- #1 Enshrouded
97% 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: Open World 18.6%, Survival 14.6%, Online Co-Op 12.7%, Base Building 12.4%, Crafting 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: It delivers one of the closest matches to Dragonwilds with fantasy co-op survival, strong base building, deep crafting, and exploration-driven progression.
- #2 Nightingale
96% 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 27.1% ★, Open World 10%, Survival 9.3%, Online Co-Op 9.3%, Crafting 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: Like Dragonwilds, it blends fantasy survival crafting, shared-world exploration, and gear progression in an early-access co-op framework.
- #3 Valheim
96% 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 29.2% ★, Open World 10%, Online Co-Op 9.7%, Survival 9.5%, Building 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: Its cooperative gather-build-fight loop, dangerous biome progression, and satisfying long-term homestead building make it an excellent Dragonwilds alternative.
- #4 The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™
95% matchVery Positive81% of 12,363 reviews2024
Dev: Free Range GamesPub: North Beach Games
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 19.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 29.2% ★, Online Co-Op 10.1%, Survival 10.1%, Base Building 9.8%, Crafting 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: This is another co-op fantasy survival adventure built around crafting, base-building, exploration, and pushing deeper into a lore-rich dangerous region.
- #5 Frozen Flame
94% matchMixed63% of 2,989 reviews2022
Dev: Dreamside InteractivePub: Ravenage Games
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 11.5 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 26.5% ★, Open World 10%, Online Co-Op 9.6%, Survival 8.7%, Base Building 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: Its magical open world, survival systems, and co-op base-building progression line up closely with Dragonwilds' fantasy crafting adventure.
- #6 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
94% 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 24.9% ★, Survival 9.3%, Open World 8.9%, Online Co-Op 8.3%, Base Building 8%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the same co-op survival-crafting and base-building appeal, with a big adventurous world that rewards exploration and preparation.
- #7 Grounded
92% 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 28.8% ★, Survival 14.2%, Co-op 10%, Base Building 9.2%, Multiplayer 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Even without the fantasy theme, its cooperative survival-crafting rhythm, exploration, and rewarding base progression feel very similar.
- #8 Citadel: Forged with Fire
93% matchMixed68% of 5,894 reviews2019
Dev: Blue Isle StudiosPub: Blue Isle Publishing
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 19.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 29.4% ★, Open World 15.6%, Survival 10.5%, Dragons 6.6% ★, Crafting 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: If you want fantasy survival with magic, castle building, creature taming, and a shared open world, this is a natural fit.
- #9 Palworld
91% 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 28.1% ★, Open World 14.3%, Survival 11.3%, Online Co-Op 7.9%, Multiplayer 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: Its open-world exploration, multiplayer survival systems, crafting stations, and steadily expanding bases echo Dragonwilds' progression-heavy sandbox feel.
- #10 ASKA
91% matchMostly Positive80% of 12,091 reviews2024
Dev: Sand Sailor StudioPub: Thunderful Publishing
Windows
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 28.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 27.1% ★, Online Co-Op 9.9%, Survival 9.5%, Base Building 9%, Open World 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: Its co-op survival loop centers on gathering, building, and long-term settlement growth in a dangerous mythic world.
- #11 Soulmask
90% matchMostly Positive77% of 22,226 reviews2026
Dev: CampFire StudioPub: Qooland Games
Windows
Median: 13.9 hrsMean: 69.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. Possess any of your tribespeople, recruit followers, and build a thriving automated civilization. Survive, expand, and forge your own legacy across a vast ancient open world — together with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28% ★, Open World 13.5%, Survival 12.1%, Base Building 11.5%, Crafting 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: This is a strong match if you want another multiplayer survival sandbox with crafting depth, base building, and a big focus on progression.
- #12 V Rising
89% matchVery Positive89% of 136,761 reviews2024
Dev: Stunlock Studios
Windows
Median: 20.8 hrsMean: 57.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 18.2%, Survival 16.1%, Base Building 13.9%, Crafting 11.4%, Online Co-Op 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: It mixes survival gathering, crafting, boss progression, and elaborate base construction in a dark fantasy world built for co-op play.
- #13 Dawn of Defiance
89% 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 30.7% ★, Online Co-Op 11%, Survival 10.3%, Open World 8.8%, Base Building 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: This mythic survival-crafting game scratches a similar itch with co-op exploration, building, and progression through a hostile fantasy landscape.
- #14 Dune: Awakening
88% matchMostly Positive71% of 78,134 reviews2025
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 46.5 hrsMean: 100.0 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival game with immersive adventure and RPG gameplay. Explore, build, craft, and unravel a cinematic Dune story alone or with friends as you rise from survival to greatness on the most legendary planet in the universe. Just remember: the sandworm always comes.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.7% ★, Open World 10%, Survival 8.8%, Online Co-Op 8.8%, Base Building 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: It is less fantasy-focused, but the large-scale multiplayer survival crafting, open-world exploration, and base-building loop are strongly aligned.
- #15 Bellwright
86% 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: Open World 19%, Survival 18.1%, Online Co-Op 13.7%, Crafting 13%, Building 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: It leans more medieval than magical, but its open-world crafting, construction, progression, and cooperative settlement-building are very relevant matches.
- #16 Craftopia
87% 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 26.5% ★, Open World 16.7%, Crafting 12.1%, Survival 11.8%, Multiplayer 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: It combines fantasy action, open-world exploration, crafting, building, and multiplayer in a way that feels very close to a lighter Dragonwilds.
- #17 Len's Island
86% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,866 reviews2025
Dev: Flow Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
An open-world survival crafting game for 1–8 players, blending intense dungeon crawling and ARPG combat with peaceful farming and creative building. Take on quests and explore a vast, procedurally-generated world full of danger and discovery.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.2% ★, Open World 11.8%, Survival 11.6%, Building 10.2%, Crafting 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: It blends building, crafting, open exploration, and dungeon delving into a survival-lite adventure that overlaps nicely with Dragonwilds' overall feel.
- #18 Tinkerlands
84% 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 29.9% ★, Open World 10.3%, Online Co-Op 10.2%, Survival 9.4%, Co-op 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a charming co-op survival-crafting loop with exploration and building that mirrors the genre fundamentals Dragonwilds is built on.
- #19 Core Keeper
84% 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 22.2% ★, Open World 10.7%, Survival 9.3%, Online Co-Op 8.4%, Co-op 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: Though viewed from above, it nails the same multiplayer crafting-and-exploration loop with base building, boss progression, and a huge world to uncover.
- #20 Portal Knights
85% matchVery Positive83% of 22,346 reviews2017
Dev: Keen Games GmbHPub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 21.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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: Survival 15%, Crafting 14.9%, Building 14.4%, Multiplayer 14%, Co-op 12.6%
Why You'll Like It: It shares Dragonwilds' fantasy co-op spirit by combining action-RPG progression with crafting, building, and boss-driven exploration.
- #21 Necesse
82% 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 36.6% ★, Open World 9.3%, Survival 7.6%, Crafting 6.8%, Multiplayer 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: This top-down sandbox has excellent multiplayer progression, crafting, building, and exploration if you want the same loop in a different perspective.
- #22 ICARUS
83% matchMostly Positive75% of 67,515 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 46.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 28.4% ★, Survival 10.9%, Online Co-Op 9%, Open World 8.7%, Base Building 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: Its co-op survival missions emphasize resource gathering, base construction, and crafting upgrades in a way that scratches a similar systems-heavy itch.
- #23 Pax Dei
82% matchMixed57% of 11,286 reviews2025
Dev: Mainframe Industries
Windows
Median: 17.7 hrsMean: 73.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Welcome to a vast, social sandbox MMO inspired by the legends of the medieval era. Here, myths are real, ghosts exist, and magic is unquestioned. Join thousands of players as you explore the land, build your home, forge your reputation, and craft your own stories. What world will you make?
Why similar: Open World 18.1%, Crafting 15%, Base Building 15%, Multiplayer 10.9%, Sandbox 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: Its persistent fantasy world is built around gathering, crafting, construction, and multiplayer cooperation, making it appealing if you want more social sandbox progression.
- #24 Aloft
81% matchVery Positive84% of 3,682 reviews2025
Dev: Astrolabe Interactive Inc.Pub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 14.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 26.4% ★, Survival 12.3%, Co-op 11.8%, Crafting 11.5%, Building 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: Its cooperative crafting, base-building, and exploratory sandbox structure makes it a great pick if the building-and-discovery side of Dragonwilds is what grabbed you.
- #25 ARK: Survival Evolved
81% matchVery Positive83% of 776,082 reviews2017
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 202.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 11.9%, Open World 10.6%, Crafting 7.2%, Multiplayer 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: It is less fantasy-themed, but its open-world survival, multiplayer building, exploration, and constant progression still make it a worthwhile mechanical match.
- #26 Myth of Empires
80% matchMixed68% of 17,524 reviews2024
Dev: Angela GamePub: Imperium Interactive Entertainment
Windows
Median: 15.1 hrsMean: 229.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 30.6% ★, Open World 11%, Building 9.7%, Survival 9.1%, Base Building 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: This is a good fit for players who want another large-scale multiplayer survival sandbox centered on gathering, crafting, building, and territorial progression.
- #27 Windrose
78% 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 33.2% ★, Online Co-Op 12.3%, Survival 11.5%, Crafting 10.6%, Open World 8.7%
- #28 Tribes of Midgard
79% 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 40.5% ★, Online Co-Op 13.8%, Survival 10.6%, Base Building 10.6%, Co-op 10%
Why You'll Like It: It offers cooperative mythic survival with crafting, base defense, and progression, making it a solid fit if you like team-based fantasy survival.
- #29 Wildmender
79% matchVery Positive84% of 2,225 reviews2023
Dev: Muse GamesPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 31.8% ★, Survival 10.7%, Online Co-Op 10.6%, Base Building 10.5%, Multiplayer 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: Its co-op survival, crafting, and base growth systems create a relaxed but still progression-driven alternative for players who enjoy building up a world together.
- #30 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: Open World 14.5%, Online Co-Op 13.2%, Survival 12.4%, Co-op 12.2%, Crafting 11.6%
- #31 Grounded 2
77% matchVery Positive81% of 23,765 reviews2025
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.9 hrsMean: 24.2 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 23.4% ★, Survival 13%, Open World 10.2%, Base Building 9.2%, Co-op 9.2%
- #32 Witchspire
76% matchVery Positive83% of 1,994 reviews2026
Dev: Envar Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Step into the ultimate open-world witch adventure. Befriend and battle creatures, and conjure up a sanctuary alongside other witches in co-op or single-player.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.7% ★, Open World 12.4%, Online Co-Op 12.1%, Base Building 10.6%, Crafting 10.5%
- #33 Force of Nature 2: Ghost Keeper
78% matchMostly Positive80% of 2,353 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 23% ★, Open World 14.2%, Survival 11.8%, Crafting 10.9%, Base Building 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: It mixes survival gathering, crafting, building, and fantasy adventuring in a way that lines up well with Dragonwilds' core structure.
- #34 Farever
74% matchMostly Positive76% of 9,295 reviews2026
Dev: Shiro Games
Windows
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 24.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 23.2%, Open World 21.1%, Crafting 13.3%, Multiplayer 8.9%, Sandbox 8.6%
- #35 RuneScape ®
75% matchVery Positive82% of 27,170 reviews2020
Dev: Jagex Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 102.0 hrs≥1hr: 53%
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 48.4%, Multiplayer 23.5%, RPG 10.4%, Fantasy 8.6%, Exploration 3.9%
- #36 Savage Lands
76% matchMixed54% of 6,690 reviews2021
Dev: Last Bastion Studios LLC
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 11.1%, Open World 10.3%, Dragons 9.9% ★, Online Co-Op 8.7%
- #37 Romestead
73% matchMostly Positive77% of 4,827 reviews2026
Dev: BeartwigsPub: Three Friends
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Rome has fallen! Rebuild civilization in this action-adventure survival game for 1-8 players. Fight hordes of the walking dead, build settlements, restore the Roman gods... or kick back and farm with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.5% ★, Crafting 11.8%, Survival 11.7%, Online Co-Op 9.7%, Open World 9.7%
- #38 Ashes of Creation
74% matchMostly Negative36% of 19,026 reviews2025
Dev: Intrepid Studios, Inc
Windows
Median: 13.6 hrsMean: 76.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 29.9%, Base Building 19.4%, Co-op 15.9%, Exploration 12.2%, RPG 11.1%
- #39 New World: Aeternum
72% matchMixed67% of 296,960 reviews2021
Dev: Amazon Game Studios
Windows
Median: 58.8 hrsMean: 197.5 hrs≥1hr: 98%
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 31.6%, Open World Survival Craft 20.1% ★, Multiplayer 9.7%, Crafting 9.2%, Co-op 7.1%
- #40 Ars Notoria
72% matchMixed62% of 312 reviews2025
Dev: XRON SoftwarePub: Lilith Games
Windows
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 27.3% ★, Open World 9.7%, Survival 8.9%, Base Building 8.6%, Crafting 8.4%
- #41 ARK: Survival Ascended
71% matchMixed60% of 115,802 reviews2023
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows
Median: 27.7 hrsMean: 198.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 19.8%, Survival 19.3%, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 12%, Multiplayer 11.2%
- #42 BitCraft Online
70% matchMostly Positive73% of 3,702 reviews2025
Dev: Clockwork Laboratories, Inc.
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.8 hrsMean: 97.1 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 13%, Base Building 12.5%, Crafting 11%, Sandbox 8.7%
- #43 Shamania
70% 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 26% ★, Open World 11.7%, Survival 9.5%, Crafting 9.3%, Co-op 7.3%
- #44 Dark and Light
73% matchMixed52% of 11,834 reviews2017
Dev: Snail Games USA
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 49.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Dark and Light is a vast sandbox survival RPG set in a world dominated by powerful elemental forces. Find your way in a meticulously crafted world, featuring breathtaking landscapes, a wide variety of mythical creatures, and limitless possibility to craft, build, and unlock dozens of powerful weapons, spells, and skills.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.5% ★, Open World 18.8%, Survival 15.6%, Dragons 7.6% ★, Sandbox 7.5%
- #45 DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS™ 2
71% matchVery Positive92% of 8,060 reviews2019
Dev: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 11.1 hrsMean: 46.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS™ 2 is a block-building RPG set in a fantasy land threatened by an evil cult. Explore, battle, build and harvest in the charming single-player campaign or build big projects in the online sandbox mode for up to 4-players.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.7% ★, Building 10.4%, Crafting 7.3%, Sandbox 6.2%, RPG 5.3%
- #46 Solace Crafting
71% 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 25.2% ★, Open World 9.3%, Survival 9.1%, Crafting 8.2%, Online Co-Op 7.8%
- #47 ENDALOR
69% 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 29.1% ★, Open World 10%, Online Co-Op 9.4%, Survival 9.1%, Base Building 6.8%
- #48 Old School RuneScape
70% matchVery Positive83% of 20,694 reviews2021
Dev: Jagex Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 98.3 hrs≥1hr: 59%
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 29.3%, Multiplayer 24.4%, Fantasy 11.6%, Third Person 11.1%, RPG 9.7%
- #49 Lost Skies
69% matchMixed61% of 2,976 reviews2025
Dev: Bossa StudiosPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 17.0 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 40.5% ★, Online Co-Op 13.2%, Base Building 11.8%, Open World 9.2%, Crafting 6.7%
- #50 DragonSword : Awakening
66% matchVery Positive90% of 11,331 reviews2026
Dev: Hound13 Inc.
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 18.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Explore the anime-style open world of the Continent of Orbis, brought to life with Unreal Engine 5! Recruit unique companions, unleash spectacular Status Ailment tag-team action, and embark on an epic journey to save the world from the threat of a Dragon reawakened after 60 years.
Why similar: Open World 31.2%, Dragons 17.7% ★, Online Co-Op 14.2%, Multiplayer 9.4%, RPG 7.9%
- #51 Sunkenland
68% matchVery Positive80% of 23,803 reviews2023
Dev: Vector3 Studio
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 20.0 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 36.7% ★, Survival 11.7%, Co-op 11.6%, Base Building 8.8%, Open World 8.4%
- #52 Voyagers of Nera
67% matchVery Positive85% of 2,598 reviews2025
Dev: Treehouse Games
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 12.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 29.6% ★, Online Co-Op 11.2%, Co-op 10.9%, Base Building 10.2%, Crafting 10.1%
- #53 Cloudheim
66% matchVery Positive82% of 1,956 reviews2025
Dev: Noodle Cat Games
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 20.6%, Crafting 18%, Co-op 14.3%, Building 13.5%, Multiplayer 10.1%
- #54 Renown
67% matchMixed58% of 1,578 reviews2025
Dev: RDBK Studios
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Renown is an intense medieval multiplayer survival experience set in a vast, ever-evolving world. Whether alone or rallying allies, gather resources, build powerful strongholds, and engage in brutal battles for dominance.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.7% ★, Open World 11.2%, Survival 10.2%, Crafting 9.5%, Online Co-Op 8.5%
- #55 Lodventure
67% 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 31.5% ★, Open World 11.2%, Co-op 10.5%, Survival 9.9%, Crafting 7.4%
- #56 Whisper of the Swallows
65% matchVery Positive86% of 191 reviews2026
Dev: Blown Leaves
Windows
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 30.6% ★, Survival 10.3%, Open World 10.1%, Crafting 9.5%, Online Co-Op 9%
- #57 Spirit Animal Survival
69% matchMostly Positive71% of 132 reviews2018
Dev: TRUEFX GAMES Pub: TRUEFX GAMES
Windows
SAS is an Open World Multiplayer PVP and CO-OP Survival Game. Set in a vast environment that features Building, Crafting, Taming, Riding, Flying and Exploring Wildlife, Dinos and Dragons as well as Horrific Creatures and Instances with the ability to Morph into Spirit Animals.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26% ★, Dragons 11% ★, Open World 10.8%, Survival 9.6%, Online Co-Op 9.1%
- #58 Forever Skies
65% matchMostly Positive78% of 8,950 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 30.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 27.5% ★, Open World 11.3%, Co-op 10.5%, Survival 10.2%, Base Building 9.7%
