- #1 ASKA
97% matchMostly Positive80% of 12,091 reviews2024
Dev: Sand Sailor StudioPub: Thunderful Publishing
Windows
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 28.9 hrs≥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 18.8% ★, Colony Sim 13.5%, Base Building 11.4%, Automation 10.7%, Sandbox 8%
Why You'll Like It: Features a similar focus on recruiting tribespeople to automate tasks and manage a growing settlement in an open world.
- #2 Bellwright
96% matchVery Positive80% of 21,324 reviews2024
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 12.7 hrsMean: 41.4 hrs≥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 27.9%, Open World 26%, Crafting 26%, Co-op 13.6%, Exploration 5%
Why You'll Like It: Combines survival and base-building with a deep NPC management system where you lead a resistance and recruit villagers.
- #3 Myth of Empires
96% matchMixed68% of 17,524 reviews2024
Dev: Angela GamePub: Imperium Interactive Entertainment
Windows
Median: 15.1 hrsMean: 229.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 32.7% ★, Base Building 16%, Sandbox 13.5%, Open World 12.5%, Survival 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a massive sandbox experience with complex NPC recruitment, base-building, and large-scale survival mechanics.
- #4 Enshrouded
95% matchVery Positive86% of 104,779 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.9 hrsMean: 46.5 hrs≥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 22.6%, Open World 19.8%, Survival 17.5%, Crafting 15.9%, Sandbox 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: Features deep voxel-based base-building and a vast open world that rewards exploration and survival preparation.
- #5 Valheim
94% matchVery Positive94% of 540,690 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 26.0 hrsMean: 78.0 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 27.1% ★, Base Building 11%, Survival 10.6%, Open World 9.9%, Crafting 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: The definitive open-world survival experience that emphasizes exploration, building, and progression in a challenging environment.
- #6 Palworld
93% matchVery Positive95% of 480,493 reviews2026
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 40.2 hrsMean: 84.9 hrs≥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 26.4% ★, Open World 14.3%, Survival 12.7%, Crafting 10.3%, Base Building 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: Integrates creature collection with base automation, allowing you to assign tasks to your captured companions.
- #7 V Rising
94% matchVery Positive89% of 136,761 reviews2024
Dev: Stunlock Studios
Windows
Median: 20.8 hrsMean: 57.9 hrs≥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 14.8%, Survival 14.7%, Crafting 13.5%, Sandbox 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a polished survival-crafting loop with a strong focus on base-building and unique combat mechanics.
- #8 ARK: Survival Ascended
92% matchMixed60% of 115,802 reviews2023
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows
Median: 27.7 hrsMean: 198.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 18.9%, Base Building 18.1%, Open World 17.3%, Crafting 15.2%, Sandbox 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: Features extensive taming mechanics and base-building that serve as the foundation for long-term survival progression.
- #9 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
91% matchVery Positive82% of 10,429 reviews2024
Dev: Max Ent Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 16.1 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 25% ★, Base Building 14.6%, Crafting 11.3%, Survival 11.2%, Open World 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: Combines exploration and base-building with a focus on survival against the elements and local wildlife.
- #10 Dawn of Defiance
91% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,842 reviews2024
Dev: Traega EntertainmentPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥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 24.5% ★, Mythology 13.9%, Base Building 11.4%, Survival 9.9%, PvE 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: A Greek-mythology-inspired survival game that emphasizes base-building and exploration.
- #11 Sons Of The Forest
89% matchVery Positive88% of 317,804 reviews2024
Dev: Endnight Games LtdPub: Newnight
Windows
Median: 15.0 hrsMean: 32.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends, in this terrifying new open-world survival horror simulator.
Why similar: Survival 19.2%, Base Building 18.8%, Open World 16.6%, Co-op 14.7%, Crafting 13.2%
Why You'll Like It: Offers intense survival gameplay with advanced building mechanics and AI companions that assist with resource gathering.
- #12 Nightingale
90% matchMixed66% of 18,038 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 28.6% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Crafting 12.4%, Survival 11.8%, Open World 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a unique multi-world survival experience with deep crafting and base-building mechanics.
- #13 Once Human
89% matchMostly Positive78% of 182,222 reviews2024
Dev: Starry Studio
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 52.2 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% ★, Base Building 14%, Crafting 12%, Open World 11.2%, Survival 11%
Why You'll Like It: A modern survival game with a strong focus on base-building and exploration in a supernatural open world.
- #14 Grounded
88% matchVery Positive90% of 95,505 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.5 hrsMean: 41.8 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 27.5% ★, Survival 16.2%, Base Building 15.9%, Co-op 11.4%, Crafting 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a unique perspective on survival with intricate crafting and base-building mechanics in a dangerous, oversized world.
- #15 7 Days to Die
86% matchVery Positive87% of 405,507 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.3 hrsMean: 110.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 32.3% ★, Survival 19.6%, Base Building 17.9%, Open World 13.8%, Sandbox 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: A staple of the survival genre that excels in complex base-building and defense against waves of enemies.
- #16 Medieval Dynasty
87% matchVery Positive90% of 52,032 reviews2021
Dev: Render CubePub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 11.6 hrsMean: 36.1 hrs≥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: Crafting 23.7%, Base Building 18%, Survival 14.2%, Co-op 13.9%, Open World 13.7%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on village management, crafting, and survival in a historical setting.
- #17 Dune: Awakening
86% matchMostly Positive71% of 78,134 reviews2025
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 46.5 hrsMean: 100.0 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival game with immersive adventure and RPG gameplay. Explore, build, craft, and unravel a cinematic Dune story alone or with friends as you rise from survival to greatness on the most legendary planet in the universe. Just remember: the sandworm always comes.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.2% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Crafting 11%, Open World 9.6%, Survival 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: An ambitious open-world survival game that emphasizes base-building and resource management in a harsh desert environment.
- #18 The Planet Crafter
85% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 73,089 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.7 hrsMean: 38.5 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 21.9% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Automation 11.8%, Crafting 9.5%, Survival 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Prioritizes automation and base-building as you work to terraform a hostile planet.
- #19 Rust
84% matchVery Positive87% of 1,393,461 reviews2018
Dev: Facepunch Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 52.7 hrsMean: 429.0 hrs≥1hr: 96%
The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.8% ★, Survival 21.6%, Crafting 17%, Open World 13.3%, Sandbox 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on hardcore survival and base-building, perfect for players who enjoy the competitive and persistent nature of Soulmask.
- #20 ICARUS
84% matchMostly Positive75% of 67,515 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 46.4 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 27.7% ★, Base Building 14.8%, Survival 12.7%, Crafting 11.3%, Open World 9%
Why You'll Like It: Offers session-based survival missions that test your ability to build and craft under time pressure.
- #21 Omega Crafter
83% matchMostly Positive79% of 575 reviews2025
Dev: Preferred Networks
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.6 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 24.2% ★, Automation 17.3%, Crafting 11.4%, Survival 9.5%, Open World 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: Features extensive automation mechanics where you can program NPCs to help with base-building and resource gathering.
- #22 Sengoku Dynasty
82% matchMostly Positive75% of 7,793 reviews2024
Dev: SuperkamiPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 7.4 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: Base Building 18.7%, Colony Sim 16.2%, Crafting 13.3%, Open World 13.1%, Survival 12.9%
Why You'll Like It: Blends survival and city-building, allowing you to develop a village from the ground up in feudal Japan.
- #23 Pax Dei
82% matchMixed57% of 11,286 reviews2025
Dev: Mainframe Industries
Windows
Median: 17.7 hrsMean: 73.9 hrs≥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 19.9%, Crafting 17.1%, Sandbox 14.4%, Open World 14.1%, PvP 12.7%
Why You'll Like It: A social-focused sandbox survival game with an emphasis on player-driven economies and large-scale building.
- #24 Solarpunk™
81% matchVery Positive82% of 4,341 reviews2026
Dev: CyberwavePub: rokaplay
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Solarpunk is a survival game in a technologically advanced world of floating islands. Alone or together with your friends, you can construct buildings, grow food, craft gadgets and hop on your airship to explore distant islands in the sky.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.3% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Automation 13%, Crafting 11.4%, Co-op 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on co-op base-building and crafting with a clean, sustainable aesthetic.
- #25 Windrose
78% matchVery Positive87% of 51,977 reviews2026
Dev: Kraken Express
Windows
Median: 20.1 hrsMean: 32.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Embark on a PvE survival adventure in the Age of Piracy. Fight on land and sea, solo or with friends. Build, craft and explore vast open world filled with dark secrets. Master soulslite combat and take on challenging bosses, command your ship and plunder unspoken treasures!
Why similar: Naval Combat 25.1% ★, Open World Survival Craft 21.8% ★, Crafting 10.9%, Survival 9%, Base Building 8.7%
- #26 Last Oasis
81% matchMixed62% of 24,230 reviews2020
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 17.8 hrsMean: 120.6 hrs≥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 24%, Open World 21.3%, Crafting 18.6%, Sandbox 13%, PvP 12%
Why You'll Like It: Features nomadic survival mechanics where base-building takes place on massive, mobile walking machines.
- #27 Len's Island
78% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,866 reviews2025
Dev: Flow Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
An open-world survival crafting game for 1–8 players, blending intense dungeon crawling and ARPG combat with peaceful farming and creative building. Take on quests and explore a vast, procedurally-generated world full of danger and discovery.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.3% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 11.7%, Survival 10.8%, Open World 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: Combines relaxing farming and building with dungeon-crawling exploration in a vibrant open world.
- #28 Grand Emprise: Time Travel Survival
80% matchMixed69% of 845 reviews2023
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
TIME TRAVEL through history to BECOME GOD 🚀 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% ★, Automation 13.8%, Base Building 12.6%, Colony Sim 11.6%, Crafting 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: Incorporates automation and base-building across different historical eras to keep the gameplay loop fresh.
- #29 StarRupture
77% matchVery Positive81% of 13,247 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 26.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 18.9% ★, Automation 13.7%, Base Building 11.6%, Colony Sim 10.7%, Crafting 8.9%
- #30 Eden Crafters
77% matchVery Positive85% of 2,630 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 14.0 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 19.8% ★, Automation 14.4%, Base Building 11.3%, Crafting 9.3%, Colony Sim 7.3%
- #31 Everwind
76% matchVery Positive81% of 3,756 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 14.1 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: Crafting 15.7%, Open World 13.4%, Survival 12.9%, Co-op 12.7%, Sandbox 12.7%
- #32 Solace Crafting
79% matchMostly Positive72% of 898 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 25.1% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 12.6%, Survival 10.9%, Open World 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a vast, procedurally generated world with deep crafting and building systems for long-term survival.
- #33 Subsistence
79% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,766 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 37.7% ★, Survival 14.7%, Crafting 14%, Base Building 10.8%, Open World 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: A challenging survival game that focuses on base-building and defending against both AI and environmental threats.
- #34 Shamania
76% matchMostly Positive74% of 162 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 22.8% ★, Crafting 12.7%, Automation 11.6%, Open World 10.9%, Survival 10%
- #35 Necesse
73% matchVery Positive93% of 28,807 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 15.3 hrs≥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 33.5% ★, Crafting 9.7%, Automation 9.4%, Base Building 9.1%, Open World 9.1%
- #36 The Front
73% matchMixed67% of 10,771 reviews2025
Dev: Samar Studio
Windows
Median: 10.6 hrsMean: 44.8 hrs≥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 28.7% ★, Base Building 15.6%, Crafting 13.5%, Survival 11.7%, Open World 10.5%
- #37 Forever Skies
73% matchMostly Positive78% of 8,950 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 30.6 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 23.5% ★, Base Building 15.2%, Crafting 12.4%, Co-op 10.7%, Survival 10.4%
- #38 Conan Exiles Enhanced
74% matchMostly Positive79% of 117,196 reviews2018
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 17.2 hrsMean: 113.9 hrs≥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% ★, Survival 18.3%, Open World 15.8%, Crafting 13.8%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #39 Witchspire
71% matchVery Positive83% of 1,994 reviews2026
Dev: Envar Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Step into the ultimate open-world witch adventure. Befriend and battle creatures, and conjure up a sanctuary alongside other witches in co-op or single-player.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.4% ★, Base Building 16.9%, Crafting 14.4%, Open World 11.6%, PvE 8.5%
- #40 Skyformer
72% matchVery Positive83% of 87 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 21.5% ★, Automation 16.2%, Base Building 12.9%, Crafting 10.2%, Survival 8.5%
- #41 SpaceCraft
72% matchMixed65% of 2,687 reviews2026
Dev: Shiro Games
Windows
Median: 13.4 hrsMean: 47.3 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 14.6%, Base Building 13.1%, Crafting 11.1%, Open World 10.3%, Sandbox 10.1%
- #42 ATLAS
75% matchMixed47% of 42,929 reviews2018
Dev: Grapeshot Games
Windows
Median: 12.5 hrsMean: 111.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Set sail for the ultimate pirate experience! Embark on a grand adventure alongside thousands of other players in one of the largest game worlds ever built (and even claim a piece of it to call your own). Build your ship, assemble your crew, sail the high seas, and become a pirate legend!
Why similar: Naval Combat 27.5% ★, Survival 14%, Open World 13.2%, Crafting 12.2%, Base Building 8%
- #43 RuneScape: Dragonwilds
71% matchVery Positive81% of 29,187 reviews2025
Dev: Jagex Ltd
Windows
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 19.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 28% ★, Open World 13.5%, Survival 12.1%, Base Building 11.5%, Crafting 11.3%
- #44 Dark and Light
74% matchMixed52% of 11,834 reviews2017
Dev: Snail Games USA
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 49.0 hrs≥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 21.7% ★, Open World 20.2%, Survival 18.9%, Sandbox 16.3%, Base Building 7.8%
- #45 Voyagers of Nera
69% matchVery Positive85% of 2,598 reviews2025
Dev: Treehouse Games
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 12.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Voyagers of Nera is a cooperative survival-crafting game where you must survive a magical ocean world brimming with lost spirits and deadly monsters. Sail to distant islands, build beautiful villages and surf across the waves with up to 10 players.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.2% ★, Base Building 18.9%, Crafting 16%, Co-op 13.2%, PvE 11.6%
- #46 Polylithic
71% matchMixed68% of 203 reviews2023
Dev: polyperfectPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Polylithic is a survival game unlike any other, set in the most pivotal moment in mankind's history: the Stone Age. Experience life as a Paleolithic hunter-gatherer, settle down as a Neolithic farmer, form tribes in co-op multiplayer, or go at it alone in a world where we're not yet apex predators.
Why similar: Colony Sim 14.4%, Automation 14.3%, Base Building 13.5%, Crafting 11.4%, Survival 9.7%
- #47 Sunkenland
69% matchVery Positive80% of 23,803 reviews2023
Dev: Vector3 Studio
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 20.0 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 30.3% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Survival 11.6%, Co-op 11.4%, Crafting 9.9%
- #48 Occupy Mars: The Game
68% matchMixed70% of 3,132 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 34.1 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: Open World Survival Craft 22.2% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 10.9%, Survival 9%, Open World 8.6%
- #49 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
67% matchVery Positive91% of 7,602 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.1 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 24.1% ★, Automation 13.7%, Base Building 13.1%, Crafting 9.7%, Open World 8.5%
- #50 PixARK
70% matchMostly Positive73% of 13,223 reviews2019
Dev: Snail Games USA
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 40.6 hrs≥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 22.1%, Open World 18.6%, Sandbox 15.7%, Crafting 12.7%, Base Building 11.2%
- #51 Citadel: Forged with Fire
70% matchMixed68% of 5,894 reviews2019
Dev: Blue Isle StudiosPub: Blue Isle Publishing
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 19.0 hrs≥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 31.9% ★, Open World 18%, Survival 13.6%, Sandbox 10.8%, Crafting 10%
- #52 KeepUp Survival
69% matchMixed64% of 749 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 22.1% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Crafting 10.7%, Survival 9.7%, Open World 9.5%
- #53 Cultivation Tales
70% matchMostly Negative38% of 13,640 reviews2024
Dev: Ac Games
Windows
Median: 22.1 hrsMean: 65.5 hrs≥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 31.7% ★, Sandbox 17.3%, Survival 14.8%, Open World 13.1%, PvP 10%
- #54 Voidtrain
67% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,810 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 15.9 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 32.9% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Crafting 10.8%, Co-op 10.5%, Survival 10.1%
- #55 ArkCraft: The Rebirth of the World
68% matchMostly Positive74% of 182 reviews2024
Dev: ZD Yazilim
Windows
In this open-world crafting and building game, you explore an ancient world full of dangers and secrets. Collect animals and plants, build bases and master the craft as you build your ark and save civilization from destruction by the flood and then rebuild it.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.7% ★, Base Building 16%, Crafting 13.8%, Mythology 13%, Open World 11.6%
- #56 HumanitZ
66% matchMostly Positive74% of 13,984 reviews2026
Dev: Yodubzz StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 77%
HumanitZ is an isometric, open-world sandbox survival game set in a world ended by a zombie outbreak. Survive alone or with friends by scavenging, crafting, building, and fighting to last as long as ‘humanly’ possible. You can’t change the past, but you can fight for the future of humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 19.7% ★, Base Building 16.1%, Survival 13.3%, Crafting 12.8%, Open World 12.1%
- #57 Orebound
67% matchMostly Positive78% of 976 reviews2024
Dev: Emberforge
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥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: Resource Management 22.1%, Automation 15.9%, Colony Sim 13.9%, Crafting 12.8%, Base Building 12.7%
- #58 Lost Skies
67% matchMixed61% of 2,976 reviews2025
Dev: Bossa StudiosPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 17.0 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 35% ★, Base Building 18.6%, Sandbox 10.7%, Crafting 9%, Open World 8.5%
- #59 Survival: Fountain of Youth
66% matchVery Positive85% of 4,480 reviews2024
Dev: Odinsoft Inc.Pub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Survival: Fountain of Youth is a challenging single-player open-world adventure game set on the Caribbean islands. Survive as a shipwrecked 16th-century explorer, craft tools and shelter, and uncover the secrets of both an ancient civilization and your own fate.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.6% ★, Base Building 16.1%, Crafting 12.8%, Survival 11.9%, Sandbox 9%
