- #1 Terraria
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,558,339 reviews2011
Dev: Re-Logic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 33.9 hrsMean: 152.6 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 55.5% ★, Sandbox 12.3%, Open World 5.6%, Survival 5%, Crafting 4.4%
Why You'll Like It: The quintessential 2D sandbox RPG that defines the genre with its massive world, deep crafting, and progression-based boss combat.
- #2 Necesse
96% matchVery Positive93% of 29,166 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 58.5% ★, Sandbox 8.3%, Open World 8.1%, RPG 5.7%, Crafting 4%
Why You'll Like It: Combines sandbox survival with settlement management and RPG elements, allowing for deep character customization and progression.
- #3 Tinkerlands
96% matchVery Positive86% of 4,122 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.4 hrsMean: 14.5 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: Open World Survival Craft 49.9% ★, Sandbox 10.4%, Open World 9.3%, RPG 6.6%, Survival 5.2%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on survival and exploration in a charming pixel-art world with a strong emphasis on crafting and gear progression.
- #4 Starbound
95% matchVery Positive90% of 123,321 reviews2016
Dev: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.0 hrsMean: 64.5 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 57.8% ★, Sandbox 11.5%, Open World 6.6%, RPG 5%, Survival 4.1%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a vast, procedurally generated 2D universe with a strong emphasis on exploration, base building, and RPG-style questing.
- #5 Planet Centauri
94% matchMostly Positive77% of 2,395 reviews2024
Dev: Permadeath
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.7 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 21.1%, Open World 18.2%, RPG 14.8%, Crafting 9.8%, Pixel Graphics 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D sandbox game that features extensive crafting, creature taming, and RPG-style combat mechanics.
- #6 Core Keeper
94% matchVery Positive93% of 66,787 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.3 hrsMean: 34.9 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: Open World Survival Craft 46.6% ★, Open World 12.2%, Sandbox 11.7%, Survival 6.4%, Crafting 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down sandbox survival game that perfectly blends mining, crafting, and RPG progression in a mysterious underground world.
- #7 Mirthwood
93% matchMostly Positive70% of 2,381 reviews2024
Dev: Bad Ridge GamesPub: V Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Embark on an enchanting journey and brave ferocious creatures in an immersive medieval fantasy world. Will you settle a new homestead to live a life of farming and trade, or pick up the sword and take up the adventurers' path?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 54.3% ★, Sandbox 12.7%, RPG 12.2%, Open World 7.8%, Crafting 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: A medieval life-sim RPG that captures the sandbox spirit of living a virtual life with farming and exploration elements.
- #8 Wayward
92% matchVery Positive86% of 1,370 reviews2016
Dev: Unlok
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 21.4 hrs≥1hr: 61%
You awake to discover yourself no longer in the company of good men or a fine seafaring vessel. Treasure... you remember something about treasure. Wayward is a challenging turn-based, top-down, wilderness survival roguelike. Explore, build, and most importantly survive in these unforgiving lands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 54% ★, RPG 7.4%, Sandbox 7.4%, Open World 7.2%, Survival 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore survival game with deep crafting systems and a focus on sandbox exploration in a challenging environment.
- #9 Kynseed
91% matchVery Positive83% of 3,904 reviews2022
Dev: PixelCount Studios
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 12.6 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Embark on a lifetime of adventure in a beautiful world of creativity and intrigue. Raise a family, customise your farm, run a business, craft items, and battle some marvellously malevolent monsters.
Why similar: Sandbox 23%, Open World 20%, RPG 18.9%, Crafting 12.3%, Pixel Graphics 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: A life-sim sandbox game that emphasizes generational growth, crafting, and exploration in a rich, reactive world.
- #10 Balrum
91% matchMostly Positive79% of 810 reviews2016
Dev: Balcony Softworks
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Balrum is an old-school, turn-based, open world RPG with deep tactical combat. Explore a huge living fantasy world with dozens of side quests next to an epic main quest. Grow your own crops, build your home, and craft your own custom items.
Why similar: Sandbox 19.7%, Open World 19.1%, RPG 18.4%, Crafting 11.3%, Survival 10%
Why You'll Like It: An isometric RPG that integrates deep survival and crafting mechanics into a traditional fantasy questing experience.
- #11 Gedonia
90% matchVery Positive87% of 3,971 reviews2022
Dev: Kazakov Oleg
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Gedonia is a classic open world rpg, featuring a complete freedom of building your character, exploring a huge world and completing quests.
Why similar: Open World 33%, RPG 29.8%, Crafting 13.3%, Adventure 8.2%, Magic 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world RPG that offers immense freedom in character builds and exploration, mirroring the sandbox spirit of the seed game.
- #12 Exiled Kingdoms
89% matchVery Positive90% of 1,146 reviews2018
Dev: 4 Dimension Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 19.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Roam freely through a huge open world full with dangers, ancient secrets and adventure. An old-school action-RPG with a challenging environment, tough choices and a unique setting. Explore, fight, make friends and enemies... and above all, Roleplay!
Why similar: RPG 39.5%, Open World 24.1%, Adventure 13.3%, Indie 6.6%, Action 6%
Why You'll Like It: A classic-style RPG that focuses on a massive open world, character progression, and exploration without the survival focus.
- #13 Force of Nature 2: Ghost Keeper
89% matchMostly Positive80% of 2,370 reviews2021
Dev: A.Y.stdPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 16.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Force of Nature 2: Ghost Keeper offers incredible adventures full of mystery, danger, exploration and magic. This game combines the genres of Survival, Sandbox, Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Resource Management
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.3% ★, Open World 13.7%, Sandbox 12.1%, RPG 8.1%, Crafting 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that emphasizes base building, crafting, and RPG-lite progression.
- #14 Solace Crafting
88% matchMostly Positive71% of 899 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 52.5% ★, Open World 10.4%, Sandbox 9.5%, RPG 8.9%, Crafting 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on crafting and exploration in a massive open world with RPG-style stat growth.
- #15 Vagabond
87% matchMostly Positive77% of 100 reviews2023
Dev: Pierre Vigier
Windows · Linux
Explore procedurally generated living worlds in this 2D sandbox RPG. Meet hundreds of characters in cities, complete quests, craft powerful items, buy and furnish your home or fight monsters in dungeons.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.9% ★, Sandbox 11.4%, Open World 10.6%, RPG 10%, Pixel Graphics 4.6%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox RPG that features procedural generation and survival mechanics, offering a high degree of player freedom.
- #16 Feel The Snow
86% matchVery Positive87% of 3,062 reviews2019
Dev: Owlet
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Choose one of the characters and start your journey. The game has many interesting things in store: building, crafting, puzzles, bosses, mystery, laughs, quests etc.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 54.4% ★, Sandbox 7.5%, RPG 7.1%, Open World 6.7%, Survival 5.7%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D survival-crafting game that emphasizes adventure and exploration in a snowy, hostile environment.
- #17 Valheim
82% matchVery Positive94% of 555,289 reviews2026
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 26.9 hrsMean: 81.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 63.2% ★, Open World 11.6%, Sandbox 6.9%, Survival 6.8%, Crafting 5.4%
Why You'll Like It: While 3D, it captures the exact spirit of open-world survival, base building, and RPG-style progression through boss encounters.
- #18 The Bloodline
85% matchVery Positive83% of 3,985 reviews2023
Dev: Shieldbearer StudiosPub: 505 Pulse
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 79%
The Bloodline is a sandbox adventure RPG that lets you play your way. Reforge bonds between kingdoms, explore the wilds, craft and plan adventures and wield mighty weapons or magic as you prepare for what is to come…
Why similar: Sandbox 27.6%, RPG 25.1%, Open World 24.3%, Indie 6.8%, Action 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world RPG that emphasizes skill-based combat and exploration in a medieval fantasy setting.
- #19 Alchemist's Awakening
86% matchMostly Positive73% of 497 reviews2019
Dev: OsarisGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Enter a world full of magic, mystery, beautiful landscapes and dangerous creatures. Build your own destiny, by yourself or with some friends, gather materials, use elements as attacks, recombine them into building blocks... and use your Alchemist's power to give life to any shape you built.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 59.5% ★, Sandbox 11.6%, Open World 10%, Crafting 6.4%, Survival 5%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox RPG that focuses on creature taming, alchemy, and crafting in an open world.
- #20 Swords 'n Magic and Stuff
84% matchVery Positive93% of 1,195 reviews2020
Dev: Kindred Games
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Grab your friends and set out for adventure in this cozy, multiplayer, open world RPG! Explore, quest and craft your way through a densely packed open world. Level up 6 different classes and buy land to build and decorate your home to settle down in this medieval fantasy world.
Why similar: Open World 52.6%, Crafting 24.7%, Magic 16%, Fantasy 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: A charming co-op RPG that offers sandbox elements and a focus on exploration and character growth.
- #21 Forager
84% matchVery Positive89% of 44,137 reviews2019
Dev: HopFrogPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 22.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 60.1% ★, Sandbox 7.3%, Crafting 6.3%, Survival 6.2%, Pixel Graphics 5.2%
Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced sandbox game that focuses on exploration, crafting, and satisfying progression loops.
- #22 Craftopia
83% matchMostly Positive76% of 20,264 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 Survival Craft 47% ★, Open World 15.9%, Sandbox 9.1%, Crafting 8%, RPG 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: A hybrid title that mixes survival, farming, and RPG combat in a vast open world with extensive crafting.
- #23 Miniland Adventure
82% matchMostly Positive74% of 334 reviews2023
Dev: Imilkowski DevPub: Gameparic
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 52%
The world doesn't generate itself - you do it, shape the world as you wish! Start with nothing, and build dream houses for goblins and yourself while exploring, collecting resources, crafting, building, fighting, farming... and more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 59% ★, Sandbox 14.9%, Survival 7.2%, Crafting 6.1%, Pixel Graphics 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: A minimalist sandbox survival game that focuses on crafting and expanding your territory through exploration.
- #24 Wurm Unlimited
81% matchMostly Positive71% of 3,138 reviews2015
Dev: Code Club ABPub: Plug In Digital
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 18.8 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 52.2% ★, Sandbox 11.5%, Open World 10.9%, RPG 9.7%, Crafting 5.4%
Why You'll Like It: A deep sandbox survival game with complex crafting and RPG elements that allow for total world transformation.
- #25 Low Magic Age
80% matchVery Positive89% of 3,533 reviews2017
Dev: Low Magic Studios
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Adventure and fight in a medieval fantasy open world! Build heroic characters with various abilities, travel through villages, cities, or perilous dungeons. Strategic turn-based combat system and advanced character building - Fog of war, charging and flanking, and more in the fast-paced Arena mode.
Why similar: Sandbox 63.1%, Adventure 22.7%, Character Customization 14.2%
Why You'll Like It: A tactical RPG that focuses on deep character building and turn-based combat within a sandbox-like world.
- #26 Shards of Azuria
81% matchMixed60% of 101 reviews2019
Dev: Blue Potion Games
Windows
Shards of Azuria is an isometric, craft and build RPG. Create a character and a new world, then start your adventure by waking up in town. You are greeted by the locals of Azuria and begin to find your way around.
Why similar: RPG 21.4%, Sandbox 18.9%, Adventure 15%, Crafting 13.1%, Survival 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D action-RPG that features crafting, sandbox building, and exploration in a fantasy setting.
- #27 Delverium
77% matchVery Positive85% of 157 reviews2026
Dev: Sagestone Games
Windows
Explore, Build, Farm, Craft and Fight in this survival sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Delve deep to uncover the secret of the invading 'Faults' and restore stability to the land.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 51.8% ★, Sandbox 11.2%, Open World 8.6%, RPG 5.7%, Survival 5.5%
- #28 Citadel: Forged with Fire
79% matchMixed68% of 5,895 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: Open World Survival Craft 47.7% ★, Open World 13.6%, RPG 10.6%, Sandbox 8.4%, Survival 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game with a strong focus on magic, spellcasting, and RPG character progression.
- #29 Boundless
79% matchMixed69% of 2,779 reviews2018
Dev: Monumental, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 32.8 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 55.7% ★, Sandbox 11.9%, Open World 11%, RPG 6.4%, Crafting 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: A massively multiplayer sandbox game that offers deep building and crafting systems across multiple worlds.
- #30 Serin Fate
78% matchMostly Positive74% of 576 reviews2021
Dev: Vethergen
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 49%
Evil is afoot... Wielding your new Magic, bound into mysterious Monster-infested lands to uncover ancient relics and restore the Fate Stone. Along the way, explore the depths of every nook to find creatures, garner ingredients, train in Witchery, and craft new equipment.
Why similar: Sandbox 21.1%, Open World 21%, RPG 17.6%, Crafting 10.5%, Pixel Graphics 9%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D adventure game that blends creature collection with RPG mechanics and exploration.
- #31 The Black Grimoire: Cursebreaker
76% matchVery Positive83% of 972 reviews2024
Dev: Olipa Games
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 23.1 hrs≥1hr: 63%
A story driven solo RPG inspired by oldschool games like RuneScape and Ultima Online! Explore a sprawling medieval fantasy world full of npcs with dialogue, level skills, fight varied monsters and uncover the story of Rothar Aercrest – the cursed lord to the remote woodlands of Imberthale.
Why similar: RPG 25.2%, Open World 22.6%, Adventure 16.7%, Crafting 12.6%, Indie 11.2%
- #32 Windforge
78% matchMixed68% of 623 reviews2014
Dev: Snowed In Studios
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 11.2 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 46.7% ★, Sandbox 12.1%, RPG 11.8%, Open World 7.1%, Crafting 5.2%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D sandbox RPG that focuses on building and exploration in a unique steampunk-inspired world.
- #33 Tinkertown
75% matchMixed67% of 1,345 reviews2023
Dev: Headup
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Gather your friends and come to Tinkertown - A refreshing new Multiplayer Sandbox Experience! Explore magical places filled with loot, danger, and creativity.
Why similar: RPG 28.4%, Sandbox 15.5%, Adventure 14.5%, Open World 13.4%, Crafting 8.7%
- #34 Shamania
73% matchMostly Positive74% of 171 reviews2026
Dev: Totem Keepers Games
Windows
Shamania is an open world survival game where you can CRAFT, FIGHT, and EXPLORE a vibrant sandbox world with friends in CO-OP. Expand your base as a hub for survival, gather resources, and master professions to unlock new tools and opportunities!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 51.9% ★, Open World 12.6%, Sandbox 9.8%, Crafting 6.9%, Survival 6.3%
- #35 Astral Terra
77% 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 53.6% ★, Open World 10.9%, Sandbox 10.4%, RPG 6.9%, Survival 5.5%
- #36 Re.poly
75% 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 49.3% ★, Sandbox 10.9%, Open World 10.1%, RPG 8.5%, Crafting 5.9%
- #37 Signs of Life
76% matchMostly Positive76% of 846 reviews2014
Dev: Sweet Dog Studios
Windows · Linux
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 56.4% ★, Sandbox 11.3%, RPG 6.7%, Open World 4.9%, Crafting 4.8%
- #38 Erenshor
70% matchVery Positive94% of 2,225 reviews2025
Dev: Burgee Media
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Erenshor is a single player RPG with the soul of a classic MMO - built for players who miss the journey. Partner up with Erenshor's signature SimPlayers and explore an open world where every reward comes with a story. Discover thousands of items, quests, raids, and secrets - all at your own pace.
Why similar: RPG 40%, Open World 24.5%, Adventure 17.2%, Magic 7.3%, Character Customization 5.9%
- #39 Junk Jack
74% matchMostly Positive78% of 478 reviews2016
Dev: Pixbits
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 21.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 57.3% ★, Sandbox 12.3%, Survival 5.6%, Crafting 5.3%, Adventure 4.8%
- #40 Ars Notoria
71% matchMixed62% of 318 reviews2025
Dev: XRON SoftwarePub: Lilith Games
Windows
Ars Notoria is an open-world survival crafting game set in a rich fantasy world. Learn six distinct schools of magic, gather resources, build your base, expand your influence, and stand against the ever-shifting threat of the Enthralled. You are the one destined to change the kingdom.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 51.4% ★, Sandbox 11.2%, Open World 9.8%, RPG 8.6%, Crafting 5.9%
- #41 Crea
73% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,408 reviews2016
Dev: Siege Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 18.9 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 55% ★, Sandbox 12%, RPG 7.4%, Crafting 5.2%, Open World 4.5%
- #42 Everwind
68% matchVery Positive81% of 3,899 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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: Open World 21.1%, Sandbox 20.8%, RPG 18.1%, Crafting 11.6%, Survival 11.1%
- #43 Lay of the Land
69% matchVery Positive80% of 1,234 reviews2026
Dev: Southern Cross Interactive
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Lay of the Land is a sandbox adventure game set in a fantasy world where everything is physically simulated. Use the environment to your advantage and Explore, Fight, Loot and Build your way through mysterious lands.
Why similar: Sandbox 23.5%, Open World 20.1%, RPG 19.9%, Adventure 9.6%, Crafting 8.5%
- #44 Warlocks Deeds
71% matchVery Positive87% of 127 reviews2023
Dev: Sub Orbital Software
Windows
Embark on an extraordinary journey through a mystical realm where warlocks and magic reign supreme. Introducing "Warlocks Deeds," a superbly crafted medieval survival sandbox voxel game that will transport you to a world of enchantment and adventure!
Why similar: Sandbox 31.5%, RPG 29.1%, Crafting 14.7%, Adventure 13.2%, Action 8.2%
- #45 Alchemage
72% matchMostly Positive71% of 311 reviews2020
Dev: 量子艺界（QUANTUM ARTS）
Windows
Begin your otherworldly life from scratch—with nothing but a single magic staff in hand. Shape the world with your own hands, build the home you love, or unleash the powers of alchemy and magic to battle relentless monsters from beyond.Set forth, Warlock!
Why similar: Sandbox 35.2%, Adventure 29.5%, Indie 18.5%, Action 16.8%
- #46 Soulash 2
69% matchVery Positive85% of 2,438 reviews2023
Dev: Artur Smiarowski
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 28.2 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Soulash 2 is a sandbox RPG roguelike with a procedurally generated open world, simulated history, skill-based progression system, customizable abilities, material-based crafting, building, trading, and the possibility of total mayhem. Will you save your world or destroy it?
Why similar: Sandbox 25.3%, Open World 22.3%, RPG 21.6%, Crafting 11.1%, Survival 9.9%
- #47 Edge of Space
74% matchMostly Negative33% of 2,729 reviews2015
Dev: Handyman StudiosPub: Reverb Triple XP
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 5.9 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 58.7% ★, Sandbox 12.4%, RPG 5%, Open World 4.2%, Crafting 4%
- #48 Wonderia
68% matchVery Positive83% of 380 reviews2026
Dev: Rock&DashPub: IndieArk
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Wonderia's an open-world, manga-art adventure just waiting to be explored. It's got sci-fi sim elements, deep dungeons, and you can even morph into alien form! Grab up to 7 friends to mine, craft, battle, and level—or farm and fish the day away, if that's more your tempo. There's so much to do!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 52.9% ★, Sandbox 11.5%, RPG 7.7%, Open World 7.2%, Crafting 5.7%
- #49 The Faraway Land
69% matchVery Positive84% of 104 reviews2024
Dev: FireTail
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
The Faraway Land is an open world survival simulator. Plunge into the relaxing atmosphere of a magical world filled with cute and dangerous creatures.
Why similar: Sandbox 19.9%, Open World 19.1%, RPG 16.6%, Survival 9.5%, Crafting 9.3%
- #50 Dimraeth
66% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,557 reviews2026
Dev: Mudtek
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
A 1-8 player fantasy RPG set in a handcrafted pixel world. Build your hero across 8 races and 6 classes. Explore ancient lands, master elemental combat, forge relationships, and shape a stronghold to call home. Fight for the fate of Dimraeth either together or alone.
Why similar: Open World 30.8%, RPG 28.7%, Crafting 16%, Pixel Graphics 13.7%, Action 7.2%
- #51 Force of Nature
70% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,209 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 59.8% ★, Sandbox 8.9%, Open World 8.6%, Crafting 6.6%, Survival 6.2%
- #52 Dark and Light
71% matchMixed52% of 11,837 reviews2017
Dev: Snail Games USA
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 49.7 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: Open World Survival Craft 35.5% ★, Open World 16.7%, Sandbox 14.1%, RPG 12.7%, Survival 8.5%
- #53 It Lurks Below
70% matchVery Positive82% of 1,289 reviews2019
Dev: Graybeard GamesPub: Skystone Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%
It Lurks Below is an action-oriented, survival RPG in a randomly generated world. Fight through the massive underground dungeon, customize your character with random items and find out what evil lurks below.
Why similar: RPG 27.2%, Sandbox 18.1%, Survival 12%, Pixel Graphics 9.1%, Indie 7.8%
- #54 Notmads
67% matchVery Positive85% of 107 reviews2026
Dev: Rhomita
Windows
Your home is a living beast. Explore a handcrafted open world in an action RPG where you fight with magic, gather resources, find loot, craft, and grow stronger. Customize and expand your home on its back, and take it with you as you explore solo or with friends.
Why similar: Open World 24.2%, RPG 20.3%, Crafting 13%, Survival 12.8%, Adventure 8.9%
- #55 Elsewhere
67% matchVery Positive97% of 87 reviews2025
Dev: Four White Cats
Windows
A sandbox crafting adventure with quests, magic, automation, and exploration. Gather resources, build your base, unlock new technologies, and shape your own path through a world full of secrets and progression. Inspired by classic Minecraft modpacks with many new and unique features.
Why similar: Sandbox 28.2%, Open World 22.7%, Crafting 14.9%, Survival 13.7%, Adventure 9.8%
- #56 The Dream Within
67% matchVery Positive85% of 144 reviews2025
Dev: Roaming of Little Hammer
Windows
A pixel-graphics open world survival craft RPG, where player is locked in a deep dream world, survive in this elusive world, forage, hunt, mine, and build up shelters. Find a way to escape.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 59.2% ★, Sandbox 12.4%, RPG 8.3%, Crafting 4%, Pixel Graphics 3.9%
- #57 Allumeria
65% matchVery Positive93% of 602 reviews2026
Dev: Infinimelon
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 73%
A classic voxel sandbox combined with in-depth progression through exploration, dungeon crawling and boss battles. Spend every minute discovering new weapons, abilities, resources, enemies, structures, mechanics and tools. With a strong focus on discovery, variety and creativity, the world is yours.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 52.7% ★, Sandbox 11.6%, Open World 9.8%, Crafting 5.9%, Survival 5.9%
- #58 Kingdom of Atham: Crown of the Champions
67% matchMostly Positive76% of 366 reviews2024
Dev: Sofa Mauve Studio Inc.
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
"Kingdom of Atham: Crown of the Champions - Embark on a medieval fantasy survival odyssey. Reclaim the stolen Crown, battle dark forces, and explore diverse lands. Uncover secrets, wield magic, and craft your destiny. Will you become the true champion of Atham?"
Why similar: Sandbox 31.2%, RPG 22.7%, Open World 22.2%, Crafting 10.9%, Action 5.3%
