- #1 DeadPoly
97% matchMostly Positive78% of 6,136 reviews2022
Dev: TFL Games
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 64%
DeadPoly is a polygon arcade zombie survival looter shooter with base building, crafting, scavenging, leveling, questing, and more, but your only goal is survival, everything else is optional.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.9% ★, Crafting 13.4%, Base Building 13.1%, Survival 12.7%, Sandbox 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: This game shares the exact low-poly aesthetic and focuses heavily on the same survival and looting mechanics found in Re.poly.
- #2 Rising World
96% matchVery Positive86% of 5,974 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 36.1% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Crafting 12.9%, Sandbox 11.9%, Survival 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a highly flexible sandbox environment that prioritizes building and survival with a focus on player freedom.
- #3 Polylithic
96% matchMixed68% of 203 reviews2023
Dev: polyperfectPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Polylithic is a survival game unlike any other, set in the most pivotal moment in mankind's history: the Stone Age. Experience life as a Paleolithic hunter-gatherer, settle down as a Neolithic farmer, form tribes in co-op multiplayer, or go at it alone in a world where we're not yet apex predators.
Why similar: Base Building 17%, Crafting 16.4%, Survival 14.5%, Sandbox 14%, Open World 13.7%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a similar low-poly survival experience with a strong emphasis on crafting and base-building in an open world.
- #4 Solace Crafting
95% matchMostly Positive72% of 898 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 28.9% ★, Crafting 11.6%, Base Building 10.6%, Survival 10.4%, Open World 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on open-world survival and crafting, providing a vast landscape similar to the one found in Re.poly.
- #5 KeepUp Survival
94% matchMixed64% of 749 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 84%
KeepUp Survival is an open-world base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and shape your own story on a mysterious island.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.3% ★, Base Building 11.4%, Crafting 11.3%, Survival 10.6%, Open World 10%
Why You'll Like It: It delivers a straightforward survival and base-building loop that mirrors the core gameplay pillars of Re.poly.
- #6 ASTRONEER
94% matchVery Positive92% of 139,015 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.6 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 33.9% ★, Survival 11.5%, Open World 11.3%, Base Building 11%, Sandbox 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: This title captures the relaxing exploration and creative building aspects of Re.poly within a beautiful, stylized low-poly universe.
- #7 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
93% matchVery Positive82% of 10,429 reviews2024
Dev: Max Ent Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 16.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 28.2% ★, Base Building 11.4%, Survival 10.5%, Crafting 10.2%, Open World 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: The game emphasizes exploration and survival in a unique environment, matching the adventurous spirit of Re.poly.
- #8 Unturned
92% matchVery Positive91% of 564,532 reviews2017
Dev: Smartly Dressed Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 72.8 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Unturned is an open-world zombie survival sandbox game. As one of the few not yet turned, you must fight to remain among the living.
Why similar: Crafting 21%, Survival 19.7%, Sandbox 19.1%, Open World 17.3%, Multiplayer 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: As a staple of the low-poly survival genre, it provides the quintessential sandbox experience with deep crafting and base-building.
- #9 Necesse
91% matchVery Positive93% of 28,807 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 15.3 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 40.9% ★, Sandbox 9.6%, Crafting 9.4%, Open World 8.7%, Survival 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: This title blends sandbox survival, crafting, and base-building with a charming aesthetic that appeals to fans of indie survival games.
- #10 Force of Nature
91% 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 37.5% ★, Crafting 13.8%, Survival 11.7%, Sandbox 9.3%, Open World 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: This game combines survival, crafting, and exploration in a top-down perspective that feels very similar to the gameplay flow of Re.poly.
- #11 Creativerse
90% matchMostly Positive78% of 30,868 reviews2017
Dev: Playful Corp.
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 15.6 hrs≥1hr: 63%
A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.3% ★, Crafting 11.3%, Sandbox 10.4%, Survival 9.5%, Open World 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a vibrant, voxel-based sandbox world that excels in creative building and exploration mechanics.
- #12 Planet Explorers
89% matchMixed62% of 6,818 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 38% ★, Sandbox 14.2%, Open World 11.5%, Crafting 9.5%, Survival 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: This title offers a deep open-world survival experience with significant emphasis on crafting and base construction.
- #13 Alchemist's Awakening
89% 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 42.2% ★, Crafting 15.1%, Sandbox 13.7%, Open World 11.1%, Survival 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: It features a sandbox world where crafting and exploration are central, mirroring the core loop of Re.poly.
- #14 Blockscape
88% matchMixed46% of 898 reviews2014
Dev: ioneo
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 49%
The ultimate block building game. Start with nothing and build an empire. Smooth voxel worlds, settlers, crafting, vehicles, and Steam multiplayer. Survival or Just Build — every item in your inventory is also a building block.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 50.5% ★, Sandbox 14.2%, Crafting 9.5%, Open World 8.5%, Survival 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on low-poly, voxel-based building and exploration, allowing for the same creative freedom found in the seed game.
- #15 Shamania
84% matchMostly Positive74% of 162 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 30.2% ★, Crafting 13.4%, Open World 11.4%, Survival 11%, Sandbox 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: It offers an open-world survival experience with crafting and multiplayer elements that fit the sandbox genre well.
- #16 GRAV
87% 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 36.7% ★, Survival 12.1%, Base Building 11.1%, Open World 10.2%, Sandbox 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: This sci-fi survival game provides a similar focus on base-building and open-world exploration in a stylized environment.
- #17 TerraTech Worlds
85% matchMixed63% of 2,287 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 22.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 29% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 11.3%, Sandbox 10.4%, Survival 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers a creative sandbox experience focused on building vehicles and bases to explore an open world.
- #18 Total Miner
86% matchMostly Positive78% of 767 reviews2017
Dev: Brandon Moore
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 37.1 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 37.7% ★, Sandbox 12.5%, Open World 9.1%, Crafting 9%, Survival 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: It is a classic sandbox survival game that emphasizes mining, crafting, and building in a blocky, low-poly world.
- #19 Novus Inceptio
86% matchMixed52% of 1,304 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 29.4% ★, Crafting 10.5%, Sandbox 9.9%, Survival 9.9%, Base Building 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: This open-world survival game offers deep crafting and sandbox elements for players who enjoy long-term base development.
- #20 Wild Omission
83% matchVery Positive88% of 80 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 30.8% ★, Crafting 13.3%, Survival 11.5%, Sandbox 10.6%, Open World 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a multiplayer-focused survival experience with crafting and building mechanics similar to Re.poly.
- #21 Project 5: Sightseer
84% matchMostly Positive72% of 550 reviews2019
Dev: Tasharen Entertainment Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 28.4 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Open world multiplayer sandbox/RPG game. Explore, gather, build, research, and fight to protect what's yours -- by yourself or together with your friends.
Why similar: Sandbox 29.7%, RPG 19.1%, Open World 18.4%, Adventure 11.6%, Action 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on exploration and building in a vast, procedurally generated world that rewards player curiosity.
- #22 Tales of Morrow
82% matchMixed46% of 96 reviews2024
Dev: GameMechanic
Windows
Create your tale! Build your home, fight, farm, and explore an old civilization while developing your skills and abilities in this relaxing and adventurous experience. You decide your fate!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Crafting 12.4%, Survival 8.7%, Action RPG 5.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game blends survival and RPG elements with a focus on exploration and base-building in an open world.
- #23 Rem Survival
82% matchMostly Positive75% of 803 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 36.3% ★, Crafting 14%, Base Building 13.6%, Survival 12.1%, Open World 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a dedicated survival experience with a focus on crafting and base-building that aligns well with Re.poly.
- #24 Start Over
81% matchMixed61% of 379 reviews2024
Dev: EY-Studio
Windows
Embark on an unpredictable survival journey in Start Over. Solo, co-op, online, explore diverse landscapes, craft through 4 tech tiers, encounter wildlife, and trade or raid for resources. Choose your path, defend against waves, and shape your destiny in a dynamic world. Are you ready to Start Over?
Why similar: Base Building 17.9%, Crafting 17.2%, Survival 15.1%, Sandbox 14.8%, Open World 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes the core survival loop of gathering, crafting, and base-building in a challenging environment.
- #25 PolyZ
81% matchMixed49% of 284 reviews2024
Dev: Thirteen37 Games™
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 1.6 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Imagine DayZ mixed with Escape From Tarkov, but in Low Poly. A persistent world survival game featuring PvP, PvE, crafting, base-building, and zombies infected with a contagious virus.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.1% ★, Base Building 15.1%, Survival 12.7%, Crafting 12.6%, Open World 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: It leans into the low-poly aesthetic while providing a survival and base-building experience tailored for multiplayer play.
- #26 Plains of Pain
79% matchVery Positive83% of 933 reviews2023
Dev: Cobra Byte Digital
Windows
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 29.8% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Crafting 11.3%, Sandbox 11%, Survival 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a post-apocalyptic sandbox survival experience with a focus on crafting and base defense.
- #27 Renown
78% matchMixed58% of 1,578 reviews2025
Dev: RDBK Studios
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Renown is an intense medieval multiplayer survival experience set in a vast, ever-evolving world. Whether alone or rallying allies, gather resources, build powerful strongholds, and engage in brutal battles for dominance.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.1% ★, Crafting 12.8%, Survival 11%, Sandbox 10.5%, Base Building 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a survival and base-building experience with a focus on player-driven narratives in an open world.
- #28 StarRupture
76% matchVery Positive81% of 13,247 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 26.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.9% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 11.5%, Survival 10.7%, Sandbox 10%
- #29 Len's Island
77% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,866 reviews2025
Dev: Flow Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
An open-world survival crafting game for 1–8 players, blending intense dungeon crawling and ARPG combat with peaceful farming and creative building. Take on quests and explore a vast, procedurally-generated world full of danger and discovery.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.6% ★, Crafting 12.1%, Survival 11.7%, Sandbox 11%, Base Building 10.7%
- #30 Planetaries
79% matchMixed58% of 226 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 29.7% ★, Crafting 11.2%, Base Building 11%, Survival 10%, Open World 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: This title focuses on open-world survival and co-op play, making it a great choice for those who enjoy Re.poly with friends.
- #31 Soulmask
75% matchMostly Positive77% of 22,226 reviews2026
Dev: CampFire StudioPub: Qooland Games
Windows
Median: 13.9 hrsMean: 69.2 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 26.3% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Crafting 13.2%, Survival 11.3%, Sandbox 11.1%
- #32 Xsyon - Prelude
80% matchMostly Positive73% of 369 reviews2014
Dev: Notorious Games
Windows
Xsyon is a player driven apocalyptic fantasy sandbox MMORPG, set in a living and evolving environment. Players create the world they want to live in as they form tribes, construct towns, shape landscapes, create quests, hunt, farm, gather, build societies and develop a New World.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.4% ★, Base Building 10.3%, Crafting 10.1%, Sandbox 10%, Survival 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: This sandbox survival game focuses on community building and resource management in a large open world.
- #33 Everwind
74% matchVery Positive81% of 3,756 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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: Crafting 17.2%, Action RPG 15.4%, Sandbox 15.2%, Survival 14.7%, Open World 14.6%
- #34 Subsistence
76% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,766 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 42% ★, Survival 13.6%, Crafting 12.5%, Open World 9.3%, Base Building 8.4%
- #35 Cubic Odyssey
73% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,720 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 39.1% ★, Base Building 15.9%, Sandbox 13.2%, Action-Adventure 8.4%, RPG 6.1%
- #36 Enshrouded
71% matchVery Positive86% of 104,779 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.9 hrsMean: 46.5 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: Base Building 16.1%, Open World 15.9%, Survival 14.8%, Crafting 13%, Action RPG 8.6%
- #37 Nightingale
72% matchMixed66% of 18,038 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 34.4% ★, Crafting 11.8%, Survival 11.8%, Base Building 11.5%, Open World 10.7%
- #38 Dark and Light
75% matchMixed52% of 11,834 reviews2017
Dev: Snail Games USA
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 49.0 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 22.2% ★, Open World 16.3%, Survival 16%, Sandbox 14.6%, RPG 6.6%
- #39 Longvinter
71% matchMixed67% of 7,664 reviews2025
Dev: Uuvana Studios
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 45.1 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Fish, farm, craft, gather, cook, loot or steal from other players and build a campsite or a village with your friends in an open-world multiplayer sandbox game without rules!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.7% ★, Crafting 14%, Survival 13.2%, Open World 11%, Sandbox 10.1%
- #40 Dawn of Defiance
70% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,842 reviews2024
Dev: Traega EntertainmentPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
You are the Defier, a Spartan beginning your afterlife on the Crossroads. In this Greek myth-inspired survival craft, ascend from weak soldier to god-like anti-hero. Build impressive Greek structures, craft legendary gear, and break the seals of the Underworld with up to 3 friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.6% ★, Survival 11.2%, Base Building 10.8%, Open World 8.1%, Crafting 7.9%
- #41 Boundless
73% matchMixed70% of 2,774 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 40.6% ★, Sandbox 14.5%, Crafting 13.7%, Open World 12.5%, Survival 8.3%
- #42 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 37.4% ★, Sandbox 12.1%, Open World 11.9%, Survival 11.6%, Crafting 9.2%
- #43 Volcanoids
71% matchVery Positive83% of 9,332 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.9 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: Base Building 18.4%, Crafting 18.3%, Sandbox 16%, Survival 14.5%, Open World 13.2%
- #44 INCUR Survival
69% matchVery Positive83% of 109 reviews2022
Dev: INCUR
Windows
A survival open-world game, where you can gather resources, Hunt, Craft tools and armor, Tame Animals, Ride Animals, Build, and defend your base from creatures, and other players.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.8% ★, Crafting 13.1%, Survival 11.3%, Open World 10.2%, Action-Adventure 7.9%
- #45 Tinkerlands
66% matchVery Positive86% of 4,087 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 14.2 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 36.2% ★, Sandbox 12.5%, Survival 11.3%, Crafting 10.9%, Open World 10.5%
- #46 Dune: Awakening
66% matchMostly Positive71% of 78,134 reviews2025
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 46.5 hrsMean: 100.0 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival game with immersive adventure and RPG gameplay. Explore, build, craft, and unravel a cinematic Dune story alone or with friends 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 27.8% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Crafting 10.5%, Sandbox 9.6%, Survival 9.5%
- #47 Outlaws of the Old West
70% matchMixed59% of 6,295 reviews2019
Dev: Virtual Basement LLCPub: Wandering Wizard
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 45% ★, Survival 14.7%, Open World 13.2%, Base Building 6.7%, Multiplayer 6.4%
- #48 Feel The Snow
68% matchVery Positive87% of 3,059 reviews2019
Dev: Owlet
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 7.4 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 39.5% ★, Survival 12.4%, Crafting 11.7%, Sandbox 9.1%, Open World 7.6%
- #49 ArkCraft: The Rebirth of the World
67% matchMostly Positive74% of 182 reviews2024
Dev: ZD Yazilim
Windows
In this open-world crafting and building game, you explore an ancient world full of dangers and secrets. Collect animals and plants, build bases and master the craft as you build your ark and save civilization from destruction by the flood and then rebuild it.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.4% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 13.4%, Open World 11.2%, Survival 9.1%
- #50 Palworld
62% matchVery Positive95% of 480,493 reviews2026
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 40.2 hrsMean: 84.9 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.9% ★, Open World 14.1%, Survival 13.1%, Crafting 10.3%, Base Building 8.2%
- #51 Windrose
63% matchVery Positive87% of 51,977 reviews2026
Dev: Kraken Express
Windows
Median: 20.1 hrsMean: 32.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Embark on a PvE survival adventure in the Age of Piracy. Fight on land and sea, solo or with friends. Build, craft and explore vast open world filled with dark secrets. Master soulslite combat and take on challenging bosses, command your ship and plunder unspoken treasures!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38% ★, Crafting 15.1%, Survival 13.1%, Base Building 10.5%, Open World 8.4%
- #52 Survive The Island
69% matchMixed53% of 83 reviews2021
Dev: PhantomCore StudioPub: PhantomCore PUBLISHING
Windows
survive the island you survive from skeletons and humans you can build and mine and level up your stats you can build whatever you want you can raid enemies you can mine and cut down trees and you have to hunt for your own food and you can grow your own crops and you can craft weapons
Why similar: Sandbox 15.7%, Action RPG 14.9%, Survival 11%, Crafting 10.4%, Base Building 10.3%
- #53 Zero-based World-从零开始
69% matchMostly Positive71% of 182 reviews2020
Dev: zerogame
Windows
Zero Based World is a multiplayer sandbox survival game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.2% ★, Open World 15.4%, Action-Adventure 8.7%, Third Person 7.5%, Multiplayer 7.2%
- #54 Keplerth
66% matchVery Positive84% of 4,159 reviews2022
Dev: TAROPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 16.3 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 20.4%, Survival 18%, Open World 17%, Base Building 9.3%, Crafting 8.4%
