- #1 Necesse
96% 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: Open World Survival Craft 46.4% ★, Crafting 9.8%, Survival 8.5%, Sandbox 7.4%, Open World 7%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a similar top-down perspective with a heavy focus on survival, base management, and RPG-style progression through boss encounters.
- #2 Force of Nature 2: Ghost Keeper
97% matchMostly Positive80% of 2,353 reviews2021
Dev: A.Y.stdPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 16.6 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Force of Nature 2: Ghost Keeper offers incredible adventures full of mystery, danger, exploration and magic. This game combines the genres of Survival, Sandbox, Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Resource Management
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.3% ★, Crafting 15.2%, Survival 12.7%, Open World 10.3%, Sandbox 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: As the direct sequel, it refines the core survival and crafting mechanics of the original with improved visuals and expanded gameplay systems.
- #3 Core Keeper
96% 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: Open World Survival Craft 30.9% ★, Crafting 12.9%, Survival 11.3%, Open World 8.8%, Sandbox 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: This isometric survival game perfectly mirrors the top-down exploration, mining, and base-building loop found in Force of Nature.
- #4 V Rising
95% matchVery Positive89% of 136,761 reviews2024
Dev: Stunlock Studios
Windows
Median: 20.8 hrsMean: 57.9 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: Survival 21%, Crafting 19.4%, Open World 16%, Sandbox 10.2%, Building 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: This game combines isometric survival and crafting with a polished base-building system and engaging combat mechanics.
- #5 DYSMANTLE
94% matchVery Positive91% of 11,572 reviews2021
Dev: 10tons Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 25.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Ascend from your shelter. Ruin everything. Escape the wretched island. ⚔️🔨🎣🌱🌵🍰 Explore. Fight. Level up. Survive. Gather. Craft. Harvest. Hunt. Build. Farm. Solve puzzles. Fish. Cook. Live. Enjoy the bittersweet post-apocalypse.
Why similar: Crafting 24.2%, Survival 23.2%, Open World 17%, Sandbox 10.5%, Base Building 8%
Why You'll Like It: The game features a similar top-down exploration style where breaking down the environment for resources is the primary gameplay loop.
- #6 Len's Island
93% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,866 reviews2025
Dev: Flow Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
An open-world survival crafting game for 1–8 players, blending intense dungeon crawling and ARPG combat with peaceful farming and creative building. Take on quests and explore a vast, procedurally-generated world full of danger and discovery.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.4% ★, Crafting 12.6%, Survival 11.7%, Building 8.8%, Sandbox 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: It blends survival and crafting with farming and dungeon crawling in a vibrant, top-down open world.
- #7 Scrapnaut
94% matchMixed70% of 837 reviews2021
Dev: SpiffyBitPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements. Explore an open world with different biomes, take care of oxygen, manage your farms, generate electricity, build your home and much more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.3% ★, Survival 13%, Crafting 11.6%, Building 10.3%, Sandbox 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: This isometric survival game focuses on base building and resource management in a stylized world that feels very similar to Force of Nature.
- #8 Solace Crafting
92% matchMostly Positive72% of 898 reviews2022
Dev: Big Kitty Games
Windows · Linux
Embark on an adventure set in a fantasy survival RPG. Visit a borderless, open world where you manage resources to construct your base and new types of equipment to support your conquest.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35% ★, Crafting 12.9%, Survival 11.1%, Open World 7.6%, Sandbox 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a vast open world with a focus on crafting and building, allowing for significant freedom in how you approach survival.
- #9 Don't Starve
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 113,372 reviews2013
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 28.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.7% ★, Survival 22%, Crafting 14%, Sandbox 8.1%, Open World 4.8%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the top-down survival aesthetic and the constant pressure of managing hunger and health while exploring a dangerous world.
- #10 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
90% matchVery Positive82% of 10,429 reviews2024
Dev: Max Ent Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 16.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35% ★, Crafting 11.5%, Survival 11.4%, Open World 7.4%, Building 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the sense of scale and survival exploration, focusing on building bases and crafting gear in a dangerous natural world.
- #11 Life is Feudal: Your Own
91% matchMixed66% of 12,061 reviews2015
Dev: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 57.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Hardcore and realistic; LiF is a Medieval multiplayer sandbox RPG, with free terraforming, a rich crafting system and preset and modular building construction. With engaging survival aspects, no target physics-based combat and a unique formation system - along with numerous other features - LiF is not for the faint of heart!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.1% ★, Crafting 12.9%, Survival 11.2%, Open World 9.2%, Sandbox 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a more realistic, medieval-themed approach to the open-world survival and crafting formula.
- #12 Don't Starve Together
89% matchVery Positive95% of 541,972 reviews2016
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 64.6 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: Open World Survival Craft 67.8% ★, Survival 20.8%, Crafting 3%, Multiplayer 2.5%, Open World 2.3%
Why You'll Like It: This multiplayer-focused version provides the same challenging survival experience with the added benefit of cooperative play.
- #13 Green Hell
89% matchVery Positive85% of 101,308 reviews2019
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 18.4 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: Open World Survival Craft 46.2% ★, Survival 14.2%, Crafting 10.2%, Open World 6.6%, Multiplayer 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: For players who enjoy the hardcore survival aspects of Force of Nature, this game provides a deep, realistic experience in a hostile environment.
- #14 Terraria
87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,548,448 reviews2011
Dev: Re-Logic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 33.8 hrsMean: 151.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44% ★, Sandbox 10.9%, Crafting 10.7%, Survival 10.5%, Building 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: While 2D, it is the gold standard for the exploration, crafting, and base-building progression that defines the genre.
- #15 Subsistence
88% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,766 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 40.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.5% ★, Survival 13.3%, Crafting 12.6%, Open World 7.2%, Building 5.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game provides a grounded survival experience with a strong emphasis on base building and defending against AI threats.
- #16 Survival: Fountain of Youth
85% matchVery Positive85% of 4,480 reviews2024
Dev: Odinsoft Inc.Pub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Survival: Fountain of Youth is a challenging single-player open-world adventure game set on the Caribbean islands. Survive as a shipwrecked 16th-century explorer, craft tools and shelter, and uncover the secrets of both an ancient civilization and your own fate.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.5% ★, Crafting 13.3%, Survival 12.5%, Sandbox 7.5%, Open World 7%
Why You'll Like It: This title emphasizes the exploration and crafting progression that makes the survival genre so rewarding.
- #17 Craftopia
86% matchMostly Positive76% of 20,210 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 Survival Craft 33.3% ★, Crafting 17.3%, Survival 13%, Open World 12.4%, Sandbox 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers a massive open world with a heavy emphasis on crafting, automation, and survival mechanics.
- #18 Out of Reach
86% matchMixed57% of 3,051 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
You’re a castaway stranded in the middle of nowhere. Storm is gone, the worst certainly not. Look for food and resources, craft gear, make shelters. These are the basics, you need much more to stay alive on this cut-off-the-world, yet not desert island. Build & burn, sail & explore, be Out of Reach!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.7% ★, Survival 13.1%, Crafting 11.4%, Open World 8.1%, Building 5.8%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on island survival, crafting, and building, mirroring the core loop of Force of Nature.
- #19 Night of the Dead
83% matchMostly Positive77% of 11,856 reviews2024
Dev: Jackto Studios
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 32.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
'Night of the Dead' is an open-world game that combines elements of exploration, tower defense, survival, and crafting. Traverse a world dominated by zombies while collecting various resources and powerful equipment. Build a fortress to survive the hordes of zombies that swarm every night!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.2% ★, Crafting 12.5%, Survival 10%, Sandbox 8.2%, Open World 8%
Why You'll Like It: This game blends survival and crafting with tower-defense elements, requiring you to build a base to survive nightly waves of enemies.
- #20 Planet Explorers
84% matchMixed62% of 6,818 reviews2016
Dev: Pathea Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Planet Explorers is an open world sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.5% ★, Sandbox 10.9%, Crafting 10%, Open World 9.2%, Survival 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a deep sandbox experience where crafting and building are essential to surviving on an alien planet.
- #21 7 Days to Die
80% matchVery Positive87% of 405,507 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.3 hrsMean: 110.4 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: Open World Survival Craft 39.3% ★, Survival 17.4%, Open World 9.3%, Sandbox 8%, Building 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: It is a staple of the survival-crafting genre, focusing on building defenses against zombies in a fully destructible world.
- #22 Valheim
81% 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: Open World Survival Craft 40.6% ★, Survival 11.6%, Crafting 10.7%, Open World 8.2%, Building 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: It is a premier survival game that excels at building and exploration, capturing the same sense of adventure as Force of Nature.
- #23 Novus Inceptio
84% matchMixed52% of 1,304 reviews2015
Dev: McMagic Productions
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Warning: This is an Early Access game! Welcome to an enigmatic world, where a new gaming experience in exploring, building and surviving is waiting just for you. Experience a sandbox world with survival elements, and join us in creating a full version of the game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.4% ★, Crafting 12.3%, Survival 11.1%, Sandbox 8.5%, Open World 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that features a complex crafting system and an open world designed for long-term exploration.
- #24 Alchemist's Awakening
82% matchMostly Positive73% of 497 reviews2019
Dev: OsarisGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Enter a world full of magic, mystery, beautiful landscapes and dangerous creatures. Build your own destiny, by yourself or with some friends, gather materials, use elements as attacks, recombine them into building blocks... and use your Alchemist's power to give life to any shape you built.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.7% ★, Crafting 16.3%, Survival 11.2%, Sandbox 10.8%, Open World 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: It features a sandbox world where crafting and alchemy are central to your survival and interaction with the environment.
- #25 GRAV
82% matchMixed47% of 6,921 reviews2015
Dev: BitMonster, Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 60%
GRAV is a sand box experience where you explore a multitude of planets, hunt strange alien creatures, build and defend outposts, craft weapons and armor, and attempt to survive against other players in a hostile environment.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.6% ★, Survival 13.2%, Crafting 9.8%, Open World 8.9%, Sandbox 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on exploration and building in a sci-fi setting, offering a similar sense of progression through crafting.
- #26 The Forest
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 680,573 reviews2018
Dev: Endnight Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 37.3 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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: Open World Survival Craft 52.2% ★, Survival 15.4%, Crafting 10.3%, Open World 8.6%, Building 5.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game provides a tense, immersive survival experience with a heavy focus on building and exploration.
- #27 Project Zomboid
79% matchVery Positive94% of 475,049 reviews2013
Dev: The Indie Stone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 15.6 hrsMean: 87.1 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.6% ★, Survival 19.2%, Open World 10.1%, Crafting 8.3%, Sandbox 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: This isometric survival game offers the most detailed and hardcore survival mechanics available in the genre.
- #28 Unturned
78% matchVery Positive91% of 564,532 reviews2017
Dev: Smartly Dressed Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 72.8 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Unturned is an open-world zombie survival sandbox game. As one of the few not yet turned, you must fight to remain among the living.
Why similar: Crafting 24.2%, Survival 21.8%, Sandbox 16.2%, Open World 15.3%, Multiplayer 9%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a accessible, sandbox-style survival experience that emphasizes crafting and looting in an open world.
- #29 Blockscape
81% matchMixed46% of 898 reviews2014
Dev: ioneo
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 49%
The ultimate block building game. Start with nothing and build an empire. Smooth voxel worlds, settlers, crafting, vehicles, and Steam multiplayer. Survival or Just Build — every item in your inventory is also a building block.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 53.2% ★, Sandbox 10%, Crafting 9.2%, Survival 7.6%, Open World 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes the building and sandbox aspects of survival, allowing for creative construction in an open world.
- #30 Stranded Deep
78% matchMostly Positive74% of 47,770 reviews2022
Dev: Beam Team GamesPub: Beam Team Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 20.9 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Take the role of a plane crash survivor stranded somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Come face to face with some of the most life threatening scenarios that will result in a different experience each time you play. Scavenge. Discover. Survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.5% ★, Survival 14%, Crafting 11%, Open World 7.4%, Multiplayer 5.5%
- #31 Shamania
77% matchMostly Positive74% of 162 reviews2026
Dev: Totem Keepers Games
Windows
Shamania is an open world survival game where you can CRAFT, FIGHT, and EXPLORE a vibrant sandbox world with friends in CO-OP. Expand your base as a hub for survival, gather resources, and master professions to unlock new tools and opportunities!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.2% ★, Crafting 14.3%, Survival 11.3%, Open World 9.3%, Sandbox 7.4%
- #32 The Front
75% matchMixed67% of 10,771 reviews2025
Dev: Samar Studio
Windows
Median: 10.6 hrsMean: 44.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
The Front is a survival open-world crafting sandbox game. You are a resistance fighter sent back in time to stop the rise of a tyrannical empire. Collect resources, craft tech, build shelters, and fight monsters to accomplish your mission.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.1% ★, Crafting 12.7%, Survival 11%, Building 7.7%, Sandbox 7.6%
- #33 FortressCraft Evolved!
77% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,063 reviews2015
Dev: ProjectorGamesPub: Digital Tribe
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 72%
FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44% ★, Crafting 13%, Sandbox 9%, Survival 8.8%, Building 7.7%
- #34 Feel The Snow
75% matchVery Positive87% of 3,059 reviews2019
Dev: Owlet
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Choose one of the characters and start your journey. The game has many interesting things in store: building, crafting, puzzles, bosses, mystery, laughs, quests etc.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.7% ★, Survival 12.4%, Crafting 12.1%, Sandbox 6.9%, Open World 6.1%
- #35 CrossWorlds: Escape
76% matchMixed64% of 158 reviews2020
Dev: Another Reality
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 97%
CrossWorlds: Escape is a hardcore game in which you will have to deploy all your skills to survive in a huge open world that is susceptible to changes in weather, seasons and various natural phenomena.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39% ★, Crafting 12.9%, Survival 11.5%, Sandbox 9%, Open World 8.5%
- #36 KeepUp Survival
73% matchMixed64% of 749 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 84%
KeepUp Survival is an open-world base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and shape your own story on a mysterious island.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.8% ★, Crafting 13.3%, Survival 12.1%, Open World 9%, Sandbox 8.3%
- #37 Outlaws of the Old West
74% matchMixed59% of 6,295 reviews2019
Dev: Virtual Basement LLCPub: Wandering Wizard
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Outlaws of the Old West is a massively multiplayer survival MMO with a huge world, thousands of items and a modular building system. Survive the wild, build your own homestead, defeat villainous bandits and work with others to tame the Wild West.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 52.9% ★, Survival 15.2%, Open World 10.9%, Crafting 6%, Multiplayer 5.7%
- #38 Re.poly
73% matchVery Positive91% of 137 reviews2019
Dev: Hinkfoot Studios
Windows
Re.Poly is a relaxed yet deep indie survival game in a low-poly style that blends exploration, combat, building, and adventure. Whether alone or with friends, create your own world, write your own story, and decide how you want to play.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.5% ★, Crafting 13.8%, Survival 11.7%, Sandbox 9.3%, Open World 8.4%
- #39 Force of Nature 2: Prologue
71% matchMostly Positive78% of 82 reviews2023
Dev: A.Y.std
Windows
Force of Nature 2: Prologue is an introduction to the world of the main game. Explore one of the many worlds and uncover its mystery. This game combines the genres of Survival, Sandbox, Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Resource Management
Why similar: Crafting 20.1%, Sandbox 15.7%, Building 13.1%, Survival 12.5%, Open World 7%
- #40 Radiation Island
72% matchVery Positive81% of 638 reviews2016
Dev: Atypical Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Radiation Island is a survival adventure game where you craft your own destiny in a huge open world environment. As part of the Philadelphia Experiment you have become stranded in a parallel, alternate reality. Discover this new and mysterious world, with all its surprises.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 57.6% ★, Survival 18.8%, Crafting 8.3%, Open World 7.1%, Adventure 2.8%
- #41 Mist Survival
70% matchMostly Positive76% of 14,333 reviews2018
Dev: Dimension 32 Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 73%
MIST SURVIVAL is a Single-player, survival stealth sandbox game Players will experience the Apocalypse stimulation in the form of virus pandemic, the players have to deal with it to survive through the difficulties such as finding shelter and food, threats from the environment and climate: wild animals, bandits, infected, and dense mist t
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.6% ★, Survival 19.7%, Open World 10.8%, Crafting 9.7%, Sandbox 5.5%
- #42 Plains of Pain
69% matchVery Positive83% of 933 reviews2023
Dev: Cobra Byte Digital
Windows
Enter a living post-apocalyptic sandbox where the world doesn't wait for you. Build, craft, trade, earn the trust of factions, and forge your own path through a brutal procedural wasteland.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.5% ★, Crafting 12.7%, Survival 10.7%, Sandbox 9.1%, Open World 8.1%
- #43 Eden Crafters
67% matchVery Positive85% of 2,630 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.1% ★, Crafting 13.5%, Survival 9.1%, Sandbox 8.3%, Open World 7.7%
- #44 Creativerse
70% 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: Open World Survival Craft 33.6% ★, Crafting 12.8%, Survival 10.3%, Sandbox 8.6%, Building 7.9%
- #45 Astral Terra
73% matchMixed50% of 152 reviews2015
Dev: Tethys Interactive LLC
Windows
Explore, Adventure, Craft, Build, Survive. How will you shape your world? Astral Terra is a Smooth Voxel, Procedurally Generated Open World game with RPG and Survival Elements!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.2% ★, Survival 11.6%, Crafting 9.6%, Open World 9.4%, Sandbox 9.2%
- #46 ASTRONEER
68% matchVery Positive92% of 139,015 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.6 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 Survival Craft 39% ★, Survival 11.7%, Open World 9.1%, Crafting 8.6%, Sandbox 7%
- #47 Wild Terra 2: New Lands
69% matchMixed52% of 4,159 reviews2022
Dev: Juvty Worlds
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 27.7 hrs≥1hr: 38%
MMORPG full of details that create a unique immersion and the spirit of adventure! Play your role in the life-filled medieval world controlled by players.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.2% ★, Crafting 12.1%, Sandbox 10.5%, Survival 8.1%, Building 7.2%
- #48 Citadel: Forged with Fire
69% matchMixed68% of 5,894 reviews2019
Dev: Blue Isle StudiosPub: Blue Isle Publishing
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 19.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
This massive online sandbox RPG features elements of magic, spellcasting, building, exploring and crafting. As a newly minted apprentice of the magic arts, you will set off to the dangerous world of Ignus. Tame mighty beasts, forge alliances, explore uncharted territories or fight for dominance!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.3% ★, Open World 12.6%, Survival 12.5%, Crafting 9.3%, Sandbox 8%
- #49 The Wild Eight
68% matchMixed68% of 8,109 reviews2019
Dev: Eight PointsPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
The Wild Eight is an intense survival action-adventure set in the frozen wilderness of Alaska. Team up with friends in online co-op or go solo, explore the mysterious land, craft weapons and fight to live another day.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.9% ★, Survival 16.8%, Crafting 9.7%, Open World 7.6%, Multiplayer 5.3%
- #50 Wild Omission
67% matchVery Positive88% of 80 reviews2023
Dev: Telephone Studios
Windows
Wild Omission is an open world sandbox survival game with severe weather set in an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.5% ★, Crafting 14.4%, Survival 12%, Open World 8.6%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #51 XERA: Survival
68% matchMixed66% of 7,941 reviews2021
Dev: Spotted Kiwi Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 24.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Action-focused, open world survival shooter, PvPvE against fellow mercenaries and lethal XOIDS. Raid for resources alone or with team-mates, build and defend your base, stash your gear and survive against the odds. You are the hunters. You are the hunted. And the robots never sleep…
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.7% ★, Crafting 13.5%, Survival 11.8%, Open World 7.7%, Sandbox 6.8%
- #52 Outpost Zero
70% matchMixed48% of 853 reviews2019
Dev: Symmetric GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Outpost Zero blends the genres of Multiplayer Base Building Survival and Simulation games in a Sci-Fi universe. On a lawless alien world, robotic scouts are tasked with building an Outpost for human colonists. Command AI minions, colonize the planet, and survive the perils of Gaiya.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.9% ★, Survival 14.6%, Crafting 9%, Open World 7.8%, Multiplayer 5.6%
- #53 The Planet Crafter
63% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 73,089 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.7 hrsMean: 38.5 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.6% ★, Crafting 12.5%, Survival 11.4%, Building 8.1%, Open World 7.7%
- #54 No One Survived
64% 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 25.7%, Crafting 19.1%, Open World 16.6%, Building 9.4%, Multiplayer 8.3%
- #55 Rem Survival
66% matchMostly Positive75% of 803 reviews2021
Dev: Immortal Hand Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 47.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Scavenge abandoned ruins, craft gear from scrap and salvaged materials, and fight the environment itself as hunger, exposure, and exhaustion push you to your limits. There are no second chances—only adaptation or death.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.9% ★, Crafting 14.1%, Survival 11.7%, Open World 8.5%, Building 7.8%
