- #1 Subnautica
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 365,018 reviews2018
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 39.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.9% ★, Underwater 24.9% ★, Base Building 9.8%, Survival 6.5%, Open World 6.4%
- #2 Under A New Sun
95% matchMostly Positive77% of 384 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 35.2% ★, Underwater 18.8% ★, Base Building 10.9%, Crafting 8.1%, Open World 7.4%
- #3 Subnautica: Below Zero
94% matchVery Positive90% of 105,645 reviews2021
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 15.3 hrsMean: 29.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Dive into a freezing underwater adventure on an alien planet. Below Zero is set two years after the original Subnautica. Return to Planet 4546B to uncover the truth behind a deadly cover-up. Survive by building habitats, crafting tools, & diving deeper into the world of Subnautica.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.8% ★, Underwater 25.2% ★, Base Building 10%, Open World 6.2%, Survival 6.2%
- #4 Project Castaway
94% matchMixed67% of 1,723 reviews2026
Dev: Mardonpol Inc.
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Project Castaway is a survival crafting title set in the Pacific Ocean. Live the life of a stranded castaway, with only yourself - and the island's inhabitants - for company! Sail the ocean, hunt, explore unique islands and gather resources as you fight for survival.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.7% ★, Underwater 20.1% ★, Base Building 10.1%, Sandbox 7.9%, Open World 5.7%
- #5 Survival: Fountain of Youth
93% matchVery Positive86% of 4,339 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 29.2% ★, Underwater 17.6% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Crafting 7.4%, Sandbox 7%
- #6 World In The Abyss
92% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Lazy Cat Studio
Windows
The aliens have caused the oceans to rise, plunging the world into the abyss. Survive, craft, and explore this mysterious underwater world. Build your base, defend it against relentless waves of enemies, and dive deep to uncover the secret that could stop the alien invasion once and for all!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.6% ★, Underwater 22.8% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Crafting 7.5%, Open World 6.5%
- #7 Unknown Seas
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: RobinPub: Ragnox
Windows
Explore the unknown procedurally-generated world of islands and seas. Fight enemies, farm materials, craft equipment, build your base, slay bosses and level up your character. Conquer the unknown with your friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.7% ★, Underwater 18.3% ★, Base Building 12%, Crafting 7.8%, Sandbox 7.8%
- #8 Sunkenland
91% matchVery Positive81% of 23,216 reviews2023
Dev: Vector3 Studio
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 18.5 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 35.6% ★, Underwater 24.7% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Survival 6.5%, Crafting 6.3%
- #9 SpiritBorn
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Highforge Studios
Windows
An open-world survival crafting RPG set among floating islands. Gather resources, craft powerful tools, unlock spirit abilities to soar between skybound realms and reclaim your lost godhood.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.2% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Crafting 9.3%, Open World 8.4%, Sandbox 8.1%
- #10 Kalit
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Traviteam Games
Windows
A unique survival adventure, animated in a 1930s rubber hose style! Fight to survive: capture creatures, farm, mine, and craft everything you need: from gear and vehicles to your base. Explore strange lands and an underwater world of shipwrecks, dangers, and hidden wonders.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26% ★, Underwater 22.7% ★, Base Building 10.3%, Sandbox 7.1%, Crafting 6.8%
- #11 Stranded Deep
87% 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 48.8% ★, Underwater 9.5% ★, Survival 9.2%, Crafting 8.3%, Open World 7.4%
- #12 Bromeliad
88% matchMixed61% of 28 reviews2021
Dev: Gorka Games Studios
Windows
In Bromeliad you are stranded on a pacific island where you are a Human-Bear. You will have to survive, gathering materials to build tools and bases. You will need to hunt for food, explore, tame animals, then, at night strange creatures will appear. Survive and find an element to return to normal.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.5% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Crafting 10.1%, Sandbox 8.9%, Open World 8.5%
- #13 Anchor
86% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Fearem
Windows
Anchor is a large-scale underwater multiplayer survival game. Build your base, craft tools and weapons, explore, loot and prepare for battle. Every player is a potential threat in a persistent world where bases can be raided, alliances broken, and the ocean itself hunts you.
Why similar: Underwater 26.3% ★, Open World Survival Craft 24.7% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Crafting 7.9%, Sandbox 7.7%
- #14 Under a Rock
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Nordic TrollsPub: Gameforge 4D GmbH
Windows
A procedural open-world survival craft game for 1-10 players. Explore a primitive but dangerous place with a different evolutionary path; here, wildlife is oversized, Neanderthals still exist, and curses are real.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.1% ★, Underwater 22% ★, Base Building 10.1%, Sandbox 7.3%, Crafting 6.1%
- #15 Moon Colony Crafter
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: InfinityCoders
Windows
Play as an astronaut on our moon in the future. Your task is to prepare the moon for future colonies by terraforming. Collect resources, explore procedurally generated caves, build buildings and create a second world for you and our earth.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.6% ★, Base Building 14.9%, Sandbox 8.6%, Crafting 8%, Open World 7.5%
- #16 Emberhaven
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: The Third Variable Co., Ltd.Pub: Jexar Games Co., Ltd.
Windows
Survive in a procedurally generated fantasy world overrun by creeping corruption. Build impenetrable strongholds, tend your farms, forge deadly weapons, and fend off hordes of mutated abominations to defend your last sanctuary.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.3% ★, Base Building 14.2%, Sandbox 10.4%, Crafting 8.3%, Building 7.4%
- #17 Oceaneers
82% matchVery Positive89% of 80 reviews2026
Dev: Barrel Smash Studios
Windows
A sci-fi survival-crafting colony sim set in a flooded world of floating islands. Build a colony, craft gear, design rafts, fend off sharks, manage your survivors, and explore island bunkers to uncover lost Float-Tech from an old-world corporation.
Why similar: Underwater 27% ★, Open World Survival Craft 26% ★, Base Building 12%, Crafting 8.8%, Building 7.5%
- #18 Force of Nature
84% 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 45.5% ★, Crafting 11.5%, Sandbox 9.5%, Survival 8.2%, Open World 7.2%
- #19 WildCraft
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Super4Games
Windows
Explore a vibrant open world where every item is fully physics-based, master a high-skill combat system to defeat dangerous creatures, and build defensive fortresses to protect your hard-earned power from monster attacks.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.9% ★, Sandbox 15.4%, Building 10.9%, Exploration 6.2%, Crafting 5.5%
- #20 Subsistence
82% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,685 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 39.9 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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: Open World Survival Craft 48.5% ★, Base Building 10.2%, Crafting 9.9%, Survival 9.1%, Open World 7.6%
- #21 Odd Woods
81% matchMostly Positive73% of 44 reviews2022
Dev: Matt
Windows
Odd Woods is a survival crafting game in a forest environment. Build your base during the day to withstand the attacks of horror creatures at night. Explore, farm and hunt wildlife to survive another day.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.2% ★, Base Building 15.2%, Crafting 8.9%, Open World 8.5%, Building 8.5%
- #22 Wild
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DzernPub: Dzern and Unverändert
Windows
Wild is a survival game inspired by the "7vsWild" series. The goal is to survive, fight against dangerous animals, and build your shelter. For that, you are only allowed to take one bottle as equipment, so prepare it well in advance.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42% ★, Base Building 15.5%, Survival 10.3%, Crafting 8.2%, Exploration 7%
- #23 Eldercraft: Mountaineers
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Derivative Synergistics
Windows
Eldercraft: Mountaineers is an RPG about crafting, surviving and exploring. Forge your routes and pathways up the mountain to reach valuable treasures. These will help you forge more pathways that will lead you to the summit.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.5% ★, Base Building 14.8%, Crafting 8.2%, Open World 8.1%, Sandbox 7.9%
- #24 Novus Inceptio
81% 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 36.1% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Sandbox 10.2%, Crafting 8.9%, Open World 8.1%
- #25 Primal Man Simulator
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: RD Games
Windows
Primal Man Simulator is a complex survival simulator where the player becomes one of the evolutionary precursors of modern homo sapiens, trying to live through another day in an unwelcoming forests of Europe.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.1% ★, Crafting 10.9%, Base Building 10.9%, Open World 9.4%, Survival 8.5%
- #26 Middle Ages: Peasants & Knights
78% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Neronian Studios
Windows
Survive in an open world inspired by 14th century Europe. Immerse yourself in crafting based on real historical methods and experience true inventory system and realistic resource management. Take control of your destiny and embrace a world full of possibilities.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.5% ★, Base Building 11%, Sandbox 10.4%, Crafting 7.9%, Open World 7.4%
- #27 XenoHaven
77% matchVery Positive86% of 69 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 31.6% ★, Base Building 15.7%, Sandbox 12%, Open World 9.5%, Crafting 8.6%
- #28 Far Fetched
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: KiwiPastaPub: CreativeForge Games
Windows
Dive into the hazy and cold world of Far Fetched, where dangers lurk in the fog and only the glittering embers of the Traveling Node can keep you safe.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.9% ★, Base Building 17.1%, Survival 8.3%, Sandbox 6.6%, Open World 5.4%
- #29 Nighthold
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 2 Zombie GamesPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Build shelters, interact with rescuees, battle against the Rot and raiders to survive another night in this Sandbox RPG. Play Solo or team up with friends in Online Сo-op.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.6% ★, Base Building 11.4%, Sandbox 8.4%, Crafting 7.1%, Building 6.3%
- #30 Akiiwan: Relaxing Survival
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Little Buffalo Studios
Windows
Fall into a chill survival adventure, with a talking campfire as your guide. Explore, craft, fish and hunt during the day, and ask your fire three questions each night. Choose wisely: Winter isn't the only surprise in this beautiful, hand-drawn world. Playable in cosy or realistic mode.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.8% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Sandbox 9.1%, Crafting 8.6%, Open World 6.6%
- #31 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
74% 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 36.4% ★, Base Building 15.3%, Crafting 8.9%, Sandbox 8.2%, Survival 7.9%
- #32 Drift: Space Survival
75% matchMostly Positive70% of 77 reviews2023
Dev: KAR Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
You were deep in uncharted space on a research mission. Disaster struck. Together with your friends, explore a mysterious asteroid field and mine whatever resources possible to build what you need to survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.5% ★, Base Building 10.5%, Crafting 8.8%, Sandbox 7.7%, Survival 7.5%
- #33 Raft
73% matchVery Positive93% of 372,032 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.6 hrsMean: 37.3 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.7% ★, Survival 10.5%, Base Building 9.9%, Crafting 8.2%, Underwater 7.4% ★
- #34 Blockscape
76% 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 56.8% ★, Sandbox 13.4%, Crafting 7.3%, Open World 6.7%, Building 6.4%
- #35 Wurm Unlimited
75% matchMostly Positive71% of 3,133 reviews2015
Dev: Code Club ABPub: Plug In Digital
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Wurm Unlimited is the standalone version of the fantasy sandbox world Wurm Online, the MMORPG where the players are in charge! A pioneer in the ideas of player influence, crafting and adventure, it is now one of the most deep and feature packed true sandbox experiences available.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.8% ★, Sandbox 12.7%, Crafting 9.8%, Open World 9.5%, Base Building 8.8%
- #36 Desolated District
73% matchMostly Positive73% of 15 reviews2025
Dev: Real Heroes Studio
Windows
Desolated District is an Open-World Survival Crafting game set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Scavenge for resources, craft essential tools, build your base and battle deadly threats as you explore a sprawling, decaying city inspired by the Kowloon Walled City.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.8% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 9.5%, Building 8.7%, Open World 8.6%
- #37 Whisper of the Swallows
72% matchVery Positive86% of 163 reviews2026
Dev: Blown Leaves
Windows
Brave a savage, unforgiving procedurally generated world where extreme weather and the nightmares of the dark will hunt you down. Alone or in co-op, survive, build, and explore to turn a cursed hellscape into your sanctuary of light.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.6% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Sandbox 10.9%, Crafting 9.7%, Building 8.1%
- #38 Cube Life: Island Survival
74% matchMixed69% of 177 reviews2018
Dev: Cypronia
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Cube Life: Island Survival is an open-world, block building, survival game, taking place on a beautiful remote island. Imagine being shipwrecked and stranded left for dead, with only your will to survive. You must explore, build, craft, and fight your way to stay alive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 51.7% ★, Sandbox 10.2%, Building 8.2%, Crafting 7.7%, Open World 7.6%
- #39 Astoaria
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Feres Studio
Windows
A sandbox open-world survival set in a dynamic world of floating islands, each with its own ecosystem and climate. Explore and thrive by strategically exploiting these environments. Harness energy, strategically farm, craft your airship and much more, while uncovering the mysteries of this world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.2% ★, Base Building 14.9%, Sandbox 10.2%, Crafting 7.2%, Open World 6.8%
- #40 U.N.P.O.C. Vessel of Opportunity
71% matchMostly Positive74% of 69 reviews2025
Dev: Danny Ziemer
Windows
Opportunity is near. Follow clues, solve the puzzles, and stay persistent in the chase of a new way of life. Explore, survive, and thrive in this open world adventure story.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.2% ★, Underwater 25% ★, Sandbox 10%, Base Building 9.7%, Open World 6.3%
- #41 Gaia
73% matchMixed59% of 93 reviews2020
Dev: Eternal Stardust Studios
Windows
A sci-fi base building survival game, featuring raids, agriculture, intelligent AI, natural disasters and more.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.2% ★, Underwater 20.7% ★, Base Building 14.1%, Sandbox 8.1%, Building 6.8%
- #42 Aurendor
71% matchMixed47% of 17 reviews2023
Dev: Telescope Studios
Windows
Aurendor is an open world survival game. Players must gather resources, cook their meals and fight dangerous creatures to survive and build a home for themselves. Aurendor also offers a multiplayer game option. Players can play together by cooperating with or battling other survivors.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.6% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Crafting 8.7%, Open World 8.3%, Sandbox 8.1%
- #43 Cosmorists
70% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2024
Dev: Stellar Roots
Windows
You find yourself completely alone on a different yet very familiar looking planet. Explore the planet, craft tools, fight enemies, and build bases! Do science to learn new technologies that will allow interplanetary travel and better tools at your disposal!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.5% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Sandbox 11.2%, Open World 9%, Crafting 8.9%
- #44 Claycrafter
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: scoz
Windows
Gather resources, build structures, and craft increasingly wondrous items to unlock the secrets of a mysterious world made entirely out of clay.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.6% ★, Sandbox 11.4%, Crafting 11.3%, Base Building 6.4%, Building 5.4%
- #45 Ancient the Dimensions
70% matchNegative9% of 11 reviews2025
Dev: HEADSTONE STUDIO
Windows
Immerse yourself in an epic Survival Action RPG adventure, exploring a vast fantasy fairy tale world to build your own sanctuary and survive against extraordinary mythical creatures. Enhance your equipment, weapons, and skills to battle ruthless empires and interdimensional visitors.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.2% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 8.9%, Open World 8.5%, Building 8.1%
- #46 Crushed
71% matchMixed54% of 311 reviews2020
Dev: NipoBoxPub: NipoBox Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Crushed — is an Singleplayer and Multiplayer First-Person Survival Sandbox in an Open World! Challenge the wild and be ready to survive in harsh conditions. Explore the world, get resources, cook food, build a house, farm, hunt, and enjoy nature.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.7% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Sandbox 9.3%, Open World 8.3%, Crafting 8.2%
- #47 Breathedge
69% matchVery Positive82% of 16,224 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 43.6% ★, Base Building 14.5%, Sandbox 10.9%, Crafting 7.5%, Survival 7.4%
- #48 AstroPlanet
68% matchMixed67% of 43 reviews2025
Dev: VIVA
Windows
AstroPlanet is a sandbox game where you find yourself in the role of an astronaut whose ship has crashed on a planet with an inhospitable atmosphere. Your task is not only to survive, but also to turn this world into a habitable place.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32% ★, Base Building 17.1%, Sandbox 13.8%, Crafting 11.2%, Building 7.9%
- #49 Necesse
66% 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 48.5% ★, Sandbox 9.8%, Base Building 9.5%, Crafting 7.8%, Open World 7.4%
- #50 Solace Crafting
68% matchMostly Positive72% of 891 reviews2022
Dev: Big Kitty Games
Windows · Linux
Embark on an adventure set in a fantasy survival RPG. Visit a borderless, open world where you manage resources to construct your base and new types of equipment to support your conquest.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.7% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Crafting 9.9%, Sandbox 9.1%, Open World 7.8%
- #51 Out of Reach
69% matchMixed57% of 3,046 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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: Open World Survival Craft 47.1% ★, Crafting 9%, Survival 9%, Open World 8.6%, Base Building 7.7%
- #52 Re.poly
68% matchVery Positive91% of 137 reviews2019
Dev: Hinkfoot Studios
Windows
Re.Poly is a relaxed yet deep indie survival game in a low-poly style that blends exploration, combat, building, and adventure. Whether alone or with friends, create your own world, write your own story, and decide how you want to play.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.2% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Sandbox 11.2%, Crafting 9.9%, Open World 8.2%
- #53 Short Snow | Cold Survival Game
67% matchMixed53% of 148 reviews2025
Dev: MubDev
Windows
A realistic open-world survival experience. After a harrowing plane crash, you find yourself stranded in the wilderness. Battling freezing temperatures and hunger, you face an unknown virus that slowly paralyzes muscles, leaving its victims motionless and at the mercy of the unforgiving cold.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.7% ★, Base Building 10.5%, Open World 9.4%, Sandbox 8.8%, Survival 8.4%
- #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: Open World Survival Craft 47.7% ★, Sandbox 15%, Open World 10.2%, Crafting 8.2%, Survival 6.2%
- #55 Crashlands
67% matchVery Positive90% of 6,682 reviews2016
Dev: Butterscotch Shenanigans
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Fight and tame alien beasts, craft resources into menacing weaponry, befriend the outlandish locals, and go toe-to-chin with a world-domineering maniac.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Sandbox 9.9%, Crafting 9.3%, Open World 8.2%
- #56 Dig or Die
67% 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 45.4% ★, Sandbox 13.6%, Crafting 10.6%, Survival 9.3%, Base Building 8.4%
- #57 Divided Land
66% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Mich
Windows
Join the fight for survival in a vast medieval open world. Explore, hunt, craft powerful gear, raid and plunder enemy villages, or forge your own path. As darkness falls, the dead awaken - prepare your defenses or seek shelter. Join allies in co-op PvE or test your skills in ruthless PvP.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.9% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Crafting 9.4%, Sandbox 8.5%, Building 8.1%