- #1 Sengoku Dynasty
97% matchMostly Positive75% of 7,879 reviews2024
Dev: SuperkamiPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 7.5 hrsMean: 16.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Sengoku Dynasty is the ultimate feudal Japan experience: build villages, grow your community, and shape the open world through combat or economy. The choice is yours alone - or that of up to 4 players in multiplayer co-op!
Why similar: Building 13.1%, Crafting 12.8%, Base Building 11.5%, Medieval 10.8%, Survival 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: It is the closest thematic counterpart, combining first-person medieval survival, village construction, farming, production chains, and optional co-op in feudal Japan.
- #2 Bellwright
96% matchVery Positive80% of 21,714 reviews2024
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 12.8 hrsMean: 41.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Establish and expand your own settlements, liberate the land and assist its villagers, and recruit others to your cause while learning more about a life you had to leave behind. Command your forces, prove your valor through combat, and cement yourself as the hero of your people.
Why similar: Crafting 18.9%, Building 15.2%, Survival 15.1%, Medieval 14.9%, Open World 13.7%
Why You'll Like It: Build and defend a medieval settlement, recruit villagers, assign them work, gather resources, and gradually challenge the forces controlling the region.
- #3 Noble Legacy
95% matchMostly Positive72% of 805 reviews2025
Dev: Ultimus Rex LLC
Windows
Noble Legacy is a medieval colony sim where every villager has a purpose and every decision carries weight. Build a thriving settlement, recruit & manage your people, master a deep economy, and defend your realm as you forge a legacy worthy of the crown. What kind of ruler will you be?
Why similar: Crafting 15.9%, Building 15.6%, Base Building 12.3%, Medieval 12.2%, Survival 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on personally developing a medieval estate into a self-sustaining town through construction, resource management, and resident needs.
- #4 KINGDOMS
96% matchMostly Positive72% of 4,092 reviews2015
Dev: Oreol
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 70%
KINGDOMS is a procedural medieval RPG in a randomly generated open world. The main feature of KINGDOMS is a smart AI system that completely controls NPC behavior. As the player, you can fully interact with this massive world and become any person you want to be.
Why similar: Building 19.5%, Medieval 15.1%, Crafting 14.6%, Open World 13.2%, Survival 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: Its open-ended medieval sandbox emphasizes first-person building, farming, crafting, exploration, and shaping a settlement in a persistent world.
- #5 ASKA
94% matchVery Positive80% of 12,267 reviews2024
Dev: Sand Sailor StudioPub: Thunderful Publishing
Windows
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 29.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
A new Viking age dawns with you at its helm. Forge a thriving colony from nothing in this mythic open-world survival sim. Earn the gods' favor and survive in a land ruled by ancient terrors and unforgiving seasons. Rally unique villagers, expand your settlement and defend your tribe - solo or co-op!
Why similar: Crafting 15.3%, Building 15.2%, Base Building 14.7%, Survival 11.9%, Sandbox 11%
Why You'll Like It: This Viking survival game lets you build a functioning village and assign AI villagers to gather, craft, farm, and survive alongside you and your co-op group.
- #6 The Last Plague: Blight
94% matchVery Positive88% of 1,514 reviews2024
Dev: Original Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 15.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
The Last Plague: Blight is an authentic survival experience rooted in realism and immersion. Endure the hazards of a brutal open world, uncover the origins of a mysterious disease, and become humanity’s final hope of ending the Blight.
Why similar: Crafting 16.1%, Building 14%, Medieval 13.4%, Base Building 13.4%, Survival 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: A grounded and demanding medieval survival experience focused on manual gathering, crafting, shelter building, hunting, and seasonal self-sufficiency.
- #7 Going Medieval
93% matchVery Positive89% of 21,464 reviews2026
Dev: Foxy VoxelPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 32.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.
Why similar: Crafting 20.8%, Base Building 17.3%, Historical 14.4%, Survival 13.6%, Sandbox 12.3%
Why You'll Like It: It trades first-person play for colony management but strongly captures the pleasure of designing a medieval settlement and keeping its inhabitants alive and productive.
- #8 Valheim
90% 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: Building 17.9%, Crafting 16.8%, Survival 13.5%, Open World 12.2%, Base Building 12.1%
Why You'll Like It: Although fantastical, it delivers an excellent co-op loop of survival, hunting, farming, building substantial homes, and expanding into increasingly dangerous biomes.
- #9 Pax Dei
91% matchMixed57% of 11,377 reviews2025
Dev: Mainframe Industries
Windows
Median: 18.5 hrsMean: 76.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Welcome to a vast, social sandbox MMO inspired by the legends of the medieval era. Here, myths are real, ghosts exist, and magic is unquestioned. Join thousands of players as you explore the land, build your home, forge your reputation, and craft your own stories. What world will you make?
Why similar: Crafting 19.9%, Medieval 15%, Base Building 14.8%, Open World 11.8%, Sandbox 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: Its social medieval sandbox design revolves around gathering, crafting, building detailed homesteads, and cooperating with other players in shared worlds.
- #10 Wurm Unlimited
92% matchMostly Positive71% of 3,138 reviews2015
Dev: Code Club ABPub: Plug In Digital
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 18.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Wurm Unlimited is the standalone version of the fantasy sandbox world Wurm Online, the MMORPG where the players are in charge! A pioneer in the ideas of player influence, crafting and adventure, it is now one of the most deep and feature packed true sandbox experiences available.
Why similar: Crafting 18%, Building 16.4%, Open World 12.2%, Sandbox 11.7%, Survival 10%
Why You'll Like It: A deep medieval sandbox centered on terraforming, farming, construction, crafting, animal husbandry, and building player-run villages.
- #11 Myth of Empires
91% matchMixed68% of 17,631 reviews2024
Dev: Angela GamePub: Imperium Interactive Entertainment
Windows
Median: 15.0 hrsMean: 228.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Myth of Empires is a multiplayer war sandbox game featuring a high degree of freedom and multiple civilizations. Players must survive, craft, create, and lead troops in their quest to conquer PVE or PVP territory and build their own empire. Xizhou Civilization Pack is now officially released!
Why similar: Building 21.8%, Base Building 13.1%, Sandbox 11.7%, Open World 11.5%, Survival 11%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a large-scale historical survival sandbox where players build fortresses, tame animals, recruit NPC workers, and manage a growing settlement.
- #12 Manor Lords
89% matchVery Positive84% of 92,096 reviews2024
Dev: Slavic MagicPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 23.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.
Why similar: Building 20.2%, Base Building 15.6%, Historical 13.8%, Survival 12%, Open World 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: Its detailed medieval town building, farming, supply chains, seasons, and regional expansion appeal directly to the settlement-building side of Medieval Dynasty.
- #13 Ranch Simulator: Build, Hunt, Farm
89% matchMostly Positive79% of 48,660 reviews2023
Dev: Toxic DogPub: Excalibur Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Builder. Farmer. Hunter. Trader. Ranching certainly isn’t your average job. Think you have the skills to turn your family’s rundown homestead into the most prosperous ranch in the valley? Then it’s time to head out into the wilderness in this captivating single and multiplayer open-world simulator.
Why similar: Co-op 15.4%, Open World 14.5%, Sandbox 13%, Immersive Sim 12.3%, Multiplayer 12%
Why You'll Like It: A hands-on co-op rural sim about restoring buildings, raising livestock, farming, hunting, and steadily turning a rough property into a prosperous ranch.
- #14 Farmer's Dynasty - Final Harvest Edition
88% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,320 reviews2019
Dev: UMEO StudiosPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Live – Build – Farm: Enjoy a unique mix of farming, constructing and life simulation that takes you to the countryside and holds plenty of challenging gameplay in stock!
Why similar: Agriculture 27.4% ★, Building 17.2%, Crafting 14.5%, Open World 9.7%, Simulation 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the slower-paced homestead fantasy of repairing property, farming, crafting, driving equipment, and building a rural life.
- #15 Farthest Frontier
85% matchVery Positive86% of 25,602 reviews2025
Dev: Crate Entertainment
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 27.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.
Why similar: Building 22.2%, Agriculture 16.5% ★, Medieval 11.8%, Base Building 11.2%, Historical 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: This detailed medieval colony builder excels at seasonal farming, resource chains, housing, disease management, and growing a vulnerable frontier community.
- #16 Lumberjack's Dynasty
87% matchMostly Positive71% of 2,822 reviews2021
Dev: UMEO StudiosPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 15.3 hrs≥1hr: 81%
A unique life simulation where you are a lumberjack building up a business and founding a lasting dynasty for generations to come.
Why similar: Building 27.4%, Crafting 24.4%, Simulation 18.9%, Open World 13.7%, Realistic 5.1%
Why You'll Like It: This open-world working-life sim emphasizes restoring a family business, harvesting resources, building up property, and interacting with a rural community.
- #17 Farmer's Life
86% matchVery Positive89% of 2,791 reviews2023
Dev: FreeMind S.A.Pub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
🌾Unleash the Farmer within. 🚜 Dive into the rustic charm of rural living in "Farmer's Life", where you'll experience the joy and challenges of life on a vibrant farmstead. Plant, grow, and embrace a country living in a vast open world. You choose from diverse mechanics and endless possibilities.
Why similar: Agriculture 20.9% ★, Building 17.2%, Crafting 15.3%, Sandbox 10.3%, Immersive Sim 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: This rural life sim combines farming, animal care, hunting, building, crafting, and survival pressures in a grounded open-world setting.
- #18 Enshrouded
84% 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: Crafting 17.7%, Base Building 16.1%, Open World 15.9%, Survival 14.6%, Building 13.5%
Why You'll Like It: Its fantasy setting differs, but its co-op survival, flexible base construction, crafting progression, farming, and exploration make it a strong mechanical alternative.
- #19 Medieval Engineers
86% matchMixed52% of 7,326 reviews2015
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 16.9 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Medieval Engineers is a sandbox game about engineering, construction and the maintenance of architectural works and mechanical equipment using medieval technology. Players build castles; construct mechanical devices and underground mining. There is an entire planet to explore!
Why similar: Building 23.8%, Medieval 15.5%, Crafting 12.6%, Sandbox 11.8%, Open World 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: It is a medieval-themed first-person sandbox with survival elements and extensive physics-driven castle, village, and machinery construction.
- #20 Robin Hood - Sherwood Builders
84% matchMixed69% of 1,123 reviews2024
Dev: MeanAstronautsPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Robin Hood - Sherwood Builders is an action-adventure RPG with base-building elements, where you take on the role of a classic hero who stands up to the tyranny and injustice that haunts Sherwood. Fight, craft, steal, and of course help the local people grow and prosper.
Why similar: Medieval 15.7%, Building 15.2%, Crafting 15%, Base Building 12.6%, Open World 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: A first-person medieval adventure where gathering, crafting, constructing, upgrading a forest hideout, and supporting a resistance are central to progression.
- #21 Survival: Fountain of Youth
82% matchVery Positive85% of 4,528 reviews2024
Dev: Odinsoft Inc.Pub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Survival: Fountain of Youth is a challenging single-player open-world adventure game set on the Caribbean islands. Survive as a shipwrecked 16th-century explorer, craft tools and shelter, and uncover the secrets of both an ancient civilization and your own fate.
Why similar: Crafting 16.3%, Base Building 13.1%, Building 12.6%, Survival 11.3%, Historical 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: It offers deliberate survival, crafting, hunting, farming, and base-building progression for players who enjoy Medieval Dynasty's self-reliant pace.
- #22 Viking Frontiers
83% matchMixed52% of 553 reviews2025
Dev: BLUM EntertainmentPub: GameHunters
Windows
Survival of your people - that's the only thing that matters. Become the leader of a newly founded Viking settlement and lead it to safety and glory. Gather, build, craft, hunt, raid and follow your Gods to endure hardships of nature and save your clan from violent destruction.
Why similar: Medieval 20%, Open World 16.6%, Sandbox 13.5%, Historical 11.5%, Immersive Sim 9%
Why You'll Like It: It combines survival, building, farming, exploration, and settlement growth in a historical Viking setting with a similarly grounded tone.
- #23 Survivalist: Invisible Strain
81% matchVery Positive87% of 4,565 reviews2025
Dev: BobPub: Ginormocorp Incorporated
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 83%
It's ten years since the infection started. Long-established settlements are collapsing, one by one, for unknown reasons. Survivors are running to the hills to escape, hoping for safety in remote places. As another refugee, you're here to carve out a new life for yourself - by any means necessary.
Why similar: Base Building 25.8%, Crafting 24.9%, Open World 18.9%, Survival 15.8%, RPG 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: Its survival systems become more strategic as you recruit survivors, establish a defensible base, assign jobs, and maintain community morale.
- #24 The Guild 3
82% matchMixed60% of 8,036 reviews2022
Dev: Purple LampPub: THQ Nordic
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%
The Guild 3 is a fascinating trade and life simulation that takes place during the late Middle Ages. Step into the shoes of a citizen, acquire businesses and mansions, produce goods and trade them, start intrigues in politics and society, love, hate, bribe, fight and live through good and bad times!
Why similar: Medieval 26.5%, Building 15.4%, Open World 10.4%, Sandbox 8.9%, Multiplayer 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes building a multigenerational medieval household, acquiring businesses, managing production, and expanding a family’s influence within a living town.
- #25 Colony Survival
81% matchVery Positive92% of 9,016 reviews2017
Dev: Pipliz
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 28.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!
Why similar: Building 19.3%, Base Building 17%, Survival 14.2%, Crafting 11.1%, Sandbox 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: Build a fortified settlement, establish farming and production jobs for colonists, and protect the community from nightly threats in first-person.
- #26 Clanfolk
79% matchVery Positive92% of 4,069 reviews2022
Dev: MinMax Games Ltd.Pub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 18.2 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.
Why similar: Agriculture 19.8% ★, Crafting 18.3%, Building 17.5%, Medieval 14.4%, Sandbox 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: A demanding medieval-era family and settlement simulation focused on building shelter, managing food and labor, and surviving harsh seasonal cycles.
- #27 Dawn of Man
80% matchVery Positive87% of 17,862 reviews2019
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 30.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.
Why similar: Survival 34.8%, Historical 20.4%, Sandbox 15.3%, Open World 11.7%, Simulation 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: Its prehistoric setting still captures the satisfying long-term arc of hunting, farming, managing villagers, and evolving a settlement across generations.
- #28 SAELIG
79% matchVery Positive87% of 1,163 reviews2017
Dev: Atorcoppe Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 60%
SÆLIG is a game that blends together elements of simulation, strategy, RPG, and business management. Centred around the life of you and your family, you must try to survive and bring wealth and prosperity to your household.
Why similar: Building 16.5%, Crafting 15.6%, Medieval 15.3%, Open World 10.9%, Management 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: This medieval life and dynasty simulation lets you build wealth through property, trade, family management, and long-term economic progression in a historical town.
- #29 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
76% 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: Crafting 15.8%, Building 15.6%, Base Building 13%, Survival 11.6%, Co-op 9.8%
- #30 Life is Feudal: Your Own
78% matchMixed66% of 12,071 reviews2015
Dev: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 57.9 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: Crafting 17.5%, Medieval 15.3%, Building 15.1%, Open World 11.9%, Survival 11.2%
- #31 Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
75% matchVery Positive88% of 298,242 reviews2022
Dev: TaleWorlds Entertainment
Windows
Median: 62.4 hrsMean: 156.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
A strategy/action RPG. Create a character, engage in diplomacy, craft, trade and conquer new lands in a vast medieval sandbox. Raise armies to lead into battle and command and fight alongside your troops in massive real-time battles using a deep but intuitive skill-based combat system.
Why similar: Medieval 27.6%, Open World 18.7%, Sandbox 13.7%, Multiplayer 11.1%, Historical 7.6%
- #32 Nightingale
76% 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: Building 16.8%, Crafting 16.8%, Base Building 11.9%, Survival 11.9%, Open World 11%
- #33 Everwind
74% 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 18.8%, Building 18.7%, Co-op 12.5%, Open World 11.5%, Survival 11.5%
- #34 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
78% matchMixed66% of 6,027 reviews2017
Dev: MindillusionPub: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 31.3 hrs≥1hr: 63%
LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.
Why similar: Building 23.9%, Medieval 20.9%, Survival 16.3%, Open World 10.1%, Crafting 9.8%
- #35 Farmer's Dynasty 2
74% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,335 reviews2026
Dev: UMEO StudiosPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 29.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Build your dream farm and secure your family’s future. Cultivate your fields, raise animals, and shape your dynasty across generations in this beautifully crafted life and farming simulation. Start your dynasty today!
Why similar: Agriculture 26% ★, Building 23.7%, Sandbox 13.8%, Immersive Sim 13.5%, First-Person 5.9%
- #36 ICARUS
75% 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: Crafting 16.5%, Building 14%, Base Building 14%, Survival 13.9%, Open World 9.5%
- #37 Subsistence
77% 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: Crafting 21.3%, Survival 16.6%, Building 14.9%, Open World 11.5%, Base Building 10.5%
- #38 Life is Feudal: MMO
77% matchMixed40% of 7,352 reviews2018
Dev: LTG
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 45.6 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Experience the hardcore reality of the Middle Ages. Master survival, engage in deep-rooted RPG elements, navigate a bustling economy, build communities, and employ diplomatic strategy to thrive in Abella's vast expanse.
Why similar: Crafting 14.8%, Building 13.6%, Medieval 13.5%, Base Building 12.6%, Historical 11.3%
- #39 Norland
73% matchVery Positive82% of 10,516 reviews2024
Dev: Long JauntPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.
Why similar: Building 20.2%, Base Building 16%, Historical 13.8%, Survival 11.7%, Open World 11.6%
- #40 Chinese Frontiers
73% matchMostly Positive74% of 544 reviews2025
Dev: SolidGamesPub: Big Cheese Studio
Windows
Become a master builder in medieval China. Construct iconic landmarks brick by brick in first person, while managing villagers, production chains, and a growing settlement at your own pace.
Why similar: Building 16.7%, Crafting 16.6%, Medieval 12.3%, Base Building 12.2%, Historical 9.5%
- #41 Green Hell
73% matchVery Positive85% of 102,938 reviews2019
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.
Why similar: Survival 17.1%, Crafting 16.6%, Multiplayer 12.5%, Open World 10.2%, Base Building 10%
- #42 No One Survived
71% matchMixed64% of 7,844 reviews2025
Dev: Cat Play Studio
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 22.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%
This is a multiplayer cooperative open world construction survival sandbox game, where you and your friends must find supplies and build shelters in this world. You have to keep an eye on your character's needs state at all times, a bad state is likely to lead to death.
Why similar: Crafting 18.8%, Survival 18.8%, Open World 15.5%, Building 14.7%, Multiplayer 10.1%
- #43 Forever Skies
70% matchMostly Positive78% of 9,059 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 30.5 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: Crafting 18%, Building 14.9%, Base Building 14.1%, Co-op 12.8%, Survival 11.3%
- #44 Foundation
69% matchVery Positive87% of 24,287 reviews2025
Dev: Polymorph Games
Windows
Median: 11.1 hrsMean: 27.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
Why similar: Medieval 22.6%, Building 19.5%, Sandbox 12.1%, Base Building 10.3%, Management 9.6%
- #45 Soulmask
68% matchMostly Positive77% of 22,506 reviews2026
Dev: CampFire StudioPub: Qooland Games
Windows
Median: 13.9 hrsMean: 69.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. Possess any of your tribespeople, recruit followers, and build a thriving automated civilization. Survive, expand, and forge your own legacy across a vast ancient open world — together with friends.
Why similar: Crafting 23.6%, Base Building 18%, Survival 14.4%, Open World 13.8%, Co-op 13.8%
- #46 Mirthwood
70% matchMostly Positive70% of 2,381 reviews2024
Dev: Bad Ridge GamesPub: V Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Embark on an enchanting journey and brave ferocious creatures in an immersive medieval fantasy world. Will you settle a new homestead to live a life of farming and trade, or pick up the sword and take up the adventurers' path?
Why similar: Crafting 20.7%, Medieval 15.9%, Sandbox 13%, Immersive Sim 12%, Survival 10.7%
- #47 Kingdom Come: Deliverance
71% matchVery Positive84% of 186,182 reviews2018
Dev: Warhorse Studios
Windows
Median: 13.8 hrsMean: 48.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Story-driven open-world RPG that immerses you in an epic adventure in the Holy Roman Empire. Avenge your parents' death as you battle invading forces, go on game-changing quests, and make influential choices. Explore castles, forests, villages and other realistic settings in medieval Bohemia!
Why similar: Medieval 30.2%, Open World 21.1%, Historical 15.2%, Realistic 9.8%, RPG 9.2%
- #48 Force of Nature
72% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,209 reviews2016
Dev: A.Y.std
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres
Why similar: Crafting 23.4%, Building 14.9%, Survival 14.2%, Open World 10.4%, Sandbox 9.8%
- #49 Eco
71% matchVery Positive81% of 14,085 reviews2018
Dev: Strange Loop Games
Windows
Median: 16.7 hrsMean: 91.6 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: Crafting 18.9%, Agriculture 16.8% ★, Base Building 14.3%, Open World 10.7%, Survival 9.6%
- #50 Kingdoms Reborn
70% matchVery Positive90% of 9,742 reviews2020
Dev: Earthshine
Windows
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 24.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A city builder with simulated citizens, set in a procedurally-generated world map. Grow your kingdom through the eras from a tiny medieval hamlet into a prosperous global empire! Cooperate or compete in real-time with your friends in multiplayer mode.
Why similar: Base Building 19.1%, Building 14.2%, Medieval 13.2%, Co-op 12%, Multiplayer 11.5%
- #51 Valorborn
68% matchMixed61% of 545 reviews2026
Dev: Laps Games
Windows
Dive into a living medieval fantasy sandbox RPG where the world moves with or without you and factions rise and fall. Become a thief, hunter, or sellsword, survive alone or with a party, and shape your story in a fully enterable world where every building, cave, and road hides opportunity or danger.
Why similar: Building 16.7%, Crafting 15.7%, Medieval 12.3%, Open World 11.1%, Survival 10.8%
- #52 Solarpunk™
66% matchVery Positive81% of 4,581 reviews2026
Dev: CyberwavePub: rokaplay
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: Crafting 16.7%, Building 16.1%, Base Building 12.7%, Co-op 11.2%, Open World 9.2%
- #53 Frozenheim
69% matchMixed69% of 3,930 reviews2022
Dev: Paranoid InteractivePub: Untold Tales
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Lead your Viking clan onto unknown shores and carve out a future for your people in the fjords of Frozenheim. Gather resources, expand, and watch your settlement grow to a bustling town that will withstand the harshness of winter and wrath of other clans.
Why similar: Base Building 23.8%, Medieval 21.4%, Co-op 20.3%, Management 13.4%, Multiplayer 12.7%
- #54 The Planet Crafter
66% 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: Building 17%, Crafting 16.5%, Base Building 15%, Co-op 11.4%, Survival 11.1%
- #55 Renown
67% 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: Crafting 16.5%, Building 15.3%, Medieval 11.8%, Survival 10.1%, Base Building 9.7%
- #56 Ale & Tale Tavern
65% matchVery Positive89% of 10,465 reviews2024
Dev: Scienart GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Get ready for a thrilling mix of genres: a cooperative, first-person, open-world fantasy tavern simulator, action, fishing, hunting, exploration, and completing fun and diverse quests. And, of course, COOKING! Play with friends, feed and quench the thirst of the entire world!
Why similar: Building 25.6%, Co-op 18.3%, Management 14.7%, Sandbox 14.1%, Multiplayer 8.7%
- #57 Tavern Master
67% matchVery Positive92% of 13,319 reviews2021
Dev: Untitled Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Tavern Master is all about managing your medieval tavern. You start with a very small room, couple of benches and tables and build your way up to a huge successful tavern with a kitchen, rooms for guests, group of loyal staff and much more!
Why similar: Building 32.9%, Medieval 19.2%, Management 19.2%, Crafting 10.9%, Simulation 7.6%
- #58 Rising World
69% matchVery Positive86% of 6,019 reviews2014
Dev: JIW-Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 21.4 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: Building 19.2%, Crafting 18.5%, Base Building 14.3%, Co-op 11.2%, Survival 11%
- #59 This Land Is My Land
68% matchMixed68% of 4,660 reviews2021
Dev: Game-Labs
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 21.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Experience the frontier as a chief of a Native American tribe and resist the onset of the settlers. Explore the vast world full of hostile humans and animals while defining your narrative through the decisions you make.
Why similar: Crafting 19.9%, Survival 19.3%, Open World 16.7%, Multiplayer 10%, Historical 8%