- #1 XERA: Survival
97% matchMixed66% of 7,942 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 25.6% ★, Looter Shooter 13.6% ★, Base Building 10.9%, Crafting 8.9%, Survival 8.1%
- #2 Dysterra
96% matchMixed56% of 773 reviews2025
Dev: Reality MagiQ
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 60%
On a future post-apocalyptic Earth, build, craft, and loot other players’ bases to survive long enough to board the rocket and escape the dangerous robots and mercenaries that inhabit Ararat Island. Manipulate the weather and use earthquakes to change when the server wipe occurs in DYSTERRA!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.9% ★, Base Building 10.7%, Crafting 10.3%, FPS 9.8%, PvE 9.6%
- #3 DeadPoly
96% matchMostly Positive78% of 6,250 reviews2022
Dev: TFL Games
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 64%
DeadPoly is a polygon arcade zombie survival looter shooter with base building, crafting, scavenging, leveling, questing, and more, but your only goal is survival, everything else is optional.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.7% ★, Looter Shooter 17.3% ★, Base Building 8.6%, Crafting 8.6%, Survival 8.2%
- #4 Zombie Survival Game Online
95% matchMixed69% of 317 reviews2023
Dev: Zombie Survival Game Online LLC
Windows
Zombie Survival Game Online is an open-world, post-apocalyptic, looter shooter. Craft, quest, explore, build, and fight for survival. Parkour up a mountainside, ramp a truck over a horde, and grab a gasmask to explore the sewers. Can you survive? Doubtful.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 19.8% ★, Looter Shooter 17.9% ★, Crafting 7.4%, Base Building 7%, FPS 6.9%
- #5 Omega Crafter
94% matchMostly Positive79% of 579 reviews2025
Dev: Preferred Networks
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.4 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 31.9% ★, Crafting 11.2%, Survival 9.8%, Open World 8.7%, Building 7.7%
- #6 Volcanoids
94% matchVery Positive83% of 9,358 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.
Why similar: Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 12.9%, FPS 11.3%, Survival 10.3%, Building 10.1%
- #7 Taora : Survival
93% matchMixed59% of 421 reviews2024
Dev: Tulpar Games
Windows
Taora is an open world survival game with unique character building and crafting. Build and upgrade your base, and survive the zombie apocalypse !
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.9% ★, Looter Shooter 18.7% ★, Crafting 8.8%, Base Building 7.5%, Online Co-Op 7.2%
- #8 Fargone
91% matchMixed69% of 601 reviews2022
Dev: RedDot Games
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 45%
Fargone is an RPG-based survival game with a strong focus on creating a living, breathing world through dynamic events, and NPC interactions. Set in a fictional land known only as The Barrens, you must survive by any means, whether that be alone or by allying yourself with a faction.
Why similar: Looter Shooter 24.7% ★, FPS 10.7%, Base Building 10.3%, Crafting 10.2%, Survival 8.9%
- #9 Fragmented
92% 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 43.1% ★, Survival 12.7%, Open World 8.3%, Crafting 7.7%, Multiplayer 5.5%
- #10 INCUR Survival
90% matchVery Positive81% of 112 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 34.9% ★, Crafting 11.6%, Building 10.8%, Survival 10.1%, Open World 8.9%
- #11 GRAV
91% matchMixed47% of 6,922 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 42.2% ★, Survival 13.1%, Base Building 12.2%, Open World 10.8%, Crafting 9.2%
- #12 Lost Rift
89% matchMixed69% of 1,717 reviews2025
Dev: People Can Fly
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Lost Rift is a first person survival adventure shooter that blends cooperative base building with multiplayer PvE or PvP extraction expeditions. Journey solo or in teams of up to 5 players across a vast archipelago, craft gear, build bases, defeat raiders, and become legendary.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Crafting 10.6%, FPS 9.4%, Survival 9%
- #13 Palworld
86% matchVery Positive95% of 490,433 reviews2026
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 41.0 hrsMean: 86.8 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.3% ★, Creature Collector 15.1%, Open World 10.7%, Survival 10.2%, Crafting 8%
- #14 Rem Survival
89% matchMostly Positive76% of 809 reviews2021
Dev: Immortal Hand Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 47.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Scavenge abandoned ruins, craft gear from scrap and salvaged materials, and fight the environment itself as hunger, exposure, and exhaustion push you to your limits. There are no second chances—only adaptation or death.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.6% ★, Crafting 11.7%, Base Building 11.7%, Survival 10.2%, Open World 9.1%
- #15 Outpost Zero
88% matchMixed48% of 853 reviews2019
Dev: Symmetric GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Outpost Zero blends the genres of Multiplayer Base Building Survival and Simulation games in a Sci-Fi universe. On a lawless alien world, robotic scouts are tasked with building an Outpost for human colonists. Command AI minions, colonize the planet, and survive the perils of Gaiya.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.3% ★, Survival 14.2%, Base Building 11.1%, Open World 9.4%, Crafting 8.4%
- #16 Mesorift Survival
86% matchMostly Positive72% of 152 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 26.7% ★, Looter Shooter 13% ★, FPS 9.5%, Base Building 9%, Survival 9%
- #17 Crushed
87% matchMixed53% of 321 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 32.2% ★, FPS 10.1%, Survival 9.9%, Crafting 9.2%, Open World 9%
- #18 Polygeddon
85% matchMixed40% of 75 reviews2025
Dev: Digital Dreamworks
Windows
You are on an island where everyone wants to kill you, ranging from weather conditions to dangerous enemies, your goal is to survive. Survive alone or together. Build, craft, grow, explore, fight!
Why similar: Looter Shooter 27.2% ★, Survival 13.9%, Crafting 13.4%, Open World 12.8%, Multiplayer 7.9%
- #19 Cargo Hunters
82% matchVery Positive83% of 793 reviews2026
Dev: Order Of MetaPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Cargo Hunters is an extraction shooter where you control a humanoid robot scavenging the remains of humanity on an abandoned, dystopian Earth. Play solo or in 4 players co-op.
Why similar: Crafting 18.1%, Online Co-Op 17.8%, Survival 15.2%, Open World 14.5%, PvE 12.3%
- #20 TerraTech Worlds
84% matchMixed63% of 2,297 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 21.8 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 31.7% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 11.6%, Survival 9.6%, Building 9.4%
- #21 Subsistence
84% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,861 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 40.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.3% ★, Survival 12.3%, Crafting 11.1%, Open World 8.2%, Base Building 7.7%
- #22 Project Asteroids
83% matchMixed56% of 132 reviews2024
Dev: PAEB Studio
Windows
In the vastness of space, you are a lone robot desperately trying to survive. Build, explore, and fight for your life as you face deadly threats in the asteroid belt. This hardcore game shows no mercy—dangers lurk at every step, ready to destroy you at any moment.
Why similar: Crafting 16.2%, Survival 14.4%, FPS 13.2%, Open World 12.2%, Base Building 10.7%
- #23 Urge
82% matchVery Positive90% of 524 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 29.6% ★, Looter Shooter 15.1% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Crafting 9.4%, Survival 8.4%
- #24 TerraTech
81% matchVery Positive91% of 25,032 reviews2018
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 32.4 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 35.2% ★, Building 14.8%, Open World 11.6%, Crafting 11.2%, Survival 7.9%
- #25 Once Human
79% matchMostly Positive79% of 189,842 reviews2024
Dev: Starry Studio
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 52.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Once Human is a Strange Worlds Survival Game set in a strange, post-apocalyptic future. Unite with friends to fight monstrous enemies, uncover secret plots, compete for resources, and build your own territory. Once, you were merely human. Now, you have the power to remake the world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.1% ★, Base Building 9.5%, Crafting 9.1%, Survival 8.8%, Open World 8.3%
- #26 Raise Your Tribe
80% matchMixed56% of 66 reviews2025
Dev: Primeval Forest Studios
Windows
A hardcore tactical shooter with horror elements. Battle Machines and Mutants, and build your legacy on a deadly post-apocalyptic Cyberpunk Island. Explore dangerous zones, craft powerful gear, and shape your Cyberware build. Uncover secrets and fight to survive in a brutal, immersive world!
Why similar: Looter Shooter 20.7% ★, FPS 12.2%, Open World 10.8%, Base Building 9.5%, Survival 9.2%
- #27 Survival: Lost Way
81% matchMostly Negative36% of 301 reviews2023
Dev: SimplePlanPub: SimplePlan Studio
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
An open-world post-apocalyptic survival sandbox. Scavenge, craft, build, and survive solo or in co-op.
Why similar: Crafting 19.8%, Survival 17.6%, FPS 15.6%, Base Building 12%, Building 10.5%
- #28 StarRupture
76% matchVery Positive81% of 13,607 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 27.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.1% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Crafting 10.5%, Survival 9.8%, Open World 9%
- #29 Deadside
77% matchMostly Positive76% of 40,566 reviews2024
Dev: Bad Pixel
Windows
Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 44.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
An Open World Survival Shooter blending hardcore PVP and PVE action. Secure precious loot in safe zones or build your own fortress in the wild. With intense gunfights, stunning visuals, and performance smooth enough for any system, the challenge awaits!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.4% ★, Base Building 10.5%, Looter Shooter 10.4% ★, Survival 10.4%, Crafting 10.3%
- #30 KeepUp Survival
78% matchMixed64% of 751 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 31.1% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Crafting 11.2%, Survival 10.6%, Open World 9.7%
- #31 SURVIVAL: Postapocalypse Now
79% 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 47.7% ★, Survival 14.9%, Open World 9.6%, Crafting 6.8%, FPS 6.7%
- #32 Scrapnaut
77% matchMixed70% of 839 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 26.1% ★, Building 11.9%, Survival 11.6%, Online Co-Op 10.4%, Crafting 9.8%
- #33 Notmads
75% matchVery Positive85% of 107 reviews2026
Dev: Rhomita
Windows
Your home is a living beast. Explore a handcrafted open world in an action RPG where you fight with magic, gather resources, find loot, craft, and grow stronger. Customize and expand your home on its back, and take it with you as you explore solo or with friends.
Why similar: Base Building 13%, Crafting 11.7%, Survival 10.5%, Online Co-Op 10.5%, Open World 10.1%
- #34 Plains of Pain
75% matchVery Positive83% of 1,036 reviews2023
Dev: Cobra Byte Digital
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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 29% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Crafting 10.3%, Online Co-Op 9.2%, Survival 9.1%
- #35 Generation Zero®
76% matchMostly Positive72% of 42,281 reviews2019
Dev: Systemic Reaction™Pub: Avalanche Studios
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 19.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Generation Zero is a stealth-action shooter where you wage guerilla warfare against lethal mechanical enemies. Explore a vast open world map inspired by the Swedish Cold War era, take part in the resistance alone or with up to three friends in seamless co-op.
Why similar: Base Building 15.2%, FPS 14%, Crafting 13.3%, Survival 12.7%, Open World 12.7%
- #36 Not Quite Dead: Open World Survival
74% matchMixed62% of 247 reviews2026
Dev: Voidecho Studio
Windows
Open world zombie survival Coop game with base building, looting, crafting, vehicles, and exploration.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.1% ★, Action RPG 15.2%, Online Co-Op 9.6%, Action-Adventure 8.9%, Open World 7.8%
- #37 MISERY
70% matchVery Positive84% of 26,185 reviews2025
Dev: Platypus EntertainmentPub: Ytopia
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 83%
MISERY is a 1–10 player co-op survival game set in a nuclear disaster zone. Here, every day is a struggle: search radioactive ruins for resources, build your bunker, craft weapons, and explore a weird, procedurally-generated world with your friends. Beware of anomalies, monsters, and armed bandits.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.2% ★, Survival 10.6%, Online Co-Op 9.9%, Base Building 9.6%, Crafting 9.1%
- #38 LIFE EFFECT Survival
71% matchVery Positive86% of 548 reviews2026
Dev: LIFE EFFECTPub: EFFECT STUDIO
Windows
Survive in a harsh and dangerous world after an alien invasion. Gather resources, craft equipment, fight mutants and massive monsters, use weapons, vehicles and robots, explore territories, defend strongholds and fight for survival.
Why similar: Looter Shooter 34.4% ★, Crafting 15.1%, FPS 15%, Survival 13%, Shooter 9.8%
- #39 Ruins To Fortress
72% matchMixed66% of 184 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 30.8% ★, Looter Shooter 12.7% ★, Base Building 9.4%, Crafting 9.3%, Survival 8.5%
- #40 CRABS MUST DIE!
71% matchVery Positive82% of 71 reviews2025
Dev: Roman Kharlamov
Windows
You've crash-landed on a forgotten planet and must survive in a hostile open world filled with mutated crabs and other enemies. Armed with weapons, a beat-up bike, and a few skills, you'll explore, fight, scavenge, and level up. A compact open-world shooter with light RPG and survival elements.
Why similar: FPS 25.8%, Open World 19.7%, Action RPG 19.4%, Shooter 15.2%, RPG 9.4%
- #41 Craterbound
73% 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 36.3% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 11.7%, Survival 11.5%, Open World 10.8%
- #42 Nuclear Epoch
69% matchMostly Positive78% of 547 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: Looter Shooter 29.2% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 11.6%, Open World 10.5%, Building 9.5%
- #43 Far Lands
71% matchMixed64% of 173 reviews2024
Dev: Scalpel Softworks
Windows
Far Lands is an open-world survival game. Fight mercenaries, steal their loot and vehicles. Build and defend your base from zombies. Gather resources, craft better gear and loot different points of interest. Want to play with friends? Join them on Co-op!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.8% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Crafting 13.7%, Survival 12.2%, Open World 9.3%
- #44 Nomad
73% matchMixed60% of 4,634 reviews2015
Dev: Diminished Studios
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Try and survive in the world of Nomad. Build a base and protect it from raiding players. Scavenge food, weapons and medical supplies across the island. Team up with others and make a base. Make your mark on the world of Nomad.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45% ★, Survival 14.8%, Open World 10.3%, Crafting 8.9%, Multiplayer 8.7%
- #45 Wild Omission
70% matchVery Positive88% of 83 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 28.2% ★, Crafting 11.4%, Survival 9.9%, Open World 8.8%, Building 8.7%
- #46 Shamania
69% matchMostly Positive74% of 171 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 29.5% ★, Crafting 12.3%, Open World 10.3%, Survival 10.1%, Online Co-Op 7.6%
- #47 The Fifth Day
73% matchMostly Negative37% of 941 reviews2014
Dev: Touz
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 63%
The Fifth Day is a post-apocalyptic survival game set in the time after mankind's extinction to the machines that it created. Your role, as one of these machines, is to survive in the hostile world left behind by man.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.1% ★, Survival 18%, Open World 12.6%, FPS 7.9%, Multiplayer 6.9%
- #48 Heat Death: Survival Train
68% matchMostly Positive78% of 730 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 33.1% ★, Crafting 12.2%, Base Building 12%, Survival 10.1%, Looter Shooter 9.9% ★
- #49 The Planet Crafter
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 74,281 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.7 hrsMean: 38.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.4% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 10.5%, Survival 10%, Online Co-Op 10%
- #50 Scrap Mechanic
64% matchVery Positive92% of 123,030 reviews2026
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 65.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!
Why similar: Building 18.6%, Crafting 17.6%, Survival 15.6%, Open World 14.7%, Base Building 13.1%
- #51 Space Trash Scavenger
67% matchVery Positive83% of 528 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 35.3% ★, Crafting 12.4%, Survival 10.5%, Base Building 9.2%, Open World 9%
- #52 Survival Machine
66% matchMostly Positive70% of 809 reviews2026
Dev: Grape PickersPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 17%, Crafting 15.4%, Online Co-Op 14.1%, Survival 12.5%, Building 12.2%
- #53 Strayed
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 443 reviews2024
Dev: Crustacean Interactive
Windows
Strayed is a fast paced open world VR survival game where every session feels like a new adventure. Start with nothing on a fresh island, gather materials, craft weapons, build bases, and battle other players for the best loot.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.2% ★, Crafting 9.6%, Base Building 8.9%, Survival 8.3%, Building 7.8%
- #54 Goliath
70% matchMixed67% of 279 reviews2016
Dev: Whalebox StudioPub: Octopus Tree
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Welcome to a mysterious world filled with strange creatures, giant monsters and warring factions. You won't last long here on your own. Fortunately, you know how to build giant robots! Find the plans, gather the resources, climb inside your giant robotic creation and start punching monsters in the face!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32% ★, RPG 14.9%, Crafting 14.4%, Survival 13%, Open World 9%
- #55 Grim
67% matchMixed57% of 149 reviews2025
Dev: Spoonfed Interactive
Windows
GRIM is an Exclusive VR Multiplayer Survival game where you must immerse yourself, stranded on a secluded part of Earth. Survival is not just a choice but a grueling battle against nature and other players. Gather resources, craft, and build your base, all to stay alive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.6% ★, Looter Shooter 16.1% ★, Crafting 11.5%, Survival 10.7%, Base Building 9.8%
- #56 Skyformer
65% matchMostly Positive79% of 96 reviews2026
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! Play alone or up to 4 player co-op.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.6% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 10.8%, Survival 9.5%, Online Co-Op 8.9%