- #1 Nightingale
97% matchMixed66% of 17,965 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 15%, Base Building 14.5%, Survival 13.9%, Online Co-Op 13.6%, Crafting 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: Another survival crafting game built around beautiful fantasy realms, co-op expeditions, gear progression, and elaborate base construction.
- #2 Valheim
96% matchVery Positive94% of 535,809 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 25.9 hrsMean: 77.4 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 15.6%, Survival 14.9%, Online Co-Op 14.9%, Base Building 13.8%, Crafting 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: Its co-op exploration, boss-gated progression, resource gathering, and satisfying structural building make it the closest overall fit to Enshrouded's adventure-survival loop.
- #3 V Rising
96% matchVery Positive89% of 135,087 reviews2024
Dev: Stunlock Studios
Windows
Median: 21.1 hrsMean: 57.6 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 17.2%, Open World 16.7%, Survival 14.7%, Crafting 10.3%, Online Co-Op 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: It similarly pairs action-RPG combat and boss hunts with base-building, crafting progression, and shared-world co-op.
- #4 Frozen Flame
95% matchMixed63% of 2,979 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 15.8%, Open World 13.6%, Online Co-Op 12.9%, Survival 11.8%, Crafting 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: Its fantasy setting, exploration, action combat, crafting, and home-building feel very close to Enshrouded's overall vibe.
- #5 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
94% matchVery Positive82% of 10,202 reviews2024
Dev: Merge GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 15.8 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: Base Building 15.8%, Survival 13.5%, Open World 13%, Online Co-Op 12%, Crafting 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: It offers co-op survival, vertical exploration, base construction, and a vivid world full of environmental hazards and progression.
- #6 Soulmask
94% matchMostly Positive77% of 21,804 reviews2026
Dev: CampFire StudioPub: Qooland Games
Windows
Median: 13.8 hrsMean: 68.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. Possess any of your tribespeople, recruit followers, and build a thriving automated civilization. Survive, expand, and forge your own legacy across a vast ancient open world — together with friends.
Why similar: Base Building 21.5%, Open World 18.4%, Survival 16.6%, Crafting 15.3%, Sandbox 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes open-world survival, sizable base building, exploration, and combat progression while supporting cooperative play.
- #7 The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™
93% matchVery Positive81% of 12,047 reviews2024
Dev: Free Range GamesPub: North Beach Games
Windows
Median: 7.5 hrsMean: 19.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A survival crafting adventure set in the Fourth Age of Middle-earth. Lead the Dwarves to reclaim Moria - mine, build, and battle through procedurally generated depths alone or with up to 8 players in co-op. It is time to return to Moria!
Why similar: Base Building 18.1%, Survival 13.7%, Online Co-Op 13.4%, Crafting 11.8%, Open World 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: A co-op fantasy survival game about reclaiming a fallen realm through mining, crafting, exploration, and stronghold building.
- #8 Grounded
92% matchVery Positive90% of 94,448 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: Survival 23%, Base Building 20.3%, Open World 13.1%, Multiplayer 12.1%, Crafting 12.1%
Why You'll Like It: Its handcrafted world, boss fights, co-op survival systems, and polished building/crafting loop hit many of the same notes despite the backyard theme.
- #9 Bellwright
91% matchVery Positive81% of 20,282 reviews2024
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 12.8 hrsMean: 41.3 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 22%, Survival 21.1%, Online Co-Op 15.8%, Crafting 14.9%, Building 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: If you loved Enshrouded's building and reclaiming-the-land feel, Bellwright offers a similar loop with more town management and medieval survival.
- #10 RuneScape: Dragonwilds
91% matchVery Positive81% of 25,521 reviews2025
Dev: Jagex Ltd
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%
On RuneScape's forgotten continent of Ashenfall, dragons have awoken. Gather, build, skill and craft in this co-operative survival adventure. Only by mastering survival and uncovering ancient secrets can you hope to face the ferocious Dragon Queen.
Why similar: Open World 18%, Survival 14.4%, Online Co-Op 13%, Base Building 12.4%, Crafting 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: Its fantasy survival framework, co-op exploration, crafting, and stronghold building make it an obvious Enshrouded-adjacent pick.
- #11 Dune: Awakening
90% matchMostly Positive71% of 76,850 reviews2025
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 47.6 hrsMean: 99.1 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: Base Building 14.4%, Open World 12.7%, Survival 11.2%, Online Co-Op 11%, Crafting 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: For players who mainly want large-scale co-op survival crafting, persistent bases, and dangerous open-world exploration, this is a promising fit.
- #12 Palworld
89% matchVery Positive94% of 423,735 reviews2024
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 34.6 hrsMean: 71.1 hrs≥1hr: 96%
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 21.8%, Survival 17.2%, Online Co-Op 11.9%, Base Building 11.7%, Crafting 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: It blends open-world exploration, building, crafting, bosses, and co-op progression in a more playful but similarly compulsive survival sandbox.
- #13 ICARUS
89% matchMostly Positive75% of 64,520 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 46.3 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: Base Building 17.3%, Survival 16.6%, Online Co-Op 13.4%, Open World 13.2%, Crafting 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: It leans harder into survival, but its co-op missions, base building, crafting progression, and PvE exploration make it a strong systems match.
- #14 Medieval Dynasty
87% matchVery Positive90% of 51,181 reviews2021
Dev: Render CubePub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 11.8 hrsMean: 36.2 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 18.1%, Base Building 16.1%, Open World 15.4%, Survival 14.2%, Building 13.6%
Why You'll Like It: While slower and less combat-heavy, it scratches the same urge to gather, craft, build a home, and gradually tame a hostile world.
- #15 Portal Knights
88% matchVery Positive83% of 22,274 reviews2017
Dev: Keen Games GmbHPub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 5.6 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 18.6%, Crafting 18.3%, Multiplayer 15%, Building 13.9%, Sandbox 13.3%
Why You'll Like It: This lighter action-RPG mixes crafting, building, character classes, and co-op adventuring in a colorful fantasy setting.
- #16 ARK: Survival Ascended
86% matchMixed60% of 108,124 reviews2023
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows
Median: 27.5 hrsMean: 197.3 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 18.3%, Survival 17.7%, Base Building 15.3%, Crafting 10.8%, Multiplayer 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: Swap fantasy for dinosaurs and you still get a huge survival sandbox built around gathering, building, boss prep, and multiplayer progression.
- #17 Sons Of The Forest
85% matchVery Positive88% of 309,677 reviews2024
Dev: Endnight Games LtdPub: Newnight
Windows
Median: 15.0 hrsMean: 32.3 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 21.2%, Open World 20.9%, Base Building 18.8%, Multiplayer 11.1%, Crafting 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the tension of exploring a hostile world, scavenging materials, crafting gear, and constructing defensible bases with friends.
- #18 Craftopia
86% matchMostly Positive77% of 20,075 reviews2020
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 22.2 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 24.5%, Crafting 17.5%, Survival 17.3%, Multiplayer 9.6%, Online Co-Op 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: It mixes anime-flavored action-RPG combat with open-world crafting, building, farming, and cooperative exploration.
- #19 Aloft
84% matchVery Positive84% of 3,616 reviews2025
Dev: Astrolabe Interactive Inc.Pub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 14.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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: Survival 19.9%, Crafting 18.3%, Open World 16.7%, Building 13.2%, Multiplayer 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: Its cozy co-op survival crafting, floating-island exploration, and creative base building appeal to the lighter side of Enshrouded.
- #20 Pax Dei
84% matchMixed57% of 11,051 reviews2025
Dev: Mainframe Industries
Windows
Median: 16.5 hrsMean: 70.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Welcome to a vast, social sandbox MMO inspired by the legends of the medieval era. Here, myths are real, ghosts exist, and magic is unquestioned. Join thousands of players as you explore the land, build your home, forge your reputation, and craft your own stories. What world will you make?
Why similar: Base Building 19.6%, Open World 17.5%, Crafting 14.3%, Multiplayer 9.1%, Sandbox 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: If your favorite part was building grand halls in a shared fantasy world, Pax Dei doubles down on communal construction and crafting.
- #21 Len's Island
83% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,768 reviews2025
Dev: Flow Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 12.2 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 17.5%, Survival 17.1%, Base Building 16.8%, Crafting 14.1%, Building 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: It combines accessible action combat, dungeon delving, farming, crafting, and house building in a relaxed fantasy setting.
- #22 Core Keeper
82% matchVery Positive93% of 65,043 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.1 hrsMean: 34.4 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 15.3%, Survival 13.2%, Online Co-Op 12%, Crafting 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: Even with a top-down perspective, its exploration, boss progression, crafting, and base-building loop strongly overlaps with Enshrouded.
- #23 ASKA
82% matchMostly Positive80% of 11,841 reviews2024
Dev: Sand Sailor StudioPub: Thunderful Publishing
Windows
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 28.6 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 17.3%, Online Co-Op 13.9%, Survival 13.5%, Open World 11.8%, Crafting 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: This Viking survival builder blends cooperative exploration and combat with constructing and defending an evolving settlement.
- #24 Raft
81% matchVery Positive93% of 373,485 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.6 hrsMean: 37.5 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: Survival 24%, Open World 13.4%, Multiplayer 13.3%, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 12.3%
Why You'll Like It: Though sea-based, it delivers the same addictive co-op cycle of gathering, crafting, expanding your home base, and pushing into new regions.
- #25 Tribes of Midgard
81% matchMostly Positive76% of 23,166 reviews2021
Dev: NorsfellPub: Gearbox Publishing
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 19.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 22.4%, Online Co-Op 21.2%, Survival 16.6%, Action RPG 12%, Multiplayer 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: It compresses co-op survival, crafting, construction, and mythic boss fights into a more session-driven action-RPG format.
- #26 Windrose
77% matchVery Positive87% of 48,348 reviews2026
Dev: Kraken Express
Windows
Median: 19.7 hrsMean: 32.4 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Embark on a PvE survival adventure in the Age of Piracy. Fight on land and sea, solo or with friends. Build, craft and explore vast open world filled with dark secrets. Master soulslite combat and take on challenging bosses, command your ship and plunder unspoken treasures!
Why similar: Online Co-Op 17.6%, Survival 16.6%, Crafting 15.5%, Base Building 14.3%, Open World 12.6%
- #27 No Man's Sky
80% matchVery Positive85% of 410,213 reviews2016
Dev: Hello Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 20.1 hrsMean: 70.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Why similar: Open World 34.5%, Survival 19.5%, Multiplayer 11.5%, Crafting 11.1%, Sandbox 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: Its base building, cooperative exploration, constant crafting progression, and huge sense of discovery make it a strong broader alternative.
- #28 Myth of Empires
79% matchMixed67% of 17,420 reviews2024
Dev: Angela GamePub: Imperium Interactive Entertainment
Windows
Median: 15.2 hrsMean: 230.0 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 17.3%, Open World 17%, Survival 14%, Building 11.5%, Online Co-Op 11.4%
Why You'll Like It: This large-scale survival sandbox emphasizes crafting, construction, territory growth, and co-op progression in a sprawling open world.
- #29 Everwind
78% matchVery Positive82% of 3,471 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 13.6 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: Open World 15.2%, Online Co-Op 13.7%, Survival 13%, Crafting 11.9%, Building 8.9%
- #30 VEIN
76% matchVery Positive89% of 10,737 reviews2025
Dev: Ramjet Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 14.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 20.2%, Base Building 19.2%, Survival 18.3%, Crafting 10.1%, Multiplayer 8.2%
- #31 Outward Definitive Edition
78% matchMostly Positive73% of 31,038 reviews2022
Dev: Nine Dots StudioPub: Prime Matter
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 18.0 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 33.4%, Survival 20.7%, Online Co-Op 17.1%, RPG 11.6%, Multiplayer 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: It lacks heavy building, but its co-op fantasy exploration, survival mechanics, and grounded action-RPG feel will resonate with Enshrouded fans.
- #32 Farever
76% matchMostly Positive75% of 7,878 reviews2026
Dev: Shiro Games
Windows
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 22.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Forge your legend in a forgotten realm! Farever is an online multiplayer action RPG set in a vast fantasy open world. Alone or with friends, embark on an epic journey together! Explore wild lands and dangerous dungeons, craft powerful gear, and carve your path through dynamic combat and platforming.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 19.2%, Open World 17.7%, Action RPG 11.7%, Crafting 11.2%, Sandbox 7.2%
- #33 Citadel: Forged with Fire
79% matchMixed68% of 5,889 reviews2019
Dev: Blue Isle StudiosPub: Blue Isle Publishing
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
This massive online sandbox RPG features elements of magic, spellcasting, building, exploring and crafting. As a newly minted apprentice of the magic arts, you will set off to the dangerous world of Ignus. Tame mighty beasts, forge alliances, explore uncharted territories or fight for dominance!
Why similar: Open World 26.5%, Survival 17.7%, Base Building 10%, Crafting 9.9%, Sandbox 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: It's rougher around the edges, but the fantasy open world, spellcasting, flying, crafting, and castle building line up closely with Enshrouded's fantasy survival appeal.
- #34 Dawn of Defiance
77% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,809 reviews2024
Dev: Traega EntertainmentPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 9.8 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: Online Co-Op 15.4%, Base Building 15.2%, Survival 14.7%, Open World 12.5%, Crafting 8.2%
- #35 Necesse
74% matchVery Positive93% of 27,406 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 14.9 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 16.4%, Survival 13.4%, Base Building 12.9%, Crafting 11.8%, Multiplayer 9.6%
- #36 Romestead
74% matchMostly Positive75% of 3,870 reviews2026
Dev: BeartwigsPub: Three Friends
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 13.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Rome has fallen! Rebuild civilization in this action-adventure survival game for 1-8 players. Fight hordes of the walking dead, build settlements, restore the Roman gods... or kick back and farm with friends.
Why similar: Base Building 15.1%, Survival 14.2%, Crafting 14.2%, Open World 11.9%, Online Co-Op 11.6%
- #37 No One Survived
75% matchMixed65% of 7,677 reviews2025
Dev: Cat Play Studio
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 22.7 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 23.2%, Open World 22.3%, Crafting 13.1%, Multiplayer 10.5%, Online Co-Op 9.2%
- #38 Grounded 2
73% matchVery Positive81% of 21,894 reviews2025
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.4 hrsMean: 22.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Shrunk again, but the world is much larger. In this open-world, single-player or co-op survival adventure, craft weapons and armor, build your base, and traverse the playground on your buggy. But something else is out there—and it hasn’t forgotten you.
Why similar: Survival 19%, Base Building 18.6%, Open World 15.6%, Crafting 11%, Multiplayer 9.7%
- #39 StarRupture
73% matchVery Positive81% of 12,717 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 23.8 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 19.8%, Open World 16.5%, Survival 14.9%, Crafting 12.7%, Online Co-Op 11.5%
- #40 Conan Exiles Enhanced
75% matchMostly Positive79% of 116,054 reviews2018
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 17.1 hrsMean: 112.9 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: Survival 22.6%, Open World 21.8%, Crafting 12.9%, Building 10.7%, Multiplayer 8.4%
- #41 Tinkerlands
72% matchVery Positive86% of 3,887 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 17.1%, Online Co-Op 16.7%, Survival 15.6%, Crafting 11.8%, Sandbox 8.9%
- #42 Vampires: Bloodlord Rising
72% matchMostly Positive72% of 1,614 reviews2026
Dev: Mehuman GamesPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 17.2%, Open World 15.3%, Online Co-Op 13.2%, Survival 13.1%, Crafting 11.9%
- #43 Voidtrain
71% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,560 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.6 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: Base Building 16.5%, Survival 14.5%, Open World 14.3%, Online Co-Op 12.9%, Crafting 11.5%
- #44 DYSPLACED
71% matchVery Positive89% of 310 reviews2026
Dev: 10tons Ltd
Windows
Grenades are holy relics. Shotguns are spellcraft. In this top-down survival action-RPG, you've been summoned as the Guardian of a fantasy realm invaded by modern world. Scavenge artifacts, forge weapons, build outposts, brew potions, and hunt the corruption devouring the land. Play solo or co-op.
Why similar: Open World 19.3%, Base Building 18.5%, Survival 14.6%, Crafting 13.5%, Building 9.9%
- #45 Abiotic Factor
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 56,173 reviews2025
Dev: Deep Field GamesPub: Playstack
Windows
Median: 20.1 hrsMean: 44.9 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 19.7%, Survival 16.6%, Online Co-Op 16.4%, Crafting 14.3%, Multiplayer 8%
- #46 Ashes of Creation
73% matchMostly Negative37% of 18,934 reviews2025
Dev: Intrepid Studios, Inc
Windows
Median: 13.7 hrsMean: 76.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Ashes of Creation is an old-school take on the modern MMORPG set in a living, reactive world where your choices shape civilization. In this PvX open world sandbox, players will build cities, forge empires, and lay siege to foes. Uncover the Ancients as you fight to reclaim the fallen world of Verra.
Why similar: Crafting 22.9%, Base Building 20.5%, Action RPG 14%, Character Customization 13.6%, RPG 10.2%
- #47 Forever Skies
71% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,533 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 31.9 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 17.9%, Survival 16.1%, Crafting 14.5%, Building 8.9%
- #48 Voyagers of Nera
70% matchVery Positive85% of 2,430 reviews2025
Dev: Treehouse Games
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 12.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 21.5%, Online Co-Op 17.1%, Crafting 15.4%, Building 11.3%, Multiplayer 11.1%
- #49 Sunkenland
70% matchVery Positive81% of 23,316 reviews2023
Dev: Vector3 Studio
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 18.8 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 21.2%, Survival 20.9%, Open World 15.1%, Crafting 13.5%, Multiplayer 11%
- #50 Once Human
69% matchMostly Positive78% of 176,635 reviews2024
Dev: Starry Studio
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 51.1 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 22.7%, Open World 20%, Survival 18.6%, Online Co-Op 17.3%, Multiplayer 11.5%
- #51 Sengoku Dynasty
69% matchMostly Positive75% of 7,594 reviews2024
Dev: SuperkamiPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 7.4 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 16.9%, Survival 14.9%, Online Co-Op 11.7%, Crafting 11.5%
- #52 HumanitZ
68% matchMostly Positive75% of 13,179 reviews2026
Dev: Yodubzz StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 15.0 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: Base Building 18.3%, Open World 17.2%, Survival 16.6%, Crafting 12.4%, Online Co-Op 11.6%
- #53 Witchspire
67% matchVery Positive83% of 1,403 reviews2026
Dev: Envar Games
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Step into the ultimate open-world witch adventure. Befriend and battle creatures, and conjure up a sanctuary alongside other witches in co-op or single-player.
Why similar: Base Building 20.1%, Open World 17.2%, Online Co-Op 16.6%, Crafting 14.5%, Action RPG 8.6%
- #54 IfSunSets
68% matchMostly Positive75% of 2,279 reviews2024
Dev: POLYMORPHPub: Smilegate
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 27.9 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 27.3%, Open World 24%, Action RPG 13.4%, Sandbox 11.5%, PvE 8.1%
- #55 ENDALOR
67% matchMostly Positive70% of 250 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 15.6%, Base Building 14.5%, Online Co-Op 14.3%, Survival 14.1%, Crafting 10.2%
- #56 Eden Crafters
66% matchVery Positive86% of 2,494 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 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: Base Building 19.3%, Open World 15.1%, Crafting 13.5%, Online Co-Op 12.6%, Survival 12%
- #57 The Planet Crafter
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 71,038 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.5 hrsMean: 38.2 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: Base Building 20.6%, Online Co-Op 15.1%, Survival 14.9%, Open World 14.8%, Crafting 12.4%
- #58 Volcanoids
69% matchVery Positive83% of 9,287 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 17.4%, Open World 13.8%, Crafting 12.8%, Survival 12.8%, Online Co-Op 11.6%
- #59 SurrounDead
66% matchVery Positive92% of 25,236 reviews2022
Dev: ZurvivorPub: PlaySurrounDead
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.1 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 32.7%, Survival 31%, Base Building 17.6%, RPG 4.8%, Exploration 4.6%
- #60 Solace Crafting
68% 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 13.5%, Survival 13.2%, Crafting 11.6%, Online Co-Op 11.1%