- #1 Nightingale
97% matchMixed67% of 17,841 reviews2024
Dev: Inflexion Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 23.9 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 14.7%, Base Building 14.4%, Survival 13.8%, Online Co-Op 13.8%, Crafting 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: Its fantasy survival-crafting structure, large build system, and co-op exploration make it one of the nearest matches to Enshrouded's vibe.
- #2 Valheim
96% matchVery Positive94% of 529,829 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 25.6 hrsMean: 76.1 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 15.2%, Online Co-Op 15%, Survival 14.8%, Base Building 13.7%, Crafting 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: It delivers the closest overall mix of co-op survival, rewarding exploration, meaningful base-building, and boss-gated progression in a mythic world.
- #3 V Rising
96% matchVery Positive89% of 132,034 reviews2024
Dev: Stunlock Studios
Windows
Median: 21.0 hrsMean: 57.1 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 17.9%, Open World 17.2%, Survival 15.5%, Online Co-Op 11.3%, Crafting 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: It pairs fast action-RPG combat and boss progression with deep base-building and survival systems in a dark fantasy setting.
- #4 The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™
95% matchVery Positive82% of 11,474 reviews2024
Dev: Free Range GamesPub: North Beach Games
Windows
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 20.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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: Base Building 18%, Online Co-Op 13.5%, Survival 13.5%, Crafting 11.9%, Open World 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: Like Enshrouded, it is a co-op fantasy survival game about reclaiming a fallen realm through exploration, crafting, and fortress-building.
- #5 RuneScape: Dragonwilds
94% matchVery Positive81% of 23,948 reviews2025
Dev: Jagex Ltd
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
On RuneScape’s forgotten continent of Ashenfall, dragons have awoken. Gather, build, skill and craft to survive in this co-operative (1-4) survival crafting game. Only by mastering survival and uncovering ancient secrets can they hope to slay the Dragon Queen—alone or with allies.
Why similar: Open World 17.6%, Survival 14.4%, Online Co-Op 13%, Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: Its fantasy setting, survival-crafting loop, magical progression, and co-op world exploration line up very well with Enshrouded's core appeal.
- #6 Conan Exiles
94% matchMostly Positive79% of 111,441 reviews2018
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 16.9 hrsMean: 111.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
An online multiplayer survival game, now with sorcery, set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian. Survive in a vast open world sandbox, build your home into a kingdom, and dominate your enemies in single or multiplayer.
Why similar: Survival 22.5%, Open World 21.4%, Crafting 13.1%, Building 10.8%, Multiplayer 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: It offers sprawling open-world survival, strong building tools, dungeon-style exploration, and co-op progression for players who like a harsher version of Enshrouded.
- #7 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
93% matchVery Positive82% of 9,646 reviews2024
Dev: Merge GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 15.1 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: Base Building 15.6%, Survival 13.4%, Open World 12.6%, Online Co-Op 12.1%, Crafting 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes co-op survival, vertical exploration, and creative base-building in a world that feels adventurous and handcrafted.
- #8 Soulmask
91% matchVery Positive81% of 17,627 reviews2024
Dev: CampFire StudioPub: Qooland Games
Windows
Median: 13.7 hrsMean: 66.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Choose your path across a primeval continent shaped by the Mask's power. From lush rainforests to scorched sands, recruit and lead unique tribesmen, build automated production lines, and construct everything from local bases to colossal airships, uncover the secrets of the Mask
Why similar: Base Building 20.3%, Open World 19%, Survival 16.7%, Crafting 15%, Building 12.4%
Why You'll Like It: Its open-world survival systems, progression-heavy crafting, and substantial base development make it a strong fit for Enshrouded fans.
- #9 Portal Knights
92% matchVery Positive83% of 22,116 reviews2017
Dev: Keen Games GmbHPub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 21.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
The world of Elysia needs YOU! Join this cooperative, 3D sandbox action RPG to level up your character, craft epic weapons, conquer enemies in real-time, and build almost anything! Craft your adventure. Forge your hero. Become the ultimate Portal Knight!
Why similar: Survival 18.4%, Crafting 18.3%, Multiplayer 15%, Building 13.9%, Sandbox 13.4%
Why You'll Like It: It blends colorful action-RPG progression, dungeon exploration, crafting, and co-op building in a way that strongly overlaps with Enshrouded.
- #10 Grounded
91% matchVery Positive90% of 92,875 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.2 hrsMean: 40.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?
Why similar: Survival 22.9%, Base Building 20.3%, Open World 12.8%, Crafting 12.2%, Multiplayer 12.1%
Why You'll Like It: Although not fantasy, it nails the same satisfying loop of exploration, crafting, building, and tackling a dangerous world with friends.
- #11 Len's Island
89% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,615 reviews2025
Dev: Flow Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
An open-world survival crafting game for 1–8 players, blending intense dungeon crawling and ARPG combat with peaceful farming and creative building. Take on quests and explore a vast, procedurally-generated world full of danger and discovery.
Why similar: Open World 17.2%, Survival 17%, Base Building 16.6%, Crafting 14.2%, Building 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the same building-meets-action-RPG feel with base creation, gathering, crafting, and dungeon crawling in a flexible co-op sandbox.
- #12 Frozen Flame
90% matchMixed63% of 2,965 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: Base Building 15.7%, Open World 13.3%, Online Co-Op 13%, Survival 11.7%, Crafting 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: Its fantasy survival-action structure, exploration focus, and buildable bases make it one of the more direct mechanical cousins to Enshrouded.
- #13 Bellwright
89% matchVery Positive81% of 18,990 reviews2024
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 41.1 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: Open World 21.6%, Survival 20.8%, Online Co-Op 15.8%, Crafting 15.2%, Building 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: It shares Enshrouded's mix of open-world building, crafting, combat, and gradual reclamation of a hostile land, just with more settlement management.
- #14 Dune: Awakening
88% matchMostly Positive70% of 74,372 reviews2025
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 47.7 hrsMean: 95.2 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: Base Building 14.3%, Open World 12.4%, Online Co-Op 11.1%, Survival 11.1%, Crafting 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: Its large shared world, survival crafting, exploration, and base progression make it a good match for players who want Enshrouded on a bigger scale.
- #15 Core Keeper
87% matchVery Positive93% of 63,205 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.0 hrsMean: 33.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
Why similar: Base Building 15.6%, Open World 14.8%, Survival 12.9%, Online Co-Op 12.3%, Crafting 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: It offers excellent co-op exploration, boss progression, crafting, and base-building, only from a top-down pixel perspective.
- #16 Necesse
86% matchVery Positive93% of 26,780 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 14.6 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 16.3%, Survival 13.3%, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 11.9%, Multiplayer 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: Its mix of sandbox building, combat progression, exploration, and multiplayer base management mirrors Enshrouded surprisingly well in 2D form.
- #17 Palworld
84% matchVery Positive94% of 417,805 reviews2024
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 34.2 hrsMean: 70.0 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 21.2%, Survival 17%, Online Co-Op 12.2%, Base Building 11.7%, Crafting 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: Its open-world co-op survival loop, crafting, and base-building give it a similar progression rhythm despite a much more playful theme.
- #18 ICARUS
86% matchMostly Positive74% of 62,078 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 44.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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: Base Building 17.3%, Survival 16.4%, Online Co-Op 13.5%, Open World 13%, Crafting 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on co-op survival, crafting, and substantial base-building with a strong progression loop, even if its sci-fi setting is less similar.
- #19 Dawn of Defiance
85% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,736 reviews2024
Dev: Traega EntertainmentPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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: Online Co-Op 15.5%, Base Building 15.1%, Survival 14.5%, Open World 12.3%, Crafting 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: Its mythological survival-crafting setup, boss fights, and building systems place it very close to Enshrouded's overall formula.
- #20 DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS™ 2
84% matchVery Positive92% of 7,831 reviews2019
Dev: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 11.3 hrsMean: 48.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%
DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS™ 2 is a block-building RPG set in a fantasy land threatened by an evil cult. Explore, battle, build and harvest in the charming single-player campaign or build big projects in the online sandbox mode for up to 4-players.
Why similar: Building 18.6%, Crafting 16.5%, RPG 14.8%, Sandbox 14.4%, Open World 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: It leans more into building than survival, but its blend of RPG adventuring, exploration, and creative construction hits many of the same notes.
- #21 IfSunSets
82% matchMostly Positive75% of 2,127 reviews2024
Dev: POLYMORPHPub: Smilegate
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 28.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
「IfSunSets」 is a survival RPG adventure game. During the day, secure necessary supplies across the island, and survive the night against strong and terrifying monsters that track you down. You can utilize resources you've secured to build a base to fend off threatening monsters.
Why similar: Base Building 15.3%, Open World 13.8%, Online Co-Op 12.5%, Survival 12.1%, Crafting 11.6%
Why You'll Like It: It mixes open-world exploration, crafting, and base defense in a survival framework that feels familiar to Enshrouded players.
- #22 Tribes of Midgard
83% matchMostly Positive76% of 23,072 reviews2021
Dev: NorsfellPub: Gearbox Publishing
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 19.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A vibrant blend of survival and action RPG for 1-10 players! Craft legendary items, grow your home base and embark on an epic journey through procedural realms to face towering creatures hel-bent on unleashing Ragnarök. Valhalla can wait, Einherjar!
Why similar: Base Building 22.2%, Online Co-Op 21.4%, Survival 16.4%, Action RPG 12%, Multiplayer 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: It blends co-op action-RPG combat, crafting, base upkeep, and mythic survival pressure in a format Enshrouded players often enjoy.
- #23 Terraria
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,511,859 reviews2011
Dev: Re-Logic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 33.2 hrsMean: 149.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Why similar: Survival 18.1%, Crafting 14.2%, Sandbox 13%, Open World 12.2%, Multiplayer 11.4%
Why You'll Like It: It remains one of the best examples of crafting, building, exploration, and boss-driven progression wrapped into a co-op sandbox adventure.
- #24 Myth of Empires
81% matchMixed67% of 17,261 reviews2024
Dev: Angela GamePub: Imperium Interactive Entertainment
Windows
Median: 15.4 hrsMean: 230.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Myth of Empires is a multiplayer war sandbox game featuring a high degree of freedom and multiple civilizations. Players must survive, craft, create, and lead troops in their quest to conquer PVE or PVP territory and build their own empire. Xizhou Civilization Pack is now officially released!
Why similar: Base Building 17.1%, Open World 16.5%, Survival 13.8%, Online Co-Op 11.6%, Building 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: It combines open-world survival, building, crafting, mounts, and multiplayer progression in a vast sandbox that scratches a similar itch.
- #25 Sengoku Dynasty
81% matchMostly Positive75% of 7,351 reviews2024
Dev: SuperkamiPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 15.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Sengoku Dynasty is the ultimate feudal Japan experience: build villages, grow your community, and shape the open world through combat or economy. The choice is yours alone - or that of up to 4 players in multiplayer co-op!
Why similar: Base Building 19.2%, Open World 16.6%, Survival 14.8%, Online Co-Op 11.8%, Crafting 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes open-world gathering, building, and cooperative settlement growth for players who love Enshrouded's rebuilding side.
- #26 ASKA
80% matchMostly Positive80% of 11,320 reviews2024
Dev: Sand Sailor StudioPub: Thunderful Publishing
Windows
Median: 11.2 hrsMean: 28.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A new Viking age dawns with you at its helm. Forge a thriving colony from nothing in this mythic open-world survival sim. Earn the gods' favor and survive in a land ruled by ancient terrors and unforgiving seasons. Rally unique villagers, expand your settlement and defend your tribe - solo or co-op!
Why similar: Base Building 17.2%, Online Co-Op 14%, Survival 13.4%, Open World 11.6%, Crafting 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a satisfying mix of Viking survival, village-building, exploration, and co-op progression that appeals to base-focused Enshrouded fans.
- #27 Sons Of The Forest
78% matchVery Positive88% of 299,895 reviews2024
Dev: Endnight Games LtdPub: Newnight
Windows
Median: 14.9 hrsMean: 32.0 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends, in this terrifying new open-world survival horror simulator.
Why similar: Survival 21%, Open World 20.6%, Base Building 18.9%, Multiplayer 11.2%, Crafting 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: It trades fantasy for horror, but its co-op exploration, crafting, survival tension, and hands-on base-building hit many of the same pleasures.
- #28 ARK: Survival Ascended
79% matchMixed60% of 100,735 reviews2023
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows
Median: 28.6 hrsMean: 195.6 hrs≥1hr: 92%
ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!
Why similar: Open World 17.7%, Survival 17.5%, Base Building 15.4%, Crafting 10.9%, Multiplayer 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: It is less RPG-like, but its huge world, strong co-op survival loop, and ambitious base-building make it a solid alternative.
- #29 Everwind
77% matchVery Positive82% of 2,069 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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: Open World 15.9%, Online Co-Op 14.1%, Survival 14.1%, Crafting 10.8%, Building 9.2%
- #30 VEIN
77% matchVery Positive90% of 9,542 reviews2025
Dev: Ramjet Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 13.9 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: Open World 19.4%, Base Building 19%, Survival 18.2%, Crafting 10.5%, Multiplayer 8.1%
- #31 Outward Definitive Edition
79% matchMostly Positive73% of 30,417 reviews2022
Dev: Nine Dots StudioPub: Prime Matter
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 17.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
No remarkable journey is achieved without great effort. In Outward, the cold of the night or an infected wound can be as dangerous as a predator lurking in the dark. Explore the vast world of Aurai solo or in Co-op. The Definitive Edition features both DLCs and quality of life improvements.
Why similar: Open World 33%, Survival 20.6%, Online Co-Op 17.4%, RPG 11.7%, Multiplayer 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: It is lighter on building, but its co-op fantasy adventuring, exploration, and survival-flavored RPG progression feel very Enshrouded-adjacent.
- #32 StarRupture
76% matchVery Positive81% of 10,861 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 18.9 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: Base Building 19.7%, Open World 16.2%, Survival 14.9%, Crafting 12.8%, Online Co-Op 11.6%
- #33 No One Survived
76% matchMixed65% of 7,577 reviews2025
Dev: Cat Play Studio
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 22.9 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 22.8%, Open World 21.8%, Crafting 13.1%, Multiplayer 10.5%, Online Co-Op 9.6%
- #34 Craftopia
78% matchMostly Positive77% of 19,974 reviews2020
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Craftopia is the brand new multiplayer survival action game made in Japan. We combined many features we find enjoyable, such as hunting, farming, hack-and-slash, building, automation to develop this game.
Why similar: Open World 24%, Crafting 17.6%, Survival 17.2%, Multiplayer 9.6%, Online Co-Op 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: It throws together co-op open-world crafting, building, and light action-RPG progression in a highly systems-driven sandbox.
- #35 Grounded 2
75% matchVery Positive81% of 19,870 reviews2025
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 20.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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: Survival 18.9%, Base Building 18.2%, Open World 15.1%, Crafting 10.9%, Multiplayer 9.9%
- #36 Tinkerlands
74% matchVery Positive86% of 3,746 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 13.7 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: Online Co-Op 16.8%, Open World 16.8%, Survival 15.4%, Crafting 11.9%, Sandbox 9%
- #37 Voidtrain
74% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,176 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 13.8 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: Base Building 16.4%, Survival 14.3%, Open World 14%, Online Co-Op 13%, Crafting 11.7%
- #38 Medieval Dynasty
75% matchVery Positive91% of 49,970 reviews2021
Dev: Render CubePub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 35.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.
Why similar: Crafting 18.4%, Base Building 16%, Open World 15.1%, Survival 14%, Building 13.6%
- #39 Vampires: Bloodlord Rising
73% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,441 reviews2026
Dev: Mehuman GamesPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 75%
In this dark, open-world adventure, you awaken as a Vampire Lord. Build and customize your castle. Hunt for blood, fight, craft, and gather. Command your loyal servants. Shapeshift into a bat to explore the night and survive the relentless Inquisition, solo or in 4-player co-op.
Why similar: Base Building 17%, Open World 14.8%, Online Co-Op 13.4%, Survival 12.9%, Crafting 12.1%
- #40 Forever Skies
72% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,284 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.4 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: Base Building 20.9%, Open World 17.7%, Survival 16.1%, Crafting 14.6%, Building 9%
- #41 Once Human
72% matchMostly Positive77% of 167,251 reviews2024
Dev: Starry Studio
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 50.2 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Once Human is a multiplayer open-world survival game set in a strange, post-apocalyptic future. Unite with friends to fight monstrous enemies, uncover secret plots, compete for resources, and build your own territory. Once, you were merely human. Now, you have the power to remake the world.
Why similar: Base Building 22.6%, Open World 19.6%, Survival 18.4%, Online Co-Op 17.7%, Multiplayer 11.6%
- #42 Ashes of Creation
73% matchMostly Negative37% of 18,678 reviews2025
Dev: Intrepid Studios, Inc
Windows
Median: 13.8 hrsMean: 76.8 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 22.9%, Base Building 20.3%, Action RPG 14%, Character Customization 13.8%, RPG 10.2%
- #43 Abiotic Factor
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 52,861 reviews2025
Dev: Deep Field GamesPub: Playstack
Windows
Median: 19.3 hrsMean: 42.7 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: Base Building 19.5%, Online Co-Op 16.5%, Survival 16.2%, Crafting 14.3%, Multiplayer 8%
- #44 Sunkenland
71% matchVery Positive81% of 22,996 reviews2023
Dev: Vector3 Studio
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 17.9 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: Base Building 21.1%, Survival 20.8%, Open World 14.8%, Crafting 13.7%, Multiplayer 11.1%
- #45 Eden Crafters
71% matchVery Positive86% of 2,214 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in Eden Crafters, a solo and co-op open-world game that challenges you to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Temper the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Base Building 20.3%, Open World 15.6%, Crafting 14.3%, Online Co-Op 13.5%, Survival 12.5%
- #46 HumanitZ
69% matchMostly Positive75% of 11,640 reviews2026
Dev: Yodubzz StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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: Base Building 18.3%, Open World 16.9%, Survival 16.2%, Crafting 12.6%, Online Co-Op 11.8%
- #47 Last Oasis
73% matchMixed62% of 24,198 reviews2020
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 17.9 hrsMean: 121.0 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 23.2%, Open World 22.7%, Crafting 13.7%, Building 9.6%, Multiplayer 8.7%
- #48 The Riftbreaker
70% matchVery Positive90% of 23,181 reviews2021
Dev: EXOR Studios
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
The Riftbreaker is a solo or Co-op base-building, survival game with Action-RPG elements for up to 4 players. Hack & slash countless hordes of enemies. Build up your base, craft powerful weapons and research new inventions to survive.
Why similar: Base Building 21.9%, Online Co-Op 17.6%, Survival 12.8%, Crafting 10.4%, Multiplayer 10%
- #49 Solace Crafting
71% 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: Base Building 14.4%, Open World 13.2%, Survival 13.1%, Crafting 11.7%, Online Co-Op 11.3%
- #50 DYSPLACED
68% matchVery Positive89% of 253 reviews2026
Dev: 10tons Ltd
Windows
The realm is dying. As its Guardian, you have one desperate option — tear it apart to rebuild it stronger. Explore a vast open world, master its secrets, and forge salvation from the ruins. Sometimes, saving the world means destroying it first.
Why similar: Open World 19%, Base Building 18.5%, Survival 14.5%, Crafting 13.5%, Building 10%
- #51 Voyagers of Nera
68% matchVery Positive85% of 2,114 reviews2025
Dev: Treehouse Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 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: Base Building 20.8%, Online Co-Op 16.9%, Crafting 15.1%, Building 11.1%, Multiplayer 11%
- #52 Project Castaway
68% matchMixed67% of 1,632 reviews2026
Dev: Mardonpol Inc.
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 69%
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: Base Building 15.2%, Online Co-Op 15.1%, Open World 13.7%, Survival 13.7%, Crafting 9.6%
- #53 Volcanoids
70% matchVery Positive83% of 9,214 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: Open World 15.2%, Base Building 14.8%, Online Co-Op 13.8%, Survival 13.6%, Crafting 12.5%
- #54 The Front
67% matchMixed68% of 10,753 reviews2025
Dev: Samar Studio
Windows
Median: 10.6 hrsMean: 44.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
The Front is a survival open-world crafting sandbox game. You are a resistance fighter sent back in time to stop the rise of a tyrannical empire. Collect resources, craft tech, build shelters, and fight monsters to accomplish your mission.
Why similar: Base Building 17.6%, Survival 14.7%, Open World 14.7%, Crafting 13.1%, Online Co-Op 9.6%
- #55 ENDALOR
67% matchMixed68% of 79 reviews2026
Dev: Diorite Games
Windows
An immersive medieval dark fantasy survival game with RPG elements for 1-4 players. Set in a hand crafted open world. Explore, survive, build, craft, fight and conquer your way through the dark, brutal and mysterious lands.
Why similar: Open World 15.1%, Base Building 14.5%, Online Co-Op 14.4%, Survival 14%, Crafting 10.3%
- #56 Rem Survival
70% matchMostly Positive76% of 802 reviews2021
Dev: Immortal Hand Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 47.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Scavenge abandoned ruins, craft gear from scrap and salvaged materials, and fight the environment itself as hunger, exposure, and exhaustion push you to your limits. There are no second chances—only adaptation or death.
Why similar: Base Building 21.3%, Open World 18.9%, Survival 17.7%, Crafting 16.3%, Building 10.8%
- #57 The Planet Crafter
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 67,314 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.1 hrsMean: 37.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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: Base Building 20.3%, Online Co-Op 15.2%, Survival 14.7%, Open World 14.5%, Crafting 12.6%
- #58 SurrounDead
66% matchVery Positive92% of 23,544 reviews2022
Dev: ZurvivorPub: PlaySurrounDead
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
SurrounDead is an open world survival game. Taking place in a world ravaged by an apocalyptic catastrophe. The dead reign free and will stop at nothing to kill you.
Why similar: Open World 31.9%, Survival 30.6%, Base Building 18%, RPG 5.2%, Exploration 4.6%
- #59 RailGods of Hysterra
67% matchMixed57% of 331 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: Base Building 20%, Survival 15.7%, Crafting 14.1%, Online Co-Op 13.7%, Multiplayer 9.2%
- #60 Omega Crafter
66% matchMostly Positive79% of 560 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 17.9%, Survival 15.5%, Crafting 14.1%, Online Co-Op 10.8%, Multiplayer 10.2%