- #1 Survival: Fountain of Youth
97% matchVery Positive86% of 4,270 reviews2024
Dev: Odinsoft Inc.Pub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 18.7 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Survival: Fountain of Youth is a challenging single-player open-world adventure game set on the Caribbean islands. Survive as a shipwrecked 16th-century explorer, craft tools and shelter, and uncover the secrets of both an ancient civilization and your own fate.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.7% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Survival 10.5%, Crafting 10.5%, Sandbox 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a similarly detailed survival experience with a strong focus on exploration and crafting in a challenging, realistic environment.
- #2 Valheim
95% matchVery Positive94% of 529,829 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 25.6 hrsMean: 76.1 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 35.4% ★, Survival 11.2%, Open World 10.1%, Base Building 9.6%, Crafting 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: This title perfectly captures the spirit of open-world exploration, base building, and RPG-like progression found in Novus Inceptio.
- #3 Wurm Unlimited
96% matchMostly Positive71% of 3,128 reviews2015
Dev: Code Club ABPub: Plug In Digital
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Wurm Unlimited is the standalone version of the fantasy sandbox world Wurm Online, the MMORPG where the players are in charge! A pioneer in the ideas of player influence, crafting and adventure, it is now one of the most deep and feature packed true sandbox experiences available.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.4% ★, Sandbox 11.6%, Open World 10.9%, Crafting 10.8%, Survival 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: It offers an incredibly deep sandbox experience where crafting, terraforming, and building are the primary pillars of gameplay.
- #4 Force of Nature
94% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,198 reviews2016
Dev: A.Y.std
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.8% ★, Crafting 12.6%, Survival 11.2%, Sandbox 8.6%, Open World 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival-crafting game that mirrors the exploration and resource-gathering loops of the seed game.
- #5 Medieval Dynasty
93% matchVery Positive91% of 49,970 reviews2021
Dev: Render CubePub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 35.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.
Why similar: Crafting 19.4%, Building 16.6%, Base Building 13%, Survival 12.4%, Open World 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: This game combines survival and base building with deep RPG elements and a persistent world that evolves as you play.
- #6 Planet Explorers
94% matchMixed62% of 6,817 reviews2016
Dev: Pathea Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Planet Explorers is an open world sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.3% ★, Sandbox 13.4%, Open World 11.5%, Crafting 8.9%, Survival 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: It features a unique voxel-based world that allows for extensive exploration and creative building similar to the sandbox nature of Novus Inceptio.
- #7 7 Days to Die
91% matchVery Positive87% of 396,805 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 16.8 hrsMean: 107.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.8% ★, Survival 14.9%, Base Building 11.3%, Open World 10.3%, Sandbox 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: It is a classic in the survival-crafting genre, focusing on base defense, scavenging, and character progression.
- #8 Starsand
92% matchMixed66% of 1,227 reviews2022
Dev: Tunnel Vision StudioPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Starsand is a mystic survival game set among the dunes of an arcane desert. An open-world full of danger, vast environments and mysterious happenings await you! Explore, hunt, craft, build – and SURVIVE.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.3% ★, Base Building 11.4%, Crafting 10.8%, Survival 10.6%, Open World 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: This survival game focuses on desert exploration and building, capturing the feeling of being stranded in a mysterious, harsh landscape.
- #9 Subsistence
91% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,601 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 40.0 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.1% ★, Survival 13.2%, Crafting 11.6%, Open World 9.3%, Base Building 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore survival game that emphasizes base building and resource management against a persistent and challenging world.
- #10 Conan Exiles
90% matchMostly Positive79% of 111,441 reviews2018
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 16.9 hrsMean: 111.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
An online multiplayer survival game, now with sorcery, set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian. Survive in a vast open world sandbox, build your home into a kingdom, and dominate your enemies in single or multiplayer.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.4% ★, Survival 16.3%, Open World 13.6%, Crafting 11.4%, Building 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: This game blends brutal survival mechanics with extensive base building and RPG progression in a vast, dangerous open world.
- #11 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 29.2% ★, Crafting 10.9%, Base Building 10.3%, Survival 10.1%, Open World 9%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers a vast open world with a focus on crafting and RPG-style character development.
- #12 Mist Survival
89% matchMostly Positive76% of 14,042 reviews2018
Dev: Dimension 32 Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 73%
MIST SURVIVAL is a Single-player, survival stealth sandbox game Players will experience the Apocalypse stimulation in the form of virus pandemic, the players have to deal with it to survive through the difficulties such as finding shelter and food, threats from the environment and climate: wild animals, bandits, infected, and dense mist t
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.1% ★, Survival 17.6%, Open World 12.5%, Base Building 10.4%, Crafting 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on realistic survival mechanics and base building in a world plagued by environmental threats.
- #13 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
87% matchVery Positive82% of 9,646 reviews2024
Dev: Merge GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 15.1 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 28.9% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Survival 10.2%, Crafting 9.6%, Open World 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a unique perspective on survival and building, focusing on exploration and crafting in a world where you are tiny.
- #14 Scrapnaut
88% matchMostly Positive70% of 824 reviews2021
Dev: SpiffyBitPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements. Explore an open world with different biomes, take care of oxygen, manage your farms, generate electricity, build your home and much more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.3% ★, Survival 12%, Building 11.9%, Sandbox 10.1%, Crafting 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-crafting game with a focus on base building and exploration in a stylized, atmospheric world.
- #15 The Forest
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 665,921 reviews2018
Dev: Endnight Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 37.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.7% ★, Survival 14.8%, Open World 10.7%, Crafting 9.1%, Building 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a compelling mix of survival, crafting, and base building with a strong emphasis on atmosphere and exploration.
- #16 Creativerse
85% 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 28.7% ★, Crafting 11%, Sandbox 10.3%, Survival 9.6%, Building 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox game that emphasizes creative building and exploration in a vibrant, voxel-based world.
- #17 GRAV
86% matchMixed47% of 6,921 reviews2015
Dev: BitMonster, Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 60%
GRAV is a sand box experience where you explore a multitude of planets, hunt strange alien creatures, build and defend outposts, craft weapons and armor, and attempt to survive against other players in a hostile environment.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.6% ★, Survival 12.6%, Base Building 11.4%, Open World 10.9%, Sandbox 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi survival game that focuses on exploration, base building, and resource gathering in an alien landscape.
- #18 Eden Crafters
83% matchVery Positive86% of 2,214 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in Eden Crafters, a solo and co-op open-world game that challenges you to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Temper the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.7% ★, Base Building 13%, Crafting 11.9%, Sandbox 10.2%, Open World 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: It blends survival and base building with automation mechanics, perfect for players who enjoy the technical side of crafting.
- #19 Eco
84% matchVery Positive81% of 13,777 reviews2018
Dev: Strange Loop Games
Windows
Median: 16.8 hrsMean: 88.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Build a civilization of real people, working together to advance society and stop a meteor, all without destroying the ecosystem in the process.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.5% ★, Sandbox 11.6%, Base Building 11.3%, Building 10.7%, Crafting 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes community-driven survival, crafting, and building with a focus on long-term world development.
- #20 ICARUS
80% matchMostly Positive74% of 62,078 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 44.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 33.8% ★, Survival 12.4%, Base Building 12.1%, Crafting 10.2%, Open World 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a session-based survival experience that emphasizes crafting and exploration in a hostile alien environment.
- #21 Outward Definitive Edition
79% matchMostly Positive73% of 30,417 reviews2022
Dev: Nine Dots StudioPub: Prime Matter
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 17.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
No remarkable journey is achieved without great effort. In Outward, the cold of the night or an infected wound can be as dangerous as a predator lurking in the dark. Explore the vast world of Aurai solo or in Co-op. The Definitive Edition features both DLCs and quality of life improvements.
Why similar: Open World 37.8%, Survival 26.8%, RPG 18.9%, Third Person 6.2%, Exploration 4.5%
Why You'll Like It: A challenging RPG that incorporates survival mechanics like hunger, thirst, and temperature management into its exploration.
- #22 Xsyon - Prelude
82% matchMostly Positive73% of 369 reviews2014
Dev: Notorious Games
Windows
Xsyon is a player driven apocalyptic fantasy sandbox MMORPG, set in a living and evolving environment. Players create the world they want to live in as they form tribes, construct towns, shape landscapes, create quests, hunt, farm, gather, build societies and develop a New World.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.1% ★, Base Building 9.4%, Sandbox 9%, Crafting 8.9%, Open World 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic sandbox game that focuses on community building and player-driven survival.
- #23 Landless
82% matchMixed44% of 194 reviews2017
Dev: CodeBullet
Windows
Explore and conquer the high seas in this post-apocalyptic sandbox water world survival game where you must fight, build, and craft to survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.3% ★, Survival 12.4%, Base Building 10.1%, Open World 8.3%, Crafting 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: This game provides a unique survival experience set on the open ocean, focusing on building and maintaining a floating base.
- #24 Green Hell
79% matchVery Positive85% of 94,379 reviews2019
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 18.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.2% ★, Survival 14%, Crafting 9.4%, Open World 8.5%, Base Building 8%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers a highly realistic and punishing survival experience that focuses heavily on crafting and resource management.
- #25 Boundless
81% matchMixed70% of 2,766 reviews2018
Dev: Monumental, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 33.0 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 37.6% ★, Sandbox 12.7%, Crafting 11.8%, Open World 11.5%, Building 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: A massive sandbox game that allows for extensive building and exploration across interconnected worlds.
- #26 Project Zomboid
78% matchVery Positive94% of 440,877 reviews2013
Dev: The Indie Stone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 14.8 hrsMean: 82.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.6% ★, Survival 18.1%, Open World 12.3%, Sandbox 9.8%, Post-apocalyptic 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: It is the gold standard for deep, complex survival mechanics and sandbox base building.
- #27 SURVIVAL: Postapocalypse Now
78% matchMixed56% of 8,877 reviews2019
Dev: TB Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Want to survive? - Arm yourself and survive. Crafting, shooting, transport and much more awaits you in the Survival game. What happened to the world around and why he died - you may find out. But is this the main question now?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.6% ★, Survival 15.3%, Open World 10.3%, Post-apocalyptic 7.9%, Crafting 6.7%
- #28 Under A New Sun
76% matchMostly Positive76% of 368 reviews2023
Dev: New Horizon Games
Windows
While searching for a new home, an unexpected failure in your ship has left you stranded on a planet surprisingly similar to Earth. Discover a vast open world, hunt for food, develop technologies, and build yourself a new home to survive!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.6% ★, Survival 11.7%, Crafting 11.6%, Open World 11.2%, Base Building 10.6%
- #29 Alchemist's Awakening
77% matchMostly Positive73% of 496 reviews2019
Dev: OsarisGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Enter a world full of magic, mystery, beautiful landscapes and dangerous creatures. Build your own destiny, by yourself or with some friends, gather materials, use elements as attacks, recombine them into building blocks... and use your Alchemist's power to give life to any shape you built.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.9% ★, Crafting 14.9%, Sandbox 13.7%, Open World 11.7%, Survival 11%
- #30 Shamania
74% matchMostly Positive78% of 140 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 31.1% ★, Crafting 12.7%, Open World 11.6%, Survival 10.9%, Sandbox 9.2%
- #31 CrossWorlds: Escape
77% matchMixed64% of 157 reviews2020
Dev: Another Reality
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 97%
CrossWorlds: Escape is a hardcore game in which you will have to deploy all your skills to survive in a huge open world that is susceptible to changes in weather, seasons and various natural phenomena.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.5% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Crafting 10.5%, Sandbox 10.2%, Survival 10.2%
- #32 KeepUp Survival
75% matchMixed65% of 734 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
KeepUp Survival is an open base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and unfold your own story on a mysterious island.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.7% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Crafting 11.6%, Survival 11.3%, Open World 11%
- #33 TerraTech Worlds
74% matchMixed63% of 2,175 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.3% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 10.9%, Sandbox 10.2%, Survival 9.4%
- #34 Re.poly
75% matchVery Positive92% of 135 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 29% ★, Crafting 10.7%, Sandbox 10.1%, Base Building 10.1%, Survival 9.9%
- #35 Ars Notoria
73% matchMixed63% of 288 reviews2025
Dev: XRON SoftwarePub: Lilith Games
Windows
Ars Notoria is an open-world survival crafting game set in a rich fantasy world. Learn six distinct schools of magic, gather resources, build your base, expand your influence, and stand against the ever-shifting threat of the Enthralled. You are the one destined to change the kingdom.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.1% ★, Base Building 10%, Crafting 9.2%, Sandbox 8.9%, Survival 8.1%
- #36 Heat Death: Survival Train
72% matchMostly Positive79% of 660 reviews2024
Dev: Mass Game DevsPub: LightOnDevs
Windows
Heat Death is a sci-fi survival game where you can build, upgrade, and customize your battle train to explore and survive a frozen world! This train is not only your shelter and vehicle, but also your weapon and ally to face hostile drones, deadly storms, and hidden mysteries of an unknown world!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.8% ★, Crafting 11.3%, Base Building 11%, Survival 9.6%, Building 8.9%
- #37 Urge
73% matchVery Positive90% of 476 reviews2021
Dev: EnDrew
Windows
Fight, build, explore, survive, while the dynamic player-caused hazardous fog is slowly changing the rules of the world around you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.1% ★, Base Building 11%, Sandbox 9.1%, Crafting 9.1%, Survival 8.4%
- #38 Blockscape
76% matchMixed46% of 898 reviews2014
Dev: ioneo
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 49%
The ultimate block building game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.3% ★, Sandbox 12.8%, Crafting 8.4%, Open World 8%, Survival 7.5%
- #39 Rem Survival
73% matchMostly Positive76% of 802 reviews2021
Dev: Immortal Hand Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 47.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Scavenge abandoned ruins, craft gear from scrap and salvaged materials, and fight the environment itself as hunger, exposure, and exhaustion push you to your limits. There are no second chances—only adaptation or death.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.7% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Crafting 11.7%, Survival 10.5%, Open World 9.9%
- #40 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,643 reviews2021
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Experience the first stages of terraforming an entire planet in this space survival open world terraforming crafting game prologue. Explore, survive, collect, build your base then create oxygen, heat and pressure to make an hostile planet livable for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.7% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Survival 11.8%, Crafting 10.7%, Open World 9.9%
- #41 INCUR Survival
70% matchVery Positive84% of 103 reviews2022
Dev: INCUR
Windows
A survival open-world game, where you can gather resources, Hunt, Craft tools and armor, Tame Animals, Ride Animals, Build, and defend your base from creatures, and other players.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.1% ★, Crafting 12.2%, Building 11.6%, Survival 11%, Open World 10.2%
- #42 Nightingale
68% matchMixed67% of 17,841 reviews2024
Dev: Inflexion Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 23.9 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 34.1% ★, Survival 11.2%, Crafting 10.9%, Base Building 10.8%, Open World 10.5%
- #43 Plains of Pain
69% matchVery Positive85% of 692 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 28.7% ★, Base Building 11.4%, Crafting 10.1%, Sandbox 10%, Survival 9.2%
- #44 Dawnlands
70% matchMixed52% of 3,131 reviews2023
Dev: SEASUN GAMES PTE. LTD.
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Dawnlands is an Open-World Survival Crafting cross-platform game with a massive world and epic lore. A variety of biomes, relics, and puzzles dot the landscape... an ancient land, lain dormant for centuries, is waiting to be awoken. New stories are waiting to be written.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.2% ★, Crafting 10.7%, Survival 9.7%, Base Building 9.7%, Building 8.8%
- #45 Rising World
70% matchVery Positive86% of 5,845 reviews2014
Dev: JIW-Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 21.3 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 35.1% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Crafting 11.7%, Sandbox 11.1%, Building 10.4%
- #46 Crushed
71% matchMixed55% of 307 reviews2020
Dev: NipoBoxPub: NipoBox Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Crushed — is an Singleplayer and Multiplayer First-Person Survival Sandbox in an Open World! Challenge the wild and be ready to survive in harsh conditions. Explore the world, get resources, cook food, build a house, farm, hunt, and enjoy nature.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.6% ★, Survival 10%, Open World 9.5%, Crafting 9%, Base Building 8.6%
- #47 Astral Terra
72% 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 37.9% ★, Open World 11.9%, Sandbox 11.6%, Survival 11.4%, Crafting 8.7%
- #48 StarRupture
65% matchVery Positive81% of 10,861 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.3% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 11.2%, Survival 10.8%, Open World 10.4%
- #49 ArkCraft: The Rebirth of the World
67% matchMostly Positive75% of 171 reviews2024
Dev: ZD Yazilim
Windows
In this open-world crafting and building game, you explore an ancient world full of dangers and secrets. Collect animals and plants, build bases and master the craft as you build your ark and save civilization from destruction by the flood and then rebuild it.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.4% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Crafting 13.2%, Open World 11.8%, Survival 9.3%
- #50 Vortex: The Gateway
71% matchMixed57% of 398 reviews2016
Dev: StormCube Games
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Vortex: The Gateway is an open world survival horror game with two game modes. If you want to survive then be alert, sneak, build and fight. Meanwhile life back on Earth changes dramatically. What changes? You will get bits of information through your adventure. Prepare for the worst!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 50.3% ★, Survival 15.7%, Open World 11%, Crafting 10.9%, Building 5.9%
- #51 Volcanoids
67% matchVery Positive83% of 9,214 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.9% ★, Crafting 10.7%, Base Building 9.8%, Survival 9.7%, Open World 9.6%
- #52 Voidtrain
64% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,176 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 13.8 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 37.8% ★, Base Building 9.8%, Survival 9.3%, Crafting 9.1%, Open World 7.9%
- #53 Palworld
62% matchVery Positive94% of 417,805 reviews2024
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 34.2 hrsMean: 70.0 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 34.7% ★, Open World 14.4%, Survival 13.2%, Crafting 10%, Base Building 8.3%
- #54 Planetaries
67% matchMixed59% of 222 reviews2024
Dev: EY-Studio
Windows
Experience a vast Sci-fi open-world survival TD game set on a distant planet deep in the universe. Craft, build, mine, trade, explore, and survive in this alien world. Collect Data and defend against waves of enemies seeking to banish you. Enjoy the adventure in Singleplayer or Multiplayer.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.7% ★, Base Building 10.5%, Crafting 10.3%, Survival 9.6%, Open World 9.5%
- #55 The Gold River Project
65% matchMixed67% of 526 reviews2026
Dev: Fairview Games Inc.
Windows
The Gold River Project™ invites you and your friends on an open world camping trip gone wrong. Alone or together, you must explore, craft, build, and survive the increasingly harsh environments of the Pacific Northwest wilderness as you uncover the experiment trapping you inside.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.1% ★, Open World 12.7%, Survival 11.2%, Crafting 10.9%, Third Person 6.2%
