Games Like Muck

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: Survival 23.8%, Crafting 15.6%, Building 14.3%, Open World 13.8%, Multiplayer 12.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its cooperative Viking survival loop of gathering, building fortified bases, fighting bosses, and preparing for dangerous nights is one of the closest full-length counterparts to Muck.

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 19.9%, Crafting 16.1%, Building 13.4%, Open World 12.7%, Base Building 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its procedural underground world, resource progression, crafting, base construction, and cooperative boss exploration closely suit Muck's progression loop.

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

Why similar: Survival 26.6%, Crafting 19.3%, Multiplayer 15.8%, Building 15.7%, Open World 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: Terraria provides the same satisfying cycle of gathering materials, building a safe base, finding better gear, and taking on increasingly powerful bosses with friends.

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 34.2%, Base Building 24.4%, Multiplayer 23.2%, Exploration 8.9%, Colorful 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: This co-op survival action game similarly combines rapid resource gathering, crafting defenses, escalating nightly threats, loot progression, and boss-focused runs.

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 26.6%, Crafting 23.7%, Base Building 13.7%, Multiplayer 13.1%, Open World 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a lighthearted island-survival experience centered on scavenging, crafting, base-building, exploration, and co-op adventuring.

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 20.5%, Crafting 16.9%, Open World 13.9%, Multiplayer 13.8%, Building 12.4%

Why You'll Like It: Necesse blends settlement building, procedural exploration, crafting, combat, and multiplayer survival into an accessible sandbox adventure.

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 25.4%, Crafting 24.2%, Open World 19.9%, Multiplayer 13.4%, Building 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: Craftopia mixes colorful open-world survival, crafting, dungeon loot, boss fights, and multiplayer in a similarly playful, fast-moving format.

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

Why similar: Survival 71.9%, Multiplayer 11.3%, Crafting 7.5%, Open World 6.7%, Adventure 1.4%

Why You'll Like It: The game emphasizes cooperative survival under escalating environmental pressure while rewarding preparation, crafting, exploration, and smart base placement.

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 32.5%, Multiplayer 17.1%, Crafting 15.7%, Building 11.3%, Open World 10%

Why You'll Like It: Raft focuses on cooperative gathering and crafting while gradually turning a fragile survival setup into a larger mobile base for exploration.

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 30.2%, Crafting 25.1%, Base Building 10.7%, Building 10.1%, Multiplayer 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Forager captures Muck's addictive rapid-fire gathering, crafting, island expansion, combat, and steady unlock-driven progression, though in a solo format.

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 23.5%, Crafting 18.1%, Building 17.4%, Open World 13.2%, Base Building 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its mixture of survival crafting, home building, dungeon delving, loot upgrades, and combat gives it a strong Muck-like adventure rhythm.

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 25.3%, Building 17.5%, Open World 15.6%, Multiplayer 10%, Crafting 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Keplerth is a procedurally generated survival RPG with crafting, farming, building, dangerous exploration, and roguelite character growth.

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 32.6%, Multiplayer 16.4%, Crafting 16%, Base Building 15.1%, Open World 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Grounded turns cooperative survival, resource collection, crafting, and handcrafted base-building into tense exploration of a hostile 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 22.5%, Open World 15.8%, Crafting 14.5%, Base Building 13.6%, Multiplayer 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its flexible voxel building, open-world scavenging, gear progression, and cooperative combat make it a deeper survival-crafting alternative.

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 23.2%, Crafting 21.5%, Building 18.8%, Multiplayer 17.8%, Adventure 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: This colorful co-op sandbox RPG combines gathering, crafting, block-based building, procedurally arranged worlds, and boss encounters.

Unturned is an open-world zombie survival sandbox game. As one of the few not yet turned, you must fight to remain among the living.

Why similar: Survival 29.4%, Crafting 23.2%, Open World 16.9%, Multiplayer 16.2%, First-Person 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Unturned provides free-to-play multiplayer survival with scavenging, crafting, vehicles, building, and a simple low-poly presentation reminiscent of Muck's accessibility.

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 20.5%, Crafting 14.8%, Base Building 12.6%, Building 12.5%, Multiplayer 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers co-op survival, resource harvesting, base-building, creature combat, and exploration from a whimsical small-scale perspective.

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 21%, Building 19%, Crafting 17.7%, Open World 13.2%, Multiplayer 12.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its multiplayer sandbox offers extensive resource gathering, construction, survival systems, and creative machine-building for players who like making their own solutions.

Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!

Why similar: Survival 26.5%, Open World 18.7%, Crafting 15.5%, Multiplayer 15.1%, Base Building 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Palworld offers an accessible open-world loop of gathering, crafting, building, fighting, and using creatures to accelerate survival progression.

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 23.3%, Crafting 15.3%, Open World 14.6%, Base Building 14.4%, Multiplayer 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its survival crafting and castle-building systems are paired with satisfying action combat, equipment upgrades, boss hunts, and online co-op play.

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 23.9%, Open World 15.3%, Multiplayer 14.7%, Base Building 12.9%, Crafting 12.6%

Why You'll Like It: ASTRONEER is a relaxed cooperative crafting sandbox built around gathering resources, shaping terrain, expanding bases, and exploring unfamiliar worlds.

A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.

Why similar: Survival 19.2%, Crafting 16.9%, Building 14.5%, Open World 11.7%, Multiplayer 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: Creativerse is a colorful multiplayer building sandbox with exploration, mining, crafting, and creature combat that fits Muck's approachable survival feel.

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: Survival 23.6%, Crafting 16.1%, Base Building 16%, Multiplayer 14%, Building 13.7%

Why You'll Like It: ASKA combines Viking-themed wilderness survival, construction, resource management, hostile nights, and cooperative settlement building.

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: Survival 38.7%, Crafting 18.3%, Open World 17.8%, Building 13.5%, First-Person 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: The Forest shares Muck's first-person gathering and base-building foundation but adds a more tense, horror-leaning cooperative wilderness survival experience.

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 26.4%, Open World 14.2%, Multiplayer 13%, Crafting 12.9%, Base Building 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: It expands the same cooperative wilderness survival formula with detailed building, scavenging, exploration, and dangerous enemy encounters.

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: Survival 23%, Crafting 14.4%, Base Building 12.7%, Multiplayer 12%, Building 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: Icarus offers mission-based co-op survival where players quickly gather resources, craft equipment, establish shelter, and endure harsh environments.

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 25.5%, Crafting 20.6%, Base Building 15.9%, Building 13.1%, Multiplayer 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: This co-op survival game emphasizes improvised crafting, shared base construction, exploration, and emergent chaos in a more science-fiction setting.

7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!

Why similar: Survival 34%, Open World 14.9%, Base Building 14.7%, Building 14.5%, Multiplayer 14.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its scavenging, crafting, fortification, and recurring horde-defense cycle will appeal to players who enjoy preparing a base for Muck's deadly nights.

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: Survival 25%, Crafting 19.8%, Building 13.7%, Open World 13.4%, Multiplayer 12.9%

Why You'll Like It: Starbound supports broad sandbox exploration across procedurally generated planets, with crafting, building, combat, and multiplayer freedom.

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 18.7%, Crafting 17.6%, Building 14%, Base Building 13.4%, Open World 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: Volcanoids combines survival crafting and exploration with the distinctive goal of building and upgrading a mobile drillship base.

Survive, craft, and automate in this free prologue set on one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters, an open-world game where you play solo or with friends to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.

Why similar: Crafting 16.9%, Survival 16%, Base Building 15.3%, Multiplayer 15.1%, Open World 13%

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 35.4%, Crafting 19.9%, Open World 13.6%, Multiplayer 13.5%, Building 12.1%

MISERY is a 1–10 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 23.6%, Crafting 15%, Multiplayer 12.5%, Open World 12%, Base Building 11.7%

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 23.5%, Crafting 16.5%, Base Building 14.3%, Multiplayer 13.2%, Open World 12.6%

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 24.6%, Action Roguelike 19.5%, First-Person 11.2%, Combat 10.4%, RPG 8.3%

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 36.9%, Multiplayer 21.8%, Open World 17.1%, Crafting 16.7%, First-Person 2.8%

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 23%, Crafting 18.8%, Base Building 17%, Multiplayer 14.2%, Building 12.6%

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 19.9%, Base Building 14.5%, Multiplayer 14.2%, Building 13.9%, Open World 12.7%

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 21.7%, Crafting 18.6%, Building 14.2%, Base Building 13.8%, Open World 13%

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 26.3%, Crafting 20.6%, Building 16.3%, Base Building 15.3%, Multiplayer 15.2%

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 29.4%, Multiplayer 17.1%, Crafting 15%, Open World 11.3%, Base Building 9.4%

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 20.7%, Crafting 17.1%, Building 12.3%, Base Building 11.9%, Multiplayer 11.6%

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 24.5%, Crafting 20.6%, Base Building 15.5%, Open World 12.5%, Multiplayer 5.6%

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 21.5%, Crafting 18.4%, Building 14.3%, Open World 12.7%, Multiplayer 12.2%

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 30.6%, Open World 16%, Multiplayer 13.7%, Crafting 12.5%, Building 10.7%

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 20.8%, Building 16.1%, Crafting 14.6%, Base Building 10.9%, Open World 9.3%

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

Why similar: Survival 20.6%, Crafting 16.9%, Building 13.9%, Base Building 12.2%, Open World 10.9%

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: Survival 28.7%, Crafting 19.4%, Multiplayer 13.5%, Open World 12.8%, Building 11.6%

Pixel Worlds is a free-to-play sandbox MMO where players build worlds, craft items, explore dungeons, farm resources, and trade in a player-driven economy, all within a shared online universe rebuilt as a fresh start for a fair and stable long-term experience.

Why similar: Multiplayer 39.3%, Crafting 23.9%, Open World 16.3%, Adventure 10.2%, Building 7.9%

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 23%, Crafting 18.6%, Open World 12.5%, Multiplayer 12.3%, Base Building 11.7%

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

Why similar: Building 25.9%, Action-Adventure 16.3%, Exploration 13.7%, First-Person 11.1%, Adventure 9.8%

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 28.8%, Base Building 23.5%, Building 21.7%, Multiplayer 8.7%, First-Person 7.9%

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 20.8%, Crafting 17.8%, Building 16.9%, Open World 12.3%, Multiplayer 7.2%

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 19.7%, Crafting 14.9%, Base Building 12.3%, Open World 12%, Building 11.5%

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

Why similar: Survival 22.7%, Crafting 17.8%, Open World 13.9%, Base Building 13.7%, Multiplayer 12.7%

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 36.9%, Multiplayer 19%, Crafting 18.3%, Open World 14.8%, Adventure 3.8%

Your home is a living beast. Explore a handcrafted open world in an action RPG where you fight with magic, gather resources, find loot, craft, and grow stronger. Customize and expand your home on its back, and take it with you as you explore solo or with friends.

Why similar: Survival 18.4%, Crafting 15.4%, Base Building 12.6%, Building 12.2%, Open World 11.8%