- #1 Valheim
97% matchVery Positive94% of 534,015 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 25.8 hrsMean: 76.9 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 28.6% ★, Online Co-Op 10.9%, Survival 8.8%, Mythology 8.3%, Base Building 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a similar progression-based survival loop with deep building mechanics and a strong focus on cooperative exploration in a myth-inspired world.
- #2 Enshrouded
96% matchVery Positive86% of 101,648 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.7 hrsMean: 45.6 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 15.4%, Base Building 15.2%, Survival 14.6%, Open World 12.4%, Crafting 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: This game features excellent voxel-based building and a focus on exploration that mirrors the rewarding sense of discovery found in Dawn of Defiance.
- #3 Nightingale
96% matchMixed67% of 17,932 reviews2024
Dev: Inflexion Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 24.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Nightingale is an open world survival crafting game, where you’ll adventure across the mysterious and dangerous Fae Realms. As a daring Realmwalker, you’ll defeat monstrous enemies, survive hostile environments, and build elaborate estates in a visually stunning Gaslamp Fantasy world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.8% ★, Online Co-Op 12%, Survival 10%, Base Building 9.3%, Open World 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: Its Victorian-fantasy aesthetic and focus on exploring unique, procedurally generated realms provide a similar sense of wonder and discovery.
- #4 ICARUS
95% matchMostly Positive74% of 63,962 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 46.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.9% ★, Survival 10.8%, Online Co-Op 10.7%, Base Building 10.1%, Crafting 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: This session-based survival game emphasizes cooperative play and high-stakes crafting, perfect for players who enjoy the mission-driven aspect of survival.
- #5 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
94% matchVery Positive82% of 9,989 reviews2024
Dev: Merge GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.2% ★, Online Co-Op 10.8%, Base Building 10.2%, Survival 9.8%, Building 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: The focus on exploration and building from a unique perspective offers a fresh take on the survival-crafting genre that feels mechanically familiar.
- #6 V Rising
93% matchVery Positive89% of 134,242 reviews2024
Dev: Stunlock Studios
Windows
Median: 21.0 hrsMean: 57.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Awaken as a Vampire. Hunt for blood in nearby settlements to regain your strength and evade the scorching sun to survive. Raise your castle and thrive in an ever-changing, open world full of mystery. Gain allies online and conquer the land of the living.
Why similar: Base Building 15.9%, Survival 15.4%, Online Co-Op 13.6%, Open World 11.6%, Crafting 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: The progression system focused on defeating powerful bosses to unlock new abilities and crafting tiers provides a similar sense of growth and power.
- #7 Conan Exiles Enhanced
94% matchMostly Positive79% of 115,037 reviews2018
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 17.1 hrsMean: 111.9 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Conan Exiles Enhanced is an open world survival game set in the mythical lands of Hyboria, now fully upgraded to Unreal Engine 5 with stunning visuals and improved performance. SURVIVE, BUILD, and DOMINATE alone or with friends in a world brimming with adventure!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.3% ★, Survival 16.4%, Open World 10.6%, Building 9.4%, Crafting 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: It is the closest thematic match, offering a brutal survival experience set in a world heavily influenced by ancient mythology and epic architecture.
- #8 Soulmask
92% matchMostly Positive77% of 21,464 reviews2026
Dev: CampFire StudioPub: Qooland Games
Windows
Median: 13.8 hrsMean: 68.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. Possess any of your tribespeople, recruit followers, and build a thriving automated civilization. Survive, expand, and forge your own legacy across a vast ancient open world — together with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Survival 10.4%, Open World 8.1%, Building 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: The combination of survival, base-building, and colony management provides a complex and rewarding gameplay loop for dedicated players.
- #9 The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™
91% matchVery Positive82% of 11,900 reviews2024
Dev: Free Range GamesPub: North Beach Games
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 19.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
A survival crafting adventure set in the Fourth Age of Middle-earth. Lead the Dwarves to reclaim Moria - mine, build, and battle through procedurally generated depths alone or with up to 8 players in co-op. It is time to return to Moria!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29% ★, Online Co-Op 11.3%, Base Building 11.2%, Survival 9.4%, Building 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: It excels at cooperative base-building and exploration within a legendary fantasy setting, much like the mythological focus of Dawn of Defiance.
- #10 Grounded
90% matchVery Positive90% of 93,832 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.3 hrsMean: 41.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.2% ★, Survival 15.9%, Base Building 12.6%, Multiplayer 8.3%, Online Co-Op 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: The polished survival mechanics and emphasis on cooperative exploration make it a top-tier choice for fans of the genre.
- #11 Frozen Flame
91% matchMixed63% of 2,975 reviews2022
Dev: Dreamside InteractivePub: Ravenage Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A challenging exploration and survival adventure, set in the dying world of Dragons. Only those who harness the power of Frozen Flame have the means to survive the harsh conditions of the realm and able to muster the strength to cleanse it for good.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.2% ★, Online Co-Op 12.1%, Base Building 10.8%, Survival 9%, Building 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: This survival RPG features a beautiful fantasy world and a progression system that rewards exploration and magical crafting.
- #12 ASKA
89% matchMostly Positive80% of 11,689 reviews2024
Dev: Sand Sailor StudioPub: Thunderful Publishing
Windows
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 28.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
A new Viking age dawns with you at its helm. Forge a thriving colony from nothing in this mythic open-world survival sim. Earn the gods' favor and survive in a land ruled by ancient terrors and unforgiving seasons. Rally unique villagers, expand your settlement and defend your tribe - solo or co-op!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30% ★, Online Co-Op 12.6%, Base Building 11.4%, Survival 9.9%, Sandbox 7%
Why You'll Like It: The focus on building a thriving settlement with AI villagers adds a strategic layer to the standard survival-crafting formula.
- #13 Myth of Empires
88% matchMixed67% of 17,381 reviews2024
Dev: Angela GamePub: Imperium Interactive Entertainment
Windows
Median: 15.3 hrsMean: 229.9 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 33.6% ★, Base Building 10.4%, Online Co-Op 9.5%, Survival 9.4%, Building 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a massive sandbox environment with deep building and warfare mechanics for players who enjoy large-scale survival projects.
- #14 Palworld
86% matchVery Positive94% of 421,232 reviews2024
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 34.5 hrsMean: 70.8 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 33.5% ★, Survival 12.5%, Online Co-Op 10.7%, Open World 10.6%, Base Building 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: It blends survival, base-building, and creature collection into a highly engaging and cooperative open-world experience.
- #15 Subsistence
89% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,685 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 39.9 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43% ★, Survival 13.2%, Base Building 7.8%, Crafting 7.7%, Open World 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses heavily on the technical aspects of survival, such as base defense and resource management, in a persistent open world.
- #16 ARK: Survival Ascended
87% matchMixed60% of 105,775 reviews2023
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows
Median: 27.6 hrsMean: 196.8 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 19.9%, Base Building 15.6%, Open World 13.8%, Building 10.9%, Multiplayer 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: It offers an expansive open world with deep taming and building mechanics that provide hundreds of hours of survival-crafting gameplay.
- #17 Lost Skies
86% matchMixed61% of 2,893 reviews2025
Dev: Bossa StudiosPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Chart a course in a breathtaking, but fractured world. Explore ancient ruins, master advanced technology, and craft your very own skyship to brave nature’s fury and colossal threats in Lost Skies. Team up with friends or go it alone in this awe-inspiring cooperative survival adventure.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.9% ★, Online Co-Op 15.3%, Base Building 13.8%, Sandbox 7%, Open World 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: Its focus on exploration across floating islands and cooperative base-building makes it a strong thematic match for fans of adventure-heavy survival.
- #18 Omega Crafter
85% matchMostly Positive80% of 566 reviews2025
Dev: Preferred Networks
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Adventure in a vast open-world survival craft game with your programmable sidekick Grammi! Program the Grammi to collect materials, build your town, craft weapons and armor to challenge strong enemies! Play alone or with friends online!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.7% ★, Survival 11.2%, Online Co-Op 9.4%, Open World 8.7%, Crafting 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: The inclusion of automation mechanics alongside traditional survival-crafting offers a satisfying way to scale your base and production.
- #19 The Front
84% matchMixed67% of 10,771 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 32.9% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Survival 10.5%, Online Co-Op 8.4%, Building 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: This game combines survival and base-building with tower defense elements, providing a unique twist on the genre.
- #20 Solace Crafting
84% 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 27.5% ★, Online Co-Op 9.7%, Survival 9.4%, Base Building 9.1%, Crafting 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a vast, seamless open world with a deep crafting system that rewards players for exploring further from their starting point.
- #21 Green Hell
82% matchVery Positive85% of 97,093 reviews2019
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39% ★, Survival 12.8%, Online Co-Op 11.6%, Multiplayer 7.7%, Base Building 7%
Why You'll Like It: For players who enjoy the survival aspect of Dawn of Defiance, this game offers a more hardcore and realistic challenge.
- #22 The Forest
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 670,097 reviews2018
Dev: Endnight Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 37.2 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 53.1% ★, Survival 16.9%, Open World 9.4%, Crafting 6.9%, Building 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: It remains a benchmark for atmospheric survival and base-building, emphasizing tension and exploration in a hostile environment.
- #23 Eden Crafters
81% matchVery Positive86% of 2,425 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.3% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Online Co-Op 10.5%, Survival 8.1%, Crafting 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: The focus on terraforming and automation provides a rewarding long-term goal for players who enjoy complex crafting systems.
- #24 Sons Of The Forest
79% matchVery Positive88% of 304,972 reviews2024
Dev: Endnight Games LtdPub: Newnight
Windows
Median: 15.1 hrsMean: 32.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends, in this terrifying new open-world survival horror simulator.
Why similar: Survival 22.6%, Base Building 17.9%, Open World 14.9%, Multiplayer 11.8%, Crafting 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: This sequel improves upon the original with more advanced building mechanics and a more immersive, reactive open world.
- #25 KeepUp Survival
81% matchMixed64% of 743 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 84%
KeepUp Survival is an open base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and unfold your own story on a mysterious island.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.4% ★, Base Building 11.4%, Survival 11%, Open World 8.3%, PvE 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a straightforward, classic survival-crafting experience that is easy to jump into with friends.
- #26 Shamania
79% matchMostly Positive77% of 145 reviews2025
Dev: Totem Keepers Games
Windows
Shamania is an open world survival game where you can CRAFT, FIGHT, and EXPLORE a vibrant sandbox world with friends in CO-OP. Expand your base as a hub for survival, gather resources, and master professions to unlock new tools and opportunities!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.9% ★, Survival 10.2%, Online Co-Op 9.6%, Open World 8.4%, Crafting 8%
Why You'll Like It: Its focus on crafting and survival in a stylized world provides a relaxing yet engaging experience for fans of the genre.
- #27 Planetaries
80% matchMixed58% of 223 reviews2024
Dev: EY-Studio
Windows
Experience a vast Sci-fi open-world survival TD game set on a distant planet deep in the universe. Craft, build, mine, trade, explore, and survive in this alien world. Collect Data and defend against waves of enemies seeking to banish you. Enjoy the adventure in Singleplayer or Multiplayer.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.2% ★, Online Co-Op 11%, Base Building 9.1%, Survival 8.6%, Building 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: The game offers a solid survival foundation with an emphasis on cooperative play and exploration across varied environments.
- #28 Windrose
76% matchVery Positive88% of 44,950 reviews2026
Dev: Kraken Express
Windows
Median: 19.2 hrsMean: 31.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Embark on a PvE survival adventure in the Age of Piracy. Fight on land and sea, solo or with friends. Build, craft and explore vast open world filled with dark secrets. Master soulslite combat and take on challenging bosses, command your ship and plunder unspoken treasures!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.6% ★, Online Co-Op 13%, Survival 9.9%, PvE 8.6%, Base Building 7.7%
- #29 Dune: Awakening
77% matchMostly Positive70% of 76,118 reviews2025
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 47.7 hrsMean: 97.4 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival RPG where you can fully immerse yourself in the epic world of Dune. Alone or with friends, explore a vast open world Arrakis, survive the sandworms, build a home, craft an ornithopter, and unravel the mystery of the missing Fremen.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.6% ★, Online Co-Op 10%, Base Building 9.5%, Survival 8.3%, PvE 7%
- #30 RuneScape: Dragonwilds
77% matchVery Positive81% of 25,015 reviews2025
Dev: Jagex Ltd
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 15.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
On RuneScape’s forgotten continent of Ashenfall, dragons have awoken. Gather, build, skill and craft to survive in this co-operative (1-4) survival crafting game. Only by mastering survival and uncovering ancient secrets can they hope to slay the Dragon Queen—alone or with allies.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.6% ★, Online Co-Op 11.3%, Survival 10.1%, Open World 8.5%, Base Building 7.9%
- #31 Plains of Pain
78% matchVery Positive84% of 757 reviews2023
Dev: Cobra Byte Digital
Windows
Survive a brutal open world alone or with friends. Explore a procedural wasteland scorched by chaos. Build and defend your base, trade for what you need, complete deadly quests, and fight to claim faction outposts before someone else does.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.2% ★, Online Co-Op 11.5%, Base Building 10.9%, Survival 9.2%, PvE 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: This sandbox survival game offers a gritty atmosphere and a focus on building that will appeal to players looking for a challenge.
- #32 Everwind
75% matchVery Positive82% of 3,221 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Everwind is a novel take on RPG and Sandbox Survival genre in First-Person-Perspective. Embark on the adventure with your friends - Build a base on a flying island-ship, gather resources, craft, loot, and fight while you rise above the clouds to uncover the mysteries of this world!
Why similar: Online Co-Op 17.2%, Survival 13.3%, Building 11%, Open World 10.3%, Crafting 9.8%
- #33 Cubic Odyssey
76% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,584 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 41.8% ★, Base Building 15.4%, Building 10.2%, Sandbox 8.9%, Online Co-Op 6.5%
- #34 StarRupture
74% matchVery Positive81% of 12,313 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.2% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Survival 10.6%, Online Co-Op 10%, Open World 7.8%
- #35 Lost Rift
73% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,554 reviews2025
Dev: People Can Fly
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Lost Rift is a first person survival adventure shooter that blends cooperative base building with multiplayer PvE or PvP extraction expeditions. Journey solo or in teams of up to 5 players across a vast archipelago, craft gear, build bases, defeat raiders, and become legendary.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Online Co-Op 12.3%, Survival 10.7%, PvE 8.8%
- #36 Forever Skies
72% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,446 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 32.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A first-person survival game set on a post-apocalyptic, ecologically ruined Earth. Play solo or with up to 3 friends as you build, upgrade, and fly a high-tech airship. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and face dangers on the surface as you hunt for a cure to save humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.2% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Survival 11.6%, Open World 8.7%, Crafting 8.4%
- #37 ArkCraft: The Rebirth of the World
73% matchMostly Positive74% of 177 reviews2024
Dev: ZD Yazilim
Windows
In this open-world crafting and building game, you explore an ancient world full of dangers and secrets. Collect animals and plants, build bases and master the craft as you build your ark and save civilization from destruction by the flood and then rebuild it.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.1% ★, Mythology 14.5%, Base Building 13%, Survival 9%, Open World 8.9%
- #38 Survival: Fountain of Youth
71% matchVery Positive86% of 4,339 reviews2024
Dev: Odinsoft Inc.Pub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 18.7 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Survival: Fountain of Youth is a challenging single-player open-world adventure game set on the Caribbean islands. Survive as a shipwrecked 16th-century explorer, craft tools and shelter, and uncover the secrets of both an ancient civilization and your own fate.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.4% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Survival 12.3%, Crafting 8.1%, Building 7.1%
- #39 Bellwright
70% matchVery Positive81% of 19,796 reviews2024
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 12.7 hrsMean: 41.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Establish and expand your own settlements, liberate the land and assist its villagers, and recruit others to your cause while learning more about a life you had to leave behind. Command your forces, prove your valor through combat, and cement yourself as the hero of your people.
Why similar: Survival 21.6%, Online Co-Op 20%, Open World 15.1%, Crafting 12.4%, Building 11.3%
- #40 DeadPoly
71% matchMostly Positive77% of 5,910 reviews2022
Dev: TFL Games
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 63%
DeadPoly is a polygon arcade zombie survival looter shooter with base building, crafting, scavenging, leveling, questing, and more, but your only goal is survival, everything else is optional.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.2% ★, Online Co-Op 12.4%, Survival 10.1%, Base Building 10.1%, PvE 8%
- #41 Re.poly
72% matchVery Positive91% of 137 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 33.3% ★, Survival 11.2%, Base Building 10.9%, Crafting 8%, Open World 8%
- #42 Force of Nature
73% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,202 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 41.9% ★, Survival 12.4%, Crafting 9.3%, Open World 7.1%, Sandbox 6.6%
- #43 ENDALOR
70% matchMostly Positive71% of 239 reviews2026
Dev: Diorite Games
Windows
An immersive medieval dark fantasy survival game with RPG elements for 1-4 players. Set in a hand crafted open world. Explore, survive, build, craft, fight and conquer your way through the dark, brutal and mysterious lands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.8% ★, Online Co-Op 12.4%, Survival 9.9%, Base Building 9.1%, Open World 7.4%
- #44 Len's Island
69% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,720 reviews2025
Dev: Flow Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
An open-world survival crafting game for 1–8 players, blending intense dungeon crawling and ARPG combat with peaceful farming and creative building. Take on quests and explore a vast, procedurally-generated world full of danger and discovery.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.1% ★, Survival 10.6%, Base Building 9.3%, Building 8.8%, Open World 7.3%
- #45 Sunkenland
69% matchVery Positive81% of 23,216 reviews2023
Dev: Vector3 Studio
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 18.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Get ready for a Waterworld-themed survival game with modular base building, sunken city scavenging, crafting, base defense, and invasions of NPC clans for resources and territory. Ready for the water apocalypse?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.8% ★, Survival 12.5%, Base Building 11.4%, Multiplayer 6.5%, Crafting 6.5%
- #46 Niffelheim
71% matchMostly Positive71% of 2,332 reviews2018
Dev: Ellada Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Your avatar is a brave warrior who has fallen in battle. But instead of well-deserved peace in Asgard, his soul is trapped in the harsh world of Niffelheim. Survive in this hostile world, ransack the neighbor lands, explore dangerous dungeons and find your way to Valhalla
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.7% ★, Mythology 18.4%, Online Co-Op 10.2%, Base Building 9.4%, Survival 8.3%
- #47 Renown
68% matchMixed59% of 1,558 reviews2025
Dev: RDBK Studios
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 30.9% ★, Online Co-Op 10.8%, Survival 10.7%, Base Building 9.6%, Building 8.2%
- #48 The Planet Crafter
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 70,189 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.5 hrsMean: 37.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.4% ★, Online Co-Op 12.5%, Base Building 12.4%, Survival 10%, Building 7.8%
- #49 Night of the Dead
67% matchMostly Positive77% of 11,782 reviews2024
Dev: Jackto Studios
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 32.7 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 30% ★, Online Co-Op 11.9%, Base Building 10.1%, Survival 8.7%, Building 7.1%
- #50 Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts
70% matchMostly Negative37% of 369 reviews2023
Dev: EFNSOFT
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 36%
Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts is a Multiplayer Survival Horror game for up to 4 players. Set in the Middle of the Unknown, you can craft, build, explore and discover secrets in the exciting first chapter from EFNSOFT.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.9% ★, Survival 11%, Online Co-Op 8.5%, Open World 8.3%, Building 7.6%
- #51 TerraTech Worlds
68% matchMixed63% of 2,228 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 21.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.3% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Survival 9.6%, Building 7.9%, Crafting 7.4%
- #52 Savage Lands
69% matchMixed55% of 6,679 reviews2021
Dev: Last Bastion Studios LLC
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Your fight for survival begins on the frozen shores of Tarvhas, where bitter cold and vicious creatures conspire to defeat the unprepared. Uncover the land’s dark history as you and fellow explorers traverse an unforgiving and hostile world to tame the Savage Lands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.6% ★, Survival 12.2%, Online Co-Op 11.6%, Open World 7.6%, Crafting 6.2%
- #53 RailGods of Hysterra
67% matchMixed56% of 332 reviews2025
Dev: Troglobytes GamesPub: Digital Vortex Entertainment
Windows
Embark on a co-op survival journey for 1-5 players through a post-apocalyptic Lovecraftian world! Command and evolve a living, monstrous train, craft weapons, build a mobile base, gain powers, and face the Great Old Ones. Explore an ever-changing world, hold on to your sanity, and ascend to godhood!
Why similar: Base Building 16.4%, Online Co-Op 15.2%, Survival 14.4%, Crafting 10.3%, PvE 9.6%
- #54 Echoes of Elysium
66% matchMixed63% of 519 reviews2026
Dev: Loric Games, Inc.Pub: Snail Games USA
Windows
Survive the skies in Echoes of Elysium, a co-op airship survival RPG. Build and customize your floating fortress, gather resources, and explore a vast procedural clockwork world with up to 6 friends. Battle land and skyborne threats while uncovering mysteries in a paradise on the brink.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.9% ★, Survival 10.6%, Building 8.6%, Crafting 8.2%, PvE 8%
- #55 Whisper of the Swallows
65% matchVery Positive86% of 163 reviews2026
Dev: Blown Leaves
Windows
Brave a savage, unforgiving procedurally generated world where extreme weather and the nightmares of the dark will hunt you down. Alone or in co-op, survive, build, and explore to turn a cursed hellscape into your sanctuary of light.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.8% ★, Online Co-Op 10.4%, Survival 9.7%, Base Building 9%, Building 7.4%
- #56 VEIN
63% matchVery Positive89% of 10,247 reviews2025
Dev: Ramjet Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 14.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
VEIN is a post-apocalyptic survival multiplayer sandbox game. Gather supplies to survive, explore abandoned buildings, defend your home, and rebuild society, whether alone or with friends.
Why similar: Survival 23.1%, Base Building 21.6%, Open World 16.9%, Crafting 10.5%, Multiplayer 10.4%
