- #1 Forestia
97% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Golden Pick Games
Windows
Armed with only a small axe, explore a forest consumed by darkness. Gather resources, craft tools, and defend the sacred altar from nightly monster assaults. Restore the altar and bring life back to the land in this 2D survival action fantasy game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.1% ★, City Builder 11.9%, Farming Sim 10%, Crafting 9.7%, Base Building 8.2%
- #2 Middle Ages: Peasants & Knights
96% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Neronian Studios
Windows
Survive in an open world inspired by 14th century Europe. Immerse yourself in crafting based on real historical methods and experience true inventory system and realistic resource management. Take control of your destiny and embrace a world full of possibilities.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.5% ★, Medieval 9.9%, Crafting 8.4%, Building 8.4%, Survival 8.4%
- #3 Claycrafter
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: scoz
Windows
Gather resources, build structures, and craft increasingly wondrous items to unlock the secrets of a mysterious world made entirely out of clay.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.7% ★, Crafting 11.9%, Farming Sim 10.2%, Resource Management 9.1%, Sandbox 8.1%
- #4 World Turned Stone
95% matchNo user reviews2028
Dev: Tbjbu2 (GAME ON HOLD)
Windows
Civilization has turned STONE. Revive the people, terraform the world, defend against the apocalypse, and rebuild civilization from the stone age to advanced technology! Prologue link below.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.4% ★, Colony Sim 16.6%, City Builder 10.7%, Base Building 10.7%, Crafting 10.2%
- #5 World Turned Stone: Apocalypse
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tbjbu2 (GAME ON HOLD)
Windows
Civilization has turned STONE. Revive the people, terraform the world, defend against the apocalypse, and rebuild civilization from the stone age to advanced technology! The first stage of terraforming the world from the beginning of the apocalypse. Provides a discount for the full game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.5% ★, Colony Sim 16.9%, City Builder 11.1%, Base Building 10.8%, Crafting 10.3%
- #6 Medieval Builders: Strongholds & Castles
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Madnetic Games
Windows
Craft, hunt, and survive in fantasy medieval world. Build your village, manage and defend castles and whole kingdoms. Become a local lord and a builder. Strongholds & Castles are waiting for you to manage them - alone or with your friends!
Why similar: City Builder 12.3%, Building 10%, Medieval 10%, Crafting 9.5%, Base Building 9.1%
- #7 Chinese Frontiers
93% matchMostly Positive73% of 516 reviews2025
Dev: SolidGamesPub: Big Cheese Studio
Windows
Plan, build, and unwind in medieval China. Lead villagers, fine-tune production, and craft iconic Chinese landmarks brick by brick. Roam passes, deserts, and river valleys; farm, cook, and decorate. Master new crafts, earn imperial favor, and turn smart design into lasting legacy.
Why similar: Farming Sim 12.1%, Crafting 10.8%, City Builder 9.9%, Medieval 9.7%, Building 9.3%
- #8 Surviving Ceres
92% matchVery Positive87% of 138 reviews2025
Dev: Ryan SaundersPub: One Man Media
Windows
Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building. Export manufactured goods to earn funding, manage colonists, defend against hostile aliens, and work towards terraforming Ceres from a frozen ball of ice to a tropical paradise.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.3%, Farming Sim 12.2%, Crafting 11.4%, Building 10.6%, Base Building 10.6%
- #9 PoliPlanet
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: -
Windows
Set on small procedurally generated planets, PoliPlanet is a unique first-person city building game. Discover new planets, gather resources, craft, explore, and build.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 14.6% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Crafting 10.3%, Colony Sim 9.8%, Building 9%
- #10 Forager
91% matchVery Positive90% of 43,424 reviews2019
Dev: HopFrogPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 22.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.2% ★, Crafting 12%, Farming Sim 11.3%, Survival 10.2%, Base Building 7.1%
- #11 Bromeliad
90% matchMixed61% of 28 reviews2021
Dev: Gorka Games Studios
Windows
In Bromeliad you are stranded on a pacific island where you are a Human-Bear. You will have to survive, gathering materials to build tools and bases. You will need to hunt for food, explore, tame animals, then, at night strange creatures will appear. Survive and find an element to return to normal.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.9% ★, Crafting 12.1%, Survival 9.9%, Building 9.6%, Base Building 9.4%
- #12 Chocolate Factory
89% matchMixed56% of 145 reviews2024
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
Build your dream Chocolate Factory among candy cane forests and gumdrop hills to produce the tastiest sweets. A delicious first-person factory automation game with a little exploration and combat. Confectionary conveyor belt heaven awaits!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.2% ★, Base Building 11.4%, Crafting 10.6%, City Builder 10.1%, Building 8.9%
- #13 ZIC: Survival
89% matchMostly Positive70% of 50 reviews2019
Dev: Megame LLC
Windows
ZIC: Survival is a survival shooter where you feel The Zombie Apocalypse & become The Undead Hunter!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 18.2% ★, Colony Sim 12.6%, City Builder 9.5%, Farming Sim 9%, Base Building 7.9%
- #14 Restart
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 49Wares
Windows
A scientist with great knowledge about humanity ends up back in the Stone Age and has to build a civilization and develop it into the modern age.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.6% ★, Colony Sim 15.7%, City Builder 11.7%, Crafting 9.7%, Building 9%
- #15 Chocolate Factory: Prologue
86% matchMostly Positive72% of 201 reviews2024
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
Build your dream Chocolate Factory among candy cane forests and gumdrop hills to produce the tastiest sweets. A delicious first-person factory automation game with a little exploration and combat. Confectionary conveyor belt heaven awaits! The free prologue for the full game!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.4% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Crafting 10.7%, City Builder 10.6%, Building 8.9%
- #16 Pathless Woods
84% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,102 reviews2024
Dev: AniYa Games Studio
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Embark on a cozy open-world survival journey inspired by ancient China's heritage. Gather resources, cultivate crops, build your dream home, and defend it from marauders. Team up with friends to explore and uncover a world where adventure meets serenity.
Why similar: Farming Sim 14.4%, City Builder 13%, Crafting 11.3%, Base Building 10.4%, Building 9.4%
- #17 First Feudal
85% matchMostly Positive76% of 634 reviews2021
Dev: Harpoon Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Become a real medieval feudal lord: start with a small village and build it up into an enormous impenetrable castle. You will have to repel enemy raids: hide behind thick walls, lure your enemies into strategically placed traps, and even lead your loyal peasants into battle.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21%, City Builder 12.3%, Base Building 11.6%, Building 9.9%, Crafting 9.6%
- #18 Primal Man Simulator
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: RD Games
Windows
Primal Man Simulator is a complex survival simulator where the player becomes one of the evolutionary precursors of modern homo sapiens, trying to live through another day in an unwelcoming forests of Europe.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.9% ★, Crafting 12.5%, Survival 11%, Open World 9.8%, Base Building 8.5%
- #19 Terra Taker
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dream Craft
Windows
Terra Taker is an open-world survival crafting game where you build megastructures to terraform a fantasy planet. Gather resources, build automated bases, and transform floating islands, tornadoes, snowfields, lava zones, and lightning-scorched lands into a new paradise for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.9% ★, Colony Sim 16.6%, Base Building 11.4%, Crafting 10.5%, Survival 8.1%
- #20 Oxygen
82% matchMostly Positive72% of 879 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Oxygen is a survival city builder. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.7%, City Builder 14.8%, Base Building 11.8%, Building 8.5%, Survival 8.4%
- #21 Odd Woods
82% matchMostly Positive73% of 44 reviews2022
Dev: Matt
Windows
Odd Woods is a survival crafting game in a forest environment. Build your base during the day to withstand the attacks of horror creatures at night. Explore, farm and hunt wildlife to survive another day.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.2% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Building 10.6%, Crafting 10.5%, Survival 9.7%
- #22 SpiritBorn
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Highforge Studios
Windows
An open-world survival crafting RPG set among floating islands. Gather resources, craft powerful tools, unlock spirit abilities to soar between skybound realms and reclaim your lost godhood.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.6% ★, Crafting 11.4%, Survival 10.3%, Building 10%, Base Building 9.8%
- #23 Settletopia
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pēteris Pakalns
Windows · Linux
Grow a small colony into a vast, world-spanning civilization. Play solo or with friends as you gather resources, build cities, manage colonist needs, explore uncharted lands, establish logistics, raise armies, forge alliances, and wage wars—all in a living world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.2%, City Builder 14.5%, Base Building 12.4%, Building 9.1%, Sandbox 7.8%
- #24 As One We Survive
80% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Revelation Games LLC
Windows
Survive in a post-apocalyptic world. Form a community, scavenge resources, build facilities, and defend yourself against a lawless world while joining a father's desperate journey to save his sick daughter.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.5% ★, Colony Sim 20.3%, Survival 10.1%, Open World 9.1%, Crafting 8%
- #25 Ship Builder
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: President Studio
Windows
Play with up to three companions and become the best shipwrights on this side of the globe! Explore and gather materials needed to build legendary ships! Soon they will call you a legend as well.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.3% ★, Crafting 10.6%, Building 10.1%, Base Building 9.1%, Survival 8.6%
- #26 AstroPlanet
78% matchMixed67% of 43 reviews2025
Dev: VIVA
Windows
AstroPlanet is a sandbox game where you find yourself in the role of an astronaut whose ship has crashed on a planet with an inhospitable atmosphere. Your task is not only to survive, but also to turn this world into a habitable place.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.7% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 12.7%, Sandbox 10.6%, Building 9.5%
- #27 Force of Nature
79% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,202 reviews2016
Dev: A.Y.std
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.3% ★, Crafting 13.8%, Survival 11.1%, Building 8.4%, Open World 7.9%
- #28 Of Life and Land
76% matchVery Positive86% of 356 reviews2025
Dev: KerzovenPub: Metaroot
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Of Life and Land is a charming settlement-building strategy game paired with a rich simulation experience. Every animal and plant strives to find its place in nature while you lead your villagers to their future. Expand to different regions and trade with local factions to gain needed resources.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17%, City Builder 13%, Farming Sim 10.2%, Base Building 10.1%, Building 8%
- #29 Worlds Explorers
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Pioneers Games
Windows · Linux
Explore alien planets with carefully designed ecosystems, weather, resources, dangers and unique phenomena. Hunt animals for food and collect resources to craft equipment and repair devices on your ship. Escape each unique planet and unlock crew members and new ships.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.4% ★, Colony Sim 14.6%, Crafting 10.6%, Survival 9.2%, Base Building 7.5%
- #30 Vilset
77% matchMostly Negative37% of 70 reviews2021
Dev: Another Reality
Windows
Vilset is a strategic simulator based on the principle of survival of people, who turned out to be beyond the limits of their civilization.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8%, Base Building 12.7%, Building 12.3%, Crafting 10.9%, Survival 9.4%
- #31 Survival: Fountain of Youth
75% matchVery Positive86% of 4,339 reviews2024
Dev: Odinsoft Inc.Pub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 18.7 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: Open World Survival Craft 26.6% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Crafting 9.9%, Survival 9.1%, Building 7.4%
- #32 Kingdoms and Castles
76% matchVery Positive94% of 31,097 reviews2017
Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23%, City Builder 19.4%, Medieval 9.8%, Resource Management 8.6%, Building 8.1%
- #33 Novus Inceptio
78% matchMixed52% of 1,302 reviews2015
Dev: McMagic Productions
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Warning: This is an Early Access game! Welcome to an enigmatic world, where a new gaming experience in exploring, building and surviving is waiting just for you. Experience a sandbox world with survival elements, and join us in creating a full version of the game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.1% ★, Crafting 10.5%, Base Building 10.3%, Survival 9.4%, Building 8.9%
- #34 Oceaneers
74% matchVery Positive89% of 80 reviews2026
Dev: Barrel Smash Studios
Windows
A sci-fi survival-crafting colony sim set in a flooded world of floating islands. Build a colony, craft gear, design rafts, fend off sharks, manage your survivors, and explore island bunkers to uncover lost Float-Tech from an old-world corporation.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.3% ★, Colony Sim 20.6%, Crafting 10.6%, Base Building 9.9%, Building 9.6%
- #35 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
75% matchMixed70% of 364 reviews2020
Dev: Xigma Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Build, survive, explore. Design your city, manage resource chains and workers, Send ships on expedition, trade with cities, discover mysterious dungeons and uncover secrets of ancients.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.7%, City Builder 13.2%, Base Building 11.5%, Survival 11.1%, Crafting 9.2%
- #36 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
73% matchVery Positive82% of 9,989 reviews2024
Dev: Merge GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 26.7% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Crafting 9.7%, Survival 9.4%, Building 9.2%
- #37 Woodland Rebels
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Beak Berry Games
Windows · Mac
Survive an untamed world where humans, animal villagers and wild animals all coexist, but not in harmony. Craft, farm, cook, and assign roles to villagers. Explore various biomes and muster an animal rebellion to fight back against human invaders.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.9% ★, Colony Sim 13%, Crafting 10.5%, Base Building 8.2%, Survival 8%
- #38 XenoHaven
72% matchVery Positive86% of 69 reviews2025
Dev: Miniverse GamePub: OKJOY
Windows
In XenoHaven, gather resources to build shelters, enslave alien beasts to work for you, and run restaurants and shops. Delve into dark underground dungeons, defeat swarming insectoids and mighty bosses, and craft powerful gear to conquer the alien world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.6% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Open World 10.3%, Crafting 10.3%, Survival 9.8%
- #39 Eldercraft: Mountaineers
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Derivative Synergistics
Windows
Eldercraft: Mountaineers is an RPG about crafting, surviving and exploring. Forge your routes and pathways up the mountain to reach valuable treasures. These will help you forge more pathways that will lead you to the summit.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.1% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Survival 10.1%, Building 9.9%, Crafting 9.8%
- #40 Life is Feudal: Your Own
74% matchMixed66% of 12,061 reviews2015
Dev: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 58.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Hardcore and realistic; LiF is a Medieval multiplayer sandbox RPG, with free terraforming, a rich crafting system and preset and modular building construction. With engaging survival aspects, no target physics-based combat and a unique formation system - along with numerous other features - LiF is not for the faint of heart!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.8% ★, Medieval 12.3%, Crafting 11.4%, Open World 9.9%, Survival 9.7%
- #41 Alight: Lunar Survival
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tbjbu2 Originals
Windows
[GAME CANCELLED] Stranded in the darkness, survive and build a base scattered across the lunar surface to generate electricity and alight the moon as you upgrade your equipment, struggle for oxygen, and escape fearsome monsters. Singleplayer only, you will survive, gather, craft, build, and explore.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.5% ★, City Builder 14.2%, Base Building 11.5%, Crafting 10.3%, Survival 8.5%
- #42 Crushed
72% matchMixed54% of 311 reviews2020
Dev: NipoBoxPub: NipoBox Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Crushed — is an Singleplayer and Multiplayer First-Person Survival Sandbox in an Open World! Challenge the wild and be ready to survive in harsh conditions. Explore the world, get resources, cook food, build a house, farm, hunt, and enjoy nature.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31% ★, Survival 9.7%, Crafting 9.6%, Base Building 9.3%, Open World 8.9%
- #43 Founders' Fortune
71% matchVery Positive80% of 2,181 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 56%
A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.5%, City Builder 15.6%, Base Building 13.1%, Building 9.4%, Survival 6.7%
- #44 Stoneheart
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Longhouse Games
Windows
Adventure awaits in this RPG, with action, survival, crafting and base-building! Arriving in new lands, far from known civilization and with only a mysterious pendant, you will determine your own path. Will you survive the epic quest for the Stoneheart?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.6% ★, Farming Sim 15.9%, Crafting 9.7%, Base Building 9.1%, Open World 9.1%
- #45 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,680 reviews2021
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Experience the first stages of terraforming an entire planet in this space survival open world terraforming crafting game prologue. Explore, survive, collect, build your base then create oxygen, heat and pressure to make an hostile planet livable for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.7% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 10.6%, Survival 10.6%, Open World 8.6%
- #46 Blacksmith Master
68% matchVery Positive84% of 2,580 reviews2025
Dev: Untitled StudioPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.2%, City Builder 13.4%, Base Building 10.6%, Building 9.3%, Medieval 9.1%
- #47 Wurm Unlimited
71% matchMostly Positive71% of 3,133 reviews2015
Dev: Code Club ABPub: Plug In Digital
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 18.9 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: Open World Survival Craft 32.9% ★, Crafting 11.7%, Sandbox 10.3%, Building 10.2%, Open World 10.2%
- #48 Soulmask
67% matchMostly Positive77% of 21,464 reviews2026
Dev: CampFire StudioPub: Qooland Games
Windows
Median: 13.8 hrsMean: 68.1 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: Open World Survival Craft 21.8% ★, Colony Sim 17.3%, Base Building 10%, Building 8.5%, Crafting 7.9%
- #49 Premortal VR
69% matchPositive86% of 22 reviews2023
Dev: Voigon Ltd.
Windows
Premortal VR is a medieval VR-only game. Explore and survive the procedurally-generated wilderness. Gather resources and craft gear. Build formidable bases. Overcome all boss trials to ascend!
Why similar: Base Building 13%, Sandbox 10.8%, Medieval 10.4%, Building 10.3%, Open World 9.8%
- #50 Settlements Rising
67% matchVery Positive81% of 426 reviews2025
Dev: The Catalyst Crew
Windows
Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game. It offers a lively colony experience with simulated villagers, dozens of professions and resources, natural disasters, and raids, while providing full control over the colony through trade, production chains and datas.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.2%, City Builder 17.8%, Building 9.1%, Medieval 9.1%, Base Building 9%
- #51 Far North Survival
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FrogVille Games
Windows
FAR NORTH SURVIVAL is an open-world survival game set in the unique setting of a vast ice-bound area beyond the Arctic Circle.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.4% ★, Building 12.1%, Crafting 11.1%, Survival 10.8%, Open World 9.7%
- #52 Starsand
69% matchMixed66% of 1,241 reviews2022
Dev: Tunnel Vision StudioPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Starsand is a mystic survival game set among the dunes of an arcane desert. An open-world full of danger, vast environments and mysterious happenings await you! Explore, hunt, craft, build – and SURVIVE.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.5% ★, Base Building 10.3%, Crafting 9.7%, Survival 8.6%, Open World 8%
- #53 Renown
67% matchMixed59% of 1,558 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 25.3% ★, Crafting 10.8%, Building 9.6%, Medieval 9.5%, Base Building 9.1%
- #54 Reign Of Kings
70% matchMixed57% of 14,891 reviews2015
Dev: Code}{atch
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 47.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Struggle to survive in a harsh medieval world. Hunt wildlife, mine resources, build structures, and craft weapons and armor in order to protect yourself. You may form a guild, bring war to all opposition, and try to seize the throne and become king!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.3% ★, Crafting 11.5%, Medieval 11.2%, Survival 11%, Building 10%
- #55 Pawnholm
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hugimugi
Windows · Linux
Island survival RTS, with mysteries behind every corner. Assign your pawns to gather, craft, fight, study, and do other errands for your kingdom. Every randomly generated island holds unique secrets to be uncovered. As the Duke of Pawnholm, will you lead your pawns to prosperity ...or to calamity?
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.1%, Open World Survival Craft 17% ★, City Builder 15%, Base Building 11.6%, Sandbox 9.2%
- #56 Sengoku Dynasty
67% matchMostly Positive75% of 7,526 reviews2024
Dev: SuperkamiPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 7.5 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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: City Builder 15.2%, Colony Sim 14.5%, Base Building 11.2%, Medieval 9.1%, Crafting 8.8%
- #57 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
70% matchMixed66% of 5,998 reviews2017
Dev: MindillusionPub: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 30.7 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: Colony Sim 31.3%, City Builder 24.1%, Resource Management 8.6%, Medieval 8.2%, Building 7.3%