- #1 Aloft
97% matchVery Positive84% of 3,682 reviews2025
Dev: Astrolabe Interactive Inc.Pub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 14.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Soar the skies in Aloft, the co-op sandbox survival game set in a world of floating islands. Build any island into a skyship, your home in the clouds. Find lost knowledge, cure the fungal corruption, and brave the hurricane to restore the ecosystem.
Why similar: Crafting 15.4%, Building 14.6%, Co-op 13.8%, Survival 12.8%, Sandbox 10%
Why You'll Like It: Like Everwind, this game focuses on survival and exploration across floating islands with a heavy emphasis on building and navigating flying vessels.
- #2 Voidtrain
96% 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: Co-op 14.2%, Online Co-Op 13%, Crafting 12.8%, Survival 12.1%, Open World 11%
Why You'll Like It: You traverse a surreal world on a customizable train that acts as your mobile base, providing a similar sense of progression and vehicular survival.
- #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: Crafting 17.4%, Co-op 17%, Open World 15.2%, Survival 14.7%, Building 14.1%
Why You'll Like It: This title features a high-tech airship that serves as your mobile base, mirroring the core loop of building and surviving while traveling through the sky.
- #4 Enshrouded
95% 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: Open World 15.4%, Online Co-Op 13.5%, Survival 13.1%, Crafting 11.8%, Building 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a deep RPG-survival hybrid experience with robust building mechanics and a vast, mysterious open world to explore with friends.
- #5 Volcanoids
94% 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: Crafting 14.2%, Building 12.9%, Co-op 12.1%, Sandbox 11.9%, Online Co-Op 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: This steampunk survival game centers on a drill-ship that you must upgrade and defend, offering a unique mobile base experience similar to Everwind.
- #6 Echoes of Elysium
94% matchMixed63% of 557 reviews2026
Dev: Loric Games, Inc.Pub: Snail Games USA
Windows
Ever wanted to live on an airship? Now you have to. Echoes of Elysium is a co-op survival RPG where your airship is home, workshop, and war machine. Build a custom flying fortress, crew up with up to 6 players, and battle soul-powered clockwork beasts across a gorgeous, fractured sky.
Why similar: Crafting 14.9%, Building 13.9%, Co-op 13.5%, Sandbox 12.2%, Survival 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: This game captures the essence of flying-based survival with vehicular combat and exploration in a world designed for cooperative play.
- #7 Raft
93% matchVery Positive93% of 377,470 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.7 hrsMean: 37.9 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 19.5%, Co-op 15.6%, Crafting 13.2%, Multiplayer 12.6%, Building 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: As the definitive mobile-base survival game, it shares the core mechanic of expanding your home while navigating a dangerous, ever-changing environment.
- #8 Nightingale
92% 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: Online Co-Op 13.9%, Crafting 12.3%, Building 12.1%, Survival 11.8%, Open World 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: This game features portal-hopping exploration and a strong focus on crafting and survival, offering a similar sense of discovery and RPG progression.
- #9 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
91% 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: Online Co-Op 12.9%, Crafting 12.3%, Survival 12.2%, Building 11.9%, Open World 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: This survival game features unique verticality and building mechanics that make exploring the world feel like a grand, miniature adventure.
- #10 ICARUS
91% 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: Survival 14.7%, Online Co-Op 14.4%, Crafting 12.9%, Open World 10.9%, Building 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: This first-person survival game emphasizes session-based exploration and crafting, perfect for players who enjoy the high-stakes adventure of Everwind.
- #11 Tinkerlands
90% matchVery Positive86% of 4,087 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 14.2 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 13.6%, Sandbox 11.6%, Open World 10.8%, Survival 10.6%, Crafting 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: A charming survival-crafting game that offers a lighter, more accessible take on the genre with plenty of exploration and combat.
- #12 Scrap Mechanic
88% matchVery Positive92% of 122,134 reviews2026
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.4 hrsMean: 64.5 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 18.2%, Crafting 14.8%, Sandbox 14%, Open World 13.3%, Survival 12.6%
Why You'll Like It: This game is perfect for players who love the creative engineering and building aspects of Everwind, allowing for complex mechanical creations.
- #13 Dawn of Defiance
89% 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: Online Co-Op 16.9%, Survival 13.5%, Building 11%, Open World 10.6%, Crafting 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-crafting game rooted in Greek mythology that emphasizes cooperative play and building, mirroring the RPG-survival blend of Everwind.
- #14 Grounded
89% matchVery Positive90% of 95,505 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.5 hrsMean: 41.8 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 21%, Co-op 16.5%, Crafting 14.4%, Multiplayer 13%, Open World 11%
Why You'll Like It: A polished first-person survival experience that excels in base-building and cooperative exploration within a uniquely scaled, dangerous world.
- #15 Bellwright
87% matchVery Positive80% of 21,324 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 16.6%, Open World 16.2%, Crafting 15.4%, Online Co-Op 14.9%, Building 12.2%
Why You'll Like It: This title blends survival and city-building with RPG elements, allowing you to lead a rebellion while managing your own growing settlement.
- #16 Solarpunk™
86% 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: Crafting 14.2%, Online Co-Op 14%, Building 13.5%, Co-op 13.1%, Sandbox 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: Focusing on sustainable technology and cooperative building, this game captures the relaxing yet adventurous spirit of sandbox survival.
- #17 Necesse
85% matchVery Positive93% of 28,807 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 15.3 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 11.9%, Sandbox 11.8%, Open World 11.7%, Survival 10.4%, Building 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: This sandbox survival game offers deep RPG systems and multiplayer support, perfect for those who enjoy the crafting and combat loop of Everwind.
- #18 ARK: Survival Ascended
86% matchMixed60% of 115,802 reviews2023
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows
Median: 27.7 hrsMean: 198.6 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: Survival 17.4%, Open World 16.6%, Crafting 13.9%, Building 13.4%, Sandbox 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: This game provides a massive open world with deep taming, building, and RPG elements that align well with the survival-action focus of Everwind.
- #19 Core Keeper
84% matchVery Positive93% of 66,104 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.2 hrsMean: 34.7 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: Crafting 10.7%, Building 10.2%, Online Co-Op 10.1%, Open World 10.1%, Sandbox 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: Despite its top-down perspective, it excels in exploration and base-building, making it a highly addictive survival experience for co-op groups.
- #20 Subnautica
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 378,847 reviews2018
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.3 hrsMean: 39.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
Why similar: Survival 24.4%, Open World 21.5%, Crafting 20.6%, Sandbox 10.5%, Multiplayer 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: While underwater, it captures the same sense of isolation, exploration, and base-building ingenuity found in the best first-person survival games.
- #21 Project Castaway
83% matchMixed66% of 1,849 reviews2026
Dev: Mardonpol Inc.
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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%, Survival 11.2%, Sandbox 11.1%, Open World 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game focused on exploration and crafting, providing a realistic take on the genre that tests your ability to survive in the wild.
- #22 Valheim
82% matchVery Positive94% of 540,690 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 26.0 hrsMean: 78.0 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 15.5%, Survival 12.9%, Open World 12.5%, Building 12.4%, Crafting 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: A staple of the survival genre, it provides excellent cooperative building and exploration mechanics that are essential for any survival-RPG fan.
- #23 No One Survived
82% 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 17.9%, Open World 16%, Crafting 13.2%, Building 10.2%, Multiplayer 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: This title offers a gritty survival experience with a strong focus on crafting and base defense against persistent threats.
- #24 Medieval Dynasty
81% matchVery Positive90% of 52,032 reviews2021
Dev: Render CubePub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 11.6 hrsMean: 36.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.
Why similar: Crafting 18.9%, Building 18.7%, Co-op 12.6%, Open World 11.4%, Survival 11.4%
Why You'll Like It: This first-person survival game emphasizes long-term base-building and community management, providing a grounded alternative to Everwind's fantasy setting.
- #25 Keplerth
81% matchVery Positive84% of 4,159 reviews2022
Dev: TAROPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 16.3 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 16.5%, Open World 15.4%, Survival 14.9%, Multiplayer 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that emphasizes exploration and adventure, offering a wide array of crafting options and combat challenges.
- #26 Satisfactory
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 278,339 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 33.2 hrsMean: 112.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Why similar: Crafting 17.9%, Open World 16.1%, Building 15.5%, Co-op 14.5%, Sandbox 12.4%
Why You'll Like It: While more focused on automation, its first-person building and exploration of a vast alien planet offer a similar sense of scale and progression.
- #27 Windrose
78% matchVery Positive87% of 51,977 reviews2026
Dev: Kraken Express
Windows
Median: 20.1 hrsMean: 32.9 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 19.1%, Crafting 18%, Survival 15.1%, Building 14.4%, Open World 10.6%
- #28 Longvinter
79% matchMixed67% of 7,664 reviews2025
Dev: Uuvana Studios
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 45.1 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 16.2%, Survival 14.8%, Open World 13.6%, Multiplayer 11.3%, Sandbox 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer survival game that emphasizes crafting and social interaction, providing a relaxed yet engaging experience.
- #29 Solace Crafting
80% 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: Crafting 12.9%, Online Co-Op 11.3%, Survival 11.2%, Building 10.6%, Open World 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game features a massive, procedurally generated world perfect for players who want to focus on crafting and exploration without strict limits.
- #30 Farever
77% matchMostly Positive76% of 9,295 reviews2026
Dev: Shiro Games
Windows
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 24.4 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 17.9%, Action RPG 16.3%, Open World 12.8%, Crafting 11.2%, Sandbox 10.7%
- #31 Rising World
79% matchVery Positive86% of 5,974 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 14.8%, Crafting 14.5%, Sandbox 13%, Co-op 12.2%, Survival 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: With its focus on mining and building, this game offers a sandbox experience that allows for immense creativity in your base design.
- #32 Romestead
76% matchMostly Positive77% of 4,827 reviews2026
Dev: BeartwigsPub: Three Friends
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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: Crafting 14.3%, Survival 11%, Online Co-Op 10.9%, Action RPG 10.8%, Building 9.8%
- #33 RuneScape: Dragonwilds
76% matchVery Positive81% of 29,187 reviews2025
Dev: Jagex Ltd
Windows
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 19.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 14.5%, Online Co-Op 13.2%, Survival 12.4%, Co-op 12.2%, Crafting 11.6%
- #34 Tinkertown
77% matchMixed67% of 1,344 reviews2023
Dev: Headup
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 11.4%, Sandbox 11.1%, Online Co-Op 10.6%, Open World 9.9%
- #35 Omega Crafter
74% matchMostly Positive79% of 575 reviews2025
Dev: Preferred Networks
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 13.1%, Co-op 11.6%, Survival 11%, Open World 10.9%, Building 10.4%
- #36 Plains of Pain
75% 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: Online Co-Op 11.7%, Crafting 11.2%, Sandbox 10.5%, Open World 10%, Co-op 9.9%
- #37 Shamania
73% 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: Crafting 15%, Open World 13.5%, Survival 11.9%, Online Co-Op 10.8%, Co-op 10.2%
- #38 Len's Island
73% 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: Building 16.1%, Crafting 14.7%, Survival 13.6%, Open World 12.9%, Sandbox 12.8%
- #39 Dune: Awakening
72% 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: Online Co-Op 12.1%, Crafting 11.8%, Building 11.7%, Open World 10.7%, Sandbox 10.4%
- #40 Cloudheim
71% matchVery Positive82% of 1,956 reviews2025
Dev: Noodle Cat Games
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 19.1%, Crafting 18.2%, Action RPG 18.2%, Building 14.2%, Co-op 12.6%
- #41 Cube World
75% matchMostly Negative37% of 18,725 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 18.7%, Online Co-Op 11.7%, Multiplayer 10%, Co-op 8.5%, Crafting 7.7%
- #42 Scrapnaut
74% 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: Building 15.4%, Online Co-Op 13.6%, Survival 12.5%, Co-op 12.3%, Crafting 11%
- #43 Creativerse
73% matchMostly Positive78% of 30,868 reviews2017
Dev: Playful Corp.
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 15.6 hrs≥1hr: 63%
A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.
Why similar: Crafting 12.5%, Online Co-Op 12.4%, Building 12.2%, Sandbox 11%, Co-op 10.7%
- #44 Cubic Odyssey
70% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,720 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 19.4%, Co-op 18.5%, Sandbox 17.7%, RPG 9.3%, Online Co-Op 8.5%
- #45 Lost Skies
70% matchMixed61% of 2,976 reviews2025
Dev: Bossa StudiosPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 17.0 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 26.3%, Sandbox 18.3%, Crafting 14.6%, Open World 14.4%, Adventure 6.8%
- #46 Force of Nature
72% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,209 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 20.4%, Survival 16.9%, Sandbox 13.3%, Open World 13.3%, Building 12.7%
- #47 EverRail
69% matchMostly Positive70% of 372 reviews2026
Dev: Aesir Interactive
Windows
Every passenger is a life. Every death brings the end closer. An open world survival crafting game where you explore, scavenge, and craft to endure on the frozen exomoon Inara. Command and upgrade your ever-moving train, solo or with up to 4 players. Move or freeze.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 13%, Building 12.5%, Crafting 12.5%, Sandbox 11.5%, Open World 11.4%
- #48 Palworld
65% matchVery Positive95% of 480,493 reviews2026
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 40.2 hrsMean: 84.9 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 17.7%, Survival 15%, Online Co-Op 12.4%, Crafting 12.1%, Multiplayer 10.5%
- #49 Voxile
70% matchMostly Positive75% of 113 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 10.5%, Open World 10.4%, Co-op 10.2%, Online Co-Op 10.2%
- #50 Ylands
71% matchMixed64% of 8,445 reviews2019
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 46%
Adventure awaits you and your friends in the world of Ylands! Gather resources, craft tools, construct anything and everything, and explore the lands! Build a ship and set sail, encountering mythical animals, a wide variety of sea-life, enemies of all kinds and much more!
Why similar: Crafting 18.6%, Online Co-Op 15.5%, Building 14.9%, Open World 14.2%, Co-op 13.4%
- #51 Sunkenland
67% matchVery Positive80% of 23,803 reviews2023
Dev: Vector3 Studio
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 20.0 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 20.3%, Survival 18.2%, Crafting 15.5%, Open World 12.1%, Multiplayer 11.2%
- #52 Voyagers of Nera
67% 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: Online Co-Op 18.1%, Crafting 17.8%, Building 17.2%, Co-op 16.6%, Multiplayer 11.4%
- #53 Soulmask
66% matchMostly Positive77% of 22,226 reviews2026
Dev: CampFire StudioPub: Qooland Games
Windows
Median: 13.9 hrsMean: 69.2 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: Crafting 15.7%, Open World 13.4%, Survival 12.9%, Co-op 12.7%, Sandbox 12.7%
- #54 Start Over
69% matchMixed61% of 379 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%, Building 14.4%, Survival 13.6%, Sandbox 13.3%, Open World 9.6%
- #55 First Dwarf
68% matchMostly Positive78% of 378 reviews2024
Dev: Star Drifters
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 16.7%, Co-op 14.7%, Open World 14.3%
- #56 Away From Life
67% matchMixed67% of 229 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 13.8%, Building 13.6%, Sandbox 12.2%, Survival 11.2%, Open World 9.9%
- #57 Witchspire
66% matchVery Positive83% of 1,994 reviews2026
Dev: Envar Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Step into the ultimate open-world witch adventure. Befriend and battle creatures, and conjure up a sanctuary alongside other witches in co-op or single-player.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 18.9%, Crafting 17.9%, Open World 15.2%, Action RPG 14.5%, Combat 10.1%
- #58 Frozen Flame
69% 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: Online Co-Op 14.2%, Crafting 12.2%, Building 12.2%, Open World 11.6%, Sandbox 11.4%
- #59 StarRupture
65% 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: Crafting 15%, Co-op 14.4%, Open World 13.7%, Survival 13.4%, Sandbox 12.5%