox 10.4%, Co-op 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: This game excels at the vehicle-building and sandbox exploration aspects of the genre.
- #7 Subnautica
92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 365,018 reviews2018
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 39.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 50.4% ★, Base Building 16.4%, Sandbox 7%, Sci-fi 6%, Open World 5.1%
Why You'll Like It: It provides the gold standard for first-person survival, exploration, and base building in a hostile alien environment.
- #8 Eden Crafters
91% matchVery Positive86% of 2,425 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.4% ★, Base Building 14.8%, Sandbox 9.6%, Building 9.3%, Co-op 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the satisfying progression of terraforming and building in a sci-fi setting.
- #9 ICARUS
91% matchMostly Positive74% of 63,962 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 46.0 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 37.5% ★, Base Building 15.9%, Building 9.5%, Co-op 8.9%, Sandbox 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a session-based sci-fi survival experience with a strong emphasis on exploration and crafting.
- #10 Satisfactory
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 270,461 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 32.6 hrsMean: 110.0 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Why similar: Base Building 25.7%, Open World Survival Craft 19.3% ★, Building 13.1%, Co-op 12.6%, Sandbox 11%
Why You'll Like It: This first-person game focuses on massive-scale base building and automation in a beautiful, alien open world.
- #11 Space Trash Scavenger
90% matchVery Positive84% of 518 reviews2024
Dev: SquarePlay GamesPub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Grab your jetpack and explore procedural asteroid fields, derelict spaceships and abandoned outposts. Build and automate your Space Rig to process scavenged trash. Craft, trade and fight your way home in this interstellar, open-world survival sandbox.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Sandbox 10.7%, Building 10.6%, Sci-fi 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: It combines sci-fi survival with scavenging and base-building mechanics in a unique space setting.
- #12 Breathedge
89% matchVery Positive82% of 16,224 reviews2021
Dev: RedRuins SoftworksPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Survive in outer space! Together with your immortal chicken, discover the truth behind your sudden spaceship crash. Craft tools, pilot vehicles, and even control space stations to survive and explore the wreckage.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.4% ★, Base Building 15.8%, Sandbox 12%, Sci-fi 8.1%, Space 5%
Why You'll Like It: This first-person survival game provides a humorous but challenging sci-fi experience focused on space exploration.
- #13 Necesse
86% 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 45.5% ★, Sandbox 10.3%, Base Building 9.7%, Building 8.2%, Co-op 8%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers a deep sandbox survival experience with strong RPG and base-building elements.
- #14 Starbound
88% matchVery Positive90% of 122,999 reviews2016
Dev: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.1 hrsMean: 64.2 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 45.8% ★, Sandbox 14.1%, Building 7.7%, Co-op 7.2%, Online Co-Op 4%
Why You'll Like It: While 2D, it perfectly captures the galactic exploration, crafting, and RPG progression loop of the seed game.
- #15 Omega Crafter
87% 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 37.2% ★, Co-op 12.2%, Building 10.9%, Sandbox 8.7%, RPG 5.7%
Why You'll Like It: It blends open-world survival with automation and building in a way that feels very similar to the seed game.
- #16 Voidtrain
86% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,447 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.2% ★, Base Building 13%, Co-op 11.3%, Building 8.2%, Sandbox 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: This first-person survival game features a unique mobile base in the form of a customizable train.
- #17 Core Keeper
84% 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 28.5% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Building 11.4%, Sandbox 11.1%, Co-op 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: It combines exploration, base building, and RPG elements in a highly addictive survival package.
- #18 Lost Skies
85% matchMixed61% of 2,893 reviews2025
Dev: Bossa StudiosPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Chart a course in a breathtaking, but fractured world. Explore ancient ruins, master advanced technology, and craft your very own skyship to brave nature’s fury and colossal threats in Lost Skies. Team up with friends or go it alone in this awe-inspiring cooperative survival adventure.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.2% ★, Base Building 20.1%, Sandbox 11.9%, Online Co-Op 6.7%, Co-op 4.2%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes exploration and building in a vast, open world with a focus on co-op play.
- #19 Techtonica
84% matchMixed65% of 3,202 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 17.2 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.
Why similar: Base Building 24.2%, Building 18.8%, Sandbox 14.4%, Co-op 12.6%, Sci-fi 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: It features first-person exploration and base building within a mysterious, subterranean alien world.
- #20 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
82% matchVery Positive82% of 9,989 reviews2024
Dev: Merge GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31% ★, Base Building 14.2%, Building 10%, Co-op 9%, Sandbox 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a large-scale survival experience with a focus on building and exploration in a unique setting.
- #21 Grounded
82% matchVery Positive90% of 93,832 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.3 hrsMean: 41.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.7% ★, Base Building 18.9%, Co-op 14.2%, Survival 5.3%, Sandbox 5.2%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a polished first-person survival experience with excellent base-building and exploration mechanics.
- #22 Boundless
83% 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 48.7% ★, Sandbox 16.3%, Building 13.1%, Open World 5.5%, RPG 5.2%
Why You'll Like It: It features voxel-based exploration and building across multiple unique planets.
- #23 Scrap Mechanic
81% matchVery Positive92% of 117,481 reviews2016
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.2 hrsMean: 58.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!
Why similar: Building 24.5%, Sandbox 19.9%, Base Building 17.8%, Co-op 12.4%, Open World 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: This sandbox game is centered on creative vehicle and base building, which is a core pillar of Cubic Odyssey.
- #24 Raft
79% matchVery Positive93% of 372,032 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.6 hrsMean: 37.3 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.5% ★, Co-op 13.6%, Base Building 11%, Building 9.2%, Sandbox 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: It features a unique mobile base-building mechanic that mirrors the exploration-focused survival loop.
- #25 Creativerse
81% 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 31.9% ★, Building 11.9%, Sandbox 11.4%, Co-op 10.8%, Action-Adventure 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: This voxel-based sandbox game offers extensive building and exploration tools similar to the seed game.
- #26 Solace Crafting
80% 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 33.1% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Building 10.1%, Sandbox 9.3%, Co-op 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a massive open-world survival experience with a focus on crafting and character progression.
- #27 Len's Island
78% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,720 reviews2025
Dev: Flow Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 40.8% ★, Building 14.2%, Base Building 14%, Sandbox 11.8%, Open World 4.3%
Why You'll Like It: It combines survival and building with dungeon-crawling elements, offering a similar variety of gameplay loops.
- #28 Tinkerlands
77% 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 40.6% ★, Sandbox 13.1%, Building 10.5%, Co-op 10.5%, Online Co-Op 6%
- #29 Stationeers
79% matchVery Positive88% of 9,014 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 83.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!
Why similar: Base Building 24%, Building 17.5%, Sandbox 16.4%, Co-op 15.1%, Sci-fi 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers a more hardcore, technical approach to sci-fi base building and survival.
- #30 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
76% matchVery Positive91% of 7,431 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 35.9% ★, Base Building 15.7%, Sandbox 9%, Building 8.6%, Co-op 7.1%
- #31 StarRupture
75% matchVery Positive81% of 12,313 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.6% ★, Base Building 16.9%, Co-op 11.7%, Sandbox 10.6%, Sci-fi 7.6%
- #32 Planetaries
76% matchMixed58% of 223 reviews2024
Dev: EY-Studio
Windows
Experience a vast Sci-fi open-world survival TD game set on a distant planet deep in the universe. Craft, build, mine, trade, explore, and survive in this alien world. Collect Data and defend against waves of enemies seeking to banish you. Enjoy the adventure in Singleplayer or Multiplayer.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Building 10.5%, Co-op 9.1%, Sandbox 8.7%
- #33 Everwind
72% matchVery Positive82% of 3,221 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Everwind is a novel take on RPG and Sandbox Survival genre in First-Person-Perspective. Embark on the adventure with your friends - Build a base on a flying island-ship, gather resources, craft, loot, and fight while you rise above the clouds to uncover the mysteries of this world!
Why similar: Building 19.3%, Co-op 18.7%, Sandbox 17.8%, RPG 9.2%, Online Co-Op 8.6%
- #34 GRAV
77% matchMixed47% of 6,921 reviews2015
Dev: BitMonster, Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 60%
GRAV is a sand box experience where you explore a multitude of planets, hunt strange alien creatures, build and defend outposts, craft weapons and armor, and attempt to survive against other players in a hostile environment.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.1% ★, Base Building 15.6%, Sandbox 10.8%, Co-op 6.6%, Open World 4.6%
- #35 Planet Explorers
75% matchMixed62% of 6,817 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 47.1% ★, Sandbox 16.4%, Building 8.8%, Open World 5.2%, RPG 4.9%
- #36 Dawn of Defiance
72% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,797 reviews2024
Dev: Traega EntertainmentPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 9.7 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 41.8% ★, Base Building 15.4%, Building 10.2%, Sandbox 8.9%, Online Co-Op 6.5%
- #37 Nova Lands
71% matchVery Positive89% of 3,422 reviews2023
Dev: BEHEMUTTPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Nova Lands is a factory building, exploration, and island management game. Explore, engage in combat, and automate your industry. The planet you’re on is full of mysteries, creatures, people, and things to do. Welcome to your new home amongst the stars!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.5% ★, Base Building 21.5%, Sandbox 14.7%, Building 11%, Open World 4.4%
- #38 Crashlands
73% matchVery Positive90% of 6,682 reviews2016
Dev: Butterscotch Shenanigans
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Fight and tame alien beasts, craft resources into menacing weaponry, befriend the outlandish locals, and go toe-to-chin with a world-domineering maniac.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.9% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Sandbox 10.9%, Building 10.2%, Sci-fi 6.9%
- #39 Craterbound
74% matchMixed54% of 99 reviews2022
Dev: Daniel Marquez
Windows
Crash-land onto a unique and hostile alien world and begin your fight to survive. Face its inhabitants, upgrade your technology, create outposts & bases, and find a way to repair your ship. Explore the beautifully strange terrain, all while blasting and crafting your way off of the planet.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.1% ★, Base Building 15.9%, Sandbox 8.7%, Sci-fi 7.4%, Action-Adventure 7.1%
- #40 Horizon Journey
73% matchMostly Negative26% of 85 reviews2026
Dev: Redivided Studios
Windows
Embark on an epic adventure to Mars in Horizon Journey, an open-world survival game that blends colonization, terraforming, and exploration in both single-player and multiplayer co-op modes. You're tasked with the monumental challenge of making Mars a new home for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.3% ★, Base Building 14.3%, Building 10.9%, Sandbox 10.4%, Co-op 10.3%
- #41 Dune: Awakening
68% matchMostly Positive70% of 76,118 reviews2025
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 47.7 hrsMean: 97.4 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival RPG where you can fully immerse yourself in the epic world of Dune. Alone or with friends, explore a vast open world Arrakis, survive the sandworms, build a home, craft an ornithopter, and unravel the mystery of the missing Fremen.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.9% ★, Base Building 15%, Building 11.2%, Sandbox 10.4%, Sci-fi 7.7%
- #42 Shamania
70% 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% ★, Sandbox 10.7%, Co-op 10.5%, Base Building 9.9%, Building 8.8%
- #43 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,680 reviews2021
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Experience the first stages of terraforming an entire planet in this space survival open world terraforming crafting game prologue. Explore, survive, collect, build your base then create oxygen, heat and pressure to make an hostile planet livable for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.6% ★, Base Building 19.1%, Sandbox 10.4%, Building 7%, Open World 4.7%
- #44 Edge of Space
74% matchMostly Negative33% of 2,729 reviews2015
Dev: Handyman StudiosPub: Reverb Triple XP
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Suit up as an operative of the Ark Corporation, sent to the farthest reaches of the universe in search of habitable planets to terraform. However, after the long space journey you awaken from cryosleep to find that your ship has gone way off course and is disabled near a strange new world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 50.2% ★, Sandbox 16.4%, Sci-fi 6.5%, Building 5.5%, Co-op 5.4%
- #45 Blossom: The Seed of Life
68% matchVery Positive89% of 884 reviews2026
Dev: Pebbledust GamesPub: Pretty Soon
Windows
Terraform a dead planet back to life in this open world survival crafting game. Explore ruins, gather resources, print machines, drive modular vehicles, grow forests, biomes, and ecosystems. Create life and make it thrive with your own hands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.8% ★, Base Building 17.4%, Building 11.7%, Sandbox 11.4%, Sci-fi 7.2%
- #46 Fragmented
73% matchMixed43% of 1,964 reviews2017
Dev: Above and Beyond Technologies
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Stranded in a hostile alien world, you must fight to survive. Hunt, harvest, craft, advance skills, and build using local resources along with technology from your voyage.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 53.4% ★, Sandbox 8.3%, Building 7.7%, Co-op 5.1%, Survival 4.4%
- #47 Lodventure
70% matchMostly Positive74% of 161 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 36.3% ★, Co-op 12.3%, Base Building 11.7%, Building 8%, Sandbox 7.6%
- #48 Scrapnaut
71% matchMixed70% of 827 reviews2021
Dev: SpiffyBitPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements. Explore an open world with different biomes, take care of oxygen, manage your farms, generate electricity, build your home and much more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.7% ★, Building 15.4%, Co-op 12.7%, Base Building 12.3%, Sandbox 11.3%
- #49 Farworld Pioneers
71% matchMostly Negative38% of 693 reviews2023
Dev: IgloosoftPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Explore an open world, sci-fi sandbox – in PVP, PVE, and co-op. Build and manage colonies on alien planets, and recruit AI survivors with unique personalities and skills. Craft, build, mine, farm, or get your electric death rifle and say hello to your neighbors.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32% ★, Base Building 15%, Co-op 14.4%, Sandbox 10.9%, Sci-fi 7.6%
- #50 KeepUp Survival
69% matchMixed64% of 743 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 84%
KeepUp Survival is an open base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and unfold your own story on a mysterious island.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.1% ★, Base Building 16.1%, Co-op 12.5%, Sandbox 11.1%, Action-Adventure 6.2%
- #51 Starsand
69% matchMixed66% of 1,241 reviews2022
Dev: Tunnel Vision StudioPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Starsand is a mystic survival game set among the dunes of an arcane desert. An open-world full of danger, vast environments and mysterious happenings await you! Explore, hunt, craft, build – and SURVIVE.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.4% ★, Base Building 15.8%, Sandbox 10%, Building 9.9%, Sci-fi 7.9%
- #52 Nightingale
67% matchMixed67% of 17,932 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 36.6% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Building 11.4%, Co-op 10%, Online Co-Op 5.4%
- #53 Star Crafter
67% matchMixed69% of 104 reviews2025
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
A space survival crafting mining base building and star system building game. Craft rockets to create planets and Dyson Rings, mine and craft advanced materials, terraform the terrain, manage electricity, farm food, and more as you watch the star system evolve into stunning, ever-changing views.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.1% ★, Base Building 18.2%, Sandbox 9.1%, Building 8.8%, Sci-fi 5.5%
- #54 Stars End
67% matchMixed61% of 1,419 reviews2023
Dev: Reverie World StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Stars End is a sci-fi survival sandbox set on the wild frontier of a distant star system. Play solo or host your own server as you craft, build, and battle to survive in a galaxy shaped by danger, discovery, and your own grit.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.4% ★, Co-op 16.8%, Sandbox 11%, Sci-fi 7.8%, Online Co-Op 6.2%
- #55 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 45.9% ★, Sandbox 13.9%, Building 11%, Co-op 5.6%, RPG 5.5%
- #56 Keplerth
66% matchVery Positive85% of 4,138 reviews2022
Dev: TAROPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 16.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Welcome to Keplerth! Try to survive on a hostile alien planet in this 2D sandbox RPG, where you can choose to live alone or fight side by side with your friends in the online multiplayer mode. Survive, build, farm, fight, and explore your way to victory in this open-world adventure!
Why similar: Sandbox 22.8%, Building 21.4%, Sci-fi 13.5%, Base Building 12.6%, RPG 7.8%
- #57 Occupy Mars: The Game
64% matchMostly Positive70% of 3,070 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 34.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.
Why similar: Base Building 20%, Sandbox 14.9%, Building 14.2%, Co-op 12.6%, Sci-fi 7.3%