- #1 Nightingale
97% matchMixed67% of 17,932 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 29.7% ★, Online Co-Op 10.5%, Crafting 9.8%, Survival 9.4%, Base Building 9.2%
- #2 Subsistence
96% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,685 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 39.9 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 41% ★, Survival 12.3%, Crafting 11.7%, Base Building 7.7%, Multiplayer 6.8%
- #3 Aurendor
96% matchMixed47% of 17 reviews2023
Dev: Telescope Studios
Windows
Aurendor is an open world survival game. Players must gather resources, cook their meals and fight dangerous creatures to survive and build a home for themselves. Aurendor also offers a multiplayer game option. Players can play together by cooperating with or battling other survivors.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.5% ★, Online Co-Op 11.3%, Crafting 9.9%, Survival 9.8%, Base Building 9.4%
- #4 Wildsite
95% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Vividdi Entertainment
Windows · Linux
Crash-landed on an unknown planet filled with plasma and toxic weather. Your only hope? Bob, a sarcastic-genius AI who will question your every survival decision. Explore, build your mobile base and try to avoid death alongside up to 3 friends in Co-op.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.8% ★, Online Co-Op 10.9%, Crafting 10.2%, Base Building 9.8%, Survival 9.2%
- #5 Green Hell
94% matchVery Positive85% of 97,093 reviews2019
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 18.6 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 38.5% ★, Survival 12.3%, Online Co-Op 10.4%, Crafting 8.8%, Multiplayer 8.2%
- #6 Valheim
94% matchVery Positive94% of 534,015 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 25.8 hrsMean: 76.9 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 32.6% ★, Online Co-Op 11.3%, Survival 9.8%, Crafting 9%, Base Building 8.6%
- #7 Solace Crafting
93% 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 29.6% ★, Crafting 11.3%, Base Building 10.1%, Survival 9.8%, Online Co-Op 9.5%
- #8 Nighthold
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 2 Zombie GamesPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Build shelters, interact with rescuees, battle against the Rot and raiders to survive another night in this Sandbox RPG. Play Solo or team up with friends in Online Сo-op.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.6% ★, Base Building 8.7%, Crafting 8.5%, Online Co-Op 7.5%, Survival 7.4%
- #9 SkyCraft
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: ADIAN
Windows
Skycraft is an open-world survival game for 1-10 players, set in infinite procedurally-generated floating islands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32% ★, Online Co-Op 11.2%, Crafting 10.6%, Base Building 10%, Survival 9.8%
- #10 ICARUS
91% matchMostly Positive74% of 63,962 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 46.0 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 31% ★, Survival 10.9%, Base Building 10.7%, Online Co-Op 10.1%, Crafting 9.7%
- #11 The Last Viking
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NoBrain Studio
Windows
Play as a young viking, learn to survive and fight in the wilderness. To fulfill your destiny, explore an island alone or in cooperation with friends, build structures, confront Norse gods and mythological creatures. Will you be the last Viking?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 19.7% ★, Online Co-Op 12.5%, Base Building 11.4%, Survival 11.2%, Building 8.6%
- #12 Divided Land
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Mich
Windows
Join the fight for survival in a vast medieval open world. Explore, hunt, craft powerful gear, raid and plunder enemy villages, or forge your own path. As darkness falls, the dead awaken - prepare your defenses or seek shelter. Join allies in co-op PvE or test your skills in ruthless PvP.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.1% ★, Crafting 11%, Base Building 9.8%, Survival 9.6%, Building 8.3%
- #13 Raft
89% matchVery Positive93% of 372,032 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.6 hrsMean: 37.3 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 38% ★, Survival 14.7%, Crafting 9.9%, Multiplayer 9%, Base Building 7.6%
- #14 Karagon (Survival Robot Riding FPS)
88% matchMixed47% of 107 reviews2023
Dev: Tbjbu2 Originals
Windows
Survive, shoot, construct, and ride killer elemental robots. Craft equipment, explore multi-floor buildings, build and farm, uncover schematics, and progress through technology tiers. Alone or with friends in this brutal post apocalyptic open world survival robot riding crafting shooter game!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.8% ★, Crafting 9.7%, Base Building 8.7%, Online Co-Op 8.4%, Survival 8.3%
- #15 Planetaries
86% matchMixed58% of 223 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 28.9% ★, Online Co-Op 10.6%, Crafting 10.4%, Base Building 9.9%, Survival 9%
- #16 Shamania
86% matchMostly Positive77% of 145 reviews2025
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 30.8% ★, Crafting 13%, Survival 10.3%, Online Co-Op 9%, Open World 8.3%
- #17 Fragmented
87% matchMixed43% of 1,964 reviews2017
Dev: Above and Beyond Technologies
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Stranded in a hostile alien world, you must fight to survive. Hunt, harvest, craft, advance skills, and build using local resources along with technology from your voyage.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.6% ★, Survival 13.2%, Crafting 8.3%, Open World 6.8%, Multiplayer 6.7%
- #18 Dawn of Defiance
85% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,797 reviews2024
Dev: Traega EntertainmentPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
You are the Defier, a Spartan beginning your afterlife on the Crossroads. In this Greek myth-inspired survival craft, ascend from weak soldier to god-like anti-hero. Build impressive Greek structures, craft legendary gear, and break the seals of the Underworld with up to 3 friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.4% ★, Online Co-Op 12%, Survival 10%, Base Building 9.7%, Crafting 7.3%
- #19 Grounded
84% matchVery Positive90% of 93,832 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 33.9% ★, Survival 15.4%, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 10.6%, Multiplayer 8.9%
- #20 RuneScape: Dragonwilds
84% matchVery Positive81% of 25,015 reviews2025
Dev: Jagex Ltd
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 15.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
On RuneScape’s forgotten continent of Ashenfall, dragons have awoken. Gather, build, skill and craft to survive in this co-operative (1-4) survival crafting game. Only by mastering survival and uncovering ancient secrets can they hope to slay the Dragon Queen—alone or with allies.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32% ★, Online Co-Op 10.7%, Survival 10.4%, Crafting 9.9%, Open World 8.5%
- #21 Whisper of the Swallows
83% matchVery Positive86% of 163 reviews2026
Dev: Blown Leaves
Windows
Brave a savage, unforgiving procedurally generated world where extreme weather and the nightmares of the dark will hunt you down. Alone or in co-op, survive, build, and explore to turn a cursed hellscape into your sanctuary of light.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.4% ★, Crafting 11.9%, Survival 10%, Online Co-Op 9.9%, Base Building 9.8%
- #22 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
82% matchVery Positive82% of 9,989 reviews2024
Dev: Merge GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 15.2 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 29.7% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Online Co-Op 10.3%, Crafting 10.2%, Survival 10.1%
- #23 Dawn of the Dying
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cube Game Studio
Windows
In a brutal open world, standing still means death. Explore together in a co-op survival FPS where crafting, building, and fighting with friends is the only way forward.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.7% ★, Crafting 11.3%, Online Co-Op 9.9%, Survival 9.8%, Open World 7.2%
- #24 Crushed
81% matchMixed54% of 311 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 34.3% ★, Survival 10.4%, Crafting 10.1%, Base Building 9.1%, Open World 7.5%
- #25 Road to Eden
81% 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 25.6% ★, Crafting 11.7%, Survival 10%, Base Building 9.6%, Building 9%
- #26 SpiritBorn
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Highforge Studios
Windows
An open-world survival crafting RPG set among floating islands. Gather resources, craft powerful tools, unlock spirit abilities to soar between skybound realms and reclaim your lost godhood.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.7% ★, Crafting 12.5%, Survival 11.5%, Base Building 10%, Building 8.9%
- #27 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 37.4% ★, Online Co-Op 12.8%, Crafting 11%, Survival 10.9%, Base Building 8.4%
- #28 Moonrite
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Haki Studios
Windows
A survival crafting game where you craft spirit companions with different materials to fight, work, and survive. Build your spiritual village and explore a beautiful anime-inspired world to defy ancient gods that rule the material and spiritual.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.2% ★, Base Building 14.8%, Online Co-Op 12.4%, Survival 11.2%, Crafting 8.8%
- #29 Rust
76% matchVery Positive87% of 1,363,157 reviews2018
Dev: Facepunch Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 52.5 hrsMean: 421.6 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 27.8% ★, Survival 18.6%, Crafting 14.6%, Open World 8.5%, Multiplayer 8.2%
- #30 Necesse
74% matchVery Positive93% of 27,199 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 14.8 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 43% ★, Crafting 9.6%, Survival 8.3%, Base Building 7.5%, Open World 6.7%
- #31 Reckfell
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: verkme
Windows
Survival is your only goal in Reckfell. The world is unforgiving - its creatures, the environment, and even other survivors will stop at nothing to end you. You must do whatever it takes to stay alive for one more day.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.1% ★, Crafting 11.8%, Base Building 10.4%, Survival 9.7%, Building 8.9%
- #32 Force of Nature
77% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,202 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 42.8% ★, Crafting 15%, Survival 12.4%, Building 7.4%, Open World 6.9%
- #33 Wild Omission
75% matchVery Positive89% of 63 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 29.1% ★, Crafting 12%, Survival 10.1%, Building 8.5%, Online Co-Op 8.5%
- #34 Echoes Below
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Echo Division
Windows
Echoes Below is a tactical first-person shooter set in an unforgiving open-world survival environment. Build and fortify your base, craft essential gear, and recruit companions to fight alongside you. Explore a hostile archipelago, hunt for resources and engage in intense firefights.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.8% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Crafting 10.9%, Military 10.4%, Survival 7.4%
- #35 Until North Ends
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Unknown Hex
Windows
Explore a fantasy themed open world. Together with your friends or alone build your safe haven to craft gear, prepare equipment, refine resources to go on a journey. Visit different biomes, fight enemies, gather resources, plunder dungeons or caves and obtain loot!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.7% ★, Crafting 12.5%, Online Co-Op 10.7%, Survival 10.5%, Open World 8.1%
- #36 Grounded 2
72% matchVery Positive81% of 21,263 reviews2025
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.0 hrsMean: 22.1 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 26.8% ★, Survival 14.5%, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 10.9%, Online Co-Op 8.4%
- #37 Hurtworld
73% matchMostly Positive76% of 31,099 reviews2019
Dev: Bankroll Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 63.5 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 33.9% ★, Survival 15.8%, Crafting 12%, Open World 8.6%, Building 8.5%
- #38 Primal Man Simulator
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: RD Games
Windows
Primal Man Simulator is a complex survival simulator where the player becomes one of the evolutionary precursors of modern homo sapiens, trying to live through another day in an unwelcoming forests of Europe.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.8% ★, Crafting 14%, Survival 12.6%, Base Building 8.9%, Open World 8.8%
- #39 Rem Survival
73% matchMostly Positive76% of 802 reviews2021
Dev: Immortal Hand Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 47.3 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 34.7% ★, Crafting 12.8%, Base Building 12.1%, Survival 10.7%, Building 8.9%
- #40 Desert Skies
73% matchMixed57% of 464 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 47.4% ★, Crafting 10.7%, Survival 9%, Base Building 6.9%, Building 6.2%
- #41 Undercraft
71% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2022
Dev: PlayUndercraft
Windows
Create your world in this sandbox game where you can dig, build, explore, fight, and farm. Have a different experience in a day or night adventure. Explore a procedurally generated world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.8% ★, Online Co-Op 11.8%, Survival 10.9%, Building 8.6%, Crafting 8.4%
- #42 Oldowan
71% matchMixed63% of 16 reviews2023
Dev: Broussard Boi
Windows
Oldowan is a first-person casual survival sandbox game that is focused on very early humanity and how it developed. The crafting is all based on real practices, but the survival aspects are relaxed. Play solo or with 1-3 friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.6% ★, Crafting 10.9%, Survival 9.8%, Base Building 9.6%, Building 8.3%
- #43 ENDALOR
69% matchMostly Positive71% of 239 reviews2026
Dev: Diorite Games
Windows
An immersive medieval dark fantasy survival game with RPG elements for 1-4 players. Set in a hand crafted open world. Explore, survive, build, craft, fight and conquer your way through the dark, brutal and mysterious lands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.9% ★, Online Co-Op 11.3%, Survival 9.7%, Base Building 9.4%, Crafting 9.2%
- #44 Horizon Journey
69% matchMostly Negative26% of 85 reviews2026
Dev: Redivided Studios
Windows
Embark on an epic adventure to Mars in Horizon Journey, an open-world survival game that blends colonization, terraforming, and exploration in both single-player and multiplayer co-op modes. You're tasked with the monumental challenge of making Mars a new home for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.7% ★, Crafting 10.6%, Base Building 10.2%, Online Co-Op 9.9%, Survival 8.7%
- #45 Ways
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: HAGAKI PRODUCTIONS
Windows
Survive in a procedurally generated PvPvE world with friends in first-person. Complete quests, craft weapons, build bases, and wreak havoc on enemies.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.8% ★, Crafting 10.5%, Base Building 9.5%, Online Co-Op 9.4%, Survival 7.9%
- #46 Stranded Deep
69% matchMostly Positive74% of 47,389 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 47.3% ★, Survival 14.4%, Crafting 11.2%, Multiplayer 8.7%, Open World 7.3%
- #47 Project Castaway
68% matchMixed67% of 1,723 reviews2026
Dev: Mardonpol Inc.
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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 32.3% ★, Online Co-Op 11.8%, Base Building 9.8%, Survival 9.5%, Crafting 8.6%
- #48 Outpost Zero
71% 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 39% ★, Survival 14.3%, Base Building 10.9%, Crafting 8.8%, Multiplayer 8.4%
- #49 Bromeliad
70% matchMixed61% of 28 reviews2021
Dev: Gorka Games Studios
Windows
In Bromeliad you are stranded on a pacific island where you are a Human-Bear. You will have to survive, gathering materials to build tools and bases. You will need to hunt for food, explore, tame animals, then, at night strange creatures will appear. Survive and find an element to return to normal.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.6% ★, Crafting 13.8%, Survival 11.6%, Base Building 10.1%, Building 8.9%
- #50 Ruins To Fortress
68% matchMixed64% of 176 reviews2024
Dev: NimbleBeasts
Windows · Linux
Explore a post-apocalyptic island, craft, build, tear down enemy bases, defend and nuke your rivals! Life's about surviving in this multiplayer game, no matter what it takes!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.6% ★, Crafting 11%, Base Building 10.6%, Survival 9.7%, Online Co-Op 7%
- #51 Out of Reach
70% matchMixed57% of 3,046 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 42.4% ★, Survival 13.1%, Crafting 11.3%, Open World 7.9%, Building 7.2%
- #52 Core Keeper
66% matchVery Positive93% of 64,481 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.0 hrsMean: 34.1 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 26.4% ★, Crafting 11.4%, Base Building 11.1%, Online Co-Op 10.4%, Survival 9.9%
- #53 MISERY
66% matchVery Positive83% of 23,009 reviews2025
Dev: Platypus EntertainmentPub: Ytopia
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
MISERY is a 1–10 player co-op survival game set in a nuclear disaster zone. Here, every day is a struggle: search radioactive ruins for resources, build your bunker, craft weapons, and explore a weird, procedurally-generated world with your friends. Beware of anomalies, monsters, and armed bandits.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.8% ★, Online Co-Op 11.5%, Survival 10.2%, Crafting 9.7%, Base Building 9.5%
- #54 Lost Track
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Junkyard Games
Windows
Survive alongside your companions in the outskirts of a town after a supernatural experimental accident. Gather survival resources, upgrade your vehicles and mobile fortress, and explore unknown areas to gradually uncover the truth behind the experiment…
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.1% ★, Online Co-Op 14.1%, Survival 12.5%, Base Building 11.8%, Crafting 11%
- #55 Elysium
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Artifika Games
Windows · Mac
Wake up on a paradise-like abandoned island with your friends. Explore the lands of an ancient civilization and uncover the mysteries behind their collapse as you build, craft, and tame corrupted machines. Most importantly, survive the unwelcome lands of Elysium!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.4% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Online Co-Op 11.3%, Crafting 10.5%, Survival 9.1%
- #56 Voidtrain
65% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,447 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.5 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 37.6% ★, Base Building 9.6%, Crafting 9.3%, Online Co-Op 9.1%, Survival 9%
- #57 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
66% matchVery Positive91% of 7,431 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 34% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Crafting 10.6%, Online Co-Op 10.3%, Multiplayer 7.7%