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Games Like Kenshi

60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Open World, Sandbox, Singleplayer, RPG.

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A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.

Reviews: Overwhelmingly Positive — 96% — of 112,221 reviews
Released: 2018-12-06
Developer: Lo-Fi Games
Genres: Action, Indie, RPG, Simulation, Strategy
Platforms: Windows
Median playtime: 9.8 hrs
Mean playtime: 71.1 hrs
Players ≥ 1 hr: 83%

Overview

What makes Kenshi special is how many systems it throws into one harsh sandbox: squad-based RPG progression, survival, faction politics, trading, slavery, and eventually base-building, all without forcing a main story. These picks focus on that same feeling of starting as a nobody in a dangerous world and carving out your own path, whether through roaming warbands, emergent colony management, or brutal open-ended survival.

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  1. #1 Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
    97% matchVery Positive88% of 290,096 reviews2022
    Dev: TaleWorlds Entertainment
    Windows
    Median: 62.3 hrsMean: 154.1 hrs≥1hr: 96%

    A strategy/action RPG. Create a character, engage in diplomacy, craft, trade and conquer new lands in a vast medieval sandbox. Raise armies to lead into battle and command and fight alongside your troops in massive real-time battles using a deep but intuitive skill-based combat system.

    Why similar: Open World 38.6%, Sandbox 27.8%, RPG 14%, Strategy 9.4%, Character Customization 4.5%

    Why You'll Like It: It captures Kenshi's rise-from-nothing sandbox arc brilliantly, letting you recruit a warband, trade, raid, join factions, and grow into a regional power in a living world.

  2. #2 RimWorld
    96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 239,676 reviews2018
    Dev: Ludeon Studios
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 59.8 hrsMean: 262.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%

    A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

    Why similar: Survival 17.9%, Sandbox 17.8%, Base Building 17.7%, Open World 14.5%, City Builder 9.3%

    Why You'll Like It: Like Kenshi, it turns injuries, survival, raids, skill growth, and base management into brutally memorable emergent stories with very little scripted hand-holding.

  3. #3 Battle Brothers
    96% matchVery Positive88% of 27,494 reviews2017
    Dev: Overhype StudiosPub: Hooded Horse
    Windows
    Median: 19.2 hrsMean: 93.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%

    Lead a mercenary company in this tactical RPG set in a medieval fantasy world. Chase fame and fortune as you choose where to go, who to recruit, which contracts to pursue, and how to train and equip your men in a procedurally generated open world campaign.

    Why similar: Open World 32.7%, Sandbox 30%, RPG 13.2%, Strategy 7.8%, Character Customization 7.3%

    Why You'll Like It: It delivers Kenshi's underdog-to-elite progression in mercenary-company form, with harsh losses, open-world travel, and constant resource pressure.

  4. #4 Mount & Blade: Warband
    95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 170,920 reviews2010
    Dev: TaleWorlds Entertainment
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 18.5 hrsMean: 120.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%

    In a land torn asunder by incessant warfare, it is time to assemble your own band of hardened warriors and enter the fray. Lead your men into battle, expand your realm, and claim the ultimate prize: the throne of Calradia!

    Why similar: Open World 41.7%, Sandbox 28.6%, RPG 17.5%, Strategy 7.7%, Simulation 1.6%

    Why You'll Like It: Its open-ended campaign of building a party, surviving hostile factions, and becoming a mercenary, lord, or conqueror scratches the same self-directed sandbox itch as Kenshi.

  5. #5 Wartales
    94% matchVery Positive86% of 34,811 reviews2023
    Dev: Shiro Games
    Windows
    Median: 21.6 hrsMean: 51.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%

    Wartales is an open world RPG in which you lead a group of mercenaries in their search for wealth across a massive medieval universe. Explore the world, recruit companions, collect bounties and unravel the secrets of the tombs of the ancients!

    Why similar: Open World 42%, RPG 18.6%, Sandbox 17.2%, Survival 13%, Strategy 5.1%

    Why You'll Like It: This is one of the closest matches for Kenshi's roaming-squad feel, built around managing a struggling band of fighters, supplies, injuries, money, and contracts in a dangerous world.

  6. #6 Sands of Salzaar
    94% matchVery Positive82% of 22,933 reviews2021
    Dev: 汉家松鼠Han-Squirrel StudioPub: XD
    Windows
    Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 23.8 hrs≥1hr: 75%

    Bringing you to an exotic desert where you’ll recruit, train, and guide your troops into battle against rival cities and factions. Embark on an adventure that’s uniquely yours; Customizable characters, professions, and factions. The land is filled with a variety of hidden secrets.

    Why similar: Open World 44.4%, Sandbox 21.6%, RPG 15.4%, Strategy 8.4%, Character Customization 4.7%

    Why You'll Like It: You roam a hostile sandbox recruiting followers, taking towns, dealing with factions, and growing from wanderer to warlord in a way that feels very Kenshi-adjacent.

  7. #7 Survivalist: Invisible Strain
    93% matchVery Positive87% of 4,265 reviews2025
    Dev: BobPub: Ginormocorp Incorporated
    Windows
    Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 15.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%

    It's ten years since the infection started. Long-established settlements are collapsing, one by one, for unknown reasons. Survivors are running to the hills to escape, hoping for safety in remote places. As another refugee, you're here to carve out a new life for yourself - by any means necessary.

    Why similar: Open World 21.9%, Base Building 15.2%, Post-apocalyptic 14.5%, Survival 13%, RTS 9.8%

    Why You'll Like It: Its mix of open-world scavenging, recruitable survivors, base-building, diplomacy, and community management feels very close to a smaller-scale zombie Kenshi.

  8. #8 Amazing Cultivation Simulator
    92% matchVery Positive86% of 23,505 reviews2020
    Dev: GSQ Games
    Windows
    Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 58.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    Rise up in a search for immortality in this strategy sim and management game based on Chinese mythology. Rebuild your sect and train new disciples through the path of cultivation. Research magic and gather mystical artifacts, face ancient dangers and other sects in your path to spiritual ascension.

    Why similar: Sandbox 28.5%, Open World 14.3%, Survival 14.2%, RPG 12.7%, Base Building 9.6%

    Why You'll Like It: While more colony-focused, it shares Kenshi's joy in deep systems, harsh setbacks, self-directed growth, and building a powerful community from almost nothing.

  9. #9 The Matchless Kungfu
    91% matchVery Positive81% of 7,767 reviews2024
    Dev: HuanMos GamePub: bilibili
    Windows
    Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 29.0 hrs≥1hr: 81%

    The Matchless Kungfu is an open world sandbox RPG game based on a WuXia background. You can play any martial arts role you imagine in this wild world. Travel through the great wilderness, or be the leader of the group. The most important thing is, build your own story and live the experience!

    Why similar: Open World 21.6%, Sandbox 18.8%, Survival 13.6%, Base Building 10.4%, Building 9.6%

    Why You'll Like It: It offers a similarly weird and open-ended sandbox where you roam freely, develop skills, build up your character, and interact with a highly systemic world.

  10. #10 Project Zomboid
    91% matchVery Positive94% of 450,585 reviews2013
    Dev: The Indie Stone
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 15.0 hrsMean: 83.6 hrs≥1hr: 92%

    Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..

    Why similar: Survival 27.1%, Open World 25.1%, Sandbox 17.5%, Post-apocalyptic 9.8%, Building 6.6%

    Why You'll Like It: Even without Kenshi's squad RPG structure, it nails the same oppressive survival tone, long-term progression, scavenging, and player-driven base-building in a hostile world.

  11. #11 Bellwright
    90% matchVery Positive81% of 19,796 reviews2024
    Dev: Donkey Crew
    Windows
    Median: 12.7 hrsMean: 41.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%

    Establish and expand your own settlements, liberate the land and assist its villagers, and recruit others to your cause while learning more about a life you had to leave behind. Command your forces, prove your valor through combat, and cement yourself as the hero of your people.

    Why similar: Open World 27.7%, Survival 22.5%, City Builder 15.7%, Crafting 11.1%, Building 10.4%

    Why You'll Like It: It blends open-world survival, settlement building, NPC recruitment, and anti-faction rebellion into the same kind of long-form self-made campaign Kenshi fans tend to love.

  12. #12 Dwarf Fortress
    89% matchVery Positive95% of 31,055 reviews2022
    Dev: Bay 12 GamesPub: Kitfox Games
    Windows · Linux
    Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 38.6 hrs≥1hr: 78%

    Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.

    Why similar: Sandbox 20.9%, Survival 16.4%, Base Building 14.6%, City Builder 14.6%, Building 12.2%

    Why You'll Like It: It is another legendary emergent sandbox where survival, base-building, injuries, scarcity, and unpredictable disasters create player-authored stories instead of scripted quests.

  13. #13 Soulmask
    89% matchMostly Positive77% of 21,464 reviews2026
    Dev: CampFire StudioPub: Qooland Games
    Windows
    Median: 13.8 hrsMean: 68.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%

    Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. Possess any of your tribespeople, recruit followers, and build a thriving automated civilization. Survive, expand, and forge your own legacy across a vast ancient open world — together with friends.

    Why similar: Open World 23.8%, Sandbox 19.4%, Survival 17.2%, Base Building 14.8%, Building 11.9%

    Why You'll Like It: Its harsh survival loop, recruitable NPC tribe members, automation, and fortress-building make it one of the strongest modern alternatives for Kenshi's survival-plus-settlement side.

  14. #14 Caves of Qud
    88% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 12,292 reviews2024
    Dev: Freehold GamesPub: Kitfox Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 35.0 hrs≥1hr: 74%

    Inhabit a deeply-simulated science fantasy world and chisel through layers of thousand-year-old civilizations. Build a character from over a hundred mutations and cybernetics. The award-winning sandbox roguelike & RPG full of robots, deep lore, and sentient plants.

    Why similar: Open World 53.3%, Survival 23.8%, RPG 13.4%, Character Customization 7.4%, Singleplayer 2.2%

    Why You'll Like It: If your favorite part of Kenshi is surviving an uncaring world through experimentation and emergent character-building, Qud delivers that same freedom in roguelike form.

  15. #15 Necesse
    85% matchVery Positive93% of 27,199 reviews2025
    Dev: Fair Games ApS
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 14.8 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 23.1%, Sandbox 21.4%, Survival 15.9%, Base Building 10.2%, Crafting 9.7%

    Why You'll Like It: Its top-down sandbox mixes exploration, crafting, settlement building, and recruitable NPC workers into a lighter but still very Kenshi-like loop.

  16. #16 Conan Exiles Enhanced
    87% matchMostly Positive79% of 115,037 reviews2018
    Dev: Funcom
    Windows
    Median: 17.1 hrsMean: 111.9 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 29.1%, Survival 25.4%, Sandbox 14.6%, Building 12.9%, Crafting 10.1%

    Why You'll Like It: Its brutal open world, crafting, fortress-building, slave-taking thrall system, and survival-heavy progression overlap strongly with Kenshi's harsh sandbox appeal.

  17. #17 State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition
    86% matchVery Positive83% of 68,064 reviews2020
    Dev: Undead LabsPub: Xbox Game Studios
    Windows
    Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 39.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%

    The dead have risen and civilization has fallen. Now it's up to you to gather survivors, scavenge for resources and build a community in a post-apocalyptic world – a world where you define what it means to survive in this ultimate zombie survival simulation.

    Why similar: Open World 31.5%, Survival 25.9%, Base Building 18.4%, Sandbox 9.3%, Post-apocalyptic 8.6%

    Why You'll Like It: Managing a vulnerable survivor community, scavenging a hostile world, improving skills, and building defensible bases hits many of the same emergent survival beats as Kenshi.

  18. #18 NEO Scavenger
    86% matchVery Positive90% of 5,372 reviews2014
    Dev: Blue Bottle Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%

    NEO Scavenger is a game where you must survive in the wasteland long enough to figure out who you are. Each turn, you must decide where to go, how to scavenge for supplies, and how to deal with anything and anyone you encounter.

    Why similar: Survival 29.9%, Post-apocalyptic 19.7%, Open World 12.7%, Sandbox 12.2%, Crafting 9.7%

    Why You'll Like It: It lacks Kenshi's squad and base scale, but its desperate post-apocalyptic survival, scavenging, and hard-earned progression capture a similar feeling of vulnerability.

  19. #19 Soulash 2
    84% matchVery Positive86% of 2,362 reviews2023
    Dev: Artur Smiarowski
    Windows
    Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 28.5 hrs≥1hr: 74%

    Soulash 2 is a sandbox RPG roguelike with a procedurally generated open world, simulated history, skill-based progression system, customizable abilities, material-based crafting, building, trading, and the possibility of total mayhem. Will you save your world or destroy it?

    Why similar: Open World 24.4%, Sandbox 24.3%, Survival 14.8%, Base Building 11.9%, RPG 10.5%

    Why You'll Like It: This is another highly systemic sandbox RPG built around open-ended survival, crafting, world interaction, and making your own goals in an unforgiving setting.

  20. #20 Space Haven
    81% matchVery Positive86% of 10,442 reviews2026
    Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 19.9 hrs≥1hr: 72%

    Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.

    Why similar: Sandbox 16.1%, Open World 15.3%, Survival 13.5%, Base Building 12.2%, City Builder 10.8%

    Why You'll Like It: This is a strong pick if you want Kenshi's blend of crew management, base construction, injuries, scarcity, and emergent disaster stories in a sci-fi setting.

  21. #21 Going Medieval
    81% matchVery Positive89% of 20,881 reviews2026
    Dev: Foxy VoxelPub: Mythwright
    Windows
    Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 31.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%

    Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.

    Why similar: Sandbox 20.5%, Survival 16.4%, Base Building 14.6%, City Builder 14.3%, Crafting 9.5%

    Why You'll Like It: Though more settlement-focused, it scratches the same 'start with nothing, survive, build up, and defend what you've made' instinct that makes Kenshi so compelling.

  22. #22 UnderRail
    84% matchVery Positive86% of 7,097 reviews2015
    Dev: Stygian Software
    Windows
    Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 39.1 hrs≥1hr: 68%

    UnderRail is an old-school turn-based isometric role-playing game that features a large open post-apocalyptic world, deep and challenging combat and an intricate storyline.

    Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 29.2%, RPG 28.5%, Open World 20.6%, Crafting 9.5%, Sandbox 7.7%

    Why You'll Like It: Its unforgiving post-apocalyptic world, freedom in character development, and focus on surviving by your own build and choices appeal to Kenshi players who enjoy harsh RPGs.

  23. #23 Freeman: Guerrilla Warfare
    83% matchMixed65% of 12,409 reviews2019
    Dev: KK Game Studio
    Windows
    Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 21.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%

    In the anarchic world of Freeman: Guerrilla Warfare, only the mightiest warlord rules. Start with a pistol and a few militias, you will set yourself on a wild and ambitious journey towards world domination. Enjoy the immersive combination of intense FPS and sandbox strategy.

    Why similar: Open World 33.1%, Sandbox 27.7%, RPG 15.8%, Strategy 13.2%, RTS 5.9%

    Why You'll Like It: It feels like a gunpowder-era cousin to Mount & Blade, emphasizing open-world travel, squad recruitment, economics, and fighting your way up from obscurity.

  24. #24 Keplerth
    82% matchVery Positive85% of 4,138 reviews2022
    Dev: TAROPub: Gamirror Games
    Windows
    Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 16.1 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: Open World 23.1%, Sandbox 23.1%, Survival 17.5%, Building 12%, RPG 6.7%

    Why You'll Like It: It combines top-down survival, crafting, base-building, exploration, and colonist-style progression into a compact sandbox that echoes several of Kenshi's core loops.

  25. #25 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
    82% matchVery Positive81% of 2,253 reviews2018
    Dev: Suncrash
    Windows
    Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?

    Why similar: Survival 17.8%, Base Building 14.7%, Sandbox 13.8%, Post-apocalyptic 13%, Open World 11.9%

    Why You'll Like It: If the part of Kenshi you love most is holding together a fragile outpost under constant pressure, this gives you that same tense survival-management loop.

  26. #26 Medieval Dynasty
    79% matchVery Positive90% of 50,786 reviews2021
    Dev: Render CubePub: Toplitz Productions
    Windows
    Median: 11.8 hrsMean: 36.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%

    Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.

    Why similar: Open World 18.2%, Sandbox 15.3%, Building 14.5%, Survival 14.1%, Crafting 12.6%

    Why You'll Like It: Its open-world survival, crafting, and gradual transition into managing a growing settlement make it a good fit for players who especially enjoy Kenshi's self-sufficient base-building side.

  27. #27 KeeperRL
    78% matchVery Positive84% of 1,779 reviews2024
    Dev: Electric Succubi
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 19.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%

    KeeperRL is a retro dungeon simulator with roguelike and RPG elements. Take the role of an evil keeper and build a formidable dungeon. Recruit sinister minions, equip and train them to explore the world and fight the forces of good.

    Why similar: Sandbox 26%, Survival 20.2%, Base Building 19.2%, Building 15.4%, Management 8.3%

    Why You'll Like It: Its combination of base-building, minion management, raids, prisoner capture, and hands-on expansion has a lot of the same cruel sandbox energy as Kenshi.

  28. #28 Vagrus - The Riven Realms
    79% matchVery Positive85% of 1,734 reviews2021
    Dev: Lost Pilgrims StudioPub: Lost Pilgrims Studios
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 18.5 hrs≥1hr: 73%

    Embark on a perilous journey across a realm forsaken by the gods and devastated by an arcane cataclysm. Accompanied by a hardy crew, you must trade, fight, and explore your way to success as the leader of a traveling company in Vagrus, an award-winning turn-based post-apocalyptic fantasy RPG.

    Why similar: Open World 52.2%, Post-apocalyptic 19.3%, RPG 19.1%, Strategy 6.9%, Singleplayer 2.5%

    Why You'll Like It: Its focus on traversing a hostile wasteland, managing a caravan, dealing with factions, and surviving through trade and hard choices makes it a strong thematic match.

  29. #29 Dead State: Reanimated
    80% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,553 reviews2014
    Dev: DoubleBear Productions
    Windows
    Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%

    Dead State is a narrative-driven survival RPG set at the dawn of the undead apocalypse. Drawing inspiration from classic RPGs like Fallout, X-Com, and Suikoden, Dead State combines strategic, turn-based combat with base building mechanics, character creation, and social management.

    Why similar: Survival 37.8%, RPG 18.3%, Post-apocalyptic 11.5%, Open World 11%, Sandbox 8.3%

    Why You'll Like It: This post-apocalyptic RPG mixes party management, shelter upkeep, faction choices, and scarcity-driven survival in a way that aligns well with Kenshi's grim systems-heavy design.

  30. #30 Outward Definitive Edition
    78% matchMostly Positive73% of 30,822 reviews2022
    Dev: Nine Dots StudioPub: Prime Matter
    Windows
    Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 17.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    No remarkable journey is achieved without great effort. In Outward, the cold of the night or an infected wound can be as dangerous as a predator lurking in the dark. Explore the vast world of Aurai solo or in Co-op. The Definitive Edition features both DLCs and quality of life improvements.

    Why similar: Open World 49%, Survival 25.6%, RPG 22.7%, Adventure 1.7%, Singleplayer 1.1%

    Why You'll Like It: It mirrors Kenshi's uncompromising survival-minded RPG feel by making travel, preparation, poverty, and hard-won progress central to the experience.

  31. #31 Valorborn
    75% matchMixed63% of 463 reviews2026
    Dev: Laps Games
    Windows

    Dive into a living medieval fantasy sandbox RPG where the world moves with or without you and factions rise and fall. Become a thief, hunter, or sellsword, survive alone or with a party, and shape your story in a fully enterable world where every building, cave, and road hides opportunity or danger.

    Why similar: Open World 19.9%, Sandbox 18%, Survival 14.1%, Building 9.7%, Base Building 8.3%

  32. #32 Survivalist
    77% matchVery Positive80% of 2,568 reviews2015
    Dev: BobPub: Ginormocorp Incorporated
    Windows
    Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    It's one year after the collapse of civilization and self-centered hedge fund manager Joe Wheeler emerges from his specially constructed bunker in search of food. This is a huge open-world RPG where you have the freedom to play how you want - but your choices have consequences.

    Why similar: Survival 21.5%, Open World 18.5%, Sandbox 13.2%, Base Building 10%, Post-apocalyptic 9.3%

  33. #33 Stoneshard
    76% matchMostly Positive75% of 34,341 reviews2020
    Dev: Ink Stains GamesPub: HypeTrain Digital
    Windows · Linux
    Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 37.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    Stoneshard is a hardcore turn-based RPG about the harsh life of a medieval mercenary: travel with your own caravan, descend into procedurally generated dungeons, learn new skills, survive hunger and injuries - and remember, every mistake can mean death and loss of progress.

    Why similar: RPG 27.6%, Survival 26.7%, Sandbox 19.4%, Open World 14.2%, Strategy 8.8%

  34. #34 XenoHaven
    74% 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 22.8%, Sandbox 20%, Survival 15.3%, Base Building 13.1%, Building 9.2%

  35. #35 Mount & Blade
    76% matchVery Positive92% of 6,665 reviews2008
    Dev: TaleWorlds Entertainment
    Windows
    Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    Calradia is a land at war, offering great riches and even greater dangers to adventurers and mercenaries that flock to shed their blood on its soil. With courage and a strong sword, an unknown stranger can make a name as a warrior. Free-form sand-box gameplay.

    Why similar: Open World 38.8%, Sandbox 25.7%, RPG 20.7%, Strategy 6.9%, Character Customization 2.6%

  36. #36 KINGDOMS
    77% matchMostly Positive72% of 4,083 reviews2015
    Dev: Oreol
    Windows
    Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 70%

    KINGDOMS is a procedural medieval RPG in a randomly generated open world. The main feature of KINGDOMS is a smart AI system that completely controls NPC behavior. As the player, you can fully interact with this massive world and become any person you want to be.

    Why similar: Open World 27.4%, Sandbox 16.4%, Survival 15.6%, Building 13.1%, RPG 8.9%

  37. #37 Mad Island
    73% matchVery Positive92% of 4,382 reviews2024
    Dev: EmadePlus
    Windows
    Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 21.5 hrs≥1hr: 78%

    This survival game is packed with features including crafting, exploring, building, excavation, farming, fishing, capturing creatures, torture, battle, and a story with many forks along the way. The objective is to escape the island, but is that really your only choice?

    Why similar: Open World 29%, Survival 20.9%, Sandbox 19.7%, Base Building 8.2%, RPG 7.4%

  38. #38 Hobo: Tough Life
    74% matchVery Positive84% of 9,762 reviews2021
    Dev: Perun Creative
    Windows · Linux
    Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%

    Hobo: Tough Life is an urban survival role-playing game where you play as a homeless person. Play alone or team up in online co-op. Explore the streets of Praslav, scavenge for food and supplies, beg, steal, and do whatever else it takes to survive the forthcoming winter.

    Why similar: Open World 25.8%, Survival 21.2%, Sandbox 16.5%, Base Building 14.5%, Crafting 9.5%

  39. #39 Life is Feudal: Your Own
    75% matchMixed66% of 12,061 reviews2015
    Dev: Bitbox Ltd.
    Windows
    Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 58.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%

    Hardcore and realistic; LiF is a Medieval multiplayer sandbox RPG, with free terraforming, a rich crafting system and preset and modular building construction. With engaging survival aspects, no target physics-based combat and a unique formation system - along with numerous other features - LiF is not for the faint of heart!

    Why similar: Open World 27.2%, Sandbox 21.2%, Survival 18.6%, Crafting 11.3%, Building 11.2%

  40. #40 City 20
    72% matchMostly Positive72% of 185 reviews2024
    Dev: Untold Games
    Windows

    Survive in a living post-apocalyptic city. Build trust or spark conflict with NPCs and factions, uncover mysteries, and watch the world change with your every choice.

    Why similar: Open World 20.7%, Sandbox 18.9%, Survival 15.6%, Base Building 12.4%, Post-apocalyptic 12%

  41. #41 Last Oasis
    73% matchMixed62% of 24,224 reviews2020
    Dev: Donkey Crew
    Windows
    Median: 17.9 hrsMean: 121.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%

    Nomadic Survival MMO. Build wooden walking machines to travel to new lands. Create clans and fight for territory. Resources deplete fast, so take your sword and scavenge, pirate, and trade to stay alive.

    Why similar: Open World 26.1%, Survival 22.1%, Sandbox 14.8%, Building 9.7%, RPG 9.3%

  42. #42 Dustland Delivery
    70% matchVery Positive88% of 1,224 reviews2024
    Dev: Neutron Star StudioPub: Lilith Games
    Windows
    Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 60%

    Dustland Delivery is a post-apocalyptic survival business simulator. Scour the wastes for profit, complete missions to grow your trading empire, and assemble a rag-tag band of adventurers to turn your city into the capital of the Dustlands. Danger lurks around every corner—but no risk, no reward!

    Why similar: Sandbox 21.3%, Survival 20.5%, Post-apocalyptic 12.8%, RPG 11.8%, Building 10.7%

  43. #43 Border Town
    70% matchVery Positive80% of 302 reviews2025
    Dev: GoHoGamesPub: 2P Games
    Windows

    Restore the former glory of Border Town in an open-world sandbox RPG set in a fantastical realm. Explore the world, craft tools and weapons, cultivate fields, and socialise with your neighbours while dealing with dark forces that threaten to destroy everything you have built.

    Why similar: Open World 26.7%, Sandbox 24.2%, Survival 16.9%, Building 13.2%, RPG 9.9%

  44. #44 Force of Nature
    73% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,202 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 20.1%, Survival 20%, Sandbox 18.5%, Crafting 12.8%, Building 9.3%

  45. #45 X4: Foundations
    71% matchMostly Positive80% of 28,557 reviews2018
    Dev: Egosoft
    Windows · Linux
    Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 94.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%

    Your journey to building a vast space empire begins behind the controls of a single ship. Explore, trade, fight, and build as you rise to command fleets, stations, and entire economies in a living, fully simulated universe that reacts to every decision.

    Why similar: Open World 32.2%, Sandbox 29.3%, Building 16%, Management 8.6%, Strategy 7.4%

  46. #46 Blackthorn Arena
    71% matchMixed69% of 3,780 reviews2020
    Dev: PersonaeGame StudioPub: Light Up Games
    Windows
    Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 18.5 hrs≥1hr: 74%

    Blackthorn Arena is a strategy/management sim with a real-time/turn based combat system, set in a world of mythical monsters and classic fantasy races. Play as the master of Blackthorn Arena, train your slaves into gladiators, forge them into your champions, and send them to fight for your glory!

    Why similar: Sandbox 30.3%, Open World 25.9%, Building 17.7%, Management 10.4%, Strategy 8.8%

  47. #47 Stonehearth
    71% matchMostly Positive75% of 13,005 reviews2018
    Dev: Radiant EntertainmentPub: (none)
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 38.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%

    Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.

    Why similar: Sandbox 21.8%, City Builder 20.1%, Survival 15.7%, Building 13.2%, Open World 9.5%

  48. #48 Eastern Era
    68% matchMixed65% of 2,670 reviews2026
    Dev: FunYoo Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    To escape from pursuit, as the leader of your sect, guide your disciples to rise again! Engage in farming and hunting, train in martial arts, and forge weapons and armor. Build your sect's base and fortifications from the ground up to survive in this perilous, ambition-filled martial world!

    Why similar: Open World 19.1%, Sandbox 17.6%, Survival 13.4%, Base Building 12.6%, City Builder 11.8%

  49. #49 Planet Explorers
    72% 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: Sandbox 28.7%, Open World 27.9%, Survival 14.9%, Crafting 9%, Building 8.5%

  50. #50 Ratopia
    67% matchVery Positive88% of 4,696 reviews2025
    Dev: Cassel Games
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 26.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.

    Why similar: Survival 15.3%, Open World 15.3%, Sandbox 14.7%, Base Building 13.9%, Building 12.7%

  51. #51 Dream Engines: Nomad Cities
    69% matchMostly Positive73% of 618 reviews2024
    Dev: Suncrash
    Windows
    Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%

    A survival city-building game with flying cities. Build, automate, and defend a flying city that travels between procedurally generated maps to survive in a wacky, nightmare-infested, post-apocalyptic world full of strange science and dreams.

    Why similar: Sandbox 17.2%, Survival 14.7%, City Builder 13.6%, Base Building 9.6%, Open World 8.9%

  52. #52 Factorio
    67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 229,554 reviews2020
    Dev: Wube Software LTD.
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 44.9 hrsMean: 190.4 hrs≥1hr: 95%

    Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.

    Why similar: Sandbox 21.2%, Base Building 21.1%, Open World 13.5%, Survival 11.4%, Crafting 9.8%

  53. #53 Foxhole
    68% matchMostly Positive80% of 51,891 reviews2022
    Dev: Siege Camp
    Windows
    Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 76.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%

    Foxhole is a massively multiplayer game where thousands of players shape the outcome of a persistent online war. Every individual soldier is a player that contributes to the war effort through logistics, base building, reconnaissance, combat, and more.

    Why similar: Open World 29.5%, Sandbox 27.4%, Base Building 20.2%, Crafting 10.9%, Strategy 6.5%

  54. #54 Colony Survival
    69% matchVery Positive92% of 8,872 reviews2017
    Dev: Pipliz
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 28.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!

    Why similar: Survival 18.1%, Sandbox 15.8%, Open World 15.6%, Base Building 15.3%, Building 11%

  55. #55 Waste Walkers
    70% matchVery Positive80% of 215 reviews2015
    Dev: Corrosive Studios LLC
    Windows
    Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 95%

    Waste Walkers is a gritty post-apocalyptic role playing game that allows players to discover the horrors of the apocalypse through a harsh struggle for survival.

    Why similar: Open World 21%, Sandbox 18.2%, Survival 15.3%, Base Building 12.1%, Post-apocalyptic 10.7%

  56. #56 Norland
    65% matchVery Positive82% of 9,913 reviews2024
    Dev: Long JauntPub: Hooded Horse
    Windows
    Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 18.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.

    Why similar: Open World 18.2%, Sandbox 17.7%, Survival 13.4%, City Builder 13%, Base Building 12.9%

  57. #57 7 Days to Die
    63% matchVery Positive87% of 399,251 reviews2024
    Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 16.9 hrsMean: 108.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%

    7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!

    Why similar: Survival 22%, Open World 20.7%, Sandbox 15.6%, Base Building 12.2%, Post-apocalyptic 11%

  58. #58 Junk Survivor
    66% matchMostly Positive72% of 81 reviews2023
    Dev: Neojac Entertainment Inc.
    Windows

    Junk Survivor is a zombie post-apocalypse game where you loot, craft, build and farm in a struggle to survive. With a vast map to explore, a robust skillset to unlock this customizable sandbox awaits the adventurer. How long before you die!

    Why similar: Open World 21.3%, Survival 17.2%, Sandbox 16.6%, Post-apocalyptic 14%, Building 9.2%

  59. #59 Empires of the Undergrowth
    63% matchVery Positive94% of 17,871 reviews2024
    Dev: Slug DiscoPub: Hooded Horse
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%

    Command swarms of warriors at an unprecedented scale of warfare in this blend of RTS and base-building. Lead ant colonies against the many fearsome threats of the insect world, while building intricate nests, developing pheromone-based tactics, and evolving to meet growing dangers.

    Why similar: Open World 17.3%, Sandbox 17.2%, Survival 12.8%, City Builder 12.4%, Base Building 12.3%

  60. #60 Kingdoms and Castles
    65% matchVery Positive94% of 31,097 reviews2017
    Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%

    Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.

    Why similar: City Builder 19.9%, Sandbox 16.7%, Open World 11.5%, Building 9.7%, Survival 8.4%

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