Games Like RuneScape: Dragonwilds

You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.

Why similar: Open World 17.8%, Survival 14.4%, Online Co-Op 13.1%, Base Building 12.5%, Crafting 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: It is the closest overall match: a co-op fantasy survival-crafting game built around exploration, base building, progression, and dangerous world secrets.

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 27% ★, Open World 9.6%, Online Co-Op 9.5%, Survival 9.2%, Crafting 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers a fantasy-heavy open-world survival-crafting experience with co-op, base building, crafting depth, and a strong sense of discovery.

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 29% ★, Online Co-Op 10%, Open World 9.6%, Survival 9.4%, Crafting 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its co-op survival loop of gathering, building, sailing, and preparing for major boss fights mirrors Dragonwilds' shared progression extremely well.

A survival crafting adventure set in the Fourth Age of Middle-earth. Lead the Dwarves to reclaim Moria - mine, build, and battle through procedurally generated depths alone or with up to 8 players in co-op. It is time to return to Moria!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.1% ★, Online Co-Op 10.3%, Survival 9.9%, Base Building 9.9%, Crafting 9%

Why You'll Like It: Like Dragonwilds, it is a cooperative fantasy survival-crafting adventure centered on gathering, building, exploration, and overcoming escalating threats together.

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 24.8% ★, Survival 9.1%, Online Co-Op 8.6%, Open World 8.5%, Base Building 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the same co-op survival-crafting rhythm of building bases, exploring a dangerous world, and steadily improving your gear and capabilities.

This massive online sandbox RPG features elements of magic, spellcasting, building, exploring and crafting. As a newly minted apprentice of the magic arts, you will set off to the dangerous world of Ignus. Tame mighty beasts, forge alliances, explore uncharted territories or fight for dominance!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.5% ★, Open World 15.2%, Survival 10.4%, Dragons 6.7% ★, Crafting 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its magic-focused fantasy survival sandbox with base building, spellcraft, and flying creatures hits a very similar heroic-fantasy survival vibe.

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 26.4% ★, Online Co-Op 9.9%, Open World 9.6%, Base Building 8.6%, Survival 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: This blends survival systems, fantasy action-RPG combat, crafting, and exploration in a way that feels very close to Dragonwilds' adventure-driven structure.

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 28.8% ★, Survival 14%, Co-op 10.1%, Base Building 9.3%, Multiplayer 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Even with a different theme, its polished co-op survival, base building, exploration, and steady unlock-based progression are an excellent mechanical match.

Awaken as a Vampire. Hunt for blood in nearby settlements to regain your strength and evade the scorching sun to survive. Raise your castle and thrive in an ever-changing, open world full of mystery. Gain allies online and conquer the land of the living.

Why similar: Open World 16.7%, Survival 15.2%, Base Building 13.1%, Online Co-Op 11.5%, Crafting 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its mix of resource gathering, crafting, base construction, and boss-driven progression makes it a strong pick for players who want survival with purpose.

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 21.6% ★, Open World 18.3%, Survival 15.6%, Sandbox 7.7%, Dragons 7.7% ★

Why You'll Like It: It leans hard into fantasy survival with magic, taming, crafting, and dragons, making it one of the most thematically aligned alternatives.

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 35.1% ★, Survival 11.5%, Open World 11.5%, Building 10.3%, Crafting 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: It combines co-op survival crafting and building with dungeon crawling and action-RPG progression, making it a strong fit for players who want both homesteading and combat.

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 22.2% ★, Open World 10.1%, Survival 9%, Online Co-Op 8.7%, Co-op 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: It offers co-op crafting, base building, exploration, and skill-like character progression wrapped around a satisfying boss-hunting loop.

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 28.2% ★, Open World 13.6%, Survival 11%, Online Co-Op 8.1%, Multiplayer 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: It matches the open-world co-op survival-crafting formula well, adding creature collection and automation to the same gather-build-explore progression loop.

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 36.3% ★, Open World 9.1%, Survival 7.6%, Crafting 7%, Co-op 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its multiplayer survival sandbox structure of building, exploring, gearing up, and taking down bosses is very appealing if you do not mind the top-down perspective.

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 30.6% ★, Online Co-Op 11.3%, Survival 10.1%, Open World 8.5%, Base Building 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It is a co-op mythological survival-crafting game focused on building, gathering, and PvE progression through a dangerous ancient world.

Soar the skies in Aloft, the co-op sandbox survival game set in a world of floating islands. Build any island into a skyship, your home in the clouds. Find lost knowledge, cure the fungal corruption, and brave the hurricane to restore the ecosystem.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.3% ★, Survival 12.1%, Co-op 12%, Crafting 11.7%, Building 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its co-op crafting, building, and exploration focus makes it a great alternative for players who especially enjoy the shared survival sandbox side of Dragonwilds.

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 29.7% ★, Open World 12.3%, Survival 10.8%, Base Building 10.3%, Building 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers deep co-op survival systems, base building, exploration, and long-term progression for players who want a more systems-heavy sandbox.

The world of Elysia needs YOU! Join this cooperative, 3D sandbox action RPG to level up your character, craft epic weapons, conquer enemies in real-time, and build almost anything! Craft your adventure. Forge your hero. Become the ultimate Portal Knight!

Why similar: Crafting 15.1%, Survival 14.7%, Building 14.4%, Multiplayer 14%, Co-op 12.8%

Why You'll Like It: This co-op fantasy crafting RPG shares Dragonwilds' build-explore-fight structure, just in a lighter and more colorful format.

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 28.2% ★, Survival 10.7%, Online Co-Op 9.1%, Base Building 8.4%, Open World 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes co-op gathering, crafting, building, and progression in survival-focused expeditions, even if its setting is more sci-fi than fantasy.

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 26.5% ★, Open World 16.1%, Crafting 12.4%, Survival 11.7%, Multiplayer 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: This is another fantasy-leaning open-world crafting game with co-op, building, combat, and a lot of progression systems to tinker with.

ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!

Why similar: Open World 19.2%, Survival 19%, Base Building 12.4%, Crafting 12.2%, Building 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its multiplayer survival-crafting loop of gathering, building, and overcoming huge environmental and creature threats lines up well with Dragonwilds' broader structure.

Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.4% ★, Survival 9.8%, Crafting 8%, Multiplayer 7.2%, Sandbox 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Though 2D, it nails the same satisfying cycle of exploration, crafting, base building, gear progression, and major boss milestones with friends.

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: Open World 18%, Survival 17.8%, Online Co-Op 14.1%, Crafting 13.2%, Building 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its open-world building, crafting, and cooperative progression make it a reasonable fit for players who especially enjoy the settlement-building side of Dragonwilds.

Embark on an adventure set in a fantasy survival RPG. Visit a borderless, open world where you manage resources to construct your base and new types of equipment to support your conquest.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.1% ★, Survival 9%, Open World 8.9%, Crafting 8.3%, Online Co-Op 8%

Why You'll Like It: This large-scale fantasy survival-crafting sandbox is a good fit for players who primarily want open exploration, building, and progression systems.

A desert gardening survival game. Start from a tiny spring and cultivate a blooming garden. Explore a vast world amid the sands and uncover its mysteries. Can you defend against the relentless forces of nature and mysterious wraith corruption, to bring life to a dying world?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.6% ★, Online Co-Op 10.9%, Survival 10.5%, Base Building 10.5%, Multiplayer 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its fantasy-flavored co-op survival crafting, exploration, and base building make it a good lower-pressure alternative with a magical world to restore.

Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends, in this terrifying new open-world survival horror simulator.

Why similar: Survival 18%, Open World 17.3%, Co-op 14.5%, Base Building 11.9%, Multiplayer 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: While much darker in tone, it is still a very strong co-op survival-crafting game built around base construction, exploration, and uncovering dangerous world secrets.

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 33% ★, Online Co-Op 12.7%, Survival 11.3%, Crafting 11.1%, Building 8.3%

No remarkable journey is achieved without great effort. In Outward, the cold of the night or an infected wound can be as dangerous as a predator lurking in the dark. Explore the vast world of Aurai solo or in Co-op. The Definitive Edition features both DLCs and quality of life improvements.

Why similar: Open World 26.6%, Survival 16.9%, Co-op 15.4%, Online Co-Op 14.8%, RPG 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: It is lighter on base building, but its co-op fantasy adventuring, survival elements, and sense of perilous exploration make it a strong thematic alternative.

Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival RPG where you can fully immerse yourself in the epic world of Dune. Alone or with friends, explore a vast open world Arrakis, survive the sandworms, build a home, craft an ornithopter, and unravel the mystery of the missing Fremen.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.5% ★, Open World 9.6%, Online Co-Op 9.1%, Survival 8.7%, Base Building 8.4%

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: Open World 19.1%, Survival 17.6%, Building 14.9%, Sandbox 10.8%, Multiplayer 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: This top-down co-op survival sandbox shares the same gather-craft-build-explore progression, with plenty of combat and character growth along the way.

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 21.9% ★, Survival 12.8%, Open World 10.3%, Co-op 9.5%, Base Building 9.4%

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: Open World 13.8%, Online Co-Op 13.6%, Co-op 12.5%, Survival 12.2%, Crafting 11.7%

A new Viking age dawns with you at its helm. Forge a thriving colony from nothing in this mythic open-world survival sim. Earn the gods' favor and survive in a land ruled by ancient terrors and unforgiving seasons. Rally unique villagers, expand your settlement and defend your tribe - solo or co-op!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.9% ★, Online Co-Op 10.2%, Survival 9.3%, Base Building 9%, Open World 8%

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 29.7% ★, Online Co-Op 10.5%, Open World 9.9%, Survival 9.3%, Co-op 7.7%

Forge your legend in a forgotten realm! Farever is an online multiplayer action RPG set in a vast fantasy open world. Alone or with friends, embark on an epic journey together! Explore wild lands and dangerous dungeons, craft powerful gear, and carve your path through dynamic combat and platforming.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 23.7%, Open World 20.1%, Crafting 13.7%, Sandbox 8.9%, Multiplayer 8.9%

Ashes of Creation is an old-school take on the modern MMORPG set in a living, reactive world where your choices shape civilization. In this PvX open world sandbox, players will build cities, forge empires, and lay siege to foes. Uncover the Ancients as you fight to reclaim the fallen world of Verra.

Why similar: Crafting 30.3%, Base Building 19.4%, Co-op 16.2%, Exploration 12.3%, RPG 10.4%

Your fight for survival begins on the frozen shores of Tarvhas, where bitter cold and vicious creatures conspire to defeat the unprepared. Uncover the land’s dark history as you and fellow explorers traverse an unforgiving and hostile world to tame the Savage Lands.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.7% ★, Survival 11%, Open World 10%, Dragons 9.9% ★, Online Co-Op 9%

RuneScape is a high fantasy open world MMORPG. Explore an ever changing and evolving living world where new challenges, skills, and quests await. Featuring unprecedented player freedom, you choose how to play, adventure, and grow.

Why similar: Open World 48%, Multiplayer 24%, RPG 10%, Fantasy 8.8%, Exploration 4%

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 29% ★, Open World 9.7%, Online Co-Op 9.6%, Survival 8.9%, Base Building 6.9%

Join thousands of players in a true single-world MMORPG. Carve out a cozy nook, master a player-driven economy, or band together to transform the ancient wilderness into thriving cities. From humble beginnings to legend, your choices matter - because in BitCraft, your actions shape our world.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.4% ★, Open World 12.6%, Base Building 12.5%, Crafting 11.1%, Sandbox 8.9%

Experience a thrilling action RPG set on the supernatural island of Aeternum. Forge your destiny on an adventure filled with danger and opportunity.

Why similar: Open World 30.7%, Open World Survival Craft 20.3% ★, Multiplayer 9.8%, Crafting 9.4%, Co-op 7.3%

Voyagers of Nera is a cooperative survival-crafting game where you must survive a magical ocean world brimming with lost spirits and deadly monsters. Sail to distant islands, build beautiful villages and surf across the waves with up to 10 players.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.2% ★, Online Co-Op 11.4%, Co-op 11%, Crafting 10.2%, Base Building 10.2%

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 32.5% ★, Co-op 8.9%, Survival 8.3%, Open World 8%, Online Co-Op 7.9%

Shamania is an open world survival game where you can CRAFT, FIGHT, and EXPLORE a vibrant sandbox world with friends in CO-OP. Expand your base as a hub for survival, gather resources, and master professions to unlock new tools and opportunities!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26% ★, Open World 11.2%, Crafting 9.5%, Survival 9.4%, Online Co-Op 7.6%

Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.1% ★, Survival 11.8%, Open World 10.2%, Crafting 7.4%, Multiplayer 7%

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 31.3% ★, Open World 10.8%, Co-op 10.7%, Survival 9.8%, Crafting 7.5%

Ars Notoria is an open-world survival crafting game set in a rich fantasy world. Learn six distinct schools of magic, gather resources, build your base, expand your influence, and stand against the ever-shifting threat of the Enthralled. You are the one destined to change the kingdom.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.2% ★, Open World 9.3%, Survival 8.7%, Base Building 8.7%, Crafting 8.5%

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 36.7% ★, Co-op 11.8%, Survival 11.6%, Base Building 8.8%, Open World 8.1%

Chart a course in a breathtaking, but fractured world. Explore ancient ruins, master advanced technology, and craft your very own skyship to brave nature’s fury and colossal threats in Lost Skies. Team up with friends or go it alone in this awe-inspiring cooperative survival adventure.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.1% ★, Online Co-Op 13.5%, Base Building 11.9%, Open World 8.9%, Crafting 6.8%

The best retro fantasy MMORPG on the planet. Old School is RuneScape but… older! This is the open world you know and love, but as it was in 2007. Saying that, it’s even better than that – Old School is shaped by you, its players, with regular new content, fixes and expansions voted for by the fans!

Why similar: Open World 28.4%, Multiplayer 24.8%, Fantasy 11.8%, Third Person 11.5%, RPG 9.3%

A first-person survival game set on a post-apocalyptic, ecologically ruined Earth. Play solo or with up to 3 friends as you build, upgrade, and fly a high-tech airship. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and face dangers on the surface as you hunt for a cure to save humanity.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.3% ★, Open World 10.9%, Co-op 10.7%, Survival 10.1%, Base Building 9.8%

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 40.2% ★, Online Co-Op 14.2%, Base Building 10.6%, Survival 10.4%, Co-op 10.2%

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 27.6% ★, Open World 10.8%, Survival 10.1%, Crafting 9.7%, Online Co-Op 8.8%

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 25.5% ★, Online Co-Op 11.4%, Survival 10.8%, Crafting 10.7%, Open World 8.8%

The Gold River Project™ is a camping trip gone wrong in the Pacific Northwest. Explore, craft, build, and survive in this open-world experiment that traps you and up to 4 friends in this single player or co-op survival adventure game.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.5% ★, Open World 12.3%, Co-op 9.9%, Survival 9.6%, Online Co-Op 8.7%

Brave a savage, unforgiving procedurally generated world where extreme weather and the nightmares of the dark will hunt you down. Alone or in co-op, survive, build, and explore to turn a cursed hellscape into your sanctuary of light.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.5% ★, Survival 10.1%, Open World 9.8%, Crafting 9.7%, Online Co-Op 9.3%

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 27.1% ★, Survival 12.5%, Open World 12%, Crafting 10.9%, Multiplayer 9.6%

Master chaotic physics-based combat inspired by Zelda and Devil May Cry. Explore islands and dungeons, smash monsters, loot and craft powerful gear, and grow your home in the sky. Play solo or online co-op with up to 4 players.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 20.8%, Crafting 18%, Co-op 14.2%, Building 13.4%, Multiplayer 10%