- #1 Forever Skies
97% 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 40.8% ★, Base Building 19.4%, Crafting 9.2%, Open World 8.6%, Exploration 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: Features a high-tech airship that serves as your primary mobile base and exploration vessel in a ruined world.
- #2 Volcanoids
96% 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 34.7% ★, Online Co-Op 12.3%, Base Building 12.2%, Sandbox 7.2%, Crafting 7%
Why You'll Like It: Centers on a drill-ship that acts as your mobile base, allowing you to traverse and survive a hostile volcanic landscape.
- #3 Aloft
96% 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: Open World Survival Craft 40.6% ★, Crafting 11.8%, Sandbox 11.2%, Open World 8%, Character Customization 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on navigating floating islands with gliders and airships, perfectly capturing the verticality of Lost Skies.
- #4 Voidtrain
95% 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 44.6% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Online Co-Op 11.1%, Sandbox 6.3%, Crafting 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a unique take on mobile base-building where you construct and upgrade a train traveling through an interdimensional void.
- #5 Raft
94% 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 52% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Online Co-Op 9.6%, Crafting 7.6%, Open World 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: The quintessential vessel-based survival game where you expand and defend a floating base while navigating an endless ocean.
- #6 Echoes of Elysium
94% matchMixed64% of 502 reviews2026
Dev: Loric Games, Inc.Pub: Snail Games USA
Windows
Survive the skies in Echoes of Elysium, a co-op airship survival RPG. Build and customize your floating fortress, gather resources, and explore a vast procedural clockwork world with up to 6 friends. Battle land and skyborne threats while uncovering mysteries in a paradise on the brink.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.3% ★, Vehicular Combat 22.3% ★, Flight 8.6%, Sandbox 8.3%, Crafting 7%
Why You'll Like It: Combines open-world survival with flight mechanics and vehicular combat in a fractured, sky-bound setting.
- #7 TerraTech Worlds
93% matchMixed63% of 2,175 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.6% ★, Base Building 17.1%, Vehicular Combat 11.5% ★, Sandbox 9.9%, Crafting 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: Features deep modular vehicle construction and exploration across diverse, alien planetary environments.
- #8 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 40.1% ★, Online Co-Op 14.7%, Base Building 14.2%, Open World 7.5%, Crafting 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: Features multi-world exploration and survival with a strong emphasis on crafting and base building in a Victorian-fantasy 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 35.1% ★, Base Building 14.9%, Online Co-Op 12.6%, Sandbox 7.7%, Crafting 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a unique perspective on exploration and base building, focusing on survival in a world where you are tiny.
- #10 Sunkenland
91% 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 47.7% ★, Base Building 15.1%, Crafting 6.7%, Sandbox 6.5%, Open World 5.5%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on water-based survival and modular base building, sharing the theme of navigating a dangerous, flooded world.
- #11 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 37.9% ★, Base Building 17%, Online Co-Op 13.8%, Sandbox 7.7%, Crafting 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: An exploration-heavy survival game that emphasizes terraforming and base building on a desolate alien world.
- #12 Space Engineers
90% matchVery Positive89% of 133,238 reviews2019
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 95.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.
Why similar: Base Building 31.9%, Sandbox 20.3%, Open World 14.4%, PvE 9.7%, Exploration 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: Provides the most robust vehicle and base-building system, allowing for complex engineering in a massive space sandbox.
- #13 Enshrouded
88% 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: Base Building 24.3%, Online Co-Op 19.9%, Open World 13.7%, Crafting 10.1%, Sandbox 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a polished open-world survival experience with excellent building mechanics and a focus on exploration.
- #14 ICARUS
89% 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 40.2% ★, Base Building 16%, Online Co-Op 13.5%, Crafting 7.1%, Open World 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: A session-based survival game that challenges players to explore and build in a harsh, alien environment.
- #15 Dawn of Defiance
87% 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 40.4% ★, Online Co-Op 15.4%, Base Building 13.9%, Sandbox 7%, Open World 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that blends Greek mythology with crafting and base-building mechanics.
- #16 Dune: Awakening
86% 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 31.4% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Online Co-Op 11.5%, Sandbox 8.3%, Character Customization 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: Combines large-scale open-world survival with vehicular travel and base building in a harsh desert environment.
- #17 The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™
86% matchVery Positive82% of 11,474 reviews2024
Dev: Free Range GamesPub: North Beach Games
Windows
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 20.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 36.9% ★, Base Building 16.7%, Online Co-Op 13.5%, Crafting 7.5%, Sandbox 5.4%
Why You'll Like It: A co-op survival game focused on exploration and base building within a massive, procedurally generated underground world.
- #18 Eden Crafters
85% 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 38.7% ★, Base Building 16.6%, Online Co-Op 11.9%, Sandbox 9.4%, Crafting 8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on automation and base building, providing a satisfying loop of resource management and expansion.
- #19 StarRupture
84% 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 34.1% ★, Base Building 15.6%, Online Co-Op 10%, Sandbox 8.4%, Crafting 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: Blends base building and automation with survival elements in a vibrant, alien open world.
- #20 Scrap Mechanic
84% 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: Base Building 22.4%, Sandbox 21.7%, Crafting 15.8%, Open World 15%, Online Co-Op 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: A physics-based sandbox that excels in vehicle construction and survival against robotic threats.
- #21 Valheim
82% 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 41.2% ★, Online Co-Op 14.7%, Base Building 12.4%, Open World 7.2%, Crafting 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for co-op survival, offering deep exploration and building mechanics in a challenging, myth-inspired world.
- #22 Cubic Odyssey
82% 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 43.2% ★, Base Building 18.6%, Sandbox 11.6%, Open World 6.6%, Exploration 4.9%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that emphasizes building and exploration in a sci-fi setting.
- #23 KeepUp Survival
81% 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 38.1% ★, Base Building 15.7%, Sandbox 9.3%, Crafting 7.8%, Open World 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that emphasizes building and resource management in a large, explorable map.
- #24 Len's Island
79% 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 43.4% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Sandbox 10.2%, Crafting 8%, Open World 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: Combines exploration, dungeon crawling, and building in a relaxing yet engaging open-world survival experience.
- #25 Solace Crafting
81% matchMostly Positive72% of 891 reviews2022
Dev: Big Kitty Games
Windows · Linux
Embark on an adventure set in a fantasy survival RPG. Visit a borderless, open world where you manage resources to construct your base and new types of equipment to support your conquest.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.7% ★, Base Building 14.3%, Online Co-Op 12.2%, Sandbox 8.4%, Crafting 8%
Why You'll Like It: Features a massive open world with deep crafting and building systems designed for long-term survival.
- #26 Subnautica
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 344,093 reviews2018
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.4 hrsMean: 40.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 50.8% ★, Base Building 15.3%, Open World 8.5%, Crafting 7.7%, Sandbox 5.7%
Why You'll Like It: Masterfully captures the sense of isolation and wonder in exploration, paired with essential underwater base building.
- #27 Survival Machine
78% 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 36.3% ★, Base Building 15.3%, Online Co-Op 13.7%, Sandbox 8.7%, Crafting 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: Centers on a mobile base that you must upgrade and defend while traveling through a dangerous world.
- #28 RuneScape: Dragonwilds
77% 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 39.8% ★, Online Co-Op 13.6%, Base Building 12.1%, Open World 8.8%, Crafting 6.9%
- #29 Lost Rift
77% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,413 reviews2025
Dev: People Can Fly
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 36.4% ★, Base Building 15.9%, Online Co-Op 12.7%, Character Customization 8%, Crafting 7.9%
- #30 Desert Skies
80% matchMixed57% of 461 reviews2019
Dev: White_Rabbit_Games
Windows
Desert Skies takes survival to the air! Build an airship and fly on an adventure through the deserts of the Wild West. Look for places to land and scavenge for loot, expand your airship and craft new equipment, but beware the dangers lurking beneath the sands!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 68.6% ★, Base Building 11.4%, Crafting 8.7%, Adventure 4.4%, Action 4%
Why You'll Like It: Features airship-based survival in a desert landscape, focusing on crafting and defending your mobile base.
- #31 TerraTech
78% matchVery Positive91% of 24,455 reviews2018
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 33.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
TerraTech is an open-world, sandbox adventure game, where you design and build your own creations through a mix of crafting, combat and discovery. Design vehicles from a huge library of blocks. Scavenge, craft and buy new parts to survive and become the ultimate planetary prospector.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.3% ★, Sandbox 13.4%, Vehicular Combat 12.8% ★, Open World 9%, Crafting 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox game centered on building modular vehicles and robots to explore and conquer diverse biomes.
- #32 Everwind
73% 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: Online Co-Op 22%, Sandbox 16.4%, Flight 12.5%, Open World 11.9%, Crafting 10.6%
- #33 Ylands
76% 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 41.3% ★, Base Building 16.8%, Online Co-Op 12.8%, Crafting 8.9%, Open World 7.2%
- #34 The Survivalists
75% 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 32% ★, Online Co-Op 14.8%, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 8.8%, Sandbox 8%
- #35 Savage Lands
75% matchMixed55% of 6,679 reviews2021
Dev: Last Bastion Studios LLC
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Your fight for survival begins on the frozen shores of Tarvhas, where bitter cold and vicious creatures conspire to defeat the unprepared. Uncover the land’s dark history as you and fellow explorers traverse an unforgiving and hostile world to tame the Savage Lands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 50.8% ★, Online Co-Op 13.3%, Sandbox 8.3%, Open World 7.4%, Crafting 6.8%
- #36 Frozen Flame
74% 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 35.5% ★, Base Building 15.4%, Online Co-Op 13.8%, Sandbox 9.2%, Crafting 6.8%
- #37 Lodventure
74% 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 41.5% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Online Co-Op 10.1%, Open World 7.5%, Sandbox 7%
- #38 Project Castaway
72% matchMixed67% of 1,632 reviews2026
Dev: Mardonpol Inc.
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 69%
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 38.1% ★, Online Co-Op 14.3%, Base Building 13.3%, Sandbox 9.1%, Open World 6.2%
- #39 Dysterra
72% matchMixed56% of 755 reviews2025
Dev: Reality MagiQ
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 67%
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 32.4% ★, Base Building 14.3%, Online Co-Op 12.1%, Sandbox 8.7%, Crafting 7.1%
- #40 Whisper of the Swallows
70% matchVery Positive87% of 144 reviews2026
Dev: Blown Leaves
Windows
Brave a savage and unforgiving procedurally-generated world where extreme weather and the nightmares of the dark are your greatest enemies. Alone or in co-op, survive, build, and explore to transform a cursed hellscape into your sanctuary of light.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.7% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Online Co-Op 11.6%, Sandbox 9.8%, Crafting 7.6%
- #41 ASTRONEER
71% matchVery Positive92% of 136,711 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 44.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.4% ★, Base Building 16%, Sandbox 9.3%, Open World 9.3%, Crafting 6%
- #42 Planet Explorers
73% matchMixed62% of 6,817 reviews2016
Dev: Pathea Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Planet Explorers is an open world sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 56% ★, Sandbox 15.8%, Open World 10.2%, Crafting 7.6%, Exploration 4%
- #43 IfSunSets
69% 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 34.3% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Online Co-Op 13%, Sandbox 9.4%, Crafting 7.5%
- #44 GRAV
73% 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 51% ★, Base Building 16.3%, Sandbox 9.8%, Open World 8.6%, Crafting 6.4%
- #45 Plains of Pain
69% matchVery Positive85% of 692 reviews2023
Dev: Cobra Byte Digital
Windows
Survive a brutal open world alone or with friends. Explore a procedural wasteland scorched by chaos. Build and defend your base, trade for what you need, complete deadly quests, and fight to claim faction outposts before someone else does.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.4% ★, Base Building 15.2%, Online Co-Op 12.8%, Sandbox 9.6%, Crafting 7%
- #46 Stars End
70% matchMixed61% of 1,414 reviews2023
Dev: Reverie World StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 10.3 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 39.3% ★, Online Co-Op 15.7%, Sandbox 9.1%, Crafting 6.9%, Open World 6.9%
- #47 Scrapnaut
70% matchMostly Positive70% of 824 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 33.2% ★, Online Co-Op 15.5%, Base Building 12.8%, Sandbox 10.2%, Crafting 7.1%
- #48 Necesse
65% 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 49.3% ★, Base Building 9.7%, Sandbox 8.9%, Online Co-Op 7.9%, Open World 6.5%
- #49 Shamania
67% 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 36.6% ★, Online Co-Op 11%, Base Building 9.2%, Crafting 8.7%, Sandbox 8.6%
- #50 Fragmented
71% matchMixed43% of 1,964 reviews2017
Dev: Above and Beyond Technologies
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Stranded in a hostile alien world, you must fight to survive. Hunt, harvest, craft, advance skills, and build using local resources along with technology from your voyage.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 61.6% ★, Open World 7.7%, Sandbox 7.7%, Online Co-Op 6.6%, Crafting 6.3%
- #51 Tinkerlands
66% 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 44.2% ★, Online Co-Op 16.3%, Sandbox 11.6%, Open World 7.8%, Crafting 7.3%
- #52 Space Trash Scavenger
67% matchVery Positive84% of 514 reviews2024
Dev: SquarePlay GamesPub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Grab your jetpack and explore procedural asteroid fields, derelict spaceships and abandoned outposts. Build and automate your Space Rig to process scavenged trash. Craft, trade and fight your way home in this interstellar, open-world survival sandbox.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.4% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Sandbox 9.9%, Crafting 8.8%, Open World 7.3%
- #53 Starbound
67% 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 51.3% ★, Sandbox 12.7%, Online Co-Op 11.1%, Crafting 6.4%, Open World 5.5%
- #54 Planetaries
68% matchMixed59% of 222 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 35.5% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Online Co-Op 13.4%, Sandbox 8%, Crafting 7.2%
- #55 Grounded 2
64% matchVery Positive81% of 19,870 reviews2025
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 20.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Shrunk again, but the world is much larger. In this open-world, single-player or co-op survival adventure, craft weapons and armor, build your base, and traverse the playground on your buggy. But something else is out there—and it hasn’t forgotten you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.2% ★, Base Building 18.2%, Online Co-Op 10.6%, Sandbox 8.2%, Open World 7.9%
- #56 Forgotten Seas
65% matchMostly Positive77% of 572 reviews2025
Dev: Pangea Game StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
You are lost in the Bermuda Void, where the ocean is endless and dry land precious. Craft your Ship-in-a-Bottle, then experience survival on the high seas. Sail for new land, build camps, hunt for treasures, trade for goods - then defend your ship from dreaded pirates stalking this strange realm!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31% ★, Base Building 18.3%, Online Co-Op 16.4%, Crafting 8.9%, PvE 5.9%
- #57 ATLAS
69% matchMixed47% of 42,842 reviews2018
Dev: Grapeshot Games
Windows
Median: 12.5 hrsMean: 112.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Set sail for the ultimate pirate experience! Embark on a grand adventure alongside thousands of other players in one of the largest game worlds ever built (and even claim a piece of it to call your own). Build your ship, assemble your crew, sail the high seas, and become a pirate legend!
Why similar: Online Co-Op 22.6%, Open World 16.4%, Base Building 15.5%, Crafting 13.6%, Sandbox 11%
