- #1 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
97% matchVery Positive82% of 10,429 reviews2024
Dev: Max Ent Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 16.1 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 28.8% ★, Survival 9.4%, Base Building 9.1%, Co-op 8.7%, Open World 8.1%
- #2 Len's Island
96% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,866 reviews2025
Dev: Flow Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
An open-world survival crafting game for 1–8 players, blending intense dungeon crawling and ARPG combat with peaceful farming and creative building. Take on quests and explore a vast, procedurally-generated world full of danger and discovery.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.6% ★, Survival 10.6%, Open World 9.7%, Crafting 9.1%, Base Building 8.6%
- #3 Longvinter
96% matchMixed67% of 7,664 reviews2025
Dev: Uuvana Studios
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 45.1 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Fish, farm, craft, gather, cook, loot or steal from other players and build a campsite or a village with your friends in an open-world multiplayer sandbox game without rules!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31% ★, Survival 12.6%, Open World 11.2%, Crafting 11%, Co-op 9%
- #4 Tinkerlands
94% matchVery Positive86% of 4,087 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 14.2 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 34.5% ★, Survival 9.5%, Open World 9.4%, Co-op 9.2%, Online Co-Op 8.3%
- #5 Scrapnaut
95% matchMixed70% of 837 reviews2021
Dev: SpiffyBitPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements. Explore an open world with different biomes, take care of oxygen, manage your farms, generate electricity, build your home and much more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24% ★, Co-op 10.6%, Survival 10%, Building 8.3%, Online Co-Op 7.4%
- #6 Voidtrain
93% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,810 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 15.9 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 35.9% ★, Co-op 10.2%, Survival 8.1%, Base Building 7.8%, Open World 7.1%
- #7 Solace Crafting
94% matchMostly Positive72% of 898 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% ★, Survival 9.8%, Crafting 9%, Open World 8.9%, Base Building 8.9%
- #8 Medieval Dynasty
92% matchVery Positive90% of 52,032 reviews2021
Dev: Render CubePub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 11.6 hrsMean: 36.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.
Why similar: Crafting 16.9%, Co-op 15.1%, Building 14%, Survival 12.7%, Open World 12.4%
- #9 KeepUp Survival
91% matchMixed64% of 749 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 84%
KeepUp Survival is an open-world base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and shape your own story on a mysterious island.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.7% ★, Co-op 11%, Survival 9.8%, Open World 9.8%, Base Building 9.4%
- #10 Shamania
90% matchMostly Positive74% of 162 reviews2026
Dev: Totem Keepers Games
Windows
Shamania is an open world survival game where you can CRAFT, FIGHT, and EXPLORE a vibrant sandbox world with friends in CO-OP. Expand your base as a hub for survival, gather resources, and master professions to unlock new tools and opportunities!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31% ★, Open World 11%, Crafting 10.1%, Survival 9.9%, Co-op 9.2%
- #11 Core Keeper
89% matchVery Positive93% of 66,104 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.2 hrsMean: 34.7 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 24.6% ★, Co-op 9.5%, Open World 9.3%, Survival 9%, Base Building 8.7%
- #12 ENDALOR
89% matchMixed70% of 272 reviews2026
Dev: Diorite Games
Windows
An immersive medieval dark fantasy survival game with RPG elements for 1-4 players. Set in a hand crafted open world. Explore, survive, build, craft, fight and conquer your way through the dark, brutal and mysterious lands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.7% ★, Survival 8.9%, Open World 8.8%, Co-op 8%, Base Building 7.6%
- #13 Necesse
88% matchVery Positive93% of 28,807 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 15.3 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 41.1% ★, Open World 8.2%, Survival 7.5%, Co-op 7.5%, Crafting 6.9%
- #14 Lost Skies
87% matchMixed61% of 2,976 reviews2025
Dev: Bossa StudiosPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 17.0 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 42.4% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Online Co-Op 9.7%, Open World 7.6%, Sandbox 6.9%
- #15 Cubic Odyssey
86% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,720 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 36.6% ★, Co-op 12.2%, Base Building 11.6%, Building 7.9%, Sandbox 7.5%
- #16 The Planet Crafter
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 73,089 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.7 hrsMean: 38.5 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 30.9% ★, Base Building 10.3%, Co-op 9.9%, Survival 8.9%, Open World 8%
- #17 Subsistence
86% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,766 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 40.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.8% ★, Survival 12.5%, Crafting 9.5%, Open World 9.1%, Base Building 6.8%
- #18 ICARUS
85% matchMostly Positive75% of 67,515 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 46.4 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 33.8% ★, Survival 11.3%, Base Building 9.8%, Co-op 8.2%, Open World 8.1%
- #19 Aloft
82% matchVery Positive84% of 3,682 reviews2025
Dev: Astrolabe Interactive Inc.Pub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 14.3 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: Open World Survival Craft 27.5% ★, Co-op 13%, Survival 11.2%, Crafting 10.8%, Building 8.6%
- #20 Feel The Snow
84% matchVery Positive87% of 3,059 reviews2019
Dev: Owlet
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Choose one of the characters and start your journey. The game has many interesting things in store: building, crafting, puzzles, bosses, mystery, laughs, quests etc.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.4% ★, Survival 11.5%, Co-op 10.1%, Crafting 8.9%, Open World 7.5%
- #21 Soulmask
81% matchMostly Positive77% of 22,226 reviews2026
Dev: CampFire StudioPub: Qooland Games
Windows
Median: 13.9 hrsMean: 69.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. Possess any of your tribespeople, recruit followers, and build a thriving automated civilization. Survive, expand, and forge your own legacy across a vast ancient open world — together with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.2% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Co-op 10.8%, Open World 10.3%, Survival 10.2%
- #22 Miniland Adventure
83% matchMostly Positive74% of 332 reviews2023
Dev: Imilkowski DevPub: Gameparic
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 52%
The world doesn't generate itself - you do it, shape the world as you wish! Start with nothing, and build dream houses for goblins and yourself while exploring, collecting resources, crafting, building, fighting, farming... and more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.3% ★, Survival 11.8%, Base Building 9.3%, Sandbox 9.3%, Crafting 9.2%
- #23 Lost Rift
82% matchMixed70% of 1,693 reviews2025
Dev: People Can Fly
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Lost Rift is a first person survival adventure shooter that blends cooperative base building with multiplayer PvE or PvP extraction expeditions. Journey solo or in teams of up to 5 players across a vast archipelago, craft gear, build bases, defeat raiders, and become legendary.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.7% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Survival 12.9%, Crafting 12.6%, Online Co-Op 9.8%
- #24 Planetaries
81% 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: Open World Survival Craft 29.9% ★, Co-op 9.1%, Open World 9%, Survival 8.8%, Base Building 8.6%
- #25 Everwind
78% matchVery Positive81% of 3,756 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 14.1 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: Co-op 16%, Open World 14.1%, Survival 13.4%, Crafting 13%, Online Co-Op 11.5%
- #26 The Gold River Project
79% matchMixed63% of 659 reviews2026
Dev: Fairview Games Inc.
Windows
The Gold River Project™ is a camping trip gone wrong in the Pacific Northwest. Explore, craft, build, and survive in this open-world experiment that traps you and up to 4 friends in this single player or co-op survival adventure game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.1% ★, Co-op 11.1%, Open World 10.7%, Survival 9.2%, Crafting 7.7%
- #27 Ikonei Island: An Earthlock Adventure
79% matchMostly Positive74% of 473 reviews2023
Dev: Snowcastle Games
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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: Co-op 18%, Crafting 15.4%, Top-Down 15.1%, Building 14.9%, Relaxing 12.7%
- #28 DYSMANTLE
78% matchVery Positive91% of 11,572 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 18.6%, Open World 18.3%, Crafting 15.5%, Base Building 14.8%, Sandbox 7.6%
- #29 Force of Nature
80% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,209 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 41.3% ★, Survival 11.4%, Crafting 11%, Open World 8.7%, Sandbox 6.2%
- #30 INCUR Survival
77% matchVery Positive83% of 109 reviews2022
Dev: INCUR
Windows
A survival open-world game, where you can gather resources, Hunt, Craft tools and armor, Tame Animals, Ride Animals, Build, and defend your base from creatures, and other players.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.1% ★, Survival 10.6%, Crafting 10.2%, Open World 10.2%, Building 9.2%
- #31 Romestead
74% matchMostly Positive77% of 4,827 reviews2026
Dev: BeartwigsPub: Three Friends
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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: Open World Survival Craft 27.7% ★, Crafting 11.1%, Survival 10.6%, Base Building 9.5%, Open World 8%
- #32 Enshrouded
74% matchVery Positive86% of 104,779 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.9 hrsMean: 46.5 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 19.2%, Survival 16.9%, Base Building 16.2%, Crafting 12.2%, Online Co-Op 11.8%
- #33 Arctico
76% matchMostly Positive70% of 2,527 reviews2022
Dev: Claudio Norori
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Explore Arctico with your dog sled, kayak, and up to 3 friends! Build and customize your base camp, gather resources and samples, set up labs, and take good care of your dogs in this peaceful island.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.6% ★, Co-op 11.3%, Open World 9.8%, Survival 9.5%, Base Building 5.9%
- #34 Valheim
73% matchVery Positive94% of 540,690 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 26.0 hrsMean: 78.0 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 34.3% ★, Survival 9.8%, Open World 9.2%, Online Co-Op 8%, Base Building 7.6%
- #35 Start Over
75% matchMixed61% of 379 reviews2024
Dev: EY-Studio
Windows
Embark on an unpredictable survival journey in Start Over. Solo, co-op, online, explore diverse landscapes, craft through 4 tech tiers, encounter wildlife, and trade or raid for resources. Choose your path, defend against waves, and shape your destiny in a dynamic world. Are you ready to Start Over?
Why similar: Base Building 13.6%, Survival 12.9%, Crafting 12.2%, Co-op 9.5%, Building 9.1%
- #36 Tales of Morrow
76% matchMixed46% of 96 reviews2024
Dev: GameMechanic
Windows
Create your tale! Build your home, fight, farm, and explore an old civilization while developing your skills and abilities in this relaxing and adventurous experience. You decide your fate!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.2% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Crafting 10.1%, Survival 8.5%, Building 8.1%
- #37 Crushed
77% matchMixed54% of 318 reviews2020
Dev: NipoBoxPub: NipoBox Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Crushed — is an Singleplayer and Multiplayer First-Person Survival Sandbox in an Open World! Challenge the wild and be ready to survive in harsh conditions. Explore the world, get resources, cook food, build a house, farm, hunt, and enjoy nature.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.1% ★, Survival 10.1%, Open World 10%, Crafting 7.9%, Base Building 7.8%
- #38 Far Lands
73% matchMixed65% of 170 reviews2024
Dev: Scalpel Softworks
Windows
Far Lands is an open-world survival game. Fight mercenaries, steal their loot and vehicles. Build and defend your base from zombies. Gather resources, craft better gear and loot different points of interest. Want to play with friends? Join them on Co-op!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.7% ★, Survival 12.9%, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 12.1%, Open World 10.6%
- #39 Occupy Mars: The Game
71% matchMixed70% of 3,132 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 34.1 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.9% ★, Base Building 9.7%, Co-op 8.8%, Survival 8.8%, Crafting 8.5%
- #40 The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™
71% matchVery Positive81% of 12,363 reviews2024
Dev: Free Range GamesPub: North Beach Games
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 19.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A survival crafting adventure set in the Fourth Age of Middle-earth. Lead the Dwarves to reclaim Moria - mine, build, and battle through procedurally generated depths alone or with up to 8 players in co-op. It is time to return to Moria!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.4% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Survival 10.1%, Crafting 9.2%, Online Co-Op 8.1%
- #41 The Survivalists
73% matchMostly Positive76% of 10,097 reviews2020
Dev: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.8 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 27.7% ★, Survival 10.4%, Crafting 10.4%, Co-op 8.6%, Base Building 8.4%
- #42 Forever Skies
70% matchMostly Positive78% of 8,950 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 30.6 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 30.1% ★, Co-op 12.1%, Base Building 10.5%, Open World 9.8%, Survival 9.7%
- #43 Westland Survival
71% matchMixed59% of 575 reviews2025
Dev: Helio GamesPub: Helio Games
Windows · Mac
Saddle up for the ultimate survival adventure in the untamed Wild West! Build your homestead, tame the wilderness, bounty hunt the outlaws, and duel against the dangers that lurk on the frontier. Do you have what it takes to be a legend of the West?
Why similar: Crafting 20.2%, Base Building 19.9%, Sandbox 14.4%, Action-Adventure 14.2%, Exploration 8.6%
- #44 The Wild Eight
72% matchMixed68% of 8,109 reviews2019
Dev: Eight PointsPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 7.7 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 43.2% ★, Survival 15.1%, Co-op 10.3%, Open World 9.1%, Crafting 7%
- #45 Oppidum
70% matchMixed69% of 169 reviews2025
Dev: EP Games®
Windows · Mac · Linux
Enjoy Oppidum, a story-driven survival experience for 1-4 players full of adventure, action, crafting, exploration… Everything a squad of scouts would love for a good story to tell. Do you accept the challenge?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.7% ★, Crafting 17.8%, Online Co-Op 17.5%, Co-op 12.2%, Action-Adventure 9.7%
- #46 Outbound
68% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,098 reviews2026
Dev: Square Glade Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Explore a colorful world and build your own cozy home on wheels. Craft workstations, and source energy from the sun, wind, or water. Upgrade and customize your vehicle, grow crops, and live sustainably off-grid with up to 4 players.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.1% ★, Base Building 11.4%, Open World 10.3%, Crafting 9.7%, Online Co-Op 9.1%
- #47 Forager
70% matchVery Positive89% of 43,959 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: Open World Survival Craft 45.6% ★, Survival 12.5%, Crafting 11.6%, Base Building 7%, Sandbox 5.6%
- #48 Backwoods Town
69% matchVery Positive94% of 203 reviews2023
Dev: Andrii Prots
Windows
Backwoods town is an atmospheric forest survival simulator. Build your base, grow crops, fight bosses and rebuild the destroyed settlement, finding all its inhabitants along the way.
Why similar: Survival 27.2%, Building 24%, Sandbox 15.2%, Top-Down 8.9%, Exploration 7.7%
- #49 Survival: Lost Way
72% matchMostly Negative36% of 295 reviews2023
Dev: SimplePlanPub: SimplePlan Studio
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
An open-world post-apocalyptic survival sandbox. Scavenge, craft, build, and survive solo or in co-op.
Why similar: Survival 25.2%, Crafting 23.7%, Base Building 14.9%, Building 12.2%, Simulation 7%
- #50 Solarpunk™
66% matchVery Positive82% of 4,341 reviews2026
Dev: CyberwavePub: rokaplay
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Solarpunk is a survival game in a technologically advanced world of floating islands. Alone or together with your friends, you can construct buildings, grow food, craft gadgets and hop on your airship to explore distant islands in the sky.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28% ★, Co-op 9.9%, Base Building 8.9%, Crafting 8%, Open World 7.8%
- #51 Ale & Tale Tavern
67% matchVery Positive89% of 10,330 reviews2024
Dev: Scienart GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Get ready for a thrilling mix of genres: a cooperative, first-person, open-world fantasy tavern simulator, action, fishing, hunting, exploration, and completing fun and diverse quests. And, of course, COOKING! Play with friends, feed and quench the thirst of the entire world!
Why similar: Co-op 20.6%, Online Co-Op 19.7%, Building 12.8%, Sandbox 11.7%, Action-Adventure 8.1%
- #52 Don't Starve Together
68% matchVery Positive95% of 541,972 reviews2016
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 64.6 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 65.3% ★, Survival 20%, Co-op 4.8%, Open World 3%, Crafting 2.3%
- #53 Cultivation Tales
69% matchMostly Negative38% of 13,640 reviews2024
Dev: Ac Games
Windows
Median: 22.1 hrsMean: 65.5 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Cultivation Tales is an open world survival craft online game. You will experience collecting, crafting, hunting, fighting, building, researching, in a wild mythical world. Fight for your clan and yourself, from mortal to divinity!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.6% ★, Survival 11.8%, Open World 10.6%, Online Co-Op 10.3%, Sandbox 10.1%
- #54 Wonderia
65% matchVery Positive82% of 347 reviews2026
Dev: Rock&DashPub: IndieArk
Windows · Mac
Wonderia's an open-world, manga-art adventure just waiting to be explored. It's got sci-fi sim elements, deep dungeons, and you can even morph into alien form! Grab up to 7 friends to mine, craft, battle, and level—or farm and fish the day away, if that's more your tempo. There's so much to do!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.7% ★, Survival 10.5%, Crafting 9.7%, Online Co-Op 9.3%, Sandbox 8.1%
- #55 Omega Crafter
66% matchMostly Positive79% of 575 reviews2025
Dev: Preferred Networks
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 34.3% ★, Co-op 11.3%, Survival 9.9%, Open World 9.5%, Crafting 9.4%
- #56 Wild Indigo Ranch
67% matchMostly Positive70% of 467 reviews2024
Dev: Funday Games
Windows
Wild Indigo Ranch is a cozy cowboy-life RPG for 1-4 players. Start a new life on the prairie, explore the frontier, build the finest ranch in the West, and ride into the sunset.
Why similar: Co-op 15.2%, Open World 15%, Crafting 14.8%, Building 12.4%, Online Co-Op 11.2%
- #57 Palworld
61% matchVery Positive95% of 480,493 reviews2026
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 40.2 hrsMean: 84.9 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 33% ★, Open World 13.2%, Survival 11.6%, Co-op 8.4%, Crafting 7.5%
- #58 Island Beekeeper
65% matchMostly Positive73% of 186 reviews2026
Dev: Akuseru Studio
Windows
Build your apiary on islands above the clouds, travel on your medocycle, crossbreed bees with unique traits and create a cozy home in the sky. Grow plants, explore islands and send healing honey down to Earth, where people still hope for your help.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.2% ★, Co-op 11.7%, Survival 9.3%, Base Building 8.5%, Crafting 7.4%