- #1 Core Keeper
97% matchVery Positive93% of 66,787 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.3 hrsMean: 34.9 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 15.9%, Open World 15%, Survival 14.7%, Building 14.6%, Exploration 8%
Why You'll Like It: This top-down sandbox survival game shares the same addictive loop of mining, crafting, and base-building in a mysterious underground world.
- #2 Starbound
96% matchVery Positive90% of 123,321 reviews2016
Dev: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.0 hrsMean: 64.5 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 23.7%, Survival 14.3%, Open World 12.4%, Building 11.7%, Exploration 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a similar sci-fi 2D exploration experience with vast procedurally generated planets and deep survival mechanics.
- #3 Necesse
96% matchVery Positive93% of 29,166 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 17.1%, Open World 15.2%, Survival 14%, Building 12.6%, Multiplayer 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: This top-down sandbox game features similar base-building, village management, and RPG-style combat progression.
- #4 Terraria
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,558,339 reviews2011
Dev: Re-Logic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 33.9 hrsMean: 152.6 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Why similar: Sandbox 23.9%, Survival 16.4%, Building 14.4%, Open World 9.9%, Multiplayer 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: As the definitive 2D sandbox survival game, it provides the foundational exploration and progression systems that Keplerth fans will appreciate.
- #5 V Rising
94% matchVery Positive89% of 137,392 reviews2024
Dev: Stunlock Studios
Windows
Median: 20.9 hrsMean: 58.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Awaken as a Vampire. Hunt for blood in nearby settlements to regain your strength and evade the scorching sun to survive. Raise your castle and thrive in an ever-changing, open world full of mystery. Gain allies online and conquer the land of the living.
Why similar: Open World 18.7%, Survival 18.6%, Sandbox 12.8%, Building 12.3%, Base Building 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: It features a polished top-down perspective with intense survival, base-building, and combat mechanics that feel very satisfying.
- #6 Dig or Die
94% matchVery Positive90% of 4,291 reviews2018
Dev: Gaddy Games
Windows
Median: 4.3 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%, Survival 22.3%, Open World 13.2%, Building 10.4%, Crafting 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses heavily on the base defense aspect of survival, requiring players to build fortifications against alien threats.
- #7 Crashlands
93% matchVery Positive90% of 6,773 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 13.9%, Open World 13.4%, Survival 13.2%, Building 11.7%, Exploration 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: This top-down alien planet survival game features strong RPG elements and a humorous, engaging narrative.
- #8 RimWorld
92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 247,065 reviews2018
Dev: Ludeon Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 59.4 hrsMean: 267.8 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 20.8%, Sandbox 19.1%, Base Building 14.3%, Building 13.5%, Open World 12.5%
Why You'll Like It: While more focused on colony management, it shares the deep sci-fi survival and base-building complexity that Keplerth players enjoy.
- #9 Don't Starve Together
91% matchVery Positive95% of 543,644 reviews2016
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 64.9 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 66.7%, Open World 9.9%, Multiplayer 8.5%, Sandbox 7.1%, Crafting 3.8%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers a challenging survival experience with a unique art style and deep exploration elements.
- #10 Planet Centauri
91% matchMostly Positive77% of 2,395 reviews2024
Dev: Permadeath
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.7 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 21.9%, Open World 17.2%, Building 15.5%, Exploration 10.6%, Crafting 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: This 2D sandbox game offers deep creature taming and combat mechanics that mirror the pet-system found in Keplerth.
- #11 Valheim
89% matchVery Positive94% of 555,289 reviews2026
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 26.9 hrsMean: 81.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Why similar: Survival 18.8%, Open World 17.4%, Building 16.7%, Sandbox 11.3%, Multiplayer 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: It excels at providing a rewarding sense of progression through exploration, building, and survival in a dangerous world.
- #12 Craftopia
90% matchMostly Positive76% of 20,264 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 24.6%, Survival 19.5%, Sandbox 15.5%, Building 12.9%, Crafting 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: This open-world survival game blends crafting, exploration, and creature taming into a massive, multi-genre experience.
- #13 Subnautica
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 380,795 reviews2018
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.3 hrsMean: 39.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
Why similar: Survival 22.8%, Open World 19.2%, Sandbox 10.7%, Exploration 10.6%, Base Building 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: It is the premier alien planet survival game, focusing on exploration and base-building in a hostile, immersive environment.
- #14 DYSMANTLE
88% matchVery Positive91% of 11,622 reviews2021
Dev: 10tons Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 25.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Ascend from your shelter. Ruin everything. Escape the wretched island. ⚔️🔨🎣🌱🌵🍰 Explore. Fight. Level up. Survive. Gather. Craft. Harvest. Hunt. Build. Farm. Solve puzzles. Fish. Cook. Live. Enjoy the bittersweet post-apocalypse.
Why similar: Survival 21%, Open World 20.4%, Sandbox 13.4%, Base Building 9.4%, Crafting 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: This top-down survival game features satisfying destruction mechanics and a constant drive to explore and upgrade gear.
- #15 ASTRONEER
87% matchVery Positive92% of 139,497 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.7 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 17.3%, Survival 16.8%, Sandbox 14.4%, Building 11.4%, Multiplayer 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: This space-themed sandbox focuses on terraforming, exploration, and base-building on alien worlds.
- #16 Tinkertown
86% matchMixed67% of 1,345 reviews2023
Dev: Headup
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 6.2 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 17.6%, Open World 13.9%, Building 13.4%, RPG 12.1%, Adventure 11%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer-focused sandbox that emphasizes building and RPG-style exploration in a charming pixel-art world.
- #17 Planet Explorers
86% matchMixed62% of 6,818 reviews2016
Dev: Pathea Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Planet Explorers is an open world sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere.
Why similar: Sandbox 23.2%, Open World 18.3%, Survival 13%, Building 11.2%, Exploration 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: It offers an open-world survival experience with voxel-based building and deep exploration mechanics.
- #18 Scrapnaut
85% 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: Building 19.4%, Survival 16.9%, Sandbox 15.8%, Open World 11.5%, Multiplayer 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: This top-down survival game focuses on base building and resource management in a stylized, dangerous environment.
- #19 The Planet Crafter
82% 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: Building 16.8%, Survival 16.4%, Open World 14.5%, Sandbox 14.3%, Base Building 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a meditative yet engaging survival experience centered on terraforming a barren alien planet.
- #20 Portal Knights
84% matchVery Positive83% of 22,395 reviews2017
Dev: Keen Games GmbHPub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 5.6 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 23.9%, Building 19.3%, Survival 16.1%, Multiplayer 10%, Crafting 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: It combines 3D sandbox building with RPG character classes and exploration across varied floating islands.
- #21 Forager
84% matchVery Positive89% of 44,137 reviews2019
Dev: HopFrogPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 22.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!
Why similar: Survival 21.5%, Sandbox 15.2%, Building 10.7%, Crafting 9.9%, Open World 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: It provides an addictive sandbox loop focused on gathering, crafting, and expanding your territory.
- #22 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
83% matchVery Positive82% of 10,551 reviews2024
Dev: Max Ent Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 16.3 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 16.8%, Building 15.2%, Open World 14.3%, Sandbox 14.1%, Base Building 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: This survival game offers a unique perspective and excellent base-building mechanics in a dangerous, oversized world.
- #23 CryoFall
81% matchMostly Positive78% of 6,472 reviews2021
Dev: AtomicTorch StudioPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 16.3 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 20.3%, Building 18.9%, Survival 18.2%, Open World 14.4%, Base Building 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi survival game that features complex base building and multiplayer interaction in a persistent world.
- #24 Project Zomboid
80% matchVery Positive94% of 484,416 reviews2013
Dev: The Indie Stone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 15.9 hrsMean: 89.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 28.9%, Open World 20.2%, Sandbox 17.3%, Building 10.6%, Multiplayer 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: It offers the most complex and realistic survival and base-building mechanics available for those who want a deeper challenge.
- #25 Solace Crafting
81% matchMostly Positive71% of 899 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 16.4%, Sandbox 14.9%, Open World 14.9%, Building 14.5%, Base Building 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: This open-world survival game offers deep crafting and RPG progression with a focus on exploration.
- #26 Signs of Life
82% matchMostly Positive76% of 846 reviews2014
Dev: Sweet Dog Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 9.4 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 23.9%, Survival 17%, Building 12.6%, Open World 9.4%, Crafting 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: This sci-fi sandbox survival game features exploration, crafting, and combat on a mysterious alien planet.
- #27 Pathless Woods
79% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,121 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%, Open World 16.8%, Survival 15.4%, Building 15.4%, Base Building 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: This open-world survival game emphasizes building and crafting with a distinct aesthetic and exploration focus.
- #28 Tinkerlands
77% matchVery Positive86% of 4,122 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.4 hrsMean: 14.5 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 15.8%, Open World 15.3%, Building 13.5%, Multiplayer 6.9%
- #29 Everwind
77% matchVery Positive81% of 3,899 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 16.8%, Building 16.4%, Open World 15.5%, Survival 15%, Crafting 7.2%
- #30 The Survivalists
78% matchMostly Positive76% of 10,123 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 19.2%, Sandbox 16.2%, Open World 14.2%, Crafting 9.5%, Base Building 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: It features sandbox survival with a unique monkey-assisted crafting system and island exploration.
- #31 Romestead
76% matchMostly Positive77% of 5,129 reviews2026
Dev: BeartwigsPub: Three Friends
Windows
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Rome has fallen! Rebuild civilization in this action-adventure survival game for 1-8 players. Fight hordes of the walking dead, build settlements, restore the Roman gods... or kick back and farm with friends.
Why similar: Survival 15.9%, Sandbox 14.3%, Building 13.2%, Open World 11.8%, Crafting 8.2%
- #32 Junk Jack
79% matchMostly Positive78% of 478 reviews2016
Dev: Pixbits
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 21.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Make the world truly yours in Junk Jack, a relaxing sandbox experience focused on building and improving your home. Discover new planets, tame and breed creatures, cook foods, collect animal companions, farm exotic plants, collect fish, grow flowers, play with your friends!
Why similar: Sandbox 24.9%, Survival 18.9%, Building 16.2%, Crafting 8.2%, Multiplayer 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D sandbox exploration game that focuses heavily on crafting, collecting, and building in a pixelated world.
- #33 Delverium
74% matchVery Positive85% of 157 reviews2026
Dev: Sagestone Games
Windows
Explore, Build, Farm, Craft and Fight in this survival sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Delve deep to uncover the secret of the invading 'Faults' and restore stability to the land.
Why similar: Sandbox 18.3%, Survival 15.2%, Building 14.5%, Open World 12.9%, Exploration 7.3%
- #34 XenoHaven
75% matchVery Positive82% of 73 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 16.4%, Open World 15.1%, Survival 13.6%, Building 12.2%, Base Building 8%
- #35 Satisfactory
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 280,086 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 33.5 hrsMean: 113.6 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 17.3%, Building 16.1%, Sandbox 15%, Base Building 13.5%, Crafting 8%
- #36 Planetaries
76% matchMixed58% of 228 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 14.6%, Open World 14%, Survival 13.9%, Sandbox 13.4%, Sci-fi 7.8%
- #37 GRAV
78% 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: Survival 22.6%, Open World 20%, Sandbox 19%, Base Building 10.4%, Multiplayer 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi survival game that centers on base building and exploration in a hostile, procedurally generated galaxy.
- #38 TerraTech Worlds
75% 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: Sandbox 16.9%, Building 15.4%, Open World 14.3%, Survival 14.1%, Base Building 9.6%
- #39 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,722 reviews2021
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
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 19.3%, Open World 16.5%, Sandbox 14.9%, Base Building 10.4%, Building 9.1%
- #40 Orion Sandbox Enhanced
74% matchVery Positive94% of 1,250 reviews2018
Dev: y8.com
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 21.0 hrs≥1hr: 61%
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 36.2%, Survival 14.9%, RPG 12.4%, Adventure 11.6%, Casual 8%
- #41 Forsaken Isle
72% matchMostly Positive71% of 521 reviews2025
Dev: Smoodlez
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Stranded on a desert island, explore, craft, build and fight in this action survival game!
Why similar: Survival 31.4%, Sandbox 23.3%, Crafting 12%, Adventure 9.2%, RPG 8.1%
- #42 Volcanoids
72% 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: Sandbox 17%, Building 15.7%, Survival 14.2%, Open World 13.6%, Base Building 9%
- #43 Prospector
71% matchMixed70% of 152 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 16.3%, Building 14.9%, Open World 13.9%, Survival 11.4%, Base Building 8.6%
- #44 Longvinter
70% matchMixed67% of 7,713 reviews2025
Dev: Uuvana Studios
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 45.1 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Fish, farm, craft, gather, cook, loot or steal from other players and build a campsite or a village with your friends in an open-world multiplayer sandbox game without rules!
Why similar: Survival 19.9%, Open World 17.5%, Sandbox 16.5%, Building 13.2%, Multiplayer 10%
- #45 Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander
69% matchVery Positive94% of 12,916 reviews2022
Dev: Walternate Realities
Windows
Median: 19.3 hrsMean: 41.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Design and simulate the starships of your dreams! Command your ship or fleet in epic battles and manage your crew while exploring a dangerous galaxy. Play alone or with friends, test your ships in online PvP, and let your imagination reach for the stars!
Why similar: Building 23.8%, Sci-fi 20.1%, Survival 17.5%, Exploration 10.4%, Multiplayer 8.6%
- #46 TerraTech
69% 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: Building 23.7%, Sandbox 22%, Open World 17.7%, Survival 11.2%, Multiplayer 7.5%
- #47 StarRupture
66% 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: Sandbox 16.3%, Survival 16.1%, Open World 15.8%, Base Building 10%, Sci-fi 9.8%
- #48 Interstellar Rift
70% matchMixed68% of 1,667 reviews2020
Dev: Split PolygonPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 35.6 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 18.2%, Sandbox 17.9%, Open World 16.5%, Survival 14.1%, Exploration 9%
- #49 Nova Lands
68% matchVery Positive89% of 3,544 reviews2023
Dev: BEHEMUTTPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.1 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 19.3%, Survival 14.4%, Open World 14.1%, Building 13%, Base Building 10.7%
- #50 Cubic Odyssey
67% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,754 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 22.7%, Building 21.2%, Sci-fi 13.6%, Base Building 12.6%, RPG 7.9%
- #51 Fragmented
71% matchMixed43% of 1,964 reviews2017
Dev: Above and Beyond Technologies
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Stranded in a hostile alien world, you must fight to survive. Hunt, harvest, craft, advance skills, and build using local resources along with technology from your voyage.
Why similar: Survival 24.7%, Open World 17.2%, Sandbox 14.2%, Building 11.8%, Multiplayer 8.7%
- #52 MewnBase
67% matchVery Positive93% of 1,456 reviews2023
Dev: Cairn4
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 7.7 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 16.9%, Building 14.3%, Survival 13.9%, Open World 11.7%, Base Building 10.3%
- #53 Rise of Ages
71% matchMixed44% of 218 reviews2019
Dev: Anguis Game StudioPub: 99Gamers Digital
Windows
Rise of Ages is a sandbox game, allowing you to explore, build, found cities, make wars and evolve technologies to reach the highest level of a civilization and then travel to other planets! The game begins in prehistory and will advance ages, one by one, as the player evolves.
Why similar: Survival 24.1%, Open World 22.8%, Sandbox 18.5%, RPG 11%, Adventure 8.3%
- #54 Wayward
69% matchVery Positive86% of 1,370 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 26.8%, Sandbox 17.4%, Open World 15.3%, Crafting 10.2%, RPG 6.5%
- #55 Shamania
66% 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 18.8%, Survival 17.2%, Sandbox 16.1%, Building 11.9%, Crafting 8.7%
- #56 Scrap Mechanic
62% 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 21%, Sandbox 18.9%, Open World 15.8%, Survival 15.6%, Multiplayer 7.6%
- #57 Hostile Planet: Survival
68% matchMixed64% 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 24.3%, Open World 19.2%, Building 19.1%, Sandbox 16.4%, Crafting 9.9%