- #1 Core Keeper
97% matchVery Positive93% of 64,481 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.0 hrsMean: 34.1 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% ★, Sandbox 7.7%, Open World 7.5%, Crafting 7.5%, Survival 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: Its top-down pixel presentation, co-op base building, mining, farming, dungeon delving, and boss progression make it one of the closest overall matches.
- #2 Terraria
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,524,255 reviews2011
Dev: Re-Logic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 33.5 hrsMean: 150.1 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 41.9% ★, Sandbox 10.2%, Survival 6.8%, Crafting 6.7%, Multiplayer 5.8%
Why You'll Like It: Like Necesse, it mixes sandbox building, gear progression, biome exploration, recruitable town NPCs, and major boss milestones in a huge procedural 2D world with excellent co-op.
- #3 Starbound
96% matchVery Positive90% of 122,999 reviews2016
Dev: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.1 hrsMean: 64.2 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 44.3% ★, Sandbox 9.7%, Crafting 6.1%, Survival 5.7%, Open World 5.3%
Why You'll Like It: Procedural worlds, base and colony building, questing, dungeon runs, and long-form crafting progression give it a very similar explore-craft-conquer feel.
- #4 Keplerth
95% matchVery Positive85% of 4,138 reviews2022
Dev: TAROPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 16.1 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 17.4%, Open World 14.8%, Survival 13.8%, Building 12.7%, Multiplayer 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: This top-down sandbox similarly has you gather, build, farm, survive, and push through procedural combat zones and bosses while growing stronger.
- #5 Tinkerlands
94% matchVery Positive86% of 3,833 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 13.9 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 36.3% ★, Sandbox 8.3%, Open World 7.1%, Survival 6.8%, Crafting 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: Top-down survival crafting with co-op, settlement building, island exploration, and boss encounters makes it an obvious fit for Necesse fans.
- #6 Portal Knights
94% matchVery Positive83% of 22,235 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 19%, Crafting 15.4%, Multiplayer 13.6%, Building 13.2%, Survival 12.4%
Why You'll Like It: It combines action-RPG combat, crafting, building, world exploration, and multiplayer boss fights in a progression-heavy sandbox structure much like Necesse.
- #7 Len's Island
91% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,720 reviews2025
Dev: Flow Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 43.1% ★, Sandbox 8.9%, Crafting 8.8%, Survival 8.4%, Open World 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: It nails the same satisfying rhythm of building up a home base, gathering resources, and heading into dangerous dungeons for progression.
- #8 Crea
93% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,407 reviews2016
Dev: Siege Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 19.1 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 47.7% ★, Sandbox 11.4%, Crafting 8.8%, Survival 5.8%, Multiplayer 4.5%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D survival sandbox with town building, deep crafting, RPG systems, and lots of exploration that overlaps strongly with Necesse's overall structure.
- #9 Tinkertown
92% matchMixed67% of 1,342 reviews2023
Dev: Headup
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 6.1 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 12.2%, Sandbox 12.1%, Multiplayer 10.1%, Open World 10%, RPG 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: Its pixel-art co-op sandboxing, base building, crafting, and dungeon exploration make it feel like a lighter but very relevant alternative.
- #10 The Survivalists
91% matchMostly Positive76% of 10,012 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 32.8% ★, Crafting 10%, Survival 8.3%, Sandbox 7.2%, Online Co-Op 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: This emphasizes co-op island survival, crafting, exploration, and combat progression with a similarly approachable sandbox feel.
- #11 Forager
90% matchVery Positive90% of 43,424 reviews2019
Dev: HopFrogPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 22.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47% ★, Crafting 9.7%, Survival 8.7%, Sandbox 6.3%, Pixel Graphics 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: More streamlined and automation-driven, but it captures the same addictive loop of gathering, expanding, crafting, and unlocking new tiers of power.
- #12 Farworld Pioneers
89% matchMostly Negative38% of 693 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 37.4% ★, Co-op 9.2%, Sandbox 9.1%, Crafting 8.9%, Base Building 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: Its side-view survival crafting, colony NPCs, automation systems, combat, and co-op make it especially appealing if you love Necesse's settlement side.
- #13 Solace Crafting
89% matchMostly Positive72% of 891 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 34.8% ★, Crafting 8.3%, Survival 7.5%, Open World 7.3%, Sandbox 7%
Why You'll Like It: Its massive procedural worlds and crafting-heavy sandbox progression make it a good pick if you want a broad, systems-rich alternative.
- #14 DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS™ 2
88% matchVery Positive92% of 7,920 reviews2019
Dev: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 47.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 57.2% ★, Sandbox 9%, Building 7.7%, Crafting 6.1%, RPG 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: It is less survival-focused, but its blend of exploration, town growth, combat, crafting, and recruitable residents is very Necesse-adjacent.
- #15 Planet Centauri
87% matchMostly Positive77% of 2,370 reviews2024
Dev: Permadeath
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 13.7 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 16.6%, Crafting 13.9%, Open World 13.7%, Building 10.1%, Multiplayer 10%
Why You'll Like It: It offers Terraria-like exploration, crafting, monster hunting, and character progression with lots of systems to experiment with.
- #16 Valheim
86% matchVery Positive94% of 534,015 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 25.8 hrsMean: 76.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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: Open World Survival Craft 39.6% ★, Open World 7.7%, Survival 7.7%, Crafting 6.8%, Online Co-Op 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: Though fully 3D, it delivers the same satisfying cycle of co-op base building, biome exploration, crafting upgrades, and boss progression.
- #17 Aground
86% matchVery Positive94% of 1,985 reviews2020
Dev: Fancy Fish Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 37.3% ★, Open World 9.6%, Base Building 9.1%, Survival 8.5%, Sandbox 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: What starts as simple survival crafting grows into a big progression-heavy adventure with base building, NPCs, tech, and magic.
- #18 Enshrouded
83% matchVery Positive86% of 101,648 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.7 hrsMean: 45.6 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 16.3%, Survival 13.4%, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 11.8%, Multiplayer 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: It brings co-op survival building, dangerous world exploration, and RPG-style progression to a more modern 3D format.
- #19 Craft The World
84% matchVery Positive88% of 16,888 reviews2014
Dev: Dekovir EntertainmentPub: Dekovir Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 38.4 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 21.7%, Sandbox 21.5%, Building 17.8%, Survival 13.1%, Open World 12.1%
Why You'll Like It: If your favorite part of Necesse is building a functioning settlement with specialists and defenses, this is one of the strongest alternatives.
- #20 Junk Jack
85% matchMostly Positive79% of 469 reviews2016
Dev: Pixbits
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 21.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 44.8% ★, Sandbox 10.6%, Crafting 8.3%, Survival 7.8%, Building 6%
Why You'll Like It: A classic 2D sandbox focused on exploration, building, crafting, and loot hunting across varied worlds.
- #21 Feel The Snow
84% matchVery Positive87% of 3,047 reviews2019
Dev: Owlet
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 7.4 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 42.5% ★, Survival 8%, Crafting 7.5%, Multiplayer 7%, Sandbox 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: This co-op pixel survival game mixes base building, exploration, crafting, and dungeon-style combat in a way that lands near Necesse.
- #22 V Rising
79% matchVery Positive89% of 134,242 reviews2024
Dev: Stunlock Studios
Windows
Median: 21.0 hrsMean: 57.2 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 15.3%, Survival 14.2%, Base Building 13.5%, Crafting 12.8%, Multiplayer 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: Strong base-building, crafting, multiplayer progression, and boss hunting make it a solid fit even though it leans more action-survival than colony sim.
- #23 Wayward
82% matchVery Positive86% of 1,357 reviews2016
Dev: Unlok
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 21.5 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 47.8% ★, Survival 10.8%, Crafting 10.1%, Sandbox 7.3%, Open World 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: It is much harsher and more systemic, but its procedural survival, crafting depth, and sandbox freedom suit players who enjoy Necesse's simulation side.
- #24 Dinkum
79% matchVery Positive92% of 28,725 reviews2025
Dev: James BendonPub: KRAFTON, Inc.
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 28.7 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 52.5% ★, Crafting 8.1%, Sandbox 7.7%, Co-op 7%, Building 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: Its town-building, NPC recruitment, gathering, and multiplayer exploration capture Necesse's settlement-building appeal better than most life-sim hybrids.
- #25 Crashlands
82% matchVery Positive90% of 6,682 reviews2016
Dev: Butterscotch Shenanigans
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 13.6 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 39.2% ★, Crafting 8.5%, Open World 8.4%, Sandbox 8.3%, Survival 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: A more story-driven action-crafting RPG, but the constant gathering, crafting, questing, and combat escalation feels very familiar.
- #26 Dig or Die
81% matchVery Positive90% of 4,269 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 43.7% ★, Sandbox 10.3%, Survival 9.3%, Crafting 8.8%, Open World 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: Its side-scrolling exploration, crafting, and defensive base building echo Necesse's build-up-and-survive gameplay loop.
- #27 Force of Nature 2: Ghost Keeper
81% matchVery Positive80% of 2,332 reviews2021
Dev: A.Y.stdPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 16.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 31.4% ★, Open World 11%, Crafting 10.9%, Sandbox 10.2%, Survival 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: It blends survival crafting, base building, exploration, and boss fights with a steady progression loop that feels close in spirit.
- #28 Craftopia
80% matchMostly Positive77% of 20,035 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 33.7% ★, Open World 12.1%, Crafting 11.4%, Survival 8.9%, Sandbox 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: This chaotic open-world crafting sandbox offers multiplayer, dungeons, bosses, and plenty of progression systems to tinker with.
- #29 Everwind
77% matchVery Positive82% of 3,221 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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: Crafting 12.1%, Sandbox 12%, Open World 11.6%, Survival 10.4%, Building 10.1%
- #30 Palworld
77% matchVery Positive94% of 421,232 reviews2024
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 34.5 hrsMean: 70.8 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 35.8% ★, Open World 10.2%, Survival 8.4%, Multiplayer 6.8%, Crafting 6.6%
- #31 Grounded
78% matchVery Positive90% of 93,832 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.3 hrsMean: 41.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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: Open World Survival Craft 39% ★, Survival 11.4%, Base Building 8.3%, Multiplayer 8.1%, Crafting 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: Co-op survival, memorable biome exploration, gear crafting, and big boss encounters make it a good 3D option for Necesse's adventure loop.
- #32 Tribes of Midgard
78% matchMostly Positive76% of 23,133 reviews2021
Dev: NorsfellPub: Gearbox Publishing
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 19.5 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 52.9% ★, Base Building 9.2%, Online Co-Op 8.6%, Survival 8.2%, Multiplayer 8%
Why You'll Like It: The combination of co-op crafting, base defense, exploration, and escalating boss threats makes it a respectable lower-end match.
- #33 Omega Crafter
76% matchMostly Positive80% of 566 reviews2025
Dev: Preferred Networks
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.5 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 31.8% ★, Automation 9.7%, Crafting 8.3%, Open World 8.2%, Survival 7.3%
- #34 Romestead
76% matchMostly Positive74% of 201 reviews2026
Dev: BeartwigsPub: Three Friends
Windows
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 31.8% ★, Crafting 10.5%, Survival 8.3%, Sandbox 7.7%, Base Building 7.2%
- #35 Soulmask
74% matchMostly Positive77% of 21,464 reviews2026
Dev: CampFire StudioPub: Qooland Games
Windows
Median: 13.8 hrsMean: 68.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. Possess any of your tribespeople, recruit followers, and build a thriving automated civilization. Survive, expand, and forge your own legacy across a vast ancient open world — together with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.7% ★, Automation 9.3%, Open World 8.7%, Sandbox 8.4%, Base Building 8.2%
- #36 Shamania
75% matchMostly Positive77% of 145 reviews2025
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% ★, Crafting 8.7%, Open World 8.4%, Survival 7.1%, Sandbox 6.9%
- #37 Cubic Odyssey
73% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,584 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 45.5% ★, Sandbox 10.3%, Base Building 9.7%, Building 8.2%, Co-op 8%
- #38 The Planet Crafter
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 70,189 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.5 hrsMean: 37.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.8% ★, Base Building 8%, Crafting 7.4%, Automation 7.1%, Survival 7%
- #39 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
72% matchVery Positive82% of 9,989 reviews2024
Dev: Merge GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.3% ★, Survival 7.5%, Crafting 7.3%, Base Building 7.2%, Open World 7%
- #40 Boundless
75% matchMixed70% of 2,767 reviews2018
Dev: Monumental, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 32.9 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 47.9% ★, Sandbox 11.4%, Open World 10%, Crafting 9.7%, Building 7.1%
- #41 Lodventure
73% matchMostly Positive74% of 161 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 40.6% ★, Open World 8.2%, Survival 7.6%, Co-op 7.5%, Crafting 7.1%
- #42 Vagabond
73% matchMostly Positive77% of 99 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 41.8% ★, Sandbox 11.4%, Open World 10.2%, Crafting 8.2%, Pixel Graphics 6.1%
- #43 Wild Omission
72% matchVery Positive89% of 63 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 36.9% ★, Crafting 9.5%, Sandbox 8.5%, Open World 8.4%, Survival 8.2%
- #44 Eden Crafters
69% matchVery Positive86% of 2,425 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.3 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 34.8% ★, Automation 9.4%, Crafting 7.9%, Sandbox 7.4%, Base Building 7.3%
- #45 ASTRONEER
70% matchVery Positive92% of 137,959 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.2 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 38.4% ★, Open World 8.6%, Survival 7.8%, Sandbox 6.8%, Multiplayer 6.8%
- #46 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 44.9% ★, Sandbox 9.7%, Open World 9.6%, Survival 8.3%, Crafting 6.6%
- #47 MISERY
67% matchVery Positive83% of 23,009 reviews2025
Dev: Platypus EntertainmentPub: Ytopia
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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: Open World Survival Craft 33.9% ★, Survival 9%, Crafting 8.3%, Open World 8.2%, Base Building 7.4%
- #48 Sun Haven
69% matchVery Positive81% of 24,867 reviews2023
Dev: Pixel Sprout Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.9 hrsMean: 31.4 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 26.7%, Crafting 25.4%, Pixel Graphics 22%, RPG 12.9%, Exploration 7%
- #49 Rising World
71% matchVery Positive86% of 5,890 reviews2014
Dev: JIW-Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 21.2 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 39.8% ★, Sandbox 8.9%, Crafting 8.6%, Base Building 8%, Building 7.5%
- #50 Longvinter
69% matchMixed67% of 7,565 reviews2025
Dev: Uuvana Studios
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 42.7 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Fish, farm, craft, gather, cook, loot or steal from other players and build a campsite or a village with your friends in an open-world multiplayer sandbox game without rules!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.3% ★, Crafting 10.2%, Survival 9.7%, Open World 9.2%, Multiplayer 8.6%
- #51 PixARK
70% matchMostly Positive73% of 13,071 reviews2019
Dev: Snail Games USA
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 40.2 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 16.3%, Open World 14.9%, Sandbox 13.7%, Multiplayer 10.4%, Crafting 9.1%
- #52 Nightingale
68% matchMixed67% of 17,932 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 37.9% ★, Open World 8%, Crafting 7.8%, Survival 7.7%, Base Building 6.6%
- #53 Adventure Craft
71% matchVery Positive82% of 225 reviews2017
Dev: Edible Entertainment
Windows
Adventure Craft is a challenging procedurally generated sandbox RPG with roguelike elements. Hunt monsters, horde loot, and craft weapons and armor, to survive in a vast ever-changing RPG world full of action, extreme danger and wonderful surprises.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.6% ★, Sandbox 10.4%, Open World 9.6%, Base Building 9.1%, Building 8%
- #54 Re.poly
70% 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 40.3% ★, Sandbox 9.9%, Crafting 9.6%, Open World 8.7%, Survival 8.5%
- #55 Nova Lands
67% matchVery Positive89% of 3,422 reviews2023
Dev: BEHEMUTTPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Nova Lands is a factory building, exploration, and island management game. Explore, engage in combat, and automate your industry. The planet you’re on is full of mysteries, creatures, people, and things to do. Welcome to your new home amongst the stars!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.9% ★, Automation 11.3%, Sandbox 9.2%, Base Building 8.7%, Crafting 7.5%
- #56 Creativerse
68% matchMostly Positive78% of 30,868 reviews2017
Dev: Playful Corp.
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 63%
A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.1% ★, Sandbox 8.6%, Crafting 8.4%, Open World 7.5%, Survival 7.1%
- #57 Plains of Pain
67% matchVery Positive84% of 757 reviews2023
Dev: Cobra Byte Digital
Windows
Survive a brutal open world alone or with friends. Explore a procedural wasteland scorched by chaos. Build and defend your base, trade for what you need, complete deadly quests, and fight to claim faction outposts before someone else does.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.6% ★, Sandbox 8.8%, Crafting 8%, Base Building 7.7%, Open World 7.7%
- #58 ENDALOR
65% matchMostly Positive71% of 239 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 38.2% ★, Open World 7.5%, Survival 7%, Crafting 6.5%, Base Building 6%
- #59 ICARUS
66% matchMostly Positive74% of 63,962 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 46.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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: Open World Survival Craft 38.8% ★, Survival 8.8%, Base Building 7.6%, Crafting 7.6%, Open World 6.7%
- #60 Whisper of the Swallows
64% matchVery Positive86% of 163 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 39.3% ★, Sandbox 9.3%, Crafting 9%, Survival 7.8%, Open World 7.4%
