- #1 Core Keeper
97% matchVery Positive93% of 64,481 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.0 hrsMean: 34.1 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: Open World Survival Craft 23.9% ★, Building 10.1%, Crafting 9.4%, Base Building 9.1%, Survival 9%
Why You'll Like It: An isometric survival sandbox that perfectly captures the dungeon-crawling and resource-gathering balance of the seed game.
- #2 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
96% matchVery Positive82% of 9,989 reviews2024
Dev: Merge GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 15.2 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: Open World Survival Craft 32.3% ★, Survival 11.1%, Building 11%, Base Building 10.9%, Crafting 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on exploration and survival from a unique perspective, featuring deep crafting and base-building systems.
- #3 Dinkum
96% matchVery Positive92% of 28,725 reviews2025
Dev: James BendonPub: KRAFTON, Inc.
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 28.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Dinkum is a survival life simulation game set on an island inspired by the rugged Australian outback. Farm, hunt, mine, fish, and forage to gather resources, expand your town, and discover what makes Dinkum so special—either solo or with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.7% ★, Farming 30.6% ★, Crafting 8.8%, Building 8.7%, Sandbox 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a relaxing farming and exploration experience set in a unique wilderness that feels like the peaceful side of Len's Island.
- #4 Enshrouded
95% matchVery Positive86% of 101,648 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.7 hrsMean: 45.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.
Why similar: Open World 17.4%, Survival 17.1%, Base Building 16.8%, Crafting 14.1%, Building 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: Features robust building tools and an expansive open world that rewards exploration and tactical combat.
- #5 Valheim
94% matchVery Positive94% of 534,015 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 25.8 hrsMean: 76.9 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: Open World Survival Craft 35.9% ★, Survival 10.9%, Building 10.6%, Open World 9.1%, Crafting 9%
Why You'll Like It: Offers an unparalleled open-world survival experience that emphasizes exploration, building, and challenging combat against environmental threats.
- #6 V Rising
94% matchVery Positive89% of 134,242 reviews2024
Dev: Stunlock Studios
Windows
Median: 21.0 hrsMean: 57.2 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: Survival 17.6%, Base Building 17.2%, Open World 15.9%, Crafting 14.9%, Building 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: Combines top-down ARPG combat with deep base-building mechanics that mirror the progression loop of Len's Island.
- #7 Nightingale
93% matchMixed67% of 17,932 reviews2024
Dev: Inflexion Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 24.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Nightingale is an open world survival crafting game, where you’ll adventure across the mysterious and dangerous Fae Realms. As a daring Realmwalker, you’ll defeat monstrous enemies, survive hostile environments, and build elaborate estates in a visually stunning Gaslamp Fantasy world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.9% ★, Building 11.2%, Survival 10.8%, Crafting 10.2%, Base Building 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on procedural exploration and survival with a heavy emphasis on building and crafting in diverse environments.
- #8 Necesse
91% matchVery Positive93% of 27,199 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 14.8 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.1% ★, Sandbox 8.9%, Crafting 8.8%, Survival 8.4%, Open World 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: An isometric survival game with a strong focus on combat, dungeon crawling, and village management.
- #9 DYSMANTLE
92% matchVery Positive91% of 11,423 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 20.1%, Crafting 19.1%, Open World 17.7%, Base Building 16.5%, Sandbox 11%
Why You'll Like It: Features a satisfying loop of breaking down the environment to craft better gear for exploration and combat.
- #10 My Time at Sandrock
91% matchVery Positive88% of 28,550 reviews2023
Dev: Pathea Games
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 39.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Travel to the desert community of Sandrock and take on the role of a fledgling Builder. Use your trusty toolset to gather resources, construct machines, and turn your run-down workshop into a well-oiled production facility to save the town from the jaws of economic ruin!
Why similar: Building 30.6%, Crafting 24.9%, Sandbox 22.2%, Open World 17.9%, Adventure 2.9%
Why You'll Like It: Excels at the farming and community-building aspects while offering a vast world to explore and scavenge.
- #11 Aloft
90% matchVery Positive84% of 3,576 reviews2025
Dev: Astrolabe Interactive Inc.Pub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Soar the skies in Aloft, the co-op sandbox survival game set in a world of floating islands. Build any island into a skyship, your home in the clouds. Find lost knowledge, cure the fungal corruption, and brave the hurricane to restore the ecosystem.
Why similar: Farming 28.7% ★, Open World Survival Craft 20.2% ★, Building 10%, Crafting 9.5%, Survival 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a unique survival experience centered on exploration and building across floating islands.
- #12 Terraria
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,524,255 reviews2011
Dev: Re-Logic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 33.5 hrsMean: 150.1 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.1% ★, Sandbox 13.2%, Survival 10.7%, Building 10.2%, Crafting 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: A classic sandbox that offers endless exploration, complex combat, and creative building in a 2D environment.
- #13 Survival: Fountain of Youth
89% matchVery Positive86% of 4,339 reviews2024
Dev: Odinsoft Inc.Pub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 18.7 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Survival: Fountain of Youth is a challenging single-player open-world adventure game set on the Caribbean islands. Survive as a shipwrecked 16th-century explorer, craft tools and shelter, and uncover the secrets of both an ancient civilization and your own fate.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.6% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Survival 11.2%, Crafting 10.8%, Building 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: A realistic survival game that rewards careful exploration and resource management in a beautiful, dangerous setting.
- #14 Sunkenland
88% matchVery Positive81% of 23,216 reviews2023
Dev: Vector3 Studio
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 18.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Get ready for a Waterworld-themed survival game with modular base building, sunken city scavenging, crafting, base defense, and invasions of NPC clans for resources and territory. Ready for the water apocalypse?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.7% ★, Survival 12.6%, Base Building 10.8%, Crafting 9.7%, Open World 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: A water-themed survival game that emphasizes building and scavenging in a dangerous, open-world setting.
- #15 Don't Starve Together
87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 531,653 reviews2016
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 64.7 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: Open World Survival Craft 68.7% ★, Survival 22.3%, Open World 3%, Crafting 2.9%, Sandbox 2%
Why You'll Like It: Pushes the survival and combat aspects to the forefront while maintaining a distinct, atmospheric art style.
- #16 I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival
86% matchVery Positive85% of 4,559 reviews2024
Dev: MandragoraPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 8.8 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
I Am Future is a relaxing single-player survival game about building a cozy rooftop camp amid a flooded post-apocalyptic city. Set up a farm, go fishing, tinker with gadgets, craft new tools, manage a team of cute robots to automate and expand your base, explore the mysterious world, and chill out!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.6% ★, Building 12.9%, Crafting 12.5%, Sandbox 11.1%, Open World 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a relaxing, cozy take on survival and building that focuses on base management and exploration.
- #17 Tinkerlands
86% matchVery Positive86% of 3,833 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 13.9 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: Open World Survival Craft 38.5% ★, Sandbox 11.4%, Survival 11.2%, Building 10.5%, Crafting 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: An isometric survival sandbox that focuses on crafting and combat in a procedurally generated world.
- #18 Voidtrain
85% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,447 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.1% ★, Survival 9.6%, Base Building 9.3%, Crafting 9.1%, Building 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: Features a unique survival loop centered on building and upgrading a train while exploring a mysterious world.
- #19 Mirthwood
84% matchMostly Positive70% of 2,338 reviews2024
Dev: Bad Ridge GamesPub: V Publishing
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Embark on an enchanting journey and brave ferocious creatures in an immersive medieval fantasy world. Will you settle a new homestead to live a life of farming and trade, or pick up the sword and take up the adventurers' path?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.5% ★, Farming 23.9% ★, Sandbox 11.1%, Crafting 11.1%, Survival 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: Blends RPG elements with farming and sandbox life-sim mechanics in a charming medieval world.
- #20 Luma Island
83% matchVery Positive84% of 12,297 reviews2024
Dev: Feel Free Games
Windows
Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 24.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Get ready to explore, farm, fish, mine, craft, and raise magical Lumas as you solve puzzles and embark on quests across Luma Island. Play solo, or team up with friends in 1-4 player online co-op. Choose relaxing Cozy, challenging Adventure, or epic Hero mode to match your mood and playstyle.
Why similar: Building 31.5%, Crafting 29.3%, Open World 18.7%, Exploration 12.3%, Adventure 5.7%
Why You'll Like It: A cozy, farming-focused simulation that emphasizes exploration and light puzzle-solving.
- #21 Salt 2: Shores of Gold
82% matchVery Positive85% of 2,262 reviews2025
Dev: Lavaboots Studios
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Salt 2 is a pirate-themed open world adventure focused on exploration, crafting, and survival. Play solo or with up to 5 friends, sailing the sea with your ship as a mobile base. Discover islands full of quests, towns, caves, and secrets. Level up, craft gear, hunt, fish, and customize your ship.
Why similar: Crafting 18.3%, Survival 17.8%, Open World 17.6%, Sandbox 15.2%, Procedural Generation 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on open-world exploration and sailing, capturing the adventurous spirit of island-hopping.
- #22 Force of Nature 2: Ghost Keeper
84% matchVery Positive80% of 2,332 reviews2021
Dev: A.Y.stdPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 16.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Force of Nature 2: Ghost Keeper offers incredible adventures full of mystery, danger, exploration and magic. This game combines the genres of Survival, Sandbox, Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Resource Management
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.7% ★, Crafting 12.1%, Base Building 11.3%, Survival 11.2%, Building 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: A survival sandbox that emphasizes crafting and base building within a large, explorable world.
- #23 ICARUS
82% matchMostly Positive74% of 63,962 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 46.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.1% ★, Survival 11.7%, Base Building 10.4%, Crafting 9.4%, Building 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: A session-based survival game that emphasizes intense preparation, building, and exploration on a hostile planet.
- #24 Among Trees
81% matchMixed68% of 2,222 reviews2021
Dev: FJRD Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Escape to an enchanting, living sandbox surrounded by wildlife and nature. Scavenge materials and craft tools to turn your small cabin into a warm, well-supplied home. Survive by fishing, cooking and growing your own food. Be careful though, the forest is as dangerous as it is wonderful.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.4% ★, Farming 23.8% ★, Survival 8.2%, Crafting 7.1%, Building 7%
Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric survival game that focuses on the beauty of nature and the solitude of exploration.
- #25 Beyond the Map
79% matchMostly Positive78% of 691 reviews2025
Dev: Glitch Goblins
Windows
Isometric survival ARPG set in a procedurally generated fantasy world. Build your base, gear up, and venture out, chasing stronger enemies and better loot.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.8% ★, Base Building 9.9%, Dungeon Crawler 8.9%, Crafting 8.7%, Building 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: An isometric action-RPG that focuses on looting, building, and surviving in a dangerous environment.
- #26 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: Open World Survival Craft 30.8% ★, Crafting 10.8%, Survival 10.3%, Building 9.9%, Base Building 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a vast, seamless open world with a heavy focus on crafting and building at your own pace.
- #27 Everwind
77% matchVery Positive82% of 3,221 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 12.8 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: Building 16.1%, Crafting 14.7%, Survival 13.5%, Sandbox 12.9%, Open World 12.6%
- #28 Lodventure
79% matchMostly Positive74% of 161 reviews2023
Dev: Sky Games
Windows
Embark on a 1-4 players Co-op survival adventure in an open world wilderness in search of a myth called the Lod Stone. Build your house, sow your crops, brew potions, tame a horse and discover powerful abilities. Venture into dangerous dungeons, fight unique bosses to find the Lod stone.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.3% ★, Survival 10.6%, Open World 9.6%, Crafting 9.3%, Base Building 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused adventure game that emphasizes exploration and building in a stylized world.
- #29 Rising World
80% matchVery Positive86% of 5,890 reviews2014
Dev: JIW-Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 21.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Rising World is a voxel based open-world sandbox game, featuring a procedurally generated world, playable in single and multi-player.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.6% ★, Building 11%, Base Building 9.9%, Crafting 9.7%, Sandbox 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a highly flexible building system alongside exploration and survival mechanics.
- #30 IfSunSets
78% matchMostly Positive75% of 2,232 reviews2024
Dev: POLYMORPHPub: Smilegate
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 28.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
「IfSunSets」 is a survival RPG adventure game. During the day, secure necessary supplies across the island, and survive the night against strong and terrifying monsters that track you down. You can utilize resources you've secured to build a base to fend off threatening monsters.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42% ★, Base Building 14.8%, Sandbox 13.1%, Open World 12.4%, PvE 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Combines survival and crafting with intense combat encounters that occur when the sun goes down.
- #31 Voyagers of Nera
76% matchVery Positive85% of 2,367 reviews2025
Dev: Treehouse Games
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 12.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Voyagers of Nera is a cooperative survival-crafting game where you must survive a magical ocean world brimming with lost spirits and deadly monsters. Sail to distant islands, build beautiful villages and surf across the waves with up to 10 players.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.7% ★, Building 14.8%, Crafting 13.6%, Base Building 13.5%, PvE 8.4%
- #32 The Planet Crafter
75% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 70,189 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.5 hrsMean: 37.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.7% ★, Base Building 12%, Building 11.4%, Survival 10.2%, Crafting 10.2%
- #33 Longvinter
76% matchMixed67% of 7,565 reviews2025
Dev: Uuvana Studios
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 42.7 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: Open World Survival Craft 29.6% ★, Survival 12.7%, Crafting 12.6%, Open World 10%, Building 9.2%
- #34 Crea
78% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,407 reviews2016
Dev: Siege Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 19.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Progress with every slain monster, learn over 80 skills through talents, craft hundreds of items, and explore vast procedurally-generated worlds in this ever-expanding sandbox RPG!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47% ★, Sandbox 14.5%, Crafting 12.8%, Survival 9%, Building 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D sandbox RPG that emphasizes crafting and character progression through exploration.
- #35 Cubic Odyssey
74% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,584 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: Open World Survival Craft 40.8% ★, Building 14.2%, Base Building 14%, Sandbox 11.8%, Open World 4.3%
- #36 Force of Nature
77% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,202 reviews2016
Dev: A.Y.std
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40% ★, Crafting 12.8%, Survival 11.7%, Building 8.9%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #37 Above Snakes
74% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,962 reviews2023
Dev: Square Glade GamesPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Piece by piece, create your own world in this relaxing Wild West-inspired worldbuilder. Craft, farm, hunt, build your base, and explore.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.1% ★, Building 11.3%, Crafting 10.3%, Open World 10.3%, Sandbox 9.4%
- #38 Volcanoids
75% matchVery Positive83% of 9,267 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: Building 15.6%, Crafting 15.4%, Base Building 15%, Sandbox 13.2%, Survival 13%
- #39 Craftopia
73% matchMostly Positive77% of 20,035 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 Survival Craft 32.9% ★, Crafting 16.4%, Open World 15.4%, Survival 13.5%, Building 9.7%
- #40 ASKA
71% matchMostly Positive80% of 11,689 reviews2024
Dev: Sand Sailor StudioPub: Thunderful Publishing
Windows
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 28.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
A new Viking age dawns with you at its helm. Forge a thriving colony from nothing in this mythic open-world survival sim. Earn the gods' favor and survive in a land ruled by ancient terrors and unforgiving seasons. Rally unique villagers, expand your settlement and defend your tribe - solo or co-op!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.8% ★, Base Building 12%, Survival 11%, Sandbox 10.8%, Building 10.2%
- #41 Outbreak Island
71% matchMostly Positive79% of 963 reviews2025
Dev: Tiny Magicians
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Survive on a remote Island, where a mysterious Outbreak awakens bloodthirsty monsters at night. Craft, build and defend your base in the brutal world of Outbreak Island, an open-world sandbox survival horror game.
Why similar: Survival 17.3%, Sandbox 16.7%, Crafting 13.7%, Building 13.6%, Base Building 12.8%
- #42 KeepUp Survival
73% matchMixed64% of 743 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 84%
KeepUp Survival is an open base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and unfold your own story on a mysterious island.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32% ★, Crafting 10.7%, Survival 10.7%, Base Building 10.5%, Open World 9.6%
- #43 Eden Crafters
69% matchVery Positive86% of 2,425 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.6% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Crafting 11.5%, Building 10.5%, Sandbox 9.4%
- #44 The Survivalists
73% matchMostly Positive76% of 10,012 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: Open World Survival Craft 31.3% ★, Crafting 14%, Survival 12.4%, Base Building 10.2%, Sandbox 8.9%
- #45 Eden Island
72% matchMixed61% of 255 reviews2024
Dev: Moon Studio
Windows
Eden Island is a beautiful survival game. As a survivor, you will explore and survive on a realistic tropical island, craft weapons against beasts, farm and hunt, build your own home.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.1% ★, Building 11.3%, Base Building 10.8%, Crafting 10.4%, Survival 9.8%
- #46 Ikonei Island: An Earthlock Adventure
72% matchMostly Positive75% of 464 reviews2023
Dev: Snowcastle Games
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Ikonei Island is yours to discover! Explore and gather resources. Farm the land, craft tools and gear, and build your base or a cozy home. Befriend magical creatures and fight monsters with your friends or solo!
Why similar: Building 38.8%, Crafting 30%, Exploration 21.2%, Adventure 6.2%, Singleplayer 3.7%
- #47 Windrose
68% matchVery Positive88% of 44,950 reviews2026
Dev: Kraken Express
Windows
Median: 19.2 hrsMean: 31.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Embark on a PvE survival adventure in the Age of Piracy. Fight on land and sea, solo or with friends. Build, craft and explore vast open world filled with dark secrets. Master soulslite combat and take on challenging bosses, command your ship and plunder unspoken treasures!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.2% ★, Crafting 12.1%, Survival 10.9%, Building 10.7%, Base Building 8%
- #48 Omega Crafter
70% matchMostly Positive80% of 566 reviews2025
Dev: Preferred Networks
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Adventure in a vast open-world survival craft game with your programmable sidekick Grammi! Program the Grammi to collect materials, build your town, craft weapons and armor to challenge strong enemies! Play alone or with friends online!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.6% ★, Crafting 12.1%, Survival 11.3%, Open World 10.6%, Building 9.8%
- #49 Tribes of Midgard
71% matchMostly Positive76% of 23,133 reviews2021
Dev: NorsfellPub: Gearbox Publishing
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 19.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
A vibrant blend of survival and action RPG for 1-10 players! Craft legendary items, grow your home base and embark on an epic journey through procedural realms to face towering creatures hel-bent on unleashing Ragnarök. Valhalla can wait, Einherjar!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.9% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Survival 11.8%, PvE 8.8%, Procedural Generation 8.2%
- #50 Lightyear Frontier
68% matchVery Positive84% of 4,457 reviews2024
Dev: FRAME BREAK
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
In Lightyear Frontier you use your powerful trusty mech to farm on a large beautiful alien planet. Settle your homestead, farm and deliver produce to remote colonies, gather and manage resources, build, craft, explore, expand, improve your mech, meet neighbors, and make a place to call your own.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.3% ★, Crafting 13.1%, Base Building 12.9%, Sandbox 9.6%, Survival 9.5%
- #51 Dune: Awakening
67% matchMostly Positive70% of 76,118 reviews2025
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 47.7 hrsMean: 97.4 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: Open World Survival Craft 29% ★, Building 10.7%, Base Building 10.1%, Crafting 9.7%, Survival 9.3%
- #52 Forever Skies
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,446 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 32.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A first-person survival game set on a post-apocalyptic, ecologically ruined Earth. Play solo or with up to 3 friends as you build, upgrade, and fly a high-tech airship. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and face dangers on the surface as you hunt for a cure to save humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.3% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 11.5%, Survival 10.8%, Building 10.4%
- #53 Lost Skies
67% matchMixed61% of 2,893 reviews2025
Dev: Bossa StudiosPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Chart a course in a breathtaking, but fractured world. Explore ancient ruins, master advanced technology, and craft your very own skyship to brave nature’s fury and colossal threats in Lost Skies. Team up with friends or go it alone in this awe-inspiring cooperative survival adventure.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.7% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Sandbox 10.1%, Crafting 7.9%, Open World 7.5%
- #54 Stranded Sails - Explorers of the Cursed Islands
70% matchMostly Positive74% of 980 reviews2019
Dev: Alchemist InteractivePub: rokaplay
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Farm, cook, craft and decorate in this casual open world farming adventure! Set up camp with your crew after being shipwrecked on a mysterious archipelago. Your quest is to survive, explore and uncover the secrets of the Cursed Islands. Take care of your crew to build relationships and earn rewards!
Why similar: Farming 50.1% ★, Nature 13.6%, Crafting 13.4%, Open World 11.8%, Exploration 6.8%
- #55 Spirit of the Island
69% matchMixed66% of 1,883 reviews2022
Dev: 1M Bits HordePub: META Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
A beautiful Life Sim Sandbox RPG with Cross-Platform Online COOP set on a tropical Archipelago. Build your farm, grow crops and animals, craft various items, cook dishes, gather resources, build shops and museum to attract visitors, and turn a desolate Island into a prosperous tourist destination!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.3% ★, Crafting 15%, Sandbox 13.3%, Open World 12.2%, PvE 9%
- #56 The Wild Eight
69% matchMixed68% of 8,077 reviews2019
Dev: Eight PointsPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
The Wild Eight is an intense survival action-adventure set in the frozen wilderness of Alaska. Team up with friends in online co-op or go solo, explore the mysterious land, craft weapons and fight to live another day.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.3% ★, Survival 17.2%, Open World 9.3%, Crafting 9%, Mystery 7.5%
- #57 Green Hell
67% matchVery Positive85% of 97,093 reviews2019
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.1% ★, Survival 14.2%, Crafting 9.2%, Open World 7.9%, Base Building 7.4%
- #58 RuneScape: Dragonwilds
64% matchVery Positive81% of 25,015 reviews2025
Dev: Jagex Ltd
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 15.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
On RuneScape’s forgotten continent of Ashenfall, dragons have awoken. Gather, build, skill and craft to survive in this co-operative (1-4) survival crafting game. Only by mastering survival and uncovering ancient secrets can they hope to slay the Dragon Queen—alone or with allies.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.1% ★, Survival 11.5%, Open World 11.5%, Building 10.3%, Crafting 9.9%