Games Like Novus Inceptio

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 36.1% ★, Survival 11.1%, Open World 10.2%, Base Building 9.5%, Crafting 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: It perfectly balances survival, base-building, and RPG progression in a vast, procedurally generated world.

You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.

Why similar: Open World 18%, Base Building 17%, Survival 16.1%, Crafting 13.3%, Building 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: It combines voxel-based building with strong RPG progression and rewarding open-world exploration.

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%, Building 16.7%, Base Building 13.1%, Survival 12.6%, Open World 12%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on survival, base-building, and life-simulation elements within a historical setting.

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: Base Building 19.2%, Survival 17.9%, Open World 17.8%, Crafting 14.9%, Sandbox 11%

Why You'll Like It: It blends survival crafting with top-down action RPG combat and extensive base construction.

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 31.3% ★, Survival 14.9%, Base Building 11.2%, Open World 10.4%, Sandbox 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: It remains the gold standard for voxel-based base-building and survival against escalating threats.

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 32.9% ★, Survival 18%, Open World 12.5%, Sandbox 9.6%, Post-apocalyptic 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers the most deep and complex survival sandbox simulation currently available on Steam.

Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.2% ★, Survival 12.8%, Open World 10%, Crafting 9.1%, Building 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: It features extensive crafting, base-building, and creature taming in a vast, dangerous open world.

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 42.5% ★, Survival 13%, Crafting 11.3%, Open World 9.3%, Base Building 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A solid survival sandbox that emphasizes base-building and resource management against hostile AI.

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 29.3% ★, Base Building 11%, Survival 10.3%, Crafting 9.5%, Open World 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: It captures a unique sense of scale, exploration, and survival in a beautifully crafted world.

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 38%, Survival 26.6%, RPG 18.8%, Third Person 6.2%, Exploration 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging survival RPG that emphasizes preparation, exploration, and realistic survival mechanics.

Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.4% ★, Crafting 12.3%, Survival 11.1%, Sandbox 8.5%, Open World 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game that mirrors the crafting and exploration loop of the seed game.

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 31.2% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Survival 10.6%, Crafting 10.3%, Sandbox 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A detailed survival game that emphasizes exploration and crafting in a historical island setting.

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 36.4% ★, Survival 16.9%, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 10.6%, Open World 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Excellent survival mechanics are paired with creative base-building and environmental storytelling.

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 38.6% ★, Survival 17.6%, Open World 12.6%, Base Building 10.2%, Crafting 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on atmospheric survival, crafting, and defending against threats in an open world.

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 34.5% ★, Survival 12.4%, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 10%, Open World 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a session-based survival experience with a heavy focus on crafting and planetary exploration.

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 46.2% ★, Survival 14.7%, Open World 10.8%, Crafting 8.9%, Building 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A tense survival experience with strong base-building and exploration elements in a mysterious environment.

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 40.1% ★, Survival 12.5%, Base Building 11.2%, Open World 11%, Sandbox 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi survival sandbox with exploration and base-building at its core.

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 38.8% ★, Sandbox 13.2%, Open World 11.6%, Crafting 8.7%, Survival 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Features voxel-based terrain manipulation and extensive crafting in an open-world sci-fi setting.

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 34% ★, Sandbox 11.4%, Open World 11%, Crafting 10.6%, Survival 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a sandbox experience with deep terraforming and crafting systems that allow for massive projects.

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 32.8% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Crafting 10.6%, Survival 10.6%, Open World 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: A desert-themed survival game that emphasizes exploration and base-building in a harsh climate.

Welcome to SCUM, a ruthless open-world survival game where deep character customization defines the prisoner you become. Loot, craft, hunt, build, and fight to outlast a hostile island where every choice can change your fate. Stay alive. Stay dangerous. Become harder to kill.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.5% ★, Open World 13%, Survival 12.9%, Crafting 11.5%, Sandbox 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: A highly detailed survival simulation with deep character progression and complex crafting systems.

THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies -- only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47% ★, Survival 16.3%, Open World 10.8%, Crafting 6.4%, Sandbox 5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on pure survival and exploration in a harsh, unforgiving, and atmospheric environment.

Take the role of a plane crash survivor stranded somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Come face to face with some of the most life threatening scenarios that will result in a different experience each time you play. Scavenge. Discover. Survive.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.4% ★, Survival 14.4%, Crafting 10.3%, Open World 9.9%, Building 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the core survival loop of crafting and building in an isolated, island-based environment.

Hardcore and realistic; LiF is a Medieval multiplayer sandbox RPG, with free terraforming, a rich crafting system and preset and modular building construction. With engaging survival aspects, no target physics-based combat and a unique formation system - along with numerous other features - LiF is not for the faint of heart!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39% ★, Open World 12%, Crafting 11.7%, Survival 11.1%, Sandbox 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Features complex crafting and building systems similar to the depth found in Novus Inceptio.

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 68% ★, Survival 22.5%, Open World 3.3%, Crafting 3%, Sandbox 2.1%

Why You'll Like It: A stylized survival game with deep crafting and sandbox elements that reward experimentation.

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 27.5% ★, Base Building 9.3%, Sandbox 8.8%, Open World 8.8%, Crafting 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic sandbox that emphasizes community building and survival in a player-driven world.

Enter a living post-apocalyptic sandbox where the world doesn't wait for you. Build, craft, trade, earn the trust of factions, and forge your own path through a brutal procedural wasteland.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.2% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Crafting 9.9%, Sandbox 9.8%, Survival 9.2%

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 29.7% ★, Crafting 10.7%, Base Building 10.1%, Survival 10.1%, Open World 9.1%

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 48.1% ★, Survival 15.2%, Open World 10.3%, Post-apocalyptic 7.8%, Crafting 6.6%

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 30.8% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 10.7%, Sandbox 10.1%, Open World 9.5%

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 38% ★, Survival 11.7%, Crafting 11.5%, Open World 11.3%, Base Building 10.5%

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 45.5% ★, Crafting 14.5%, Sandbox 13.5%, Open World 11.8%, Survival 11%

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 32% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Crafting 10.3%, Survival 10.1%, Sandbox 10%

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33% ★, Base Building 12%, Survival 11.4%, Crafting 11.3%, Open World 11.1%

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 26.5% ★, Base Building 9.9%, Crafting 9%, Sandbox 8.8%, Survival 8.1%

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 31.3% ★, Crafting 11%, Base Building 11%, Survival 9.6%, Post-apocalyptic 8.9%

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 38.1% ★, Sandbox 12.5%, Open World 11.6%, Crafting 11.5%, Building 8.8%

Explore and mine fully destructible worlds. Automate increasingly complex production chains. Delve deep to uncover an ancient civilization’s powerful secrets and learn to love the sand in this factory game where every pixel is a valuable resource.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27% ★, Crafting 10.4%, Base Building 10.2%, Sandbox 10.1%, Open World 9.2%

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 31.5% ★, Crafting 12.5%, Open World 11.8%, Survival 10.8%, Sandbox 9%

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 33.2% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Crafting 11.4%, Survival 10.5%, Open World 10%

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 48.9% ★, Sandbox 12.5%, Crafting 8.2%, Open World 8.1%, Survival 7.5%

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 39.4% ★, Base Building 14.9%, Sandbox 12.2%, Building 11.1%, RPG 5.5%

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 29.5% ★, Base Building 10.8%, Sandbox 9%, Crafting 8.9%, Survival 8.4%

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 29.4% ★, Crafting 10.5%, Sandbox 9.9%, Survival 9.9%, Base Building 9.9%

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 26.7% ★, Survival 12.3%, Base Building 10%, Open World 8.4%, Crafting 8%

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 26.6% ★, Survival 11.9%, Building 11.9%, Sandbox 9.9%, Crafting 9.6%

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 16.3%, Open World 15.3%, Survival 14.9%, Sandbox 14.8%, Building 14.1%

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 33.1% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Survival 11.8%, Crafting 10.5%, Open World 10%

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 36% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 11.5%, Sandbox 10.9%, Building 10.3%

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.2% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Crafting 10.2%, Open World 9.7%, Sandbox 8.6%

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 32.1% ★, Survival 9.9%, Open World 9.6%, Crafting 8.8%, Base Building 8.5%

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 38.4% ★, Open World 12%, Sandbox 11.4%, Survival 11.3%, Crafting 8.5%

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 34.6% ★, Survival 11.2%, Base Building 10.7%, Crafting 10.6%, Open World 10.6%

Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.1% ★, Sandbox 9.1%, Open World 8.9%, Crafting 8.7%, Survival 8.3%

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 37.6% ★, Crafting 12%, Building 11.5%, Survival 11%, Open World 10.3%