- #1 Salt 2: Shores of Gold
97% matchVery Positive85% of 2,370 reviews2025
Dev: Lavaboots Studios
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 8.8 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 22.2% ★, Sailing 14.9% ★, Open World 13.3%, Survival 11.5%, Crafting 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: Directly continuing the maritime adventure of the original, it offers expanded open-world island exploration, sailing, and crafting.
- #2 Stranded Deep
96% matchMostly Positive74% of 47,919 reviews2022
Dev: Beam Team GamesPub: Beam Team Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 20.9 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 48.2% ★, Survival 15%, Open World 10.8%, Crafting 9%, Multiplayer 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the isolated island survival and crafting mechanics of Salt while you explore a vast and mysterious oceanic world.
- #3 Raft
96% matchVery Positive93% of 379,035 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.8 hrsMean: 38.0 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 46.8% ★, Survival 18.6%, Crafting 9.7%, Open World 9.6%, Multiplayer 8%
Why You'll Like It: Like Salt, it revolves around surviving on the open ocean, gathering resources, and building your own floating vessel to explore new destinations.
- #4 ATLAS
95% matchMixed47% of 42,929 reviews2018
Dev: Grapeshot Games
Windows
Median: 12.5 hrsMean: 111.5 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 27.1% ★, Sailing 16.4% ★, Survival 14.8%, Open World 14.5%, Crafting 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: This massive multiplayer survival game shares Salt's heavy focus on sailing, pirate themes, and navigating a vast open ocean.
- #5 Sailwind
94% matchVery Positive89% of 2,387 reviews2021
Dev: Raw Lion Workshop
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 23.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 32.7% ★, Open World 24.4%, Survival 22%, Exploration 8%, First-Person 5.7%
Why You'll Like It: For players who love Salt's sailing mechanics, this realistic maritime simulator emphasizes wind physics and navigating across an open ocean.
- #6 Subnautica
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 380,795 reviews2018
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.3 hrsMean: 39.8 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 44.1% ★, Survival 14.4%, Open World 12.7%, Crafting 9.4%, Exploration 4.5%
Why You'll Like It: While set underwater, it mirrors Salt's core loop of open-world exploration, gathering, and surviving in a wondrous aquatic environment.
- #7 Windrose
92% 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 31.9% ★, Pirates 24.1% ★, Sailing 10.8% ★, Survival 10.4%, Crafting 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the pirate-themed open-world exploration and sailing aspects that make traveling between islands in Salt so rewarding.
- #8 Windward
94% matchMostly Positive80% of 3,634 reviews2015
Dev: Tasharen Entertainment Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 8.1 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 40.6% ★, Naval 16.7% ★, Sandbox 9.1%, Open World 8.6%, Sailing 7.9% ★
Why You'll Like It: It shares Salt's top-down or third-person naval exploration vibe, letting you sail, trade, and fight pirates in a procedurally generated world.
- #9 Survival: Fountain of Youth
91% matchVery Positive85% of 4,528 reviews2024
Dev: Odinsoft Inc.Pub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 18.6 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 42.6% ★, Survival 14.5%, Crafting 11.9%, Open World 11.3%, Sandbox 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: This single-player island survival game matches Salt's theme of exploring uncharted tropical locations and uncovering hidden mysteries.
- #10 Ylands
90% matchMixed64% of 8,453 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 40.6% ★, Sailing 15.9% ★, Crafting 12.2%, Open World 12.2%, Multiplayer 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: Its colorful block-based exploration and island-hopping mechanics provide a similar sandbox adventure feel to Salt.
- #11 Solace Crafting
89% 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 37.9% ★, Survival 12.9%, Open World 12.2%, Crafting 11.5%, Sandbox 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: It offers an open-world fantasy survival and crafting experience that complements Salt's emphasis on free-form exploration.
- #12 Out of Reach
89% matchMixed57% of 3,051 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.1 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 43.4% ★, Survival 13.7%, Open World 11.7%, Crafting 9.2%, Pirates 7.4% ★
Why You'll Like It: This island survival game shares Salt's focus on open-world exploration, crafting, and building shelters on remote shores.
- #13 Miasmata
88% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,239 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 35.7% ★, Survival 25.3%, Open World 12.6%, Exploration 7.2%, First-Person 4.2%
Why You'll Like It: This exploration-focused survival game captures Salt's spirit of charting unknown lands and navigating by map and compass.
- #14 Planet Explorers
86% matchMixed62% of 6,818 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 44.6% ★, Open World 14%, Sandbox 10.7%, Survival 9.6%, Crafting 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: This open-world sandbox game shares Salt's emphasis on exploration and crafting, albeit on a sci-fi alien world.
- #15 Subsistence
85% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,861 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 40.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.2% ★, Survival 15.1%, Open World 11.3%, Crafting 11%, Multiplayer 5.8%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world sandbox survival game that mirrors Salt's focus on gathering, crafting, and establishing a foothold in a wild environment.
- #16 Project Castaway
83% matchMixed65% of 1,893 reviews2026
Dev: Mardonpol Inc.
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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 40.8% ★, Survival 12.3%, Open World 11.5%, Crafting 8.5%, Sandbox 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A realistic ocean survival game where you must endure the elements and explore remote islands much like in Salt.
- #17 GRAV
86% matchMixed47% of 6,922 reviews2015
Dev: BitMonster, Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 11.6 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 46.9% ★, Survival 14.6%, Open World 13.6%, Crafting 8.3%, Sandbox 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: While sci-fi themed, it captures the open-world exploration and sandbox crafting elements present in Salt.
- #18 Rising World
84% matchVery Positive86% of 6,019 reviews2014
Dev: JIW-Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 21.4 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 44.5% ★, Survival 12.6%, Crafting 12%, Sandbox 9.5%, Multiplayer 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: Its open-world sandbox environment appeals to the same building and exploration desires found in Salt's peaceful moments.
- #19 Force of Nature
82% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,209 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 45.2% ★, Survival 13.4%, Crafting 12.5%, Open World 10.6%, Sandbox 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival crafting game that echoes Salt's focus on gathering resources and conquering a wild environment.
- #20 Landless
84% 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 34.8% ★, Pirates 16.8% ★, Survival 16.1%, Open World 11.5%, Crafting 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: Set in a flooded post-apocalyptic world, it shares Salt's core theme of water-based exploration and survival.
- #21 Wayward
82% matchVery Positive86% of 1,370 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 45.9% ★, Survival 16.5%, Crafting 12.3%, Open World 9.9%, Sandbox 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: A traditional roguelike survival game that tests your island-survival skills similarly to the early game challenges in Salt.
- #22 Radiation Island
81% matchVery Positive81% of 642 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 54.4% ★, Survival 19.1%, Open World 9.9%, Crafting 6.5%, Adventure 3.9%
Why You'll Like It: It offers open-world survival and island exploration elements that will feel familiar to fans of Salt.
- #23 The Forest
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 683,269 reviews2018
Dev: Endnight Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 37.4 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 51.7% ★, Survival 16.5%, Open World 12.7%, Crafting 8.4%, Sandbox 3.4%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a rich open-world survival and exploration experience on a mysterious peninsula reminiscent of isolated island tropes.
- #24 Green Hell
79% matchVery Positive85% of 102,938 reviews2019
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 47.4% ★, Survival 15.7%, Open World 10.1%, Crafting 8.6%, Multiplayer 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: An intense survival game that tests your ability to stay alive in a harsh jungle environment, appealing to exploration fans.
- #25 Len's Island
77% 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 42.3% ★, Survival 13.1%, Open World 12.4%, Crafting 10.9%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #26 Signs of Life
80% matchMostly Positive76% of 846 reviews2014
Dev: Sweet Dog Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 9.4 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 49.6% ★, Survival 12.1%, Crafting 10.7%, Sandbox 10.7%, Open World 7%
Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi survival crafting game that shares the exploratory pacing and sandbox nature of Salt.
- #27 Novus Inceptio
81% matchMixed52% of 1,304 reviews2015
Dev: McMagic Productions
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 5.8 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 40.6% ★, Open World 13.4%, Survival 13%, Crafting 11%, Sandbox 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that shares Salt's emphasis on discovering a new world and surviving off the land.
- #28 Cube Life: Island Survival
79% 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 52.1% ★, Open World 11.4%, Survival 10.4%, Crafting 8.6%, Sandbox 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based island survival game that directly mirrors the tropical exploration themes of Salt.
- #29 Escape The Pacific
78% matchMixed67% of 762 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 34.2% ★, Sailing 12.3% ★, Open World 11.4%, Survival 11%, Crafting 10.1%
- #30 Captain Bones: Prologue
76% matchVery Positive85% of 553 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 28.4% ★, Pirates 20.4% ★, Sailing 10.7% ★, Open World 9.9%, Survival 9.8%
- #31 Under A New Sun
75% matchMostly Positive76% of 406 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 45.2% ★, Open World 14.1%, Survival 13.9%, Crafting 11.5%, Sandbox 5.2%
- #32 No Man's Sky
74% matchVery Positive85% of 421,258 reviews2016
Dev: Hello Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 20.1 hrsMean: 70.9 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 42.8% ★, Open World 16%, Survival 9.7%, Sandbox 6%, Crafting 5.6%
- #33 Valheim
69% 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 44.7% ★, Survival 13.8%, Open World 13.4%, Crafting 9.7%, Multiplayer 6.1%
- #34 Captain Bones : A Pirate's Journey
73% matchVery Positive81% of 386 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 26.5% ★, Pirates 19.7% ★, Sailing 11.7% ★, Naval 10.5% ★, Open World 9.8%
- #35 Hide & Hold Out - H2o
77% matchMixed54% of 631 reviews2016
Dev: Red Abyss Software
Windows · Linux
Median: 6.2 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 53.6% ★, Survival 14.6%, Open World 9.6%, Crafting 8.1%, Multiplayer 5.6%
- #36 Stranded Sails - Explorers of the Cursed Islands
75% matchMostly Positive74% of 994 reviews2019
Dev: Alchemist InteractivePub: rokaplay
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.5 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 38.1% ★, Open World 22.8%, Crafting 19.2%, Exploration 9.2%, Adventure 4.9%
- #37 Vagabond
74% matchMostly Positive77% of 100 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 38.1% ★, Open World 14.4%, Sandbox 10.1%, Crafting 9.5%, Survival 7%
- #38 Necesse
70% 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 49.3% ★, Open World 11%, Survival 9.7%, Crafting 8.6%, Sandbox 7.5%
- #39 My Island
72% matchMixed66% of 1,739 reviews2024
Dev: SnowBaby Games
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 47%
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 54.4% ★, Survival 15.4%, Open World 11.9%, Crafting 9%, Multiplayer 5.6%
- #40 Sailing alone:Aftermath
72% matchMixed68% of 79 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 42.4% ★, Sailing 19.2% ★, Survival 10.9%, Crafting 7%, Open World 6.6%
- #41 Reign Of Kings
73% matchMixed57% of 14,891 reviews2015
Dev: Code}{atch
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 47.8 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 45.1% ★, Survival 14.3%, Open World 14.1%, Crafting 11.3%, Multiplayer 6%
- #42 Nightingale
70% 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 41.4% ★, Survival 13.4%, Open World 13.4%, Crafting 10.8%, Multiplayer 6.5%
- #43 Life is Feudal: Your Own
73% matchMixed66% of 12,071 reviews2015
Dev: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 57.9 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 44.7% ★, Open World 14.6%, Survival 12.8%, Crafting 11.3%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #44 Savage Lands
71% 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 45.8% ★, Survival 13.5%, Open World 11.6%, Crafting 8.6%, Sandbox 6.4%
- #45 OceanCraft
71% 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 53% ★, Sailing 20.3% ★, Survival 14.1%, Crafting 5.2%, Multiplayer 3.5%
- #46 Sail Forth
68% matchVery Positive93% of 642 reviews2022
Dev: Festive VectorPub: The Quantum Astrophysicists Guild
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 58%
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 43.9% ★, Sailing 29.6% ★, Procedural Generation 8.4%, Exploration 8.3%, Adventure 5%
- #47 Tinkerlands
66% 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 41.2% ★, Open World 12.4%, Survival 12.2%, Crafting 9.4%, Sandbox 9.2%
- #48 Skull and Bones
67% matchMixed66% of 5,009 reviews2024
Dev: Ubisoft SingaporePub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 26.8 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Skull and Bones is an open world naval action RPG where ship combat, build choice, and sailing skill define your pirate legend. Conquer rival ships and mythical beasts in a vast ocean of up to 20 players.
Why similar: Pirates 39.5% ★, Open World 21.1%, Multiplayer 9.6%, Exploration 7.4%, Sailing 6.9% ★
- #49 Feel The Snow
68% matchVery Positive87% of 3,062 reviews2019
Dev: Owlet
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 7.3 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 44.8% ★, Survival 13.4%, Crafting 10%, Open World 9%, Multiplayer 6.7%
- #50 Re.poly
69% matchVery Positive91% of 137 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 38.3% ★, Survival 12.9%, Open World 12.8%, Crafting 11.6%, Sandbox 9.1%
- #51 Hurtworld
68% matchMostly Positive76% of 31,099 reviews2019
Dev: Bankroll Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 64.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Hurtworld is a hardcore multiplayer survival FPS with a focus on competitive gunplay and strategic map control. Built for hardcore gamers, Hurtworld aims to punish.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.8% ★, Survival 19%, Open World 14.5%, Crafting 11.2%, Multiplayer 6.5%
- #52 Forgotten Seas
66% matchMostly Positive76% of 605 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 26.6% ★, Pirates 25% ★, Survival 12.1%, Sailing 10.8% ★, Crafting 10.7%
- #53 KeepUp Survival
67% matchMixed64% of 751 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
KeepUp Survival is an open-world base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and shape your own story on a mysterious island.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.1% ★, Open World 13.1%, Survival 12.8%, Crafting 10.8%, Sandbox 7.8%
- #54 Astral Terra
71% 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 42.4% ★, Open World 14%, Survival 12.5%, Sandbox 8.9%, Crafting 7.9%
- #55 Starbound
66% matchVery Positive90% of 123,321 reviews2016
Dev: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.0 hrsMean: 64.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.7% ★, Sandbox 10.3%, Survival 10%, Open World 9%, Crafting 8.5%
- #56 Mystical Maritime Adventure
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 63 reviews2024
Dev: Ze_Yu
Windows
Here, you can freely sail your ship, explore the endless ocean, and find hidden islands and treasures!
Why similar: Pirates 35.3% ★, Naval 18% ★, Survival 14.5%, Open World 9.7%, Adventure 4.6%
- #57 Windbound
69% matchMixed59% of 1,183 reviews2020
Dev: 5 Lives StudiosPub: Deep Silver
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 62%
The Forbidden Islands are Calling, Unlock their Secrets. Shipwrecked on an island, explore, adapt and navigate the land and perilous seas to stay alive.
Why similar: Survival 26.7%, Crafting 19.4%, Sailing 16.5% ★, Adventure 11.1%, RPG 9.5%
