- #1 Last Oasis
97% 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 12.5%, Open World 11.3%, Crafting 9%, Building 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: Its persistent multiplayer desert setting, mobile bases, clan warfare, resource scarcity, and wind-powered walkers make it an especially natural fit for Dune fans.
- #2 Once Human
96% matchMostly Positive79% of 189,842 reviews2024
Dev: Starry Studio
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 52.7 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 20.5% ★, Base Building 9.5%, Open World 7.9%, Crafting 7.7%, Building 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: This shared-world survival shooter combines base construction, gathering, PvE events, PvP zones, vehicles, and supernatural open-world exploration.
- #3 Enshrouded
96% matchVery Positive86% of 106,050 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.9 hrsMean: 46.8 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 13.2%, Survival 11.5%, Online Co-Op 10.8%, Crafting 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: Enshrouded delivers polished cooperative exploration, flexible voxel building, survival-lite resource management, and RPG progression across a dangerous open world.
- #4 ARK: Survival Ascended
95% matchMixed60% of 118,321 reviews2023
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows
Median: 27.2 hrsMean: 198.9 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 12%, Base Building 11.2%, Open World 11.2%, Crafting 9%, Massively Multiplayer 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: ARK offers a huge multiplayer survival sandbox centered on taming creatures, building fortified bases, exploring dangerous biomes, and defending territory.
- #5 Myth of Empires
94% matchMixed68% of 17,631 reviews2024
Dev: Angela GamePub: Imperium Interactive Entertainment
Windows
Median: 15.0 hrsMean: 228.5 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 27.2% ★, Building 10.5%, Base Building 10.4%, Sandbox 9.1%, Open World 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: Its persistent-server structure, guild politics, resource gathering, settlement building, warfare, and survival systems echo Dune's rise-from-nothing fantasy.
- #6 Pax Dei
94% matchMixed57% of 11,377 reviews2025
Dev: Mainframe Industries
Windows
Median: 18.5 hrsMean: 76.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 11.3%, Sandbox 10.3%, Open World 10.2%, Character Customization 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: This social sandbox MMO emphasizes player-built settlements, gathering, crafting economies, guild cooperation, and territory-oriented community play.
- #7 Nightingale
93% matchMixed66% of 18,084 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 26.5% ★, Base Building 9.9%, Online Co-Op 9.3%, Survival 8.7%, Crafting 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: Its survival-crafting loop pairs exploration of hostile realms with base building, gear progression, online co-op, and a strong sense of adventure.
- #8 Soulmask
92% matchMostly Positive77% of 22,506 reviews2026
Dev: CampFire StudioPub: Qooland Games
Windows
Median: 13.9 hrsMean: 69.3 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 23.4% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Crafting 10.9%, Open World 9.7%, Survival 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: Soulmask combines open-world survival crafting with recruitable NPC tribes, base automation, combat progression, and optional multiplayer PvP.
- #9 V Rising
91% matchVery Positive89% of 137,392 reviews2024
Dev: Stunlock Studios
Windows
Median: 20.9 hrsMean: 58.2 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 12.8%, Open World 10.2%, Massively Multiplayer 10.1%, Survival 9.9%, Crafting 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: V Rising blends survival gathering and castle construction with action combat, boss-driven progression, PvP options, and persistent online servers.
- #10 ICARUS
91% matchMostly Positive75% of 68,864 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.4 hrsMean: 46.7 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 26.4% ★, Base Building 11%, Survival 9.7%, Online Co-Op 8.6%, Crafting 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: ICARUS focuses on demanding environmental survival, crafting, construction, resource expeditions, and cooperative play on an alien world.
- #11 RuneScape: Dragonwilds
89% matchVery Positive81% of 32,495 reviews2026
Dev: Jagex Ltd
Windows
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 20.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 25.9% ★, Open World 10.2%, Survival 8.8%, Online Co-Op 8.7%, Base Building 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: This cooperative survival-RPG spin on RuneScape centers on gathering, building, crafting, exploration, and advancing through a dangerous fantasy wilderness.
- #12 The Front
89% matchMixed67% of 10,771 reviews2025
Dev: Samar Studio
Windows
Median: 10.7 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 24.9% ★, Massively Multiplayer 10.6%, Base Building 10.6%, Crafting 8.7%, Building 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: The Front is a multiplayer open-world survival game built around crafting, defensive bases, vehicles, raiding, and fighting over resources.
- #13 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
88% matchMostly Positive78% of 34,438 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 27% ★, Building 10%, Open World 8.9%, Survival 8.8%, Crafting 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: Empyrion expands the survival-building formula into space with planetary exploration, customizable bases and vehicles, combat, and multiplayer factions.
- #14 SCUM
86% matchMostly Positive74% of 127,189 reviews2025
Dev: Gamepires
Windows
Median: 11.9 hrsMean: 105.4 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 24.9% ★, Massively Multiplayer 14.4%, Open World 8.5%, Survival 8.2%, Crafting 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: SCUM provides a harsher, more simulation-driven take on open-world multiplayer survival, looting, crafting, base building, and player conflict.
- #15 Mortal Online 2
87% matchMixed60% of 13,925 reviews2022
Dev: Star Vault AB
Windows
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 151.4 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 14%, Sandbox 12.4%, Open World 12.3%, PvP 11.4%, Character Customization 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: This persistent first-person MMORPG emphasizes a harsh sandbox world, player economies, territorial conflict, crafting, and consequential open-world PvP.
- #16 Space Engineers
86% matchVery Positive89% of 134,498 reviews2019
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 96.5 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 11.7%, Open World 11.5%, Survival 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: Space Engineers offers a sandbox of survival resource gathering and elaborate vehicle or base construction, with extensive multiplayer possibilities.
- #17 Palworld
83% matchVery Positive95% of 490,433 reviews2026
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 41.0 hrsMean: 86.8 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 28.3% ★, Open World 12.4%, Survival 10.8%, Crafting 8.3%, Online Co-Op 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: Palworld mixes open-world survival crafting and base automation with creature collecting, combat, multiplayer, and extensive building freedom.
- #18 Bellwright
85% matchVery Positive80% of 21,714 reviews2024
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 12.8 hrsMean: 41.6 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 17.8%, Open World 17%, Crafting 15.5%, Online Co-Op 14.5%, Building 12.4%
Why You'll Like It: Bellwright combines third-person survival crafting with settlement growth, villager management, combat progression, and a large world to reclaim.
- #19 New World: Aeternum
84% matchMixed67% of 297,329 reviews2021
Dev: Amazon Game Studios
Windows
Median: 58.8 hrsMean: 197.6 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 15.1%, Open World Survival Craft 11.1% ★, PvP 8.1%, PvE 7%
Why You'll Like It: While less survival-focused, it delivers the shared-world RPG side of Dune through faction conflict, gathering, crafting, expeditions, and territorial warfare.
- #20 Valheim
81% matchVery Positive94% of 555,289 reviews2026
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 26.9 hrsMean: 81.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.4% ★, Online Co-Op 9.4%, Base Building 8.7%, Survival 8.5%, Open World 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: Valheim offers satisfying cooperative survival, substantial base building, biome-based exploration, boss progression, and dangerous expeditions.
- #21 Rust
84% matchVery Positive87% of 1,402,448 reviews2018
Dev: Facepunch Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 52.8 hrsMean: 431.0 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 24.1% ★, Survival 16.6%, Crafting 12.3%, Open World 10.5%, Building 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Rust is ideal for players who want Dune's high-stakes resource competition, player-built strongholds, alliances, raids, and unforgiving PvP.
- #22 The Planet Crafter
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 74,281 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.7 hrsMean: 38.8 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 27% ★, Base Building 13%, Online Co-Op 9.4%, Building 9%, Crafting 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: The Planet Crafter supplies a calmer science-fiction survival loop of gathering resources, building technology, establishing outposts, and transforming an alien planet.
- #23 DayZ
82% matchMostly Positive78% of 470,116 reviews2018
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 39.7 hrsMean: 281.7 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 19.6%, Survival 17.7%, Online Co-Op 13.3%, Open World 12.3%, Sandbox 11.6%
Why You'll Like It: DayZ captures the tension of traversing a hostile multiplayer world where scarce supplies, unpredictable players, shelters, and survival decisions matter.
- #24 7 Days to Die
79% matchVery Positive87% of 405,507 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.4 hrsMean: 111.0 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 25.8% ★, Survival 12.4%, Base Building 11.1%, Open World 8.9%, Online Co-Op 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: 7 Days to Die emphasizes scavenging, crafting, character specialization, fortifying a base, and surviving recurring large-scale enemy assaults with friends.
- #25 No Man's Sky
81% matchVery Positive85% of 421,258 reviews2016
Dev: Hello Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 20.1 hrsMean: 70.9 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 38.9% ★, Open World 14.3%, Survival 8.9%, Sandbox 7.8%, Sci-fi 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: No Man's Sky offers broad sci-fi exploration, resource survival, base building, vehicles, trading, and optional multiplayer across countless worlds.
- #26 Fallout 76
80% matchMostly Positive72% of 140,856 reviews2020
Dev: Bethesda Game StudiosPub: Bethesda Softworks
Windows
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 116.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Twenty-five years after the bombs fall, you and your fellow Vault Dwellers emerge into post-nuclear America. Join millions of players as you explore, build, quest, and triumph in a massive open-world multiplayer adventure.
Why similar: Open World 24.1%, Base Building 23%, Multiplayer 16.4%, Survival 16.4%, RPG 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: Its shared Appalachian wasteland supports cooperative events, solo exploration, CAMP building, crafting, faction stories, and light PvP.
- #27 Wildmender
79% matchVery Positive84% of 2,245 reviews2023
Dev: Muse GamesPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 9.1 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 23% ★, Base Building 10.8%, Lore-Rich 9.7%, Third Person 9.1%, Crafting 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: Wildmender shares Dune's desert-survival atmosphere while focusing on exploration, water management, crafting, base building, and restoring a hostile landscape.
- #28 Windrose
77% matchVery Positive87% of 53,040 reviews2026
Dev: Kraken Express
Windows
Median: 20.3 hrsMean: 33.3 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 25.7% ★, Online Co-Op 9.8%, Crafting 9.5%, Survival 8.5%, Massively Multiplayer 8.4%
- #29 Dawn of Defiance
78% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,856 reviews2024
Dev: Traega EntertainmentPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
You are a fallen Spartan, cast into the realm between the living and the Underworld. In this survival adventure inspired by Greek myth, hunt, craft and build a home worthy of legend with up to 3 friends. Raid the gods' temples, defeat legendary creatures and loot the iconic weapons of the Olympians.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.2% ★, Online Co-Op 9.7%, Base Building 9.5%, Survival 8.4%, PvE 6.8%
- #30 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
78% matchVery Positive82% of 10,551 reviews2024
Dev: Max Ent Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 16.3 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: Open World Survival Craft 22.6% ★, Base Building 10.2%, Survival 8%, Online Co-Op 7.8%, Crafting 7.6%
- #31 StarRupture
76% matchVery Positive81% of 13,607 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 27.6 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 26.1% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Crafting 9.1%, Open World 8.7%, Survival 8.6%
- #32 Renown
76% matchMixed58% of 1,591 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 20.8% ★, Massively Multiplayer 9.9%, Crafting 8.2%, Base Building 8%, Building 7.6%
- #33 The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™
75% matchVery Positive81% of 12,511 reviews2024
Dev: Free Range GamesPub: North Beach Games
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 19.2 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 24.3% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Online Co-Op 8.7%, Crafting 8.6%, Survival 8%
- #34 Conan Exiles Enhanced
74% matchMostly Positive79% of 117,692 reviews2018
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 17.2 hrsMean: 114.1 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 24.8% ★, Survival 12.2%, Open World 10.8%, Building 9.7%, Crafting 8.7%
- #35 Lost Rift
73% matchMixed69% of 1,717 reviews2025
Dev: People Can Fly
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 22.7% ★, Massively Multiplayer 11.3%, Base Building 10.5%, Crafting 8.6%, Online Co-Op 7.7%
- #36 Ashes of Creation
74% matchMostly Negative36% of 19,083 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 23.4%, Character Customization 21.3%, Base Building 18.5%, RPG 12.9%, Exploration 11.5%
- #37 Everwind
72% matchVery Positive81% of 3,899 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 11.9%, Crafting 11.8%, Building 11.7%, Open World 10.9%, Survival 10.4%
- #38 Grounded 2
71% matchVery Positive81% of 24,763 reviews2025
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 13.2 hrsMean: 26.9 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 23.9% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Survival 12%, Open World 8.9%, Crafting 8.3%
- #39 Lost Skies
72% matchMixed61% of 2,995 reviews2025
Dev: Bossa StudiosPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 32.7% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Online Co-Op 11%, Sandbox 8.1%, Character Customization 6.5%
- #40 Eden Crafters
70% matchVery Positive85% of 2,696 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 15.2 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 27.3% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 9.6%, Online Co-Op 8.1%, Building 8%
- #41 Dark and Light
73% matchMixed52% of 11,837 reviews2017
Dev: Snail Games USA
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 49.7 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 17.7% ★, Open World 13.3%, Survival 12.2%, Sandbox 10.7%
- #42 SpaceCraft
69% matchMixed64% of 2,773 reviews2026
Dev: Shiro Games
Windows
Median: 14.0 hrsMean: 54.1 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 17.9%, Base Building 12.9%, Open World 10.5%, Crafting 10.4%, Sandbox 10.2%
- #43 Forever Skies
69% matchMostly Positive78% of 9,059 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 30.5 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 26.8% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Crafting 10.5%, Open World 9.5%, Survival 9.4%
- #44 Frozen Flame
71% matchMixed62% of 2,997 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 22.5% ★, Base Building 10.3%, Online Co-Op 8.4%, Building 7.5%, Crafting 7.4%
- #45 Outlaws of the Old West
71% matchMixed59% of 6,297 reviews2019
Dev: Virtual Basement LLCPub: Wandering Wizard
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 22.6 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 37.8% ★, Massively Multiplayer 15.1%, Survival 11.8%, Open World 11.4%, Multiplayer 7.2%
- #46 Occupy Mars: The Game
68% matchMixed70% of 3,170 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 36.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Survive and colonize Mars alone or in online co-op. Build and upgrade your base, craft equipment, mine resources, produce water, oxygen and food, explore an open world, and repair complex machinery in a technical survival sandbox.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.6% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Crafting 9.3%, Online Co-Op 9.1%, Survival 8.1%
- #47 Sunkenland
67% matchVery Positive80% of 24,007 reviews2023
Dev: Vector3 Studio
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 20.3 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 36.5% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Survival 11%, Crafting 8.9%, Open World 7.2%
- #48 ATLAS
70% matchMixed47% of 42,929 reviews2018
Dev: Grapeshot Games
Windows
Median: 12.5 hrsMean: 111.5 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 17.1%, Survival 12.7%, Open World 12.2%, Crafting 10.3%, Online Co-Op 9.5%
- #49 Solarpunk™
66% matchVery Positive81% of 4,581 reviews2026
Dev: CyberwavePub: rokaplay
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Solarpunk is a survival game in a technologically advanced world of floating islands. Alone or together with your friends, you can construct buildings, grow food, craft gadgets and hop on your airship to explore distant islands in the sky.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.5% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Crafting 9.7%, Building 9.4%, Online Co-Op 9.2%
- #50 Planetaries
68% matchMixed58% of 228 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 21.7% ★, Base Building 9%, Online Co-Op 7.9%, Crafting 7.6%, Building 7.6%
- #51 Crimson Desert Enhanced
64% matchVery Positive84% of 175,674 reviews2026
Dev: Pearl Abyss
Windows · Mac
Median: 31.6 hrsMean: 66.1 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 38.7%, Third Person 13.4%, Exploration 13.3%, PvE 10.3%, RPG 10%
- #52 Rem Survival
68% matchMostly Positive76% of 809 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 28.8% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Massively Multiplayer 10.9%, Crafting 10.3%, Building 9.2%
- #53 Life is Feudal: MMO
70% matchMixed40% of 7,352 reviews2018
Dev: LTG
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 45.6 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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 23.9% ★, Massively Multiplayer 11.8%, Base Building 10.5%, Sandbox 7.6%, Survival 7.5%
- #54 Plains of Pain
66% matchVery Positive83% of 1,036 reviews2023
Dev: Cobra Byte Digital
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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 23% ★, Base Building 10.7%, Online Co-Op 8.2%, Crafting 8.1%, Sandbox 7.8%
- #55 Abiotic Factor
62% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 59,444 reviews2025
Dev: Deep Field GamesPub: Playstack
Windows
Median: 21.2 hrsMean: 46.5 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Abiotic Factor is a survival crafting experience for 1-6 players set in the depths of an underground research facility. Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the world’s greatest minds must survive against the universe’s biggest threats.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.1% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Online Co-Op 9.6%, Crafting 9.5%, Survival 8.9%
