- #1 Enshrouded
97% matchVery Positive86% of 98,202 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.3 hrsMean: 44.1 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 17.6%, Survival 14.4%, Online Co-Op 13%, Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game features a robust voxel-based building system and a rich fantasy world that mirrors the exploration-heavy gameplay of Dragonwilds.
- #2 Valheim
96% matchVery Positive94% of 529,829 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 25.6 hrsMean: 76.1 hrs≥1hr: 93%
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.8% ★, Online Co-Op 10%, Open World 9.6%, Survival 9.4%, Building 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: It offers the quintessential fantasy survival-crafting experience with a focus on exploration, building, and cooperative boss progression.
- #3 Nightingale
96% matchMixed67% of 17,841 reviews2024
Dev: Inflexion Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 23.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Nightingale is an open world survival crafting game, where you’ll adventure across the mysterious and dangerous Fae Realms. As a daring Realmwalker, you’ll defeat monstrous enemies, survive hostile environments, and build elaborate estates in a visually stunning Gaslamp Fantasy world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.9% ★, Open World 9.6%, Online Co-Op 9.5%, Survival 9.2%, Crafting 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: It combines Victorian-era fantasy aesthetics with complex crafting and survival mechanics in a procedurally generated open world.
- #4 V Rising
95% matchVery Positive89% of 132,034 reviews2024
Dev: Stunlock Studios
Windows
Median: 21.0 hrsMean: 57.1 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 16.5%, Survival 15.1%, Base Building 13.3%, Online Co-Op 11.4%, Crafting 11.4%
Why You'll Like It: This title provides a top-down perspective with deep base-building and survival elements set in a dark, atmospheric fantasy world.
- #5 The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™
94% matchVery Positive82% of 11,474 reviews2024
Dev: Free Range GamesPub: North Beach Games
Windows
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 20.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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% ★, Online Co-Op 10.3%, Base Building 10%, Survival 9.9%, Crafting 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: This co-op survival game focuses on mining, crafting, and building within the iconic, atmospheric depths of a fantasy mountain.
- #6 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
94% matchVery Positive82% of 9,646 reviews2024
Dev: Merge GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 15.1 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 24.7% ★, Survival 9.1%, Online Co-Op 8.6%, Open World 8.5%, Base Building 8%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the sense of scale and exploration found in Dragonwilds by shrinking players down into a dangerous, oversized natural world.
- #7 Conan Exiles
93% matchMostly Positive79% of 111,441 reviews2018
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 16.9 hrsMean: 111.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
An online multiplayer survival game, now with sorcery, set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian. Survive in a vast open world sandbox, build your home into a kingdom, and dominate your enemies in single or multiplayer.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.8% ★, Survival 14.5%, Open World 13.6%, Building 9.1%, Crafting 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: A gritty survival game that excels in building, combat, and exploration within a vast, dangerous fantasy landscape.
- #8 ARK: Survival Ascended
92% matchMixed60% of 100,735 reviews2023
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows
Median: 28.6 hrsMean: 195.6 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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: Survival 18.9%, Open World 18.9%, Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 12.2%, Building 11.4%
Why You'll Like It: It offers an unparalleled experience in taming creatures and building massive bases in a challenging, prehistoric-fantasy environment.
- #9 Dune: Awakening
91% matchMostly Positive70% of 74,372 reviews2025
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 47.7 hrsMean: 95.2 hrs≥1hr: 97%
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 25.4% ★, Open World 9.5%, Online Co-Op 9.1%, Survival 8.7%, Base Building 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: This open-world survival game features massive scale and complex crafting systems that appeal to fans of multiplayer survival.
- #10 ICARUS
91% matchMostly Positive74% of 62,078 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 44.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28% ★, Survival 10.7%, Online Co-Op 9.1%, Base Building 8.5%, Open World 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A session-based survival game that emphasizes cooperative strategy, crafting, and building in a hostile alien environment.
- #11 Soulmask
89% matchVery Positive81% of 17,627 reviews2024
Dev: CampFire StudioPub: Qooland Games
Windows
Median: 13.7 hrsMean: 66.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Choose your path across a primeval continent shaped by the Mask's power. From lush rainforests to scorched sands, recruit and lead unique tribesmen, build automated production lines, and construct everything from local bases to colossal airships, uncover the secrets of the Mask
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.7% ★, Open World 12.1%, Survival 10.9%, Building 10.5%, Crafting 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: This game blends survival and tribe management, allowing players to build up their own community while mastering ancient secrets.
- #12 Frozen Flame
90% matchMixed63% of 2,965 reviews2022
Dev: Dreamside InteractivePub: Ravenage Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 11.6 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 26.3% ★, Online Co-Op 9.9%, Open World 9.6%, Base Building 8.7%, Survival 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: A fantasy survival game that emphasizes exploration and magic, mirroring the dragon-themed adventure of the seed game.
- #13 Bellwright
89% matchVery Positive81% of 18,990 reviews2024
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 41.1 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 18%, Survival 17.7%, Online Co-Op 13.9%, Crafting 13.4%, Building 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: It combines survival and city-building with a medieval setting, focusing on growing a settlement and managing resources.
- #14 ASKA
88% matchMostly Positive80% of 11,320 reviews2024
Dev: Sand Sailor StudioPub: Thunderful Publishing
Windows
Median: 11.2 hrsMean: 28.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 26.8% ★, Online Co-Op 10.2%, Survival 9.4%, Base Building 9.1%, Open World 8%
Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim survival game where players build and manage a village while defending against threats in a harsh fantasy world.
- #15 Palworld
86% matchVery Positive94% of 417,805 reviews2024
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 34.2 hrsMean: 70.0 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% ★, Open World 13.5%, Survival 11%, Online Co-Op 8.2%, Multiplayer 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: It successfully integrates creature collection with survival and base-building, offering a highly engaging multiplayer experience.
- #16 Dawn of Defiance
87% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,736 reviews2024
Dev: Traega EntertainmentPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 30.3% ★, Online Co-Op 11.2%, Survival 10.2%, Open World 8.4%, Base Building 8%
Why You'll Like It: Inspired by Greek mythology, this survival game focuses on building and exploration in a beautiful, ancient-themed world.
- #17 Necesse
86% matchVery Positive93% of 26,780 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.2% ★, Open World 9.1%, Survival 7.6%, Crafting 7%, Co-op 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down sandbox survival game that features extensive crafting, building, and boss-fighting mechanics.
- #18 Len's Island
84% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,615 reviews2025
Dev: Flow Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
An open-world survival crafting game for 1–8 players, blending intense dungeon crawling and ARPG combat with peaceful farming and creative building. Take on quests and explore a vast, procedurally-generated world full of danger and discovery.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35% ★, Survival 11.4%, Open World 11.4%, Building 10.4%, Crafting 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: It combines relaxing farming and building with dungeon-crawling exploration, offering a balanced gameplay loop.
- #19 Volcanoids
85% matchVery Positive83% of 9,214 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.9% ★, Open World 9.7%, Online Co-Op 9.3%, Survival 8.8%, Crafting 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: This unique survival game centers on a mobile base-building mechanic that keeps players constantly on the move.
- #20 Citadel: Forged with Fire
84% matchMixed68% of 5,882 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 29.3% ★, Open World 15.1%, Survival 10.4%, Dragons 6.8% ★, Crafting 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: A magic-focused survival game that allows players to build castles and tame mythical creatures in a vast fantasy world.
- #21 Outward Definitive Edition
82% matchMostly Positive73% of 30,417 reviews2022
Dev: Nine Dots StudioPub: Prime Matter
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 17.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 26.7%, Survival 16.9%, Co-op 15.3%, Online Co-Op 14.8%, RPG 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers a hardcore fantasy survival experience that rewards preparation, exploration, and cooperative play.
- #22 Dawnlands
82% matchMixed52% of 3,131 reviews2023
Dev: SEASUN GAMES PTE. LTD.
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Dawnlands is an Open-World Survival Crafting cross-platform game with a massive world and epic lore. A variety of biomes, relics, and puzzles dot the landscape... an ancient land, lain dormant for centuries, is waiting to be awoken. New stories are waiting to be written.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.7% ★, Online Co-Op 9.2%, Survival 8.3%, Open World 8.1%, Crafting 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: This open-world survival game features a vibrant art style and a focus on building, crafting, and cooperative exploration.
- #23 7 Days to Die
79% matchVery Positive87% of 396,805 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 16.8 hrsMean: 107.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.7% ★, Survival 14.9%, Open World 11.5%, Online Co-Op 9.8%, Base Building 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: A classic survival-crafting game that excels in base-building and defending against waves of enemies.
- #24 Dark and Light
83% matchMixed52% of 11,804 reviews2017
Dev: Snail Games USA
Windows
Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 49.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Dark and Light is a vast sandbox survival RPG set in a world dominated by powerful elemental forces. Find your way in a meticulously crafted world, featuring breathtaking landscapes, a wide variety of mythical creatures, and limitless possibility to craft, build, and unlock dozens of powerful weapons, spells, and skills.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.5% ★, Open World 18.2%, Survival 15.6%, Sandbox 7.8%, Dragons 7.7% ★
Why You'll Like It: It offers a massive, high-fantasy sandbox environment where survival and magic are central to the gameplay experience.
- #25 Medieval Dynasty
80% matchVery Positive91% of 49,970 reviews2021
Dev: Render CubePub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 35.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.
Why similar: Crafting 16.4%, Building 15.3%, Open World 12.8%, Co-op 12.5%, Survival 12.1%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the long-term survival and management of a medieval settlement, perfect for fans of building and progression.
- #26 Savage Lands
81% matchMixed55% of 6,679 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 35.6% ★, Survival 11%, Dragons 10.1% ★, Open World 9.9%, Online Co-Op 9%
Why You'll Like It: A brutal survival game set in a fantasy world where players must craft and build to survive against dragon-like threats.
- #27 Solace Crafting
81% matchMostly Positive72% of 891 reviews2022
Dev: Big Kitty Games
Windows · Linux
Embark on an adventure set in a fantasy survival RPG. Visit a borderless, open world where you manage resources to construct your base and new types of equipment to support your conquest.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25% ★, Survival 9%, Open World 8.9%, Crafting 8.3%, Online Co-Op 8%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a massive, seamless world with a deep focus on crafting and building without the need for traditional leveling.
- #28 The Forest
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 665,921 reviews2018
Dev: Endnight Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 37.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.2% ★, Survival 16.2%, Open World 13.1%, Crafting 8.6%, Building 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a tense survival experience with a heavy emphasis on building and uncovering the secrets of a mysterious island.
- #29 No One Survived
78% matchMixed65% of 7,577 reviews2025
Dev: Cat Play Studio
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 22.9 hrs≥1hr: 77%
This is a multiplayer cooperative open world construction survival sandbox game, where you and your friends must find supplies and build shelters in this world. You have to keep an eye on your character's needs state at all times, a bad state is likely to lead to death.
Why similar: Survival 19.2%, Open World 18%, Crafting 11.4%, Multiplayer 10.3%, Co-op 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: This game provides a detailed survival experience with a strong focus on scavenging, crafting, and base-building.
- #30 Raft
78% matchVery Positive93% of 368,916 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.5 hrsMean: 36.8 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.3% ★, Survival 13.5%, Co-op 10%, Multiplayer 8.7%, Open World 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: A unique survival game that focuses on building and expanding a base while drifting across an endless ocean.
- #31 Grounded 2
77% matchVery Positive81% of 19,870 reviews2025
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 20.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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% ★, Survival 12.9%, Open World 10.1%, Co-op 9.5%, Base Building 9.4%
- #32 Tinkerlands
76% matchVery Positive86% of 3,746 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 13.7 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 29.4% ★, Online Co-Op 10.5%, Open World 9.9%, Survival 9.3%, Co-op 7.7%
- #33 Everwind
76% matchVery Positive82% of 2,069 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Everwind is a novel take on RPG and Sandbox Survival genre in First-Person-Perspective. Embark on the adventure with your friends - Build a base on a flying island-ship, gather resources, craft, loot, and fight while you rise above the clouds to uncover the mysteries of this world!
Why similar: Open World 13.9%, Online Co-Op 13.1%, Co-op 12.6%, Survival 12.6%, Building 10.8%
- #34 RuneScape ®
77% matchVery Positive82% of 26,679 reviews2020
Dev: Jagex Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 103.3 hrs≥1hr: 54%
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 47.9%, Multiplayer 24.1%, RPG 10.1%, Fantasy 8.9%, Exploration 4%
- #35 Lost Skies
75% matchMixed62% of 2,832 reviews2025
Dev: Bossa StudiosPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 39.8% ★, Online Co-Op 13.6%, Base Building 12.1%, Open World 8.8%, Crafting 6.9%
- #36 Ashes of Creation
75% matchMostly Negative37% of 18,678 reviews2025
Dev: Intrepid Studios, Inc
Windows
Median: 13.8 hrsMean: 76.8 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 30.3%, Base Building 19.6%, Co-op 16.1%, Exploration 12.3%, RPG 10.4%
- #37 ENDALOR
74% matchMixed68% of 79 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% ★, Online Co-Op 9.6%, Open World 9.5%, Survival 8.9%, Base Building 7%
- #38 New World: Aeternum
74% matchMixed67% of 296,565 reviews2021
Dev: Amazon Game Studios
Windows
Median: 58.9 hrsMean: 196.2 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 30.7%, Open World Survival Craft 20.3% ★, Multiplayer 9.8%, Crafting 9.4%, Co-op 7.3%
- #39 ARK: Survival Evolved
73% matchVery Positive83% of 763,144 reviews2017
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 200.9 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 35.9% ★, Survival 11.8%, Open World 10.2%, Crafting 7.4%, Multiplayer 6.9%
- #40 BitCraft Online
72% matchMostly Positive74% of 3,304 reviews2025
Dev: Clockwork Laboratories, Inc.
Windows · Mac
Median: 11.8 hrsMean: 91.2 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Open World 12.1%, Crafting 11.2%, Sandbox 9%
- #41 Craftopia
73% matchMostly Positive77% of 19,974 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 26.2% ★, Open World 16.1%, Crafting 12.4%, Survival 11.7%, Multiplayer 7.6%
- #42 Shamania
71% matchMostly Positive78% of 140 reviews2025
Dev: Totem Keepers Games
Windows
Shamania is an open world survival game where you can CRAFT, FIGHT, and EXPLORE a vibrant sandbox world with friends in CO-OP. Expand your base as a hub for survival, gather resources, and master professions to unlock new tools and opportunities!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.9% ★, Open World 11.2%, Crafting 9.5%, Survival 9.4%, Online Co-Op 7.6%
- #43 Lodventure
73% matchMostly Positive74% of 161 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 31.2% ★, Open World 10.8%, Co-op 10.7%, Survival 9.8%, Crafting 7.6%
- #44 Grounded
71% matchVery Positive90% of 92,875 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.2 hrsMean: 40.8 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 28.6% ★, Survival 14.1%, Co-op 10.1%, Base Building 9.4%, Multiplayer 8.6%
- #45 Voidtrain
70% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,176 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.6% ★, Co-op 8.9%, Survival 8.3%, Open World 7.9%, Online Co-Op 7.9%
- #46 Saleblazers
71% matchVery Positive88% of 1,877 reviews2023
Dev: AIRSTRAFE INTERACTIVE
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.5 hrsMean: 19.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Fight. Sell. Survive. Live off the land, build your perfect shop, and defend against nightly horrors in this open world survival shop simulator for 1-8 players.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.8% ★, Open World 12.9%, Online Co-Op 12.7%, Survival 11.6%, Base Building 11.4%
- #47 Longvinter
70% matchMixed67% of 7,526 reviews2025
Dev: Uuvana Studios
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 39.9 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Fish, farm, craft, gather, cook, loot or steal from other players and build a campsite or a village with your friends in an open-world multiplayer sandbox game without rules!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27% ★, Survival 12.5%, Open World 11.9%, Crafting 10.9%, Multiplayer 9.5%
- #48 Aloft
69% matchVery Positive84% of 3,496 reviews2025
Dev: Astrolabe Interactive Inc.Pub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 13.9 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 26.2% ★, Survival 12.2%, Co-op 12%, Crafting 11.7%, Building 10.6%
- #49 Forever Skies
68% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,284 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.4 hrsMean: 32.0 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 27.2% ★, Open World 10.9%, Co-op 10.6%, Survival 10.1%, Base Building 9.9%
- #50 Old School RuneScape
70% matchVery Positive83% of 20,095 reviews2021
Dev: Jagex Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 97.0 hrs≥1hr: 60%
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 28.3%, Multiplayer 24.8%, Fantasy 11.8%, Third Person 11.6%, RPG 9.3%
- #51 Ars Notoria
69% matchMixed63% of 288 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% ★, Open World 9.3%, Base Building 8.8%, Survival 8.8%, Crafting 8.5%
- #52 Renown
67% matchMixed60% of 1,544 reviews2025
Dev: RDBK Studios
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 27.5% ★, Open World 10.8%, Survival 10.1%, Crafting 9.7%, Online Co-Op 8.8%
- #53 Tribes of Midgard
68% matchMostly Positive76% of 23,072 reviews2021
Dev: NorsfellPub: Gearbox Publishing
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 19.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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% ★, Online Co-Op 14.2%, Base Building 10.7%, Survival 10.5%, Co-op 10.2%
- #54 Wayfinder
66% matchMixed59% of 26,024 reviews2024
Dev: Airship Syndicate
Windows
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 21.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 25.3%, Open World 16.3%, Co-op 14.3%, Multiplayer 9.8%, Third Person 9.5%
- #55 The Gold River Project
66% matchMixed67% of 526 reviews2026
Dev: Fairview Games Inc.
Windows
The Gold River Project™ invites you and your friends on an open world camping trip gone wrong. Alone or together, you must explore, craft, build, and survive the increasingly harsh environments of the Pacific Northwest wilderness as you uncover the experiment trapping you inside.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.3% ★, Open World 12.3%, Co-op 9.9%, Survival 9.7%, Online Co-Op 8.7%
- #56 Sunkenland
66% matchVery Positive81% of 22,996 reviews2023
Dev: Vector3 Studio
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 17.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Get ready for a Waterworld-themed survival game with modular base building, sunken city scavenging, crafting, base defense, and invasions of NPC clans for resources and territory. Ready for the water apocalypse?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.5% ★, Co-op 11.8%, Survival 11.6%, Base Building 8.9%, Open World 8.1%
- #57 Eden Crafters
65% matchVery Positive86% of 2,214 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in Eden Crafters, a solo and co-op open-world game that challenges you to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Temper the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30% ★, Base Building 9.9%, Open World 9.8%, Crafting 9.5%, Online Co-Op 9%
- #58 Cloudheim
64% matchVery Positive83% of 1,367 reviews2025
Dev: Noodle Cat Games
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 20.9%, Crafting 18%, Co-op 14.2%, Building 13.5%, Multiplayer 9.9%
- #59 Voyagers of Nera
64% matchVery Positive85% of 2,114 reviews2025
Dev: Treehouse Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 12.6 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: Online Co-Op 16%, Co-op 15.2%, Base Building 14.3%, Crafting 14.2%, Building 13.2%
