- #1 ASKA
97% matchMostly Positive80% of 11,689 reviews2024
Dev: Sand Sailor StudioPub: Thunderful Publishing
Windows
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 28.5 hrsβ₯1hr: 86%
A new Viking age dawns with you at its helm. Forge a thriving colony from nothing in this mythic open-world survival sim. Earn the gods' favor and survive in a land ruled by ancient terrors and unforgiving seasons. Rally unique villagers, expand your settlement and defend your tribe - solo or co-op!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 18.9% β
, Colony Sim 16%, Automation 10%, Base Building 9.7%, Sandbox 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: It features a similar focus on managing a tribe of NPCs who perform tasks and help build your settlement in an open world.
- #2 Bellwright
96% matchVery Positive81% of 19,796 reviews2024
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 12.7 hrsMean: 41.4 hrsβ₯1hr: 90%
Establish and expand your own settlements, liberate the land and assist its villagers, and recruit others to your cause while learning more about a life you had to leave behind. Command your forces, prove your valor through combat, and cement yourself as the hero of your people.
Why similar: Survival 20.4%, Open World 19.4%, Crafting 16.1%, Building 14.5%, Multiplayer 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: This game mirrors the tribal management and rebellion aspects of Soulmask, requiring you to lead followers and expand your influence.
- #3 Myth of Empires
96% matchMixed67% of 17,381 reviews2024
Dev: Angela GamePub: Imperium Interactive Entertainment
Windows
Median: 15.3 hrsMean: 229.9 hrsβ₯1hr: 90%
Myth of Empires is a multiplayer war sandbox game featuring a high degree of freedom and multiple civilizations. Players must survive, craft, create, and lead troops in their quest to conquer PVE or PVP territory and build their own empire. Xizhou Civilization Pack is now officially released!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.9% β
, Base Building 11.3%, Building 11.1%, War 10.5%, Sandbox 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a massive sandbox experience with deep NPC management and complex base-building mechanics similar to Soulmask.
- #4 Conan Exiles Enhanced
95% matchMostly Positive79% of 115,037 reviews2018
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 17.1 hrsMean: 111.9 hrsβ₯1hr: 94%
Conan Exiles Enhanced is an open world survival game set in the mythical lands of Hyboria, now fully upgraded to Unreal Engine 5 with stunning visuals and improved performance. SURVIVE, BUILD, and DOMINATE alone or with friends in a world brimming with adventure!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.3% β
, Survival 15.8%, Open World 14%, Building 12.4%, Crafting 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: The thrall system is the closest mechanical equivalent to Soulmask's tribe recruitment, allowing you to capture and command NPCs.
- #5 Enshrouded
94% matchVery Positive86% of 101,648 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.7 hrsMean: 45.6 hrsβ₯1hr: 94%
You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.
Why similar: Base Building 20.4%, Open World 18.6%, Survival 16%, Crafting 12.4%, Building 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a polished open-world survival experience with highly detailed base-building and exploration mechanics.
- #6 Palworld
94% matchVery Positive94% of 421,232 reviews2024
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 34.5 hrsMean: 70.8 hrsβ₯1hr: 97%
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 27.2% β
, Open World 12.9%, Survival 11.1%, Base Building 8.4%, Automation 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: The base automation system where creatures perform tasks for you is a core gameplay loop that feels very similar to Soulmask's tribespeople.
- #7 Medieval Dynasty
93% matchVery Positive90% of 50,786 reviews2021
Dev: Render CubePub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 11.8 hrsMean: 36.2 hrsβ₯1hr: 91%
Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.
Why similar: Building 19.4%, Crafting 17.6%, Base Building 15.4%, Survival 12.3%, Open World 12.3%
Why You'll Like It: It excels at the village-building and NPC management aspects, focusing on creating a thriving community within a survival setting.
- #8 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
92% matchVery Positive82% of 9,989 reviews2024
Dev: Merge GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 15.2 hrsβ₯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 26.1% β
, Base Building 12.8%, Survival 10%, Building 9.3%, Open World 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique perspective on survival and base-building with a strong emphasis on exploration and crafting.
- #9 Necesse
91% matchVery Positive93% of 27,199 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows Β· Mac Β· Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 14.8 hrsβ₯1hr: 79%
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.7% β
, Automation 9.3%, Open World 8.7%, Sandbox 8.4%, Base Building 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down sandbox game that heavily emphasizes colony management and automation alongside traditional survival elements.
- #10 ARK: Survival Ascended
91% matchMixed60% of 105,775 reviews2023
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows
Median: 27.6 hrsMean: 196.8 hrsβ₯1hr: 92%
ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!
Why similar: Survival 17.2%, Base Building 16.6%, Open World 16.3%, Building 12.8%, Crafting 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: The taming and survival mechanics provide a similar sense of progression and creature-based utility to Soulmask's tribe system.
- #11 V Rising
90% matchVery Positive89% of 134,242 reviews2024
Dev: Stunlock Studios
Windows
Median: 21.0 hrsMean: 57.2 hrsβ₯1hr: 91%
Awaken as a Vampire. Hunt for blood in nearby settlements to regain your strength and evade the scorching sun to survive. Raise your castle and thrive in an ever-changing, open world full of mystery. Gain allies online and conquer the land of the living.
Why similar: Base Building 19.2%, Open World 15.6%, Survival 15.1%, Crafting 11.9%, Building 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: It combines top-down action with deep base-building and progression, focusing on expanding your territory and power.
- #12 Sengoku Dynasty
89% matchMostly Positive75% of 7,526 reviews2024
Dev: SuperkamiPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 7.5 hrsMean: 16.3 hrsβ₯1hr: 86%
Sengoku Dynasty is the ultimate feudal Japan experience: build villages, grow your community, and shape the open world through combat or economy. The choice is yours alone - or that of up to 4 players in multiplayer co-op!
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.7%, Base Building 15.5%, Open World 11.3%, Survival 10.9%, Building 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: This game blends survival and city-building in a historical setting, requiring you to manage villagers and expand your settlement.
- #13 Dune: Awakening
89% matchMostly Positive70% of 76,118 reviews2025
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 47.7 hrsMean: 97.4 hrsβ₯1hr: 97%
Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival RPG where you can fully immerse yourself in the epic world of Dune. Alone or with friends, explore a vast open world Arrakis, survive the sandworms, build a home, craft an ornithopter, and unravel the mystery of the missing Fremen.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24% β
, Base Building 12.1%, Building 9.3%, Open World 8.8%, Survival 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: An ambitious open-world survival game that focuses on resource management and building in a harsh, iconic desert setting.
- #14 Valheim
88% matchVery Positive94% of 534,015 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows Β· Mac Β· Linux
Median: 25.8 hrsMean: 76.9 hrsβ₯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 Odinβs patronage!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.7% β
, Base Building 11%, Survival 10.7%, Open World 10.3%, Building 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: This title is essential for fans of open-world survival and building, offering a rewarding progression system and atmospheric exploration.
- #15 Once Human
87% matchMostly Positive78% of 173,391 reviews2024
Dev: Starry Studio
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 50.9 hrsβ₯1hr: 77%
Once Human is a multiplayer open-world 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 30.8% β
, Base Building 15.5%, Survival 11.5%, Open World 11.3%, PvP 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: A modern survival-crafting game that features extensive base-building and multiplayer exploration in a strange, dangerous world.
- #16 The Planet Crafter
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 70,189 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.5 hrsMean: 37.9 hrsβ₯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 24.8% β
, Base Building 12.8%, Automation 12.5%, Building 8.9%, Survival 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on large-scale automation and terraforming, perfect for players who enjoy the base-building and resource-management aspects of Soulmask.
- #17 ICARUS
86% matchMostly Positive74% of 63,962 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 46.0 hrsβ₯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 30.3% β
, Base Building 13.8%, Survival 12%, Crafting 9%, Open World 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a session-based survival experience that emphasizes crafting and base-building in a hostile environment.
- #18 Omega Crafter
85% matchMostly Positive80% of 566 reviews2025
Dev: Preferred Networks
Windows Β· Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.5 hrsβ₯1hr: 75%
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% β
, Automation 19.2%, Open World 10.7%, Survival 10%, Crafting 10%
Why You'll Like It: It features a unique automation system where you program companions to help with crafting and building tasks.
- #19 Dawn of Defiance
84% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,797 reviews2024
Dev: Traega EntertainmentPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 9.7 hrsβ₯1hr: 84%
You are the Defier, a Spartan beginning your afterlife on the Crossroads. In this Greek myth-inspired survival craft, ascend from weak soldier to god-like anti-hero. Build impressive Greek structures, craft legendary gear, and break the seals of the Underworld with up to 3 friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30% β
, Base Building 11.8%, Survival 10.4%, Open World 8.1%, Building 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers a Greek-mythology-inspired survival experience with a focus on exploration and base-building.
- #20 The Front
84% matchMixed67% of 10,771 reviews2025
Dev: Samar Studio
Windows
Median: 10.6 hrsMean: 44.3 hrsβ₯1hr: 86%
The Front is a survival open-world crafting sandbox game. You are a resistance fighter sent back in time to stop the rise of a tyrannical empire. Collect resources, craft tech, build shelters, and fight monsters to accomplish your mission.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.8% β
, Base Building 13.3%, Building 10.5%, Survival 10.1%, Crafting 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: It combines survival and base-building with tower-defense elements, requiring strategic planning to survive waves of enemies.
- #21 Eden Crafters
83% matchVery Positive86% of 2,425 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.3 hrsβ₯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 20.9% β
, Automation 14.2%, Base Building 10.2%, Colony Sim 9.2%, Crafting 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: A game centered on automation and resource management, ideal for those who enjoy the technical side of base-building.
- #22 Occupy Mars: The Game
82% matchMostly Positive70% of 3,070 reviews2026
Dev: β² Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 34.4 hrsβ₯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: Colony Sim 18.3%, Base Building 12.8%, Resource Management 10.3%, Open World 9.8%, Crafting 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a realistic approach to survival and base-building on a harsh planet, focusing on resource management and technical maintenance.
- #23 Grounded
80% matchVery Positive90% of 93,832 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.3 hrsMean: 41.5 hrsβ₯1hr: 94%
The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place β 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 32.6% β
, Survival 16.6%, Base Building 16.2%, Crafting 9.7%, Open World 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: A highly polished survival game that features creative base-building and a compelling progression loop.
- #24 7 Days to Die
79% matchVery Positive87% of 399,251 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows Β· Mac Β· Linux
Median: 16.9 hrsMean: 108.3 hrsβ₯1hr: 91%
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29% β
, Survival 15.1%, Base Building 13.6%, Open World 11%, Building 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: It is a staple of the survival-crafting genre, focusing on base defense and scavenging in a fully destructible world.
- #25 Last Oasis
82% matchMixed62% of 24,224 reviews2020
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 17.9 hrsMean: 121.2 hrsβ₯1hr: 88%
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: Survival 20.9%, Open World 19%, Building 14%, Crafting 13.5%, Sandbox 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: A nomadic survival game that requires constant movement and base-building on massive walking machines.
- #26 Grand Emprise: Time Travel Survival
81% matchMixed69% of 845 reviews2023
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
TIME TRAVEL through history to BECOME GOD π Ride dinosaurs, forge tools, sail dunes, build a colony, siege castles, automate and fly, mine underground, launch to the moon, build a dyson sphere! An insane, unforgettable and revolutionary survival crafting base building open world adventure.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 18.7% β
, Colony Sim 13.7%, Automation 12.8%, Base Building 10.7%, Survival 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: It features a unique progression system across different eras, focusing on survival and crafting at every stage.
- #27 Project Zomboid
81% matchVery Positive94% of 450,585 reviews2013
Dev: The Indie Stone
Windows Β· Mac Β· Linux
Median: 15.0 hrsMean: 83.6 hrsβ₯1hr: 92%
Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.4% β
, Survival 19.5%, Open World 14%, Sandbox 10.1%, Building 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: While set in a zombie apocalypse, it offers unparalleled depth in survival, base management, and long-term character progression.
- #28 Night of the Dead
79% matchMostly Positive77% of 11,782 reviews2024
Dev: Jackto Studios
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 32.7 hrsβ₯1hr: 83%
'Night of the Dead' is an open-world game that combines elements of exploration, tower defense, survival, and crafting. Traverse a world dominated by zombies while collecting various resources and powerful equipment. Build a fortress to survive the hordes of zombies that swarm every night!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.1% β
, Hunting 17.1% β
, Base Building 9.6%, Building 7.5%, Open World 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: It blends survival and base-building with intense tower-defense mechanics, forcing you to prepare for nightly threats.
- #29 StarRupture
78% matchVery Positive81% of 12,313 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 22.6 hrsβ₯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 21.1% β
, Automation 14.2%, Colony Sim 14.1%, Base Building 11.1%, Open World 7.7%
- #30 Windrose
76% matchVery Positive88% of 44,950 reviews2026
Dev: Kraken Express
Windows
Median: 19.2 hrsMean: 31.4 hrsβ₯1hr: 94%
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% β
, Crafting 11.8%, Survival 11.3%, Base Building 10.8%, Building 10.5%
- #31 Everwind
76% matchVery Positive82% of 3,221 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 12.8 hrsβ₯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: Building 16.6%, Open World 15.7%, Crafting 15.1%, Survival 14.8%, Sandbox 14.4%
- #32 Shamania
77% matchMostly Positive77% of 145 reviews2025
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 25.4% β
, Automation 12%, Open World 10.7%, Crafting 10.2%, Survival 9.5%
- #33 Stationeers
78% matchVery Positive88% of 9,014 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 83.9 hrsβ₯1hr: 85%
Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.2%, Automation 16.9%, Base Building 12.9%, Building 9.8%, Resource Management 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers complex automation and atmospheric management, appealing to players who enjoy the technical depth of base-building.
- #34 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
75% matchVery Positive91% of 7,431 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.0 hrsβ₯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 24.6% β
, Automation 13.2%, Base Building 11.5%, Open World 7.7%, Crafting 7.3%
- #35 Pax Dei
75% matchMixed57% of 10,968 reviews2025
Dev: Mainframe Industries
Windows
Median: 16.5 hrsMean: 70.7 hrsβ₯1hr: 89%
Welcome to a vast, social sandbox MMO inspired by the legends of the medieval era. Here, myths are real, ghosts exist, and magic is unquestioned. Join thousands of players as you explore the land, build your home, forge your reputation, and craft your own stories. What world will you make?
Why similar: Base Building 20.4%, Open World 15.1%, Crafting 15%, Sandbox 14.8%, PvP 12%
- #36 Solace Crafting
77% matchMostly Positive72% of 891 reviews2022
Dev: Big Kitty Games
Windows Β· 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 27.6% β
, Base Building 12.4%, Survival 10.3%, Crafting 10.1%, Open World 9.6%
- #37 Forever Skies
73% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,446 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 32.0 hrsβ₯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 25.8% β
, Base Building 14.2%, Open World 10.1%, Survival 9.9%, Crafting 9.9%
- #38 Cultivation Tales
74% matchMostly Negative38% of 13,640 reviews2024
Dev: Ac Games
Windows
Median: 23.8 hrsMean: 66.1 hrsβ₯1hr: 97%
Cultivation Tales is an open world survival craft online game. You will experience collecting, crafting, hunting, fighting, building, researching, in a wild mythical world. Fight for your clan and yourself, from mortal to divinity!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.3% β
, Building 13.8%, Sandbox 13.2%, Survival 11.4%, Open World 10.4%
- #39 Survival Machine
72% matchMostly Positive74% of 687 reviews2025
Dev: Grape PickersPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.7 hrsβ₯1hr: 78%
Build your base on a moving Machine, travel through biomes with different resources, and prepare for the night when a zombie threat is much higher than during the day. Would you go solo or explore this new world with your best friends?
Why similar: Base Building 22%, Crafting 16.5%, Resource Management 16.5%, Survival 14.1%, Third Person 9.7%
- #40 RuneScape: Dragonwilds
70% matchVery Positive81% of 25,015 reviews2025
Dev: Jagex Ltd
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 15.7 hrsβ₯1hr: 91%
On RuneScapeβs forgotten continent of Ashenfall, dragons have awoken. Gather, build, skill and craft to survive in this co-operative (1-4) survival crafting game. Only by mastering survival and uncovering ancient secrets can they hope to slay the Dragon Queenβalone or with allies.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.7% β
, Open World 12.3%, Survival 10.8%, Base Building 10.3%, Building 9.2%
- #41 DreamWorld: Sandbox MMO
70% matchMixed69% of 54 reviews2026
Dev: DreamWorld Realities, Inc.
Windows
Build incredible structures with powerful tools. Explore the world with all players on one server. Battle bosses, farm, craft, and socialize with friends. How will you shape DreamWorld?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.9% β
, Base Building 13.7%, Open World 9.7%, Building 9.6%, Sandbox 8.8%
- #42 Dark and Light
73% matchMixed52% of 11,819 reviews2017
Dev: Snail Games USA
Windows
Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 49.3 hrsβ₯1hr: 84%
Dark and Light is a vast sandbox survival RPG set in a world dominated by powerful elemental forces. Find your way in a meticulously crafted world, featuring breathtaking landscapes, a wide variety of mythical creatures, and limitless possibility to craft, build, and unlock dozens of powerful weapons, spells, and skills.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.7% β
, Open World 19.6%, Survival 17.8%, Sandbox 15.3%, Base Building 7.2%
- #43 Voidtrain
69% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,447 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 14.0 hrsβ₯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 Ρo-op with up to 4 people.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.6% β
, Base Building 12%, Survival 9.5%, Open World 8.6%, Crafting 8.4%
- #44 CryoFall
71% matchMostly Positive78% of 6,430 reviews2021
Dev: AtomicTorch StudioPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 16.4 hrsβ₯1hr: 88%
CryoFall is a sci-fi colony simulation survival game set on a forgotten planet in a distant future. Master technology, agriculture, trading, industry, cybernetics, exploration, and more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.2% β
, Colony Sim 19.7%, Base Building 11.5%, Crafting 8.7%, Building 8.6%
- #45 Nightingale
70% matchMixed67% of 17,932 reviews2024
Dev: Inflexion Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 24.0 hrsβ₯1hr: 87%
Nightingale is an open world survival crafting game, where youβll adventure across the mysterious and dangerous Fae Realms. As a daring Realmwalker, youβll defeat monstrous enemies, survive hostile environments, and build elaborate estates in a visually stunning Gaslamp Fantasy world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.2% β
, Base Building 13.1%, Survival 11.4%, Open World 11.2%, Building 11.1%
- #46 Force of Nature
72% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,202 reviews2016
Dev: A.Y.std
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 11.1 hrsβ₯1hr: 86%
Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35% β
, Crafting 11.7%, Survival 11.4%, Open World 8.8%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #47 Re.poly
71% 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 27.7% β
, Base Building 12.3%, Survival 10.2%, Crafting 10.1%, Open World 10%
- #48 Renown
67% matchMixed59% of 1,558 reviews2025
Dev: RDBK Studios
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 16.5 hrsβ₯1hr: 82%
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: Open World Survival Craft 25.5% β
, Base Building 10.6%, Building 10.1%, Crafting 9.8%, Open World 9.8%
- #49 In Next Life
67% matchMixed68% of 131 reviews2026
Dev: Dual DecadePub: Wereviz AB
Windows Β· Mac
An online multiplayer game of crafting, survival, civilization building, and player collaboration. Start in the stone age and live, build, and invent your way to higher civilization. Live and die as well as you can, to gain the experience you need to achieve even more in your next life!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.1% β
, Hunting 16.2% β
, Base Building 10.7%, Crafting 9.5%, Survival 8.8%
- #50 Farworld Pioneers
69% matchMostly Negative38% of 693 reviews2023
Dev: IgloosoftPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Explore an open world, sci-fi sandbox β in PVP, PVE, and co-op. Build and manage colonies on alien planets, and recruit AI survivors with unique personalities and skills. Craft, build, mine, farm, or get your electric death rifle and say hello to your neighbors.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.9% β
, Colony Sim 19.6%, Base Building 12%, Crafting 8.7%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #51 Rem Survival
68% matchMostly Positive76% of 802 reviews2021
Dev: Immortal Hand Studios
Windows Β· Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 47.3 hrsβ₯1hr: 80%
Scavenge abandoned ruins, craft gear from scrap and salvaged materials, and fight the environment itself as hunger, exposure, and exhaustion push you to your limits. There are no second chancesβonly adaptation or death.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.6% β
, Base Building 14.9%, Crafting 11.4%, Survival 11.3%, Building 11.2%
- #52 ASTRONEER
66% matchVery Positive92% of 137,959 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.2 hrsβ₯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 27.7% β
, Base Building 11%, Open World 10.4%, Survival 9.8%, Automation 7.7%
- #53 Craftopia
67% matchMostly Positive77% of 20,035 reviews2020
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 22.1 hrsβ₯1hr: 85%
Craftopia is the brand new multiplayer survival action game made in Japan. We combined many features we find enjoyable, such as hunting, farming, hack-and-slash, building, automation to develop this game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.8% β
, Open World 15.9%, Crafting 13.8%, Survival 12.3%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #54 PixARK
68% matchMostly Positive73% of 13,071 reviews2019
Dev: Snail Games USA
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 40.2 hrsβ₯1hr: 83%
Enter a world of mystery, danger, ancient dinosaurs, mythical beasts, and cubes! Work by yourself or with a tribe of others to gather materials, craft useful items, tame wild creatures, and build huge bases to survive in PixARK!
Why similar: Survival 20.8%, Open World 18%, Sandbox 14.7%, Building 11.2%, Base Building 10.4%
- #55 Citadel: Forged with Fire
68% matchMixed68% of 5,884 reviews2019
Dev: Blue Isle StudiosPub: Blue Isle Publishing
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 18.9 hrsβ₯1hr: 91%
This massive online sandbox RPG features elements of magic, spellcasting, building, exploring and crafting. As a newly minted apprentice of the magic arts, you will set off to the dangerous world of Ignus. Tame mighty beasts, forge alliances, explore uncharted territories or fight for dominance!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.3% β
, Open World 16.7%, Survival 12.2%, Sandbox 9.6%, Base Building 7.6%
- #56 Orebound
66% matchMostly Positive78% of 913 reviews2024
Dev: Emberforge
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 11.2 hrsβ₯1hr: 78%
Orebound is a dwarven themed factory automation game. Play alone or with friends as you build, mine, craft and explore a voxel generated world! Build your fortress, expand your factory, fight off creatures who dwell beneath the mountains and embark on a journey of greatness.
Why similar: Automation 19.1%, Base Building 12.9%, Resource Management 10.9%, Crafting 10.2%, Building 10.1%
