- #1 ARK: Survival Evolved
96% matchVery Positive83% of 770,322 reviews2017
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 201.4 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 51.1% ★, Survival 14.9%, Open World 8.2%, Multiplayer 6.5%, Crafting 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive open-world survival game featuring deep crafting, base building, and a similar progression system on a hostile planet.
- #2 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
96% matchMostly Positive79% of 34,243 reviews2020
Dev: Eleon Game Studios
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 76.9 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.7% ★, Survival 12%, Open World 8.2%, Crafting 6.4%, Building 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: It shares a strong sci-fi focus, allowing you to build bases and ships while surviving on various alien planets.
- #3 Subsistence
94% 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 51.4% ★, Survival 14.8%, Open World 7.4%, Crafting 7.4%, Multiplayer 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a grounded, challenging survival experience with a strong focus on base building and environmental hazards.
- #4 The Planet Crafter
92% 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 43.7% ★, Survival 12.7%, Open World 7.8%, Crafting 7.3%, Building 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the survival and terraforming aspects of living on a desolate world, focusing on building and resource management.
- #5 ICARUS
93% 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 43.4% ★, Survival 14.7%, Open World 7.2%, Multiplayer 6.9%, Crafting 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: A session-based sci-fi survival game that captures the tension of surviving on a hostile, terraformed alien landscape.
- #6 GRAV
94% 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 49.3% ★, Survival 14.4%, Open World 8.9%, Sandbox 5.7%, Crafting 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi open-world survival game that shares the exploration-heavy, multiplayer-focused gameplay of Fragmented.
- #7 Starbound
91% matchVery Positive90% of 123,040 reviews2016
Dev: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.1 hrsMean: 64.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.6% ★, Survival 9.5%, Sandbox 7.4%, Open World 5.7%, Crafting 5.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers a 2D take on the sci-fi survival genre with deep crafting, building, and exploration across multiple planets.
- #8 Stranded Deep
91% 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 53.6% ★, Survival 15.6%, Open World 7.5%, Multiplayer 7.4%, Crafting 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the isolation and survival aspects of being stranded in a hostile, unfamiliar environment.
- #9 Out of Reach
90% matchMixed57% of 3,047 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.2 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 51.3% ★, Survival 15.1%, Open World 8.6%, Crafting 6.9%, Multiplayer 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a survival experience with a heavy focus on building and multiplayer combat in an open-world setting.
- #10 Savage Lands
89% matchMixed54% of 6,684 reviews2021
Dev: Last Bastion Studios LLC
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Your fight for survival begins on the frozen shores of Tarvhas, where bitter cold and vicious creatures conspire to defeat the unprepared. Uncover the land’s dark history as you and fellow explorers traverse an unforgiving and hostile world to tame the Savage Lands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 50.7% ★, Survival 14%, Open World 8%, Crafting 6.1%, Multiplayer 5.4%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the harsh realities of survival and building in a dangerous, fantasy-inspired open world.
- #11 Miscreated
89% matchMixed66% of 31,585 reviews2018
Dev: Entrada Interactive LLC
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 38.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Miscreated is a multiplayer online hardcore survival game set in a post-apocalyptic future. You will need to survive against mutants, players, and even mother nature herself.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 56.8% ★, Survival 17.1%, Open World 9.3%, Multiplayer 6.3%, Crafting 4.6%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer survival game that emphasizes scavenging, building, and surviving against both players and environmental threats.
- #12 Hurtworld
88% matchMostly Positive76% of 31,099 reviews2019
Dev: Bankroll Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 63.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Hurtworld is a hardcore multiplayer survival FPS with a focus on competitive gunplay and strategic map control. Built for hardcore gamers, Hurtworld aims to punish.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.7% ★, Survival 18.2%, Open World 9.3%, Crafting 7.3%, Multiplayer 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced survival game that prioritizes multiplayer interaction and base building in a challenging open world.
- #13 7 Days to Die
85% 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: Open World Survival Craft 42.6% ★, Survival 19%, Open World 9.3%, Multiplayer 7.3%, Sandbox 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for base building and survival, offering a similar sense of urgency and progression.
- #14 Conan Exiles Enhanced
86% matchMostly Positive79% of 116,054 reviews2018
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 17.1 hrsMean: 112.9 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Conan Exiles Enhanced is an open world survival game set in the mythical lands of Hyboria, now fully upgraded to Unreal Engine 5 with stunning visuals and improved performance. SURVIVE, BUILD, and DOMINATE alone or with friends in a world brimming with adventure!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.3% ★, Survival 18.1%, Open World 10.8%, Crafting 7.1%, Building 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: While fantasy-themed, it features some of the best survival, building, and progression mechanics in the genre.
- #15 Rust
86% matchVery Positive87% of 1,373,048 reviews2018
Dev: Facepunch Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 52.6 hrsMean: 423.6 hrs≥1hr: 96%
The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.4% ★, Survival 22.1%, Open World 9.4%, Crafting 9.1%, Multiplayer 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: A highly competitive multiplayer survival game that emphasizes building and resource control in a harsh environment.
- #16 Planet Explorers
87% matchMixed62% of 6,817 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 48.8% ★, Survival 9.8%, Open World 9.6%, Sandbox 8.3%, Crafting 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that allows for significant building and exploration in a sci-fi setting.
- #17 Volcanoids
84% 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: Survival 18.1%, Crafting 12.5%, Open World 12.1%, Sandbox 10.3%, Building 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: It features unique mobile base building mechanics in a steampunk-inspired sci-fi survival setting.
- #18 Beyond Contact
82% 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 55% ★, Survival 15.7%, Crafting 8.5%, Multiplayer 7.1%, Co-op 5%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down sci-fi survival game that captures the feeling of being stranded on a hostile alien planet.
- #19 Outpost Zero
83% 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 49.1% ★, Survival 17.2%, Open World 8.5%, Multiplayer 8%, Crafting 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: Combines survival, base building, and colony management in a sci-fi setting.
- #20 Edge of Space
84% matchMostly Negative33% of 2,729 reviews2015
Dev: Handyman StudiosPub: Reverb Triple XP
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Suit up as an operative of the Ark Corporation, sent to the farthest reaches of the universe in search of habitable planets to terraform. However, after the long space journey you awaken from cryosleep to find that your ship has gone way off course and is disabled near a strange new world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 55.1% ★, Sandbox 8.8%, Survival 7.7%, Crafting 6.1%, Open World 4%
Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi survival game with a focus on crafting, exploration, and building in a dangerous space environment.
- #21 Dig or Die
81% matchVery Positive90% of 4,272 reviews2018
Dev: Gaddy Games
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Crash land on a hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it. But be warned... this planet is merciless. Build strong, and smart; else physics may flood or destroy your only hopes of survival.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.5% ★, Survival 15.7%, Crafting 8.1%, Sandbox 8%, Open World 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D survival game that focuses heavily on building defenses against waves of alien creatures.
- #22 No Man's Sky
80% 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 Survival Craft 50.1% ★, Open World 11.6%, Survival 10.6%, Multiplayer 5.4%, Sandbox 4.9%
Why You'll Like It: Provides an expansive universe for survival, exploration, and base building on countless alien planets.
- #23 Radiation Island
81% matchVery Positive81% of 629 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 61.1% ★, Survival 20.1%, Open World 6.9%, Crafting 4.6%, Multiplayer 3.4%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on survival and exploration in a mysterious, hostile environment filled with secrets.
- #24 Stationeers
78% 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: Survival 24.9%, Crafting 15.4%, Sandbox 13.3%, Building 12.7%, Multiplayer 12.3%
Why You'll Like It: A more technical, hardcore sci-fi survival game that focuses on complex building and systems management.
- #25 Signs of Life
79% matchMostly Positive76% of 841 reviews2014
Dev: Sweet Dog Studios
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Signs of Life is a sci-fi survival sandbox platformer with a combination of procedurally generated and hand-crafted content. You'll explore mysterious locations, Mine blocks for resources, and meet strange (and some familiar) creatures, some of which don't even want to kill you and eat your corpse.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 51.9% ★, Survival 11.8%, Sandbox 7.9%, Crafting 7.1%, Open World 4.6%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D survival game with deep crafting and sci-fi elements that mirror the progression of Fragmented.
- #26 Drift: Space Survival
78% 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 48.5% ★, Survival 13.6%, Crafting 7.2%, Building 5.5%, Online Co-Op 5.1%
Why You'll Like It: A space-themed survival game that focuses on exploration and maintaining your life support in a hostile void.
- #27 Crushed
79% matchMixed54% of 316 reviews2020
Dev: NipoBoxPub: NipoBox Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Crushed — is an Singleplayer and Multiplayer First-Person Survival Sandbox in an Open World! Challenge the wild and be ready to survive in harsh conditions. Explore the world, get resources, cook food, build a house, farm, hunt, and enjoy nature.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.6% ★, Survival 13.3%, Open World 9%, Crafting 6.7%, Sandbox 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game that emphasizes gathering, crafting, and building in an open-world environment.
- #28 The Front
75% 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 41.7% ★, Survival 12.5%, Open World 7.8%, Crafting 7.6%, Multiplayer 6.8%
- #29 Rem Survival
77% matchMostly Positive76% of 802 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 47.8% ★, Survival 14.1%, Open World 9.4%, Crafting 8.9%, Building 6.5%
- #30 Stars End
76% matchMixed61% of 1,422 reviews2023
Dev: Reverie World StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Stars End is a sci-fi survival sandbox set on the wild frontier of a distant star system. Play solo or host your own server as you craft, build, and battle to survive in a galaxy shaped by danger, discovery, and your own grit.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.1% ★, Survival 11.7%, Multiplayer 7.5%, Open World 7.3%, Crafting 6.2%
- #31 Planetaries
76% matchMixed58% of 224 reviews2024
Dev: EY-Studio
Windows
Experience a vast Sci-fi open-world survival TD game set on a distant planet deep in the universe. Craft, build, mine, trade, explore, and survive in this alien world. Collect Data and defend against waves of enemies seeking to banish you. Enjoy the adventure in Singleplayer or Multiplayer.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.7% ★, Survival 11.5%, Open World 8.1%, Crafting 7%, Multiplayer 6.1%
- #32 Vortex: The Gateway
77% matchMixed57% of 398 reviews2016
Dev: StormCube Games
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 53%
Vortex: The Gateway is an open world survival horror game with two game modes. If you want to survive then be alert, sneak, build and fight. Meanwhile life back on Earth changes dramatically. What changes? You will get bits of information through your adventure. Prepare for the worst!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 60.7% ★, Survival 17.4%, Open World 8.7%, Crafting 6.9%, Building 3.6%
- #33 XERA: Survival
74% matchMixed66% of 7,928 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 44.4% ★, Survival 13.3%, Open World 8%, Crafting 8%, Multiplayer 7.5%
- #34 SURVIVAL: Postapocalypse Now
75% matchMixed56% of 8,877 reviews2019
Dev: TB Games
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Want to survive? - Arm yourself and survive. Crafting, shooting, transport and much more awaits you in the Survival game. What happened to the world around and why he died - you may find out. But is this the main question now?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 56.1% ★, Survival 16.6%, Open World 7.9%, Multiplayer 6.1%, Crafting 4.1%
- #35 Plains of Pain
73% 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: Open World Survival Craft 41.9% ★, Survival 12.4%, Open World 8.6%, Crafting 7.7%, Sandbox 7.1%
- #36 Outerstellar
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 172 reviews2023
Dev: Strange Horizons Ltd
Windows
Stranded on a hostile and deadly planet, you must gather resources, build shelter, and fight to survive each night. But the secrets of this world await in a gripping sci-fi survival PvP game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43% ★, Survival 14.8%, Multiplayer 8.2%, Crafting 8%, Building 5.2%
- #37 Cubic Odyssey
71% 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 53.6% ★, Sandbox 8.3%, Building 7.7%, Co-op 5%, Survival 4.4%
- #38 StarRupture
70% 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 41% ★, Survival 12.6%, Open World 8.6%, Crafting 7.4%, Multiplayer 6.5%
- #39 Craterbound
74% matchMixed54% of 99 reviews2022
Dev: Daniel Marquez
Windows
Crash-land onto a unique and hostile alien world and begin your fight to survive. Face its inhabitants, upgrade your technology, create outposts & bases, and find a way to repair your ship. Explore the beautifully strange terrain, all while blasting and crafting your way off of the planet.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.2% ★, Survival 14.7%, Open World 10.3%, Crafting 8.2%, Sandbox 5.5%
- #40 Space Trash Scavenger
71% 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 44.6% ★, Survival 12.6%, Crafting 8.1%, Open World 8%, Sandbox 6.1%
- #41 TerraTech Worlds
71% 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 41.5% ★, Survival 11.9%, Open World 8.4%, Crafting 7.8%, Sandbox 6.8%
- #42 Hostile Planet: Survival
72% matchMixed65% of 99 reviews2022
Dev: Aliens Developers
Windows
Hostile Planet: Survival is a harsh adventure on an uncharted planet that full of danger and trials.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.3% ★, Survival 18.3%, Open World 10.1%, Crafting 9.9%, Building 6.8%
- #43 Project Castaway
68% 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 43.2% ★, Survival 12.2%, Open World 7.6%, Sandbox 6.2%, Crafting 5.8%
- #44 Road to Eden
72% matchMixed64% of 408 reviews2019
Dev: Zouking
Windows
Road to Eden is a third-person multiplayer survival coop game, set within the post-apocalyptic ruins of a world destroyed by an alien invasion. You wake up at the side of the road with no memory and must team up with other survivors to make the long and dangerous journey to Eden.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.3% ★, Survival 14%, Open World 8.8%, Crafting 8.6%, Multiplayer 7.3%
- #45 Nightingale
69% 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 43.8% ★, Survival 13.3%, Open World 8.8%, Crafting 7.3%, Multiplayer 7.2%
- #46 Force of Nature
70% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,204 reviews2016
Dev: A.Y.std
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.4% ★, Survival 13.7%, Crafting 8.7%, Open World 7.2%, Sandbox 5.6%
- #47 The Fifth Day
73% matchMostly Negative37% of 941 reviews2014
Dev: Touz
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 63%
The Fifth Day is a post-apocalyptic survival game set in the time after mankind's extinction to the machines that it created. Your role, as one of these machines, is to survive in the hostile world left behind by man.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.3% ★, Survival 19.5%, Open World 10.2%, Multiplayer 6.9%, Sandbox 4%
- #48 FortressCraft Evolved!
70% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,058 reviews2015
Dev: ProjectorGamesPub: Digital Tribe
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 13.6 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 53.3% ★, Survival 10.7%, Crafting 8.3%, Sandbox 7.3%, Building 6.4%
- #49 Boundless
69% matchMixed69% of 2,770 reviews2018
Dev: Monumental, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 32.9 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Shape your citizen, forge your destiny and sculpt your world in this epic voxel sandbox MMO built on endless possibility.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 50.8% ★, Open World 10.2%, Survival 9.2%, Sandbox 8.3%, Crafting 8.3%
- #50 Grounded
65% 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 44.4% ★, Survival 19.3%, Multiplayer 8.8%, Crafting 7%, Open World 6.8%
- #51 Solace Crafting
67% 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: Open World Survival Craft 40.2% ★, Survival 12.8%, Open World 8.1%, Crafting 7.8%, Multiplayer 6.6%
- #52 Nomad
69% matchMixed60% of 4,634 reviews2015
Dev: Diminished Studios
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Try and survive in the world of Nomad. Build a base and protect it from raiding players. Scavenge food, weapons and medical supplies across the island. Team up with others and make a base. Make your mark on the world of Nomad.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 53.7% ★, Survival 16.7%, Multiplayer 9%, Open World 8.7%, Crafting 5.5%
- #53 No One Survived
65% 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 29.4%, Open World 17.5%, Multiplayer 11.5%, Crafting 11.5%, Building 7.4%
- #54 Breathedge
66% 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 53.2% ★, Survival 14%, Sandbox 7.2%, Crafting 6.5%, Open World 5.7%
- #55 Under A New Sun
66% 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 55.2% ★, Survival 15.8%, Open World 10.7%, Crafting 8.9%, Sandbox 4.5%
- #56 Reign Of Kings
68% matchMixed57% of 14,891 reviews2015
Dev: Code}{atch
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 47.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Struggle to survive in a harsh medieval world. Hunt wildlife, mine resources, build structures, and craft weapons and armor in order to protect yourself. You may form a guild, bring war to all opposition, and try to seize the throne and become king!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.3% ★, Survival 14.1%, Open World 9.2%, Crafting 7.6%, Multiplayer 6.5%
