- #1 Core Keeper
97% matchVery Positive93% of 66,104 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.2 hrsMean: 34.7 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 28.3% ★, Open World 7.7%, Sandbox 7.5%, Crafting 7.4%, Survival 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: This top-down pixel sandbox pairs co-op base building and resource gathering with deep underground exploration, crafting, and escalating boss fights very much in Necesse's lane.
- #2 Terraria
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,548,448 reviews2011
Dev: Re-Logic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 33.8 hrsMean: 151.8 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 42.5% ★, Sandbox 10%, Survival 6.8%, Crafting 6.5%, Multiplayer 5.7%
Why You'll Like It: Its procedurally generated 2D worlds, base building, mining, gear progression, multiplayer, and major boss ladder make it the clearest parallel to Necesse.
- #3 Keplerth
96% matchVery Positive84% of 4,159 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 17.2%, Open World 15%, Survival 13.9%, Building 12.7%, Multiplayer 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: It mixes top-down survival crafting, procedural exploration, dungeon runs, farming, and recruitable helpers in a way that feels especially close to Necesse's loop.
- #4 Starbound
95% matchVery Positive90% of 123,281 reviews2016
Dev: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.0 hrsMean: 64.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.9% ★, Sandbox 9.4%, Crafting 6%, Survival 5.7%, Open World 5.3%
Why You'll Like It: Its 2D crafting sandbox structure emphasizes exploration, gear upgrades, building, and dungeon-like planet adventures across a huge procedural universe.
- #5 Tinkertown
94% matchMixed67% of 1,344 reviews2023
Dev: Headup
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 10.1%, Multiplayer 10.1%, RPG 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: You build up a settlement while exploring a pixel world full of biomes, dungeons, and bosses, with online co-op supporting the same relaxed-but-adventurous feel.
- #6 Valheim
94% matchVery Positive94% of 540,690 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 26.0 hrsMean: 78.0 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 40.2% ★, Open World 7.7%, Survival 7.6%, Crafting 6.6%, Online Co-Op 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: The emphasis on cooperative exploration, meaningful base building, biome progression, and big boss milestones scratches the same survival-adventure itch.
- #7 Len's Island
92% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,866 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 43.7% ★, Sandbox 8.6%, Crafting 8.6%, Survival 8.4%, Open World 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: Its mix of home building, farming, crafting, and combat-heavy dungeon delving feels like a more action-focused 3D cousin to Necesse.
- #8 The Survivalists
93% matchMostly Positive76% of 10,097 reviews2020
Dev: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.8 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 33.2% ★, Crafting 9.8%, Survival 8.3%, Sandbox 7%, Base Building 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the top-down survival-crafting perspective, co-op exploration, and base-building rhythm, even if its combat is a bit lighter.
- #9 Planet Centauri
91% matchMostly Positive77% of 2,387 reviews2024
Dev: Permadeath
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.7 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 16.3%, Open World 13.8%, Crafting 13.8%, Building 10.1%, Multiplayer 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: This pixel sandbox leans into exploration, crafting, taming, and combat across a large procedural world with a Terraria-meets-Necesse feel.
- #10 Portal Knights
91% matchVery Positive83% of 22,346 reviews2017
Dev: Keen Games GmbHPub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 21.3 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 13.5%, Building 13.4%, Survival 12.5%
Why You'll Like It: Although 3D, it similarly blends crafting, base building, co-op adventuring, and boss-driven RPG progression in a light sandbox world.
- #11 Enshrouded
89% matchVery Positive86% of 104,779 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.9 hrsMean: 46.5 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 16.6%, Survival 13.5%, Base Building 13%, Crafting 11.6%, Multiplayer 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: Its rewarding loop of building a home base, exploring dangerous zones, crafting upgrades, and tackling bosses makes it a strong modern alternative.
- #12 DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS™ 2
90% matchVery Positive92% of 8,060 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 57.6% ★, Sandbox 8.7%, Building 7.8%, Crafting 6%, RPG 5.5%
Why You'll Like It: It is one of the best matches for Necesse's settlement side, combining building, quests, villagers, and constant material-driven progression.
- #13 Feel The Snow
88% matchVery Positive87% of 3,059 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 43.1% ★, Survival 7.9%, Crafting 7.3%, Multiplayer 6.9%, Sandbox 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: It offers pixel-art co-op survival with building, exploration, and boss fights, giving off a compact but recognizable Necesse-like vibe.
- #14 Crea
89% 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 48.3% ★, Sandbox 11.2%, Crafting 8.7%, Survival 5.8%, Multiplayer 4.4%
Why You'll Like It: Like Necesse, it is a 2D sandbox RPG built around exploration, crafting, combat progression, and shaping your own world.
- #15 Solace Crafting
87% matchMostly Positive72% of 898 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 35.3% ★, Crafting 8.2%, Survival 7.4%, Open World 7.3%, Sandbox 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a huge procedural survival-crafting world with multiplayer, base building, and long-form progression for players who want scale.
- #16 Aground
86% matchVery Positive94% of 2,018 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 37.7% ★, Open World 9.5%, Base Building 9.1%, Survival 8.5%, Sandbox 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: It starts small and expands into a surprisingly rich crafting RPG with NPCs, base growth, exploration, and steady progression.
- #17 V Rising
84% matchVery Positive89% of 136,761 reviews2024
Dev: Stunlock Studios
Windows
Median: 20.8 hrsMean: 57.9 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 15.9%, Survival 14.5%, Base Building 14.2%, Crafting 12.7%, Sandbox 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: The castle-building, resource progression, co-op play, and boss-hunting structure align well with Necesse even though the combat is faster and darker.
- #18 Crashlands
86% matchVery Positive90% of 6,745 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 39.7% ★, Crafting 8.4%, Open World 8.3%, Sandbox 8%, Survival 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: This top-down crafting RPG focuses on constant gear and material upgrades, questing, and combat-heavy exploration in a very accessible way.
- #19 Forager
84% matchVery Positive89% of 43,959 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 47.5% ★, Crafting 9.6%, Survival 8.7%, Sandbox 6.2%, Pixel Graphics 6%
Why You'll Like It: It delivers the same addictive resource loop, crafting unlocks, and top-down pixel charm, albeit with much lighter survival and colony systems.
- #20 Dinkum
82% matchVery Positive92% of 29,064 reviews2025
Dev: James BendonPub: KRAFTON, Inc.
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 29.1 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 53.2% ★, Crafting 7.9%, Sandbox 7.5%, Co-op 7%, Building 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: The town-building and multiplayer sandbox structure capture Necesse's cozy colony-building side more than its dungeon-crawling side.
- #21 Junk Jack
85% matchMostly Positive78% of 478 reviews2016
Dev: Pixbits
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 21.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Make the world truly yours in Junk Jack, a relaxing sandbox experience focused on building and improving your home. Discover new planets, tame and breed creatures, cook foods, collect animal companions, farm exotic plants, collect fish, grow flowers, play with your friends!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.4% ★, Sandbox 10.3%, Crafting 8.2%, Survival 7.8%, Building 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: Its 2D block-building, mining, crafting, and exploration make it a natural pick if you mainly love Necesse's sandbox freedom.
- #22 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
82% matchVery Positive82% of 10,429 reviews2024
Dev: Max Ent Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 16.1 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 34.8% ★, Survival 7.5%, Base Building 7.4%, Crafting 7.2%, Open World 7%
Why You'll Like It: This co-op survival game emphasizes exploration, base building, crafting, and progression through a hostile world much like Necesse's broader loop.
- #23 Craft The World
83% matchVery Positive88% of 17,055 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 21.4%, Building 17.9%, Survival 13.1%, Open World 12.2%
Why You'll Like It: If your favorite part of Necesse is managing a growing settlement while digging for resources and expanding defenses, this leans hard into that angle.
- #24 Grounded
81% matchVery Positive90% of 95,505 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.5 hrsMean: 41.8 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 39.5% ★, Survival 11.3%, Base Building 8.3%, Multiplayer 8.1%, Co-op 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: Its co-op base building, exploration, crafting tiers, and dangerous world progression echo Necesse's adventure loop in a very different setting.
- #25 Don't Starve Together
81% matchVery Positive95% of 541,972 reviews2016
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 64.6 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 71.2% ★, Survival 14.5%, Multiplayer 3.2%, Co-op 2.7%, Open World 2.3%
Why You'll Like It: Its procedural co-op survival, base planning, and constant resource pressure make it a good fit if you enjoy the harsher side of Necesse.
- #26 Tribes of Midgard
80% matchMostly Positive76% of 23,242 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 53.4% ★, Base Building 9.2%, Online Co-Op 8.5%, Survival 8.1%, Multiplayer 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: It blends co-op crafting, base defense, world exploration, and boss hunts into a brisker but still familiar progression structure.
- #27 Force of Nature 2: Ghost Keeper
79% matchMostly Positive80% of 2,353 reviews2021
Dev: A.Y.stdPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 16.6 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 31.8% ★, Open World 11%, Crafting 10.8%, Sandbox 9.9%, Survival 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: It combines open-world gathering, crafting, building, and combat progression in a way that feels comfortably adjacent to Necesse.
- #28 ASKA
78% matchMostly Positive80% of 12,091 reviews2024
Dev: Sand Sailor StudioPub: Thunderful Publishing
Windows
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 28.9 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 34.3% ★, Sandbox 8.1%, Base Building 7.5%, Survival 7%, Automation 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: It is less dungeon-focused, but the combination of co-op survival, base building, and assigning villagers to keep a settlement running should appeal to Necesse colony fans.
- #29 Tinkerlands
77% matchVery Positive86% of 4,087 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 14.2 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 36.8% ★, Sandbox 8.1%, Open World 7.1%, Survival 6.7%, Crafting 6.4%
- #30 Palworld
75% matchVery Positive95% of 480,493 reviews2026
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 40.2 hrsMean: 84.9 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 36.3% ★, Open World 10.4%, Survival 8.4%, Multiplayer 6.8%, Crafting 6.5%
- #31 DYSMANTLE
78% matchVery Positive91% of 11,572 reviews2021
Dev: 10tons Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 25.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Ascend from your shelter. Ruin everything. Escape the wretched island. ⚔️🔨🎣🌱🌵🍰 Explore. Fight. Level up. Survive. Gather. Craft. Harvest. Hunt. Build. Farm. Solve puzzles. Fish. Cook. Live. Enjoy the bittersweet post-apocalypse.
Why similar: Open World 18.7%, Survival 17.8%, Crafting 17.5%, Base Building 14.2%, Sandbox 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: The top-down perspective, crafting, exploration, and steady unlock-based progression make it appealing, though it is more solitary and less sandbox-driven.
- #32 Romestead
77% matchMostly Positive77% of 4,827 reviews2026
Dev: BeartwigsPub: Three Friends
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 32.3% ★, Crafting 10.3%, Survival 8.3%, Sandbox 7.5%, Base Building 7.4%
- #33 CryoFall
79% matchMostly Positive78% of 6,462 reviews2021
Dev: AtomicTorch StudioPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
CryoFall is a sci-fi colony simulation survival game set on a forgotten planet in a distant future. Master technology, agriculture, trading, industry, cybernetics, exploration, and more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.1% ★, Crafting 10.5%, Sandbox 9.7%, Base Building 9.4%, Survival 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: This top-down multiplayer survival game matches Necesse's crafting and base-building focus while shifting the setting toward sci-fi.
- #34 Everwind
76% matchVery Positive81% of 3,756 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 14.1 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 11.9%, Sandbox 11.8%, Open World 11.7%, Survival 10.4%, Building 10.2%
- #35 Shamania
76% matchMostly Positive74% of 162 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 33.5% ★, Crafting 8.6%, Open World 8.5%, Survival 7.1%, Sandbox 6.7%
- #36 Omega Crafter
74% matchMostly Positive79% of 575 reviews2025
Dev: Preferred Networks
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 35.1% ★, Automation 8.7%, Crafting 7.6%, Open World 6.9%, Survival 6.7%
- #37 ASTRONEER
74% matchVery Positive92% of 139,015 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.6 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 38.9% ★, Open World 8.7%, Survival 7.7%, Multiplayer 6.7%, Sandbox 6.7%
- #38 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 42.3% ★, Sandbox 11.1%, Open World 10.2%, Crafting 8.1%, Pixel Graphics 6.2%
- #39 Lodventure
73% matchMostly Positive74% of 164 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 41.1% ★, Open World 8.2%, Survival 7.5%, Co-op 7.5%, Crafting 6.9%
- #40 Astral Terra
75% 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 45.5% ★, Open World 9.6%, Sandbox 9.4%, Survival 8.3%, Crafting 6.5%
- #41 Boundless
73% matchMixed70% of 2,774 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 48.5% ★, Sandbox 11.1%, Open World 10%, Crafting 9.5%, Building 7.1%
- #42 Wild Omission
71% matchVery Positive88% of 80 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 37.5% ★, Crafting 9.3%, Open World 8.5%, Sandbox 8.2%, Survival 8.2%
- #43 Cubic Odyssey
70% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,720 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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% ★, Sandbox 10%, Base Building 9.8%, Building 8.2%, Co-op 8%
- #44 PixARK
72% matchMostly Positive73% of 13,223 reviews2019
Dev: Snail Games USA
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 40.6 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 16.4%, Open World 15%, Sandbox 13.4%, Multiplayer 10.4%, Crafting 8.9%
- #45 Sun Haven
69% matchVery Positive81% of 25,417 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 26.4%, Crafting 24.7%, Pixel Graphics 22.9%, RPG 13%, Exploration 7%
- #46 Eden Crafters
67% matchVery Positive85% of 2,630 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 14.0 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 35.5% ★, Automation 9%, Crafting 7.7%, Base Building 7.4%, Sandbox 7.2%
- #47 Wayward
71% matchVery Positive86% of 1,366 reviews2016
Dev: Unlok
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 21.6 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 48.4% ★, Survival 10.8%, Crafting 9.9%, Sandbox 7.1%, Open World 6.7%
- #48 Longvinter
69% matchMixed67% of 7,664 reviews2025
Dev: Uuvana Studios
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 45.1 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 35.7% ★, Crafting 10%, Survival 9.6%, Open World 9.2%, Multiplayer 8.5%
- #49 Rising World
71% matchVery Positive86% of 5,974 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 40.7% ★, Sandbox 8.6%, Crafting 8.4%, Base Building 8%, Building 7.4%
- #50 Nightingale
68% matchMixed66% of 18,038 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 38.3% ★, Open World 8%, Survival 7.7%, Crafting 7.6%, Base Building 6.7%
- #51 Blockscape
72% matchMixed46% of 898 reviews2014
Dev: ioneo
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 49%
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 57.8% ★, Sandbox 10.4%, Open World 6.5%, Crafting 6.3%, Survival 5.5%
- #52 ENDALOR
67% matchMixed70% of 272 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 38.8% ★, Open World 7.5%, Survival 7%, Crafting 6.3%, Base Building 6%
- #53 Whisper of the Swallows
66% matchVery Positive86% of 191 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 39.9% ★, Sandbox 9%, Crafting 8.8%, Survival 7.8%, Open World 7.4%
- #54 Farworld Pioneers
70% matchMostly Negative38% of 701 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 37.9% ★, Co-op 9.2%, Sandbox 8.9%, Crafting 8.7%, Base Building 8.1%
- #55 The Planet Crafter
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 73,089 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.7 hrsMean: 38.5 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 36.4% ★, Base Building 8.1%, Crafting 7.2%, Survival 7%, Automation 6.8%
- #56 Cube World
70% matchMostly Negative37% of 18,725 reviews2019
Dev: Picroma
Windows
Median: 5.4 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 22.6%, Multiplayer 13.4%, Online Co-Op 9.3%, Crafting 8.5%, Co-op 8.3%
- #57 Voidtrain
65% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,810 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 15.9 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 42.6% ★, Crafting 6.4%, Survival 6.4%, Co-op 6.3%, Base Building 6.2%
- #58 Adventure Craft
69% matchVery Positive83% of 229 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 44% ★, Sandbox 10.1%, Open World 9.6%, Base Building 9.1%, Building 8%
- #59 Creativerse
68% matchMostly Positive78% of 30,868 reviews2017
Dev: Playful Corp.
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 15.6 hrs≥1hr: 63%
A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.6% ★, Sandbox 8.4%, Crafting 8.3%, Open World 7.5%, Survival 7%
- #60 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 40.9% ★, Sandbox 9.6%, Crafting 9.4%, Open World 8.7%, Survival 8.5%
