- #1 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
97% matchMostly Positive78% of 34,392 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 38.2% ★, Survival 12.1%, Open World 10.7%, Sandbox 8.5%, Space 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: This title is the closest match to GRAV, featuring extensive planetary exploration, ship construction, and survival on diverse alien worlds.
- #2 No Man's Sky
96% matchVery Positive85% of 414,381 reviews2016
Dev: Hello Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 20.1 hrsMean: 70.7 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 9.9%, Space 9.6%, Sandbox 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: It offers the definitive procedural space exploration experience with deep base-building and survival mechanics that mirror the scope of GRAV.
- #3 Space Engineers
95% matchVery Positive89% of 134,313 reviews2019
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 96.4 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 16.1%, Sandbox 14.5%, Space 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: If you enjoyed the technical building aspects of GRAV, this game offers unparalleled freedom in constructing space stations and vehicles.
- #4 ARK: Survival Evolved
94% matchVery Positive83% of 776,082 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 45.1% ★, Survival 13.7%, Open World 9.7%, Base Building 7.4%, Crafting 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a massive multiplayer survival experience with deep crafting and base-building mechanics in a dangerous, untamed environment.
- #5 ICARUS
94% matchMostly Positive75% of 67,515 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 46.4 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 38.1% ★, Survival 13.5%, Base Building 11.8%, Open World 8.5%, Crafting 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: This session-based survival game emphasizes planetary exploration and base construction in a hostile, sci-fi environment.
- #6 ASTRONEER
92% matchVery Positive92% of 139,015 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.6 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 35.8% ★, Survival 11.3%, Open World 10.4%, Base Building 9.7%, Space 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the exploration and terraforming of colorful, alien planets with a heavy emphasis on creative crafting.
- #7 Planet Explorers
93% 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 46.3% ★, Open World 12.2%, Sandbox 12%, Survival 9.7%, Crafting 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: It features a voxel-based world that allows for extensive terrain modification and crafting, much like the sandbox nature of GRAV.
- #8 StarMade
91% matchMixed68% of 2,991 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 22.6%, Space 21.3%, Open World 20.5%, Multiplayer 10.1%, Crafting 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: This sandbox space game allows for massive ship and station building, appealing to players who want to conquer the galaxy.
- #9 7 Days to Die
89% matchVery Positive87% of 405,507 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.3 hrsMean: 110.4 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 40.3% ★, Survival 18.8%, Base Building 12.9%, Open World 11.8%, Sandbox 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: It excels at the base-building and defensive survival loop that makes defending outposts in GRAV so engaging.
- #10 Subsistence
90% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,766 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 46.9% ★, Survival 14.1%, Open World 9%, Crafting 8.1%, Base Building 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: A challenging survival game that focuses on base-building and resource management in an open-world environment.
- #11 Fragmented
91% 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 49.5% ★, Survival 14.4%, Open World 9%, Sandbox 5.7%, Crafting 5.5%
Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi survival game that pits players against alien creatures and harsh environments in a multiplayer setting.
- #12 Interstellar Rift
89% matchMixed68% of 1,666 reviews2020
Dev: Split PolygonPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 33.1 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 20.8%, Survival 19.9%, Sandbox 17.4%, Crafting 16.6%, Space 12.7%
Why You'll Like It: This space simulation game offers complex ship construction and exploration mechanics for those who enjoy the sci-fi setting.
- #13 Rust
87% matchVery Positive87% of 1,393,461 reviews2018
Dev: Facepunch Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 52.7 hrsMean: 429.0 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 34.1% ★, Survival 22.8%, Open World 12.6%, Crafting 10.9%, Multiplayer 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: This is the premier multiplayer survival experience for players who enjoy the competitive base-building and raiding aspects of GRAV.
- #14 Valheim
86% matchVery Positive94% of 540,690 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 26.0 hrsMean: 78.0 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 41.7% ★, Survival 12.5%, Open World 10.4%, Base Building 9.8%, Crafting 7%
Why You'll Like It: While fantasy-themed, its focus on exploration, building, and survival against overwhelming odds feels very similar to the core loop of GRAV.
- #15 Boundless
88% matchMixed70% of 2,774 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 45.5% ★, Open World 12.2%, Sandbox 11.3%, Crafting 9%, Survival 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: This massively multiplayer sandbox game features planet-hopping and creative building that aligns with the exploration themes of GRAV.
- #16 Hurtworld
85% matchMostly Positive76% of 31,099 reviews2019
Dev: Bankroll Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 64.1 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 41.2% ★, Survival 19.2%, Open World 12.6%, Crafting 8.9%, Multiplayer 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore survival game that emphasizes multiplayer interaction and base defense in a stylized open world.
- #17 Outpost Zero
86% 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 41.6% ★, Survival 15.2%, Base Building 10.5%, Open World 9.7%, Multiplayer 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: It combines base-building with AI management and survival, focusing on establishing a foothold on a hostile planet.
- #18 Out of Reach
84% matchMixed57% of 3,051 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.1 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 45.8% ★, Survival 14.1%, Open World 10.3%, Crafting 7.5%, Base Building 6%
Why You'll Like It: This survival game features open-world exploration and base-building with a focus on multiplayer combat.
- #19 Savage Lands
82% matchMixed54% of 6,690 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 50.2% ★, Survival 14.4%, Open World 10.6%, Sandbox 7.5%, Crafting 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a brutal survival experience with a focus on crafting and building in an unforgiving open world.
- #20 Dark and Light
83% matchMixed52% of 11,834 reviews2017
Dev: Snail Games USA
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 49.0 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 17.3%, Sandbox 12.3%, Base Building 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: A massive survival sandbox that offers a vast world to explore and build within, similar to the scale of GRAV.
- #21 Miscreated
81% matchMixed66% of 31,591 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 52.7% ★, Survival 16.6%, Open World 11.6%, Multiplayer 5.8%, Crafting 5.2%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer survival game that focuses on scavenging and building in a post-apocalyptic open world.
- #22 Dig or Die
80% matchVery Positive90% of 4,284 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 43.6% ★, Survival 14.4%, Sandbox 10.7%, Crafting 8.7%, Open World 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: This 2D survival game captures the essence of building defenses against waves of alien enemies on a dangerous planet.
- #23 Edge of Space
81% 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 50.2% ★, Sandbox 12.2%, Survival 7.3%, Crafting 6.7%, Space 5.7%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D sandbox game that features sci-fi crafting and exploration in a hostile, procedurally generated universe.
- #24 Signs of Life
79% matchMostly Positive76% of 841 reviews2014
Dev: Sweet Dog Studios
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Signs of Life is a sci-fi survival sandbox platformer with a combination of procedurally generated and hand-crafted content. You'll explore mysterious locations, mine blocks for resources, and meet strange (and some familiar) creatures, some of which don't even want to kill you and eat your corpse.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.2% ★, Survival 11.5%, Sandbox 11.1%, Crafting 8%, Open World 5.7%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox adventure game that includes survival elements and crafting in a sci-fi setting.
- #25 Craterbound
78% 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 39.2% ★, Survival 12.2%, Base Building 11.9%, Open World 11%, Crafting 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: A space-themed survival game that focuses on exploration and building on alien surfaces.
- #26 Novus Inceptio
79% 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 40.1% ★, Survival 12.5%, Base Building 11.2%, Open World 11%, Sandbox 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: This survival sandbox offers a unique world with crafting and building mechanics that reward exploration.
- #27 Planetaries
76% 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 35.1% ★, Survival 10.9%, Base Building 10.8%, Open World 9.8%, Crafting 7.7%
- #28 Reign Of Kings
77% 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 46.8% ★, Survival 14.6%, Open World 12.3%, Crafting 9.1%, Multiplayer 6.4%
- #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 54.2% ★, Survival 16.8%, Open World 10.3%, Multiplayer 5.8%, Crafting 4.8%
- #30 Life is Feudal: Your Own
76% matchMixed66% of 12,061 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 45.7% ★, Survival 12.8%, Open World 12.4%, Sandbox 9.3%, Crafting 8.9%
- #31 Force of Nature
74% 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 45.6% ★, Survival 13.2%, Crafting 9.8%, Open World 8.9%, Sandbox 7.8%
- #32 Hide & Hold Out - H2o
75% 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 54.5% ★, Survival 14.6%, Open World 8.2%, Crafting 6.3%, Multiplayer 5.8%
- #33 Rising World
73% matchVery Positive86% of 5,974 reviews2014
Dev: JIW-Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 21.2 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 42.5% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Survival 11.8%, Sandbox 9.8%, Crafting 8.9%
- #34 TerraTech Worlds
71% matchMixed63% of 2,287 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 22.0 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 34.1% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Survival 10.2%, Open World 9.2%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #35 Outlaws of the Old West
73% matchMixed59% of 6,295 reviews2019
Dev: Virtual Basement LLCPub: Wandering Wizard
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 49.3% ★, Survival 14.9%, Open World 12.6%, Multiplayer 6.4%, Base Building 6.1%
- #36 Outerstellar
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 175 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 38.2% ★, Survival 13.7%, Base Building 12.5%, Crafting 8.6%, Space 7.4%
- #37 StarRupture
67% matchVery Positive81% of 13,247 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 26.2 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 34.4% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Survival 11%, Open World 9.7%, Sandbox 7.7%
- #38 Space Trash Scavenger
69% matchVery Positive84% of 525 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 38.5% ★, Survival 11.3%, Open World 9.3%, Base Building 8.7%, Crafting 8.4%
- #39 Breathedge
70% matchVery Positive81% of 17,661 reviews2021
Dev: RedRuins SoftworksPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 41.4% ★, Survival 11.4%, Base Building 10.8%, Sandbox 8.5%, Space 8.3%
- #40 Starbase
71% matchMixed56% of 6,753 reviews2021
Dev: Frozenbyte
Windows
Median: 14.3 hrsMean: 91.6 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 28.3% ★, Open World 18.9%, Sandbox 13.9%, Space 11.3%, Crafting 9.4%
- #41 CastleMiner Z
70% matchVery Positive81% of 11,158 reviews2014
Dev: DigitalDNA Games
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 66%
CastleMiner Z is an infinite world filled with deep places to explore, and horrifying monsters to slay. Build structures out of blocks, craft weapons and tools from raw materials, and explore the vast and frightening world around you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.3% ★, Survival 14.5%, Sandbox 8.6%, Open World 8.3%, Multiplayer 6.4%
- #42 Starbound
68% matchVery Positive90% of 123,281 reviews2016
Dev: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.0 hrsMean: 64.4 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 47.4% ★, Sandbox 10.8%, Survival 9.5%, Open World 7.3%, Crafting 6.4%
- #43 The Planet Crafter
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 73,089 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.7 hrsMean: 38.5 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 13.2%, Survival 11.2%, Open World 8.9%, Crafting 7.5%
- #44 Salt
69% matchMostly Positive77% of 2,251 reviews2018
Dev: Lavaboots Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 8.1 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 46.8% ★, Survival 14.6%, Open World 13.5%, Crafting 8.4%, Sandbox 7.8%
- #45 Stars End
69% matchMixed61% of 1,428 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 35.1% ★, Survival 10.9%, Open World 8.8%, Sandbox 7.5%, Space 7.4%
- #46 Last Oasis
68% matchMixed62% of 24,230 reviews2020
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 17.8 hrsMean: 120.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Nomadic Survival MMO. Build wooden walking machines to travel to new lands. Create clans and fight for territory. Resources deplete fast, so take your sword and scavenge, pirate, and trade to stay alive.
Why similar: Survival 26.4%, Open World 20.9%, Crafting 12.3%, Sandbox 11.3%, Massively Multiplayer 8.7%
- #47 Avorion
67% matchVery Positive90% of 14,549 reviews2020
Dev: Boxelware
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18.8 hrsMean: 99.5 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 30.4%, Sandbox 29.2%, Space 22.9%, Sci-fi 9.4%, Third Person 8.1%
- #48 Cubic Odyssey
66% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,720 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 45.5% ★, Base Building 15.4%, Sandbox 10.7%, Co-op 6.5%, Open World 4.7%
- #49 Rem Survival
68% matchMostly Positive75% of 803 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 40.8% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Survival 12.6%, Open World 10.8%, Crafting 9.2%
- #50 SpaceCraft
64% matchMixed65% of 2,687 reviews2026
Dev: Shiro Games
Windows
Median: 13.4 hrsMean: 47.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
The Universe is yours. SpaceCraft is an online space exploration and building game. Explore a vast galaxy of solar systems and planets, mine and craft resources, design and build ships, automate planetary bases and interplanetary logistics, trade and cooperate.
Why similar: Base Building 17.3%, Open World 16.1%, Sandbox 13.9%, Space 12.3%, Crafting 11.8%
