- #1 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
97% matchMostly Positive79% of 34,194 reviews2020
Dev: Eleon Game Studios
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 76.8 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 34.1% ★, Sandbox 11.3%, Open World 10.3%, Survival 7.5%, Crafting 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: Features a similar sci-fi survival loop with planet-to-space travel and extensive base and vehicle construction.
- #2 Space Engineers
96% matchVery Positive89% of 133,721 reviews2019
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 96.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.
Why similar: Sandbox 24.6%, Open World 19.9%, Survival 14.2%, Building 13.4%, Multiplayer 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: Offers the most robust physics-based voxel building and engineering system for creating complex ships and bases.
- #3 TerraTech
96% matchVery Positive91% of 24,617 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 Survival Craft 36.4% ★, Sandbox 16.2%, Open World 12.3%, Building 10%, Crafting 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on the modular vehicle building and combat aspects found in Planet Explorers.
- #4 No Man's Sky
95% matchVery Positive85% of 406,987 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 46% ★, Open World 15.5%, Sandbox 10.3%, Survival 7.1%, Crafting 5.1%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a vast, procedurally generated universe with deep exploration, base building, and survival mechanics.
- #5 ASTRONEER
94% matchVery Positive92% of 137,959 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.2 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 39.4% ★, Open World 12.4%, Sandbox 10.9%, Survival 8.6%, Multiplayer 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: Centers on terrain deformation and creative base building in a vibrant, sci-fi planetary setting.
- #6 Medieval Engineers
94% matchMixed52% of 7,297 reviews2015
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 16.9 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Medieval Engineers is a sandbox game about engineering, construction and the maintenance of architectural works and mechanical equipment using medieval technology. Players build castles; construct mechanical devices and underground mining. There is an entire planet to explore!
Why similar: Sandbox 27%, Open World 18.8%, Building 16.9%, Crafting 11%, Survival 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: Utilizes a sophisticated structural integrity system that makes building and destruction feel highly realistic.
- #7 7 Days to Die
91% matchVery Positive87% of 399,251 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 16.9 hrsMean: 108.3 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: Open World Survival Craft 38.4% ★, Survival 12.4%, Open World 12.2%, Sandbox 12%, Voxel 6.9% ★
Why You'll Like It: Features a fully destructible voxel world with a strong emphasis on survival and base fortification.
- #8 Creativerse
93% 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 30.9% ★, Sandbox 12.1%, Open World 9.5%, Crafting 8.2%, Survival 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: A polished voxel sandbox that emphasizes creative building and exploration in a colorful, stylized world.
- #9 Scrap Mechanic
90% matchVery Positive92% of 117,481 reviews2016
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.2 hrsMean: 58.2 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: Sandbox 22.2%, Open World 17.5%, Building 14.1%, Crafting 14%, Survival 12.4%
Why You'll Like It: Provides an advanced engineering sandbox for building complex machines and vehicles with interactive parts.
- #10 Rising World
89% matchVery Positive86% of 5,890 reviews2014
Dev: JIW-Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 21.2 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: Open World Survival Craft 39.3% ★, Sandbox 13.6%, Crafting 9%, Survival 7.7%, Building 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a highly flexible voxel building experience with a focus on survival and realistic material gathering.
- #11 Satisfactory
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 270,461 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 32.6 hrsMean: 110.0 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 23.3% ★, Open World 15.9%, Sandbox 14.7%, Crafting 12.6%, Building 9%
Why You'll Like It: Combines large-scale factory building with exploration and resource management in a beautiful alien world.
- #12 Boundless
89% matchMixed70% of 2,767 reviews2018
Dev: Monumental, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 32.9 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: Open World Survival Craft 40.1% ★, Sandbox 14.8%, Open World 11.7%, Crafting 8.6%, Voxel 6.4% ★
Why You'll Like It: A massive voxel-based sandbox that allows for exploration and building across interconnected alien worlds.
- #13 FOUNDRY
86% matchVery Positive81% of 3,779 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 46.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.
Why similar: Sandbox 19.5%, Open World 16.5%, Crafting 13.6%, Building 10.7%, Voxel 10.4% ★
Why You'll Like It: A first-person factory builder set in an infinite, voxel-based world that rewards creative construction.
- #14 StarMade
88% matchMixed68% of 2,982 reviews2014
Dev: Schine GmbH
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 18.8 hrs≥1hr: 54%
The ultimate space sandbox. Participate in epic fleet battles, form alliances, strive to dominate entire galaxies and harness the universe’s resources for your industrious empire or the destruction of others. Customise your experience, the universe is yours!
Why similar: Sandbox 28.1%, Open World 18.5%, Building 10.7%, Voxel 9% ★, Multiplayer 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: Allows players to build massive, functional space stations and ships using a voxel-based construction system.
- #15 FortressCraft Evolved!
87% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,057 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 43.7% ★, Sandbox 13.6%, Crafting 9%, Building 6.9%, Open World 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: Blends deep voxel mining and building with complex automation and tower defense mechanics.
- #16 TerraTech Worlds
85% matchMixed63% of 2,228 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 21.9 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 36.1% ★, Sandbox 13.3%, Open World 10.6%, Crafting 9%, Survival 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: An evolution of the original vehicle-building sandbox with improved visuals and a more cohesive open-world experience.
- #17 Interstellar Rift
84% matchMixed68% of 1,660 reviews2020
Dev: Split PolygonPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 33.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Interstellar Rift is an open world starship simulator with an emphasis on ship construction and multi-player interaction. Survive in a hostile galaxy with your own custom designed and constructed starship. Invite other players to join your crew or fight them across the galaxy!
Why similar: Sandbox 22.5%, Open World 19.6%, Crafting 15.7%, Building 13.1%, Survival 12%
Why You'll Like It: A space-sim that allows for detailed ship interior design and complex system management.
- #18 Portal Knights
84% matchVery Positive83% of 22,235 reviews2017
Dev: Keen Games GmbHPub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 5.6 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 25.9%, Crafting 14.5%, Building 12%, Survival 11.8%, Multiplayer 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: Combines action-RPG combat with voxel-based building and exploration across varied floating islands.
- #19 Dig or Die
82% matchVery Positive90% of 4,269 reviews2018
Dev: Gaddy Games
Windows
Median: 4.3 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: Open World Survival Craft 43.7% ★, Sandbox 16%, Survival 10.1%, Crafting 9.4%, Open World 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D survival game that emphasizes physics-based base building and defense against alien threats.
- #20 Fragmented
83% 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 48.7% ★, Survival 9.8%, Open World 9.6%, Sandbox 8.3%, Crafting 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi survival game that emphasizes character progression and base building on a hostile alien planet.
- #21 Life is Feudal: Your Own
82% matchMixed66% of 12,061 reviews2015
Dev: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 58.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Hardcore and realistic; LiF is a Medieval multiplayer sandbox RPG, with free terraforming, a rich crafting system and preset and modular building construction. With engaging survival aspects, no target physics-based combat and a unique formation system - along with numerous other features - LiF is not for the faint of heart!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42% ★, Sandbox 12.7%, Open World 12.4%, Crafting 8.9%, Survival 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: Features a realistic survival and building system that requires significant player cooperation and terraforming.
- #22 Force of Nature
81% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,202 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: Open World Survival Craft 43.2% ★, Sandbox 11%, Crafting 10.1%, Open World 9.1%, Survival 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: A survival sandbox that blends crafting, building, and exploration with a top-down perspective.
- #23 Stationeers
80% matchVery Positive88% of 9,014 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 83.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!
Why similar: Sandbox 26.8%, Crafting 18.2%, Survival 16.1%, Building 14.7%, Multiplayer 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the intricate technical and engineering challenges of surviving in harsh space environments.
- #24 Salt
81% matchMostly Positive76% of 2,246 reviews2018
Dev: Lavaboots Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Salt is an open world exploration game where you sail from island to island looking for loot and new discoveries! Relax and explore at your own pace, picking a direction and setting sail across a vast ocean filled with quests, merchants, ruins, pirates, and other mysterious places.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.3% ★, Open World 13.8%, Sandbox 10.9%, Survival 9.6%, Crafting 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the open-world exploration and survival aspects of navigating a vast, procedurally generated ocean.
- #25 Crea
79% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,407 reviews2016
Dev: Siege Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 19.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Progress with every slain monster, learn over 80 skills through talents, craft hundreds of items, and explore vast procedurally-generated worlds in this ever-expanding sandbox RPG!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.3% ★, Sandbox 17.1%, Crafting 9.1%, Survival 6.1%, Open World 5.5%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D sandbox RPG that features deep crafting and skill-based character progression.
- #26 The Planet Crafter
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 70,189 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.5 hrsMean: 37.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 41% ★, Sandbox 11.2%, Open World 10.7%, Crafting 9%, Survival 8.6%
- #27 Starbound
76% matchVery Positive90% of 122,999 reviews2016
Dev: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.1 hrsMean: 64.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.2% ★, Sandbox 15.3%, Open World 7.6%, Crafting 6.7%, Survival 6.3%
- #28 Avorion
75% matchVery Positive90% of 14,391 reviews2020
Dev: Boxelware
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18.7 hrsMean: 99.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A procedural co-op space sandbox where players can build their own space ships out of dynamically scalable blocks. Fight epic space battles, explore, mine, trade, wage wars and build your own empire to save your galaxy from being torn apart by an unknown enemy.
Why similar: Sandbox 28.4%, Open World 21.5%, Building 15.1%, Voxel 11.5% ★, Exploration 7.6%
- #29 GRAV
78% matchMixed47% of 6,921 reviews2015
Dev: BitMonster, Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 11.6 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 46% ★, Sandbox 12.1%, Open World 12.1%, Survival 9.8%, Crafting 6.9%
- #30 Blockscape
78% matchMixed46% of 898 reviews2014
Dev: ioneo
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 49%
The ultimate block building game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 51% ★, Sandbox 14.8%, Open World 8.1%, Crafting 6.1%, Survival 5.3%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel sandbox that focuses on high-fidelity building and exploration in a procedurally generated world.
- #31 Keplerth
74% matchVery Positive85% of 4,138 reviews2022
Dev: TAROPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 16.1 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: Sandbox 23.4%, Open World 17.9%, Survival 12.9%, Building 11.3%, Exploration 6.3%
- #32 Planetaries
75% matchMixed58% of 223 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 35% ★, Sandbox 10.8%, Open World 10.6%, Crafting 8.4%, Survival 7.6%
- #33 Signs of Life
77% matchMostly Positive76% of 841 reviews2014
Dev: Sweet Dog Studios
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Signs of Life is a sci-fi survival sandbox platformer with a combination of procedurally generated and hand-crafted content. You'll explore mysterious locations, Mine blocks for resources, and meet strange (and some familiar) creatures, some of which don't even want to kill you and eat your corpse.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46% ★, Sandbox 15.8%, Crafting 8.3%, Survival 7.6%, Open World 5.9%
- #34 Edge of Space
77% matchMostly Negative33% of 2,729 reviews2015
Dev: Handyman StudiosPub: Reverb Triple XP
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Suit up as an operative of the Ark Corporation, sent to the farthest reaches of the universe in search of habitable planets to terraform. However, after the long space journey you awaken from cryosleep to find that your ship has gone way off course and is disabled near a strange new world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.4% ★, Sandbox 17.5%, Crafting 7%, Open World 5.2%, Survival 4.9%
- #35 Planet Centauri
72% matchMostly Positive77% of 2,370 reviews2024
Dev: Permadeath
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 13.7 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 25.4%, Open World 18.8%, Crafting 14.7%, Building 10.2%, Multiplayer 9%
- #36 Novus Inceptio
76% matchMixed52% of 1,302 reviews2015
Dev: McMagic Productions
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 5.8 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 38.5% ★, Sandbox 13.4%, Open World 11.5%, Crafting 8.8%, Survival 8.4%
- #37 Eden Crafters
70% matchVery Positive86% of 2,425 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.3% ★, Sandbox 13.2%, Open World 10.7%, Crafting 9.7%, Survival 6.9%
- #38 Space Engineers 2
70% matchMostly Positive76% of 4,590 reviews2025
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Space Engineers 2 is a playable Early Access Alpha sandbox focused on engineering, exploration, and colonization in a fully destructible universe. Design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases while uncovering the story of Miro and Ivan Sokol. Help shape the future of the Almagest system.
Why similar: Sandbox 25.8%, Open World 18.1%, Survival 14.3%, Building 13.7%, Crafting 11.8%
- #39 Starbase
73% matchMixed56% of 6,719 reviews2021
Dev: Frozenbyte
Windows
Median: 14.3 hrsMean: 91.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Starbase is a hybrid voxel/vertex-based space MMO with a fully destructible and infinitely expanding universe, with a focus on building and designing spaceships and stations, exploration, resource gathering, crafting, trading, and combat.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.9% ★, Sandbox 17.4%, Open World 17.3%, Building 11.4%, Crafting 8.6%
- #40 Astral Terra
74% matchMixed50% of 152 reviews2015
Dev: Tethys Interactive LLC
Windows
Explore, Adventure, Craft, Build, Survive. How will you shape your world? Astral Terra is a Smooth Voxel, Procedurally Generated Open World game with RPG and Survival Elements!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.9% ★, Sandbox 13%, Open World 11.6%, Survival 7.8%, Crafting 6.1%
- #41 Windforge
73% matchMixed68% of 619 reviews2014
Dev: Snowed In Studios
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 43%
WindForge is a side-scrolling block-building game where you explore hostile skies in an ever-changing Steampunk world. Everything you see can be created or destroyed, creating an RPG without barriers that rewards creative problem solving and improvisation.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.5% ★, Sandbox 18.5%, Crafting 10.2%, Open World 9.3%, RPG 5.9%
- #42 Savage Lands
71% matchMixed55% of 6,679 reviews2021
Dev: Last Bastion Studios LLC
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Your fight for survival begins on the frozen shores of Tarvhas, where bitter cold and vicious creatures conspire to defeat the unprepared. Uncover the land’s dark history as you and fellow explorers traverse an unforgiving and hostile world to tame the Savage Lands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.5% ★, Open World 11.1%, Sandbox 10.8%, Survival 9.7%, Crafting 7.7%
- #43 Total Miner
71% matchMostly Positive78% of 767 reviews2017
Dev: Brandon Moore
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 36.0 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Total Miner is an open world voxel sandbox game. It is primarily designed for creative RPG game builders, but also has two action/adventure style game modes where you can just jump in and play.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.2% ★, Sandbox 13.8%, Open World 9.2%, Survival 5.8%, Voxel 5.8% ★
- #44 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,680 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 41% ★, Open World 11.8%, Sandbox 11.4%, Survival 9.9%, Crafting 9.3%
- #45 Volcanoids
69% matchVery Positive83% of 9,267 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: Sandbox 21%, Open World 15.8%, Crafting 14.9%, Survival 11.9%, Building 11.1%
- #46 Starship EVO
69% matchVery Positive84% of 1,435 reviews2020
Dev: Moonfire Entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Mine and craft your way to orbit, build your own starship and explore a vast, dangerous galaxy alongside your crew. For players who love a meaningful survival progression, a unique and elegant building system, and epic space-opera scale.
Why similar: Sandbox 29.8%, Building 19.9%, Open World 14.1%, Voxel 9.2% ★, Multiplayer 6.7%
- #47 Stranded Deep
67% matchMostly Positive74% of 47,389 reviews2022
Dev: Beam Team GamesPub: Beam Team Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 20.9 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Take the role of a plane crash survivor stranded somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Come face to face with some of the most life threatening scenarios that will result in a different experience each time you play. Scavenge. Discover. Survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.8% ★, Survival 10.5%, Open World 10.1%, Crafting 7.9%, Multiplayer 6.6%
- #48 Junk Jack
70% matchMostly Positive79% of 469 reviews2016
Dev: Pixbits
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 21.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Make the world truly yours in Junk Jack, a relaxing sandbox experience focused on building and improving your home. Discover new planets, tame and breed creatures, cook foods, collect animal companions, farm exotic plants, collect fish, grow flowers, play with your friends!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.1% ★, Sandbox 16.6%, Crafting 9%, Survival 8.5%, Building 6.2%
- #49 Star Crafter
67% matchMixed69% of 104 reviews2025
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
A space survival crafting mining base building and star system building game. Craft rockets to create planets and Dyson Rings, mine and craft advanced materials, terraform the terrain, manage electricity, farm food, and more as you watch the star system evolve into stunning, ever-changing views.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.4% ★, Sandbox 10.7%, Crafting 10.6%, Open World 8.1%, Survival 6.8%
- #50 Necesse
63% matchVery Positive93% of 27,199 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 14.8 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 46.3% ★, Sandbox 11.5%, Open World 9.5%, Crafting 6.9%, Survival 6.3%
- #51 Cubic Odyssey
65% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,584 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 47.1% ★, Sandbox 16.4%, Building 8.8%, Open World 5.2%, RPG 4.9%
- #52 Stonehearth
67% matchMostly Positive75% of 13,005 reviews2018
Dev: Radiant EntertainmentPub: (none)
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 38.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.
Why similar: Sandbox 29.5%, Building 16.5%, Survival 15.5%, Crafting 10.6%, Open World 9.8%
- #53 Outpost Zero
68% matchMixed49% of 850 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 44.4% ★, Survival 11.3%, Open World 11.2%, Multiplayer 6.9%, Sandbox 6.8%
