Games Like Palworld

Craftopia is the brand new multiplayer survival action game made in Japan. We combined many features we find enjoyable, such as hunting, farming, hack-and-slash, building, automation to develop this game.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26% ★, Open World 18.4%, Survival 12.8%, Crafting 11.4%, Multiplayer 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: From Palworld's developer, it shares the colorful open-world crafting formula, creature encounters, farming, dungeon exploration, and multiplayer sandbox feel.

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 38.6% ★, Survival 14.1%, Open World 12.7%, Multiplayer 7.9%, Crafting 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: It is the closest survival-game counterpart for taming creatures, building extensive bases, breeding companions, and surviving a dangerous multiplayer world.

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 30% ★, Survival 16.4%, Multiplayer 9.7%, Open World 9.5%, Base Building 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers an approachable co-op survival experience built around exploration, resource gathering, crafting, and constructing elaborate bases in a lively world.

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 28.3% ★, Open World 11.2%, Survival 10.3%, Crafting 8.2%, Automation 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: This co-op survival-crafting adventure centers on building a settlement and programming helpful companion robots to automate work.

Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. Possess any of your tribespeople, recruit followers, and build a thriving automated civilization. Survive, expand, and forge your own legacy across a vast ancient open world — together with friends.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.7% ★, Open World 14.4%, Survival 12.8%, Crafting 10.3%, Base Building 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its survival sandbox combines base building and exploration with recruitable tribe members who can be assigned jobs much like Pals at a base.

ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!

Why similar: Open World 23.4%, Survival 22.5%, Multiplayer 12.5%, Crafting 12%, Base Building 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: This modernized ARK version retains the strong creature-taming, breeding, building, and online survival systems that make it a natural Palworld alternative.

A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.4% ★, Open World 12.1%, Survival 11.4%, Online Co-Op 8.9%, Multiplayer 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A superb cooperative survival sandbox with memorable exploration, boss progression, farming, building, and increasingly ambitious player-made bases.

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 22.4%, Survival 17.5%, Online Co-Op 11.6%, Base Building 11.4%, Crafting 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its polished co-op survival loop emphasizes flexible voxel building, crafting progression, exploration, and dangerous open-world combat.

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 27.4% ★, Survival 11.4%, Open World 11%, Online Co-Op 7.8%, Crafting 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its cooperative survival gameplay focuses on gathering, crafting, building elevated bases, taming mounts, and exploring a giant-scale natural world.

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 23.6% ★, Open World 12.9%, Survival 11%, Crafting 8.3%, Online Co-Op 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: This co-op sandbox makes exploration, mining, farming, base building, and resource progression equally rewarding, albeit from a top-down perspective.

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 36.6% ★, Open World 10.5%, Survival 8.5%, Multiplayer 6.7%, Crafting 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: It combines procedural exploration and survival crafting with town building, recruitable settlers, and assigning residents to useful jobs.

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 23.5%, Open World 22.5%, Multiplayer 12.3%, Crafting 8.9%, Sandbox 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: This lighter, blocky take on ARK combines dinosaur taming and survival crafting with colorful voxel construction and multiplayer worlds.

Once Human is a Strange Worlds Survival Game set in a strange, post-apocalyptic future. Unite with friends to fight monstrous enemies, uncover secret plots, compete for resources, and build your own territory. Once, you were merely human. Now, you have the power to remake the world.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.4% ★, Open World 12.7%, Survival 10.9%, Crafting 7.9%, Online Co-Op 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers a multiplayer open-world survival loop with base construction, crafting, resource gathering, and strange collectible supernatural companions.

Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38% ★, Survival 11.5%, Multiplayer 8%, Open World 8%, Sandbox 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its enormous crafting and building sandbox offers co-op adventuring, collecting, farming, boss progression, and near-limitless freedom to shape a world.

Myth of Empires is a multiplayer war sandbox game featuring a high degree of freedom and multiple civilizations. Players must survive, craft, create, and lead troops in their quest to conquer PVE or PVP territory and build their own empire. Xizhou Civilization Pack is now officially released!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.3% ★, Open World 13.5%, Survival 11%, Base Building 7.7%, Multiplayer 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: It blends large-scale survival crafting with animal taming, farming, settlement construction, and recruitable NPC workers.

Temtem is an online creature-collection adventure. Tame 165 unique creatures across 7 vibrant islands, battle other tamers, tackle mythical Lairs, chase Luma & Umbra variants, and breed your favorite Tems - with friends by your side! Dive into a colorful monster catching adventure, so Temtem up!

Why similar: Creature Collector 49.8%, Multiplayer 18.9%, Co-op 18.9%, Anime 3.9%, RPG 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: For players drawn most to collecting and battling Pals with friends, it provides a substantial online creature-collecting adventure with co-op exploration.

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 47.8% ★, Crafting 9.5%, Online Co-Op 8.7%, Co-op 8.6%, Multiplayer 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxed Australian-outback life sim with multiplayer, town building, farming, animal care, hunting, and broad open-world exploration.

Continue the adventures of Beatrix LeBeau as she journeys across the Slime Sea to Rainbow Island, a land brimming with ancient mysteries, and bursting with wiggly, new slimes to wrangle in this sequel to the smash-hit, Slime Rancher.

Why similar: Creature Collector 49.3%, Open World 34.9%, Building 8.9%, Adventure 4.1%, Action 1.5%

Why You'll Like It: It captures Palworld's cheerful creature-collecting appeal through exploring vibrant biomes, gathering adorable slimes, and building an efficient ranch.

Dune: Awakening is a single- and multiplayer Open World Survival game with immersive adventure and RPG gameplay. Explore, build, craft, and unravel a cinematic Dune story as you rise from survival to greatness on the most legendary planet in the universe. Just remember: the sandworm always comes.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.3% ★, Open World 12.4%, Survival 10.8%, Crafting 8.3%, Online Co-Op 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its shared-world survival experience emphasizes harvesting, crafting, constructing bases, exploring an enormous hostile desert, and cooperating with others.

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 40% ★, Survival 9.6%, Open World 9.5%, Sandbox 7.5%, Crafting 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: This multiplayer sandbox supports planet-hopping exploration, crafting, farming, colony management, building, and capturing alien creatures as pets.

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 29.2% ★, Open World 10.8%, Survival 10.7%, Base Building 8.5%, Online Co-Op 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers satisfying co-op survival crafting and base expansion, with the distinctive long-term goal of terraforming an entire hostile planet.

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 15.7% ★, Open World 15%, Base Building 12.5%, Automation 11.5%, Crafting 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: Players who especially enjoy making Pals run production chains will appreciate its exceptionally deep first-person factory building, automation, and open-world exploration.

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 30.7% ★, Survival 13.1%, Open World 10.5%, Online Co-Op 8.2%, Multiplayer 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A mission-based co-op survival game featuring demanding resource management, constructed shelters, crafting trees, and hostile wilderness expeditions.

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 29.7% ★, Open World 12.3%, Survival 11.3%, Online Co-Op 8.6%, Multiplayer 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A co-op survival-crafting adventure with customizable estates, procedural realm exploration, gathering, combat, and fantasy creature-filled worlds.

Ooblets is a relaxing and offbeat farming, town life, and creature collection game. Manage your farm, grow and train your ooblets, explore strange lands, and have dance-offs!

Why similar: Creature Collector 49.5%, Open World 23.4%, Crafting 18.6%, RPG 4.9%, Exploration 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its warm blend of farming, town improvement, and collecting charming companion creatures offers a much more relaxed take on Palworld's creature-management side.

In Lightyear Frontier you use your powerful trusty mech to farm on a large beautiful alien planet. Settle your homestead, farm and deliver produce to remote colonies, gather and manage resources, build, craft, explore, expand, improve your mech, meet neighbors, and make a place to call your own.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.7% ★, Open World 13.2%, Crafting 9.7%, Online Co-Op 9.5%, Base Building 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: This peaceful co-op farming and crafting game has players explore an alien frontier, cultivate land, build a homestead, and care for local wildlife.

Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.6% ★, Survival 15.8%, Multiplayer 9.7%, Open World 8.9%, Co-op 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its cooperative survival loop revolves around gathering, crafting, farming, expanding a mobile base, and exploring islands with friends.

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 59.4% ★, Survival 23.1%, Multiplayer 4.2%, Open World 3.9%, Co-op 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its distinctive co-op survival gameplay rewards careful gathering, crafting, base planning, exploration, and learning to endure a dangerous living world.

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 21.6%, Survival 18.8%, Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 11.5%, Multiplayer 10%

Why You'll Like It: It pairs action-heavy survival with a highly customizable castle-building loop, servant management, gathering, and cooperative online play.

Aniimo is a free-to-play, next-gen creature-catching open-world RPG. Explore the vast continent of Idyll, Twine with unique Aniimo, unlock new abilities. Travel to a sky-floating metropolis, meet other Pathfinders, and battle in exciting competitions. Choose your Aniimo and begin your epic journey!

Why similar: Creature Collector 32.1%, Open World 20.2%, Online Co-Op 11.8%, Multiplayer 11.4%, Co-op 9.4%

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 26.3% ★, Open World 13.3%, Survival 10.7%, Crafting 9%, Multiplayer 7.1%

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 28% ★, Open World 14.5%, Survival 14.4%, Crafting 10.6%, Multiplayer 10.5%

SAS is an Open World Multiplayer PVP and CO-OP Survival Game. Set in a vast environment that features Building, Crafting, Taming, Riding, Flying and Exploring Wildlife, Dinos and Dragons as well as Horrific Creatures and Instances with the ability to Morph into Spirit Animals.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26% ★, Creature Collector 17.2%, Open World 12.1%, Survival 10.7%, Crafting 7.7%

Discover a welcoming world in Palia, a free-to-play fantasy life sim adventure where you can craft, explore, and create the life and home of your dreams. With nearly endless ways to make Palia your home, you’ll find relaxation and joy in every corner of this vibrant, heartwarming world.

Why similar: Multiplayer 24.7%, Crafting 21.5%, Online Co-Op 19.3%, Co-op 13.3%, Building 13.1%

A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.5% ★, Open World 12%, Survival 10.7%, Crafting 8.8%, Online Co-Op 8.5%

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 34.7% ★, Survival 9.9%, Open World 9.9%, Co-op 7%, Crafting 7%

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 31.2% ★, Open World 12.1%, Survival 10.9%, Online Co-Op 9.1%, Crafting 7.3%

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 27.3% ★, Creature Collector 15.1%, Open World 10.7%, Survival 10.2%, Crafting 8%

Step into the ultimate open-world witch adventure. Befriend and battle creatures, and conjure up a sanctuary alongside other witches in co-op or single-player.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.9% ★, Creature Collector 21.6%, Open World 12.4%, Online Co-Op 9.1%, Crafting 8.9%

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 46.8% ★, Survival 17.4%, Open World 13.6%, Multiplayer 8.2%, Crafting 5.5%

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 33% ★, Open World 14.2%, Survival 13.1%, Crafting 10.2%, Base Building 8.1%

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 36.8% ★, Survival 13%, Open World 9.5%, Multiplayer 9.3%, Crafting 8.4%

Shrunk again, but the world is much larger. In this open-world, single-player or co-op survival adventure, craft weapons and armor, build your base, and traverse the playground on your buggy. But something else is out there—and it hasn’t forgotten you.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.8% ★, Survival 15.2%, Open World 12.6%, Base Building 8.4%, Multiplayer 8.3%

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 27.9% ★, Survival 13.6%, Crafting 11.8%, Open World 11.5%, Online Co-Op 8.7%

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 27.4% ★, Open World 11.8%, Survival 10.3%, Online Co-Op 8.2%, Crafting 8%

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 26.6% ★, Survival 12.7%, Open World 10.8%, Crafting 10.6%, Online Co-Op 9.8%

Far Lands is an open-world survival game. Fight mercenaries, steal their loot and vehicles. Build and defend your base from zombies. Gather resources, craft better gear and loot different points of interest. Want to play with friends? Join them on Co-op!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.1% ★, Survival 16%, Open World 14.9%, Crafting 12.5%, Base Building 10.9%

On RuneScape's forgotten continent of Ashenfall, dragons have awoken. Gather, build, skill and craft in this co-operative survival adventure. Only by mastering survival and uncovering ancient secrets can you hope to face the ferocious Dragon Queen.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.2% ★, Open World 14.6%, Survival 11.2%, Online Co-Op 7.8%, Multiplayer 7.8%

Solarpunk is a survival game in a technologically advanced world of floating islands. Alone or together with your friends, you can construct buildings, grow food, craft gadgets and hop on your airship to explore distant islands in the sky.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.6% ★, Open World 10.6%, Survival 9%, Crafting 8.1%, Online Co-Op 7.6%

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 33.2% ★, Open World 13.3%, Survival 11.6%, Co-op 8.3%, Crafting 7.5%

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 26.8% ★, Open World 11.4%, Survival 10%, Online Co-Op 7.9%, Crafting 7.8%

Explore, Build, Farm, Craft and Fight in this survival sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Delve deep to uncover the secret of the invading 'Faults' and restore stability to the land.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.4% ★, Survival 10.9%, Open World 10.6%, Crafting 8%, Multiplayer 7.5%

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.5% ★, Survival 13.4%, Open World 11.6%, Crafting 10.9%, Multiplayer 5.7%

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 27.8% ★, Open World 11.5%, Survival 11.2%, Crafting 8.6%, Multiplayer 7.4%

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 43.1% ★, Survival 15%, Crafting 11.6%, Open World 6.5%, Base Building 5.7%

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 37.9% ★, Open World 14.1%, Survival 13.9%, Base Building 7.8%, Crafting 6.8%