Games Like SAND: Raiders of Sophie

Marauders is a tactical first-person multiplayer looter shooter set in a sci-fi universe. As a space pirate, work solo, or in a squad with up to 3 other players to navigate a hostile battleground, hunt for loot, craft new weapons and gear, and salvage what you’ll need to survive.

Why similar: Extraction Shooter 42.6% ★, Pirates 14.5% ★, Loot 10.4%, FPS 8.3%, PvP 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Features a similar dieselpunk aesthetic and high-stakes extraction gameplay centered around crewing and upgrading a mobile base.

Nomadic Survival MMO. Build wooden walking machines to travel to new lands. Create clans and fight for territory. Resources deplete fast, so take your sword and scavenge, pirate, and trade to stay alive.

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 40.3%, Survival 20.2%, Open World 18.5%, PvP 11.6%, PvE 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: Centers on nomadic survival in a desert world where building and maintaining walking mechanical bases is essential for survival.

ARC Raiders is a multiplayer extraction adventure, set in a lethal future earth, ravaged by a mysterious mechanized threat known as ARC.

Why similar: Extraction Shooter 54.3% ★, PvP 10.3%, PvE 8.6%, Online Co-Op 8.2%, Survival 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A high-fidelity extraction shooter that emphasizes squad-based tactical combat against both players and AI threats.

Crossout - the postapocalyptic MMO action game where you can create a unique design for an armoured vehicle from dozens of parts and then drive it into multiplayer battles raging on land and in the skies alike.

Why similar: Vehicular Combat 36.5%, Loot 18.8%, Online Co-Op 12.1%, PvP 11.2%, PvE 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Offers deep vehicular combat and customization, allowing you to build unique combat machines to battle other players.

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: FPS 17.7%, Online Co-Op 16.3%, Survival 15.9%, Open World 15.7%, Shooter 12.7%

Why You'll Like It: Features a unique steampunk setting where you operate and upgrade a mobile drill-ship base to survive in a hostile environment.

Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival game with immersive adventure and RPG gameplay. Explore, build, craft, and unravel a cinematic Dune story alone or with friends as you rise from survival to greatness on the most legendary planet in the universe. Just remember: the sandworm always comes.

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 23.3%, Online Co-Op 14.6%, PvP 13.8%, Open World 13.6%, Survival 13.1%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the harsh desert survival experience with extraction elements and large-scale open-world exploration.

TerraTech is an open-world, sandbox adventure game, where you design and build your own creations through a mix of crafting, combat and discovery. Design vehicles from a huge library of blocks. Scavenge, craft and buy new parts to survive and become the ultimate planetary prospector.

Why similar: Vehicular Combat 26.4%, Open World 25.6%, Survival 15.7%, Online Co-Op 10.9%, PvP 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on the modular building of vehicles and mechs, allowing for creative engineering in a combat-focused sandbox.

Hunt: Showdown 1896 is the brutally rewarding extraction shooter. Track twisted monsters and overcome ruthless PvP. Take bounties in corrupted backwaters lost to history. With a team, you might survive. Die with nothing or get out with everything.

Why similar: Extraction Shooter 39.1% ★, Battle Royale 18% ★, FPS 9.8%, PvP 9.1%, Open World 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for extraction shooters, providing the same intense, high-stakes atmosphere and tactical combat found in SAND.

Enter a high-stakes PvE-first open-world tactical shooter set on a quarantined Southeast Asian island torn apart by faction warfare. Deploy as an elite operator, fight solo or with your squad to carry out missions, earn reputation, and explore the truth behind the Event igniting the conflict.

Why similar: Extraction Shooter 38.8% ★, Massively Multiplayer 10.1%, FPS 9.7%, Open World 8%, Online Co-Op 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical extraction shooter that prioritizes realism and high-stakes decision-making in a large, open-world environment.

Fight for survival in Blazing Sails, a fast-paced pirate PvP game! Create your own unique pirate and ship. Band together with other players to command your mighty vessel! Explore different game-modes, maps, weapons, ship types and more while eliminating other crews in epic battles on land and sea!

Why similar: Pirates 25.4% ★, Battle Royale 22.2% ★, Online Co-Op 10.1%, FPS 9.1%, PvP 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Features pirate-themed vehicular combat where players must work together to operate and defend their ship.

An unforgiving hardcore fantasy FPS dungeon PvPvE adventure. Band together with your friends and use your courage, wits, and cunning to uncover mythical treasures, defeat gruesome monsters, while staying one step ahead of the other devious treasure-hunters.

Why similar: Extraction Shooter 38.1% ★, Loot 15.9%, Battle Royale 15.6% ★, PvP 7.8%, Online Co-Op 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: A pioneer in the extraction-crawler genre, offering the same intense 'loot and escape' loop found in SAND.

Face the supernatural dangers of the Olympic Exclusion Zone with a car as your only lifeline in this driving survival adventure! Scavenge resources, load up your trusty station wagon, and drive like hell to make it through alive.

Why similar: Transportation 32.8% ★, Driving 32.6%, Survival 16.7%, Exploration 7.7%, First-Person 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A unique survival game where your primary companion and base is a highly customizable vehicle that you must maintain to survive.

Lost Rift is a first person survival adventure shooter that blends cooperative base building with multiplayer PvE or PvP extraction expeditions. Journey solo or in teams of up to 5 players across a vast archipelago, craft gear, build bases, defeat raiders, and become legendary.

Why similar: Extraction Shooter 37.1% ★, Massively Multiplayer 12.3%, Online Co-Op 7.9%, FPS 7.9%, PvP 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the core loop of entering a dangerous area, scavenging for loot, and successfully extracting.

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: Online Co-Op 25.7%, Survival 25.5%, Open World 23%, First-Person 11.4%, Exploration 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: Involves building and upgrading a mobile train base while traversing a surreal, hostile environment.

Enter the Chornobyl Anomalous Zone — a vast open world where anomalies, mutants, and rivals stand in your way. Explore, scavenge, and try to survive in this brutal and dangerous land. Evolving with every update, now overhauled and crowned with UPDATE 2.0.

Why similar: Open World 26.2%, FPS 23.9%, Survival 20%, Shooter 12.3%, Exploration 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Provides an unparalleled atmospheric survival experience with high-stakes looting and exploration in a dangerous, irradiated zone.

The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.

Why similar: Survival 32.8%, Open World 20.9%, PvP 14.7%, FPS 9.9%, Online Co-Op 8%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a brutal open-world PvP survival experience where looting and base-building are the primary drivers of gameplay.

Explore the lost colony of Tau Ceti IV, scavenging valuable loot in a high-stakes survival first person shooter from the creators of Halo and Destiny.

Why similar: Extraction Shooter 55.2% ★, PvP 9.9%, FPS 9.6%, Shooter 6.8%, PvE 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: An upcoming extraction shooter that promises high-stakes PvPvE gameplay in a stylized sci-fi setting.

Mistfall Hunter is a dark fantasy extraction ARPG. Combine skills, talents, and gear for each class in thrilling combat! Whether you team up or go solo, one thing remains certain—only by fighting your way through can you return with a full haul. Good luck, Gyldhunter.

Why similar: Extraction Shooter 36.1% ★, Battle Royale 19.4% ★, Loot 12.7%, Online Co-Op 8.6%, PvP 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Combines extraction-shooter mechanics with dark fantasy elements and souls-like combat intensity.

Outlive the apocalypse! Dive into intense Encounters and extract the most valuable spoils the Outlands have to offer! Loot, shoot, and build to become the absolute Outlander and explore the landscape of a post-war Norway in Vigor, a free-to-play looter shooter.

Why similar: Extraction Shooter 42.5% ★, Loot 15.6%, FPS 15.2%, PvP 13.2%, Shooter 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: A dedicated extraction shooter that focuses on scavenging for resources and surviving against other players in a post-war setting.

An Open World Survival Shooter blending hardcore PVP and PVE action. Secure precious loot in safe zones or build your own fortress in the wild. With intense gunfights, stunning visuals, and performance smooth enough for any system, the challenge awaits!

Why similar: Survival 16.9%, FPS 15.9%, Massively Multiplayer 15.3%, PvP 15.2%, Open World 14.4%

Why You'll Like It: A hardcore survival shooter that emphasizes PvP and tactical looting in a vast, open-world map.

Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!

Why similar: Open World 35.3%, Survival 33.7%, Online Co-Op 14.3%, First-Person 11.9%, Action 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: Provides an advanced building engine perfect for players who enjoy the engineering and customization aspects of SAND.

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 31.3%, Survival 30.5%, Exploration 17%, First-Person 13.9%, Action 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A survival game centered around an airship that serves as your mobile base, laboratory, and home while scavenging a ruined world.

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: Pirates 38.7% ★, Online Co-Op 13.4%, Massively Multiplayer 12.1%, Survival 11.2%, PvE 9.8%

TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment

Why similar: Vehicular Combat 33.1%, Open World 27.5%, Survival 26.2%, Exploration 13.2%

Why You'll Like It: An expanded version of the original, offering more robust base-building and exploration mechanics in a sandbox environment.

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 34.3% ★, Massively Multiplayer 18.5%, Survival 12.6%, Open World 12.3%, Online Co-Op 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A massive multiplayer survival game that leans heavily into the pirate theme and naval combat.

Reaper Actual is an Open-World Persistent Shooter where hundreds of players engage in FPS combat against each other and 5 NPC Factions on the massive war-torn island of Marova. Level your Reapers, maintain a home Base, and complete missions to earn gear and reshape the world.

Why similar: Vehicular Combat 24.7%, FPS 13.9%, PvP 12.6%, Open World 10.6%, PvE 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A looter-shooter that emphasizes tactical combat and extraction in a PvPvE environment.

Besiege is a physics building game about constructing medieval machines to annihilate armies, obliterate castles and overcome challenging obstacles. Conquer the campaign or skirmish with friends in Multiplayer!

Why similar: Vehicular Combat 56.5%, PvP 23.6%, PvE 19.9%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based building game that challenges players to construct complex machines to overcome various combat scenarios.

Wildgate is a PvPvE multiplayer shooter that blends tactical ship-to-ship combat with fast-paced first-person action. Evade deadly environmental hazards, search for powerful weapons and ship upgrades, and be the first crew to escape with the Artifact... or the last crew left flying.

Why similar: Extraction Shooter 37.9% ★, Battle Royale 17.6% ★, FPS 9.1%, PvP 8.7%, Online Co-Op 8.5%

Explore, survive, and push the boundaries of the horizon in a vast, procedurally generated world. Customize your vehicle, face unpredictable events, gather resources, and embark on a unique adventure, alone or with up to 4 players.

Why similar: Driving 25%, Online Co-Op 14.3%, Open World 13.4%, Survival 13%, FPS 10.3%

StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.

Why similar: Open World 23.8%, Survival 23.4%, Online Co-Op 20.4%, Shooter 16.7%, Exploration 11.1%

Cargo Hunters is an extraction shooter where you control a humanoid robot scavenging the remains of humanity on an abandoned, dystopian Earth. Play solo or in 4 players co-op.

Why similar: Extraction Shooter 52.7% ★, Online Co-Op 12.2%, Open World 9.7%, PvE 9.2%, Survival 9.2%

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: Online Co-Op 23.5%, Open World 21.3%, Survival 19.9%, PvP 15.6%, PvE 12.5%

Ironsand is a co-op titan-slaying FPS roguelite set on a desert planet where powerful builds and team synergy are everything

Why similar: Mechs 34.7% ★, Online Co-Op 22.7%, FPS 21.1%, Shooter 10.9%, First-Person 7%

Arena Breakout: Infinite is a high-stakes tactical extraction shooter where every decision matters. Fight, loot, and extract—or lose it all. With stunningly realistic visuals, lifelike sound, and unforgiving PvPvE combat, every raid is a gamble between glory and ruin.

Why similar: Extraction Shooter 62.7% ★, FPS 14.6%, Shooter 8.6%, Survival 7.2%, First-Person 5.1%

Action-focused, open world survival shooter, PvPvE against fellow mercenaries and lethal XOIDS. Raid for resources alone or with team-mates, build and defend your base, stash your gear and survive against the odds. You are the hunters. You are the hunted. And the robots never sleep…

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 21.9%, Survival 16.7%, Open World 14.9%, FPS 12.9%, PvP 11.6%

PIRATECRAFT is a game battle-royale (survival, action, first person shooter) for single or multiplayer game

Why similar: Pirates 27% ★, Battle Royale 22.7% ★, Massively Multiplayer 10.5%, PvP 9.2%, Open World 7.2%

Fight, loot, and escape in a hardcore FPS world filled with deadly zombies and valuable loot. Craft weapons, armor, and consumables, trade items, and survive your escape from the massive Liberty Grand Center complex.

Why similar: Extraction Shooter 42.7% ★, Loot 9.2%, Online Co-Op 9.1%, FPS 9.1%, PvP 9%

VEIN is a post-apocalyptic survival multiplayer sandbox game. Gather supplies to survive, explore abandoned buildings, defend your home, and rebuild society, whether alone or with friends.

Why similar: Open World 37.1%, Survival 36.9%, Exploration 12.6%, First-Person 8.8%, Action 4.6%

Expedition Agartha is a high-stakes first person slasher. Loot ancient treasures, conquer mythological enemies, and extract to safety - alone or up to groups of three. Gear up and launch your expedition in the first and only medieval extraction looter available on Steam!

Why similar: Extraction Shooter 48% ★, Loot 17.7%, Online Co-Op 9.8%, PvP 9.4%, Survival 8%

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: Survival 28.6%, Open World 19%, FPS 16.6%, PvE 12.7%, Shooter 10.9%

Nuclear Epoch: Open-world survival mixing base building & extraction shooting. Explore with friends, raid dangerous instances for loot, but death means losing everything. Craft weapons with fully customizable stats in this post-apocalyptic wasteland.

Why similar: Extraction Shooter 60.5% ★, Open World 12.2%, Survival 9.9%, FPS 6.8%, Shooter 6.4%

Granvir is a 3rd person action roguelite mech-builder with co-op multiplayer. Scavenge the battlefield for parts to replace and upgrade your Granvir and weaponry. PIlot your Granvir and manage your campaign between battles to find the best equipment and stay supplied while fighting a guerilla war.

Why similar: Mechs 46.7% ★, Loot 24.8%, Online Co-Op 19.5%, Shooter 9%

Yee-haw, Cowboys! Team up in this chaotic 1-4 player co-op shooter. Journey to the Far Far West to blast monsters, sling spells, complete missions, and collect bounties. Work as a team to get in, get paid and get out (mostly) alive.

Why similar: Extraction Shooter 41.5% ★, Online Co-Op 11.9%, Loot 11.3%, FPS 10.5%, PvE 8.2%

Grab your ragtag crew & take up the Nectar Raiding trade on a dangerous planet that’s become all the rage! In this PvPvE extraction game for 1-10 players, compete against enemy crews to harvest as much Nectar as possible before night falls. But watch out, you're not the only one roaming this planet!

Why similar: Extraction Shooter 40.2% ★, Loot 14.7%, Online Co-Op 8.3%, Survival 8.2%, Open World 8.1%

A free-to-play, low-poly, open-world survival shooter where you’ll battle other players, explore massive monuments, and fight to stay alive. Build and fortify your base to defend against enemy raids, gather resources, and conquer a harsh, competitive world. Survival means doing whatever it takes.

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 30.6%, Open World 18.2%, Survival 17.3%, Shooter 14.7%, Exploration 7.8%

Treasure Royale is a Battle Royale style game in which dozens of pirate crews face each other on the open sea, jungle islands and dark caves. Navigate your ship, bombard enemies, find gear but above all - hunt treasures!

Why similar: Battle Royale 33.2% ★, Pirates 19% ★, Loot 10.1%, FPS 7.6%, Open World 6.6%

This is a multiplayer action-competitive game where you use mystical powers to become the ruler of the world! Warriors, gunmen, wizards... Dig up treasures buried deep underground. If you can make it out alive, they will all be yours. Gather your friends and join together in a hunting team.

Why similar: Battle Royale 38.4% ★, Massively Multiplayer 36.3%, Online Co-Op 14.2%, Action 5.7%, PvP 5.5%

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: Massively Multiplayer 24.3%, Open World 16.6%, Survival 16.4%, PvP 16%, Online Co-Op 15.2%

PIONER drops players into a vast, grim world, where survival hinges on exploration, crafting, and smart resource management. As an MMO FPS, it offers both PvE missions and intense PvP zones, with unique crafting mechanics, hundreds of weapons and a deep story to explore.

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 23.9%, FPS 15.9%, Open World 14.7%, Survival 13.2%, PvP 13%

Survive, shoot, construct, and ride killer elemental robots. Craft equipment, explore multi-floor buildings, build and farm, uncover schematics, and progress through technology tiers. Alone or with friends in this brutal post apocalyptic open world survival robot riding crafting shooter game!

Why similar: FPS 18.4%, Survival 16.1%, Online Co-Op 16%, Open World 15.3%, PvE 11.8%