- #1 Palworld
97% matchVery Positive94% of 417,805 reviews2024
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 34.2 hrsMean: 70.0 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!
Why similar: Survival 21.9%, Open World 20.6%, Multiplayer 11.9%, Sandbox 8.7%, Crafting 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Combines creature collection and taming with open-world survival mechanics in a way that mirrors the core loop of PixARK.
- #2 Core Keeper
96% 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: Survival 17.1%, Open World 14.8%, Sandbox 13.1%, Crafting 9.7%, Multiplayer 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a top-down, pixel-art survival experience with deep crafting, base building, and creature combat.
- #3 Portal Knights
96% 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: Sandbox 18.2%, Survival 18%, Multiplayer 13.1%, Building 11.3%, Crafting 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: Features a similar voxel-based aesthetic combined with RPG progression and exploration across distinct floating islands.
- #4 Creativerse
95% 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: Voxel 17.3% ★, Survival 15.6%, Open World 12.9%, Sandbox 12.5%, Crafting 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based sandbox game that focuses heavily on exploration, building, and surviving in a vibrant, blocky environment.
- #5 Necesse
94% 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: Survival 16.2%, Open World 14.9%, Sandbox 13.6%, Multiplayer 10.5%, Crafting 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down sandbox survival game that emphasizes building, exploration, and managing a growing settlement in a pixelated world.
- #6 ARK: Survival Ascended
94% 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: Dinosaurs 27% ★, Survival 14.8%, Open World 11.4%, Massively Multiplayer 9.2%, Multiplayer 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: The modern, high-fidelity evolution of the survival and dinosaur-taming gameplay that inspired PixARK.
- #7 ARK: Survival Evolved
93% 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: Dinosaurs 28.6% ★, Survival 16.5%, Open World 10.9%, Massively Multiplayer 8%, Multiplayer 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: The original survival experience that defined the creature-taming genre with its vast open world and prehistoric threats.
- #8 Trove
92% matchVery Positive80% of 92,653 reviews2015
Dev: gamigo US Inc.
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 49.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Grab your friends, hone your blades, and set off for an epic procedurally generated adventure in Trove! Battle the Shadow in realms filled with dungeons and items created by your fellow players. Whether hunting treasure or building realms of your own, it’s never been this good to be square!
Why similar: Voxel 16% ★, Massively Multiplayer 15.7%, Open World 14.6%, Sandbox 13.5%, Crafting 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: An MMO that leans heavily into the voxel aesthetic, offering extensive building and creature-collecting elements.
- #9 Terraria
91% 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: Survival 20%, Sandbox 19.8%, Multiplayer 11.2%, Open World 10.2%, Crafting 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: The quintessential 2D voxel-style survival game that features deep crafting, boss progression, and extensive base building.
- #10 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: Survival 19.8%, Open World 14.1%, Sandbox 11.5%, Multiplayer 10.8%, Crafting 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on survival and base building from a unique perspective, emphasizing exploration and creature interaction.
- #11 Rising World
90% matchVery Positive86% of 5,845 reviews2014
Dev: JIW-Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 21.3 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Rising World is a voxel based open-world sandbox game, featuring a procedurally generated world, playable in single and multi-player.
Why similar: Voxel 19.5% ★, Survival 17.1%, Sandbox 13.8%, Building 10.4%, Crafting 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a seamless voxel-based sandbox experience with a strong focus on building and terraforming.
- #12 Conan Exiles
89% 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: Survival 23.9%, Open World 17.2%, Massively Multiplayer 12.4%, Building 9.5%, Crafting 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: A robust survival game with deep building mechanics and a harsh open world that rewards exploration and resource management.
- #13 The Survivalists
89% 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: Survival 21.8%, Open World 13.6%, Crafting 13.2%, Sandbox 12.4%, Multiplayer 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-crafting game featuring a pixel-art style and a unique monkey-taming system that aids in resource gathering.
- #14 7 Days to Die
85% matchVery Positive87% of 396,805 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 16.8 hrsMean: 107.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
Why similar: Survival 24.1%, Voxel 15.6% ★, Open World 14.2%, Sandbox 10.7%, Multiplayer 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based survival game that emphasizes base building and defense against waves of enemies.
- #15 Citadel: Forged with Fire
87% matchMixed68% of 5,882 reviews2019
Dev: Blue Isle StudiosPub: Blue Isle Publishing
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 19.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
This massive online sandbox RPG features elements of magic, spellcasting, building, exploring and crafting. As a newly minted apprentice of the magic arts, you will set off to the dangerous world of Ignus. Tame mighty beasts, forge alliances, explore uncharted territories or fight for dominance!
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 22.6%, Open World 17.1%, Survival 15.4%, Sandbox 9.4%, Magic 6%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world RPG that incorporates survival elements, base building, and the ability to tame mythical creatures.
- #16 The Isle
86% matchVery Positive80% of 107,823 reviews2015
Dev: Afterthought LLC
Windows
Median: 12.4 hrsMean: 123.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Experience fierce open world survival gameplay as you attempt to stay alive on an unforgiving island inhabited by dinosaurs! Hunt. Grow. Survive.
Why similar: Dinosaurs 44.7% ★, Survival 15.4%, Open World 11.4%, Massively Multiplayer 10.9%, Multiplayer 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore dinosaur survival simulation that emphasizes realism and the struggle for survival in a prehistoric ecosystem.
- #17 Dark and Light
86% matchMixed52% of 11,804 reviews2017
Dev: Snail Games USA
Windows
Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 49.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Dark and Light is a vast sandbox survival RPG set in a world dominated by powerful elemental forces. Find your way in a meticulously crafted world, featuring breathtaking landscapes, a wide variety of mythical creatures, and limitless possibility to craft, build, and unlock dozens of powerful weapons, spells, and skills.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 25.4%, Survival 18.9%, Open World 17%, Sandbox 12.7%, RPG 5.3%
Why You'll Like It: A fantasy-themed survival game that shares the massive scale and creature-taming focus of the ARK franchise.
- #18 Tinkerlands
83% 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: Survival 18.5%, Open World 15.2%, Sandbox 15%, Multiplayer 9.4%, Crafting 9%
Why You'll Like It: A pixel-art survival game that focuses on exploration, crafting, and building in a vibrant, dangerous world.
- #19 Valheim
82% 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: Survival 22.5%, Open World 17.5%, Multiplayer 11.4%, Building 10.5%, Crafting 10%
Why You'll Like It: While not voxel-based, it offers a similar satisfying loop of survival, base building, and progression through dangerous biomes.
- #20 Ylands
84% matchMixed64% of 8,354 reviews2019
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 46%
Adventure awaits you and your friends in the world of Ylands! Gather resources, craft tools, construct anything and everything, and explore the lands! Build a ship and set sail, encountering mythical animals, a wide variety of sea-life, enemies of all kinds and much more!
Why similar: Open World 21.7%, Crafting 17.1%, Multiplayer 17%, Base Building 13.9%, Building 13.7%
Why You'll Like It: A colorful, low-poly sandbox game that allows players to explore, build, and craft in a modular, voxel-inspired environment.
- #21 Soulmask
82% 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: Survival 20.4%, Open World 17.4%, Sandbox 16.3%, Building 12.5%, Crafting 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game that emphasizes tribe management and creature taming within a large, unforgiving open world.
- #22 Beasts of Bermuda
84% matchMixed69% of 9,507 reviews2018
Dev: Sastrei Studios, LLC
Windows
Median: 23.0 hrsMean: 331.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Play as a dinosaur and become part of a player-created ecosystem! Beasts of Bermuda is a multiplayer game where players endure catastrophic storms and fearsome foes while growing to monstrous sizes. Do you have what it takes to survive in the Bermuda Triangle?
Why similar: Dinosaurs 42.2% ★, Massively Multiplayer 17.2%, Survival 15.3%, Open World 8.8%, Multiplayer 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses entirely on the dinosaur survival experience, offering complex growth and social mechanics for prehistoric creatures.
- #23 Jurassic World Evolution 2
78% matchVery Positive90% of 45,488 reviews2021
Dev: Frontier Developments
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 22.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Jurassic World Evolution 2 is the much-anticipated sequel to Frontier’s highly successful Jurassic World Evolution. This bold new era in the Jurassic World Evolution game franchise builds upon the ground-breaking and immersive 2018 management simulation.
Why similar: Dinosaurs 51.3% ★, Sandbox 14.4%, Building 12.3%, Open World 8%, Survival 3.9%
Why You'll Like It: While a management sim, it perfectly captures the dinosaur-focused theme and base-building aspects of the genre.
- #24 Last Oasis
80% matchMixed62% of 24,198 reviews2020
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 17.9 hrsMean: 121.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Nomadic Survival MMO. Build wooden walking machines to travel to new lands. Create clans and fight for territory. Resources deplete fast, so take your sword and scavenge, pirate, and trade to stay alive.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 26.9%, Survival 18.6%, Open World 13.7%, Sandbox 7.8%, Crafting 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: A nomadic survival game that focuses on building mobile bases and navigating a dangerous, ever-changing environment.
- #25 GRAV
81% 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: Survival 24.1%, Open World 17.9%, Sandbox 13.6%, Multiplayer 9.4%, Base Building 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi survival game that features base building, exploration, and combat in a procedurally generated world.
- #26 Outlaws of the Old West
79% matchMixed59% of 6,287 reviews2019
Dev: Virtual Basement LLCPub: Wandering Wizard
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 22.8 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: Massively Multiplayer 24.2%, Survival 24%, Open World 19%, Multiplayer 11.4%, Base Building 4.7%
Why You'll Like It: A western-themed survival game that emphasizes building, crafting, and surviving in a harsh frontier.
- #27 Jurassic World Evolution
77% matchVery Positive87% of 54,890 reviews2018
Dev: Frontier Developments
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 28.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Place yourself at the heart of the Jurassic franchise and build your own Jurassic World. Bioengineer dinosaurs that think, feel and react intelligently to the world around them and face threats posed by espionage, breakouts and devastating tropical storms in an uncertain world where life always finds a way.
Why similar: Dinosaurs 56% ★, Building 14.5%, Sandbox 12.4%, Open World 5.2%, Strategy 4.4%
- #28 Planet Centauri
75% matchMostly Positive77% of 2,359 reviews2024
Dev: Permadeath
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Dive into an epic adventure alone or with friends! Explore hidden dungeons, capture and tame fearsome monsters, build and defend your village. Craft powerful weapons, master magical spells, and transform an planet into the cradle of a new civilization!
Why similar: Sandbox 18.4%, Open World 17.8%, Crafting 11.8%, Multiplayer 11.2%, Building 10%
- #29 ARK: The Survival Of The Fittest
78% matchMixed66% of 11,802 reviews2017
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 27%
ARK: The Survival of the Fittest is a prototype spin-off of ARK: Survival Evolved, pitting up to 60 combatants against each other in a fast-paced, action-packed struggle for survival, where players are ultimately pushed into an epic final showdown leading their Dinosaur Armies into battle.
Why similar: Dinosaurs 34.3% ★, Survival 18%, Massively Multiplayer 12.3%, Open World 9.5%, Multiplayer 7.1%
- #30 ATLAS
77% matchMixed47% of 42,842 reviews2018
Dev: Grapeshot Games
Windows
Median: 12.5 hrsMean: 112.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Set sail for the ultimate pirate experience! Embark on a grand adventure alongside thousands of other players in one of the largest game worlds ever built (and even claim a piece of it to call your own). Build your ship, assemble your crew, sail the high seas, and become a pirate legend!
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 21.6%, Survival 20.5%, Open World 16.1%, Crafting 8.6%, Multiplayer 7.6%
- #31 Scrap Mechanic
73% matchVery Positive92% of 117,049 reviews2016
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.1 hrsMean: 57.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!
Why similar: Survival 18.7%, Open World 15.9%, Sandbox 15.3%, Building 13%, Crafting 10.7%
- #32 Cube World
76% matchMostly Negative37% of 18,693 reviews2019
Dev: Picroma
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Cube World is a voxel-based action RPG with a focus on exploration. It takes place in a procedurally generated fantasy world made up entirely of cubes.
Why similar: Open World 23.7%, Voxel 22.1% ★, Multiplayer 12.2%, Survival 8%, RPG 6.7%
- #33 Primal Carnage
75% matchMostly Positive76% of 5,816 reviews2012
Dev: Lukewarm MediaPub: Circle 5 Publishing
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 74%
A savage online shooter, where players do battle as man or beast in class-based deathmatches and a frantic escape mode. Unleash your inner dinosaur!
Why similar: Dinosaurs 63.1% ★, Multiplayer 8.8%, Survival 5.4%, Open World 5.4%, FPS 4.5%
- #34 Wild Terra Online
74% matchMixed60% of 1,830 reviews2017
Dev: Juvty Worlds
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Wild Terra Online is a sandbox RPG, in a completely player-controlled medieval world. You will have to survive in a forest full of predators, build a shelter and improve your crafts skills, tame animals and fight for treasures. You can become anyone and do whatever you want!
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 26%, Survival 16.3%, Sandbox 13.4%, Open World 13.3%, Crafting 6.2%
- #35 Dinosaur World
71% matchMixed64% of 165 reviews2025
Dev: Dinosaur StudioPub: CoolRabbit Games
Windows
Dinosaur World is a survival game about dinosaurs.
Why similar: Survival 42%, Building 23.6%, Base Building 21.4%, Dinosaurs 6.9% ★, Massively Multiplayer 4.6%
- #36 CHKN
73% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,718 reviews2016
Dev: Katapult
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Behold, the miracle of life… packed into cubes! Create fantastic creatures in an open-world sandbox game like no other. Explore, craft, and survive—all with the help of your very own creations.
Why similar: Survival 21.6%, Open World 18.5%, Sandbox 17.9%, Multiplayer 12.2%, Building 11.6%
- #37 Myth of Empires
70% 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: Survival 18.9%, Open World 17%, Sandbox 16.8%, Building 13%, Multiplayer 10.1%
- #38 ARK Park
74% matchMixed45% of 445 reviews2018
Dev: Snail Games
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 334.8 hrs≥1hr: 51%
In ARK Park, engage in close encounters with primal species through a series of theme park attractions. Enter by yourself or with a group of adventurous friends, and witness dinosaurs roaming in the wild with your own eyes!
Why similar: Dinosaurs 61.6% ★, Survival 12.8%, Open World 10%, Adventure 6.3%, Multiplayer 5%
- #39 Force of Nature
72% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,198 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: Survival 23.9%, Open World 15.1%, Crafting 14.1%, Sandbox 13.8%, Building 8.6%
- #40 Reign Of Kings
73% matchMixed57% of 14,891 reviews2015
Dev: Code}{atch
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 47.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Struggle to survive in a harsh medieval world. Hunt wildlife, mine resources, build structures, and craft weapons and armor in order to protect yourself. You may form a guild, bring war to all opposition, and try to seize the throne and become king!
Why similar: Survival 23.6%, Open World 18.7%, Crafting 11.7%, Multiplayer 11.4%, Building 10.3%
- #41 XERA: Survival
71% 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: Survival 16.8%, Massively Multiplayer 16%, Open World 12.2%, Multiplayer 9.8%, Sandbox 9.4%
- #42 Keplerth
70% matchVery Positive85% of 4,121 reviews2022
Dev: TAROPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Welcome to Keplerth! Try to survive on a hostile alien planet in this 2D sandbox RPG, where you can choose to live alone or fight side by side with your friends in the online multiplayer mode. Survive, build, farm, fight, and explore your way to victory in this open-world adventure!
Why similar: Survival 21%, Open World 17.5%, Sandbox 17.5%, Building 11.4%, Multiplayer 7.9%
- #43 Longvinter
68% 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: Survival 21.8%, Open World 16%, Multiplayer 12.8%, Sandbox 12.1%, Crafting 11.6%
- #44 Cubic Odyssey
68% 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: Sandbox 18.2%, Open World 15.6%, Survival 13.4%, Building 12.6%, Base Building 12%
- #45 Primeval
69% matchMixed63% of 74 reviews2025
Dev: Exhibyte
Windows
Can you survive this unforgiving prehistoric world? Experience the life of 65+ prehistoric species. Emerge as a hatchling and survive to reach adulthood. Evolve, gain talents and traits, and eat a healthy diet to gain powerful buffs. Collect a hoard of items to customize your dinosaurs.
Why similar: Dinosaurs 34.9% ★, Survival 14.7%, Massively Multiplayer 13.4%, Open World 11.9%, Sandbox 10.5%
- #46 Out of Reach
71% matchMixed57% of 3,044 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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: Survival 22.1%, Massively Multiplayer 15.9%, Open World 15.2%, Crafting 9.3%, Multiplayer 9.2%
- #47 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
69% 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: Survival 16%, Voxel 15.2% ★, Open World 13.3%, Sandbox 11%, Building 9.2%
- #48 Boundless
70% matchMixed70% of 2,766 reviews2018
Dev: Monumental, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 33.0 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: Massively Multiplayer 23.2%, Voxel 14.4% ★, Open World 13.6%, Sandbox 13.1%, Survival 10.2%
- #49 Craftopia
67% 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 22.9%, Survival 21.7%, Crafting 14%, Sandbox 11.7%, Multiplayer 10.9%
- #50 Dig or Die
68% matchVery Positive90% of 4,268 reviews2018
Dev: Gaddy Games
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Crash land on a hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it. But be warned... this planet is merciless. Build strong, and smart; else physics may flood or destroy your only hopes of survival.
Why similar: Survival 24.9%, Sandbox 18.1%, Open World 12.3%, Crafting 11.8%, Multiplayer 6.5%
- #51 Night of the Dead
65% matchMostly Positive77% of 11,732 reviews2024
Dev: Jackto Studios
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 32.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
'Night of the Dead' is an open-world game that combines elements of exploration, tower defense, survival, and crafting. Traverse a world dominated by zombies while collecting various resources and powerful equipment. Build a fortress to survive the hordes of zombies that swarm every night!
Why similar: Survival 17.9%, Open World 15.8%, Sandbox 14.1%, Multiplayer 10.9%, Crafting 10.8%
- #52 Grounded
65% 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: Survival 30.4%, Multiplayer 14.3%, Open World 12.8%, Base Building 10.7%, Crafting 10.2%
- #53 Jurassic World Evolution 3
63% matchVery Positive93% of 9,574 reviews2025
Dev: Frontier Developments
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 22.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Build your own Jurassic World. Nurture generations of dinosaurs with the series debut of juveniles, create and manage sprawling prehistoric parks around the globe, and let your imagination roar with powerful new creative options.
Why similar: Dinosaurs 51.7% ★, Sandbox 14.1%, Survival 9.8%, Open World 6%, Strategy 4.9%
- #54 Planet Explorers
69% 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: Sandbox 20%, Open World 19.5%, Survival 16.6%, Crafting 9.2%, Multiplayer 9%
- #55 TerraTech
66% matchVery Positive91% of 24,455 reviews2018
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 33.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
TerraTech is an open-world, sandbox adventure game, where you design and build your own creations through a mix of crafting, combat and discovery. Design vehicles from a huge library of blocks. Scavenge, craft and buy new parts to survive and become the ultimate planetary prospector.
Why similar: Open World 18.9%, Sandbox 18.8%, Building 15.6%, Survival 14.2%, Multiplayer 11.1%
