- #1 The Planet Crafter
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 71,525 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.5 hrsMean: 38.3 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 31.4% ★, Base Building 15%, Building 10%, Co-op 9.7%, Sandbox 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly captures the terraforming and sci-fi survival loop found in the seed game.
- #2 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
96% matchMostly Positive78% of 34,271 reviews2020
Dev: Eleon Game Studios
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 76.9 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 36.4% ★, Co-op 13.9%, Building 13%, Sandbox 10.8%, Sci-fi 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: This title provides a deep space survival experience with extensive vehicle and base construction mechanics.
- #3 No Man's Sky
96% matchVery Positive85% of 411,162 reviews2016
Dev: Hello Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 20.1 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 50.4% ★, Sandbox 10.1%, Sci-fi 9.7%, Open World 6.6%, Space 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: It is the definitive galactic exploration game that mirrors the vast, vibrant, and sci-fi sandbox experience of the seed game.
- #4 ASTRONEER
95% matchVery Positive92% of 138,510 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.3 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 37.3% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Co-op 9.5%, Sandbox 9.2%, Building 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a similar colorful, sci-fi sandbox experience with a heavy emphasis on exploration and modular base building.
- #5 Eden Crafters
94% matchVery Positive86% of 2,537 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 13.6 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 32.5% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Sandbox 9.6%, Building 9.2%, Co-op 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the core focus on terraforming and survival within an open-world sci-fi setting.
- #6 Forever Skies
94% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,551 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 31.8 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 33.5% ★, Base Building 17%, Co-op 12.9%, Building 10.4%, Sci-fi 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: This first-person survival game features a unique mobile base-building mechanic set in a post-apocalyptic sci-fi world.
- #7 Space Engineers
93% matchVery Positive89% of 133,963 reviews2019
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 96.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 23.8%, Building 18.5%, Sandbox 17.5%, Co-op 17.2%, Space 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: It is the premier choice for players who want complex, physics-based sci-fi building and engineering in an open space environment.
- #8 TerraTech Worlds
92% matchMixed63% of 2,256 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 21.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 31.3% ★, Base Building 15.6%, Building 10.5%, Sandbox 10.3%, Co-op 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: This game excels at the vehicle-building and sandbox exploration aspects of the seed game.
- #9 ICARUS
91% matchMostly Positive75% of 64,831 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 46.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.8% ★, Base Building 15.9%, Building 9.4%, Co-op 8.8%, Sandbox 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a session-based sci-fi survival experience with a strong focus on building and planetary exploration.
- #10 Subnautica
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 375,391 reviews2018
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.3 hrsMean: 39.6 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 50.6% ★, Base Building 16.3%, Sandbox 7%, Sci-fi 5.9%, Open World 5.1%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the immersive first-person exploration and survival tension of discovering a mysterious alien world.
- #11 Satisfactory
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 274,659 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 32.8 hrsMean: 111.2 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 25.8%, Open World Survival Craft 19.5% ★, Building 13%, Co-op 12.5%, Sandbox 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the first-person sci-fi base-building and automation aspects that make the seed game's construction so rewarding.
- #12 Lost Skies
90% matchMixed61% of 2,941 reviews2025
Dev: Bossa StudiosPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 11.8 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 47.6% ★, Base Building 19.9%, Sandbox 11.8%, Online Co-Op 6.7%, Co-op 4.2%
Why You'll Like It: It matches the co-op adventure and exploration elements while providing a unique sky-faring survival experience.
- #13 ARK: Survival Ascended
89% matchMixed60% of 110,562 reviews2023
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows
Median: 26.3 hrsMean: 195.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 26.4%, Building 19.9%, Sandbox 16.2%, Open World 9.3%, Survival 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: This title provides a robust first-person open-world survival experience with deep crafting and base-building systems.
- #14 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
88% matchVery Positive82% of 10,269 reviews2024
Dev: Merge GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 16.0 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 31.2% ★, Base Building 14.3%, Building 9.9%, Co-op 9%, Sandbox 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: It features first-person survival with a strong emphasis on building and exploration in a unique, large-scale world.
- #15 Voidtrain
86% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,612 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 41.4% ★, Base Building 13%, Co-op 11.2%, Building 8.2%, Sandbox 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers a unique sci-fi survival experience centered around building and upgrading a mobile train base.
- #16 StarRupture
85% matchVery Positive81% of 12,866 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 24.2 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 34.9% ★, Base Building 16.9%, Co-op 11.6%, Sandbox 10.5%, Sci-fi 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: It combines sci-fi survival with automation and base-building in a way that aligns closely with the seed game's mechanics.
- #17 7 Days to Die
83% matchVery Positive87% of 402,373 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.0 hrsMean: 109.1 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 38.6% ★, Base Building 16.8%, Building 11.7%, Sandbox 10.8%, Online Co-Op 5.3%
Why You'll Like It: It is a benchmark for first-person survival and base-building, offering a similar sense of progression and danger.
- #18 GRAV
86% 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 45.4% ★, Base Building 15.5%, Sandbox 10.7%, Co-op 6.6%, Open World 4.6%
Why You'll Like It: This sci-fi sandbox features exploration, base building, and survival mechanics in a vibrant alien setting.
- #19 Raft
82% matchVery Positive93% of 374,777 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.6 hrsMean: 37.5 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 44.7% ★, Co-op 13.6%, Base Building 10.9%, Building 9.1%, Sandbox 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a compelling survival and building loop that emphasizes expanding a mobile base in an open environment.
- #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 47.3% ★, Sandbox 16.3%, Building 8.8%, Open World 5.2%, RPG 4.9%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a voxel-based approach to sci-fi exploration and crafting that allows for significant world manipulation.
- #21 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 32.1% ★, Building 11.9%, Sandbox 11.3%, Co-op 10.7%, Action-Adventure 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a voxel-based sandbox experience that prioritizes creative building and exploration.
- #22 Solace Crafting
81% matchMostly Positive72% of 894 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 33.3% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Building 10%, Sandbox 9.3%, Co-op 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers an expansive open-world survival experience with deep crafting and building systems.
- #23 Necesse
77% matchVery Positive93% of 27,498 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 14.9 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 45.6% ★, Sandbox 10.1%, Base Building 9.7%, Building 8.2%, Co-op 8%
- #24 Edge of Space
82% 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 50.4% ★, Sandbox 16.3%, Sci-fi 6.4%, Building 5.4%, Co-op 5.4%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on sci-fi survival, exploration, and combat within a hostile, procedurally generated universe.
- #25 Stationeers
79% matchVery Positive88% of 9,110 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 83.8 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: It provides a more technical, hardcore approach to sci-fi base building and atmospheric survival.
- #26 Starsand
79% matchMixed66% of 1,246 reviews2022
Dev: Tunnel Vision StudioPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 6.8 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 37.6% ★, Base Building 15.7%, Sandbox 9.9%, Building 9.9%, Sci-fi 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the survival and exploration loop in a harsh, alien-like environment with a focus on crafting.
- #27 Core Keeper
76% matchVery Positive93% of 65,308 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.0 hrsMean: 34.5 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 28.6% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Building 11.4%, Sandbox 11.1%, Co-op 10.7%
- #28 Horizon Journey
78% matchMostly Negative26% of 86 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 30.5% ★, Base Building 14.2%, Building 10.8%, Sandbox 10.4%, Co-op 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: This title emphasizes first-person survival and crafting in an adventurous open-world setting.
- #29 Fragmented
80% 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 53.7% ★, Sandbox 8.2%, Building 7.6%, Co-op 5%, Survival 4.4%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a multiplayer-focused sci-fi survival experience with a heavy emphasis on base building and action.
- #30 Tinkerlands
75% matchVery Positive86% of 3,973 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 14.0 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 40.9% ★, Sandbox 13%, Co-op 10.5%, Building 10.4%, Online Co-Op 6%
- #31 Crashlands
78% matchVery Positive89% of 6,716 reviews2016
Dev: Butterscotch Shenanigans
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 13.7 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 37.2% ★, Base Building 14.3%, Sandbox 10.9%, Building 10.2%, Sci-fi 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: It blends RPG elements with survival and exploration in a colorful, sci-fi-inspired world.
- #32 Planetaries
76% matchMixed58% of 226 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 31.2% ★, Base Building 13%, Building 10.5%, Co-op 9.1%, Sandbox 8.6%
- #33 Boundless
77% matchMixed69% of 2,770 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 48.9% ★, Sandbox 16.2%, Building 13%, Open World 5.5%, RPG 5.2%
- #34 Starbound
75% matchVery Positive90% of 123,064 reviews2016
Dev: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.1 hrsMean: 64.3 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 46% ★, Sandbox 14%, Building 7.7%, Co-op 7.2%, Online Co-Op 4%
- #35 Space Trash Scavenger
74% matchVery Positive84% of 521 reviews2024
Dev: SquarePlay GamesPub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 9.0 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 38.3% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Sandbox 10.7%, Building 10.6%, Sci-fi 6.3%
- #36 Shamania
73% matchMostly Positive74% of 154 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 36.8% ★, Sandbox 10.6%, Co-op 10.5%, Base Building 10%, Building 8.8%
- #37 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
72% matchVery Positive91% of 7,488 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 36% ★, Base Building 15.5%, Sandbox 8.9%, Building 8.6%, Co-op 7.2%
- #38 Omega Crafter
73% matchMostly Positive79% of 570 reviews2025
Dev: Preferred Networks
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 40.3% ★, Co-op 12.7%, Building 11.1%, Sandbox 9.2%, RPG 5.9%
- #39 Nova Lands
72% matchVery Positive89% of 3,465 reviews2023
Dev: BEHEMUTTPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.2 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 38.8% ★, Base Building 21.4%, Sandbox 14.6%, Building 11%, Open World 4.4%
- #40 Len's Island
71% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,790 reviews2025
Dev: Flow Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
An open-world survival crafting game for 1–8 players, blending intense dungeon crawling and ARPG combat with peaceful farming and creative building. Take on quests and explore a vast, procedurally-generated world full of danger and discovery.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.1% ★, Building 14%, Base Building 14%, Sandbox 11.8%, Open World 4.2%
- #41 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 38.3% ★, Base Building 15.8%, Sandbox 8.7%, Sci-fi 7.4%, Action-Adventure 7.1%
- #42 Everwind
69% matchVery Positive81% of 3,601 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 13.5 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%
- #43 Farworld Pioneers
73% matchMostly Negative37% of 697 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 32.2% ★, Base Building 15%, Co-op 14.4%, Sandbox 10.9%, Sci-fi 7.6%
- #44 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,689 reviews2021
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
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 41.9% ★, Base Building 19.1%, Sandbox 10.4%, Building 7%, Open World 4.7%
- #45 KeepUp Survival
70% matchMixed64% of 744 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 84%
KeepUp Survival is an open-world base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and shape your own story on a mysterious island.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.3% ★, Base Building 16%, Co-op 12.5%, Sandbox 11%, Action-Adventure 6.2%
- #46 Dawn of Defiance
69% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,820 reviews2024
Dev: Traega EntertainmentPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
You are the Defier, a Spartan beginning your afterlife on the Crossroads. In this Greek myth-inspired survival craft, ascend from weak soldier to god-like anti-hero. Build impressive Greek structures, craft legendary gear, and break the seals of the Underworld with up to 3 friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42% ★, Base Building 15.3%, Building 10.2%, Sandbox 8.9%, Online Co-Op 6.5%
- #47 Lodventure
70% matchMostly Positive74% of 162 reviews2023
Dev: Sky Games
Windows
Embark on a 1-4 players Co-op survival adventure in an open world wilderness in search of a myth called the Lod Stone. Build your house, sow your crops, brew potions, tame a horse and discover powerful abilities. Venture into dangerous dungeons, fight unique bosses to find the Lod stone.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.5% ★, Co-op 12.3%, Base Building 11.7%, Building 7.9%, Sandbox 7.6%
- #48 Solarpunk™
67% matchVery Positive82% of 3,137 reviews2026
Dev: CyberwavePub: rokaplay
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Solarpunk is a survival game in a technologically advanced world of floating islands. Alone or together with your friends, you can construct buildings, grow food, craft gadgets and hop on your airship to explore distant islands in the sky.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.2% ★, Base Building 15.3%, Building 11.3%, Co-op 11.2%, Sandbox 10.4%
- #49 Blossom: The Seed of Life
67% matchVery Positive89% of 956 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 38.1% ★, Base Building 17.4%, Building 11.6%, Sandbox 11.3%, Sci-fi 7.2%
- #50 Signs of Life
71% matchMostly Positive76% of 841 reviews2014
Dev: Sweet Dog Studios
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Signs of Life is a sci-fi survival sandbox platformer with a combination of procedurally generated and hand-crafted content. You'll explore mysterious locations, Mine blocks for resources, and meet strange (and some familiar) creatures, some of which don't even want to kill you and eat your corpse.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 50% ★, Sandbox 15.4%, Building 9%, Sci-fi 6%, RPG 5.5%
- #51 Star Crafter
68% matchMixed70% of 105 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 39.4% ★, Base Building 18.1%, Sandbox 9.1%, Building 8.8%, Sci-fi 5.5%
- #52 Grounded
66% matchVery Positive90% of 94,772 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 40.9% ★, Base Building 18.7%, Co-op 14.2%, Survival 5.3%, Sandbox 5.1%
- #53 Dune: Awakening
65% matchMostly Positive71% of 77,257 reviews2025
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 46.8 hrsMean: 99.3 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival game with immersive adventure and RPG gameplay. Explore, build, craft, and unravel a cinematic Dune story alone or with friends as you rise from survival to greatness on the most legendary planet in the universe. Just remember: the sandworm always comes.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.3% ★, Base Building 15%, Building 11.1%, Sandbox 10.4%, Sci-fi 7.7%
- #54 Scrapnaut
69% matchMixed70% of 833 reviews2021
Dev: SpiffyBitPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 4.1 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 29.8% ★, Building 15.4%, Co-op 12.6%, Base Building 12.3%, Sandbox 11.2%
- #55 SpaceCraft
65% matchMixed67% of 2,264 reviews2026
Dev: Shiro Games
Windows
Median: 13.9 hrsMean: 37.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
The Universe is yours. SpaceCraft is an online space exploration and building game. Explore a vast galaxy of solar systems and planets, mine and craft resources, design and build ships, automate planetary bases and interplanetary logistics, trade and cooperate.
Why similar: Base Building 24.1%, Sandbox 18.9%, Co-op 14.6%, Sci-fi 14.6%, Space 7.2%
- #56 Astral Terra
71% 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 46.1% ★, Sandbox 13.8%, Building 11%, Co-op 5.6%, RPG 5.4%
- #57 Drift: Space Survival
67% matchMostly Positive70% of 77 reviews2023
Dev: KAR Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
You were deep in uncharted space on a research mission. Disaster struck. Together with your friends, explore a mysterious asteroid field and mine whatever resources possible to build what you need to survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.9% ★, Base Building 10.9%, Building 10.3%, Sandbox 8.1%, Online Co-Op 5.7%
