- #1 Adventure Craft
97% matchVery Positive83% of 229 reviews2017
Dev: Edible Entertainment
Windows
Adventure Craft is a challenging procedurally generated sandbox RPG with roguelike elements. Hunt monsters, horde loot, and craft weapons and armor, to survive in a vast ever-changing RPG world full of action, extreme danger and wonderful surprises.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.5% ★, Mining 14.3% ★, Base Building 10.3%, Sandbox 8.3%, Building 7.8%
- #2 Necesse
96% matchVery Positive93% of 28,807 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 15.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.6% ★, Sandbox 9.1%, Base Building 8.2%, Survival 8.1%, Crafting 7.7%
- #3 Ruins To Fortress
96% matchMixed65% of 181 reviews2024
Dev: NimbleBeasts
Windows · Linux
Explore a post-apocalyptic island, craft, build, tear down enemy bases, defend and nuke your rivals! Life's about surviving in this multiplayer game, no matter what it takes!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.3% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Survival 10.2%, Crafting 9.7%, Open World 7.7%
- #4 Miniland Adventure
94% matchMostly Positive74% of 332 reviews2023
Dev: Imilkowski DevPub: Gameparic
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 52%
The world doesn't generate itself - you do it, shape the world as you wish! Start with nothing, and build dream houses for goblins and yourself while exploring, collecting resources, crafting, building, fighting, farming... and more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.6% ★, Sandbox 12.6%, Survival 11.2%, Base Building 11%, Building 9.3%
- #5 Crafting Block World
95% matchMixed47% of 55 reviews2019
Dev: IO Games
Windows
Crafting Block World is an adventure with sandbox elements that will help you build your ideal world!
Why similar: Mining 16.7% ★, Sandbox 14%, Survival 12.8%, Base Building 10%, Building 9.2%
- #6 Urge
94% matchVery Positive90% of 520 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 28.8% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Sandbox 9.1%, Building 8.9%, Survival 8.3%
- #7 Space Trash Scavenger
92% matchVery Positive84% of 525 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 30.4% ★, Crafting 9.4%, Survival 9.2%, Base Building 8.8%, Sandbox 8.7%
- #8 Signs of Life
93% matchMostly Positive76% of 841 reviews2014
Dev: Sweet Dog Studios
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Signs of Life is a sci-fi survival sandbox platformer with a combination of procedurally generated and hand-crafted content. You'll explore mysterious locations, mine blocks for resources, and meet strange (and some familiar) creatures, some of which don't even want to kill you and eat your corpse.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.4% ★, Sandbox 14.3%, Survival 11.2%, Crafting 10.7%, Building 7.9%
- #9 Pixelum
91% matchMixed48% of 73 reviews2025
Dev: ZXC Games
Windows
Pixelum is a whole world made up entirely from interactive pixels. Explore procedurally generated sandbox with advanced physics. Dig and mine, fight mobs, build bases, craft items, and progress throughout the pixel canvas!
Why similar: Sandbox 26.6%, Survival 24.8%, Procedural Generation 16.7%, Pixel Graphics 12.5%, Action 9.8%
- #10 TerraTech
91% matchVery Positive91% of 24,920 reviews2018
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 32.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
TerraTech is an open-world, sandbox adventure game, where you design and build your own creations through a mix of crafting, combat and discovery. Design vehicles from a huge library of blocks. Scavenge, craft and buy new parts to survive and become the ultimate planetary prospector.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.5% ★, Building 14%, Robots 12.5%, Sandbox 12.5%, Open World 9.1%
- #11 Beyond the Map
90% matchMostly Positive78% of 748 reviews2025
Dev: Glitch Goblins
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Isometric survival ARPG set in a procedurally generated fantasy world. Build your base, gear up, and venture out, chasing stronger enemies and better loot.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.7% ★, Loot 13.9%, Base Building 12%, Crafting 7.9%, Survival 7.4%
- #12 CleanFall
89% matchVery Positive93% of 543 reviews2025
Dev: Humanyoyo
Windows
CleanFall is a survival rogue-like that prizes player freedom and creativity. Build mobile death machines to fight off ravenous hordes, craft and alchemize gun turrets, and tunnel through subterranean ecosystems crawling with nameless horrors.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.8% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Sandbox 9.8%, Post-apocalyptic 9.6%, Building 9.4%
- #13 BLASTRONAUT
89% matchMostly Positive74% of 175 reviews2022
Dev: Perfoon
Windows · Mac · Linux
BLASTRONAUT is a mining game in a procedural alien world. Explore, extract and profit.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.8% ★, Mining 17.8% ★, Sandbox 9.9%, Base Building 9.1%, Open World 7.1%
- #14 Vagabond
88% matchMostly Positive77% of 99 reviews2023
Dev: Pierre Vigier
Windows · Linux
Explore procedurally generated living worlds in this 2D sandbox RPG. Meet hundreds of characters in cities, complete quests, craft powerful items, buy and furnish your home or fight monsters in dungeons.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33% ★, Sandbox 12.9%, Procedural Generation 11.4%, Open World 10%, Crafting 9%
- #15 Atomcraft
85% matchVery Positive96% of 358 reviews2026
Dev: Triplejump
Windows
A sandbox adventure where every pixel is physically and chemically simulated! Build intricate, fully functional machines from the pixels around you. Harvest, react, and manipulate all 118 elements to craft everything from simple tools to complex systems.
Why similar: Sandbox 24.4%, Crafting 22.1%, Survival 20%, Procedural Generation 10%, Open World 9.4%
- #16 Hold Your Own
87% matchMixed67% of 576 reviews2017
Dev: DistrictWare inc.
Windows
A single player open world sandbox, crafting and survival FPS game set in a multi-island land where you'll fight to survive. Build your base, hunt and craft to defend yourself from aggressive wildlife, enemies or friends. Do you have what it takes to Hold Your Own?
Why similar: Base Building 14.4%, Survival 13.9%, Crafting 13.8%, Loot 13.2%, Sandbox 11.1%
- #17 iZolated
86% matchMixed70% of 123 reviews2024
Dev: Crooked RoadPub: LT-Games
Windows
iZolated - This is a post-apocalyptic 2D action game with elements of survival and RPG, which throws you into a harsh open world where the slightest mistake costs you your life. Find equipment, engage in fights, and prove that you are the top of the food chain in this chaos!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 15.2% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Sandbox 12%, Post-apocalyptic 11.6%, Procedural Generation 9.4%
- #18 Heat Death: Survival Train
84% matchMostly Positive78% of 718 reviews2024
Dev: Mass Game DevsPub: LightOnDevs
Windows
Heat Death is a sci-fi survival game where you can build, upgrade, and customize your battle train to explore and survive a frozen world! This train is not only your shelter and vehicle, but also your weapon and ally to face hostile drones, deadly storms, and hidden mysteries of an unknown world!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.2% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Crafting 10.1%, Post-apocalyptic 10.1%, Building 9.8%
- #19 Mechanic Miner
86% matchMixed58% of 210 reviews2020
Dev: Hello John
Windows
Put your mechanical skills to the test in a physics-based sandbox where ingenuity and creativity are the ultimate key to survival. Construct fantastical machines, gather resources, acquire new technologies to battle dangerous enemies and use your imagination to shape your world.
Why similar: Building 25.1%, Sandbox 24.1%, Crafting 23.6%, Pixel Graphics 14.1%, 2D 4.9%
- #20 Plains of Pain
84% matchVery Positive83% of 933 reviews2023
Dev: Cobra Byte Digital
Windows
Enter a living post-apocalyptic sandbox where the world doesn't wait for you. Build, craft, trade, earn the trust of factions, and forge your own path through a brutal procedural wasteland.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.5% ★, Base Building 12%, Sandbox 9.6%, Post-apocalyptic 9.6%, Survival 8.8%
- #21 Forager
82% matchVery Positive89% of 43,959 reviews2019
Dev: HopFrogPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 22.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.1% ★, Survival 11.7%, Crafting 11.3%, Base Building 8.2%, Sandbox 7.5%
- #22 Elsewhere
81% matchVery Positive96% of 83 reviews2025
Dev: Four White Cats
Windows
A sandbox crafting adventure with quests, magic, automation, and exploration. Gather resources, build your base, unlock new technologies, and shape your own path through a world full of secrets and progression. Inspired by classic Minecraft modpacks with many new and unique features.
Why similar: Mining 18.3% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Sandbox 12.2%, Crafting 11.4%, Survival 10.9%
- #23 Scrapnaut
82% matchMixed70% of 837 reviews2021
Dev: SpiffyBitPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 4.0 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 24.5% ★, Building 12.2%, Survival 11.1%, Base Building 9.5%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #24 Prospector
80% matchMixed70% of 152 reviews2025
Dev: Loonworks Games
Windows
Land on a distant planet in this chill resource management game. Harvest alien resources, build and automate machinery, uncover secrets across the stars and strike shipping deals with distant colonies for exclusive rewards!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.9% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Robots 11.4%, Sandbox 9.8%, Building 9.4%
- #25 Isomer
83% matchVery Negative17% of 75 reviews2014
Dev: Ionising Software
Windows
Isomer is an isometric strategy game inspired by classic turn based games from the 90s and many other more recent survival titles. It's open ended, sandbox and each world is procedurally generated leading to an almost unlimited number of different worlds to explore, mine, loot and conquer.
Why similar: Action 100%
- #26 XERA: Survival
79% matchMixed66% of 7,941 reviews2021
Dev: Spotted Kiwi Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 24.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Action-focused, open world survival shooter, PvPvE against fellow mercenaries and lethal XOIDS. Raid for resources alone or with team-mates, build and defend your base, stash your gear and survive against the odds. You are the hunters. You are the hunted. And the robots never sleep…
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.6% ★, Base Building 13%, Robots 9%, Survival 8.9%, Crafting 8.5%
- #27 TerraTech Worlds
79% matchMixed63% of 2,287 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 22.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.1% ★, Mining 14.1% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Sandbox 9.2%, Building 8.7%
- #28 Core Keeper
75% matchVery Positive93% of 66,104 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.2 hrsMean: 34.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.9% ★, Base Building 10.5%, Survival 8.7%, Sandbox 8.7%, Building 8.3%
- #29 Craterbound
78% matchMixed53% of 99 reviews2022
Dev: Daniel Marquez
Windows
Crash-land onto a unique and hostile alien world and begin your fight to survive. Face its inhabitants, upgrade your technology, create outposts & bases, and find a way to repair your ship. Explore the beautifully strange terrain, all while blasting and crafting your way off of the planet.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.6% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Survival 11.2%, Crafting 9.9%, Open World 9.3%
- #30 Orion Sandbox Enhanced
77% matchVery Positive94% of 1,230 reviews2018
Dev: y8.com
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 21.2 hrs≥1hr: 62%
This is a 2D crafting survival sandbox game. You will be able to explore a huge 2D side-view world, building houses, crafting tools, weapons and armour from the resources you collect. There is a day/night cycle and each night many dangerous monsters can be found and defeated.
Why similar: Sandbox 51.3%, Survival 23.1%, Action 13.9%, 2D 11.7%
- #31 Total Miner
78% matchMostly Positive78% of 767 reviews2017
Dev: Brandon Moore
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 37.1 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Total Miner is an open world voxel sandbox game. It is primarily designed for creative RPG game builders, but also has two action/adventure style game modes where you can just jump in and play.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.1% ★, Mining 13.3% ★, Sandbox 11.3%, Building 8.6%, Survival 7.8%
- #32 Volcanoids
76% matchVery Positive83% of 9,332 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.
Why similar: Base Building 17.7%, Sandbox 13.8%, Crafting 13.7%, Building 13.3%, Survival 12.6%
- #33 Junk Jack
77% matchMostly Positive78% of 478 reviews2016
Dev: Pixbits
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 21.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Make the world truly yours in Junk Jack, a relaxing sandbox experience focused on building and improving your home. Discover new planets, tame and breed creatures, cook foods, collect animal companions, farm exotic plants, collect fish, grow flowers, play with your friends!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.5% ★, Sandbox 13.4%, Survival 11.1%, Crafting 10.2%, Building 9.1%
- #34 Lumencraft
74% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,285 reviews2023
Dev: 2Dynamic GamesPub: Star Drifters
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Lumencraft is a unique combination of a top-down, rogue-like shooter and base building with tower defense elements. Dig and light up dark halls of a fully destructible environment on procedurally generated maps and campaign levels to find precious Lumen - humanity's only chance for survival.
Why similar: Base Building 22.4%, Sandbox 20.8%, Survival 15.7%, Exploration 10.9%, Combat 10.8%
- #35 Sandustry
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 3,449 reviews2026
Dev: Lantto GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Explore and mine fully destructible worlds. Automate increasingly complex production chains. Delve deep to uncover an ancient civilization’s powerful secrets and learn to love the sand in this factory game where every pixel is a valuable resource.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Sandbox 11.3%, Building 10.5%, Crafting 10.4%
- #36 Deep Despair
75% matchMixed67% of 284 reviews2020
Dev: BekkerDev Studio
Windows
Median: 10.5 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Deep Despair is a Minecraft-style survival sandbox. Travel, collect resources, craft items, dig, build, grow crops and survive. Freedom of action is limited only by your imagination!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.9% ★, Survival 12.9%, Crafting 12.1%, Sandbox 10.9%, Building 9.7%
- #37 Windforge
76% matchMixed68% of 620 reviews2014
Dev: Snowed In Studios
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 43%
WindForge is a side-scrolling block-building game where you explore hostile skies in an ever-changing Steampunk world. Everything you see can be created or destroyed, creating an RPG without barriers that rewards creative problem solving and improvisation.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39% ★, Sandbox 15.9%, Crafting 12.1%, Building 9%, Open World 7.8%
- #38 Himno - The Silent Melody
74% matchMostly Positive78% of 352 reviews2021
Dev: David Moralejo SánchezPub: GrabTheGames
Windows · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 45%
Himno - The Silent Melody is an atmospheric roguelite action RPG. Explore different interconnected environments, gather materials to create your unique arsenal and build and automate your base.
Why similar: Loot 21.5%, Sandbox 14.8%, Procedural Generation 13.1%, Crafting 12.8%, Survival 12.8%
- #39 It Lurks Below
73% matchVery Positive82% of 1,288 reviews2019
Dev: Graybeard GamesPub: Skystone Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 12.9 hrs≥1hr: 74%
It Lurks Below is an action-oriented, survival RPG in a randomly generated world. Fight through the massive underground dungeon, customize your character with random items and find out what evil lurks below.
Why similar: Loot 28.6%, Survival 19.2%, Sandbox 15.6%, Crafting 12%, Pixel Graphics 11.4%
- #40 Star Crafter
72% matchMixed70% of 106 reviews2025
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
A space survival crafting mining base building and star system building game. Craft rockets to create planets and Dyson Rings, mine and craft advanced materials, terraform the terrain, manage electricity, farm food, and more as you watch the star system evolve into stunning, ever-changing views.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.9% ★, Mining 17.9% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Crafting 9.6%, Survival 7.1%
- #41 Wild Omission
73% matchVery Positive88% of 80 reviews2023
Dev: Telephone Studios
Windows
Wild Omission is an open world sandbox survival game with severe weather set in an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.5% ★, Survival 10.9%, Crafting 10.8%, Building 10.3%, Sandbox 9.9%
- #42 Rising World
73% matchVery Positive86% of 5,974 reviews2014
Dev: JIW-Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 21.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Rising World is a voxel based open-world sandbox game, featuring a procedurally generated world, playable in single and multi-player.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.3% ★, Mining 16.3% ★, Base Building 11%, Building 8.7%, Sandbox 8.6%
- #43 Human Host
70% matchVery Positive83% of 708 reviews2026
Dev: Virtual Matrix Studio
Windows
Human Host is an open-world zombie survival crafting game. In this endless procedurally generated world, terrain, buildings, trees, rocks—everything is destructible! Build massive mobile bases, dig deep underground, construct trap-filled fortresses, scavenge supplies, and survive as long as you can!
Why similar: Building 18.7%, Survival 18.4%, Crafting 17.6%, Sandbox 16.7%, Procedural Generation 13.8%
- #44 StarRupture
69% matchVery Positive81% of 13,247 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 26.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.2% ★, Base Building 14.6%, Survival 10.7%, Crafting 9.9%, Sandbox 9.9%
- #45 XenoHaven
70% matchVery Positive86% of 69 reviews2025
Dev: Miniverse GamePub: OKJOY
Windows
In XenoHaven, gather resources to build shelters, enslave alien beasts to work for you, and run restaurants and shops. Delve into dark underground dungeons, defeat swarming insectoids and mighty bosses, and craft powerful gear to conquer the alien world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.1% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Sandbox 11.7%, Survival 10.6%, Open World 9.8%
- #46 Orebound
69% matchMostly Positive78% of 976 reviews2024
Dev: Emberforge
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Orebound is a dwarven themed factory automation game. Play alone or with friends as you build, mine, craft and explore a voxel generated world! Build your fortress, expand your factory, fight off creatures who dwell beneath the mountains and embark on a journey of greatness.
Why similar: Mining 18.3% ★, Base Building 15.9%, Building 15.7%, Crafting 14.2%, Procedural Generation 12.9%
- #47 Sector Space
67% matchVery Positive93% of 139 reviews2025
Dev: Robin M. FarrellPub: Outer Vision Games
Windows · Linux
Explore a procedurally generated galaxy, mine asteroids, refine minerals, colonize planets, build stations, deploy drones, salvage rare items, construct gear, level up, improve your ship, assemble a fleet, engage in combat, and take on the void.
Why similar: Building 24.7%, Crafting 21.8%, Exploration 19.8%, Pixel Graphics 18.5%, 2D 10.4%
- #48 Out of Orbit
69% matchVery Positive80% of 168 reviews2023
Dev: Case Yellow Labs
Windows
Design, build, or pirate spaceships. Build bases on planets. Explore endless randomly generated universes, travel through black holes, command your crew, survive cosmic events, collect and trade materials, battle epic bosses, and much more. The sky is the limit, literally!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 19.2% ★, Sandbox 13.1%, Base Building 12.9%, Survival 12%, Building 11.9%
- #49 Mechanica
71% matchMixed63% of 640 reviews2020
Dev: Deimos Interactive
Windows
Mechanica is a multiplayer open-world survival game involving building and programming. Create your own bases, defenses, manufacturing systems and more. Explore the map and expand the scope and complexity of your creations.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.6% ★, Base Building 17.7%, Building 13.6%, Survival 12.1%, Robots 10.6%
- #50 Rogue Harvest
72% matchMixed57% of 69 reviews2018
Dev: Genetix Studio
Windows
Rogue Harvest is a finely crafted Rogue-like Open World Adventure - Dig, Mine, Build, Craft, Explore, and Survive in a massive Procedurally Generated World and work to unravel the mystery of how you ended up in this dream like place.
Why similar: Crafting 18.7%, Procedural Generation 18.2%, Sandbox 17.4%, Survival 16.9%, Pixel Graphics 10.9%
- #51 AutoForge
68% matchVery Positive87% of 463 reviews2024
Dev: Siege Games
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 70%
A 2D automation sandbox adventure. Build an automated factory with Mana-powered machines, progress through an expansive tech tree, explore a vast and wonderful world, upgrade yourself with ancient technologies, and defend it all from invasions.
Why similar: Procedural Generation 22.4%, Base Building 17%, Sandbox 13.3%, Building 12.9%, Crafting 12.7%
- #52 GRAV
71% 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 42% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Survival 13.3%, Sandbox 10.2%, Open World 9.8%
- #53 Nuclear Epoch
66% matchMostly Positive79% of 517 reviews2026
Dev: Cat Play Studio
Windows
Nuclear Epoch: Open-world survival mixing base building & extraction shooting. Explore with friends, raid dangerous instances for loot, but death means losing everything. Craft weapons with fully customizable stats in this post-apocalyptic wasteland.
Why similar: Mining 16.9% ★, Base Building 15.7%, Post-apocalyptic 12.1%, Building 10.9%, Crafting 10.7%
- #54 Jitter
67% matchVery Positive85% of 168 reviews2025
Dev: Berko Games
Windows
A sci-fi exploration & survival game where you take on the role of a spaceship’s AI. Explore, fight, and survive across a mining colony in the Main Asteroid Belt. Rebuild your ship. Rescue your crew. Reveal the truth behind your mission.
Why similar: Base Building 20.8%, Sandbox 19.2%, Open World 16.1%, Pixel Graphics 11.6%, Combat 10.4%
- #55 Craft Hero
68% matchVery Positive83% of 408 reviews2022
Dev: PandaCat 熊喵独立游戏Pub: OKJOY
Windows
Gather resources by day, build and recruit by noon, defend your village by night! A new minimalism sandbox survival with countless new ideas – Craft Hero
Why similar: Base Building 22.4%, Sandbox 16.8%, Crafting 16.4%, Survival 15.5%, Building 15.1%
- #56 Novus Inceptio
71% matchMixed52% of 1,304 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% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Survival 10%, Sandbox 9.9%, Crafting 9.2%
- #57 Mesorift Survival
66% matchMostly Positive72% of 137 reviews2025
Dev: Meik.W Interactive
Windows
Mesorift Survival is a classic survival game with PvP and PvE elements, set in a tropical open world with three islands. Gather resources, build a base, craft weapons, and survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.4% ★, Base Building 15.1%, Survival 13.8%, Open World 12%, Shooter 8.2%
- #58 Solace Crafting
67% matchMostly Positive72% of 898 reviews2022
Dev: Big Kitty Games
Windows · Linux
Embark on an adventure set in a fantasy survival RPG. Visit a borderless, open world where you manage resources to construct your base and new types of equipment to support your conquest.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.9% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Survival 11%, Crafting 10.6%, Building 9.2%