- #1 Myth of Empires
97% matchMixed67% of 17,261 reviews2024
Dev: Angela GamePub: Imperium Interactive Entertainment
Windows
Median: 15.4 hrsMean: 230.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Myth of Empires is a multiplayer war sandbox game featuring a high degree of freedom and multiple civilizations. Players must survive, craft, create, and lead troops in their quest to conquer PVE or PVP territory and build their own empire. Xizhou Civilization Pack is now officially released!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.5% ★, Building 13.9%, Sandbox 13.2%, Online Co-Op 9.5%, Survival 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a near-identical experience of large-scale clan warfare, base building, and survival in a historical Asian setting.
- #2 Soulmask
96% matchVery Positive81% of 17,627 reviews2024
Dev: CampFire StudioPub: Qooland Games
Windows
Median: 13.7 hrsMean: 66.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Choose your path across a primeval continent shaped by the Mask's power. From lush rainforests to scorched sands, recruit and lead unique tribesmen, build automated production lines, and construct everything from local bases to colossal airships, uncover the secrets of the Mask
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.9% ★, Building 14.6%, Sandbox 14%, Survival 10.7%, Open World 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: This game features deep tribal management and survival mechanics that mirror the progression and resource-gathering loops of Cultivation Tales.
- #3 Conan Exiles
96% 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 25% ★, Survival 14.5%, Building 12.9%, Open World 10.9%, Massively Multiplayer 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: As a premier open-world survival game, it provides the same focus on building massive structures and engaging in brutal player-versus-player combat.
- #4 Amazing Cultivation Simulator
95% matchVery Positive86% of 23,413 reviews2020
Dev: GSQ Games
Windows
Median: 9.4 hrsMean: 58.4 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Rise up in a search for immortality in this strategy sim and management game based on Chinese mythology. Rebuild your sect and train new disciples through the path of cultivation. Research magic and gather mystical artifacts, face ancient dangers and other sects in your path to spiritual ascension.
Why similar: Sandbox 37.7%, Survival 18.5%, RPG 12.9%, Open World 11.9%, Strategy 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: While more strategy-focused, it is the definitive simulation of the cultivation journey, capturing the essence of ascending to divinity.
- #5 The Matchless Kungfu
94% matchVery Positive82% of 7,698 reviews2024
Dev: HuanMos GamePub: bilibili
Windows
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 28.4 hrs≥1hr: 81%
The Matchless Kungfu is an open world sandbox RPG game based on a WuXia background. You can play any martial arts role you imagine in this wild world. Travel through the great wilderness, or be the leader of the group. The most important thing is, build your own story and live the experience!
Why similar: Sandbox 24.9%, Building 21.6%, Open World 18.2%, Survival 17.4%, RPG 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a deep, sandbox-style martial arts experience that allows for significant freedom in how you develop your character's path.
- #6 鬼谷八荒 Tale of Immortal
94% matchMixed54% of 226,468 reviews2023
Dev: 鬼谷工作室
Windows
Median: 30.8 hrsMean: 72.8 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Tale of Immortal is an open-world sandbox based on Chinese mythology and cultivation. You will grow to become immortal, conquer the beasts from the Classic of Mountains and Season, make your choices carefully and grasp your own destiny.
Why similar: Sandbox 35.7%, Action RPG 19.8%, Action-Adventure 15.1%, RPG 11.8%, Action 7%
Why You'll Like It: This sandbox game is heavily rooted in Chinese mythology and cultivation, offering a vast world to explore and master.
- #7 Valheim
93% matchVery Positive94% of 529,829 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 25.6 hrsMean: 76.1 hrs≥1hr: 93%
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.9% ★, Online Co-Op 14.6%, Building 12%, Survival 11.6%, Open World 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the mythical atmosphere and survival-crafting loop perfectly, rewarding exploration and construction in a Norse-inspired world.
- #8 The Front
92% matchMixed68% of 10,753 reviews2025
Dev: Samar Studio
Windows
Median: 10.6 hrsMean: 44.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
The Front is a survival open-world crafting sandbox game. You are a resistance fighter sent back in time to stop the rise of a tyrannical empire. Collect resources, craft tech, build shelters, and fight monsters to accomplish your mission.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.2% ★, Massively Multiplayer 11.2%, Tower Defense 10.5%, Building 10.3%, Sandbox 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: This title focuses heavily on base defense and survival, providing a similar loop of gathering resources to fortify against threats.
- #9 ARK: Survival Ascended
91% 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: Survival 18.4%, Building 15.7%, Open World 14.7%, Massively Multiplayer 14.1%, Sandbox 13.5%
Why You'll Like It: This title is the gold standard for open-world survival, offering extensive crafting and building systems in a dangerous, untamed environment.
- #10 Enshrouded
90% matchVery Positive86% of 98,202 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.3 hrsMean: 44.1 hrs≥1hr: 94%
You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 18.3%, Survival 16.8%, Open World 16.6%, Building 12.5%, Sandbox 11%
Why You'll Like It: This game combines voxel-based building with survival elements in a fantasy world that emphasizes exploration and character progression.
- #11 Palworld
89% matchVery Positive94% of 417,805 reviews2024
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 34.2 hrsMean: 70.0 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.7% ★, Survival 13%, Open World 12.8%, Online Co-Op 11.5%, Sandbox 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a massive open world with survival and crafting mechanics that are highly accessible and addictive.
- #12 Craftopia
91% matchMostly Positive77% of 19,974 reviews2020
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Craftopia is the brand new multiplayer survival action game made in Japan. We combined many features we find enjoyable, such as hunting, farming, hack-and-slash, building, automation to develop this game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.2% ★, Open World 14.8%, Survival 13.5%, Sandbox 11.9%, Building 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: It offers an expansive open world with a mix of survival, crafting, and combat that allows for diverse gameplay styles.
- #13 Last Oasis
89% matchMixed62% of 24,198 reviews2020
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 17.9 hrsMean: 121.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Nomadic Survival MMO. Build wooden walking machines to travel to new lands. Create clans and fight for territory. Resources deplete fast, so take your sword and scavenge, pirate, and trade to stay alive.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 26.9%, Survival 15.1%, Open World 11.7%, Building 11.5%, Sandbox 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique nomadic survival experience with a strong emphasis on clan warfare and resource management.
- #14 Citadel: Forged with Fire
88% matchMixed68% of 5,882 reviews2019
Dev: Blue Isle StudiosPub: Blue Isle Publishing
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 19.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
This massive online sandbox RPG features elements of magic, spellcasting, building, exploring and crafting. As a newly minted apprentice of the magic arts, you will set off to the dangerous world of Ignus. Tame mighty beasts, forge alliances, explore uncharted territories or fight for dominance!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.9% ★, Massively Multiplayer 19.2%, Open World 12.3%, Sandbox 10.6%, Survival 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on magic-based survival and building, allowing players to tame creatures and construct massive fortresses.
- #15 Pathless Woods
86% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,093 reviews2024
Dev: AniYa Games Studio
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Embark on a cozy open-world survival journey inspired by ancient China's heritage. Gather resources, cultivate crops, build your dream home, and defend it from marauders. Team up with friends to explore and uncover a world where adventure meets serenity.
Why similar: Sandbox 25.7%, Building 23%, Survival 19.9%, Open World 18.9%, RPG 5.7%
Why You'll Like It: It features an Asian-inspired aesthetic with a strong focus on survival, crafting, and building in a sandbox environment.
- #16 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
85% 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 26.4% ★, Online Co-Op 12.2%, Building 11.5%, Survival 10.8%, Sandbox 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a unique perspective on survival and building, emphasizing environmental interaction and crafting in a dangerous world.
- #17 The Swordsmen X: Survival
87% matchMostly Negative27% of 573 reviews2023
Dev: 上海润梦网络科技有限公司
Windows
A martial art open world adventure game that combines survival and crafting. Developed with UE4, it creates a vivid world of 256 square kilometers. Cultivate yourself by collecting, crafting, exploring and other methods. Confront complex natural environment and challenges from other warriors.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.2% ★, Massively Multiplayer 14.4%, Sandbox 11%, Survival 7.9%, Building 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: It is a direct martial-arts-themed survival game that emphasizes combat and exploration in an open world.
- #18 Sengoku Dynasty
84% matchMostly Positive75% of 7,351 reviews2024
Dev: SuperkamiPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 15.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Sengoku Dynasty is the ultimate feudal Japan experience: build villages, grow your community, and shape the open world through combat or economy. The choice is yours alone - or that of up to 4 players in multiplayer co-op!
Why similar: Building 20.9%, Survival 19%, Online Co-Op 18.9%, Open World 16.8%, Multiplayer 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: It blends survival and building with a feudal Japanese setting, focusing on establishing a legacy in a harsh, historical landscape.
- #19 Dawnlands
84% matchMixed52% of 3,131 reviews2023
Dev: SEASUN GAMES PTE. LTD.
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Dawnlands is an Open-World Survival Crafting cross-platform game with a massive world and epic lore. A variety of biomes, relics, and puzzles dot the landscape... an ancient land, lain dormant for centuries, is waiting to be awoken. New stories are waiting to be written.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.6% ★, Online Co-Op 13.6%, Building 12.5%, Sandbox 11%, Survival 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: This open-world survival game features extensive building mechanics and a vast world to explore with friends.
- #20 Wild Terra 2: New Lands
83% matchMixed52% of 3,315 reviews2022
Dev: Juvty Worlds
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 32.0 hrs≥1hr: 42%
MMORPG full of details that create a unique immersion and the spirit of adventure! Play your role in the life-filled medieval world controlled by players.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.7% ★, Massively Multiplayer 19.2%, Sandbox 13.6%, Building 10.3%, Survival 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a classic sandbox survival experience with a focus on crafting and building in a persistent world.
- #21 Outlaws of the Old West
82% matchMixed59% of 6,287 reviews2019
Dev: Virtual Basement LLCPub: Wandering Wizard
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 22.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Outlaws of the Old West is a massively multiplayer survival MMO with a huge world, thousands of items and a modular building system. Survive the wild, build your own homestead, defeat villainous bandits and work with others to tame the Wild West.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.5% ★, Massively Multiplayer 17.9%, Survival 14.4%, Open World 11.9%, Multiplayer 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a survival-crafting experience with a focus on building and exploration in a harsh frontier setting.
- #22 Solace Crafting
81% 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 28.4% ★, Online Co-Op 12.1%, Building 11.6%, Sandbox 11.4%, Survival 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes deep crafting and exploration mechanics in a vast, procedurally generated open world.
- #23 Shamania
79% matchMostly Positive78% of 140 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 28.7% ★, Sandbox 12%, Survival 11.5%, Online Co-Op 11.1%, Open World 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a survival and crafting experience with a focus on open-world exploration and cooperative play.
- #24 Force of Nature
82% 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 39.1% ★, Survival 13.7%, Sandbox 12.9%, Building 11%, Open World 9%
Why You'll Like It: This game combines survival, crafting, and exploration with a top-down perspective that is easy to pick up and play.
- #25 Night of the Dead
78% matchMostly Positive77% of 11,732 reviews2024
Dev: Jackto Studios
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 32.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
'Night of the Dead' is an open-world game that combines elements of exploration, tower defense, survival, and crafting. Traverse a world dominated by zombies while collecting various resources and powerful equipment. Build a fortress to survive the hordes of zombies that swarm every night!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.2% ★, Tower Defense 12.2%, Online Co-Op 11.1%, Sandbox 10.2%, Building 9.9%
- #26 Hero's Land
79% matchMixed55% of 45,299 reviews2023
Dev: 钢之直男工作室Pub: Orienjoy
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 47.2 hrs≥1hr: 73%
HERO'S LAND is an MMO PVPVE game where survival isn't just a goal—it's a necessity. Monsters and enemies are out to get you, making every encounter a potential ambush. Fight for glory, and welcome to a world where strategy and courage are your greatest assets.
Why similar: Survival 22.9%, Open World 20.6%, PvP 15.4%, Building 13.3%, Action RPG 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on survival and PVP combat in an open-world setting, rewarding players for their ability to gather and defend resources.
- #27 Tinkerlands
77% 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 29% ★, Online Co-Op 13.8%, Sandbox 13.5%, Survival 10.2%, Building 10.2%
- #28 Planetaries
76% 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 24.3% ★, Online Co-Op 11.8%, Building 11.1%, Tower Defense 11%, Sandbox 9.7%
- #29 Dawn of Defiance
75% 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 31.2% ★, Online Co-Op 15.3%, Survival 11.6%, Building 10.3%, Sandbox 9.6%
- #30 Lodventure
76% 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 34.1% ★, Survival 11.9%, Online Co-Op 10.7%, Open World 10.5%, Sandbox 10.3%
- #31 Fragmented
78% 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 41% ★, Survival 14.3%, Sandbox 9.1%, Open World 8.8%, Building 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: This sci-fi survival game offers similar mechanics for building and resource gathering in a hostile alien environment.
- #32 Kalpa of Sword
74% matchMixed69% of 6,608 reviews2024
Dev: 孤帆工作室Pub: Orienjoy
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 34.7 hrs≥1hr: 68%
《剑气劫》是一款新国风题材的PVPVE游戏，生存斗法是游戏的唯一目标！ 游戏开放全地图探索掉落，装备全靠自己刷。但仙途险恶，无论是奇魔异兽还是路过的修士，皆可成为狩猎的目标。成王败寇，修仙乱世当以实力为尊，望各位道友好自珍重！
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 19%, Sandbox 18.3%, Online Co-Op 15.8%, Survival 12.7%, Building 11.1%
- #33 Wild Terra Online
77% matchMixed60% of 1,830 reviews2017
Dev: Juvty Worlds
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Wild Terra Online is a sandbox RPG, in a completely player-controlled medieval world. You will have to survive in a forest full of predators, build a shelter and improve your crafts skills, tame animals and fight for treasures. You can become anyone and do whatever you want!
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 27.8%, Sandbox 19.2%, Survival 14.2%, Open World 12.1%, Building 11.1%
- #34 Tales of Morrow
75% matchMixed47% of 94 reviews2024
Dev: GameMechanic
Windows
Create your tale! Build your home, fight, farm, and explore an old civilization while developing your skills and abilities in this relaxing and adventurous experience. You decide your fate!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.8% ★, Building 18.8%, Survival 12.3%, Action-Adventure 7%, RPG 6.6%
- #35 SCUM
71% matchMostly Positive74% of 122,922 reviews2025
Dev: Gamepires
Windows
Median: 11.9 hrsMean: 102.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Traverse punishing environments, looting, crafting and evading the constant threats to your life. The unprecedented levels of character customization and progression are your ultimate tools for survival.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.4% ★, Massively Multiplayer 17.3%, Online Co-Op 10.2%, Sandbox 10.1%, Survival 10.1%
- #36 In Next Life
72% matchMixed68% of 115 reviews2026
Dev: Dual DecadePub: Wereviz AB
Windows · Mac
An online multiplayer game of crafting, survival, civilization building, and player collaboration. Start in the stone age and live, build, and invent your way to higher civilization. Live and die as well as you can, to gain the experience you need to achieve even more in your next life!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.8% ★, Sandbox 13.6%, Online Co-Op 13.5%, Building 12.9%, Survival 11.4%
- #37 Cultivation Magic World
71% matchVery Positive83% of 290 reviews2025
Dev: DMG Studio
Windows
3D Idle Cultivation RPG: Instant battles, one-click AFK loot farming, screen-filling sword storms, thrilling aerial combat! Diverse classes, physique awakenings, Summon spirit beasts (pets), massive realm progression from mortal to transcendence! Effortless AFK + intense manual fights!
Why similar: Open World 23.1%, Survival 18.7%, Action RPG 15.3%, 3D Platformer 12.9%, Action-Adventure 12.4%
- #38 Creativerse
73% 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 24% ★, Sandbox 12.2%, Building 12.1%, Online Co-Op 12%, Survival 9.3%
- #39 Longvinter
71% matchMixed67% of 7,526 reviews2025
Dev: Uuvana Studios
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 39.9 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Fish, farm, craft, gather, cook, loot or steal from other players and build a campsite or a village with your friends in an open-world multiplayer sandbox game without rules!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.5% ★, Survival 14.6%, Sandbox 13.4%, Building 11.2%, Open World 11.2%
- #40 Boundless
74% 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 30.5% ★, Massively Multiplayer 19.4%, Sandbox 14.6%, Building 11%, Open World 9.6%
- #41 Renown
70% matchMixed60% of 1,544 reviews2025
Dev: RDBK Studios
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Renown is an intense medieval multiplayer survival experience set in a vast, ever-evolving world. Whether alone or rallying allies, gather resources, build powerful strongholds, and engage in brutal battles for dominance.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.5% ★, Massively Multiplayer 12.2%, Building 10.8%, Sandbox 10.4%, Online Co-Op 9.6%
- #42 Omega Crafter
69% 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 28.9% ★, Survival 12.3%, Building 11.4%, Open World 11.2%, Online Co-Op 10.6%
- #43 Milkcraft
73% matchMixed55% of 237 reviews2021
Dev: Milkcraft Studio
Windows
Milkcraft is a multiplayer RPG social sandbox game. In this mysterious world of Norse mythology, you can freely build your own territory and village, or start a survival adventure to challenge the dark dragon. Come with Us!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.3% ★, Massively Multiplayer 19.6%, Sandbox 11.7%, Building 10.8%, Open World 10.1%
- #44 Eden Rising
73% matchMixed64% of 1,447 reviews2019
Dev: The Wall Productions Inc.
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 47%
Brace yourself for a brand new action-packed Open World. Explore a huge world to gather materials for gear and defenses. Use everything at your disposal to defend your bases and defeat hordes of hostile monsters. Play solo or up to 8-player online!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.5% ★, Tower Defense 19.9%, Open World 12.9%, Survival 10.2%, Online Co-Op 9%
- #45 Dune: Awakening
67% 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 21.1% ★, Massively Multiplayer 12.7%, Online Co-Op 9.9%, Building 9.9%, Sandbox 9.9%
- #46 Necesse
65% 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 39.3% ★, Sandbox 12.6%, Building 9.6%, Survival 9.1%, Open World 8.8%
- #47 Nobody - The Turnaround
69% matchMixed60% of 14,289 reviews2022
Dev: U.Ground Game StudioPub: Thermite Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 12.0 hrsMean: 23.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Nobody – The Turnaround is a life simulator set in a parallel world that echoes modern society. Manage your time and resources carefully, strive to find a way through difficult times, and overcome the predicament you find yourself in.
Why similar: Sandbox 33.4%, Survival 31.7%, Open World 21.3%, Strategy 9.6%, Adventure 2.5%
- #48 Re.poly
70% matchVery Positive92% of 135 reviews2019
Dev: Hinkfoot Studios
Windows
Re.Poly is a relaxed yet deep indie survival game in a low-poly style that blends exploration, combat, building, and adventure. Whether alone or with friends, create your own world, write your own story, and decide how you want to play.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.9% ★, Sandbox 14.7%, Survival 11.8%, Open World 9.8%, Action RPG 8%
- #49 Reign Of Kings
70% matchMixed57% of 14,891 reviews2015
Dev: Code}{atch
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 47.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Struggle to survive in a harsh medieval world. Hunt wildlife, mine resources, build structures, and craft weapons and armor in order to protect yourself. You may form a guild, bring war to all opposition, and try to seize the throne and become king!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.9% ★, Survival 12.7%, Building 12.4%, Open World 10.5%, Sandbox 8.6%
- #50 Crestfallen: Medieval Survival
68% matchMixed60% of 455 reviews2024
Dev: Bloodbath Studios
Windows
👑 Hail to the King! In Crestfallen: Medieval Survival, players clash for dominance over the realm through strategic castle 🏰 building and fierce combat. Craft epic armor, forge deadly medieval weapons⚔️, and build a kingdom worthy of legend 📜. Create a Guild 🐉, trade goods, and prevail! 🌟
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.7% ★, Building 11.6%, Survival 10.6%, Sandbox 10.5%, Online Co-Op 9%
- #51 Terraria
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,511,859 reviews2011
Dev: Re-Logic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 33.2 hrsMean: 149.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.9% ★, Sandbox 17.6%, Building 11.1%, Survival 10.9%, Online Co-Op 6.9%
- #52 Zero-based World-从零开始
68% matchMostly Positive72% of 181 reviews2020
Dev: zerogame
Windows
Zero Based World is a multiplayer sandbox survival game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.1% ★, Massively Multiplayer 19.5%, Online Co-Op 14.6%, Open World 10%, PvP 6.8%
- #53 Cultivation Story: Reincarnation
65% matchVery Positive92% of 2,013 reviews2023
Dev: Chi Entertainment Corp.
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Cultivation Story: Reincarnation is a top-down pixel art style action roguelike based on cultivation and Chinese mythology.
Why similar: Action Roguelike 56.1%, RPG 25.2%, Action 11.1%, Adventure 5%, Singleplayer 2.6%
- #54 Once Human
63% matchMostly Positive77% of 167,251 reviews2024
Dev: Starry Studio
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 50.2 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Once Human is a multiplayer open-world survival game set in a strange, post-apocalyptic future. Unite with friends to fight monstrous enemies, uncover secret plots, compete for resources, and build your own territory. Once, you were merely human. Now, you have the power to remake the world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25% ★, Massively Multiplayer 15.7%, Online Co-Op 11.9%, Survival 10%, Open World 8.4%
- #55 Keplerth
65% 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 24.9%, Building 22.1%, Survival 18.3%, Open World 16%, Multiplayer 6.3%
