- #1 Grounded
97% 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: Survival 22.2%, Base Building 14.3%, Multiplayer 13.4%, Open World 11.5%, Online Co-Op 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: It perfectly captures the survival, base-building, and cooperative exploration loop while offering a unique perspective and charming world design.
- #2 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
96% 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: Online Co-Op 13.1%, Survival 12.5%, Open World 10.9%, Base Building 10.6%, Sandbox 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: Much like Drake Hollow, this game emphasizes exploration and base-building from a small-scale perspective in a dangerous, oversized world.
- #3 Enshrouded
96% 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: Open World 17.2%, Online Co-Op 15.1%, Survival 15%, Base Building 12.6%, Multiplayer 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: This title offers deep base-building and survival mechanics within a vast, atmospheric open world that rewards exploration and strategic defense.
- #4 Nightingale
95% matchMixed67% of 17,841 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 17.4%, Survival 15.1%, Open World 14.8%, Base Building 11.4%, Multiplayer 11%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers a unique survival-crafting experience with a strong emphasis on exploration and building across diverse, procedurally generated realms.
- #5 Core Keeper
94% 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: Online Co-Op 12.7%, Sandbox 12.5%, Open World 12.3%, Survival 11.6%, Base Building 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: It features a charming top-down perspective with a heavy focus on exploration, resource gathering, and building a base in a mysterious underground world.
- #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: Online Co-Op 16.6%, Survival 14.1%, Open World 13.4%, Base Building 9.5%, Multiplayer 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a highly satisfying cooperative survival experience with robust building mechanics and a focus on overcoming environmental threats.
- #7 Portal Knights
93% matchVery Positive83% of 22,116 reviews2017
Dev: Keen Games GmbHPub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 5.7 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: This game blends sandbox building with action-RPG combat and exploration, making it a great fit for fans of the lighter side of Drake Hollow.
- #8 V Rising
91% 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: Open World 17%, Survival 16.6%, Online Co-Op 14%, Base Building 13.9%, Multiplayer 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: It features excellent base-building and survival mechanics with a strong emphasis on tactical combat and progression.
- #9 Don't Starve Together
92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 528,033 reviews2016
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 64.1 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 8.6%, Online Co-Op 7.6%, Co-op 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: This game shares the whimsical yet slightly melancholic art style and emphasizes cooperative survival and base management against constant threats.
- #10 Palworld
91% 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 19.3%, Survival 16.8%, Online Co-Op 13.9%, Multiplayer 11.7%, Sandbox 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: It combines creature collection with base-building and survival, offering a similar loop of gathering resources to support your companions.
- #11 The Survivalists
90% 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: Online Co-Op 17.4%, Survival 14.8%, Sandbox 11.9%, Open World 11.3%, Base Building 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game features crafting, survival, and cooperative play, with a focus on managing resources and defending your base.
- #12 Scrap Mechanic
89% matchVery Positive92% of 117,049 reviews2016
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.1 hrsMean: 57.3 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 14.6%, Survival 14.1%, Building 13.3%, Multiplayer 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: It is a fantastic choice for players who enjoy the creative building and engineering aspects of survival games.
- #13 Slime Rancher
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 151,397 reviews2017
Dev: Monomi Park
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 21.5 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 26.4%, Sandbox 16.7%, Exploration 15.8%, Cute 13.5%, Adventure 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: While less combat-focused, it captures the core appeal of caring for and managing cute creatures in a vibrant, explorable environment.
- #14 Tinkertown
88% matchMixed67% of 1,340 reviews2023
Dev: Headup
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 6.0 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 15.2%, Open World 14.2%, Multiplayer 12.9%, Adventure 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: This sandbox adventure game focuses on cooperative play, building, and exploring diverse biomes, mirroring the core loop of Drake Hollow.
- #15 Volcanoids
87% matchVery Positive83% of 9,214 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: Online Co-Op 14.8%, Open World 13%, Survival 12.6%, Sandbox 10.9%, Base Building 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique survival experience where you build and upgrade a mobile base to defend against volcanic eruptions and enemies.
- #16 Keplerth
86% 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: Sandbox 19.3%, Open World 16.8%, Survival 16.5%, Building 12.1%, Exploration 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a sandbox survival experience with a focus on exploration, crafting, and base defense against various threats.
- #17 ASTRONEER
86% 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 16.5%, Survival 15.6%, Sandbox 12.7%, Multiplayer 11.6%, Base Building 11.6%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes creative base-building and exploration in a stylized, colorful universe that encourages experimentation and discovery.
- #18 Raft
84% 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: Survival 23%, Multiplayer 14.7%, Open World 11.7%, Online Co-Op 11.1%, Co-op 10%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on cooperative survival and base expansion, requiring players to defend and improve their mobile home while exploring the ocean.
- #19 Frozen Flame
85% matchMixed63% of 2,965 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 15.7%, Sandbox 13.4%, Open World 12.8%, Survival 12.2%, Base Building 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: This survival adventure game features a beautiful world to explore and emphasizes base-building and cooperative progression.
- #20 Tinkerlands
82% 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: Online Co-Op 17.6%, Sandbox 15.8%, Open World 13.9%, Survival 13.9%, Multiplayer 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers a classic survival-crafting experience with a focus on exploration and building in a pixel-art world.
- #21 Ikonei Island: An Earthlock Adventure
83% matchMostly Positive76% of 456 reviews2023
Dev: Snowcastle Games
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 7.5 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 15.3%, Family Friendly 13.7%, Co-op 12.5%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on exploration, creature interaction, and relaxing base-building in a charming, stylized setting.
- #22 Creativerse
84% 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 14.1%, Sandbox 13.3%, Open World 11.9%, Survival 11.7%, Building 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: This voxel-based sandbox game provides extensive building tools and exploration opportunities in a bright, stylized world.
- #23 Survival Machine
81% matchMostly Positive74% of 669 reviews2025
Dev: Grape PickersPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Build your base on a moving Machine, travel through biomes with different resources, and prepare for the night when a zombie threat is much higher than during the day. Would you go solo or explore this new world with your best friends?
Why similar: Online Co-Op 15.2%, Survival 12.5%, Sandbox 12.2%, Open World 11.8%, Base Building 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game centers on building and defending a mobile base while exploring a dangerous world, closely mirroring the defense mechanics of Drake Hollow.
- #24 Scrapnaut
82% matchMostly Positive70% of 824 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 14.8%, Survival 13.9%, Sandbox 12.4%, Building 11.2%, Open World 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: It combines survival and base-building with a unique art style and a focus on managing resources to stay alive.
- #25 Forager
80% 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: Survival 26.2%, Sandbox 17.5%, Base Building 12.8%, Open World 10.2%, Multiplayer 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a satisfying loop of gathering, crafting, and expanding your territory that feels very rewarding for fans of base-building.
- #26 Staxel
81% matchMostly Positive79% of 4,816 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 15.8%, Open World 13.9%, Building 10.8%, Character Customization 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a cozy, creative sandbox experience with a focus on farming and building that appeals to the village-management side of the seed game.
- #27 Voidtrain
78% 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: Online Co-Op 13.8%, Survival 13.1%, Open World 11.8%, Base Building 10.9%, Sandbox 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers a unique twist on survival where you build and upgrade a train while exploring a surreal, interdimensional world.
- #28 Dawn of Defiance
78% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,736 reviews2024
Dev: Traega EntertainmentPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 11.6%, Base Building 11.2%, Sandbox 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: It is a survival-crafting game that focuses on exploration and building in a mythological setting, offering a similar progression loop.
- #29 Craftopia
79% matchMostly Positive77% of 19,974 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 23.4%, Survival 18.1%, Sandbox 13.8%, Multiplayer 11.6%, Online Co-Op 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: This game blends open-world exploration, survival, and automation, providing a wide variety of activities similar to the diverse gameplay of Drake Hollow.
- #30 Everdream Valley
79% matchMostly Positive71% of 944 reviews2023
Dev: MooneatersPub: Untold Tales
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 16.4 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 17.8%, Exploration 12.3%, Cute 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes a cozy, relaxing atmosphere with farming and exploration, perfect for those who enjoy the lighter side of village life.
- #31 Nested Lands
77% matchMostly Positive73% of 344 reviews2026
Dev: 1M Bits HordePub: META Publishing
Windows
Nested Lands is a ruthless medieval RPG game featuring in-depth village building, large-scale social management and combats. Gather survivors, build a settlement, craft, master your skills, survive, and endure alone or in online co-op.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.9% ★, Online Co-Op 11.2%, Sandbox 10.2%, Open World 9.3%, Survival 9.2%
- #32 RuneScape: Dragonwilds
76% matchVery Positive81% of 23,948 reviews2025
Dev: Jagex Ltd
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 13.8 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 15.6%, Online Co-Op 14.5%, Survival 13.8%, Multiplayer 9.8%, Base Building 8.8%
- #33 No One Survived
77% matchMixed65% of 7,577 reviews2025
Dev: Cat Play Studio
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 22.9 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 21.5%, Open World 19%, Multiplayer 11.4%, Online Co-Op 10.5%, Building 8.3%
- #34 Rock the Islands
76% matchVery Positive90% of 292 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 9.7%
- #35 Omega Crafter
74% matchMostly Positive79% of 560 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 16.9%, Survival 15.9%, Online Co-Op 12.8%, Multiplayer 12%, Sandbox 10.7%
- #36 Hokko Life
75% matchMixed66% of 2,650 reviews2022
Dev: Gizmo GardenPub: 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 25.4%, Character Customization 20.1%, Family Friendly 13.9%, Cute 12.1%, Adventure 10.1%
- #37 Founders' Fortune
75% matchVery Positive80% of 2,168 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 57%
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 36.6% ★, Base Building 16.6%, Sandbox 13.4%, Survival 12.2%, Building 11.2%
- #38 Longvinter
73% 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: Survival 18.7%, Open World 16.8%, Sandbox 14.8%, Multiplayer 14.1%, Building 8.8%
- #39 Necesse
70% 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: Sandbox 14.9%, Open World 14.2%, Survival 12.6%, Multiplayer 10.4%, Online Co-Op 10.4%
- #40 Everwind
71% matchVery Positive82% of 2,069 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 16.1%, Sandbox 15.3%, Open World 14.4%, Survival 13.8%, Building 10.2%
- #41 Grow: Song of the Evertree
73% matchVery Positive81% of 2,538 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 21.2%, Exploration 11.2%, Third Person 9%, Family Friendly 7.8%
- #42 Shamania
72% matchMostly Positive78% of 140 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 15.2%, Survival 13.5%, Online Co-Op 12.2%, Sandbox 12.1%, Multiplayer 9.4%
- #43 Disney Dreamlight Valley
71% matchVery Positive92% of 23,720 reviews2023
Dev: Gameloft
Windows
Median: 32.6 hrsMean: 114.0 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 33.3%, Character Customization 23.1%, Exploration 17.8%, Family Friendly 12.3%, Adventure 9%
- #44 Lodventure
72% 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 15.3%, Survival 14.8%, Online Co-Op 12.5%, Sandbox 11%, Base Building 10.4%
- #45 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 19.3% ★, Online Co-Op 15.4%, Survival 12.4%, Base Building 12.1%, Building 8.8%
- #46 Sengoku Dynasty
69% matchMostly Positive75% of 7,351 reviews2024
Dev: SuperkamiPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 15.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 13.5%, Survival 13.1%, Base Building 12.3%, Online Co-Op 12.1%
- #47 Bellwright
68% matchVery Positive81% of 18,990 reviews2024
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 41.1 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 21.5%, Open World 20.7%, Online Co-Op 19%, Building 10.7%, Multiplayer 10.4%
- #48 Pathless Woods
69% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,093 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 18.6%, Sandbox 18.6%, Survival 16.7%, Base Building 14%, Building 11.8%
- #49 Vampires: Bloodlord Rising
67% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,441 reviews2026
Dev: Mehuman GamesPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 15.9%, Open World 14%, Sandbox 13.2%, Survival 13.2%, Base Building 12.7%
- #50 Fae Farm
68% matchMostly Positive80% of 3,471 reviews2023
Dev: Phoenix LabsPub: Gambit Digital
Windows
Median: 9.3 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 12.4%, Cute 11.9%, Colorful 10%
- #51 Wildmender
68% 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: Online Co-Op 18.6%, Survival 16.1%, Base Building 15.6%, Multiplayer 15.2%, Third Person 12.3%
- #52 Eden Crafters
67% matchVery Positive86% of 2,214 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in Eden Crafters, a solo and co-op open-world game that challenges you to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Temper the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Online Co-Op 14.1%, Sandbox 14%, Base Building 13.3%, Open World 13%, Colony Sim 11.3% ★
- #53 The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™
66% matchVery Positive82% of 11,474 reviews2024
Dev: Free Range GamesPub: North Beach Games
Windows
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 20.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A survival crafting adventure set in the Fourth Age of Middle-earth. Lead the Dwarves to reclaim Moria - mine, build, and battle through procedurally generated depths alone or with up to 8 players in co-op. It is time to return to Moria!
Why similar: Online Co-Op 17%, Survival 14.7%, Base Building 14.2%, Building 10%, Open World 9.2%
- #54 Colony Survival
69% matchVery Positive92% of 8,816 reviews2017
Dev: Pipliz
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 28.2 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 24.6% ★, Survival 14.7%, Base Building 13.3%, Sandbox 11.3%, Open World 9.8%
- #55 Squirreled Away
65% matchVery Positive94% of 1,007 reviews2025
Dev: Far SeasPub: Amplifier Studios
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Live your best squirrel life. Explore, gather, craft, and build incredible treehouses in acres of beautiful parkland. Scurry across lawns, up trees, and leap limb to limb solo, or up to four friends can play together in co-op. Endless summer days of adventure await.
Why similar: Open World 17.4%, Base Building 15.3%, Multiplayer 12.7%, Exploration 10.8%, Building 9.8%
- #56 Farworld Pioneers
70% matchMostly Negative38% of 691 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 14.4%, Sandbox 13.6%, Survival 11.6%, Base Building 11.5%
- #57 Aloft
65% matchVery Positive84% of 3,496 reviews2025
Dev: Astrolabe Interactive Inc.Pub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 13.9 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 16.5%, Sandbox 13.5%, Open World 12.6%, Building 12.4%, Co-op 9.7%