- #1 Forever Skies
96% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,446 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 32.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A first-person survival game set on a post-apocalyptic, ecologically ruined Earth. Play solo or with up to 3 friends as you build, upgrade, and fly a high-tech airship. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and face dangers on the surface as you hunt for a cure to save humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.4% ★, Survival 13.9%, Base Building 12.7%, Open World 9.7%, Crafting 8.4%
- #2 GRAV
96% matchMixed47% of 6,921 reviews2015
Dev: BitMonster, Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 11.6 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 41.3% ★, Survival 15.3%, Base Building 10.5%, Open World 9.6%, Multiplayer 6.7%
- #3 Subsistence
95% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,685 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 39.9 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 44% ★, Survival 16.1%, Multiplayer 8.2%, Open World 8.1%, Crafting 7.8%
- #4 Volcanoids
94% matchVery Positive83% of 9,267 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: Survival 17.6%, Base Building 16.9%, Open World 11.9%, Crafting 11.9%, Multiplayer 10%
- #5 XERA: Survival
94% matchMixed66% of 7,908 reviews2021
Dev: Spotted Kiwi Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 24.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Action-focused, open world survival shooter, PvPvE against fellow mercenaries and lethal XOIDS. Raid for resources alone or with team-mates, build and defend your base, stash your gear and survive against the odds. You are the hunters. You are the hunted. And the robots never sleep…
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.5% ★, Survival 13.8%, Base Building 13.6%, Multiplayer 9.2%, Open World 8.4%
- #6 ICARUS
92% 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 38.3% ★, Survival 16.4%, Base Building 12%, Multiplayer 9.2%, Open World 8.2%
- #7 Fragmented
93% matchMixed43% of 1,964 reviews2017
Dev: Above and Beyond Technologies
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Stranded in a hostile alien world, you must fight to survive. Hunt, harvest, craft, advance skills, and build using local resources along with technology from your voyage.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49% ★, Survival 17.2%, Open World 8.5%, Multiplayer 8%, Crafting 5.6%
- #8 StarRupture
90% matchVery Positive81% of 12,313 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 22.6 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 32.7% ★, Survival 12.7%, Base Building 11.8%, Open World 8.8%, Multiplayer 7.7%
- #9 Planet Explorers
91% 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 44.4% ★, Survival 11.3%, Open World 11.2%, Multiplayer 6.9%, Sandbox 6.8%
- #10 ASTRONEER
89% 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 36.6% ★, Survival 14%, Open World 10.1%, Base Building 10.1%, Multiplayer 9.2%
- #11 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
89% matchMostly Positive79% of 34,194 reviews2020
Dev: Eleon Game Studios
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 76.8 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.1% ★, Survival 14.6%, Open World 10.2%, Simulation 8.3%, Multiplayer 7.9%
- #12 Scrapnaut
88% matchMixed70% of 827 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 31.3% ★, Survival 16.6%, Multiplayer 10%, Base Building 9.6%, Open World 7.9%
- #13 Occupy Mars: The Game
86% matchMostly Positive70% of 3,070 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 34.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.
Why similar: Survival 19.5%, Base Building 19%, Open World 15.5%, Crafting 13.3%, Simulation 10.1%
- #14 Out of Reach
87% matchMixed57% of 3,046 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
You’re a castaway stranded in the middle of nowhere. Storm is gone, the worst certainly not. Look for food and resources, craft gear, make shelters. These are the basics, you need much more to stay alive on this cut-off-the-world, yet not desert island. Build & burn, sail & explore, be Out of Reach!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.2% ★, Survival 15.7%, Open World 9.1%, Multiplayer 7.4%, Crafting 7.1%
- #15 Force of Nature
86% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,202 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 41.6% ★, Survival 14.6%, Crafting 9.1%, Open World 7.8%, Multiplayer 5.7%
- #16 Eden Crafters
84% 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 38.4% ★, Base Building 13%, Survival 11.4%, Open World 9%, Crafting 8.7%
- #17 The Planet Crafter
83% 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 39.4% ★, Survival 14.4%, Base Building 14.1%, Open World 9%, Crafting 8.2%
- #18 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
82% matchVery Positive91% of 7,431 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 55%
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 37.5% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Multiplayer 9.5%, Survival 9.3%, Open World 8.7%
- #19 Outlaws of the Old West
84% matchMixed59% of 6,290 reviews2019
Dev: Virtual Basement LLCPub: Wandering Wizard
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 22.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Outlaws of the Old West is a massively multiplayer survival MMO with a huge world, thousands of items and a modular building system. Survive the wild, build your own homestead, defeat villainous bandits and work with others to tame the Wild West.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.3% ★, Survival 17%, Open World 11.4%, Multiplayer 9.1%, Base Building 5.9%
- #20 Beyond Contact
81% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,121 reviews2023
Dev: Playcorp StudiosPub: Deep Silver
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 67%
A fiercely formidable sci-fi survival game, set on a hostile alien world that wants you dead! Alone, or with a crew, do you have what it takes to survive?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.9% ★, Survival 14.8%, Base Building 11.4%, Multiplayer 7.9%, Crafting 7.9%
- #21 XenoHaven
80% matchVery Positive86% of 69 reviews2025
Dev: Miniverse GamePub: OKJOY
Windows
In XenoHaven, gather resources to build shelters, enslave alien beasts to work for you, and run restaurants and shops. Delve into dark underground dungeons, defeat swarming insectoids and mighty bosses, and craft powerful gear to conquer the alien world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.4% ★, Survival 13.7%, Base Building 12.2%, Open World 10.8%, Crafting 7.2%
- #22 Generation Zero®
81% matchMostly Positive72% of 41,788 reviews2019
Dev: Systemic Reaction™Pub: Avalanche Studios
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 19.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Generation Zero is a stealth-action shooter where you wage guerilla warfare against lethal mechanical enemies. Explore a vast open world map inspired by the Swedish Cold War era, take part in the resistance alone or with up to three friends in seamless co-op.
Why similar: Survival 21.5%, Base Building 19%, Open World 16.2%, Multiplayer 13.4%, Crafting 12.1%
- #23 Stars End
79% matchMixed61% of 1,419 reviews2023
Dev: Reverie World StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Stars End is a sci-fi survival sandbox set on the wild frontier of a distant star system. Play solo or host your own server as you craft, build, and battle to survive in a galaxy shaped by danger, discovery, and your own grit.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.7% ★, Survival 13.8%, Multiplayer 10.5%, Open World 8.8%, Crafting 7.2%
- #24 Astro Colony
78% matchVery Positive82% of 2,526 reviews2022
Dev: Terad Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.
Why similar: Base Building 26.3%, Multiplayer 13.8%, Open World 11.4%, Simulation 10.8%, Crafting 10.1%
- #25 Planetaries
79% matchMixed58% of 223 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 34.3% ★, Survival 12.9%, Base Building 10.7%, Open World 9.2%, Multiplayer 8.1%
- #26 Outpost: Infinity Siege
77% matchMixed65% of 13,570 reviews2024
Dev: Team RangerPub: Lightning Games
Windows
Median: 16.5 hrsMean: 41.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Command Mobile Outpost and take XEN Firearm to venture deep into the Signet surveillance off-limit area. Collect unique Weapon Units. Amp up the firepower of the Outpost that fights with you. This is an FTD game - FPS, Tower Defense, Base Building and much more all at the same time.
Why similar: Base Building 28.1%, Survival 24.6%, Open World 18.2%, Crafting 15.4%, Sci-fi 6.9%
- #27 Miscreated
78% matchMixed66% of 31,585 reviews2018
Dev: Entrada Interactive LLC
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 38.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Miscreated is a multiplayer online hardcore survival game set in a post-apocalyptic future. You will need to survive against mutants, players, and even mother nature herself.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 50.5% ★, Survival 19.2%, Open World 10.7%, Multiplayer 8.4%, Crafting 5.1%
- #28 Dysterra
76% matchMixed56% of 763 reviews2025
Dev: Reality MagiQ
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 65%
On a future post-apocalyptic Earth, build, craft, and loot other players’ bases to survive long enough to board the rocket and escape the dangerous robots and mercenaries that inhabit Ararat Island. Manipulate the weather and use earthquakes to change when the server wipe occurs in DYSTERRA!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.2% ★, Survival 15.1%, Base Building 13.8%, Crafting 9.6%, Simulation 8.2%
- #29 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
75% 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 34.8% ★, Survival 14.4%, Base Building 11.8%, Multiplayer 8.9%, Open World 8.7%
- #30 Abiotic Factor
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 55,118 reviews2025
Dev: Deep Field GamesPub: Playstack
Windows
Median: 19.6 hrsMean: 43.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Abiotic Factor is a survival crafting experience for 1-6 players set in the depths of an underground research facility. Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the world’s greatest minds must survive against the universe’s biggest threats.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.5% ★, Survival 15.1%, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 8.8%, Multiplayer 7.5%
- #31 Space Trash Scavenger
74% matchVery Positive84% of 518 reviews2024
Dev: SquarePlay GamesPub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Grab your jetpack and explore procedural asteroid fields, derelict spaceships and abandoned outposts. Build and automate your Space Rig to process scavenged trash. Craft, trade and fight your way home in this interstellar, open-world survival sandbox.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.5% ★, Survival 13.7%, Open World 8.9%, Base Building 8.8%, Crafting 8.6%
- #32 Skyformer
73% matchVery Positive87% of 67 reviews2025
Dev: Weatherfused
Windows
Create an automated system that terraforms a planet with an army of drones. Craft and build bases, set up a weather monitoring system, prepare to survive different types of storms, and take control of the climate and biomes!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.6% ★, Survival 14.1%, Base Building 13.2%, Open World 9.2%, Crafting 8.7%
- #33 Craterbound
75% matchMixed54% of 99 reviews2022
Dev: Daniel Marquez
Windows
Crash-land onto a unique and hostile alien world and begin your fight to survive. Face its inhabitants, upgrade your technology, create outposts & bases, and find a way to repair your ship. Explore the beautifully strange terrain, all while blasting and crafting your way off of the planet.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.8% ★, Survival 16.2%, Base Building 13.2%, Open World 11.5%, Crafting 8.8%
- #34 TerraTech Worlds
73% matchMixed63% of 2,228 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 21.9 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 34.9% ★, Base Building 13%, Survival 12.7%, Open World 9%, Crafting 8.2%
- #35 Grounded
71% 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 36.1% ★, Survival 19.9%, Base Building 12.4%, Multiplayer 10.6%, Crafting 7.1%
- #36 Farworld Pioneers
74% 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 38.2% ★, Survival 13.8%, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 9.1%, Multiplayer 9%
- #37 Breathedge
71% matchVery Positive82% of 16,224 reviews2021
Dev: RedRuins SoftworksPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Survive in outer space! Together with your immortal chicken, discover the truth behind your sudden spaceship crash. Craft tools, pilot vehicles, and even control space stations to survive and explore the wreckage.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.8% ★, Survival 14.2%, Base Building 11.5%, Crafting 6.5%, Open World 5.9%
- #38 KeepUp Survival
72% matchMixed64% of 743 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 10.6 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 35.7% ★, Survival 14.4%, Base Building 11.8%, Open World 10.1%, Multiplayer 8.7%
- #39 FortressCraft Evolved!
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,057 reviews2015
Dev: ProjectorGamesPub: Digital Tribe
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 72%
FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.2% ★, Survival 10.7%, Base Building 8.2%, Crafting 8.2%, Open World 5.7%
- #40 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,680 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 36.4% ★, Survival 15.3%, Base Building 12.4%, Open World 9.3%, Multiplayer 9.2%
- #41 Satisfactory
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 270,461 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 32.6 hrsMean: 110.0 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.4% ★, Base Building 20.2%, Open World 12.3%, Multiplayer 10.4%, Crafting 10.4%
- #42 Cubic Odyssey
68% 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 49.9% ★, Base Building 17.2%, Sandbox 7%, Building 6.3%, Survival 5.2%
- #43 Horizon Journey
70% matchMostly Negative26% of 85 reviews2026
Dev: Redivided Studios
Windows
Embark on an epic adventure to Mars in Horizon Journey, an open-world survival game that blends colonization, terraforming, and exploration in both single-player and multiplayer co-op modes. You're tasked with the monumental challenge of making Mars a new home for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.9% ★, Survival 14.2%, Base Building 12.5%, Open World 9.8%, Crafting 8.9%
- #44 CryoFall
69% matchMostly Positive78% of 6,430 reviews2021
Dev: AtomicTorch StudioPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 16.4 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 39.8% ★, Survival 15.6%, Base Building 14.3%, Crafting 10.3%, Open World 8.7%
- #45 GearStorm - Armored Survival
71% matchMixed56% of 82 reviews2019
Dev: Iron City Games
Windows · Mac
GearStorm - Armored Survival is a story-driven, open-world sci-fi survival adventure. Discover what led to the Phage, a deadly virus apocalypse and our escape to a alien world. Explore a vast alien planet, build your base, create your colony, acquire vehicles, weapons, and supplies to defend it.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20% ★, Survival 19.4%, Simulation 15.6%, Open World 12.2%, Action 9.9%
- #46 Dune: Awakening
66% matchMostly Positive70% of 76,118 reviews2025
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 47.7 hrsMean: 97.4 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival RPG where you can fully immerse yourself in the epic world of Dune. Alone or with friends, explore a vast open world Arrakis, survive the sandworms, build a home, craft an ornithopter, and unravel the mystery of the missing Fremen.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.5% ★, Survival 12.5%, Base Building 11.3%, Open World 8.9%, Multiplayer 8%
- #47 Karagon (Survival Robot Riding FPS)
69% matchMixed47% of 107 reviews2023
Dev: Tbjbu2 Originals
Windows
Survive, shoot, construct, and ride killer elemental robots. Craft equipment, explore multi-floor buildings, build and farm, uncover schematics, and progress through technology tiers. Alone or with friends in this brutal post apocalyptic open world survival robot riding crafting shooter game!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.9% ★, Survival 14.3%, Base Building 11.3%, Open World 9.3%, Crafting 8.6%
- #48 Boundless
68% 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 45.3% ★, Open World 11.6%, Survival 10.4%, Crafting 9.2%, Sandbox 6.7%
- #49 Outerstellar
67% matchMostly Positive72% of 170 reviews2023
Dev: Strange Horizons Ltd
Windows
Stranded on a hostile and deadly planet, you must gather resources, build shelter, and fight to survive each night. But the secrets of this world await in a gripping sci-fi survival PvP game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.8% ★, Survival 16.9%, Base Building 12.9%, Multiplayer 11.1%, Crafting 8.9%
- #50 The Front
64% matchMixed67% of 10,771 reviews2025
Dev: Samar Studio
Windows
Median: 10.6 hrsMean: 44.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
The Front is a survival open-world crafting sandbox game. You are a resistance fighter sent back in time to stop the rise of a tyrannical empire. Collect resources, craft tech, build shelters, and fight monsters to accomplish your mission.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.8% ★, Survival 13.6%, Base Building 11.5%, Multiplayer 8.8%, Open World 8.6%
- #51 Gaia
69% matchMixed59% of 93 reviews2020
Dev: Eternal Stardust Studios
Windows
A sci-fi base building survival game, featuring raids, agriculture, intelligent AI, natural disasters and more.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.4% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Survival 13%, Open World 8.8%, Simulation 6.7%
- #52 Rem Survival
67% 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 35.6% ★, Survival 13.3%, Base Building 11.3%, Open World 9%, Crafting 8.2%
- #53 Aground Zero
65% matchVery Positive82% of 124 reviews2025
Dev: Fancy Fish Games
Windows · Linux
The world has ended. You are deep underground, and all alone with a cheery AI companion. You will have to mine and build to survive, and search for other survivors to help you. Will you be able to reach the surface? And what will you find when you get there?
Why similar: Base Building 23.3%, Survival 20.4%, Open World 17.3%, Crafting 13.3%, Sandbox 12.1%