- #1 ARK: Survival Evolved
97% matchVery Positive83% of 763,144 reviews2017
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 200.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 38.1% ★, Survival 14.1%, Open World 12.3%, Multiplayer 8.1%, Crafting 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: Its core loop of surviving in a hostile open world, taming creatures for combat and utility, and building multiplayer bases is one of the clearest matches to Palworld.
- #2 Craftopia
96% matchMostly Positive77% of 19,974 reviews2020
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 25.6% ★, Open World 17.9%, Survival 12.9%, Crafting 11.8%, Multiplayer 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: From the same developer, it shares Palworld's chaotic blend of open-world exploration, crafting, automation, combat, and co-op sandbox experimentation.
- #3 ARK: Survival Ascended
96% matchMixed60% of 100,735 reviews2023
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows
Median: 28.6 hrsMean: 195.6 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 20.9%, Survival 20.6%, Multiplayer 11.9%, Crafting 11.5%, Base Building 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: It delivers the same creature-taming survival formula as ARK with upgraded tech, making it a very direct alternative if you want more high-end dino survival.
- #4 Grounded
95% matchVery Positive90% of 92,875 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.2 hrsMean: 40.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.4% ★, Survival 16.3%, Multiplayer 9.8%, Open World 9.1%, Base Building 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: It nails the co-op survival-crafting rhythm of gathering, building, and battling creature-filled environments, just with a more handcrafted world instead of monster collecting.
- #5 Enshrouded
94% matchVery Positive86% of 98,202 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.3 hrsMean: 44.1 hrs≥1hr: 94%
You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.
Why similar: Open World 21.2%, Survival 17%, Online Co-Op 12.2%, Base Building 11.7%, Crafting 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: If you like Palworld for its accessible co-op progression, exploration, and building, Enshrouded offers a similarly polished open-world survival loop.
- #6 PixARK
94% matchMostly Positive73% of 12,998 reviews2019
Dev: Snail Games USA
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 40.2 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Enter a world of mystery, danger, ancient dinosaurs, mythical beasts, and cubes! Work by yourself or with a tribe of others to gather materials, craft useful items, tame wild creatures, and build huge bases to survive in PixARK!
Why similar: Survival 21.9%, Open World 20.6%, Multiplayer 11.9%, Sandbox 8.7%, Crafting 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: This colorful voxel spin on ARK keeps the taming, riding, survival, and base-building loop while landing closer to Palworld's lighter tone.
- #7 Soulmask
93% matchVery Positive81% of 17,627 reviews2024
Dev: CampFire StudioPub: Qooland Games
Windows
Median: 13.7 hrsMean: 66.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Choose your path across a primeval continent shaped by the Mask's power. From lush rainforests to scorched sands, recruit and lead unique tribesmen, build automated production lines, and construct everything from local bases to colossal airships, uncover the secrets of the Mask
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.2% ★, Open World 12.4%, Survival 10.9%, Automation 9.4%, Crafting 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: Its survival sandbox is built around recruiting AI followers who fight, gather, and work for your settlement, which strongly echoes Palworld's labor-management appeal.
- #8 Valheim
92% 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 30.6% ★, Open World 11.6%, Survival 11.3%, Online Co-Op 9.4%, Multiplayer 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: It delivers the same addictive pattern of exploring a shared world, building up a home base, crafting better gear, and tackling dangerous biomes with friends.
- #9 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
91% 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 26.9% ★, Survival 11.1%, Open World 10.5%, Online Co-Op 8.3%, Crafting 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: This co-op survival game emphasizes base-building, exploration, mounts, and a world full of oversized creatures that give it a similar adventurous feel.
- #10 Omega Crafter
91% matchMostly Positive79% of 560 reviews2025
Dev: Preferred Networks
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 24.9% ★, Open World 12.4%, Survival 10.8%, Automation 9.1%, Crafting 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: Its helper companions automate chores and support your progression, making it one of the closest matches to Palworld's 'cute workers in a survival sandbox' hook.
- #11 Once Human
90% matchMostly Positive77% of 167,251 reviews2024
Dev: Starry Studio
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 50.2 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Once Human is a multiplayer open-world 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 29.7% ★, Open World 12.7%, Survival 12%, Online Co-Op 9.4%, Base Building 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: It blends co-op survival shooting, base construction, and a strange creature-driven world into a modern live-service sandbox that overlaps with Palworld's structure.
- #12 Necesse
89% matchVery Positive93% of 26,780 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 35.5% ★, Open World 10.2%, Survival 8.3%, Multiplayer 6.9%, Crafting 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: Its survival-crafting world eventually lets you recruit settlers to run your base for you, which makes it a great fit for players who love Palworld's workforce mechanics.
- #13 Core Keeper
89% matchVery Positive93% of 63,205 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.0 hrsMean: 33.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.4% ★, Open World 12%, Survival 10.5%, Crafting 8.5%, Online Co-Op 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the same satisfying loop of exploration, farming, crafting, automation, and co-op progression, just in a top-down underground sandbox.
- #14 V Rising
88% matchVery Positive89% of 132,034 reviews2024
Dev: Stunlock Studios
Windows
Median: 21.0 hrsMean: 57.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Awaken as a Vampire. Hunt for blood in nearby settlements to regain your strength and evade the scorching sun to survive. Raise your castle and thrive in an ever-changing, open world full of mystery. Gain allies online and conquer the land of the living.
Why similar: Open World 18.4%, Survival 16.5%, Base Building 11.3%, Crafting 10.8%, Multiplayer 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: While more combat-focused, it scratches the same itch of building a personalized base, farming resources, and using servants to expand your power in multiplayer.
- #15 Nightingale
87% 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 29% ★, Open World 11.8%, Survival 11.1%, Online Co-Op 9.1%, Multiplayer 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: It offers co-op survival crafting, portal-based exploration, and strong building systems for players who want another progression-heavy sandbox with a fantasy twist.
- #16 RuneScape: Dragonwilds
86% matchVery Positive81% of 23,948 reviews2025
Dev: Jagex Ltd
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
On RuneScape’s forgotten continent of Ashenfall, dragons have awoken. Gather, build, skill and craft to survive in this co-operative (1-4) survival crafting game. Only by mastering survival and uncovering ancient secrets can they hope to slay the Dragon Queen—alone or with allies.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28% ★, Open World 13.5%, Survival 11%, Online Co-Op 8.2%, Multiplayer 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: This fantasy survival-crafting game leans into co-op exploration, danger-filled biomes, and steady base progression in a way Palworld fans should recognize.
- #17 Conan Exiles
86% 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 28.1% ★, Survival 16.5%, Open World 15.7%, Crafting 8.6%, Multiplayer 7%
Why You'll Like It: Its open server-based survival, deep building, and thrall system for staffing and defending your base line up well with Palworld's management side.
- #18 Raft
84% matchVery Positive93% of 368,916 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.5 hrsMean: 36.8 hrs≥1hr: 95%
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 33.1% ★, Survival 15.5%, Multiplayer 9.9%, Open World 8.6%, Co-op 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: Although it trades monster collecting for ocean survival, its co-op crafting, constant base expansion, and satisfying progression are very Palworld-friendly.
- #19 ICARUS
85% 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 29.8% ★, Survival 12.8%, Open World 10.1%, Online Co-Op 8.6%, Multiplayer 8%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the gathering, crafting, and co-op base-building side of Palworld with a more grounded and demanding survival structure.
- #20 Terraria
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,511,859 reviews2011
Dev: Re-Logic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 33.2 hrsMean: 149.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.3% ★, Survival 11.4%, Sandbox 8.2%, Multiplayer 8.2%, Crafting 8%
Why You'll Like It: If you can accept a 2D format, it delivers one of the best crafting-survival-progression sandboxes on Steam, especially in multiplayer.
- #21 Sunkenland
82% matchVery Positive81% of 22,996 reviews2023
Dev: Vector3 Studio
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 17.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Get ready for a Waterworld-themed survival game with modular base building, sunken city scavenging, crafting, base defense, and invasions of NPC clans for resources and territory. Ready for the water apocalypse?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.2% ★, Survival 13.2%, Open World 9.4%, Co-op 9.3%, Multiplayer 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: It delivers multiplayer survival, base-building, scavenging, and combat-heavy progression in a persistent world, making it a solid fit for the survival side of Palworld.
- #22 The Planet Crafter
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 67,314 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.1 hrsMean: 37.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 28.2% ★, Survival 10.4%, Open World 10.2%, Online Co-Op 8.8%, Base Building 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the satisfying build-expand-optimize loop of survival crafting and base progression, even though it skips combat and companion collection.
- #23 Creativerse
83% 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 27% ★, Open World 11.5%, Survival 10.6%, Crafting 9%, Online Co-Op 9%
Why You'll Like It: Its colorful voxel world, easygoing crafting, and multiplayer building make it a decent match for players who want Palworld's sandbox tone more than its combat intensity.
- #24 No Man's Sky
82% matchVery Positive85% of 402,164 reviews2016
Dev: Hello Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 20.2 hrsMean: 70.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.2% ★, Open World 20.2%, Survival 11.6%, Multiplayer 7.8%, Crafting 6%
Why You'll Like It: Its huge explorable worlds, base-building, multiplayer, and creature companion systems make it a strong pick if you want Palworld's sandbox freedom on a cosmic scale.
- #25 Lightyear Frontier
81% matchVery Positive84% of 4,206 reviews2024
Dev: FRAME BREAK
Windows
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 32% ★, Open World 11.6%, Online Co-Op 10.7%, Crafting 10.7%, Survival 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: This relaxed open-world farming and crafting game keeps the cozy progression, mount-like traversal, and colorful sandbox vibe that many Palworld players enjoy.
- #26 Myth of Empires
80% matchMixed67% of 17,261 reviews2024
Dev: Angela GamePub: Imperium Interactive Entertainment
Windows
Median: 15.4 hrsMean: 230.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 32.5% ★, Open World 12.9%, Survival 10.8%, Base Building 8%, Online Co-Op 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: It offers large-scale multiplayer survival with mounts, settlement growth, and server-based progression for players who like Palworld's more communal sandbox side.
- #27 Len's Island
79% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,615 reviews2025
Dev: Flow Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
An open-world survival crafting game for 1–8 players, blending intense dungeon crawling and ARPG combat with peaceful farming and creative building. Take on quests and explore a vast, procedurally-generated world full of danger and discovery.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.7% ★, Open World 13.7%, Survival 13.5%, Crafting 10.1%, Base Building 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: It combines survival crafting, farming, combat, and co-op island building in a streamlined package that overlaps with Palworld's more relaxed side.
- #28 Wildmender
79% matchVery Positive85% of 2,104 reviews2023
Dev: Muse GamesPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A desert gardening survival game. Start from a tiny spring and cultivate a blooming garden. Explore a vast world amid the sands and uncover its mysteries. Can you defend against the relentless forces of nature and mysterious wraith corruption, to bring life to a dying world?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.5% ★, Survival 13.3%, Multiplayer 12.6%, Crafting 11.1%, Online Co-Op 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: Its gentler co-op survival and base-building focus preserves the exploratory, systems-driven feel of Palworld even without the creature-catching emphasis.
- #29 Shamania
77% 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 25.7% ★, Open World 12.7%, Survival 10.5%, Crafting 9.2%, Multiplayer 7.3%
- #30 Dune: Awakening
76% matchMostly Positive70% of 74,372 reviews2025
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 47.7 hrsMean: 95.2 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 25.7% ★, Open World 11%, Survival 9.9%, Online Co-Op 8.1%, Crafting 7.9%
- #31 Satisfactory
75% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 265,414 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 31.8 hrsMean: 108.4 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 15% ★, Open World 14.3%, Base Building 12.5%, Automation 12.3%, Crafting 10.3%
- #32 Longvinter
77% matchMixed67% of 7,526 reviews2025
Dev: Uuvana Studios
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 39.9 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Fish, farm, craft, gather, cook, loot or steal from other players and build a campsite or a village with your friends in an open-world multiplayer sandbox game without rules!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26% ★, Survival 13.5%, Open World 13.1%, Crafting 10.2%, Multiplayer 10.1%
- #33 Drake Hollow
78% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,787 reviews2020
Dev: The Molasses FloodPub: CD PROJEKT RED
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Build and defend villages of vegetable folk from deadly feral beasts in the blighted world of The Hollow. Explore, gather, and fight! You can even invite your friends. Can you craft the perfect village?
Why similar: Open World 19.3%, Survival 16.8%, Online Co-Op 13.9%, Multiplayer 11.7%, Sandbox 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: Collecting and caring for little companion creatures while building and defending camps gives it a surprisingly similar helper-management appeal.
- #34 Portal Knights
78% matchVery Positive83% of 22,116 reviews2017
Dev: Keen Games GmbHPub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 21.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
The world of Elysia needs YOU! Join this cooperative, 3D sandbox action RPG to level up your character, craft epic weapons, conquer enemies in real-time, and build almost anything! Craft your adventure. Forge your hero. Become the ultimate Portal Knight!
Why similar: Survival 18.8%, Multiplayer 17.5%, Crafting 16.8%, Sandbox 13.7%, Co-op 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: It is more action-RPG than survival sim, but its co-op building, crafting, colorful world, and pet-friendly vibe make it a good lighter alternative.
- #35 Tinkerlands
74% matchVery Positive86% of 3,746 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 13.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Explore, craft, and fight your way through uncharted islands — solo or with up to 4 players in co-op! Tinkerlands is an exciting survival adventure where you will build your settlement, craft useful tools to survive, and even use magic!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.4% ★, Open World 11.7%, Survival 10.8%, Online Co-Op 9.6%, Crafting 7.5%
- #36 Plains of Pain
76% 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 24.6% ★, Open World 10.2%, Survival 9.2%, Online Co-Op 7.8%, Crafting 7.5%
- #37 Grounded 2
72% matchVery Positive81% of 19,870 reviews2025
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 20.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 22.1% ★, Survival 15.3%, Open World 12.1%, Multiplayer 9.1%, Base Building 8.7%
- #38 Planetaries
73% 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 26.8% ★, Open World 11.3%, Survival 10.1%, Online Co-Op 8.7%, Crafting 8.1%
- #39 SURVIVAL: Postapocalypse Now
75% 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 45.2% ★, Survival 16.9%, Open World 12.9%, Multiplayer 8.3%, Crafting 5.6%
- #40 StarRupture
70% 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 25.9% ★, Open World 11%, Survival 10.1%, Automation 8.2%, Base Building 7.9%
- #41 Re.poly
73% 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 32.6% ★, Open World 13.7%, Survival 13%, Crafting 10.5%, Base Building 8.4%
- #42 Far Lands
72% matchMixed66% of 166 reviews2024
Dev: Scalpel Softworks
Windows
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 32.6% ★, Survival 15.9%, Open World 14.6%, Crafting 12.9%, Base Building 11.3%
- #43 Spirit Animal Survival
73% matchMostly Positive71% of 129 reviews2018
Dev: TRUEFX GAMES Pub: TRUEFX GAMES
Windows
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 23.9% ★, Creature Collector 17%, Open World 10.9%, Survival 9.9%, Crafting 7.7%
- #44 GRAV
74% 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 37.4% ★, Survival 13.9%, Open World 13.7%, Base Building 8%, Crafting 7.1%
- #45 Nested Lands
69% matchMostly Positive73% of 344 reviews2026
Dev: 1M Bits HordePub: META Publishing
Windows
Nested Lands is a ruthless medieval RPG game featuring in-depth village building, large-scale social management and combats. Gather survivors, build a settlement, craft, master your skills, survive, and endure alone or in online co-op.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.9% ★, Creature Collector 17.8%, Open World 9.4%, Survival 8.5%, Online Co-Op 7.3%
- #46 The Survivalists
71% matchMostly Positive76% of 9,935 reviews2020
Dev: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 71%
A living world full of surprises, secrets and danger awaits in The Survivalists, an adventure-filled survival sandbox set in The Escapists universe. Explore, build, craft and even train monkeys with up to three friends in a desperate bid to survive. Have you got what it takes to be a Survivalist?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.1% ★, Survival 12.5%, Crafting 10.8%, Online Co-Op 10.3%, Open World 10.3%
- #47 Wild Omission
70% matchVery Positive88% of 59 reviews2023
Dev: Telephone Studios
Windows
Wild Omission is an open world sandbox survival game with severe weather set in an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.9% ★, Open World 11.9%, Survival 11.3%, Crafting 9.4%, Multiplayer 7.8%
- #48 Karagon (Survival Robot Riding FPS)
70% matchMixed48% of 105 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 26.7% ★, Creature Collector 15.4%, Open World 10.3%, Survival 10.1%, Crafting 8.2%
- #49 Feel The Snow
69% matchVery Positive87% of 3,024 reviews2019
Dev: Owlet
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Choose one of the characters and start your journey. The game has many interesting things in store: building, crafting, puzzles, bosses, mystery, laughs, quests etc.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.3% ★, Survival 12.9%, Multiplayer 9.5%, Open World 9.2%, Crafting 8.6%
- #50 Palia
67% matchVery Positive86% of 40,274 reviews2024
Dev: Singularity 6 Corporation
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 24.9 hrs≥1hr: 66%
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 24.5%, Crafting 21.2%, Online Co-Op 19.6%, Co-op 13.4%, Building 12.7%
- #51 Voidtrain
65% 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 34.1% ★, Survival 9.7%, Open World 9.5%, Online Co-Op 7.3%, Co-op 7.2%
- #52 Survival Machine
66% matchMostly Positive74% of 669 reviews2025
Dev: Grape PickersPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Build your base on a moving Machine, travel through biomes with different resources, and prepare for the night when a zombie threat is much higher than during the day. Would you go solo or explore this new world with your best friends?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.2% ★, Open World 10.5%, Survival 10.3%, Online Co-Op 8.8%, Crafting 8.4%
- #53 INCUR Survival
68% 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 38.3% ★, Open World 14%, Survival 13.3%, Crafting 11%, Building 7%
- #54 Farworld Pioneers
69% matchMostly Negative38% of 691 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 29% ★, Survival 10.5%, Co-op 10.1%, Crafting 9.3%, Online Co-Op 9.2%
- #55 XERA: Survival
67% matchMixed66% of 7,888 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 30.5% ★, Survival 11.6%, Open World 11.1%, Base Building 9.6%, Crafting 9.1%
- #56 Dawnlands
67% 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 28.2% ★, Survival 10.2%, Open World 10.2%, Online Co-Op 8.9%, Crafting 8.4%
- #57 Cultivation Tales
67% matchMostly Negative38% of 13,640 reviews2024
Dev: Ac Games
Windows
Median: 23.8 hrsMean: 66.1 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Cultivation Tales is an open world survival craft online game. You will experience collecting, crafting, hunting, fighting, building, researching, in a wild mythical world. Fight for your clan and yourself, from mortal to divinity!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.7% ★, Survival 13%, Open World 12.8%, Online Co-Op 11.5%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #58 TerraTech Worlds
66% 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 27.7% ★, Open World 11.3%, Survival 10%, Crafting 8.7%, Base Building 8.7%
