- #1 Primitier
97% matchVery Positive94% of 304 reviews2025
Dev: Ota Mato
Windows
Primitier is a highly flexible VR sandbox game, where you can create tools and machinery by freely cutting and connecting objects in a vast world based on physics simulation.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25% ★, VR 24.1%, Crafting 16.3%, Procedural Generation 11.3%, Open World 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a highly immersive, physics-based voxel crafting system that feels like a natural evolution of the cyubeVR experience.
- #2 vrkshop
96% matchVery Positive82% of 170 reviews2021
Dev: scopatgames
Windows
vrkshop is a VR woodworking game. You are challenged to build projects with hand tools without snap-to-guides or limits on how to cut or fasten the lumber. The precision of your project is left entirely up to you. Have fun. Be productive.
Why similar: VR 30.3%, Building 20.8%, Crafting 18.2%, Realistic 10.8%, Open World Survival Craft 9% ★
Why You'll Like It: Provides a realistic, hands-on woodworking and building experience that mirrors the tactile satisfaction of cyubeVR.
- #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 39.6% ★, Open World 16.4%, Procedural Generation 11%, Crafting 8.7%, Exploration 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: Includes full VR support and offers an infinite, procedurally generated universe perfect for exploration and base building.
- #4 SculptrVR
95% matchVery Positive88% of 108 reviews2016
Dev: Nathan RowePub: SculptrVR
Windows
SculptrVR's 10,000x zoom enables massive creations with tiny details. SculptrVR makes it easy to create, explore, and share incredible sculptures with friends. With SculptrVR’s intuitive tools, but powerful tools, you can make anything!
Why similar: VR 100%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the creative side of voxel building in VR, allowing for incredibly detailed sculpting and construction.
- #5 Cave Digger VR
94% matchMostly Positive76% of 347 reviews2018
Dev: VRKiwi
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 25%
Cave Digger VR is a virtual reality mining game in an alternative western setting. Gear up with numerous unique tools and explore the town and the depths of the mountain. Discover secrets, easter eggs and multiple endings!
Why similar: Mining 40.4% ★, VR 25.9%, Open World 10%, Sandbox 8.6%, Exploration 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the mining and resource extraction aspects of the genre with a dedicated VR-first design.
- #6 Green Hell VR
94% matchMixed57% of 1,209 reviews2022
Dev: Incuvo
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Green Hell VR is an Open World Survival game set in the Amazon rainforest, based on the successful PC title Green Hell. You are left alone in the jungle with no food or equipment. To survive, you must learn real-life survival techniques, and crafting weapons can be a matter of life and death
Why similar: VR 28.9%, Crafting 17.3%, Open World 11.9%, Sandbox 9.5%, Realistic 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: Delivers a deeply immersive VR survival experience with realistic crafting and resource management.
- #7 Rising World
93% matchVery Positive86% of 5,845 reviews2014
Dev: JIW-Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 21.3 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Rising World is a voxel based open-world sandbox game, featuring a procedurally generated world, playable in single and multi-player.
Why similar: Mining 20% ★, Open World Survival Craft 19.9% ★, Voxel 18% ★, Building 9.4%, Crafting 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based sandbox that offers extensive building and mining tools in a vast, open world.
- #8 Garden of the Sea (VR)
92% matchVery Positive93% of 682 reviews2022
Dev: Neat Corporation
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 65%
You wake up on a small island in a magical world. Grow your garden, nurture local creatures, furnish your home or adventure across the seas to explore more islands and gather new resources. This world is for you.
Why similar: VR 38.7%, Crafting 26.6%, Sandbox 12.6%, Relaxing 10.7%, Exploration 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a cozy, VR-native experience centered on building, farming, and exploring a peaceful environment.
- #9 Subnautica
91% 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 43.1% ★, Crafting 15.5%, Open World 13.9%, VR 10.8%, Exploration 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: Features immersive VR-supported underwater exploration and complex base-building mechanics.
- #10 The Forest
90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 665,921 reviews2018
Dev: Endnight Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 37.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.2% ★, Open World 13.5%, Crafting 13.4%, Building 11.3%, Sandbox 4%
Why You'll Like It: Combines intense survival gameplay with a highly interactive, VR-supported building system.
- #11 Creativerse
91% 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: Voxel 24.1% ★, Open World Survival Craft 24% ★, Crafting 12.7%, Building 12.4%, Open World 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based sandbox game that emphasizes creative building and exploration in a colorful world.
- #12 Strayed
89% matchMostly Positive78% of 332 reviews2024
Dev: Crustacean Interactive
Windows
Strayed is a fast paced open world VR survival game where every session feels like a new adventure. Start with nothing on a fresh island, gather materials, craft weapons, build bases, and battle other players for the best loot.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34% ★, VR 16.1%, Crafting 12.4%, Building 11.6%, Open World 9%
Why You'll Like It: A VR-native survival game that incorporates building and looting mechanics in an open-world setting.
- #13 Boundless
88% 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 30.8% ★, Voxel 23.1% ★, Crafting 13.3%, Building 11.5%, Open World 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based open-world game that allows for massive building projects and exploration across different planets.
- #14 Song in the Smoke
87% matchVery Positive85% of 61 reviews2021
Dev: 17-BIT
Windows
Using the power of virtual reality, Song in the Smoke puts your survival directly in your own hands. Enter this dangerous world outside of time, where you must craft weapons, make clothes, build fires, and brew healing elixirs to steel yourself against its vicious predators.
Why similar: VR 31%, Crafting 20.7%, Nature 10.2%, Exploration 9.9%, Inventory Management 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric VR survival game that emphasizes crafting and interacting with a wild, procedural environment.
- #15 Blockscape
89% matchMixed46% of 898 reviews2014
Dev: ioneo
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 49%
The ultimate block building game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.7% ★, Crafting 11.2%, Sandbox 10.6%, Building 10.6%, Open World 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: Features a focus on voxel-based construction and exploration with a high degree of block-level detail.
- #16 Solace Crafting
86% matchMostly Positive72% of 891 reviews2022
Dev: Big Kitty Games
Windows · Linux
Embark on an adventure set in a fantasy survival RPG. Visit a borderless, open world where you manage resources to construct your base and new types of equipment to support your conquest.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.8% ★, Crafting 17.3%, Building 14.3%, Open World 12.2%, Sandbox 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: Provides an expansive open-world experience with a heavy focus on crafting and base building.
- #17 Len's Island
84% 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 29.8% ★, Building 14.3%, Crafting 13%, Open World 9.9%, Nature 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: Combines relaxing building and farming mechanics with dungeon exploration in a vibrant open world.
- #18 Among Trees
86% matchMixed68% of 2,216 reviews2021
Dev: FJRD Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Escape to an enchanting, living sandbox surrounded by wildlife and nature. Scavenge materials and craft tools to turn your small cabin into a warm, well-supplied home. Survive by fishing, cooking and growing your own food. Be careful though, the forest is as dangerous as it is wonderful.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.9% ★, Crafting 13.7%, Building 12.2%, Open World 12.1%, Sandbox 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a beautiful, atmospheric survival experience with a focus on building a cozy home in the wilderness.
- #19 Gadgeteer
84% matchVery Positive97% of 121 reviews2020
Dev: Metanaut
Windows
Gadgeteer is a physics-based VR puzzle game where you build chain reaction machines to solve fun, intricate puzzles. Your machines will use gadgets to launch, bump, twist, and turn—creating chain reactions that may even end up tearing apart the fabric of space-time.
Why similar: VR 61.5%, Building 22.4%, Sandbox 16.1%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on physics-based building and puzzle-solving within a highly interactive VR space.
- #20 Frost Survival VR
82% matchVery Positive88% of 161 reviews2025
Dev: Wenkly Studio Sp. z o.o.
Windows
Sandbox Survival in VR. Face a frozen wilderness solo or in co-op - build a shelter, craft tools, hunt for food, and manage your resources to endure harsh conditions. Strategize your moves against unpredictable weather and lurking dangers. And remember to keep yourself safe and sane!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.1% ★, VR 19.2%, Crafting 11.9%, Building 9.3%, Sandbox 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: A VR-focused survival game that incorporates base-building and resource management in a harsh environment.
- #21 Escape The Pacific
85% matchMixed68% of 754 reviews2018
Dev: Gamers4Gamers Team
Windows
Raw, real survival in the Pacific. Build a modular floating base. Master realistic sailing mechanics. Face challenging Pacific-like weather & seasons. Hunt, craft, build & navigate using Sun Dial, Sextant & Triangulation. Explore an endless island cluster-based world. Simulate real life scenarios!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.7% ★, Immersive 14.1% ★, Crafting 11.2%, Building 10%, Procedural Generation 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: A realistic survival game that requires complex crafting and building to survive in an open-world environment.
- #22 Elsewhere
81% matchVery Positive95% of 64 reviews2025
Dev: Four White Cats
Windows
Explore, dig for resources, and build factories in a vibrant open world with quests for both technological and magical progression. Inspired by classic old-school Minecraft modpacks and featuring many new and unique features.
Why similar: Mining 28.2% ★, Crafting 16.1%, Building 14.3%, Open World 13%, Sandbox 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: An early-access sandbox game that emphasizes open-world exploration and survival mechanics.
- #23 Necesse
79% 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 46.3% ★, Crafting 13.8%, Open World 11.8%, Building 11.7%, Sandbox 9%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down voxel-style game that offers deep survival, building, and community management mechanics.
- #24 Total Miner
83% matchMostly Positive78% of 760 reviews2017
Dev: Brandon Moore
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 36.8 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Total Miner is an open world voxel sandbox game. It is primarily designed for creative RPG game builders, but also has two action/adventure style game modes where you can just jump in and play.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.5% ★, Voxel 19% ★, Mining 15.3% ★, Building 9.6%, Open World 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: A classic voxel mining and sandbox game that offers extensive building and survival options.
- #25 FOUNDRY
80% matchVery Positive81% of 3,508 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 45.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.
Why similar: Voxel 28.1% ★, Crafting 15.5%, Building 15%, Procedural Generation 12.3%, Open World 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: A first-person voxel-based game that focuses on large-scale automation and base construction.
- #26 Cubic Odyssey
79% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,483 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Embark on a galactic journey in Cubic Odyssey, an open-world adventure where you explore vibrant planets, craft tools, build vehicles, and fight the Red Darkness. Uncover ancient mysteries, and shape a universe full of life, danger, and limitless possibilities!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.9% ★, Building 16.1%, Procedural Generation 10.7%, Open World 10.3%, Sandbox 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based base-building game that emphasizes co-op play and sci-fi exploration.
- #27 Cube World
82% matchMostly Negative37% of 18,693 reviews2019
Dev: Picroma
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Cube World is a voxel-based action RPG with a focus on exploration. It takes place in a procedurally generated fantasy world made up entirely of cubes.
Why similar: Voxel 39.8% ★, Open World 21.6%, Crafting 10.4%, Procedural Generation 9.2%, Exploration 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world exploration game that utilizes a voxel-based aesthetic to create a unique adventure experience.
- #28 Outerverse
81% matchMixed51% of 124 reviews2022
Dev: Tbjbu2Pub: indie.io
Windows
Build automated machines and weapons across the universe, beat massive bosses, experience cosmic events and explore unique landmarks in this quest driven automation crafting adventure game. Includes a manual scenario for crafting instead of machines for those not a fan of logic/automation!
Why similar: Voxel 32.7% ★, Mining 21.5% ★, Open World Survival Craft 21% ★, Crafting 10.6%, Open World 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based RPG that features first-person exploration and building in a procedurally generated world.
- #29 Star Crafter
78% matchMixed69% of 104 reviews2025
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
A space survival crafting mining base building and star system building game. Craft rockets to create planets and Dyson Rings, mine and craft advanced materials, terraform the terrain, manage electricity, farm food, and more as you watch the star system evolve into stunning, ever-changing views.
Why similar: Mining 24.1% ★, Open World Survival Craft 23.6% ★, Voxel 16.4% ★, Crafting 12.1%, Building 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the core loop of mining, crafting, and base building within an adventure-filled setting.
- #30 Orebound
77% matchMostly Positive78% of 849 reviews2024
Dev: Emberforge
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Orebound is a voxel, factory, automation game set in a first person open-world. The King has tasked you to locate the elusive Emberstone. Go forth and use your Dwarven prowess and knowledge to mine, craft and automate through anything standing in your way - Build up or dig down! How far will you go?
Why similar: Mining 22.8% ★, Voxel 21.5% ★, Crafting 12.2%, Building 10.7%, Procedural Generation 9.6%
- #31 Voxile
75% matchMostly Positive74% of 102 reviews2025
Dev: VoxRay Games, Inc.
Windows
Quest, craft, loot, build, destroy, and shoot your way through gorgeous voxel islands! Encounter mutated wildlife, discover secrets, and find out what went wrong in both pre-designed adventure and procedural survival worlds. Play in Early Access today--alone or with friends!
Why similar: Voxel 33.6% ★, Crafting 15.4%, Building 12.7%, Procedural Generation 12.3%, Open World 11.8%
- #32 Lucid Blocks
72% matchVery Positive94% of 2,772 reviews2026
Dev: Lucy B. Locks
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Explore, build, and survive in a cryptic expanse oozing with dreamlike oddities and esoteric critters.
Why similar: Voxel 32% ★, Open World 12.6%, Crafting 12.4%, Building 12%, Procedural Generation 10.7%
- #33 Crafting Block World
78% matchMixed46% of 52 reviews2019
Dev: IO Games
Windows
Crafting Block World is an adventure with sandbox elements that will help you build your ideal world!
Why similar: Voxel 30.4% ★, Mining 20.4% ★, Building 9.9%, Crafting 9.1%, Sandbox 8.9%
- #34 Astral Terra
77% 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 26.4% ★, Voxel 17.1% ★, Mining 11.4% ★, Open World 9.8%, Building 8.8%
- #35 Tile Miner
75% matchMixed62% of 63 reviews2021
Dev: nalothchrisPub: MadSwan
Windows · Mac
Explore a vast world. Manipulate every tile. Build your kingdom. Conquer the elemental dungeons. The moldable world of Tile Miner is at your fingertips!
Why similar: Mining 28.9% ★, Building 14.5%, Crafting 13.9%, Open World 11.3%, Procedural Generation 10.2%
- #36 Cube Life: Island Survival
76% matchMixed69% of 177 reviews2018
Dev: Cypronia
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Cube Life: Island Survival is an open-world, block building, survival game, taking place on a beautiful remote island. Imagine being shipwrecked and stranded left for dead, with only your will to survive. You must explore, build, craft, and fight your way to stay alive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.6% ★, Building 14.3%, Crafting 12.4%, Open World 10.9%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #37 Miniland Adventure
73% matchMostly Positive74% of 328 reviews2023
Dev: Imilkowski DevPub: Gameparic
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 54%
The world doesn't generate itself - you do it, shape the world as you wish! Start with nothing, and build dream houses for goblins and yourself while exploring, collecting resources, crafting, building, fighting, farming... and more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.3% ★, Crafting 15.6%, Building 15.1%, Sandbox 12%, Inventory Management 8.7%
- #38 ASTRONEER
71% 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 40.4% ★, Open World 15.7%, Building 12.4%, Crafting 12.4%, Sandbox 8.7%
- #39 Voxel Project VR
70% matchVery Positive87% of 289 reviews2025
Dev: 180°
Windows
Voxel Project offers an immersive sandbox experience set in a fully destructible voxel environment. Explore a dynamic world teeming with vehicles, dynamic fire mechanics, enemy NPCs, voxel gore, weapon customization, and a bunch of additional features to discover.
Why similar: Voxel 42% ★, VR 25%, Sandbox 14.3%, Exploration 9.2%, Realistic 7.7%
- #40 Out of Ore
70% matchVery Positive86% of 3,794 reviews2022
Dev: North Modding Company AB
Windows
Median: 11.2 hrsMean: 38.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
A casual heavy equipment experience. Mine ore, Move dirt, Build and repair.
Why similar: Mining 24.7% ★, Building 15.9%, Crafting 13.7%, Sandbox 12.8%, Realistic 8.9%
- #41 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 26.3% ★, Crafting 15%, Building 14.5%, Open World 11.9%, Procedural Generation 11.8%
- #42 Master Bladesmith
71% matchMixed65% of 463 reviews2024
Dev: Elixir Games
Windows
This unique RPG blends VR action and progression. Mine materials, buy equipment, build your arsenal by crafting more and more powerful blades. Battle in the Time Chamber to test your creations as you progress through levels, and build your character as you upgrade your equipment.
Why similar: VR 73.1%, Crafting 25.3%, Singleplayer 1.7%
- #43 Planet Explorers
73% 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 38.3% ★, Open World 13.5%, Crafting 12.2%, Sandbox 11.6%, Building 9.9%
- #44 Wurm Unlimited
72% matchMostly Positive71% of 3,128 reviews2015
Dev: Code Club ABPub: Plug In Digital
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Wurm Unlimited is the standalone version of the fantasy sandbox world Wurm Online, the MMORPG where the players are in charge! A pioneer in the ideas of player influence, crafting and adventure, it is now one of the most deep and feature packed true sandbox experiences available.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.2% ★, Crafting 17%, Building 15.3%, Open World 14.7%, Sandbox 11.4%
- #45 Novus Inceptio
73% matchMixed52% of 1,300 reviews2015
Dev: McMagic Productions
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Warning: This is an Early Access game! Welcome to an enigmatic world, where a new gaming experience in exploring, building and surviving is waiting just for you. Experience a sandbox world with survival elements, and join us in creating a full version of the game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.2% ★, Crafting 17%, Building 14.7%, Open World 13.7%, Sandbox 10.1%
- #46 Paper Beast
69% matchVery Positive94% of 685 reviews2020
Dev: Pixel Reef
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 54%
An exploration and adventure game about wildlife sprung from the depths of the internet. An unknown power seems to upset its balance. Join forces with exotic creatures to unravel the mysteries of this universe.
Why similar: VR 38.7%, Nature 19.4%, Sandbox 17.5%, Exploration 11.7%, Atmospheric 6.3%
- #47 Fantastic Contraption
71% matchMostly Positive78% of 272 reviews2016
Dev: Northway Games
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 2.5 hrs≥1hr: 51%
A surreal building game for VR. Create life-sized contraptions as tall as you can reach, then send them whirling, flinging, and trundling off to solve puzzles on the other side of a floating island. There are no right or wrong solutions, so bring your creativity.
Why similar: VR 49.9%, Building 36.3%, Relaxing 11.8%, Singleplayer 1.9%
- #48 Tales of Morrow
69% 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 37.9% ★, Crafting 16.6%, Building 16%, Nature 6.8%, Exploration 6.8%
- #49 Enchanted Blacksmith
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 66 reviews2023
Dev: Tanuki Sun
Windows
Step into the boots of an aspiring blacksmith in a first-person sandbox where exploration and forging go hand in hand. Discover rare ores, master forgotten forging arts, and craft weapons of myth as you uncover secrets lost to time and claim your place among legends.
Why similar: Mining 41.4% ★, Crafting 20.4%, Open World 12.9%, Sandbox 10.2%, Exploration 7.3%
- #50 Evospace
68% matchVery Positive82% of 387 reviews2019
Dev: Quantum Rivet
Windows · Mac
Contribute to the colonization of the universe. Get and process resources, develop your technologies. Achieve complete automation and build a portal to include another planet in the chain of worlds.
Why similar: Voxel 20.8% ★, Crafting 19.1%, Building 15.2%, Open World 12.1%, Procedural Generation 11.8%
- #51 Alchemist's Awakening
69% matchMostly Positive73% of 496 reviews2019
Dev: OsarisGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Enter a world full of magic, mystery, beautiful landscapes and dangerous creatures. Build your own destiny, by yourself or with some friends, gather materials, use elements as attacks, recombine them into building blocks... and use your Alchemist's power to give life to any shape you built.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.1% ★, Crafting 21.9%, Open World 14.8%, Sandbox 12.6%, Fantasy 2.6%
- #52 INCUR Survival
67% matchVery Positive84% of 103 reviews2022
Dev: INCUR
Windows
A survival open-world game, where you can gather resources, Hunt, Craft tools and armor, Tame Animals, Ride Animals, Build, and defend your base from creatures, and other players.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36% ★, Building 17.7%, Crafting 16.3%, Open World 11.6%, Exploration 6.5%
- #53 Starsand
67% matchMixed66% of 1,227 reviews2022
Dev: Tunnel Vision StudioPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 30.6% ★, Crafting 14.1%, Open World 11.5%, Building 11.3%, Inventory Management 9.3%
