- #1 ASKA
97% matchVery Positive80% of 12,267 reviews2024
Dev: Sand Sailor StudioPub: Thunderful Publishing
Windows
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 29.5 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 19.2% ★, Colony Sim 13.5%, Base Building 11.4%, Automation 10.4%, Survival 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 21,714 reviews2024
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 12.8 hrsMean: 41.6 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 28.1%, Open World 26.3%, Crafting 25.6%, Co-op 13.5%, 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 17,631 reviews2024
Dev: Angela GamePub: Imperium Interactive Entertainment
Windows
Median: 15.0 hrsMean: 228.5 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 32.9% ★, Base Building 15.9%, Sandbox 13.4%, Open World 12.6%, 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 Valheim
94% matchVery Positive94% of 555,289 reviews2026
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 26.9 hrsMean: 81.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.3% ★, Base Building 11%, Survival 10.7%, Open World 9.9%, Crafting 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: The definitive open-world survival experience that emphasizes exploration, building, and progression in a challenging environment.
- #5 Enshrouded
95% matchVery Positive86% of 106,050 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.9 hrsMean: 46.8 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 22.5%, Open World 20%, Survival 17.7%, Crafting 15.7%, Sandbox 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: Features deep voxel-based base-building and a vast open world that rewards exploration and survival preparation.
- #6 V Rising
94% matchVery Positive89% of 137,392 reviews2024
Dev: Stunlock Studios
Windows
Median: 20.9 hrsMean: 58.2 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 14.9%, Survival 14.8%, Crafting 13.4%, Sandbox 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a polished survival-crafting loop with a strong focus on base-building and unique combat mechanics.
- #7 Palworld
93% matchVery Positive95% of 490,433 reviews2026
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 41.0 hrsMean: 86.8 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 26.7% ★, Open World 14.4%, Survival 12.8%, 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.
- #8 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
92% matchVery Positive82% of 10,551 reviews2024
Dev: Max Ent Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.2% ★, Base Building 14.5%, Survival 11.3%, Crafting 11.2%, Open World 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: Combines exploration and base-building with a focus on survival against the elements and local wildlife.
- #9 ARK: Survival Ascended
91% matchMixed60% of 118,321 reviews2023
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows
Median: 27.2 hrsMean: 198.9 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 19.1%, Base Building 18%, Open World 17.5%, Crafting 15%, Sandbox 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: Features extensive taming mechanics and base-building that serve as the foundation for long-term survival progression.
- #10 Once Human
91% matchMostly Positive79% of 189,842 reviews2024
Dev: Starry Studio
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 52.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Once Human is a Strange Worlds Survival Game set in a strange, post-apocalyptic future. Unite with friends to fight monstrous enemies, uncover secret plots, compete for resources, and build your own territory. Once, you were merely human. Now, you have the power to remake the world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.4% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 10.1%, Open World 9.7%, Survival 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: A modern survival game with a strong focus on base-building and exploration in a supernatural open world.
- #11 Nightingale
90% matchMixed66% of 18,084 reviews2024
Dev: Inflexion Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 24.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Nightingale is an open world survival crafting game, where you’ll adventure across the mysterious and dangerous Fae Realms. As a daring Realmwalker, you’ll defeat monstrous enemies, survive hostile environments, and build elaborate estates in a visually stunning Gaslamp Fantasy world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.9% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Crafting 12.2%, Survival 11.9%, Open World 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a unique multi-world survival experience with deep crafting and base-building mechanics.
- #12 Sons Of The Forest
89% matchVery Positive88% of 321,117 reviews2024
Dev: Endnight Games LtdPub: Newnight
Windows
Median: 15.0 hrsMean: 32.4 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 19.4%, Base Building 18.7%, Open World 16.8%, Co-op 14.6%, Crafting 13%
Why You'll Like It: Offers intense survival gameplay with advanced building mechanics and AI companions that assist with resource gathering.
- #13 Dawn of Defiance
89% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,856 reviews2024
Dev: Traega EntertainmentPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
You are a fallen Spartan, cast into the realm between the living and the Underworld. In this survival adventure inspired by Greek myth, hunt, craft and build a home worthy of legend with up to 3 friends. Raid the gods' temples, defeat legendary creatures and loot the iconic weapons of the Olympians.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.7% ★, Mythology 13.9%, Base Building 11.3%, Survival 9.9%, PvE 8%
Why You'll Like It: A Greek-mythology-inspired survival game that emphasizes base-building and exploration.
- #14 7 Days to Die
88% matchVery Positive87% of 405,507 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.4 hrsMean: 111.0 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 32.5% ★, Survival 19.6%, Base Building 17.7%, Open World 13.8%, Sandbox 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: A staple of the survival genre that excels in complex base-building and defense against waves of enemies.
- #15 Grounded
87% matchVery Positive90% of 95,977 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.6 hrsMean: 41.9 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 27.7% ★, Survival 16.3%, Base Building 15.9%, Co-op 11.3%, Crafting 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a unique perspective on survival with intricate crafting and base-building mechanics in a dangerous, oversized world.
- #16 Dune: Awakening
86% matchMostly Positive71% of 79,582 reviews2025
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 43.1 hrsMean: 98.6 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Dune: Awakening is a single- and multiplayer Open World Survival game with immersive adventure and RPG gameplay. Explore, build, craft, and unravel a cinematic Dune story 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 23.4% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Crafting 10.9%, Open World 9.7%, Survival 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: An ambitious open-world survival game that emphasizes base-building and resource management in a harsh desert environment.
- #17 The Planet Crafter
85% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 74,281 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.7 hrsMean: 38.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.2% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Automation 11.4%, Crafting 9.5%, Survival 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: Prioritizes automation and base-building as you work to terraform a hostile planet.
- #18 Medieval Dynasty
86% matchVery Positive90% of 52,440 reviews2021
Dev: Render CubePub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 11.6 hrsMean: 36.2 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 23.6%, Base Building 18%, Survival 14.4%, Open World 13.8%, Co-op 13.8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on village management, crafting, and survival in a historical setting.
- #19 Rust
84% matchVery Positive87% of 1,402,448 reviews2018
Dev: Facepunch Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 52.8 hrsMean: 431.0 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 25% ★, Survival 21.7%, Crafting 16.8%, Open World 13.4%, Sandbox 8.5%
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 68,864 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.4 hrsMean: 46.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.9% ★, Base Building 14.8%, Survival 12.8%, Crafting 11%, 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 579 reviews2025
Dev: Preferred Networks
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥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 24.5% ★, Automation 16.8%, Crafting 11.4%, Survival 9.6%, Open World 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: Features extensive automation mechanics where you can program NPCs to help with base-building and resource gathering.
- #22 Pax Dei
82% matchMixed57% of 11,377 reviews2025
Dev: Mainframe Industries
Windows
Median: 18.5 hrsMean: 76.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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%, Sandbox 14.4%, Open World 14.3%, 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.
- #23 Sengoku Dynasty
82% matchMostly Positive75% of 7,879 reviews2024
Dev: SuperkamiPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 7.5 hrsMean: 16.6 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%, Open World 13.3%, Crafting 13.2%, Survival 13.1%
Why You'll Like It: Blends survival and city-building, allowing you to develop a village from the ground up in feudal Japan.
- #24 Solarpunk™
80% matchVery Positive81% of 4,581 reviews2026
Dev: CyberwavePub: rokaplay
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 23.5% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Automation 12.7%, 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 53,040 reviews2026
Dev: Kraken Express
Windows
Median: 20.3 hrsMean: 33.3 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% ★, Open World Survival Craft 22% ★, Crafting 10.8%, Survival 9.1%, Base Building 8.6%
- #26 Subsistence
81% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,861 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 40.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.8% ★, Survival 14.8%, Crafting 13.8%, Base Building 10.7%, Open World 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: A challenging survival game that focuses on base-building and defending against both AI and environmental threats.
- #27 Len's Island
78% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,974 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 27.6% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Crafting 11.6%, Survival 10.9%, Open World 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: Combines relaxing farming and building with dungeon-crawling exploration in a vibrant open world.
- #28 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 24.2%, Open World 21.5%, Crafting 18.4%, Sandbox 13%, PvP 12%
Why You'll Like It: Features nomadic survival mechanics where base-building takes place on massive, mobile walking machines.
- #29 StarRupture
77% matchVery Positive81% of 13,607 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 27.6 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 19.2% ★, Automation 13.4%, Base Building 11.6%, Colony Sim 10.6%, Crafting 8.8%
- #30 Grand Emprise: Time Travel Survival
79% matchMixed68% of 849 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 18.9% ★, Automation 13.4%, Base Building 12.6%, Colony Sim 11.5%, Crafting 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: Incorporates automation and base-building across different historical eras to keep the gameplay loop fresh.
- #31 Eden Crafters
77% matchVery Positive85% of 2,696 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.1% ★, Automation 14%, Base Building 11.3%, Crafting 9.3%, Colony Sim 7.3%
- #32 Solace Crafting
79% matchMostly Positive71% of 899 reviews2022
Dev: Big Kitty Games
Windows · Linux
Embark on an adventure set in a fantasy survival RPG. Visit a borderless, open world where you manage resources to construct your base and new types of equipment to support your conquest.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.3% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 12.5%, Survival 10.9%, Open World 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a vast, procedurally generated world with deep crafting and building systems for long-term survival.
- #33 Everwind
76% matchVery Positive81% of 3,899 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 15.6%, Open World 13.6%, Survival 13.1%, Sandbox 12.7%, Co-op 12.6%
- #34 Necesse
74% matchVery Positive93% of 29,166 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.9% ★, Crafting 9.6%, Open World 9.2%, Base Building 9.1%, Sandbox 9%
- #35 Shamania
76% matchMostly Positive74% of 171 reviews2026
Dev: Totem Keepers Games
Windows
Shamania is an open world survival game where you can CRAFT, FIGHT, and EXPLORE a vibrant sandbox world with friends in CO-OP. Expand your base as a hub for survival, gather resources, and master professions to unlock new tools and opportunities!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23% ★, Crafting 12.6%, Automation 11.2%, Open World 11%, Survival 10.1%
- #36 Witchspire
73% matchVery Positive83% of 2,161 reviews2026
Dev: Envar Games
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 30.8% ★, Base Building 16.8%, Crafting 14.2%, Open World 11.7%, PvE 8.4%
- #37 Conan Exiles Enhanced
75% matchMostly Positive79% of 117,692 reviews2018
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 17.2 hrsMean: 114.1 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 29.5% ★, Survival 18.3%, Open World 15.8%, Crafting 13.6%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #38 Sunkenland
74% matchVery Positive80% of 24,007 reviews2023
Dev: Vector3 Studio
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 20.3 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 30.4% ★, Base Building 13%, Survival 11.5%, Co-op 11.2%, Crafting 9.7%
- #39 Polylithic
73% matchMostly Positive70% of 353 reviews2026
Dev: polyperfectPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Polylithic is a survival game unlike any other, set in the most pivotal moment in mankind's history. Experience life as a Paleolithic hunter-gatherer, settle down as a Neolithic farmer, form tribes in co-op multiplayer, or go it alone in a world where the apex predator is still a distant aspiration.
Why similar: Colony Sim 14.4%, Automation 13.9%, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 11.4%, Survival 9.8%
- #40 RuneScape: Dragonwilds
71% matchVery Positive81% of 32,495 reviews2026
Dev: Jagex Ltd
Windows
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 20.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
On RuneScape's forgotten continent of Ashenfall, dragons have awoken. Gather, build, skill and craft in this co-operative survival adventure. Only by mastering survival and uncovering ancient secrets can you hope to face the ferocious Dragon Queen.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.2% ★, Open World 13.8%, Survival 12.1%, Base Building 11.6%, Crafting 11.1%
- #41 Skyformer
72% matchMostly Positive79% of 96 reviews2026
Dev: Weatherfused
Windows
Create an automated system that terraforms a planet with an army of drones. Craft and build bases, set up a weather monitoring system, prepare to survive different types of storms, and take control of the climate and biomes! Play alone or up to 4 player co-op.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.8% ★, Automation 15.8%, Base Building 12.9%, Crafting 10.2%, Survival 8.6%
- #42 The Front
71% matchMixed67% of 10,771 reviews2025
Dev: Samar Studio
Windows
Median: 10.7 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 29% ★, Base Building 15.5%, Crafting 13.4%, Survival 11.7%, Open World 10.6%
- #43 Forever Skies
70% matchMostly Positive78% of 9,059 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 30.5 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 23.8% ★, Base Building 15.1%, Crafting 12.2%, Co-op 10.6%, Survival 10.5%
- #44 Voyagers of Nera
69% matchVery Positive85% of 2,647 reviews2025
Dev: Treehouse Games
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 30.6% ★, Base Building 18.9%, Crafting 15.9%, Co-op 13.1%, PvE 11.5%
- #45 Occupy Mars: The Game
70% matchMixed70% of 3,170 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 36.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Survive and colonize Mars alone or in online co-op. Build and upgrade your base, craft equipment, mine resources, produce water, oxygen and food, explore an open world, and repair complex machinery in a technical survival sandbox.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.2% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Crafting 11.1%, Survival 9.3%, Open World 8.9%
- #46 PixARK
72% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,659 reviews2019
Dev: Snail Games USA
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 40.0 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 22.3%, Open World 18.8%, Sandbox 15.6%, Crafting 12.6%, Base Building 11.1%
- #47 Dark and Light
73% matchMixed52% of 11,837 reviews2017
Dev: Snail Games USA
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 49.7 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 21.8% ★, Open World 20.3%, Survival 18.9%, Sandbox 16.2%, Base Building 7.7%
- #48 KeepUp Survival
70% matchMixed64% of 751 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 22.4% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Crafting 10.6%, Survival 9.8%, Open World 9.6%
- #49 Saleblazers
69% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,249 reviews2023
Dev: AIRSTRAFE INTERACTIVE
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 19.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A shopkeeping adventure for 1-8 players. Cook, fish, fight, and sell your way through a magical island!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29% ★, Base Building 16.6%, Crafting 14.4%, Survival 11.8%, Sandbox 11.7%
- #50 Lost Skies
68% matchMixed61% of 2,995 reviews2025
Dev: Bossa StudiosPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 35.3% ★, Base Building 18.5%, Sandbox 10.7%, Crafting 8.9%, Open World 8.6%
- #51 SpaceCraft
67% matchMixed64% of 2,773 reviews2026
Dev: Shiro Games
Windows
Median: 14.0 hrsMean: 54.1 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 14.3%, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 11.1%, Open World 10.5%, Sandbox 10.1%
- #52 ATLAS
71% matchMixed47% of 42,929 reviews2018
Dev: Grapeshot Games
Windows
Median: 12.5 hrsMean: 111.5 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 14.1%, Open World 13.3%, Crafting 12.1%, Base Building 8%
- #53 ArkCraft: The Rebirth of the World
68% matchMostly Positive73% of 187 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 26% ★, Base Building 15.9%, Crafting 13.6%, Mythology 13%, Open World 11.7%
- #54 Cultivation Tales
69% matchMostly Negative38% of 13,640 reviews2024
Dev: Ac Games
Windows
Median: 22.0 hrsMean: 64.7 hrs≥1hr: 98%
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 31.9% ★, Sandbox 17.2%, Survival 14.9%, Open World 13.1%, PvP 9.9%
- #55 Aloft
66% matchVery Positive83% of 3,782 reviews2025
Dev: Astrolabe Interactive Inc.Pub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 15.5 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: Open World Survival Craft 24.4% ★, Crafting 16.2%, Survival 13.6%, Co-op 12.8%, Open World 10.1%
- #56 VEIN
64% matchVery Positive88% of 12,706 reviews2025
Dev: Ramjet Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
VEIN is a post-apocalyptic survival multiplayer sandbox game. Gather supplies to survive, explore abandoned buildings, defend your home, and rebuild society, whether alone or with friends.
Why similar: Base Building 21.3%, Survival 19%, Open World 18.4%, Crafting 13%, Co-op 12.4%
- #57 Pathless Woods
66% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,121 reviews2024
Dev: AniYa Games Studio
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Embark on a cozy open-world survival journey inspired by ancient China's heritage. Gather resources, cultivate crops, build your dream home, and defend it from marauders. Team up with friends to explore and uncover a world where adventure meets serenity.
Why similar: Base Building 18.6%, Crafting 18.4%, Open World 16%, Sandbox 14.8%, Survival 14.7%
- #58 HumanitZ
64% matchMostly Positive74% of 14,430 reviews2026
Dev: Yodubzz StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 15.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 19.8% ★, Base Building 16%, Survival 13.5%, Crafting 12.7%, Open World 12.3%
- #59 ASTRONEER
66% matchVery Positive92% of 139,497 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.8% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Open World 11.3%, Survival 11%, Sandbox 8.1%
