- #1 The Planet Crafter
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 67,314 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.1 hrsMean: 37.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 27.1% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Building 9%, Co-op 8.9%, Sandbox 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses heavily on the terraforming and environmental progression aspects found in sci-fi survival titles.
- #2 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
96% matchMostly Positive79% of 34,087 reviews2020
Dev: Eleon Game Studios
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 76.7 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 29.8% ★, Co-op 12.1%, Building 11%, Sandbox 9.5%, Space 8%
Why You'll Like It: This title provides a comprehensive experience involving planetary exploration, ship construction, and survival against alien threats.
- #3 No Man's Sky
96% matchVery Positive85% of 402,164 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 36.8% ★, Open World 10.4%, Space 9.9%, Sandbox 7.9%, Sci-fi 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: It is the definitive sci-fi exploration game featuring seamless planetary travel, base-building, and survival mechanics that mirror the core loop of Cubic Odyssey.
- #4 ASTRONEER
95% matchVery Positive92% of 136,711 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 44.1 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 30.1% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Co-op 8.1%, Sandbox 8%, Open World 8%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the vibrant, sandbox-focused exploration and base-building aesthetic that defines the experience of Cubic Odyssey.
- #5 Forever Skies
94% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,284 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.4 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 26.6% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Co-op 10.8%, Building 8.6%, Open World 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: A first-person sci-fi survival game that features a unique airship base-building mechanic and atmospheric exploration.
- #6 Space Engineers
94% matchVery Positive89% of 133,238 reviews2019
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 95.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.
Why similar: Base Building 18.9%, Building 14.9%, Sandbox 14.7%, Co-op 14.2%, Space 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: It offers the most robust engineering and vehicle construction systems for players who prioritize the building aspect of sci-fi survival.
- #7 TerraTech Worlds
93% matchMixed63% of 2,175 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 22.1 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 26.3% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Sandbox 9.4%, Co-op 9.2%, Building 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: This game excels at providing a sandbox experience centered on vehicle construction and planetary resource gathering.
- #8 ICARUS
91% matchMostly Positive74% of 62,078 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 44.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 32.5% ★, Base Building 14%, Building 8.3%, Co-op 8.1%, Survival 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: This session-based survival game emphasizes sci-fi technology, resource management, and cooperative base-building.
- #9 Voidtrain
91% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,176 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 13.8 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 36.5% ★, Base Building 11.4%, Co-op 10.4%, Building 7.4%, Sandbox 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: It combines sci-fi survival with an innovative mobile base-building mechanic that evolves as you progress.
- #10 Eden Crafters
90% matchVery Positive86% of 2,214 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in Eden Crafters, a solo and co-op open-world game that challenges you to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Temper the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.3% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Sandbox 9%, Building 8.4%, Co-op 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the terraforming and resource management aspects of sci-fi survival with a focus on automation.
- #11 Subnautica
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 344,093 reviews2018
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.4 hrsMean: 40.0 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 40.6% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Open World 8.9%, Survival 7.7%, Crafting 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: It is the gold standard for immersive, narrative-driven sci-fi exploration and survival on an alien world.
- #12 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
89% matchVery Positive82% of 9,646 reviews2024
Dev: Merge GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 28% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Building 9.2%, Co-op 8.5%, Sandbox 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a similar sense of scale and exploration, paired with robust building systems in a hostile environment.
- #13 Omega Crafter
88% matchMostly Positive79% of 560 reviews2025
Dev: Preferred Networks
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Adventure in a vast open-world survival craft game with your programmable sidekick Grammi! Program the Grammi to collect materials, build your town, craft weapons and armor to challenge strong enemies! Play alone or with friends online!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.7% ★, Co-op 10.6%, Open World 9.3%, Building 9.2%, Sandbox 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: This game blends automation and survival in a vibrant, open-world setting that encourages creative building.
- #14 Space Trash Scavenger
86% matchVery Positive84% of 514 reviews2024
Dev: SquarePlay GamesPub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 29.7% ★, Base Building 9.3%, Sandbox 8.9%, Building 8.5%, Space 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: Captures the sci-fi scavenging and crafting loop in a unique, zero-gravity setting.
- #15 Volcanoids
87% matchVery Positive83% of 9,214 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.6% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Co-op 8.5%, Building 8.4%, Sandbox 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: Features a unique mobile base-building mechanic set in a sci-fi environment where you must constantly adapt to volcanic threats.
- #16 Lost Skies
86% matchMixed62% of 2,832 reviews2025
Dev: Bossa StudiosPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 43.2% ★, Base Building 18.6%, Sandbox 11.6%, Open World 6.6%, Exploration 4.9%
Why You'll Like It: Features cooperative exploration and building in a vast, fragmented world that encourages teamwork.
- #17 Survival Machine
85% matchMostly Positive74% of 669 reviews2025
Dev: Grape PickersPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Build your base on a moving Machine, travel through biomes with different resources, and prepare for the night when a zombie threat is much higher than during the day. Would you go solo or explore this new world with your best friends?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.6% ★, Base Building 14%, Co-op 10.6%, Building 10.2%, Sandbox 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on mobile base-building and survival against waves of enemies, perfect for fans of active defense mechanics.
- #18 Breathedge
83% matchVery Positive82% of 16,026 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 34.3% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Sandbox 10.2%, Space 8.7%, Sci-fi 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: A humorous yet challenging first-person sci-fi survival game set in the vacuum of deep space.
- #19 Grounded
82% matchVery Positive90% of 92,875 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.2 hrsMean: 40.8 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 35.3% ★, Base Building 16.5%, Co-op 13%, Survival 9.6%, Open World 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on exploration and base-building with a strong emphasis on cooperative play and environmental interaction.
- #20 Planet Explorers
84% 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 40.3% ★, Sandbox 15%, Open World 9.7%, Building 7.7%, Crafting 5.4%
Why You'll Like It: An early pioneer in the voxel-based open-world survival genre that allows for significant terrain manipulation.
- #21 Raft
81% matchVery Positive93% of 368,916 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.5 hrsMean: 36.8 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 39.8% ★, Co-op 12.8%, Base Building 9.8%, Survival 9.1%, Building 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a similar loop of survival and expanding a mobile base in a hostile, oceanic environment.
- #22 Scrap Mechanic
82% matchVery Positive92% of 117,049 reviews2016
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.1 hrsMean: 57.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!
Why similar: Building 20.3%, Sandbox 17.2%, Base Building 14.6%, Open World 11.9%, Co-op 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: Excellent for players who enjoy the creative building and complex sandbox engineering aspects of the seed game.
- #23 Boundless
84% matchMixed70% of 2,766 reviews2018
Dev: Monumental, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 33.0 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Shape your citizen, forge your destiny and sculpt your world in this epic voxel sandbox MMO built on endless possibility.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.6% ★, Sandbox 14.5%, Building 11.2%, Open World 10%, Crafting 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: Features a massive, interconnected universe with voxel-based building and exploration across multiple planets.
- #24 Satisfactory
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 265,414 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 31.8 hrsMean: 108.4 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 21.8%, Open World Survival Craft 16.3% ★, Building 11.2%, Co-op 11.2%, Sandbox 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the automation and large-scale building aspects of sci-fi survival in a beautiful, alien world.
- #25 Len's Island
80% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,615 reviews2025
Dev: Flow Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 11.9 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 32.8% ★, Building 11.6%, Base Building 11.3%, Sandbox 10.2%, Open World 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: Combines survival and building with a focus on exploration and dungeon crawling in a stylized world.
- #26 ARK: Survival Ascended
81% matchMixed60% of 100,735 reviews2023
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows
Median: 28.6 hrsMean: 195.6 hrs≥1hr: 92%
ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!
Why similar: Base Building 20.8%, Building 15.9%, Open World 15.3%, Sandbox 13.4%, Survival 12.2%
Why You'll Like It: A massive open-world survival game with deep taming, building, and exploration mechanics.
- #27 7 Days to Die
78% matchVery Positive87% of 396,805 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 16.8 hrsMean: 107.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.2% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Building 10.4%, Sandbox 10%, Survival 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: Offers deep base-building and survival mechanics with a strong focus on defense and exploration.
- #28 Necesse
76% matchVery Positive93% of 26,780 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.6% ★, Sandbox 9.7%, Base Building 8.7%, Building 7.6%, Co-op 7.5%
- #29 Stationeers
79% matchVery Positive88% of 8,897 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 81.9 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 20.2%, Building 15%, Sandbox 14.7%, Co-op 13.3%, Space 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a more complex, technical approach to sci-fi base-building and survival for those who enjoy detailed systems.
- #30 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
76% matchVery Positive91% of 7,161 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in this free prologue introducing one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters – an upcoming open-world game that challenges you, alone or with friends, to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.3% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Sandbox 8.5%, Building 7.6%, Open World 7%
- #31 Conan Exiles
78% matchMostly Positive79% of 111,441 reviews2018
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 16.9 hrsMean: 111.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
An online multiplayer survival game, now with sorcery, set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian. Survive in a vast open world sandbox, build your home into a kingdom, and dominate your enemies in single or multiplayer.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.9% ★, Building 13.7%, Open World 11.8%, Survival 10%, Sandbox 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: A robust open-world survival game with extensive building and exploration that rewards player creativity.
- #32 StarRupture
73% matchVery Positive81% of 10,861 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 18.9 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 30.3% ★, Base Building 15%, Co-op 10.8%, Sandbox 9.9%, Open World 7.8%
- #33 Tinkerlands
73% matchVery Positive86% of 3,746 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 13.7 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 36.4% ★, Sandbox 12.6%, Co-op 10%, Building 9.7%, Open World 8.5%
- #34 GRAV
77% matchMixed47% of 6,921 reviews2015
Dev: BitMonster, Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 11.5 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 38.3% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Sandbox 9.7%, Open World 8.5%, Survival 7%
- #35 Creativerse
75% 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 28.5% ★, Building 10.9%, Sandbox 10.8%, Co-op 10.1%, Open World 7.4%
- #36 Planetaries
74% matchMixed59% of 222 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 28.1% ★, Base Building 12%, Building 9.7%, Co-op 8.7%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #37 Solace Crafting
74% 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 29.3% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Building 9.1%, Sandbox 8.8%, Co-op 7.9%
- #38 Dune: Awakening
71% matchMostly Positive70% of 74,372 reviews2025
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 47.7 hrsMean: 95.2 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 28.6% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Building 10.2%, Sandbox 10%, Open World 7.4%
- #39 Starbound
72% matchVery Positive90% of 122,901 reviews2016
Dev: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.2 hrsMean: 64.1 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 39.6% ★, Sandbox 13%, Building 6.8%, Co-op 6.6%, Space 6.3%
- #40 Keplerth
72% matchVery Positive85% of 4,121 reviews2022
Dev: TAROPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 16.2 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 19%, Building 17.1%, Open World 12.7%, Sci-fi 10.9%, Base Building 10%
- #41 Fragmented
75% 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 46.9% ★, Survival 8.1%, Open World 7.8%, Sandbox 7.7%, Building 6.9%
- #42 Occupy Mars: The Game
70% matchMostly Positive70% of 3,012 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 31.4 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 16.2%, Sandbox 12.7%, Building 11.7%, Co-op 10.5%, Open World 9.3%
- #43 Craterbound
73% 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 30.4% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Open World 7.8%, Space 7.7%, Sandbox 7.4%
- #44 KeepUp Survival
71% matchMixed65% of 734 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.7 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 29.6% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Co-op 10.7%, Sandbox 9.6%, Open World 8%
- #45 Everwind
69% matchVery Positive82% of 2,069 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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: Sandbox 15.1%, Co-op 14.8%, Building 14.5%, Procedural Generation 12%, Open World 10.9%
- #46 Core Keeper
68% matchVery Positive93% of 63,205 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.0 hrsMean: 33.7 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 23.8% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Sandbox 9.8%, Building 9.7%, Co-op 9.3%
- #47 Dawn of Defiance
70% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,736 reviews2024
Dev: Traega EntertainmentPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 38.2% ★, Base Building 14.3%, Building 9.6%, Sandbox 8.7%, Open World 7.4%
- #48 Horizon Journey
70% matchMostly Negative25% of 81 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 25.4% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Building 9.3%, Sandbox 9.3%, Co-op 9%
- #49 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,643 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 33.4% ★, Base Building 15.4%, Sandbox 8.9%, Open World 8.1%, Survival 6.9%
- #50 Force of Nature
69% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,198 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 41% ★, Sandbox 10.1%, Building 8.8%, Crafting 8.1%, Open World 7.4%
- #51 Start Over
67% matchMixed62% of 375 reviews2024
Dev: EY-Studio
Windows
Embark on an unpredictable survival journey in Start Over. Solo, co-op, online, explore diverse landscapes, craft through 4 tech tiers, encounter wildlife, and trade or raid for resources. Choose your path, defend against waves, and shape your destiny in a dynamic world. Are you ready to Start Over?
Why similar: Base Building 19%, Sandbox 13.6%, Building 13.4%, Co-op 9.2%, Crafting 8.6%
- #52 Blossom: The Seed of Life
65% matchVery Positive90% of 654 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 31.5% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Sandbox 10.2%, Building 10%, Open World 7%
- #53 Avorion
67% matchVery Positive90% of 14,288 reviews2020
Dev: Boxelware
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18.6 hrsMean: 98.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A procedural co-op space sandbox where players can build their own space ships out of dynamically scalable blocks. Fight epic space battles, explore, mine, trade, wage wars and build your own empire to save your galaxy from being torn apart by an unknown enemy.
Why similar: Sandbox 21.6%, Building 21.4%, Space 14.8%, Open World 14.3%, Sci-fi 12.9%
- #54 Nightingale
66% matchMixed67% of 17,841 reviews2024
Dev: Inflexion Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 23.9 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 31.8% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Building 10.2%, Co-op 9.2%, Open World 7.9%
- #55 Lodventure
67% 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 32.3% ★, Co-op 11.5%, Base Building 10.5%, Open World 7.7%, Building 7.2%
- #56 Farworld Pioneers
69% matchMostly Negative38% of 691 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 28.5% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Co-op 13.5%, Sandbox 10.4%, Space 7.3%
- #57 Astrometica
65% matchVery Positive83% of 2,970 reviews2024
Dev: BeryMeryPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 17.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Astrometica is a space exploration and base-building survival game. After a catastrophic event, explore vast space, gather resources, build bases, and uncover cosmic mysteries. Use advanced technology, craft tools, and discover new blueprints to survive and thrive in the unknown.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.1% ★, Base Building 16.8%, Open World 11.8%, Space 10.1%, Crafting 9%
- #58 Edge of Space
71% 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 43.3% ★, Sandbox 15.1%, Space 6.2%, Sci-fi 5.7%, Crafting 5.3%
