- #1 Grounded
97% matchVery Positive90% of 94,772 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.3 hrsMean: 41.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?
Why similar: Survival 22.3%, Base Building 14.2%, Multiplayer 13.5%, Open World 11.6%, Online Co-Op 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: Like Drake Hollow, this game features a 'tiny in a big world' perspective with a strong emphasis on base-building and survival against environmental threats.
- #2 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
96% matchVery Positive82% of 10,269 reviews2024
Dev: Merge GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 12.9%, Survival 12.6%, Open World 11.1%, Base Building 10.6%, Sandbox 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: Players explore a vast, dangerous world from a miniature perspective while focusing on gathering resources and building protective shelters.
- #3 Enshrouded
96% matchVery Positive86% of 103,247 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.8 hrsMean: 46.1 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: Open World 17.6%, Survival 15.1%, Online Co-Op 15%, Base Building 12.6%, Multiplayer 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: This title offers a deep building system and exploration mechanics within a world reclaimed by a mysterious, encroaching blight.
- #4 Core Keeper
95% matchVery Positive93% of 65,308 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.0 hrsMean: 34.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
Why similar: Open World 12.7%, Sandbox 12.5%, Online Co-Op 12.5%, Survival 11.8%, Base Building 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a compelling loop of exploration, resource gathering, and base expansion in a vibrant, top-down survival setting.
- #5 Nightingale
94% matchMixed66% of 17,987 reviews2024
Dev: Inflexion Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 23.9 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: Online Co-Op 17.2%, Survival 15.2%, Open World 14.9%, Base Building 11.4%, Multiplayer 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: This survival-crafting game focuses on exploration and building within fantastical, procedurally generated realms.
- #6 Raft
93% matchVery Positive93% of 374,777 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.6 hrsMean: 37.5 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!
Why similar: Survival 23.1%, Multiplayer 14.7%, Open World 11.9%, Online Co-Op 10.9%, Co-op 10%
Why You'll Like It: You must build and expand your base while navigating a hazardous environment, mirroring the resource management and defense aspects of Drake Hollow.
- #7 Portal Knights
94% matchVery Positive83% of 22,312 reviews2017
Dev: Keen Games GmbHPub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 21.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
The world of Elysia needs YOU! Join this cooperative, 3D sandbox action RPG to level up your character, craft epic weapons, conquer enemies in real-time, and build almost anything! Craft your adventure. Forge your hero. Become the ultimate Portal Knight!
Why similar: Sandbox 23.9%, Survival 16.9%, Multiplayer 15.6%, Building 14.3%, Co-op 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: It combines action-adventure combat with sandbox building elements, offering a lighthearted experience similar to the tone of Drake Hollow.
- #8 Valheim
91% matchVery Positive94% of 536,933 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 25.9 hrsMean: 77.4 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: Online Co-Op 16.4%, Survival 14.1%, Open World 13.6%, Base Building 9.5%, Multiplayer 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: This game excels at blending exploration and survival with a satisfying, modular building system that encourages creative base design.
- #9 Tinkertown
92% matchMixed67% of 1,342 reviews2023
Dev: Headup
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Gather your friends and come to Tinkertown - A refreshing new Multiplayer Sandbox Experience! Explore magical places filled with loot, danger, and creativity.
Why similar: Sandbox 16.8%, Online Co-Op 15%, Open World 14.4%, Multiplayer 12.9%, Adventure 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: A cozy, pixel-art survival game that emphasizes cooperative play and building a home base in a charming, procedurally generated world.
- #10 The Survivalists
91% matchMostly Positive76% of 10,061 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: Online Co-Op 17.1%, Survival 14.9%, Sandbox 11.9%, Open World 11.5%, Base Building 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: It features cooperative survival and crafting mechanics with a focus on managing resources and defending your territory.
- #11 Slime Rancher
90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 154,977 reviews2017
Dev: Monomi Park
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 21.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Slime Rancher is the tale of Beatrix LeBeau, a plucky, young rancher who sets out for a life a thousand light years away from Earth on the ‘Far, Far Range’ where she tries her hand at making a living wrangling slimes.
Why similar: Open World 26.6%, Sandbox 16.6%, Exploration 15.7%, Cute 13.5%, Adventure 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the core appeal of collecting and caring for whimsical creatures within a dedicated base area, emphasizing management over harsh combat.
- #12 Creativerse
89% 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: Online Co-Op 13.9%, Sandbox 13.3%, Open World 12%, Survival 11.8%, Building 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox game that emphasizes building and exploration in a vibrant world, allowing for significant creative freedom in base design.
- #13 Scrap Mechanic
89% matchVery Positive92% of 117,933 reviews2016
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.2 hrsMean: 58.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!
Why similar: Sandbox 16.2%, Open World 14.7%, Survival 14.1%, Building 13.4%, Multiplayer 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: It offers an incredibly deep building and engineering system that allows players to construct elaborate defenses and vehicles.
- #14 Volcanoids
88% matchVery Positive83% of 9,298 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.
Why similar: Sandbox 13.2%, Online Co-Op 12.3%, Survival 11.6%, Open World 11.5%, Base Building 11.4%
Why You'll Like It: Players must manage and upgrade a mobile base while exploring a dangerous island, providing a unique twist on the survival-defense genre.
- #15 ASTRONEER
87% matchVery Positive92% of 138,510 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.
Why similar: Open World 16.6%, Survival 15.6%, Sandbox 12.7%, Multiplayer 11.6%, Base Building 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on exploration and base-building on alien planets with a distinct, colorful aesthetic and a focus on creative problem-solving.
- #16 Grow: Song of the Evertree
86% matchVery Positive81% of 2,556 reviews2021
Dev: Prideful SlothPub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Grow your own worlds and nurture a deep natural connection with everything they hold. See your actions change the world for better! Bring the Evertree back to life in this breathtaking world-crafting sandbox, with life management and adventure elements.
Why similar: Sandbox 22.3%, Open World 21.3%, Exploration 11.2%, Third Person 9%, Family Friendly 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: This game captures the wholesome, nurturing aspect of Drake Hollow by tasking players with restoring a world and caring for its inhabitants.
- #17 Don't Starve Together
85% matchVery Positive95% of 537,789 reviews2016
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 64.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Why similar: Survival 56.6%, Multiplayer 10.7%, Open World 8.7%, Online Co-Op 7.5%, Co-op 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: While more challenging, it shares the stylized aesthetic and the critical need to build and maintain a base to survive against waves of threats.
- #18 V Rising
84% matchVery Positive89% of 135,460 reviews2024
Dev: Stunlock Studios
Windows
Median: 21.1 hrsMean: 57.6 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: Open World 16.2%, Survival 15.6%, Base Building 13.2%, Online Co-Op 11.5%, Sandbox 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: While darker in tone, it features a robust base-building system and survival mechanics that require constant defense and expansion.
- #19 Founders' Fortune
86% matchVery Positive80% of 2,187 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 56%
A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.7%, Base Building 16.7%, Sandbox 13.3%, Survival 12.2%, Building 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: This colony simulator focuses on building a settlement and managing the needs of your people, echoing the village-building mechanics of Drake Hollow.
- #20 Frozen Flame
84% matchMixed63% of 2,982 reviews2022
Dev: Dreamside InteractivePub: Ravenage Games
Windows
Median: 4.8 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: Online Co-Op 15.5%, Sandbox 13.3%, Open World 13%, Survival 12.2%, Base Building 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: This survival-adventure game features a large, explorable world and building mechanics set within a fantasy landscape.
- #21 Hokko Life
83% matchMixed66% of 2,663 reviews2022
Dev: Wonderscope GamesPub: Team17
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Hop off the train and into your new life in the village of Hokko! Take over the old workshop and get creative; use crafted materials and design everything in town! With complete creative freedom, what type of town will you build?
Why similar: Building 25.5%, Character Customization 19.9%, Family Friendly 14%, Cute 12.2%, Adventure 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the creative and social aspects of building a community, perfect for those who enjoy the village-management side of Drake Hollow.
- #22 The Planet Crafter
80% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 71,525 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.5 hrsMean: 38.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 16.9%, Survival 14.4%, Base Building 14.3%, Open World 13.1%, Sandbox 12%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game centered on terraforming a barren world, emphasizing base-building and exploration as you transform the environment.
- #23 Keplerth
82% matchVery Positive84% of 4,145 reviews2022
Dev: TAROPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Welcome to Keplerth! Try to survive on a hostile alien planet in this 2D sandbox RPG, where you can choose to live alone or fight side by side with your friends in the online multiplayer mode. Survive, build, farm, fight, and explore your way to victory in this open-world adventure!
Why similar: Sandbox 19.2%, Open World 16.9%, Survival 16.6%, Building 12.1%, Exploration 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that allows for extensive base-building and exploration in a procedurally generated world.
- #24 Scrapnaut
82% matchMixed70% of 833 reviews2021
Dev: SpiffyBitPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements. Explore an open world with different biomes, take care of oxygen, manage your farms, generate electricity, build your home and much more!
Why similar: Online Co-Op 14.6%, Survival 13.9%, Sandbox 12.4%, Building 11.3%, Open World 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: It combines survival and base-building with a top-down perspective, focusing on managing resources to stay alive in a hostile environment.
- #25 Forager
81% matchVery Positive90% of 43,749 reviews2019
Dev: HopFrogPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 22.4 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: Survival 26.1%, Sandbox 17.5%, Base Building 12.7%, Open World 10.3%, Multiplayer 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the satisfying progression of gathering, crafting, and expanding your territory in a colorful, top-down world.
- #26 Staxel
81% matchMostly Positive78% of 4,833 reviews2019
Dev: PlukitPub: Balor Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Grow your farm, meet the villagers, and join your friends online in building your world.
Why similar: Sandbox 16.5%, Online Co-Op 15.6%, Open World 14.1%, Building 10.8%, Character Customization 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: A creative, block-based farming and village-building game with a cute aesthetic that emphasizes community and customization.
- #27 My Time at Sandrock
79% matchVery Positive88% of 28,759 reviews2023
Dev: Pathea Games
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 39.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Travel to the desert community of Sandrock and take on the role of a fledgling Builder. Use your trusty toolset to gather resources, construct machines, and turn your run-down workshop into a well-oiled production facility to save the town from the jaws of economic ruin!
Why similar: Sandbox 24.5%, Open World 20.4%, Building 19.6%, Multiplayer 17.1%, Character Customization 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes community building and crafting in a cozy, story-driven environment that feels welcoming and rewarding.
- #28 Everwind
77% matchVery Positive81% of 3,601 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Everwind is a novel take on RPG and Sandbox Survival genre in First-Person-Perspective. Embark on the adventure with your friends - Build a base on a flying island-ship, gather resources, craft, loot, and fight while you rise above the clouds to uncover the mysteries of this world!
Why similar: Online Co-Op 16.8%, Open World 14.8%, Sandbox 14.8%, Survival 13.8%, Building 10.7%
- #29 Lodventure
78% matchMostly Positive74% of 162 reviews2023
Dev: Sky Games
Windows
Embark on a 1-4 players Co-op survival adventure in an open world wilderness in search of a myth called the Lod Stone. Build your house, sow your crops, brew potions, tame a horse and discover powerful abilities. Venture into dangerous dungeons, fight unique bosses to find the Lod stone.
Why similar: Open World 15.5%, Survival 14.9%, Online Co-Op 12.3%, Sandbox 11%, Base Building 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: A cooperative survival game that emphasizes exploration and building in a stylized, open world.
- #30 Solarpunk™
75% matchVery Positive82% of 3,137 reviews2026
Dev: CyberwavePub: rokaplay
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Solarpunk is a survival game in a technologically advanced world of floating islands. Alone or together with your friends, you can construct buildings, grow food, craft gadgets and hop on your airship to explore distant islands in the sky.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 14.8%, Sandbox 13.4%, Open World 12.4%, Base Building 12.1%, Survival 11.7%
- #31 Craftopia
78% matchMostly Positive76% of 20,099 reviews2020
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Craftopia is the brand new multiplayer survival action game made in Japan. We combined many features we find enjoyable, such as hunting, farming, hack-and-slash, building, automation to develop this game.
Why similar: Open World 23.7%, Survival 18.2%, Sandbox 13.7%, Multiplayer 11.6%, Online Co-Op 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: This open-world survival game blends many mechanics, including farming, building, and exploration, into a single, varied experience.
- #32 Longvinter
76% matchMixed67% of 7,607 reviews2025
Dev: Uuvana Studios
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 44.0 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: Survival 18.7%, Open World 17%, Sandbox 14.7%, Multiplayer 14.1%, Building 8.8%
- #33 Ikonei Island: An Earthlock Adventure
77% matchMostly Positive74% of 471 reviews2023
Dev: Snowcastle Games
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Ikonei Island is yours to discover! Explore and gather resources. Farm the land, craft tools and gear, and build your base or a cozy home. Befriend magical creatures and fight monsters with your friends or solo!
Why similar: Building 20.1%, Exploration 18.9%, Multiplayer 15.3%, Family Friendly 13.8%, Co-op 12.4%
- #34 Tinkerlands
74% matchVery Positive86% of 3,973 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Explore, craft, and fight your way through uncharted islands — solo or with up to 4 players in co-op! Tinkerlands is an exciting survival adventure where you will build your settlement, craft useful tools to survive, and even use magic!
Why similar: Online Co-Op 17.3%, Sandbox 15.8%, Open World 14%, Survival 14%, Multiplayer 9.1%
- #35 Necesse
73% matchVery Positive93% of 27,498 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 14.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
Why similar: Sandbox 14.9%, Open World 14.2%, Survival 12.7%, Multiplayer 10.4%, Online Co-Op 10.4%
- #36 Voidtrain
74% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,612 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 13.6%, Survival 13.2%, Open World 11.9%, Base Building 11%, Sandbox 10%
- #37 Rock the Islands
75% matchVery Positive90% of 327 reviews2024
Dev: HYPE GAME LLC
Windows
Team up with friends and dive into adventure! Rescue dwellers, let them work for you so they farm resources and protect you from enemies. Upgrade your equipment, explore new lands, complete quests and fight evil with glory!
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.6%, Online Co-Op 15.8%, Sandbox 13.9%, Open World 12.1%, Survival 9.8%
- #38 Shamania
73% matchMostly Positive74% of 154 reviews2026
Dev: Totem Keepers Games
Windows
Shamania is an open world survival game where you can CRAFT, FIGHT, and EXPLORE a vibrant sandbox world with friends in CO-OP. Expand your base as a hub for survival, gather resources, and master professions to unlock new tools and opportunities!
Why similar: Open World 15.4%, Survival 13.6%, Sandbox 12.1%, Online Co-Op 12%, Multiplayer 9.4%
- #39 Eden Crafters
71% matchVery Positive86% of 2,537 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Sandbox 13.3%, Online Co-Op 13.1%, Base Building 12.5%, Open World 12.4%, Survival 10.8%
- #40 DYSMANTLE
73% matchVery Positive91% of 11,503 reviews2021
Dev: 10tons Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 25.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Ascend from your shelter. Ruin everything. Escape the wretched island. ⚔️🔨🎣🌱🌵🍰 Explore. Fight. Level up. Survive. Gather. Craft. Harvest. Hunt. Build. Farm. Solve puzzles. Fish. Cook. Live. Enjoy the bittersweet post-apocalypse.
Why similar: Open World 23.6%, Survival 23.5%, Base Building 16.3%, Sandbox 14.3%, Exploration 8.7%
- #41 Voyagers of Nera
71% matchVery Positive85% of 2,495 reviews2025
Dev: Treehouse Games
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Voyagers of Nera is a cooperative survival-crafting game where you must survive a magical ocean world brimming with lost spirits and deadly monsters. Sail to distant islands, build beautiful villages and surf across the waves with up to 10 players.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 16.2%, Base Building 12.7%, Building 10.6%, Multiplayer 10.5%, Character Customization 8.9%
- #42 Wildmender
71% matchVery Positive84% of 2,192 reviews2023
Dev: Muse GamesPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 9.3 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: Online Co-Op 18.4%, Survival 16.3%, Base Building 15.6%, Multiplayer 15.3%, Third Person 12.4%
- #43 Everdream Valley
72% matchMostly Positive70% of 962 reviews2023
Dev: MooneatersPub: Untold Tales
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 15.7 hrs≥1hr: 68%
A farming adventure with a dash of magic. Play solo or up to a 4-player coop. By day, restore your quaint farm into a summer paradise. Explore, raise crops, care for animals and rebuild your home. At night inhabit various creatures through your dreams and bring enchantment to the valley.
Why similar: Sandbox 25.4%, Building 18.2%, Multiplayer 17.9%, Exploration 12.2%, Cute 8.9%
- #44 AColony
72% matchVery Positive89% of 137 reviews2023
Dev: ZeroTris
Windows
A colony building game with an emphasis on unexpected events, online co-op, and managing a unique community. Build your colony, feed your colonists, research technologies, craft advanced weapons, explore the world, fight enemies and defend your property.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.4%, Online Co-Op 15.2%, Survival 12.5%, Base Building 12.1%, Building 8.9%
- #45 RuneScape: Dragonwilds
69% matchVery Positive81% of 27,065 reviews2025
Dev: Jagex Ltd
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 16.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
On RuneScape's forgotten continent of Ashenfall, dragons have awoken. Gather, build, skill and craft in this co-operative survival adventure. Only by mastering survival and uncovering ancient secrets can you hope to face the ferocious Dragon Queen.
Why similar: Open World 16%, Online Co-Op 14.4%, Survival 13.9%, Multiplayer 9.9%, Base Building 8.5%
- #46 Witchspire
69% matchVery Positive83% of 1,706 reviews2026
Dev: Envar Games
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Step into the ultimate open-world witch adventure. Befriend and battle creatures, and conjure up a sanctuary alongside other witches in co-op or single-player.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 27.5%, Open World 22.6%, Base Building 20.7%, Multiplayer 13.9%, Adventure 7%
- #47 Disney Dreamlight Valley
67% matchVery Positive92% of 24,272 reviews2023
Dev: Gameloft
Windows
Median: 32.6 hrsMean: 116.0 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Explore a world filled with the magic of Disney as you discover rich stories and build the perfect neighborhood alongside Disney and Pixar heroes and villains in this new life-sim adventure game. Welcome to Disney Dreamlight Valley.
Why similar: Sandbox 33.2%, Character Customization 23%, Exploration 17.9%, Family Friendly 12.4%, Adventure 9.1%
- #48 Colony Survival
70% matchVery Positive92% of 8,916 reviews2017
Dev: Pipliz
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 28.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.5%, Survival 14.8%, Base Building 13.4%, Sandbox 11.3%, Open World 9.8%
- #49 Fae Farm
68% matchMostly Positive80% of 3,513 reviews2023
Dev: Phoenix LabsPub: Gambit Digital
Windows
Median: 9.1 hrsMean: 21.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Escape to the magical life of your dreams in Fae Farm, a farm sim RPG for 1-4 players. Craft, cultivate, and decorate to grow your homestead, and use spells to explore the enchanted island of Azoria!
Why similar: Multiplayer 26.9%, Co-op 22.4%, Family Friendly 12.5%, Cute 11.9%, Colorful 9.9%
- #50 Sun Haven
68% matchVery Positive81% of 25,114 reviews2023
Dev: Pixel Sprout Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.8 hrsMean: 31.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Build your farm and relationships with townsfolk, or forge ahead on a quest of magic, monsters, and dragons. Level up through a skill tree in 8 person multiplayer, or adventure solo!
Why similar: Multiplayer 38.2%, Character Customization 29.2%, Exploration 16.6%, Adventure 10.7%, Singleplayer 5.3%
- #51 PixARK
69% matchMostly Positive73% of 13,130 reviews2019
Dev: Snail Games USA
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 40.0 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Enter a world of mystery, danger, ancient dinosaurs, mythical beasts, and cubes! Work by yourself or with a tribe of others to gather materials, craft useful items, tame wild creatures, and build huge bases to survive in PixARK!
Why similar: Survival 22.3%, Open World 19.4%, Sandbox 17.2%, Multiplayer 12.1%, Building 8.3%
- #52 Palworld
65% matchVery Positive94% of 425,619 reviews2024
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 34.3 hrsMean: 71.0 hrs≥1hr: 96%
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 19.7%, Survival 17%, Online Co-Op 13.5%, Multiplayer 11.7%, Sandbox 9.4%
- #53 Bellwright
66% matchVery Positive80% of 20,703 reviews2024
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 12.8 hrsMean: 41.0 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 21.7%, Open World 20.9%, Online Co-Op 18.9%, Building 10.6%, Multiplayer 10.5%
- #54 Aloft
66% matchVery Positive84% of 3,637 reviews2025
Dev: Astrolabe Interactive Inc.Pub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Soar the skies in Aloft, the co-op sandbox survival game set in a world of floating islands. Build any island into a skyship, your home in the clouds. Find lost knowledge, cure the fungal corruption, and brave the hurricane to restore the ecosystem.
Why similar: Survival 16.6%, Sandbox 13.4%, Open World 12.7%, Building 12.4%, Co-op 9.6%
- #55 Pathless Woods
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,109 reviews2024
Dev: AniYa Games Studio
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Embark on a cozy open-world survival journey inspired by ancient China's heritage. Gather resources, cultivate crops, build your dream home, and defend it from marauders. Team up with friends to explore and uncover a world where adventure meets serenity.
Why similar: Open World 18.9%, Sandbox 18.5%, Survival 16.7%, Base Building 13.9%, Building 11.8%
- #56 Farworld Pioneers
70% matchMostly Negative37% of 697 reviews2023
Dev: IgloosoftPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Explore an open world, sci-fi sandbox – in PVP, PVE, and co-op. Build and manage colonies on alien planets, and recruit AI survivors with unique personalities and skills. Craft, build, mine, farm, or get your electric death rifle and say hello to your neighbors.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.9%, Online Co-Op 14.3%, Sandbox 13.7%, Survival 11.7%, Base Building 11.5%
- #57 Vampires: Bloodlord Rising
66% matchMostly Positive72% of 1,643 reviews2026
Dev: Mehuman GamesPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 76%
In this dark, open-world adventure, you awaken as a Vampire Lord. Build and customize your castle. Hunt for blood, fight, craft, and gather. Command your loyal servants. Shapeshift into a bat to explore the night and survive the relentless Inquisition, solo or in 4-player co-op.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 15.6%, Open World 14.4%, Survival 13.4%, Sandbox 13%, Base Building 12.8%