- #1 Starbound
97% matchVery Positive90% of 123,321 reviews2016
Dev: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.0 hrsMean: 64.5 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 44.9% ★, Sandbox 11.5%, Survival 8.6%, Space 8.3%, Crafting 7.4%
- #2 Edge of Space
96% matchMostly Negative33% of 2,729 reviews2015
Dev: Handyman StudiosPub: Reverb Triple XP
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Suit up as an operative of the Ark Corporation, sent to the farthest reaches of the universe in search of habitable planets to terraform. However, after the long space journey you awaken from cryosleep to find that your ship has gone way off course and is disabled near a strange new world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.5% ★, Sandbox 13.5%, Space 8.1%, Crafting 8.1%, Survival 6.9%
- #3 Signs of Life
96% matchMostly Positive76% of 846 reviews2014
Dev: Sweet Dog Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Signs of Life is a sci-fi survival sandbox platformer with a combination of procedurally generated and hand-crafted content. You'll explore mysterious locations, mine blocks for resources, and meet strange (and some familiar) creatures, some of which don't even want to kill you and eat your corpse.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.1% ★, Sandbox 12.5%, Survival 10.9%, Crafting 9.8%, Space 7.7%
- #4 Unforged
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lisowi Studios
Windows
A dark survival experience where you must explore a mysterious wilderness, gather resources, craft tools, and survive the horrors that emerge after nightfall. The wilderness is unforgiving. The night is worse.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.2% ★, Survival 13%, Crafting 11.1%, Cooking 8.9%, Sandbox 8.1%
- #5 Breathedge
94% matchVery Positive81% of 18,514 reviews2021
Dev: RedRuins SoftworksPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Survive in outer space! Together with your immortal chicken, discover the truth behind your sudden spaceship crash. Craft tools, pilot vehicles, and even control space stations to survive and explore the wreckage.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.2% ★, Space 12.9%, Survival 11.6%, Sandbox 10.3%, Crafting 7.8%
- #6 Solar System Colonist
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Asteroid MinersPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
The conquest of the Solar System has begun – prove yourself as a space colonist! Pilot the spaceship, choose the planet you wish to inhabit and build your new home. However, remember that there are no rules or laws in outer space. Don't underestimate the danger and stay vigilant – enemies are near!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42% ★, Space 12.7%, Survival 11%, Sandbox 7.3%, Sci-fi 7.1%
- #7 No Man's Sky
92% matchVery Positive85% of 421,258 reviews2016
Dev: Hello Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 20.1 hrsMean: 70.9 hrs≥1hr: 94%
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.8% ★, Space 13.6%, Survival 9.3%, Sandbox 7.4%, Open World 6.9%
- #8 Terraria
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,558,339 reviews2011
Dev: Re-Logic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 33.9 hrsMean: 152.6 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.3% ★, Sandbox 13.8%, Survival 11.6%, Crafting 9.2%, Pixel Graphics 4.6%
- #9 Aniverse
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: AniLab
Windows
Chop trees, cook meals, build your home and play music to control the wild! Explore a procedurally generated world and survive your way through art.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47% ★, Sandbox 9.9%, Crafting 9.2%, Open World 6.4%, Pixel Graphics 5.6%
- #10 Fragmented
90% 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 55.4% ★, Survival 15.4%, Crafting 7.6%, Sandbox 7.2%, Open World 5.1%
- #11 Ötzi
89% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Morpho Games
Windows
Ötzi is a Neolithic survival and crafting game. Hunt, fish and forage so you don't starve. Craft tools, clothing and shelter to withstand the cold, wind and rain in a living ecosystem, solo or in co-op for up to four.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.5% ★, Crafting 12.7%, Survival 11.6%, Sandbox 7.4%, Top-Down 5.3%
- #12 Don't Starve
88% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 113,517 reviews2013
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 28.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.2% ★, Survival 22.9%, Crafting 11.4%, Sandbox 9.7%, Exploration 3.2%
- #13 ARCANA
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Thomas RandallPub: bald
Windows
An Open World Survival Crafting game where you harness magic to advance. Discover new crafting recipies, expand your base, and conquer your enemies.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 51.6% ★, Survival 14.3%, Sandbox 10.1%, Crafting 8.6%, Exploration 4.5%
- #14 GRAV
87% matchMixed47% of 6,922 reviews2015
Dev: BitMonster, Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 60%
GRAV is a sand box experience where you explore a multitude of planets, hunt strange alien creatures, build and defend outposts, craft weapons and armor, and attempt to survive against other players in a hostile environment.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.6% ★, Survival 14.5%, Sandbox 9.9%, Crafting 8.3%, Space 7.7%
- #15 Force of Nature
86% 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: Open World Survival Craft 50.9% ★, Survival 14.1%, Crafting 13.4%, Sandbox 9.8%, Open World 5%
- #16 Junk Jack
85% matchMostly Positive78% of 478 reviews2016
Dev: Pixbits
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 21.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Make the world truly yours in Junk Jack, a relaxing sandbox experience focused on building and improving your home. Discover new planets, tame and breed creatures, cook foods, collect animal companions, farm exotic plants, collect fish, grow flowers, play with your friends!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 50% ★, Sandbox 13.9%, Survival 13%, Crafting 11.2%, 2D 4.5%
- #17 Alchemist's Awakening
84% matchMostly Positive73% of 497 reviews2019
Dev: OsarisGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Enter a world full of magic, mystery, beautiful landscapes and dangerous creatures. Build your own destiny, by yourself or with some friends, gather materials, use elements as attacks, recombine them into building blocks... and use your Alchemist's power to give life to any shape you built.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 53.2% ★, Crafting 13.6%, Sandbox 13.4%, Survival 12%, Open World 6.1%
- #18 The Long Dark
83% matchVery Positive89% of 123,946 reviews2017
Dev: Hinterland Studio Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 47.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies -- only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 57.6% ★, Survival 18.6%, Crafting 6.2%, Open World 5.9%, Sandbox 5.3%
- #19 Planet Explorers
84% matchMixed62% of 6,818 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 50.6% ★, Sandbox 14.7%, Survival 10.1%, Crafting 9.1%, Open World 6.7%
- #20 One More World
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cozy Orchards
Windows
At One More World, Inc, our mission is to be the ultimate safeguard for planets in need. With our extraordinary team strategically scattered across the universe, we can swiftly confront and conquer any challenges that threaten planetary harmony. Are you ready to join the team?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.6% ★, Survival 11.1%, Sandbox 10.7%, Space 10.7%, Crafting 8.5%
- #21 The Forest
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 683,269 reviews2018
Dev: Endnight Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 37.4 hrs≥1hr: 93%
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 55.5% ★, Survival 16.5%, Crafting 8.6%, Horror 5.9%, Open World 5.8%
- #22 Crea
82% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,408 reviews2016
Dev: Siege Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Progress with every slain monster, learn over 80 skills through talents, craft hundreds of items, and explore vast procedurally-generated worlds in this ever-expanding sandbox RPG!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 52.8% ★, Sandbox 14.9%, Crafting 11.9%, Survival 9.6%, 2D 3.8%
- #23 Rocksowers
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: bemad
Windows · Linux
Co-op Survival Sandbox meets Bullet Hell. Explore the corrupted surface on a moving base, scavenge for resources and craft GAME-BREAKING weapons using many unique modules to defeat ever-stronger foes. Fight to reclaim what The Bloom took from humanity!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48% ★, Survival 13.2%, Sandbox 13.1%, Crafting 9.2%, Pixel Graphics 5%
- #24 Floating in Space
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Wingfinity Games
Windows
A cozy open-world survival game, a relaxing experience in zero gravity. Explore mysterious places, craft, build and collect to reach a colony of your tribe. Enjoy the silence and beauty of the universe. Unravel mysterious puzzles along the way, that could even lead to an entirely different outcome.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40% ★, Space 11.8%, Survival 11.1%, Crafting 9.5%, Top-Down 7%
- #25 Away To The Stars
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lucid Play
Windows · Mac · Linux
Explore over 1 million planets in an endless universe. Fight in brutal ground combat, from your ship, or aboard your freighter. Hack, loot, steal, upgrade, craft, build, and deceive your way to power. Uncover your past and help humanity find a new home. If No Man’s Sky and Starbound had a child.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.8% ★, Survival 10.9%, Sandbox 10.5%, Space 9.9%, Top-Down 6.7%
- #26 Wispera
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lunarlane
Windows
Wispera is a procedurally generated, open-world sandbox survival game. Craft weapons to battle monsters at night, or expand your base and create a safe haven. If you prefer to remain mobile, travel away and explore new places. Whether you’re a monster hunter or a builder, the choice is yours!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.3% ★, Survival 12.6%, Sandbox 11.8%, Crafting 11.4%, Exploration 5.7%
- #27 Gravehollow
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Silo Snowdash
Windows
Gravehollow is a survival RPG set in a restless world on the cusp of death. Hunt, scavenge, craft, build, and fight as friends and foes alike clash and pursue their own ends. Uncover why death refuses to release you, and what horrors your survival is awakening.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.8% ★, Survival 12.5%, Crafting 11.1%, Sandbox 10.5%, Top-Down 7%
- #28 Blockscape
79% matchMixed46% of 899 reviews2014
Dev: ioneo
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 48%
The ultimate block building game. Start with nothing and build an empire. Smooth voxel worlds, settlers, crafting, vehicles, and Steam multiplayer. Survival or Just Build — every item in your inventory is also a building block.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 62% ★, Sandbox 13.6%, Survival 8.9%, Crafting 8.4%, Open World 4.6%
- #29 Dig or Die
77% matchVery Positive90% of 4,291 reviews2018
Dev: Gaddy Games
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Crash land on a hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it. But be warned... this planet is merciless. Build strong, and smart; else physics may flood or destroy your only hopes of survival.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.6% ★, Survival 15.4%, Sandbox 13.4%, Crafting 11.8%, Open World 4.3%
- #30 Drift: Space Survival
76% matchMostly Positive70% of 77 reviews2023
Dev: KAR Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
You were deep in uncharted space on a research mission. Disaster struck. Together with your friends, explore a mysterious asteroid field and mine whatever resources possible to build what you need to survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.1% ★, Survival 12.8%, Space 12.5%, Crafting 10.2%, Sandbox 7.8%
- #31 Soul Monsters: Gael's Survival
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Industrial Miracle
Windows
You arrive on an unforgiving plain with nothing. Make fire, find food, survive the night. The seasons turn and legends come for you. Only the one who endures earns a name — Gael, priestess of this land.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.9% ★, Survival 17%, Top-Down 10.3%, Crafting 9.6%, Pixel Graphics 6.1%
- #32 Cosmorists
74% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2024
Dev: Stellar Roots
Windows
You find yourself completely alone on a different yet very familiar looking planet. Explore the planet, craft tools, fight enemies, and build bases! Do science to learn new technologies that will allow interplanetary travel and better tools at your disposal!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.1% ★, Survival 11.7%, Sandbox 11.4%, Crafting 10.3%, Space 6.2%
- #33 Crashlands
75% matchVery Positive90% of 6,773 reviews2016
Dev: Butterscotch Shenanigans
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 13.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Fight and tame alien beasts, craft resources into menacing weaponry, befriend the outlandish locals, and go toe-to-chin with a world-domineering maniac.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40% ★, Survival 11.5%, Crafting 10.5%, Sandbox 9.9%, Top-Down 7%
- #34 Cube Life: Island Survival
76% matchMixed69% of 177 reviews2018
Dev: Cypronia
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Cube Life: Island Survival is an open-world, block building, survival game, taking place on a beautiful remote island. Imagine being shipwrecked and stranded left for dead, with only your will to survive. You must explore, build, craft, and fight your way to stay alive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 56.9% ★, Sandbox 10.7%, Survival 10.6%, Crafting 8.9%, Open World 5.2%
- #35 Moon Colony Crafter
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: InfinityCoders
Windows
Play as an astronaut on our moon in the future. Your task is to prepare the moon for future colonies by terraforming. Collect resources, explore procedurally generated caves, build buildings and create a second world for you and our earth.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.2% ★, Survival 12.2%, Crafting 9.8%, Space 9.3%, Sandbox 9.2%
- #36 Forager
73% matchVery Positive89% of 44,137 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 50.5% ★, Survival 13.9%, Crafting 12.6%, Sandbox 8%, Pixel Graphics 6.1%
- #37 ASTRONEER
73% matchVery Positive92% of 139,497 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.7 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 42.4% ★, Space 12.9%, Survival 12.8%, Sandbox 8.9%, Crafting 7.3%
- #38 XenoHaven
72% matchVery Positive82% of 73 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 35.3% ★, Survival 12.7%, Sandbox 12.5%, Crafting 10.2%, Space 7.6%
- #39 Necesse
69% matchVery Positive93% of 29,166 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 54.2% ★, Survival 10%, Sandbox 9.9%, Crafting 9%, Pixel Graphics 5.1%
- #40 Stranded in Paradise
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hard Shark Games
Windows
Stranded on a breathtaking Caribbean island, your survival starts with nothing. Gather resources, build your shelter, craft what you need, cook your food, and turn a wild paradise into your home.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 52.1% ★, Survival 14.2%, Crafting 12.1%, Sandbox 6.8%, Open World 6.4%
- #41 Surviving Skeleton Island
70% matchMostly Positive76% of 21 reviews2025
Dev: Bert Games
Windows
Surviving Skeleton Island is an open world survival crafting RPG set in a primitive 3D low poly island world of 12 unique biomes. Explore, hunt, craft, build, farm and fish to survive, while quests and clues unveil the secrets of the island, and your past. Forge your destiny and plot your escape!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.7% ★, Survival 11.6%, Crafting 10.9%, Sandbox 10.5%, Cooking 9.6%
- #42 Nimoyd - Survival Sandbox
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Nudge Nudge Games
Windows
You’ve crash-landed on Earth in 2702. Craft, dig, fight through a vast and colorful post-apocalyptic open world full of wonder, generated cities, dungeons, aliens, mechs, and an underworld. Find love. Or beat the ultimate Underlord!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.7% ★, Survival 13.2%, Sandbox 12.1%, Crafting 11%, Open World 5.8%
- #43 Subterrain
72% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,399 reviews2016
Dev: Pixellore Inc
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Uncompromising Sci-Fi survival on Mars! Manage the entire colony single-handed! Craft, Research, Explore and Fight against evolving mutants. Vast open world and randomly generated levels to explore! Can you survive long enough to escape the horror?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32% ★, Survival 18.8%, Crafting 12.5%, Top-Down 12.2%, Sci-fi 6.7%
- #44 2D?!
71% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2024
Dev: Lycke04
Windows
Excavate, combat, discover, construct! Every challenge can be conquered in this thrilling adventure game. Immerse yourself in endless creativity as you explore through uncharted territories , engage in epic battles and shape thw world with your own hands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.2% ★, Survival 12.8%, Sandbox 12.6%, Crafting 10%, Exploration 4.9%
- #45 Vagabond
70% matchMostly Positive77% of 100 reviews2023
Dev: Pierre Vigier
Windows · Linux
Explore procedurally generated living worlds in this 2D sandbox RPG. Meet hundreds of characters in cities, complete quests, craft powerful items, buy and furnish your home or fight monsters in dungeons.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.3% ★, Sandbox 12.3%, Crafting 9.1%, Survival 6.5%, Open World 6.1%
- #46 Realms of Magic
70% matchVery Positive81% of 1,005 reviews2022
Dev: Polished Games
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Embark on a journey through the Old Kingdom in Realms of Magic - a sandbox RPG where you customize your character, choose your path, and immerse yourself in the fantasy world as a knight, wizard, miner, lumberjack, farmer, and more. After all, this is YOUR adventure.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 61.7% ★, Sandbox 10.8%, Survival 6.4%, Open World 5.5%, Crafting 5.4%
- #47 Stranded Deep
69% matchMostly Positive74% of 47,919 reviews2022
Dev: Beam Team GamesPub: Beam Team Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 20.9 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Take the role of a plane crash survivor stranded somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Come face to face with some of the most life threatening scenarios that will result in a different experience each time you play. Scavenge. Discover. Survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 58.1% ★, Survival 16.9%, Crafting 10.4%, Open World 5.5%, Sandbox 4.8%
- #48 Feel The Snow
69% matchVery Positive87% of 3,062 reviews2019
Dev: Owlet
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Choose one of the characters and start your journey. The game has many interesting things in store: building, crafting, puzzles, bosses, mystery, laughs, quests etc.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.7% ★, Survival 13.8%, Crafting 10.5%, Sandbox 8.9%, Pixel Graphics 6%
- #49 Project Canopy
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SocksandGoats Studios
Windows · Mac
Harvest, Build, Craft and Explore the different biomes among massive trees, plants, and hostile creatures to survive and unlock the mysteries of an alien jungle in a first person sci-fi survival adventure.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.9% ★, Survival 13.5%, Crafting 10.7%, Sandbox 10.1%, Exploration 6.5%
- #50 Mythvale
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: adevstudio
Windows
Tame, fight, explore and build! Survive a mysterious fantasy world filled with mythical creatures, dangerous foes and endless adventures!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 50.5% ★, Sandbox 13.3%, Survival 13.2%, Crafting 9.3%, Exploration 4.3%
- #51 Don't Starve Together
68% matchVery Positive95% of 543,644 reviews2016
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 64.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 71.1% ★, Survival 21.9%, Crafting 2.5%, Sandbox 1.9%, Open World 1.5%
- #52 Outer Space Survival
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Star Quest StudiosPub: Tarek Laun Industries
Windows · Mac · Linux
In Outer Space, you play either alone or with others as a stranded astronaut who needs to repair his spaceship in order to escape from this planet. You can explore space, complete missions, or settle on a planet.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42% ★, Survival 12.1%, Space 11.7%, Sandbox 9.3%, Crafting 7.4%
- #53 Infinilands
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FluffyCreature
Windows · Mac · Linux
Infinilands is a pixel art sandbox survival game that lets you explore and modify a procedurally generated world full of unique plants, creatures and ruins. You can build houses and fight monsters with your friends in online/split-screen co-op. This game also supports dedicated server.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.1% ★, Sandbox 12.8%, Crafting 12.3%, Survival 11.7%, Pixel Graphics 5.8%
- #54 Gombo
66% matchMostly Positive73% of 51 reviews2026
Dev: Martin CochetPub: FDG Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Explore, craft, fight, build and survive in a mysterious cartoon world, haunted by a mysterious infection! Take control of Gombo, an enchanted creature and dive into an adventure full of magic. Play alone or in online co-op with a friend. Can you uncover the dark secrets of this colorful realm?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.1% ★, Survival 12.1%, Crafting 11.4%, Sandbox 10.2%, Top-Down 7.9%
- #55 Cubits
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mango Nebula Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Take control of a talkative little Cubit, who knows he lives inside a game, and do your best to ensure both of you survive in this harsh, unforgiving world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.3% ★, Survival 13.5%, Crafting 12.2%, Sandbox 11%, Top-Down 6.5%
- #56 Tinkerlands
65% matchVery Positive86% of 4,122 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.4 hrsMean: 14.5 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 45% ★, Survival 12.5%, Sandbox 12.1%, Crafting 9.7%, Open World 5.7%