- #1 Grounded
97% matchVery Positive90% of 95,505 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.5 hrsMean: 41.8 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 22.8% ★, Survival 17.3%, Base Building 12.6%, Co-op 9.8%, Multiplayer 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: As the direct predecessor, it offers the exact same core gameplay loop of tiny-scale survival, insect combat, and creative base-building.
- #2 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
96% matchVery Positive82% of 10,429 reviews2024
Dev: Max Ent Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 16.1 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 21.6% ★, Survival 12.4%, Base Building 12%, Co-op 7.7%, Crafting 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: It mirrors the 'tiny perspective' theme perfectly, tasking players with surviving the dangers of the natural world from the viewpoint of a small creature.
- #3 Enshrouded
96% matchVery Positive86% of 104,779 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.9 hrsMean: 46.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.
Why similar: Survival 19.6%, Base Building 18.7%, Open World 15.5%, Crafting 10.8%, Multiplayer 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: This title features excellent voxel-based building and a vast open world that rewards exploration and strategic survival choices.
- #4 Sons Of The Forest
95% matchVery Positive88% of 317,804 reviews2024
Dev: Endnight Games LtdPub: Newnight
Windows
Median: 15.0 hrsMean: 32.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends, in this terrifying new open-world survival horror simulator.
Why similar: Survival 21.6%, Base Building 15.7%, Co-op 13.4%, Open World 13.1%, Multiplayer 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a more intense, horror-leaning survival experience with deep base-building mechanics and a focus on defending against persistent threats.
- #5 Subnautica
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 378,847 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 30.7% ★, Survival 16.4%, Base Building 12%, Open World 9.7%, Crafting 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game shares the sense of isolation and wonder found in Grounded, focusing on underwater exploration and survival in a hostile, alien environment.
- #6 Valheim
94% 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 26.6% ★, Survival 13.3%, Base Building 10.3%, Open World 8.7%, Crafting 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a masterclass in cooperative survival and base-building, emphasizing exploration and progression through challenging biomes.
- #7 Palworld
92% matchVery Positive95% of 480,493 reviews2026
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 40.2 hrsMean: 84.9 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.8% ★, Survival 15.3%, Open World 12.1%, Multiplayer 8.6%, Base Building 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: It combines survival-crafting with creature collection and base management, offering a similar sense of progression and discovery.
- #8 Raft
93% matchVery Positive93% of 377,470 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.7 hrsMean: 37.9 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 28.6% ★, Survival 18.5%, Co-op 10.6%, Multiplayer 9.6%, Base Building 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: It delivers a unique co-op survival experience where your base is constantly mobile, requiring clever crafting and resource management.
- #9 Abiotic Factor
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 58,426 reviews2025
Dev: Deep Field GamesPub: Playstack
Windows
Median: 20.8 hrsMean: 46.1 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Abiotic Factor is a survival crafting experience for 1-6 players set in the depths of an underground research facility. Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the world’s greatest minds must survive against the universe’s biggest threats.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.2% ★, Survival 15.6%, Base Building 15.3%, Crafting 10.8%, Online Co-Op 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: This science-themed survival game captures the 'trapped in a facility' vibe, focusing on crafting and cooperative problem-solving.
- #10 ARK: Survival Ascended
91% matchMixed60% of 115,802 reviews2023
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows
Median: 27.7 hrsMean: 198.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!
Why similar: Survival 25.3%, Base Building 18%, Open World 16.2%, Crafting 12.4%, Multiplayer 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: This game provides deep survival mechanics with a heavy emphasis on taming creatures and building massive, complex bases.
- #11 The Planet Crafter
90% 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 25.4% ★, Base Building 14.8%, Survival 12.9%, Co-op 9.6%, Crafting 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on large-scale environmental base-building and exploration, allowing players to terraform a planet from scratch.
- #12 Core Keeper
89% matchVery Positive93% of 66,104 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.2 hrsMean: 34.7 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 19.6% ★, Survival 12.6%, Base Building 12.1%, Open World 9.1%, Co-op 9%
Why You'll Like It: This top-down survival-crafting game focuses on exploration, boss progression, and building a base in a mysterious underground world.
- #13 7 Days to Die
88% 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 26% ★, Survival 20.3%, Base Building 13.7%, Open World 10%, Multiplayer 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses heavily on base defense and survival against waves of enemies, perfect for players who enjoy fortifying their territory.
- #14 Green Hell
89% matchVery Positive85% of 101,308 reviews2019
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 18.4 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 30.3% ★, Survival 16.4%, Multiplayer 9.3%, Base Building 8.2%, Crafting 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: It provides hardcore survival mechanics that emphasize realistic environmental dangers and resource management.
- #15 Don't Starve Together
87% matchVery Positive95% of 541,972 reviews2016
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 64.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 52.7% ★, Survival 28.4%, Co-op 4.6%, Multiplayer 4.4%, Open World 3%
Why You'll Like It: A challenging co-op survival game with a distinct art style that emphasizes resource management and base maintenance.
- #16 V Rising
86% matchVery Positive89% of 136,761 reviews2024
Dev: Stunlock Studios
Windows
Median: 20.8 hrsMean: 57.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Awaken as a Vampire. Hunt for blood in nearby settlements to regain your strength and evade the scorching sun to survive. Raise your castle and thrive in an ever-changing, open world full of mystery. Gain allies online and conquer the land of the living.
Why similar: Survival 20.7%, Base Building 20.1%, Open World 14.6%, Crafting 11.6%, Multiplayer 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: This survival-crafting game features a strong emphasis on base-building and combat, with a unique gothic aesthetic.
- #17 Nightingale
86% matchMixed66% of 18,038 reviews2024
Dev: Inflexion Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 24.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Nightingale is an open world survival crafting game, where you’ll adventure across the mysterious and dangerous Fae Realms. As a daring Realmwalker, you’ll defeat monstrous enemies, survive hostile environments, and build elaborate estates in a visually stunning Gaslamp Fantasy world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.5% ★, Survival 13%, Base Building 11.2%, Open World 8.7%, Crafting 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: An exploration-heavy survival game with unique portal-hopping mechanics that lead to diverse, procedurally generated worlds.
- #18 Forever Skies
85% matchMostly Positive78% of 8,950 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 30.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A first-person survival game set on a post-apocalyptic, ecologically ruined Earth. Play solo or with up to 3 friends as you build, upgrade, and fly a high-tech airship. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and face dangers on the surface as you hunt for a cure to save humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.2% ★, Base Building 14.2%, Survival 13.2%, Co-op 10.9%, Crafting 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: High-altitude survival that focuses on ship-based base building and exploring a ruined, toxic world.
- #19 ICARUS
84% 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 24.7% ★, Survival 14.6%, Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 7.9%, Multiplayer 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: This session-based survival game features intense crafting and base-building tasks within a time-sensitive mission structure.
- #20 Dune: Awakening
83% matchMostly Positive71% of 78,134 reviews2025
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 46.5 hrsMean: 100.0 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 22.8% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Survival 12.1%, Open World 8.5%, Crafting 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: A large-scale open-world survival game with intense base-building and resource management in a harsh desert environment.
- #21 No Man's Sky
84% 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 37.2% ★, Open World 15.2%, Survival 13.8%, Multiplayer 7.7%, Exploration 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: It offers an expansive universe for exploration and survival, featuring modular base-building that can be done on any planet.
- #22 Sunkenland
82% matchVery Positive80% of 23,803 reviews2023
Dev: Vector3 Studio
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 20.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Get ready for a Waterworld-themed survival game with modular base building, sunken city scavenging, crafting, base defense, and invasions of NPC clans for resources and territory. Ready for the water apocalypse?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.8% ★, Survival 14.6%, Base Building 12.3%, Co-op 11.7%, Crafting 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: Underwater survival-crafting that emphasizes base-building and combat against rival factions.
- #23 Project Zomboid
82% matchVery Positive94% of 475,049 reviews2013
Dev: The Indie Stone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 15.6 hrsMean: 87.1 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.2% ★, Survival 25.3%, Open World 12.4%, Multiplayer 9.1%, Co-op 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: The ultimate hardcore survival experience, offering unparalleled depth in base-building, crafting, and survival mechanics.
- #24 Pacific Drive
81% matchVery Positive83% of 26,666 reviews2024
Dev: Ironwood StudiosPub: Kepler Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 16.7 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Face the supernatural dangers of the Olympic Exclusion Zone with a car as your only lifeline in this driving survival adventure! Scavenge resources, load up your trusty station wagon, and drive like hell to make it through alive.
Why similar: Survival 28.2%, Base Building 19.9%, Crafting 17%, Sandbox 9.1%, Exploration 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A unique survival experience centered around maintaining and upgrading a vehicle, which serves as your mobile base in a supernatural environment.
- #25 ASTRONEER
81% 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 26.8% ★, Survival 14.1%, Base Building 11.9%, Open World 10.2%, Multiplayer 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: An exploration-focused survival game with modular base-building and terraforming mechanics on alien planets.
- #26 Subnautica 2
78% matchVery Positive91% of 126,113 reviews2026
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows
Median: 10.5 hrsMean: 13.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Subnautica 2 is an underwater survival adventure set on an all-new alien world, developed by Unknown Worlds. Play alone or with friends in 4-player co-op. Adapt to survive by building custom bases and crafting tools. Explore the unknown to uncover the mysteries hidden within the depths.
Why similar: Survival 23.7%, Co-op 15.7%, Multiplayer 14.1%, Open World 13.4%, Exploration 7.4%
- #27 Stranded Deep
80% matchMostly Positive74% of 47,770 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 37.3% ★, Survival 19%, Multiplayer 9.7%, Open World 9.2%, Crafting 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: A classic desert island survival experience that focuses on crafting, exploration, and managing basic needs.
- #28 Terraria
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,548,448 reviews2011
Dev: Re-Logic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 33.8 hrsMean: 151.8 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 33.5% ★, Survival 14.1%, Sandbox 9.7%, Crafting 8.7%, Multiplayer 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A classic 2D survival-crafting game that offers massive exploration, boss progression, and endless building possibilities.
- #29 Medieval Dynasty
79% matchVery Positive90% of 52,032 reviews2021
Dev: Render CubePub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 11.6 hrsMean: 36.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.
Why similar: Crafting 16.8%, Survival 16.6%, Base Building 15.6%, Co-op 13.1%, Open World 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: It blends survival mechanics with village management and base-building, allowing players to grow a settlement over time.
- #30 RuneScape: Dragonwilds
77% matchVery Positive81% of 29,187 reviews2025
Dev: Jagex Ltd
Windows
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 19.0 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 23.4% ★, Survival 13%, Open World 10.2%, Base Building 9.2%, Co-op 9.2%
- #31 State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition
78% matchVery Positive83% of 69,686 reviews2020
Dev: Undead LabsPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 39.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
The dead have risen and civilization has fallen. Now it's up to you to gather survivors, scavenge for resources and build a community in a post-apocalyptic world – a world where you define what it means to survive in this ultimate zombie survival simulation.
Why similar: Survival 24.8%, Base Building 21.6%, Open World 15.8%, Co-op 10.6%, Multiplayer 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game focused on base management and community building in a zombie-infested world.
- #32 Voidtrain
77% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,810 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.5% ★, Survival 11.3%, Base Building 10.8%, Co-op 9.5%, Crafting 7.3%
- #33 Solarpunk™
75% matchVery Positive82% of 4,341 reviews2026
Dev: CyberwavePub: rokaplay
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Solarpunk is a survival game in a technologically advanced world of floating islands. Alone or together with your friends, you can construct buildings, grow food, craft gadgets and hop on your airship to explore distant islands in the sky.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.7% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Survival 11.1%, Co-op 9.8%, Crafting 9.1%
- #34 Subnautica: Below Zero
76% matchVery Positive90% of 108,186 reviews2021
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 15.5 hrsMean: 30.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Dive into a freezing underwater adventure on an alien planet. Below Zero is set two years after the original Subnautica. Return to Planet 4546B to uncover the truth behind a deadly cover-up. Survive by building habitats, crafting tools, & diving deeper into the world of Subnautica.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.4% ★, Survival 15.5%, Base Building 12.2%, Open World 9.4%, Multiplayer 6.8%
- #35 StarRupture
75% 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 22.7% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Survival 12.1%, Co-op 9.3%, Open World 8.4%
- #36 Tinkerlands
74% matchVery Positive86% of 4,087 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 14.2 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 27.7% ★, Survival 13.4%, Open World 9.2%, Co-op 8.7%, Crafting 8.2%
- #37 Romestead
74% matchMostly Positive77% of 4,827 reviews2026
Dev: BeartwigsPub: Three Friends
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Rome has fallen! Rebuild civilization in this action-adventure survival game for 1-8 players. Fight hordes of the walking dead, build settlements, restore the Roman gods... or kick back and farm with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.6% ★, Survival 16%, Base Building 14.2%, Crafting 12.7%, Open World 8.3%
- #38 Windrose
73% matchVery Positive87% of 51,977 reviews2026
Dev: Kraken Express
Windows
Median: 20.1 hrsMean: 32.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Embark on a PvE survival adventure in the Age of Piracy. Fight on land and sea, solo or with friends. Build, craft and explore vast open world filled with dark secrets. Master soulslite combat and take on challenging bosses, command your ship and plunder unspoken treasures!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.9% ★, Survival 16.5%, Crafting 12%, Base Building 11.7%, Online Co-Op 9.6%
- #39 The Survivalists
76% matchMostly Positive76% of 10,097 reviews2020
Dev: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.8 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 21.1% ★, Survival 14%, Base Building 11.3%, Crafting 10.6%, Online Co-Op 7.7%
- #40 Necesse
71% matchVery Positive93% of 28,807 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 15.3 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 32.9% ★, Survival 10.6%, Base Building 8.5%, Open World 8%, Crafting 7.4%
- #41 Subsistence
73% 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 33.8% ★, Survival 17%, Crafting 9.8%, Base Building 9.3%, Open World 8.5%
- #42 Everwind
70% matchVery Positive81% of 3,756 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Everwind is a novel take on RPG and Sandbox Survival genre in First-Person-Perspective. Embark on the adventure with your friends - Build a base on a flying island-ship, gather resources, craft, loot, and fight while you rise above the clouds to uncover the mysteries of this world!
Why similar: Survival 17.7%, Co-op 14%, Crafting 13%, Open World 12.9%, Multiplayer 10.3%
- #43 TerraTech Worlds
72% 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 24% ★, Base Building 14.5%, Survival 12%, Co-op 9.6%, Crafting 9.2%
- #44 Volcanoids
71% matchVery Positive83% of 9,332 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.
Why similar: Base Building 16.1%, Survival 14.3%, Co-op 11.4%, Crafting 11.4%, Open World 9.6%
- #45 VEIN
68% matchVery Positive88% of 12,003 reviews2025
Dev: Ramjet Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 14.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
VEIN is a post-apocalyptic survival multiplayer sandbox game. Gather supplies to survive, explore abandoned buildings, defend your home, and rebuild society, whether alone or with friends.
Why similar: Survival 20.9%, Base Building 17.9%, Open World 14.2%, Co-op 11.6%, Crafting 9.1%
- #46 GRAV
73% matchMixed47% of 6,921 reviews2015
Dev: BitMonster, Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 60%
GRAV is a sand box experience where you explore a multitude of planets, hunt strange alien creatures, build and defend outposts, craft weapons and armor, and attempt to survive against other players in a hostile environment.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.7% ★, Survival 15.7%, Base Building 12.7%, Open World 9.8%, Crafting 7%
- #47 Dawn of Defiance
69% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,842 reviews2024
Dev: Traega EntertainmentPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
You are the Defier, a Spartan beginning your afterlife on the Crossroads. In this Greek myth-inspired survival craft, ascend from weak soldier to god-like anti-hero. Build impressive Greek structures, craft legendary gear, and break the seals of the Underworld with up to 3 friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.1% ★, Survival 14.6%, Base Building 12.4%, Online Co-Op 8.4%, Open World 7.7%
- #48 Crushed
72% matchMixed54% of 318 reviews2020
Dev: NipoBoxPub: NipoBox Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Crushed — is an Singleplayer and Multiplayer First-Person Survival Sandbox in an Open World! Challenge the wild and be ready to survive in harsh conditions. Explore the world, get resources, cook food, build a house, farm, hunt, and enjoy nature.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.2% ★, Survival 14.3%, Base Building 11%, Open World 9.8%, Crafting 8.5%
- #49 Solace Crafting
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 898 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 22.6% ★, Survival 12.6%, Base Building 11.4%, Crafting 8.9%, Open World 8%
- #50 KeepUp Survival
70% matchMixed64% of 749 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 23.2% ★, Survival 13.1%, Base Building 12.4%, Co-op 9.8%, Open World 9%
- #51 The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™
68% matchVery Positive81% of 12,363 reviews2024
Dev: Free Range GamesPub: North Beach Games
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 19.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A survival crafting adventure set in the Fourth Age of Middle-earth. Lead the Dwarves to reclaim Moria - mine, build, and battle through procedurally generated depths alone or with up to 8 players in co-op. It is time to return to Moria!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.5% ★, Base Building 15.4%, Survival 14%, Crafting 9.8%, Online Co-Op 7.7%
- #52 The Gold River Project
69% matchMixed63% of 659 reviews2026
Dev: Fairview Games Inc.
Windows
The Gold River Project™ is a camping trip gone wrong in the Pacific Northwest. Explore, craft, build, and survive in this open-world experiment that traps you and up to 4 friends in this single player or co-op survival adventure game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.6% ★, Survival 12.8%, Open World 10.4%, Co-op 10.3%, Crafting 8.2%
- #53 Far Lands
70% matchMixed65% of 170 reviews2024
Dev: Scalpel Softworks
Windows
Far Lands is an open-world survival game. Fight mercenaries, steal their loot and vehicles. Build and defend your base from zombies. Gather resources, craft better gear and loot different points of interest. Want to play with friends? Join them on Co-op!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.1% ★, Survival 16.8%, Base Building 16.7%, Crafting 12.1%, Open World 9.7%
- #54 Shamania
68% matchMostly Positive74% of 162 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 23% ★, Survival 12.9%, Crafting 10%, Open World 9.9%, Co-op 8%
- #55 Once Human
66% matchMostly Positive78% of 182,222 reviews2024
Dev: Starry Studio
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 52.2 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Once Human is a Strange Worlds Survival Game set in a strange, post-apocalyptic future. Unite with friends to fight monstrous enemies, uncover secret plots, compete for resources, and build your own territory. Once, you were merely human. Now, you have the power to remake the world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.1% ★, Survival 12.4%, Base Building 11.8%, Open World 8.9%, Co-op 8.9%
- #56 Omega Crafter
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 575 reviews2025
Dev: Preferred Networks
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Adventure in a vast open-world survival craft game with your programmable sidekick Grammi! Program the Grammi to collect materials, build your town, craft weapons and armor to challenge strong enemies! Play alone or with friends online!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.9% ★, Survival 13.6%, Co-op 10.3%, Crafting 9.9%, Open World 9.1%
- #57 The Front
66% matchMixed67% of 10,771 reviews2025
Dev: Samar Studio
Windows
Median: 10.6 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 25.2% ★, Survival 13.2%, Base Building 13%, Crafting 9.2%, Open World 8.3%
- #58 Eden Crafters
64% matchVery Positive85% of 2,630 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.4% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Survival 10.8%, Crafting 9.7%, Open World 8.5%
- #59 Lost Skies
66% matchMixed61% of 2,976 reviews2025
Dev: Bossa StudiosPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 17.0 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Chart a course in a breathtaking, but fractured world. Explore ancient ruins, master advanced technology, and craft your very own skyship to brave nature’s fury and colossal threats in Lost Skies. Team up with friends or go it alone in this awe-inspiring cooperative survival adventure.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35% ★, Base Building 17.7%, Online Co-Op 9.6%, Open World 7.7%, Sandbox 7.4%
- #60 Aloft
65% matchVery Positive84% of 3,682 reviews2025
Dev: Astrolabe Interactive Inc.Pub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 14.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Soar the skies in Aloft, the co-op sandbox survival game set in a world of floating islands. Build any island into a skyship, your home in the clouds. Find lost knowledge, cure the fungal corruption, and brave the hurricane to restore the ecosystem.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.4% ★, Survival 17.5%, Co-op 13.5%, Crafting 12.9%, Open World 9.1%
