- #1 Terraria
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,558,339 reviews2011
Dev: Re-Logic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 33.9 hrsMean: 152.6 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 41.7% ★, Sandbox 13.5%, Survival 6.9%, Crafting 6.3%, Building 4.8%
Why You'll Like It: The closest overall match, offering 2D pixel-art exploration, enormous crafting and building depth, boss progression, procedural worlds, and multiplayer.
- #2 Planet Centauri
96% matchMostly Positive77% of 2,395 reviews2024
Dev: Permadeath
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 13.6 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 22.7%, Crafting 13.8%, Open World 11.6%, Building 9.4%, Multiplayer 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: This pixel-art sandbox mixes procedurally generated planets, building, crafting, combat, and creature collection in a strongly Starbound-adjacent format.
- #3 Edge of Space
96% matchMostly Negative33% of 2,729 reviews2015
Dev: Handyman StudiosPub: Reverb Triple XP
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 5.9 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 47% ★, Sandbox 14.5%, Space 6.3%, Crafting 6.1%, Survival 4.5%
Why You'll Like It: It closely follows Starbound's formula of side-scrolling alien-planet exploration, resource gathering, crafting, building, and online co-op.
- #4 Aground
95% matchVery Positive94% of 2,039 reviews2020
Dev: Fancy Fish Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 10.0 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 40.3% ★, Sandbox 12.1%, Survival 9.4%, Open World 8.5%, Building 8%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D pixel sandbox about surviving on an alien world, advancing through technology, building bases, and eventually taking to space.
- #5 Dig or Die
94% matchVery Positive90% of 4,291 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 45.5% ★, Sandbox 14.2%, Survival 9.9%, Crafting 8.8%, Open World 5.1%
Why You'll Like It: A focused side-scrolling survival-crafting game where building smart defenses and automating resource production are essential to surviving alien worlds.
- #6 Crea
94% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,408 reviews2016
Dev: Siege Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 18.9 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 47.5% ★, Sandbox 15.2%, Crafting 8.5%, Survival 5.9%, Building 3.6%
Why You'll Like It: Its deep crafting system, 2D procedural worlds, housing, equipment customization, and multiplayer make it a very direct alternative.
- #7 Necesse
91% 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 45.1% ★, Sandbox 9.4%, Crafting 5.9%, Survival 5.7%, Open World 5.4%
Why You'll Like It: Although viewed from above, it delivers the same satisfying cycle of exploring generated lands, gathering materials, building settlements, and fighting bosses with friends.
- #8 Junk Jack
93% matchMostly Positive78% of 478 reviews2016
Dev: Pixbits
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 21.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 45.5% ★, Sandbox 14.3%, Crafting 8.1%, Survival 8.1%, Building 5.5%
Why You'll Like It: A colorful 2D sandbox centered on digging, crafting, furnishing elaborate bases, exploring diverse worlds, and playing cooperatively.
- #9 Core Keeper
91% matchVery Positive93% of 66,787 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.3 hrsMean: 34.9 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 29.8% ★, Sandbox 11%, Crafting 7.8%, Survival 7.5%, Online Co-Op 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: Its underground procedural world, mining, crafting, base construction, boss hunts, and co-op exploration capture much of Starbound's sandbox appeal.
- #10 Signs of Life
92% matchMostly Positive76% of 846 reviews2014
Dev: Sweet Dog Studios
Windows · Linux
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 46.3% ★, Sandbox 13.6%, Crafting 7.5%, Survival 7.2%, Space 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: This sci-fi 2D survival sandbox emphasizes hostile planets, mining, construction, exploration, and gradually improving your technology.
- #11 Tinkerlands
89% matchVery Positive86% of 4,122 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.4 hrsMean: 14.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Explore, craft, and fight your way through uncharted islands — solo or with up to 4 players in co-op! Tinkerlands is an exciting survival adventure where you will build your settlement, craft useful tools to survive, and even use magic!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.3% ★, Sandbox 11.1%, Online Co-Op 7.6%, Survival 6.9%, Crafting 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: A pixel-art co-op survival sandbox focused on gathering, crafting, building a home, exploring islands, and overcoming adventure-driven challenges.
- #12 No Man's Sky
90% matchVery Positive85% of 421,258 reviews2016
Dev: Hello Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 20.1 hrsMean: 70.9 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 45.1% ★, Space 11.5%, Open World 9%, Sandbox 8.7%, Survival 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: It provides Starbound's grandest fantasy in 3D: continually discovering strange planets, collecting resources, upgrading gear, building bases, and playing online.
- #13 ASTRONEER
87% 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 38.9% ★, Space 9.7%, Sandbox 9.2%, Survival 8%, Open World 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: Its relaxed, colorful planetary exploration and terrain-shaping loop makes gathering, base expansion, and co-op discovery the main attraction.
- #14 Farworld Pioneers
89% matchMostly Negative37% of 703 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 35.7% ★, Sandbox 11.5%, Space 8.6%, Crafting 8.1%, Co-op 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: It combines side-scrolling planetary survival and construction with colony management, automation, and multiplayer-friendly sandbox progression.
- #15 Planet Explorers
88% matchMixed62% of 6,818 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 45.7% ★, Sandbox 15.1%, Open World 7.7%, Crafting 6.5%, Survival 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi open-world survival game built around exploring an alien planet, harvesting resources, constructing vehicles and bases, and cooperating with others.
- #16 Feel The Snow
86% matchVery Positive87% of 3,062 reviews2019
Dev: Owlet
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 7.3 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 43.2% ★, Sandbox 8.8%, Survival 8.2%, Crafting 7.3%, Multiplayer 5.4%
Why You'll Like It: This charming 2D co-op survival game offers open-ended crafting, building, exploration, combat, and a similarly colorful pixel-art atmosphere.
- #17 It Lurks Below
86% matchVery Positive82% of 1,289 reviews2019
Dev: Graybeard GamesPub: Skystone Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 12.8 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 26.4%, Survival 21.9%, Crafting 14.6%, RPG 11.4%, Pixel Graphics 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: A loot-heavy 2D survival sandbox with digging, base building, procedurally generated worlds, monsters, and RPG-style character development.
- #18 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
85% matchMostly Positive78% of 34,438 reviews2020
Dev: Eleon Game Studios
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 77.1 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 36.6% ★, Sandbox 10.3%, Space 9.3%, Survival 7.5%, Crafting 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: A more simulation-heavy take on space survival where you build bases and customizable ships, visit planets, and explore a hostile galaxy with friends.
- #19 Space Engineers
84% matchVery Positive89% of 134,498 reviews2019
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 96.5 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 20.7%, Space 15.8%, Survival 13.1%, Building 11.7%, Open World 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: A more technical space sandbox focused on engineering functional ships and stations, surviving on planets, and solving open-ended construction problems.
- #20 Valheim
80% 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 42.3% ★, Online Co-Op 8.7%, Survival 8.3%, Crafting 6.9%, Open World 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: While fantasy-themed and 3D, it offers a similarly rewarding loop of procedural exploration, material progression, extensive building, bosses, and co-op survival.
- #21 Don't Starve Together
82% matchVery Positive95% of 543,644 reviews2016
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 64.9 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 71% ★, Survival 15%, Multiplayer 2.5%, Co-op 2.4%, Sandbox 2.2%
Why You'll Like It: A demanding co-op survival sandbox where gathering, crafting, base planning, strange biomes, and emergent disasters create memorable expeditions.
- #22 StarMade
84% matchMixed68% of 2,992 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 25.2%, Space 22.2%, Open World 11.4%, Building 9.9%, Crafting 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: It is a space sandbox centered on designing ships and stations block by block, then using them to explore, fight, and play online.
- #23 Creativerse
83% 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 34% ★, Sandbox 11.4%, Crafting 8.1%, Online Co-Op 7.5%, Survival 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: Its approachable voxel building, resource gathering, biome exploration, and multiplayer creativity suit players who enjoy Starbound's less combat-focused sandbox side.
- #24 Avorion
82% matchVery Positive90% of 14,588 reviews2020
Dev: Boxelware
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18.9 hrsMean: 99.6 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 30.4%, Space 22.3%, Building 16.7%, Open World 15.9%, Exploration 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: This procedural-galaxy sandbox lets you construct modular spaceships, mine asteroids, explore sectors, trade, fight, and cooperate with other players.
- #25 The Planet Crafter
79% 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 37.4% ★, Sandbox 8.7%, Space 7.9%, Online Co-Op 7.7%, Survival 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: This first-person planetary survival game makes exploration and crafting feel purposeful by letting you gradually terraform a barren alien world.
- #26 Keplerth
81% matchVery Positive84% of 4,170 reviews2022
Dev: TAROPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 16.3 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 14.3%, Open World 12.4%, Building 11.7%, Exploration 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival sandbox with procedurally generated exploration, crafting, farming, base building, and character progression.
- #27 Crashlands
81% matchVery Positive90% of 6,773 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 41.2% ★, Sandbox 11.6%, Crafting 8.6%, Survival 8.1%, Open World 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: Its humorous alien-world adventure combines accessible crafting, base building, creature-filled exploration, and a strong sci-fi survival premise.
- #28 Enshrouded
78% 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: Survival 15.9%, Open World 15.6%, Online Co-Op 14%, Crafting 13%, Sandbox 12.3%
Why You'll Like It: It shifts to fantasy action RPG combat but retains the core appeal of exploring dangerous regions, gathering materials, crafting upgrades, and freely building large bases.
- #29 The Survivalists
79% matchMostly Positive76% of 10,123 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 34.8% ★, Sandbox 10.2%, Crafting 10.2%, Online Co-Op 9.2%, Survival 9%
Why You'll Like It: This lighter survival-crafting adventure features exploration, resource gathering, base construction, combat, and cooperative play in a colorful world.
- #30 Stardew Valley
77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 1,040,983 reviews2016
Dev: ConcernedApe
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 23.0 hrsMean: 85.7 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 14.4%, Multiplayer 13.5%, Pixel Graphics 11.2%, Relaxing 11.2%
- #31 Rising World
78% matchVery Positive86% of 6,019 reviews2014
Dev: JIW-Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 21.4 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Rising World is a voxel based open-world sandbox game, featuring a procedurally generated world, playable in single and multi-player.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.2% ★, Sandbox 12%, Crafting 8.4%, Survival 7.5%, Building 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: A procedurally generated voxel survival sandbox with deep building tools, mining, farming, exploration, and optional multiplayer.
- #32 Don't Starve
77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 113,517 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 47.7% ★, Survival 16.9%, Sandbox 11.9%, Crafting 9.8%, Open World 4.2%
- #33 Abiotic Factor
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 59,444 reviews2025
Dev: Deep Field GamesPub: Playstack
Windows
Median: 21.2 hrsMean: 46.5 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 42.1% ★, Sandbox 10.7%, Crafting 9.7%, Online Co-Op 9.6%, Survival 9.5%
- #34 Forager
75% matchVery Positive89% of 44,137 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 50% ★, Crafting 9.9%, Survival 9.4%, Sandbox 9%, Pixel Graphics 5%
- #35 Wayward
76% matchVery Positive86% of 1,370 reviews2016
Dev: Unlok
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 21.4 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 48.7% ★, Survival 11.2%, Crafting 9.8%, Sandbox 9.8%, Open World 5.6%
- #36 Cubic Odyssey
72% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,754 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 46.4% ★, Sandbox 13.9%, Building 7.6%, Co-op 7.1%, Online Co-Op 3.9%
- #37 Delverium
71% matchVery Positive85% of 157 reviews2026
Dev: Sagestone Games
Windows
Explore, Build, Farm, Craft and Fight in this survival sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Delve deep to uncover the secret of the invading 'Faults' and restore stability to the land.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.7% ★, Sandbox 11.6%, Survival 7.2%, Crafting 7.1%, Online Co-Op 5.7%
- #38 Magicite
74% matchVery Positive85% of 7,591 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 17.1%, Multiplayer 12%, Co-op 11.1%, Survival 10.9%, Pixel Graphics 9.9%
- #39 Subnautica
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 380,795 reviews2018
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.3 hrsMean: 39.8 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 51.9% ★, Survival 10.8%, Crafting 8.3%, Open World 8%, Sandbox 6.8%
- #40 GRAV
76% matchMixed47% of 6,922 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 47.5% ★, Sandbox 10.7%, Survival 9.5%, Open World 7.4%, Crafting 6.3%
- #41 Staxel
73% matchMostly Positive78% of 4,839 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 21.8%, Online Co-Op 13%, Building 11.3%, Open World 11.1%, Co-op 7.9%
- #42 Cube World
75% matchMostly Negative37% of 18,738 reviews2019
Dev: Picroma
Windows
Median: 5.5 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 19.4%, Online Co-Op 12.5%, Multiplayer 10.7%, Sandbox 10%, Crafting 8.7%
- #43 Drift: Space Survival
73% 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 41.5% ★, Space 9.2%, Online Co-Op 8.4%, Sandbox 8%, Survival 7.9%
- #44 Oxygen Not Included
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 144,026 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 69.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Why similar: Survival 28.3%, Sandbox 21.5%, Building 16.5%, Space 12.6%, Open World 5.7%
- #45 Breathedge
71% matchVery Positive81% of 18,514 reviews2021
Dev: RedRuins SoftworksPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 45.8% ★, Sandbox 12.1%, Space 11%, Survival 8.2%, Crafting 6.4%
- #46 Fragmented
74% 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 50% ★, Survival 9.5%, Sandbox 7.3%, Open World 5.8%, Crafting 5.4%
- #47 Craterbound
71% matchMixed53% 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 45.2% ★, Space 10.8%, Sandbox 9.8%, Survival 9.2%, Crafting 8.9%
- #48 Tinkertown
70% matchMixed67% of 1,345 reviews2023
Dev: Headup
Windows
Median: 3.9 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 16.4%, Crafting 11.9%, Online Co-Op 9.2%, RPG 8.6%, Open World 8.4%
- #49 Space Haven
66% matchVery Positive86% of 11,153 reviews2026
Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 21.0 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.
Why similar: Sandbox 22.1%, Space 17.6%, Survival 14.9%, Building 12.2%, Open World 11%
- #50 Stranded Deep
68% matchMostly Positive74% of 47,919 reviews2022
Dev: Beam Team GamesPub: Beam Team Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 20.9 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 53.5% ★, Survival 10.6%, Crafting 7.6%, Open World 6.4%, Multiplayer 5.9%
- #51 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 39.6% ★, Sandbox 9.9%, Space 9.4%, Crafting 9.1%, Survival 8.1%
- #52 Risk of Rain (2013)
69% matchVery Positive93% of 29,834 reviews2013
Dev: Hopoo GamesPub: Gearbox Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 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 28.1%, Pixel Graphics 16.8%, Co-op 16%, Multiplayer 9%, Survival 7.4%
- #53 Boundless
70% matchMixed69% of 2,779 reviews2018
Dev: Monumental, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 32.8 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 46.3% ★, Sandbox 14.5%, Crafting 8.9%, Open World 7.9%, Building 6.2%
- #54 Planetaries
68% matchMixed58% of 228 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 35.9% ★, Sandbox 9.5%, Online Co-Op 7.8%, Crafting 7.7%, Survival 7.3%
- #55 Stars End
69% matchMixed61% of 1,432 reviews2023
Dev: Reverie World StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 10.2 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 34.3% ★, Sandbox 9.3%, Space 8.5%, Online Co-Op 7.8%, Co-op 7.1%
- #56 Factorio
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 235,209 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.9 hrsMean: 193.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Why similar: Sandbox 28.6%, Crafting 18.4%, Survival 12.3%, Open World 9.6%, Building 8.7%
- #57 Portal Knights
68% matchVery Positive83% of 22,395 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 25.2%, Crafting 14.8%, Survival 12.6%, Building 12%, Multiplayer 10.2%
- #58 Space Trash Scavenger
65% matchVery Positive83% of 528 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 41.3% ★, Sandbox 11%, Space 9.4%, Crafting 8.8%, Survival 7.9%
- #59 Voidtrain
64% matchMostly Positive73% of 9,990 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 14.8 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 44.9% ★, Sandbox 7.5%, Survival 7%, Crafting 6.7%, Online Co-Op 6.4%
- #60 Solarpunk™
63% 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 36% ★, Sandbox 10.5%, Crafting 8.1%, Online Co-Op 7.4%, Survival 6.6%
