- #1 Core Keeper
97% matchVery Positive93% of 66,787 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.3 hrsMean: 34.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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: Open World Survival Craft 28.5% ★, Open World 7.8%, Sandbox 7.5%, Crafting 7.4%, Survival 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: Its top-down pixel world, mining-and-crafting progression, large boss encounters, co-op play, and expandable home base make it the closest overall alternative.
- #2 Tinkerlands
96% 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 37% ★, Sandbox 8.1%, Open World 7.2%, Survival 6.8%, Crafting 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: This colorful top-down co-op survival game centers on exploring generated islands, building a settlement, crafting equipment, and tackling dangerous dungeons.
- #3 Terraria
96% 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 42.7% ★, Sandbox 9.9%, Survival 6.8%, Crafting 6.5%, Multiplayer 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: Terraria offers the foundational blend of 2D sandbox building, procedural exploration, gear crafting, NPC housing, multiplayer, and escalating boss fights.
- #4 Keplerth
95% matchVery Positive84% of 4,170 reviews2022
Dev: TAROPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: Sandbox 17.1%, Open World 15.2%, Survival 14%, Building 12.6%, Multiplayer 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: Keplerth closely matches Necesse's top-down pixel survival loop with procedural maps, farming, base building, dungeon delving, and character progression.
- #5 Starbound
94% 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 45.1% ★, Sandbox 9.4%, Crafting 5.9%, Survival 5.7%, Open World 5.4%
Why You'll Like It: Starbound expands the formula into space with procedurally generated worlds, building, crafting, quests, colony tenants, and cooperative exploration.
- #6 Tinkertown
94% matchMixed67% of 1,345 reviews2023
Dev: Headup
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Gather your friends and come to Tinkertown - A refreshing new Multiplayer Sandbox Experience! Explore magical places filled with loot, danger, and creativity.
Why similar: Crafting 12.1%, Sandbox 11.9%, Open World 10.3%, Multiplayer 9.9%, RPG 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: Tinkertown provides pixel-art multiplayer adventuring with gathering, crafting, town building, dungeon exploration, and class-like combat progression.
- #7 Survivalist: Invisible Strain
92% matchVery Positive87% of 4,565 reviews2025
Dev: BobPub: Ginormocorp Incorporated
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 83%
It's ten years since the infection started. Long-established settlements are collapsing, one by one, for unknown reasons. Survivors are running to the hills to escape, hoping for safety in remote places. As another refugee, you're here to carve out a new life for yourself - by any means necessary.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.6% ★, Base Building 9.9%, Open World 9.7%, Crafting 7.8%, Survival 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: It combines a procedurally generated top-down survival sandbox with crafting, construction, scavenging, co-op, and recruiting survivors into a functioning community.
- #8 Crea
93% 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 48.5% ★, Sandbox 11.1%, Crafting 8.7%, Survival 5.8%, Multiplayer 4.3%
Why You'll Like It: Crea is a 2D sandbox RPG focused on deep crafting, procedural exploration, building, multiplayer, and customizable character builds.
- #9 Valheim
90% matchVery Positive94% of 555,289 reviews2026
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 26.9 hrsMean: 81.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.5% ★, Open World 7.8%, Survival 7.7%, Crafting 6.6%, Online Co-Op 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: Although fully 3D, Valheim shares Necesse's rewarding progression from humble shelter to multiplayer settlement, biome expeditions, crafted gear, and major bosses.
- #10 Aground
91% matchVery Positive94% of 2,039 reviews2020
Dev: Fancy Fish Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
As one of the last human survivors, you find yourself stranded on an uninhabited island. With a few other victims of the crash, can you craft, mine, and build your way to survival?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.9% ★, Open World 9.7%, Base Building 9%, Survival 8.5%, Sandbox 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: Aground is a progression-heavy 2D crafting adventure where mining, automation, base upgrades, exploration, and technology steadily open up a larger world.
- #11 Planet Centauri
91% matchMostly Positive77% of 2,395 reviews2024
Dev: Permadeath
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Dive into an epic adventure alone or with friends! Explore hidden dungeons, capture and tame fearsome monsters, build and defend your village. Craft powerful weapons, master magical spells, and transform an planet into the cradle of a new civilization!
Why similar: Sandbox 16.3%, Open World 14.1%, Crafting 13.8%, Building 10.1%, Multiplayer 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: This expansive pixel sandbox combines procedural planets, crafting, building, creature systems, combat, and a strong sense of open-ended discovery.
- #12 Feel The Snow
89% 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 43.3% ★, Survival 8%, Crafting 7.3%, Multiplayer 6.8%, Sandbox 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: Its snowy pixel-art world supports co-op survival, base construction, crafting, exploration, and action-focused encounters against monsters and bosses.
- #13 Junk Jack
89% 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 45.6% ★, Sandbox 10.3%, Crafting 8.1%, Survival 7.8%, Building 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: Junk Jack delivers a classic 2D block-building loop of mining, crafting, fighting, farming, decorating, and exploring generated worlds with friends.
- #14 Palworld
85% matchVery Positive95% of 490,433 reviews2026
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 41.0 hrsMean: 86.8 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.6% ★, Open World 10.5%, Survival 8.5%, Multiplayer 6.7%, Crafting 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: Palworld combines open-world survival, building, multiplayer, dungeon and boss exploration, and creature workers that can automate and defend a growing base.
- #15 The Survivalists
88% matchMostly Positive76% of 10,123 reviews2020
Dev: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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: Open World Survival Craft 33.4% ★, Crafting 9.8%, Survival 8.4%, Sandbox 7%, Open World 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: This lighter co-op survival adventure features procedural islands, crafting, building, dungeon raids, and recruitable monkeys that can automate tasks.
- #16 Enshrouded
86% matchVery Positive86% of 106,050 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.9 hrsMean: 46.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.
Why similar: Open World 16.9%, Survival 13.7%, Base Building 12.9%, Crafting 11.6%, Multiplayer 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: Enshrouded blends cooperative survival crafting, flexible voxel building, RPG gear progression, dangerous exploration, and boss encounters in a large fantasy world.
- #17 Force of Nature 2: Ghost Keeper
87% matchMostly Positive80% of 2,370 reviews2021
Dev: A.Y.stdPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 16.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Force of Nature 2: Ghost Keeper offers incredible adventures full of mystery, danger, exploration and magic. This game combines the genres of Survival, Sandbox, Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Resource Management
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.9% ★, Open World 11.2%, Crafting 10.7%, Sandbox 9.9%, Survival 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: Its isometric survival-crafting gameplay emphasizes gathering, construction, farming, combat, dungeons, and cooperative exploration across varied biomes.
- #18 Dig or Die
86% 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 44.4% ★, Sandbox 10%, Survival 9.3%, Crafting 8.6%, Open World 6%
Why You'll Like It: Dig or Die pairs resource gathering and equipment crafting with hostile-world exploration and substantial base defenses against nightly monster attacks.
- #19 Len's Island
84% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,974 reviews2025
Dev: Flow Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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: Open World Survival Craft 43.9% ★, Sandbox 8.6%, Crafting 8.5%, Survival 8.4%, Open World 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: Len's Island combines building and farming with action-RPG dungeon runs, loot progression, crafting, and survival-oriented exploration.
- #20 V Rising
84% matchVery Positive89% of 137,392 reviews2024
Dev: Stunlock Studios
Windows
Median: 20.9 hrsMean: 58.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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: Open World 16.2%, Survival 14.7%, Base Building 14.1%, Crafting 12.6%, Sandbox 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: V Rising offers multiplayer base building, resource-driven crafting, servant recruitment, open-world exploration, and a highly satisfying chain of boss-based unlocks.
- #21 ASKA
83% matchVery Positive80% of 12,267 reviews2024
Dev: Sand Sailor StudioPub: Thunderful Publishing
Windows
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 29.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
A new Viking age dawns with you at its helm. Forge a thriving colony from nothing in this mythic open-world survival sim. Earn the gods' favor and survive in a land ruled by ancient terrors and unforgiving seasons. Rally unique villagers, expand your settlement and defend your tribe - solo or co-op!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.7% ★, Sandbox 8.1%, Base Building 7.5%, Survival 7.1%, Automation 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: ASKA strongly matches the settlement side of Necesse by letting co-op players build a Viking village, assign villagers jobs, survive harsh wilderness, and fight threats.
- #22 Don't Starve Together
82% 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 71.3% ★, Survival 14.5%, Multiplayer 3.1%, Co-op 2.7%, Open World 2.4%
Why You'll Like It: It is an excellent co-op survival sandbox for players who enjoy gathering, crafting, base planning, procedural worlds, and surviving increasingly dangerous seasons.
- #23 Dinkum
80% matchVery Positive92% of 29,165 reviews2025
Dev: James BendonPub: KRAFTON, Inc.
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 29.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Dinkum is a survival life simulation game set on an island inspired by the rugged Australian outback. Farm, hunt, mine, fish, and forage to gather resources, expand your town, and discover what makes Dinkum so special—either solo or with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 53.6% ★, Crafting 7.9%, Sandbox 7.4%, Co-op 6.9%, Building 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: Dinkum is a relaxed but substantial multiplayer life-survival game centered on gathering, crafting, building a town, and attracting new residents to it.
- #24 Craftopia
82% matchMostly Positive76% of 20,264 reviews2020
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: Open World Survival Craft 34.6% ★, Open World 12.3%, Crafting 11.2%, Survival 8.9%, Sandbox 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: Craftopia mixes open-world survival crafting with dungeons, boss fights, farming, automation, pets, and multiplayer in a fast-moving fantasy sandbox.
- #25 Portal Knights
81% matchVery Positive83% of 22,395 reviews2017
Dev: Keen Games GmbHPub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 21.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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: Sandbox 18.7%, Crafting 15.3%, Multiplayer 13.3%, Building 13.3%, Survival 12.6%
Why You'll Like It: Portal Knights mixes co-op building and crafting with RPG classes, loot, procedural island exploration, dungeon combat, and boss encounters.
- #26 Romestead
78% matchMostly Positive77% of 5,129 reviews2026
Dev: BeartwigsPub: Three Friends
Windows
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Rome has fallen! Rebuild civilization in this action-adventure survival game for 1-8 players. Fight hordes of the walking dead, build settlements, restore the Roman gods... or kick back and farm with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.6% ★, Crafting 10.2%, Survival 8.3%, Sandbox 7.4%, Base Building 7.4%
- #27 DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS™ 2
79% matchVery Positive92% of 8,103 reviews2019
Dev: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 11.1 hrsMean: 46.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS™ 2 is a block-building RPG set in a fantasy land threatened by an evil cult. Explore, battle, build and harvest in the charming single-player campaign or build big projects in the online sandbox mode for up to 4-players.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 57.8% ★, Sandbox 8.6%, Building 7.7%, Crafting 6%, RPG 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: Its structured adventure centers on gathering materials, building elaborate settlements, recruiting residents, defending towns, and exploring combat-filled islands.
- #28 Wayward
81% matchVery Positive86% of 1,370 reviews2016
Dev: Unlok
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 21.4 hrs≥1hr: 61%
You awake to discover yourself no longer in the company of good men or a fine seafaring vessel. Treasure... you remember something about treasure. Wayward is a challenging turn-based, top-down, wilderness survival roguelike. Explore, build, and most importantly survive in these unforgiving lands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.5% ★, Survival 10.8%, Crafting 9.8%, Sandbox 7%, Open World 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: Wayward is a deep turn-based survival sandbox with procedural maps, crafting, building, farming, exploration, and systems-driven wilderness survival.
- #29 Everwind
77% matchVery Positive81% of 3,899 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Everwind is a novel take on RPG and Sandbox Survival genre in First-Person-Perspective. Embark on the adventure with your friends - Build a base on a flying island-ship, gather resources, craft, loot, and fight while you rise above the clouds to uncover the mysteries of this world!
Why similar: Open World 12%, Crafting 11.9%, Sandbox 11.8%, Survival 10.6%, Building 10.1%
- #30 Tribes of Midgard
78% matchMostly Positive76% of 23,278 reviews2021
Dev: NorsfellPub: Gearbox Publishing
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 19.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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: Open World Survival Craft 53.8% ★, Base Building 9.1%, Online Co-Op 8.3%, Survival 8.2%, Multiplayer 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: Tribes of Midgard focuses on cooperative gathering, crafting, fortifying a village, exploring procedural regions, and preparing for powerful mythic enemies.
- #31 Craft The World
79% matchVery Positive88% of 17,114 reviews2014
Dev: Dekovir EntertainmentPub: Dekovir Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 38.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Craft The World is a unique sandbox strategy game, the mix of Dungeon Keeper, Terraria and Dwarf Fortress. Explore a random generated world populated by dangerous creatures, build a dwarf fortress, gather resources, and craft all the items, weapons, and armor you need.
Why similar: Crafting 21.6%, Sandbox 21.3%, Building 17.8%, Survival 13.2%, Open World 12.4%
Why You'll Like It: Craft The World emphasizes digging into dangerous underground areas, crafting equipment, building a defended settlement, and managing a growing group of dwarves.
- #32 Allumeria
75% matchVery Positive93% of 602 reviews2026
Dev: Infinimelon
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 73%
A classic voxel sandbox combined with in-depth progression through exploration, dungeon crawling and boss battles. Spend every minute discovering new weapons, abilities, resources, enemies, structures, mechanics and tools. With a strong focus on discovery, variety and creativity, the world is yours.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.8% ★, Sandbox 8.3%, Crafting 7.6%, Survival 7%, Open World 7%
- #33 Delverium
76% matchVery Positive85% of 157 reviews2026
Dev: Sagestone Games
Windows
Explore, Build, Farm, Craft and Fight in this survival sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Delve deep to uncover the secret of the invading 'Faults' and restore stability to the land.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.8% ★, Sandbox 8.1%, Crafting 6.9%, Survival 6.7%, Open World 6.3%
- #34 Forager
77% 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 47.8% ★, Crafting 9.5%, Survival 8.7%, Sandbox 6.1%, Pixel Graphics 6%
- #35 Shamania
75% matchMostly Positive74% of 171 reviews2026
Dev: Totem Keepers Games
Windows
Shamania is an open world survival game where you can CRAFT, FIGHT, and EXPLORE a vibrant sandbox world with friends in CO-OP. Expand your base as a hub for survival, gather resources, and master professions to unlock new tools and opportunities!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.8% ★, Open World 8.6%, Crafting 8.6%, Survival 7.2%, Sandbox 6.7%
- #36 Solace Crafting
76% matchMostly Positive71% of 899 reviews2022
Dev: Big Kitty Games
Windows · Linux
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: Open World Survival Craft 35.6% ★, Crafting 8.1%, Survival 7.5%, Open World 7.4%, Sandbox 6.8%
- #37 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
74% matchVery Positive82% of 10,551 reviews2024
Dev: Max Ent Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.1% ★, Survival 7.6%, Base Building 7.3%, Crafting 7.2%, Open World 7.1%
- #38 Omega Crafter
73% matchMostly Positive79% of 579 reviews2025
Dev: Preferred Networks
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Adventure in a vast open-world survival craft game with your programmable sidekick Grammi! Program the Grammi to collect materials, build your town, craft weapons and armor to challenge strong enemies! Play alone or with friends online!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.4% ★, Automation 8.4%, Crafting 7.6%, Open World 7.1%, Survival 6.8%
- #39 Lodventure
73% matchMostly Positive74% of 166 reviews2023
Dev: Sky Games
Windows
Embark on a 1-4 players Co-op survival adventure in an open world wilderness in search of a myth called the Lod Stone. Build your house, sow your crops, brew potions, tame a horse and discover powerful abilities. Venture into dangerous dungeons, fight unique bosses to find the Lod stone.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.3% ★, Open World 8.4%, Survival 7.6%, Co-op 7.4%, Crafting 6.9%
- #40 Voidtrain
70% matchMostly Positive73% of 9,990 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 14.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.9% ★, Survival 6.4%, Crafting 6.4%, Co-op 6.2%, Open World 6.2%
- #41 Boundless
73% matchMixed69% of 2,779 reviews2018
Dev: Monumental, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 32.8 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Shape your citizen, forge your destiny and sculpt your world in this epic voxel sandbox MMO built on endless possibility.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.7% ★, Sandbox 11%, Open World 10.1%, Crafting 9.4%, Building 7%
- #42 Vagabond
72% 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 42.4% ★, Sandbox 11%, Open World 10.4%, Crafting 8%, Pixel Graphics 6.2%
- #43 Astral Terra
74% matchMixed50% of 152 reviews2015
Dev: Tethys Interactive LLC
Windows
Explore, Adventure, Craft, Build, Survive. How will you shape your world? Astral Terra is a Smooth Voxel, Procedurally Generated Open World game with RPG and Survival Elements!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.7% ★, Open World 9.8%, Sandbox 9.3%, Survival 8.3%, Crafting 6.4%
- #44 Wild Omission
71% matchVery Positive88% of 83 reviews2023
Dev: Telephone Studios
Windows
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: Open World Survival Craft 37.7% ★, Crafting 9.3%, Open World 8.6%, Survival 8.2%, Sandbox 8.2%
- #45 Sun Haven
69% matchVery Positive80% of 25,583 reviews2023
Dev: Pixel Sprout Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.6 hrsMean: 31.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Build your farm and relationships with townsfolk, or forge ahead on a quest of magic, monsters, and dragons. Level up through a skill tree in 8 person multiplayer, or adventure solo!
Why similar: Multiplayer 26%, Crafting 24.7%, Pixel Graphics 23.1%, RPG 13.2%, Exploration 7%
- #46 PixARK
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,659 reviews2019
Dev: Snail Games USA
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 40.0 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 16.5%, Open World 15.3%, Sandbox 13.3%, Multiplayer 10.2%, Crafting 8.9%
- #47 Cubic Odyssey
69% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,754 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Embark on a galactic journey in Cubic Odyssey, an open-world adventure where you explore vibrant planets, craft tools, build vehicles, and fight the Red Darkness. Uncover ancient mysteries, and shape a universe full of life, danger, and limitless possibilities!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.3% ★, Sandbox 9.9%, Base Building 9.7%, Building 8.1%, Co-op 7.9%
- #48 Crashlands
70% 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 39.8% ★, Open World 8.5%, Crafting 8.3%, Sandbox 8%, Survival 7.6%
- #49 Eden Crafters
67% matchVery Positive85% of 2,696 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.9% ★, Automation 8.7%, Crafting 7.7%, Base Building 7.3%, Sandbox 7.2%
- #50 Cube World
71% matchMostly Negative37% of 18,738 reviews2019
Dev: Picroma
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Cube World is a voxel-based action RPG with a focus on exploration. It takes place in a procedurally generated fantasy world made up entirely of cubes.
Why similar: Open World 23%, Multiplayer 13.1%, Online Co-Op 9%, Crafting 8.5%, Co-op 8.2%
- #51 Nightingale
68% matchMixed66% of 18,084 reviews2024
Dev: Inflexion Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 24.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Nightingale is an open world survival crafting game, where you’ll adventure across the mysterious and dangerous Fae Realms. As a daring Realmwalker, you’ll defeat monstrous enemies, survive hostile environments, and build elaborate estates in a visually stunning Gaslamp Fantasy world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.6% ★, Open World 8.1%, Survival 7.7%, Crafting 7.6%, Base Building 6.6%
- #52 Rising World
70% matchVery Positive86% of 6,019 reviews2014
Dev: JIW-Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 21.4 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Rising World is a voxel based open-world sandbox game, featuring a procedurally generated world, playable in single and multi-player.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41% ★, Sandbox 8.6%, Crafting 8.3%, Base Building 8%, Building 7.3%
- #53 Abiotic Factor
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 59,444 reviews2025
Dev: Deep Field GamesPub: Playstack
Windows
Median: 21.2 hrsMean: 46.5 hrs≥1hr: 95%
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: Open World Survival Craft 41.7% ★, Crafting 9.6%, Survival 9.1%, Base Building 8.8%, Sandbox 7.6%
- #54 ASTRONEER
68% 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 39.2% ★, Open World 8.8%, Survival 7.8%, Sandbox 6.6%, Multiplayer 6.6%
- #55 Blockscape
72% 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 58% ★, Sandbox 10.3%, Open World 6.6%, Crafting 6.2%, Survival 5.5%
- #56 ENDALOR
67% matchMostly Positive70% of 280 reviews2026
Dev: Diorite Games
Windows
An immersive medieval dark fantasy survival game with RPG elements for 1-4 players. Set in a hand crafted open world. Explore, survive, build, craft, fight and conquer your way through the dark, brutal and mysterious lands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39% ★, Open World 7.6%, Survival 7.1%, Crafting 6.3%, Base Building 5.9%
- #57 Sandustry
63% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 5,238 reviews2026
Dev: Lantto GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Explore and mine fully destructible worlds. Automate increasingly complex production chains. Delve deep to uncover an ancient civilization’s powerful secrets and learn to love the sand in this factory game where every pixel is a valuable resource.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.6% ★, Automation 8.8%, Sandbox 8.7%, Crafting 8.4%, Open World 7.9%
- #58 Whisper of the Swallows
65% matchVery Positive87% of 207 reviews2026
Dev: Blown Leaves
Windows
Brave a savage, unforgiving procedurally generated world where extreme weather and the nightmares of the dark will hunt you down. Alone or in co-op, survive, build, and explore to turn a cursed hellscape into your sanctuary of light.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.1% ★, Sandbox 9%, Crafting 8.8%, Survival 7.8%, Open World 7.5%
- #59 Re.poly
68% matchVery Positive91% of 137 reviews2019
Dev: Hinkfoot Studios
Windows
Re.Poly is a relaxed yet deep indie survival game in a low-poly style that blends exploration, combat, building, and adventure. Whether alone or with friends, create your own world, write your own story, and decide how you want to play.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.1% ★, Sandbox 9.6%, Crafting 9.4%, Open World 8.9%, Survival 8.5%
- #60 Farworld Pioneers
69% matchMostly Negative37% of 703 reviews2023
Dev: IgloosoftPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Explore an open world, sci-fi sandbox – in PVP, PVE, and co-op. Build and manage colonies on alien planets, and recruit AI survivors with unique personalities and skills. Craft, build, mine, farm, or get your electric death rifle and say hello to your neighbors.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.3% ★, Co-op 9.1%, Sandbox 8.8%, Crafting 8.7%, Base Building 8.1%
