Games Like Dune: Awakening

An online multiplayer survival game, now with sorcery, set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian. Survive in a vast open world sandbox, build your home into a kingdom, and dominate your enemies in single or multiplayer.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24% ★, Survival 12.2%, Open World 10.4%, Building 9.9%, Crafting 9%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers the closest mix of harsh desert survival, clan base-building, crafting progression, exploration, and opt-in PvP/PvE servers.

Nomadic Survival MMO. Build wooden walking machines to travel to new lands. Create clans and fight for territory. Resources deplete fast, so take your sword and scavenge, pirate, and trade to stay alive.

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 22.7%, Survival 12.4%, Open World 10.8%, Crafting 9.2%, Building 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: If the appeal is surviving a ruthless desert and fighting over resources with mobile bases and guild politics, Last Oasis is an especially thematic fit.

Nightingale is an open world survival crafting game, where you’ll adventure across the mysterious and dangerous Fae Realms. As a daring Realmwalker, you’ll defeat monstrous enemies, survive hostile environments, and build elaborate estates in a visually stunning Gaslamp Fantasy world.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.7% ★, Base Building 10%, Online Co-Op 9.8%, Crafting 8.7%, Building 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Like Dune: Awakening, it blends survival-crafting, RPG progression, shared-world co-op, and building into long-form expeditions through dangerous open zones.

Once Human is a multiplayer open-world survival game set in a strange, post-apocalyptic future. Unite with friends to fight monstrous enemies, uncover secret plots, compete for resources, and build your own territory. Once, you were merely human. Now, you have the power to remake the world.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.8% ★, Massively Multiplayer 13.5%, Base Building 11.4%, Online Co-Op 9.2%, Survival 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its persistent online world, territory building, resource farming, world events, and combined PvE/PvP structure echo Dune: Awakening's MMO-flavored survival loop.

ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.5% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Survival 9.5%, Online Co-Op 8.9%, Crafting 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: It leans harder into environmental survival, tech progression, and co-op base building on a hostile world, which scratches the same preparation-and-expedition itch.

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: Base Building 14.3%, Open World 12.4%, Online Co-Op 11.1%, Survival 11.1%, Crafting 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: This is a more accessible co-op take on the formula, with satisfying exploration, building, crafting, and RPG advancement in a large handcrafted world.

Choose your path across a primeval continent shaped by the Mask's power. From lush rainforests to scorched sands, recruit and lead unique tribesmen, build automated production lines, and construct everything from local bases to colossal airships, uncover the secrets of the Mask

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.4% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Building 10.3%, Crafting 9.4%, Sandbox 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: It combines open-world survival, deep crafting, base construction, progression, and optional PvP with a strong sense of inhabiting a dangerous frontier.

Myth of Empires is a multiplayer war sandbox game featuring a high degree of freedom and multiple civilizations. Players must survive, craft, create, and lead troops in their quest to conquer PVE or PVP territory and build their own empire. Xizhou Civilization Pack is now officially released!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.2% ★, Building 10.6%, Base Building 10.5%, Sandbox 9.2%, Open World 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its large-scale multiplayer sandbox emphasizes territory control, base building, progression, and faction conflict in a way Dune players often want more of.

Traverse punishing environments, looting, crafting and evading the constant threats to your life. The unprecedented levels of character customization and progression are your ultimate tools for survival.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.1% ★, Massively Multiplayer 14.3%, Open World 8.2%, Survival 8.1%, Crafting 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: SCUM adds a more hardcore survival simulation layer to the same persistent-world loop of looting, building, traveling, and watching your back.

ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!

Why similar: Survival 11.5%, Base Building 11.3%, Open World 10.5%, Crafting 9.1%, Massively Multiplayer 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Despite the dinosaur theme, its tribe-based progression, massive maps, building systems, and PvP/PvE servers align well with Dune: Awakening's social survival scale.

The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.4% ★, Survival 16.5%, Crafting 12.6%, Open World 10.1%, Building 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: For players who love Dune's risk-reward resource runs and hostile-player tension, Rust offers the purest version of competitive survival and raidable bases.

Awaken as a Vampire. Hunt for blood in nearby settlements to regain your strength and evade the scorching sun to survive. Raise your castle and thrive in an ever-changing, open world full of mystery. Gain allies online and conquer the land of the living.

Why similar: Base Building 14%, Survival 10.9%, Open World 10.8%, Crafting 10%, Online Co-Op 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Though more action-focused, it nails the loop of gathering, crafting, upgrading a base, and venturing into contested PvE/PvP spaces.

Experience a thrilling action RPG set on the supernatural island of Aeternum. Forge your destiny on an adventure filled with danger and opportunity.

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 24.2%, Open World 14.6%, Open World Survival Craft 10.9% ★, PvP 8.4%, PvE 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: It drops the survival meters, but the faction warfare, gathering/crafting, and shared open world make it a good fit for the MMO side of Dune.

The Front is a survival open-world crafting sandbox game. You are a resistance fighter sent back in time to stop the rise of a tyrannical empire. Collect resources, craft tech, build shelters, and fight monsters to accomplish your mission.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.1% ★, Base Building 10.6%, Massively Multiplayer 10.6%, Crafting 9%, Building 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: This post-apocalyptic survival shooter emphasizes open-world scavenging, tech trees, vehicle use, base defenses, and multiplayer conflict.

On RuneScape’s forgotten continent of Ashenfall, dragons have awoken. Gather, build, skill and craft to survive in this co-operative (1-4) survival crafting game. Only by mastering survival and uncovering ancient secrets can they hope to slay the Dragon Queen—alone or with allies.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.4% ★, Open World 9.5%, Online Co-Op 9.1%, Survival 8.7%, Base Building 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: This mirrors Dune: Awakening's multiplayer survival-RPG progression with crafting, exploration, and communal base-building, just in a fantasy setting.

Welcome to a vast, social sandbox MMO inspired by the legends of the medieval era. Here, myths are real, ghosts exist, and magic is unquestioned. Join thousands of players as you explore the land, build your home, forge your reputation, and craft your own stories. What world will you make?

Why similar: Base Building 13.8%, Crafting 11.7%, PvE 11.3%, Sandbox 10.6%, Open World 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: Players who want the social sandbox, homestead building, and persistent-world community aspect of Dune: Awakening should find a lot to like here.

Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.9% ★, Base Building 10.2%, Online Co-Op 8.2%, Survival 7.9%, Crafting 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its open-world survival-crafting, base placement, and co-op exploration hit many of the same progression beats in a different scale and theme.

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: Open World Survival Craft 25.3% ★, Online Co-Op 10.1%, Base Building 9.6%, Survival 8.3%, PvE 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its co-op survival-craft loop of gathering, building, gearing up, and pushing into dangerous mythic territory is a solid lower-tier match.

A survival crafting adventure set in the Fourth Age of Middle-earth. Lead the Dwarves to reclaim Moria - mine, build, and battle through procedurally generated depths alone or with up to 8 players in co-op. It is time to return to Moria!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.6% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Online Co-Op 9%, Crafting 8.8%, Building 8%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses more on co-op PvE, but its expedition-driven survival, stronghold building, and resource logistics feel very adjacent.

Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.1% ★, Building 10.1%, Survival 8.7%, Open World 8.6%, Crafting 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its sci-fi sandbox of hostile worlds, base construction, vehicle crafting, and long-range exploration matches Dune: Awakening's systems-driven side.

A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.4% ★, Online Co-Op 9.9%, Base Building 8.7%, Survival 8.5%, Building 8%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers that same satisfying rhythm of preparing, building, exploring, and surviving increasingly dangerous biomes with friends.

A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.1% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Online Co-Op 9.9%, Building 9.1%, Crafting 9%

Why You'll Like It: This is the quieter PvE version of the fantasy, emphasizing sci-fi survival, base expansion, and mastering a hostile planet over direct conflict.

Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.7% ★, Open World 11%, Survival 9.9%, Online Co-Op 8.1%, Crafting 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Beneath the creature-collecting skin is a robust open-world survival-crafting game with multiplayer bases, automation, and exploration.

No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.4% ★, Open World 14%, Survival 9%, Sandbox 8.1%, Sci-fi 8%

Why You'll Like It: It is lighter on PvP, but the blend of planetary survival, base building, vehicles, and discovery strongly overlaps with Dune's exploratory sci-fi appeal.

An Open World Survival Shooter blending hardcore PVP and PVE action. Secure precious loot in safe zones or build your own fortress in the wild. With intense gunfights, stunning visuals, and performance smooth enough for any system, the challenge awaits!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28% ★, Survival 11.3%, PvP 9.5%, Massively Multiplayer 9.5%, Open World 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: It trades RPG depth for a strong blend of persistent open-world survival, base building, scavenging, and player threat.

Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.

Why similar: Base Building 15.8%, Building 12.9%, Sandbox 11.9%, PvP 11%, Open World 11%

Why You'll Like It: If you most enjoy designing bases, vehicles, and resource pipelines in a hostile sci-fi sandbox, this is an excellent systems-heavy alternative.

StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.3% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 9.3%, Survival 8.6%, Open World 8.4%

How long can you survive a post-apocalyptic world? A land overrun with an infected "zombie" population, where you compete with other survivors for limited resources. Will you team up with strangers and stay strong together? Or play as a lone wolf to avoid betrayal? This is DayZ – this is your story.

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 19.4%, Survival 17.4%, Online Co-Op 13.9%, Sandbox 11.9%, Open World 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: DayZ captures the same vulnerability, long-distance traversal, and emergent encounters that make survival in Dune's world tense and memorable.

Chart a course in a breathtaking, but fractured world. Explore ancient ruins, master advanced technology, and craft your very own skyship to brave nature’s fury and colossal threats in Lost Skies. Team up with friends or go it alone in this awe-inspiring cooperative survival adventure.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.4% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Online Co-Op 11.5%, Sandbox 8.3%, Character Customization 6.7%

Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.8% ★, Survival 11.7%, Crafting 10.8%, Base Building 8.6%, Open World 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its slower-paced resource gathering, crafting, base building, and constant environmental pressure make it a grounded solo/co-op survival substitute.

A first-person survival game set on a post-apocalyptic, ecologically ruined Earth. Play solo or with up to 3 friends as you build, upgrade, and fly a high-tech airship. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and face dangers on the surface as you hunt for a cure to save humanity.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.1% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 10.8%, Survival 9.4%, Open World 9.3%

Renown is an intense medieval multiplayer survival experience set in a vast, ever-evolving world. Whether alone or rallying allies, gather resources, build powerful strongholds, and engage in brutal battles for dominance.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.1% ★, Massively Multiplayer 9.9%, Crafting 8.4%, Base Building 8%, Building 7.7%

Ashes of Creation is an old-school take on the modern MMORPG set in a living, reactive world where your choices shape civilization. In this PvX open world sandbox, players will build cities, forge empires, and lay siege to foes. Uncover the Ancients as you fight to reclaim the fallen world of Verra.

Why similar: Crafting 23.8%, Character Customization 21.7%, Base Building 18.5%, RPG 12.6%, Exploration 11.4%

Embark on a galactic journey in Cubic Odyssey, an open-world adventure where you explore vibrant planets, craft tools, build vehicles, and fight the Red Darkness. Uncover ancient mysteries, and shape a universe full of life, danger, and limitless possibilities!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.6% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Building 10.2%, Sandbox 10%, Open World 7.4%

Dark and Light is a vast sandbox survival RPG set in a world dominated by powerful elemental forces. Find your way in a meticulously crafted world, featuring breathtaking landscapes, a wide variety of mythical creatures, and limitless possibility to craft, build, and unlock dozens of powerful weapons, spells, and skills.

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 20.8%, Open World Survival Craft 17.3% ★, Open World 12.9%, Survival 12.2%, Sandbox 11.2%

Lost Rift is a first person survival adventure shooter that blends cooperative base building with multiplayer PvE or PvP extraction expeditions. Journey solo or in teams of up to 5 players across a vast archipelago, craft gear, build bases, defeat raiders, and become legendary.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.9% ★, Massively Multiplayer 11.1%, Base Building 10.5%, Crafting 8.7%, Online Co-Op 8%

Shrunk again, but the world is much larger. In this open-world, single-player or co-op survival adventure, craft weapons and armor, build your base, and traverse the playground on your buggy. But something else is out there—and it hasn’t forgotten you.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.1% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Survival 12%, Crafting 8.8%, Open World 8.6%

Step into Nave, a vast fantasy sandbox world with a player-driven economy, persistent housing, and deep crafting systems. Engage in first-person, full-loot PvP combat with other players and perilous foes. Build, explore, and conquer in an unforgiving world. The land is yours—who will you become?

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 13.8%, Sandbox 12.6%, Open World 11.8%, PvP 11.7%, Character Customization 11.6%

A challenging exploration and survival adventure, set in the dying world of Dragons. Only those who harness the power of Frozen Flame have the means to survive the harsh conditions of the realm and able to muster the strength to cleanse it for good.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.8% ★, Base Building 10.3%, Online Co-Op 8.8%, Building 7.6%, Crafting 7.6%

On a future post-apocalyptic Earth, build, craft, and loot other players’ bases to survive long enough to board the rocket and escape the dangerous robots and mercenaries that inhabit Ararat Island. Manipulate the weather and use earthquakes to change when the server wipe occurs in DYSTERRA!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.4% ★, Base Building 10.9%, PvE 10.6%, Crafting 9.1%, Online Co-Op 8.7%

Get ready for a Waterworld-themed survival game with modular base building, sunken city scavenging, crafting, base defense, and invasions of NPC clans for resources and territory. Ready for the water apocalypse?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.7% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Survival 11%, Crafting 9.1%, Open World 7%

Crimson Desert is an open-world action-adventure set on the continent of Pywel. Join Kliff on his journey to rebuild the Greymane faction and to save the land from a looming threat. From vast wilderness and cities to ruins and the mysterious Abyss, forge your path through battles and discovery.

Why similar: Open World 33.9%, Third Person 15.2%, Exploration 13.9%, PvE 13%, RPG 8.4%

This massive online sandbox RPG features elements of magic, spellcasting, building, exploring and crafting. As a newly minted apprentice of the magic arts, you will set off to the dangerous world of Ignus. Tame mighty beasts, forge alliances, explore uncharted territories or fight for dominance!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.1% ★, Massively Multiplayer 16.2%, Open World 11.5%, Survival 8.7%, Sandbox 7.3%

An open-world survival crafting game for 1–8 players, blending intense dungeon crawling and ARPG combat with peaceful farming and creative building. Take on quests and explore a vast, procedurally-generated world full of danger and discovery.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.8% ★, Building 10.7%, Base Building 10%, Crafting 9.7%, Survival 9.2%

Scavenge abandoned ruins, craft gear from scrap and salvaged materials, and fight the environment itself as hunger, exposure, and exhaustion push you to your limits. There are no second chances—only adaptation or death.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.2% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Massively Multiplayer 10.9%, Crafting 10.7%, Building 9.4%

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 17.2%, Open World 16%, Crafting 15.9%, Online Co-Op 15%, Building 12.7%

Outlaws of the Old West is a massively multiplayer survival MMO with a huge world, thousands of items and a modular building system. Survive the wild, build your own homestead, defeat villainous bandits and work with others to tame the Wild West.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.1% ★, Massively Multiplayer 15.2%, Survival 11.9%, Open World 11.2%, Multiplayer 7.4%

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: Open World Survival Craft 27.2% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 10.3%, Online Co-Op 8.8%, Sandbox 8.5%

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 12.6%, Building 12%, Sandbox 11.7%, Open World 11%, Survival 10.9%

Set sail for the ultimate pirate experience! Embark on a grand adventure alongside thousands of other players in one of the largest game worlds ever built (and even claim a piece of it to call your own). Build your ship, assemble your crew, sail the high seas, and become a pirate legend!

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 16.8%, Survival 12.5%, Open World 11.7%, Crafting 10.5%, Online Co-Op 9.9%

Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.2% ★, Base Building 10.2%, Online Co-Op 8.4%, Crafting 8.2%, Survival 8%

Survive a brutal open world alone or with friends. Explore a procedural wasteland scorched by chaos. Build and defend your base, trade for what you need, complete deadly quests, and fight to claim faction outposts before someone else does.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.2% ★, Base Building 10.7%, Online Co-Op 8.6%, Crafting 8.3%, Sandbox 8%

ARC Raiders is a multiplayer extraction adventure, set in a lethal future earth, ravaged by a mysterious mechanized threat known as ARC.

Why similar: PvP 14.6%, PvE 13.2%, Online Co-Op 13%, Multiplayer 10.8%, Survival 10%

PIONER drops players into a vast, grim world, where survival hinges on exploration, crafting, and smart resource management. As an MMO FPS, it offers both PvE missions and intense PvP zones, with unique crafting mechanics, hundreds of weapons and a deep story to explore.

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 23.1%, Crafting 16.2%, Open World 14.8%, Survival 13.9%, PvP 13%

Experience the hardcore reality of the Middle Ages. Master survival, engage in deep-rooted RPG elements, navigate a bustling economy, build communities, and employ diplomatic strategy to thrive in Abella's vast expanse.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.3% ★, Massively Multiplayer 11.7%, Base Building 10.6%, Sandbox 7.8%, PvP 7.7%