- #1 Necesse
96% matchVery Positive93% of 26,780 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 14.6 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 44.3% ★, Sandbox 10.7%, Crafting 8.5%, Survival 7.9%, Building 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: Combines sandbox survival with village management and combat, providing a similar sense of world-building and growth.
- #2 Starbound
97% matchVery Positive90% of 122,901 reviews2016
Dev: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.2 hrsMean: 64.1 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 44.3% ★, Sandbox 14.7%, Crafting 8.4%, Survival 8.1%, Building 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a vast, procedurally generated universe with a heavy emphasis on 2D exploration, crafting, and base building.
- #3 Terraria
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,511,859 reviews2011
Dev: Re-Logic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 33.2 hrsMean: 149.0 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% ★, Sandbox 14.8%, Survival 9.3%, Crafting 8.7%, Building 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: The definitive 2D sandbox experience that mirrors the progression, building, and exploration loops found in Junk Jack.
- #4 Core Keeper
95% matchVery Positive93% of 63,205 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.0 hrsMean: 33.7 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 29.8% ★, Sandbox 12.5%, Crafting 11%, Survival 10.1%, Building 9%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down mining and crafting game that captures the satisfying progression and base-building elements of the genre.
- #5 Planet Centauri
94% matchMostly Positive77% of 2,359 reviews2024
Dev: Permadeath
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Dive into an epic adventure alone or with friends! Explore hidden dungeons, capture and tame fearsome monsters, build and defend your village. Craft powerful weapons, master magical spells, and transform an planet into the cradle of a new civilization!
Why similar: Sandbox 24.9%, Crafting 18.9%, Building 13.6%, Multiplayer 10.3%, Pixel Graphics 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: Features deep creature taming and crafting mechanics within a vibrant 2D pixel-art world.
- #6 Tinkertown
94% matchMixed67% of 1,340 reviews2023
Dev: Headup
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Gather your friends and come to Tinkertown - A refreshing new Multiplayer Sandbox Experience! Explore magical places filled with loot, danger, and creativity.
Why similar: Sandbox 20.1%, Crafting 18.3%, Adventure 12.2%, Building 11.8%, Multiplayer 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: A cozy, multiplayer-focused sandbox that emphasizes exploration and building in a charming pixel-art world.
- #7 Forager
93% matchVery Positive90% of 43,003 reviews2019
Dev: HopFrogPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 22.3 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 44.2% ★, Crafting 12.6%, Survival 11.8%, Sandbox 9.1%, Building 4.9%
Why You'll Like It: An addictive, fast-paced exploration and crafting game that rewards constant expansion and resource gathering.
- #8 The Survivalists
92% matchMostly Positive76% of 9,935 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 34.6% ★, Crafting 14.5%, Survival 12.6%, Sandbox 11.6%, Multiplayer 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D survival game that introduces unique monkey-management mechanics to help with crafting and base building.
- #9 Dig or Die
91% matchVery Positive90% of 4,268 reviews2018
Dev: Gaddy Games
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Crash land on a hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it. But be warned... this planet is merciless. Build strong, and smart; else physics may flood or destroy your only hopes of survival.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.2% ★, Sandbox 14.5%, Survival 12.3%, Crafting 11.2%, Building 4.9%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the survival and tower defense aspects of 2D mining games, requiring clever base design to survive the night.
- #10 Tinkerlands
89% matchVery Positive86% of 3,746 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 13.7 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 36.8% ★, Sandbox 12.9%, Survival 9.9%, Crafting 9.2%, Building 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: A recent sandbox survival title that captures the classic 2D exploration and crafting feel with modern quality-of-life features.
- #11 Signs of Life
91% matchMostly Positive76% of 841 reviews2014
Dev: Sweet Dog Studios
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 9.5 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 44.8% ★, Sandbox 15.1%, Crafting 10.4%, Survival 9.8%, Building 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi 2D sandbox that emphasizes survival, exploration, and crafting on mysterious alien worlds.
- #12 Craft The World
90% matchVery Positive88% of 16,818 reviews2014
Dev: Dekovir EntertainmentPub: Dekovir Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 38.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Craft The World is a unique sandbox strategy game, the mix of Dungeon Keeper, Terraria and Dwarf Fortress. Explore a random generated world populated by dangerous creatures, build a dwarf fortress, gather resources, and craft all the items, weapons, and armor you need.
Why similar: Sandbox 26.1%, Crafting 23.7%, Building 19.4%, Survival 15%, Multiplayer 5.2%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D sandbox strategy game where you manage a tribe of dwarves, focusing on mining, crafting, and defending your base.
- #13 Feel The Snow
89% matchVery Positive87% of 3,024 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 42.8% ★, Survival 11.5%, Crafting 10.4%, Sandbox 10%, Multiplayer 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D adventure game featuring winter-themed survival, crafting, and exploration with a distinct art style.
- #14 Cubic Castles
88% matchMostly Positive74% of 4,272 reviews2014
Dev: Cosmic Cow LLC
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Your blocks, your castle, your world! Build anything you can dream up and explore with other players! Cubic Castles is a mini-MMO that combines the best of block-building and 3D platform action! Create fantastic parkour challenges, explore worlds made by other players, or even make friend!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.2% ★, Sandbox 13.5%, Building 11.7%, Crafting 9.4%, Multiplayer 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: A social-focused sandbox game that emphasizes creative building and exploration in a blocky 2D world.
- #15 Dinkum
84% matchVery Positive92% of 28,435 reviews2025
Dev: James BendonPub: KRAFTON, Inc.
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 28.4 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 54% ★, Sandbox 12%, Crafting 11.5%, Building 8.7%, Multiplayer 5.5%
Why You'll Like It: A relaxing survival and farming game that emphasizes building your own town and exploring a wild, untamed environment.
- #16 ASTRONEER
86% matchVery Positive92% of 136,711 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 44.1 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 41.4% ★, Survival 12%, Sandbox 11.2%, Crafting 8.2%, Multiplayer 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on space exploration and base building with a heavy emphasis on terraforming and resource management.
- #17 Alchemist's Awakening
87% matchMostly Positive73% of 496 reviews2019
Dev: OsarisGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Enter a world full of magic, mystery, beautiful landscapes and dangerous creatures. Build your own destiny, by yourself or with some friends, gather materials, use elements as attacks, recombine them into building blocks... and use your Alchemist's power to give life to any shape you built.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.4% ★, Sandbox 16.2%, Crafting 14.5%, Survival 10.8%, Open World 4%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on alchemy and creature taming within a 2D sandbox environment, offering a unique twist on the genre.
- #18 Creativerse
85% matchMostly Positive78% of 30,868 reviews2017
Dev: Playful Corp.
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 63%
A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.3% ★, Sandbox 13.6%, Crafting 12%, Survival 10.5%, Building 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based sandbox that offers extensive building tools and exploration in a colorful, persistent world.
- #19 Edge of Space
86% matchMostly Negative33% of 2,729 reviews2015
Dev: Handyman StudiosPub: Reverb Triple XP
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Suit up as an operative of the Ark Corporation, sent to the farthest reaches of the universe in search of habitable planets to terraform. However, after the long space journey you awaken from cryosleep to find that your ship has gone way off course and is disabled near a strange new world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.1% ★, Sandbox 16.7%, Crafting 8.8%, Survival 6.3%, Building 3.9%
Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi 2D survival game that focuses on intense combat, exploration, and advanced crafting.
- #20 Rising World
84% matchVery Positive86% of 5,845 reviews2014
Dev: JIW-Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 21.3 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 38.7% ★, Sandbox 13.1%, Crafting 11.5%, Survival 10.1%, Building 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: A relaxing sandbox game that allows for highly detailed building and mining in an open-world environment.
- #21 Portal Knights
83% matchVery Positive83% of 22,116 reviews2017
Dev: Keen Games GmbHPub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 21.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
The world of Elysia needs YOU! Join this cooperative, 3D sandbox action RPG to level up your character, craft epic weapons, conquer enemies in real-time, and build almost anything! Craft your adventure. Forge your hero. Become the ultimate Portal Knight!
Why similar: Sandbox 24.8%, Crafting 18.2%, Building 15.5%, Survival 15.3%, Multiplayer 12.2%
Why You'll Like It: A 3D sandbox that bridges the gap between traditional RPGs and creative building, much like the progression in Junk Jack.
- #22 Slime Rancher
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 151,397 reviews2017
Dev: Monomi Park
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 21.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Slime Rancher is the tale of Beatrix LeBeau, a plucky, young rancher who sets out for a life a thousand light years away from Earth on the ‘Far, Far Range’ where she tries her hand at making a living wrangling slimes.
Why similar: Sandbox 47.2%, Open World 21.7%, Adventure 21.5%, Indie 5.5%, Action 4.1%
Why You'll Like It: While 3D, it perfectly captures the relaxing creature collection and farming loops that make Junk Jack so enjoyable.
- #23 Stardew Valley
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 992,215 reviews2016
Dev: ConcernedApe
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 22.7 hrsMean: 83.6 hrs≥1hr: 92%
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Why similar: Sandbox 23%, Crafting 20.6%, Multiplayer 18.5%, Building 13.9%, Pixel Graphics 11.6%
Why You'll Like It: While more focused on farming, it shares the relaxing, rewarding loop of building a home and interacting with a living world.
- #24 Scrapnaut
82% matchMostly Positive70% of 824 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 31.4% ★, Sandbox 13%, Survival 12.7%, Building 12.2%, Crafting 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game that emphasizes base building and resource management in a stylized, hand-drawn world.
- #25 Don't Starve
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 112,271 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 42.3% ★, Survival 21.1%, Crafting 12.4%, Sandbox 12.1%, Multiplayer 3.8%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a more challenging survival experience with a unique art style and deep crafting mechanics.
- #26 My Time at Sandrock
79% matchVery Positive88% of 28,280 reviews2023
Dev: Pathea Games
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 39.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Travel to the desert community of Sandrock and take on the role of a fledgling Builder. Use your trusty toolset to gather resources, construct machines, and turn your run-down workshop into a well-oiled production facility to save the town from the jaws of economic ruin!
Why similar: Sandbox 27.3%, Crafting 24.2%, Building 22.6%, Multiplayer 14.1%, Open World 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: A charming building and social simulation game that rewards players for crafting and improving their community.
- #27 Townscaper
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 21,438 reviews2021
Dev: Oskar StålbergPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac
Median: 42 minMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 43%
Instant town building toy. Place housing blocks and watch them transform, piece by piece, into idyllic ocean-side towns, pastoral gardens, or sweeping cities on the sea.
Why similar: Sandbox 48%, Building 35.4%, Open World 10.2%, Indie 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: An instant, relaxing building toy that captures the pure joy of creating structures without the pressure of survival.
- #28 Grow: Song of the Evertree
78% matchVery Positive81% of 2,538 reviews2021
Dev: Prideful SlothPub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Grow your own worlds and nurture a deep natural connection with everything they hold. See your actions change the world for better! Bring the Evertree back to life in this breathtaking world-crafting sandbox, with life management and adventure elements.
Why similar: Sandbox 64.1%, Adventure 18.4%, Open World 17.6%
Why You'll Like It: A relaxing world-building game that focuses on nurturing nature and creating a thriving environment.
- #29 Boundless
79% matchMixed70% of 2,766 reviews2018
Dev: Monumental, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 33.0 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Shape your citizen, forge your destiny and sculpt your world in this epic voxel sandbox MMO built on endless possibility.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.1% ★, Sandbox 16%, Crafting 12.2%, Building 8.9%, Survival 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based sandbox that emphasizes exploration, building, and trading across different planets.
- #30 Blockscape
80% matchMixed46% of 898 reviews2014
Dev: ioneo
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 49%
The ultimate block building game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 53.3% ★, Sandbox 15.2%, Crafting 8.2%, Survival 7.4%, Building 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based game that focuses on high-fidelity building and exploration in a vast, destructible world.
- #31 TerraTech
76% matchVery Positive91% of 24,455 reviews2018
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 33.0 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 36.9% ★, Sandbox 16.1%, Building 13.4%, Crafting 10.3%, Survival 7.5%
- #32 Keplerth
76% matchVery Positive85% of 4,121 reviews2022
Dev: TAROPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Welcome to Keplerth! Try to survive on a hostile alien planet in this 2D sandbox RPG, where you can choose to live alone or fight side by side with your friends in the online multiplayer mode. Survive, build, farm, fight, and explore your way to victory in this open-world adventure!
Why similar: Sandbox 25%, Survival 18.6%, Building 16.3%, Crafting 8.4%, Multiplayer 7.7%
- #33 Scrap Mechanic
75% matchVery Positive92% of 117,049 reviews2016
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.1 hrsMean: 57.3 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: Sandbox 20.9%, Building 17.9%, Crafting 17.3%, Survival 15.9%, Multiplayer 9.8%
- #34 Planet Explorers
77% matchMixed62% of 6,817 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 44.5% ★, Sandbox 16.8%, Crafting 9.1%, Survival 8.6%, Building 6.2%
- #35 Miniland Adventure
75% matchMostly Positive74% of 328 reviews2023
Dev: Imilkowski DevPub: Gameparic
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 54%
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 38.7% ★, Sandbox 16.4%, Survival 12.2%, Crafting 11%, Building 9%
- #36 Survival Machine
73% matchMostly Positive74% of 669 reviews2025
Dev: Grape PickersPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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: Open World Survival Craft 36.5% ★, Sandbox 11.7%, Crafting 11.4%, Survival 10.4%, Building 9%
- #37 TerraTech Worlds
74% matchMixed63% of 2,175 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 36.9% ★, Sandbox 13.3%, Crafting 11.7%, Survival 10.1%, Building 9.4%
- #38 Longvinter
73% matchMixed67% of 7,526 reviews2025
Dev: Uuvana Studios
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 39.9 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Fish, farm, craft, gather, cook, loot or steal from other players and build a campsite or a village with your friends in an open-world multiplayer sandbox game without rules!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.8% ★, Crafting 13.5%, Survival 13.3%, Sandbox 12%, Multiplayer 8.6%
- #39 GRAV
77% matchMixed47% of 6,921 reviews2015
Dev: BitMonster, Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 11.5 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 47.2% ★, Survival 13.3%, Sandbox 12.2%, Crafting 9.1%, Multiplayer 5.7%
- #40 Staxel
74% matchMostly Positive79% of 4,816 reviews2019
Dev: PlukitPub: Balor Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Grow your farm, meet the villagers, and join your friends online in building your world.
Why similar: Sandbox 30.1%, Building 20.4%, Survival 11.8%, Multiplayer 11.7%, Pixel Graphics 7.6%
- #41 Shamania
72% matchMostly Positive78% of 140 reviews2025
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 36.5% ★, Crafting 13.2%, Sandbox 11.6%, Survival 11.3%, Multiplayer 6.7%
- #42 Crashlands
73% matchVery Positive90% of 6,633 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 38.6% ★, Sandbox 12.4%, Crafting 11.5%, Survival 10.7%, Building 8.1%
- #43 Realms of Magic
72% matchVery Positive81% of 986 reviews2022
Dev: Polished Games
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Embark on a journey through the Old Kingdom in Realms of Magic - a sandbox RPG where you customize your character, choose your path, and immerse yourself in the fantasy world as a knight, wizard, miner, lumberjack, farmer, and more. After all, this is YOUR adventure.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 56.7% ★, Sandbox 12.5%, Survival 5.8%, Crafting 5.5%, Adventure 4.7%
- #44 Cubic Odyssey
70% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,483 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 43.9% ★, Sandbox 15.8%, Building 11%, Crafting 7.5%, Survival 7.2%
- #45 Arctico
71% matchMostly Positive71% of 2,417 reviews2022
Dev: Claudio Norori
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Explore Arctico with your dog sled, kayak, and up to 3 friends! Build and customize your base camp, gather resources and samples, set up labs, and take good care of your dogs in this peaceful island.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.4% ★, Survival 11.4%, Crafting 7.9%, Multiplayer 7.3%, Sandbox 6.2%
- #46 Crashlands 2
69% matchVery Positive88% of 2,314 reviews2025
Dev: Butterscotch Shenanigans
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Slap your way across a vibrant world where interstellar friendships are the key to your survival. Befriend eccentric aliens, craft bizarre weaponry, and stick it to the man in this sequel to the award-winning open world crafting RPG Crashlands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.2% ★, Sandbox 12.5%, Crafting 12.2%, Survival 11.7%, Building 7.7%
- #47 Eden Crafters
69% matchVery Positive86% of 2,214 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in Eden Crafters, a solo and co-op open-world game that challenges you to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Temper the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.1% ★, Sandbox 13.6%, Crafting 13.2%, Survival 9.6%, Building 9.1%
- #48 XenoHaven
69% matchVery Positive86% of 64 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 34.9% ★, Sandbox 15.9%, Survival 12%, Crafting 11.3%, Building 9.1%
- #49 Planetaries
70% matchMixed59% of 222 reviews2024
Dev: EY-Studio
Windows
Experience a vast Sci-fi open-world survival TD game set on a distant planet deep in the universe. Craft, build, mine, trade, explore, and survive in this alien world. Collect Data and defend against waves of enemies seeking to banish you. Enjoy the adventure in Singleplayer or Multiplayer.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.2% ★, Crafting 11.4%, Sandbox 11.2%, Survival 10.6%, Building 9.5%
- #50 Space Trash Scavenger
68% matchVery Positive84% of 514 reviews2024
Dev: SquarePlay GamesPub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 9.2 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 42.8% ★, Crafting 13.1%, Sandbox 13.1%, Survival 11.6%, Building 9%
- #51 Palworld
66% matchVery Positive94% of 417,805 reviews2024
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 34.2 hrsMean: 70.0 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 39.9% ★, Survival 13.4%, Crafting 10.2%, Sandbox 8.7%, Multiplayer 8%
- #52 Re.poly
71% matchVery Positive92% of 135 reviews2019
Dev: Hinkfoot Studios
Windows
Re.Poly is a relaxed yet deep indie survival game in a low-poly style that blends exploration, combat, building, and adventure. Whether alone or with friends, create your own world, write your own story, and decide how you want to play.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.1% ★, Sandbox 15%, Crafting 13.1%, Survival 12.2%, Multiplayer 5.3%
- #53 JUNKPUNK
70% matchMixed63% of 672 reviews2021
Dev: SCT
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 61%
JUNKPUNK is a factory management, base building, exploration game where a New World Robotics ship has crash landed. You and any survivors must restore this ruined planet and prepare it for habitable life. Craft, build, explore, discover, and grow to terraform the planet.
Why similar: Crafting 45.1%, Building 35.4%, Adventure 13%, Base Building 6.6%
- #54 MewnBase
67% matchVery Positive93% of 1,428 reviews2023
Dev: Cairn4
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 73%
MewnBase is a space-cat survival and base-building game. Scavenge around a barren planet for items to keep you fed. Explore and collect resources. Craft items and grow your base to help you survive.
Why similar: Sandbox 24.8%, Crafting 23.5%, Survival 18.5%, Building 16.2%, Base Building 5.9%
- #55 Crushed
71% matchMixed55% of 307 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 43.1% ★, Sandbox 12.5%, Survival 12.1%, Crafting 10.8%, Building 8.5%
- #56 Piworld
68% matchMostly Positive75% of 134 reviews2025
Dev: Ahaha studio
Windows
Piworld is a unique multiplayer game where everyone can find something to do to suit their desires. Try out different roles: from a simple fisherman to an adventurer. Explore the world alone or with friends, fight evil, develop your skills, and create your own story.
Why similar: Sandbox 24.2%, Crafting 22.4%, Survival 19.9%, Pixel Graphics 7.8%, Adventure 7.2%
- #57 Omega Crafter
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 560 reviews2025
Dev: Preferred Networks
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Adventure in a vast open-world survival craft game with your programmable sidekick Grammi! Program the Grammi to collect materials, build your town, craft weapons and armor to challenge strong enemies! Play alone or with friends online!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.1% ★, Crafting 12.9%, Survival 11.8%, Sandbox 9.1%, Building 7.9%
- #58 Len's Island
66% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,615 reviews2025
Dev: Flow Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 11.9 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 41.7% ★, Sandbox 13.1%, Crafting 11.7%, Survival 11.6%, Building 10.9%
- #59 The Planet Crafter
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 67,314 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.1 hrsMean: 37.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 41.8% ★, Crafting 12%, Survival 11.7%, Sandbox 11.3%, Building 10.2%
- #60 Nova Lands
66% matchVery Positive89% of 3,351 reviews2023
Dev: BEHEMUTTPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Nova Lands is a factory building, exploration, and island management game. Explore, engage in combat, and automate your industry. The planet you’re on is full of mysteries, creatures, people, and things to do. Welcome to your new home amongst the stars!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.7% ★, Sandbox 15.2%, Crafting 11.2%, Survival 10.4%, Building 7.9%
