- #1 Grounded 2
97% matchVery Positive81% of 24,763 reviews2025
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 13.2 hrsMean: 26.9 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 23.7% ★, Survival 17.2%, Base Building 12.5%, Co-op 9.6%, Multiplayer 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: It directly continues Grounded's tiny-survivor premise with co-op backyard exploration, insect threats, crafting, and base building.
- #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 27.3% ★, Survival 14%, Base Building 12.2%, Co-op 8.5%, Multiplayer 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: This is the closest alternative to Grounded's scale and feel, putting tiny players against giant insects and animals while they build, glide, and survive together.
- #3 Raft
96% 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 33% ★, Survival 19.1%, Co-op 10.8%, Multiplayer 10.4%, Base Building 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: Its co-op scavenging, expandable mobile base, environmental exploration, and accessible survival systems create a similarly satisfying shared progression loop.
- #4 Enshrouded
95% 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 23.4%, Base Building 20.1%, Open World 13.4%, Multiplayer 12%, Crafting 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: It combines approachable co-op survival, extensive freeform base building, crafting progression, and exploration of a dangerous open world.
- #5 Valheim
94% 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 32.3% ★, Survival 14.5%, Base Building 10.1%, Multiplayer 8.1%, Crafting 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: Cooperative gathering, building, boss preparation, and risky expeditions make its Norse survival sandbox an excellent next step for Grounded groups.
- #6 Abiotic Factor
93% 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 32.8% ★, Survival 16.8%, Base Building 14.9%, Crafting 10.7%, Multiplayer 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: Its science-facility setting replaces the backyard, but its cooperative scavenging, crafting, strange creatures, and improvised bases strongly echo Grounded's adventure loop.
- #7 Green Hell
94% 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 35.6% ★, Survival 17.2%, Multiplayer 10.3%, Base Building 7.8%, Crafting 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a more realistic and punishing version of Grounded's resource management, shelter building, dangerous wildlife, and co-op wilderness survival.
- #8 Core Keeper
92% 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 24.5% ★, Survival 14.1%, Base Building 12.1%, Co-op 9.8%, Crafting 9%
Why You'll Like It: Its approachable co-op crafting, base building, exploration, and boss-driven progression fit Grounded's collaborative sense of discovery in a top-down format.
- #9 Sons Of The Forest
91% 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 24.3%, Base Building 15.9%, Co-op 14.8%, Multiplayer 12.4%, Open World 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: This expands the forest-survival formula with polished co-op building, dynamic seasons, dangerous exploration, and elaborate player-made bases.
- #10 The Planet Crafter
91% 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 31.1% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Survival 14.1%, Co-op 10.3%, Crafting 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: Transforming an inhospitable planet through gathering, crafting, construction, and co-op exploration provides a gentler but deeply rewarding survival-building loop.
- #11 Palworld
89% 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 30% ★, Survival 16.4%, Multiplayer 9.7%, Open World 9.5%, Base Building 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: Open-world co-op survival, base automation, resource gathering, and creature-assisted exploration make it a strong fit for players who enjoy Grounded's playful side.
- #12 The Forest
90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 683,269 reviews2018
Dev: Endnight Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 37.4 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 48.8% ★, Survival 22.6%, Open World 8.5%, Crafting 8.4%, Horror 5.1%
Why You'll Like It: Co-op exploration, shelter construction, cave delving, and an unsettling ecosystem of hostile creatures deliver a darker but similarly compelling survival adventure.
- #13 ASTRONEER
89% 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 32.5% ★, Survival 15.2%, Base Building 11.6%, Multiplayer 9.7%, Co-op 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: Its colorful co-op exploration and flexible base construction capture Grounded's curiosity-driven adventure, albeit with very light survival pressure.
- #14 Forever Skies
87% 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 28.2% ★, Survival 14.3%, Base Building 13.9%, Co-op 11.6%, Crafting 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: Scavenging ruined environments, researching upgrades, and customizing an airborne base create a focused co-op survival journey with strong exploration appeal.
- #15 ICARUS
88% 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 30% ★, Survival 15.8%, Base Building 12.3%, Multiplayer 8.5%, Crafting 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: Its mission-based co-op survival emphasizes gathering, weathering environmental hazards, crafting shelters, and venturing into dangerous wilderness areas.
- #16 Once Human
85% 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 25.6% ★, Survival 13.6%, Base Building 11.6%, Co-op 9.5%, Multiplayer 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: It blends shared open-world survival, base construction, crafting, and bizarre oversized-monster encounters into a more MMO-like take on the formula.
- #17 The Survivalists
86% 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 25.9% ★, Survival 15.3%, Base Building 11.1%, Crafting 10.7%, Co-op 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: This charming co-op survival game emphasizes island exploration, crafting, building, and using monkeys to automate tasks, preserving Grounded's playful ingenuity.
- #18 ARK: Survival Evolved
86% matchVery Positive83% of 778,394 reviews2017
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 202.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.9% ★, Survival 17.6%, Multiplayer 8.7%, Base Building 8.4%, Crafting 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: Taming creatures, building fortified bases, and surviving a huge hostile world with friends offer a more sprawling and combat-heavy survival sandbox.
- #19 Subnautica
84% 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 36.7% ★, Survival 17.4%, Base Building 11.5%, Crafting 8.3%, Open World 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: Its lonely underwater world delivers the same thrill of turning an initially overwhelming environment into a navigable home through crafting and exploration.
- #20 Voidtrain
84% 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 34.4% ★, Survival 12.1%, Base Building 10.5%, Co-op 10.1%, Multiplayer 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: Friends can gather resources, upgrade a moving train-base, and explore surreal hostile regions in this unusual co-op survival adventure.
- #21 V Rising
83% 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 24.4%, Base Building 21.4%, Crafting 12.6%, Open World 12.5%, Multiplayer 11.4%
Why You'll Like It: Its action-focused survival loop lets players gather resources, build highly customizable castles, and tackle dangerous bosses together.
- #22 7 Days to Die
82% 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 31.4% ★, Survival 21.8%, Base Building 13.3%, Multiplayer 9.5%, Open World 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: Gathering, crafting, fortifying a home, and defending it with friends against recurring enemy attacks make for a more brutal base-survival alternative.
- #23 Scrap Mechanic
80% matchVery Positive92% of 123,030 reviews2026
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 65.6 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 21%, Crafting 13.9%, Base Building 13.8%, Multiplayer 13%, Open World 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: Its survival mode supports cooperative gathering and inventive base construction, especially for players who enjoy experimenting with elaborate player-made contraptions.
- #24 Necesse
81% 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 39.7% ★, Survival 11.4%, Base Building 8.2%, Multiplayer 7.9%, Co-op 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: Top-down co-op exploration, crafting, settlement growth, dungeon delving, and recruitable villagers provide a relaxed but deep survival-building alternative.
- #25 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 35.1% ★, Survival 15.2%, Co-op 12%, Base Building 11.6%, Multiplayer 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: Co-op ocean scavenging, modular base construction, island raids, and resource gathering make it a fitting aquatic counterpart to Grounded's sandbox survival.
- #26 Don't Starve Together
81% 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 56.6% ★, Survival 27.2%, Multiplayer 4.4%, Co-op 4.3%, Crafting 2.2%
Why You'll Like It: It offers tense cooperative survival built around gathering, crafting, seasonal preparation, and learning how to endure a dangerous, eccentric ecosystem.
- #27 Dinkum
78% matchVery Positive92% of 29,165 reviews2025
Dev: James BendonPub: KRAFTON, Inc.
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 29.4 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 50.8% ★, Co-op 13.2%, Crafting 10.5%, Multiplayer 8.4%, Online Co-Op 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: Its laid-back Australian outback setting emphasizes cooperative gathering, crafting, building a town, and exploring a wildlife-filled world with less combat pressure.
- #28 Survival: Fountain of Youth
79% matchVery Positive85% of 4,528 reviews2024
Dev: Odinsoft Inc.Pub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.4 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 36.7% ★, Survival 18.1%, Base Building 16.4%, Crafting 10.9%, Open World 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: Exploring islands, managing needs, crafting tools, and gradually establishing safe shelters offer a thoughtful single-player survival-crafting experience.
- #29 Terraria
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,558,339 reviews2011
Dev: Re-Logic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 33.9 hrsMean: 152.6 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 40.5% ★, Survival 15.2%, Multiplayer 9.3%, Crafting 8.7%, Co-op 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: Its huge progression arc of mining, crafting, building, exploration, and cooperative boss fights makes it an enduring 2D survival-sandbox recommendation.
- #30 Solarpunk™
77% 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 28.7% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Survival 12%, Co-op 10.5%, Crafting 9.1%
- #31 Nightingale
78% 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 29.8% ★, Survival 14%, Base Building 11%, Co-op 8.7%, Multiplayer 8.7%
- #32 Romestead
75% 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 29.6% ★, Survival 17.8%, Base Building 14.4%, Crafting 13.1%, Online Co-Op 6.8%
- #33 Stranded Deep
77% matchMostly Positive74% of 47,919 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 43.2% ★, Survival 19.6%, Multiplayer 10.6%, Crafting 8.6%, Open World 6.9%
- #34 Subnautica: Below Zero
76% 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 37.5% ★, Survival 16.5%, Base Building 11.8%, Multiplayer 7.6%, Open World 7.3%
- #35 Tinkerlands
74% 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 34.3% ★, Survival 14.8%, Co-op 9.4%, Crafting 8.3%, Multiplayer 8.3%
- #36 Satisfactory
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 280,086 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 33.5 hrsMean: 113.6 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 17.5% ★, Co-op 11.9%, Crafting 11.9%, Multiplayer 10.5%
- #37 Drake Hollow
76% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,809 reviews2020
Dev: The Molasses FloodPub: CD PROJEKT RED
Windows
Median: 2.9 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 22.5%, Base Building 14.1%, Multiplayer 13.4%, Open World 11.9%, Online Co-Op 10.4%
- #38 Subnautica 2
72% 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 26.8%, Co-op 17.5%, Multiplayer 16.9%, Open World 11.1%, Horror 7.9%
- #39 RuneScape: Dragonwilds
71% 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 28.9% ★, Survival 14.2%, Co-op 10%, Base Building 9.2%, Multiplayer 8.7%
- #40 Subsistence
75% 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 39.2% ★, Survival 17.6%, Crafting 9.4%, Base Building 8.6%, Multiplayer 8.6%
- #41 Don't Starve
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 113,517 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 38.5% ★, Survival 31.1%, Crafting 11.1%, Multiplayer 5.8%, Open World 4.5%
- #42 Crashlands
74% matchVery Positive90% of 6,773 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 34.8% ★, Survival 15.6%, Base Building 13.1%, Crafting 10.3%, Open World 8.1%
- #43 Island Beekeeper
71% matchMostly Positive74% of 224 reviews2026
Dev: Akuseru Studio
Windows
Build your apiary on islands above the clouds, travel on your medocycle, crossbreed bees with unique traits and create a cozy home in the sky. Grow plants, explore islands and send healing honey down to Earth, where people still hope for your help.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33% ★, Survival 14%, Co-op 11.7%, Base Building 11.6%, Multiplayer 9.2%
- #44 Frozen Flame
73% matchMixed62% of 2,997 reviews2022
Dev: Dreamside InteractivePub: Ravenage Games
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 11.5 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 30.8% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Survival 13.8%, Crafting 8.8%, Multiplayer 7.8%
- #45 Breathedge
72% matchVery Positive81% of 18,514 reviews2021
Dev: RedRuins SoftworksPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 41.2% ★, Survival 16.9%, Base Building 14.3%, Crafting 8.1%, Open World 5.1%
- #46 Witchspire
69% 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 40.2% ★, Base Building 17.1%, Crafting 12.1%, Multiplayer 9.5%, Open World 8.9%
- #47 Dune: Awakening
70% 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 29.6% ★, Survival 13.9%, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 9%, Multiplayer 8.6%
- #48 Project Castaway
70% matchMixed65% of 1,893 reviews2026
Dev: Mardonpol Inc.
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 7.5 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 29.6% ★, Survival 13%, Co-op 10.5%, Base Building 10.5%, Multiplayer 7%
- #49 StarRupture
68% 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 27.8% ★, Survival 13.2%, Base Building 13.1%, Co-op 10%, Crafting 8.3%
- #50 The Wild Eight
71% matchMixed68% of 8,131 reviews2019
Dev: Eight PointsPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
The Wild Eight is an intense survival action-adventure set in the frozen wilderness of Alaska. Team up with friends in online co-op or go solo, explore the mysterious land, craft weapons and fight to live another day.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38% ★, Survival 20.8%, Co-op 9.3%, Multiplayer 9%, Crafting 6.8%
- #51 Wrongworld
70% matchVery Positive94% of 557 reviews2018
Dev: Sludj Games
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Crash-landed on a surreal, low-poly world filled with freakish inhabitants, choose between permadeath and non-permadeath modes and embark on an epic (and ridiculous) survival adventure. Will you manage to stay alive as you unravel the mysteries of Wrongworld and search for a way home?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 53.2% ★, Survival 18.6%, Crafting 8.2%, Open World 7.3%, Sandbox 3.9%
- #52 Len's Island
67% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,974 reviews2025
Dev: Flow Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.8 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 39.3% ★, Survival 17.8%, Base Building 13.1%, Crafting 10.8%, Open World 8.2%
- #53 Whisper of the Swallows
67% matchVery Positive87% of 207 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 35.5% ★, Survival 16.3%, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 11%, Open World 7.3%
- #54 Everwind
66% 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 21.2%, Co-op 16.4%, Crafting 14.3%, Multiplayer 12.9%, Open World 11.2%
- #55 Volcanoids
69% 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 17.4%, Survival 17.1%, Co-op 13.5%, Crafting 12.6%, Multiplayer 9.4%
- #56 Dawn of Defiance
67% 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 34.7% ★, Survival 16%, Base Building 12.3%, Multiplayer 8.2%, Online Co-Op 7.8%
- #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 29.4% ★, Survival 18.8%, Co-op 14.3%, Crafting 12.7%, Multiplayer 8.7%
- #58 Solace Crafting
68% 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 28.3% ★, Survival 14%, Base Building 11.4%, Crafting 9.1%, Multiplayer 8.2%
- #59 Eden Crafters
65% matchVery Positive85% of 2,696 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 15.2 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 32% ★, Base Building 14.1%, Survival 11.7%, Crafting 9.7%, Co-op 8.1%
- #60 Cubic Odyssey
66% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,754 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Embark on a galactic journey in Cubic Odyssey, an open-world adventure where you explore vibrant planets, craft tools, build vehicles, and fight the Red Darkness. Uncover ancient mysteries, and shape a universe full of life, danger, and limitless possibilities!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.3% ★, Base Building 18.5%, Co-op 14.1%, Survival 5.3%, Sandbox 5.1%