- #1 Core Keeper
97% matchVery Positive93% of 63,205 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.0 hrsMean: 33.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.8% ★, Building 10.1%, Crafting 9.5%, Base Building 9.1%, Survival 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: It perfectly mirrors the top-down perspective, dungeon crawling, and resource management loop found in Len's Island.
- #2 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
96% matchVery Positive82% of 9,646 reviews2024
Dev: Merge GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.1% ★, Building 11%, Survival 11%, Base Building 10.9%, Crafting 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: This game captures the sense of scale and exploration in a nature-focused survival setting that feels very similar to Len's Island.
- #3 Valheim
96% matchVery Positive94% of 529,829 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 25.6 hrsMean: 76.1 hrs≥1hr: 93%
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.6% ★, Survival 10.9%, Building 10.6%, Crafting 9.1%, Open World 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: This game is the gold standard for blending deep base-building, challenging boss combat, and rewarding exploration in a beautiful open world.
- #4 Enshrouded
95% matchVery Positive86% of 98,202 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.3 hrsMean: 44.1 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 17.2%, Survival 17%, Base Building 16.6%, Crafting 14.2%, Building 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a highly satisfying building system paired with exploration and survival in a dangerous, atmospheric world.
- #5 Dinkum
94% matchVery Positive92% of 28,435 reviews2025
Dev: James BendonPub: KRAFTON, Inc.
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 28.4 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 38.5% ★, Farming 30.6% ★, Crafting 8.8%, Building 8.8%, Sandbox 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a relaxing farming and life-sim experience with survival elements in a charming, Australian-inspired setting.
- #6 V Rising
94% matchVery Positive89% of 132,034 reviews2024
Dev: Stunlock Studios
Windows
Median: 21.0 hrsMean: 57.1 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 17.4%, Base Building 17.1%, Open World 15.8%, Crafting 15%, Building 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: This title offers a similar top-down ARPG combat feel combined with extensive and creative base-building mechanics.
- #7 Craftopia
93% matchMostly Positive77% of 19,974 reviews2020
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Craftopia is the brand new multiplayer survival action game made in Japan. We combined many features we find enjoyable, such as hunting, farming, hack-and-slash, building, automation to develop this game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.5% ★, Crafting 16.5%, Open World 15.4%, Survival 13.6%, Building 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: It features a massive variety of mechanics including farming, combat, and exploration in a sandbox environment.
- #8 Necesse
91% matchVery Positive93% of 26,780 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.9% ★, Sandbox 8.9%, Crafting 8.9%, Survival 8.4%, Building 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a top-down, pixel-art survival experience with a strong focus on dungeon progression and base management.
- #9 Nightingale
92% matchMixed67% of 17,841 reviews2024
Dev: Inflexion Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 23.9 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 33.7% ★, Building 11.2%, Survival 10.7%, Crafting 10.3%, Base Building 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on exploration and crafting across diverse, procedurally generated realms that offer a unique sense of discovery.
- #10 Palworld
91% matchVery Positive94% of 417,805 reviews2024
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 34.2 hrsMean: 70.0 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.7% ★, Open World 13.7%, Survival 13.5%, Crafting 10.1%, Base Building 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: This game blends survival, base-building, and creature-collecting combat in a vast, interactive open world.
- #11 Grounded
90% matchVery Positive90% of 92,875 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.2 hrsMean: 40.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.6% ★, Survival 17.7%, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 11.2%, Open World 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on exploration and creative base-building in a hostile, nature-filled environment that rewards careful planning.
- #12 The Planet Crafter
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 67,314 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.1 hrsMean: 37.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.3% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Building 11.6%, Crafting 10.3%, Survival 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes long-term base-building and terraforming in a peaceful, exploration-heavy survival loop.
- #13 DYSMANTLE
89% matchVery Positive91% of 11,317 reviews2021
Dev: 10tons Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 25.4 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%, Crafting 19.1%, Open World 17.6%, Base Building 16.5%, Sandbox 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: It features satisfying exploration and combat with a focus on clearing out the world and gathering resources to progress.
- #14 Aloft
88% matchVery Positive84% of 3,496 reviews2025
Dev: Astrolabe Interactive Inc.Pub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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% ★, Building 10.1%, Crafting 9.6%, Survival 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: This game combines survival and crafting with a unique floating-island exploration mechanic that feels fresh and rewarding.
- #15 Tinkerlands
87% matchVery Positive86% of 3,746 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 13.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Explore, craft, and fight your way through uncharted islands — solo or with up to 4 players in co-op! Tinkerlands is an exciting survival adventure where you will build your settlement, craft useful tools to survive, and even use magic!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.1% ★, Sandbox 11.5%, Survival 11.2%, Building 10.6%, Crafting 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: A cozy, pixel-art survival game that balances exploration and base-building with a lighthearted tone.
- #16 My Time at Sandrock
86% matchVery Positive88% of 28,280 reviews2023
Dev: Pathea Games
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 39.3 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 30.5%, Crafting 24.9%, Sandbox 22.4%, Open World 17.9%, Adventure 2.9%
Why You'll Like It: This title combines building and farming with exploration and RPG elements in a vibrant, character-driven world.
- #17 Survival: Fountain of Youth
86% matchVery Positive86% of 4,270 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 33.5% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Survival 11.1%, Crafting 10.9%, Building 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: A realistic survival game that emphasizes exploration and crafting in a detailed tropical setting.
- #18 Luma Island
85% matchVery Positive84% of 12,128 reviews2024
Dev: Feel Free Games
Windows
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 24.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 29.5%, Open World 18.6%, Exploration 12.3%, Adventure 5.7%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the cozy, farming, and life-simulation aspects of the genre, perfect for those who enjoy the peaceful side of Len's Island.
- #19 Terraria
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,511,859 reviews2011
Dev: Re-Logic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 33.2 hrsMean: 149.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.9% ★, Sandbox 13.4%, Survival 10.6%, Building 10.2%, Crafting 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: A classic title that excels at dungeon crawling, exploration, and creative building in a 2D space.
- #20 Raft
83% matchVery Positive93% of 368,916 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.5 hrsMean: 36.8 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.1% ★, Survival 16.4%, Crafting 10.2%, Building 9.2%, Base Building 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique survival and building experience centered on exploration and resource gathering on the open ocean.
- #21 Volcanoids
84% matchVery Positive83% of 9,214 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.5% ★, Crafting 10.8%, Survival 9.9%, Building 9.3%, Base Building 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique survival experience where you build and upgrade a mobile base to survive volcanic eruptions.
- #22 ICARUS
82% matchMostly Positive74% of 62,078 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 44.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 32.9% ★, Survival 11.7%, Base Building 10.4%, Crafting 9.5%, Building 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a session-based survival experience with a focus on building, crafting, and exploration in a harsh environment.
- #23 The Survivalists
81% matchMostly Positive76% of 9,935 reviews2020
Dev: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 71%
A living world full of surprises, secrets and danger awaits in The Survivalists, an adventure-filled survival sandbox set in The Escapists universe. Explore, build, craft and even train monkeys with up to three friends in a desperate bid to survive. Have you got what it takes to be a Survivalist?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31% ★, Crafting 14.1%, Survival 12.4%, Base Building 10.3%, Sandbox 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-crafting game with a focus on exploration and managing AI companions to help with tasks.
- #24 Rising World
82% matchVery Positive86% of 5,845 reviews2014
Dev: JIW-Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 21.3 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 30.3% ★, Building 11%, Base Building 9.9%, Crafting 9.7%, Sandbox 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a sandbox experience with deep building mechanics and a focus on exploration in a procedurally generated world.
- #25 Mirthwood
80% matchMostly Positive70% of 2,326 reviews2024
Dev: Bad Ridge GamesPub: V Publishing
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 33.3% ★, Farming 24% ★, Sandbox 11.2%, Crafting 11.2%, Survival 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: A medieval RPG that incorporates farming and sandbox elements into an open-world setting with a focus on life-sim mechanics.
- #26 Force of Nature 2: Ghost Keeper
81% matchVery Positive80% of 2,320 reviews2021
Dev: A.Y.stdPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 16.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 23.5% ★, Crafting 12.2%, Base Building 11.3%, Survival 11.1%, Building 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game with a strong emphasis on crafting and base building in a fantasy-themed world.
- #27 Voidtrain
78% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,176 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 13.8 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 9.5%, Base Building 9.2%, Crafting 9.2%, Building 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: It features a unique survival loop centered on building and upgrading a train while exploring a mysterious, ever-changing world.
- #28 Everwind
77% matchVery Positive82% of 2,069 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Everwind is a novel take on RPG and Sandbox Survival genre in First-Person-Perspective. Embark on the adventure with your friends - Build a base on a flying island-ship, gather resources, craft, loot, and fight while you rise above the clouds to uncover the mysteries of this world!
Why similar: Building 14.8%, Survival 13%, Sandbox 12.9%, Open World 11.9%, Crafting 11.9%
- #29 Longvinter
78% matchMixed67% of 7,526 reviews2025
Dev: Uuvana Studios
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 39.9 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 29.4% ★, Crafting 12.7%, Survival 12.7%, Open World 10%, Building 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer survival game that emphasizes crafting, exploration, and social interaction in a stylized world.
- #30 Among Trees
79% matchMixed68% of 2,216 reviews2021
Dev: FJRD Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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 26.2% ★, Farming 23.9% ★, Survival 8.2%, Crafting 7.2%, Building 7%
Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric survival game that prioritizes exploration and peaceful, nature-focused gameplay.
- #31 Solace Crafting
79% 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 30.6% ★, Crafting 10.9%, Survival 10.3%, Building 9.9%, Base Building 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: A vast open-world survival game that focuses on crafting and exploration without traditional level caps.
- #32 Beyond the Map
76% matchMostly Positive77% of 659 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 29.6% ★, Base Building 9.9%, Dungeon Crawler 9%, Crafting 8.7%, Building 7.6%
- #33 Cubic Odyssey
76% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,483 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Embark on a galactic journey in Cubic Odyssey, an open-world adventure where you explore vibrant planets, craft tools, build vehicles, and fight the Red Darkness. Uncover ancient mysteries, and shape a universe full of life, danger, and limitless possibilities!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.8% ★, Building 11.6%, Base Building 11.3%, Sandbox 10.2%, Open World 7.4%
- #34 Voyagers of Nera
75% matchVery Positive85% of 2,114 reviews2025
Dev: Treehouse Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 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: Building 22.7%, Crafting 21.1%, Base Building 20.7%, PvE 13.2%, Exploration 9.6%
- #35 Force of Nature
77% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,198 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 39.8% ★, Crafting 13%, Survival 11.7%, Building 8.9%, Sandbox 8.6%
- #36 Lodventure
75% 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 36.1% ★, Survival 10.6%, Open World 9.6%, Crafting 9.3%, Base Building 8.7%
- #37 Survival Machine
74% matchMostly Positive74% of 669 reviews2025
Dev: Grape PickersPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Build your base on a moving Machine, travel through biomes with different resources, and prepare for the night when a zombie threat is much higher than during the day. Would you go solo or explore this new world with your best friends?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32% ★, Building 11.1%, Crafting 10.9%, Base Building 10.8%, Survival 10%
- #38 Salt 2: Shores of Gold
72% matchVery Positive85% of 2,197 reviews2025
Dev: Lavaboots Studios
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 8.6 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 17.7%, Open World 17.5%, Sandbox 15.3%, Procedural Generation 10.7%
- #39 IfSunSets
73% matchMostly Positive75% of 2,127 reviews2024
Dev: POLYMORPHPub: Smilegate
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 28.8 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 30.7% ★, Nature 11.5%, Crafting 11.1%, Base Building 10.5%, Survival 9.8%
- #40 Omega Crafter
73% matchMostly Positive79% of 560 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 31.3% ★, Crafting 12.2%, Survival 11.3%, Open World 10.6%, Building 9.8%
- #41 Above Snakes
73% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,929 reviews2023
Dev: Square Glade GamesPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 11.4 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 29.9% ★, Building 11.3%, Crafting 10.4%, Open World 10.3%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #42 Eden Crafters
71% matchVery Positive86% of 2,214 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in Eden Crafters, a solo and co-op open-world game that challenges you to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Temper the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.2% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Crafting 11.6%, Building 10.5%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #43 Salt
74% matchMostly Positive76% of 2,246 reviews2018
Dev: Lavaboots Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Salt is an open world exploration game where you sail from island to island looking for loot and new discoveries! Relax and explore at your own pace, picking a direction and setting sail across a vast ocean filled with quests, merchants, ruins, pirates, and other mysterious places.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.7% ★, Survival 13.2%, Open World 12.3%, Crafting 11.3%, Sandbox 8.6%
- #44 I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival
70% matchVery Positive85% of 4,518 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 26.4% ★, Building 13%, Crafting 12.6%, Sandbox 11.2%, Open World 9.8%
- #45 StarRupture
69% matchVery Positive81% of 10,861 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.7% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 11.5%, Survival 11.3%, Open World 10%
- #46 KeepUp Survival
72% matchMixed65% of 734 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.7 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 31.9% ★, Crafting 10.8%, Survival 10.7%, Base Building 10.5%, Open World 9.6%
- #47 Dune: Awakening
69% matchMostly Positive70% of 74,372 reviews2025
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 47.7 hrsMean: 95.2 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival RPG where you can fully immerse yourself in the epic world of Dune. Alone or with friends, explore a vast open world Arrakis, survive the sandworms, build a home, craft an ornithopter, and unravel the mystery of the missing Fremen.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.8% ★, Building 10.7%, Base Building 10%, Crafting 9.7%, Survival 9.2%
- #48 Ikonei Island: An Earthlock Adventure
71% matchMostly Positive76% of 456 reviews2023
Dev: Snowcastle Games
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 7.5 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 30.1%, Exploration 21.1%, Adventure 6.2%, Singleplayer 3.8%
- #49 Dawn of Defiance
70% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,736 reviews2024
Dev: Traega EntertainmentPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
You are the Defier, a Spartan beginning your afterlife on the Crossroads. In this Greek myth-inspired survival craft, ascend from weak soldier to god-like anti-hero. Build impressive Greek structures, craft legendary gear, and break the seals of the Underworld with up to 3 friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.7% ★, Survival 10.6%, Base Building 9.3%, Building 8.8%, Open World 7.2%
- #50 Soulmask
68% matchVery Positive81% of 17,627 reviews2024
Dev: CampFire StudioPub: Qooland Games
Windows
Median: 13.7 hrsMean: 66.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Choose your path across a primeval continent shaped by the Mask's power. From lush rainforests to scorched sands, recruit and lead unique tribesmen, build automated production lines, and construct everything from local bases to colossal airships, uncover the secrets of the Mask
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.5% ★, Building 13.4%, Crafting 11.1%, Base Building 10.7%, Sandbox 10.5%
- #51 ASKA
68% matchMostly Positive80% of 11,320 reviews2024
Dev: Sand Sailor StudioPub: Thunderful Publishing
Windows
Median: 11.2 hrsMean: 28.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 33.6% ★, Base Building 12%, Survival 11%, Sandbox 10.9%, Building 10.3%
- #52 RuneScape: Dragonwilds
67% matchVery Positive81% of 23,948 reviews2025
Dev: Jagex Ltd
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 13.8 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% ★, Survival 11.4%, Open World 11.4%, Building 10.4%, Crafting 9.9%
- #53 Outbreak Island
67% matchVery Positive80% of 906 reviews2025
Dev: Tiny Magicians
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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 17.1%, Sandbox 16.8%, Crafting 13.7%, Building 13.6%, Base Building 12.7%
- #54 Stranded Sails - Explorers of the Cursed Islands
71% matchMostly Positive74% of 975 reviews2019
Dev: Alchemist InteractivePub: rokaplay
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.6 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 13.7%, Crafting 13.5%, Open World 11.7%, Exploration 6.8%
- #55 Frozen Flame
70% matchMixed63% of 2,965 reviews2022
Dev: Dreamside InteractivePub: Ravenage Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A challenging exploration and survival adventure, set in the dying world of Dragons. Only those who harness the power of Frozen Flame have the means to survive the harsh conditions of the realm and able to muster the strength to cleanse it for good.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.5% ★, Building 11%, Base Building 10.9%, Crafting 9.9%, Survival 9.6%
- #56 Eden Island
69% matchMixed61% of 254 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 30.8% ★, Building 11.3%, Base Building 10.8%, Crafting 10.5%, Survival 9.8%
- #57 Sunkenland
67% matchVery Positive81% of 22,996 reviews2023
Dev: Vector3 Studio
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 17.9 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 42.5% ★, Survival 12.5%, Base Building 10.8%, Crafting 9.8%, Open World 7.3%
- #58 Forever Skies
66% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,284 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.4 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 31.1% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 11.6%, Survival 10.8%, Building 10.5%
- #59 Lightyear Frontier
66% matchVery Positive84% of 4,206 reviews2024
Dev: FRAME BREAK
Windows
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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% ★, Crafting 13.2%, Base Building 12.9%, Sandbox 9.7%, Survival 9.5%
- #60 Wildmender
66% matchVery Positive85% of 2,104 reviews2023
Dev: Muse GamesPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A desert gardening survival game. Start from a tiny spring and cultivate a blooming garden. Explore a vast world amid the sands and uncover its mysteries. Can you defend against the relentless forces of nature and mysterious wraith corruption, to bring life to a dying world?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.7% ★, Nature 14.5%, Base Building 13.7%, Crafting 13.3%, Survival 12.1%
