- #1 7 Days to Die
96% matchVery Positive87% of 396,805 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 16.8 hrsMean: 107.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.2% ★, Voxel 19.5% ★, Survival 11.4%, Base Building 11%, Building 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A definitive voxel-based survival game that excels in destructible environments and complex base-building against persistent threats.
- #2 Medieval Engineers
97% matchMixed52% of 7,282 reviews2015
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 16.8 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Medieval Engineers is a sandbox game about engineering, construction and the maintenance of architectural works and mechanical equipment using medieval technology. Players build castles; construct mechanical devices and underground mining. There is an entire planet to explore!
Why similar: Building 26.4%, Sandbox 20.8%, Crafting 13.7%, Survival 10.2%, Multiplayer 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on structural integrity and physics-based building, mirroring the architectural depth found in Rising World.
- #3 Eco
96% matchVery Positive81% of 13,777 reviews2018
Dev: Strange Loop Games
Windows
Median: 16.8 hrsMean: 88.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Build a civilization of real people, working together to advance society and stop a meteor, all without destroying the ecosystem in the process.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.1% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Building 13.4%, Sandbox 12.1%, Crafting 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: Features a deep, voxel-based world where players must balance resource extraction and building with environmental sustainability.
- #4 Space Engineers
95% matchVery Positive89% of 133,238 reviews2019
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 95.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.
Why similar: Base Building 18.4%, Building 15.6%, Sandbox 14.1%, Co-op 12.5%, Survival 12.1%
Why You'll Like It: Provides an incredibly robust voxel building system that allows for complex, functional machinery and massive base construction.
- #5 FortressCraft Evolved!
94% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,055 reviews2015
Dev: ProjectorGamesPub: Digital Tribe
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 72%
FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.8% ★, Voxel 12.1% ★, Crafting 9.6%, Building 9.2%, Sandbox 9%
Why You'll Like It: Combines voxel-based mining and exploration with intricate automation and defense systems.
- #6 Valheim
93% matchVery Positive94% of 529,829 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 25.6 hrsMean: 76.1 hrs≥1hr: 93%
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33% ★, Base Building 10.2%, Building 9.7%, Survival 9.4%, Crafting 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: Captures the relaxing, exploration-heavy atmosphere of Rising World while offering a rewarding and intuitive building system.
- #7 Subsistence
94% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,601 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 40.0 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 41.6% ★, Survival 11.8%, Crafting 11.6%, Base Building 9.1%, Building 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: A challenging survival game that emphasizes realistic base-building and resource management in an open-world setting.
- #8 Creativerse
92% matchMostly Positive78% of 30,868 reviews2017
Dev: Playful Corp.
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 63%
A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.8% ★, Voxel 21% ★, Building 9.3%, Crafting 9.2%, Sandbox 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: A vibrant voxel sandbox that prioritizes creative building and exploration with a more accessible, stylized aesthetic.
- #9 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
91% matchMostly Positive79% of 34,087 reviews2020
Dev: Eleon Game Studios
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 76.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.3% ★, Voxel 18.8% ★, Building 9.5%, Co-op 8.8%, Crafting 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: Features voxel-based ship and base construction across diverse planets, blending survival with space exploration.
- #10 Wurm Unlimited
91% matchMostly Positive71% of 3,128 reviews2015
Dev: Code Club ABPub: Plug In Digital
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Wurm Unlimited is the standalone version of the fantasy sandbox world Wurm Online, the MMORPG where the players are in charge! A pioneer in the ideas of player influence, crafting and adventure, it is now one of the most deep and feature packed true sandbox experiences available.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.8% ★, Sandbox 12%, Crafting 11.4%, Building 10.6%, Survival 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a massive, persistent world with deep terraforming and crafting capabilities that reward long-term planning.
- #11 FOUNDRY
89% matchVery Positive81% of 3,508 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 45.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.
Why similar: Voxel 23.4% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 10.8%, Building 10.7%, Sandbox 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: A first-person factory-building game set in an infinite, procedurally generated voxel world that emphasizes large-scale construction.
- #12 Stationeers
90% matchVery Positive88% of 8,897 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 81.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!
Why similar: Mining 25.7% ★, Base Building 15%, Building 11.9%, Crafting 11.8%, Sandbox 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: Offers complex engineering and atmospheric systems within a voxel environment for players who enjoy technical base-building.
- #13 Len's Island
88% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,615 reviews2025
Dev: Flow Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 11.9 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 30.3% ★, Building 11%, Base Building 9.9%, Crafting 9.7%, Sandbox 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: Blends relaxing exploration and farming with a surprisingly deep and satisfying building system.
- #14 Boundless
89% matchMixed70% of 2,766 reviews2018
Dev: Monumental, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 33.0 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 34.6% ★, Voxel 22.7% ★, Sandbox 11.6%, Crafting 10.9%, Building 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: An expansive voxel-based MMO that focuses on exploration, building, and connecting different worlds through portals.
- #15 Stranded Deep
87% matchMostly Positive74% of 47,062 reviews2022
Dev: Beam Team GamesPub: Beam Team Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 21.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Take the role of a plane crash survivor stranded somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Come face to face with some of the most life threatening scenarios that will result in a different experience each time you play. Scavenge. Discover. Survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.8% ★, Survival 13.1%, Crafting 10.6%, Multiplayer 8.2%, Building 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the core survival loop of gathering and crafting to build a base while stranded in a vast ocean.
- #16 Hydroneer
86% matchVery Positive86% of 27,097 reviews2020
Dev: Foulball Hangover
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 22.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Hydroneer is a mining and base building sandbox. Dig for gold and other resources to turn a profit and enhance your mining operation. Build a base of operations, forge weapons, go fishing, and dig deep!
Why similar: Mining 30.7% ★, Base Building 17.2%, Sandbox 12%, Building 11.6%, Co-op 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the satisfying loop of mining and building machinery to automate resource gathering in a sandbox environment.
- #17 Nightingale
85% matchMixed67% of 17,841 reviews2024
Dev: Inflexion Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 23.9 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 30.7% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Building 10%, Crafting 9.9%, Survival 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: Offers procedural world exploration and creative building with a unique Victorian-fantasy aesthetic.
- #18 Planet Explorers
86% 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% ★, Sandbox 13.6%, Crafting 9.1%, Survival 7.7%, Building 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: Features a voxel-based engine that allows for significant terrain modification and custom vehicle building.
- #19 Necesse
81% matchVery Positive93% of 26,780 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 14.6 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 39.5% ★, Sandbox 8.9%, Crafting 8.6%, Base Building 8%, Building 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down sandbox survival game that features extensive base-building and community management.
- #20 Life is Feudal: Your Own
84% matchMixed66% of 12,039 reviews2015
Dev: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 58.3 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 41.2% ★, Crafting 12.9%, Sandbox 11.3%, Building 11.2%, Survival 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a realistic medieval survival experience with heavy emphasis on terraforming and collaborative building.
- #21 Salt
83% matchMostly Positive76% of 2,246 reviews2018
Dev: Lavaboots Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Salt is an open world exploration game where you sail from island to island looking for loot and new discoveries! Relax and explore at your own pace, picking a direction and setting sail across a vast ocean filled with quests, merchants, ruins, pirates, and other mysterious places.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.3% ★, Survival 12.7%, Crafting 12.4%, Sandbox 9.7%, Multiplayer 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: An exploration-focused survival game that encourages players to discover and build on islands in a vast ocean.
- #22 The Infected
82% matchVery Positive85% of 6,893 reviews2020
Dev: DigX Studios
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 18.5 hrs≥1hr: 68%
The Infected is a sandbox, first-person, open-world survival game. Build bases, craft, farm, hunt, and survive changing seasons. Choose whether to face the hybrid “Vambies” or turn them off for a pure survival experience.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.9% ★, Base Building 15.5%, Crafting 12.2%, Building 12.1%, Sandbox 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game that emphasizes base-building and defense against environmental threats in a persistent open world.
- #23 GRAV
84% matchMixed47% of 6,921 reviews2015
Dev: BitMonster, Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 11.5 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 41.5% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Survival 12%, Sandbox 9.9%, Crafting 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that focuses on building bases and exploring dangerous, procedurally generated alien environments.
- #24 Solace Crafting
80% matchMostly Positive72% of 891 reviews2022
Dev: Big Kitty Games
Windows · Linux
Embark on an adventure set in a fantasy survival RPG. Visit a borderless, open world where you manage resources to construct your base and new types of equipment to support your conquest.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.5% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Crafting 10.3%, Building 8.7%, Survival 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on procedural exploration and crafting with a seamless world that encourages long-distance travel.
- #25 Outlaws of the Old West
81% matchMixed59% of 6,287 reviews2019
Dev: Virtual Basement LLCPub: Wandering Wizard
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 22.8 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 54.8% ★, Survival 15.7%, Multiplayer 9.4%, Base Building 9%, Crafting 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game set in the American frontier that features extensive base-building and crafting mechanics.
- #26 Orebound
76% matchMostly Positive78% of 849 reviews2024
Dev: Emberforge
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Orebound is a voxel, factory, automation game set in a first person open-world. The King has tasked you to locate the elusive Emberstone. Go forth and use your Dwarven prowess and knowledge to mine, craft and automate through anything standing in your way - Build up or dig down! How far will you go?
Why similar: Voxel 18.8% ★, Mining 18.2% ★, Base Building 9.8%, Crafting 8.9%, Building 8.1%
- #27 Dark and Light
79% matchMixed52% of 11,804 reviews2017
Dev: Snail Games USA
Windows
Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 49.3 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 32.3% ★, Survival 20.3%, Sandbox 19.9%, Base Building 8.8%, Crafting 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: A massive sandbox survival game that combines magic, creature taming, and extensive base-building.
- #28 Novus Inceptio
79% matchMixed52% of 1,300 reviews2015
Dev: McMagic Productions
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 5.7 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 35.1% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Crafting 11.7%, Sandbox 11.1%, Building 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game with a focus on crafting, building, and managing resources in a harsh, evolving world.
- #29 Force of Nature
78% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,198 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 39.1% ★, Crafting 13.5%, Survival 10.7%, Sandbox 9.1%, Building 8.6%
- #30 Out of Reach
78% matchMixed57% of 3,044 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.2 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 37.4% ★, Survival 10.9%, Crafting 9.8%, Hunting 8.5% ★, Building 8%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game set on a chain of islands that emphasizes building forts and defending them from other players.
- #31 ICARUS
75% matchMostly Positive74% of 62,078 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 44.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.7% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Mining 11.2% ★, Survival 9.2%, Crafting 8.5%
- #32 Survival Machine
74% matchMostly Positive74% of 669 reviews2025
Dev: Grape PickersPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Build your base on a moving Machine, travel through biomes with different resources, and prepare for the night when a zombie threat is much higher than during the day. Would you go solo or explore this new world with your best friends?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.7% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Crafting 9.9%, Building 9.4%, Co-op 8.2%
- #33 Everwind
72% matchVery Positive82% of 2,069 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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: Building 13.5%, Sandbox 12.9%, Procedural Generation 12.4%, Crafting 11.6%, Co-op 11.6%
- #34 Blockscape
77% matchMixed46% of 898 reviews2014
Dev: ioneo
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 49%
The ultimate block building game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.4% ★, Sandbox 12.5%, Crafting 8.4%, Building 8.1%, Voxel 7.8% ★
- #35 Total Miner
75% matchMostly Positive78% of 760 reviews2017
Dev: Brandon Moore
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 36.8 hrs≥1hr: 41%
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 27.7% ★, Voxel 17.5% ★, Mining 12.9% ★, Sandbox 9.1%, Building 7.6%
- #36 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 28.3% ★, Voxel 16% ★, Mining 9.8% ★, Sandbox 8.6%, Survival 7.7%
- #37 Crafting Block World
76% matchMixed46% of 52 reviews2019
Dev: IO Games
Windows
Crafting Block World is an adventure with sandbox elements that will help you build your ideal world!
Why similar: Voxel 27.4% ★, Mining 16.8% ★, Sandbox 10.5%, Survival 8.9%, Base Building 7.8%
- #38 Reign Of Kings
74% 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 42.2% ★, Crafting 13.1%, Survival 12.3%, Building 11.9%, Multiplayer 7.6%
- #39 Ylands
73% matchMixed64% of 8,354 reviews2019
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 46%
Adventure awaits you and your friends in the world of Ylands! Gather resources, craft tools, construct anything and everything, and explore the lands! Build a ship and set sail, encountering mythical animals, a wide variety of sea-life, enemies of all kinds and much more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.1% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Crafting 13.1%, Building 10.8%, Co-op 8.6%
- #40 cyubeVR
73% matchVery Positive90% of 1,125 reviews2018
Dev: Stonebrick Studios
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 18.0 hrs≥1hr: 52%
Immerse yourself in a voxel game exclusively designed for VR. A beautiful infinite procedural world. Explore, gather resources, craft with your hands in 3D, and build anything you can imagine. Featuring great VR controls, near-infinite view distance, Steam Workshop mod support, and much more!
Why similar: Mining 20% ★, Open World Survival Craft 19.9% ★, Voxel 18% ★, Building 9.4%, Crafting 9.2%
- #41 Crea
73% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,406 reviews2016
Dev: Siege Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 19.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 44.2% ★, Sandbox 14.9%, Crafting 12.8%, Survival 7.9%, Building 6.9%
- #42 Sunkenland
70% matchVery Positive81% of 22,996 reviews2023
Dev: Vector3 Studio
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 17.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Get ready for a Waterworld-themed survival game with modular base building, sunken city scavenging, crafting, base defense, and invasions of NPC clans for resources and territory. Ready for the water apocalypse?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.8% ★, Base Building 12%, Co-op 10.6%, Survival 10.1%, Crafting 8.9%
- #43 Core Keeper
68% matchVery Positive93% of 63,205 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.0 hrsMean: 33.7 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 22.1% ★, Base Building 10.8%, Crafting 9.3%, Building 9.2%, Sandbox 8.6%
- #44 KeepUp Survival
71% matchMixed65% of 734 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
KeepUp Survival is an open base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and unfold your own story on a mysterious island.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.4% ★, Base Building 12%, Crafting 10.1%, Survival 8.9%, Co-op 8.8%
- #45 Volcanoids
71% matchVery Positive83% of 9,214 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.8 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: Open World Survival Craft 30% ★, Base Building 10.8%, Crafting 10.5%, Survival 8.5%, Building 8.4%
- #46 TerraTech Worlds
70% matchMixed63% of 2,175 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 23.8% ★, Mining 16.3% ★, Base Building 11.4%, Crafting 8.7%, Building 8.4%
- #47 Signs of Life
72% matchMostly Positive76% of 841 reviews2014
Dev: Sweet Dog Studios
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 9.5 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 45.9% ★, Sandbox 14.3%, Crafting 12.2%, Survival 10.3%, Building 8.7%
- #48 KINGDOMS
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 4,079 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: Building 23.3%, Hunting 18.9% ★, Crafting 17.4%, Survival 16.1%, Sandbox 15.5%
- #49 StarMade
70% matchMixed68% of 2,981 reviews2014
Dev: Schine GmbH
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 18.8 hrs≥1hr: 54%
The ultimate space sandbox. Participate in epic fleet battles, form alliances, strive to dominate entire galaxies and harness the universe’s resources for your industrious empire or the destruction of others. Customise your experience, the universe is yours!
Why similar: Voxel 30.6% ★, Sandbox 20.9%, Building 16.2%, Crafting 9.6%, Multiplayer 9.1%
- #50 Voxile
67% matchMostly Positive74% of 102 reviews2025
Dev: VoxRay Games, Inc.
Windows
Quest, craft, loot, build, destroy, and shoot your way through gorgeous voxel islands! Encounter mutated wildlife, discover secrets, and find out what went wrong in both pre-designed adventure and procedural survival worlds. Play in Early Access today--alone or with friends!
Why similar: Voxel 28.8% ★, Crafting 11.1%, Procedural Generation 9.7%, Building 9.3%, Co-op 8.7%
- #51 CastleMiner Z
69% matchVery Positive81% of 11,088 reviews2014
Dev: DigitalDNA Games
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 66%
CastleMiner Z is an infinite world filled with deep places to explore, and horrifying monsters to slay. Build structures out of blocks, craft weapons and tools from raw materials, and explore the vast and frightening world around you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.6% ★, Survival 13.2%, Sandbox 11.2%, Crafting 9.4%, Multiplayer 8.1%
- #52 Cube World
69% matchMostly Negative37% of 18,693 reviews2019
Dev: Picroma
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Cube World is a voxel-based action RPG with a focus on exploration. It takes place in a procedurally generated fantasy world made up entirely of cubes.
Why similar: Voxel 38.8% ★, Multiplayer 10.3%, Co-op 8.5%, Crafting 8.5%, Procedural Generation 8.2%
- #53 PixARK
67% matchMostly Positive73% of 12,998 reviews2019
Dev: Snail Games USA
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 40.2 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Enter a world of mystery, danger, ancient dinosaurs, mythical beasts, and cubes! Work by yourself or with a tribe of others to gather materials, craft useful items, tame wild creatures, and build huge bases to survive in PixARK!
Why similar: Voxel 19.5% ★, Survival 17.1%, Sandbox 13.8%, Building 10.4%, Crafting 10.2%
- #54 Junk Jack
69% matchMostly Positive78% of 468 reviews2016
Dev: Pixbits
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 21.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 38.7% ★, Sandbox 13.1%, Crafting 11.5%, Survival 10.1%, Building 9.9%
- #55 Re.poly
68% matchVery Positive92% of 135 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 35.1% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Crafting 13.2%, Sandbox 12.1%, Survival 10.9%
- #56 Wild Omission
66% matchVery Positive88% of 59 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 29.9% ★, Crafting 12%, Building 11%, Survival 9.7%, Sandbox 9.6%
- #57 Colony Survival
67% matchVery Positive92% of 8,816 reviews2017
Dev: Pipliz
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 28.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!
Why similar: Base Building 21%, Building 15.1%, Survival 14.4%, Voxel 11.7% ★, Sandbox 11.5%
- #58 Mist Survival
67% matchMostly Positive76% of 14,042 reviews2018
Dev: Dimension 32 Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 73%
MIST SURVIVAL is a Single-player, survival stealth sandbox game Players will experience the Apocalypse stimulation in the form of virus pandemic, the players have to deal with it to survive through the difficulties such as finding shelter and food, threats from the environment and climate: wild animals, bandits, infected, and dense mist t
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.6% ★, Survival 19.1%, Base Building 14.3%, Crafting 9.8%, Sandbox 7.5%
