- #1 Last Oasis
97% matchMixed62% of 24,224 reviews2020
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 17.9 hrsMean: 121.2 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 22.8%, Survival 12.4%, Open World 10.9%, 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.
- #2 Conan Exiles Enhanced
96% matchMostly Positive79% of 115,037 reviews2018
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 17.1 hrsMean: 111.9 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 24.2% ★, Survival 12.3%, Open World 10.5%, Building 9.8%, Crafting 8.9%
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.
- #3 Once Human
96% matchMostly Positive78% of 173,391 reviews2024
Dev: Starry Studio
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 50.9 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 24% ★, Massively Multiplayer 13.5%, Base Building 11.4%, Online Co-Op 9.1%, Survival 8.4%
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.
- #4 Nightingale
95% 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: Open World Survival Craft 25.9% ★, Base Building 9.9%, Online Co-Op 9.7%, 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.
- #5 ICARUS
94% matchMostly Positive74% of 63,962 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 46.0 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 25.7% ★, Base Building 11%, 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.
- #6 Enshrouded
94% 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: Base Building 14.4%, Open World 12.6%, Survival 11.2%, Online Co-Op 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.
- #7 Soulmask
93% 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: Open World Survival Craft 24% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Building 9.3%, Open World 8.8%, Survival 8.5%
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.
- #8 Myth of Empires
92% matchMixed67% of 17,381 reviews2024
Dev: Angela GamePub: Imperium Interactive Entertainment
Windows
Median: 15.3 hrsMean: 229.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 26.6% ★, Building 10.6%, Base Building 10.5%, Sandbox 9.2%, Open World 8.2%
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.
- #9 SCUM
90% matchMostly Positive74% of 124,053 reviews2025
Dev: Gamepires
Windows
Median: 11.9 hrsMean: 103.1 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 24.3% ★, Massively Multiplayer 14.4%, Open World 8.2%, Survival 8.1%, Crafting 7.7%
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.
- #10 ARK: Survival Ascended
89% matchMixed60% of 105,775 reviews2023
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows
Median: 27.6 hrsMean: 196.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 11.7%, Base Building 11.3%, Open World 10.7%, Crafting 9.1%, Massively Multiplayer 9%
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.
- #11 Rust
89% matchVery Positive87% of 1,363,157 reviews2018
Dev: Facepunch Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 52.5 hrsMean: 421.6 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 23.5% ★, Survival 16.6%, Crafting 12.5%, Open World 10.2%, 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.
- #12 Pax Dei
88% matchMixed57% of 10,968 reviews2025
Dev: Mainframe Industries
Windows
Median: 16.5 hrsMean: 70.7 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 13.7%, Crafting 11.4%, Sandbox 10.5%, Open World 9.8%, Character Customization 9.7%
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.
- #13 The Front
87% matchMixed67% of 10,771 reviews2025
Dev: Samar Studio
Windows
Median: 10.6 hrsMean: 44.3 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 24.3% ★, Massively Multiplayer 10.6%, Base Building 10.6%, Crafting 8.9%, Building 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: This post-apocalyptic survival shooter emphasizes open-world scavenging, tech trees, vehicle use, base defenses, and multiplayer conflict.
- #14 RuneScape: Dragonwilds
86% 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 Survival Craft 25.5% ★, Open World 9.6%, Online Co-Op 9.1%, Survival 8.7%, Base Building 8.4%
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.
- #15 V Rising
85% 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: Base Building 14.1%, Survival 11%, Open World 10.9%, Crafting 9.9%, Online Co-Op 9%
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.
- #16 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
86% 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: Open World Survival Craft 22% ★, Base Building 10.2%, Online Co-Op 8.1%, Survival 7.9%, Crafting 7.7%
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.
- #17 Dawn of Defiance
84% 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: Open World Survival Craft 25.6% ★, Online Co-Op 10%, Base Building 9.5%, Survival 8.3%, PvE 7%
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.
- #18 New World: Aeternum
84% matchMixed67% of 296,647 reviews2021
Dev: Amazon Game Studios
Windows
Median: 58.9 hrsMean: 196.5 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 14.6%, Open World Survival Craft 10.9% ★, PvP 8.3%, PvE 7.3%
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.
- #19 The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™
82% matchVery Positive82% of 11,900 reviews2024
Dev: Free Range GamesPub: North Beach Games
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 19.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 23.8% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Online Co-Op 9%, Crafting 8.7%, 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.
- #20 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
83% matchMostly Positive79% of 34,194 reviews2020
Dev: Eleon Game Studios
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 76.8 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 26.3% ★, Building 10.1%, Survival 8.7%, Open World 8.6%, Crafting 8.5%
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.
- #21 Valheim
82% 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: Open World Survival Craft 26.7% ★, Online Co-Op 9.8%, Base Building 8.7%, Survival 8.5%, Building 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: It delivers that same satisfying rhythm of preparing, building, exploring, and surviving increasingly dangerous biomes with friends.
- #22 The Planet Crafter
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 70,189 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.5 hrsMean: 37.9 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 26.4% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Online Co-Op 9.8%, Building 9.1%, Crafting 8.9%
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.
- #23 Palworld
80% 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 Survival Craft 26% ★, Open World 11.1%, Survival 9.9%, Online Co-Op 8%, Crafting 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: Beneath the creature-collecting skin is a robust open-world survival-crafting game with multiplayer bases, automation, and exploration.
- #24 No Man's Sky
81% matchVery Positive85% of 406,987 reviews2016
Dev: Hello Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 20.2 hrsMean: 70.4 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 38.5% ★, Open World 14%, Survival 9%, Sandbox 8%, Sci-fi 7.9%
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.
- #25 Deadside
79% matchMostly Positive76% of 40,248 reviews2024
Dev: Bad Pixel
Windows
Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 44.5 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 28.2% ★, Survival 11.4%, Massively Multiplayer 9.5%, PvP 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.
- #26 Windrose
77% matchVery Positive88% of 44,950 reviews2026
Dev: Kraken Express
Windows
Median: 19.2 hrsMean: 31.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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 23.9% ★, Online Co-Op 9.8%, Crafting 9.5%, Massively Multiplayer 8.1%, Survival 7.9%
- #27 Space Engineers
79% matchVery Positive89% of 133,721 reviews2019
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 96.0 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%, Survival 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.
- #28 StarRupture
76% matchVery Positive81% of 12,313 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 25.5% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 9.3%, Survival 8.6%, Open World 8.4%
- #29 DayZ
78% matchMostly Positive78% of 461,119 reviews2018
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 39.8 hrsMean: 275.7 hrs≥1hr: 96%
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 19.5%, Survival 17.4%, Online Co-Op 13.8%, Sandbox 11.8%, Open World 11.8%
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.
- #30 Renown
77% matchMixed59% of 1,558 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 20.3% ★, Massively Multiplayer 9.9%, Crafting 8.4%, Base Building 8%, Building 7.7%
- #31 Subsistence
78% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,685 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 39.9 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 11.6%, Crafting 10.6%, Base Building 8.5%, Open World 8.3%
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.
- #32 Lost Skies
75% matchMixed61% of 2,893 reviews2025
Dev: Bossa StudiosPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 12.1 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 31.8% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Online Co-Op 11.4%, Sandbox 8.3%, Character Customization 6.7%
- #33 Forever Skies
73% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,446 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 32.0 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 26.3% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 10.7%, Survival 9.5%, Open World 9.3%
- #34 Lost Rift
74% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,554 reviews2025
Dev: People Can Fly
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 22.1% ★, Massively Multiplayer 11.2%, Base Building 10.5%, Crafting 8.7%, Online Co-Op 8%
- #35 Everwind
73% 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 12.3%, Crafting 11.8%, Building 11.7%, Sandbox 10.5%, Open World 10.4%
- #36 Ashes of Creation
74% matchMostly Negative37% of 18,899 reviews2025
Dev: Intrepid Studios, Inc
Windows
Median: 13.7 hrsMean: 76.7 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 23.7%, Character Customization 21.7%, Base Building 18.6%, RPG 12.6%, Exploration 11.4%
- #37 Dark and Light
75% matchMixed52% of 11,819 reviews2017
Dev: Snail Games USA
Windows
Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 49.3 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 20.8%, Open World Survival Craft 17.3% ★, Open World 13%, Survival 12.2%, Sandbox 11.1%
- #38 Eden Crafters
70% 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: Open World Survival Craft 26.6% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Crafting 9.8%, Online Co-Op 8.4%, Sandbox 8.2%
- #39 Mortal Online 2
73% matchMixed60% of 13,609 reviews2022
Dev: Star Vault AB
Windows
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 145.3 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 13.8%, Sandbox 12.6%, Open World 11.9%, PvP 11.7%, Character Customization 11.5%
- #40 Grounded 2
70% matchVery Positive81% of 21,263 reviews2025
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.0 hrsMean: 22.1 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 21% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Survival 12%, Open World 8.7%, Crafting 8.7%
- #41 Frozen Flame
72% 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: Open World Survival Craft 21.9% ★, Base Building 10.3%, Online Co-Op 8.7%, Building 7.6%, Crafting 7.6%
- #42 Rem Survival
71% matchMostly Positive76% of 802 reviews2021
Dev: Immortal Hand Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 47.3 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 28.3% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Massively Multiplayer 10.9%, Crafting 10.6%, Building 9.4%
- #43 Bellwright
68% 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 17.4%, Open World 16.1%, Crafting 15.7%, Online Co-Op 15.1%, Building 12.7%
- #44 Outlaws of the Old West
72% matchMixed59% of 6,290 reviews2019
Dev: Virtual Basement LLCPub: Wandering Wizard
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 22.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 37.3% ★, Massively Multiplayer 15.3%, Survival 11.9%, Open World 11.2%, Multiplayer 7.5%
- #45 Citadel: Forged with Fire
71% matchMixed68% of 5,884 reviews2019
Dev: Blue Isle StudiosPub: Blue Isle Publishing
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 25.3% ★, Massively Multiplayer 16.3%, Open World 11.5%, Survival 8.7%, Sandbox 7.2%
- #46 Sunkenland
68% matchVery Positive81% of 23,216 reviews2023
Dev: Vector3 Studio
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 18.5 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 35.9% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Survival 11%, Crafting 9.1%, Open World 7%
- #47 Dysterra
69% matchMixed56% of 763 reviews2025
Dev: Reality MagiQ
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 65%
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 22.7% ★, Base Building 10.9%, PvE 10.5%, Crafting 9%, Online Co-Op 8.7%
- #48 Crimson Desert
65% matchVery Positive84% of 155,292 reviews2026
Dev: Pearl Abyss
Windows · Mac
Median: 31.9 hrsMean: 60.6 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 36.8%, Third Person 13.9%, Exploration 13.7%, PvE 11.5%, RPG 9.1%
- #49 Stars End
69% matchMixed61% of 1,419 reviews2023
Dev: Reverie World StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Stars End is a sci-fi survival sandbox set on the wild frontier of a distant star system. Play solo or host your own server as you craft, build, and battle to survive in a galaxy shaped by danger, discovery, and your own grit.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.7% ★, Massively Multiplayer 14.8%, Online Co-Op 8.5%, PvP 6.8%, Survival 6.8%
- #50 ATLAS
70% matchMixed47% of 42,895 reviews2018
Dev: Grapeshot Games
Windows
Median: 12.2 hrsMean: 112.1 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 16.9%, Survival 12.5%, Open World 11.7%, Crafting 10.5%, Online Co-Op 9.8%
- #51 Omega Crafter
67% 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 Survival Craft 24.8% ★, Crafting 10.6%, Open World 9.6%, Survival 9.3%, Building 7.7%
- #52 Cubic Odyssey
66% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,584 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 31.9% ★, Base Building 15%, Building 11.2%, Sandbox 10.4%, Sci-fi 7.7%
- #53 Age of Water
65% matchMostly Positive70% of 3,485 reviews2025
Dev: Three Whales StudioPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 38.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Age of Water is an online adventure game set on a post-apocalyptic Earth completely covered in water. Sail through storms, fight and trade, capture other people's boats or build your own, extract resources from the bottom of the ocean and reveal the secrets of the Age of Water world.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 27.5%, Crafting 18.9%, Open World 16.5%, Character Customization 6.9%, PvP 6.4%
- #54 Occupy Mars: The Game
64% matchMostly Positive70% of 3,070 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 34.4 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: Base Building 15.1%, Crafting 12.6%, Sandbox 11.5%, Building 11.3%, Open World 11.1%
- #55 BitCraft Online
64% matchMostly Positive74% of 3,504 reviews2025
Dev: Clockwork Laboratories, Inc.
Windows · Mac
Median: 11.1 hrsMean: 97.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Join thousands of players in a true single-world MMORPG. Carve out a cozy nook, master a player-driven economy, or band together to transform the ancient wilderness into thriving cities. From humble beginnings to legend, your choices matter - because in BitCraft, your actions shape our world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.4% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Sandbox 10.8%, Crafting 9%, Open World 7.6%
