- #1 Aloft
97% matchVery Positive84% of 3,637 reviews2025
Dev: Astrolabe Interactive Inc.Pub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Soar the skies in Aloft, the co-op sandbox survival game set in a world of floating islands. Build any island into a skyship, your home in the clouds. Find lost knowledge, cure the fungal corruption, and brave the hurricane to restore the ecosystem.
Why similar: Farming 21.2% ★, Open World Survival Craft 18.7% ★, Crafting 9.9%, Building 9.2%, Co-op 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: Features floating islands and airship mechanics that directly mirror the core exploration and traversal of Solarpunk.
- #2 Forever Skies
96% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,551 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 31.8 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 25.6% ★, Base Building 13%, Crafting 10.6%, Co-op 10.4%, Building 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: Centers on a high-tech airship that serves as both a mobile base and a lifeline for survival in a ruined world.
- #3 Lost Skies
96% matchMixed61% of 2,941 reviews2025
Dev: Bossa StudiosPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 11.8 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Chart a course in a breathtaking, but fractured world. Explore ancient ruins, master advanced technology, and craft your very own skyship to brave nature’s fury and colossal threats in Lost Skies. Team up with friends or go it alone in this awe-inspiring cooperative survival adventure.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.7% ★, Base Building 15.8%, Online Co-Op 13.1%, Sandbox 9.4%, Crafting 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on cooperative exploration of floating islands with a heavy emphasis on building custom airships.
- #4 The Planet Crafter
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 71,525 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.5 hrsMean: 38.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 23.6% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Automation 9.1%, Online Co-Op 8.6%, Crafting 8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the rewarding process of terraforming a barren world through base-building and resource management.
- #5 Lightyear Frontier
94% matchVery Positive84% of 4,562 reviews2024
Dev: FRAME BREAK
Windows
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
In Lightyear Frontier you use your powerful trusty mech to farm on a large beautiful alien planet. Settle your homestead, farm and deliver produce to remote colonies, gather and manage resources, build, craft, explore, expand, improve your mech, meet neighbors, and make a place to call your own.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.1% ★, Farming Sim 13.3%, Base Building 10.6%, Crafting 9%, Online Co-Op 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a cozy, non-violent approach to survival and farming using customizable mechs in a beautiful alien world.
- #6 Raft
94% matchVery Positive93% of 374,777 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.6 hrsMean: 37.5 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 31% ★, Survival 11.2%, Co-op 10%, Crafting 8.4%, Multiplayer 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: The definitive survival game about building and expanding a mobile base while navigating an endless environment.
- #7 Outbound
93% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,904 reviews2026
Dev: Square Glade Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Explore a colorful world and build your own cozy home on wheels. Craft workstations, and source energy from the sun, wind, or water. Upgrade and customize your vehicle, grow crops, and live sustainably off-grid with up to 4 players.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 16.3% ★, Farming 16.2% ★, Cozy 11.1%, Base Building 9.2%, Online Co-Op 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: A cozy, solar-powered exploration game that emphasizes building and sustainable living in an open world.
- #8 I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival
92% matchVery Positive85% of 4,592 reviews2024
Dev: MandragoraPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
I Am Future is a relaxing single-player survival game about building a cozy rooftop camp amid a flooded post-apocalyptic city. Set up a farm, go fishing, tinker with gadgets, craft new tools, manage a team of cute robots to automate and expand your base, explore the mysterious world, and chill out!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 17.3% ★, Farming Sim 13.7%, Cozy 12.1%, Crafting 9.2%, Building 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a relaxing, low-stress survival experience centered on base-building and automation in a post-apocalyptic setting.
- #9 Dinkum
91% matchVery Positive92% of 28,918 reviews2025
Dev: James BendonPub: KRAFTON, Inc.
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 28.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Dinkum is a survival life simulation game set on an island inspired by the rugged Australian outback. Farm, hunt, mine, fish, and forage to gather resources, expand your town, and discover what makes Dinkum so special—either solo or with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.2% ★, Farming 17.1% ★, Farming Sim 11.5%, Crafting 7%, Co-op 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: A relaxing, open-world farming and building game that captures the cozy community-building aspect of survival titles.
- #10 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
91% matchVery Positive82% of 10,269 reviews2024
Dev: Merge GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.2% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Online Co-Op 8.7%, Crafting 8.6%, Building 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: Combines survival and building with a unique perspective and a focus on exploring a lush, overgrown environment.
- #11 ASTRONEER
90% matchVery Positive92% of 138,510 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.3 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 27.6% ★, Base Building 10.2%, Open World 8.5%, Survival 8.1%, Co-op 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: Features vibrant, stylized exploration and base-building with a focus on creative crafting and planetary traversal.
- #12 Len's Island
89% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,790 reviews2025
Dev: Flow Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.7 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 25.1% ★, Farming 23.3% ★, Building 9%, Base Building 8.6%, Crafting 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: Blends exploration, farming, and building with a clean, inviting aesthetic and satisfying progression.
- #13 Voidtrain
89% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,612 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 14.0 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 29.5% ★, Base Building 9.3%, Co-op 8.4%, Crafting 7.6%, Online Co-Op 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a unique survival experience where players build and upgrade a train that serves as their mobile base.
- #14 Satisfactory
87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 274,659 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 32.8 hrsMean: 111.2 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Why similar: Automation 16%, Base Building 15.9%, Open World Survival Craft 12% ★, Crafting 10%, Building 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: Provides deep base-building and automation mechanics within a stunning, large-scale open world.
- #15 Volcanoids
88% matchVery Positive83% of 9,298 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.9 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: Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 11.7%, Building 10.3%, Co-op 9.9%, Sandbox 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: Features steampunk-inspired base-building and survival where your base is a drill ship that can move across the map.
- #16 Sunkenland
86% matchVery Positive81% of 23,452 reviews2023
Dev: Vector3 Studio
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 19.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Get ready for a Waterworld-themed survival game with modular base building, sunken city scavenging, crafting, base defense, and invasions of NPC clans for resources and territory. Ready for the water apocalypse?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.7% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Co-op 12%, Survival 9.7%, Crafting 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on survival and base-building in a water-world setting, encouraging exploration and scavenging.
- #17 Luma Island
84% matchVery Positive84% of 12,478 reviews2024
Dev: Feel Free Games
Windows
Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 24.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Get ready to explore, farm, fish, mine, craft, and raise magical Lumas as you solve puzzles and embark on quests across Luma Island. Play solo, or team up with friends in 1-4 player online co-op. Choose relaxing Cozy, challenging Adventure, or epic Hero mode to match your mood and playstyle.
Why similar: Farming Sim 17.2%, Cozy 16.2%, Crafting 11.2%, Online Co-Op 11.2%, Building 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: A casual, cozy simulation game that emphasizes farming and building in a bright, inviting world.
- #18 Among Trees
86% matchMixed68% of 2,229 reviews2021
Dev: FJRD Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Escape to an enchanting, living sandbox surrounded by wildlife and nature. Scavenge materials and craft tools to turn your small cabin into a warm, well-supplied home. Survive by fishing, cooking and growing your own food. Be careful though, the forest is as dangerous as it is wonderful.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.7% ★, Farming 17.8% ★, Crafting 7.5%, Base Building 7.4%, Survival 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric and cozy survival game focused on building a small cabin and exploring a serene forest.
- #19 Arctico
85% matchMostly Positive70% of 2,498 reviews2022
Dev: Claudio Norori
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Explore Arctico with your dog sled, kayak, and up to 3 friends! Build and customize your base camp, gather resources and samples, set up labs, and take good care of your dogs in this peaceful island.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.6% ★, Co-op 9.9%, Open World 8.5%, Survival 8.2%, Base Building 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: Features a cozy, dog-sledding exploration mechanic combined with survival and base-building in a frozen landscape.
- #20 Tinkerlands
83% matchVery Positive86% of 3,973 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Explore, craft, and fight your way through uncharted islands — solo or with up to 4 players in co-op! Tinkerlands is an exciting survival adventure where you will build your settlement, craft useful tools to survive, and even use magic!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.6% ★, Online Co-Op 10.8%, Sandbox 9.4%, Crafting 8.8%, Co-op 8%
Why You'll Like It: A cozy, pixel-art survival game that focuses on crafting, building, and exploring diverse biomes.
- #21 Palworld
82% matchVery Positive94% of 425,619 reviews2024
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 34.3 hrsMean: 71.0 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.1% ★, Open World 10.2%, Survival 8.9%, Crafting 8%, Online Co-Op 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: Combines survival and base-building with creature collection in a vast, open-world environment.
- #22 ICARUS
82% matchMostly Positive75% of 64,831 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 46.3 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 26.8% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Online Co-Op 9%, Survival 8.8%, Crafting 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: A session-based survival game that challenges players to build and craft under time pressure in a hostile environment.
- #23 Everwind
81% matchVery Positive81% of 3,601 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 14.1%, Crafting 14.1%, Building 13.5%, Co-op 13.1%, Sandbox 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: A cooperative open-world survival game that focuses on building and exploration in a stylized setting.
- #24 Soulmask
79% matchMostly Positive77% of 21,914 reviews2026
Dev: CampFire StudioPub: Qooland Games
Windows
Median: 13.8 hrsMean: 68.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. Possess any of your tribespeople, recruit followers, and build a thriving automated civilization. Survive, expand, and forge your own legacy across a vast ancient open world — together with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.2% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Automation 12.7%, Crafting 10.7%, Co-op 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Provides deep survival and base-building mechanics with a focus on tribe management and exploration.
- #25 My Time at Sandrock
80% matchVery Positive88% of 28,759 reviews2023
Dev: Pathea Games
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 39.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Travel to the desert community of Sandrock and take on the role of a fledgling Builder. Use your trusty toolset to gather resources, construct machines, and turn your run-down workshop into a well-oiled production facility to save the town from the jaws of economic ruin!
Why similar: Farming Sim 27%, Building 17.6%, Crafting 16.5%, Sandbox 14.1%, Open World 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: Emphasizes crafting, community, and building in a charming, stylized world that rewards player ingenuity.
- #26 Eco
81% matchVery Positive81% of 13,962 reviews2018
Dev: Strange Loop Games
Windows
Median: 16.7 hrsMean: 89.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Build a civilization of real people, working together to advance society and stop a meteor, all without destroying the ecosystem in the process.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.4% ★, Base Building 16%, Crafting 13.4%, Sandbox 9.9%, Open World 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: A cooperative survival game that emphasizes environmental impact and complex building systems.
- #27 Eden Crafters
77% matchVery Positive86% of 2,537 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 13.6 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 23.8% ★, Automation 12.5%, Base Building 10.8%, Crafting 8.9%, Online Co-Op 7.3%
- #28 Valheim
78% matchVery Positive94% of 536,933 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 25.9 hrsMean: 77.4 hrs≥1hr: 93%
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.6% ★, Online Co-Op 10.2%, Base Building 9.2%, Building 8.3%, Crafting 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: Features highly rewarding building mechanics and exploration within a stylized, atmospheric open world.
- #29 No Man's Sky
79% matchVery Positive85% of 411,162 reviews2016
Dev: Hello Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 20.1 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 41.9% ★, Open World 13.9%, Survival 8.6%, Sandbox 8.4%, Crafting 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: Offers an infinite universe for exploration, base-building, and crafting with a focus on high-tech survival.
- #30 StarRupture
77% matchVery Positive81% of 12,866 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 24.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 Survival Craft 22.9% ★, Automation 11.9%, Base Building 11.1%, Crafting 8.4%, Co-op 8.1%
- #31 Above Snakes
78% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,985 reviews2023
Dev: Square Glade GamesPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Piece by piece, create your own world in this relaxing Wild West-inspired worldbuilder. Craft, farm, hunt, build your base, and explore.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.9% ★, Cozy 11.6%, Base Building 10.1%, Crafting 9.3%, Building 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric survival game that allows players to build their own world tile-by-tile while exploring.
- #32 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
76% matchVery Positive91% of 7,488 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 55%
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 24.3% ★, Base Building 10.5%, Automation 10%, Crafting 7.8%, Online Co-Op 7.6%
- #33 Occupy Mars: The Game
74% matchMixed70% of 3,099 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 34.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.
Why similar: Base Building 14.1%, Crafting 12.1%, Building 10.5%, Sandbox 10.5%, Online Co-Op 10.2%
- #34 Longvinter
74% matchMixed67% of 7,607 reviews2025
Dev: Uuvana Studios
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 44.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Fish, farm, craft, gather, cook, loot or steal from other players and build a campsite or a village with your friends in an open-world multiplayer sandbox game without rules!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.5% ★, Crafting 12.7%, Survival 10.5%, Open World 9.4%, Sandbox 8.6%
- #35 TerraTech Worlds
75% matchMixed63% of 2,256 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 21.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: Open World Survival Craft 24.1% ★, Base Building 12%, Crafting 9.3%, Building 8.5%, Co-op 8.3%
- #36 Scrapnaut
76% matchMixed70% of 833 reviews2021
Dev: SpiffyBitPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements. Explore an open world with different biomes, take care of oxygen, manage your farms, generate electricity, build your home and much more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.3% ★, Building 11%, Online Co-Op 9.5%, Co-op 9.1%, Base Building 8.4%
- #37 Cubic Odyssey
73% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,674 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 33.2% ★, Base Building 15.3%, Building 11.3%, Co-op 11.2%, Sandbox 10.4%
- #38 Solace Crafting
75% matchMostly Positive72% of 894 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 24.8% ★, Base Building 10.3%, Crafting 9.8%, Online Co-Op 8.2%, Building 7.9%
- #39 Nova Lands
73% matchVery Positive89% of 3,465 reviews2023
Dev: BEHEMUTTPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Nova Lands is a factory building, exploration, and island management game. Explore, engage in combat, and automate your industry. The planet you’re on is full of mysteries, creatures, people, and things to do. Welcome to your new home amongst the stars!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.6% ★, Automation 14.6%, Base Building 12.5%, Farming Sim 9%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #40 Grounded
72% matchVery Positive90% of 94,772 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.3 hrsMean: 41.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.4% ★, Base Building 13%, Survival 12%, Co-op 10.4%, Crafting 9.1%
- #41 Nightingale
72% matchMixed66% of 17,987 reviews2024
Dev: Inflexion Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 23.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Nightingale is an open world survival crafting game, where you’ll adventure across the mysterious and dangerous Fae Realms. As a daring Realmwalker, you’ll defeat monstrous enemies, survive hostile environments, and build elaborate estates in a visually stunning Gaslamp Fantasy world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.9% ★, Base Building 10.2%, Online Co-Op 9.8%, Crafting 9.2%, Building 8.8%
- #42 The Last Caretaker
70% matchVery Positive86% of 12,107 reviews2025
Dev: Channel37 Ltd
Windows
Median: 18.2 hrsMean: 35.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Explore a drowned Earth, restore lost systems, and raise the last human seeds in this first-person survival-crafting adventure. Build, scavenge, defend, and launch humanity back to the stars.
Why similar: Automation 18.3%, Base Building 16.8%, Crafting 14.3%, Sandbox 11.7%, Open World 10.6%
- #43 Astrometica
69% matchVery Positive83% of 3,131 reviews2024
Dev: BeryMeryPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 16.6 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Astrometica is a space exploration and base-building survival game. After a catastrophic event, explore vast space, gather resources, build bases, and uncover cosmic mysteries. Use advanced technology, craft tools, and discover new blueprints to survive and thrive in the unknown.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.2% ★, Automation 16.2%, Base Building 14.4%, Crafting 14.4%, Open World 12.2%
- #44 Scrap Mechanic
71% matchVery Positive92% of 117,933 reviews2016
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.2 hrsMean: 58.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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: Building 15.7%, Crafting 13.2%, Sandbox 12.2%, Base Building 10.9%, Open World 10.5%
- #45 KeepUp Survival
71% matchMixed64% of 744 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 27% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 10.2%, Co-op 9.8%, Open World 8.5%
- #46 Space Trash Scavenger
70% matchVery Positive84% of 521 reviews2024
Dev: SquarePlay GamesPub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Grab your jetpack and explore procedural asteroid fields, derelict spaceships and abandoned outposts. Build and automate your Space Rig to process scavenged trash. Craft, trade and fight your way home in this interstellar, open-world survival sandbox.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.4% ★, Automation 14.2%, Crafting 10.5%, Base Building 8.8%, Building 8.3%
- #47 Under A New Sun
70% matchMostly Positive76% of 391 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 37% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Crafting 12.2%, Survival 10.3%, Open World 10.3%
- #48 Subsistence
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,723 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 5.0 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 36.6% ★, Crafting 10.7%, Survival 10.2%, Base Building 8.3%, Open World 7.5%
- #49 Project Castaway
68% matchMixed66% of 1,785 reviews2026
Dev: Mardonpol Inc.
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 8.2 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 25.6% ★, Online Co-Op 9.6%, Base Building 9.5%, Co-op 9%, Sandbox 7.5%
- #50 SpaceCraft
67% matchMixed67% of 2,264 reviews2026
Dev: Shiro Games
Windows
Median: 13.9 hrsMean: 37.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
The Universe is yours. SpaceCraft is an online space exploration and building game. Explore a vast galaxy of solar systems and planets, mine and craft resources, design and build ships, automate planetary bases and interplanetary logistics, trade and cooperate.
Why similar: Automation 15.7%, Base Building 15.5%, Crafting 13.1%, Sandbox 12.2%, Open World 11.3%
- #51 Wildmender
68% matchVery Positive84% of 2,192 reviews2023
Dev: Muse GamesPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A desert gardening survival game. Start from a tiny spring and cultivate a blooming garden. Explore a vast world amid the sands and uncover its mysteries. Can you defend against the relentless forces of nature and mysterious wraith corruption, to bring life to a dying world?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.4% ★, Farming Sim 19.6%, Base Building 11.5%, Crafting 9.3%, Online Co-Op 8.7%
- #52 Techtonica
68% matchMixed65% of 3,219 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.
Why similar: Automation 18.4%, Base Building 14.7%, Building 12%, Online Co-Op 11.3%, Crafting 9.9%
- #53 Omega Crafter
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 570 reviews2025
Dev: Preferred Networks
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Adventure in a vast open-world survival craft game with your programmable sidekick Grammi! Program the Grammi to collect materials, build your town, craft weapons and armor to challenge strong enemies! Play alone or with friends online!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.6% ★, Automation 13.1%, Crafting 9.5%, Co-op 8.5%, Building 7.4%
- #54 Drift: Space Survival
69% 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 30.9% ★, Online Co-Op 10.9%, Crafting 9.4%, Base Building 8.5%, Survival 8.4%
- #55 Skyformer
67% matchVery Positive84% of 70 reviews2025
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!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.5% ★, Automation 14.9%, Base Building 12.9%, Crafting 10.5%, Building 9.5%
- #56 Starbound
67% matchVery Positive90% of 123,064 reviews2016
Dev: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.1 hrsMean: 64.3 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 35.4% ★, Sandbox 10.8%, Crafting 8.1%, Online Co-Op 7.7%, Survival 6.6%
- #57 FOUNDRY
66% matchVery Positive81% of 3,864 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 47.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.
Why similar: Automation 14.5%, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 11%, Building 10.3%, Online Co-Op 10.1%
- #58 JUNKPUNK
69% matchMixed63% of 681 reviews2021
Dev: SCT
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 61%
JUNKPUNK is a factory management, base building, exploration game where a New World Robotics ship has crash landed. You and any survivors must restore this ruined planet and prepare it for habitable life. Craft, build, explore, discover, and grow to terraform the planet.
Why similar: Automation 22.3%, Crafting 17.5%, Building 15.8%, Base Building 13%, Online Co-Op 10.3%
