- #1 Grounded
97% 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: Survival 22.3%, Base Building 14.3%, Multiplayer 13.5%, Open World 11.6%, Online Co-Op 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the same sense of scale and survival-crafting while emphasizing base-building and cooperative exploration in a dangerous, stylized world.
- #2 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
96% 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: Online Co-Op 13%, Survival 12.5%, Open World 11%, Base Building 10.6%, Sandbox 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: This game mirrors the exploration and survival-crafting loop of Drake Hollow, focusing on building bases in a world where you are tiny and vulnerable.
- #3 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: Open World 17.4%, Online Co-Op 15.1%, Survival 15%, Base Building 12.6%, Multiplayer 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: This title combines expansive open-world exploration with robust building mechanics and survival elements that feel like a natural evolution of the Drake Hollow experience.
- #4 Valheim
95% 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: Online Co-Op 16.5%, Survival 14.1%, Open World 13.5%, Base Building 9.5%, Multiplayer 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a deeply rewarding base-building and survival experience that emphasizes cooperative play and exploration in a beautifully atmospheric setting.
- #5 Core Keeper
94% matchVery Positive93% of 64,481 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.0 hrsMean: 34.1 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: Online Co-Op 12.6%, Open World 12.5%, Sandbox 12.5%, Survival 11.8%, Base Building 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a charming, top-down survival experience that focuses heavily on exploration, crafting, and building a secure base in a mysterious underground world.
- #6 Palworld
94% 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 19.5%, Survival 16.9%, Online Co-Op 13.7%, Multiplayer 11.7%, Sandbox 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: It features creature collection and base-building mechanics that resonate with the village-management and defense aspects of Drake Hollow.
- #7 Tribes of Midgard
93% matchMostly Positive76% of 23,133 reviews2021
Dev: NorsfellPub: Gearbox Publishing
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 19.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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: Online Co-Op 24.4%, Survival 16.3%, Base Building 16%, Multiplayer 13.4%, Co-op 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly matches the 'defend your base' mechanic of Drake Hollow, requiring players to gather resources and protect their village from waves of enemies.
- #8 Portal Knights
92% matchVery Positive83% of 22,235 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 16.8%, Multiplayer 15.7%, Building 14.3%, Co-op 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: It blends adventure, building, and cooperative play with a stylized aesthetic that feels very similar to the world of Drake Hollow.
- #9 Don't Starve Together
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 531,653 reviews2016
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 64.7 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: Its whimsical, slightly dark art style and emphasis on cooperative survival and base-building make it a fantastic alternative for fans of Drake Hollow.
- #10 Raft
90% matchVery Positive93% of 372,032 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.6 hrsMean: 37.3 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 11.8%, Online Co-Op 11%, Co-op 10%
Why You'll Like It: This game provides a unique survival-crafting experience where building and defending your mobile base is central to the gameplay loop.
- #11 Tinkertown
91% matchMixed67% of 1,342 reviews2023
Dev: Headup
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 6.1 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 15.1%, Open World 14.3%, Multiplayer 12.9%, Adventure 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: This cooperative sandbox game focuses on exploration and building, providing a charming and accessible experience for players who enjoy village-style progression.
- #12 Nightingale
89% 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: Online Co-Op 17.3%, Survival 15.1%, Open World 14.9%, Base Building 11.4%, Multiplayer 11%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a high-fidelity survival-crafting experience with a focus on exploration and building in a fantastical, atmospheric world.
- #13 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 14%, Sandbox 13.3%, Open World 11.9%, Survival 11.8%, Building 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox game that emphasizes creative building and exploration, offering a colorful world that feels welcoming and open to experimentation.
- #14 Volcanoids
88% matchVery Positive83% of 9,267 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.8 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 13.3%, Online Co-Op 12.4%, Survival 11.6%, Open World 11.5%, Base Building 11.4%
Why You'll Like It: It features a unique steampunk setting where you must build and upgrade a mobile base to survive, mirroring the defensive focus of Drake Hollow.
- #15 The Survivalists
87% matchMostly Positive76% of 10,012 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 17.2%, Survival 14.9%, Sandbox 11.9%, Open World 11.4%, Base Building 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes crafting, survival, and base-building with a cooperative focus, set in a vibrant and engaging island environment.
- #16 Omega Crafter
86% 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 17%, Survival 15.9%, Online Co-Op 12.7%, Multiplayer 12%, Sandbox 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: It combines open-world survival with automation and base-building, allowing you to manage your own village with the help of programmable companions.
- #17 Craftopia
86% matchMostly Positive77% of 20,035 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 23.5%, Survival 18.2%, Sandbox 13.8%, Multiplayer 11.6%, Online Co-Op 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: This open-world survival game offers a massive variety of crafting and automation mechanics that allow for creative village and base development.
- #18 Scrap Mechanic
85% matchVery Positive92% of 117,481 reviews2016
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.2 hrsMean: 58.2 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 13.3%, Multiplayer 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers unparalleled freedom in building and engineering, making it a great choice for players who enjoyed the construction aspects of Drake Hollow.
- #19 Slime Rancher
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 153,291 reviews2017
Dev: Monomi Park
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.9 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 captures the creature-tending and whimsical exploration aspects of Drake Hollow in a relaxing, vibrant, and rewarding environment.
- #20 Keplerth
84% matchVery Positive85% of 4,138 reviews2022
Dev: TAROPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 16.1 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 19.3%, Open World 16.9%, Survival 16.5%, Building 12.1%, Exploration 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: This sandbox survival game features deep crafting and base-building mechanics set in a procedurally generated world that rewards exploration.
- #21 Frozen Flame
83% 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: Online Co-Op 15.6%, Sandbox 13.3%, Open World 12.9%, Survival 12.2%, Base Building 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: This survival RPG features a beautiful world to explore and robust building mechanics that allow you to establish a permanent base of operations.
- #22 Ikonei Island: An Earthlock Adventure
82% matchMostly Positive75% of 464 reviews2023
Dev: Snowcastle Games
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 70%
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 19%, Multiplayer 15.4%, Family Friendly 13.7%, Co-op 12.5%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on exploration, creature interaction, and island management in a relaxing, whimsical setting that feels very similar to Drake Hollow.
- #23 Pathless Woods
82% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,102 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 18.7%, Sandbox 18.6%, Survival 16.7%, Base Building 14%, Building 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on cooperative survival and building, drawing inspiration from ancient architecture and providing a serene environment for village development.
- #24 Grow: Song of the Evertree
81% matchVery Positive81% of 2,549 reviews2021
Dev: Prideful SlothPub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 8.2 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 22.4%, Open World 21.3%, Exploration 11.2%, Third Person 9%, Family Friendly 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes the nurturing of a world and its inhabitants, providing a wholesome and creative experience for fans of the village-tending aspects of Drake Hollow.
- #25 My Time at Sandrock
79% matchVery Positive88% of 28,550 reviews2023
Dev: Pathea Games
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 39.4 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 24.6%, Open World 20.1%, Building 19.6%, Multiplayer 17.2%, Character Customization 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on community building and crafting, allowing you to develop a town and foster relationships in a charming, stylized world.
- #26 Slime Rancher 2
78% matchVery Positive94% of 48,178 reviews2025
Dev: Monomi Park
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 24.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Continue the adventures of Beatrix LeBeau as she journeys across the Slime Sea to Rainbow Island, a land brimming with ancient mysteries, and bursting with wiggly, new slimes to wrangle in this sequel to the smash-hit, Slime Rancher.
Why similar: Open World 32.6%, Building 15.2%, Cute 12.3%, Family Friendly 10.2%, Colorful 9%
Why You'll Like It: It continues the legacy of the first game with even more beautiful environments to explore and creatures to collect and care for.
- #27 Staxel
81% matchMostly Positive79% of 4,825 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 15.7%, Open World 14%, Building 10.8%, Character Customization 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: A creative farming and building game that offers a cute, voxel-based aesthetic and plenty of opportunities to build a custom village.
- #28 Sun Haven
79% matchVery Positive81% of 24,867 reviews2023
Dev: Pixel Sprout Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.9 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 38.1%, Character Customization 29.3%, Exploration 16.6%, Adventure 10.6%, Singleplayer 5.4%
Why You'll Like It: It blends farming-sim mechanics with RPG elements and cooperative play, providing a rich world to explore and build within.
- #29 Founders' Fortune
80% matchVery Positive80% of 2,181 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 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-sim focuses on building and managing a village, requiring you to balance the needs of your settlers with the challenges of the environment.
- #30 Roots of Pacha
78% matchVery Positive94% of 4,441 reviews2023
Dev: Soda Den
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 21.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
The charming and relaxing stone-age farming sim where you live in a thriving community exploring the wonderful world of Pacha. Discover "ideas," domesticate crops, befriend animals, and help your village grow. Play co-op with friends or explore the early days of civilization in single-player.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 32.2%, Sandbox 24.5%, Building 17.9%, Exploration 12.5%, Cute 7%
Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes community and village development through farming and crafting, offering a cooperative experience that feels grounded and rewarding.
- #31 Everwind
77% 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%, Sandbox 14.8%, Open World 14.7%, Survival 13.8%, Building 10.7%
- #32 RuneScape: Dragonwilds
76% 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 15.7%, Online Co-Op 14.5%, Survival 13.8%, Multiplayer 9.8%, Base Building 8.6%
- #33 Tinkerlands
75% matchVery Positive86% of 3,833 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 13.9 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 17.4%, Sandbox 15.9%, Open World 14%, Survival 14%, Multiplayer 9.1%
- #34 Rock the Islands
76% matchVery Positive90% of 312 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 15.9%, Sandbox 13.9%, Open World 12%, Survival 9.8%
- #35 Scrapnaut
77% matchMixed70% of 827 reviews2021
Dev: SpiffyBitPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 4.0 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 14.7%, Survival 13.9%, Sandbox 12.4%, Building 11.2%, Open World 9.7%
- #36 Hokko Life
75% matchMixed66% of 2,658 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 20%, Family Friendly 13.9%, Cute 12.2%, Adventure 10.2%
- #37 Longvinter
73% matchMixed67% of 7,565 reviews2025
Dev: Uuvana Studios
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 42.7 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 16.9%, Sandbox 14.7%, Multiplayer 14.1%, Building 8.8%
- #38 Necesse
70% matchVery Positive93% of 27,199 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 14.8 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 15%, Open World 14.2%, Survival 12.6%, Multiplayer 10.4%, Online Co-Op 10.3%
- #39 Shamania
73% 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 15.3%, Survival 13.5%, Sandbox 12.1%, Online Co-Op 12.1%, Multiplayer 9.4%
- #40 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 15.4%, Survival 14.9%, Online Co-Op 12.4%, Sandbox 11%, Base Building 10.4%
- #41 Dawn of Defiance
72% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,797 reviews2024
Dev: Traega EntertainmentPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
You are the Defier, a Spartan beginning your afterlife on the Crossroads. In this Greek myth-inspired survival craft, ascend from weak soldier to god-like anti-hero. Build impressive Greek structures, craft legendary gear, and break the seals of the Underworld with up to 3 friends.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 18.3%, Survival 14.9%, Open World 11.7%, Base Building 11.2%, Sandbox 10.6%
- #42 Eden Crafters
69% 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: Sandbox 13.3%, Online Co-Op 13.2%, Base Building 12.5%, Open World 12.4%, Survival 10.8%
- #43 DYSMANTLE
71% matchVery Positive91% of 11,423 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 23.4%, Survival 23.4%, Base Building 16.4%, Sandbox 14.4%, Exploration 8.7%
- #44 Disney Dreamlight Valley
70% matchVery Positive92% of 23,997 reviews2023
Dev: Gameloft
Windows
Median: 32.4 hrsMean: 114.6 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 23.1%, Exploration 17.9%, Family Friendly 12.3%, Adventure 9.1%
- #45 Soulmask
69% 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: Colony Sim 18.7%, Open World 14.1%, Survival 13.2%, Sandbox 13.2%, Base Building 12.2%
- #46 PixARK
72% matchMostly Positive73% of 13,071 reviews2019
Dev: Snail Games USA
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 40.2 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 19.3%, Sandbox 17.3%, Multiplayer 12.1%, Building 8.3%
- #47 Everdream Valley
71% matchMostly Positive71% of 953 reviews2023
Dev: MooneatersPub: Untold Tales
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 16.1 hrs≥1hr: 69%
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 12.3%, Cute 8.9%
- #48 AColony
71% matchVery Positive89% of 134 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 15.3%, Survival 12.5%, Base Building 12.1%, Building 8.8%
- #49 Wildmender
70% matchVery Positive84% of 2,150 reviews2023
Dev: Muse GamesPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 9.4 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 18.5%, Survival 16.2%, Base Building 15.6%, Multiplayer 15.3%, Third Person 12.3%
- #50 ASTRONEER
68% matchVery Positive92% of 137,959 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.2 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 16.5%, Survival 15.6%, Sandbox 12.7%, Multiplayer 11.6%, Base Building 11.5%
- #51 Bellwright
67% 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 21.7%, Open World 20.6%, Online Co-Op 19%, Building 10.6%, Multiplayer 10.5%
- #52 Voyagers of Nera
66% matchVery Positive85% of 2,367 reviews2025
Dev: Treehouse Games
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 12.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 16.3%, Base Building 12.7%, Building 10.6%, Multiplayer 10.5%, Character Customization 9%
- #53 No One Survived
66% matchMixed65% of 7,645 reviews2025
Dev: Cat Play Studio
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%
This is a multiplayer cooperative open world construction survival sandbox game, where you and your friends must find supplies and build shelters in this world. You have to keep an eye on your character's needs state at all times, a bad state is likely to lead to death.
Why similar: Survival 21.8%, Open World 19.3%, Multiplayer 11.4%, Online Co-Op 10.2%, Building 8.3%
- #54 Fae Farm
67% matchMostly Positive80% of 3,496 reviews2023
Dev: Phoenix LabsPub: Gambit Digital
Windows
Median: 9.1 hrsMean: 21.4 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 10%
- #55 Sengoku Dynasty
66% matchMostly Positive75% of 7,526 reviews2024
Dev: SuperkamiPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 7.5 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Sengoku Dynasty is the ultimate feudal Japan experience: build villages, grow your community, and shape the open world through combat or economy. The choice is yours alone - or that of up to 4 players in multiplayer co-op!
Why similar: Colony Sim 14.1%, Open World 13.6%, Survival 13.1%, Base Building 12.3%, Online Co-Op 12.1%
- #56 Aloft
66% matchVery Positive84% of 3,576 reviews2025
Dev: Astrolabe Interactive Inc.Pub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 16.5%, Sandbox 13.5%, Open World 12.7%, Building 12.5%, Co-op 9.6%
- #57 V Rising
65% 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: Open World 17.2%, Survival 16.7%, Base Building 13.9%, Online Co-Op 13.9%, Multiplayer 10.4%