Games Like Muck

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: Survival 23.5%, Crafting 16%, Building 14.4%, Open World 13.3%, Multiplayer 12.9%

Why You'll Like It: Like Muck, it drops you into a procedural world where chopping trees, crafting gear, building bases, and beating escalating bosses are the core loop, especially in co-op.

Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.

Why similar: Survival 19.1%, Crafting 16.6%, Building 13.8%, Base Building 12.5%, Open World 12%

Why You'll Like It: The mix of mining, base building, cooperative survival, and steadily unlocking stronger gear to tackle big bosses mirrors Muck's addictive escalation.

A vibrant blend of survival and action RPG for 1-10 players! Craft legendary items, grow your home base and embark on an epic journey through procedural realms to face towering creatures hel-bent on unleashing Ragnarök. Valhalla can wait, Einherjar!

Why similar: Survival 33.7%, Base Building 24.7%, Multiplayer 23.3%, Exploration 9%, Colorful 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its run-based co-op structure, frantic resource gathering, base defense, and looming giant and boss threats capture Muck's survival-meets-roguelite tempo.

Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

Why similar: Survival 26.3%, Crafting 19.8%, Building 15.9%, Multiplayer 15.9%, Open World 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: Despite being 2D, its mix of exploration, base building, crafting, multiplayer, and boss-gated gear progression lines up extremely well with Muck.

The world of Elysia needs YOU! Join this cooperative, 3D sandbox action RPG to level up your character, craft epic weapons, conquer enemies in real-time, and build almost anything! Craft your adventure. Forge your hero. Become the ultimate Portal Knight!

Why similar: Survival 22.9%, Crafting 21.9%, Building 18.9%, Multiplayer 17.9%, RPG 5%

Why You'll Like It: It pairs colorful procedural islands, crafting and building, and boss-driven action-RPG progression in a way that feels very close to Muck's lighter, more arcadey vibe.

Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.

Why similar: Survival 71.7%, Multiplayer 11.4%, Crafting 7.7%, Open World 6.5%, Adventure 1.3%

Why You'll Like It: It shares Muck's procedural survival pressure, co-op chaos, crafting-heavy progression, and constant risk of a run collapsing if you fall behind.

The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?

Why similar: Survival 32.2%, Crafting 16.5%, Multiplayer 16.3%, Base Building 15.5%, Open World 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: If you like starting weak, scavenging aggressively, building a shelter, and venturing out for tougher materials in co-op, Grounded hits a very similar survival progression loop.

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: Survival 20.2%, Crafting 17.4%, Multiplayer 14%, Open World 13.6%, Building 12.6%

Why You'll Like It: This top-down sandbox blends survival, town building, procedural exploration, and boss progression in a way that strongly overlaps with Muck's systems.

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: Survival 32.1%, Multiplayer 17.2%, Crafting 16.1%, Building 11.4%, Open World 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: It leans more into survival crafting than roguelite combat, but the co-op gathering, building, and constant resource chase are very Muck-adjacent.

Build and defend villages of vegetable folk from deadly feral beasts in the blighted world of The Hollow. Explore, gather, and fight! You can even invite your friends. Can you craft the perfect village?

Why similar: Survival 26.2%, Open World 16.6%, Multiplayer 15.4%, Building 12.9%, Base Building 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its gather-by-day, build-up-your-camp, survive-the-next-threat structure feels a lot like Muck's fast-paced cooperative scramble.

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: Survival 23.1%, Crafting 18.6%, Building 17.6%, Open World 12.9%, Base Building 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: It combines base building and farming with dungeon runs, combat upgrades, and co-op survival that scratch Muck's build-then-fight rhythm.

You're a survivor in the zombie infested ruins of society, and must work with your friends and forge alliances to remain among the living.

Why similar: Survival 29.1%, Crafting 23.8%, Open World 16.5%, Multiplayer 16.3%, First-Person 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: As a free co-op survival sandbox, it matches Muck's low-cost appeal and emphasis on scavenging, crafting, and making a safe foothold in an open 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: Survival 22%, Open World 15.1%, Crafting 15%, Base Building 13.8%, Multiplayer 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: The open-world exploration, crafting, base building, and boss-oriented advancement make it a natural step up from Muck's formula.

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: Survival 23.7%, Open World 14.9%, Multiplayer 14.8%, Base Building 13.1%, Crafting 12.9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers the same satisfying loop of gathering materials, expanding a base, and exploring a stylized world with friends, just with lighter combat.

Awaken as a Vampire. Hunt for blood in nearby settlements to regain your strength and evade the scorching sun to survive. Raise your castle and thrive in an ever-changing, open world full of mystery. Gain allies online and conquer the land of the living.

Why similar: Survival 23.6%, Crafting 16.4%, Base Building 14.8%, Open World 14.4%, Multiplayer 12.4%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on gathering, crafting, building a home base, and hunting bosses for new powers, echoing Muck's loop of rapid growth through combat.

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: Survival 29.9%, Crafting 25.4%, Base Building 10.9%, Building 10.1%, Multiplayer 9%

Why You'll Like It: It lacks co-op survival pressure, but its rapid resource gathering, crafting unlocks, and constant power growth feel a lot like Muck's dopamine loop.

Welcome to Keplerth! Try to survive on a hostile alien planet in this 2D sandbox RPG, where you can choose to live alone or fight side by side with your friends in the online multiplayer mode. Survive, build, farm, fight, and explore your way to victory in this open-world adventure!

Why similar: Survival 24.9%, Building 17.8%, Open World 15.2%, Multiplayer 10.1%, Crafting 9%

Why You'll Like It: Like a top-down Muck, it mixes survival needs, crafting, base building, procedural maps, and combat progression.

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: Survival 26.3%, Crafting 24.2%, Base Building 13.9%, Multiplayer 13.1%, Open World 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: This island survival game emphasizes co-op resource gathering, crafting, exploration, and improvised progression in a compact, replayable world.

Abiotic Factor is a survival crafting experience for 1-6 players set in the depths of an underground research facility. Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the world’s greatest minds must survive against the universe’s biggest threats.

Why similar: Survival 24.6%, Crafting 20.9%, Base Building 16.1%, Building 13.3%, Multiplayer 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: Though more sci-fi, it nails cooperative scavenging, base setup, crafting, and dangerous expeditions that recreate Muck's group survival tension.

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: Survival 20.8%, Building 19.1%, Crafting 18.1%, Open World 12.8%, Multiplayer 12.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its survival mode captures the fun of harvesting, building a base, and improvising tools with friends in a playful 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: Survival 20.1%, Crafting 15.1%, Base Building 12.7%, Building 12.7%, Multiplayer 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its cooperative survival, base building, exploration, and gear progression in a hostile but whimsical world suit Muck fans well.

Craftopia is the brand new multiplayer survival action game made in Japan. We combined many features we find enjoyable, such as hunting, farming, hack-and-slash, building, automation to develop this game.

Why similar: Survival 25.1%, Crafting 24.7%, Open World 19.3%, Multiplayer 13.5%, Building 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its chaotic blend of open-world survival, crafting, building, and over-the-top progression has a similar experimental, anything-goes feel to Muck.

Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends, in this terrifying new open-world survival horror simulator.

Why similar: Survival 25.8%, Open World 13.9%, Multiplayer 13.2%, Crafting 13.1%, Base Building 12.5%

Why You'll Like It: The loop of scavenging, building defenses, and surviving increasingly dangerous threats with friends makes it a strong darker alternative.

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: Survival 20%, Crafting 17.6%, Open World 12.3%, Multiplayer 11.9%, Base Building 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: The mix of co-op survival, crafting, and upgrading a mobile base under constant threat parallels Muck's pressure-driven progression.

Enter a world of mystery, danger, ancient dinosaurs, mythical beasts, and cubes! Work by yourself or with a tribe of others to gather materials, craft useful items, tame wild creatures, and build huge bases to survive in PixARK!

Why similar: Survival 30.2%, Open World 15.6%, Multiplayer 13.8%, Crafting 12.9%, Building 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: If you want a more voxel-heavy, creature-filled version of Muck, PixARK delivers multiplayer survival, building, taming, and open-world progression.

An online multiplayer survival game, now with sorcery, set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian. Survive in a vast open world sandbox, build your home into a kingdom, and dominate your enemies in single or multiplayer.

Why similar: Survival 30.4%, Crafting 17%, Building 16%, Open World 15.9%, Multiplayer 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: It is a heavier and harsher version of Muck's build-craft-explore-fight formula, with strong co-op base building and world-boss progression.

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: Survival 28.9%, Crafting 18.3%, Base Building 15.9%, Multiplayer 14.8%, Open World 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers co-op survival, scavenging, base building, and frequent combat in a streamlined sandbox that Muck players can easily slide into.

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: Survival 23.4%, Crafting 20.9%, Building 17.1%, Multiplayer 10.7%, Open World 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its light, colorful island exploration and cooperative building emphasize the breezier side of Muck's survival sandbox appeal.

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: Survival 20%, Crafting 15.5%, Building 13.2%, Multiplayer 12.2%, Open World 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its survival crafting and structured realm exploration deliver the same sense of gearing up fast to take on tougher zones and bosses.

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: Survival 21.2%, Crafting 18.2%, Open World 13.2%, Building 13%, Base Building 12.9%

Why You'll Like It: Even without multiplayer, its punchy combat-crafting loop and constant escalation of gear and resource tiers feel very Muck-like.

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: Survival 23.3%, Crafting 16.9%, Base Building 14.4%, Multiplayer 13.4%, Open World 12.2%

The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.

Why similar: Survival 35.1%, Crafting 20.4%, Multiplayer 13.6%, Open World 13.2%, Building 12.2%

Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in this free prologue introducing one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters – an upcoming open-world game that challenges you, alone or with friends, to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.

Why similar: Crafting 17.5%, Survival 15.5%, Base Building 15.5%, Multiplayer 15%, Open World 12.7%

Cave Crawlers is a 1-10 player rogue lite set deep underground in a system of randomly generated caves. Players use weapons, spells, and talents to defeat the unique bosses and enemies found in each biome.

Why similar: Multiplayer 24.3%, Action Roguelike 19.9%, First-Person 11.2%, Combat 10.7%, RPG 8.3%

A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.

Why similar: Survival 19%, Crafting 17.3%, Building 14.6%, Multiplayer 11.4%, Open World 11.4%

DeadPoly is a polygon arcade zombie survival looter shooter with base building, crafting, scavenging, leveling, questing, and more, but your only goal is survival, everything else is optional.

Why similar: Survival 25.6%, Crafting 21%, Building 16.6%, Base Building 15.4%, Multiplayer 15.2%

Adventure awaits you and your friends in the world of Ylands! Gather resources, craft tools, construct anything and everything, and explore the lands! Build a ship and set sail, encountering mythical animals, a wide variety of sea-life, enemies of all kinds and much more!

Why similar: Crafting 20.2%, Base Building 14.7%, Multiplayer 14.2%, Building 14%, Open World 12.3%

MISERY is a 1–5 player co-op survival game set in a nuclear disaster zone. Here, every day is a struggle: search radioactive ruins for resources, build your bunker, craft weapons, and explore a weird, procedurally-generated world with your friends. Beware of anomalies, monsters, and armed bandits.

Why similar: Survival 21.6%, Crafting 16%, Building 12.3%, Multiplayer 12.1%, Base Building 12%

Scavenge abandoned ruins, craft gear from scrap and salvaged materials, and fight the environment itself as hunger, exposure, and exhaustion push you to your limits. There are no second chances—only adaptation or death.

Why similar: Survival 21.4%, Crafting 19%, Building 14.3%, Base Building 14%, Open World 12.6%

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: Survival 20.4%, Crafting 17.5%, Building 12.4%, Base Building 12.1%, Multiplayer 11.7%

Action-focused, open world survival shooter, PvPvE against fellow mercenaries and lethal XOIDS. Raid for resources alone or with team-mates, build and defend your base, stash your gear and survive against the odds. You are the hunters. You are the hunted. And the robots never sleep…

Why similar: Survival 22.7%, Crafting 19.2%, Base Building 17.3%, Multiplayer 14.3%, Building 12.7%

Try and survive in the world of Nomad. Build a base and protect it from raiding players. Scavenge food, weapons and medical supplies across the island. Team up with others and make a base. Make your mark on the world of Nomad.

Why similar: Survival 36.7%, Multiplayer 22.1%, Crafting 17.1%, Open World 16.7%, First-Person 2.9%

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 29%, Multiplayer 16.9%, Crafting 15.5%, Open World 11%, Base Building 9.7%

Far Lands is an open-world survival game. Fight mercenaries, steal their loot and vehicles. Build and defend your base from zombies. Gather resources, craft better gear and loot different points of interest. Want to play with friends? Join them on Co-op!

Why similar: Survival 24.2%, Crafting 21.1%, Base Building 15.8%, Open World 12.2%, Multiplayer 5.7%

Wild Omission is an open world sandbox survival game with severe weather set in an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends.

Why similar: Survival 21.2%, Crafting 18.8%, Building 14.4%, Open World 12.3%, Multiplayer 12.3%

survive the island you survive from skeletons and humans you can build and mine and level up your stats you can build whatever you want you can raid enemies you can mine and cut down trees and you have to hunt for your own food and you can grow your own crops and you can craft weapons

Why similar: Survival 20.5%, Building 16.1%, Crafting 14.8%, Base Building 11.1%, Open World 9%

Gone Survival is a first-person survival game for one player. Where you have many opportunities and a completely open world

Why similar: Survival 20.4%, Crafting 17.3%, Building 14%, Base Building 12.4%, Open World 10.6%

KeepUp Survival is an open base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and unfold your own story on a mysterious island.

Why similar: Survival 22.3%, Crafting 18.2%, Base Building 14%, Open World 13.5%, Multiplayer 12.7%

GRIM is an Exclusive VR Multiplayer Survival game where you must immerse yourself, stranded on a secluded part of Earth. Survival is not just a choice but a grueling battle against nature and other players. Gather resources, craft, and build your base, all to stay alive.

Why similar: Survival 22.8%, Crafting 19%, Multiplayer 12.3%, Open World 12.1%, Base Building 11.9%

Outpost brings the perfect mix between survival and roguelite gameplay. Start the game in a randomly generated environment and try to adapt, and make it through as many nights as possible. How long can you survive?

Why similar: Survival 24.2%, Building 15.6%, Roguelike 14.5%, Crafting 13.9%, Base Building 13.9%

Use your skills in looting, fighting, exploring and base building to survive and progress in Warlocks world.

Why similar: Building 26.1%, Action-Adventure 16.1%, Exploration 13.8%, First-Person 11.3%, Adventure 9.6%

Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!

Why similar: Survival 27.5%, Crafting 15.9%, Multiplayer 13.3%, Open World 13.3%, Building 12.8%

CastleMiner Z is an infinite world filled with deep places to explore, and horrifying monsters to slay. Build structures out of blocks, craft weapons and tools from raw materials, and explore the vast and frightening world around you.

Why similar: Survival 36.7%, Multiplayer 19.2%, Crafting 18.8%, Open World 14.5%, Adventure 3.7%

A survival open-world game, where you can gather resources, Hunt, Craft tools and armor, Tame Animals, Ride Animals, Build, and defend your base from creatures, and other players.

Why similar: Survival 20.6%, Crafting 18.3%, Building 17%, Open World 11.9%, Multiplayer 7.3%

Dreadzone is a survival game set in a deadly quarantine zone. Scavenge for resources, craft tools, build shelter, and survive against dangerous animals, zombies, mutants, and other survivors. Explore the zone where desperation drives everyone to do whatever it takes to survive.

Why similar: Survival 19.4%, Crafting 15.3%, Base Building 12.5%, Open World 11.7%, Building 11.6%

Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!

Why similar: Crafting 29.1%, Base Building 23.6%, Building 21.5%, Multiplayer 8.5%, First-Person 8%