- #1 The Planet Crafter
97% 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 36.8% ★, Base Building 17.5%, Crafting 10.4%, Open World 9.1%, Survival 8.3%
- #2 StarRupture
96% 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 33% ★, Base Building 15.9%, Immersive Sim 10.6%, Crafting 9.9%, Open World 9.6%
- #3 Cubic Odyssey
96% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,483 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 40% ★, Base Building 18.2%, Open World 9.1%, Action-Adventure 6.9%, Crafting 6.7%
- #4 The Last Caretaker
95% matchVery Positive85% of 9,793 reviews2025
Dev: Channel37 Ltd
Windows
Median: 18.8 hrsMean: 30.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Explore a drowned Earth, restore lost systems, and raise the last human seeds in this first-person survival-crafting adventure. Build, scavenge, defend, and launch humanity back to the stars.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 20%, Base Building 19.4%, Crafting 13.5%, Open World 12.4%, Survival 10%
- #5 Eden Crafters
94% matchVery Positive86% of 2,214 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in Eden Crafters, a solo and co-op open-world game that challenges you to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Temper the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.4% ★, Base Building 18.3%, Crafting 12.4%, Open World 10.3%, Survival 7.4%
- #6 Survival: Fountain of Youth
94% matchVery Positive86% of 4,270 reviews2024
Dev: Odinsoft Inc.Pub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 18.7 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Survival: Fountain of Youth is a challenging single-player open-world adventure game set on the Caribbean islands. Survive as a shipwrecked 16th-century explorer, craft tools and shelter, and uncover the secrets of both an ancient civilization and your own fate.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.2% ★, Base Building 15.5%, Crafting 10.1%, Immersive Sim 9%, Survival 8.4%
- #7 Astrometica
92% matchVery Positive83% of 2,970 reviews2024
Dev: BeryMeryPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 17.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Astrometica is a space exploration and base-building survival game. After a catastrophic event, explore vast space, gather resources, build bases, and uncover cosmic mysteries. Use advanced technology, craft tools, and discover new blueprints to survive and thrive in the unknown.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.1% ★, Base Building 18.5%, Crafting 15.1%, Open World 15%, Survival 12.3%
- #8 Novus Inceptio
93% matchMixed52% of 1,300 reviews2015
Dev: McMagic Productions
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Warning: This is an Early Access game! Welcome to an enigmatic world, where a new gaming experience in exploring, building and surviving is waiting just for you. Experience a sandbox world with survival elements, and join us in creating a full version of the game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.7% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Crafting 10.3%, Open World 10.1%, Survival 8.3%
- #9 Volcanoids
91% matchVery Positive83% of 9,214 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.7% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 11%, Open World 10.2%, Survival 8.2%
- #10 Breathedge
91% matchVery Positive82% of 16,026 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 45.8% ★, Base Building 16.5%, Survival 9.4%, Crafting 9.3%, Open World 6.8%
- #11 TerraTech Worlds
90% 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 39% ★, Base Building 19.2%, Crafting 12.2%, Open World 10.8%, Survival 8.7%
- #12 Heat Death: Survival Train
88% matchMostly Positive79% of 660 reviews2024
Dev: Mass Game DevsPub: LightOnDevs
Windows
Heat Death is a sci-fi survival game where you can build, upgrade, and customize your battle train to explore and survive a frozen world! This train is not only your shelter and vehicle, but also your weapon and ally to face hostile drones, deadly storms, and hidden mysteries of an unknown world!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.8% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Lore-Rich 12.7%, Crafting 10.4%, Post-apocalyptic 10.2%
- #13 GRAV
89% 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 48.3% ★, Base Building 16.4%, Open World 12%, Survival 11%, Crafting 9.1%
- #14 Forever Skies
85% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,284 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.4 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 32.3% ★, Base Building 16.3%, Crafting 10.9%, Open World 10.1%, Post-apocalyptic 9.1%
- #15 Grand Emprise: Time Travel Survival
86% matchMixed69% of 841 reviews2023
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
TIME TRAVEL through history to BECOME GOD 🚀 Ride dinosaurs, forge tools, sail dunes, build a colony, siege castles, automate and fly, mine underground, launch to the moon, build a dyson sphere! An insane, unforgettable and revolutionary survival crafting base building open world adventure.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30% ★, Time Travel 15.8% ★, Base Building 15.7%, Crafting 10.3%, Open World 8.8%
- #16 Craterbound
87% 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 34.6% ★, Base Building 14.2%, Open World 10%, Crafting 9.6%, Survival 8%
- #17 Outpost Zero
86% matchMixed49% of 846 reviews2019
Dev: Symmetric GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Outpost Zero blends the genres of Multiplayer Base Building Survival and Simulation games in a Sci-Fi universe. On a lawless alien world, robotic scouts are tasked with building an Outpost for human colonists. Command AI minions, colonize the planet, and survive the perils of Gaiya.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.4% ★, Base Building 16%, Survival 12.9%, Open World 11.3%, Crafting 9%
- #18 Planetaries
84% 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 41.4% ★, Base Building 17.2%, Crafting 12.5%, Open World 11.9%, Survival 9.6%
- #19 Astro Colony
83% matchVery Positive82% of 2,509 reviews2022
Dev: Terad Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 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 42.1%, Crafting 16.4%, Open World 14.8%, First-Person 9.8%, Strategy 7.3%
- #20 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,643 reviews2021
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Experience the first stages of terraforming an entire planet in this space survival open world terraforming crafting game prologue. Explore, survive, collect, build your base then create oxygen, heat and pressure to make an hostile planet livable for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38% ★, Base Building 17.1%, Crafting 10.8%, Open World 10.4%, Survival 9.8%
- #21 Planet Explorers
84% 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 56.2% ★, Open World 15.2%, Crafting 11.3%, Survival 8.8%, Exploration 4.9%
- #22 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
81% matchVery Positive91% of 7,161 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in this free prologue introducing one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters – an upcoming open-world game that challenges you, alone or with friends, to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.5% ★, Base Building 18.6%, Crafting 11.4%, Open World 11%, Survival 6.6%
- #23 Voidtrain
78% 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 47.5% ★, Base Building 14.5%, Crafting 9.9%, Open World 9%, Survival 8.3%
- #24 Under A New Sun
80% matchMostly Positive76% of 368 reviews2023
Dev: New Horizon Games
Windows
While searching for a new home, an unexpected failure in your ship has left you stranded on a planet surprisingly similar to Earth. Discover a vast open world, hunt for food, develop technologies, and build yourself a new home to survive!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.2% ★, Base Building 14%, Crafting 11.3%, Open World 11.3%, Survival 9.4%
- #25 XenoHaven
77% matchVery Positive86% of 64 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 36.8% ★, Base Building 19.6%, Open World 14%, Crafting 11.7%, Survival 10.2%
- #26 QANGA
77% matchMostly Positive75% of 553 reviews2024
Dev: iolaCorp Studio
Windows
QANGA: Dive into a sci-fi adventure of exploration and resilience across the cosmos. Merge your mind with a state-of-the-art cyborg crafted by ICLabs Industries, and journey through this expansive universe!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46% ★, Open World 14.4%, Shooter 13.5%, Survival 10.3%, First-Person 8.6%
- #27 Starsand
78% matchMixed66% of 1,227 reviews2022
Dev: Tunnel Vision StudioPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Starsand is a mystic survival game set among the dunes of an arcane desert. An open-world full of danger, vast environments and mysterious happenings await you! Explore, hunt, craft, build – and SURVIVE.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.1% ★, Base Building 16.2%, Crafting 11.4%, Open World 11.3%, Survival 9.2%
- #28 Fragmented
79% 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 58.7% ★, Survival 12.7%, Open World 11%, Crafting 9%, Shooter 4.5%
- #29 Space Trash Scavenger
75% matchVery Positive84% of 514 reviews2024
Dev: SquarePlay GamesPub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 41.7% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 12.6%, Open World 10.3%, Survival 9.1%
- #30 Horizon Journey
76% matchMostly Negative25% of 81 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 32.6% ★, Base Building 15.1%, Crafting 10.9%, Open World 9.6%, Survival 7.9%
- #31 INCUR Survival
76% 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 43.3% ★, Crafting 12.4%, Open World 10.8%, Survival 9.2%, Action-Adventure 8.8%
- #32 Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey
75% matchMostly Positive79% of 11,316 reviews2020
Dev: Panache Digital GamesPub: Private Division
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Survive your evolution in Neogene Africa starting 10 million years ago. Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is a third-person open world survival game where you Explore, Expand, and Evolve to advance your clan to the next generation in the exciting new adventure from Panache Digital Games.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.4% ★, Open World 12.5%, Immersive Sim 10.7%, Crafting 10.6%, Survival 10%
- #33 Sunkenland
73% 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 43.6% ★, Base Building 14.6%, Survival 9.5%, Crafting 9.1%, Open World 7.5%
- #34 KeepUp Survival
74% matchMixed65% of 734 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
KeepUp Survival is an open base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and unfold your own story on a mysterious island.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.9% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Immersive Sim 10.8%, Crafting 9.8%, Open World 9.7%
- #35 Start Over
73% matchMixed62% of 375 reviews2024
Dev: EY-Studio
Windows
Embark on an unpredictable survival journey in Start Over. Solo, co-op, online, explore diverse landscapes, craft through 4 tech tiers, encounter wildlife, and trade or raid for resources. Choose your path, defend against waves, and shape your destiny in a dynamic world. Are you ready to Start Over?
Why similar: Base Building 22.8%, Crafting 15.7%, Immersive Sim 14.1%, Survival 11.8%, Open World 9.8%
- #36 Nightingale
72% 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 40.8% ★, Base Building 15.2%, Open World 11.4%, Crafting 11.3%, Survival 9.6%
- #37 FortressCraft Evolved!
74% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,055 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 53.1% ★, Crafting 13.8%, Base Building 13.7%, Survival 8.3%, Open World 7.7%
- #38 ASTRONEER
71% matchVery Positive92% of 136,711 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 44.1 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 45% ★, Base Building 16.4%, Open World 13.4%, Survival 10.6%, Crafting 8.7%
- #39 Len's Island
70% 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 44.2% ★, Base Building 14.8%, Crafting 12.2%, Open World 11.2%, Survival 10%
- #40 ASTROBOTANICA
71% matchMostly Positive76% of 80 reviews2026
Dev: Space Goblin Studio
Windows
Science-driven survival with a relaxing vibe. Farming, base building, crafting, animal taming, puzzle-solving, and exploration on Prehistoric Earth, where you arrive as an alien botanist who is very good at plant research, but... can't breathe oxygen.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.9% ★, Base Building 18.8%, Open World 11.7%, Survival 9.7%, Crafting 6.7%
- #41 Machine Mind
70% matchMostly Positive73% of 374 reviews2026
Dev: Chudo-Yudo GamesPub: Targem Games
Windows · Mac
Machine Mind is an action game in a post-apocalyptic setting with elements of survival and RTS. You will fight, craft modules, build your transport, develop and protect your base. You can control other vehicles to automate operations. Discover all the secrets of the destroyed world!
Why similar: Action RTS 21.5% ★, Base Building 17%, Crafting 10.9%, Post-apocalyptic 9.4%, Action RPG 9.3%
- #42 Soulmask
69% 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 42.1% ★, Base Building 17.3%, Crafting 12.3%, Open World 11.8%, Survival 9.4%
- #43 Stranded: Alien Dawn
69% matchVery Positive85% of 10,890 reviews2023
Dev: Haemimont GamesPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 24.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.
Why similar: Base Building 46.1%, Survival 23.4%, Crafting 21.3%, Strategy 9.2%
- #44 Retreat To Enen
71% matchMixed61% of 401 reviews2022
Dev: Head WestPub: indie.io
Windows
Base building simulator 1500 years in the future. Journey to the Island of Enen to forage, craft, build, hunt, meditate, and explore across three vast biomes. Discover secrets and create the retreat of your dreams. With over 160 unique items to gather, craft, and build, every home will be unique.
Why similar: Base Building 25.5%, Open World 15.4%, Crafting 15.4%, Survival 14.1%, First-Person 11.1%
- #45 Survive the Fall
68% matchMixed69% of 656 reviews2025
Dev: Angry Bulls StudioPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Explore, loot and fight in an open world action game set in a post-apocalyptic future after a devastating meteor strike. Assemble your team and take the fight to the enemy or choose a stealthy approach to gain the upper hand. Expand your base to research new gear and get ready to survive the fall.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.4% ★, Base Building 16.9%, Post-apocalyptic 11.3%, Crafting 10.9%, Open World 10.4%
- #46 Dawn of Defiance
67% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,736 reviews2024
Dev: Traega EntertainmentPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
You are the Defier, a Spartan beginning your afterlife on the Crossroads. In this Greek myth-inspired survival craft, ascend from weak soldier to god-like anti-hero. Build impressive Greek structures, craft legendary gear, and break the seals of the Underworld with up to 3 friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.4% ★, Base Building 16.5%, Survival 10.5%, Open World 9.8%, Crafting 8.7%
- #47 Lost Skies
67% matchMixed62% of 2,832 reviews2025
Dev: Bossa StudiosPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Chart a course in a breathtaking, but fractured world. Explore ancient ruins, master advanced technology, and craft your very own skyship to brave nature’s fury and colossal threats in Lost Skies. Team up with friends or go it alone in this awe-inspiring cooperative survival adventure.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.8% ★, Base Building 19.6%, Open World 8.1%, Crafting 7.8%, Shooter 7.2%
- #48 Abiotic Factor
64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 52,861 reviews2025
Dev: Deep Field GamesPub: Playstack
Windows
Median: 19.3 hrsMean: 42.7 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 38% ★, Base Building 17.6%, Crafting 12.3%, Immersive Sim 11.2%, Survival 9.6%
- #49 Skyformer
67% matchVery Positive90% of 59 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 38% ★, Base Building 17.7%, Crafting 11.8%, Open World 10%, Survival 8.8%
- #50 Urge
68% matchVery Positive90% of 476 reviews2021
Dev: EnDrew
Windows
Fight, build, explore, survive, while the dynamic player-caused hazardous fog is slowly changing the rules of the world around you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.3% ★, Base Building 15.2%, Crafting 9.3%, Post-apocalyptic 9%, Open World 8.2%
- #51 GearStorm - Armored Survival
70% 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 29.8% ★, Open World 19.6%, Survival 17.8%, Strategy 14.2%, Post-apocalyptic 10.9%
- #52 Outerverse
69% matchMixed51% of 124 reviews2022
Dev: Tbjbu2Pub: indie.io
Windows
Build automated machines and weapons across the universe, beat massive bosses, experience cosmic events and explore unique landmarks in this quest driven automation crafting adventure game. Includes a manual scenario for crafting instead of machines for those not a fan of logic/automation!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.2% ★, Base Building 17.6%, Crafting 12.5%, Open World 11.1%, First-Person 10.3%
- #53 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
66% matchMostly Positive79% of 34,087 reviews2020
Dev: Eleon Game Studios
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 76.7 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 49.2% ★, Open World 14.1%, Crafting 13.1%, Survival 11.6%, Exploration 7.3%
- #54 Techtonica
66% matchMixed65% of 3,183 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 17.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.
Why similar: Base Building 34.8%, Crafting 19.5%, Immersive Sim 19%, First-Person 10%, Exploration 8.5%