- #1 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 38.1% ★, Survival 12.1%, Open World 10.6%, Sandbox 8.5%, Space 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: This title offers a deep space-faring experience with extensive planetary exploration and modular ship construction.
- #2 Planet Explorers
96% 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 46.1% ★, Open World 12.1%, Sandbox 12.1%, Survival 9.8%, Crafting 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses heavily on voxel-based terrain manipulation and crafting, mirroring the sandbox nature of GRAV.
- #3 Space Engineers
95% matchVery Positive89% of 133,889 reviews2019
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 96.1 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 19.5%, Survival 17.9%, Open World 16%, Sandbox 14.6%, Space 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for space-based engineering and survival, offering unparalleled freedom in building ships and stations.
- #4 ARK: Survival Evolved
94% 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 44.9% ★, Survival 13.7%, Open World 9.6%, Base Building 7.4%, Crafting 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the core loop of gathering resources, taming creatures, and building massive bases in a dangerous open world.
- #5 StarMade
94% matchMixed68% of 2,985 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 22.7%, Space 21.3%, Open World 20.3%, Multiplayer 10.1%, Crafting 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: A space-focused sandbox that emphasizes building massive, functional ships and stations in a procedurally generated universe.
- #6 No Man's Sky
92% 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 44.8% ★, Open World 13.9%, Survival 10%, Space 9.7%, Sandbox 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: It provides the ultimate procedural space exploration experience with seamless travel between planets and deep crafting systems.
- #7 ASTRONEER
91% matchVery Positive92% of 138,295 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.6% ★, Survival 11.3%, Open World 10.3%, Base Building 9.7%, Space 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: While more stylized, it perfectly captures the joy of exploring alien landscapes and managing complex resource chains.
- #8 Fragmented
93% 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 49.3% ★, Survival 14.4%, Open World 8.9%, Sandbox 5.7%, Crafting 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: A direct spiritual cousin to GRAV, focusing on multiplayer survival and combat on a dangerous alien planet.
- #9 ICARUS
91% 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 37.9% ★, Survival 13.5%, Base Building 11.8%, Open World 8.4%, Crafting 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: It features a session-based planetary survival loop that requires players to drop onto alien worlds, gather resources, and build defenses.
- #10 Interstellar Rift
90% matchMixed68% of 1,660 reviews2020
Dev: Split PolygonPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 33.4 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 20.6%, Survival 19.9%, Sandbox 17.5%, Crafting 16.7%, Space 12.7%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a robust ship-building and space-simulation experience that rewards players for exploring and managing their own vessels.
- #11 Outpost Zero
89% 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 41.5% ★, Survival 15.3%, Base Building 10.5%, Open World 9.6%, Multiplayer 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: This game centers on the struggle to build and defend an automated base on a hostile planet, much like GRAV's core loop.
- #12 Subnautica
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 373,268 reviews2018
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.3 hrsMean: 39.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.5% ★, Survival 14.3%, Open World 10.7%, Base Building 10.6%, Crafting 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: Though set underwater, it is the definitive alien survival experience with a strong emphasis on discovery and base construction.
- #13 Boundless
88% 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 45.4% ★, Open World 12.2%, Sandbox 11.4%, Crafting 9.1%, Survival 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: A massively multiplayer sandbox that allows for vast exploration and building across interconnected alien worlds.
- #14 Stationeers
85% 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: Base Building 20.7%, Survival 18.4%, Sandbox 14.4%, Crafting 13.3%, Space 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: A more technical survival game that challenges players to manage complex atmospheric and electrical systems in space.
- #15 Subsistence
84% 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 46.7% ★, Survival 14.1%, Open World 9%, Crafting 8.2%, Base Building 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: A challenging survival game that focuses on long-term base development and resource management in a hostile environment.
- #16 Dig or Die
84% 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 43.4% ★, Survival 14.4%, Sandbox 10.8%, Crafting 8.7%, Open World 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D survival game that forces players to build increasingly complex defenses to survive nightly alien attacks.
- #17 Edge of Space
86% 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 50.1% ★, Sandbox 12.3%, Survival 7.4%, Crafting 6.8%, Space 5.7%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D space-survival game that features procedural exploration and a heavy emphasis on crafting and technology trees.
- #18 Planetaries
82% 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 34.9% ★, Survival 10.9%, Base Building 10.9%, Open World 9.7%, Crafting 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a familiar survival-craft loop with a focus on multiplayer cooperation on alien planets.
- #19 Rust
81% 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% ★, Survival 22.9%, Open World 12.5%, Crafting 11%, Multiplayer 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: The definitive multiplayer survival game that captures the high-stakes tension of defending your base from other players.
- #20 The Solus Project
82% matchMostly Positive80% of 2,620 reviews2016
Dev: HourencesPub: Teotl Studios
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 72%
The Solus Project is a single player exploration adventure with survival elements. The adventure is set on a mysterious planet and is the spiritual successor to The Ball - 2010 PC Gamer Action/Adventure Game Of The Year...
Why similar: Survival 47.4%, Space 13.3%, Open World 12.8%, Sci-fi 9.5%, Crafting 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes the atmospheric and survival aspects of being stranded on a mysterious, dangerous alien world.
- #21 7 Days to Die
79% 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 40.1% ★, Survival 18.8%, Base Building 13%, Open World 11.7%, Sandbox 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: A masterclass in base-defense survival, requiring players to build fortifications to survive nightly waves of enemies.
- #22 Valheim
79% matchVery Positive94% of 535,809 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 41.4% ★, Survival 12.6%, Open World 10.3%, Base Building 9.9%, Crafting 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: It excels at blending exploration, base building, and environmental survival in a way that feels rewarding and adventurous.
- #23 Novus Inceptio
83% matchMixed52% of 1,302 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% ★, Survival 12.5%, Base Building 11.3%, Open World 11%, Sandbox 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that emphasizes long-term character progression and world-building in a sci-fi setting.
- #24 Signs of Life
81% 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 48% ★, Survival 11.5%, Sandbox 11.2%, Crafting 8.1%, Open World 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: This 2D sandbox game offers deep exploration and crafting mechanics within a sci-fi, space-faring context.
- #25 Craterbound
80% 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 39.1% ★, Survival 12.3%, Base Building 12%, Open World 10.9%, Crafting 8%
Why You'll Like It: A space-themed survival game that focuses on exploration and resource gathering in a procedurally generated environment.
- #26 Project Winter
78% matchVery Positive82% of 19,071 reviews2019
Dev: Other Ocean InteractivePub: Other Ocean Group
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 23.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Project Winter 2.0: Cabin Fever is an 8-player survival and social deception game where teamwork is vital, but betrayal is inevitable. Face the wilderness, uncover traitors, and survive paranoia in this streamlined yet chaotic multiplayer experience.
Why similar: Survival 40.5%, Crafting 29.9%, Multiplayer 20.1%, Adventure 5.4%, Action 4.1%
Why You'll Like It: While it adds social deduction, it captures the intense feeling of trying to survive in a harsh, cold, and unforgiving environment.
- #27 Miscreated
77% 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 52.6% ★, Survival 16.6%, Open World 11.6%, Multiplayer 5.8%, Crafting 5.3%
- #28 Out of Reach
78% 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 45.6% ★, Survival 14.1%, Open World 10.2%, Crafting 7.6%, Base Building 6%
- #29 Savage Lands
77% 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% ★, Survival 14.5%, Open World 10.5%, Sandbox 7.6%, Crafting 7.4%
- #30 Hurtworld
76% 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 41% ★, Survival 19.3%, Open World 12.5%, Crafting 9%, Multiplayer 6.9%
- #31 Reign Of Kings
76% 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 46.7% ★, Survival 14.6%, Open World 12.2%, Crafting 9.2%, Multiplayer 6.4%
- #32 Life is Feudal: Your Own
75% matchMixed66% of 12,061 reviews2015
Dev: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 58.1 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 45.6% ★, Survival 12.8%, Open World 12.4%, Sandbox 9.4%, Crafting 9%
- #33 SURVIVAL: Postapocalypse Now
74% 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 54.1% ★, Survival 16.8%, Open World 10.2%, Multiplayer 5.9%, Crafting 4.9%
- #34 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 33.9% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Survival 10.2%, Open World 9.1%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #35 Dark and Light
73% matchMixed52% of 11,819 reviews2017
Dev: Snail Games USA
Windows
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 49.2 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% ★, Survival 18.1%, Open World 17.2%, Sandbox 12.4%, Base Building 5.6%
- #36 Force of Nature
72% 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 45.5% ★, Survival 13.3%, Crafting 9.9%, Open World 8.9%, Sandbox 7.9%
- #37 Hide & Hold Out - H2o
73% matchMixed54% of 631 reviews2016
Dev: Red Abyss Software
Windows · Linux
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 16.2 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 54.4% ★, Survival 14.6%, Open World 8.1%, Crafting 6.4%, Multiplayer 5.9%
- #38 Space Trash Scavenger
68% 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 38.3% ★, Survival 11.4%, Open World 9.2%, Base Building 8.8%, Crafting 8.5%
- #39 Outerstellar
70% 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 38% ★, Survival 13.7%, Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 8.6%, Space 7.4%
- #40 StarRupture
66% 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 34.2% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Survival 11%, Open World 9.6%, Sandbox 7.8%
- #41 Rising World
70% matchVery Positive86% of 5,914 reviews2014
Dev: JIW-Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 21.3 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% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Survival 11.9%, Sandbox 9.9%, Crafting 9%
- #42 Dune: Awakening
67% matchMostly Positive71% of 76,850 reviews2025
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 47.6 hrsMean: 99.1 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival game with immersive adventure and RPG gameplay. Explore, build, craft, and unravel a cinematic Dune story alone or with friends as you rise from survival to greatness on the most legendary planet in the universe. Just remember: the sandworm always comes.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.4% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Survival 10.7%, Open World 9.5%, Sandbox 8.2%
- #43 Breathedge
69% 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 41.6% ★, Survival 11.5%, Base Building 11.1%, Sandbox 8.6%, Space 8.4%
- #44 Starbase
70% matchMixed56% of 6,732 reviews2021
Dev: Frozenbyte
Windows
Median: 14.3 hrsMean: 91.4 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 28.2% ★, Open World 18.8%, Sandbox 14%, Space 11.3%, Crafting 9.5%
- #45 Stars End
69% 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 35% ★, Survival 10.9%, Open World 8.8%, Sandbox 7.5%, Space 7.4%
- #46 Starbound
67% 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 47.2% ★, Sandbox 10.9%, Survival 9.5%, Open World 7.3%, Crafting 6.5%
- #47 The Front
66% 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 36.2% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Survival 11.4%, Open World 9.1%, Crafting 8%
- #48 Cubic Odyssey
66% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,655 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Embark on a galactic journey in Cubic Odyssey, an open-world adventure where you explore vibrant planets, craft tools, build vehicles, and fight the Red Darkness. Uncover ancient mysteries, and shape a universe full of life, danger, and limitless possibilities!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.3% ★, Base Building 15.5%, Sandbox 10.7%, Co-op 6.6%, Open World 4.6%
- #49 The Planet Crafter
64% 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 36.9% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Survival 11.3%, Open World 8.8%, Crafting 7.5%
- #50 Rem Survival
67% 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 40.7% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Survival 12.7%, Open World 10.7%, Crafting 9.3%
