- #1 Terraria
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,548,448 reviews2011
Dev: Re-Logic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 33.8 hrsMean: 151.8 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 32.4% ★, Sandbox 12.5%, Survival 9%, Crafting 8.2%, Building 7.9%
- #2 2D?!
96% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2024
Dev: Lycke04
Windows
Excavate, combat, discover, construct! Every challenge can be conquered in this thrilling adventure game. Immerse yourself in endless creativity as you explore through uncharted territories , engage in epic battles and shape thw world with your own hands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.5% ★, Sandbox 10.7%, Survival 9.3%, Crafting 8.3%, Building 8.2%
- #3 Tinkerlands
96% matchVery Positive86% of 4,087 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 14.2 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 27.6% ★, Sandbox 10%, Online Co-Op 9.7%, Survival 8.8%, Open World 8.5%
- #4 Restart
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 49Wares
Windows
A scientist with great knowledge about humanity ends up back in the Stone Age and has to build a civilization and develop it into the modern age.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.1% ★, Colony Sim 13.4%, Sandbox 9.7%, Crafting 8.7%, Survival 8.6%
- #5 New Horizon
94% matchMixed47% of 32 reviews2022
Dev: Pretoriano_devPub: Coliseum Studio
Windows
New Horizon is a survival with RPG game. Explore a vast world in search of resources, build, upgrade your equipment and fight monsters to survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.2% ★, Agriculture 18.2% ★, Building 9.2%, Survival 8.6%, Crafting 8.3%
- #6 Nimoyd - Survival Sandbox
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Nudge Nudge Games
Windows
You’ve crash-landed on Earth in 2702. Craft, dig, fight through a vast and colorful post-apocalyptic open world full of wonder, generated cities, dungeons, aliens, mechs, and an underworld. Find love. Or beat the ultimate Underlord!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.8% ★, Sandbox 10.6%, Survival 9.8%, Procedural Generation 9.6%, Crafting 9.4%
- #7 Core Keeper
93% 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 20.4% ★, Sandbox 9%, Crafting 8.8%, Open World 8.8%, Building 8.7%
- #8 Undercraft
92% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2022
Dev: PlayUndercraft
Windows
Create your world in this sandbox game where you can dig, build, explore, fight, and farm. Have a different experience in a day or night adventure. Explore a procedurally generated world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.5% ★, Sandbox 10.9%, Procedural Generation 9.6%, Survival 9.6%, Online Co-Op 9.2%
- #9 ARCANA
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Thomas RandallPub: bald
Windows
An Open World Survival Crafting game where you harness magic to advance. Discover new crafting recipies, expand your base, and conquer your enemies.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35% ★, Survival 11.2%, Sandbox 9.3%, Crafting 7.8%, Procedural Generation 7.7%
- #10 Infinilands
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FluffyCreature
Windows · Mac · Linux
Infinilands is a pixel art sandbox survival game that lets you explore and modify a procedurally generated world full of unique plants, creatures and ruins. You can build houses and fight monsters with your friends in online/split-screen co-op. This game also supports dedicated server.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.8% ★, Sandbox 11%, Crafting 10.4%, Building 10.2%, Survival 8.6%
- #11 Aniverse
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: AniLab
Windows
Chop trees, cook meals, build your home and play music to control the wild! Explore a procedurally generated world and survive your way through art.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.7% ★, Open World 10.8%, Procedural Generation 9.3%, Sandbox 9.3%, Crafting 8.5%
- #12 Whisper of the Swallows
89% matchVery Positive86% of 191 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 27.4% ★, Sandbox 10.2%, Crafting 10%, Building 9.4%, Survival 9.3%
- #13 KYORA
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PugstormPub: Chucklefish
Windows · Linux
Delve into KYORA, a mystical multiplayer sandbox adventure, where every pixel is yours to shape, mine, build or explode.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.2% ★, Sandbox 10.1%, Building 8.8%, Survival 8.5%, Online Co-Op 8%
- #14 Junk Jack
88% 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 35.1% ★, Sandbox 13.2%, Survival 10.5%, Crafting 10.4%, Building 9.1%
- #15 Necesse
86% 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 36.3% ★, Sandbox 9%, Open World 8.3%, Crafting 8%, Survival 7.7%
- #16 Starbound
87% matchVery Positive90% of 123,281 reviews2016
Dev: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.0 hrsMean: 64.4 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 35.2% ★, Sandbox 12.2%, Survival 7.7%, Crafting 7.7%, Online Co-Op 7.3%
- #17 Force of Nature
86% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,209 reviews2016
Dev: A.Y.std
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36% ★, Crafting 12.5%, Survival 11.5%, Sandbox 9.4%, Open World 8.6%
- #18 Miner Rogue
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Voxelblade Studio
Windows
In a fully destructible world, gather resources, build, and craft items. Fight back with your friends against the corruption spreading across the land. But don't dig too deep, because you might end up in hell.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.6% ★, Sandbox 10.2%, Online Co-Op 9.5%, Building 9.2%, Crafting 9%
- #19 Aurendor
84% matchMixed47% of 17 reviews2023
Dev: Telescope Studios
Windows
Aurendor is an open world survival game. Players must gather resources, cook their meals and fight dangerous creatures to survive and build a home for themselves. Aurendor also offers a multiplayer game option. Players can play together by cooperating with or battling other survivors.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.1% ★, Online Co-Op 10.3%, Survival 10%, Building 9.5%, Open World 9.5%
- #20 SkyCraft
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: ADIAN
Windows
Skycraft is an open-world survival game for 1-10 players, set in infinite procedurally-generated floating islands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.5% ★, Building 10%, Online Co-Op 9.8%, Survival 9.6%, Open World 9.5%
- #21 Gravehollow
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Silo Snowdash
Windows
Explore a living, procedurally generated world where creatures and characters act independently of you. Hunt, gather, craft, build, and fight to survive as you uncover the mystery of Gravehollow, where cheating death can awaken dangers best left undisturbed.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.7% ★, Crafting 10.3%, Survival 10.1%, Sandbox 10%, Open World 9.8%
- #22 CHKN
83% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,760 reviews2016
Dev: Katapult
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Behold, the miracle of life… packed into cubes! Create fantastic creatures in an open-world sandbox game like no other. Explore, craft, and survive—all with the help of your very own creations.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.3% ★, Sandbox 11%, Building 9.6%, Open World 9.4%, Survival 9.3%
- #23 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 34.8% ★, Crafting 11.6%, Survival 11.1%, Agriculture 7.7% ★, Sandbox 7.4%
- #24 Solace Crafting
81% 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 27.1% ★, Crafting 10.3%, Survival 9.9%, Open World 8.9%, Building 8.8%
- #25 Cosmorists
81% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2024
Dev: Stellar Roots
Windows
You find yourself completely alone on a different yet very familiar looking planet. Explore the planet, craft tools, fight enemies, and build bases! Do science to learn new technologies that will allow interplanetary travel and better tools at your disposal!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28% ★, Sandbox 10.8%, Open World 10.4%, Crafting 9.5%, Survival 9.4%
- #26 Woodland Rebels
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Beak Berry Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Survive an untamed world where humans, animal villagers and wild animals all coexist, but not in harmony. Craft, farm, cook, and assign roles to villagers. Explore various biomes and muster an animal rebellion to fight back against human invaders.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.1% ★, Colony Sim 14.3%, Sandbox 9.2%, Crafting 8.6%, Survival 8.4%
- #27 Feel The Snow
79% matchVery Positive87% of 3,059 reviews2019
Dev: Owlet
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Choose one of the characters and start your journey. The game has many interesting things in store: building, crafting, puzzles, bosses, mystery, laughs, quests etc.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.1% ★, Survival 10.9%, Crafting 9.6%, Sandbox 8.2%, Open World 7%
- #28 Mayday: The Survival Island
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pequi studiosPub: indie.io
Windows
After a mysterious crash, you awaken alone on a strange island. Survive by hunting, farming, and crafting, then explore a vast archipelago filled with secrets, ancient ruins, and magical totems. Build your base, uncover the truth, and escape—if you can.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.7% ★, Crafting 9.1%, Sandbox 9.1%, Building 8.9%, Online Co-Op 8.3%
- #29 Planet Explorers
79% matchMixed62% of 6,818 reviews2016
Dev: Pathea Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Planet Explorers is an open world sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.5% ★, Sandbox 14.3%, Open World 11.7%, Crafting 8.7%, Survival 8.4%
- #30 Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts
78% matchMostly Negative37% of 375 reviews2023
Dev: EFNSOFT
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 2.6 hrs≥1hr: 36%
Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts is a Multiplayer Survival Horror game for up to 4 players. Set in the Middle of the Unknown, you can craft, build, explore and discover secrets in the exciting first chapter from EFNSOFT.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.8% ★, Survival 10.2%, Open World 10.1%, Crafting 9.9%, Building 9.4%
- #31 Craftopia
77% matchMostly Positive76% of 20,210 reviews2020
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 22.1 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 26.7% ★, Open World 15%, Crafting 14.4%, Survival 12%, Sandbox 9.1%
- #32 Far North
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Legnd
Windows
Far North is a captivating survival game set deep inside the procedurally generated North. Alone or together with friends you can build, farm, cook, hunt and increase your various skills in order to survive the dynamic seasons and thrive in the North.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.8% ★, Agriculture 17.2% ★, Sandbox 10.5%, Survival 9.2%, Procedural Generation 8.1%
- #33 Allumeria
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Infinimelon
Windows
A classic voxel sandbox combined with in-depth progression through exploration, dungeon crawling and boss battles. Spend every minute discovering new weapons, abilities, resources, enemies, structures, mechanics and tools. With a strong focus on discovery, variety and creativity, the world is yours.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.1% ★, Sandbox 10.1%, Building 9.4%, Crafting 9.3%, Survival 8.9%
- #34 Rocksowers
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: bemad
Windows · Linux
Co-op Survival Sandbox meets Bullet Hell. Explore the corrupted surface on a moving base, scavenge for resources and craft GAME-BREAKING weapons using many unique modules to defeat ever-stronger foes. Fight to reclaim what The Bloom took from humanity!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.8% ★, Sandbox 12.8%, Survival 11.1%, Crafting 8.8%, Open World 8.3%
- #35 Nightingale
75% matchMixed66% of 18,038 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 29.3% ★, Online Co-Op 10.2%, Survival 10.2%, Building 9.8%, Open World 9.7%
- #36 Green Hell
75% matchVery Positive85% of 101,308 reviews2019
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 18.4 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 36.6% ★, Survival 13%, Online Co-Op 9.9%, Crafting 8.4%, Open World 8%
- #37 Survisland / 实境求生
74% matchMixed63% of 1,551 reviews2024
Dev: Super Trampers StudioPub: Easy Joy Ltd.
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Survisland is a super hardcore sandbox survival game that pays great attention to restoring the real survival experience. The character has rich and realistic actions and reactions to , and the process logic of making props is no different from reality.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.4% ★, Building 10.6%, Survival 9.8%, Sandbox 9.4%, Crafting 9.3%
- #38 Stormforge
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Roboto Games
Windows
Stormforge is an open-world survival crafting game for 1 to 8 players. You are Stormforged, with the ability to brave and harness power from magical storms. Explore, fight, forage, craft, build, and defeat bosses in this epic, fantasy game. Survive the Storms and thrive!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.4% ★, Open World 9.4%, Survival 9.1%, Building 8.6%, Crafting 8.3%
- #39 Shamania
72% matchMostly Positive74% of 162 reviews2026
Dev: Totem Keepers Games
Windows
Shamania is an open world survival game where you can CRAFT, FIGHT, and EXPLORE a vibrant sandbox world with friends in CO-OP. Expand your base as a hub for survival, gather resources, and master professions to unlock new tools and opportunities!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28% ★, Crafting 11.9%, Open World 11.3%, Survival 10.4%, Sandbox 9.2%
- #40 Crestfallen: Medieval Survival
73% matchMixed59% of 461 reviews2024
Dev: Bloodbath Studios
Windows
👑 Hail to the King! In Crestfallen: Medieval Survival, players clash for dominance over the realm through strategic castle 🏰 building and fierce combat. Craft epic armor, forge deadly medieval weapons⚔️, and build a kingdom worthy of legend 📜. Create a Guild 🐉, trade goods, and prevail! 🌟
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.8% ★, Crafting 11.3%, Survival 10.5%, Building 10%, Open World 9.2%
- #41 Until North Ends
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Unknown Hex
Windows
Fight, farm, and forage as a new experience awaits in this open-world survival crafting adventure. Journey alone or with friends as you build your own safe haven to weather the harsh Nordic landscapes before you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.4% ★, Crafting 10.9%, Open World 10.5%, Survival 10.2%, Online Co-Op 9.3%
- #42 Crea
73% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,408 reviews2016
Dev: Siege Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Progress with every slain monster, learn over 80 skills through talents, craft hundreds of items, and explore vast procedurally-generated worlds in this ever-expanding sandbox RPG!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.8% ★, Sandbox 14.8%, Crafting 11.6%, Survival 8.1%, Building 6.2%
- #43 RuneScape: Dragonwilds
70% matchVery Positive81% of 29,187 reviews2025
Dev: Jagex Ltd
Windows
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 19.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 28.8% ★, Open World 11.7%, Survival 10.5%, Online Co-Op 9.5%, Crafting 8.8%
- #44 The Survivalists
71% matchMostly Positive76% of 10,097 reviews2020
Dev: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.8 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 24.1% ★, Crafting 11.8%, Online Co-Op 10.7%, Survival 10.5%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #45 Conan Exiles Enhanced
70% matchMostly Positive79% of 117,196 reviews2018
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 17.2 hrsMean: 113.9 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 27.5% ★, Survival 14.5%, Open World 12.4%, Building 11.1%, Crafting 9.8%
- #46 Astral Terra
72% matchMixed50% of 152 reviews2015
Dev: Tethys Interactive LLC
Windows
Explore, Adventure, Craft, Build, Survive. How will you shape your world? Astral Terra is a Smooth Voxel, Procedurally Generated Open World game with RPG and Survival Elements!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.5% ★, Sandbox 11.1%, Open World 11%, Survival 10.3%, Building 8.4%
- #47 Gombo
68% matchMixed66% of 38 reviews2026
Dev: Martin CochetPub: FDG Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Explore, craft, fight, build and survive in a mysterious cartoon world, haunted by a mysterious infection! Take control of Gombo, an enchanted creature and dive into an adventure full of magic. Play alone or in online co-op with a friend. Can you uncover the dark secrets of this colorful realm?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27% ★, Online Co-Op 10.6%, Crafting 10.4%, Survival 9.6%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #48 Wonderia
68% matchVery Positive82% of 347 reviews2026
Dev: Rock&DashPub: IndieArk
Windows · Mac
Wonderia's an open-world, manga-art adventure just waiting to be explored. It's got sci-fi sim elements, deep dungeons, and you can even morph into alien form! Grab up to 7 friends to mine, craft, battle, and level—or farm and fish the day away, if that's more your tempo. There's so much to do!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.4% ★, Sandbox 10.4%, Online Co-Op 10.1%, Crafting 9.4%, Survival 9.1%
- #49 Fragmented
71% matchMixed43% of 1,964 reviews2017
Dev: Above and Beyond Technologies
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Stranded in a hostile alien world, you must fight to survive. Hunt, harvest, craft, advance skills, and build using local resources along with technology from your voyage.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.7% ★, Survival 13.3%, Open World 9.2%, Crafting 7.6%, Sandbox 7.3%
- #50 Ötzi
69% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Morpho Games
Windows
Ötzi is a Neolithic survival and crafting game. Hunt, fish and forage so you don't starve. Craft tools, clothing and shelter to withstand the cold, wind and rain in a living ecosystem, solo or in co-op for up to four.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.9% ★, Crafting 12.7%, Survival 10%, Sandbox 7.5%, Open World 7%
- #51 Nyric
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lovelace Studio
Windows
Nyric is a third-person survivalcraft where your words shape the world. Type a phrase—“A storm-haunted wasteland”—and step into a procedurally generated realm built from your imagination. Survive harsh climates and strange hazards using Faebots— AI companions with unique powers tied to their moods.
Why similar: Colony Sim 15.2%, Building 10.2%, Survival 9.9%, Open World 9.9%, Sandbox 9.6%
- #52 Sagventyr
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TheFirstStar
Windows
This action game incorporates elements unique to the medium—such as the spirit of exploration as you venture into the unknown, the tension of weighing the risks and rewards of combat, and the exhilaration of acquiring rare, hard-to-find items.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.7% ★, Building 11.2%, Survival 10.3%, Crafting 9.5%, Open World 9.4%
- #53 I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival
67% matchVery Positive85% of 4,645 reviews2024
Dev: MandragoraPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 14.3 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: Agriculture 20.6% ★, Open World Survival Craft 17.7% ★, Life Sim 10.1%, Sandbox 9.1%, Crafting 9.1%
- #54 Valheim
67% matchVery Positive94% of 540,690 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 26.0 hrsMean: 78.0 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 31.8% ★, Online Co-Op 10.8%, Survival 10.5%, Open World 9.7%, Building 9.5%
- #55 Wildsite
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Vividdi Entertainment
Windows · Linux
Crash-land on a sci-fi planet plagued by toxic plasma storms. Alongside Bob, your sarcastic AI companion, build and shrink your base to move it anywhere. Fight with primitive or plasma weapons in this survival-craft adventure solo or with up to 3 friends in online co-op!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.2% ★, Online Co-Op 10.5%, Building 10.2%, Crafting 10%, Survival 10%
- #56 Blockscape
70% matchMixed46% of 898 reviews2014
Dev: ioneo
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 49%
The ultimate block building game. Start with nothing and build an empire. Smooth voxel worlds, settlers, crafting, vehicles, and Steam multiplayer. Survival or Just Build — every item in your inventory is also a building block.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.7% ★, Sandbox 13.5%, Crafting 8.2%, Open World 8.2%, Building 8%
- #57 Romestead
64% matchMostly Positive77% of 4,827 reviews2026
Dev: BeartwigsPub: Three Friends
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 22.2% ★, Crafting 11.6%, Survival 9.9%, Procedural Generation 9.4%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #58 Nighthold
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 2 Zombie GamesPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Build shelters, interact with rescuees, battle against the Rot and raiders to survive another night in this Sandbox RPG. Play Solo or team up with friends in Online Сo-op.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.3% ★, Sandbox 8.5%, Crafting 8%, Building 7.9%, Survival 7.7%
- #59 Wild Omission
66% 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 26.1% ★, Crafting 10.7%, Survival 9.9%, Building 9.9%, Sandbox 9.4%