- #1 Necesse
97% 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 32.3% ★, Crafting 10.3%, Survival 8.3%, Sandbox 7.5%, Base Building 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game that heavily emphasizes settlement management and multiplayer exploration, mirroring the core loop of Romestead.
- #2 Core Keeper
96% matchVery Positive93% of 66,104 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.2 hrsMean: 34.7 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 18.1% ★, Crafting 11.3%, Base Building 9.9%, Survival 9.2%, Procedural Generation 9%
Why You'll Like It: This top-down sandbox survival game features excellent crafting and base-building mechanics that feel very similar to the Romestead experience.
- #3 Tinkerlands
96% 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 26.3% ★, Crafting 10.9%, Online Co-Op 10.2%, Survival 10.1%, Sandbox 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D survival-crafting game that focuses on exploration and building in a charming, procedurally generated world.
- #4 DYSMANTLE
95% matchVery Positive91% of 11,572 reviews2021
Dev: 10tons Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 25.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Ascend from your shelter. Ruin everything. Escape the wretched island. ⚔️🔨🎣🌱🌵🍰 Explore. Fight. Level up. Survive. Gather. Craft. Harvest. Hunt. Build. Farm. Solve puzzles. Fish. Cook. Live. Enjoy the bittersweet post-apocalypse.
Why similar: Crafting 19.9%, Survival 17.8%, Base Building 15.6%, Open World 12.8%, Top-Down 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game where you rebuild civilization while fighting off hordes of the undead, matching the post-apocalyptic theme perfectly.
- #5 The Survivalists
94% matchMostly Positive76% of 10,097 reviews2020
Dev: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.8 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 20.1% ★, Crafting 14.2%, Survival 10.6%, Online Co-Op 9.9%, Base Building 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game captures the cute, top-down survival aesthetic while adding deep crafting and base-building systems for multiplayer groups.
- #6 Len's Island
94% 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 24.4% ★, Crafting 11.4%, Survival 9.8%, Dungeon Crawler 9.7%, Base Building 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: Features a beautiful top-down perspective with a strong focus on building, farming, and dungeon-crawling exploration.
- #7 Keplerth
93% 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: Survival 15.8%, Sandbox 14.3%, Building 13.2%, Open World 11.7%, Crafting 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D sandbox survival game that allows for deep customization and base building in a procedurally generated world.
- #8 Terraria
92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,548,448 reviews2011
Dev: Re-Logic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 33.8 hrsMean: 151.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.7% ★, Crafting 11.6%, Sandbox 11.4%, Survival 10.6%, Building 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: The quintessential 2D survival-crafting game that offers endless exploration, boss fighting, and building opportunities.
- #9 Forager
91% matchVery Positive89% of 43,959 reviews2019
Dev: HopFrogPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 22.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.7% ★, Crafting 15.7%, Survival 12.5%, Base Building 7.8%, Sandbox 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the addictive loop of gathering, crafting, and expanding your territory in a cute, top-down world.
- #10 Cult of the Lamb
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 128,545 reviews2022
Dev: Massive MonsterPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.5 hrsMean: 25.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Start your own cult in a land of false prophets, venturing out into diverse and mysterious regions to build a loyal community of woodland Followers and spread your Word to become the one true cult.
Why similar: Base Building 35.5%, Dungeon Crawler 22.9%, Building 16.3%, Cute 13.1%, 2D 5.7%
Why You'll Like It: Combines cute, top-down action-RPG combat with base-building and settlement management, capturing the 'restoring a civilization' vibe.
- #11 Don't Starve Together
89% matchVery Positive95% of 541,972 reviews2016
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 64.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 60.6% ★, Survival 26%, Crafting 4.1%, Open World 2.9%, Online Co-Op 2.8%
Why You'll Like It: A challenging top-down survival game that excels in multiplayer coordination and base maintenance against hostile forces.
- #12 Crashlands
90% matchVery Positive90% of 6,745 reviews2016
Dev: Butterscotch Shenanigans
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 13.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Fight and tame alien beasts, craft resources into menacing weaponry, befriend the outlandish locals, and go toe-to-chin with a world-domineering maniac.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.3% ★, Crafting 12.3%, Base Building 10.1%, Survival 9.7%, Sandbox 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: An action-RPG survival game that features a unique top-down world and a heavy emphasis on crafting and questing.
- #13 Tinkertown
89% matchMixed67% of 1,344 reviews2023
Dev: Headup
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Gather your friends and come to Tinkertown - A refreshing new Multiplayer Sandbox Experience! Explore magical places filled with loot, danger, and creativity.
Why similar: Crafting 16.6%, RPG 14.2%, Sandbox 10.5%, Online Co-Op 9.9%, Building 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer-focused adventure game that captures the cozy, top-down building and exploration feel of Romestead.
- #14 Roots of Pacha
87% matchVery Positive94% of 4,536 reviews2023
Dev: Soda Den
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 21.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
The charming and relaxing stone-age farming sim where you live in a thriving community exploring the wonderful world of Pacha. Discover "ideas," domesticate crops, befriend animals, and help your village grow. Play co-op with friends or explore the early days of civilization in single-player.
Why similar: Crafting 22.2%, Online Co-Op 17.4%, Building 13.5%, Sandbox 12.5%, RPG 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the communal aspect of building a civilization from the ground up with a charming, cooperative aesthetic.
- #15 Enshrouded
86% 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 15.3%, Survival 14.3%, Crafting 14%, Open World 12%, Online Co-Op 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-crafting game with a strong focus on action-RPG combat and building, suitable for those who enjoy the 'rebuilding' theme.
- #16 Vagabond
88% matchMostly Positive77% of 99 reviews2023
Dev: Pierre Vigier
Windows · Linux
Explore procedurally generated living worlds in this 2D sandbox RPG. Meet hundreds of characters in cities, complete quests, craft powerful items, buy and furnish your home or fight monsters in dungeons.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.8% ★, Procedural Generation 13%, Crafting 11.3%, Sandbox 10%, Open World 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox RPG that emphasizes survival and exploration in a procedurally generated world with a top-down perspective.
- #17 Dinkum
84% matchVery Positive92% of 29,064 reviews2025
Dev: James BendonPub: KRAFTON, Inc.
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 29.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Dinkum is a survival life simulation game set on an island inspired by the rugged Australian outback. Farm, hunt, mine, fish, and forage to gather resources, expand your town, and discover what makes Dinkum so special—either solo or with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.1% ★, Crafting 15%, Online Co-Op 10.2%, Building 9.3%, Sandbox 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: A cute survival-farming game that focuses on building up a settlement in a wild, untamed environment.
- #18 Feel The Snow
86% 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 32% ★, Crafting 13%, Survival 12.4%, Sandbox 7.2%, Open World 6%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D survival-crafting game that features a cute art style and a focus on exploration and combat.
- #19 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
84% 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 24.2% ★, Crafting 12%, Base Building 11.9%, Survival 11.1%, Online Co-Op 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a unique perspective on survival and base building that rewards exploration and resource management.
- #20 Graveyard Keeper
85% matchVery Positive85% of 55,062 reviews2018
Dev: Lazy Bear GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 27.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Build and manage a medieval graveyard while facing ethical dilemmas and making questionable decisions. Welcome to Graveyard Keeper, the most inaccurate medieval cemetery sim of the year.
Why similar: Crafting 36%, Sandbox 15.4%, Pixel Graphics 14.5%, RPG 12.5%, Building 12.3%
Why You'll Like It: While more focused on management, it shares the top-down perspective, crafting mechanics, and dark humor of rebuilding a society.
- #21 Valheim
82% matchVery Positive94% of 540,690 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 26.0 hrsMean: 78.0 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 28.9% ★, Survival 11.5%, Crafting 11.4%, Online Co-Op 10.9%, Base Building 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: A premier survival-crafting game that excels in building and boss-fighting, though it utilizes a 3D perspective.
- #22 Nightingale
82% 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 25.7% ★, Crafting 12.2%, Survival 10.8%, Base Building 10.4%, Online Co-Op 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-crafting game that features procedural generation and a focus on building, providing a vast world to explore.
- #23 Grounded
81% matchVery Positive90% of 95,505 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.5 hrsMean: 41.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.5% ★, Survival 17.8%, Base Building 14.4%, Crafting 13.2%, Online Co-Op 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: A high-quality survival game that emphasizes base building and exploration, perfect for players who want a more immersive world.
- #24 Scrapnaut
83% matchMixed70% of 837 reviews2021
Dev: SpiffyBitPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements. Explore an open world with different biomes, take care of oxygen, manage your farms, generate electricity, build your home and much more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20% ★, Survival 11.7%, Crafting 11.1%, Building 10.9%, Online Co-Op 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game that focuses on building and resource management in a stylized, dangerous world.
- #25 RimWorld
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 245,287 reviews2018
Dev: Ludeon Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 59.6 hrsMean: 266.1 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
Why similar: Base Building 27.1%, Survival 20%, Procedural Generation 13.8%, Sandbox 13.6%, Building 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: Offers deep colony management and survival mechanics that are essential for players who enjoy the settlement-building aspect of Romestead.
- #26 Sun Haven
79% matchVery Positive81% of 25,417 reviews2023
Dev: Pixel Sprout Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.6 hrsMean: 31.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Build your farm and relationships with townsfolk, or forge ahead on a quest of magic, monsters, and dragons. Level up through a skill tree in 8 person multiplayer, or adventure solo!
Why similar: Crafting 38.2%, Pixel Graphics 21.5%, RPG 21.4%, Exploration 10%, Adventure 9%
Why You'll Like It: A fantasy-themed farming RPG that offers a cute aesthetic and deep character progression similar to Romestead.
- #27 Solace Crafting
80% 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 23.4% ★, Crafting 12.9%, Base Building 10.4%, Survival 10.3%, Online Co-Op 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a massive open world with deep crafting and survival mechanics for players who enjoy long-term base building.
- #28 Craftopia
79% matchMostly Positive76% of 20,210 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 25.2% ★, Crafting 19.7%, Survival 13.7%, Open World 12.8%, Sandbox 8%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that blends farming, building, and action-RPG combat into a cohesive multiplayer experience.
- #29 Everwind
77% 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 14.3%, Survival 11%, Online Co-Op 10.9%, Action RPG 10.8%, Building 9.8%
- #30 Stardew Valley
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 1,034,074 reviews2016
Dev: ConcernedApe
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 22.9 hrsMean: 85.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Why similar: Crafting 22.9%, Sandbox 14.8%, Pixel Graphics 13.8%, RPG 13.6%, Building 12.7%
Why You'll Like It: While less focused on survival, it is the gold standard for cute, top-down farming and community-building games.
- #31 Kingdom Two Crowns
78% matchVery Positive90% of 39,408 reviews2018
Dev: Fury StudiosPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 19.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Gather coins, build defenses and reclaim your fallen Kingdom. Explore and uncover secrets, unlock new technologies and protect your crown versus waves of Greed monsters that come at night. Kingdom is a solo or co-op micro-strategy and tower defense game set in an atmospheric pixel world.
Why similar: Base Building 25.9%, Building 20.8%, Survival 20.3%, Online Co-Op 18.2%, Pixel Graphics 9%
Why You'll Like It: A beautiful 2D side-scrolling game that focuses entirely on building and defending a kingdom against waves of enemies.
- #32 Wonderia
77% matchVery Positive82% of 347 reviews2026
Dev: Rock&DashPub: IndieArk
Windows · Mac
Wonderia's an open-world, manga-art adventure just waiting to be explored. It's got sci-fi sim elements, deep dungeons, and you can even morph into alien form! Grab up to 7 friends to mine, craft, battle, and level—or farm and fish the day away, if that's more your tempo. There's so much to do!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.3% ★, Crafting 11.6%, Online Co-Op 9.5%, Survival 9.3%, Procedural Generation 9.2%
- #33 Palworld
74% 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 27.7% ★, Survival 13.6%, Crafting 11.9%, Open World 11.4%, Online Co-Op 8.8%
- #34 Longvinter
76% 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 25.9% ★, Crafting 17.3%, Survival 14.7%, Open World 9.6%, Sandbox 9%
- #35 Beyond the Map
75% matchMostly Positive78% of 748 reviews2025
Dev: Glitch Goblins
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Isometric survival ARPG set in a procedurally generated fantasy world. Build your base, gear up, and venture out, chasing stronger enemies and better loot.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.1% ★, Base Building 10.5%, Crafting 10.2%, Action RPG 8.8%, Procedural Generation 8.2%
- #36 Lodventure
76% matchMostly Positive74% of 164 reviews2023
Dev: Sky Games
Windows
Embark on a 1-4 players Co-op survival adventure in an open world wilderness in search of a myth called the Lod Stone. Build your house, sow your crops, brew potions, tame a horse and discover powerful abilities. Venture into dangerous dungeons, fight unique bosses to find the Lod stone.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.7% ★, Crafting 11.1%, Survival 10.6%, Base Building 9.5%, Open World 8%
- #37 Dawn of Defiance
74% 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 29.1% ★, Survival 12%, Online Co-Op 11.8%, Base Building 11.4%, Crafting 9.5%
- #38 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 31.7% ★, Base Building 15.6%, Building 10.8%, Sandbox 10.5%, RPG 7.2%
- #39 Tribes of Midgard
73% matchMostly Positive76% of 23,242 reviews2021
Dev: NorsfellPub: Gearbox Publishing
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 19.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
A vibrant blend of survival and action RPG for 1-10 players! Craft legendary items, grow your home base and embark on an epic journey through procedural realms to face towering creatures hel-bent on unleashing Ragnarök. Valhalla can wait, Einherjar!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.1% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Online Co-Op 13.2%, Action RPG 12.1%, Survival 10.9%
- #40 Shamania
72% 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 25.6% ★, Crafting 15.7%, Survival 11.5%, Open World 9.3%, Online Co-Op 8.2%
- #41 Voidtrain
71% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,810 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.4% ★, Crafting 11.6%, Base Building 10.9%, Survival 10.2%, Online Co-Op 8.5%
- #42 Bellwright
71% matchVery Positive80% of 21,324 reviews2024
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 12.7 hrsMean: 41.4 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: Crafting 22.9%, Survival 22.9%, Online Co-Op 16%, Open World 15.9%, Building 12.7%
- #43 Heroes of Hammerwatch II
71% matchVery Positive82% of 6,485 reviews2025
Dev: CrackshellPub: Team17
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 18.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
A rogue-lite action-rpg that offers extensive persistent progression. Build your town, upgrade and equip your heroes, before taking on the ever-changing Dark Citadel - either solo or with a team of friends.
Why similar: Dungeon Crawler 20.1%, Procedural Generation 19.5%, Action RPG 19.4%, RPG 11.4%, Top-Down 10.9%
- #44 Pathless Woods
72% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,110 reviews2024
Dev: AniYa Games Studio
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Embark on a cozy open-world survival journey inspired by ancient China's heritage. Gather resources, cultivate crops, build your dream home, and defend it from marauders. Team up with friends to explore and uncover a world where adventure meets serenity.
Why similar: Crafting 18.8%, Base Building 14.6%, Survival 13.8%, Sandbox 11.8%, Open World 11.2%
- #45 Rotwood
70% matchMostly Positive75% of 8,146 reviews2026
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows
Median: 7.5 hrsMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
The world has been thrown into chaos, and it's up to you and your friends to battle the corrupted beasts of the Rotwood. Upgrade your gear, choose your preferred weapon, and hone your skills to defend your safe haven.
Why similar: Dungeon Crawler 38.6%, Online Co-Op 24.4%, RPG 17.3%, 2D 10.8%, Adventure 8.9%
- #46 Omega Crafter
70% matchMostly Positive79% of 575 reviews2025
Dev: Preferred Networks
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Adventure in a vast open-world survival craft game with your programmable sidekick Grammi! Program the Grammi to collect materials, build your town, craft weapons and armor to challenge strong enemies! Play alone or with friends online!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.7% ★, Crafting 14.9%, Survival 11.5%, Building 8.3%, Open World 8.2%
- #47 Adventure Craft
73% matchVery Positive83% of 229 reviews2017
Dev: Edible Entertainment
Windows
Adventure Craft is a challenging procedurally generated sandbox RPG with roguelike elements. Hunt monsters, horde loot, and craft weapons and armor, to survive in a vast ever-changing RPG world full of action, extreme danger and wonderful surprises.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.9% ★, Base Building 11%, Procedural Generation 8.8%, Survival 8.6%, Action RPG 8.4%
- #48 Nested Lands
68% matchMostly Positive72% of 555 reviews2026
Dev: 1M Bits HordePub: META Publishing
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Nested Lands is a ruthless medieval RPG game featuring in-depth village building, large-scale social management and combats. Gather survivors, build a settlement, craft, master your skills, survive, and endure alone or in online co-op.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.5% ★, Survival 16.2%, Online Co-Op 15.7%, Sandbox 13.6%, Open World 12.2%
- #49 Miniland Adventure
69% matchMostly Positive74% of 332 reviews2023
Dev: Imilkowski DevPub: Gameparic
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 52%
The world doesn't generate itself - you do it, shape the world as you wish! Start with nothing, and build dream houses for goblins and yourself while exploring, collecting resources, crafting, building, fighting, farming... and more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.8% ★, Crafting 12.8%, Survival 12.2%, Sandbox 11.1%, Base Building 10.7%
- #50 Ruins To Fortress
69% matchMixed65% of 181 reviews2024
Dev: NimbleBeasts
Windows · Linux
Explore a post-apocalyptic island, craft, build, tear down enemy bases, defend and nuke your rivals! Life's about surviving in this multiplayer game, no matter what it takes!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.9% ★, Crafting 15.1%, Base Building 13.2%, Survival 12.3%, Open World 8.3%
- #51 XenoHaven
67% matchVery Positive86% of 69 reviews2025
Dev: Miniverse GamePub: OKJOY
Windows
In XenoHaven, gather resources to build shelters, enslave alien beasts to work for you, and run restaurants and shops. Delve into dark underground dungeons, defeat swarming insectoids and mighty bosses, and craft powerful gear to conquer the alien world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.1% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Crafting 12.2%, Survival 11.1%, Sandbox 9.9%
- #52 Cannibal Crossing
69% matchMixed61% of 260 reviews2022
Dev: Everplay InteractivePub: Rocketcat Games
Windows
Cannibal Crossing is an action-survival game where you explore the randomly generated town of Earlsboro while scavenging, fighting hordes of enemies, building a base, and searching for a way to escape! Meet survivors with new abilities and lots of cannibals. Includes a co-op mode for 1-4 players!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.1% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Crafting 11.6%, Online Co-Op 11.5%, Procedural Generation 10.3%
- #53 Xsyon - Prelude
70% 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 24.9% ★, Crafting 12.2%, Base Building 11%, Survival 10.1%, Building 8.7%
- #54 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 28.8% ★, Crafting 15.7%, Survival 12.2%, Online Co-Op 12.1%, Base Building 9.7%
- #55 Eden Crafters
64% matchVery Positive85% of 2,630 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.8% ★, Crafting 13.9%, Base Building 13%, Survival 8.7%, Online Co-Op 8.7%
- #56 ENDALOR
66% matchMixed70% of 272 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 27.6% ★, Crafting 10.7%, Survival 10.5%, Online Co-Op 10.1%, Base Building 9.9%
- #57 Border Town
65% matchMostly Positive79% of 307 reviews2025
Dev: GoHoGamesPub: 2P Games
Windows
Restore the former glory of Border Town in an open-world sandbox RPG set in a fantastical realm. Explore the world, craft tools and weapons, cultivate fields, and socialise with your neighbours while dealing with dark forces that threaten to destroy everything you have built.
Why similar: Survival 14.8%, Sandbox 14.4%, Building 14.1%, Open World 13%, Top-Down 8.9%
