- #1 Aloft
97% matchVery Positive84% of 3,576 reviews2025
Dev: Astrolabe Interactive Inc.Pub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Soar the skies in Aloft, the co-op sandbox survival game set in a world of floating islands. Build any island into a skyship, your home in the clouds. Find lost knowledge, cure the fungal corruption, and brave the hurricane to restore the ecosystem.
Why similar: Crafting 15.4%, Building 14.6%, Co-op 13.9%, Survival 12.7%, Sandbox 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: Features a core gameplay loop centered around building bases on floating islands and navigating the skies, mirroring Everwind's primary hook.
- #2 Lost Skies
96% matchMixed61% of 2,893 reviews2025
Dev: Bossa StudiosPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Chart a course in a breathtaking, but fractured world. Explore ancient ruins, master advanced technology, and craft your very own skyship to brave nature’s fury and colossal threats in Lost Skies. Team up with friends or go it alone in this awe-inspiring cooperative survival adventure.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 26.6%, Sandbox 18.4%, Crafting 14.6%, Open World 14%, Co-op 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on cooperative exploration of floating islands with an emphasis on building custom airships to traverse the world.
- #3 Voidtrain
96% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,447 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
Why similar: Co-op 14.3%, Online Co-Op 13.3%, Crafting 12.7%, Survival 12.1%, Open World 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a unique take on the mobile base concept by tasking players with building and expanding a train that travels through an interdimensional void.
- #4 Forever Skies
95% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,446 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 32.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A first-person survival game set on a post-apocalyptic, ecologically ruined Earth. Play solo or with up to 3 friends as you build, upgrade, and fly a high-tech airship. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and face dangers on the surface as you hunt for a cure to save humanity.
Why similar: Crafting 17.4%, Co-op 17.2%, Open World 14.9%, Survival 14.7%, Building 14.1%
Why You'll Like It: A high-stakes survival game where you pilot and upgrade a customizable airship as your mobile base while exploring a ruined world.
- #5 Core Keeper
94% matchVery Positive93% of 64,481 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.0 hrsMean: 34.1 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: Crafting 10.6%, Online Co-Op 10.3%, Building 10.2%, Open World 9.7%, Sandbox 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a polished pixel-art survival experience with deep crafting and exploration mechanics that feel very similar to Everwind.
- #6 Echoes of Elysium
94% matchMixed63% of 519 reviews2026
Dev: Loric Games, Inc.Pub: Snail Games USA
Windows
Survive the skies in Echoes of Elysium, a co-op airship survival RPG. Build and customize your floating fortress, gather resources, and explore a vast procedural clockwork world with up to 6 friends. Battle land and skyborne threats while uncovering mysteries in a paradise on the brink.
Why similar: Crafting 14.9%, Building 13.8%, Co-op 13.6%, Sandbox 12.2%, Survival 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: Combines survival and vehicular combat in a sky-bound open world that emphasizes cooperative play and exploration.
- #7 Tinkerlands
93% matchVery Positive86% of 3,833 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Explore, craft, and fight your way through uncharted islands — solo or with up to 4 players in co-op! Tinkerlands is an exciting survival adventure where you will build your settlement, craft useful tools to survive, and even use magic!
Why similar: Online Co-Op 13.9%, Sandbox 11.7%, Crafting 10.6%, Survival 10.6%, Open World 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: A charming pixel-art survival-crafting game that emphasizes exploration and building in a vibrant, sandbox environment.
- #8 Necesse
92% matchVery Positive93% of 27,199 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 14.8 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
Why similar: Crafting 12.1%, Sandbox 12%, Open World 11.6%, Survival 10.4%, Building 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down, pixel-art survival game that excels in cooperative play, base management, and procedural world generation.
- #9 Enshrouded
91% matchVery Positive86% of 101,648 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.7 hrsMean: 45.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.
Why similar: Open World 15%, Online Co-Op 13.8%, Survival 13%, Crafting 11.9%, Building 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a highly detailed open-world survival experience with excellent building mechanics and a focus on cooperative adventure.
- #10 Starbound
91% matchVery Positive90% of 122,999 reviews2016
Dev: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.1 hrsMean: 64.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...
Why similar: Sandbox 16.3%, Online Co-Op 12%, Crafting 11.8%, Survival 10.6%, Open World 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: A classic 2D sandbox survival game that features procedural generation, space exploration, and base building across various planets.
- #11 Terraria
90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,524,255 reviews2011
Dev: Re-Logic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 33.5 hrsMean: 150.1 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Why similar: Sandbox 16.4%, Crafting 12.3%, Survival 12.1%, Building 11.4%, Multiplayer 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: The definitive pixel-art sandbox adventure that offers endless exploration, combat, and base-building opportunities.
- #12 Volcanoids
89% matchVery Positive83% of 9,267 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.
Why similar: Crafting 14.2%, Building 12.9%, Co-op 12.2%, Online Co-Op 12.1%, Sandbox 12%
Why You'll Like It: Features a unique drill-ship mechanic that serves as your mobile base, requiring constant upgrades to survive environmental threats.
- #13 Nightingale
89% matchMixed67% of 17,932 reviews2024
Dev: Inflexion Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 24.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Nightingale is an open world survival crafting game, where you’ll adventure across the mysterious and dangerous Fae Realms. As a daring Realmwalker, you’ll defeat monstrous enemies, survive hostile environments, and build elaborate estates in a visually stunning Gaslamp Fantasy world.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 14.1%, Crafting 12.3%, Building 12%, Survival 11.7%, Open World 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: Features a Victorian-fantasy setting with procedural realm-hopping, offering deep crafting and survival mechanics for co-op groups.
- #14 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
88% matchVery Positive82% of 9,989 reviews2024
Dev: Merge GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 13.2%, Crafting 12.2%, Survival 12.1%, Building 11.8%, Co-op 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a unique perspective on survival by shrinking players down, emphasizing exploration and base-building in a hostile environment.
- #15 Valheim
86% matchVery Positive94% of 534,015 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 25.8 hrsMean: 76.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Why similar: Online Co-Op 15.8%, Survival 12.8%, Building 12.3%, Open World 12.1%, Crafting 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: While visually distinct, it offers the premier cooperative survival and base-building experience with a strong focus on exploration.
- #16 Windbound
87% matchMixed59% of 1,166 reviews2020
Dev: 5 Lives StudiosPub: Deep Silver
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 62%
The Forbidden Islands are Calling, Unlock their Secrets. Shipwrecked on an island, explore, adapt and navigate the land and perilous seas to stay alive.
Why similar: Survival 25.4%, Crafting 24.1%, RPG 21.8%, Adventure 12.5%, Open World 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on island-hopping survival and exploration, capturing the feeling of navigating a vast, mysterious world.
- #17 TerraTech Worlds
85% matchMixed63% of 2,228 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 21.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment
Why similar: Crafting 15.7%, Building 14.7%, Co-op 14.2%, Sandbox 13.9%, Open World 12.9%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on building custom vehicles and bases in a sandbox environment, perfect for those who enjoy the engineering aspect of Everwind.
- #18 Dawn of Defiance
84% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,797 reviews2024
Dev: Traega EntertainmentPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
You are the Defier, a Spartan beginning your afterlife on the Crossroads. In this Greek myth-inspired survival craft, ascend from weak soldier to god-like anti-hero. Build impressive Greek structures, craft legendary gear, and break the seals of the Underworld with up to 3 friends.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 17.2%, Survival 13.3%, Building 11%, Open World 10.3%, Crafting 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: A Greek-mythology inspired survival game that focuses on open-world exploration and cooperative base building.
- #19 Craftopia
84% matchMostly Positive77% of 20,035 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: Crafting 18.6%, Open World 17.9%, Survival 13.9%, Sandbox 10.3%, Building 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: A massive open-world survival game that blends elements of farming, automation, and exploration with a sandbox feel.
- #20 Project Castaway
83% matchMixed67% of 1,723 reviews2026
Dev: Mardonpol Inc.
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Project Castaway is a survival crafting title set in the Pacific Ocean. Live the life of a stranded castaway, with only yourself - and the island's inhabitants - for company! Sail the ocean, hunt, explore unique islands and gather resources as you fight for survival.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 14.8%, Co-op 13.2%, Sandbox 11.2%, Survival 11.1%, Open World 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game that emphasizes exploration and crafting in an island-based setting, perfect for fans of sandbox adventures.
- #21 Bellwright
82% matchVery Positive81% of 19,796 reviews2024
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 12.7 hrsMean: 41.4 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: Survival 16.5%, Open World 15.6%, Crafting 15.4%, Online Co-Op 15.2%, Building 12.3%
Why You'll Like It: Combines survival with city-building and combat, allowing players to lead a rebellion in a persistent open world.
- #22 Len's Island
81% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,720 reviews2025
Dev: Flow Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
An open-world survival crafting game for 1–8 players, blending intense dungeon crawling and ARPG combat with peaceful farming and creative building. Take on quests and explore a vast, procedurally-generated world full of danger and discovery.
Why similar: Building 16.1%, Crafting 14.7%, Survival 13.5%, Sandbox 12.9%, Open World 12.6%
Why You'll Like It: Blends survival, farming, and dungeon-crawling in a beautiful, relaxing open-world setting.
- #23 Survival Machine
81% matchMostly Positive74% of 687 reviews2025
Dev: Grape PickersPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Build your base on a moving Machine, travel through biomes with different resources, and prepare for the night when a zombie threat is much higher than during the day. Would you go solo or explore this new world with your best friends?
Why similar: Online Co-Op 23.7%, Crafting 22.6%, Survival 16.3%, Combat 13.4%, PvE 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: Centers on building and upgrading a mobile base to survive waves of enemies, emphasizing the importance of defense and movement.
- #24 ASTRONEER
80% matchVery Positive92% of 137,959 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.
Why similar: Open World 16.3%, Survival 15.5%, Co-op 13%, Sandbox 12.3%, Multiplayer 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on planetary exploration and base building with a strong emphasis on creative engineering and resource management.
- #25 Windrose
78% matchVery Positive88% of 44,950 reviews2026
Dev: Kraken Express
Windows
Median: 19.2 hrsMean: 31.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Embark on a PvE survival adventure in the Age of Piracy. Fight on land and sea, solo or with friends. Build, craft and explore vast open world filled with dark secrets. Master soulslite combat and take on challenging bosses, command your ship and plunder unspoken treasures!
Why similar: Online Co-Op 18.4%, Crafting 17.4%, Survival 14%, Building 13.7%, Open World 9.7%
- #26 Cube World
82% matchMostly Negative37% of 18,707 reviews2019
Dev: Picroma
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Cube World is a voxel-based action RPG with a focus on exploration. It takes place in a procedurally generated fantasy world made up entirely of cubes.
Why similar: Open World 18.2%, Online Co-Op 12%, Multiplayer 10.1%, Co-op 8.6%, Crafting 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based RPG that emphasizes exploration and combat in a procedurally generated, colorful open world.
- #27 Don't Starve Together
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 531,653 reviews2016
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 64.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Why similar: Survival 50.2%, Co-op 11.4%, Multiplayer 9.7%, Open World 7.6%, Crafting 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: A quintessential cooperative survival game that features a distinct art style and challenging, procedural world mechanics.
- #28 Cubic Odyssey
79% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,584 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Embark on a galactic journey in Cubic Odyssey, an open-world adventure where you explore vibrant planets, craft tools, build vehicles, and fight the Red Darkness. Uncover ancient mysteries, and shape a universe full of life, danger, and limitless possibilities!
Why similar: Building 19.3%, Co-op 18.7%, Sandbox 17.8%, RPG 9.2%, Online Co-Op 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi sandbox survival game that focuses on base building and cooperative exploration in a voxel-based universe.
- #29 Farever
77% matchMostly Positive74% of 6,770 reviews2026
Dev: Shiro Games
Windows
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 20.3 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 18.2%, Action RPG 16%, Open World 12.3%, Crafting 11.4%, Sandbox 10.9%
- #30 Rising World
78% matchVery Positive86% of 5,890 reviews2014
Dev: JIW-Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 21.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Rising World is a voxel based open-world sandbox game, featuring a procedurally generated world, playable in single and multi-player.
Why similar: Building 14.7%, Crafting 14.5%, Sandbox 13%, Co-op 12.2%, Survival 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a highly interactive sandbox environment where almost every block can be manipulated for building and terraforming.
- #31 Omega Crafter
76% matchMostly Positive80% of 566 reviews2025
Dev: Preferred Networks
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Adventure in a vast open-world survival craft game with your programmable sidekick Grammi! Program the Grammi to collect materials, build your town, craft weapons and armor to challenge strong enemies! Play alone or with friends online!
Why similar: Crafting 13%, Open World 11.6%, Survival 11%, Co-op 10.4%, Building 9.4%
- #32 Dune: Awakening
75% matchMostly Positive70% of 76,118 reviews2025
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 47.7 hrsMean: 97.4 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival RPG where you can fully immerse yourself in the epic world of Dune. Alone or with friends, explore a vast open world Arrakis, survive the sandworms, build a home, craft an ornithopter, and unravel the mystery of the missing Fremen.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 12.3%, Crafting 11.8%, Building 11.7%, Sandbox 10.5%, Open World 10.4%
- #33 No One Survived
76% matchMixed65% of 7,645 reviews2025
Dev: Cat Play Studio
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 22.6 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 17.7%, Open World 15.6%, Crafting 13.3%, Building 10.3%, Multiplayer 9.5%
- #34 Tinkertown
77% matchMixed67% of 1,342 reviews2023
Dev: Headup
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Gather your friends and come to Tinkertown - A refreshing new Multiplayer Sandbox Experience! Explore magical places filled with loot, danger, and creativity.
Why similar: Crafting 12.9%, RPG 11.3%, Sandbox 11.1%, Online Co-Op 10.8%, Building 9.8%
- #35 Palworld
73% matchVery Positive94% of 421,232 reviews2024
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 34.5 hrsMean: 70.8 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 16%, Survival 13.9%, Online Co-Op 11.9%, Crafting 11.4%, Multiplayer 9.9%
- #36 Keplerth
75% matchVery Positive85% of 4,138 reviews2022
Dev: TAROPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 16.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Welcome to Keplerth! Try to survive on a hostile alien planet in this 2D sandbox RPG, where you can choose to live alone or fight side by side with your friends in the online multiplayer mode. Survive, build, farm, fight, and explore your way to victory in this open-world adventure!
Why similar: Sandbox 16.9%, Building 16.6%, Open World 15.1%, Survival 14.9%, Multiplayer 7.3%
- #37 Longvinter
74% matchMixed67% of 7,565 reviews2025
Dev: Uuvana Studios
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 42.7 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Fish, farm, craft, gather, cook, loot or steal from other players and build a campsite or a village with your friends in an open-world multiplayer sandbox game without rules!
Why similar: Crafting 16.3%, Survival 14.8%, Open World 13.3%, Multiplayer 11.4%, Sandbox 11.4%
- #38 Scrap Mechanic
74% matchVery Positive92% of 117,481 reviews2016
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.2 hrsMean: 58.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!
Why similar: Building 18.1%, Crafting 14.9%, Sandbox 14.1%, Open World 13%, Survival 12.6%
- #39 RuneScape: Dragonwilds
72% matchVery Positive81% of 25,015 reviews2025
Dev: Jagex Ltd
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 15.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
On RuneScape’s forgotten continent of Ashenfall, dragons have awoken. Gather, build, skill and craft to survive in this co-operative (1-4) survival crafting game. Only by mastering survival and uncovering ancient secrets can they hope to slay the Dragon Queen—alone or with allies.
Why similar: Open World 13.8%, Online Co-Op 13.6%, Co-op 12.5%, Survival 12.2%, Crafting 11.7%
- #40 Shamania
72% matchMostly Positive77% of 145 reviews2025
Dev: Totem Keepers Games
Windows
Shamania is an open world survival game where you can CRAFT, FIGHT, and EXPLORE a vibrant sandbox world with friends in CO-OP. Expand your base as a hub for survival, gather resources, and master professions to unlock new tools and opportunities!
Why similar: Crafting 15%, Open World 13.2%, Survival 11.8%, Online Co-Op 11.1%, Co-op 10.4%
- #41 Solace Crafting
73% 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: Crafting 12.9%, Online Co-Op 11.5%, Survival 11.1%, Building 10.5%, Open World 10.3%
- #42 Cloudheim
71% matchVery Positive83% of 1,488 reviews2025
Dev: Noodle Cat Games
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Master chaotic physics-based combat inspired by Zelda and Devil May Cry. Explore islands and dungeons, smash monsters, loot and craft powerful gear, and grow your home in the sky. Play solo or online co-op with up to 4 players.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 19.4%, Crafting 18.1%, Action RPG 17.9%, Building 14.2%, Co-op 12.6%
- #43 Scrapnaut
73% matchMixed70% of 827 reviews2021
Dev: SpiffyBitPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements. Explore an open world with different biomes, take care of oxygen, manage your farms, generate electricity, build your home and much more!
Why similar: Building 15.3%, Online Co-Op 13.8%, Co-op 12.5%, Survival 12.4%, Crafting 10.9%
- #44 Raft
70% matchVery Positive93% of 372,032 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.6 hrsMean: 37.3 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!
Why similar: Survival 19.4%, Co-op 15.8%, Crafting 13.2%, Multiplayer 12.7%, Building 10.7%
- #45 Plains of Pain
71% matchVery Positive84% of 757 reviews2023
Dev: Cobra Byte Digital
Windows
Survive a brutal open world alone or with friends. Explore a procedural wasteland scorched by chaos. Build and defend your base, trade for what you need, complete deadly quests, and fight to claim faction outposts before someone else does.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 11.9%, Crafting 11.2%, Sandbox 10.5%, Co-op 10%, Open World 9.7%
- #46 Creativerse
71% matchMostly Positive78% of 30,868 reviews2017
Dev: Playful Corp.
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 63%
A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 12.6%, Crafting 12.5%, Building 12.1%, Sandbox 11.1%, Co-op 10.9%
- #47 Voxile
70% matchMostly Positive75% of 106 reviews2025
Dev: VoxRay Games, Inc.
Windows
Quest, craft, loot, build, destroy, and shoot your way through gorgeous voxel islands! Encounter mutated wildlife, discover secrets, and find out what went wrong in both pre-designed adventure and procedural survival worlds. Play in Early Access today--alone or with friends!
Why similar: Crafting 12%, Building 10.4%, Online Co-Op 10.3%, Co-op 10.3%, Open World 10.2%
- #48 Away From Life
69% matchMixed69% of 157 reviews2026
Dev: Cursor GamesPub: IZilla Games
Windows
You survived a helicopter crash; going home is your top priority. Live as a castaway - survive the dangers of the islands by using your environment to find food, build shelter, craft tools to extend your stay, explore the secrets of the islands and their surrounding waters, and carve your way home.
Why similar: Crafting 13.7%, Building 13.5%, Sandbox 12.4%, Survival 11%, Online Co-Op 9.6%
- #49 Medieval Dynasty
69% matchVery Positive90% of 50,786 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 19%, Building 18.6%, Co-op 12.8%, Survival 11.2%, Open World 11.1%
- #50 Start Over
70% matchMixed62% of 377 reviews2024
Dev: EY-Studio
Windows
Embark on an unpredictable survival journey in Start Over. Solo, co-op, online, explore diverse landscapes, craft through 4 tech tiers, encounter wildlife, and trade or raid for resources. Choose your path, defend against waves, and shape your destiny in a dynamic world. Are you ready to Start Over?
Why similar: Crafting 16.1%, Building 14.4%, Survival 13.6%, Sandbox 13.4%, Co-op 9.4%
- #51 Voyagers of Nera
67% matchVery Positive85% of 2,367 reviews2025
Dev: Treehouse Games
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 12.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Voyagers of Nera is a cooperative survival-crafting game where you must survive a magical ocean world brimming with lost spirits and deadly monsters. Sail to distant islands, build beautiful villages and surf across the waves with up to 10 players.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 18.3%, Crafting 17.7%, Building 17.1%, Co-op 16.6%, Multiplayer 11.4%
- #52 Wild Omission
69% matchVery Positive89% of 63 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: Crafting 14.5%, Building 12.8%, Survival 12.1%, Open World 11.7%, Sandbox 11.2%
- #53 Sunkenland
67% matchVery Positive81% of 23,216 reviews2023
Dev: Vector3 Studio
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 18.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Get ready for a Waterworld-themed survival game with modular base building, sunken city scavenging, crafting, base defense, and invasions of NPC clans for resources and territory. Ready for the water apocalypse?
Why similar: Co-op 20.4%, Survival 18.1%, Crafting 15.5%, Open World 11.9%, Multiplayer 11.3%
- #54 First Dwarf
67% matchMostly Positive78% of 369 reviews2024
Dev: Star Drifters
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Pilot a dwarven mech and fly a dragon as you build and defend outposts across a shattered magical realm. Craft, explore, and survive the dangers of floating islands corrupted by the Taint in this action-packed survival RPG with base-building and co-op.
Why similar: Crafting 17.6%, Building 17.5%, Action RPG 16.5%, Co-op 14.9%, Open World 14%
- #55 PixARK
68% matchMostly Positive73% of 13,071 reviews2019
Dev: Snail Games USA
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 40.2 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Enter a world of mystery, danger, ancient dinosaurs, mythical beasts, and cubes! Work by yourself or with a tribe of others to gather materials, craft useful items, tame wild creatures, and build huge bases to survive in PixARK!
Why similar: Survival 16.8%, Open World 14.4%, Sandbox 12.7%, Crafting 9.7%, Building 9.5%
- #56 Frozen Flame
68% matchMixed63% of 2,975 reviews2022
Dev: Dreamside InteractivePub: Ravenage Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A challenging exploration and survival adventure, set in the dying world of Dragons. Only those who harness the power of Frozen Flame have the means to survive the harsh conditions of the realm and able to muster the strength to cleanse it for good.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 14.5%, Crafting 12.2%, Building 12.1%, Sandbox 11.5%, Open World 11.3%
- #57 Breakwaters: Crystal Tides
68% matchMixed63% of 997 reviews2021
Dev: Soaring Pixels Games
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Survive in a world ravaged by massive Titans and an ever changing ocean sim. Displace water to find resources for building and crafting unique items. Swim, sail, and fly to explore new islands and fight Titans.
Why similar: Building 19.7%, Sandbox 17.1%, Survival 16.8%, Open World 16.5%, Crafting 15.3%
- #58 Salt 2: Shores of Gold
64% matchVery Positive85% of 2,262 reviews2025
Dev: Lavaboots Studios
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Salt 2 is a pirate-themed open world adventure focused on exploration, crafting, and survival. Play solo or with up to 5 friends, sailing the sea with your ship as a mobile base. Discover islands full of quests, towns, caves, and secrets. Level up, craft gear, hunt, fish, and customize your ship.
Why similar: Crafting 19.6%, Open World 19.4%, Survival 17.3%, Sandbox 16.2%, Procedural Generation 11.1%
- #59 VEIN
63% matchVery Positive89% of 10,247 reviews2025
Dev: Ramjet Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 14.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
VEIN is a post-apocalyptic survival multiplayer sandbox game. Gather supplies to survive, explore abandoned buildings, defend your home, and rebuild society, whether alone or with friends.
Why similar: Survival 17.4%, Open World 17.2%, Co-op 14.1%, Crafting 12.9%, Sandbox 10.8%