- #1 The Planet Crafter
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 74,281 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.7 hrsMean: 38.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.3% ★, Base Building 10.9%, Online Co-Op 7.9%, Survival 6.9%, Crafting 6.5%
- #2 Planetaries
96% matchMixed58% of 228 reviews2024
Dev: EY-Studio
Windows
Experience a vast Sci-fi open-world survival TD game set on a distant planet deep in the universe. Craft, build, mine, trade, explore, and survive in this alien world. Collect Data and defend against waves of enemies seeking to banish you. Enjoy the adventure in Singleplayer or Multiplayer.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.8% ★, Tower Defense 9.9%, Base Building 9.6%, Online Co-Op 8.5%, Crafting 7.2%
- #3 GreenMars: Expedition 744
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 744 Interactive
Windows
A sci-fi survival game where you explore a full planet, gather resources, build your base, deploy terraforming machines and drones, and begin turning hostile Martian terrain into the foundation of a new civilisation.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.5% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Survival 7.7%, Online Co-Op 7.5%, Building 6.9%
- #4 Moon Colony Crafter
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: InfinityCoders
Windows
Play as an astronaut on our moon in the future. Your task is to prepare the moon for future colonies by terraforming. Collect resources, explore procedurally generated caves, build buildings and create a second world for you and our earth.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.2% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Survival 8.3%, Crafting 7.4%, Aliens 6.7%
- #5 Drift: Space Survival
94% matchMostly Positive70% of 77 reviews2023
Dev: KAR Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
You were deep in uncharted space on a research mission. Disaster struck. Together with your friends, explore a mysterious asteroid field and mine whatever resources possible to build what you need to survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.6% ★, Online Co-Op 10.5%, Survival 9%, Base Building 8.4%, Space 8%
- #6 Wildsite
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Vividdi Entertainment
Windows · Linux
Crash-land on a sci-fi planet plagued by toxic plasma storms. Alongside Bob, your sarcastic AI companion, build and shrink your base to move it anywhere. Fight with primitive or plasma weapons in this survival-craft adventure solo or with up to 3 friends in online co-op!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.1% ★, Base Building 10.9%, Online Co-Op 9.9%, Survival 8.4%, Crafting 8.1%
- #7 Breathedge
93% matchVery Positive81% of 18,514 reviews2021
Dev: RedRuins SoftworksPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 33.3% ★, Base Building 11.4%, Space 9.1%, Survival 8.9%, Sandbox 6.6%
- #8 Occupy Mars: The Game
92% matchMixed70% of 3,170 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 36.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Survive and colonize Mars alone or in online co-op. Build and upgrade your base, craft equipment, mine resources, produce water, oxygen and food, explore an open world, and repair complex machinery in a technical survival sandbox.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.7% ★, Base Building 10.7%, Online Co-Op 8.2%, Crafting 7.5%, Survival 7.1%
- #9 ICARUS
91% matchMostly Positive75% of 68,864 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.4 hrsMean: 46.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.8% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Survival 9.9%, Online Co-Op 9.2%, Crafting 7.5%
- #10 Emberhaven
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: The Third Variable Co., Ltd.Pub: Jexar Games Co., Ltd.
Windows
Survive in a procedurally generated fantasy world overrun by creeping corruption. Build impenetrable strongholds, tend your farms, forge deadly weapons, and fend off hordes of mutated abominations to defend your last sanctuary.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.4% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Tower Defense 10.3%, Survival 8.2%, Crafting 8%
- #11 Aurendor
90% matchMixed47% of 17 reviews2023
Dev: Telescope Studios
Windows
Aurendor is an open world survival game. Players must gather resources, cook their meals and fight dangerous creatures to survive and build a home for themselves. Aurendor also offers a multiplayer game option. Players can play together by cooperating with or battling other survivors.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.5% ★, Base Building 10.7%, Online Co-Op 10.6%, Survival 9.2%, Crafting 8.2%
- #12 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
89% matchVery Positive91% of 7,668 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Survive, craft, and automate in this free prologue set on one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters, an open-world game where you play solo or with friends to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.5% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Online Co-Op 8.7%, Crafting 7.6%, Open World 6.7%
- #13 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 28.1% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Crafting 9.1%, Survival 9.1%, Online Co-Op 8.8%
- #14 Skyformer
88% matchMostly Positive79% of 96 reviews2026
Dev: Weatherfused
Windows
Create an automated system that terraforms a planet with an army of drones. Craft and build bases, set up a weather monitoring system, prepare to survive different types of storms, and take control of the climate and biomes! Play alone or up to 4 player co-op.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.9% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Online Co-Op 8.3%, Crafting 7.9%, Survival 7.7%
- #15 Last Breath
87% matchVery Positive84% of 80 reviews2026
Dev: Mx
Windows
Last Breath is a solo/cooperative terraforming survival game. Dig through terrain, build powerful machines, and restore life to a dead planet. Work together to survive, automate, and reshape the world from the ground up, literally.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.5% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Survival 11.1%, Online Co-Op 10.3%, Crafting 7.5%
- #16 The Last Viking
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NoBrain Studio
Windows
Play as a young viking, learn to survive and fight in the wilderness. To fulfill your destiny, explore an island alone or in cooperation with friends, build structures, confront Norse gods and mythological creatures. Will you be the last Viking?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 18.5% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Online Co-Op 11.4%, Survival 10.2%, Open World 8.7%
- #17 Nightingale
85% 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 29.9% ★, Base Building 10.9%, Online Co-Op 10.3%, Survival 9.2%, Crafting 8.3%
- #18 Valheim
82% 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 32.1% ★, Online Co-Op 10.8%, Base Building 10%, Survival 9.4%, Open World 7.5%
- #19 Eden Crafters
83% matchVery Positive85% of 2,696 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.4% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 8.3%, Online Co-Op 7.9%, Survival 6.5%
- #20 Astoaria
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Feres Studio
Windows
A sandbox open-world survival set in a dynamic world of floating islands, each with its own ecosystem and climate. Explore and thrive by strategically exploiting these environments. Harness energy, strategically farm, craft your airship and much more, while uncovering the mysteries of this world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.3% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Aliens 7.9%, Crafting 6.9%, Sandbox 6.5%
- #21 Starsand
84% matchMixed66% of 1,268 reviews2022
Dev: Tunnel Vision StudioPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Starsand is a mystic survival game set among the dunes of an arcane desert. An open-world full of danger, vast environments and mysterious happenings await you! Explore, hunt, craft, build – and SURVIVE.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.3% ★, Base Building 10.7%, Aliens 8.6%, Survival 8.1%, Crafting 7.7%
- #22 Whisper of the Swallows
82% matchVery Positive87% of 207 reviews2026
Dev: Blown Leaves
Windows
Brave a savage, unforgiving procedurally generated world where extreme weather and the nightmares of the dark will hunt you down. Alone or in co-op, survive, build, and explore to turn a cursed hellscape into your sanctuary of light.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.7% ★, Base Building 10.5%, Crafting 9.2%, Survival 8.9%, Online Co-Op 8.8%
- #23 ASTRONEER
81% matchVery Positive92% of 139,497 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.3% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Survival 9.6%, Space 8.8%, Open World 8.5%
- #24 Nighthold
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 2 Zombie GamesPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Build shelters, interact with rescuees, battle against the Rot and raiders to survive another night in this Sandbox RPG. Play Solo or team up with friends in Online Сo-op.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41% ★, Base Building 9.9%, Online Co-Op 7%, Survival 6.9%, Crafting 6.9%
- #25 Road to Eden
81% matchMixed64% of 408 reviews2019
Dev: Zouking
Windows
Road to Eden is a third-person multiplayer survival coop game, set within the post-apocalyptic ruins of a world destroyed by an alien invasion. You wake up at the side of the road with no memory and must team up with other survivors to make the long and dangerous journey to Eden.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.5% ★, Base Building 10.4%, Aliens 9.3%, Crafting 9.1%, Survival 8.9%
- #26 SkyCraft
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: ADIAN
Windows
Skycraft is an open-world survival game for 1-10 players, set in infinite procedurally-generated floating islands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.8% ★, Base Building 11.4%, Online Co-Op 10.5%, Survival 9.2%, Crafting 8.6%
- #27 Railborn
79% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Washbear Studio
Windows
Railborn is a survival game where you build your train piece by piece. Navigate a world entangled by branching tracks. Find rare plants to cultivate on your farms. Upgrade your train - manage its power systems, direct resource flow, and distribute water. Designed for 1 to 4 players.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.2% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Online Co-Op 10%, Survival 7.9%, Crafting 7%
- #28 Life Not Supported
78% matchMixed67% of 173 reviews2023
Dev: YETIBYTES
Windows · Linux
You are the lone survivor orbiting a potential new home planet, tethered to what’s left of your ship. Gather nearby debris and assemble a make-shift vessel in an attempt to survive the harsh realities of space. Maybe you'll live long enough to uncover the truth behind the ship's malfunction...
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.6% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 9.7%, Survival 9%, Space 7.9%
- #29 Once Human
77% matchMostly Positive79% of 189,842 reviews2024
Dev: Starry Studio
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 52.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Once Human is a Strange Worlds Survival Game set in a strange, post-apocalyptic future. Unite with friends to fight monstrous enemies, uncover secret plots, compete for resources, and build your own territory. Once, you were merely human. Now, you have the power to remake the world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.2% ★, Base Building 10.9%, Online Co-Op 8.7%, Survival 8.4%, Crafting 7.9%
- #30 Green Hell
78% 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 38.4% ★, Survival 12.1%, Online Co-Op 10.2%, Base Building 8.4%, Crafting 7.5%
- #31 Lost Track
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Junkyard Games
Windows
Survive alongside your companions in the outskirts of a town after a supernatural experimental accident. Gather survival resources, upgrade your vehicles and mobile fortress, and explore unknown areas to gradually uncover the truth behind the experiment…
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.5% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Online Co-Op 12.1%, Survival 10.9%, Crafting 8.4%
- #32 Cubic Odyssey
76% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,754 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Embark on a galactic journey in Cubic Odyssey, an open-world adventure where you explore vibrant planets, craft tools, build vehicles, and fight the Red Darkness. Uncover ancient mysteries, and shape a universe full of life, danger, and limitless possibilities!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.5% ★, Base Building 14.9%, Building 8.5%, Sandbox 7.6%, Co-op 7.1%
- #33 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
74% matchVery Positive82% of 10,551 reviews2024
Dev: Max Ent Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.1% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Online Co-Op 9.4%, Survival 9.4%, Crafting 8.2%
- #34 Dig or Die
75% matchVery Positive90% of 4,291 reviews2018
Dev: Gaddy Games
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Crash land on a hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it. But be warned... this planet is merciless. Build strong, and smart; else physics may flood or destroy your only hopes of survival.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.2% ★, Survival 12%, Crafting 10.2%, Tower Defense 9.2%, Sandbox 8.8%
- #35 Starbound
75% 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 38.9% ★, Sandbox 8.5%, Online Co-Op 7.9%, Survival 7.6%, Crafting 7.3%
- #36 Horizon Journey
73% matchMostly Negative25% of 88 reviews2026
Dev: Redivided Studios
Windows
Embark on an epic adventure to Mars in Horizon Journey, an open-world survival game that blends colonization, terraforming, and exploration in both single-player and multiplayer co-op modes. You're tasked with the monumental challenge of making Mars a new home for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.4% ★, Base Building 11%, Online Co-Op 8.7%, Crafting 8.2%, Survival 7.7%
- #37 Moonrite
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Haki Studios
Windows
A survival crafting game where you craft spirit companions with different materials to fight, work, and survive. Build your spiritual village and explore a beautiful anime-inspired world to defy ancient gods that rule the material and spiritual.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.3% ★, Base Building 16.3%, Online Co-Op 11.2%, Survival 10.2%, Crafting 7%
- #38 Red Planet: Survive
76% matchNegative12% of 49 reviews2017
Dev: Silent Parrot Studio
Windows
Red Planet: Survive is a first person survival game for Microsoft Windows. Surviving in the harsh conditions of the Red Planet will be hard, but if you are strong enough, you will succeed. Find the best way to survive, but be careful, since each wrong step will ensure your demise. The environment is your main enemy.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.7% ★, Base Building 11%, Survival 8.6%, Crafting 6.6%, Space 6.2%
- #39 Lodventure
73% matchMostly Positive74% of 166 reviews2023
Dev: Sky Games
Windows
Embark on a 1-4 players Co-op survival adventure in an open world wilderness in search of a myth called the Lod Stone. Build your house, sow your crops, brew potions, tame a horse and discover powerful abilities. Venture into dangerous dungeons, fight unique bosses to find the Lod stone.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.6% ★, Base Building 10.1%, Survival 9.2%, Open World 7.9%, Crafting 7.7%
- #40 Shamania
71% matchMostly Positive74% of 171 reviews2026
Dev: Totem Keepers Games
Windows
Shamania is an open world survival game where you can CRAFT, FIGHT, and EXPLORE a vibrant sandbox world with friends in CO-OP. Expand your base as a hub for survival, gather resources, and master professions to unlock new tools and opportunities!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.8% ★, Crafting 10.7%, Survival 9.8%, Open World 9.2%, Online Co-Op 8.5%
- #41 Project Castaway
71% 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 29.5% ★, Base Building 10.4%, Online Co-Op 10.3%, Survival 8.5%, Crafting 6.6%
- #42 Grounded 2
70% matchVery Positive81% of 24,763 reviews2025
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 13.2 hrsMean: 26.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Shrunk again, but the world is much larger. In this open-world, single-player or co-op survival adventure, craft weapons and armor, build your base, and traverse the playground on your buggy. But something else is out there—and it hasn’t forgotten you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.9% ★, Base Building 14.6%, Survival 13.2%, Crafting 8.4%, Open World 8.3%
- #43 XenoHaven
70% matchVery Positive82% of 73 reviews2025
Dev: Miniverse GamePub: OKJOY
Windows
In XenoHaven, gather resources to build shelters, enslave alien beasts to work for you, and run restaurants and shops. Delve into dark underground dungeons, defeat swarming insectoids and mighty bosses, and craft powerful gear to conquer the alien world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.6% ★, Base Building 14%, Survival 9.7%, Open World 9.3%, Crafting 8.6%
- #44 Fifth Sun: New Fire
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Daedralus
Windows
Survive the world of Mesoamerican mythology - alone or with friends. Gather, build, and survive your way through hostile wilds. Raid dungeons, appease the gods, and slay their monsters to offer them as sacrifices at the grand altar to reignite the Fifth Sun and open the gateway to the past suns.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.8% ★, Base Building 12%, Online Co-Op 9.9%, Survival 8.5%, Crafting 8.4%
- #45 Subsistence
72% 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 42.2% ★, Survival 12.3%, Crafting 10.1%, Base Building 9.2%, Open World 7.6%
- #46 SpiritBorn
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Highforge Studios
Windows
An open-world survival crafting RPG set among floating islands. Gather resources, craft powerful tools, unlock spirit abilities to soar between skybound realms and reclaim your lost godhood.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.6% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Survival 10.6%, Crafting 10%, Open World 8.8%
- #47 Necesse
67% 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 41% ★, Base Building 8.4%, Survival 7.7%, Crafting 7.6%, Open World 7.2%
- #48 RuneScape: Dragonwilds
66% matchVery Positive81% of 32,495 reviews2026
Dev: Jagex Ltd
Windows
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 20.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
On RuneScape's forgotten continent of Ashenfall, dragons have awoken. Gather, build, skill and craft in this co-operative survival adventure. Only by mastering survival and uncovering ancient secrets can you hope to face the ferocious Dragon Queen.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.8% ★, Online Co-Op 10.1%, Survival 9.9%, Base Building 9.7%, Open World 9.7%
- #49 GRAV
72% 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 39% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Survival 11.6%, Open World 8.9%, Crafting 7.4%
- #50 Primal Man Simulator
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: RD Games
Windows
Primal Man Simulator is a complex survival simulator where the player becomes one of the evolutionary precursors of modern homo sapiens, trying to live through another day in an unwelcoming forests of Europe.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.4% ★, Survival 11.5%, Crafting 11.1%, Base Building 9.8%, Open World 9.4%
- #51 Raft
68% 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 37.4% ★, Survival 14.1%, Base Building 8.8%, Crafting 8.3%, Co-op 7.6%
- #52 Core Keeper
67% matchVery Positive93% of 66,787 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.3 hrsMean: 34.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.1% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Online Co-Op 9.2%, Survival 9%, Crafting 8.9%
- #53 Elysium
69% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Artifika Games
Windows · Mac
Wake up on a paradise-like abandoned island with your friends. Explore the lands of an ancient civilization and uncover the mysteries behind their collapse as you build, craft, and tame corrupted machines. Most importantly, survive the unwelcome lands of Elysium!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.8% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Online Co-Op 10%, Crafting 8.2%, Survival 8.1%
- #54 Craterbound
69% matchMixed53% of 99 reviews2022
Dev: Daniel Marquez
Windows
Crash-land onto a unique and hostile alien world and begin your fight to survive. Face its inhabitants, upgrade your technology, create outposts & bases, and find a way to repair your ship. Explore the beautifully strange terrain, all while blasting and crafting your way off of the planet.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.4% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Survival 8.9%, Crafting 8.2%, Space 7.9%
- #55 Abiotic Factor
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 59,444 reviews2025
Dev: Deep Field GamesPub: Playstack
Windows
Median: 21.2 hrsMean: 46.5 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Abiotic Factor is a survival crafting experience for 1-6 players set in the depths of an underground research facility. Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the world’s greatest minds must survive against the universe’s biggest threats.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.2% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Online Co-Op 9.8%, Survival 8.8%, Crafting 8.6%
- #56 FarWest Colony
68% matchMixed55% of 38 reviews2023
Dev: JCP
Windows
Lead a rebellion against tyranny in this open-world, survival sci-fi RPG game. Utilize alien technology to explore, build bases, craft, and farm. Prepare for an unequal combat to rescue humanity from tyranny and a mysterious deadly virus.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.4% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Aliens 10.3%, Crafting 8.8%, Open World 7.8%
- #57 Divided Land
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Mich
Windows
Join the fight for survival in a vast medieval open world. Explore, hunt, craft powerful gear, raid and plunder enemy villages, or forge your own path. As darkness falls, the dead awaken - prepare your defenses or seek shelter. Team up with allies in co-op PvE or face the wilderness alone.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.6% ★, Base Building 10.9%, Survival 8.8%, Crafting 8.7%, Online Co-Op 7.6%
- #58 Remains
68% matchMostly Positive75% of 323 reviews2021
Dev: SoloQ
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Remains - survival in outer space orbiting the planet. Explore the area. Find a way to restore oxygen. Create tools for your needs. Beware of the dangers of outer space. Build your shelter in orbit and try not to die!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.4% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Crafting 9.3%, Survival 8.5%, Space 7.9%