- #1 Aloft
97% matchVery Positive84% of 3,496 reviews2025
Dev: Astrolabe Interactive Inc.Pub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Soar the skies in Aloft, the co-op sandbox survival game set in a world of floating islands. Build any island into a skyship, your home in the clouds. Find lost knowledge, cure the fungal corruption, and brave the hurricane to restore the ecosystem.
Why similar: Building 14.7%, Co-op 14.5%, Crafting 13.7%, Survival 13.5%, Sandbox 11%
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% matchMixed62% of 2,832 reviews2025
Dev: Bossa StudiosPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 22%, Sandbox 16.4%, Flight 12.5%, Open World 11.9%, Crafting 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on cooperative exploration of floating islands with an emphasis on building custom airships to traverse the world.
- #3 Echoes of Elysium
96% matchMixed64% of 502 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: Flight 17.2%, Co-op 11.1%, Building 10.9%, Sandbox 10.4%, Crafting 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: Combines survival and vehicular combat in a sky-bound open world that emphasizes cooperative play and exploration.
- #4 Forever Skies
95% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,284 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.4 hrsMean: 32.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A first-person survival game set on a post-apocalyptic, ecologically ruined Earth. Play solo or with up to 3 friends as you build, upgrade, and fly a high-tech airship. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and face dangers on the surface as you hunt for a cure to save humanity.
Why similar: Co-op 16.7%, Survival 14.5%, Open World 14.5%, Crafting 14.4%, Building 13.3%
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 Voidtrain
94% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,176 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
Why similar: Co-op 14.4%, Online Co-Op 12.9%, Survival 12.3%, Crafting 10.9%, Open World 10.9%
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.
- #6 Core Keeper
94% matchVery Positive93% of 63,205 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.0 hrsMean: 33.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
Why similar: Procedural Generation 9.8%, Online Co-Op 9.8%, Sandbox 9.8%, Building 9.7%, Open World 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a polished pixel-art survival experience with deep crafting and exploration mechanics that feel very similar to Everwind.
- #7 Tinkerlands
93% matchVery Positive86% of 3,746 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 13.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Explore, craft, and fight your way through uncharted islands — solo or with up to 4 players in co-op! Tinkerlands is an exciting survival adventure where you will build your settlement, craft useful tools to survive, and even use magic!
Why similar: Online Co-Op 13.4%, Sandbox 12.3%, Survival 10.7%, Open World 10.5%, Co-op 9.7%
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 26,780 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
Why similar: Sandbox 12.6%, Open World 11.7%, Survival 10.5%, Crafting 10.3%, Building 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down, pixel-art survival game that excels in cooperative play, base management, and procedural world generation.
- #9 Starbound
91% matchVery Positive90% of 122,901 reviews2016
Dev: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.2 hrsMean: 64.1 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 17%, Online Co-Op 11.5%, Survival 10.7%, Crafting 10%, Open World 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: A classic 2D sandbox survival game that features procedural generation, space exploration, and base building across various planets.
- #10 Terraria
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,511,859 reviews2011
Dev: Re-Logic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 33.2 hrsMean: 149.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Why similar: Sandbox 17.2%, Survival 12.2%, Building 11.1%, Crafting 10.5%, Multiplayer 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: The definitive pixel-art sandbox adventure that offers endless exploration, combat, and base-building opportunities.
- #11 Nightingale
90% matchMixed67% of 17,841 reviews2024
Dev: Inflexion Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 23.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Nightingale is an open world survival crafting game, where you’ll adventure across the mysterious and dangerous Fae Realms. As a daring Realmwalker, you’ll defeat monstrous enemies, survive hostile environments, and build elaborate estates in a visually stunning Gaslamp Fantasy world.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 13.4%, Survival 11.7%, Building 11.5%, Open World 11.2%, Crafting 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: Features a Victorian-fantasy setting with procedural realm-hopping, offering deep crafting and survival mechanics for co-op groups.
- #12 Enshrouded
89% matchVery Positive86% of 98,202 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.3 hrsMean: 44.1 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 15.9%, Online Co-Op 14.1%, Survival 14.1%, Crafting 10.8%, Building 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a highly detailed open-world survival experience with excellent building mechanics and a focus on cooperative adventure.
- #13 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
88% matchVery Positive82% of 9,646 reviews2024
Dev: Merge GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 12.9%, Survival 12.3%, Building 11.6%, Co-op 10.6%, Open World 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.
- #14 Volcanoids
89% matchVery Positive83% of 9,214 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 14%, Open World 12.1%, Crafting 12%, Survival 12%, Co-op 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: Features a unique drill-ship mechanic that serves as your mobile base, requiring constant upgrades to survive environmental threats.
- #15 Valheim
85% matchVery Positive94% of 529,829 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 25.6 hrsMean: 76.1 hrs≥1hr: 93%
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Why similar: Online Co-Op 15.1%, Survival 12.9%, Open World 12.1%, Building 11.9%, Crafting 10%
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 1,161 reviews2020
Dev: 5 Lives StudiosPub: Deep Silver
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 63%
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 26%, RPG 23%, Crafting 20.6%, Adventure 13%, 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
86% matchMixed63% of 2,175 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 22.1 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: Sandbox 14.3%, Building 14%, Co-op 13.9%, Crafting 13%, Open World 12.6%
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 Survival Machine
84% matchMostly Positive74% of 669 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 14.2%, Co-op 12.6%, Building 12.3%, Survival 11.7%, Crafting 11.7%
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.
- #19 Craftopia
84% matchMostly Positive77% of 19,974 reviews2020
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Craftopia is the brand new multiplayer survival action game made in Japan. We combined many features we find enjoyable, such as hunting, farming, hack-and-slash, building, automation to develop this game.
Why similar: Open World 18.3%, Crafting 16.2%, Survival 14.5%, Sandbox 11.1%, 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 1,632 reviews2026
Dev: Mardonpol Inc.
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Project Castaway is a survival crafting title set in the Pacific Ocean. Live the life of a stranded castaway, with only yourself - and the island's inhabitants - for company! Sail the ocean, hunt, explore unique islands and gather resources as you fight for survival.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 14.5%, Co-op 13.4%, Sandbox 11.9%, Survival 11.4%, Open World 10.3%
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 Dawn of Defiance
82% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,736 reviews2024
Dev: Traega EntertainmentPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
You are the Defier, a Spartan beginning your afterlife on the Crossroads. In this Greek myth-inspired survival craft, ascend from weak soldier to god-like anti-hero. Build impressive Greek structures, craft legendary gear, and break the seals of the Underworld with up to 3 friends.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 15.8%, Survival 12.9%, PvE 10.5%, Building 10.2%, Open World 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: A Greek-mythology inspired survival game that focuses on open-world exploration and cooperative base building.
- #22 Cubic Odyssey
82% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,483 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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: Sandbox 15.1%, Co-op 14.8%, Building 14.5%, Procedural Generation 12%, Open World 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi sandbox survival game that focuses on base building and cooperative exploration in a voxel-based universe.
- #23 Bellwright
81% matchVery Positive81% of 18,990 reviews2024
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 41.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Establish and expand your own settlements, liberate the land and assist its villagers, and recruit others to your cause while learning more about a life you had to leave behind. Command your forces, prove your valor through combat, and cement yourself as the hero of your people.
Why similar: Survival 16.8%, Open World 15.8%, Online Co-Op 14.6%, Crafting 13.4%, Building 12.1%
Why You'll Like It: Combines survival with city-building and combat, allowing players to lead a rebellion in a persistent open world.
- #24 Len's Island
79% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,615 reviews2025
Dev: Flow Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
An open-world survival crafting game for 1–8 players, blending intense dungeon crawling and ARPG combat with peaceful farming and creative building. Take on quests and explore a vast, procedurally-generated world full of danger and discovery.
Why similar: Building 14.8%, Survival 13%, Sandbox 12.9%, Open World 11.9%, Crafting 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: Blends survival, farming, and dungeon-crawling in a beautiful, relaxing open-world setting.
- #25 ASTRONEER
80% matchVery Positive92% of 136,711 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 44.1 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 16.2%, Survival 15.7%, Co-op 12.9%, Sandbox 12.8%, Multiplayer 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on planetary exploration and base building with a strong emphasis on creative engineering and resource management.
- #26 Cube World
81% matchMostly Negative37% of 18,693 reviews2019
Dev: Picroma
Windows
Median: 5.4 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 18.8%, Online Co-Op 12%, Multiplayer 10.1%, Co-op 8.9%, Procedural Generation 8.5%
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
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 528,033 reviews2016
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 64.1 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 51.3%, Co-op 11.4%, Multiplayer 9.5%, Open World 7.6%, Online Co-Op 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: A quintessential cooperative survival game that features a distinct art style and challenging, procedural world mechanics.
- #28 Rising World
79% matchVery Positive86% of 5,845 reviews2014
Dev: JIW-Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 21.3 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 13.5%, Sandbox 12.9%, Procedural Generation 12.4%, Crafting 11.6%, Co-op 11.6%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a highly interactive sandbox environment where almost every block can be manipulated for building and terraforming.
- #29 Omega Crafter
77% matchMostly Positive79% of 560 reviews2025
Dev: Preferred Networks
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Adventure in a vast open-world survival craft game with your programmable sidekick Grammi! Program the Grammi to collect materials, build your town, craft weapons and armor to challenge strong enemies! Play alone or with friends online!
Why similar: Open World 11%, Survival 10.5%, Crafting 10.5%, Co-op 9.9%, Building 8.6%
- #30 No One Survived
76% matchMixed65% of 7,577 reviews2025
Dev: Cat Play Studio
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 22.9 hrs≥1hr: 77%
This is a multiplayer cooperative open world construction survival sandbox game, where you and your friends must find supplies and build shelters in this world. You have to keep an eye on your character's needs state at all times, a bad state is likely to lead to death.
Why similar: Survival 17.6%, Open World 15.2%, Crafting 11%, Building 9.9%, Co-op 9.3%
- #31 Tinkertown
78% matchMixed67% of 1,340 reviews2023
Dev: Headup
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 6.0 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: RPG 11.8%, Sandbox 11.7%, Crafting 11%, Online Co-Op 10.4%, Open World 9.7%
- #32 Solace Crafting
77% 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: Survival 11.1%, Online Co-Op 10.9%, Crafting 10.8%, Open World 10.1%, Building 10.1%
- #33 Keplerth
76% matchVery Positive85% of 4,121 reviews2022
Dev: TAROPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 16.2 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 18%, Building 16.3%, Open World 15.3%, Survival 15.2%, Exploration 8.2%
- #34 Dune: Awakening
74% matchMostly Positive70% of 74,372 reviews2025
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 47.7 hrsMean: 95.2 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival RPG where you can fully immerse yourself in the epic world of Dune. Alone or with friends, explore a vast open world Arrakis, survive the sandworms, build a home, craft an ornithopter, and unravel the mystery of the missing Fremen.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 12.6%, Building 12%, Sandbox 11.7%, Open World 11%, Survival 10.9%
- #35 RuneScape: Dragonwilds
73% matchVery Positive81% of 23,948 reviews2025
Dev: Jagex Ltd
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
On RuneScape’s forgotten continent of Ashenfall, dragons have awoken. Gather, build, skill and craft to survive in this co-operative (1-4) survival crafting game. Only by mastering survival and uncovering ancient secrets can they hope to slay the Dragon Queen—alone or with allies.
Why similar: Open World 13.9%, Online Co-Op 13.1%, Co-op 12.6%, Survival 12.6%, Building 10.8%
- #36 Voxile
75% matchMostly Positive74% of 102 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: Destruction 17.9%, Procedural Generation 9.1%, Co-op 8.4%, Open World 8.2%, Crafting 8.1%
- #37 Scrap Mechanic
74% matchVery Positive92% of 117,049 reviews2016
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.1 hrsMean: 57.3 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%, Sandbox 15.1%, Open World 13.3%, Survival 13.1%, Crafting 12.9%
- #38 Scrapnaut
75% matchMostly Positive70% of 824 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 14.9%, Online Co-Op 13.4%, Survival 12.7%, Co-op 12.6%, Sandbox 11.4%
- #39 Shamania
72% matchMostly Positive78% of 140 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: Open World 13.2%, Crafting 12.8%, Survival 12%, Sandbox 10.8%, Online Co-Op 10.7%
- #40 Soulmask
71% matchVery Positive81% of 17,627 reviews2024
Dev: CampFire StudioPub: Qooland Games
Windows
Median: 13.7 hrsMean: 66.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Choose your path across a primeval continent shaped by the Mask's power. From lush rainforests to scorched sands, recruit and lead unique tribesmen, build automated production lines, and construct everything from local bases to colossal airships, uncover the secrets of the Mask
Why similar: Building 20%, Sandbox 18.7%, Open World 16.9%, Survival 16.5%, Crafting 16.2%
- #41 Raft
70% matchVery Positive93% of 368,916 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.5 hrsMean: 36.8 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 20.2%, Co-op 16.2%, Multiplayer 12.5%, Crafting 11.5%, Building 10.7%
- #42 Creativerse
73% 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 12.2%, Building 11.8%, Sandbox 11.7%, Co-op 10.9%, Crafting 10.7%
- #43 Palworld
69% matchVery Positive94% of 417,805 reviews2024
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 34.2 hrsMean: 70.0 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!
Why similar: Open World 17.2%, Survival 15.3%, Online Co-Op 12.5%, Crafting 10.6%, Co-op 10.5%
- #44 Longvinter
70% matchMixed67% of 7,526 reviews2025
Dev: Uuvana Studios
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 39.9 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: Survival 16.4%, Crafting 15%, Open World 14.4%, Sandbox 13%, Multiplayer 12%
- #45 Plains of Pain
71% matchVery Positive85% of 692 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: Procedural Generation 12%, Online Co-Op 11.6%, Sandbox 11.2%, Co-op 10.1%, Open World 9.8%
- #46 The Survivalists
71% matchMostly Positive76% of 9,935 reviews2020
Dev: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 71%
A living world full of surprises, secrets and danger awaits in The Survivalists, an adventure-filled survival sandbox set in The Escapists universe. Explore, build, craft and even train monkeys with up to three friends in a desperate bid to survive. Have you got what it takes to be a Survivalist?
Why similar: Online Co-Op 14.6%, Crafting 13.1%, Survival 12.6%, Sandbox 10.2%, Co-op 9.7%
- #47 Eden Crafters
69% matchVery Positive86% of 2,214 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in Eden Crafters, a solo and co-op open-world game that challenges you to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Temper the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Sandbox 14%, Crafting 13.9%, Online Co-Op 13.8%, Building 13%, Open World 12.6%
- #48 IfSunSets
69% matchMostly Positive75% of 2,127 reviews2024
Dev: POLYMORPHPub: Smilegate
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 28.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
「IfSunSets」 is a survival RPG adventure game. During the day, secure necessary supplies across the island, and survive the night against strong and terrifying monsters that track you down. You can utilize resources you've secured to build a base to fend off threatening monsters.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 13.7%, Sandbox 12.9%, Co-op 12.5%, Crafting 12%, Open World 11.9%
- #49 Force of Nature
72% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,198 reviews2016
Dev: A.Y.std
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres
Why similar: Crafting 17.7%, Survival 17.4%, Sandbox 14.2%, Open World 13.2%, Building 12.4%
- #50 Elsewhere
68% matchVery Positive95% of 64 reviews2025
Dev: Four White Cats
Windows
Explore, dig for resources, and build factories in a vibrant open world with quests for both technological and magical progression. Inspired by classic old-school Minecraft modpacks and featuring many new and unique features.
Why similar: Sandbox 16.7%, Open World 14.4%, Building 13.5%, Survival 13.4%, Crafting 13.4%
- #51 Medieval Dynasty
68% matchVery Positive91% of 49,970 reviews2021
Dev: Render CubePub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 35.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.
Why similar: Building 18.6%, Crafting 16.6%, Co-op 13.1%, Survival 11.7%, Open World 11.4%
- #52 Sunkenland
68% matchVery Positive81% of 22,996 reviews2023
Dev: Vector3 Studio
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 17.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Get ready for a Waterworld-themed survival game with modular base building, sunken city scavenging, crafting, base defense, and invasions of NPC clans for resources and territory. Ready for the water apocalypse?
Why similar: Co-op 19.6%, Survival 17.6%, Crafting 12.6%, Open World 11.3%, Multiplayer 10.5%
- #53 Breakwaters: Crystal Tides
70% matchMixed63% of 996 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 18.5%, Sandbox 17.4%, Survival 16.6%, Open World 16%, Crafting 12.6%
- #54 Salt 2: Shores of Gold
65% matchVery Positive85% of 2,197 reviews2025
Dev: Lavaboots Studios
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 8.6 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: Open World 17.3%, Survival 15.7%, Sandbox 15.3%, Crafting 15%, Procedural Generation 13.9%
- #55 First Dwarf
67% matchMostly Positive78% of 353 reviews2024
Dev: Star Drifters
Windows
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: Co-op 16.8%, Building 16.5%, Crafting 14.4%, Open World 12.4%, PvE 12.4%
- #56 KeepUp Survival
67% matchMixed65% of 734 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
KeepUp Survival is an open base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and unfold your own story on a mysterious island.
Why similar: Co-op 14.9%, Survival 14.2%, Open World 14.1%, Sandbox 13.4%, Crafting 13.1%
- #57 StarRupture
63% matchVery Positive81% of 10,861 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.
Why similar: Co-op 14.5%, Survival 13.6%, Open World 13.4%, Sandbox 13.4%, Crafting 12.7%