- #1 Voidtrain
97% 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 32.4% ★, Trains 20.5% ★, Base Building 9.3%, Crafting 8.4%, Survival 7.7%
- #2 Forever Skies
96% 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 26.1% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 10.9%, Post-apocalyptic 10.2%, Survival 8.8%
- #3 Zompiercer
96% matchVery Positive89% of 4,427 reviews2020
Dev: DDDimanN
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Take control of the train which will become your haven on the rails. Collect resources, craft equipment, construct a cozy house on railway cars, and travel through the carefully handcrafted locations to explore the story of a zombie apocalypse world.
Why similar: Trains 31.3% ★, Post-apocalyptic 18.4%, Base Building 17.8%, Survival 11.5%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #4 Breathedge
95% 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 41.2% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Survival 11.2%, Crafting 10.4%, Sandbox 7.1%
- #5 The Last Caretaker
94% matchVery Positive86% of 11,569 reviews2025
Dev: Channel37 Ltd
Windows
Median: 18.1 hrsMean: 33.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Explore a drowned Earth, restore lost systems, and raise the last human seeds in this first-person survival-crafting adventure. Build, scavenge, defend, and launch humanity back to the stars.
Why similar: Base Building 16.2%, Post-apocalyptic 15.3%, Crafting 15.2%, Lore-Rich 12.8%, Survival 11.8%
- #6 Mist Survival
94% matchMostly Positive76% of 14,158 reviews2018
Dev: Dimension 32 Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 73%
MIST SURVIVAL is a Single-player, survival stealth sandbox game Players will experience the Apocalypse stimulation in the form of virus pandemic, the players have to deal with it to survive through the difficulties such as finding shelter and food, threats from the environment and climate: wild animals, bandits, infected, and dense mist t
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.3% ★, Survival 18.6%, Base Building 12.6%, Open World 10%, Crafting 9.7%
- #7 StarRupture
92% 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 35.4% ★, Base Building 15.9%, Crafting 13.3%, Survival 11.3%, Open World 8.2%
- #8 Subsistence
93% 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 44.2% ★, Survival 13.2%, Crafting 13.1%, Base Building 9.3%, Building 8.3%
- #9 Survival: Fountain of Youth
91% 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 33.6% ★, Base Building 14.2%, Crafting 12.4%, Survival 11%, Building 8.7%
- #10 Volcanoids
91% 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 19.2%, Crafting 18.3%, Building 15.3%, Survival 13.2%, Open World 9.4%
- #11 The Planet Crafter
89% 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 33.1% ★, Base Building 14.6%, Crafting 11.4%, Building 10.7%, Survival 9.9%
- #12 Winter Survival
90% matchMixed63% of 766 reviews2025
Dev: DRAGO entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Winter Survival is a story-driven survival game where trauma turns reality into a reflection of your breaking mind. Battle cold, hunger, hallucinations, and adapt to the wilderness as it adapts to you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.5% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Survival 11%, Building 8.9%, Crafting 8.9%
- #13 TerraTech Worlds
89% matchMixed63% of 2,250 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 21.6 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 31.9% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Crafting 12.5%, Building 10.8%, Survival 9.5%
- #14 Starsand
87% matchMixed66% of 1,244 reviews2022
Dev: Tunnel Vision StudioPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Starsand is a mystic survival game set among the dunes of an arcane desert. An open-world full of danger, vast environments and mysterious happenings await you! Explore, hunt, craft, build – and SURVIVE.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.8% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 11.9%, Survival 10.3%, Building 8.7%
- #15 Urge
86% matchVery Positive90% of 502 reviews2021
Dev: EnDrew
Windows
Fight, build, explore, survive, while the dynamic player-caused hazardous fog is slowly changing the rules of the world around you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.1% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Post-apocalyptic 10.4%, Crafting 9.5%, Building 9.1%
- #16 Astrometica
84% matchVery Positive83% of 3,114 reviews2024
Dev: BeryMeryPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 16.7 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Astrometica is a space exploration and base-building survival game. After a catastrophic event, explore vast space, gather resources, build bases, and uncover cosmic mysteries. Use advanced technology, craft tools, and discover new blueprints to survive and thrive in the unknown.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.4% ★, Crafting 18.3%, Base Building 16.7%, Survival 16%, Open World 11.8%
- #17 Space Trash Scavenger
84% matchVery Positive84% of 520 reviews2024
Dev: SquarePlay GamesPub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Grab your jetpack and explore procedural asteroid fields, derelict spaceships and abandoned outposts. Build and automate your Space Rig to process scavenged trash. Craft, trade and fight your way home in this interstellar, open-world survival sandbox.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35% ★, Crafting 13.1%, Survival 10.2%, Base Building 9.9%, Building 9.8%
- #18 Drive 4 Survival
85% matchMixed65% of 304 reviews2020
Dev: M3M Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Drive 4 Survival is a struggle for survival mostly in the frozen wilderness, where you have to rely only on yourself and your car. Try to survive!
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 21.5%, Base Building 16.2%, Survival 13%, Open World 11.3%, Building 9.5%
- #19 Novus Inceptio
86% matchMixed52% of 1,302 reviews2015
Dev: McMagic Productions
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Warning: This is an Early Access game! Welcome to an enigmatic world, where a new gaming experience in exploring, building and surviving is waiting just for you. Experience a sandbox world with survival elements, and join us in creating a full version of the game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.1% ★, Crafting 11.2%, Base Building 10.9%, Survival 9.6%, Post-apocalyptic 8.9%
- #20 Northern Lights
83% matchMixed67% of 296 reviews2020
Dev: MadGoat Studio
Windows
Northern Lights is an open world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the arctic tundra. Clinging to life, you must use real-life survival techniques to gather resources, craft, and hunt while tending to your health and sanity. Can you survive your way out of the mysterious island?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.4% ★, Post-apocalyptic 13.2%, Crafting 12.9%, Survival 11.4%, Open World 8.4%
- #21 Under A New Sun
82% matchMostly Positive76% of 388 reviews2023
Dev: New Horizon Games
Windows
While searching for a new home, an unexpected failure in your ship has left you stranded on a planet surprisingly similar to Earth. Discover a vast open world, hunt for food, develop technologies, and build yourself a new home to survive!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.8% ★, Crafting 13.3%, Base Building 12.2%, Survival 11.8%, Open World 8.5%
- #22 Scrapnaut
82% matchMixed70% of 831 reviews2021
Dev: SpiffyBitPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements. Explore an open world with different biomes, take care of oxygen, manage your farms, generate electricity, build your home and much more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.9% ★, Building 13.5%, Survival 11.3%, Crafting 10.5%, Base Building 9.9%
- #23 Eden Crafters
79% 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 34.5% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Crafting 13.1%, Building 9.9%, Survival 8.4%
- #24 Cubic Odyssey
80% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,655 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 42.1% ★, Base Building 17.9%, Building 13.8%, Sandbox 8.3%, Crafting 4.6%
- #25 OxyRail
79% matchVery Positive81% of 616 reviews2026
Dev: OxygenTech Limited
Windows
Oxygen Train is an open-world survival train game. Wake up in a world lacking oxygen. Chop trees, mine, gather resources, upgrade your unique train. Survive by planting, fishing, farming, exploring, fighting. Build your train kingdom. Supports 1-8 online co-op.
Why similar: Trains 27.7% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Building 13.5%, Survival 11.9%, Crafting 9.4%
- #26 Crushed
81% matchMixed54% of 316 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 33.2% ★, Crafting 10.2%, Survival 10%, Base Building 9.9%, Post-apocalyptic 9.4%
- #27 Project: Mist
77% matchMixed70% of 184 reviews2026
Dev: Chicken Launcher
Windows
Explore a strange island in this open-world survival horror. Use the Gravity Gun to manipulate objects and enemies, build a moving train base, fight giant creatures, catch critters, upgrade your gear, and uncover the dark secrets hidden within its abandoned facilities. Play alone or with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33% ★, Post-apocalyptic 15.7%, Crafting 12.9%, Building 11.6%, Survival 9.4%
- #28 Trans-Siberian Railway Simulator
77% matchVery Positive92% of 1,869 reviews2024
Dev: PentaclePub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Take control of a Soviet locomotive and embark on a dangerous journey along the world's longest railway line. Face mafia rivals, bandits, wild animals, constant breakdowns, severe frosts, hunger, and... a hangover. How far will you get before your supplies run out?
Why similar: Trains 47.3% ★, Survival 16.5%, Open World 11.8%, Sandbox 10.6%, Exploration 6.7%
- #29 Survival Machine
76% matchMostly Positive72% of 755 reviews2026
Dev: Grape PickersPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Build your base on a moving Machine, travel through biomes with different resources, and prepare for the night when a zombie threat is much higher than during the day. Would you go solo or explore this new world with your best friends?
Why similar: Base Building 32.3%, Crafting 31%, Survival 21.5%, Exploration 9.8%, Adventure 4.9%
- #30 KeepUp Survival
78% matchMixed64% of 744 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 84%
KeepUp Survival is an open-world base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and shape your own story on a mysterious island.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.7% ★, Base Building 14.1%, Crafting 13.3%, Survival 11.5%, Open World 8.4%
- #31 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
75% matchVery Positive91% of 7,475 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Survive, craft, and automate in this free prologue set on one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters, an open-world game where you play solo or with friends to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.1% ★, Base Building 14%, Crafting 11.4%, Building 8.4%, Survival 7.2%
- #32 Blossom: The Seed of Life
73% matchVery Positive89% of 931 reviews2026
Dev: Pebbledust GamesPub: Pretty Soon
Windows
Terraform a dead planet back to life in this open world survival crafting game. Explore ruins, gather resources, print machines, drive modular vehicles, grow forests, biomes, and ecosystems. Create life and make it thrive with your own hands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.9% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Post-apocalyptic 10.3%, Crafting 10.2%, Building 9.2%
- #33 Satisfactory
72% 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 23%, Open World Survival Craft 18.9% ★, Crafting 16%, Building 12.7%, Open World 9.7%
- #34 Pandemic Train
76% matchMixed58% of 245 reviews2023
Dev: Trigger LabsPub: Games Operators
Windows
In Pandemic Train you are in charge of the crew aboard a train roaming the postapocalyptic wasteland, ravaged by both war and a deadly plague. Your goal is to survive long enough to discover the cure… or die trying. Humanity’s fate is in your hands! Start your journey now!
Why similar: Trains 32.3% ★, Crafting 13.7%, Post-apocalyptic 13.5%, Survival 13%, Base Building 12.4%
- #35 RailGods of Hysterra
74% matchMixed56% of 333 reviews2025
Dev: Troglobytes GamesPub: Digital Vortex Entertainment
Windows
Embark on a co-op survival journey for 1-5 players through a post-apocalyptic Lovecraftian world! Command and evolve a living, monstrous train, craft weapons, build a mobile base, gain powers, and face the Great Old Ones. Explore an ever-changing world, hold on to your sanity, and ascend to godhood!
Why similar: Base Building 24.6%, Crafting 22.1%, Survival 18.1%, Building 15.5%, Sandbox 8.8%
- #36 Sunkenland
73% 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 41.1% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Survival 11.9%, Crafting 10.7%, Post-apocalyptic 8.7%
- #37 SURVIVAL: Postapocalypse Now
75% matchMixed56% of 8,877 reviews2019
Dev: TB Games
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Want to survive? - Arm yourself and survive. Crafting, shooting, transport and much more awaits you in the Survival game. What happened to the world around and why he died - you may find out. But is this the main question now?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.3% ★, Survival 15.1%, Post-apocalyptic 12.3%, Open World 7.7%, Crafting 7.6%
- #38 Solarpunk™
70% 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 32.5% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Crafting 12.7%, Building 11.2%, Survival 9.1%
- #39 MEAT TRAIN
71% matchVery Positive98% of 54 reviews2026
Dev: Kiwiforge
Windows
Meat Train is a FPS game where you operate a train thats uses MEAT for FUEL. Explore a wasteland where everything wants you dead, scavenge for weapons and loot. Upgrade the train and attempt to destroy an evil AI megafactory.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 39.3%, Looter Shooter 25.2% ★, Open World 15%, Exploration 11.5%, Adventure 5.4%
- #40 VEIN
69% matchVery Positive89% of 10,737 reviews2025
Dev: Ramjet Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 14.4 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: Base Building 20.5%, Post-apocalyptic 19.3%, Survival 18.4%, Crafting 14.1%, Open World 13.4%
- #41 Derail Valley
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 9,120 reviews2019
Dev: Altfuture
Windows
Median: 14.6 hrsMean: 37.7 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Drive massive trains and build your career in a vast open railway network. For both PC and VR.
Why similar: Trains 68.1% ★, Open World 14.5%, Sandbox 10.1%, First-Person 3.8%, Adventure 3.1%
- #42 Remains
73% matchMostly Positive76% of 318 reviews2021
Dev: SoloQ
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Remains - survival in outer space orbiting the planet. Explore the area. Find a way to restore oxygen. Create tools for your needs. Beware of the dangers of outer space. Build your shelter in orbit and try not to die!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.6% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 12.8%, Building 10.9%, Survival 9.7%
- #43 DREADZONE
71% matchMixed51% of 1,193 reviews2025
Dev: Eshed
Windows
Dreadzone is a survival game set in a deadly quarantine zone. Scavenge for resources, craft tools, build shelter, and survive against dangerous animals, zombies, mutants, and other survivors. Explore the zone where desperation drives everyone to do whatever it takes to survive.
Why similar: Base Building 18%, Crafting 15.9%, Post-apocalyptic 15.7%, Survival 14.3%, Building 12.9%
- #44 GRAV
74% matchMixed47% of 6,921 reviews2015
Dev: BitMonster, Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 60%
GRAV is a sand box experience where you explore a multitude of planets, hunt strange alien creatures, build and defend outposts, craft weapons and armor, and attempt to survive against other players in a hostile environment.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.6% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Survival 13.2%, Crafting 10.2%, Open World 8.7%
- #45 INCUR Survival
71% matchVery Positive82% of 108 reviews2022
Dev: INCUR
Windows
A survival open-world game, where you can gather resources, Hunt, Craft tools and armor, Tame Animals, Ride Animals, Build, and defend your base from creatures, and other players.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.6% ★, Crafting 14.1%, Building 14.1%, Survival 11.2%, Open World 7.9%
- #46 Skyformer
69% matchVery Positive84% of 70 reviews2025
Dev: Weatherfused
Windows
Create an automated system that terraforms a planet with an army of drones. Craft and build bases, set up a weather monitoring system, prepare to survive different types of storms, and take control of the climate and biomes!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.4% ★, Base Building 14.1%, Crafting 12.5%, Building 10.8%, Survival 10%
- #47 Beyond Contact
70% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,125 reviews2023
Dev: Playcorp StudiosPub: Deep Silver
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 67%
A fiercely formidable sci-fi survival game, set on a hostile alien world that wants you dead! Alone, or with a crew, do you have what it takes to survive?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.1% ★, Base Building 16.6%, Crafting 15.4%, Survival 14.2%, Adventure 3.6%
- #48 The Infected
70% matchVery Positive84% of 6,954 reviews2020
Dev: DigX Studios
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 68%
The Infected is a sandbox, first-person, open-world survival game. Build bases, craft, farm, hunt, and survive changing seasons. Choose whether to face the hybrid “Vambies” or turn them off for a pure survival experience.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.6% ★, Base Building 14.3%, Crafting 12.5%, Building 11.2%, Survival 9.8%
- #49 ASTRONEER
69% 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 36.5% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Survival 11.4%, Crafting 8.8%, Open World 8.7%
- #50 Surviving Ceres
68% matchVery Positive87% of 138 reviews2025
Dev: Ryan SaundersPub: One Man Media
Windows
Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building. Export manufactured goods to earn funding, manage colonists, defend against hostile aliens, and work towards terraforming Ceres from a frozen ball of ice to a tropical paradise.
Why similar: Crafting 21.1%, Base Building 19.7%, Building 18.5%, Survival 17.1%, Open World 11%
- #51 I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival
67% matchVery Positive85% of 4,583 reviews2024
Dev: MandragoraPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
I Am Future is a relaxing single-player survival game about building a cozy rooftop camp amid a flooded post-apocalyptic city. Set up a farm, go fishing, tinker with gadgets, craft new tools, manage a team of cute robots to automate and expand your base, explore the mysterious world, and chill out!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.4% ★, Crafting 13.1%, Post-apocalyptic 11.5%, Building 11.2%, Base Building 10.7%
- #52 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,685 reviews2021
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Experience the first stages of terraforming an entire planet in this space survival open world terraforming crafting game prologue. Explore, survive, collect, build your base then create oxygen, heat and pressure to make an hostile planet livable for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.5% ★, Base Building 14.5%, Crafting 12.3%, Survival 11.9%, Open World 7.6%
- #53 Outbreak Island
66% matchMostly Positive80% of 996 reviews2025
Dev: Tiny Magicians
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Survive on a remote Island, where a mysterious Outbreak awakens bloodthirsty monsters at night. Craft, build and defend your base in the brutal world of Outbreak Island, an open-world sandbox survival horror game.
Why similar: Survival 15.2%, Post-apocalyptic 14.6%, Base Building 14.1%, Crafting 13.9%, Building 11.4%
- #54 The Front
65% matchMixed67% of 10,771 reviews2025
Dev: Samar Studio
Windows
Median: 10.6 hrsMean: 44.9 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 35.1% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Crafting 13.2%, Building 11.5%, Survival 10.9%
- #55 Occupy Mars: The Game
65% matchMostly Positive70% of 3,088 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 34.1 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.
Why similar: Base Building 19.4%, Crafting 18.4%, Building 15%, Survival 13.2%, Open World 11%
- #56 Heat Death
67% matchVery Positive97% of 69 reviews2022
Dev: Gallistrix
Windows · Mac
Build your deck, re-write your cards, and join in epic space battles! Heat Death is a single-player deckbuilder which takes card customization and power scaling to the extreme, as you battle against sentient stars and black holes.
Why similar: Crafting 57%, Futuristic 31.4%, Sci-fi 10.2%, Singleplayer 1.5%
- #57 Karagon (Survival Robot Riding FPS)
68% matchMixed47% of 107 reviews2023
Dev: Tbjbu2 Originals
Windows
Survive, shoot, construct, and ride killer elemental robots. Craft equipment, explore multi-floor buildings, build and farm, uncover schematics, and progress through technology tiers. Alone or with friends in this brutal post apocalyptic open world survival robot riding crafting shooter game!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.8% ★, Crafting 12.4%, Base Building 12.1%, Survival 10.1%, Looter Shooter 9.9% ★