Games Like PixARK

Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!

Why similar: Survival 23.4%, Open World 22.3%, Multiplayer 12.4%, Crafting 9%, Sandbox 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Combines open-world survival with creature collection and base-building mechanics that mirror the core loop of PixARK.

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 27.6% ★, Survival 15%, Open World 11.6%, Massively Multiplayer 8.9%, Multiplayer 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive high-fidelity version of the dinosaur survival experience that inspired the PixARK formula.

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 18.2%, Sandbox 18%, Multiplayer 13.1%, Building 11.3%, Crafting 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based action RPG that balances exploration, building, and combat in a charming, blocky world.

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

Why similar: Survival 20.2%, Sandbox 19.6%, Multiplayer 11.2%, Open World 10.4%, Crafting 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for 2D voxel-based survival, offering deep crafting, exploration, and boss progression.

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 28.7% ★, Survival 16.5%, Open World 11%, Massively Multiplayer 8%, Multiplayer 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: The original dinosaur-themed survival game that provides the foundational mechanics for the PixARK experience.

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 17.6%, Open World 15.3%, Sandbox 12.8%, Crafting 9.5%, Multiplayer 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down voxel survival game that emphasizes mining, crafting, and boss battles in a mysterious underground world.

A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.

Why similar: Voxel 17.4% ★, Survival 15.7%, Open World 13%, Sandbox 12.4%, Crafting 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel sandbox game that focuses heavily on creative building and exploration within a vibrant, persistent world.

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 16.4%, Open World 15%, Sandbox 13.4%, Multiplayer 10.4%, Crafting 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game that combines settlement building, exploration, and creature taming in a pixel-art style.

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: Sandbox 20.2%, Survival 18.4%, Open World 13.5%, Crafting 9.7%, Multiplayer 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Features expansive voxel-based exploration across procedurally generated planets with a strong focus on survival and RPG elements.

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 23.3%, Survival 21.9%, Crafting 13.8%, Sandbox 11.6%, Multiplayer 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: An ambitious survival game that integrates creature taming, farming, and RPG progression in an open world.

DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS™ 2 is a block-building RPG set in a fantasy land threatened by an evil cult. Explore, battle, build and harvest in the charming single-player campaign or build big projects in the online sandbox mode for up to 4-players.

Why similar: Sandbox 18.8%, Building 14.7%, RPG 12.5%, Crafting 9.8%, Voxel 9.2% ★

Why You'll Like It: Blends structured RPG storytelling with satisfying voxel-based building and resource management.

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 24.1%, Voxel 22.1% ★, Multiplayer 12.1%, Survival 8%, RPG 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on voxel-based exploration and RPG character progression in a colorful, procedurally generated world.

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 22%, Open World 13.8%, Crafting 13%, Sandbox 12.3%, Multiplayer 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-crafting game that introduces monkey-taming mechanics to help with base building and resource gathering.

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 19%, Open World 17.2%, Sandbox 12.5%, RPG 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: A fantasy-themed survival game that emphasizes creature taming and magic-based progression.

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 22.7%, Open World 17.3%, Survival 15.4%, Sandbox 9.3%, Magic 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: A magic-focused survival game featuring creature taming and large-scale base building.

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 21.7%, Open World 18.8%, Sandbox 17.9%, Multiplayer 12.2%, Building 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: Features unique creature creation and taming mechanics within a voxel-based survival sandbox.

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 11.5%, Massively Multiplayer 10.9%, Multiplayer 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A hardcore dinosaur survival simulator that prioritizes realistic creature behavior and environmental survival.

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 20.1%, Open World 14.5%, Sandbox 11.3%, Multiplayer 10.7%, Crafting 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Features survival mechanics from a miniature perspective, including taming insects and building bases in nature.

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 17.1%, Survival 15.3%, Open World 9%, Multiplayer 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: A dinosaur survival game that focuses on life-cycle mechanics and player-driven ecosystems.

Shape your citizen, forge your destiny and sculpt your world in this epic voxel sandbox MMO built on endless possibility.

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 23.3%, Voxel 14.4% ★, Open World 13.8%, Sandbox 13%, Survival 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based MMO that allows for massive building projects and exploration across diverse, interconnected planets.

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 56.3% ★, Building 14.3%, Sandbox 12.3%, Open World 5.3%, Strategy 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the management and building aspects of dinosaur parks, perfect for fans of the creature-focused themes.

Build a civilization of real people, working together to advance society and stop a meteor, all without destroying the ecosystem in the process.

Why similar: Survival 21.3%, Open World 20.7%, Sandbox 16.8%, Crafting 14.7%, Multiplayer 13.7%

Why You'll Like It: A collaborative voxel survival game where players must build and manage a civilization while protecting the ecosystem.

Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.

Why similar: Survival 65%, Multiplayer 9.6%, Open World 8.2%, Co-op 5.4%, Sandbox 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a challenging survival experience with a distinct art style and deep crafting systems.

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 21.8%, Survival 20.5%, Open World 16.3%, Crafting 8.4%, Multiplayer 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: A massive open-world survival game that focuses on sailing, exploration, and creature taming.

Slime Rancher is the tale of Beatrix LeBeau, a plucky, young rancher who sets out for a life a thousand light years away from Earth on the ‘Far, Far Range’ where she tries her hand at making a living wrangling slimes.

Why similar: Open World 48.4%, Sandbox 25.8%, Adventure 14.1%, FPS 5.1%, Casual 4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the collection and management of creatures in a vibrant, open-world environment.

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 27%, Survival 18.6%, Open World 14%, Sandbox 7.7%, Crafting 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: A nomadic survival game that features unique creature-based transport and large-scale exploration.

MMORPG full of details that create a unique immersion and the spirit of adventure! Play your role in the life-filled medieval world controlled by players.

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 25.3%, Sandbox 13.4%, Survival 11%, Open World 9.5%, Crafting 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game that emphasizes crafting, building, and community-driven progression.

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 18.7%, Open World 15.4%, Sandbox 14.8%, Multiplayer 9.5%, Crafting 8.8%

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 34.4% ★, Survival 18%, Massively Multiplayer 12.3%, Open World 9.6%, Multiplayer 7.1%

Conan Exiles Enhanced is an open world survival game set in the mythical lands of Hyboria, now fully upgraded to Unreal Engine 5 with stunning visuals and improved performance. SURVIVE, BUILD, and DOMINATE alone or with friends in a world brimming with adventure!

Why similar: Survival 24.1%, Open World 17.5%, Massively Multiplayer 12.3%, Building 9.5%, Crafting 8.6%

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: Survival 22.1%, Open World 18.6%, Sandbox 15.7%, Crafting 12.7%, Base Building 11.2%

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 18.2%, Open World 18.2%, Crafting 11.6%, Multiplayer 11.1%, Building 9.9%

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 24.3%, Survival 24.1%, Open World 19.2%, Multiplayer 11.3%, Base Building 4.6%

Everwind is a novel take on RPG and Sandbox Survival genre in First-Person-Perspective. Embark on the adventure with your friends - Build a base on a flying island-ship, gather resources, craft, loot, and fight while you rise above the clouds to uncover the mysteries of this world!

Why similar: Survival 16.8%, Open World 14.8%, Sandbox 12.5%, Crafting 9.6%, Building 9.5%

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 22.1%, Multiplayer 17.1%, Crafting 16.9%, Base Building 13.8%, Building 13.6%

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 18.8%, Open World 16.1%, Sandbox 15.2%, Building 13%, Multiplayer 10.6%

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 24.2%, Open World 18.2%, Sandbox 13.5%, Multiplayer 9.3%, Base Building 9.2%

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 26.3%, Survival 16.3%, Open World 13.4%, Sandbox 13.2%, Crafting 6.1%

Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).

Why similar: Survival 27.2%, Open World 16.5%, Crafting 12.2%, Multiplayer 12.1%, Building 8.5%

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 23.7%, Open World 19%, Crafting 11.5%, Multiplayer 11.4%, Building 10.3%

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 21.9%, Open World 16.3%, Multiplayer 12.8%, Sandbox 12.1%, Crafting 11.3%

Dinosaur World is a survival game about dinosaurs.

Why similar: Survival 42.3%, Building 23.5%, Base Building 21.2%, Dinosaurs 7% ★, Massively Multiplayer 4.6%

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 63.2% ★, Multiplayer 8.7%, Open World 5.5%, Survival 5.4%, FPS 4.5%

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 19.2%, Open World 17.4%, Sandbox 16.9%, Building 13.1%, Multiplayer 10.1%

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

Why similar: Survival 24%, Open World 15.3%, Crafting 13.8%, Sandbox 13.7%, Building 8.6%

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 22.2%, Massively Multiplayer 16%, Open World 15.4%, Multiplayer 9.2%, Crafting 9.2%

Rising World is a voxel based open-world sandbox game, featuring a procedurally generated world, playable in single and multi-player.

Why similar: Voxel 19.7% ★, Survival 17.3%, Sandbox 13.7%, Building 10.4%, Crafting 10.1%

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 51.8% ★, Sandbox 14.1%, Building 12.3%, Open World 8.1%, Survival 3.9%

Grow a dinosaur from hatchling to full-grown adult, then take it anywhere — solo or into 150-player servers, with everything you've earned carried over. 67+ playable species, from land to sea to sky.

Why similar: Dinosaurs 33.9% ★, Massively Multiplayer 19.2%, Survival 14.3%, Open World 11.3%, Sandbox 9%

CastleMiner Z is an infinite world filled with deep places to explore, and horrifying monsters to slay. Build structures out of blocks, craft weapons and tools from raw materials, and explore the vast and frightening world around you.

Why similar: Survival 27%, Sandbox 15.4%, Open World 14.7%, Multiplayer 13%, Crafting 8.9%

Gather your friends and come to Tinkertown - A refreshing new Multiplayer Sandbox Experience! Explore magical places filled with loot, danger, and creativity.

Why similar: Open World 15%, Sandbox 14.9%, RPG 12.8%, Multiplayer 12.7%, Crafting 11.4%

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 61.5% ★, Survival 12.8%, Open World 10.1%, Adventure 6.4%, Multiplayer 4.9%

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 16.1%, Voxel 15.3% ★, Open World 13.5%, Sandbox 10.9%, Building 9.1%

Welcome to Dinotica! Stomp into a mysterious and dangerous world filled with action, adventure, and companionship! Together, you'll fight, build, farm, and more as you work toward creating a unique home that is truly your own.

Why similar: Dinosaurs 48.2% ★, Crafting 12.7%, Base Building 11.1%, RPG 9.6%, Co-op 7.1%