Games Like Lost Skies

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 41.4% ★, Base Building 19.1%, Crafting 9.1%, Open World 8.6%, Exploration 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: Features a high-tech airship that serves as your primary mobile base and exploration vessel in a ruined world.

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 41.2% ★, Crafting 11.6%, Sandbox 11.1%, Open World 8.1%, Character Customization 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on navigating floating islands with gliders and airships, perfectly capturing the verticality of Lost Skies.

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 45% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Online Co-Op 10.8%, Sandbox 6.3%, Crafting 6.1%

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.

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 52.6% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Online Co-Op 9.4%, Crafting 7.5%, 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.

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 32.8% ★, Vehicular Combat 22.2%, Flight 8.6%, Sandbox 8.2%, Crafting 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Combines open-world survival with flight mechanics and vehicular combat in a fractured, sky-bound setting.

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 37.1% ★, Base Building 16.8%, Vehicular Combat 11.5%, Sandbox 9.8%, Crafting 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Features deep modular vehicle construction and exploration across diverse, alien planetary environments.

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: Base Building 21.1%, Online Co-Op 15.4%, Sandbox 13.1%, Crafting 10.7%, Open World 8.8%

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.

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 40.8% ★, Online Co-Op 14.3%, Base Building 14%, Open World 7.6%, Crafting 7.3%

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.

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 48.4% ★, Base Building 15%, Crafting 6.6%, Sandbox 6.4%, Open World 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on water-based survival and modular base building, sharing the theme of navigating a dangerous, flooded world.

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 31.7%, Sandbox 20.4%, Open World 14.6%, PvE 9.5%, 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.

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 35.7% ★, Base Building 14.9%, Online Co-Op 12.2%, Sandbox 7.6%, Crafting 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a unique perspective on exploration and base building, focusing on survival in a world where you are tiny.

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 38.7% ★, Base Building 16.9%, Online Co-Op 13.5%, Sandbox 7.6%, Crafting 7%

Why You'll Like It: An exploration-heavy survival game that emphasizes terraforming and base building on a desolate alien world.

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 24.5%, Online Co-Op 19.7%, Open World 14.1%, Crafting 10.1%, Sandbox 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a polished open-world survival experience with excellent building mechanics and a focus on exploration.

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 41.1% ★, Base Building 15.8%, Online Co-Op 13.2%, Crafting 7%, Open World 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A session-based survival game that challenges players to explore and build in a harsh, alien environment.

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 41.2% ★, Online Co-Op 15.1%, Base Building 13.7%, 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.

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 37.6% ★, Base Building 16.5%, Online Co-Op 13.3%, Crafting 7.4%, 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.

Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival game with immersive adventure and RPG gameplay. Explore, build, craft, and unravel a cinematic Dune story alone or with friends 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 32.1% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Online Co-Op 11.3%, Sandbox 8.2%, Character Customization 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: Combines large-scale open-world survival with vehicular travel and base building in a harsh desert environment.

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 39.6% ★, Base Building 16.3%, Online Co-Op 11.6%, Sandbox 9.3%, Crafting 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on automation and base building, providing a satisfying loop of resource management and expansion.

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 34.8% ★, Base Building 15.4%, Online Co-Op 9.7%, Sandbox 8.3%, Crafting 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Blends base building and automation with survival elements in a vibrant, alien open world.

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 22.3%, Sandbox 21.8%, Crafting 15.7%, Open World 15.2%, Online Co-Op 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based sandbox that excels in vehicle construction and survival against robotic threats.

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 47.6% ★, Base Building 19.9%, Sandbox 11.8%, Online Co-Op 6.7%, Co-op 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that emphasizes building and exploration in a sci-fi setting.

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 41.9% ★, Online Co-Op 14.4%, Base Building 12.3%, Open World 7.2%, Crafting 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for co-op survival, offering deep exploration and building mechanics in a challenging, myth-inspired world.

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 44% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Sandbox 10.1%, Crafting 7.8%, Open World 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Combines exploration, dungeon crawling, and building in a relaxing yet engaging open-world survival experience.

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 37.4% ★, Base Building 14.2%, Online Co-Op 11.9%, Sandbox 8.3%, Crafting 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Features a massive open world with deep crafting and building systems designed for long-term survival.

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 38.6% ★, Base Building 15.5%, Sandbox 9.3%, Open World 7.8%, Crafting 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that emphasizes building and resource management in a large, explorable map.

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 51.4% ★, Base Building 15%, Open World 8.5%, Crafting 7.5%, Sandbox 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: Masterfully captures the sense of isolation and wonder in exploration, paired with essential underwater base building.

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: Base Building 29.9%, Online Co-Op 26.9%, Crafting 15.1%, PvE 8.5%, Exploration 8%

Why You'll Like It: Centers on a mobile base that you must upgrade and defend while traveling through a dangerous world.

Solarpunk is a survival game in a technologically advanced world of floating islands. Alone or together with your friends, you can construct buildings, grow food, craft gadgets and hop on your airship to explore distant islands in the sky.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.7% ★, Base Building 15.8%, Online Co-Op 13.1%, Sandbox 9.4%, Crafting 7.7%

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 41.9% ★, Sandbox 13.3%, Vehicular Combat 12.8%, Open World 9%, Crafting 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox game centered on building modular vehicles and robots to explore and conquer diverse biomes.

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 37% ★, Base Building 15.8%, Online Co-Op 12.5%, Crafting 7.8%, Character Customization 7.8%

On RuneScape's forgotten continent of Ashenfall, dragons have awoken. Gather, build, skill and craft in this co-operative survival adventure. Only by mastering survival and uncovering ancient secrets can you hope to face the ferocious Dragon Queen.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.3% ★, Online Co-Op 13.4%, Base Building 11.7%, Open World 9.1%, Crafting 6.8%

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 69% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Crafting 8.5%, 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.

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 26.5%, Sandbox 18.4%, Crafting 14.6%, Open World 14.2%, Adventure 6.7%

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 33% ★, Base Building 14.2%, Online Co-Op 11.8%, Sandbox 8.7%, Crafting 7.1%

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 56.5% ★, Sandbox 15.6%, Open World 10.2%, Crafting 7.4%, Exploration 3.9%

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 38.8% ★, Online Co-Op 13.9%, Base Building 13.1%, Sandbox 9.1%, Open World 6.3%

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 56.9% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Crafting 8.8%, Open World 7.5%, Sandbox 5.8%

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 51.5% ★, Online Co-Op 12.9%, Sandbox 8.2%, Open World 7.5%, Crafting 6.7%

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 36.1% ★, Base Building 15.2%, Online Co-Op 13.4%, Sandbox 9.2%, Open World 6.8%

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 42.1% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Online Co-Op 9.8%, Open World 7.6%, Sandbox 7%

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 46.9% ★, Base Building 15.7%, Open World 9.3%, Sandbox 9.3%, Crafting 5.9%

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 34.9% ★, Base Building 15.6%, Online Co-Op 13.5%, Character Customization 8%, Crafting 7.7%

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 42.8% ★, Sandbox 11.1%, Crafting 10.9%, Open World 9.8%, Base Building 7.8%

Survive in a post-apocalyptic open-world sandbox alone or with friends. Explore a procedural wasteland scorched by heat and chaos. Build a base, develop skills, craft tools and weapons, trade for what you need, complete deadly quests, earn faction reputation, or take part in faction wars.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.2% ★, Base Building 15%, Online Co-Op 12.5%, Sandbox 9.6%, Crafting 6.9%

Step into the ultimate open-world witch adventure. Befriend and battle creatures, and conjure up a sanctuary alongside other witches in co-op or single-player.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.3% ★, Base Building 16.6%, Online Co-Op 15%, Crafting 8.2%, Open World 7.5%

Brave a savage, unforgiving procedurally generated world where extreme weather and the nightmares of the dark will hunt you down. Alone or in co-op, survive, build, and explore to turn a cursed hellscape into your sanctuary of light.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.3% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Online Co-Op 11.3%, Sandbox 9.7%, Crafting 7.5%

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 51.5% ★, Base Building 16%, Sandbox 9.7%, Open World 8.6%, Crafting 6.3%

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 33.7% ★, Online Co-Op 15.1%, Base Building 12.7%, Sandbox 10.2%, Crafting 7.1%

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 37.1% ★, Online Co-Op 10.7%, Base Building 9.2%, Crafting 8.6%, Sandbox 8.6%

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 32.6% ★, Online Co-Op 14.5%, Base Building 13.1%, Crafting 8.7%, Sandbox 8%

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 40% ★, Online Co-Op 15.3%, Sandbox 9%, Open World 6.9%, Crafting 6.8%

Build the ultimate vehicle and explore a vast open world filled with challenges and adventure. Play solo or team up with friends in multiplayer to conquer the toughest obstacles. With a thrilling campaign mode and endless creative possibilities, Trailmakers is the ultimate sandbox for adventurers.

Why similar: Vehicular Combat 25%, Online Co-Op 21.2%, Flight 12%, Sandbox 10.5%, Crafting 7.8%

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 45.2% ★, Online Co-Op 15.8%, Sandbox 11.5%, Open World 7.8%, Crafting 7.1%

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 31.7% ★, Base Building 18.2%, Online Co-Op 16.1%, Crafting 8.8%, PvE 5.7%

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 49.8% ★, Base Building 9.7%, Sandbox 8.8%, Online Co-Op 7.8%, Open World 6.5%

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 62.1% ★, Open World 7.7%, Sandbox 7.6%, Online Co-Op 6.4%, Crafting 6.2%