- #1 Grounded 2
97% matchVery Positive81% of 21,894 reviews2025
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.4 hrsMean: 22.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Shrunk again, but the world is much larger. In this open-world, single-player or co-op survival adventure, craft weapons and armor, build your base, and traverse the playground on your buggy. But something else is out there—and it hasn’t forgotten you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.5% ★, Survival 17.1%, Base Building 12.8%, Co-op 10.1%, Multiplayer 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: It's the direct follow-up to Grounded, carrying over the same miniature survival, co-op exploration, crafting, and backyard-scale danger that made the original special.
- #2 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
96% matchVery Positive82% of 10,202 reviews2024
Dev: Merge GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 15.8 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 27% ★, Survival 13.8%, Base Building 12.4%, Co-op 8.5%, Multiplayer 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: It most directly mirrors Grounded's shrunken-perspective survival by sending you through oversized plants and insects while building, crafting, and exploring with friends.
- #3 Abiotic Factor
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 56,173 reviews2025
Dev: Deep Field GamesPub: Playstack
Windows
Median: 20.1 hrsMean: 44.9 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 32.5% ★, Survival 16.6%, Base Building 15.1%, Crafting 10.9%, Multiplayer 8%
Why You'll Like It: This co-op survival-crafter also turns a familiar human environment into a dangerous oversized world, with strong base-building and science-lab weirdness that scratches a very similar itch.
- #4 Raft
95% matchVery Positive93% of 373,485 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.6 hrsMean: 37.5 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 32.6% ★, Survival 19%, Co-op 10.8%, Multiplayer 10.5%, Base Building 8%
Why You'll Like It: Like Grounded, it centers on cooperative survival, constant material gathering, home-base expansion, and pushing farther into a hostile world for better gear.
- #5 Valheim
94% matchVery Positive94% of 535,809 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 25.9 hrsMean: 77.4 hrs≥1hr: 93%
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.9% ★, Survival 14.4%, Base Building 10.2%, Multiplayer 8.2%, Crafting 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the same addictive loop of building a safe base, gearing up through crafted upgrades, and venturing out to tackle dangerous creatures together.
- #6 Enshrouded
94% matchVery Positive86% of 102,638 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.9 hrsMean: 46.1 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 23%, Base Building 20.3%, Open World 13.1%, Multiplayer 12.1%, Crafting 12.1%
Why You'll Like It: Its blend of approachable co-op survival systems, flexible building, and open-world exploration makes it a great fit for players who loved Grounded's progression and teamwork.
- #7 Sons Of The Forest
93% matchVery Positive88% of 309,677 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 23.9%, Base Building 16.1%, Co-op 14.8%, Multiplayer 12.5%, Open World 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: This is another polished co-op survival game where exploration, crafting, fortification, and the constant threat of hostile creatures drive the experience.
- #8 Core Keeper
91% matchVery Positive93% of 65,043 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.1 hrsMean: 34.4 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 24.2% ★, Survival 13.8%, Base Building 12.4%, Co-op 9.9%, Crafting 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: Despite the top-down view, it nails the same explore-craft-build-progression loop, with co-op adventuring and creature threats feeding steady base upgrades.
- #9 Green Hell
92% matchVery Positive85% of 98,679 reviews2019
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 18.5 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 35.4% ★, Survival 17.1%, Multiplayer 10.4%, Base Building 7.9%, Crafting 7%
Why You'll Like It: This is a harsher take on survival crafting, but the emphasis on resource management, dangerous wildlife, and co-op base-building is very much in Grounded's wheelhouse.
- #10 ASTRONEER
91% matchVery Positive92% of 138,295 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.2% ★, Survival 15.2%, Base Building 11.8%, Multiplayer 9.8%, Co-op 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: It trades bug fights for space exploration, but it delivers the same colorful co-op gathering, crafting, and base-building appeal in a world that feels huge around you.
- #11 Palworld
89% matchVery Positive94% of 423,735 reviews2024
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 34.6 hrsMean: 71.1 hrs≥1hr: 96%
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 29.8% ★, Survival 16.3%, Multiplayer 9.8%, Open World 9.2%, Base Building 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: Its playful open world, co-op survival crafting, creature-heavy exploration, and base automation make it a strong pick for Grounded players who want a lighter tone with lots to do.
- #12 The Forest
90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 674,499 reviews2018
Dev: Endnight Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 37.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.6% ★, Survival 22.7%, Crafting 8.6%, Open World 8.4%, Horror 5.1%
Why You'll Like It: It shares Grounded's rhythm of scavenging by day, crafting defenses, and surviving increasingly stressful creature encounters around your base at night.
- #13 The Planet Crafter
88% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 71,038 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.5 hrsMean: 38.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.8% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Survival 14%, Co-op 10.4%, Crafting 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: If your favorite part of Grounded was expanding a base and unlocking better tech through exploration, this offers a similarly satisfying progression-driven survival sandbox.
- #14 Nightingale
89% matchMixed66% of 17,965 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 29.4% ★, Survival 14%, Base Building 11.1%, Multiplayer 8.8%, Co-op 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: It offers cooperative survival crafting, estate building, and biome-by-biome exploration with a strong sense of discovery and environmental danger.
- #15 ICARUS
87% matchMostly Positive75% of 64,520 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 46.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.6% ★, Survival 15.7%, Base Building 12.4%, Multiplayer 8.6%, Crafting 8%
Why You'll Like It: Grounded fans who enjoyed gathering specific resources, crafting better tools, and preparing carefully for dangerous expeditions will find a similar loop here.
- #16 Subnautica
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 373,268 reviews2018
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.3 hrsMean: 39.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.4% ★, Survival 17.4%, Base Building 11.7%, Crafting 8.5%, Open World 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: It shares Grounded's mix of wonder and fear, dropping you into a beautiful world where exploration, crafting, and terrifying creature encounters constantly overlap.
- #17 Forever Skies
86% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,533 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 31.9 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 27.8% ★, Survival 14.2%, Base Building 14.1%, Co-op 11.7%, Crafting 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: This is another exploration-heavy survival-crafting game where upgrading your mobile home base and pushing into dangerous new areas drives the whole experience.
- #18 Don't Starve Together
85% matchVery Positive95% of 534,846 reviews2016
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.0 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 56.4% ★, Survival 27.3%, Multiplayer 4.5%, Co-op 4.4%, Crafting 2.3%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the same charming-but-deadly survival vibe, especially if you enjoy coordinating roles, preparing for hazards, and steadily mastering a hostile ecosystem.
- #19 Subnautica: Below Zero
84% matchVery Positive90% of 107,083 reviews2021
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 15.5 hrsMean: 29.6 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 37.2% ★, Survival 16.4%, Base Building 12%, Multiplayer 7.7%, Open World 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: It delivers the same satisfying mix of crafting, base-building, and exploring an alien ecosystem that is beautiful one moment and genuinely scary the next.
- #20 Scrap Mechanic
84% matchVery Positive92% of 117,723 reviews2016
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.2 hrsMean: 58.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!
Why similar: Survival 20.8%, Crafting 14.1%, Base Building 13.8%, Multiplayer 13.1%, Open World 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: Its survival mode is excellent for players who like creative problem-solving, co-op base-building, and using crafted tools and machines to survive hostile threats.
- #21 Voidtrain
82% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,560 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 14.0 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 34% ★, Survival 12.1%, Base Building 10.6%, Co-op 10.1%, Multiplayer 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: Its moving-base twist still preserves the familiar Grounded pleasures of co-op crafting, upgrading your shelter, and surviving strange threats as you explore outward.
- #22 ARK: Survival Evolved
83% matchVery Positive83% of 770,322 reviews2017
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 201.4 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.6% ★, Survival 17.6%, Multiplayer 8.8%, Base Building 8.6%, Crafting 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: If you want more creature-driven survival with lots of crafting, big bases, and cooperative progression, ARK is one of the strongest broad-spectrum alternatives.
- #23 Sunkenland
82% matchVery Positive81% of 23,316 reviews2023
Dev: Vector3 Studio
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 18.8 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 34.7% ★, Survival 15.3%, Co-op 12.1%, Base Building 11.8%, Multiplayer 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on co-op scavenging, crafting, and defending a custom base while venturing into dangerous territory for better resources and upgrades.
- #24 Soulmask
80% matchMostly Positive77% of 21,804 reviews2026
Dev: CampFire StudioPub: Qooland Games
Windows
Median: 13.8 hrsMean: 68.5 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 31.7% ★, Survival 15%, Base Building 14.8%, Co-op 10.5%, Crafting 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: Its combination of multiplayer survival, large-scale crafting progression, base development, and dangerous wilderness exploration makes it a solid next step from Grounded.
- #25 V Rising
79% matchVery Positive89% of 135,087 reviews2024
Dev: Stunlock Studios
Windows
Median: 21.1 hrsMean: 57.6 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 24.2%, Base Building 21.6%, Crafting 12.8%, Open World 12.2%, Multiplayer 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: While more combat-driven, it still offers survival gathering, structured progression, co-op world exploration, and deeply satisfying base construction.
- #26 Drake Hollow
81% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,798 reviews2020
Dev: The Molasses FloodPub: CD PROJEKT RED
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Build and defend villages of vegetable folk from deadly feral beasts in the blighted world of The Hollow. Explore, gather, and fight! You can even invite your friends. Can you craft the perfect village?
Why similar: Survival 22.3%, Base Building 14.2%, Multiplayer 13.5%, Open World 11.6%, Online Co-Op 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: Its whimsical art, cooperative scavenging, and base defense against recurring threats echo the same cute-but-dangerous tone that makes Grounded memorable.
- #27 Len's Island
79% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,768 reviews2025
Dev: Flow Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
An open-world survival crafting game for 1–8 players, blending intense dungeon crawling and ARPG combat with peaceful farming and creative building. Take on quests and explore a vast, procedurally-generated world full of danger and discovery.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39% ★, Survival 17.7%, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 11%, Open World 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: This blends action-adventure combat with crafting, farming, and base-building in a way that feels approachable and rewarding for Grounded players.
- #28 Conan Exiles Enhanced
81% matchMostly Positive79% of 116,054 reviews2018
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 17.1 hrsMean: 112.9 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Conan Exiles Enhanced is an open world survival game set in the mythical lands of Hyboria, now fully upgraded to Unreal Engine 5 with stunning visuals and improved performance. SURVIVE, BUILD, and DOMINATE alone or with friends in a world brimming with adventure!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.2% ★, Survival 23.2%, Crafting 10%, Open World 10%, Multiplayer 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: It offers robust cooperative base-building, crafting progression, and open-world survival in a threat-filled setting that rewards preparation and teamwork.
- #29 Romestead
77% matchMostly Positive75% of 3,870 reviews2026
Dev: BeartwigsPub: Three Friends
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 13.4 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 29.2% ★, Survival 17.8%, Base Building 14.4%, Crafting 13.4%, Online Co-Op 7%
- #30 Wildmender
78% matchVery Positive84% of 2,177 reviews2023
Dev: Muse GamesPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A desert gardening survival game. Start from a tiny spring and cultivate a blooming garden. Explore a vast world amid the sands and uncover its mysteries. Can you defend against the relentless forces of nature and mysterious wraith corruption, to bring life to a dying world?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.2% ★, Base Building 15.2%, Survival 15%, Multiplayer 12.3%, Crafting 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: It's a gentler survival game, but the cooperative exploration, building, and world-shaping systems make it appealing if you loved Grounded's calmer progression moments.
- #31 Survival: Fountain of Youth
78% matchVery Positive85% of 4,383 reviews2024
Dev: Odinsoft Inc.Pub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Survival: Fountain of Youth is a challenging single-player open-world adventure game set on the Caribbean islands. Survive as a shipwrecked 16th-century explorer, craft tools and shelter, and uncover the secrets of both an ancient civilization and your own fate.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.4% ★, Survival 18.1%, Base Building 16.6%, Crafting 11.1%, Open World 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: Though more solitary and grounded, it offers a strong survival-crafting loop built around careful preparation, tool upgrades, and environmental problem-solving.
- #32 Subnautica 2
75% matchVery Positive91% of 118,544 reviews2026
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 26.9%, Co-op 17.7%, Multiplayer 17.2%, Open World 10.8%, Horror 8%
- #33 RuneScape: Dragonwilds
75% matchVery Positive81% of 25,521 reviews2025
Dev: Jagex Ltd
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 16.2 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 28.9% ★, Survival 14%, Co-op 10.1%, Base Building 9.2%, Multiplayer 8.8%
- #34 Stranded Deep
77% matchMostly Positive74% of 47,543 reviews2022
Dev: Beam Team GamesPub: Beam Team Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 21.0 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 42.9% ★, Survival 19.6%, Multiplayer 10.7%, Crafting 8.8%, Open World 6.8%
- #35 Necesse
74% matchVery Positive93% of 27,406 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 14.9 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 39.1% ★, Survival 11.4%, Base Building 8.3%, Multiplayer 8.1%, Crafting 7.6%
- #36 Tinkerlands
74% matchVery Positive86% of 3,887 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 34% ★, Survival 14.7%, Co-op 9.5%, Crafting 8.5%, Multiplayer 8.4%
- #37 Satisfactory
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 273,405 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 32.9 hrsMean: 110.9 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Why similar: Base Building 22.7%, Open World Survival Craft 17.2% ★, Co-op 12.1%, Crafting 12%, Multiplayer 10.6%
- #38 The Survivalists
76% matchMostly Positive76% of 10,037 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 25.6% ★, Survival 15.2%, Base Building 11.3%, Crafting 10.9%, Co-op 8.3%
- #39 Subsistence
76% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,713 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 40.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.8% ★, Survival 17.5%, Crafting 9.5%, Base Building 8.8%, Multiplayer 8.7%
- #40 Solarpunk™
71% matchVery Positive82% of 2,601 reviews2026
Dev: CyberwavePub: rokaplay
Windows
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 28.3% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Survival 12%, Co-op 10.4%, Crafting 9.2%
- #41 StarRupture
71% matchVery Positive81% of 12,717 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 23.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.4% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Survival 13.2%, Co-op 10%, Crafting 8.5%
- #42 Dawn of Defiance
72% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,809 reviews2024
Dev: Traega EntertainmentPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 9.8 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 34.3% ★, Survival 15.9%, Base Building 12.5%, Multiplayer 8.3%, Online Co-Op 8%
- #43 Frozen Flame
73% matchMixed63% of 2,979 reviews2022
Dev: Dreamside InteractivePub: Ravenage Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A challenging exploration and survival adventure, set in the dying world of Dragons. Only those who harness the power of Frozen Flame have the means to survive the harsh conditions of the realm and able to muster the strength to cleanse it for good.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.4% ★, Base Building 14%, Survival 13.7%, Crafting 8.9%, Multiplayer 7.9%
- #44 Dune: Awakening
70% matchMostly Positive71% of 76,850 reviews2025
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 47.6 hrsMean: 99.1 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival game with immersive adventure and RPG gameplay. Explore, build, craft, and unravel a cinematic Dune story alone or with friends as you rise from survival to greatness on the most legendary planet in the universe. Just remember: the sandworm always comes.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.1% ★, Survival 13.8%, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 9.2%, Multiplayer 8.7%
- #45 Volcanoids
73% matchVery Positive83% of 9,287 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 17.6%, Survival 16.9%, Co-op 13.5%, Crafting 12.8%, Multiplayer 9.4%
- #46 Breathedge
72% matchVery Positive82% of 16,292 reviews2021
Dev: RedRuins SoftworksPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Survive in outer space! Together with your immortal chicken, discover the truth behind your sudden spaceship crash. Craft tools, pilot vehicles, and even control space stations to survive and explore the wreckage.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.5% ★, Survival 17%, Base Building 14.9%, Crafting 8.7%, Open World 5.1%
- #47 Project Castaway
70% matchMixed66% of 1,760 reviews2026
Dev: Mardonpol Inc.
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Project Castaway is a survival crafting title set in the Pacific Ocean. Live the life of a stranded castaway, with only yourself - and the island's inhabitants - for company! Sail the ocean, hunt, explore unique islands and gather resources as you fight for survival.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.1% ★, Survival 12.9%, Base Building 10.8%, Co-op 10.7%, Multiplayer 7%
- #48 Don't Starve
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 112,869 reviews2013
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 28.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.2% ★, Survival 31.1%, Crafting 11.3%, Multiplayer 5.8%, Open World 4.4%
- #49 Lightyear Frontier
69% matchVery Positive84% of 4,521 reviews2024
Dev: FRAME BREAK
Windows
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 11.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
In Lightyear Frontier you use your powerful trusty mech to farm on a large beautiful alien planet. Settle your homestead, farm and deliver produce to remote colonies, gather and manage resources, build, craft, explore, expand, improve your mech, meet neighbors, and make a place to call your own.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.9% ★, Base Building 14.8%, Survival 12.1%, Crafting 10.6%, Co-op 9.7%
- #50 Aloft
68% matchVery Positive84% of 3,616 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 29.1% ★, Survival 18.7%, Co-op 14.4%, Crafting 13%, Multiplayer 8.8%
- #51 Everwind
67% matchVery Positive82% of 3,471 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 13.6 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 20.9%, Co-op 16.6%, Crafting 14.5%, Multiplayer 13%, Open World 10.9%
- #52 Whisper of the Swallows
67% matchVery Positive86% of 166 reviews2026
Dev: Blown Leaves
Windows
Brave a savage, unforgiving procedurally generated world where extreme weather and the nightmares of the dark will hunt you down. Alone or in co-op, survive, build, and explore to turn a cursed hellscape into your sanctuary of light.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.1% ★, Survival 16.3%, Base Building 12.9%, Crafting 11.2%, Open World 7.2%
- #53 Windrose
65% matchVery Positive87% of 48,348 reviews2026
Dev: Kraken Express
Windows
Median: 19.7 hrsMean: 32.4 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 37.2% ★, Survival 17.6%, Crafting 12.5%, Base Building 11.6%, Online Co-Op 9%
- #54 Crashlands
69% matchVery Positive89% of 6,701 reviews2016
Dev: Butterscotch Shenanigans
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 13.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Fight and tame alien beasts, craft resources into menacing weaponry, befriend the outlandish locals, and go toe-to-chin with a world-domineering maniac.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.5% ★, Survival 15.5%, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 10.4%, Open World 8%
- #55 Starbound
68% matchVery Positive90% of 123,040 reviews2016
Dev: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.1 hrsMean: 64.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.9% ★, Survival 12.8%, Crafting 8.2%, Co-op 7.3%, Multiplayer 7%
- #56 Eden Crafters
65% matchVery Positive86% of 2,494 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 13.3 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 31.6% ★, Base Building 14.3%, Survival 11.7%, Crafting 9.9%, Co-op 8.1%
- #57 Dinkum
65% matchVery Positive92% of 28,839 reviews2025
Dev: James BendonPub: KRAFTON, Inc.
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 28.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Dinkum is a survival life simulation game set on an island inspired by the rugged Australian outback. Farm, hunt, mine, fish, and forage to gather resources, expand your town, and discover what makes Dinkum so special—either solo or with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 50.2% ★, Co-op 13.3%, Crafting 10.8%, Multiplayer 8.5%, Online Co-Op 7%
- #58 Among Trees
69% matchMixed68% of 2,225 reviews2021
Dev: FJRD Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Escape to an enchanting, living sandbox surrounded by wildlife and nature. Scavenge materials and craft tools to turn your small cabin into a warm, well-supplied home. Survive by fishing, cooking and growing your own food. Be careful though, the forest is as dangerous as it is wonderful.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.4% ★, Survival 18.3%, Base Building 11.8%, Crafting 10.1%, Open World 8.6%
- #59 Craftopia
68% matchMostly Positive77% of 20,075 reviews2020
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 22.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Craftopia is the brand new multiplayer survival action game made in Japan. We combined many features we find enjoyable, such as hunting, farming, hack-and-slash, building, automation to develop this game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.9% ★, Survival 18.3%, Crafting 14%, Open World 11.6%, Multiplayer 10.1%
- #60 Burglin' Gnomes
64% matchVery Positive85% of 2,753 reviews2026
Dev: Fobri
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
An online Co-op game about breaking into houses and causing havoc as a tiny gnome. Avoid danger, repurpose stolen household items, and complete tasks to meet the High-Gnome’s demands. Craft equipment and upgrade your home to make your missions easier and more successful.
Why similar: Co-op 43.8%, Multiplayer 23%, Crafting 10.4%, Horror 6.9%, Exploration 4.3%