- #1 Tinkerlands
97% matchVery Positive86% of 3,973 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Explore, craft, and fight your way through uncharted islands — solo or with up to 4 players in co-op! Tinkerlands is an exciting survival adventure where you will build your settlement, craft useful tools to survive, and even use magic!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.2% ★, Online Co-Op 11.6%, Sandbox 8.9%, Survival 8.7%, Crafting 8.7%
- #2 2D?!
96% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2024
Dev: Lycke04
Windows
Excavate, combat, discover, construct! Every challenge can be conquered in this thrilling adventure game. Immerse yourself in endless creativity as you explore through uncharted territories , engage in epic battles and shape thw world with your own hands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29% ★, Sandbox 9.5%, Survival 9.2%, Crafting 9.1%, Online Co-Op 8.7%
- #3 Wildsite
96% 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 26.7% ★, Online Co-Op 11.3%, Crafting 9.8%, Survival 8.8%, Building 7.7%
- #4 Terraria
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,534,723 reviews2011
Dev: Re-Logic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 33.6 hrsMean: 150.8 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 33.6% ★, Sandbox 11.4%, Crafting 9.1%, Survival 9%, Building 6.8%
- #5 Aurendor
94% 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 29.1% ★, Online Co-Op 11.8%, Crafting 9.5%, Survival 9.4%, Building 7.6%
- #6 Allumeria
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Unomelon
Windows
A classic voxel sandbox combined with in-depth progression through exploration, dungeon crawling and boss battles. Spent every minute discovering new weapons, abilities, resources, enemies, structures, mechanics and tools. With a strong focus on discovery, variety and creativity, the world is yours.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.3% ★, Crafting 9.8%, Sandbox 9.1%, Survival 8.9%, Online Co-Op 8.1%
- #7 Valheim
93% matchVery Positive94% of 536,933 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 25.9 hrsMean: 77.4 hrs≥1hr: 93%
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.5% ★, Online Co-Op 11.9%, Survival 9.5%, Crafting 8.7%, Building 7.2%
- #8 KeepUp Survival
92% matchMixed64% of 744 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 31.6% ★, Crafting 12.4%, Survival 11.3%, Co-op 10.9%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #9 Scrapnaut
91% matchMixed70% of 833 reviews2021
Dev: SpiffyBitPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements. Explore an open world with different biomes, take care of oxygen, manage your farms, generate electricity, build your home and much more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.3% ★, Online Co-Op 11.2%, Survival 10%, Building 9.7%, Co-op 9.1%
- #10 The Wild Eight
91% matchMixed68% of 8,097 reviews2019
Dev: Eight PointsPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 7.6 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 36.7% ★, Survival 14.5%, Co-op 8.4%, Crafting 8.3%, Online Co-Op 7.4%
- #11 Re.poly
90% 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 35.9% ★, Crafting 14.7%, Survival 12.6%, Sandbox 12.2%, Open World 9%
- #12 Until North Ends
89% 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 30.1% ★, Crafting 11.3%, Online Co-Op 10.5%, Survival 9.4%, Co-op 8%
- #13 Shamania
88% matchMostly Positive74% of 154 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 27% ★, Crafting 12.3%, Survival 9.7%, Online Co-Op 9.2%, Open World 8%
- #14 Rocksowers
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: bemad
Windows · Linux
Co-op Survival Sandbox meets Bullet Hell. Explore the corrupted surface on a moving base, scavenge for resources and craft GAME-BREAKING weapons using many unique modules to defeat ever-stronger foes. Fight to reclaim what The Bloom took from humanity!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34% ★, Sandbox 10.9%, Survival 10.5%, Crafting 9.3%, Co-op 8.2%
- #15 Grounded 2
87% matchVery Positive81% of 22,174 reviews2025
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.4 hrsMean: 22.6 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 24.1% ★, Survival 13.6%, Crafting 10.3%, Co-op 10.3%, Online Co-Op 8.4%
- #16 Nighthold
86% 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 38.6% ★, Crafting 8.2%, Online Co-Op 7.9%, Survival 7.2%, Sandbox 7.1%
- #17 Infinilands
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FluffyCreature
Windows · Mac · Linux
Infinilands is a pixel art sandbox survival game that lets you explore and modify a procedurally generated world full of unique plants, creatures and ruins. You can build houses and fight monsters with your friends in online/split-screen co-op. This game also supports dedicated server.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.4% ★, Crafting 11.8%, Sandbox 10.2%, Building 8.9%, Survival 8.8%
- #18 Raft
84% matchVery Positive93% of 374,777 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 34% ★, Survival 14.1%, Co-op 10.4%, Crafting 9.5%, Multiplayer 7.3%
- #19 Starbound
85% matchVery Positive90% of 123,064 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 36% ★, Sandbox 10.9%, Online Co-Op 8.8%, Crafting 8.5%, Survival 7.7%
- #20 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
83% matchVery Positive82% of 10,269 reviews2024
Dev: Merge GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 16.0 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 27% ★, Online Co-Op 10.9%, Crafting 9.9%, Survival 9.9%, Co-op 7.9%
- #21 SkyCraft
84% 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 29% ★, Online Co-Op 11.8%, Crafting 10.3%, Survival 9.5%, Building 8.4%
- #22 Green Hell
82% matchVery Positive85% of 99,313 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 36.1% ★, Survival 12.4%, Online Co-Op 11.4%, Crafting 8.9%, Multiplayer 7.1%
- #23 RuneScape: Dragonwilds
81% matchVery Positive81% of 27,065 reviews2025
Dev: Jagex Ltd
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 16.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
On RuneScape's forgotten continent of Ashenfall, dragons have awoken. Gather, build, skill and craft in this co-operative survival adventure. Only by mastering survival and uncovering ancient secrets can you hope to face the ferocious Dragon Queen.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.1% ★, Online Co-Op 11%, Survival 9.8%, Crafting 9.3%, Co-op 9.1%
- #24 Miner Rogue
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Voxelblade Studio
Windows
In a fully destructible world, gather resources, build, and craft items. Fight back with your friends against the corruption spreading across the land. But don't dig too deep, because you might end up in hell.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.2% ★, Online Co-Op 11.4%, Crafting 9.9%, Sandbox 9.1%, Survival 8.3%
- #25 Necesse
80% matchVery Positive93% of 27,498 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 14.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.1% ★, Crafting 8.8%, Sandbox 8.2%, Survival 7.7%, Online Co-Op 6.8%
- #26 The Survivalists
81% matchMostly Positive76% of 10,061 reviews2020
Dev: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 71%
A living world full of surprises, secrets and danger awaits in The Survivalists, an adventure-filled survival sandbox set in The Escapists universe. Explore, build, craft and even train monkeys with up to three friends in a desperate bid to survive. Have you got what it takes to be a Survivalist?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.4% ★, Crafting 12.8%, Online Co-Op 12.7%, Survival 10.3%, Sandbox 7.5%
- #27 The Last Viking
79% 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 18% ★, Online Co-Op 13.3%, Survival 10.9%, Co-op 9.7%, Crafting 8.3%
- #28 Lodventure
79% matchMostly Positive74% of 162 reviews2023
Dev: Sky Games
Windows
Embark on a 1-4 players Co-op survival adventure in an open world wilderness in search of a myth called the Lod Stone. Build your house, sow your crops, brew potions, tame a horse and discover powerful abilities. Venture into dangerous dungeons, fight unique bosses to find the Lod stone.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.5% ★, Co-op 10.4%, Survival 9.4%, Crafting 9.1%, Online Co-Op 8.4%
- #29 Craftopia
78% matchMostly Positive76% of 20,099 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 26.9% ★, Crafting 15.6%, Survival 11.7%, Open World 11.1%, Sandbox 8%
- #30 Subsistence
78% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,723 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 5.0 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 39.6% ★, Survival 12.7%, Crafting 12%, Open World 6.9%, Building 6.5%
- #31 Grounded
76% matchVery Positive90% of 94,772 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 30.5% ★, Survival 14.8%, Co-op 10.7%, Crafting 10.2%, Online Co-Op 7.6%
- #32 Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts
77% matchMostly Negative37% of 371 reviews2023
Dev: EFNSOFT
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 36%
Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts is a Multiplayer Survival Horror game for up to 4 players. Set in the Middle of the Unknown, you can craft, build, explore and discover secrets in the exciting first chapter from EFNSOFT.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.4% ★, Crafting 10.8%, Survival 10%, Building 7.9%, Online Co-Op 7.8%
- #33 Core Keeper
74% matchVery Positive93% of 65,308 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.0 hrsMean: 34.5 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 22.4% ★, Crafting 10.4%, Online Co-Op 10.3%, Survival 9.1%, Sandbox 8.6%
- #34 Solace Crafting
76% matchMostly Positive72% of 894 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 28% ★, Crafting 11.5%, Online Co-Op 10.5%, Survival 9.9%, Sandbox 7.8%
- #35 Survisland / 实境求生
75% matchMixed63% of 1,548 reviews2024
Dev: Super Trampers StudioPub: Easy Joy Ltd.
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Survisland is a super hardcore sandbox survival game that pays great attention to restoring the real survival experience. The character has rich and realistic actions and reactions to , and the process logic of making props is no different from reality.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.6% ★, Crafting 10%, Online Co-Op 9.9%, Survival 9.5%, Building 8.7%
- #36 Junk Jack
75% matchMostly Positive78% of 473 reviews2016
Dev: Pixbits
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 21.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Make the world truly yours in Junk Jack, a relaxing sandbox experience focused on building and improving your home. Discover new planets, tame and breed creatures, cook foods, collect animal companions, farm exotic plants, collect fish, grow flowers, play with your friends!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.1% ★, Sandbox 12.2%, Crafting 11.8%, Survival 10.8%, Building 7.9%
- #37 Force of Nature
74% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,205 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 37.9% ★, Crafting 14.2%, Survival 11.7%, Sandbox 8.7%, Building 7%
- #38 Undercraft
73% 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 31.3% ★, Online Co-Op 12%, Sandbox 10.5%, Survival 10.2%, Building 8%
- #39 Nightingale
72% matchMixed66% of 17,987 reviews2024
Dev: Inflexion Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 23.9 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 29.8% ★, Online Co-Op 12.3%, Crafting 10.5%, Survival 10.1%, Co-op 8.2%
- #40 Feel The Snow
73% matchVery Positive87% of 3,053 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 35.1% ★, Survival 10.9%, Crafting 10.6%, Co-op 8.3%, Sandbox 7.4%
- #41 Whisper of the Swallows
71% matchVery Positive85% of 171 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 29.6% ★, Crafting 11.6%, Online Co-Op 10.5%, Survival 9.7%, Sandbox 9.6%
- #42 Dig or Die
72% matchVery Positive90% of 4,273 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 36.9% ★, Survival 13%, Crafting 12.8%, Sandbox 12%, Open World 5.8%
- #43 Crestfallen: Medieval Survival
71% matchMixed59% of 460 reviews2024
Dev: Bloodbath Studios
Windows
👑 Hail to the King! In Crestfallen: Medieval Survival, players clash for dominance over the realm through strategic castle 🏰 building and fierce combat. Craft epic armor, forge deadly medieval weapons⚔️, and build a kingdom worthy of legend 📜. Create a Guild 🐉, trade goods, and prevail! 🌟
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.2% ★, Crafting 12.3%, Survival 10.4%, Online Co-Op 8.7%, Building 8.3%
- #44 Fragmented
73% 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 41.8% ★, Survival 13%, Crafting 8.1%, Open World 6.8%, Sandbox 6.4%
- #45 Longvinter
70% matchMixed67% of 7,607 reviews2025
Dev: Uuvana Studios
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 44.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Fish, farm, craft, gather, cook, loot or steal from other players and build a campsite or a village with your friends in an open-world multiplayer sandbox game without rules!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.5% ★, Crafting 13.7%, Survival 12.6%, Sandbox 8.9%, Open World 8.3%
- #46 Planetaries
71% matchMixed58% of 226 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 26.7% ★, Online Co-Op 11.4%, Crafting 10.2%, Survival 8.9%, Building 8%
- #47 Project Castaway
70% matchMixed66% of 1,785 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 28.2% ★, Online Co-Op 11.9%, Co-op 9.5%, Survival 8.9%, Sandbox 8.2%
- #48 Nested Lands
69% matchMostly Positive72% of 494 reviews2026
Dev: 1M Bits HordePub: META Publishing
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Nested Lands is a ruthless medieval RPG game featuring in-depth village building, large-scale social management and combats. Gather survivors, build a settlement, craft, master your skills, survive, and endure alone or in online co-op.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.3% ★, Online Co-Op 13.2%, Crafting 12.4%, Survival 10.3%, Sandbox 10%
- #49 Unforged
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lisowi Studios
Windows
A dark survival experience where you must explore a mysterious wilderness, gather resources, craft tools, and survive the horrors that emerge after nightfall. The wilderness is unforgiving. The night is worse.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.7% ★, Crafting 12.8%, Survival 11.8%, Sandbox 7.8%, Building 6.3%
- #50 Emberhaven
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: The Third Variable Co., Ltd.Pub: Jexar Games Co., Ltd.
Windows
Survive in a procedurally generated fantasy world overrun by creeping corruption. Build impenetrable strongholds, tend your farms, forge deadly weapons, and fend off hordes of mutated abominations to defend your last sanctuary.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.2% ★, Crafting 10.3%, Survival 9.3%, Sandbox 9.2%, Online Co-Op 7.8%
- #51 Planet Explorers
70% 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 38.2% ★, Sandbox 13.1%, Crafting 9.7%, Open World 9%, Survival 8.6%
- #52 Good Heavens!
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Nowhere Studios
Windows · Mac
Good Heavens! is an open-world crafting and building RPG for solo and online co-op up to 8 players. Explore mysterious biomes, build your base, master six distinct tech trees, rebuild fallen cities, and help a clumsy God restore his world on the brink of collapse.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.4% ★, Online Co-Op 12.4%, Crafting 10.5%, Co-op 8.5%, Sandbox 8.1%
- #53 Stranded Deep
68% matchMostly Positive74% of 47,623 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 42.2% ★, Survival 13.7%, Crafting 10.7%, Open World 7.1%, Multiplayer 7%
- #54 无尽之界/Endless Trek
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 满汉全席工作室
Windows
As the commander of the original human world, we led the vanguard through the portal and entered the unknown original world. The fog here hinders our exploration, and we must unite to build a home here to survive! In this way, we may find a way home. Remember! Don't trust Aboriginal and life here!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.9% ★, Online Co-Op 12.3%, Crafting 10.5%, Survival 9.7%, Sandbox 9.1%
- #55 Stormforge
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Roboto Games
Windows
Stormforge is an open-world survival crafting game for 1 to 8 players. You are Stormforged, with the ability to brave and harness power from magical storms. Explore, fight, forage, craft, build, and defeat bosses in this epic, fantasy game. Survive the Storms and thrive!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.4% ★, Online Co-Op 10.2%, Survival 9.9%, Crafting 9.4%, Co-op 8.1%
- #56 Rust
67% matchVery Positive87% of 1,378,603 reviews2018
Dev: Facepunch Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 52.5 hrsMean: 424.5 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 25.6% ★, Survival 18.3%, Crafting 14.3%, Open World 8.5%, Building 7.9%
- #57 ENDALOR
65% matchMostly Positive70% of 255 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 30.8% ★, Online Co-Op 11.9%, Survival 9.4%, Crafting 8.9%, Building 7.3%
- #58 Drift: Space Survival
67% 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 34.4% ★, Online Co-Op 13.7%, Crafting 10.9%, Survival 10.7%, Building 7.9%
- #59 Crea
68% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,408 reviews2016
Dev: Siege Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 19.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Progress with every slain monster, learn over 80 skills through talents, craft hundreds of items, and explore vast procedurally-generated worlds in this ever-expanding sandbox RPG!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.3% ★, Sandbox 13.4%, Crafting 12.9%, Survival 8.2%, Building 5.3%