- #1 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
97% matchMostly Positive78% of 34,438 reviews2020
Dev: Eleon Game Studios
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 77.1 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 38.4% ★, Survival 12.1%, Open World 10.7%, Sandbox 8.4%, Space 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: Offers the same epic scale of planetary exploration, base building, and survival mechanics set across a procedurally generated galaxy.
- #2 ASTRONEER
96% matchVery Positive92% of 139,497 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.7 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 35.9% ★, Survival 11.3%, Open World 10.4%, Base Building 9.6%, Space 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: Captures the colorful planetary exploration and base-building aspects of GRAV in a more stylized, co-op-friendly sandbox.
- #3 Space Engineers
94% matchVery Positive89% of 134,498 reviews2019
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 96.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.
Why similar: Base Building 19.4%, Survival 18%, Open World 16.3%, Sandbox 14.5%, Space 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: Shares GRAV's deep emphasis on construction, engineering, and surviving within vast, sandbox space environments.
- #4 Planet Explorers
95% matchMixed62% of 6,818 reviews2016
Dev: Pathea Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Planet Explorers is an open world sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.4% ★, Open World 12.2%, Sandbox 11.9%, Survival 9.7%, Crafting 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on voxel-based planetary colonization, crafting, and surviving against alien wildlife akin to GRAV.
- #5 No Man's Sky
93% matchVery Positive85% of 421,258 reviews2016
Dev: Hello Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 20.1 hrsMean: 70.9 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 44.9% ★, Open World 14%, Survival 10%, Space 9.6%, Sandbox 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: Expands on GRAV's core premise of seamless planetary exploration, alien creature encounters, and base establishment across a massive universe.
- #6 Fragmented
94% 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 49.6% ★, Survival 14.4%, Open World 9%, Sandbox 5.7%, Crafting 5.5%
Why You'll Like It: Utilizes a similar sci-fi setting for its open-world survival mechanics, base defense, and multiplayer exploration.
- #7 ARK: Survival Evolved
92% matchVery Positive83% of 778,394 reviews2017
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 202.1 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 45.2% ★, Survival 13.7%, Open World 9.7%, Base Building 7.3%, Crafting 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: Matches GRAV's third-person open-world survival gameplay, featuring taming mechanics, base building, and hostile multiplayer environments.
- #8 Subnautica
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 380,795 reviews2018
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.3 hrsMean: 39.8 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 44.7% ★, Survival 14.3%, Open World 10.8%, Base Building 10.5%, Crafting 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a similar tense, immersive survival-crafting loop on an alien world filled with strange and terrifying creatures.
- #9 Boundless
90% matchMixed69% of 2,779 reviews2018
Dev: Monumental, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 32.8 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 45.7% ★, Open World 12.3%, Sandbox 11.1%, Crafting 8.9%, Survival 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: Offers voxel-based planetary exploration and multiplayer collaboration across different alien worlds.
- #10 Edge of Space
91% matchMostly Negative33% of 2,729 reviews2015
Dev: Handyman StudiosPub: Reverb Triple XP
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 5.9 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 50.4% ★, Sandbox 12.1%, Survival 7.4%, Crafting 6.6%, Space 5.7%
Why You'll Like It: Explores a sci-fi survival sandbox environment full of alien fauna and crafting progression.
- #11 Interstellar Rift
89% matchMixed68% of 1,667 reviews2020
Dev: Split PolygonPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 35.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Interstellar Rift is an open world starship simulator with an emphasis on ship construction and multi-player interaction. Survive in a hostile galaxy with your own custom designed and constructed starship. Invite other players to join your crew or fight them across the galaxy!
Why similar: Open World 20.9%, Survival 19.9%, Sandbox 17.3%, Crafting 16.5%, Space 12.7%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on multiplayer spaceship design and station building in a sci-fi open universe.
- #12 Breathedge
88% matchVery Positive81% of 18,514 reviews2021
Dev: RedRuins SoftworksPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 41.5% ★, Survival 11.4%, Base Building 10.7%, Sandbox 8.5%, Space 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: Combines a comedic sci-fi narrative with open-space crafting and survival loops reminiscent of early sci-fi sandbox games like GRAV.
- #13 StarMade
89% matchMixed68% of 2,992 reviews2014
Dev: Schine GmbH
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 18.8 hrs≥1hr: 54%
The ultimate space sandbox. Participate in epic fleet battles, form alliances, strive to dominate entire galaxies and harness the universe’s resources for your industrious empire or the destruction of others. Customise your experience, the universe is yours!
Why similar: Sandbox 22.5%, Space 21.4%, Open World 20.6%, Multiplayer 10%, Crafting 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a block-based space sandbox where players can build ships and explore procedural solar systems.
- #14 ICARUS
86% matchMostly Positive75% of 68,864 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.4 hrsMean: 46.7 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 38.3% ★, Survival 13.5%, Base Building 11.7%, Open World 8.5%, Crafting 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: Pits players against dangerous alien planets in session-based survival missions that echo GRAV's hazardous exploration style.
- #15 Savage Lands
87% matchMixed54% of 6,690 reviews2021
Dev: Last Bastion Studios LLC
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.4 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 50.3% ★, Survival 14.4%, Open World 10.7%, Sandbox 7.4%, Crafting 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: Emphasizes brutal open-world survival, crafting, and building against hostile creatures like GRAV's harsher moments.
- #16 Starbase
86% matchMixed55% of 6,768 reviews2021
Dev: Frozenbyte
Windows
Median: 14.2 hrsMean: 91.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Starbase is a hybrid voxel/vertex-based space MMO with a fully destructible and infinitely expanding universe, with a focus on building and designing spaceships and stations, exploration, resource gathering, crafting, trading, and combat.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.4% ★, Open World 19%, Sandbox 13.8%, Space 11.3%, Crafting 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: Features detailed space-faring construction and multiplayer sandbox gameplay that appeals to fans of sci-fi building.
- #17 Out of Reach
85% matchMixed57% of 3,051 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 45.9% ★, Survival 14.1%, Open World 10.4%, Crafting 7.4%, Base Building 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: Shares the foundational open-world survival-craft loop with building elements and multiplayer action.
- #18 Subsistence
84% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,861 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 40.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47% ★, Survival 14.1%, Open World 9.1%, Crafting 8.1%, Base Building 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on open-world base building and survival against hostile threats in a detailed environment.
- #19 Hurtworld
83% matchMostly Positive76% of 31,099 reviews2019
Dev: Bankroll Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 64.2 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 41.3% ★, Survival 19.2%, Open World 12.7%, Crafting 8.8%, Multiplayer 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: Delivers a hardcore multiplayer survival experience with heavy emphasis on crafting and progression.
- #20 Planetaries
82% matchMixed58% of 228 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 35.2% ★, Survival 10.9%, Base Building 10.7%, Open World 9.9%, Crafting 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: Features online co-op survival and exploration mechanics centered around planetary environments.
- #21 Outpost Zero
81% matchMixed48% of 853 reviews2019
Dev: Symmetric GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Outpost Zero blends the genres of Multiplayer Base Building Survival and Simulation games in a Sci-Fi universe. On a lawless alien world, robotic scouts are tasked with building an Outpost for human colonists. Command AI minions, colonize the planet, and survive the perils of Gaiya.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.7% ★, Survival 15.3%, Base Building 10.4%, Open World 9.7%, Multiplayer 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: Combines strategy, action, and survival base-building on an AI-driven alien world.
- #22 Reign Of Kings
81% matchMixed57% of 14,891 reviews2015
Dev: Code}{atch
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 47.8 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% ★, Survival 14.6%, Open World 12.3%, Crafting 9%, Multiplayer 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: Captures the open-world multiplayer sandbox and brutal base-raiding dynamics akin to early survival titles.
- #23 Dig or Die
78% matchVery Positive90% of 4,291 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 43.7% ★, Survival 14.5%, Sandbox 10.6%, Crafting 8.6%, Open World 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on defensive base-building and survival against overwhelming alien attacks.
- #24 Force of Nature
79% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,209 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 45.8% ★, Survival 13.3%, Crafting 9.7%, Open World 9%, Sandbox 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: Provides top-down open-world survival and crafting progression within a mysterious environment.
- #25 Dark and Light
79% matchMixed52% of 11,837 reviews2017
Dev: Snail Games USA
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 49.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Dark and Light is a vast sandbox survival RPG set in a world dominated by powerful elemental forces. Find your way in a meticulously crafted world, featuring breathtaking landscapes, a wide variety of mythical creatures, and limitless possibility to craft, build, and unlock dozens of powerful weapons, spells, and skills.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.1% ★, Survival 18.1%, Open World 17.4%, Sandbox 12.2%, Base Building 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: Brings sandbox survival and base-building mechanics into a vast, magical open world.
- #26 Novus Inceptio
80% matchMixed52% of 1,304 reviews2015
Dev: McMagic Productions
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Warning: This is an Early Access game! Welcome to an enigmatic world, where a new gaming experience in exploring, building and surviving is waiting just for you. Experience a sandbox world with survival elements, and join us in creating a full version of the game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.2% ★, Survival 12.5%, Base Building 11.1%, Open World 11.1%, Sandbox 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: Offers deep sci-fi survival crafting and environmental adaptation in a sandbox world.
- #27 Miscreated
78% matchMixed66% of 31,592 reviews2018
Dev: Entrada Interactive LLC
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 38.2 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 52.8% ★, Survival 16.6%, Open World 11.7%, Multiplayer 5.7%, Crafting 5.2%
- #28 Life is Feudal: Your Own
77% matchMixed66% of 12,071 reviews2015
Dev: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 57.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Hardcore and realistic; LiF is a Medieval multiplayer sandbox RPG, with free terraforming, a rich crafting system and preset and modular building construction. With engaging survival aspects, no target physics-based combat and a unique formation system - along with numerous other features - LiF is not for the faint of heart!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.9% ★, Survival 12.8%, Open World 12.5%, Sandbox 9.2%, Crafting 8.9%
- #29 SURVIVAL: Postapocalypse Now
77% 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 54.3% ★, Survival 16.8%, Open World 10.3%, Multiplayer 5.7%, Crafting 4.8%
- #30 Scrap Mechanic
71% matchVery Positive92% of 123,030 reviews2026
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 65.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!
Why similar: Survival 18.8%, Open World 17%, Sandbox 15.5%, Base Building 13.7%, Crafting 13.3%
- #31 Craterbound
75% matchMixed53% 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 39.4% ★, Survival 12.3%, Base Building 11.8%, Open World 11.1%, Space 7.9%
- #32 TerraTech Worlds
73% matchMixed63% of 2,297 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 21.8 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 34.2% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Survival 10.3%, Open World 9.3%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #33 Rising World
74% matchVery Positive86% of 6,019 reviews2014
Dev: JIW-Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 21.4 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Rising World is a voxel based open-world sandbox game, featuring a procedurally generated world, playable in single and multi-player.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.8% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Survival 11.9%, Sandbox 9.7%, Crafting 8.8%
- #34 Hide & Hold Out - H2o
76% matchMixed54% of 631 reviews2016
Dev: Red Abyss Software
Windows · Linux
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 16.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Hide & Hold Out is a multiplayer survival game taking place in a devastated water world. Gather, build, team up with your friends and establish the foundations of your future floating empire utilizing the heavy guns of your battle ships!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 54.6% ★, Survival 14.6%, Open World 8.2%, Crafting 6.3%, Multiplayer 5.7%
- #35 Space Trash Scavenger
71% matchVery Positive83% of 528 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 38.6% ★, Survival 11.3%, Open World 9.3%, Base Building 8.6%, Crafting 8.4%
- #36 Outerstellar
72% matchMostly Positive72% of 186 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 38.3% ★, Survival 13.8%, Base Building 12.4%, Crafting 8.5%, Space 7.4%
- #37 Signs of Life
73% matchMostly Positive76% of 846 reviews2014
Dev: Sweet Dog Studios
Windows · Linux
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 48.3% ★, Survival 11.5%, Sandbox 11%, Crafting 7.9%, Open World 5.7%
- #38 StarRupture
68% matchVery Positive81% of 13,607 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 27.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 34.6% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Survival 11%, Open World 9.8%, Sandbox 7.6%
- #39 Outlaws of the Old West
72% matchMixed59% of 6,297 reviews2019
Dev: Virtual Basement LLCPub: Wandering Wizard
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Outlaws of the Old West is a massively multiplayer survival MMO with a huge world, thousands of items and a modular building system. Survive the wild, build your own homestead, defeat villainous bandits and work with others to tame the Wild West.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.4% ★, Survival 14.9%, Open World 12.6%, Multiplayer 6.3%, Base Building 6%
- #40 Starbound
70% matchVery Positive90% of 123,321 reviews2016
Dev: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.0 hrsMean: 64.5 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 47.5% ★, Sandbox 10.7%, Survival 9.5%, Open World 7.4%, Crafting 6.3%
- #41 Cubic Odyssey
69% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,754 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 45.7% ★, Base Building 15.3%, Sandbox 10.6%, Co-op 6.4%, Open World 4.7%
- #42 Stars End
70% matchMixed61% of 1,432 reviews2023
Dev: Reverie World StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 10.2 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 35.2% ★, Survival 11%, Open World 8.9%, Sandbox 7.4%, Space 7.4%
- #43 The Planet Crafter
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 74,281 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.7 hrsMean: 38.8 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 37.1% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Survival 11.3%, Open World 9%, Crafting 7.4%
- #44 Citadel: Forged with Fire
69% matchMixed68% of 5,895 reviews2019
Dev: Blue Isle StudiosPub: Blue Isle Publishing
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 19.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
This massive online sandbox RPG features elements of magic, spellcasting, building, exploring and crafting. As a newly minted apprentice of the magic arts, you will set off to the dangerous world of Ignus. Tame mighty beasts, forge alliances, explore uncharted territories or fight for dominance!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.8% ★, Open World 15.1%, Survival 12.6%, Sandbox 7.8%, Base Building 6%
- #45 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 44.4% ★, Survival 13%, Base Building 8.9%, Space 8.3%, Crafting 8%
- #46 Rem Survival
68% matchMostly Positive76% of 809 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 41% ★, Survival 12.6%, Base Building 12.6%, Open World 10.9%, Crafting 9.1%
- #47 Avorion
67% matchVery Positive90% of 14,588 reviews2020
Dev: Boxelware
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18.9 hrsMean: 99.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A procedural co-op space sandbox where players can build their own space ships out of dynamically scalable blocks. Fight epic space battles, explore, mine, trade, wage wars and build your own empire to save your galaxy from being torn apart by an unknown enemy.
Why similar: Open World 30.6%, Sandbox 29%, Space 22.9%, Sci-fi 9.4%, Third Person 8.1%
- #48 The Front
65% matchMixed67% of 10,771 reviews2025
Dev: Samar Studio
Windows
Median: 10.7 hrsMean: 44.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
The Front is a survival open-world crafting sandbox game. You are a resistance fighter sent back in time to stop the rise of a tyrannical empire. Collect resources, craft tech, build shelters, and fight monsters to accomplish your mission.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.6% ★, Survival 11.4%, Base Building 11.4%, Open World 9.2%, Crafting 7.9%
- #49 Plains of Pain
67% matchVery Positive83% of 1,036 reviews2023
Dev: Cobra Byte Digital
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Enter a living post-apocalyptic sandbox where the world doesn't wait for you. Build, craft, trade, earn the trust of factions, and forge your own path through a brutal procedural wasteland.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.8% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Survival 11.1%, Open World 9.9%, Sandbox 9.1%
- #50 Stranded Deep
66% matchMostly Positive74% of 47,919 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 52.1% ★, Survival 15.8%, Open World 9.8%, Crafting 7.5%, Multiplayer 7%
- #51 Salt
67% matchMostly Positive77% of 2,252 reviews2018
Dev: Lavaboots Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Salt is an open world exploration game where you sail from island to island looking for loot and new discoveries! Relax and explore at your own pace, picking a direction and setting sail across a vast ocean filled with quests, merchants, ruins, pirates, and other mysterious places.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.9% ★, Survival 14.6%, Open World 13.6%, Crafting 8.3%, Sandbox 7.7%
