- #1 Myth of Empires
97% matchMixed68% of 17,631 reviews2024
Dev: Angela GamePub: Imperium Interactive Entertainment
Windows
Median: 15.0 hrsMean: 228.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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: Open World Survival Craft 27% ★, Building 10.8%, Sandbox 9.1%, Open World 8.7%, Base Building 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: Combines multiplayer medieval sandbox survival with deep base building and large-scale warfare.
- #2 Bellwright
96% matchVery Positive80% of 21,714 reviews2024
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 12.8 hrsMean: 41.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Establish and expand your own settlements, liberate the land and assist its villagers, and recruit others to your cause while learning more about a life you had to leave behind. Command your forces, prove your valor through combat, and cement yourself as the hero of your people.
Why similar: Survival 16.6%, Open World 15.3%, Crafting 15.1%, Medieval 15%, Online Co-Op 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: A medieval survival and town-building game where you lead rebellions and build strongholds.
- #3 Soulmask
96% matchMostly Positive77% of 22,506 reviews2026
Dev: CampFire StudioPub: Qooland Games
Windows
Median: 13.9 hrsMean: 69.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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: Open World Survival Craft 26.8% ★, Crafting 14%, Base Building 13%, Survival 11.8%, Open World 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: Features deep open-world survival crafting mechanics alongside tribe management and tactical combat.
- #4 Pax Dei
94% matchMixed57% of 11,377 reviews2025
Dev: Mainframe Industries
Windows
Median: 18.5 hrsMean: 76.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Welcome to a vast, social sandbox MMO inspired by the legends of the medieval era. Here, myths are real, ghosts exist, and magic is unquestioned. Join thousands of players as you explore the land, build your home, forge your reputation, and craft your own stories. What world will you make?
Why similar: Crafting 15.9%, Medieval 15%, Base Building 14.3%, Open World 13.2%, Sandbox 13%
Why You'll Like It: A vast sandbox MMO centered heavily on player-driven communities, medieval building, and open-world survival.
- #5 Reign Of Kings
95% matchMixed57% of 14,891 reviews2015
Dev: Code}{atch
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 47.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Struggle to survive in a harsh medieval world. Hunt wildlife, mine resources, build structures, and craft weapons and armor in order to protect yourself. You may form a guild, bring war to all opposition, and try to seize the throne and become king!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.5% ★, Crafting 9.9%, Medieval 9.9%, Survival 9.8%, Open World 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: Shares a direct thematic lineage with Renown, focusing on medieval survival, raiding, and dominance.
- #6 Enshrouded
94% matchVery Positive86% of 106,050 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.9 hrsMean: 46.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.
Why similar: Open World 15.9%, Survival 14.4%, Base Building 14%, Crafting 12.7%, Online Co-Op 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: Delivers cooperative survival crafting with incredible voxel-based building and atmospheric exploration.
- #7 Valheim
92% 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 30.3% ★, Survival 10.1%, Online Co-Op 9.4%, Open World 9.3%, Crafting 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a brutal Norse-themed survival experience with rich building mechanics and fierce combat.
- #8 Life is Feudal: Your Own
93% matchMixed66% of 12,071 reviews2015
Dev: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 57.9 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 29.5% ★, Medieval 11.4%, Crafting 10.3%, Open World 9.9%, Survival 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore realistic medieval survival game featuring terraforming and player-driven economies.
- #9 V Rising
91% matchVery Positive89% of 137,392 reviews2024
Dev: Stunlock Studios
Windows
Median: 20.9 hrsMean: 58.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Awaken as a Vampire. Hunt for blood in nearby settlements to regain your strength and evade the scorching sun to survive. Raise your castle and thrive in an ever-changing, open world full of mystery. Gain allies online and conquer the land of the living.
Why similar: Survival 12.7%, Open World 12.6%, Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 11.4%, Massively Multiplayer 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: Blends top-down action combat with base building, raiding, and persistent multiplayer territory control.
- #10 Last Oasis
91% matchMixed62% of 24,230 reviews2020
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 17.8 hrsMean: 120.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Nomadic Survival MMO. Build wooden walking machines to travel to new lands. Create clans and fight for territory. Resources deplete fast, so take your sword and scavenge, pirate, and trade to stay alive.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 22%, Survival 14.3%, Open World 12.5%, Crafting 10.8%, Building 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: Features nomad-style clan survival, large-scale base building, and fierce territorial PvP conflicts.
- #11 Dune: Awakening
89% matchMostly Positive71% of 79,582 reviews2025
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 43.1 hrsMean: 98.6 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Dune: Awakening is a single- and multiplayer Open World Survival game with immersive adventure and RPG gameplay. Explore, build, craft, and unravel a cinematic Dune story as you rise from survival to greatness on the most legendary planet in the universe. Just remember: the sandworm always comes.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.8% ★, Massively Multiplayer 9.9%, Crafting 8.2%, Base Building 8%, Building 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival MMO featuring massive multiplayer faction warfare and base construction.
- #12 Citadel: Forged with Fire
90% 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 25.5% ★, Massively Multiplayer 14.6%, Open World 12.1%, Survival 9.2%, Sandbox 7%
Why You'll Like It: An online sandbox RPG with heavy survival crafting, castle building, and magical combat.
- #13 Mortal Online 2
89% matchMixed60% of 13,925 reviews2022
Dev: Star Vault AB
Windows
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 151.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Step into Nave, a vast fantasy sandbox world with a player-driven economy, persistent housing, and deep crafting systems. Engage in first-person, full-loot PvP combat with other players and perilous foes. Build, explore, and conquer in an unforgiving world. The land is yours—who will you become?
Why similar: Open World 12.6%, Massively Multiplayer 12.4%, Medieval 12.3%, Sandbox 12.3%, Crafting 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore first-person medieval sandbox MMORPG featuring full loot PvP and open-world survival elements.
- #14 Medieval Dynasty
88% matchVery Positive90% of 52,440 reviews2021
Dev: Render CubePub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 11.6 hrsMean: 36.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.
Why similar: Crafting 16.5%, Building 15.3%, Medieval 11.8%, Survival 10.1%, Base Building 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on medieval survival and village building, offering a slower-paced cooperative experience.
- #15 Subsistence
87% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,861 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 40.4 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 36.6% ★, Survival 12.2%, Crafting 11.4%, Open World 8.6%, Building 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game emphasizing base building and hostile territory management.
- #16 Deadside
85% matchMostly Positive76% of 40,566 reviews2024
Dev: Bad Pixel
Windows
Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 44.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
An Open World Survival Shooter blending hardcore PVP and PVE action. Secure precious loot in safe zones or build your own fortress in the wild. With intense gunfights, stunning visuals, and performance smooth enough for any system, the challenge awaits!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.8% ★, Crafting 10.9%, Survival 10.6%, Base Building 9.6%, Open World 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore multiplayer shooter focused on survival and raid mechanics in a gritty environment.
- #17 Wild Terra 2: New Lands
86% matchMixed52% of 4,220 reviews2022
Dev: Juvty Worlds
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 28.1 hrs≥1hr: 38%
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: Open World Survival Craft 24.7% ★, Massively Multiplayer 13.6%, Sandbox 8.5%, Crafting 8.1%, Building 7%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox MMORPG centered around crafting, building, and surviving in a harsh medieval world.
- #18 Nightingale
84% matchMixed66% of 18,084 reviews2024
Dev: Inflexion Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 24.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Nightingale is an open world survival crafting game, where you’ll adventure across the mysterious and dangerous Fae Realms. As a daring Realmwalker, you’ll defeat monstrous enemies, survive hostile environments, and build elaborate estates in a visually stunning Gaslamp Fantasy world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28% ★, Crafting 10.1%, Survival 9.9%, Open World 9.3%, Building 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: A Victorian-fantasy survival crafting game with dimension-hopping exploration and base building.
- #19 The Front
84% matchMixed67% of 10,771 reviews2025
Dev: Samar Studio
Windows
Median: 10.7 hrsMean: 44.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
The Front is a survival open-world crafting sandbox game. You are a resistance fighter sent back in time to stop the rise of a tyrannical empire. Collect resources, craft tech, build shelters, and fight monsters to accomplish your mission.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24% ★, Crafting 9.4%, Massively Multiplayer 9.2%, Base Building 8.5%, Building 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A military-themed open-world survival game featuring base building and intense defense mechanics.
- #20 Hurtworld
82% matchMostly Positive76% of 31,099 reviews2019
Dev: Bankroll Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 64.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Hurtworld is a hardcore multiplayer survival FPS with a focus on competitive gunplay and strategic map control. Built for hardcore gamers, Hurtworld aims to punish.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.3% ★, Survival 15.2%, Crafting 11.4%, Open World 11%, Building 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore multiplayer survival game with intense crafting and base building under pressure.
- #21 ASKA
81% matchVery Positive80% of 12,267 reviews2024
Dev: Sand Sailor StudioPub: Thunderful Publishing
Windows
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 29.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
A new Viking age dawns with you at its helm. Forge a thriving colony from nothing in this mythic open-world survival sim. Earn the gods' favor and survive in a land ruled by ancient terrors and unforgiving seasons. Rally unique villagers, expand your settlement and defend your tribe - solo or co-op!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27% ★, Base Building 10.5%, Survival 9.7%, Sandbox 9.4%, Online Co-Op 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: A tribal survival crafting game that emphasizes building self-sustaining settlements with multiplayer support.
- #22 Dark and Light
83% 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: Massively Multiplayer 18.1%, Open World Survival Craft 17.1% ★, Open World 13.4%, Survival 12.7%, Sandbox 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: A survival sandbox set in a magical medieval realm with taming, building, and exploration.
- #23 Outlaws of the Old West
82% matchMixed59% of 6,297 reviews2019
Dev: Virtual Basement LLCPub: Wandering Wizard
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Outlaws of the Old West is a massively multiplayer survival MMO with a huge world, thousands of items and a modular building system. Survive the wild, build your own homestead, defeat villainous bandits and work with others to tame the Wild West.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.9% ★, Massively Multiplayer 13.6%, Survival 12.7%, Open World 11.9%, Multiplayer 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: An MMO survival game with massive open worlds, building mechanics, and player-driven economies.
- #24 Rem Survival
81% matchMostly Positive76% of 809 reviews2021
Dev: Immortal Hand Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 47.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Scavenge abandoned ruins, craft gear from scrap and salvaged materials, and fight the environment itself as hunger, exposure, and exhaustion push you to your limits. There are no second chances—only adaptation or death.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27% ★, Crafting 10.9%, Base Building 9.4%, Survival 9.2%, Massively Multiplayer 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: A dedicated open-world survival game centered on crafting and basic base defenses.
- #25 ENDALOR
79% matchMostly Positive70% of 280 reviews2026
Dev: Diorite Games
Windows
An immersive medieval dark fantasy survival game with RPG elements for 1-4 players. Set in a hand crafted open world. Explore, survive, build, craft, fight and conquer your way through the dark, brutal and mysterious lands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.6% ★, Medieval 8.7%, Survival 8.5%, Open World 8.2%, Online Co-Op 8%
Why You'll Like It: A dark open-world survival game emphasizing cooperative building and combat.
- #26 Frozen Flame
79% matchMixed62% of 2,997 reviews2022
Dev: Dreamside InteractivePub: Ravenage Games
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A challenging exploration and survival adventure, set in the dying world of Dragons. Only those who harness the power of Frozen Flame have the means to survive the harsh conditions of the realm and able to muster the strength to cleanse it for good.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.2% ★, Base Building 8.4%, Crafting 8.2%, Building 7.7%, Open World 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: A survival RPG set in a mystical open world with exploration and base construction.
- #27 Plains of Pain
78% matchVery Positive83% of 1,036 reviews2023
Dev: Cobra Byte Digital
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Enter a living post-apocalyptic sandbox where the world doesn't wait for you. Build, craft, trade, earn the trust of factions, and forge your own path through a brutal procedural wasteland.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.1% ★, Crafting 10%, Base Building 9.7%, Sandbox 8.7%, Survival 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: An early access open-world survival craft game focusing on base building and resource gathering.
- #28 Gloria Victis: Medieval MMORPG
77% matchMixed68% of 12,038 reviews2026
Dev: gamigo US
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 26.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Gloria Victis is an MMORPG with an emphasis on realism, set in a low-fantasy medieval open world. Enjoy MMO with skill-based non-target combat, open PVP with territory control, deep crafting system and player-driven economy – all that served with beautiful graphics and an immersive atmosphere.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 18.8% ★, Massively Multiplayer 15.5%, Medieval 13.1%, Open World 11.3%, Crafting 7.5%
- #29 Out of Reach
80% matchMixed57% of 3,051 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
You’re a castaway stranded in the middle of nowhere. Storm is gone, the worst certainly not. Look for food and resources, craft gear, make shelters. These are the basics, you need much more to stay alive on this cut-off-the-world, yet not desert island. Build & burn, sail & explore, be Out of Reach!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32% ★, Survival 10.9%, Crafting 9.4%, Open World 8.8%, Massively Multiplayer 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: An island-based survival crafting game featuring primitive building and multiplayer raiding.
- #30 Crestfallen: Medieval Survival
76% matchMixed59% of 461 reviews2024
Dev: Bloodbath Studios
Windows
👑 Hail to the King! In Crestfallen: Medieval Survival, players clash for dominance over the realm through strategic castle 🏰 building and fierce combat. Craft epic armor, forge deadly medieval weapons⚔️, and build a kingdom worthy of legend 📜. Create a Guild 🐉, trade goods, and prevail! 🌟
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.7% ★, Crafting 10.6%, Survival 9.1%, Building 8.4%, Open World 7.9%
- #31 Life is Feudal: MMO
78% matchMixed40% of 7,352 reviews2018
Dev: LTG
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 45.6 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Experience the hardcore reality of the Middle Ages. Master survival, engage in deep-rooted RPG elements, navigate a bustling economy, build communities, and employ diplomatic strategy to thrive in Abella's vast expanse.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.8% ★, Massively Multiplayer 10.2%, Medieval 9.2%, Base Building 8.3%, Crafting 8%
- #32 Miscreated
76% matchMixed66% of 31,592 reviews2018
Dev: Entrada Interactive LLC
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 38.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Miscreated is a multiplayer online hardcore survival game set in a post-apocalyptic future. You will need to survive against mutants, players, and even mother nature herself.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41% ★, Survival 14.3%, Open World 11.1%, Massively Multiplayer 7.8%, Crafting 7.3%
- #33 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 30.3% ★, Crafting 12.7%, Survival 11.1%, Sandbox 10.4%, Open World 10.3%
- #34 Life is Feudal: Arden
74% matchMixed41% of 899 reviews2025
Dev: LTG
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 27.4 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Life is Feudal: Arden is a new free-to-play open-world MMORPG set in the Middle Ages, built on the foundation of Life is Feudal: MMO. Engage in thrilling PvP combat, navigate political intrigue, master a variety of professions and craft unique items. Forge your own path to power and greatness!
Why similar: Sandbox 12.5%, Crafting 12.3%, Building 11.9%, Medieval 10.4%, Survival 8.9%
- #35 MORDHAU
73% matchMostly Positive80% of 113,265 reviews2019
Dev: Triternion
Windows
Median: 12.0 hrsMean: 74.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
MORDHAU is a multiplayer medieval slasher. Create your mercenary and fight in brutal battles where you will experience fast paced combat, castle sieges, cavalry charges, and more.
Why similar: Medieval 25.8%, Multiplayer 15.5%, Online Co-Op 13.4%, PvP 13.1%, First-Person 10.9%
- #36 Mortal Online
75% matchMixed52% of 2,961 reviews2015
Dev: Star Vault AB
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 20.9 hrs≥1hr: 47%
Mortal Online is a first-person medieval fantasy MMORPG, set in a huge, open, unforgiving world. Choose your race, choose your playstyle, choose a profession, choose where to place your loyalties - if you have any...
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 21.7%, Open World 15.5%, Sandbox 12.2%, Survival 9.7%, Medieval 9%
- #37 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
71% matchVery Positive82% of 10,551 reviews2024
Dev: Max Ent Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.3% ★, Survival 9.7%, Crafting 9.6%, Base Building 9.5%, Building 8.6%
- #38 Hide & Hold Out - H2o
74% matchMixed54% of 631 reviews2016
Dev: Red Abyss Software
Windows · Linux
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 16.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Hide & Hold Out is a multiplayer survival game taking place in a devastated water world. Gather, build, team up with your friends and establish the foundations of your future floating empire utilizing the heavy guns of your battle ships!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.9% ★, Massively Multiplayer 15%, Survival 11.2%, Crafting 7.9%, Open World 7%
- #39 Cultivation Tales
72% matchMostly Negative38% of 13,640 reviews2024
Dev: Ac Games
Windows
Median: 22.0 hrsMean: 64.7 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Cultivation Tales is an open world survival craft online game. You will experience collecting, crafting, hunting, fighting, building, researching, in a wild mythical world. Fight for your clan and yourself, from mortal to divinity!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.1% ★, Massively Multiplayer 12.3%, Building 10.7%, Sandbox 10.3%, Survival 9.2%
- #40 Shamania
69% 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 26.7% ★, Crafting 12.5%, Open World 10.8%, Survival 10%, Sandbox 7.8%
- #41 KINGDOMS
72% matchMostly Positive72% of 4,092 reviews2015
Dev: Oreol
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 70%
KINGDOMS is a procedural medieval RPG in a randomly generated open world. The main feature of KINGDOMS is a smart AI system that completely controls NPC behavior. As the player, you can fully interact with this massive world and become any person you want to be.
Why similar: Medieval 16.6%, Open World 16.2%, Building 15.6%, Crafting 12.8%, Survival 12.5%
- #42 Wild Terra Online
73% matchMixed60% of 1,846 reviews2017
Dev: Juvty Worlds
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Wild Terra Online is a sandbox RPG, in a completely player-controlled medieval world. You will have to survive in a forest full of predators, build a shelter and improve your crafts skills, tame animals and fight for treasures. You can become anyone and do whatever you want!
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 19.9%, Sandbox 11.8%, Survival 11.6%, Open World 11.1%, Crafting 8.9%
- #43 Valnir Rok Survival RPG
73% matchMixed44% of 980 reviews2017
Dev: encurio
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 42%
Valnir Rok is a multiplayer survival roleplaying game in a Viking setting with quests by bestselling author Giles Kristian. Explore a huge open world, craft items, cook meals, build houses and found clan cities. Raid other clans or place bounties. Pray to the gods and survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 18.1% ★, Massively Multiplayer 17.9%, Open World 15.4%, Survival 14.5%, Multiplayer 8.1%
- #44 Wurm Unlimited
71% 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 28.3% ★, Crafting 10.4%, Open World 9.9%, Sandbox 9.7%, Building 8.7%
- #45 Dawn of Defiance
69% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,856 reviews2024
Dev: Traega EntertainmentPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
You are a fallen Spartan, cast into the realm between the living and the Underworld. In this survival adventure inspired by Greek myth, hunt, craft and build a home worthy of legend with up to 3 friends. Raid the gods' temples, defeat legendary creatures and loot the iconic weapons of the Olympians.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.4% ★, Survival 10.8%, Online Co-Op 10.4%, Base Building 9.5%, Building 8.1%
- #46 Stars End
70% matchMixed61% of 1,432 reviews2023
Dev: Reverie World StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Stars End is a sci-fi survival sandbox set on the wild frontier of a distant star system. Play solo or host your own server as you craft, build, and battle to survive in a galaxy shaped by danger, discovery, and your own grit.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24% ★, Massively Multiplayer 15.2%, Online Co-Op 8.3%, Survival 8.3%, Crafting 8.2%
- #47 Solace Crafting
70% 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 25.5% ★, Crafting 10.8%, Survival 9.5%, Base Building 8.7%, Open World 8.5%
- #48 Grim
67% matchMixed57% of 149 reviews2025
Dev: Spoonfed Interactive
Windows
GRIM is an Exclusive VR Multiplayer Survival game where you must immerse yourself, stranded on a secluded part of Earth. Survival is not just a choice but a grueling battle against nature and other players. Gather resources, craft, and build your base, all to stay alive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.3% ★, Crafting 12.3%, Survival 11.1%, Open World 9.5%, Base Building 9%
- #49 VEIN
64% matchVery Positive88% of 12,706 reviews2025
Dev: Ramjet Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
VEIN is a post-apocalyptic survival multiplayer sandbox game. Gather supplies to survive, explore abandoned buildings, defend your home, and rebuild society, whether alone or with friends.
Why similar: Survival 19.1%, Open World 18.3%, Base Building 16.5%, Crafting 13%, Sandbox 10%
- #50 The Last Plague: Blight
66% matchVery Positive88% of 1,514 reviews2024
Dev: Original Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 15.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
The Last Plague: Blight is an authentic survival experience rooted in realism and immersion. Endure the hazards of a brutal open world, uncover the origins of a mysterious disease, and become humanity’s final hope of ending the Blight.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.5% ★, Medieval 11.7%, Base Building 11.3%, Crafting 11.2%, Building 8.9%
- #51 Lost Rift
66% matchMixed69% of 1,717 reviews2025
Dev: People Can Fly
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Lost Rift is a first person survival adventure shooter that blends cooperative base building with multiplayer PvE or PvP extraction expeditions. Journey solo or in teams of up to 5 players across a vast archipelago, craft gear, build bases, defeat raiders, and become legendary.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.7% ★, Massively Multiplayer 12%, Crafting 11.4%, Base Building 10.3%, Survival 9.4%
- #52 Crushed
69% matchMixed53% of 321 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 30.5% ★, Survival 10.3%, Open World 9.9%, Crafting 9.8%, Building 8.5%
- #53 XERA: Survival
67% matchMixed66% of 7,942 reviews2021
Dev: Spotted Kiwi Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 24.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Action-focused, open world survival shooter, PvPvE against fellow mercenaries and lethal XOIDS. Raid for resources alone or with team-mates, build and defend your base, stash your gear and survive against the odds. You are the hunters. You are the hunted. And the robots never sleep…
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.1% ★, Base Building 10.8%, Crafting 10.2%, Massively Multiplayer 9.2%, Survival 9.1%
- #54 Wild Omission
66% matchVery Positive88% of 83 reviews2023
Dev: Telephone Studios
Windows
Wild Omission is an open world sandbox survival game with severe weather set in an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.1% ★, Crafting 10.4%, Survival 8.9%, Building 8.7%, Open World 8.3%
- #55 Boundless
68% 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 29.6% ★, Massively Multiplayer 15.2%, Crafting 10.5%, Sandbox 9.8%, Open World 9.8%
