- #1 Voidtrain
97% 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: Open World Survival Craft 30.9% ★, Base Building 10.6%, Co-op 10.1%, Crafting 8.5%, Survival 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: This title features a similar mobile base concept where you build and upgrade a train to traverse a surreal, dangerous environment.
- #2 The Planet Crafter
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 71,038 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.5 hrsMean: 38.2 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 25.1% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Co-op 9.3%, Crafting 9.2%, Survival 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes the same rewarding loop of scavenging, crafting, and terraforming an alien landscape to make it habitable.
- #3 Aloft
96% 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: Open World Survival Craft 24% ★, Crafting 13.7%, Co-op 13.1%, Survival 11.6%, Building 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: Focusing on floating islands and airship exploration, this game captures the verticality and aerial traversal found in Forever Skies.
- #4 Raft
95% 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: Open World Survival Craft 32% ★, Survival 14%, Co-op 11.8%, Crafting 9.3%, Base Building 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: Like Forever Skies, this game centers on building and expanding a mobile base while navigating a hazardous, flooded world.
- #5 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: Base Building 15.9%, Crafting 13.5%, Co-op 12.2%, Survival 10.4%, Building 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: You operate a mobile drill ship that serves as your base, mirroring the airship mechanics and constant need for movement in Forever Skies.
- #6 ICARUS
94% 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: Open World Survival Craft 26.6% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Survival 10.6%, Crafting 9.2%, Co-op 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: This session-based survival game features high-tech gear and exploration on a dangerous, alien planet that requires careful planning.
- #7 Breathedge
93% matchVery Positive82% of 16,292 reviews2021
Dev: RedRuins SoftworksPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Survive in outer space! Together with your immortal chicken, discover the truth behind your sudden spaceship crash. Craft tools, pilot vehicles, and even control space stations to survive and explore the wreckage.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.2% ★, Base Building 14%, Survival 10.9%, Crafting 9.4%, Open World 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: This space-based survival game shares the sci-fi aesthetic and the need to scavenge wreckage while managing limited resources.
- #8 Abiotic Factor
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 56,173 reviews2025
Dev: Deep Field GamesPub: Playstack
Windows
Median: 20.1 hrsMean: 44.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Abiotic Factor is a survival crafting experience for 1-6 players set in the depths of an underground research facility. Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the world’s greatest minds must survive against the universe’s biggest threats.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Science 12.7%, Crafting 11.2%, Survival 10%
Why You'll Like It: Set in a high-tech research facility, this game offers a similar focus on science-themed survival, crafting, and base-building.
- #9 Subnautica
92% 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: Open World Survival Craft 33.4% ★, Survival 12%, Base Building 11.8%, Crafting 10%, Open World 10%
Why You'll Like It: As a benchmark for atmospheric survival, it offers a similar sense of isolation and wonder while exploring a hostile, ruined ecosystem.
- #10 Sunkenland
91% 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: Open World Survival Craft 31.5% ★, Co-op 12.1%, Base Building 11.8%, Survival 10.4%, Crafting 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: This water-based survival game focuses on scavenging resources from ruins and building a base to survive in a post-apocalyptic world.
- #11 Lightyear Frontier
89% matchVery Positive84% of 4,521 reviews2024
Dev: FRAME BREAK
Windows
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 11.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
In Lightyear Frontier you use your powerful trusty mech to farm on a large beautiful alien planet. Settle your homestead, farm and deliver produce to remote colonies, gather and manage resources, build, craft, explore, expand, improve your mech, meet neighbors, and make a place to call your own.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.3% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 11.1%, Co-op 8.8%, Resource Management 8%
Why You'll Like It: Using a mech as your primary tool for exploration and base-building provides a similar sense of mechanical progression to the airship in Forever Skies.
- #12 The Last Caretaker
88% matchVery Positive86% of 11,569 reviews2025
Dev: Channel37 Ltd
Windows
Median: 18.1 hrsMean: 33.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Explore a drowned Earth, restore lost systems, and raise the last human seeds in this first-person survival-crafting adventure. Build, scavenge, defend, and launch humanity back to the stars.
Why similar: Base Building 16.9%, Crafting 14%, Post-apocalyptic 12%, Survival 11.7%, Open World 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: This game combines survival and automation, providing a similar loop of resource management and base development.
- #13 Nightingale
89% 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: Open World Survival Craft 26.6% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Crafting 9.8%, Survival 9.5%, Open World 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: This exploration-heavy survival game offers unique, atmospheric worlds and a deep crafting system that appeals to fans of sci-fi adventure.
- #14 StarRupture
87% 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: Open World Survival Craft 25.9% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Co-op 10.5%, Crafting 10.3%, Survival 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: This title features base-building and survival elements on a hostile planet, appealing to those who enjoy sci-fi resource gathering.
- #15 Survival: Fountain of Youth
86% matchVery Positive85% of 4,383 reviews2024
Dev: Odinsoft Inc.Pub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 30.7% ★, Base Building 15.5%, Crafting 12%, Survival 11.5%, Open World 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on exploration and survival mechanics in a beautifully realized world, emphasizing the discovery of new areas.
- #16 Grounded
86% 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: Open World Survival Craft 27.8% ★, Survival 14.2%, Base Building 14.1%, Co-op 11.7%, Crafting 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: This game excels at exploration and survival, offering a highly detailed world that rewards curiosity and careful resource management.
- #17 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
85% 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: Open World Survival Craft 25.3% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Survival 9.8%, Crafting 9.7%, Co-op 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: The focus on exploration and building within a unique, large-scale environment provides a similar sense of discovery and survival.
- #18 Eden Crafters
84% matchVery Positive86% of 2,494 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 13.3 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 26.7% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 10.7%, Open World 8.1%, Co-op 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes automation and base-building in a survival context, perfect for players who enjoy optimizing their resource production.
- #19 Lost Skies
84% 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: Open World Survival Craft 41.4% ★, Base Building 19.1%, Crafting 9.1%, Open World 8.6%, Exploration 5.8%
Why You'll Like It: Focusing on floating islands and airships, this game captures the aerial exploration and survival themes of Forever Skies.
- #20 Solarpunk™
83% 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: Open World Survival Craft 25.5% ★, Base Building 13%, Crafting 10.6%, Co-op 10.4%, Building 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: This co-op base-building game offers a more relaxed, atmospheric take on survival and crafting in a unique setting.
- #21 Satisfactory
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 273,405 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 32.9 hrsMean: 110.9 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: Base Building 19%, Open World Survival Craft 13% ★, Crafting 11.7%, Co-op 10.1%, Open World 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: While more focused on automation, the exploration of an alien planet and the scale of base-building are highly satisfying for survival fans.
- #22 Stranded Deep
82% matchMostly Positive74% of 47,543 reviews2022
Dev: Beam Team GamesPub: Beam Team Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 21.0 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 39.2% ★, Survival 13.4%, Crafting 10.3%, Open World 9.1%, Multiplayer 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: A classic survival experience that emphasizes resource management and exploration in a harsh, isolated environment.
- #23 Astrometica
81% matchVery Positive83% of 3,114 reviews2024
Dev: BeryMeryPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 16.7 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Astrometica is a space exploration and base-building survival game. After a catastrophic event, explore vast space, gather resources, build bases, and uncover cosmic mysteries. Use advanced technology, craft tools, and discover new blueprints to survive and thrive in the unknown.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 18.5% ★, Base Building 14.5%, Crafting 14.1%, Survival 13.2%, Open World 12.9%
Why You'll Like It: This space-sim survival game focuses on exploration and crafting, mirroring the sci-fi scavenging loop of Forever Skies.
- #24 Occupy Mars: The Game
79% matchMostly Positive70% of 3,088 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 34.1 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.
Why similar: Base Building 15.6%, Crafting 13.1%, Open World 11.2%, Co-op 10.7%, Survival 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers deep resource management and base-building mechanics set in a challenging, realistic sci-fi environment.
- #25 Green Hell
80% 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: Open World Survival Craft 34.7% ★, Survival 12.5%, Crafting 8.8%, Base Building 8.6%, Multiplayer 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: This hardcore survival game offers a challenging experience that rewards players for mastering their environment and crafting tools.
- #26 Stationeers
81% matchVery Positive88% of 9,070 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 84.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!
Why similar: Science 18.3%, Base Building 15.9%, Crafting 12.4%, Co-op 11%, Survival 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: For players who enjoy the technical and complex aspects of base-building and survival, this game offers a deep simulation experience.
- #27 The Front
78% matchMixed67% of 10,771 reviews2025
Dev: Samar Studio
Windows
Median: 10.6 hrsMean: 44.9 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 28.2% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 11.2%, Survival 9.9%, Building 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: This open-world survival game features extensive base-building and crafting, appealing to players who enjoy long-term development.
- #28 Everwind
77% matchVery Positive82% of 3,471 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Everwind is a novel take on RPG and Sandbox Survival genre in First-Person-Perspective. Embark on the adventure with your friends - Build a base on a flying island-ship, gather resources, craft, loot, and fight while you rise above the clouds to uncover the mysteries of this world!
Why similar: Crafting 17.4%, Co-op 17.2%, Open World 15%, Survival 14.7%, Building 14.1%
- #29 VEIN
76% matchVery Positive89% of 10,737 reviews2025
Dev: Ramjet Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 14.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
VEIN is a post-apocalyptic survival multiplayer sandbox game. Gather supplies to survive, explore abandoned buildings, defend your home, and rebuild society, whether alone or with friends.
Why similar: Base Building 17.5%, Survival 14.9%, Open World 14.4%, Post-apocalyptic 12.4%, Co-op 12.4%
- #30 Subsistence
79% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,713 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 40.2 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 36.6% ★, Survival 12.4%, Crafting 11.5%, Base Building 9.2%, Open World 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game that emphasizes crafting and base-building against a hostile environment, providing a classic survival experience.
- #31 Heat Death: Survival Train
77% matchMostly Positive78% of 686 reviews2024
Dev: Mass Game DevsPub: LightOnDevs
Windows
Heat Death is a sci-fi survival game where you can build, upgrade, and customize your battle train to explore and survive a frozen world! This train is not only your shelter and vehicle, but also your weapon and ally to face hostile drones, deadly storms, and hidden mysteries of an unknown world!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.1% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 10.9%, Post-apocalyptic 10.2%, Survival 8.8%
- #32 Echoes of Elysium
76% 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: Open World Survival Craft 31.5% ★, Crafting 13.4%, Co-op 12.9%, Survival 10.8%, Building 10.3%
- #33 Grounded 2
74% matchVery Positive81% of 21,894 reviews2025
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.4 hrsMean: 22.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Shrunk again, but the world is much larger. In this open-world, single-player or co-op survival adventure, craft weapons and armor, build your base, and traverse the playground on your buggy. But something else is out there—and it hasn’t forgotten you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.8% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Survival 13.1%, Co-op 11.3%, Crafting 9.8%
- #34 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
74% matchVery Positive91% of 7,475 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Survive, craft, and automate in this free prologue set on one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters, an open-world game where you play solo or with friends to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.9% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Crafting 8.9%, Open World 7.8%, Co-op 6.2%
- #35 Desert Skies
78% matchMixed57% of 467 reviews2019
Dev: White_Rabbit_Games
Windows
Desert Skies takes survival to the air! Build an airship and fly on an adventure through the deserts of the Wild West. Look for places to land and scavenge for loot, expand your airship and craft new equipment, but beware the dangers lurking beneath the sands!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.6% ★, Crafting 11.2%, Survival 9.5%, Base Building 8.7%, Building 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: This game features airship-based survival in a desert setting, sharing the core mobile-base mechanic with Forever Skies.
- #36 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 18.5%, Open World 15.6%, Crafting 13.5%, Post-apocalyptic 11.4%, Co-op 10%
- #37 Survival Machine
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 755 reviews2026
Dev: Grape PickersPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Build your base on a moving Machine, travel through biomes with different resources, and prepare for the night when a zombie threat is much higher than during the day. Would you go solo or explore this new world with your best friends?
Why similar: Base Building 24.5%, Crafting 20.9%, Survival 15.5%, Resource Management 14.6%, Exploration 9%
- #38 I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival
72% matchVery Positive85% of 4,583 reviews2024
Dev: MandragoraPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
I Am Future is a relaxing single-player survival game about building a cozy rooftop camp amid a flooded post-apocalyptic city. Set up a farm, go fishing, tinker with gadgets, craft new tools, manage a team of cute robots to automate and expand your base, explore the mysterious world, and chill out!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.5% ★, Crafting 13.4%, Base Building 12.4%, Open World 10.5%, Building 10.3%
- #39 The Alters
71% matchVery Positive90% of 17,894 reviews2025
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Explore an emotional sci-fi game with a unique blend of survival, adventure, and base-building elements. Help Jan Dolski, the sole survivor of an ill-fated space expedition, create alternative versions of himself to escape a hostile planet and tackle personal turmoils with this unconventional crew.
Why similar: Base Building 21.8%, Survival 15.9%, Science 13.4%, Crafting 10.9%, Resource Management 8.9%
- #40 TerraTech Worlds
73% matchMixed63% of 2,250 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 21.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.1% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Crafting 10.4%, Co-op 9.9%, Survival 8.5%
- #41 ASTRONEER
72% 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 Survival Craft 28.3% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Open World 10.1%, Survival 10%, Co-op 8.7%
- #42 Outpost Zero
75% matchMixed49% of 850 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 33.6% ★, Survival 13.8%, Base Building 12.6%, Open World 9.7%, Crafting 8.4%
- #43 Enshrouded
70% 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: Base Building 20.9%, Open World 17.9%, Survival 16.1%, Crafting 14.5%, Building 8.9%
- #44 Blossom: The Seed of Life
69% matchVery Positive89% of 931 reviews2026
Dev: Pebbledust GamesPub: Pretty Soon
Windows
Terraform a dead planet back to life in this open world survival crafting game. Explore ruins, gather resources, print machines, drive modular vehicles, grow forests, biomes, and ecosystems. Create life and make it thrive with your own hands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.3% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 9.2%, Post-apocalyptic 7.8%, Open World 7.5%
- #45 Beyond Contact
71% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,125 reviews2023
Dev: Playcorp StudiosPub: Deep Silver
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 67%
A fiercely formidable sci-fi survival game, set on a hostile alien world that wants you dead! Alone, or with a crew, do you have what it takes to survive?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.4% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Co-op 12.4%, Crafting 11.4%, Survival 11.2%
- #46 Space Trash Scavenger
70% matchVery Positive84% of 520 reviews2024
Dev: SquarePlay GamesPub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Grab your jetpack and explore procedural asteroid fields, derelict spaceships and abandoned outposts. Build and automate your Space Rig to process scavenged trash. Craft, trade and fight your way home in this interstellar, open-world survival sandbox.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.3% ★, Crafting 12.5%, Base Building 10.6%, Survival 10.4%, Open World 9.3%
- #47 Under A New Sun
71% matchMostly Positive76% of 388 reviews2023
Dev: New Horizon Games
Windows
While searching for a new home, an unexpected failure in your ship has left you stranded on a planet surprisingly similar to Earth. Discover a vast open world, hunt for food, develop technologies, and build yourself a new home to survive!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Crafting 12.4%, Survival 11.8%, Open World 11.3%
- #48 DREADZONE
70% matchMixed51% of 1,193 reviews2025
Dev: Eshed
Windows
Dreadzone is a survival game set in a deadly quarantine zone. Scavenge for resources, craft tools, build shelter, and survive against dangerous animals, zombies, mutants, and other survivors. Explore the zone where desperation drives everyone to do whatever it takes to survive.
Why similar: Base Building 14.3%, Co-op 11.7%, Crafting 11.2%, Survival 10.8%, Open World 10.4%
- #49 Project Castaway
67% 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: Open World Survival Craft 27.2% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Co-op 11%, Survival 9%, Crafting 8%
- #50 Techtonica
68% matchMixed65% of 3,212 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 17.4 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.
Why similar: Base Building 21.2%, Building 14.3%, Crafting 13.9%, Co-op 12.1%, Resource Management 11.3%
- #51 Survive the Fall
68% matchMixed69% of 668 reviews2025
Dev: Angry Bulls StudioPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Explore, loot and fight in an open world action game set in a post-apocalyptic future after a devastating meteor strike. Assemble your team and take the fight to the enemy or choose a stealthy approach to gain the upper hand. Expand your base to research new gear and get ready to survive the fall.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.7% ★, Base Building 14.1%, Crafting 10.8%, Post-apocalyptic 10.7%, Survival 9.9%
- #52 Drift: Space Survival
69% matchMostly Positive70% of 77 reviews2023
Dev: KAR Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
You were deep in uncharted space on a research mission. Disaster struck. Together with your friends, explore a mysterious asteroid field and mine whatever resources possible to build what you need to survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.5% ★, Survival 11%, Crafting 11%, Base Building 10%, Building 8.2%
- #53 Skyformer
67% matchVery Positive84% of 70 reviews2025
Dev: Weatherfused
Windows
Create an automated system that terraforms a planet with an army of drones. Craft and build bases, set up a weather monitoring system, prepare to survive different types of storms, and take control of the climate and biomes!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25% ★, Base Building 13%, Crafting 10.2%, Survival 8.7%, Open World 7.9%
- #54 KeepUp Survival
68% matchMixed64% of 744 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 10.6 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 25.4% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Co-op 10.5%, Crafting 10.4%, Survival 9.6%
- #55 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,685 reviews2021
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Experience the first stages of terraforming an entire planet in this space survival open world terraforming crafting game prologue. Explore, survive, collect, build your base then create oxygen, heat and pressure to make an hostile planet livable for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.9% ★, Base Building 14%, Survival 10.9%, Crafting 10.5%, Open World 9.2%
- #56 Pacific Drive
66% matchVery Positive83% of 26,022 reviews2024
Dev: Ironwood StudiosPub: Kepler Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 16.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Face the supernatural dangers of the Olympic Exclusion Zone with a car as your only lifeline in this driving survival adventure! Scavenge resources, load up your trusty station wagon, and drive like hell to make it through alive.
Why similar: Survival 14.3%, Crafting 14.1%, Base Building 13.9%, Post-apocalyptic 11.8%, Building 8.1%
- #57 Cubic Odyssey
66% 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: Open World Survival Craft 33.4% ★, Base Building 17%, Co-op 12.9%, Building 10.4%, Sci-fi 6.8%
- #58 The Last Plague: Blight
66% matchVery Positive89% of 1,409 reviews2024
Dev: Original Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 13.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
The Last Plague: Blight is an authentic survival experience rooted in realism and immersion. Endure the hazards of a brutal open world and uncover the origins of a mysterious disease. You are humanity’s final hope in ending the Blight
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.4% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Crafting 10.3%, Co-op 8.1%, Survival 8.1%