- #1 Nightingale
97% matchMixed66% of 18,038 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: Open World Survival Craft 26.3% ★, Base Building 10%, Online Co-Op 9.5%, Survival 8.6%, Crafting 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: Its blend of open-world survival-crafting, cooperative exploration, base building, and RPG-style advancement makes it a strong fit for Dune players.
- #2 ICARUS
96% matchMostly Positive75% of 67,515 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 46.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 26.2% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Survival 9.6%, Online Co-Op 8.8%, Crafting 8%
Why You'll Like It: ICARUS mirrors Dune’s hostile-environment fantasy with survival systems, resource runs, base construction, and a strong emphasis on overcoming a deadly world together.
- #3 ARK: Survival Ascended
96% matchMixed60% of 115,802 reviews2023
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows
Median: 27.7 hrsMean: 198.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 11.9%, Base Building 11.3%, Open World 11%, Crafting 9.1%, Massively Multiplayer 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: Like Dune: Awakening, it drops you into a large hostile world where gathering, crafting, building, taming, and multiplayer conflict all feed long-term progression.
- #4 Enshrouded
95% matchVery Positive86% of 104,779 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.9 hrsMean: 46.5 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: Base Building 14.5%, Open World 12.9%, Survival 11.3%, Online Co-Op 10.9%, Crafting 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: Enshrouded shares the same satisfying mix of exploration, crafting, building, and character progression, even if it leans more co-op than competitive.
- #5 Rust
94% matchVery Positive87% of 1,393,461 reviews2018
Dev: Facepunch Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 52.7 hrsMean: 429.0 hrs≥1hr: 96%
The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.9% ★, Survival 16.6%, Crafting 12.4%, Open World 10.3%, Building 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Rust captures the same high-stakes multiplayer survival feeling with persistent bases, ruthless resource competition, and constant PvPvE pressure in a shared open world.
- #6 Once Human
93% matchMostly Positive78% of 182,222 reviews2024
Dev: Starry Studio
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 52.2 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Once Human is a Strange Worlds 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 21.1% ★, Massively Multiplayer 11.7%, Base Building 9.8%, Crafting 7.9%, Open World 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a similarly modern take on multiplayer open-world survival with territory building, PvE/PvP options, and a strange world that constantly threatens your survival.
- #7 Last Oasis
94% matchMixed62% of 24,230 reviews2020
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 17.8 hrsMean: 120.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 22.9%, Survival 12.4%, Open World 11.1%, Crafting 9.1%, Building 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: The desert setting, nomadic survival, crafting, clan warfare, and mobile base concept make it one of the most thematically adjacent games to Dune: Awakening.
- #8 Valheim
92% matchVery Positive94% of 540,690 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 26.0 hrsMean: 78.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.2% ★, Online Co-Op 9.6%, Base Building 8.7%, Survival 8.5%, Open World 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: Its focus on surviving a dangerous open world, building ambitious bases, and gradually unlocking stronger tech and biomes makes it a natural alternative.
- #9 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
91% matchMostly Positive78% of 34,392 reviews2020
Dev: Eleon Game Studios
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 77.1 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 26.8% ★, Building 10.1%, Survival 8.8%, Open World 8.7%, Crafting 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: If Dune’s sci-fi survival side is what hooks you, Empyrion delivers open-world crafting, base construction, vehicles, and sandbox progression on alien worlds.
- #10 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
91% matchVery Positive82% of 10,429 reviews2024
Dev: Max Ent Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 16.1 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: Open World Survival Craft 22.3% ★, Base Building 10.3%, Survival 8%, Online Co-Op 7.9%, Crafting 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes co-op survival, exploration, and creative base building in a shared open world, making it a good pick if you enjoy Dune’s survival-crafting backbone.
- #11 Soulmask
90% matchMostly Positive77% of 22,226 reviews2026
Dev: CampFire StudioPub: Qooland Games
Windows
Median: 13.9 hrsMean: 69.2 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: Open World Survival Craft 23.2% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Crafting 11%, Open World 9.6%, Survival 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: Soulmask offers a deep open-world survival-crafting structure with base management, combat, and long-term progression that feels very compatible with Dune’s core loop.
- #12 Myth of Empires
89% matchMixed68% of 17,524 reviews2024
Dev: Angela GamePub: Imperium Interactive Entertainment
Windows
Median: 15.1 hrsMean: 229.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 27% ★, Building 10.6%, Base Building 10.5%, Sandbox 9.2%, Open World 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: Its large-scale multiplayer sandbox, settlement building, clan warfare, and open-world survival systems make it a strong choice for players who like Dune’s social scale.
- #13 V Rising
88% matchVery Positive89% of 136,761 reviews2024
Dev: Stunlock Studios
Windows
Median: 20.8 hrsMean: 57.9 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: Base Building 12.8%, Massively Multiplayer 10.1%, Open World 10%, Survival 9.8%, Crafting 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: Although more action-focused, it delivers a similar rhythm of resource gathering, base expansion, boss-driven progression, and multiplayer territorial tension.
- #14 No Man's Sky
89% matchVery Positive85% of 414,381 reviews2016
Dev: Hello Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 20.1 hrsMean: 70.7 hrs≥1hr: 94%
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.8% ★, Open World 14.1%, Survival 8.9%, Sandbox 7.9%, Sci-fi 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: It matches Dune’s exploration-and-survival appeal with planetary discovery, base building, resource gathering, and seamless co-op in a huge sci-fi universe.
- #15 The Front
87% matchMixed67% of 10,771 reviews2025
Dev: Samar Studio
Windows
Median: 10.6 hrsMean: 44.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 24.7% ★, Massively Multiplayer 10.6%, Base Building 10.6%, Crafting 8.8%, Building 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: The Front mixes survival crafting, base defense, vehicle use, and multiplayer sandbox play in a way that scratches many of the same mechanical itches.
- #16 The Planet Crafter
85% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 73,089 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.7 hrsMean: 38.5 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 26.8% ★, Base Building 13%, Online Co-Op 9.6%, Building 9%, Crafting 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: If you love the idea of surviving and reshaping a hostile planet, this delivers a strong base-building and resource-progression loop with a more relaxed tone.
- #17 Space Engineers
86% matchVery Positive89% of 134,313 reviews2019
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 96.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 11.8%, Open World 11.3%, Survival 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: This is a great fit if you want the engineering, survival, vehicle-building, and open-ended sandbox side of Dune turned up even further.
- #18 Palworld
83% matchVery Positive95% of 480,493 reviews2026
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 40.2 hrsMean: 84.9 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.1% ★, Open World 12.3%, Survival 10.8%, Online Co-Op 8.3%, Crafting 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: Palworld is lighter in tone, but its open-world survival, building, automation, and multiplayer progression hit many of the same satisfying sandbox beats.
- #19 Pax Dei
84% matchMixed57% of 11,286 reviews2025
Dev: Mainframe Industries
Windows
Median: 17.7 hrsMean: 73.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 13.9%, Crafting 11.4%, Sandbox 10.4%, Open World 10%, Character Customization 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: Pax Dei is lighter on survival pressure, but its persistent social world, crafting economy, construction focus, and MMO-scale sandbox appeal overlap with Dune’s shared-world ambitions.
- #20 RuneScape: Dragonwilds
82% matchVery Positive81% of 29,187 reviews2025
Dev: Jagex Ltd
Windows
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 19.0 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 Survival Craft 25.7% ★, Open World 10%, Survival 8.8%, Online Co-Op 8.8%, Base Building 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a polished co-op survival-crafting loop with open-world exploration and progression that should click with players who enjoy Dune’s accessible survival systems.
- #21 Wildmender
82% matchVery Positive84% of 2,225 reviews2023
Dev: Muse GamesPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A desert gardening survival game. Start from a tiny spring and cultivate a blooming garden. Explore a vast world amid the sands and uncover its mysteries. Can you defend against the relentless forces of nature and mysterious wraith corruption, to bring life to a dying world?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.8% ★, Base Building 10.8%, Lore-Rich 9.8%, Third Person 9%, Crafting 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: Its desert survival setting, resource management, exploration, and building systems make it a particularly good thematic match for Dune’s struggle against a hostile world.
- #22 Bellwright
81% matchVery Positive80% of 21,324 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 17.7%, Open World 16.6%, Crafting 15.6%, Online Co-Op 14.8%, Building 12.6%
Why You'll Like It: It combines open-world exploration, settlement building, crafting, and gradual power growth in a way that will appeal to players who enjoy survival plus RPG progression.
- #23 SCUM
79% matchMostly Positive74% of 126,382 reviews2025
Dev: Gamepires
Windows
Median: 11.9 hrsMean: 104.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Welcome to SCUM, a ruthless open-world survival game where deep character customization defines the prisoner you become. Loot, craft, hunt, build, and fight to outlast a hostile island where every choice can change your fate. Stay alive. Stay dangerous. Become harder to kill.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.7% ★, Massively Multiplayer 14.4%, Open World 8.4%, Survival 8.2%, Crafting 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: SCUM is a strong pick for players who want Dune’s harsher PvP survival side, with deep systems, persistent multiplayer, and tension around every encounter.
- #24 Grounded
80% matchVery Positive90% of 95,505 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.5 hrsMean: 41.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.4% ★, Survival 13.8%, Base Building 13.5%, Crafting 9.1%, Multiplayer 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Grounded nails the co-op survival-crafting and base-building progression loop, even if its backyard setting is much less severe than Arrakis.
- #25 Frozen Flame
81% matchMixed63% of 2,989 reviews2022
Dev: Dreamside InteractivePub: Ravenage Games
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 11.5 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: Open World Survival Craft 22.3% ★, Base Building 10.3%, Online Co-Op 8.6%, Building 7.6%, Crafting 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: Frozen Flame mixes survival, base building, exploration, and action-RPG progression in a shared world that feels structurally similar to Dune’s adventure-survival blend.
- #26 7 Days to Die
78% matchVery Positive87% of 405,507 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.3 hrsMean: 110.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.6% ★, Survival 12.3%, Base Building 11.2%, Open World 8.8%, Online Co-Op 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: Its scavenging, crafting, fortifying, and surviving in an unforgiving open world make it a classic alternative for anyone who likes long-form survival sandboxes.
- #27 Deadside
79% matchMostly Positive76% of 40,499 reviews2024
Dev: Bad Pixel
Windows
Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 44.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 24.4% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Survival 9.8%, Crafting 9.7%, Massively Multiplayer 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: Deadside is a solid lower-ranked match for players seeking open-world survival, base building, and PvPvE tension in a persistent multiplayer environment.
- #28 Windrose
77% matchVery Positive87% of 51,977 reviews2026
Dev: Kraken Express
Windows
Median: 20.1 hrsMean: 32.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Embark on a PvE survival adventure in the Age of Piracy. Fight on land and sea, solo or with friends. Build, craft and explore vast open world filled with dark secrets. Master soulslite combat and take on challenging bosses, command your ship and plunder unspoken treasures!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.5% ★, Online Co-Op 10%, Crafting 9.6%, Survival 8.4%, Massively Multiplayer 8.3%
- #29 Dawn of Defiance
78% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,842 reviews2024
Dev: Traega EntertainmentPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 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: Open World Survival Craft 26% ★, Online Co-Op 9.8%, Base Building 9.5%, Survival 8.3%, PvE 6.8%
- #30 StarRupture
76% matchVery Positive81% of 13,247 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 26.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 25.9% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 9.2%, Survival 8.6%, Open World 8.5%
- #31 The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™
75% matchVery Positive81% of 12,363 reviews2024
Dev: Free Range GamesPub: North Beach Games
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 19.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 24.2% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Online Co-Op 8.9%, Crafting 8.6%, Survival 8%
- #32 Conan Exiles Enhanced
77% matchMostly Positive79% of 117,196 reviews2018
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 17.2 hrsMean: 113.9 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Conan Exiles Enhanced is an open world survival game set in the mythical lands of Hyboria, now fully upgraded to Unreal Engine 5 with stunning visuals and improved performance. SURVIVE, BUILD, and DOMINATE alone or with friends in a world brimming with adventure!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.6% ★, Survival 12.2%, Open World 10.6%, Building 9.7%, Crafting 8.8%
- #33 Renown
76% matchMixed58% of 1,578 reviews2025
Dev: RDBK Studios
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 20.6% ★, Massively Multiplayer 9.9%, Crafting 8.3%, Base Building 8%, Building 7.7%
- #34 Lost Rift
73% matchMixed70% of 1,693 reviews2025
Dev: People Can Fly
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 22.5% ★, Massively Multiplayer 11.2%, Base Building 10.6%, Crafting 8.6%, Online Co-Op 7.8%
- #35 Ashes of Creation
74% matchMostly Negative36% of 19,026 reviews2025
Dev: Intrepid Studios, Inc
Windows
Median: 13.6 hrsMean: 76.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 23.5%, Character Customization 21.5%, Base Building 18.6%, RPG 12.8%, Exploration 11.4%
- #36 Everwind
71% matchVery Positive81% of 3,756 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 14.1 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 12.1%, Crafting 11.8%, Building 11.7%, Open World 10.7%, Sandbox 10.4%
- #37 Eden Crafters
70% matchVery Positive85% of 2,630 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 14.0 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: Open World Survival Craft 27% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 9.7%, Online Co-Op 8.2%, Sandbox 8.1%
- #38 Lost Skies
72% matchMixed61% of 2,976 reviews2025
Dev: Bossa StudiosPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 17.0 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 32.4% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Online Co-Op 11.2%, Sandbox 8.2%, Character Customization 6.6%
- #39 Dark and Light
75% matchMixed52% of 11,834 reviews2017
Dev: Snail Games USA
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 49.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 20.7%, Open World Survival Craft 17.6% ★, Open World 13.2%, Survival 12.2%, Sandbox 10.9%
- #40 Mortal Online 2
73% matchMixed60% of 13,911 reviews2022
Dev: Star Vault AB
Windows
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 150.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 13.9%, Sandbox 12.5%, Open World 12.1%, PvP 11.5%, Character Customization 11.4%
- #41 Forever Skies
69% matchMostly Positive78% of 8,950 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 30.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 26.7% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 10.6%, Open World 9.4%, Survival 9.4%
- #42 Grounded 2
69% matchVery Positive81% of 23,765 reviews2025
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.9 hrsMean: 24.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 22.8% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Survival 12.1%, Open World 8.5%, Crafting 8.5%
- #43 Outlaws of the Old West
73% matchMixed59% of 6,295 reviews2019
Dev: Virtual Basement LLCPub: Wandering Wizard
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 37.7% ★, Massively Multiplayer 15.1%, Survival 11.8%, Open World 11.2%, Multiplayer 7.3%
- #44 Rem Survival
71% matchMostly Positive75% of 803 reviews2021
Dev: Immortal Hand Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 47.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Scavenge abandoned ruins, craft gear from scrap and salvaged materials, and fight the environment itself as hunger, exposure, and exhaustion push you to your limits. There are no second chances—only adaptation or death.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.6% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Massively Multiplayer 10.9%, Crafting 10.4%, Building 9.3%
- #45 Dysterra
70% matchMixed56% of 771 reviews2025
Dev: Reality MagiQ
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 60%
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 23.1% ★, Base Building 10.9%, PvE 10.3%, Crafting 9%, Online Co-Op 8.5%
- #46 SpaceCraft
68% matchMixed65% of 2,687 reviews2026
Dev: Shiro Games
Windows
Median: 13.4 hrsMean: 47.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
The Universe is yours. SpaceCraft is an online space exploration and building game. Explore a vast galaxy of solar systems and planets, mine and craft resources, design and build ships, automate planetary bases and interplanetary logistics, trade and cooperate.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 17.8%, Base Building 12.9%, Crafting 10.5%, Open World 10.4%, Sandbox 10.3%
- #47 New World: Aeternum
69% matchMixed67% of 296,960 reviews2021
Dev: Amazon Game Studios
Windows
Median: 58.8 hrsMean: 197.5 hrs≥1hr: 98%
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 24.3%, Open World 14.9%, Open World Survival Craft 11% ★, PvP 8.2%, PvE 7.1%
- #48 Sunkenland
68% matchVery Positive80% of 23,803 reviews2023
Dev: Vector3 Studio
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 20.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 36.2% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Survival 11%, Crafting 9%, Open World 7.1%
- #49 Occupy Mars: The Game
67% matchMixed70% of 3,132 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 34.1 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.5% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Crafting 9.1%, Online Co-Op 9%, Building 7.9%
- #50 Life is Feudal: Your Own
71% matchMixed66% of 12,061 reviews2015
Dev: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 57.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Hardcore and realistic; LiF is a Medieval multiplayer sandbox RPG, with free terraforming, a rich crafting system and preset and modular building construction. With engaging survival aspects, no target physics-based combat and a unique formation system - along with numerous other features - LiF is not for the faint of heart!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.4% ★, Open World 10.9%, Crafting 10.9%, Survival 9.9%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #51 Planetaries
68% matchMixed58% of 226 reviews2024
Dev: EY-Studio
Windows
Experience a vast Sci-fi open-world survival TD game set on a distant planet deep in the universe. Craft, build, mine, trade, explore, and survive in this alien world. Collect Data and defend against waves of enemies seeking to banish you. Enjoy the adventure in Singleplayer or Multiplayer.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.5% ★, Base Building 9%, Online Co-Op 8.1%, Crafting 7.7%, Building 7.6%
- #52 Plains of Pain
67% matchVery Positive83% of 933 reviews2023
Dev: Cobra Byte Digital
Windows
Enter a living post-apocalyptic sandbox where the world doesn't wait for you. Build, craft, trade, earn the trust of factions, and forge your own path through a brutal procedural wasteland.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.8% ★, Base Building 10.7%, Online Co-Op 8.4%, Crafting 8.2%, Sandbox 7.9%
- #53 ATLAS
70% matchMixed47% of 42,929 reviews2018
Dev: Grapeshot Games
Windows
Median: 12.5 hrsMean: 111.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 17%, Survival 12.6%, Open World 12%, Crafting 10.4%, Online Co-Op 9.6%
- #54 Crimson Desert
63% matchVery Positive84% of 167,786 reviews2026
Dev: Pearl Abyss
Windows · Mac
Median: 32.2 hrsMean: 65.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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 38%, Third Person 13.5%, Exploration 13.4%, PvE 10.8%, RPG 9.6%
- #55 Len's Island
65% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,866 reviews2025
Dev: Flow Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 29.5% ★, Building 10.6%, Base Building 10.1%, Crafting 9.5%, Survival 9.3%
- #56 PIONER
66% matchMixed61% of 3,610 reviews2025
Dev: GFAGAMES
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 19.4 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 23.2%, Crafting 15.9%, Open World 15.1%, Survival 14%, PvP 12.7%
