- #1 Salt 2: Shores of Gold
97% matchVery Positive85% of 2,197 reviews2025
Dev: Lavaboots Studios
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Salt 2 is a pirate-themed open world adventure focused on exploration, crafting, and survival. Play solo or with up to 5 friends, sailing the sea with your ship as a mobile base. Discover islands full of quests, towns, caves, and secrets. Level up, craft gear, hunt, fish, and customize your ship.
Why similar: Pirates 21.9% ★, Sailing 14.7% ★, Open World 13%, Survival 11.6%, Crafting 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: As the direct sequel, it expands upon the original's sailing and exploration mechanics with improved visuals and deeper systems.
- #2 Stranded Deep
96% matchMostly Positive74% of 47,062 reviews2022
Dev: Beam Team GamesPub: Beam Team Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 21.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Take the role of a plane crash survivor stranded somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Come face to face with some of the most life threatening scenarios that will result in a different experience each time you play. Scavenge. Discover. Survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.6% ★, Survival 15.1%, Open World 10.7%, Crafting 9.4%, Multiplayer 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: This title emphasizes the isolation of being shipwrecked on a Pacific island, requiring careful resource management and exploration of the surrounding ocean.
- #3 Sailwind
96% matchVery Positive90% of 2,133 reviews2021
Dev: Raw Lion Workshop
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 21.9 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Sailing simulator featuring realistic sailing physics and a vast open world to explore. Embark on cargo delivery missions, customize your boat, try fishing and cooking. A relaxing day sail, or an epic ocean voyage? Your sailing adventure starts here!
Why similar: Sailing 32.5% ★, Open World 24%, Survival 22.2%, Exploration 8.2%, First-Person 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers the most realistic sailing experience, focusing heavily on navigation and the peaceful solitude of ocean travel.
- #4 Raft
95% 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 46.3% ★, Survival 18.6%, Crafting 10%, Open World 9.4%, Multiplayer 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: It perfectly captures the island-hopping survival loop while tasking you with building and maintaining a mobile base on the water.
- #5 Subnautica
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 344,093 reviews2018
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.4 hrsMean: 40.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.8% ★, Survival 14.5%, Open World 12.5%, Crafting 9.8%, Exploration 4.6%
Why You'll Like It: While set underwater, it provides the same sense of wonder and discovery as you explore a vast, alien ocean filled with secrets.
- #6 Survival: Fountain of Youth
94% matchVery Positive86% of 4,270 reviews2024
Dev: Odinsoft Inc.Pub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 18.7 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Survival: Fountain of Youth is a challenging single-player open-world adventure game set on the Caribbean islands. Survive as a shipwrecked 16th-century explorer, craft tools and shelter, and uncover the secrets of both an ancient civilization and your own fate.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.1% ★, Survival 14.5%, Crafting 12.3%, Open World 11%, Sandbox 8%
Why You'll Like It: A detailed survival game that focuses on historical exploration and island-hopping across a vast archipelago.
- #7 Escape The Pacific
93% matchMixed68% of 754 reviews2018
Dev: Gamers4Gamers Team
Windows
Raw, real survival in the Pacific. Build a modular floating base. Master realistic sailing mechanics. Face challenging Pacific-like weather & seasons. Hunt, craft, build & navigate using Sun Dial, Sextant & Triangulation. Explore an endless island cluster-based world. Simulate real life scenarios!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.8% ★, Sailing 12.2% ★, Open World 11.2%, Survival 11%, Crafting 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore survival simulator that demands meticulous attention to navigation and island resources.
- #8 Project Castaway
91% matchMixed67% of 1,632 reviews2026
Dev: Mardonpol Inc.
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Project Castaway is a survival crafting title set in the Pacific Ocean. Live the life of a stranded castaway, with only yourself - and the island's inhabitants - for company! Sail the ocean, hunt, explore unique islands and gather resources as you fight for survival.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.2% ★, Survival 12.3%, Open World 11.3%, Crafting 8.9%, Sandbox 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the core experience of surviving on remote islands and navigating the ocean in a realistic, first-person perspective.
- #9 Windward
92% matchMostly Positive80% of 3,625 reviews2015
Dev: Tasharen Entertainment Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Windward is an action-filled multiplayer sandbox game that puts you in control of a ship sailing the high seas of a large procedurally-generated world.
Why similar: Pirates 40.2% ★, Naval 16.9% ★, Sandbox 9.3%, Open World 8.4%, Sailing 7.8% ★
Why You'll Like It: Provides a sandbox experience centered on naval combat, trading, and exploring a vast ocean map.
- #10 Valheim
90% 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 44% ★, Survival 13.9%, Open World 13.1%, Crafting 10.1%, Multiplayer 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: Features a strong emphasis on sailing, exploration, and building, set within a vast, procedurally generated world.
- #11 Len's Island
89% 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 41.7% ★, Survival 13.2%, Open World 12.3%, Crafting 11.3%, Sandbox 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: Combines relaxing island exploration and building with light dungeon-crawling elements for a polished experience.
- #12 ATLAS
91% matchMixed47% of 42,842 reviews2018
Dev: Grapeshot Games
Windows
Median: 12.5 hrsMean: 112.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Set sail for the ultimate pirate experience! Embark on a grand adventure alongside thousands of other players in one of the largest game worlds ever built (and even claim a piece of it to call your own). Build your ship, assemble your crew, sail the high seas, and become a pirate legend!
Why similar: Pirates 26.9% ★, Sailing 16.3% ★, Survival 14.9%, Open World 14.2%, Crafting 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: A massive multiplayer game that leans heavily into the pirate fantasy, sailing, and open-world survival mechanics.
- #13 Miasmata
89% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,225 reviews2012
Dev: IonFxPub: IonFX Studios
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 39%
Miasmata is a first-person survival/adventure game, developed from the ground-up by brothers Joe and Bob Johnson. You play as Robert Hughes, a plague-stricken scientist on a journey to discover a cure. Your adventure begins on the shores of a remote and mysterious island.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.3% ★, Survival 25.6%, Open World 12.4%, Exploration 7.3%, First-Person 4.3%
Why You'll Like It: An exploration-focused survival game that rewards careful navigation and discovery in a beautiful, isolated environment.
- #14 Ylands
88% matchMixed64% of 8,354 reviews2019
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 46%
Adventure awaits you and your friends in the world of Ylands! Gather resources, craft tools, construct anything and everything, and explore the lands! Build a ship and set sail, encountering mythical animals, a wide variety of sea-life, enemies of all kinds and much more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.1% ★, Sailing 15.9% ★, Crafting 12.6%, Open World 12%, Multiplayer 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a colorful, sandbox-style approach to exploration and survival on various islands.
- #15 Out of Reach
87% matchMixed57% of 3,044 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
You’re a castaway stranded in the middle of nowhere. Storm is gone, the worst certainly not. Look for food and resources, craft gear, make shelters. These are the basics, you need much more to stay alive on this cut-off-the-world, yet not desert island. Build & burn, sail & explore, be Out of Reach!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.9% ★, Survival 13.8%, Open World 11.5%, Crafting 9.5%, Pirates 7.3% ★
Why You'll Like It: Features island-based survival and crafting with a focus on multiplayer interactions and exploration.
- #16 Solace Crafting
85% 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 37.3% ★, Survival 13%, Open World 12%, Crafting 11.9%, Sandbox 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that prioritizes exploration and crafting across a seamless, massive map.
- #17 Forever Skies
82% 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 38.1% ★, Open World 13.8%, Survival 13.6%, Crafting 12.7%, Multiplayer 5.8%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a unique take on exploration and survival by tasking you with maintaining a high-tech airship over a ruined world.
- #18 GRAV
86% matchMixed47% of 6,921 reviews2015
Dev: BitMonster, Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 60%
GRAV is a sand box experience where you explore a multitude of planets, hunt strange alien creatures, build and defend outposts, craft weapons and armor, and attempt to survive against other players in a hostile environment.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.3% ★, Survival 14.8%, Open World 13.4%, Crafting 8.6%, Sandbox 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that allows for significant exploration and base-building in a hostile environment.
- #19 Planet Explorers
84% matchMixed62% of 6,817 reviews2016
Dev: Pathea Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Planet Explorers is an open world sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44% ★, Open World 13.8%, Sandbox 10.9%, Survival 9.7%, Crafting 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox game that offers deep crafting and exploration mechanics in a large, open environment.
- #20 Rising World
84% matchVery Positive86% of 5,845 reviews2014
Dev: JIW-Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 21.3 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Rising World is a voxel based open-world sandbox game, featuring a procedurally generated world, playable in single and multi-player.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.3% ★, Survival 12.7%, Crafting 12.4%, Sandbox 9.7%, Multiplayer 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox game that offers immense freedom for exploration and building in a vast, open world.
- #21 Voidtrain
81% 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 46.2% ★, Survival 11.3%, Open World 10.1%, Crafting 9.5%, Sandbox 5.8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on exploration and survival while traveling through a strange dimension on a customizable moving vehicle.
- #22 Breathedge
82% matchVery Positive82% of 16,026 reviews2021
Dev: RedRuins SoftworksPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Survive in outer space! Together with your immortal chicken, discover the truth behind your sudden spaceship crash. Craft tools, pilot vehicles, and even control space stations to survive and explore the wreckage.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.9% ★, Survival 13.4%, Crafting 9.4%, Sandbox 9.3%, Open World 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a similar 'drifting' exploration feel, replacing the ocean with the vast, dangerous vacuum of space.
- #23 Force of Nature
83% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,198 reviews2016
Dev: A.Y.std
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.5% ★, Survival 13.5%, Crafting 13%, Open World 10.4%, Sandbox 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: Combines survival and crafting with an open-world exploration loop that encourages discovery.
- #24 The Forest
81% 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 51.2% ★, Survival 16.6%, Open World 12.5%, Crafting 8.7%, Sandbox 3.4%
Why You'll Like It: Features intense island survival and exploration, focusing on building a base while uncovering the secrets of a mysterious location.
- #25 Green Hell
80% matchVery Positive85% of 94,379 reviews2019
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 18.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47% ★, Survival 15.7%, Open World 9.9%, Crafting 8.9%, Multiplayer 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: A challenging survival game that emphasizes exploration and understanding the environment to stay alive.
- #26 Volcanoids
78% 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 38.2% ★, Open World 12.4%, Survival 12%, Crafting 11.3%, Sandbox 7%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a unique survival experience where you explore and gather resources using a drill-ship as your mobile base.
- #27 My Island
76% matchMixed67% of 1,706 reviews2024
Dev: SnowBaby Games
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 48%
MyIsland is a relaxed and beautiful survival game,You will drift and survive on the tropical islands, hunt and travel, build houses and development farming, and create your own warm homeland.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 53.8% ★, Survival 15.4%, Open World 11.7%, Crafting 9.5%, Multiplayer 5.8%
- #28 Landless
79% matchMixed44% of 194 reviews2017
Dev: CodeBullet
Windows
Explore and conquer the high seas in this post-apocalyptic sandbox water world survival game where you must fight, build, and craft to survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.4% ★, Pirates 16.7% ★, Survival 16.2%, Open World 11.4%, Crafting 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: A simulation-heavy survival game set in a world covered by water, focusing on boat management and exploration.
- #29 Novus Inceptio
79% matchMixed52% of 1,300 reviews2015
Dev: McMagic Productions
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Warning: This is an Early Access game! Welcome to an enigmatic world, where a new gaming experience in exploring, building and surviving is waiting just for you. Experience a sandbox world with survival elements, and join us in creating a full version of the game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.1% ★, Open World 13.2%, Survival 13.1%, Crafting 11.4%, Sandbox 9%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game that emphasizes sandbox exploration and crafting in a world that evolves over time.
- #30 Radiation Island
77% matchVery Positive80% of 623 reviews2016
Dev: Atypical Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Radiation Island is a survival adventure game where you craft your own destiny in a huge open world environment. As part of the Philadelphia Experiment you have become stranded in a parallel, alternate reality. Discover this new and mysterious world, with all its surprises.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 53.8% ★, Survival 19.3%, Open World 10%, Crafting 6.8%, Adventure 3.8%
- #31 Hide & Hold Out - H2o
78% matchMixed54% of 630 reviews2016
Dev: Red Abyss Software
Windows · Linux
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 16.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Hide & Hold Out is a multiplayer survival game taking place in a devastated water world. Gather, build, team up with your friends and establish the foundations of your future floating empire utilizing the heavy guns of your battle ships!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 53.1% ★, Survival 14.8%, Open World 9.5%, Crafting 8.4%, Multiplayer 5.8%
- #32 Signs of Life
77% matchMostly Positive76% of 841 reviews2014
Dev: Sweet Dog Studios
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Signs of Life is a sci-fi survival sandbox platformer with a combination of procedurally generated and hand-crafted content. You'll explore mysterious locations, Mine blocks for resources, and meet strange (and some familiar) creatures, some of which don't even want to kill you and eat your corpse.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49% ★, Survival 12.2%, Crafting 11%, Sandbox 10.9%, Open World 6.9%
- #33 Captain Bones: Prologue
75% matchVery Positive86% of 551 reviews2021
Dev: World of Poly
Windows
Captain Bones is an action-adventure game set in an open pirate world. You must have survival skills to make ship battles and treasure hunts with your crew.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.1% ★, Pirates 20.3% ★, Sailing 10.7% ★, Survival 9.9%, Open World 9.8%
- #34 Under A New Sun
73% matchMostly Positive76% of 368 reviews2023
Dev: New Horizon Games
Windows
While searching for a new home, an unexpected failure in your ship has left you stranded on a planet surprisingly similar to Earth. Discover a vast open world, hunt for food, develop technologies, and build yourself a new home to survive!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.7% ★, Survival 14%, Open World 13.9%, Crafting 11.8%, Sandbox 5.4%
- #35 Captain Bones : A Pirate's Journey
72% matchVery Positive82% of 375 reviews2025
Dev: World of Poly
Windows
Captain Bones is an action-adventure game set in an open pirate world. You must have survival skills to make ship battles and treasure hunts with your crew.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.2% ★, Pirates 19.6% ★, Sailing 11.7% ★, Naval 10.7% ★, Open World 9.6%
- #36 Stranded Sails - Explorers of the Cursed Islands
74% matchMostly Positive74% of 975 reviews2019
Dev: Alchemist InteractivePub: rokaplay
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Farm, cook, craft and decorate in this casual open world farming adventure! Set up camp with your crew after being shipwrecked on a mysterious archipelago. Your quest is to survive, explore and uncover the secrets of the Cursed Islands. Take care of your crew to build relationships and earn rewards!
Why similar: Pirates 37.9% ★, Open World 22.4%, Crafting 19.8%, Exploration 9.3%, Adventure 4.8%
- #37 Cube Life: Island Survival
74% matchMixed69% of 177 reviews2018
Dev: Cypronia
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Cube Life: Island Survival is an open-world, block building, survival game, taking place on a beautiful remote island. Imagine being shipwrecked and stranded left for dead, with only your will to survive. You must explore, build, craft, and fight your way to stay alive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 51.7% ★, Open World 11.2%, Survival 10.5%, Crafting 8.9%, Sandbox 8.1%
- #38 Necesse
68% 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 48.4% ★, Open World 10.9%, Survival 9.8%, Crafting 9%, Sandbox 7.7%
- #39 Wayward
73% matchVery Positive86% of 1,349 reviews2016
Dev: Unlok
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 21.4 hrs≥1hr: 61%
You awake to discover yourself no longer in the company of good men or a fine seafaring vessel. Treasure... you remember something about treasure. Wayward is a challenging turn-based, top-down, wilderness survival roguelike. Explore, build, and most importantly survive in these unforgiving lands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.3% ★, Survival 16.7%, Crafting 12.7%, Open World 9.7%, Sandbox 6.9%
- #40 Vagabond
72% matchMostly Positive78% of 98 reviews2023
Dev: Pierre Vigier
Windows · Linux
Explore procedurally generated living worlds in this 2D sandbox RPG. Meet hundreds of characters in cities, complete quests, craft powerful items, buy and furnish your home or fight monsters in dungeons.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.6% ★, Open World 14.1%, Sandbox 10.3%, Crafting 9.8%, Survival 7%
- #41 No Man's Sky
71% matchVery Positive85% of 402,164 reviews2016
Dev: Hello Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 20.2 hrsMean: 70.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.5% ★, Open World 15.7%, Survival 9.8%, Sandbox 6.1%, Crafting 5.8%
- #42 Sailing alone:Aftermath
71% matchMixed66% of 61 reviews2025
Dev: MLStudio
Windows
You are just an ordinary person, with only a small boat serving as your home, struggling to find a way to survive in the ruthless ocean of the post-apocalyptic world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42% ★, Sailing 19.2% ★, Survival 11%, Crafting 7.2%, Open World 6.5%
- #43 OceanCraft
73% matchVery Positive85% of 60 reviews2021
Dev: FlodLabPub: FlodLab UG (haftungsbeschraenkt)
Windows
OceanCraft is a game about surviving alone - or with your friends on a self build vehicle in the ocean.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 52.5% ★, Sailing 20.3% ★, Survival 14.3%, Crafting 5.4%, Multiplayer 3.6%
- #44 Nightingale
69% 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 40.9% ★, Survival 13.5%, Open World 13.2%, Crafting 11.2%, Multiplayer 6.8%
- #45 Forgotten Seas
68% matchMostly Positive77% of 572 reviews2025
Dev: Pangea Game StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
You are lost in the Bermuda Void, where the ocean is endless and dry land precious. Craft your Ship-in-a-Bottle, then experience survival on the high seas. Sail for new land, build camps, hunt for treasures, trade for goods - then defend your ship from dreaded pirates stalking this strange realm!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.3% ★, Pirates 24.8% ★, Survival 12.2%, Crafting 11.1%, Sailing 10.7% ★
- #46 Tempest: Pirate Action RPG
71% matchMixed69% of 2,595 reviews2016
Dev: HeroCraftPub: HeroCraft PC
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Tempest is a Pirate Open World Action RPG where you rove the seas across three continents filled with dozens of colonies and forts, hundreds of quests and countless ships to plunder. Customize your ship, trade, challenge fellow pirates and face mythical monsters such as the Kraken and Leviathan!
Why similar: Pirates 39.9% ★, Naval 16% ★, Open World 12.8%, Sailing 12.1% ★, Sandbox 6%
- #47 Savage Lands
70% 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 45.3% ★, Survival 13.5%, Open World 11.4%, Crafting 8.9%, Sandbox 6.5%
- #48 Feel The Snow
69% matchVery Positive87% of 3,024 reviews2019
Dev: Owlet
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Choose one of the characters and start your journey. The game has many interesting things in store: building, crafting, puzzles, bosses, mystery, laughs, quests etc.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.2% ★, Survival 13.5%, Crafting 10.3%, Open World 8.9%, Multiplayer 6.9%
- #49 Reign Of Kings
70% matchMixed57% of 14,891 reviews2015
Dev: Code}{atch
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 47.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Struggle to survive in a harsh medieval world. Hunt wildlife, mine resources, build structures, and craft weapons and armor in order to protect yourself. You may form a guild, bring war to all opposition, and try to seize the throne and become king!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.6% ★, Survival 14.5%, Open World 13.9%, Crafting 11.7%, Multiplayer 6.2%
- #50 Life is Feudal: Your Own
69% matchMixed66% of 12,039 reviews2015
Dev: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 58.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Hardcore and realistic; LiF is a Medieval multiplayer sandbox RPG, with free terraforming, a rich crafting system and preset and modular building construction. With engaging survival aspects, no target physics-based combat and a unique formation system - along with numerous other features - LiF is not for the faint of heart!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.2% ★, Open World 14.3%, Survival 12.9%, Crafting 11.7%, Sandbox 8.6%
- #51 Sail Forth
66% matchVery Positive92% of 625 reviews2022
Dev: Festive VectorPub: The Quantum Astrophysicists Guild
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Sail a fleet of customizable ships across an ocean whose ancient depths have swallowed the key to the mysterious past. Befriend fishfolk to expand your boat crews, take up arms against petulant pirates, and chart a course across an expansive watery world. Will you answer the call of High Adventure?
Why similar: Pirates 43.7% ★, Sailing 29.5% ★, Procedural Generation 8.6%, Exploration 8.4%, Adventure 4.9%
- #52 Tinkerlands
64% 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 40.5% ★, Survival 12.3%, Open World 12.3%, Crafting 9.7%, Sandbox 9.4%
- #53 Project Cobalt
66% matchMostly Positive73% of 54 reviews2025
Dev: OxygenStudio
Windows
⚗️ Project Cobalt is a survival action game set on a hostile island 🌴. Scavenge containers, mine resources, craft tools, hunt animals, and endure storms as you fight hunger, disease, and exhaustion all while uncovering the dark truth behind a failed experiment.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.5% ★, Open World 14.2%, Survival 14%, Crafting 13.2%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #54 Sid Meier's Pirates!
68% matchVery Positive94% of 7,332 reviews2005
Dev: Firaxis GamesPub: 2K
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Sail the Caribbean, marauding all on the high seas or ally your ship and crew as a privateer in search of riches - the life you choose is up to you. Face dogged enemies, raid unsuspecting villages, woo fair maidens, avoid capture or dig for buried treasure. Discover what it takes to become one of the most famous pirates in history!
Why similar: Pirates 47.5% ★, Open World 15.6%, Naval 11.6% ★, Sailing 11.2% ★, Sandbox 5.8%
- #55 Re.poly
67% matchVery Positive92% of 135 reviews2019
Dev: Hinkfoot Studios
Windows
Re.Poly is a relaxed yet deep indie survival game in a low-poly style that blends exploration, combat, building, and adventure. Whether alone or with friends, create your own world, write your own story, and decide how you want to play.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.8% ★, Survival 13%, Open World 12.5%, Crafting 12%, Sandbox 9.3%
- #56 Astral Terra
70% matchMixed50% of 152 reviews2015
Dev: Tethys Interactive LLC
Windows
Explore, Adventure, Craft, Build, Survive. How will you shape your world? Astral Terra is a Smooth Voxel, Procedurally Generated Open World game with RPG and Survival Elements!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.9% ★, Open World 13.8%, Survival 12.6%, Sandbox 9%, Crafting 8.2%
