- #1 Terraria
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,530,276 reviews2011
Dev: Re-Logic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 33.7 hrsMean: 150.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.3% ★, Sandbox 13.7%, Survival 6.8%, Crafting 6.4%, Building 4.8%
Why You'll Like It: It is the closest overall match, offering side-scrolling pixel-art exploration, constant gear progression, deep crafting, boss fights, and huge sandbox building freedom.
- #2 Signs of Life
96% matchMostly Positive76% of 841 reviews2014
Dev: Sweet Dog Studios
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Signs of Life is a sci-fi survival sandbox platformer with a combination of procedurally generated and hand-crafted content. You'll explore mysterious locations, Mine blocks for resources, and meet strange (and some familiar) creatures, some of which don't even want to kill you and eat your corpse.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46% ★, Sandbox 13.8%, Crafting 7.6%, Survival 7.2%, Space 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: It shares Starbound's 2D alien-planet survival feel, with mining, crafting, base-building, and sci-fi exploration across hostile environments.
- #3 Planet Centauri
95% matchMostly Positive77% of 2,374 reviews2024
Dev: Permadeath
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 13.7 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Dive into an epic adventure alone or with friends! Explore hidden dungeons, capture and tame fearsome monsters, build and defend your village. Craft powerful weapons, master magical spells, and transform an planet into the cradle of a new civilization!
Why similar: Sandbox 22.8%, Crafting 13.9%, Open World 11.3%, Building 9.4%, Multiplayer 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: Its pixel-art sandbox structure, creature-filled worlds, crafting progression, and exploration-heavy pace make it feel very close to Starbound's adventure side.
- #4 Farworld Pioneers
96% matchMostly Negative38% of 695 reviews2023
Dev: IgloosoftPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Explore an open world, sci-fi sandbox – 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 35.2% ★, Sandbox 11.6%, Space 8.5%, Crafting 8.2%, Online Co-Op 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: This is one of the most direct Starbound-like games on Steam, combining 2D sci-fi exploration, colony building, crafting, and procedural planets.
- #5 Core Keeper
94% matchVery Positive93% of 65,043 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.1 hrsMean: 34.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.5% ★, Sandbox 11.2%, Crafting 7.8%, Survival 7.4%, Online Co-Op 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: While underground-focused, it nails the same addictive loop of exploration, mining, base-building, crafting, and co-op progression in pixel art.
- #6 Dig or Die
94% matchVery Positive90% of 4,272 reviews2018
Dev: Gaddy Games
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Crash land on a hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it. But be warned... this planet is merciless. Build strong, and smart; else physics may flood or destroy your only hopes of survival.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.2% ★, Sandbox 14.4%, Survival 9.8%, Crafting 9%, Open World 5%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the stranded-on-an-alien-planet loop with resource gathering, fortification, and survival-focused crafting in a side-view format.
- #7 Crea
93% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,407 reviews2016
Dev: Siege Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 19.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Progress with every slain monster, learn over 80 skills through talents, craft hundreds of items, and explore vast procedurally-generated worlds in this ever-expanding sandbox RPG!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.2% ★, Sandbox 15.3%, Crafting 8.6%, Survival 5.9%, Building 3.6%
Why You'll Like It: This 2D sandbox RPG mirrors Starbound's mix of mining, building, crafting, and character progression in a colorful procedural world.
- #8 Aground
92% matchVery Positive94% of 1,992 reviews2020
Dev: Fancy Fish Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
As one of the last human survivors, you find yourself stranded on an uninhabited island. With a few other victims of the crash, can you craft, mine, and build your way to survival?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40% ★, Sandbox 12.2%, Survival 9.4%, Open World 8.4%, Building 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: Like Starbound, it starts with survival and crafting on a strange world before expanding into ship repair, advanced technology, and eventually space travel.
- #9 Necesse
91% matchVery Positive93% of 27,406 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 14.9 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 44.4% ★, Sandbox 9.6%, Crafting 6.1%, Survival 5.7%, Open World 5.3%
Why You'll Like It: It delivers a similar sandbox progression loop of exploration, crafting, base expansion, and multiplayer adventuring, just from a top-down perspective.
- #10 No Man's Sky
91% matchVery Positive85% of 410,213 reviews2016
Dev: Hello Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 20.1 hrsMean: 70.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.9% ★, Space 11.5%, Open World 8.9%, Sandbox 8.8%, Survival 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: If your favorite part of Starbound was repairing your ship and roaming a universe of distinct planets, this is the strongest 3D version of that fantasy.
- #11 Crashlands
89% matchVery Positive89% of 6,701 reviews2016
Dev: Butterscotch Shenanigans
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 13.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Fight and tame alien beasts, craft resources into menacing weaponry, befriend the outlandish locals, and go toe-to-chin with a world-domineering maniac.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41% ★, Sandbox 11.7%, Crafting 8.7%, Survival 8.1%, Open World 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: Its premise of being stranded on an alien world and surviving through crafting, combat, and quest-driven exploration feels very Starbound-adjacent.
- #12 Keplerth
89% matchVery Positive84% of 4,142 reviews2022
Dev: TAROPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Welcome to Keplerth! Try to survive on a hostile alien planet in this 2D sandbox RPG, where you can choose to live alone or fight side by side with your friends in the online multiplayer mode. Survive, build, farm, fight, and explore your way to victory in this open-world adventure!
Why similar: Sandbox 23.7%, Survival 14.2%, Open World 12.1%, Building 11.8%, Exploration 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: Its alien-world survival, base-building, crafting, and procedural exploration make it a strong fit for players who liked Starbound's sci-fi sandbox side.
- #13 ASTRONEER
88% matchVery Positive92% of 138,295 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.6% ★, Space 9.7%, Sandbox 9.3%, Survival 8%, Open World 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: It trades combat for a gentler style of planetary survival and base-building, but still scratches the same space exploration and co-op sandbox itch.
- #14 Edge of Space
90% matchMostly Negative33% of 2,729 reviews2015
Dev: Handyman StudiosPub: Reverb Triple XP
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Suit up as an operative of the Ark Corporation, sent to the farthest reaches of the universe in search of habitable planets to terraform. However, after the long space journey you awaken from cryosleep to find that your ship has gone way off course and is disabled near a strange new world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.7% ★, Sandbox 14.7%, Space 6.3%, Crafting 6.2%, Survival 4.5%
Why You'll Like It: This is another direct 2D sci-fi survival sandbox with planetary exploration, crafting, and base-building that overlaps heavily with Starbound's structure.
- #15 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
87% matchMostly Positive79% of 34,243 reviews2020
Dev: Eleon Game Studios
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 76.9 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.2% ★, Sandbox 10.5%, Space 9.2%, Survival 7.5%, Crafting 7%
Why You'll Like It: It matches Starbound's larger-scale sci-fi survival fantasy with planet hopping, base construction, ship building, and multiplayer exploration.
- #16 Space Engineers
86% matchVery Positive89% of 133,889 reviews2019
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 96.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.
Why similar: Sandbox 20.9%, Space 15.8%, Survival 13%, Building 11.7%, Open World 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: It leans more simulation-heavy, but its mix of survival, engineering, planetary exploration, and space sandbox freedom overlaps with Starbound's creative side.
- #17 Creativerse
86% matchMostly Positive78% of 30,868 reviews2017
Dev: Playful Corp.
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 63%
A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.6% ★, Sandbox 11.5%, Crafting 8.1%, Online Co-Op 7.8%, Survival 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a similarly accessible loop of exploration, crafting, building, and multiplayer sandbox play, just in a more voxel-based world.
- #18 The Planet Crafter
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 71,038 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.5 hrsMean: 38.2 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 37% ★, Sandbox 8.8%, Online Co-Op 8%, Space 7.8%, Crafting 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: Although calmer and first-person, it shares the appeal of surviving on a hostile planet and transforming it through gathering, crafting, and base development.
- #19 Don't Starve Together
85% matchVery Positive95% of 534,846 reviews2016
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 64.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 70.8% ★, Survival 15%, Multiplayer 2.6%, Co-op 2.5%, Sandbox 2.2%
Why You'll Like It: This is a stronger match for players who loved Starbound's survival and multiplayer base-building more than its sci-fi setting.
- #20 Tinkertown
84% matchMixed67% of 1,342 reviews2023
Dev: Headup
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Gather your friends and come to Tinkertown - A refreshing new Multiplayer Sandbox Experience! Explore magical places filled with loot, danger, and creativity.
Why similar: Sandbox 16.5%, Crafting 12%, Online Co-Op 9.5%, RPG 8.4%, Open World 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: Its cooperative pixel-art world, building systems, crafting, and adventure progression echo the lighter sandbox side of Starbound.
- #21 The Survivalists
83% matchMostly Positive76% of 10,037 reviews2020
Dev: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 71%
A living world full of surprises, secrets and danger awaits in The Survivalists, an adventure-filled survival sandbox set in The Escapists universe. Explore, build, craft and even train monkeys with up to three friends in a desperate bid to survive. Have you got what it takes to be a Survivalist?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.4% ★, Sandbox 10.3%, Crafting 10.3%, Online Co-Op 9.5%, Survival 9%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a familiar loop of gathering, crafting, exploring, and building with co-op support, even if it swaps space for tropical islands.
- #22 It Lurks Below
82% matchVery Positive82% of 1,284 reviews2019
Dev: Graybeard GamesPub: Skystone Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 73%
It Lurks Below is an action-oriented, survival RPG in a randomly generated world. Fight through the massive underground dungeon, customize your character with random items and find out what evil lurks below.
Why similar: Sandbox 26.3%, Survival 21.6%, Crafting 15%, RPG 11.4%, Pixel Graphics 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: This side-scrolling action-survival RPG blends loot progression, crafting, digging, and base-building in a way Terraria and Starbound fans usually click with.
- #23 Feel The Snow
81% matchVery Positive87% of 3,052 reviews2019
Dev: Owlet
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Choose one of the characters and start your journey. The game has many interesting things in store: building, crafting, puzzles, bosses, mystery, laughs, quests etc.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.8% ★, Sandbox 8.9%, Survival 8.2%, Crafting 7.4%, Multiplayer 5.5%
Why You'll Like It: Its pixel-art co-op survival, crafting, and building systems make it a worthwhile pick for fans of Starbound's smaller-scale sandbox adventuring.
- #24 Planet Explorers
82% matchMixed62% of 6,817 reviews2016
Dev: Pathea Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Planet Explorers is an open world sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.3% ★, Sandbox 15.3%, Open World 7.6%, Crafting 6.6%, Survival 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the core appeal of exploring an alien world, gathering materials, building bases, and surviving in a sci-fi sandbox.
- #25 Forager
80% matchVery Positive90% of 43,651 reviews2019
Dev: HopFrogPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 22.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.7% ★, Crafting 10.1%, Survival 9.4%, Sandbox 9.1%, Pixel Graphics 5%
Why You'll Like It: It distills the resource-gathering and crafting progression of Starbound into a lighter, faster-paced sandbox that is easy to sink hours into.
- #26 MewnBase
79% matchVery Positive93% of 1,439 reviews2023
Dev: Cairn4
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 74%
MewnBase is a space-cat survival and base-building game. Scavenge around a barren planet for items to keep you fed. Explore and collect resources. Craft items and grow your base to help you survive.
Why similar: Sandbox 20.5%, Crafting 15.6%, Space 14.7%, Survival 12.2%, Building 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the feeling of surviving alone on an alien world, gathering resources, and building up a foothold in a compact 2D format.
- #27 Tinkerlands
77% matchVery Positive86% of 3,887 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Explore, craft, and fight your way through uncharted islands — solo or with up to 4 players in co-op! Tinkerlands is an exciting survival adventure where you will build your settlement, craft useful tools to survive, and even use magic!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.9% ★, Sandbox 11.2%, Online Co-Op 7.9%, Survival 6.8%, Crafting 6.3%
- #28 Lost Nova
78% matchVery Positive92% of 419 reviews2022
Dev: Jon NielsenPub: HopFrog
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Your spaceship crashed on an alien planet. Explore, salvage, craft, trade, manage and upgrade your way back home!
Why similar: Crafting 20.2%, Space 19.5%, Open World 18.2%, Relaxing 12.9%, Exploration 10%
Why You'll Like It: Its lone-explorer-on-an-alien-planet vibe, combined with crafting and light survival mechanics, makes it a good thematic follow-up to Starbound.
- #29 Wayward
79% matchVery Positive86% of 1,362 reviews2016
Dev: Unlok
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 21.5 hrs≥1hr: 61%
You awake to discover yourself no longer in the company of good men or a fine seafaring vessel. Treasure... you remember something about treasure. Wayward is a challenging turn-based, top-down, wilderness survival roguelike. Explore, build, and most importantly survive in these unforgiving lands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.3% ★, Survival 11.2%, Crafting 10%, Sandbox 9.9%, Open World 5.5%
Why You'll Like It: This is a good pick if what you loved most was the open-ended survival-crafting problem solving, though it is much harsher and less adventure-driven than Starbound.
- #30 Don't Starve
77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 112,869 reviews2013
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 28.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.4% ★, Survival 16.9%, Sandbox 12.1%, Crafting 9.9%, Open World 4.2%
- #31 Craft The World
78% matchVery Positive88% of 16,931 reviews2014
Dev: Dekovir EntertainmentPub: Dekovir Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 38.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Craft The World is a unique sandbox strategy game, the mix of Dungeon Keeper, Terraria and Dwarf Fortress. Explore a random generated world populated by dangerous creatures, build a dwarf fortress, gather resources, and craft all the items, weapons, and armor you need.
Why similar: Sandbox 28.5%, Crafting 20.8%, Building 16.1%, Survival 13.1%, Open World 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: While more colony-focused, it still delivers a satisfying blend of digging, crafting, defense, and progression that overlaps with Starbound's building loop.
- #32 Stardew Valley
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 1,015,272 reviews2016
Dev: ConcernedApe
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 22.8 hrsMean: 84.5 hrs≥1hr: 92%
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Why similar: Sandbox 20.2%, Crafting 14.5%, Multiplayer 13.6%, Relaxing 11.3%, Pixel Graphics 11.2%
- #33 Breathedge
74% matchVery Positive82% of 16,292 reviews2021
Dev: RedRuins SoftworksPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Survive in outer space! Together with your immortal chicken, discover the truth behind your sudden spaceship crash. Craft tools, pilot vehicles, and even control space stations to survive and explore the wreckage.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.9% ★, Sandbox 12.3%, Space 11%, Survival 8.3%, Crafting 6.8%
- #34 Abiotic Factor
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 56,173 reviews2025
Dev: Deep Field GamesPub: Playstack
Windows
Median: 20.1 hrsMean: 44.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Abiotic Factor is a survival crafting experience for 1-6 players set in the depths of an underground research facility. Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the world’s greatest minds must survive against the universe’s biggest threats.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.7% ★, Sandbox 10.8%, Online Co-Op 9.9%, Crafting 9.8%, Survival 9.3%
- #35 GRAV
76% matchMixed47% of 6,921 reviews2015
Dev: BitMonster, Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 60%
GRAV is a sand box experience where you explore a multitude of planets, hunt strange alien creatures, build and defend outposts, craft weapons and armor, and attempt to survive against other players in a hostile environment.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.2% ★, Sandbox 10.9%, Survival 9.5%, Open World 7.3%, Crafting 6.5%
- #36 StarMade
75% matchMixed68% of 2,985 reviews2014
Dev: Schine GmbH
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 18.8 hrs≥1hr: 54%
The ultimate space sandbox. Participate in epic fleet battles, form alliances, strive to dominate entire galaxies and harness the universe’s resources for your industrious empire or the destruction of others. Customise your experience, the universe is yours!
Why similar: Sandbox 25.4%, Space 22%, Open World 11.2%, Building 10%, Crafting 7.6%
- #37 Cube World
75% matchMostly Negative37% of 18,711 reviews2019
Dev: Picroma
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Cube World is a voxel-based action RPG with a focus on exploration. It takes place in a procedurally generated fantasy world made up entirely of cubes.
Why similar: Open World 18.9%, Online Co-Op 12.9%, Multiplayer 10.8%, Sandbox 10%, Crafting 8.8%
- #38 Magicite
73% matchVery Positive85% of 7,589 reviews2014
Dev: Sean YoungPub: SmashGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Explore, craft, and survive in this Multiplayer RPG Platformer with permanent death! Featuring many Rogue-like elements, Magicite randomly generates each underground dungeon for you and your friends to delve deep into.
Why similar: Crafting 17.2%, Multiplayer 12.1%, Co-op 11.2%, Survival 10.7%, Pixel Graphics 9.8%
- #39 Junk Jack
74% matchMostly Positive78% of 472 reviews2016
Dev: Pixbits
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 21.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Make the world truly yours in Junk Jack, a relaxing sandbox experience focused on building and improving your home. Discover new planets, tame and breed creatures, cook foods, collect animal companions, farm exotic plants, collect fish, grow flowers, play with your friends!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45% ★, Sandbox 14.5%, Crafting 8.2%, Survival 8.1%, Building 5.5%
- #40 Cubic Odyssey
70% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,655 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Embark on a galactic journey in Cubic Odyssey, an open-world adventure where you explore vibrant planets, craft tools, build vehicles, and fight the Red Darkness. Uncover ancient mysteries, and shape a universe full of life, danger, and limitless possibilities!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.9% ★, Sandbox 14%, Building 7.7%, Co-op 7.2%, Online Co-Op 4%
- #41 Roguelands
73% matchVery Positive80% of 3,732 reviews2016
Dev: Sean YoungPub: SmashGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Embark on an epic journey in this hardcore Multiplayer RPG! As a Galactic Cadet, you and your Combat Squad of friends must brave hostile worlds in search of valuable loot and resources. Craft powerful gear, slay otherworldly creatures, and save the galaxy.
Why similar: Multiplayer 18.3%, Co-op 16.4%, Pixel Graphics 13.8%, Survival 11.5%, RPG 10.5%
- #42 Staxel
72% matchMostly Positive78% of 4,832 reviews2019
Dev: PlukitPub: Balor Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Grow your farm, meet the villagers, and join your friends online in building your world.
Why similar: Sandbox 21.9%, Online Co-Op 13.3%, Building 11.3%, Open World 10.8%, Co-op 8%
- #43 Subnautica
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 373,268 reviews2018
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.3 hrsMean: 39.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 51.6% ★, Survival 10.8%, Crafting 8.5%, Open World 7.9%, Sandbox 6.9%
- #44 Boundless
73% matchMixed69% of 2,770 reviews2018
Dev: Monumental, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 32.9 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Shape your citizen, forge your destiny and sculpt your world in this epic voxel sandbox MMO built on endless possibility.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.9% ★, Sandbox 14.9%, Crafting 9.1%, Open World 7.8%, Building 6.3%
- #45 Drift: Space Survival
71% matchMostly Positive70% of 77 reviews2023
Dev: KAR Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
You were deep in uncharted space on a research mission. Disaster struck. Together with your friends, explore a mysterious asteroid field and mine whatever resources possible to build what you need to survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.1% ★, Space 9.2%, Online Co-Op 8.6%, Sandbox 8.2%, Survival 7.9%
- #46 Portal Knights
71% matchVery Positive83% of 22,274 reviews2017
Dev: Keen Games GmbHPub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 21.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
The world of Elysia needs YOU! Join this cooperative, 3D sandbox action RPG to level up your character, craft epic weapons, conquer enemies in real-time, and build almost anything! Craft your adventure. Forge your hero. Become the ultimate Portal Knight!
Why similar: Sandbox 25.3%, Crafting 14.9%, Survival 12.5%, Building 12%, Multiplayer 10.4%
- #47 Fragmented
72% matchMixed43% of 1,964 reviews2017
Dev: Above and Beyond Technologies
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Stranded in a hostile alien world, you must fight to survive. Hunt, harvest, craft, advance skills, and build using local resources along with technology from your voyage.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.6% ★, Survival 9.5%, Sandbox 7.4%, Open World 5.7%, Crafting 5.5%
- #48 Life Not Supported
69% matchMixed67% of 173 reviews2023
Dev: YETIBYTES
Windows · Linux
You are the lone survivor orbiting a potential new home planet, tethered to what’s left of your ship. Gather nearby debris and assemble a make-shift vessel in an attempt to survive the harsh realities of space. Maybe you'll live long enough to uncover the truth behind the ship's malfunction...
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.2% ★, Sandbox 10%, Space 9.4%, Crafting 9.2%, Survival 8%
- #49 Stranded Deep
67% matchMostly Positive74% of 47,543 reviews2022
Dev: Beam Team GamesPub: Beam Team Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 21.0 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Take the role of a plane crash survivor stranded somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Come face to face with some of the most life threatening scenarios that will result in a different experience each time you play. Scavenge. Discover. Survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 53.2% ★, Survival 10.7%, Crafting 7.7%, Open World 6.3%, Multiplayer 6%
- #50 Risk of Rain (2013)
69% matchVery Positive93% of 29,814 reviews2013
Dev: Hopoo GamesPub: Gearbox Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 14.5 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Risk of Rain is an action platformer with roguelike elements. With permanent death as a primary feature, players will have to play their best to get as far as possible. Fight on a mysterious planet with randomly spawning enemies and bosses, either alone or with 3 friends in online co-op.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 28.7%, Pixel Graphics 16.6%, Co-op 16.1%, Multiplayer 9.1%, Survival 7.2%
- #51 Avorion
68% matchVery Positive90% of 14,443 reviews2020
Dev: Boxelware
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18.8 hrsMean: 99.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A procedural co-op space sandbox where players can build their own space ships out of dynamically scalable blocks. Fight epic space battles, explore, mine, trade, wage wars and build your own empire to save your galaxy from being torn apart by an unknown enemy.
Why similar: Sandbox 30.7%, Space 22.2%, Building 16.7%, Open World 15.6%, Exploration 8.9%
- #52 Valheim
66% matchVery Positive94% of 535,809 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 25.9 hrsMean: 77.4 hrs≥1hr: 93%
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.8% ★, Online Co-Op 8.9%, Survival 8.3%, Crafting 7%, Sandbox 6.9%
- #53 Planetaries
68% matchMixed58% of 224 reviews2024
Dev: EY-Studio
Windows
Experience a vast Sci-fi open-world survival TD game set on a distant planet deep in the universe. Craft, build, mine, trade, explore, and survive in this alien world. Collect Data and defend against waves of enemies seeking to banish you. Enjoy the adventure in Singleplayer or Multiplayer.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.5% ★, Sandbox 9.6%, Online Co-Op 8%, Crafting 7.8%, Survival 7.3%
- #54 Craterbound
69% matchMixed54% of 99 reviews2022
Dev: Daniel Marquez
Windows
Crash-land onto a unique and hostile alien world and begin your fight to survive. Face its inhabitants, upgrade your technology, create outposts & bases, and find a way to repair your ship. Explore the beautifully strange terrain, all while blasting and crafting your way off of the planet.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.9% ★, Space 10.8%, Sandbox 9.9%, Survival 9.2%, Crafting 9.1%
- #55 Stars End
68% matchMixed61% of 1,422 reviews2023
Dev: Reverie World StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Stars End is a sci-fi survival sandbox set on the wild frontier of a distant star system. Play solo or host your own server as you craft, build, and battle to survive in a galaxy shaped by danger, discovery, and your own grit.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.9% ★, Sandbox 9.4%, Space 8.5%, Online Co-Op 8.1%, Co-op 7.2%
- #56 Space Trash Scavenger
65% matchVery Positive84% of 520 reviews2024
Dev: SquarePlay GamesPub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Grab your jetpack and explore procedural asteroid fields, derelict spaceships and abandoned outposts. Build and automate your Space Rig to process scavenged trash. Craft, trade and fight your way home in this interstellar, open-world survival sandbox.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41% ★, Sandbox 11.2%, Space 9.4%, Crafting 9%, Survival 7.9%
- #57 Trove
67% matchMostly Positive80% of 92,701 reviews2015
Dev: gamigo US Inc.
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 49.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Grab your friends, hone your blades, and set off for an epic procedurally generated adventure in Trove! Battle the Shadow in realms filled with dungeons and items created by your fellow players. Whether hunting treasure or building realms of your own, it’s never been this good to be square!
Why similar: Sandbox 27%, Crafting 16.5%, Open World 14.7%, Building 12.9%, Multiplayer 9.4%
- #58 Solarpunk™
63% matchVery Positive82% of 2,601 reviews2026
Dev: CyberwavePub: rokaplay
Windows
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 35.4% ★, Sandbox 10.8%, Crafting 8.1%, Online Co-Op 7.7%, Survival 6.6%
