- #1 Voidtrain
97% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,810 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25% ★, Trains 21.6% ★, Base Building 7.8%, Online Co-Op 6.1%, Crafting 6.1%
- #2 Heat Death: Survival Train
96% matchMostly Positive78% of 718 reviews2024
Dev: Mass Game DevsPub: LightOnDevs
Windows
Heat Death is a sci-fi survival game where you can build, upgrade, and customize your battle train to explore and survive a frozen world! This train is not only your shelter and vehicle, but also your weapon and ally to face hostile drones, deadly storms, and hidden mysteries of an unknown world!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.1% ★, Trains 18.7% ★, Post-apocalyptic 10.3%, Base Building 9.8%, Crafting 8.5%
- #3 Forever Skies
96% matchMostly Positive78% of 8,950 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 30.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A first-person survival game set on a post-apocalyptic, ecologically ruined Earth. Play solo or with up to 3 friends as you build, upgrade, and fly a high-tech airship. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and face dangers on the surface as you hunt for a cure to save humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.1% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Post-apocalyptic 10.2%, Crafting 9.8%, Open World 8.8%
- #4 The Planet Crafter
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 73,089 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.7 hrsMean: 38.5 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.8% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Online Co-Op 9.9%, Building 9.3%, Crafting 8.9%
- #5 Occupy Mars: The Game
94% matchMixed70% of 3,132 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 34.1 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.1% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Online Co-Op 8.8%, Crafting 8.8%, Building 7.8%
- #6 Everwind
94% matchVery Positive81% of 3,756 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Everwind is a novel take on RPG and Sandbox Survival genre in First-Person-Perspective. Embark on the adventure with your friends - Build a base on a flying island-ship, gather resources, craft, loot, and fight while you rise above the clouds to uncover the mysteries of this world!
Why similar: Online Co-Op 13%, Building 12.5%, Crafting 12.5%, Sandbox 11.5%, Open World 11.4%
- #7 Zompiercer
93% matchVery Positive88% of 4,697 reviews2020
Dev: DDDimanN
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Take control of the train which will become your haven on the rails. Collect resources, craft equipment, construct a cozy house on railway cars, and travel through the carefully handcrafted locations to explore the story of a zombie apocalypse world.
Why similar: Trains 33.2% ★, Base Building 14.5%, Post-apocalyptic 14.4%, Sandbox 11.9%, Open World 9.6%
- #8 Infinite Rails
91% matchVery Positive89% of 109 reviews2025
Dev: Benjamin Voráč
Windows · Mac
A railway-building adventure in an endless, procedurally generated world. Lay tracks, transport passengers and goods, mine resources, and buy unique locomotives. Play solo or with friends and create your ultimate railway network!
Why similar: Trains 38.6% ★, Sandbox 10.8%, Procedural Generation 9.7%, Building 8.6%, Open World 8.2%
- #9 Subsistence
92% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,766 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 40.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.1% ★, Survival 11.3%, Crafting 10.2%, Base Building 8.3%, Open World 8.2%
- #10 OxyRail
91% matchVery Positive80% of 970 reviews2026
Dev: OxygenTech Limited
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Oxygen Train is an open-world survival train game. Wake up in a world lacking oxygen. Chop trees, mine, gather resources, upgrade your unique train. Survive by planting, fishing, farming, exploring, fighting. Build your train kingdom. Supports 1-8 online co-op.
Why similar: Trains 31.5% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Building 11.4%, Sandbox 11.3%, Survival 9.9%
- #11 Derail Valley
90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 9,700 reviews2019
Dev: Altfuture
Windows
Median: 13.9 hrsMean: 36.7 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Drive massive trains and build your career in a vast open railway network. For both PC and VR.
Why similar: Trains 55.8% ★, Open World 12.1%, Sandbox 10%, Procedural Generation 8.6%, Simulation 6.9%
- #12 Eden Crafters
89% matchVery Positive85% of 2,630 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.8% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Crafting 10.1%, Sandbox 8.8%, Online Co-Op 8.7%
- #13 RailGods of Hysterra
89% matchMixed54% of 345 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 16.3%, Crafting 12.7%, Survival 11.4%, Online Co-Op 11.2%, Building 9.9%
- #14 StarRupture
87% matchVery Positive81% of 13,247 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 26.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.3% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 9.5%, Survival 8.9%, Open World 8.9%
- #15 Plains of Pain
88% matchVery Positive83% of 933 reviews2023
Dev: Cobra Byte Digital
Windows
Enter a living post-apocalyptic sandbox where the world doesn't wait for you. Build, craft, trade, earn the trust of factions, and forge your own path through a brutal procedural wasteland.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.3% ★, Post-apocalyptic 9.7%, Base Building 9.5%, Procedural Generation 8%, Online Co-Op 7.4%
- #16 Nightingale
86% matchMixed66% of 18,038 reviews2024
Dev: Inflexion Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 24.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Nightingale is an open world survival crafting game, where you’ll adventure across the mysterious and dangerous Fae Realms. As a daring Realmwalker, you’ll defeat monstrous enemies, survive hostile environments, and build elaborate estates in a visually stunning Gaslamp Fantasy world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.8% ★, Base Building 9.7%, Online Co-Op 9.2%, Building 8.3%, Survival 8.3%
- #17 VEIN
85% matchVery Positive88% of 12,003 reviews2025
Dev: Ramjet Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 14.3 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: Base Building 16.7%, Post-apocalyptic 14.7%, Survival 14.4%, Open World 14.2%, Crafting 9.8%
- #18 ICARUS
86% matchMostly Positive75% of 67,515 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 46.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.8% ★, Base Building 10.8%, Survival 9.3%, Online Co-Op 8.6%, Crafting 7.8%
- #19 The Last Caretaker
84% matchVery Positive86% of 13,056 reviews2025
Dev: Channel37 Ltd
Windows
Median: 19.6 hrsMean: 36.3 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Explore a drowned Earth, restore lost systems, and raise the last human seeds in this first-person survival-crafting adventure. Build, scavenge, defend, and launch humanity back to the stars.
Why similar: Base Building 17.3%, Post-apocalyptic 15.4%, Crafting 14%, Sandbox 12.6%, Survival 12%
- #20 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
84% matchVery Positive91% of 7,602 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Survive, craft, and automate in this free prologue set on one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters, an open-world game where you play solo or with friends to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28% ★, Base Building 12%, Online Co-Op 8.6%, Crafting 8.4%, Open World 7.8%
- #21 TerraTech Worlds
83% matchMixed63% of 2,287 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 22.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.1% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 9.8%, Building 9.5%, Sandbox 9.4%
- #22 Enshrouded
81% matchVery Positive86% of 104,779 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.9 hrsMean: 46.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.
Why similar: Base Building 16.3%, Open World 14.4%, Survival 12.6%, Online Co-Op 12.3%, Crafting 10.9%
- #23 Railroads Online
81% matchMostly Positive75% of 6,018 reviews2024
Dev: Stefan KelnbergerPub: astragon Entertainment
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 64.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build your dream railroad across a huge open world! You can build tracks and stations, drive detailed locomotives, and transport goods to earn money and experience. Play exciting Online Multiplayer sessions with your friends or create your very own sandbox!
Why similar: Trains 38.9% ★, Online Co-Op 12%, Building 11.4%, Sandbox 10.4%, Open World 10.2%
- #24 Solarpunk™
80% matchVery Positive82% of 4,341 reviews2026
Dev: CyberwavePub: rokaplay
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Solarpunk is a survival game in a technologically advanced world of floating islands. Alone or together with your friends, you can construct buildings, grow food, craft gadgets and hop on your airship to explore distant islands in the sky.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.7% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Crafting 9%, Building 8.8%, Online Co-Op 8.8%
- #25 Rem Survival
82% matchMostly Positive75% of 803 reviews2021
Dev: Immortal Hand Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 47.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Scavenge abandoned ruins, craft gear from scrap and salvaged materials, and fight the environment itself as hunger, exposure, and exhaustion push you to your limits. There are no second chances—only adaptation or death.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.5% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 11.3%, Building 10.2%, Survival 9.9%
- #26 No One Survived
78% matchMixed64% of 7,777 reviews2025
Dev: Cat Play Studio
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 23.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
This is a multiplayer cooperative open world construction survival sandbox game, where you and your friends must find supplies and build shelters in this world. You have to keep an eye on your character's needs state at all times, a bad state is likely to lead to death.
Why similar: Survival 16.5%, Open World 14.3%, Post-apocalyptic 12.7%, Crafting 11.6%, Building 9.2%
- #27 Railroader
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 3,545 reviews2023
Dev: Giraffe Lab LLC
Windows
Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 78.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
You and your fellow railroaders are the lifeblood of your railroad, just like it is the lifeblood of the communities it serves. Switch cars at industries. Keep people moving while running local passenger trains. Run trains with a purpose in transition era Appalachia – in Railroader!
Why similar: Trains 54.9% ★, Open World 14.7%, Sandbox 9.7%, First-Person 7.6%, Simulation 7%
- #28 Volcanoids
79% matchVery Positive83% of 9,332 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.
Why similar: Base Building 14.4%, Crafting 11.9%, Building 11.1%, Sandbox 10.7%, Online Co-Op 9.9%
- #29 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
76% matchVery Positive82% of 10,429 reviews2024
Dev: Max Ent Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 16.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.1% ★, Base Building 11%, Online Co-Op 8.5%, Survival 8.4%, Crafting 8.1%
- #30 Wild Omission
77% matchVery Positive88% of 80 reviews2023
Dev: Telephone Studios
Windows
Wild Omission is an open world sandbox survival game with severe weather set in an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.7% ★, Crafting 9.5%, Building 8.7%, Survival 8.4%, Open World 8%
- #31 Trans-Siberian Railway Simulator
76% matchVery Positive92% of 1,938 reviews2024
Dev: PentaclePub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Take control of a Soviet locomotive and embark on a dangerous journey along the world's longest railway line. Face mafia rivals, bandits, wild animals, constant breakdowns, severe frosts, hunger, and... a hangover. How far will you get before your supplies run out?
Why similar: Trains 45.7% ★, Sandbox 12.4%, Survival 12%, Open World 11.8%, First-Person 6.9%
- #32 Len's Island
75% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,866 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 Survival Craft 28.1% ★, Building 10%, Base Building 9.5%, Crafting 8.9%, Survival 8.7%
- #33 Crushed
79% matchMixed54% of 318 reviews2020
Dev: NipoBoxPub: NipoBox Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Crushed — is an Singleplayer and Multiplayer First-Person Survival Sandbox in an Open World! Challenge the wild and be ready to survive in harsh conditions. Explore the world, get resources, cook food, build a house, farm, hunt, and enjoy nature.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.8% ★, Base Building 8.6%, Survival 8.3%, Open World 8.2%, Post-apocalyptic 7.8%
- #34 Urge
77% matchVery Positive90% of 520 reviews2021
Dev: EnDrew
Windows
Fight, build, explore, survive, while the dynamic player-caused hazardous fog is slowly changing the rules of the world around you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.3% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Post-apocalyptic 10.1%, Building 8.8%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #35 Voyagers of Nera
74% matchVery Positive85% of 2,598 reviews2025
Dev: Treehouse Games
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 12.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Voyagers of Nera is a cooperative survival-crafting game where you must survive a magical ocean world brimming with lost spirits and deadly monsters. Sail to distant islands, build beautiful villages and surf across the waves with up to 10 players.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.9% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Online Co-Op 10.7%, Crafting 10.6%, Building 10.6%
- #36 Scrapnaut
75% matchMixed70% of 837 reviews2021
Dev: SpiffyBitPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements. Explore an open world with different biomes, take care of oxygen, manage your farms, generate electricity, build your home and much more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.8% ★, Building 11.3%, Online Co-Op 9.6%, Survival 9.3%, Base Building 8.6%
- #37 Whisper of the Swallows
72% matchVery Positive86% of 191 reviews2026
Dev: Blown Leaves
Windows
Brave a savage, unforgiving procedurally generated world where extreme weather and the nightmares of the dark will hunt you down. Alone or in co-op, survive, build, and explore to turn a cursed hellscape into your sanctuary of light.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.6% ★, Base Building 9.4%, Crafting 9.2%, Sandbox 8.8%, Building 8.6%
- #38 XERA: Survival
74% matchMixed66% of 7,941 reviews2021
Dev: Spotted Kiwi Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 24.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Action-focused, open world survival shooter, PvPvE against fellow mercenaries and lethal XOIDS. Raid for resources alone or with team-mates, build and defend your base, stash your gear and survive against the odds. You are the hunters. You are the hunted. And the robots never sleep…
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.1% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Post-apocalyptic 9.6%, Crafting 8.7%, Survival 8%
- #39 Breathedge
73% matchVery Positive81% of 17,661 reviews2021
Dev: RedRuins SoftworksPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Survive in outer space! Together with your immortal chicken, discover the truth behind your sudden spaceship crash. Craft tools, pilot vehicles, and even control space stations to survive and explore the wreckage.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.6% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Sandbox 10.8%, Survival 10.5%, Crafting 8.6%
- #40 Abiotic Factor
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 58,426 reviews2025
Dev: Deep Field GamesPub: Playstack
Windows
Median: 20.8 hrsMean: 46.1 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: Open World Survival Craft 25.3% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Online Co-Op 9.9%, Crafting 9.5%, Survival 8.8%
- #41 SpaceCraft
71% matchMixed65% of 2,687 reviews2026
Dev: Shiro Games
Windows
Median: 13.4 hrsMean: 47.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
The Universe is yours. SpaceCraft is an online space exploration and building game. Explore a vast galaxy of solar systems and planets, mine and craft resources, design and build ships, automate planetary bases and interplanetary logistics, trade and cooperate.
Why similar: Base Building 17.7%, Sandbox 14.7%, Crafting 14.2%, Open World 14.1%, Multiplayer 10.2%
- #42 INCUR Survival
73% matchVery Positive83% of 109 reviews2022
Dev: INCUR
Windows
A survival open-world game, where you can gather resources, Hunt, Craft tools and armor, Tame Animals, Ride Animals, Build, and defend your base from creatures, and other players.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.6% ★, Building 12%, Crafting 10.8%, Survival 9.5%, Open World 9.1%
- #43 Pandemic Train
73% matchMixed59% of 252 reviews2023
Dev: Trigger LabsPub: Games Operators
Windows
In Pandemic Train you are in charge of the crew aboard a train roaming the postapocalyptic wasteland, ravaged by both war and a deadly plague. Your goal is to survive long enough to discover the cure… or die trying. Humanity’s fate is in your hands! Start your journey now!
Why similar: Trains 36.1% ★, Post-apocalyptic 11.4%, Base Building 11%, Survival 10.9%, Crafting 10.5%
- #44 The Last Plague: Blight
70% matchVery Positive89% of 1,472 reviews2024
Dev: Original Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 15.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
The Last Plague: Blight is an authentic survival experience rooted in realism and immersion. Endure the hazards of a brutal open world, uncover the origins of a mysterious disease, and become humanity’s final hope of ending the Blight.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.9% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Crafting 9.3%, Post-apocalyptic 9%, Building 8.3%
- #45 KeepUp Survival
72% matchMixed64% of 749 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 84%
KeepUp Survival is an open-world base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and shape your own story on a mysterious island.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.3% ★, Base Building 12%, Crafting 9.7%, Survival 9.3%, Open World 9.3%
- #46 Survival Machine
69% matchMostly Positive71% of 805 reviews2026
Dev: Grape PickersPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Build your base on a moving Machine, travel through biomes with different resources, and prepare for the night when a zombie threat is much higher than during the day. Would you go solo or explore this new world with your best friends?
Why similar: Base Building 18%, Online Co-Op 14.6%, Crafting 13.8%, Building 13.2%, Survival 11.3%
- #47 Survive the Nights
69% matchMixed66% of 6,719 reviews2025
Dev: a2z Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Hardcore open-world survival where preparation is everything. Scavenge, craft, fortify during the day. When night falls, the infected hunt in numbers. Play solo or with friends in a brutal post-apocalyptic sandbox where survival is earned through smart decisions. How many Nights will you survive?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.8% ★, Post-apocalyptic 15.6%, Sandbox 11.8%, Online Co-Op 11%, Survival 10.6%
- #48 Remains
71% matchMostly Positive75% of 321 reviews2021
Dev: SoloQ
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Remains - survival in outer space orbiting the planet. Explore the area. Find a way to restore oxygen. Create tools for your needs. Beware of the dangers of outer space. Build your shelter in orbit and try not to die!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.8% ★, Base Building 12%, Crafting 10%, Building 9.5%, Procedural Generation 9.4%
- #49 Solace Crafting
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 898 reviews2022
Dev: Big Kitty Games
Windows · Linux
Embark on an adventure set in a fantasy survival RPG. Visit a borderless, open world where you manage resources to construct your base and new types of equipment to support your conquest.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.3% ★, Base Building 9.7%, Crafting 8.7%, Survival 7.9%, Online Co-Op 7.6%
- #50 Dune: Awakening
67% matchMostly Positive71% of 78,134 reviews2025
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 46.5 hrsMean: 100.0 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival game with immersive adventure and RPG gameplay. Explore, build, craft, and unravel a cinematic Dune story alone or with friends as you rise from survival to greatness on the most legendary planet in the universe. Just remember: the sandworm always comes.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22% ★, Base Building 10.2%, Building 7.9%, Online Co-Op 7.9%, Crafting 7.8%
- #51 Planetaries
70% matchMixed58% of 226 reviews2024
Dev: EY-Studio
Windows
Experience a vast Sci-fi open-world survival TD game set on a distant planet deep in the universe. Craft, build, mine, trade, explore, and survive in this alien world. Collect Data and defend against waves of enemies seeking to banish you. Enjoy the adventure in Singleplayer or Multiplayer.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.7% ★, Base Building 9.9%, Online Co-Op 8.8%, Building 8.3%, Crafting 8.3%
- #52 ENDALOR
68% matchMixed70% of 272 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 Survival Craft 29.7% ★, Online Co-Op 10.1%, Base Building 9.9%, Survival 8.7%, Open World 8.6%
- #53 Dysterra
69% matchMixed56% of 771 reviews2025
Dev: Reality MagiQ
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 60%
On a future post-apocalyptic Earth, build, craft, and loot other players’ bases to survive long enough to board the rocket and escape the dangerous robots and mercenaries that inhabit Ararat Island. Manipulate the weather and use earthquakes to change when the server wipe occurs in DYSTERRA!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.7% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Post-apocalyptic 10.9%, PvE 10.7%, Crafting 9%
- #54 Dawn of Defiance
67% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,842 reviews2024
Dev: Traega EntertainmentPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
You are the Defier, a Spartan beginning your afterlife on the Crossroads. In this Greek myth-inspired survival craft, ascend from weak soldier to god-like anti-hero. Build impressive Greek structures, craft legendary gear, and break the seals of the Underworld with up to 3 friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.3% ★, Online Co-Op 9.9%, Base Building 9.5%, Survival 8.3%, PvE 7.1%
- #55 The Gold River Project
67% matchMixed63% of 659 reviews2026
Dev: Fairview Games Inc.
Windows
The Gold River Project™ is a camping trip gone wrong in the Pacific Northwest. Explore, craft, build, and survive in this open-world experiment that traps you and up to 4 friends in this single player or co-op survival adventure game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.6% ★, Open World 10.7%, Crafting 9.2%, Survival 9.2%, Online Co-Op 8.9%
- #56 Eco
68% matchVery Positive81% of 14,049 reviews2018
Dev: Strange Loop Games
Windows
Median: 16.7 hrsMean: 90.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Build a civilization of real people, working together to advance society and stop a meteor, all without destroying the ecosystem in the process.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.8% ★, Base Building 15.6%, Crafting 12.4%, Open World 10.5%, Sandbox 10.1%
- #57 Unrailed!
66% matchVery Positive93% of 19,721 reviews2020
Dev: Indoor AstronautPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Unrailed! is a co-op multiplayer game where you have to work together with your friends to build a train track across endless procedurally generated worlds. Master random encounters with its inhabitants, upgrade your train and keep it from derailing!
Why similar: Trains 46.3% ★, Online Co-Op 17.9%, Procedural Generation 13.4%, Multiplayer 12.4%, Survival 7%
- #58 Shamania
65% matchMostly Positive74% of 162 reviews2026
Dev: Totem Keepers Games
Windows
Shamania is an open world survival game where you can CRAFT, FIGHT, and EXPLORE a vibrant sandbox world with friends in CO-OP. Expand your base as a hub for survival, gather resources, and master professions to unlock new tools and opportunities!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.6% ★, Crafting 10.6%, Open World 9.7%, Survival 8.8%, Sandbox 7.7%
- #59 Frozen Flame
67% matchMixed63% of 2,989 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: Open World Survival Craft 25.5% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Online Co-Op 9.7%, Building 8.6%, Sandbox 8.4%