- #1 Grounded
97% matchVery Positive90% of 95,977 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.6 hrsMean: 41.9 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 23.7% ★, Survival 17.2%, Base Building 12.5%, Co-op 9.6%, Multiplayer 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: As the direct predecessor, it offers the definitive experience of being shrunk in a backyard with identical core survival and building mechanics.
- #2 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
96% matchVery Positive82% of 10,551 reviews2024
Dev: Max Ent Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 22.7% ★, Survival 12.5%, Base Building 12%, Open World 7.8%, Co-op 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game shares the unique perspective of being a tiny creature in a massive, dangerous world, focusing heavily on exploration and crafting.
- #3 Enshrouded
96% matchVery Positive86% of 106,050 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.9 hrsMean: 46.8 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 19.8%, Base Building 18.8%, Open World 16.3%, Crafting 10.7%, Multiplayer 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: This title combines deep voxel-based base-building with an expansive open world and challenging survival elements.
- #4 Valheim
95% matchVery Positive94% of 555,289 reviews2026
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 26.9 hrsMean: 81.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.7% ★, Survival 13.3%, Base Building 10.2%, Open World 9%, Crafting 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: It features industry-leading base-building and cooperative survival mechanics set in a vast, procedurally generated world.
- #5 Sons Of The Forest
94% matchVery Positive88% of 321,117 reviews2024
Dev: Endnight Games LtdPub: Newnight
Windows
Median: 15.0 hrsMean: 32.4 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 21.7%, Base Building 15.7%, Open World 13.8%, Co-op 13.2%, Multiplayer 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers high-fidelity survival and base-building mechanics with a strong emphasis on co-op and environmental threats.
- #6 Subnautica
94% 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 31.7% ★, Survival 16.2%, Base Building 11.8%, Open World 10%, Crafting 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: It is the gold standard for atmospheric survival and exploration, capturing the same sense of isolation and discovery found in the Grounded series.
- #7 The Planet Crafter
93% 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 26.4% ★, Base Building 14.8%, Survival 12.8%, Co-op 9.4%, Crafting 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the rewarding loop of terraforming a planet, emphasizing exploration and base-building over combat.
- #8 Abiotic Factor
92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 59,444 reviews2025
Dev: Deep Field GamesPub: Playstack
Windows
Median: 21.2 hrsMean: 46.5 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 28.5% ★, Survival 15.7%, Base Building 15.3%, Crafting 10.6%, Online Co-Op 8%
Why You'll Like It: Set in a science facility, this game offers a unique take on survival and crafting with a heavy emphasis on cooperative play.
- #9 Raft
91% matchVery Positive93% of 379,035 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.8 hrsMean: 38.0 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 29.7% ★, Survival 18.4%, Co-op 10.4%, Multiplayer 9.3%, Base Building 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: This co-op survival game centers on building and expanding a base while navigating a dangerous, ever-changing environment.
- #10 V Rising
90% matchVery Positive89% of 137,392 reviews2024
Dev: Stunlock Studios
Windows
Median: 20.9 hrsMean: 58.2 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 20.9%, Base Building 20.2%, Open World 15.4%, Crafting 11.4%, Multiplayer 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a polished survival experience with a focus on building intricate castles and managing resources in a hostile world.
- #11 Nightingale
91% matchMixed66% of 18,084 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 25.6% ★, Survival 12.9%, Base Building 11.2%, Open World 9.1%, Crafting 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: This open-world survival game features unique portal-hopping mechanics and a strong focus on crafting and building.
- #12 Core Keeper
89% matchVery Positive93% of 66,787 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.3 hrsMean: 34.9 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 20.5% ★, Survival 12.7%, Base Building 12%, Open World 9.5%, Co-op 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game that excels at exploration, mining, and base-building in a mysterious underground setting.
- #13 ICARUS
89% 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 25.8% ★, Survival 14.6%, Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 7.6%, Open World 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: This session-based survival game focuses on exploration and resource gathering within a time-pressured environment.
- #14 Green Hell
88% matchVery Positive85% of 102,938 reviews2019
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 31.4% ★, Survival 16.2%, Multiplayer 9%, Base Building 8.2%, Open World 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a hardcore survival experience that emphasizes realistic mechanics and environmental awareness.
- #15 7 Days to Die
86% matchVery Positive87% of 405,507 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.4 hrsMean: 111.0 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 27.1% ★, Survival 20.1%, Base Building 13.6%, Open World 10.4%, Multiplayer 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: It offers arguably the most robust base-building and fortification mechanics in the survival genre.
- #16 Don't Starve Together
87% matchVery Positive95% of 543,644 reviews2016
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 64.9 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 53.9% ★, Survival 27.8%, Co-op 4.4%, Multiplayer 4.2%, Open World 3%
Why You'll Like It: A challenging co-op survival game that shares the focus on crafting and resource management with a distinct visual style.
- #17 Dune: Awakening
86% matchMostly Positive71% of 79,582 reviews2025
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 43.1 hrsMean: 98.6 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Dune: Awakening is a single- and multiplayer Open World Survival game with immersive adventure and RPG gameplay. Explore, build, craft, and unravel a cinematic Dune story 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 23.9% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Survival 12%, Open World 8.9%, Crafting 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A large-scale survival game that emphasizes building and resource management in a harsh, iconic desert environment.
- #18 ASTRONEER
85% 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 27.8% ★, Survival 14%, Base Building 11.8%, Open World 10.6%, Multiplayer 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on exploration and base-building in a colorful, low-gravity environment with a heavy emphasis on creative crafting.
- #19 Subnautica: Below Zero
84% matchVery Positive90% of 108,517 reviews2021
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 15.5 hrsMean: 30.1 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 32.4% ★, Survival 15.3%, Base Building 12%, Open World 9.7%, Multiplayer 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: A standalone expansion that refines the underwater survival and exploration formula of the original.
- #20 Forever Skies
84% matchMostly Positive78% of 9,059 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 30.5 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 24.1% ★, Base Building 14.1%, Survival 13.1%, Co-op 10.7%, Open World 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game features high-altitude survival and exploration, requiring players to maintain a mobile airship base.
- #21 Pacific Drive
83% matchVery Positive83% of 26,975 reviews2024
Dev: Ironwood StudiosPub: Kepler Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 16.9 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 28.5%, Base Building 20%, Crafting 16.8%, Sandbox 9%, Exploration 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique survival experience centered on maintaining and upgrading your vehicle as a mobile base in a mysterious world.
- #22 Sunkenland
82% matchVery Positive80% of 24,007 reviews2023
Dev: Vector3 Studio
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 20.3 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 30.9% ★, Survival 14.4%, Base Building 12.1%, Co-op 11.3%, Crafting 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: This water-based survival game focuses on building bases on islands and scavenging resources from the ocean floor.
- #23 Tinkerlands
81% matchVery Positive86% of 4,122 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.4 hrsMean: 14.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Explore, craft, and fight your way through uncharted islands — solo or with up to 4 players in co-op! Tinkerlands is an exciting survival adventure where you will build your settlement, craft useful tools to survive, and even use magic!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.9% ★, Survival 13.4%, Open World 9.6%, Co-op 8.5%, Crafting 8%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers a charming sandbox survival experience with a focus on exploration and crafting.
- #24 Necesse
80% matchVery Positive93% of 29,166 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 34.2% ★, Survival 10.5%, Base Building 8.4%, Open World 8.4%, Crafting 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that emphasizes base-building, exploration, and cooperative combat.
- #25 Volcanoids
82% matchVery Positive83% of 9,358 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 16.2%, Survival 14.5%, Co-op 11.4%, Crafting 11.4%, Open World 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: This steampunk-themed survival game features a unique mobile base-building mechanic centered on a drill ship.
- #26 State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition
81% matchVery Positive83% of 70,161 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 16.6%, Co-op 10.5%, Multiplayer 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: This game blends survival and base management with a focus on community building in a post-apocalyptic world.
- #27 Subnautica 2
78% matchVery Positive91% of 128,024 reviews2026
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows
Median: 10.6 hrsMean: 13.6 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 15.5%, Open World 14%, Multiplayer 13.9%, Exploration 7.2%
- #28 RuneScape: Dragonwilds
77% matchVery Positive81% of 32,495 reviews2026
Dev: Jagex Ltd
Windows
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 20.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 24.4% ★, Survival 12.8%, Open World 10.7%, Base Building 9.2%, Co-op 9.1%
- #29 Medieval Dynasty
79% matchVery Positive90% of 52,440 reviews2021
Dev: Render CubePub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 11.6 hrsMean: 36.2 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: Survival 16.7%, Crafting 16.6%, Base Building 15.7%, Co-op 13%, Open World 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: It combines survival mechanics with settlement building and life simulation in a historical setting.
- #30 The Survivalists
79% matchMostly Positive76% of 10,123 reviews2020
Dev: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 71%
A living world full of surprises, secrets and danger awaits in The Survivalists, an adventure-filled survival sandbox set in The Escapists universe. Explore, build, craft and even train monkeys with up to three friends in a desperate bid to survive. Have you got what it takes to be a Survivalist?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.1% ★, Survival 14%, Base Building 11.2%, Crafting 10.4%, Open World 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: A co-op survival game that focuses on crafting, building, and managing resources on a remote island.
- #31 StarRupture
77% 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 23.7% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Survival 12.1%, Co-op 9.1%, Open World 8.7%
- #32 Project Zomboid
78% matchVery Positive94% of 484,416 reviews2013
Dev: The Indie Stone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 15.9 hrsMean: 89.0 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 29.2% ★, Survival 25%, Open World 12.8%, Multiplayer 8.8%, Co-op 8%
Why You'll Like It: It provides the most complex and deep survival simulation currently available, focusing on long-term base management.
- #33 Solarpunk™
76% matchVery Positive81% of 4,581 reviews2026
Dev: CyberwavePub: rokaplay
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 24.7% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Survival 11%, Co-op 9.7%, Crafting 8.9%
- #34 Windrose
74% matchVery Positive87% of 53,040 reviews2026
Dev: Kraken Express
Windows
Median: 20.3 hrsMean: 33.3 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 32.2% ★, Survival 16.4%, Crafting 11.7%, Base Building 11.6%, Online Co-Op 9%
- #35 Voidtrain
75% matchMostly Positive73% of 9,990 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 14.8 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 29.7% ★, Survival 11.2%, Base Building 10.7%, Co-op 9.3%, Open World 7.2%
- #36 Once Human
75% matchMostly Positive79% of 189,842 reviews2024
Dev: Starry Studio
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 52.7 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 21.4% ★, Survival 12.2%, Base Building 11.5%, Open World 9.1%, Co-op 8.5%
- #37 Palworld
72% matchVery Positive95% of 490,433 reviews2026
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 41.0 hrsMean: 86.8 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 25.8% ★, Survival 15.2%, Open World 12.6%, Base Building 8.4%, Multiplayer 8.3%
- #38 Romestead
73% matchMostly Positive77% of 5,129 reviews2026
Dev: BeartwigsPub: Three Friends
Windows
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 24.6% ★, Survival 15.9%, Base Building 14.2%, Crafting 12.4%, Open World 8.6%
- #39 Everwind
73% matchVery Positive81% of 3,899 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 18%, Co-op 14%, Open World 13.6%, Crafting 13%, Multiplayer 10.1%
- #40 VEIN
72% matchVery Positive88% of 12,706 reviews2025
Dev: Ramjet Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 14.6 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 21.3%, Base Building 17.9%, Open World 15.1%, Co-op 11.3%, Crafting 8.9%
- #41 Subsistence
76% 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 34.9% ★, Survival 16.8%, Crafting 9.5%, Base Building 9.1%, Open World 8.8%
- #42 Solace Crafting
73% matchMostly Positive71% of 899 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 23.6% ★, Survival 12.6%, Base Building 11.3%, Crafting 8.7%, Open World 8.3%
- #43 Shamania
70% matchMostly Positive74% of 171 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 24% ★, Survival 12.9%, Open World 10.3%, Crafting 9.8%, Co-op 7.8%
- #44 GRAV
74% matchMixed47% of 6,922 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 31.8% ★, Survival 15.5%, Base Building 12.5%, Open World 10.1%, Crafting 6.8%
- #45 TerraTech Worlds
71% 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 25% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Survival 12%, Co-op 9.4%, Crafting 9%
- #46 ARK: Survival Ascended
70% matchMixed60% of 118,321 reviews2023
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows
Median: 27.2 hrsMean: 198.9 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 25.4%, Base Building 17.9%, Open World 17%, Crafting 12.2%, Multiplayer 11.6%
- #47 Breathedge 2
68% matchVery Positive87% of 1,680 reviews2026
Dev: RedRuins SoftworksPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Survive on the edge of space! Craft and upgrade tools, scavenge resources, and save a galaxy gone completely off the rails. Can Ordinary Man save the galaxy with the help of the immortal Chicken and some duct tape?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.5% ★, Survival 18.2%, Base Building 8.1%, Crafting 7.3%, Sandbox 7.3%
- #48 Last Breath
69% matchVery Positive84% of 80 reviews2026
Dev: Mx
Windows
Last Breath is a solo/cooperative terraforming survival game. Dig through terrain, build powerful machines, and restore life to a dead planet. Work together to survive, automate, and reshape the world from the ground up, literally.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.7% ★, Survival 17.2%, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 8%, Online Co-Op 7.3%
- #49 KeepUp Survival
71% matchMixed64% of 751 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 24.2% ★, Survival 13%, Base Building 12.3%, Co-op 9.5%, Open World 9.4%
- #50 The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™
68% matchVery Positive81% of 12,511 reviews2024
Dev: Free Range GamesPub: North Beach Games
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 19.2 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 27.5% ★, Base Building 15.4%, Survival 14%, Crafting 9.6%, Online Co-Op 7.3%
- #51 Crushed
71% matchMixed53% of 321 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 29.4% ★, Survival 14.2%, Base Building 10.9%, Open World 10.2%, Crafting 8.3%
- #52 Far Lands
70% matchMixed64% of 173 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 26% ★, Survival 16.7%, Base Building 16.5%, Crafting 11.7%, Open World 10%
- #53 Dawn of Defiance
68% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,856 reviews2024
Dev: Traega EntertainmentPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
You are a fallen Spartan, cast into the realm between the living and the Underworld. In this survival adventure inspired by Greek myth, hunt, craft and build a home worthy of legend with up to 3 friends. Raid the gods' temples, defeat legendary creatures and loot the iconic weapons of the Olympians.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.3% ★, Survival 14.5%, Base Building 12.3%, Open World 8%, Online Co-Op 7.9%
- #54 The Front
67% 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 26.3% ★, Survival 13.1%, Base Building 12.9%, Crafting 9%, Open World 8.6%
- #55 Delverium
66% matchVery Positive85% of 157 reviews2026
Dev: Sagestone Games
Windows
Explore, Build, Farm, Craft and Fight in this survival sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Delve deep to uncover the secret of the invading 'Faults' and restore stability to the land.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.6% ★, Survival 12.7%, Crafting 8.3%, Base Building 8%, Open World 7.9%
- #56 The Gold River Project
67% matchMixed63% of 686 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 29.7% ★, Survival 12.8%, Open World 10.8%, Co-op 10.2%, Crafting 8%
- #57 Aloft
66% matchVery Positive83% of 3,782 reviews2025
Dev: Astrolabe Interactive Inc.Pub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 15.5 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 25.4% ★, Survival 17.4%, Co-op 13.2%, Crafting 12.6%, Open World 9.5%
- #58 Soulmask
65% matchMostly Positive77% of 22,506 reviews2026
Dev: CampFire StudioPub: Qooland Games
Windows
Median: 13.9 hrsMean: 69.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. Possess any of your tribespeople, recruit followers, and build a thriving automated civilization. Survive, expand, and forge your own legacy across a vast ancient open world — together with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.2% ★, Base Building 15.8%, Survival 14.7%, Open World 10.7%, Crafting 10.6%
- #59 How to Survive 2
69% matchMixed69% of 11,020 reviews2016
Dev: Eko SoftwarePub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 15.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Dead or Alive? Make up your mind, stranger. We don’t like that undead business here in Louisiana…Survive solo or with friends as you look to fulfill your basic needs of food, water and shelter, crafting your own tools and weapons while you secure your camp and face flesh hungry zombies.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.8% ★, Survival 22.2%, Base Building 9%, Co-op 8.9%, Open World 8.7%
- #60 Witchspire
65% matchVery Positive83% of 2,161 reviews2026
Dev: Envar Games
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Step into the ultimate open-world witch adventure. Befriend and battle creatures, and conjure up a sanctuary alongside other witches in co-op or single-player.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.5% ★, Base Building 17.8%, Crafting 12.2%, Open World 12.1%, Online Co-Op 9.4%
