- #1 Aloft
97% matchVery Positive84% of 3,616 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 13.9%, Survival 12.7%, Sandbox 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: Features a core gameplay loop centered on surviving and building on floating islands in the sky.
- #2 Forever Skies
96% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,533 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 31.9 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 15%, Survival 14.7%, Building 14.1%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on maintaining and upgrading a high-tech airship base while exploring a ruined, atmospheric world.
- #3 Voidtrain
96% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,560 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.6 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 14.2%, Online Co-Op 13.2%, Crafting 12.7%, Survival 12.1%, Open World 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a unique survival experience where you build and upgrade a train that serves as your mobile base through a mysterious void.
- #4 Enshrouded
95% matchVery Positive86% of 102,638 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.9 hrsMean: 46.1 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 15.2%, Online Co-Op 13.7%, Survival 13%, Crafting 11.9%, Building 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a deep open-world survival experience with robust building mechanics and strong action-RPG progression.
- #5 Raft
94% matchVery Positive93% of 373,485 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.6 hrsMean: 37.5 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 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: The quintessential mobile base-building survival game where you expand your platform as you drift through an endless ocean.
- #6 Volcanoids
94% matchVery Positive83% of 9,287 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 12.2%, Online Co-Op 12%, Sandbox 12%
Why You'll Like It: Features a steampunk drill-ship that acts as your mobile base, allowing you to burrow underground to escape volcanic eruptions.
- #7 Echoes of Elysium
93% matchMixed64% of 538 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 flight mechanics with survival and vehicular combat in a sprawling, open-world sky setting.
- #8 Nightingale
92% matchMixed66% of 17,965 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 11.8%, Open World 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: Combines Victorian-era aesthetics with open-world survival and dimension-hopping exploration.
- #9 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
91% matchVery Positive82% of 10,202 reviews2024
Dev: Merge GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 15.8 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 13.1%, Crafting 12.2%, Survival 12.1%, Building 11.9%, Open World 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on survival and building from a unique perspective, emphasizing exploration and environmental interaction.
- #10 Valheim
91% matchVery Positive94% of 535,809 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 25.9 hrsMean: 77.4 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 15.7%, Survival 12.8%, Building 12.3%, Open World 12.3%, Crafting 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a highly acclaimed survival and building experience with a focus on exploration and cooperative combat.
- #11 Core Keeper
89% matchVery Positive93% of 65,043 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.1 hrsMean: 34.4 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 9.8%, Sandbox 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: An exploration-focused survival game with deep crafting and base-building mechanics in a subterranean world.
- #12 Dawn of Defiance
90% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,809 reviews2024
Dev: Traega EntertainmentPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 9.8 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 17.1%, Survival 13.4%, Building 11%, Open World 10.4%, Crafting 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: A Greek-mythology inspired survival game that emphasizes cooperative play and open-world exploration.
- #13 Dune: Awakening
89% matchMostly Positive71% of 76,850 reviews2025
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 47.6 hrsMean: 99.1 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 12.3%, Crafting 11.8%, Building 11.7%, Open World 10.5%, Sandbox 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: An ambitious open-world survival game that captures the harsh environment and strategic building elements of its source material.
- #14 Palworld
86% matchVery Positive94% of 423,735 reviews2024
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 34.6 hrsMean: 71.1 hrs≥1hr: 96%
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 16.2%, Survival 13.9%, Online Co-Op 11.8%, Crafting 11.4%, Multiplayer 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: Blends survival and base-building with creature collection, offering a highly addictive multiplayer loop.
- #15 Scrap Mechanic
88% matchVery Positive92% of 117,723 reviews2016
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.2 hrsMean: 58.4 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 14.8%, Sandbox 14.1%, Open World 13.1%, Survival 12.6%
Why You'll Like It: Provides unparalleled freedom for engineering and building complex, functional vehicles and bases.
- #16 Subnautica
87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 373,268 reviews2018
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.3 hrsMean: 39.6 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 21.3%, Crafting 20.8%, Sandbox 10.6%, Multiplayer 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: Masterfully blends exploration, base-building, and survival in a vast, immersive alien environment.
- #17 Bellwright
85% matchVery Positive81% of 20,282 reviews2024
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 12.8 hrsMean: 41.3 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 15.7%, Crafting 15.4%, Online Co-Op 15.1%, Building 12.3%
Why You'll Like It: Combines survival and city-building with RPG elements, tasking you with leading a rebellion from your own settlement.
- #18 No Man's Sky
86% matchVery Positive85% of 410,213 reviews2016
Dev: Hello Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 20.1 hrsMean: 70.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Why similar: Open World 24.3%, Survival 15%, Sandbox 13.7%, Procedural Generation 12.1%, Crafting 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: Features infinite exploration and base-building across diverse planets, including the ability to own and customize massive capital ships.
- #19 Omega Crafter
84% matchMostly Positive79% of 569 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 13.1%, Co-op 11.7%, Survival 10.9%, Open World 10.7%, Building 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on survival and automation, allowing players to build bases and program helpers to manage resources.
- #20 Len's Island
84% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,768 reviews2025
Dev: Flow Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 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%, Sandbox 12.9%, Open World 12.7%
Why You'll Like It: A relaxing yet engaging survival game that balances base-building, farming, and dungeon exploration.
- #21 Grounded
83% matchVery Positive90% of 94,448 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.3 hrsMean: 41.5 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 20.9%, Co-op 16.6%, Crafting 14.5%, Multiplayer 13%, Open World 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: A creative survival game that turns a backyard into a massive, dangerous open world for players to explore and build in.
- #22 ARK: Survival Ascended
82% matchMixed60% of 108,124 reviews2023
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows
Median: 27.5 hrsMean: 197.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 17.2%, Open World 16.3%, Crafting 13.9%, Building 13.5%, Sandbox 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a massive survival sandbox where taming creatures and building elaborate bases are central to progression.
- #23 Medieval Dynasty
82% matchVery Positive90% of 51,181 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 12.7%, Survival 11.3%, Open World 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: Blends survival and life-simulation, tasking players with building a thriving village from the ground up.
- #24 V Rising
80% matchVery Positive89% of 135,087 reviews2024
Dev: Stunlock Studios
Windows
Median: 21.1 hrsMean: 57.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Awaken as a Vampire. Hunt for blood in nearby settlements to regain your strength and evade the scorching sun to survive. Raise your castle and thrive in an ever-changing, open world full of mystery. Gain allies online and conquer the land of the living.
Why similar: Open World 14.9%, Survival 14.4%, Crafting 13.3%, Online Co-Op 11.1%, Building 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: Features a unique gothic-themed survival experience with a heavy emphasis on base-building and action-RPG combat.
- #25 7 Days to Die
79% matchVery Positive87% of 400,969 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.0 hrsMean: 108.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
Why similar: Survival 20.2%, Online Co-Op 15.3%, Open World 14.7%, Building 13.8%, Sandbox 12.2%
Why You'll Like It: The definitive survival game for base defense, requiring players to build fortifications to survive nightly zombie hordes.
- #26 ICARUS
81% matchMostly Positive75% of 64,520 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 46.3 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 14.6%, Online Co-Op 14.4%, Crafting 13%, Building 10.8%, Open World 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: A session-based survival game that challenges players to complete missions while managing resources and building temporary outposts.
- #27 ASTRONEER
81% matchVery Positive92% of 138,295 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.3 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 16.4%, Survival 15.5%, Co-op 12.9%, Sandbox 12.2%, Multiplayer 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on space exploration and modular base-building with a distinct, colorful art style.
- #28 Necesse
77% matchVery Positive93% of 27,406 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 14.9 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%, Sandbox 12%, Open World 11.6%, Survival 10.4%, Building 10.1%
- #29 Windrose
77% matchVery Positive87% of 48,348 reviews2026
Dev: Kraken Express
Windows
Median: 19.7 hrsMean: 32.4 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 18.3%, Crafting 17.4%, Survival 14.1%, Building 13.7%, Open World 9.8%
- #30 Tinkerlands
78% matchVery Positive86% of 3,887 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 10.6%
- #31 The Forest
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 674,499 reviews2018
Dev: Endnight Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 37.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
Why similar: Survival 28.1%, Open World 21.4%, Crafting 18.6%, Building 15.6%, Sandbox 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: An intense survival game that emphasizes building defensive structures to protect against hostile inhabitants.
- #32 Green Hell
79% matchVery Positive85% of 98,679 reviews2019
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 18.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.
Why similar: Survival 18.3%, Online Co-Op 16.6%, Crafting 13.2%, Multiplayer 13.1%, Open World 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore survival experience that focuses on realistic mechanics and the challenge of surviving in a dense, dangerous jungle.
- #33 Farever
76% matchMostly Positive75% of 7,878 reviews2026
Dev: Shiro Games
Windows
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 22.5 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 18.1%, Action RPG 16%, Open World 12.4%, Crafting 11.3%, Sandbox 10.8%
- #34 Romestead
75% matchMostly Positive75% of 3,870 reviews2026
Dev: BeartwigsPub: Three Friends
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 13.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Rome has fallen! Rebuild civilization in this action-adventure survival game for 1-8 players. Fight hordes of the walking dead, build settlements, restore the Roman gods... or kick back and farm with friends.
Why similar: Crafting 14.3%, Online Co-Op 11%, Survival 10.9%, Action RPG 10.8%, Building 9.8%
- #35 Tinkertown
76% matchMixed67% of 1,342 reviews2023
Dev: Headup
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 6.2 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%
- #36 Project Castaway
74% matchMixed66% of 1,760 reviews2026
Dev: Mardonpol Inc.
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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 14.7%, Co-op 13.1%, Survival 11.2%, Sandbox 11.1%, Open World 10.3%
- #37 Keplerth
75% matchVery Positive84% of 4,142 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 16.9%, Building 16.6%, Open World 15.2%, Survival 14.9%, Multiplayer 7.3%
- #38 No One Survived
73% matchMixed65% of 7,677 reviews2025
Dev: Cat Play Studio
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 22.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%
This is a multiplayer cooperative open world construction survival sandbox game, where you and your friends must find supplies and build shelters in this world. You have to keep an eye on your character's needs state at all times, a bad state is likely to lead to death.
Why similar: Survival 17.8%, Open World 15.7%, Crafting 13.3%, Building 10.3%, Multiplayer 9.5%
- #39 RuneScape: Dragonwilds
72% matchVery Positive81% of 25,521 reviews2025
Dev: Jagex Ltd
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%
On RuneScape's forgotten continent of Ashenfall, dragons have awoken. Gather, build, skill and craft in this co-operative survival adventure. Only by mastering survival and uncovering ancient secrets can you hope to face the ferocious Dragon Queen.
Why similar: Open World 13.9%, Online Co-Op 13.5%, Co-op 12.5%, Survival 12.2%, Crafting 11.7%
- #40 Longvinter
73% matchMixed67% of 7,593 reviews2025
Dev: Uuvana Studios
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 43.8 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 13.4%, Multiplayer 11.4%, Sandbox 11.3%
- #41 Solarpunk™
70% matchVery Positive82% of 2,601 reviews2026
Dev: CyberwavePub: rokaplay
Windows
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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: Online Co-Op 14.2%, Crafting 14.1%, Building 13.5%, Co-op 13.1%, Sandbox 11.8%
- #42 Shamania
71% matchMostly Positive75% of 150 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 13.3%, Survival 11.8%, Online Co-Op 11%, Co-op 10.3%
- #43 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%
- #44 Cube World
74% matchMostly Negative37% of 18,711 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 18.4%, Online Co-Op 11.9%, Multiplayer 10%, Co-op 8.6%, Crafting 7.7%
- #45 Cloudheim
70% matchVery Positive82% of 1,791 reviews2025
Dev: Noodle Cat Games
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 9.9 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 18.3%, Action RPG 18.1%, Building 14.1%, Co-op 12.7%
- #46 Plains of Pain
71% matchVery Positive83% of 831 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 11.8%, Crafting 11.2%, Sandbox 10.6%, Co-op 10%, Open World 9.8%
- #47 Scrapnaut
72% matchMixed70% of 831 reviews2021
Dev: SpiffyBitPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 4.1 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 13.7%, Co-op 12.4%, Survival 12.4%, Crafting 11%
- #48 Cubic Odyssey
69% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,655 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 9.0 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 8.5%
- #49 Lost Skies
69% matchMixed61% of 2,928 reviews2025
Dev: Bossa StudiosPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 11.9 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 26.5%, Sandbox 18.4%, Crafting 14.6%, Open World 14.1%, Adventure 6.7%
- #50 Rising World
71% matchVery Positive86% of 5,914 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 14.7%, Crafting 14.5%, Sandbox 13%, Co-op 12.2%, Survival 11.7%
- #51 Creativerse
70% 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 10.8%
- #52 Voxile
68% matchMostly Positive75% of 108 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%, Online Co-Op 10.3%, Co-op 10.2%, Open World 10.2%
- #53 Away From Life
67% matchMixed67% of 189 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 13.6%, Sandbox 12.3%, Survival 11%, Open World 9.6%
- #54 Voyagers of Nera
66% matchVery Positive85% of 2,430 reviews2025
Dev: Treehouse Games
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 12.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 18.2%, Crafting 17.7%, Building 17.1%, Co-op 16.6%, Multiplayer 11.5%
- #55 PixARK
68% matchMostly Positive73% of 13,101 reviews2019
Dev: Snail Games USA
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 40.1 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 14.6%, Sandbox 12.6%, Crafting 9.6%, Building 9.5%
- #56 StarRupture
64% matchVery Positive81% of 12,717 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 23.8 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: Crafting 15%, Co-op 14.4%, Open World 13.5%, Survival 13.4%, Sandbox 12.6%
- #57 Witchspire
65% matchVery Positive83% of 1,403 reviews2026
Dev: Envar Games
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 7.5 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 19.2%, Crafting 18%, Open World 14.8%, Action RPG 14.4%, Combat 10.1%
- #58 Wild Omission
67% matchVery Positive90% of 69 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 11.8%, Sandbox 11.2%
- #59 Sunkenland
65% matchVery Positive81% of 23,316 reviews2023
Dev: Vector3 Studio
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 18.8 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%