- #1 Deadside
97% matchMostly Positive76% of 40,566 reviews2024
Dev: Bad Pixel
Windows
Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 44.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
An Open World Survival Shooter blending hardcore PVP and PVE action. Secure precious loot in safe zones or build your own fortress in the wild. With intense gunfights, stunning visuals, and performance smooth enough for any system, the challenge awaits!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.3% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Crafting 10.6%, Survival 10.2%, FPS 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: It offers the same gritty tactical gunplay and open-world survival elements focused on base building and PvPve operations.
- #2 Subsistence
96% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,861 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 44.8% ★, Survival 14%, Crafting 13.3%, Base Building 10.1%, Multiplayer 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: A harsh open-world survival game where base building and defending against hostile AI hunters mirror the survival pressure of Lost Rift.
- #3 The Front
96% matchMixed67% of 10,771 reviews2025
Dev: Samar Studio
Windows
Median: 10.7 hrsMean: 44.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
The Front is a survival open-world crafting sandbox game. You are a resistance fighter sent back in time to stop the rise of a tyrannical empire. Collect resources, craft tech, build shelters, and fight monsters to accomplish your mission.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.6% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Massively Multiplayer 12.2%, Crafting 11.5%, Survival 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: This open-world survival craft game features heavy base building and military-style combat against both players and AI raiders.
- #4 Dune: Awakening
95% matchMostly Positive71% of 79,582 reviews2025
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 43.1 hrsMean: 98.6 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Dune: Awakening is a single- and multiplayer Open World Survival game with immersive adventure and RPG gameplay. Explore, build, craft, and unravel a cinematic Dune story as you rise from survival to greatness on the most legendary planet in the universe. Just remember: the sandworm always comes.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.7% ★, Massively Multiplayer 11.3%, Base Building 10.5%, Crafting 8.6%, Online Co-Op 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: It delivers a vast open-world survival crafting experience emphasizing resource scarcity, faction control, and multiplayer danger.
- #5 ICARUS
94% matchMostly Positive75% of 68,864 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.4 hrsMean: 46.7 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 31.3% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Survival 11.5%, Crafting 10.1%, Online Co-Op 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the session-based exploration and dangerous wilderness survival loop found in extraction-style adventures.
- #6 Sunkenland
94% matchVery Positive80% of 24,007 reviews2023
Dev: Vector3 Studio
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 20.3 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 38.3% ★, Base Building 13%, Survival 11.6%, Crafting 10%, Multiplayer 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: This post-apocalyptic survival craft game features base building and water-based exploration reminiscent of island archipelago settings.
- #7 Lost Skies
93% matchMixed61% of 2,995 reviews2025
Dev: Bossa StudiosPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 37.6% ★, Base Building 15.6%, Online Co-Op 12.1%, Crafting 7.8%, Character Customization 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the exploratory island-hopping theme and open-world survival crafting mechanics set across vast skies.
- #8 Nightingale
92% matchMixed66% of 18,084 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 32.5% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 11.2%, Online Co-Op 11%, Survival 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on cooperative survival, crafting, and base construction across varied and dangerous magical realms.
- #9 Dawn of Defiance
91% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,856 reviews2024
Dev: Traega EntertainmentPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
You are a fallen Spartan, cast into the realm between the living and the Underworld. In this survival adventure inspired by Greek myth, hunt, craft and build a home worthy of legend with up to 3 friends. Raid the gods' temples, defeat legendary creatures and loot the iconic weapons of the Olympians.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.7% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Online Co-Op 11.9%, Survival 10.9%, PvE 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: A cooperative open-world survival crafting game that emphasizes base building and battling aggressive enemies together.
- #10 Dysterra
91% matchMixed56% of 773 reviews2025
Dev: Reality MagiQ
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 60%
On a future post-apocalyptic Earth, build, craft, and loot other players’ bases to survive long enough to board the rocket and escape the dangerous robots and mercenaries that inhabit Ararat Island. Manipulate the weather and use earthquakes to change when the server wipe occurs in DYSTERRA!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.3% ★, Base Building 10.5%, PvE 9.5%, Crafting 9.2%, Online Co-Op 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi multiplayer survival game featuring shooter mechanics, base building, and resource extraction loops.
- #11 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
90% matchVery Positive82% of 10,551 reviews2024
Dev: Max Ent Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 16.3 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 30.3% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Crafting 11%, Survival 10.9%, Online Co-Op 10%
Why You'll Like It: This survival game offers base building and exploration against threatening creatures in a sprawling open world.
- #12 DeadPoly
89% matchMostly Positive78% of 6,250 reviews2022
Dev: TFL Games
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 64%
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 28.4% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Crafting 10.6%, Online Co-Op 10%, Survival 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: A low-poly survival shooter that incorporates crafting, building, and multiplayer looting in a post-apocalyptic environment.
- #13 Raft
88% matchVery Positive93% of 379,035 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.8 hrsMean: 38.0 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 40.5% ★, Survival 16.4%, Crafting 11.1%, Multiplayer 10%, Base Building 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: It provides ocean-based survival and modular building mechanics similar to navigating a dangerous water-bound world.
- #14 StarRupture
86% matchVery Positive81% of 13,607 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 27.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 32% ★, Base Building 15.4%, Crafting 11.9%, Survival 10.6%, Online Co-Op 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: An early-access survival and base-building game with heavy emphasis on automation and defending against chaotic environments.
- #15 Outlaws of the Old West
87% matchMixed59% of 6,297 reviews2019
Dev: Virtual Basement LLCPub: Wandering Wizard
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Outlaws of the Old West is a massively multiplayer survival MMO with a huge world, thousands of items and a modular building system. Survive the wild, build your own homestead, defeat villainous bandits and work with others to tame the Wild West.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.8% ★, Massively Multiplayer 16.8%, Survival 14.1%, Multiplayer 8.2%, Base Building 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: An expansive open-world survival MMO featuring crafting, building, and rough-and-tumble frontier combat.
- #16 Mesorift Survival
85% matchMostly Positive72% of 152 reviews2025
Dev: Meik.W Interactive
Windows
Mesorift Survival is a classic survival game with PvP and PvE elements, set in a tropical open world with three islands. Gather resources, build a base, craft weapons, and survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.2% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Survival 10%, FPS 9.8%, PvP 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world shooter and survival hybrid that leans heavily into gear crafting and hostile terrain exploration.
- #17 Stars End
86% matchMixed61% of 1,432 reviews2023
Dev: Reverie World StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Stars End is a sci-fi survival sandbox set on the wild frontier of a distant star system. Play solo or host your own server as you craft, build, and battle to survive in a galaxy shaped by danger, discovery, and your own grit.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.5% ★, Massively Multiplayer 16.1%, Online Co-Op 9%, Crafting 8%, Survival 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi survival game focusing on base building, crafting, and multiplayer exploration across a distant world.
- #18 XERA: Survival
84% matchMixed66% of 7,942 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 27.7% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Crafting 10.3%, Massively Multiplayer 10.1%, Survival 9%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world multiplayer shooter that combines looter-shooter mechanics with survival and base-oriented progression.
- #19 Plains of Pain
84% matchVery Positive83% of 1,036 reviews2023
Dev: Cobra Byte Digital
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Enter a living post-apocalyptic sandbox where the world doesn't wait for you. Build, craft, trade, earn the trust of factions, and forge your own path through a brutal procedural wasteland.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.8% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 11%, Online Co-Op 9.9%, Survival 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic sandbox survival game featuring base building and scavenger-style loot progression.
- #20 Nuclear Epoch
81% matchMostly Positive78% of 547 reviews2026
Dev: Cat Play Studio
Windows
Nuclear Epoch: Open-world survival mixing base building & extraction shooting. Explore with friends, raid dangerous instances for loot, but death means losing everything. Craft weapons with fully customizable stats in this post-apocalyptic wasteland.
Why similar: Extraction Shooter 49.7% ★, Base Building 14.2%, Crafting 11%, Survival 8.5%, FPS 5.3%
Why You'll Like It: An extraction shooter set in a harsh post-apocalyptic wasteland where scavenging and base security are paramount.
- #21 Rem Survival
83% matchMostly Positive76% of 809 reviews2021
Dev: Immortal Hand Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 47.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Scavenge abandoned ruins, craft gear from scrap and salvaged materials, and fight the environment itself as hunger, exposure, and exhaustion push you to your limits. There are no second chances—only adaptation or death.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.1% ★, Base Building 14%, Crafting 12.8%, Massively Multiplayer 11.7%, Survival 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: A classic open-world survival crafting experience focused on gathering materials and establishing safe havens.
- #22 KeepUp Survival
82% matchMixed64% of 751 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 33.1% ★, Base Building 14.5%, Crafting 12.7%, Survival 11.6%, PvE 8%
Why You'll Like It: A detailed open-world survival craft game emphasizing cooperative building and exploration against wild threats.
- #23 Exit Ways
82% matchMostly Negative23% of 252 reviews2026
Dev: ASKES
Windows
Exit Ways is a PvEvP survival extraction shooter. Grow your community in a zombie apocalypse. Rescue survivors, craft gear and build a base.
Why similar: Extraction Shooter 38.3% ★, FPS 8.3%, Crafting 7.4%, Online Co-Op 7.4%, PvE 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: A tactical extraction shooter focusing on cooperative PvE combat and high-tension escape routes.
- #24 SAND: Raiders of Sophie
80% matchMixed49% of 13,933 reviews2026
Dev: HologryphPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 9.7 hrsMean: 28.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
In SAND you build your highly customizable walking mech fortress. Squad up or go solo. Scavenge the dunes, gather loot, weapons, priceless artifacts, survive and extract. Clash with other players in a brutal procedurally generated desert set in an alternate 1910.
Why similar: Extraction Shooter 36.8% ★, Massively Multiplayer 12.4%, FPS 8%, Online Co-Op 7.8%, PvP 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: A gritty extraction shooter and vehicular combat game set on a desolate, resource-scarce open world.
- #25 Longvinter
79% matchMixed67% of 7,713 reviews2025
Dev: Uuvana Studios
Windows
Median: 2.5 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 30.3% ★, Crafting 14.8%, Survival 13.5%, Multiplayer 9.8%, PvP 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer open-world survival game featuring island exploration, crafting, and player-driven base economies.
- #26 Everwind
78% matchVery Positive81% of 3,899 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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: Crafting 19%, Online Co-Op 17.3%, Survival 15.8%, PvP 10.9%, Multiplayer 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: A cooperative open-world survival game focusing on collaborative building and navigating unforgiving environments.
- #27 ARC Raiders
77% matchVery Positive82% of 417,359 reviews2025
Dev: Embark Studios
Windows
Median: 41.5 hrsMean: 100.2 hrs≥1hr: 97%
ARC Raiders is a multiplayer extraction adventure, set in a lethal future earth, ravaged by a mysterious mechanized threat known as ARC.
Why similar: Extraction Shooter 47.8% ★, PvP 8.4%, PvE 7.5%, Online Co-Op 7%, Multiplayer 6.2%
- #28 Project Castaway
77% matchMixed65% of 1,893 reviews2026
Dev: Mardonpol Inc.
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Project Castaway is a survival crafting title set in the Pacific Ocean. Live the life of a stranded castaway, with only yourself - and the island's inhabitants - for company! Sail the ocean, hunt, explore unique islands and gather resources as you fight for survival.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Online Co-Op 12%, Survival 10.8%, Crafting 9.7%
- #29 Far Lands
78% matchMixed64% of 173 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 30.1% ★, Base Building 16.5%, Crafting 14.8%, Survival 12.6%, PvE 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: A straightforward survival craft adventure highlighting open-world exploration and base construction.
- #30 Road to Eden
79% matchMixed64% of 408 reviews2019
Dev: Zouking
Windows
Road to Eden is a third-person multiplayer survival coop game, set within the post-apocalyptic ruins of a world destroyed by an alien invasion. You wake up at the side of the road with no memory and must team up with other survivors to make the long and dangerous journey to Eden.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.6% ★, Crafting 13.7%, Base Building 13%, Survival 11.7%, Online Co-Op 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival title centered on crafting, shelter building, and enduring a dangerous multiplayer wasteland.
- #31 Grim
76% matchMixed57% of 149 reviews2025
Dev: Spoonfed Interactive
Windows
GRIM is an Exclusive VR Multiplayer Survival game where you must immerse yourself, stranded on a secluded part of Earth. Survival is not just a choice but a grueling battle against nature and other players. Gather resources, craft, and build your base, all to stay alive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.8% ★, Crafting 12.5%, Base Building 11.6%, Survival 11.1%, Massively Multiplayer 8.7%
- #32 Ruins To Fortress
75% matchMixed66% of 184 reviews2024
Dev: NimbleBeasts
Windows · Linux
Explore a post-apocalyptic island, craft, build, tear down enemy bases, defend and nuke your rivals! Life's about surviving in this multiplayer game, no matter what it takes!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.9% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 11%, Survival 9.6%, PvP 7.9%
- #33 Strayed
75% matchMostly Positive79% of 443 reviews2024
Dev: Crustacean Interactive
Windows
Strayed is a fast paced open world VR survival game where every session feels like a new adventure. Start with nothing on a fresh island, gather materials, craft weapons, build bases, and battle other players for the best loot.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.2% ★, Base Building 10.5%, Crafting 10.3%, Survival 8.5%, Online Co-Op 8.1%
- #34 Enshrouded
73% matchVery Positive86% of 106,050 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.9 hrsMean: 46.8 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: Base Building 21.2%, Survival 16.9%, Crafting 15.2%, Online Co-Op 15%, Multiplayer 9.7%
- #35 Eden Crafters
71% matchVery Positive85% of 2,696 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 15.2 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 38% ★, Base Building 17%, Crafting 14.3%, Online Co-Op 10.8%, Survival 9.7%
- #36 Aloft
72% matchVery Positive83% of 3,782 reviews2025
Dev: Astrolabe Interactive Inc.Pub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 15.5 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 34.2% ★, Crafting 18.4%, Survival 15.3%, Character Customization 9.7%, Multiplayer 7.9%
- #37 Abiotic Factor
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 59,444 reviews2025
Dev: Deep Field GamesPub: Playstack
Windows
Median: 21.2 hrsMean: 46.5 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Abiotic Factor is a survival crafting experience for 1-6 players set in the depths of an underground research facility. Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the world’s greatest minds must survive against the universe’s biggest threats.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.2% ★, Base Building 13%, Crafting 11.4%, Online Co-Op 10.4%, Survival 10.1%
- #38 Outpost Zero
76% matchMixed48% of 853 reviews2019
Dev: Symmetric GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Outpost Zero blends the genres of Multiplayer Base Building Survival and Simulation games in a Sci-Fi universe. On a lawless alien world, robotic scouts are tasked with building an Outpost for human colonists. Command AI minions, colonize the planet, and survive the perils of Gaiya.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.2% ★, Survival 16.1%, Base Building 14.3%, Crafting 9.9%, Multiplayer 9.5%
- #39 Outerstellar
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 186 reviews2023
Dev: Strange Horizons Ltd
Windows
Stranded on a hostile and deadly planet, you must gather resources, build shelter, and fight to survive each night. But the secrets of this world await in a gripping sci-fi survival PvP game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.5% ★, Base Building 10.9%, Massively Multiplayer 10.5%, Crafting 9.4%, Survival 9.2%
- #40 Valheim
68% matchVery Positive94% of 555,289 reviews2026
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 26.9 hrsMean: 81.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.5% ★, Online Co-Op 12%, Base Building 11.7%, Survival 11.4%, Crafting 10.5%
- #41 Renown
72% matchMixed58% of 1,591 reviews2025
Dev: RDBK Studios
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Renown is an intense medieval multiplayer survival experience set in a vast, ever-evolving world. Whether alone or rallying allies, gather resources, build powerful strongholds, and engage in brutal battles for dominance.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.7% ★, Massively Multiplayer 12%, Crafting 11.4%, Base Building 10.3%, Survival 9.4%
- #42 Nomad
74% 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 45.4% ★, Survival 15.3%, Multiplayer 10.5%, Crafting 9.7%, Massively Multiplayer 5.5%
- #43 GRAV
74% matchMixed47% of 6,922 reviews2015
Dev: BitMonster, Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 60%
GRAV is a sand box experience where you explore a multitude of planets, hunt strange alien creatures, build and defend outposts, craft weapons and armor, and attempt to survive against other players in a hostile environment.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.7% ★, Base Building 15.2%, Survival 14.2%, Crafting 10.5%, Multiplayer 6.8%
- #44 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
69% matchVery Positive91% of 7,668 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Survive, craft, and automate in this free prologue set on one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters, an open-world game where you play solo or with friends to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.9% ★, Base Building 15.8%, Crafting 11.8%, Online Co-Op 10.6%, Multiplayer 8.7%
- #45 Len's Island
69% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,974 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 34.8% ★, Crafting 11.9%, Base Building 11.8%, Nature 11.3%, Survival 11%
- #46 Once Human
69% matchMostly Positive79% of 189,842 reviews2024
Dev: Starry Studio
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 52.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Once Human is a Strange Worlds Survival Game set in a strange, post-apocalyptic future. Unite with friends to fight monstrous enemies, uncover secret plots, compete for resources, and build your own territory. Once, you were merely human. Now, you have the power to remake the world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.4% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Crafting 9.8%, Survival 9.1%, Online Co-Op 8.6%
- #47 Out of Reach
73% matchMixed57% of 3,051 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.1 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 40.4% ★, Survival 12.9%, Crafting 11.3%, Massively Multiplayer 11%, Base Building 7.1%
- #48 Solace Crafting
71% matchMostly Positive71% of 899 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 32.1% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 12.9%, Survival 11.1%, Online Co-Op 9.8%
- #49 Wild Omission
70% matchVery Positive88% of 83 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 28.6% ★, Crafting 12.3%, Survival 10.3%, Base Building 9.2%, PvP 8.4%
- #50 Active Matter
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 3,151 reviews2026
Dev: Matter TeamPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Join dangerous raids for loot or intense PvP/PvE battles in this new realistic military shooter set in a fractured multiverse. Fight in quantum-unstable zones for control of active matter - the substance that bends time and space.
Why similar: Extraction Shooter 39.8% ★, Massively Multiplayer 10.6%, FPS 9.3%, Online Co-Op 8.7%, PvP 8.1%
- #51 Karagon (Survival Robot Riding FPS)
71% matchMixed47% of 107 reviews2023
Dev: Tbjbu2 Originals
Windows
Survive, shoot, construct, and ride killer elemental robots. Craft equipment, explore multi-floor buildings, build and farm, uncover schematics, and progress through technology tiers. Alone or with friends in this brutal post apocalyptic open world survival robot riding crafting shooter game!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Crafting 10.6%, FPS 9.4%, Survival 9%
- #52 Last Breath
68% matchVery Positive84% of 80 reviews2026
Dev: Mx
Windows
Last Breath is a solo/cooperative terraforming survival game. Dig through terrain, build powerful machines, and restore life to a dead planet. Work together to survive, automate, and reshape the world from the ground up, literally.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.6% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Survival 13.6%, Online Co-Op 11.5%, Crafting 10.6%
- #53 PolyZ
70% matchMixed48% of 291 reviews2024
Dev: Thirteen37 Games™
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 1.8 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Imagine DayZ mixed with Escape From Tarkov, but in Low Poly. A persistent world survival game featuring PvP, PvE, crafting, base-building, and zombies infected with a contagious virus.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.7% ★, Base Building 14.3%, Crafting 10.5%, Survival 10.2%, Character Customization 9.1%
- #54 Voyagers of Nera
66% matchVery Positive85% of 2,647 reviews2025
Dev: Treehouse Games
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 29.2% ★, Base Building 14.3%, Crafting 12.4%, Online Co-Op 10.9%, Character Customization 10.3%
- #55 The Planet Crafter
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 74,281 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.7 hrsMean: 38.8 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 36.3% ★, Base Building 17.5%, Crafting 12.5%, Online Co-Op 12.1%, Survival 11.5%
- #56 Drift: Space Survival
68% matchMostly Positive70% of 77 reviews2023
Dev: KAR Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
You were deep in uncharted space on a research mission. Disaster struck. Together with your friends, explore a mysterious asteroid field and mine whatever resources possible to build what you need to survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.6% ★, Online Co-Op 12.9%, Crafting 12.3%, Survival 12%, Base Building 10.8%
- #57 Survive the Nights
66% matchMixed66% of 6,793 reviews2025
Dev: a2z Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Hardcore open-world survival where preparation is everything. Scavenge, craft, fortify during the day. When night falls, the infected hunt in numbers. Play solo or with friends in a brutal post-apocalyptic sandbox where survival is earned through smart decisions. How many Nights will you survive?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.5% ★, Massively Multiplayer 13.7%, Survival 9.9%, Online Co-Op 9.4%, FPS 9%
- #58 Lodventure
67% matchMostly Positive74% of 166 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 42.9% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Survival 12.9%, Crafting 12.6%, Online Co-Op 9.7%
