- #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 21.9% ★, Crafting 12.4%, Survival 11.5%, Open World 10.3%, Sandbox 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival sandbox that emphasizes cooperative exploration, crafting, and base-building in a vibrant, ever-expanding world.
- #2 Necesse
96% 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 35.1% ★, Crafting 10.3%, Survival 9.7%, Open World 9.2%, Multiplayer 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: Combines top-down survival and sandbox elements with multiplayer support, allowing players to build settlements and manage resources together.
- #3 V Rising
96% 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 17.9%, Open World 15.6%, Crafting 15.5%, Multiplayer 12.1%, Base Building 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a top-down perspective with deep survival, base-building, and intense PvP combat that mirrors the social and competitive nature of Longvinter.
- #4 Palworld
95% 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 26% ★, Survival 13.5%, Open World 13.1%, Crafting 10.2%, Multiplayer 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: Features a massive open world focused on survival, base-building, and multiplayer interaction with creature-collecting mechanics.
- #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 44.1% ★, Crafting 14.4%, Sandbox 9.5%, Co-op 9.4%, Multiplayer 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a relaxing, multiplayer-focused farming and survival experience that shares the charming aesthetic and social building vibe of Longvinter.
- #6 Craftopia
94% 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 24.1% ★, Crafting 17.4%, Open World 15.5%, Survival 14.2%, Multiplayer 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: A highly versatile open-world survival game that blends crafting, automation, and multiplayer exploration into a sandbox experience.
- #7 Don't Starve Together
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 528,033 reviews2016
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 64.1 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 56.2% ★, Survival 25.9%, Multiplayer 5.3%, Co-op 3.5%, Crafting 3.4%
Why You'll Like It: The definitive cooperative survival experience that challenges players to gather, craft, and survive against harsh environments with friends.
- #8 Unturned
92% matchVery Positive91% of 561,138 reviews2017
Dev: Smartly Dressed Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 71.6 hrs≥1hr: 76%
You're a survivor in the zombie infested ruins of society, and must work with your friends and forge alliances to remain among the living.
Why similar: Crafting 18.6%, Survival 18.3%, Open World 14.7%, Sandbox 13.2%, Multiplayer 13.2%
Why You'll Like It: A classic multiplayer survival game that captures the 'no-rules' PvP and looting experience in an open-world setting.
- #9 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
91% 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 25.3% ★, Survival 12.2%, Crafting 11.4%, Multiplayer 9.2%, Open World 9%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that emphasizes base-building and multiplayer cooperation from a unique, miniature perspective.
- #10 Omega Crafter
91% 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 25.3% ★, Crafting 14%, Survival 12.9%, Open World 11.6%, Multiplayer 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on multiplayer survival and automation, allowing players to build and manage complex bases in an open world.
- #11 Len's Island
90% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,615 reviews2025
Dev: Flow Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 11.9 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 29.4% ★, Crafting 12.7%, Survival 12.7%, Open World 10%, Building 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: Blends survival, farming, and building with dungeon-crawling elements in a beautiful, stylized open-world setting.
- #12 The Survivalists
89% 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 25.3% ★, Crafting 16.3%, Survival 14.3%, Open World 9.2%, Multiplayer 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer-focused survival game that emphasizes crafting, base-building, and exploration on a mysterious, procedurally generated island.
- #13 Terraria
88% 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 33.1% ★, Sandbox 11.9%, Survival 11.9%, Crafting 11.1%, Multiplayer 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: The quintessential 2D sandbox survival game that offers endless crafting, building, and multiplayer combat possibilities.
- #14 Ylands
89% matchMixed64% of 8,354 reviews2019
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 46%
Adventure awaits you and your friends in the world of Ylands! Gather resources, craft tools, construct anything and everything, and explore the lands! Build a ship and set sail, encountering mythical animals, a wide variety of sea-life, enemies of all kinds and much more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.2% ★, Crafting 14.6%, Multiplayer 10.6%, Open World 10.1%, Building 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a colorful, low-poly sandbox experience with extensive tools for building, exploration, and multiplayer adventure.
- #15 Valheim
86% 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 29.8% ★, Survival 12.9%, Crafting 10.8%, Open World 10.3%, Multiplayer 9%
Why You'll Like It: A highly acclaimed co-op survival game that excels in building mechanics and exploration within a challenging, atmospheric open world.
- #16 Staxel
87% matchMostly Positive79% of 4,816 reviews2019
Dev: PlukitPub: Balor Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Grow your farm, meet the villagers, and join your friends online in building your world.
Why similar: Sandbox 16.3%, Open World 16.1%, Building 13.7%, Multiplayer 12.7%, Nature 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: A creative sandbox game that focuses on farming, village building, and social interaction in a cute, voxel-based world.
- #17 Eco
86% matchVery Positive81% of 13,777 reviews2018
Dev: Strange Loop Games
Windows
Median: 16.8 hrsMean: 88.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Build a civilization of real people, working together to advance society and stop a meteor, all without destroying the ecosystem in the process.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.6% ★, Crafting 11.3%, Sandbox 9.5%, Survival 9.2%, Open World 9%
Why You'll Like It: A unique multiplayer simulation where players must collaborate to build a civilization and survive while managing the global ecosystem.
- #18 Creativerse
85% matchMostly Positive78% of 30,868 reviews2017
Dev: Playful Corp.
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 63%
A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.7% ★, Crafting 12.9%, Survival 11.3%, Open World 9.7%, Sandbox 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based sandbox game that provides robust building and crafting tools for players to create and survive in a shared world.
- #19 Wild Terra 2: New Lands
84% matchMixed52% of 3,315 reviews2022
Dev: Juvty Worlds
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 32.0 hrs≥1hr: 42%
MMORPG full of details that create a unique immersion and the spirit of adventure! Play your role in the life-filled medieval world controlled by players.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.5% ★, Crafting 12.3%, Sandbox 11%, Survival 9%, Open World 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: An MMO survival game that focuses on crafting, building, and player-driven economies in a harsh, open-world environment.
- #20 Starbound
84% matchVery Positive90% of 122,901 reviews2016
Dev: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.2 hrsMean: 64.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.5% ★, Sandbox 11.8%, Crafting 10.6%, Survival 10.4%, Open World 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: An expansive space-faring sandbox that allows for deep exploration, building, and multiplayer survival across procedurally generated planets.
- #21 Project Zomboid
82% matchVery Positive94% of 440,877 reviews2013
Dev: The Indie Stone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 14.8 hrsMean: 82.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.7% ★, Survival 21.1%, Open World 12.7%, Multiplayer 10.1%, Sandbox 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: The ultimate realistic survival sandbox that offers deep, complex mechanics for building and surviving in a multiplayer setting.
- #22 Rust
82% matchVery Positive87% of 1,344,289 reviews2018
Dev: Facepunch Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 52.0 hrsMean: 416.6 hrs≥1hr: 96%
The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.9% ★, Survival 19.9%, Crafting 14.4%, Open World 10.6%, Multiplayer 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for 'no-rules' open-world PvP survival, focusing on raiding, base-building, and intense player interaction.
- #23 7 Days to Die
80% matchVery Positive87% of 396,805 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 16.8 hrsMean: 107.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.8% ★, Survival 19.7%, Open World 12%, Multiplayer 10.9%, Sandbox 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game that emphasizes fortification and base-building against waves of enemies in a destructible open world.
- #24 Boundless
83% matchMixed70% of 2,766 reviews2018
Dev: Monumental, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 33.0 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Shape your citizen, forge your destiny and sculpt your world in this epic voxel sandbox MMO built on endless possibility.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.4% ★, Crafting 15.1%, Open World 13.1%, Sandbox 12.4%, Survival 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: A massively multiplayer sandbox that allows players to travel between worlds to build, craft, and trade in a persistent universe.
- #25 Conan Exiles
81% matchMostly Positive79% of 111,441 reviews2018
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 16.9 hrsMean: 111.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
An online multiplayer survival game, now with sorcery, set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian. Survive in a vast open world sandbox, build your home into a kingdom, and dominate your enemies in single or multiplayer.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.2% ★, Survival 17.4%, Open World 12.9%, Crafting 12.1%, Building 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game with strong PvP elements, base-building, and a brutal, unforgiving environment.
- #26 ARK: Survival Ascended
79% matchMixed60% of 100,735 reviews2023
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows
Median: 28.6 hrsMean: 195.6 hrs≥1hr: 92%
ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!
Why similar: Survival 20.5%, Open World 16.2%, Crafting 15.2%, Multiplayer 12.8%, Building 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: A massive survival game featuring taming, base-building, and multiplayer competition in a world filled with prehistoric threats.
- #27 Rising World
81% 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 29.2% ★, Crafting 13.3%, Survival 11.8%, Sandbox 9.6%, Building 9%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox game that offers near-limitless building potential and survival mechanics in a procedurally generated open world.
- #28 Scrap Mechanic
79% matchVery Positive92% of 117,049 reviews2016
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.1 hrsMean: 57.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!
Why similar: Crafting 17.1%, Survival 15.8%, Open World 13.8%, Building 13.8%, Sandbox 13%
Why You'll Like It: A creative sandbox survival game that focuses on building complex machines and structures to survive in an open world.
- #29 Tinkerlands
77% 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 29.1% ★, Survival 12.1%, Crafting 11.2%, Open World 10.3%, Sandbox 9.9%
- #30 Wurm Online
78% matchMixed63% of 2,510 reviews2020
Dev: Code Club AB
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 38.6 hrs≥1hr: 47%
A sandbox MMORPG that has pushed the boundaries on what it means to be open world and stood the test of time. Dig, mine, shape the world around you and make your lasting mark!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.2% ★, Sandbox 20.1%, Building 10.6%, Survival 9.3%, Open World 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: A long-standing sandbox MMO that provides unparalleled depth in crafting, terraforming, and player-driven world-building.
- #31 Feel The Snow
77% matchVery Positive87% of 3,024 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 33.2% ★, Survival 13.8%, Crafting 12.3%, Multiplayer 11%, Open World 7.7%
- #32 DeadPoly
76% matchMostly Positive77% of 5,800 reviews2022
Dev: TFL Games
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 63%
DeadPoly is a polygon arcade zombie survival looter shooter with base building, crafting, scavenging, leveling, questing, and more, but your only goal is survival, everything else is optional.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28% ★, Crafting 13.3%, Survival 13%, Multiplayer 9.9%, Sandbox 9.1%
- #33 Wild Omission
75% matchVery Positive88% of 59 reviews2023
Dev: Telephone Studios
Windows
Wild Omission is an open world sandbox survival game with severe weather set in an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.6% ★, Crafting 13.3%, Survival 12.1%, Open World 10%, Multiplayer 9%
- #34 Dawnlands
76% matchMixed52% of 3,131 reviews2023
Dev: SEASUN GAMES PTE. LTD.
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Dawnlands is an Open-World Survival Crafting cross-platform game with a massive world and epic lore. A variety of biomes, relics, and puzzles dot the landscape... an ancient land, lain dormant for centuries, is waiting to be awoken. New stories are waiting to be written.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.9% ★, Crafting 12.5%, Survival 11.4%, Multiplayer 9.3%, Open World 8.9%
- #35 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 30.6% ★, Survival 12.7%, Crafting 11.3%, Open World 11%, Co-op 9.1%
- #36 Shamania
72% matchMostly Positive78% of 140 reviews2025
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 25.5% ★, Crafting 14.2%, Survival 12.1%, Open World 11.5%, Multiplayer 9.1%
- #37 Far Lands
73% matchMixed66% of 166 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 29.2% ★, Crafting 18.1%, Survival 16.7%, Open World 12%, Base Building 7.1%
- #38 RuneScape: Dragonwilds
69% 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 27% ★, Survival 12.5%, Open World 11.9%, Crafting 10.9%, Multiplayer 9.5%
- #39 Wild Terra Online
74% matchMixed60% of 1,830 reviews2017
Dev: Juvty Worlds
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Wild Terra Online is a sandbox RPG, in a completely player-controlled medieval world. You will have to survive in a forest full of predators, build a shelter and improve your crafts skills, tame animals and fight for treasures. You can become anyone and do whatever you want!
Why similar: Survival 20.8%, Open World 17.5%, Sandbox 17.4%, Crafting 15%, Multiplayer 9.3%
- #40 Dead District: Survival
73% matchMixed49% of 465 reviews2023
Dev: BadBit Games
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Open-world survival sandbox with base-building, crafting, farming and multiplayer. Explore a dangerous island, fight, build and stay alive.
Why similar: Survival 17.6%, Crafting 17.2%, Multiplayer 13.6%, Sandbox 11.4%, Open World 10.3%
- #41 KeepUp Survival
71% 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 26.2% ★, Crafting 12.6%, Survival 12.4%, Open World 10.6%, Multiplayer 9.1%
- #42 XERA: Survival
70% matchMixed66% of 7,888 reviews2021
Dev: Spotted Kiwi Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 24.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Action-focused, open world survival shooter, PvPvE against fellow mercenaries and lethal XOIDS. Raid for resources alone or with team-mates, build and defend your base, stash your gear and survive against the odds. You are the hunters. You are the hunted. And the robots never sleep…
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.3% ★, Crafting 12.8%, Survival 12.2%, Multiplayer 9.8%, Open World 9.1%
- #43 Subsistence
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,601 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 40.0 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 34.7% ★, Survival 14.9%, Crafting 13%, Open World 9.3%, Multiplayer 9.2%
- #44 GRAV
72% matchMixed47% of 6,921 reviews2015
Dev: BitMonster, Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 60%
GRAV is a sand box experience where you explore a multitude of planets, hunt strange alien creatures, build and defend outposts, craft weapons and armor, and attempt to survive against other players in a hostile environment.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.3% ★, Survival 15%, Open World 11.5%, Crafting 10.1%, Sandbox 8.6%
- #45 Tinkertown
69% matchMixed67% of 1,340 reviews2023
Dev: Headup
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Gather your friends and come to Tinkertown - A refreshing new Multiplayer Sandbox Experience! Explore magical places filled with loot, danger, and creativity.
Why similar: Crafting 21.6%, Multiplayer 17.2%, Sandbox 15%, Open World 15%, Building 10.9%
- #46 Nomad
71% matchMixed60% of 4,634 reviews2015
Dev: Diminished Studios
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Try and survive in the world of Nomad. Build a base and protect it from raiding players. Scavenge food, weapons and medical supplies across the island. Team up with others and make a base. Make your mark on the world of Nomad.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.5% ★, Survival 17.8%, Multiplayer 13.8%, Open World 11.5%, Crafting 10.3%
- #47 PixARK
69% matchMostly Positive73% of 12,998 reviews2019
Dev: Snail Games USA
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 40.2 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Enter a world of mystery, danger, ancient dinosaurs, mythical beasts, and cubes! Work by yourself or with a tribe of others to gather materials, craft useful items, tame wild creatures, and build huge bases to survive in PixARK!
Why similar: Survival 21.8%, Open World 16%, Multiplayer 12.8%, Sandbox 12.1%, Crafting 11.6%
- #48 Crushed
70% matchMixed55% of 307 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 30.4% ★, Survival 13.2%, Crafting 11.7%, Open World 11.1%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #49 Haven & Hearth
66% matchMostly Positive74% of 947 reviews2024
Dev: Seatribe
Windows · Mac · Linux
A free-to-play MMORPG with crafting, building, landscaping, foraging, hunting, fishing, a dash of poetry, and open PvP combat,
Why similar: Survival 17.8%, Crafting 17.7%, Sandbox 15.6%, Open World 15%, PvP 10.8%
- #50 Swords 'n Magic and Stuff
67% matchVery Positive93% of 1,168 reviews2020
Dev: Kindred Games
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Grab your friends and set out for adventure in this cozy, multiplayer, open world RPG! Explore, quest and craft your way through a densely packed open world. Level up 6 different classes and buy land to build and decorate your home to settle down in this medieval fantasy world.
Why similar: Crafting 18.9%, Open World 18%, Multiplayer 17.3%, Building 14.3%, Cute 8.3%
- #51 Project 5: Sightseer
68% matchMostly Positive72% of 543 reviews2019
Dev: Tasharen Entertainment Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 28.9 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Open world multiplayer sandbox/RPG game. Explore, gather, build, research, and fight to protect what's yours -- by yourself or together with your friends.
Why similar: Sandbox 27.2%, Building 26.7%, Open World 20.7%, Multiplayer 10.2%, Adventure 9.2%
- #52 Dune: Awakening
63% 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 24.5% ★, Crafting 11.7%, Survival 11%, Open World 9.6%, Multiplayer 8.5%
- #53 Volcanoids
67% 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 25.7% ★, Crafting 12.1%, Survival 11.1%, Open World 9.6%, Multiplayer 8.4%
- #54 Life is Feudal: Your Own
68% matchMixed66% of 12,039 reviews2015
Dev: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 58.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Hardcore and realistic; LiF is a Medieval multiplayer sandbox RPG, with free terraforming, a rich crafting system and preset and modular building construction. With engaging survival aspects, no target physics-based combat and a unique formation system - along with numerous other features - LiF is not for the faint of heart!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.6% ★, Crafting 13.7%, Survival 13%, Open World 12.3%, Sandbox 9.4%
- #55 Force of Nature
67% 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 32.8% ★, Crafting 15.2%, Survival 13.6%, Open World 8.9%, Sandbox 8%
- #56 Out of Reach
67% matchMixed57% of 3,044 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
You’re a castaway stranded in the middle of nowhere. Storm is gone, the worst certainly not. Look for food and resources, craft gear, make shelters. These are the basics, you need much more to stay alive on this cut-off-the-world, yet not desert island. Build & burn, sail & explore, be Out of Reach!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.6% ★, Survival 14.3%, Crafting 11.5%, Open World 10.2%, Multiplayer 8.2%
