- #1 Valheim
97% matchVery Positive94% of 555,289 reviews2026
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 26.9 hrsMean: 81.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Why similar: Open World 16%, Survival 15.2%, Online Co-Op 14.6%, Base Building 13.8%, Crafting 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: A superb co-op survival adventure centered on building Viking settlements, exploring dangerous biomes, crafting gear, and preparing for major boss fights.
- #2 V Rising
96% matchVery Positive89% of 137,392 reviews2024
Dev: Stunlock Studios
Windows
Median: 20.9 hrsMean: 58.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Awaken as a Vampire. Hunt for blood in nearby settlements to regain your strength and evade the scorching sun to survive. Raise your castle and thrive in an ever-changing, open world full of mystery. Gain allies online and conquer the land of the living.
Why similar: Base Building 17.1%, Open World 17.1%, Survival 15%, Crafting 10.1%, Online Co-Op 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: Its polished action combat, extensive castle construction, boss-driven progression, and cooperative vampire survival loop make it an especially strong alternative.
- #3 Nightingale
96% matchMixed66% of 18,084 reviews2024
Dev: Inflexion Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 24.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Nightingale is an open world survival crafting game, where you’ll adventure across the mysterious and dangerous Fae Realms. As a daring Realmwalker, you’ll defeat monstrous enemies, survive hostile environments, and build elaborate estates in a visually stunning Gaslamp Fantasy world.
Why similar: Open World 15.4%, Base Building 14.5%, Survival 14.2%, Online Co-Op 13.3%, Crafting 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: This first-person fantasy survival game combines elaborate building, realm exploration, crafting, and co-op expeditions through supernatural worlds.
- #4 Frozen Flame
95% matchMixed62% of 2,997 reviews2022
Dev: Dreamside InteractivePub: Ravenage Games
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A challenging exploration and survival adventure, set in the dying world of Dragons. Only those who harness the power of Frozen Flame have the means to survive the harsh conditions of the realm and able to muster the strength to cleanse it for good.
Why similar: Base Building 15.7%, Open World 14%, Online Co-Op 12.6%, Survival 12%, Crafting 10%
Why You'll Like It: It closely mirrors Enshrouded's fantasy survival-RPG structure with open-world exploration, building, character progression, and co-op combat.
- #5 Bellwright
94% matchVery Positive80% of 21,714 reviews2024
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 12.8 hrsMean: 41.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Establish and expand your own settlements, liberate the land and assist its villagers, and recruit others to your cause while learning more about a life you had to leave behind. Command your forces, prove your valor through combat, and cement yourself as the hero of your people.
Why similar: Open World 22.9%, Survival 21.6%, Online Co-Op 15.3%, Crafting 14.6%, Building 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: A medieval open-world survival RPG where crafting and combat support the larger goal of building settlements and leading their inhabitants.
- #6 RuneScape: Dragonwilds
94% matchVery Positive81% of 32,495 reviews2026
Dev: Jagex Ltd
Windows
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 20.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
On RuneScape's forgotten continent of Ashenfall, dragons have awoken. Gather, build, skill and craft in this co-operative survival adventure. Only by mastering survival and uncovering ancient secrets can you hope to face the ferocious Dragon Queen.
Why similar: Open World 19%, Survival 14.7%, Online Co-Op 12.6%, Base Building 12.4%, Crafting 10%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a colorful fantasy setting built around gathering, crafting, modular base-building, exploration, and cooperative encounters.
- #7 The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™
93% matchVery Positive81% of 12,511 reviews2024
Dev: Free Range GamesPub: North Beach Games
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 19.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A survival crafting adventure set in the Fourth Age of Middle-earth. Lead the Dwarves to reclaim Moria - mine, build, and battle through procedurally generated depths alone or with up to 8 players in co-op. It is time to return to Moria!
Why similar: Base Building 18.1%, Survival 13.9%, Online Co-Op 13.2%, Crafting 11.7%, Open World 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: Co-op dwarf survival, fortress-building, mining expeditions, and a strong sense of reclaiming a ruined fantasy realm align closely with Enshrouded's appeal.
- #8 Len's Island
92% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,974 reviews2025
Dev: Flow Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.8 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 17.9%, Survival 17.5%, Base Building 16.7%, Crafting 13.8%, Building 11.6%
Why You'll Like It: Its blend of action-RPG dungeon delving, resource gathering, home building, farming, and co-op makes it a compact but very compatible choice.
- #9 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
91% matchVery Positive82% of 10,551 reviews2024
Dev: Max Ent Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.
Why similar: Base Building 15.7%, Survival 13.9%, Open World 13.4%, Online Co-Op 11.6%, Crafting 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: It delivers approachable co-op survival and base-building with strong exploration, only from the fresh perspective of being tiny in a huge natural world.
- #10 Dawn of Defiance
91% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,856 reviews2024
Dev: Traega EntertainmentPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
You are a fallen Spartan, cast into the realm between the living and the Underworld. In this survival adventure inspired by Greek myth, hunt, craft and build a home worthy of legend with up to 3 friends. Raid the gods' temples, defeat legendary creatures and loot the iconic weapons of the Olympians.
Why similar: Base Building 15.1%, Survival 15%, Online Co-Op 15%, Open World 12.9%, Crafting 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: A cooperative Greek-myth survival game featuring divine powers, building, crafting, exploration, and combat against mythological threats.
- #11 Grounded
90% matchVery Positive90% of 95,977 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.6 hrsMean: 41.9 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 23.4%, Base Building 20.1%, Open World 13.4%, Multiplayer 12%, Crafting 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: Like Enshrouded, it turns a dangerous world into a co-op survival adventure full of base-building, crafting, exploration, and escalating enemy encounters.
- #12 Grounded 2
89% matchVery Positive81% of 24,763 reviews2025
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 13.2 hrsMean: 26.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Shrunk again, but the world is much larger. In this open-world, single-player or co-op survival adventure, craft weapons and armor, build your base, and traverse the playground on your buggy. But something else is out there—and it hasn’t forgotten you.
Why similar: Survival 19.8%, Base Building 18.8%, Open World 16.3%, Crafting 10.7%, Multiplayer 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: This expanded small-scale co-op survival adventure retains the satisfying building, resource progression, exploration, and shared base defense of its predecessor.
- #13 Soulmask
89% matchMostly Positive77% of 22,506 reviews2026
Dev: CampFire StudioPub: Qooland Games
Windows
Median: 13.9 hrsMean: 69.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. Possess any of your tribespeople, recruit followers, and build a thriving automated civilization. Survive, expand, and forge your own legacy across a vast ancient open world — together with friends.
Why similar: Base Building 22.5%, Open World 20%, Survival 17.7%, Crafting 15.7%, Sandbox 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: Its survival sandbox adds robust base construction, crafting, exploration, and clan management through recruitable NPC tribe members.
- #14 Palworld
85% matchVery Positive95% of 490,433 reviews2026
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 41.0 hrsMean: 86.8 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!
Why similar: Open World 22.4%, Survival 17.5%, Online Co-Op 11.6%, Base Building 11.4%, Crafting 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: Open-world survival, substantial base automation, creature collecting, combat, and multiplayer give it a highly addictive shared-progression loop.
- #15 Dune: Awakening
86% matchMostly Positive71% of 79,582 reviews2025
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 43.1 hrsMean: 98.6 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Dune: Awakening is a single- and multiplayer Open World Survival game with immersive adventure and RPG gameplay. Explore, build, craft, and unravel a cinematic Dune story 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 14.5%, Open World 13.2%, Survival 11.5%, Online Co-Op 10.8%, Crafting 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: Though science-fiction rather than fantasy, its shared open-world survival, base-building, resource gathering, and dangerous expedition structure are familiar.
- #16 Portal Knights
88% matchVery Positive83% of 22,395 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 19%, Crafting 18%, Multiplayer 14.8%, Building 13.8%, Sandbox 13.2%
Why You'll Like It: This co-op action RPG combines block-based building, colorful fantasy island exploration, loot, classes, and boss battles.
- #17 DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS™ 2
87% matchVery Positive92% of 8,103 reviews2019
Dev: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 11.1 hrsMean: 46.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 18.4%, Crafting 16.3%, RPG 14.8%, Sandbox 14.1%, Open World 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: A more cheerful and structured take on the formula, pairing extensive block building with an RPG campaign, exploration, crafting, and town restoration.
- #18 Myth of Empires
86% matchMixed68% of 17,631 reviews2024
Dev: Angela GamePub: Imperium Interactive Entertainment
Windows
Median: 15.0 hrsMean: 228.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Myth of Empires is a multiplayer war sandbox game featuring a high degree of freedom and multiple civilizations. Players must survive, craft, create, and lead troops in their quest to conquer PVE or PVP territory and build their own empire. Xizhou Civilization Pack is now officially released!
Why similar: Open World 17.4%, Base Building 17.2%, Survival 14.3%, Building 11.4%, Online Co-Op 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: Its large-scale medieval sandbox lets groups construct fortified bases, craft equipment, tame mounts, and fight across a persistent open world.
- #19 Medieval Dynasty
84% matchVery Positive90% of 52,440 reviews2021
Dev: Render CubePub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 11.6 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 17.7%, Base Building 16.1%, Open World 15.9%, Survival 14.6%, Building 13.5%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the quieter settlement-building and crafting side of Enshrouded, with a medieval open world and optional cooperative play.
- #20 ASKA
84% matchVery Positive80% of 12,267 reviews2024
Dev: Sand Sailor StudioPub: Thunderful Publishing
Windows
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 29.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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%, Survival 13.8%, Online Co-Op 13.5%, Open World 12.2%, Crafting 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: A Norse-themed survival builder focused on constructing and running a village with friends while enduring a hostile wilderness.
- #21 Core Keeper
82% matchVery Positive93% of 66,787 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.3 hrsMean: 34.9 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: Open World 16%, Base Building 15.4%, Survival 13.7%, Online Co-Op 11.6%, Crafting 11.4%
Why You'll Like It: Despite its top-down pixel presentation, it has an excellent co-op loop of base-building, exploration, crafting, gear progression, and boss hunting.
- #22 Necesse
81% matchVery Positive93% of 29,166 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 16.9%, Survival 13.7%, Base Building 12.9%, Crafting 11.6%, Multiplayer 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: This top-down survival sandbox supports multiplayer exploration, settlement management, building, crafting, and steadily expanding RPG progression.
- #23 ICARUS
83% matchMostly Positive75% of 68,864 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.4 hrsMean: 46.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.
Why similar: Base Building 17.3%, Survival 17%, Open World 13.6%, Online Co-Op 13.2%, Crafting 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: Its mission-based survival expeditions offer demanding gathering, crafting, shelter construction, and co-op progression for players who enjoy Enshrouded's preparation loop.
- #24 Craftopia
82% matchMostly Positive76% of 20,264 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 25.1%, Survival 17.6%, Crafting 17.2%, Multiplayer 9.4%, Online Co-Op 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: A playful open-world crafting RPG with building, dungeons, farming, automation, combat, and multiplayer exploration.
- #25 7 Days to Die
79% matchVery Positive87% of 405,507 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.4 hrsMean: 111.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
Why similar: Survival 20.9%, Open World 16.7%, Base Building 16.7%, Online Co-Op 12.3%, Multiplayer 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: A zombie-survival counterpart built around scavenging, deep crafting, highly flexible base construction, co-op play, and defending against periodic hordes.
- #26 ARK: Survival Ascended
81% matchMixed60% of 118,321 reviews2023
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows
Median: 27.2 hrsMean: 198.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!
Why similar: Open World 18.8%, Survival 18.2%, Base Building 15.1%, Crafting 10.7%, Multiplayer 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: It provides massive multiplayer survival worlds built around crafting, ambitious bases, exploration, creature taming, and increasingly dangerous challenges.
- #27 Tribes of Midgard
80% matchMostly Positive76% of 23,278 reviews2021
Dev: NorsfellPub: Gearbox Publishing
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 19.7 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 20.8%, Survival 17%, Action RPG 12.2%, Multiplayer 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: It condenses the cooperative crafting, base defense, boss preparation, and Norse fantasy adventure into a more session-focused format.
- #28 Windrose
77% matchVery Positive87% of 53,040 reviews2026
Dev: Kraken Express
Windows
Median: 20.3 hrsMean: 33.3 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Embark on a PvE survival adventure in the Age of Piracy. Fight on land and sea, solo or with friends. Build, craft and explore vast open world filled with dark secrets. Master soulslite combat and take on challenging bosses, command your ship and plunder unspoken treasures!
Why similar: Online Co-Op 17.2%, Survival 17.1%, Crafting 15%, Base Building 14.3%, Open World 13%
- #29 Everwind
78% matchVery Positive81% of 3,899 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Everwind is a novel take on RPG and Sandbox Survival genre in First-Person-Perspective. Embark on the adventure with your friends - Build a base on a flying island-ship, gather resources, craft, loot, and fight while you rise above the clouds to uncover the mysteries of this world!
Why similar: Open World 15.6%, Survival 13.3%, Online Co-Op 13.3%, Crafting 11.8%, Building 8.8%
- #30 Outward Definitive Edition
79% matchMostly Positive73% of 31,430 reviews2022
Dev: Nine Dots StudioPub: Prime Matter
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 18.1 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 34%, Survival 20.8%, Online Co-Op 16.5%, RPG 11.6%, Multiplayer 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: Its deliberate fantasy RPG exploration, survival systems, cooperative campaign, and dangerous world suit players who value Enshrouded's adventure side over building.
- #31 Terraria
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,558,339 reviews2011
Dev: Re-Logic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 33.9 hrsMean: 152.6 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Why similar: Survival 18.6%, Crafting 13.9%, Open World 12.8%, Sandbox 12.7%, Multiplayer 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: A legendary exploration-and-building sandbox with cooperative worlds, huge crafting depth, combat progression, elaborate bases, and a vast boss roster.
- #32 Farever
77% matchMostly Positive76% of 9,511 reviews2026
Dev: Shiro Games
Windows
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 24.3 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 18.8%, Open World 18.4%, Action RPG 11.8%, Crafting 10.9%, Sandbox 7.2%
- #33 VEIN
75% matchVery Positive88% of 12,706 reviews2025
Dev: Ramjet Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 14.6 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 21.1%, Survival 19.2%, Base Building 19.1%, Crafting 9.8%, Multiplayer 8.3%
- #34 Once Human
75% matchMostly Positive79% of 189,842 reviews2024
Dev: Starry Studio
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 52.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Once Human is a Strange Worlds Survival Game set in a strange, post-apocalyptic future. Unite with friends to fight monstrous enemies, uncover secret plots, compete for resources, and build your own territory. Once, you were merely human. Now, you have the power to remake the world.
Why similar: Open World 15.4%, Base Building 14.8%, Survival 13.3%, Online Co-Op 11.5%, Crafting 10.6%
- #35 No One Survived
76% matchMixed64% of 7,844 reviews2025
Dev: Cat Play Studio
Windows
Median: 4.4 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 23.7%, Open World 22.9%, Crafting 12.8%, Multiplayer 10.3%, Online Co-Op 8.9%
- #36 StarRupture
74% matchVery Positive81% of 13,607 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 27.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.
Why similar: Base Building 19.6%, Open World 17%, Survival 15.2%, Crafting 12.5%, Online Co-Op 11.2%
- #37 Conan Exiles Enhanced
76% matchMostly Positive79% of 117,692 reviews2018
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 17.2 hrsMean: 114.1 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Conan Exiles Enhanced is an open world survival game set in the mythical lands of Hyboria, now fully upgraded to Unreal Engine 5 with stunning visuals and improved performance. SURVIVE, BUILD, and DOMINATE alone or with friends in a world brimming with adventure!
Why similar: Survival 22.9%, Open World 22.4%, Crafting 12.6%, Building 10.6%, Multiplayer 8.3%
- #38 Vampires: Bloodlord Rising
74% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,868 reviews2026
Dev: Mehuman GamesPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 17.1%, Open World 15.7%, Survival 13.3%, Online Co-Op 12.8%, Crafting 11.8%
- #39 Tinkerlands
73% matchVery Positive86% of 4,122 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.4 hrsMean: 14.5 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 17.6%, Online Co-Op 16.3%, Survival 15.9%, Crafting 11.7%, Sandbox 8.9%
- #40 Romestead
73% matchMostly Positive77% of 5,129 reviews2026
Dev: BeartwigsPub: Three Friends
Windows
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 15.9 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 15.3%, Survival 14.5%, Crafting 13.9%, Open World 12.2%, Online Co-Op 11.4%
- #41 Abiotic Factor
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 59,444 reviews2025
Dev: Deep Field GamesPub: Playstack
Windows
Median: 21.2 hrsMean: 46.5 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Abiotic Factor is a survival crafting experience for 1-6 players set in the depths of an underground research facility. Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the world’s greatest minds must survive against the universe’s biggest threats.
Why similar: Base Building 19.7%, Survival 17.1%, Online Co-Op 16%, Crafting 14.2%, Multiplayer 7.9%
- #42 Voyagers of Nera
72% matchVery Positive85% of 2,647 reviews2025
Dev: Treehouse Games
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 21.7%, Online Co-Op 16.8%, Crafting 15.4%, Building 11.4%, Multiplayer 11.1%
- #43 Forever Skies
71% matchMostly Positive78% of 9,059 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 30.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A first-person survival game set on a post-apocalyptic, ecologically ruined Earth. Play solo or with up to 3 friends as you build, upgrade, and fly a high-tech airship. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and face dangers on the surface as you hunt for a cure to save humanity.
Why similar: Base Building 20.8%, Open World 18.4%, Survival 16.4%, Crafting 14.2%, Building 8.8%
- #44 Ashes of Creation
73% matchMostly Negative36% of 19,083 reviews2025
Dev: Intrepid Studios, Inc
Windows
Median: 13.6 hrsMean: 76.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Ashes of Creation is an old-school take on the modern MMORPG set in a living, reactive world where your choices shape civilization. In this PvX open world sandbox, players will build cities, forge empires, and lay siege to foes. Uncover the Ancients as you fight to reclaim the fallen world of Verra.
Why similar: Crafting 22.6%, Base Building 20.4%, Action RPG 14.2%, Character Customization 13.3%, RPG 10.4%
- #45 Dimraeth
70% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,557 reviews2026
Dev: Mudtek
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
A 1-8 player fantasy RPG set in a handcrafted pixel world. Build your hero across 8 races and 6 classes. Explore ancient lands, master elemental combat, forge relationships, and shape a stronghold to call home. Fight for the fate of Dimraeth either together or alone.
Why similar: Open World 20.6%, Online Co-Op 17.7%, Crafting 14.6%, Action RPG 11.6%, Multiplayer 10%
- #46 DYSPLACED
70% matchVery Positive88% of 344 reviews2026
Dev: 10tons Ltd
Windows
Grenades are holy relics. Shotguns are spellcraft. In this top-down survival action-RPG, discover a fantasy realm invaded by modern world and destroy nearly everything. Scavenge artifacts, forge weapons, build outposts, brew potions, and hunt the corruption devouring the land. Play solo or co-op.
Why similar: Open World 19.8%, Base Building 18.3%, Survival 14.9%, Crafting 13.3%, Building 9.7%
- #47 Sons Of The Forest
69% matchVery Positive88% of 321,117 reviews2024
Dev: Endnight Games LtdPub: Newnight
Windows
Median: 15.0 hrsMean: 32.4 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 21.7%, Open World 21.3%, Base Building 18.5%, Multiplayer 10.9%, Crafting 10.8%
- #48 IfSunSets
71% matchMostly Positive75% of 2,506 reviews2024
Dev: POLYMORPHPub: Smilegate
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
「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%, Open World 24.6%, Action RPG 13.5%, Sandbox 11.4%, PvE 7.8%
- #49 Volcanoids
72% matchVery Positive83% of 9,358 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 17.3%, Open World 14.2%, Survival 13.1%, Crafting 12.6%, Online Co-Op 11.4%
- #50 Sengoku Dynasty
70% matchMostly Positive75% of 7,879 reviews2024
Dev: SuperkamiPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 7.5 hrsMean: 16.6 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 19.1%, Open World 17.4%, Survival 15.1%, Online Co-Op 11.4%, Crafting 11.4%
- #51 Witchspire
68% matchVery Positive83% of 2,161 reviews2026
Dev: Envar Games
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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%, Open World 17.9%, Online Co-Op 16.3%, Crafting 14.3%, Action RPG 8.7%
- #52 Notmads
69% matchVery Positive85% of 107 reviews2026
Dev: Rhomita
Windows
Your home is a living beast. Explore a handcrafted open world in an action RPG where you fight with magic, gather resources, find loot, craft, and grow stronger. Customize and expand your home on its back, and take it with you as you explore solo or with friends.
Why similar: Base Building 14.2%, Open World 13.1%, Survival 11.2%, Online Co-Op 10.8%, Crafting 9.6%
- #53 Voidtrain
69% matchMostly Positive73% of 9,990 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 14.8 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 16.6%, Survival 14.7%, Open World 14.6%, Online Co-Op 12.5%, Crafting 11.4%
- #54 ENDALOR
68% matchMostly Positive70% of 280 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 16.1%, Survival 14.4%, Base Building 14.3%, Online Co-Op 14.1%, Crafting 10%
- #55 HumanitZ
67% matchMostly Positive74% of 14,430 reviews2026
Dev: Yodubzz StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 15.7 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 18.2%, Open World 17.9%, Survival 17.3%, Crafting 12.1%, Online Co-Op 11.2%
- #56 Sunkenland
68% matchVery Positive80% of 24,007 reviews2023
Dev: Vector3 Studio
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 20.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Get ready for a Waterworld-themed survival game with modular base building, sunken city scavenging, crafting, base defense, and invasions of NPC clans for resources and territory. Ready for the water apocalypse?
Why similar: Survival 21.3%, Base Building 21.2%, Open World 15.5%, Crafting 13.4%, Multiplayer 10.9%
- #57 Eden Crafters
65% matchVery Positive85% of 2,696 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Base Building 19.2%, Open World 15.5%, Crafting 13.3%, Online Co-Op 12.4%, Survival 12.3%
- #58 Lost Rift
67% matchMixed69% of 1,717 reviews2025
Dev: People Can Fly
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Lost Rift is a first person survival adventure shooter that blends cooperative base building with multiplayer PvE or PvP extraction expeditions. Journey solo or in teams of up to 5 players across a vast archipelago, craft gear, build bases, defeat raiders, and become legendary.
Why similar: Base Building 21.2%, Survival 16.9%, Crafting 15.2%, Online Co-Op 15%, Multiplayer 9.7%
- #59 The Planet Crafter
64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 74,281 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.7 hrsMean: 38.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
Why similar: Base Building 20.7%, Open World 15.2%, Survival 15.2%, Online Co-Op 14.6%, Crafting 12.2%
- #60 Solace Crafting
67% matchMostly Positive71% of 899 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 13.9%, Survival 13.5%, Crafting 11.5%, Online Co-Op 10.9%