- #1 Aloft
97% matchVery Positive84% of 3,576 reviews2025
Dev: Astrolabe Interactive Inc.Pub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Soar the skies in Aloft, the co-op sandbox survival game set in a world of floating islands. Build any island into a skyship, your home in the clouds. Find lost knowledge, cure the fungal corruption, and brave the hurricane to restore the ecosystem.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.2% ★, Crafting 12.7%, Building 11.4%, Co-op 11.2%, Survival 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on navigating floating islands with customizable airships in a vibrant, survival-oriented world.
- #2 Lost Skies
96% 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 32.6% ★, Vehicular Combat 22.2%, Flight 8.6%, Sandbox 8.2%, Crafting 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: Features cooperative exploration of floating islands using player-built airships to traverse the skies.
- #3 Forever Skies
96% 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 31.3% ★, Crafting 13.4%, Co-op 13%, Survival 10.9%, Building 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: A high-stakes survival game where you maintain and upgrade a high-tech airship to explore a ruined, toxic Earth.
- #4 Voidtrain
95% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,447 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.1% ★, Co-op 11.4%, Crafting 10.4%, Survival 9.4%, Building 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: Centers on surviving and expanding a moving train that serves as your mobile base through a surreal interdimensional void.
- #5 Raft
94% matchVery Positive93% of 372,032 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.6 hrsMean: 37.3 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.9% ★, Survival 15.2%, Co-op 12.7%, Crafting 10.8%, Building 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: The quintessential mobile-base survival game where you expand your floating vessel while scavenging resources from the ocean.
- #6 Volcanoids
94% matchVery Positive83% of 9,267 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.8 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: Crafting 17.9%, Building 15.4%, Co-op 15%, Sandbox 14.3%, Survival 13%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a unique survival experience where you pilot a drill-ship to escape volcanic eruptions and battle mechanical threats.
- #7 Airborne Empire
93% matchVery Positive88% of 851 reviews2026
Dev: The Wandering Band LLCPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Build your sky city while exploring a vast landscape in this Open World RPG City Builder. Combining the methodical construction and management of a city builder; the unique lift, balance, and propulsion needed for a flying city; and the compelling characters, dangers, and adventures of an RPG!
Why similar: Sandbox 23.5%, Open World 23.5%, Building 19.6%, Combat 15.6%, Exploration 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: Combines city-building with airship management, allowing you to construct and defend a massive floating metropolis.
- #8 Scrap Mechanic
91% matchVery Positive92% of 117,481 reviews2016
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.2 hrsMean: 58.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!
Why similar: Building 19.8%, Crafting 17.2%, Sandbox 15.4%, Survival 13.9%, Open World 13.1%
Why You'll Like It: Offers an incredibly deep creative building system that lets you construct complex, functional vehicles and automated bases.
- #9 Desert Skies
92% matchMixed57% of 464 reviews2019
Dev: White_Rabbit_Games
Windows
Desert Skies takes survival to the air! Build an airship and fly on an adventure through the deserts of the Wild West. Look for places to land and scavenge for loot, expand your airship and craft new equipment, but beware the dangers lurking beneath the sands!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 56.1% ★, Crafting 13.5%, Survival 10.8%, Building 9.2%, Action 3.7%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game that tasks you with building and flying an airship to escape a dangerous, monster-filled desert.
- #10 TerraTech Worlds
91% matchMixed63% of 2,228 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 21.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.7% ★, Crafting 10.6%, Vehicular Combat 10%, Building 9.5%, Co-op 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: Allows you to build modular vehicles and bases to explore and survive on alien planets with a focus on combat and resource gathering.
- #11 Trailmakers
90% matchVery Positive92% of 35,682 reviews2019
Dev: Flashbulb
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Build the ultimate vehicle and explore a vast open world filled with challenges and adventure. Play solo or team up with friends in multiplayer to conquer the toughest obstacles. With a thrilling campaign mode and endless creative possibilities, Trailmakers is the ultimate sandbox for adventurers.
Why similar: Flight 21.7%, Vehicular Combat 20%, Crafting 10%, Building 9.6%, Sandbox 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on creative vehicle building with a robust physics engine, perfect for players who love the engineering aspect of Echoes of Elysium.
- #12 Space Engineers
89% 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: Building 15.7%, Co-op 14.9%, Sandbox 14.2%, Survival 13.1%, Open World 12.4%
Why You'll Like It: Provides deep, physics-based vehicle and base construction that allows for complex, functional airships and space vessels.
- #13 Nightingale
89% 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 33.9% ★, Crafting 11.9%, Building 11.1%, Survival 10.9%, Co-op 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: A Victorian-fantasy survival game that emphasizes exploration and base building across diverse, procedurally generated realms.
- #14 The Planet Crafter
87% 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 33.2% ★, Crafting 11.7%, Building 11.2%, Co-op 10.9%, Survival 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on large-scale survival and terraforming, providing a satisfying sense of progression and base expansion.
- #15 Avorion
88% matchVery Positive90% of 14,391 reviews2020
Dev: Boxelware
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18.7 hrsMean: 99.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A procedural co-op space sandbox where players can build their own space ships out of dynamically scalable blocks. Fight epic space battles, explore, mine, trade, wage wars and build your own empire to save your galaxy from being torn apart by an unknown enemy.
Why similar: Flight 23.4%, Vehicular Combat 19%, Building 13.5%, Sandbox 12.5%, Open World 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: A space-faring sandbox that emphasizes modular ship building and exploration, capturing the feeling of commanding a custom vessel.
- #16 Eden Crafters
85% 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 34.4% ★, Crafting 13.3%, Building 10.3%, Sandbox 10.2%, Open World 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on automation and base building, providing a rewarding loop of resource management and expansion.
- #17 TerraTech
86% matchVery Positive91% of 24,617 reviews2018
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 33.0 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 28.6% ★, Building 14.4%, Sandbox 11.5%, Vehicular Combat 10.6%, Crafting 10%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox game centered on building custom combat vehicles from scavenged parts to explore and conquer an open world.
- #18 Cubic Odyssey
86% 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 40.7% ★, Building 14%, Co-op 14%, Sandbox 12.9%, Crafting 4.5%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that emphasizes creative building and cooperative exploration in a sci-fi setting.
- #19 Cloudheim
84% matchVery Positive83% of 1,488 reviews2025
Dev: Noodle Cat Games
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Master chaotic physics-based combat inspired by Zelda and Devil May Cry. Explore islands and dungeons, smash monsters, loot and craft powerful gear, and grow your home in the sky. Play solo or online co-op with up to 4 players.
Why similar: Crafting 25.5%, Building 18.9%, Co-op 17.3%, Third Person 11.2%, Colorful 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: An action-RPG with a focus on physics and cooperative crafting that mirrors the aerial exploration themes of the seed game.
- #20 First Dwarf
84% matchMostly Positive78% of 369 reviews2024
Dev: Star Drifters
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Pilot a dwarven mech and fly a dragon as you build and defend outposts across a shattered magical realm. Craft, explore, and survive the dangers of floating islands corrupted by the Taint in this action-packed survival RPG with base-building and co-op.
Why similar: Crafting 18.5%, Building 17.4%, Co-op 15.3%, Open World 12.8%, PvE 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: Combines action-RPG elements with mech-based exploration and base building in a fantasy setting.
- #21 Survival Machine
82% matchMostly Positive74% of 687 reviews2025
Dev: Grape PickersPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Build your base on a moving Machine, travel through biomes with different resources, and prepare for the night when a zombie threat is much higher than during the day. Would you go solo or explore this new world with your best friends?
Why similar: Crafting 23.6%, Survival 16.2%, PvE 13.6%, Combat 13.2%, Third Person 12.3%
Why You'll Like It: Features a mobile base that you must upgrade and defend while traversing dangerous landscapes.
- #22 From the Depths
82% matchVery Positive89% of 12,623 reviews2020
Dev: Brilliant Skies Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 40.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Over 1000 unique components allow you to build and command voxel vehicles from the deep ocean to outer space! Forge strategies, allegiances and fleets strong enough to destroy eight deadly factions of the planet and reign supreme. A genre-defying mashup of simulation, building, RTS and RPG.
Why similar: Vehicular Combat 36.1%, Building 18.6%, Crafting 17.1%, Sandbox 15.9%, Survival 12.4%
Why You'll Like It: A complex vehicle-building game that focuses on tactical combat and engineering, ideal for those who enjoy the combat side of airships.
- #23 Shamania
81% matchMostly Positive77% of 145 reviews2025
Dev: Totem Keepers Games
Windows
Shamania is an open world survival game where you can CRAFT, FIGHT, and EXPLORE a vibrant sandbox world with friends in CO-OP. Expand your base as a hub for survival, gather resources, and master professions to unlock new tools and opportunities!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.1% ★, Crafting 13.1%, Open World 10.1%, Survival 9.9%, Co-op 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: Offers an open-world survival experience with a focus on crafting and multiplayer exploration.
- #24 Windbound
83% matchMixed59% of 1,166 reviews2020
Dev: 5 Lives StudiosPub: Deep Silver
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 62%
The Forbidden Islands are Calling, Unlock their Secrets. Shipwrecked on an island, explore, adapt and navigate the land and perilous seas to stay alive.
Why similar: Survival 32.1%, Crafting 31.8%, Adventure 16%, Open World 8.9%, Third Person 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: Features survival and exploration mechanics centered around crafting and sailing your own boat through a mysterious archipelago.
- #25 Omega Crafter
80% 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 28.2% ★, Crafting 12.6%, Survival 10.2%, Co-op 9.9%, Open World 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: Combines survival and automation, allowing players to build bases and explore with the help of programmable companions.
- #26 Everwind
77% 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: Crafting 14.9%, Building 13.8%, Co-op 13.6%, Sandbox 12.2%, Survival 11.8%
- #27 Solace Crafting
79% matchMostly Positive72% of 891 reviews2022
Dev: Big Kitty Games
Windows · Linux
Embark on an adventure set in a fantasy survival RPG. Visit a borderless, open world where you manage resources to construct your base and new types of equipment to support your conquest.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.6% ★, Crafting 12.1%, Survival 10%, Building 9.4%, Open World 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A massive open-world survival game that emphasizes crafting and building in a fantasy-inspired environment.
- #28 Dune: Awakening
77% matchMostly Positive70% of 76,118 reviews2025
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 47.7 hrsMean: 97.4 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival RPG where you can fully immerse yourself in the epic world of Dune. Alone or with friends, explore a vast open world Arrakis, survive the sandworms, build a home, craft an ornithopter, and unravel the mystery of the missing Fremen.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.6% ★, Crafting 11.1%, Building 10.4%, Sandbox 9.3%, Survival 9.2%
- #29 Len's Island
76% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,720 reviews2025
Dev: Flow Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
An open-world survival crafting game for 1–8 players, blending intense dungeon crawling and ARPG combat with peaceful farming and creative building. Take on quests and explore a vast, procedurally-generated world full of danger and discovery.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.5% ★, Building 11.4%, Crafting 11%, Survival 9.7%, Sandbox 9.1%
- #30 Astral Terra
81% matchMixed50% of 152 reviews2015
Dev: Tethys Interactive LLC
Windows
Explore, Adventure, Craft, Build, Survive. How will you shape your world? Astral Terra is a Smooth Voxel, Procedurally Generated Open World game with RPG and Survival Elements!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.1% ★, Sandbox 11.2%, Survival 10.8%, Open World 10.8%, Crafting 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based survival sandbox that allows for extensive terrain manipulation and base construction.
- #31 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
76% 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 30.2% ★, Crafting 11.1%, Survival 10.4%, Building 10.2%, Co-op 9.3%
- #32 Voyagers of Nera
75% matchVery Positive85% of 2,367 reviews2025
Dev: Treehouse Games
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 12.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Voyagers of Nera is a cooperative survival-crafting game where you must survive a magical ocean world brimming with lost spirits and deadly monsters. Sail to distant islands, build beautiful villages and surf across the waves with up to 10 players.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.2% ★, Crafting 14.4%, Co-op 13.2%, Building 13.2%, PvE 9.3%
- #33 Planet Explorers
78% matchMixed62% of 6,817 reviews2016
Dev: Pathea Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Planet Explorers is an open world sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.4% ★, Sandbox 13.4%, Open World 10.7%, Crafting 9.8%, Survival 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that allows for significant customization of vehicles and structures through a voxel-based system.
- #34 Tinkerlands
74% matchVery Positive86% of 3,833 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Explore, craft, and fight your way through uncharted islands — solo or with up to 4 players in co-op! Tinkerlands is an exciting survival adventure where you will build your settlement, craft useful tools to survive, and even use magic!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.8% ★, Sandbox 10.9%, Crafting 10.4%, Survival 9.9%, Co-op 9.3%
- #35 Dawn of Defiance
75% 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 33.9% ★, Survival 10.6%, Building 8.6%, Crafting 8.2%, PvE 8%
- #36 Windrose
73% 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 33.8% ★, Crafting 14%, Survival 10.8%, Building 10.5%, PvE 8.8%
- #37 Enshrouded
73% 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: Open World 20.5%, Survival 19.5%, Crafting 18.7%, Building 13.2%, Sandbox 10.4%
- #38 StarRupture
73% 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 33.8% ★, Crafting 12.9%, Co-op 12.1%, Survival 11%, Sandbox 10.3%
- #39 Sunkenland
74% 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 39.5% ★, Co-op 13.5%, Survival 11.7%, Crafting 10.5%, Open World 7%
- #40 Novus Inceptio
78% matchMixed52% of 1,302 reviews2015
Dev: McMagic Productions
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Warning: This is an Early Access game! Welcome to an enigmatic world, where a new gaming experience in exploring, building and surviving is waiting just for you. Experience a sandbox world with survival elements, and join us in creating a full version of the game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.8% ★, Crafting 12.4%, Survival 10.7%, Sandbox 10.7%, Building 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: A survival sandbox that features complex crafting and building mechanics set in a vast, evolving open world.
- #41 Necesse
71% matchVery Positive93% of 27,199 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 14.8 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.8% ★, Crafting 10%, Sandbox 9.4%, Open World 8.3%, Survival 8.2%
- #42 ICARUS
72% 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 33% ★, Survival 11.8%, Crafting 11%, Building 8.7%, Co-op 8.3%
- #43 Black Skylands
71% matchVery Positive83% of 4,392 reviews2023
Dev: Hungry Couch GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Become the captain of an airship and explore the world of the skies, gather resources and build powerful weapons, uncover ancient secrets and fight beneath your ship's sails.
Why similar: Open World 24.6%, Sandbox 24.6%, Crafting 21.6%, Survival 20.6%, Action 4.6%
- #44 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
72% 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 29.4% ★, Co-op 12%, Building 11.1%, Crafting 10%, Survival 9.4%
- #45 Project Castaway
69% matchMixed67% of 1,723 reviews2026
Dev: Mardonpol Inc.
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Project Castaway is a survival crafting title set in the Pacific Ocean. Live the life of a stranded castaway, with only yourself - and the island's inhabitants - for company! Sail the ocean, hunt, explore unique islands and gather resources as you fight for survival.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33% ★, Co-op 11.9%, Survival 9.9%, Sandbox 9.8%, Crafting 9.4%
- #46 Whisper of the Swallows
68% matchVery Positive86% of 163 reviews2026
Dev: Blown Leaves
Windows
Brave a savage, unforgiving procedurally generated world where extreme weather and the nightmares of the dark will hunt you down. Alone or in co-op, survive, build, and explore to turn a cursed hellscape into your sanctuary of light.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.9% ★, Crafting 12.9%, Building 11.1%, Sandbox 10.9%, Survival 10.3%
- #47 Re.poly
71% matchVery Positive91% of 137 reviews2019
Dev: Hinkfoot Studios
Windows
Re.Poly is a relaxed yet deep indie survival game in a low-poly style that blends exploration, combat, building, and adventure. Whether alone or with friends, create your own world, write your own story, and decide how you want to play.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.8% ★, Crafting 13.8%, Sandbox 11.7%, Survival 11.3%, Open World 9.9%
- #48 VEIN
66% matchVery Positive89% of 10,247 reviews2025
Dev: Ramjet Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 14.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
VEIN is a post-apocalyptic survival multiplayer sandbox game. Gather supplies to survive, explore abandoned buildings, defend your home, and rebuild society, whether alone or with friends.
Why similar: Survival 21.7%, Open World 19.6%, Co-op 18%, Crafting 16.9%, Sandbox 13.4%
- #49 KeepUp Survival
70% matchMixed64% of 743 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 84%
KeepUp Survival is an open base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and unfold your own story on a mysterious island.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.1% ★, Crafting 12.2%, Co-op 11.4%, Survival 10.5%, Open World 9.7%
- #50 Scrapnaut
70% matchMixed70% of 827 reviews2021
Dev: SpiffyBitPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements. Explore an open world with different biomes, take care of oxygen, manage your farms, generate electricity, build your home and much more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.5% ★, Building 14.3%, Co-op 12.1%, Survival 11.8%, Crafting 10.8%
- #51 Last Oasis
70% 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: Survival 20.7%, Open World 17.1%, Crafting 16.7%, Building 14.6%, Sandbox 11.8%
- #52 Grounded
67% matchVery Positive90% of 93,832 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.3 hrsMean: 41.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.6% ★, Survival 16.8%, Co-op 13.6%, Crafting 12.2%, Open World 7.9%
- #53 Frozen Flame
69% 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 32.3% ★, Crafting 11.7%, Building 11%, Sandbox 10.4%, Survival 9.8%
- #54 Valheim
66% 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 33.6% ★, Survival 10.3%, Crafting 9.9%, Building 9.8%, Open World 8.9%
- #55 Planetaries
68% matchMixed58% of 223 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 28.4% ★, Crafting 10.9%, Building 10%, Survival 8.9%, Co-op 8.9%
- #56 Occupy Mars: The Game
66% 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: Crafting 17.6%, Sandbox 14.8%, Building 14.8%, Open World 13.3%, Co-op 13.3%
- #57 RailGods of Hysterra
68% matchMixed56% of 332 reviews2025
Dev: Troglobytes GamesPub: Digital Vortex Entertainment
Windows
Embark on a co-op survival journey for 1-5 players through a post-apocalyptic Lovecraftian world! Command and evolve a living, monstrous train, craft weapons, build a mobile base, gain powers, and face the Great Old Ones. Explore an ever-changing world, hold on to your sanity, and ascend to godhood!
Why similar: Crafting 23.2%, Survival 19%, Building 16.7%, Sandbox 14.6%, PvE 12%
- #58 Salt 2: Shores of Gold
65% matchVery Positive85% of 2,262 reviews2025
Dev: Lavaboots Studios
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Salt 2 is a pirate-themed open world adventure focused on exploration, crafting, and survival. Play solo or with up to 5 friends, sailing the sea with your ship as a mobile base. Discover islands full of quests, towns, caves, and secrets. Level up, craft gear, hunt, fish, and customize your ship.
Why similar: Crafting 21%, Open World 18%, Survival 17.7%, Sandbox 16.4%, PvE 10.7%
- #59 Alchemist's Awakening
69% matchMostly Positive73% of 497 reviews2019
Dev: OsarisGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Enter a world full of magic, mystery, beautiful landscapes and dangerous creatures. Build your own destiny, by yourself or with some friends, gather materials, use elements as attacks, recombine them into building blocks... and use your Alchemist's power to give life to any shape you built.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.1% ★, Crafting 16.4%, Sandbox 13.7%, Open World 10.9%, Survival 10.8%
