- #1 Enshrouded
97% matchVery Positive86% of 106,050 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.9 hrsMean: 46.8 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 19%, Survival 14.7%, Online Co-Op 12.6%, Base Building 12.4%, Crafting 10%
Why You'll Like It: Its fantasy open world combines co-op exploration, resource gathering, deep base building, character progression, and boss-focused combat in a way that closely matches Dragonwilds' adventurous survival loop.
- #2 Valheim
96% matchVery Positive94% of 555,289 reviews2026
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 26.9 hrsMean: 81.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.3% ★, Open World 10.2%, Online Co-Op 9.7%, Survival 9.5%, Building 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: This co-op Viking survival game pairs extensive building and crafting with biome-by-biome progression, formidable bosses, and dangerous mythical creatures.
- #3 Nightingale
96% matchMixed66% of 18,084 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 27.2% ★, Open World 10.2%, Survival 9.3%, Online Co-Op 9.2%, Crafting 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: Its shared-realm survival structure offers magical exploration, crafting, elaborate estate building, gear progression, and co-op expeditions through fantastical worlds.
- #4 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
95% matchVery Positive82% of 10,551 reviews2024
Dev: Max Ent Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 25.1% ★, Survival 9.3%, Open World 9.1%, Online Co-Op 8.2%, Base Building 8%
Why You'll Like It: It offers co-op survival, crafting, mounts, customizable camps, and exploration of a dangerous natural world from a distinctive tiny-scale perspective.
- #5 Soulmask
94% matchMostly Positive77% of 22,506 reviews2026
Dev: CampFire StudioPub: Qooland Games
Windows
Median: 13.9 hrsMean: 69.3 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 28.2% ★, Open World 13.8%, Survival 12.1%, Base Building 11.6%, Crafting 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: This open-world survival game adds meaningful crafting and base building to co-op exploration, tribal progression, recruitable NPCs, and dangerous PvE encounters.
- #6 V Rising
94% matchVery Positive89% of 137,392 reviews2024
Dev: Stunlock Studios
Windows
Median: 20.9 hrsMean: 58.2 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 18.6%, Survival 16.1%, Base Building 13.9%, Crafting 11.2%, Online Co-Op 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: It delivers satisfying co-op survival progression through resource harvesting, crafting stations, castle construction, spell combat, and a large roster of bosses.
- #7 ARK: Survival Ascended
93% matchMixed60% of 118,321 reviews2023
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows
Median: 27.2 hrsMean: 198.9 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 20.3%, Survival 19.4%, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 11.7%, Multiplayer 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: Its multiplayer survival loop of gathering, crafting, building defensible bases, and facing giant creatures is a strong fit for players who want more creature-driven sandbox adventure.
- #8 Palworld
91% matchVery Positive95% of 490,433 reviews2026
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 41.0 hrsMean: 86.8 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 28.2% ★, Open World 14.6%, Survival 11.2%, Online Co-Op 7.8%, Multiplayer 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: Co-op exploration, resource collection, base automation, creature collecting, and open-world boss encounters give it a similarly accessible survival-crafting appeal.
- #9 Frozen Flame
92% matchMixed62% of 2,997 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 26.6% ★, Open World 10.2%, Online Co-Op 9.5%, Survival 8.6%, Base Building 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: This fantasy survival adventure emphasizes co-op exploration, weapon and gear crafting, settlement building, and progression through a magical ruined world.
- #10 Savage Lands
91% matchMixed54% of 6,690 reviews2021
Dev: Last Bastion Studios LLC
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.4 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 35.8% ★, Survival 11.1%, Open World 10.5%, Dragons 10% ★, Online Co-Op 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: A particularly dragon-focused fantasy survival sandbox where players craft gear, build shelters, explore hostile wilderness, and prepare to fight enormous beasts together.
- #11 The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™
89% matchVery Positive81% of 12,511 reviews2024
Dev: Free Range GamesPub: North Beach Games
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 19.2 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 29.3% ★, Survival 10.1%, Online Co-Op 10.1%, Base Building 9.9%, Crafting 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Its cooperative dwarven expedition combines mining, crafting, rebuilding a home base, exploration, and combat against classic fantasy dangers.
- #12 ASKA
89% matchVery Positive80% of 12,267 reviews2024
Dev: Sand Sailor StudioPub: Thunderful Publishing
Windows
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 29.5 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 27.3% ★, Online Co-Op 9.9%, Survival 9.5%, Base Building 9%, Open World 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: It combines Viking-flavored open-world survival and construction with co-op play and village management, adding long-term settlement growth to the usual crafting loop.
- #13 Grounded 2
88% matchVery Positive81% of 24,763 reviews2025
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 13.2 hrsMean: 26.9 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 24.4% ★, Survival 12.8%, Open World 10.7%, Base Building 9.2%, Co-op 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: Despite its backyard setting, it has excellent co-op survival systems built around gathering, crafting, customizable bases, exploration, and battling oversized creatures.
- #14 Dark and Light
90% matchMixed52% of 11,837 reviews2017
Dev: Snail Games USA
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 49.7 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 19.1%, Survival 15.5%, Dragons 7.7% ★, Sandbox 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: Its magical open world supports multiplayer survival, spellcasting, creature taming, construction, and encounters with dragons and other fantasy threats.
- #15 Dune: Awakening
87% matchMostly Positive71% of 79,582 reviews2025
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 43.1 hrsMean: 98.6 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Dune: Awakening is a single- and multiplayer Open World Survival game with immersive adventure and RPG gameplay. Explore, build, craft, and unravel a cinematic Dune story 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 25.9% ★, Open World 10.2%, Survival 8.8%, Online Co-Op 8.7%, Base Building 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a large shared survival world with construction, crafting, resource expeditions, social play, and constant environmental threats, albeit in a science-fiction setting.
- #16 Bellwright
86% matchVery Positive80% of 21,714 reviews2024
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 12.8 hrsMean: 41.6 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 19.4%, Survival 18.1%, Online Co-Op 13.5%, Crafting 12.7%, Building 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: Its medieval open world blends gathering, crafting, building settlements, recruiting villagers, and cooperative combat against hostile forces.
- #17 Tribes of Midgard
85% matchMostly Positive76% of 23,278 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 40.7% ★, Online Co-Op 13.7%, Survival 10.6%, Base Building 10.6%, Co-op 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: A more session-based but highly co-op-friendly survival game focused on gathering materials, crafting defenses, building up a settlement, and facing mythological bosses.
- #18 Necesse
83% matchVery Positive93% of 29,166 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 36.8% ★, Open World 9.6%, Survival 7.7%, Crafting 6.7%, Co-op 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: It mixes top-down open-world survival, crafting, settlement management, dungeon exploration, and online co-op into a compact fantasy sandbox.
- #19 Citadel: Forged with Fire
86% matchMixed68% of 5,895 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 29.5% ★, Open World 15.9%, Survival 10.3%, Dragons 6.7% ★, Crafting 5.8%
Why You'll Like It: A magic-heavy multiplayer survival RPG featuring spellcasting, flying mounts, base construction, crafting, and open-world fantasy exploration.
- #20 Tinkerlands
84% matchVery Positive86% of 4,122 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.4 hrsMean: 14.5 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 30% ★, Open World 10.5%, Online Co-Op 10.2%, Survival 9.4%, Co-op 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: Its colorful co-op survival sandbox includes gathering, crafting, building, exploration, and combat-driven progression across procedurally generated islands.
- #21 ICARUS
84% matchMostly Positive75% of 68,864 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.4 hrsMean: 46.7 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 28.6% ★, Survival 10.9%, Online Co-Op 8.9%, Open World 8.8%, Base Building 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: Its co-op survival missions emphasize careful preparation, harvesting, crafting, building shelter, and overcoming dangerous expeditions with a group.
- #22 Core Keeper
82% matchVery Positive93% of 66,787 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.3 hrsMean: 34.9 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 22.3% ★, Open World 11%, Survival 9.3%, Online Co-Op 8.3%, Co-op 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: This cooperative underground sandbox provides rewarding mining, crafting, base building, farming, exploration, and boss progression in a more relaxed 2D format.
- #23 Aloft
82% matchVery Positive83% of 3,782 reviews2025
Dev: Astrolabe Interactive Inc.Pub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 15.5 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 26.6% ★, Survival 12.3%, Co-op 11.9%, Crafting 11.3%, Open World 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: This peaceful but adventurous co-op survival game lets players explore floating islands, gather resources, build customizable skyborne homes, and restore a fantasy ecosystem.
- #24 Len's Island
81% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,974 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 35.4% ★, Open World 12.1%, Survival 11.6%, Building 10.1%, Crafting 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: A gentler blend of action RPG exploration, dungeon delving, farming, crafting, and building that suits players who enjoy Dragonwilds' progression and home-making elements.
- #25 Myth of Empires
81% matchMixed68% of 17,631 reviews2024
Dev: Angela GamePub: Imperium Interactive Entertainment
Windows
Median: 15.0 hrsMean: 228.5 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 30.7% ★, Open World 11.2%, Building 9.6%, Survival 9.1%, Base Building 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: Its multiplayer medieval sandbox supports deep gathering, crafting, construction, territory building, and large-scale survival in a persistent world.
- #26 Terraria
80% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,558,339 reviews2011
Dev: Re-Logic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 33.9 hrsMean: 152.6 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 36.7% ★, Survival 10%, Crafting 7.7%, Multiplayer 7.2%, Open World 7%
Why You'll Like It: A classic cooperative crafting adventure with enormous building freedom, resource progression, exploration, and a huge sequence of increasingly demanding bosses.
- #27 Windrose
78% matchVery Positive87% of 53,040 reviews2026
Dev: Kraken Express
Windows
Median: 20.3 hrsMean: 33.3 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 33.4% ★, Online Co-Op 12.2%, Survival 11.5%, Crafting 10.4%, Open World 8.9%
- #28 Don't Starve Together
79% matchVery Positive95% of 543,644 reviews2016
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 64.9 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 21.1%, Co-op 4.3%, Multiplayer 4%, Open World 3.6%
Why You'll Like It: Its distinctive co-op survival gameplay revolves around gathering, crafting, camp building, seasonal preparation, and learning to survive a hostile mysterious world.
- #29 Craftopia
79% matchMostly Positive76% of 20,264 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 26.6% ★, Open World 17%, Crafting 11.9%, Survival 11.8%, Multiplayer 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: This multiplayer open-world crafting game mixes survival mechanics, dungeon exploration, farming, building, automation, mounts, and broad character progression.
- #30 Everwind
77% matchVery Positive81% of 3,899 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 14.8%, Online Co-Op 13.1%, Survival 12.4%, Co-op 12.3%, Crafting 11.4%
- #31 Dawn of Defiance
77% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,856 reviews2024
Dev: Traega EntertainmentPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
You are a fallen Spartan, cast into the realm between the living and the Underworld. In this survival adventure inspired by Greek myth, hunt, craft and build a home worthy of legend with up to 3 friends. Raid the gods' temples, defeat legendary creatures and loot the iconic weapons of the Olympians.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.9% ★, Online Co-Op 10.9%, Survival 10.3%, Open World 9%, Base Building 7.8%
- #32 Portal Knights
78% matchVery Positive83% of 22,395 reviews2017
Dev: Keen Games GmbHPub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 21.2 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 14.7%, Building 14.3%, Multiplayer 14%, Co-op 12.8%
Why You'll Like It: It combines approachable fantasy action-RPG progression with co-op exploration, block-based building, crafting, and boss fights across interconnected worlds.
- #33 Farever
75% matchMostly Positive76% of 9,511 reviews2026
Dev: Shiro Games
Windows
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 24.3 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 22.9%, Open World 21.5%, Crafting 13%, Multiplayer 9%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #34 RuneScape ®
76% matchVery Positive82% of 27,303 reviews2020
Dev: Jagex Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 102.5 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 48.7%, Multiplayer 23%, RPG 10.7%, Fantasy 8.6%, Exploration 3.8%
- #35 Witchspire
74% matchVery Positive83% of 2,161 reviews2026
Dev: Envar Games
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 34.8% ★, Open World 12.6%, Online Co-Op 11.9%, Base Building 10.5%, Crafting 10.3%
- #36 Ashes of Creation
75% matchMostly Negative36% of 19,083 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 29.3%, Base Building 19.3%, Co-op 15.9%, Exploration 12.1%, RPG 11.7%
- #37 New World: Aeternum
73% matchMixed67% of 297,329 reviews2021
Dev: Amazon Game Studios
Windows
Median: 58.8 hrsMean: 197.6 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 31.9%, Open World Survival Craft 20% ★, Multiplayer 9.6%, Crafting 8.9%, Co-op 7%
- #38 ARK: Survival Evolved
73% matchVery Positive83% of 778,394 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 36.2% ★, Survival 11.9%, Open World 10.8%, Crafting 7.1%, Multiplayer 6.9%
- #39 Romestead
71% matchMostly Positive77% of 5,129 reviews2026
Dev: BeartwigsPub: Three Friends
Windows
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 26.7% ★, Survival 11.6%, Crafting 11.5%, Open World 9.9%, Online Co-Op 9.6%
- #40 Old School RuneScape
73% matchVery Positive83% of 20,860 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 29.5%, Multiplayer 24.1%, Fantasy 11.6%, Third Person 11%, RPG 10.1%
- #41 Ars Notoria
72% matchMixed62% of 318 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 27.4% ★, Open World 9.9%, Survival 8.8%, Base Building 8.6%, Crafting 8.2%
- #42 Shamania
71% matchMostly Positive74% of 171 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 26.1% ★, Open World 12%, Survival 9.5%, Crafting 9.2%, Co-op 7.4%
- #43 Grounded
70% matchVery Positive90% of 95,977 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.6 hrsMean: 41.9 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 28.9% ★, Survival 14.2%, Co-op 10%, Base Building 9.2%, Multiplayer 8.7%
- #44 DragonSword : Awakening
69% matchVery Positive88% of 12,986 reviews2026
Dev: Hound13 Inc.
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 19.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 31.1%, Dragons 17.6% ★, Online Co-Op 14.7%, Multiplayer 9.3%, RPG 8.1%
- #45 ENDALOR
71% matchMostly Positive70% of 280 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 29.2% ★, Open World 10.2%, Online Co-Op 9.4%, Survival 9%, Base Building 6.8%
- #46 Solace Crafting
72% matchMostly Positive71% of 899 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 25.3% ★, Open World 9.5%, Survival 9.1%, Crafting 8%, Online Co-Op 7.7%
- #47 Spirit Animal Survival
70% matchMixed70% of 136 reviews2026
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 26.3% ★, Open World 11%, Dragons 10.8% ★, Survival 9.7%, Online Co-Op 8.8%
- #48 Notmads
70% matchVery Positive85% of 107 reviews2026
Dev: Rhomita
Windows
Your home is a living beast. Explore a handcrafted open world in an action RPG where you fight with magic, gather resources, find loot, craft, and grow stronger. Customize and expand your home on its back, and take it with you as you explore solo or with friends.
Why similar: Open World 14.5%, Online Co-Op 12.4%, Survival 12.2%, Base Building 11.6%, Crafting 10.8%
- #49 Delverium
69% matchVery Positive85% of 157 reviews2026
Dev: Sagestone Games
Windows
Explore, Build, Farm, Craft and Fight in this survival sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Delve deep to uncover the secret of the invading 'Faults' and restore stability to the land.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.6% ★, Survival 9.2%, Open World 9%, Crafting 7.7%, Co-op 7.3%
- #50 Saleblazers
69% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,249 reviews2023
Dev: AIRSTRAFE INTERACTIVE
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 19.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A shopkeeping adventure for 1-8 players. Cook, fish, fight, and sell your way through a magical island!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.8% ★, Online Co-Op 11.4%, Survival 10.8%, Crafting 10.1%, Base Building 10.1%
- #51 Dimraeth
66% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,557 reviews2026
Dev: Mudtek
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
A 1-8 player fantasy RPG set in a handcrafted pixel world. Build your hero across 8 races and 6 classes. Explore ancient lands, master elemental combat, forge relationships, and shape a stronghold to call home. Fight for the fate of Dimraeth either together or alone.
Why similar: Open World 24.1%, Online Co-Op 21.5%, Crafting 17.4%, Multiplayer 13.8%, Exploration 7.5%
- #52 BitCraft Online
67% matchMostly Positive73% of 3,760 reviews2025
Dev: Clockwork Laboratories, Inc.
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.8 hrsMean: 97.0 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 47.5% ★, Open World 13.2%, Base Building 12.4%, Crafting 10.8%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #53 Lodventure
68% matchMostly Positive74% of 166 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 31.6% ★, Open World 11.4%, Co-op 10.5%, Survival 9.9%, Crafting 7.3%
- #54 Wayfinder
67% matchMixed60% of 26,828 reviews2024
Dev: Airship Syndicate
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 19.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Become a Wayfinder, and unlock their powers as you choose your path and playstyle while pushing back a hostile force that has overtaken your world. A Co-Op ARPG where you directly shape and customize the endless adventures you go on with friends, because Wayfinders are stronger together.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 24.3%, Open World 17.2%, Co-op 14%, Multiplayer 10%, Third Person 9.3%
- #55 DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS™ 2
67% matchVery Positive92% of 8,103 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 49.8% ★, Building 10.2%, Crafting 7.1%, Sandbox 6%, RPG 5.6%
- #56 Renown
66% matchMixed58% of 1,591 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 27.8% ★, Open World 11.5%, Survival 10.2%, Crafting 9.3%, Online Co-Op 8.4%
- #57 Carth
67% matchMixed59% of 75 reviews2024
Dev: Deidre Reay Studios LLC
Windows
Carth is a survival rpg set in a ravaged open world. You will need to explore, build, and fight to thrive. Gain extraordinary skills as you take on an incredible evil. Join together or go at it alone as you attempt to survive Carth.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.5% ★, Dragons 13% ★, Open World 10.8%, Base Building 10.6%, Crafting 9.9%
- #58 Cloudheim
64% matchVery Positive82% of 2,013 reviews2025
Dev: Noodle Cat Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 20.5%, Crafting 17.8%, Co-op 14.4%, Building 13.4%, Multiplayer 10.1%
