- #1 Don't Starve
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 112,271 reviews2013
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 28.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 57.2% ★, Survival 33.5%, Crafting 2.6%, Multiplayer 1.9%, Sandbox 1.5%
Why You'll Like It: It is the original single-player version of the same brutal survival sandbox, with nearly identical resource, crafting, and exploration systems.
- #2 Terraria
96% 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 67% ★, Survival 18.2%, Multiplayer 3.5%, Co-op 2.5%, Sandbox 2.3%
Why You'll Like It: It delivers a comparable sandbox cycle of scavenging, building, crafting, fighting deadly nights and bosses, and slowly taming a dangerous world with friends.
- #3 Core Keeper
96% 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 55.7% ★, Survival 22.1%, Co-op 4.7%, Multiplayer 4.2%, Open World 3.3%
Why You'll Like It: Its co-op top-down exploration, base-building, farming, boss fights, and steadily escalating underground survival loop feel especially natural for Don't Starve Together fans.
- #4 Necesse
94% 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 70.6% ★, Survival 14.7%, Multiplayer 3.3%, Co-op 2.8%, Open World 2.4%
Why You'll Like It: Its top-down survival crafting, procedural exploration, colony management, and multiplayer structure make it one of the closest mechanical cousins to DST.
- #5 The Survivalists
95% matchMostly Positive76% of 9,935 reviews2020
Dev: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 71%
A living world full of surprises, secrets and danger awaits in The Survivalists, an adventure-filled survival sandbox set in The Escapists universe. Explore, build, craft and even train monkeys with up to three friends in a desperate bid to survive. Have you got what it takes to be a Survivalist?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 56.1% ★, Survival 23.9%, Multiplayer 3.9%, Co-op 3.7%, Crafting 3.6%
Why You'll Like It: This cartoony co-op island survival game emphasizes gathering, crafting, base-building, and improvising with limited resources in a very similar moment-to-moment way.
- #6 Valheim
94% 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 62.6% ★, Survival 20.4%, Multiplayer 3.6%, Co-op 3%, Open World 2.8%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the same satisfying co-op rhythm of building a home, venturing into hostile biomes, gearing up, and surviving increasingly lethal environmental threats.
- #7 Grounded
93% matchVery Positive90% of 92,875 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.2 hrsMean: 40.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 56.1% ★, Survival 27.5%, Multiplayer 4.5%, Co-op 4.4%, Crafting 2.3%
Why You'll Like It: Like DST, it turns a stylized world full of seemingly small creatures into a tense co-op survival adventure built around preparation, exploration, and base defense.
- #8 Project Zomboid
92% matchVery Positive94% of 440,877 reviews2013
Dev: The Indie Stone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 14.8 hrsMean: 82.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 54.4% ★, Survival 31.4%, Multiplayer 3.8%, Open World 3.2%, Co-op 2.9%
Why You'll Like It: If you love DST's unforgiving survival pressure and emergent co-op disasters, this offers an even harsher sandbox built around planning, scavenging, and staying alive.
- #9 Raft
91% matchVery Positive93% of 368,916 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.5 hrsMean: 36.8 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 60.1% ★, Survival 25%, Multiplayer 4.3%, Co-op 4.1%, Crafting 2.1%
Why You'll Like It: This co-op survival game similarly revolves around constant resource pressure, crafting upgrades, expanding your home base, and surviving a hostile world together.
- #10 Starbound
91% matchVery Positive90% of 122,901 reviews2016
Dev: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.2 hrsMean: 64.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 70.5% ★, Survival 15.2%, Multiplayer 2.6%, Co-op 2.5%, Sandbox 2.2%
Why You'll Like It: Its crafting-heavy exploration, base-building, and multiplayer sandbox freedom make it a strong fit for players who enjoy DST's open-ended survival progression.
- #11 Green Hell
90% matchVery Positive85% of 94,379 reviews2019
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 18.7 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 63.9% ★, Survival 22%, Multiplayer 4.1%, Online Co-Op 2.2%, Co-op 2%
Why You'll Like It: It shares DST's emphasis on learning survival systems, managing needs, crafting tools, and treating exploration as something dangerous rather than relaxing.
- #12 7 Days to Die
89% matchVery Positive87% of 396,805 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 16.8 hrsMean: 107.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 58.6% ★, Survival 29.3%, Multiplayer 4.1%, Open World 3%, Online Co-Op 2.4%
Why You'll Like It: Fans of DST's base prep and looming danger should appreciate its strong loop of gathering, crafting, fortifying, and surviving recurring large-scale attacks.
- #13 The Forest
89% 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 69.8% ★, Survival 23.4%, Open World 2.5%, Crafting 1.9%, Sandbox 0.7%
Why You'll Like It: Its co-op survival loop of scavenging, building, crafting, and defending against terrifying threats mirrors the tension-and-preparation appeal of DST.
- #14 Abiotic Factor
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 52,861 reviews2025
Dev: Deep Field GamesPub: Playstack
Windows
Median: 19.3 hrsMean: 42.7 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Abiotic Factor is a survival crafting experience for 1-6 players set in the depths of an underground research facility. Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the world’s greatest minds must survive against the universe’s biggest threats.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 64.2% ★, Survival 23.4%, Multiplayer 3.6%, Crafting 3.3%, Online Co-Op 3.2%
Why You'll Like It: This is another great co-op survival-crafting game where experimentation, scavenging, odd creatures, and building safe zones create the same chaotic teamwork energy.
- #15 Crashlands
88% matchVery Positive90% of 6,633 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 65.8% ★, Survival 21.3%, Open World 3.2%, Crafting 3%, Multiplayer 2.8%
Why You'll Like It: Although single-player, it nails the same mix of quirky humor, constant crafting progression, weird creatures, and open-ended survival-adventure momentum.
- #16 ARK: Survival Evolved
87% matchVery Positive83% of 763,144 reviews2017
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 200.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 66.6% ★, Survival 21.8%, Multiplayer 3.4%, Open World 2.5%, Co-op 2.2%
Why You'll Like It: Its open-ended co-op survival sandbox offers the same appeal of taming a hostile world through crafting, progression, and shared base-building.
- #17 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
86% 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 59.7% ★, Survival 21.9%, Multiplayer 4.1%, Co-op 3.9%, Open World 2.7%
Why You'll Like It: Its stylized survival in an oversized natural world captures some of the same vulnerable-but-adventurous feeling that makes DST so memorable.
- #18 Stranded Deep
84% matchMostly Positive74% of 47,062 reviews2022
Dev: Beam Team GamesPub: Beam Team Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 21.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Take the role of a plane crash survivor stranded somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Come face to face with some of the most life threatening scenarios that will result in a different experience each time you play. Scavenge. Discover. Survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 67% ★, Survival 22%, Multiplayer 3.8%, Open World 2.2%, Crafting 2.1%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a slower but very similar appeal of learning survival rules, crafting essentials, and building a safe foothold in a dangerous world.
- #19 V Rising
82% matchVery Positive89% of 132,034 reviews2024
Dev: Stunlock Studios
Windows
Median: 21.0 hrsMean: 57.1 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: Survival 59.6%, Multiplayer 10.1%, Open World 8.8%, Crafting 6.8%, Online Co-Op 5.7%
Why You'll Like It: It scratches a similar itch through resource gathering, crafting, base-building, dangerous exploration, and multiplayer survival with a more combat-driven structure.
- #20 How to Survive 2
85% matchMixed69% of 10,988 reviews2016
Dev: Eko SoftwarePub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 15.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Dead or Alive? Make up your mind, stranger. We don’t like that undead business here in Louisiana…Survive solo or with friends as you look to fulfill your basic needs of food, water and shelter, crafting your own tools and weapons while you secure your camp and face flesh hungry zombies.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 56.8% ★, Survival 30.6%, Multiplayer 3.9%, Co-op 3.6%, Open World 2.4%
Why You'll Like It: This co-op survival game combines scavenging, crafting, camp construction, and pressure from hostile enemies in a way that lines up well with DST's core loop.
- #21 The Wild Eight
84% matchMostly Positive70% of 7,155 reviews2019
Dev: Eight PointsPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
The Wild Eight is an intense survival action-adventure set in the frozen wilderness of Alaska. Team up with friends in online co-op or go solo, explore the mysterious land, craft weapons and fight to live another day.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 61.5% ★, Survival 24.4%, Multiplayer 3.3%, Co-op 3.1%, Open World 2.1%
Why You'll Like It: Its emphasis on co-op wilderness survival, scavenging, crafting, and enduring harsh conditions echoes the more punishing side of DST.
- #22 Tribes of Midgard
83% matchMostly Positive76% of 23,072 reviews2021
Dev: NorsfellPub: Gearbox Publishing
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 19.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A vibrant blend of survival and action RPG for 1-10 players! Craft legendary items, grow your home base and embark on an epic journey through procedural realms to face towering creatures hel-bent on unleashing Ragnarök. Valhalla can wait, Einherjar!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 70.1% ★, Survival 18.3%, Multiplayer 4.1%, Co-op 4%, Online Co-Op 3.1%
Why You'll Like It: This co-op survival action game shares DST's focus on gathering by day, crafting defenses, and preparing for escalating threats before night falls.
- #23 Palworld
81% 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 59% ★, Survival 23.2%, Multiplayer 4.4%, Open World 3.8%, Co-op 3.3%
Why You'll Like It: It is a looser tonal match, but the co-op survival-crafting loop, base automation, exploration, and creature-driven progression hit many of the same sandbox pleasures.
- #24 Rust
82% matchVery Positive87% of 1,344,289 reviews2018
Dev: Facepunch Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 52.0 hrsMean: 416.6 hrs≥1hr: 96%
The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49% ★, Survival 35.4%, Multiplayer 4.4%, Crafting 3.4%, Open World 3.2%
Why You'll Like It: For players who mainly love DST's tension and constant risk, Rust provides a harsher multiplayer survival sandbox built around crafting, raiding, and never feeling fully safe.
- #25 Feel The Snow
81% matchVery Positive87% of 3,024 reviews2019
Dev: Owlet
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Choose one of the characters and start your journey. The game has many interesting things in store: building, crafting, puzzles, bosses, mystery, laughs, quests etc.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 64.2% ★, Survival 20.2%, Multiplayer 4.1%, Co-op 3.4%, Crafting 2.4%
Why You'll Like It: This cute but dangerous survival-crafting game mirrors DST's blend of charming presentation and unexpectedly threatening resource-management gameplay.
- #26 Enshrouded
79% 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: Survival 61%, Multiplayer 10.1%, Open World 10%, Online Co-Op 7%, Crafting 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: While more action-RPG focused, it still delivers strong co-op exploration, crafting, base creation, and environmental survival progression.
- #27 Keplerth
80% 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: Survival 66.5%, Open World 9.7%, Multiplayer 8.7%, Sandbox 7.2%, Crafting 4%
Why You'll Like It: Its top-down structure, crafting, base-building, exploration, and survival systems make it a strong under-the-radar pick for DST players.
- #28 Wildmender
78% matchVery Positive85% of 2,104 reviews2023
Dev: Muse GamesPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A desert gardening survival game. Start from a tiny spring and cultivate a blooming garden. Explore a vast world amid the sands and uncover its mysteries. Can you defend against the relentless forces of nature and mysterious wraith corruption, to bring life to a dying world?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 65.7% ★, Survival 21.9%, Multiplayer 5.6%, Crafting 3.2%, Online Co-Op 2.9%
Why You'll Like It: Its cooperative open-world survival and base-growing loop offers a gentler but still satisfying alternative for players who like building life out of hostile environments.
- #29 Planet Centauri
78% matchMostly Positive77% of 2,359 reviews2024
Dev: Permadeath
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Dive into an epic adventure alone or with friends! Explore hidden dungeons, capture and tame fearsome monsters, build and defend your village. Craft powerful weapons, master magical spells, and transform an planet into the cradle of a new civilization!
Why similar: Multiplayer 22.5%, Co-op 20.2%, Open World 18.1%, Crafting 17.1%, Sandbox 13.9%
Why You'll Like It: It mixes 2D exploration, crafting, creature interaction, and sandbox progression in a way that will appeal to players who enjoy Terraria and DST alike.
- #30 Wrongworld
79% matchVery Positive94% of 538 reviews2018
Dev: Sludj Games
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Crash-landed on a surreal, low-poly world filled with freakish inhabitants, choose between permadeath and non-permadeath modes and embark on an epic (and ridiculous) survival adventure. Will you manage to stay alive as you unravel the mysteries of Wrongworld and search for a way home?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 74.1% ★, Survival 18.8%, Open World 2.1%, Crafting 1.8%, Sandbox 1.4%
Why You'll Like It: Its bizarre alien setting, crafting-driven survival, and oddball tone make it a niche but fitting pick for people who like DST's weirdness as much as its mechanics.
- #31 The Long Dark
77% matchVery Positive90% of 117,376 reviews2017
Dev: Hinterland Studio Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 46.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies -- only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 68.5% ★, Survival 24.9%, Open World 2.4%, Crafting 1.3%, Co-op 0.8%
- #32 Tinkerlands
75% 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 62% ★, Survival 19.5%, Co-op 3.6%, Multiplayer 3.4%, Online Co-Op 2.8%
- #33 Forager
77% matchVery Positive90% of 43,003 reviews2019
Dev: HopFrogPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 22.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 69.6% ★, Survival 21.7%, Crafting 3%, Multiplayer 2.1%, Sandbox 1.3%
- #34 ASTRONEER
76% 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 63.1% ★, Survival 21.5%, Multiplayer 4.3%, Co-op 3.6%, Open World 3.2%
- #35 How to Survive
76% matchVery Positive83% of 17,095 reviews2014
Dev: Eko SoftwarePub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
“A real Gem” – Destructoid at E3 “Offers a different experience for zombie game veterans” – Co-Optimus“Has a lot more going for it than smashing brains and gory, red goo ... With a surprisingly deep crafting system” – GamesRadarYou're shipwrecked on an isolated island, a desperate castaway in a total freakshow world. How will you survive?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 55.4% ★, Survival 31.3%, Co-op 3.8%, Crafting 3%, Multiplayer 2.9%
- #36 Dig or Die
75% matchVery Positive90% of 4,268 reviews2018
Dev: Gaddy Games
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Crash land on a hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it. But be warned... this planet is merciless. Build strong, and smart; else physics may flood or destroy your only hopes of survival.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 64.8% ★, Survival 23.2%, Crafting 2.8%, Sandbox 2.2%, Multiplayer 2.1%
- #37 Unturned
74% matchVery Positive91% of 561,138 reviews2017
Dev: Smartly Dressed Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 71.6 hrs≥1hr: 76%
You're a survivor in the zombie infested ruins of society, and must work with your friends and forge alliances to remain among the living.
Why similar: Survival 54.9%, Co-op 11.2%, Multiplayer 9.9%, Open World 7.4%, Crafting 7.4%
- #38 Savage Lands
74% 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 67.2% ★, Survival 20.7%, Multiplayer 2.9%, Open World 2.5%, Online Co-Op 2.2%
- #39 Lodventure
73% 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 64.8% ★, Survival 20.3%, Co-op 4.9%, Open World 3%, Crafting 2.4%
- #40 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 59% ★, Survival 20.5%, Co-op 4.5%, Multiplayer 4%, Crafting 3.1%
- #41 Sons Of The Forest
70% matchVery Positive88% of 299,895 reviews2024
Dev: Endnight Games LtdPub: Newnight
Windows
Median: 14.9 hrsMean: 32.0 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 59.6%, Co-op 10.7%, Multiplayer 9.8%, Open World 7.7%, Crafting 5%
- #42 Subnautica
71% 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 66.8% ★, Survival 22.9%, Open World 2.8%, Crafting 2.4%, Multiplayer 2.1%
- #43 Miscreated
73% matchMixed66% of 31,585 reviews2018
Dev: Entrada Interactive LLC
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 38.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Miscreated is a multiplayer online hardcore survival game set in a post-apocalyptic future. You will need to survive against mutants, players, and even mother nature herself.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 67.7% ★, Survival 23%, Multiplayer 3.1%, Open World 2.6%, Crafting 1.4%
- #44 Hurtworld
72% matchMostly Positive76% of 31,099 reviews2019
Dev: Bankroll Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 63.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Hurtworld is a hardcore multiplayer survival FPS with a focus on competitive gunplay and strategic map control. Built for hardcore gamers, Hurtworld aims to punish.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 57.9% ★, Survival 29.1%, Multiplayer 4%, Open World 3.1%, Crafting 2.7%
- #45 Muck
70% matchVery Positive93% of 182,033 reviews2021
Dev: Dani
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Muck is a survival-roguelike. Collect resources, find items & build a base to survive for as long as you can.
Why similar: Survival 71.7%, Multiplayer 11.4%, Crafting 7.7%, Open World 6.5%, Adventure 1.3%
- #46 Reign Of Kings
72% 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 64.9% ★, Survival 21.8%, Multiplayer 3.7%, Open World 3%, Crafting 2.7%
- #47 CastleMiner Z
71% matchVery Positive81% of 11,088 reviews2014
Dev: DigitalDNA Games
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 66%
CastleMiner Z is an infinite world filled with deep places to explore, and horrifying monsters to slay. Build structures out of blocks, craft weapons and tools from raw materials, and explore the vast and frightening world around you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 65.1% ★, Survival 21%, Multiplayer 3.6%, Co-op 2.6%, Open World 2%
- #48 Stardew Valley
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 992,215 reviews2016
Dev: ConcernedApe
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 22.7 hrsMean: 83.6 hrs≥1hr: 92%
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Why similar: Multiplayer 45.1%, Crafting 20.7%, Open World 15.9%, Sandbox 14.2%, 2D 1.8%
- #49 Subsistence
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,601 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 40.0 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 66.6% ★, Survival 21.6%, Multiplayer 3.4%, Crafting 2.5%, Open World 2.3%
- #50 Voidtrain
67% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,176 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 67% ★, Survival 17%, Co-op 4.1%, Multiplayer 3.4%, Open World 2.2%
- #51 Longvinter
68% 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 56.2% ★, Survival 25.9%, Multiplayer 5.3%, Co-op 3.5%, Crafting 3.4%
- #52 Rem Survival
69% matchMostly Positive76% of 802 reviews2021
Dev: Immortal Hand Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 47.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Scavenge abandoned ruins, craft gear from scrap and salvaged materials, and fight the environment itself as hunger, exposure, and exhaustion push you to your limits. There are no second chances—only adaptation or death.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 65.8% ★, Survival 21.9%, Crafting 3.2%, Open World 3.1%, Multiplayer 2.5%
- #53 Life is Feudal: Your Own
70% matchMixed66% of 12,039 reviews2015
Dev: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 58.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Hardcore and realistic; LiF is a Medieval multiplayer sandbox RPG, with free terraforming, a rich crafting system and preset and modular building construction. With engaging survival aspects, no target physics-based combat and a unique formation system - along with numerous other features - LiF is not for the faint of heart!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 67% ★, Survival 20.1%, Open World 3.2%, Crafting 2.8%, Multiplayer 2.7%
- #54 Whisper of the Swallows
66% matchVery Positive87% of 144 reviews2026
Dev: Blown Leaves
Windows
Brave a savage and unforgiving procedurally-generated world where extreme weather and the nightmares of the dark are your greatest enemies. Alone or in co-op, survive, build, and explore to transform a cursed hellscape into your sanctuary of light.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 64.8% ★, Survival 21.6%, Crafting 3.1%, Open World 2.8%, Online Co-Op 2.5%
- #55 Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts
68% matchMostly Negative36% of 365 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 63.6% ★, Survival 21.2%, Multiplayer 3.3%, Open World 3.1%, Crafting 2.8%
- #56 Grounded 2
64% matchVery Positive81% of 19,870 reviews2025
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 20.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Shrunk again, but the world is much larger. In this open-world, single-player or co-op survival adventure, craft weapons and armor, build your base, and traverse the playground on your buggy. But something else is out there—and it hasn’t forgotten you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.2% ★, Survival 30.1%, Co-op 4.9%, Multiplayer 4.9%, Open World 3.2%
- #57 Overcooked! 2
67% matchVery Positive90% of 80,492 reviews2018
Dev: Ghost Town Games Ltd.Pub: Team17
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 16.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Overcooked returns with a brand-new helping of chaotic cooking action! Journey back to the Onion Kingdom and assemble your team of chefs in classic couch co-op or online play for up to four players. Hold onto your aprons… it’s time to save the world again!
Why similar: Multiplayer 37.7%, Co-op 29.4%, Online Co-Op 24.6%, Funny 3.4%, Difficult 2.8%
- #58 Radiation Island
68% matchVery Positive80% of 623 reviews2016
Dev: Atypical Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Radiation Island is a survival adventure game where you craft your own destiny in a huge open world environment. As part of the Philadelphia Experiment you have become stranded in a parallel, alternate reality. Discover this new and mysterious world, with all its surprises.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 68.5% ★, Survival 25.4%, Open World 1.9%, Multiplayer 1.5%, Crafting 1.4%
- #59 Wayward
67% matchVery Positive86% of 1,349 reviews2016
Dev: Unlok
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 21.4 hrs≥1hr: 61%
You awake to discover yourself no longer in the company of good men or a fine seafaring vessel. Treasure... you remember something about treasure. Wayward is a challenging turn-based, top-down, wilderness survival roguelike. Explore, build, and most importantly survive in these unforgiving lands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 65.3% ★, Survival 24.8%, Crafting 2.9%, Multiplayer 2.2%, Open World 2.1%
- #60 MISERY
63% matchVery Positive85% of 17,893 reviews2025
Dev: Platypus EntertainmentPub: Ytopia
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
MISERY is a 1–5 player co-op survival game set in a nuclear disaster zone. Here, every day is a struggle: search radioactive ruins for resources, build your bunker, craft weapons, and explore a weird, procedurally-generated world with your friends. Beware of anomalies, monsters, and armed bandits.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 55.6% ★, Survival 23.7%, Co-op 4.5%, Multiplayer 4.3%, Online Co-Op 3.2%