- #1 Core Keeper
97% matchVery Positive93% of 65,308 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.0 hrsMean: 34.5 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%, Building 14.9%, Open World 14.6%, Survival 14.4%, Base Building 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 Necesse
96% matchVery Positive93% of 27,498 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 14.9 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 17.3%, Open World 14.8%, Survival 13.9%, Building 12.7%, Multiplayer 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: This top-down sandbox game features similar base-building, village management, and RPG-style combat progression.
- #3 Starbound
96% matchVery Positive90% of 123,064 reviews2016
Dev: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.1 hrsMean: 64.3 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 14.2%, Open World 12.1%, Building 11.8%, 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.
- #4 Terraria
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,534,723 reviews2011
Dev: Re-Logic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 33.6 hrsMean: 150.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Why similar: Sandbox 24%, Survival 16.2%, Building 14.5%, Open World 9.7%, Multiplayer 8%
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 Dig or Die
94% matchVery Positive90% of 4,273 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 22.1%, Open World 12.9%, Building 10.5%, Crafting 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses heavily on the base defense aspect of survival, requiring players to build fortifications against alien threats.
- #6 V Rising
93% matchVery Positive89% of 135,460 reviews2024
Dev: Stunlock Studios
Windows
Median: 21.1 hrsMean: 57.6 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: Survival 17.9%, Open World 17.8%, Sandbox 12.5%, Building 12.1%, Base Building 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: It features a polished top-down perspective with intense survival, base-building, and combat mechanics that feel very satisfying.
- #7 Crashlands
94% matchVery Positive89% of 6,716 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%, Open World 13.2%, Survival 13.1%, Building 11.8%, 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 242,338 reviews2018
Dev: Ludeon Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 59.7 hrsMean: 264.0 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 20.6%, Sandbox 19.2%, Base Building 14.3%, Building 13.7%, Open World 12.3%
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 Planet Centauri
91% matchMostly Positive77% of 2,376 reviews2024
Dev: Permadeath
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 13.7 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 16.8%, Building 15.6%, Exploration 10.6%, Crafting 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: This 2D sandbox game offers deep creature taming and combat mechanics that mirror the pet-system found in Keplerth.
- #10 Don't Starve Together
91% matchVery Positive95% of 537,789 reviews2016
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 64.3 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 66.6%, Open World 9.8%, Multiplayer 8.7%, Sandbox 7.2%, Crafting 3.9%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers a challenging survival experience with a unique art style and deep exploration elements.
- #11 Subnautica
90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 375,391 reviews2018
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.3 hrsMean: 39.6 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 22.7%, Open World 18.9%, Sandbox 10.8%, Exploration 10.7%, Base Building 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: It is the premier alien planet survival game, focusing on exploration and base-building in a hostile, immersive environment.
- #12 Craftopia
89% matchMostly Positive76% of 20,099 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 23.7%, Survival 19.1%, Sandbox 15.3%, Building 12.7%, 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 DYSMANTLE
89% matchVery Positive91% of 11,503 reviews2021
Dev: 10tons Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 25.3 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 20.9%, Open World 20%, Sandbox 13.5%, Base Building 9.5%, Crafting 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: This top-down survival game features satisfying destruction mechanics and a constant drive to explore and upgrade gear.
- #14 Valheim
88% matchVery Positive94% of 536,933 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 25.9 hrsMean: 77.4 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 18.6%, Open World 17.1%, Building 16.9%, Sandbox 11.4%, Multiplayer 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: It excels at providing a rewarding sense of progression through exploration, building, and survival in a dangerous world.
- #15 ASTRONEER
87% matchVery Positive92% of 138,510 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.3 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%, Survival 16.7%, Sandbox 14.4%, Building 11.6%, Multiplayer 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: This space-themed sandbox focuses on terraforming, exploration, and base-building on alien worlds.
- #16 Scrapnaut
86% matchMixed70% of 833 reviews2021
Dev: SpiffyBitPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 4.1 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 15.8%, Open World 11.3%, Multiplayer 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: This top-down survival game focuses on base building and resource management in a stylized, dangerous environment.
- #17 Tinkertown
86% matchMixed67% of 1,342 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 13.6%, Building 13.5%, RPG 12%, Adventure 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer-focused sandbox that emphasizes building and RPG-style exploration in a charming pixel-art world.
- #18 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
84% matchVery Positive82% of 10,269 reviews2024
Dev: Merge GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 16.1%, Building 14.9%, Sandbox 13.8%, Open World 13.6%, Base Building 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: This survival game offers a unique perspective and excellent base-building mechanics in a dangerous, oversized world.
- #19 The Planet Crafter
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 71,525 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.5 hrsMean: 38.3 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%, Survival 16.3%, Sandbox 14.4%, Open World 14.2%, Base Building 10.6%
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 22,312 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 19.4%, Survival 15.9%, Multiplayer 10.2%, Crafting 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: It combines 3D sandbox building with RPG character classes and exploration across varied floating islands.
- #21 Planet Explorers
85% 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 23.3%, Open World 17.9%, Survival 13%, Building 11.3%, Exploration 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: It offers an open-world survival experience with voxel-based building and deep exploration mechanics.
- #22 Forager
83% matchVery Positive90% of 43,749 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 21.3%, Sandbox 15.2%, Building 10.7%, Crafting 10%, Open World 8%
Why You'll Like It: It provides an addictive sandbox loop focused on gathering, crafting, and expanding your territory.
- #23 CryoFall
82% matchMostly Positive78% of 6,448 reviews2021
Dev: AtomicTorch StudioPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 5.0 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 19.6%, Building 18.3%, Survival 17.3%, Open World 13.6%, Base Building 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi survival game that features complex base building and multiplayer interaction in a persistent world.
- #24 Solace Crafting
81% matchMostly Positive72% of 894 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 16.3%, Sandbox 15%, Building 14.7%, Open World 14.6%, 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.
- #25 Project Zomboid
80% matchVery Positive94% of 458,026 reviews2013
Dev: The Indie Stone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 15.0 hrsMean: 84.2 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 28.8%, Open World 19.8%, Sandbox 17.4%, Building 10.7%, Multiplayer 8.8%
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.
- #26 Pathless Woods
79% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,109 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 16.5%, Building 15.5%, Survival 15.3%, 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.
- #27 Tinkerlands
77% matchVery Positive86% of 3,973 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 14.0 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 15.7%, Open World 15%, Building 13.7%, Multiplayer 7%
- #28 Signs of Life
81% matchMostly Positive76% of 841 reviews2014
Dev: Sweet Dog Studios
Windows
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 24%, Survival 16.9%, Building 12.7%, Open World 9.2%, Crafting 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: This sci-fi sandbox survival game features exploration, crafting, and combat on a mysterious alien planet.
- #29 Everwind
76% matchVery Positive81% of 3,601 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 16.9%, Building 16.6%, Open World 15.2%, Survival 14.9%, Multiplayer 7.3%
- #30 The Survivalists
78% matchMostly Positive76% of 10,061 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 18.5%, Sandbox 15.7%, Open World 13.6%, Crafting 9.3%, Base Building 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: It features sandbox survival with a unique monkey-assisted crafting system and island exploration.
- #31 Romestead
76% matchMostly Positive76% of 4,222 reviews2026
Dev: BeartwigsPub: Three Friends
Windows
Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 15.8%, Sandbox 14.3%, Building 13.3%, Open World 11.6%, Crafting 8.4%
- #32 Junk Jack
79% matchMostly Positive78% of 473 reviews2016
Dev: Pixbits
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 21.9 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 24.9%, Survival 18.7%, Building 16.3%, Crafting 8.4%, Multiplayer 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D sandbox exploration game that focuses heavily on crafting, collecting, and building in a pixelated world.
- #33 XenoHaven
75% 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: Sandbox 16.5%, Open World 14.8%, Survival 13.5%, Building 12.3%, Base Building 8%
- #34 Planetaries
77% matchMixed58% of 226 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 13.8%, Open World 13.7%, Sandbox 13.4%, Sci-fi 7.8%
- #35 MewnBase
75% matchVery Positive93% of 1,442 reviews2023
Dev: Cairn4
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.5 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 16.9%, Building 14.5%, Survival 13.7%, Open World 11.5%, Base Building 10.2%
- #36 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,689 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 19.2%, Open World 16.2%, Sandbox 15%, Base Building 10.4%, Building 9.2%
- #37 GRAV
78% matchMixed47% of 6,921 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 22.5%, Open World 19.7%, Sandbox 19.1%, Base Building 10.4%, Multiplayer 7.7%
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
74% matchMixed63% of 2,256 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 21.6 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 17%, Building 15.6%, Survival 14%, Open World 14%, Base Building 9.6%
- #39 Prospector
73% matchMostly Positive71% 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 15%, Open World 13.6%, Survival 11.3%, Base Building 8.6%
- #40 Satisfactory
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 274,659 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 32.8 hrsMean: 111.2 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 16.9%, Building 16.2%, Sandbox 15.1%, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 8.1%
- #41 Surviving Ceres
72% matchVery Positive87% of 138 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 19.9%, Survival 18.9%, Open World 16.2%, Base Building 9.7%, Crafting 9%
- #42 Orion Sandbox Enhanced
73% matchVery Positive94% of 1,179 reviews2018
Dev: y8.com
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 21.4 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 34.9%, Survival 14.2%, RPG 12.8%, Adventure 11.7%, Casual 8.3%
- #43 Dune: Awakening
69% matchMostly Positive71% of 77,257 reviews2025
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 46.8 hrsMean: 99.3 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival game with immersive adventure and RPG gameplay. Explore, build, craft, and unravel a cinematic Dune story alone or with friends as you rise from survival to greatness on the most legendary planet in the universe. Just remember: the sandworm always comes.
Why similar: Sandbox 13.9%, Building 13.5%, Survival 12.5%, Open World 12.4%, Sci-fi 8.6%
- #44 Aground
71% matchVery Positive94% of 2,004 reviews2020
Dev: Fancy Fish Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 17.8%, Open World 16.7%, Survival 16.4%, Sandbox 15.7%, Base Building 10%
- #45 Project 5: Sightseer
72% matchMostly Positive72% of 547 reviews2019
Dev: Tasharen Entertainment Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 28.6 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Open world multiplayer sandbox/RPG game. Explore, gather, build, research, and fight to protect what's yours -- by yourself or together with your friends.
Why similar: Building 26.3%, Sandbox 25.5%, Open World 14.9%, RPG 12.2%, Adventure 10.6%
- #46 Interstellar Rift
71% matchMixed68% of 1,663 reviews2020
Dev: Split PolygonPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 33.4 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 18.3%, Sandbox 17.9%, Open World 16.2%, Survival 14%, Exploration 9%
- #47 Border Town
69% matchMostly Positive80% of 305 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 21.8%, Building 19.4%, Open World 19%, Survival 16.3%, RPG 6.5%
- #48 Out of Orbit
70% matchMostly Positive80% of 162 reviews2023
Dev: Case Yellow Labs
Windows
Design, build, or pirate spaceships. Build bases on planets. Explore endless randomly generated universes, travel through black holes, command your crew, survive cosmic events, collect and trade materials, battle epic bosses, and much more. The sky is the limit, literally!
Why similar: Sandbox 21.1%, Open World 16.1%, Building 15.5%, Survival 13.3%, Exploration 10.8%
- #49 Cubic Odyssey
68% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,674 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 21.4%, Sci-fi 13.6%, Base Building 12.6%, RPG 7.9%
- #50 Hostile Planet: Survival
70% 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 24.2%, Building 19.4%, Open World 18.9%, Sandbox 16.5%, Crafting 10.1%
- #51 Forsaken Isle
67% matchMostly Positive71% of 516 reviews2025
Dev: Smoodlez
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Stranded on a desert island, explore, craft, build and fight in this action survival game!
Why similar: Survival 31.2%, Sandbox 23.4%, Crafting 12.2%, Adventure 9.1%, RPG 8%
- #52 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
65% matchVery Positive91% of 7,488 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Survive, craft, and automate in this free prologue set on one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters, an open-world game where you play solo or with friends to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.
Why similar: Sandbox 15.3%, Open World 15.2%, Building 13.4%, Survival 11.7%, Base Building 10.1%
- #53 Wayward
68% matchVery Positive86% of 1,363 reviews2016
Dev: Unlok
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 21.5 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 26.6%, Sandbox 17.5%, Open World 15%, Crafting 10.4%, RPG 6.5%
- #54 Project Asteroids
67% matchMixed57% of 129 reviews2024
Dev: PAEB Studio
Windows
In the vastness of space, you are a lone robot desperately trying to survive. Build, explore, and fight for your life as you face deadly threats in the asteroid belt. This hardcore game shows no mercy—dangers lurk at every step, ready to destroy you at any moment.
Why similar: Survival 20.4%, Open World 18.4%, Building 15.6%, Crafting 9.7%, Multiplayer 9.4%
- #55 Volcanoids
67% matchVery Positive83% of 9,298 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 15.8%, Survival 14%, Open World 13.3%, Base Building 9%
- #56 StarRupture
63% matchVery Positive81% of 12,866 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 24.2 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 16.4%, Survival 16%, Open World 15.5%, Base Building 10%, Sci-fi 9.8%
- #57 Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander
64% matchVery Positive94% of 12,715 reviews2022
Dev: Walternate Realities
Windows
Median: 19.5 hrsMean: 41.2 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 23.7%, Sci-fi 20.1%, Survival 17.4%, Exploration 10.4%, Multiplayer 8.8%