- #1 The Front
97% 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 28.1% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Crafting 10.8%, Survival 9.2%, Sandbox 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: Features a very similar post-apocalyptic aesthetic with heavy emphasis on base defense and modern military-style survival mechanics.
- #2 Rust
96% 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 26.5% ★, Survival 18.5%, Crafting 14.8%, PvP 7.7%, Sandbox 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: The definitive open-world survival game that mirrors Dysterra's focus on base-building, raiding, and high-stakes player conflict.
- #3 Volcanoids
96% matchVery Positive83% of 9,332 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.
Why similar: Base Building 15.7%, Crafting 13.9%, Sandbox 11.4%, FPS 11.4%, Online Co-Op 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a unique sci-fi survival experience where you build and upgrade a mobile drill-ship base to survive environmental threats.
- #4 Once Human
95% 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 26.1% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Post-apocalyptic 11.8%, Crafting 10.6%, Online Co-Op 10%
Why You'll Like It: A high-production sci-fi survival game that shares the focus on supernatural threats and complex base construction.
- #5 Deadside
94% 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 23.3% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Crafting 10%, Survival 9.4%, FPS 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a hardcore FPS survival experience with a focus on realistic combat and open-world exploration.
- #6 Karagon (Survival Robot Riding FPS)
94% matchMixed47% of 107 reviews2023
Dev: Tbjbu2 Originals
Windows
Survive, shoot, construct, and ride killer elemental robots. Craft equipment, explore multi-floor buildings, build and farm, uncover schematics, and progress through technology tiers. Alone or with friends in this brutal post apocalyptic open world survival robot riding crafting shooter game!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.7% ★, Base Building 10.8%, Crafting 10.3%, FPS 9.7%, PvE 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: Directly aligns with the robot-focused combat and FPS survival mechanics found in Dysterra.
- #7 Subsistence
93% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,766 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 40.4 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 44.4% ★, Survival 13.9%, Crafting 13.5%, Base Building 10.2%, Sandbox 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: A realistic survival game that excels in base-building mechanics and challenging AI encounters.
- #8 Sunkenland
91% 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 32.5% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Survival 9.9%, Crafting 8.7%, Post-apocalyptic 7%
Why You'll Like It: Combines survival and base-building with an emphasis on exploration and defending your territory from hostile factions.
- #9 Forever Skies
91% 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 30.5% ★, Base Building 15.7%, Crafting 13.1%, Post-apocalyptic 12.3%, Survival 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: Features a high-tech, sci-fi post-apocalyptic setting with a focus on building and maintaining a mobile airship base.
- #10 XERA: Survival
90% matchMixed66% of 7,941 reviews2021
Dev: Spotted Kiwi Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 24.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Action-focused, open world survival shooter, PvPvE against fellow mercenaries and lethal XOIDS. Raid for resources alone or with team-mates, build and defend your base, stash your gear and survive against the odds. You are the hunters. You are the hunted. And the robots never sleep…
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.1% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 9.9%, Post-apocalyptic 9.9%, Survival 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the extraction-shooter and survival loop that complements the high-tension gameplay of Dysterra.
- #11 Dune: Awakening
88% matchMostly Positive71% of 78,134 reviews2025
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 46.5 hrsMean: 100.0 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival game with immersive adventure and RPG gameplay. Explore, build, craft, and unravel a cinematic Dune story alone or with friends as you rise from survival to greatness on the most legendary planet in the universe. Just remember: the sandworm always comes.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.1% ★, Base Building 10.9%, PvE 10.3%, Crafting 9%, Online Co-Op 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: An ambitious open-world survival game that captures the scale of sci-fi survival and large-scale player interaction.
- #12 Miscreated
89% matchMixed66% of 31,591 reviews2018
Dev: Entrada Interactive LLC
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 38.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Miscreated is a multiplayer online hardcore survival game set in a post-apocalyptic future. You will need to survive against mutants, players, and even mother nature herself.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.6% ★, Survival 15.6%, Post-apocalyptic 10.7%, Crafting 8.3%, PvP 5.3%
Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic survival game that offers a similar atmosphere and focus on scavenging in a dangerous open world.
- #13 DeadPoly
89% matchMostly Positive78% of 6,136 reviews2022
Dev: TFL Games
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 64%
DeadPoly is a polygon arcade zombie survival looter shooter with base building, crafting, scavenging, leveling, questing, and more, but your only goal is survival, everything else is optional.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.9% ★, Post-apocalyptic 10.3%, PvE 9.4%, Base Building 9.2%, Online Co-Op 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A low-poly survival game that captures the core loop of looting, crafting, and base building in a zombie-infested world.
- #14 Lost Rift
86% 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 22.2% ★, Base Building 10.5%, PvE 9.6%, Crafting 9.2%, Online Co-Op 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: Blends extraction shooter mechanics with survival elements, creating a tense atmosphere similar to Dysterra.
- #15 SCUM
84% 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 27.8% ★, Crafting 9.3%, Survival 9.3%, Online Co-Op 8.5%, FPS 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: Offers an incredibly deep and realistic survival simulation that rewards players for tactical planning and base management.
- #16 Lost Skies
85% 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 33.3% ★, Base Building 14.1%, Online Co-Op 11.7%, Sandbox 8.6%, Crafting 7%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on exploration and base-building in a unique world that rewards players for tactical survival choices.
- #17 Outpost Zero
87% matchMixed48% of 853 reviews2019
Dev: Symmetric GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Outpost Zero blends the genres of Multiplayer Base Building Survival and Simulation games in a Sci-Fi universe. On a lawless alien world, robotic scouts are tasked with building an Outpost for human colonists. Command AI minions, colonize the planet, and survive the perils of Gaiya.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.5% ★, Survival 15.1%, Base Building 13.7%, Crafting 9.5%, Simulation 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: Centers on building and defending a sci-fi outpost while managing resources in a hostile environment.
- #18 GRAV
86% matchMixed47% of 6,921 reviews2015
Dev: BitMonster, Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 60%
GRAV is a sand box experience where you explore a multitude of planets, hunt strange alien creatures, build and defend outposts, craft weapons and armor, and attempt to survive against other players in a hostile environment.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.6% ★, Base Building 14.8%, Survival 13.5%, Sandbox 10.5%, Crafting 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi survival game that emphasizes exploration and base construction on alien planets.
- #19 KeepUp Survival
83% matchMixed64% of 749 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 84%
KeepUp Survival is an open-world base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and shape your own story on a mysterious island.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.2% ★, Base Building 12.6%, PvE 11.3%, Crafting 11.1%, Survival 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a straightforward open-world survival experience with a heavy focus on base building and crafting.
- #20 Plains of Pain
82% 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 21.9% ★, Post-apocalyptic 10.4%, Base Building 10.4%, PvE 8.9%, Crafting 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic survival game that focuses on sandbox elements and base building.
- #21 Rem Survival
82% 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 35.1% ★, Base Building 15.1%, Crafting 13.8%, Survival 11.3%, FPS 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused title that emphasizes resource management and base construction in an open world.
- #22 Fragmented
84% matchMixed43% of 1,964 reviews2017
Dev: Above and Beyond Technologies
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Stranded in a hostile alien world, you must fight to survive. Hunt, harvest, craft, advance skills, and build using local resources along with technology from your voyage.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.1% ★, Survival 14.6%, Crafting 9.4%, Sandbox 7.7%, Online Co-Op 5.2%
Why You'll Like It: Features sci-fi survival mechanics with a focus on crafting and combat against alien threats.
- #23 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 26.9% ★, Survival 13.1%, Base Building 11.9%, Post-apocalyptic 11.1%, Online Co-Op 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for base-building survival, offering deep crafting and intense defense against waves of enemies.
- #24 ICARUS
80% 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 31% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Survival 11.4%, Online Co-Op 10.6%, Crafting 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: A session-based sci-fi survival game that emphasizes time-sensitive missions and base building in a hostile alien environment.
- #25 Outerstellar
81% matchMostly Positive72% of 175 reviews2023
Dev: Strange Horizons Ltd
Windows
Stranded on a hostile and deadly planet, you must gather resources, build shelter, and fight to survive each night. But the secrets of this world await in a gripping sci-fi survival PvP game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Crafting 11.8%, Survival 11.2%, PvP 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi survival game that emphasizes exploration and the challenges of surviving in space-themed environments.
- #26 Dead District: Survival
81% matchMixed47% of 483 reviews2023
Dev: BadBit Games
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Open-world survival sandbox with base-building, crafting, farming and multiplayer. Explore a dangerous island, fight, build and stay alive.
Why similar: Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 12.5%, FPS 11.7%, Survival 11.5%, Post-apocalyptic 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: An action-oriented survival game that focuses on shooting mechanics and multiplayer interaction.
- #27 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
77% matchVery Positive91% of 7,602 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Survive, craft, and automate in this free prologue set on one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters, an open-world game where you play solo or with friends to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.8% ★, Base Building 15.2%, Crafting 11.5%, Online Co-Op 10.9%, Sandbox 8.9%
- #28 Conan Exiles Enhanced
79% 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 37.3% ★, Survival 18.6%, Crafting 14.3%, Sandbox 9.1%, Online Co-Op 7%
Why You'll Like It: A robust survival game that features extensive base building and raiding mechanics within a harsh, unforgiving world.
- #29 The Planet Crafter
76% 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 33% ★, Base Building 16.2%, Online Co-Op 12.1%, Crafting 11.7%, Survival 10.4%
- #30 ARK: Survival Ascended
78% 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 18%, Base Building 17.2%, Crafting 14.8%, PvE 11.5%, Sandbox 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a massive scale of survival, crafting, and base building with a strong focus on technological progression.
- #31 Survival: Lost Way
79% matchMostly Negative36% of 295 reviews2023
Dev: SimplePlanPub: SimplePlan Studio
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
An open-world post-apocalyptic survival sandbox. Scavenge, craft, build, and survive solo or in co-op.
Why similar: Crafting 17.2%, Survival 14.4%, Post-apocalyptic 14%, FPS 12.7%, Base Building 11.4%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game that emphasizes crafting and simulation mechanics in a multiplayer environment.
- #32 Ruins To Fortress
77% matchMixed65% of 181 reviews2024
Dev: NimbleBeasts
Windows · Linux
Explore a post-apocalyptic island, craft, build, tear down enemy bases, defend and nuke your rivals! Life's about surviving in this multiplayer game, no matter what it takes!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31% ★, Base Building 11.4%, Crafting 10.3%, PvE 9.2%, Survival 8.8%
- #33 HumanitZ
74% matchMostly Positive74% of 13,984 reviews2026
Dev: Yodubzz StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 77%
HumanitZ is an isometric, open-world sandbox survival game set in a world ended by a zombie outbreak. Survive alone or with friends by scavenging, crafting, building, and fighting to last as long as ‘humanly’ possible. You can’t change the past, but you can fight for the future of humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 19.2% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Survival 10.4%, Post-apocalyptic 10.3%, Crafting 10.2%
- #34 Occupy Mars: The Game
75% 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 25.6% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Crafting 10.2%, PvE 10.2%, Online Co-Op 9.6%
- #35 StarRupture
74% 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 29.4% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Crafting 11.2%, Survival 9.8%, Sandbox 9.2%
- #36 Taora : Beginning
73% matchVery Positive87% of 2,239 reviews2023
Dev: Tulpar Games
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Taora : Beginning offers the limited introduction experience to Taora : Survival, an open world survival game with unique character building and crafting. Build and upgrade your base, and survive the zombie apocalypse!
Why similar: PvE 19.1%, Sandbox 16.5%, Post-apocalyptic 15.8%, Base Building 15.3%, Shooter 10.4%
- #37 Last Oasis
75% 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: Survival 21.8%, Crafting 17.1%, Sandbox 12.4%, PvP 11.6%, Post-apocalyptic 10.3%
- #38 Out of Reach
76% matchMixed57% of 3,051 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
You’re a castaway stranded in the middle of nowhere. Storm is gone, the worst certainly not. Look for food and resources, craft gear, make shelters. These are the basics, you need much more to stay alive on this cut-off-the-world, yet not desert island. Build & burn, sail & explore, be Out of Reach!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.2% ★, Survival 14.5%, Crafting 12.9%, Base Building 8.2%, Sandbox 6.4%
- #39 Mesorift Survival
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 137 reviews2025
Dev: Meik.W Interactive
Windows
Mesorift Survival is a classic survival game with PvP and PvE elements, set in a tropical open world with three islands. Gather resources, build a base, craft weapons, and survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.9% ★, PvE 11.4%, Base Building 10.8%, FPS 9.8%, Survival 9.3%
- #40 DYSMANTLE
72% matchVery Positive91% of 11,572 reviews2021
Dev: 10tons Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 25.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Ascend from your shelter. Ruin everything. Escape the wretched island. ⚔️🔨🎣🌱🌵🍰 Explore. Fight. Level up. Survive. Gather. Craft. Harvest. Hunt. Build. Farm. Solve puzzles. Fish. Cook. Live. Enjoy the bittersweet post-apocalypse.
Why similar: Crafting 22.6%, Base Building 22.6%, Survival 21.3%, Sandbox 12.6%, RPG 8.1%
- #41 DARKEST DAYS
71% matchMixed49% of 5,125 reviews2025
Dev: NHN
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 42%
DARKEST DAYS is a zombie shooting RPG set in a post-apocalyptic world devastated by a sudden zombie outbreak. Explore a dark yet captivating open world, build a sanctuary with fellow survivors, grow stronger, and fight for survival.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 18%, Survival 14.2%, Base Building 13%, Crafting 10.1%, Shooter 9.1%
- #42 Mist Survival
72% matchMostly Positive76% of 14,333 reviews2018
Dev: Dimension 32 Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 73%
MIST SURVIVAL is a Single-player, survival stealth sandbox game Players will experience the Apocalypse stimulation in the form of virus pandemic, the players have to deal with it to survive through the difficulties such as finding shelter and food, threats from the environment and climate: wild animals, bandits, infected, and dense mist t
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.8% ★, Survival 18.5%, Base Building 13.1%, Crafting 9.3%, Sandbox 6.7%
- #43 No One Survived
70% matchMixed64% of 7,777 reviews2025
Dev: Cat Play Studio
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 23.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
This is a multiplayer cooperative open world construction survival sandbox game, where you and your friends must find supplies and build shelters in this world. You have to keep an eye on your character's needs state at all times, a bad state is likely to lead to death.
Why similar: Survival 24.8%, Crafting 18.8%, Post-apocalyptic 18.6%, Online Co-Op 11.2%, Sandbox 8.9%
- #44 Wild Terra Online
73% matchMixed60% of 1,845 reviews2017
Dev: Juvty Worlds
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Wild Terra Online is a sandbox RPG, in a completely player-controlled medieval world. You will have to survive in a forest full of predators, build a shelter and improve your crafts skills, tame animals and fight for treasures. You can become anyone and do whatever you want!
Why similar: Sandbox 22.5%, Survival 20%, Crafting 16.1%, Base Building 13.9%, RPG 12%
- #45 Strayed
70% matchMostly Positive79% of 424 reviews2024
Dev: Crustacean Interactive
Windows
Strayed is a fast paced open world VR survival game where every session feels like a new adventure. Start with nothing on a fresh island, gather materials, craft weapons, build bases, and battle other players for the best loot.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.3% ★, Base Building 9.5%, Crafting 9.4%, Post-apocalyptic 9.2%, Online Co-Op 7.9%
- #46 Stars End
71% matchMixed61% of 1,428 reviews2023
Dev: Reverie World StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 10.2 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 26.7% ★, PvE 10.9%, Online Co-Op 10.7%, Crafting 8.9%, Survival 8.6%
- #47 Everwind
68% 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: Crafting 17.2%, Online Co-Op 16.7%, Sandbox 14.4%, Survival 14%, PvE 13.5%
- #48 TerraTech
70% matchVery Positive91% of 24,920 reviews2018
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 32.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
TerraTech is an open-world, sandbox adventure game, where you design and build your own creations through a mix of crafting, combat and discovery. Design vehicles from a huge library of blocks. Scavenge, craft and buy new parts to survive and become the ultimate planetary prospector.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.6% ★, Sandbox 16.9%, Crafting 14.1%, Survival 9.3%, Online Co-Op 6.6%
- #49 Polygeddon
71% matchMixed41% of 70 reviews2025
Dev: Digital Dreamworks
Windows
You are on an island where everyone wants to kill you, ranging from weather conditions to dangerous enemies, your goal is to survive. Survive alone or together. Build, craft, grow, explore, fight!
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 24.7%, Crafting 17%, Survival 16.5%, Sandbox 15.4%, RPG 8.5%
- #50 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
68% 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 28.6% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 10.5%, Online Co-Op 10.3%, Survival 10.2%
- #51 ARK: Survival Evolved
68% matchVery Positive83% of 776,082 reviews2017
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 202.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.8% ★, Survival 14.8%, Crafting 11.9%, Base Building 10.5%, Sandbox 5.8%
- #52 Skyformer
67% matchVery Positive83% of 87 reviews2026
Dev: Weatherfused
Windows
Create an automated system that terraforms a planet with an army of drones. Craft and build bases, set up a weather monitoring system, prepare to survive different types of storms, and take control of the climate and biomes! Play alone or up to 4 player co-op.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.1% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Crafting 11.3%, Online Co-Op 10%, PvE 10%
- #53 Away From Life
67% matchMixed67% of 229 reviews2026
Dev: Cursor GamesPub: IZilla Games
Windows
You survived a helicopter crash; going home is your top priority. Live as a castaway - survive the dangers of the islands by using your environment to find food, build shelter, craft tools to extend your stay, explore the secrets of the islands and their surrounding waters, and carve your way home.
Why similar: Base Building 14.2%, Crafting 12.9%, FPS 11.9%, Sandbox 11.2%, Survival 10.3%
- #54 Eden Crafters
65% 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 34.8% ★, Base Building 15.9%, Crafting 13.4%, Online Co-Op 10.7%, Sandbox 10.6%
- #55 Night of the Dead
66% matchMostly Positive77% of 11,856 reviews2024
Dev: Jackto Studios
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 32.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
'Night of the Dead' is an open-world game that combines elements of exploration, tower defense, survival, and crafting. Traverse a world dominated by zombies while collecting various resources and powerful equipment. Build a fortress to survive the hordes of zombies that swarm every night!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.1% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Crafting 9.8%, Online Co-Op 9.7%, Sandbox 8.3%
- #56 SURVIVAL: Postapocalypse Now
69% matchMixed56% of 8,877 reviews2019
Dev: TB Games
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Want to survive? - Arm yourself and survive. Crafting, shooting, transport and much more awaits you in the Survival game. What happened to the world around and why he died - you may find out. But is this the main question now?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.2% ★, Survival 14.6%, Post-apocalyptic 11.5%, Crafting 7.1%, FPS 6.5%
- #57 Survive the Nights
66% matchMixed66% of 6,719 reviews2025
Dev: a2z Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Hardcore open-world survival where preparation is everything. Scavenge, craft, fortify during the day. When night falls, the infected hunt in numbers. Play solo or with friends in a brutal post-apocalyptic sandbox where survival is earned through smart decisions. How many Nights will you survive?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.8% ★, Post-apocalyptic 12%, PvE 10.1%, Sandbox 9.1%, Online Co-Op 8.7%
- #58 Taora : Survival
67% matchMixed60% of 420 reviews2024
Dev: Tulpar Games
Windows
Taora is an open world survival game with unique character building and crafting. Build and upgrade your base, and survive the zombie apocalypse !
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.5% ★, Post-apocalyptic 14.3%, Crafting 12.6%, Base Building 11.8%, Online Co-Op 11.2%
