- #1 Middle Ages: Peasants & Knights
97% 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 26.4% ★, Medieval 11.7%, Sandbox 8.9%, Base Building 8.2%, Crafting 7.5%
- #2 Renown
96% matchMixed59% of 1,570 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 22.1% ★, Medieval 9.9%, Crafting 8.5%, Base Building 8.2%, Sandbox 7.6%
- #3 Reign and Ruin
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Azimpur
Windows
Reign and Ruin is a multiplayer survival game that takes place in a brutal medieval open-world. You must weather the harsh elements, gather resources, establish a settlement, defend your home, dominate your enemies, and rise up alone or with your guild to become the king of the realm.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.1% ★, Medieval 10.3%, Base Building 9.1%, Crafting 8%, PvP 7.4%
- #4 Nomad: Steppeborn Saga
95% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: gamegine
Windows
Nomad: Steppeborn Saga is an open world co-op survival crafting adventure set in a vast, ever changing world of nomadic culture. Explore, trade, forge alliances, and face threats while packing up camp, migrating, and forging your legacy.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 18% ★, Hunting 17.2% ★, Base Building 9.4%, Crafting 7.7%, Sandbox 6.9%
- #5 Night of the Dead
94% matchMostly Positive77% of 11,822 reviews2024
Dev: Jackto Studios
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 32.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
'Night of the Dead' is an open-world game that combines elements of exploration, tower defense, survival, and crafting. Traverse a world dominated by zombies while collecting various resources and powerful equipment. Build a fortress to survive the hordes of zombies that swarm every night!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22% ★, Hunting 17.2% ★, Base Building 8.8%, Crafting 7.3%, Sandbox 7.2%
- #6 Out of Reach
94% matchMixed57% of 3,049 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.1 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 35.8% ★, Crafting 9.1%, Hunting 8.8% ★, Survival 8.2%, Multiplayer 6.9%
- #7 Reign Of Kings
93% matchMixed57% of 14,891 reviews2015
Dev: Code}{atch
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 47.7 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 32.9% ★, Medieval 12.8%, Crafting 9.9%, Survival 7.6%, Multiplayer 7.4%
- #8 Wurm Unlimited
92% matchMostly Positive71% of 3,135 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 31.9% ★, Sandbox 11.7%, Crafting 10.1%, Building 7.6%, Open World 7.1%
- #9 RivenWorld: The First Era
91% matchMixed67% of 42 reviews2023
Dev: GameFocal
Windows
Do you have what it takes to endure the ruthless medieval realm? Introducing RivenWorld, a vast and immersive open-world sandbox survival multiplayer game set in the merciless medieval era.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.1% ★, Medieval 11.2%, Base Building 9.7%, Sandbox 8%, PvP 7.9%
- #10 Lord of Undead
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Megame LLC
Windows
Destroy the castle on the hill in this grim RPG where you play as the Dark Lord. Collect souls, summon an undead army, master dark abilities, craft powerful gear, build your base, and desecrate the lands of a vast open world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.2% ★, Sandbox 9.7%, Base Building 9.4%, Medieval 9%, Character Customization 8.5%
- #11 Stormforge
90% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Roboto Games
Windows
Stormforge is an open-world survival crafting game for 1 to 8 players. You are Stormforged, with the ability to brave and harness power from magical storms. Explore, fight, forage, craft, build, and defeat bosses in this epic, fantasy game. Survive the Storms and thrive!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26% ★, Base Building 9.3%, Medieval 8.9%, Crafting 7.9%, Sandbox 7.5%
- #12 Crestfallen: Medieval Survival
89% matchMixed59% of 460 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 27.5% ★, Crafting 10.6%, Medieval 10%, Sandbox 8.4%, PvP 8.3%
- #13 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
88% matchVery Positive82% of 10,269 reviews2024
Dev: Merge GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 16.0 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 26.3% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Crafting 8.6%, Sandbox 7.6%, Multiplayer 7.3%
- #14 Age Of Omens
89% match9 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2019
Dev: Groundbreak GamesPub: GroundBreak Games
Windows
Survive in a medieval world filled with tower-defense, magic, exploration, and building. Use a unique directional combat system. Explore a rich world with dynamic weather that impacts gameplay. Uncover the secrets of the land and emerge victorious in this ultimate survival game.
Why similar: Archery 17.9% ★, Hunting 17.7% ★, Base Building 10.3%, Medieval 10.1%, Crafting 8.6%
- #15 Kalahari’s End
87% match6 user reviews67% of 6 reviews2026
Dev: Owlfig Games
Windows
After your plane crashes, You find yourself in one of the largest abandoned tourist locations in South Africa. Build, Craft, and create your character while combatting the intense heat of the Kalahari Desert in this upcoming realistic open-world survival simulation game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.2% ★, Hunting 15.4% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Crafting 9.2%, Character Customization 8.4%
- #16 Lost Isle
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Wunder Entertainment
Windows
Castaway on an island built upon the corpse of a dead god. Build settlements, master melee, archery, and magic. Choose your fate in huge multiplayer PvP and PvE conflicts to begin your story of survival, betrayal, and conquest.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.8% ★, Base Building 10.6%, Medieval 10.5%, Crafting 8.7%, PvP 8.4%
- #17 Dune: Awakening
84% matchMostly Positive71% of 77,257 reviews2025
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 46.8 hrsMean: 99.3 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 23% ★, Base Building 10.2%, Sandbox 8%, Crafting 7.9%, PvP 7.9%
- #18 SkyCraft
85% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: ADIAN
Windows
Skycraft is an open-world survival game for 1-10 players, set in infinite procedurally-generated floating islands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.1% ★, Base Building 11%, Crafting 9.5%, Building 8.2%, Survival 6.9%
- #19 Life is Feudal: Your Own
86% matchMixed66% of 12,061 reviews2015
Dev: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 58.0 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 34.2% ★, Medieval 14.7%, Crafting 10.4%, Sandbox 10%, Building 7.4%
- #20 Reckfell
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: verkme
Windows
Survival is your only goal in Reckfell. The world is unforgiving - its creatures, the environment, and even other survivors will stop at nothing to end you. You must do whatever it takes to stay alive for one more day.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.1% ★, Base Building 10.8%, Crafting 10%, Sandbox 9.3%, PvP 8.7%
- #21 SpiritBorn
83% 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 34.9% ★, Crafting 10.7%, Base Building 10.5%, Sandbox 8.3%, Building 8%
- #22 Solace Crafting
82% matchMostly Positive72% of 894 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 28.5% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Crafting 10.4%, Sandbox 8.5%, Multiplayer 7.6%
- #23 Novus Inceptio
82% 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 30% ★, Base Building 10.9%, Sandbox 10.1%, Crafting 9.7%, Building 7.1%
- #24 Ancient the Dimensions
80% 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 31% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Crafting 9.5%, Hack and Slash 8.1%, Building 7.9%
- #25 Force of Nature
81% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,205 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 38.5% ★, Crafting 12.8%, Sandbox 9.5%, Survival 8.3%, Building 6.7%
- #26 Re.poly
79% 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 29.2% ★, Base Building 11.4%, Sandbox 10.7%, Crafting 10.6%, Survival 7.2%
- #27 The Survivalists
79% matchMostly Positive76% of 10,061 reviews2020
Dev: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 71%
A living world full of surprises, secrets and danger awaits in The Survivalists, an adventure-filled survival sandbox set in The Escapists universe. Explore, build, craft and even train monkeys with up to three friends in a desperate bid to survive. Have you got what it takes to be a Survivalist?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.8% ★, Hunting 16.9% ★, Crafting 11.5%, Base Building 10.4%, Sandbox 8.2%
- #28 Survive or Die
78% match6 user reviews33% of 6 reviews2023
Dev: Imperian Online - Pardubice
Windows
Survive Or Die is a first-person survival game. It takes place in an open world that is full of traps and mysteries. You are an outlaw who has escaped from death in prison. Can you escape all the manhunts? Can you survive the pitfalls the mysterious valley holds at night?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.6% ★, Hunting 16.5% ★, Archery 15.3% ★, Crafting 8.8%, Sandbox 7.6%
- #29 Eden Island
77% matchMixed61% of 255 reviews2024
Dev: Moon Studio
Windows
Eden Island is a beautiful survival game. As a survivor, you will explore and survive on a realistic tropical island, craft weapons against beasts, farm and hunt, build your own home.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.8% ★, Hunting 19.6% ★, Archery 18.1% ★, Base Building 9.7%, Crafting 7.6%
- #30 Hazordhu
77% match9 user reviews90% of 10 reviews2023
Dev: F0lak
Windows
Delve into the low-fantasy medieval lands of Hazordhu, where you will explore a vast open world full of dangers and wonders where every building and every item is player-made, and the online world changes based on your actions.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 19.8% ★, Archery 14.8% ★, Medieval 12.9%, Sandbox 11.2%, Building 9.5%
- #31 Subsistence
78% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,723 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 5.0 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 41.5% ★, Crafting 11.2%, Survival 9.3%, Base Building 9%, Multiplayer 8.3%
- #32 Myth of Empires
76% matchMixed67% of 17,444 reviews2024
Dev: Angela GamePub: Imperium Interactive Entertainment
Windows
Median: 15.2 hrsMean: 229.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 26.5% ★, Base Building 9.8%, Sandbox 9.5%, Building 8.2%, Medieval 7.9%
- #33 Herezh - Generations of Heroes
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Buzuuk Software
Windows
Herezh is a new multiplayer RPG/Survival hybrid game set in an immersive, procedurally generated world of Sword & Sorcery adventure inspired by Celtic myths, legends and culture.
Why similar: Archery 22.3% ★, Medieval 10.3%, Sandbox 9.7%, Base Building 9%, Crafting 7.9%
- #34 Aurendor
75% 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 33% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Crafting 9.6%, Building 8.1%, Sandbox 7.9%
- #35 Peasant Simulator
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NACorp
Windows
Peasant Simulator is an open-world medieval sandbox. As serf or liege, smith, trade, farm, build, or conquer your way to fortune, glory, and a thriving medieval kingdom. Use your skills in construction, warfare, and crafting to build great towns and castles, then defend them from your enemies.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.7% ★, Medieval 11.9%, Sandbox 9.8%, Hack and Slash 7.8%, Multiplayer 7.1%
- #36 Shamania
73% matchMostly Positive74% of 154 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 29.6% ★, Crafting 12%, Sandbox 9.2%, Multiplayer 8.1%, Base Building 7.7%
- #37 Planet Explorers
75% 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 39.1% ★, Sandbox 14.5%, Crafting 8.9%, Open World 8%, Multiplayer 6.7%
- #38 Craftopia
73% matchMostly Positive76% of 20,099 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 28.5% ★, Crafting 14.7%, Open World 10.2%, Sandbox 9.2%, Survival 8.7%
- #39 Primitive
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Wildlands Interactive
Windows
Welcome to the brutal reality of the Stone Age. Fight, conquer, dominate! An open world full of traps and unexpected events, breathtaking views, dynamic changes in weather conditions, deadly beasts, and hostile tribes - welcome to "Primitive" and dare to survive.
Why similar: Hunting 28.5% ★, Open World Survival Craft 26.9% ★, Crafting 9.5%, Survival 8%, Open World 7.8%
- #40 ENDALOR
71% matchMostly Positive70% of 255 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 31.2% ★, Medieval 11.3%, Base Building 10%, Crafting 8%, Multiplayer 7.1%
- #41 Harsh
74% match9 user reviews33% of 9 reviews2018
Dev: Harsh Reality Productions LLC
Windows
Open World Survival RPG set in a high fantasy environment. Craft items and fortresses, wield spells and magical equipment as you face everything from undead to intelligent factions whose reaction towards you is based on your treatment of them.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.1% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Hack and Slash 9.5%, Crafting 9%, Character Customization 8.6%
- #42 Force of Nature 2: Ghost Keeper
72% matchVery Positive80% of 2,342 reviews2021
Dev: A.Y.stdPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 16.6 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 21.5% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 11.5%, Sandbox 10.5%, Character Customization 8.5%
- #43 Frozen Flame
72% matchMixed63% of 2,982 reviews2022
Dev: Dreamside InteractivePub: Ravenage Games
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 11.6 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 25.1% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Sandbox 8.6%, Crafting 8.1%, Hack and Slash 8.1%
- #44 Longvinter
70% matchMixed67% of 7,607 reviews2025
Dev: Uuvana Studios
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 44.0 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% ★, Crafting 12.4%, Multiplayer 10.5%, Sandbox 9.8%, Survival 8.9%
- #45 The Last Disease Z
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Bublig
Windows · Mac · Linux
The Last Disease Z is a co-op survival experience where everything is against you. Abandoned cities, zombies and bandits, a struggle for resources and a place to live. Build, unite, and survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.3% ★, Hunting 20.3% ★, Crafting 8.5%, Sandbox 8.3%, PvP 7.6%
- #46 Undercraft
71% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2022
Dev: PlayUndercraft
Windows
Create your world in this sandbox game where you can dig, build, explore, fight, and farm. Have a different experience in a day or night adventure. Explore a procedurally generated world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.2% ★, Sandbox 12%, Multiplayer 8.2%, Building 8%, Base Building 7.9%
- #47 Necesse
67% matchVery Positive93% of 27,498 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 14.9 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 41% ★, Sandbox 9.8%, Crafting 8.7%, Base Building 8.4%, Multiplayer 7.7%
- #48 Grounded 2
68% matchVery Positive81% of 22,174 reviews2025
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.4 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Shrunk again, but the world is much larger. In this open-world, single-player or co-op survival adventure, craft weapons and armor, build your base, and traverse the playground on your buggy. But something else is out there—and it hasn’t forgotten you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.1% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Survival 10.3%, Crafting 9.9%, Multiplayer 9.4%
- #49 KYORA
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PugstormPub: Chucklefish
Windows · Linux
Delve into KYORA, a mystical multiplayer sandbox adventure, where every pixel is yours to shape, mine, build or explode.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.5% ★, Sandbox 11%, Base Building 9.5%, Crafting 8.7%, Building 7.9%
- #50 My Island
69% matchMixed66% of 1,723 reviews2024
Dev: SnowBaby Games
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 47%
MyIsland is a relaxed and beautiful survival game,You will drift and survive on the tropical islands, hunt and travel, build houses and development farming, and create your own warm homeland.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.7% ★, Survival 9.4%, Crafting 9.3%, Multiplayer 8%, Open World 6.5%
- #51 Red Rust Pioneers
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: fish in a bottlePub: Rusty Robot
Windows
Build a new life in the Wild West open world of Red Rust Valley, alone or with up to 4 players in co-op. Hunt, farm, raise animals and craft through the changing seasons in this survival game as your camp grows from a canvas tent to a homestead. Free land, open skies, and a world worth exploring.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.3% ★, Hunting 18.1% ★, Base Building 10.6%, Crafting 8.7%, Sandbox 7.6%
- #52 Wild Omission
68% matchVery Positive88% of 74 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 27.9% ★, Crafting 10.9%, Sandbox 9.5%, PvP 9.2%, Base Building 8.6%
- #53 Winter Survival
67% matchMixed63% of 768 reviews2025
Dev: DRAGO entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Winter Survival is a story-driven survival game where trauma turns reality into a reflection of your breaking mind. Battle cold, hunger, hallucinations, and adapt to the wilderness as it adapts to you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.1% ★, Hunting 22.5% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Survival 6.7%, Crafting 6.5%
- #54 Native Hunter
67% matchMostly Positive78% of 67 reviews2025
Dev: A.P.S
Windows
Inspired by an existing indigenous tribe, where they live on an island called "North Sentinel Island". Native Hunter gives the player the possibility of living the experience in the body of an indigenous person completely isolated from society, just like the Sentinelese do.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.2% ★, Archery 17.6% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Sandbox 9.4%, Multiplayer 7.1%
- #55 Wildwood: Hearth & Horizon
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: State Machine
Windows
WILDWOOD: Hearth & Horizon is a coop atmospheric survival game about looting, crafting, and trade. Build a base, fight enemies and find rare treasure. Work with your friends to carve out a toehold in a harsh and unforgiving wilderness. Inspired by games like "The Long Dark" and "Kenshi"
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.1% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Medieval 9.1%, Sandbox 9%, Crafting 8.1%
- #56 Wilderness
70% matchMostly Negative28% of 86 reviews2020
Dev: Horizon Studios
Windows
Survive in the wild nature by playing as an animal or as a human. Play as an animal and survive by your own or build a herd to stay protected. Have babies and protect them from predators. Play as a human and craft items, build a house, customize your character and more.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.7% ★, Hunting 20.5% ★, Base Building 9.5%, Crafting 8.1%, Survival 7%
- #57 GRAV
70% 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 39.6% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Sandbox 10.1%, Survival 9%, Crafting 8.4%
- #58 Vtopia
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PanicACat Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Multiplayer co-op, sandbox, survival crafting and building, monster fighting, farming, socializing, mining, fishing, creation, gacha machines, card games — welcome to the VTOPIA.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.7% ★, Sandbox 10%, Crafting 9.3%, Base Building 8.7%, Building 7.5%
- #59 Emberhaven
66% 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 30% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Sandbox 10.6%, Crafting 9.7%, Building 7.9%