- #1 Core Keeper
97% 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: Sandbox 16.2%, Building 15.1%, Open World 14.3%, Survival 14%, Base Building 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a near-identical top-down survival loop focused on mining, crafting, and boss progression in a mysterious underground world.
- #2 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: Sandbox 17.4%, Open World 14.9%, Survival 13.7%, Building 12.8%, Multiplayer 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: It combines top-down survival and base building with RPG elements and multiplayer support, mirroring the core gameplay loop of Keplerth.
- #3 Starbound
96% 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: Sandbox 23.8%, Survival 14.1%, Open World 12%, Building 11.8%, Exploration 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: This sci-fi adventure captures the feeling of exploring hostile alien planets and building bases across a vast, procedurally generated universe.
- #4 Terraria
95% 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: Sandbox 24.1%, Survival 16.1%, Building 14.5%, Open World 9.6%, Multiplayer 8%
Why You'll Like It: As the definitive 2D sandbox game, it provides the same depth of exploration, boss fighting, and base building found in Keplerth.
- #5 Dig or Die
94% 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: Sandbox 24.1%, Survival 22%, Open World 12.8%, Building 10.5%, Crafting 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: This 2D survival game focuses heavily on base defense and resource gathering on an alien planet, matching the hostile atmosphere of Keplerth.
- #6 Planet Centauri
93% 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 22%, Open World 16.6%, Building 15.6%, Exploration 10.6%, Crafting 8%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a similar 2D sandbox experience with a heavy emphasis on creature collection, crafting, and exploration in a pixel-art world.
- #7 Crashlands
94% 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: Sandbox 14.1%, Open World 13.1%, Survival 13%, Building 11.9%, Exploration 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival RPG that features a unique alien setting, crafting, and a focus on quest-driven exploration.
- #8 RimWorld
92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 236,346 reviews2018
Dev: Ludeon Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 59.1 hrsMean: 259.4 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 20.4%, Sandbox 19.2%, Base Building 14.3%, Building 13.7%, Open World 12.2%
Why You'll Like It: While more focused on colony management, it shares the deep gene-editing, survival, and base-building mechanics that make Keplerth unique.
- #9 Don't Starve Together
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 528,033 reviews2016
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 64.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Why similar: Survival 66.5%, Open World 9.7%, Multiplayer 8.7%, Sandbox 7.2%, Crafting 4%
Why You'll Like It: This game excels at providing a challenging, hostile environment where survival depends on crafting, exploration, and cooperative play.
- #10 Craftopia
91% matchMostly Positive77% of 19,974 reviews2020
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Craftopia is the brand new multiplayer survival action game made in Japan. We combined many features we find enjoyable, such as hunting, farming, hack-and-slash, building, automation to develop this game.
Why similar: Open World 23.5%, Survival 19%, Sandbox 15.5%, Building 12.8%, Crafting 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: It blends open-world survival, crafting, and RPG combat into a seamless experience that feels like a 3D evolution of the Keplerth formula.
- #11 The Planet Crafter
89% 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: Building 17.1%, Survival 16%, Sandbox 14.5%, Open World 14%, Base Building 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the sci-fi survival aspect of terraforming a hostile planet, emphasizing base building and resource management.
- #12 Scrapnaut
90% 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: Building 19.5%, Survival 16.7%, Sandbox 15.9%, Open World 11.1%, Multiplayer 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game with a top-down perspective that focuses on base building and resource management in a challenging world.
- #13 Nova Lands
87% 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: Sandbox 19.4%, Survival 14.2%, Open World 13.7%, Building 13.1%, Base Building 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: It combines exploration and survival with automation and base building, providing a satisfying progression loop similar to Keplerth.
- #14 CryoFall
88% matchMostly Positive79% of 6,397 reviews2021
Dev: AtomicTorch StudioPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
CryoFall is a sci-fi colony simulation survival game set on a forgotten planet in a distant future. Master technology, agriculture, trading, industry, cybernetics, exploration, and more!
Why similar: Sandbox 19.7%, Building 18.3%, Survival 17.1%, Open World 13.5%, Base Building 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi survival game that emphasizes multiplayer interaction, technology progression, and base building on a harsh alien world.
- #15 Planet Explorers
89% 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 23.4%, Open World 17.8%, Survival 12.9%, Building 11.3%, Exploration 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox adventure that allows for extensive building and exploration on an alien planet, matching the sci-fi survival premise.
- #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 16.9%, Survival 16.6%, Sandbox 14.4%, Building 11.6%, Multiplayer 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: This space exploration game focuses on terraforming and base building, capturing the sci-fi wonder of surviving on alien landscapes.
- #17 Tinkertown
86% 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 17.7%, Building 13.6%, Open World 13.5%, RPG 11.9%, Adventure 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer-focused sandbox RPG that emphasizes crafting and exploration in a charming, pixelated world.
- #18 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
84% matchVery Positive82% of 9,646 reviews2024
Dev: Merge GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.
Why similar: Survival 15.9%, Building 14.9%, Sandbox 14%, Open World 13.4%, Base Building 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique perspective on survival and base building, emphasizing exploration and crafting in a dangerous, oversized world.
- #19 Portal Knights
85% 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%, Building 19.5%, Survival 15.8%, Multiplayer 10.2%, Crafting 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: This game blends sandbox building with RPG combat and exploration, offering a more structured adventure similar to Keplerth.
- #20 Tinkerlands
83% 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: Sandbox 18.9%, Survival 15.5%, Open World 15%, Building 13.7%, Multiplayer 7%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-crafting game that focuses on exploration and building, capturing the essence of a 2D sandbox adventure.
- #21 Valheim
82% matchVery Positive94% of 529,829 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 25.6 hrsMean: 76.1 hrs≥1hr: 93%
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Why similar: Survival 18.5%, Building 16.9%, Open World 16.9%, Sandbox 11.5%, Multiplayer 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: While 3D, it offers a premier survival and building experience that captures the same sense of adventure and progression against a hostile environment.
- #22 Signs of Life
84% 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: Sandbox 24.1%, Survival 16.8%, Building 12.7%, Open World 9.2%, Crafting 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: This sci-fi survival game features deep crafting and exploration mechanics that align well with the core themes of Keplerth.
- #23 Planetaries
82% 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: Building 14.8%, Survival 13.7%, Open World 13.6%, Sandbox 13.5%, Sci-fi 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on multiplayer survival and exploration, mirroring the cooperative aspects of Keplerth.
- #24 Cubic Odyssey
79% 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: Sandbox 19%, Building 17.1%, Open World 12.7%, Sci-fi 10.9%, Base Building 10%
Why You'll Like It: A base-building and survival game set in a sci-fi environment, offering similar mechanics to Keplerth's construction systems.
- #25 Solace Crafting
81% matchMostly Positive72% of 891 reviews2022
Dev: Big Kitty Games
Windows · Linux
Embark on an adventure set in a fantasy survival RPG. Visit a borderless, open world where you manage resources to construct your base and new types of equipment to support your conquest.
Why similar: Survival 16.2%, Sandbox 15.1%, Building 14.7%, Open World 14.5%, Base Building 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a vast open world with a focus on crafting and survival, allowing players to build and explore at their own pace.
- #26 XenoHaven
79% 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: Sandbox 16.5%, Open World 14.7%, Survival 13.4%, Building 12.4%, Base Building 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that emphasizes base building and exploration in a hostile alien setting.
- #27 Junk Jack
81% matchMostly Positive78% of 468 reviews2016
Dev: Pixbits
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 21.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Make the world truly yours in Junk Jack, a relaxing sandbox experience focused on building and improving your home. Discover new planets, tame and breed creatures, cook foods, collect animal companions, farm exotic plants, collect fish, grow flowers, play with your friends!
Why similar: Sandbox 25%, Survival 18.6%, Building 16.3%, Crafting 8.4%, Multiplayer 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: A classic 2D sandbox game that focuses on exploration, farming, and building, providing a relaxing yet engaging survival experience.
- #28 Crashlands 2
77% 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: Survival 15.5%, Sandbox 15.5%, Open World 15.2%, Building 12.3%, Exploration 8.6%
- #29 Prospector
78% matchMostly Positive72% of 149 reviews2025
Dev: Loonworks Games
Windows
Land on a distant planet in this chill resource management game. Harvest alien resources, build and automate machinery, uncover secrets across the stars and strike shipping deals with distant colonies for exclusive rewards!
Why similar: Sandbox 16.4%, Building 15%, Open World 13.5%, Survival 11.2%, Base Building 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on resource management and building, providing a grounded survival experience in an open-world setting.
- #30 Everwind
76% matchVery Positive82% of 2,069 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Everwind is a novel take on RPG and Sandbox Survival genre in First-Person-Perspective. Embark on the adventure with your friends - Build a base on a flying island-ship, gather resources, craft, loot, and fight while you rise above the clouds to uncover the mysteries of this world!
Why similar: Sandbox 18%, Building 16.3%, Open World 15.3%, Survival 15.2%, Exploration 8.2%
- #31 TerraTech Worlds
77% 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: Sandbox 17%, Building 15.6%, Survival 13.9%, Open World 13.9%, Base Building 9.7%
- #32 GRAV
80% 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: Survival 22.4%, Open World 19.6%, Sandbox 19.1%, Base Building 10.5%, Multiplayer 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi survival game that focuses on building and exploration, providing a similar sense of scale and danger.
- #33 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,643 reviews2021
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Experience the first stages of terraforming an entire planet in this space survival open world terraforming crafting game prologue. Explore, survive, collect, build your base then create oxygen, heat and pressure to make an hostile planet livable for humanity.
Why similar: Survival 19.1%, Open World 16.1%, Sandbox 15%, Base Building 10.4%, Building 9.2%
- #34 MewnBase
75% 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 17%, Building 14.5%, Survival 13.6%, Open World 11.4%, Base Building 10.2%
- #35 Satisfactory
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 265,414 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 31.8 hrsMean: 108.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Why similar: Open World 16.8%, Building 16.2%, Sandbox 15.2%, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 8.1%
- #36 Orion Sandbox Enhanced
75% matchVery Positive94% of 1,099 reviews2018
Dev: y8.com
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 23.8 hrs≥1hr: 66%
This is a 2D crafting survival sandbox game. You will be able to explore a huge 2D side-view world, building houses, crafting tools, weapons and armour from the resources you collect. There is a day/night cycle and each night many dangerous monsters can be found and defeated.
Why similar: Sandbox 34.9%, RPG 13.1%, Survival 12.8%, Adventure 11.8%, Casual 8.7%
- #37 The Survivalists
74% 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: Survival 18.3%, Sandbox 15.7%, Open World 13.4%, Crafting 9.4%, Base Building 8.6%
- #38 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
74% matchMostly Positive79% of 34,087 reviews2020
Dev: Eleon Game Studios
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 76.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!
Why similar: Building 17.4%, Sandbox 16%, Survival 15.4%, Open World 15%, Sci-fi 9.1%
- #39 Surviving Ceres
73% matchVery Positive87% of 137 reviews2025
Dev: Ryan SaundersPub: One Man Media
Windows
Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building. Export manufactured goods to earn funding, manage colonists, defend against hostile aliens, and work towards terraforming Ceres from a frozen ball of ice to a tropical paradise.
Why similar: Building 20%, Survival 18.8%, Open World 16.1%, Base Building 9.7%, Crafting 9.1%
- #40 Pathless Woods
73% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,093 reviews2024
Dev: AniYa Games Studio
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Embark on a cozy open-world survival journey inspired by ancient China's heritage. Gather resources, cultivate crops, build your dream home, and defend it from marauders. Team up with friends to explore and uncover a world where adventure meets serenity.
Why similar: Sandbox 18.1%, Open World 16.3%, Building 15.6%, Survival 15.2%, Base Building 8.4%
- #41 Nighthold: Number 1
72% matchMostly Positive72% of 356 reviews2025
Dev: 2 Zombie GamesPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 1.3 hrs≥1hr: 26%
Investigate a starship crash, explore a hostile world, build shelters and survive nightly attacks of the Rot. Tear down any structure and experience total freedom of action.
Why similar: Sandbox 19.4%, Survival 16.9%, Building 15.7%, Open World 12%, Base Building 9.6%
- #42 Interstellar Rift
73% matchMixed68% of 1,655 reviews2020
Dev: Split PolygonPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 33.2 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Interstellar Rift is an open world starship simulator with an emphasis on ship construction and multi-player interaction. Survive in a hostile galaxy with your own custom designed and constructed starship. Invite other players to join your crew or fight them across the galaxy!
Why similar: Building 18.4%, Sandbox 18%, Open World 16.1%, Survival 13.9%, Exploration 9%
- #43 Border Town
70% matchVery Positive81% of 299 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: Sandbox 21.9%, Building 19.5%, Open World 18.9%, Survival 16.2%, RPG 6.5%
- #44 Dune: Awakening
68% matchMostly Positive70% of 74,372 reviews2025
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 47.7 hrsMean: 95.2 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival RPG where you can fully immerse yourself in the epic world of Dune. Alone or with friends, explore a vast open world Arrakis, survive the sandworms, build a home, craft an ornithopter, and unravel the mystery of the missing Fremen.
Why similar: Sandbox 14.1%, Building 13.5%, Survival 12.4%, Open World 12.3%, Sci-fi 8.6%
- #45 Hostile Planet: Survival
72% matchMixed65% of 99 reviews2022
Dev: Aliens Developers
Windows
Hostile Planet: Survival is a harsh adventure on an uncharted planet that full of danger and trials.
Why similar: Survival 24.1%, Building 19.4%, Open World 18.8%, Sandbox 16.6%, Crafting 10.2%
- #46 Project Asteroids
70% matchMixed56% of 128 reviews2024
Dev: Aleksandr Serdiuk
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: Survival 20.3%, Open World 18.2%, Building 15.7%, Crafting 9.8%, Multiplayer 9.5%
- #47 StarMade
71% matchMixed68% of 2,981 reviews2014
Dev: Schine GmbH
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 18.8 hrs≥1hr: 54%
The ultimate space sandbox. Participate in epic fleet battles, form alliances, strive to dominate entire galaxies and harness the universe’s resources for your industrious empire or the destruction of others. Customise your experience, the universe is yours!
Why similar: Sandbox 26.4%, Open World 17.8%, Building 17.7%, Sci-fi 9.5%, Multiplayer 7.8%
- #48 TerraTech
68% 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: Building 23.9%, Sandbox 22.1%, Open World 17.3%, Survival 11.1%, Multiplayer 7.6%
- #49 Shards of Azuria
70% matchMixed60% of 101 reviews2019
Dev: Blue Potion Games
Windows
Shards of Azuria is an isometric, craft and build RPG. Create a character and a new world, then start your adventure by waking up in town. You are greeted by the locals of Azuria and begin to find your way around.
Why similar: Sandbox 20.7%, Survival 16.4%, Building 15.7%, Crafting 11.1%, Adventure 10.6%
- #50 Wayward
69% matchVery Positive86% of 1,349 reviews2016
Dev: Unlok
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 21.4 hrs≥1hr: 61%
You awake to discover yourself no longer in the company of good men or a fine seafaring vessel. Treasure... you remember something about treasure. Wayward is a challenging turn-based, top-down, wilderness survival roguelike. Explore, build, and most importantly survive in these unforgiving lands.
Why similar: Survival 26.5%, Sandbox 17.6%, Open World 14.9%, Crafting 10.5%, RPG 6.4%
- #51 Volcanoids
67% matchVery Positive83% of 9,214 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.8 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: Survival 15.6%, Open World 15.5%, Sandbox 14.5%, Building 13.7%, Exploration 8.6%
- #52 FortressCraft Evolved!
69% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,055 reviews2015
Dev: ProjectorGamesPub: Digital Tribe
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 72%
FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.
Why similar: Sandbox 20.1%, Building 17.7%, Survival 13.6%, Open World 10.1%, Crafting 8.3%
- #53 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
64% matchVery Positive91% of 7,161 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in this free prologue introducing one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters – an upcoming open-world game that challenges you, alone or with friends, to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.
Why similar: Sandbox 15.7%, Open World 15.2%, Building 13.2%, Survival 11.5%, Base Building 10.1%
- #54 Forsaken Isle
65% matchMostly Positive71% of 512 reviews2025
Dev: Smoodlez
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Stranded on a desert island, explore, craft, build and fight in this action survival game!
Why similar: Survival 30.8%, Sandbox 23%, Crafting 12.5%, Adventure 9.1%, RPG 8.1%
- #55 Aground
67% matchVery Positive94% of 1,965 reviews2020
Dev: Fancy Fish Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
As one of the last human survivors, you find yourself stranded on an uninhabited island. With a few other victims of the crash, can you craft, mine, and build your way to survival?
Why similar: Building 17.9%, Open World 16.6%, Survival 16.2%, Sandbox 15.8%, Base Building 10%
- #56 Start Over
66% matchMixed62% of 375 reviews2024
Dev: EY-Studio
Windows
Embark on an unpredictable survival journey in Start Over. Solo, co-op, online, explore diverse landscapes, craft through 4 tech tiers, encounter wildlife, and trade or raid for resources. Choose your path, defend against waves, and shape your destiny in a dynamic world. Are you ready to Start Over?
Why similar: Sandbox 17.2%, Building 15.9%, Survival 15.8%, Open World 10.5%, Base Building 9.6%
- #57 Occupy Mars: The Game
64% matchMostly Positive70% of 3,012 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 31.4 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.
Why similar: Sandbox 17.8%, Building 15.4%, Open World 15.3%, Survival 13.8%, Base Building 9.1%
- #58 StarRupture
63% matchVery Positive81% of 10,861 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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: Sandbox 16.5%, Survival 15.9%, Open World 15.3%, Base Building 10%, Sci-fi 9.8%