- #1 Satisfactory
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 274,659 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 32.8 hrsMean: 111.2 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Why similar: Automation 20.9%, Base Building 16.8%, Open World Survival Craft 12.1% ★, Crafting 9.6%, Open World 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: The definitive experience for players who love building complex, sprawling industrial factories on an alien world.
- #2 The Planet Crafter
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 71,525 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.5 hrsMean: 38.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 23.1% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Automation 11.6%, Crafting 7.5%, Co-op 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the rewarding process of terraforming a barren planet through exploration and base expansion.
- #3 The Riftbreaker
96% matchVery Positive90% of 24,295 reviews2021
Dev: EXOR Studios
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 20.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
The Riftbreaker is a solo or Co-op base-building, survival game with Action-RPG elements for up to 4 players. Hack & slash countless hordes of enemies. Build up your base, craft powerful weapons and research new inventions to survive.
Why similar: Base Building 26.3%, Online Co-Op 16.1%, Survival 13.5%, Crafting 13%, Sandbox 12%
Why You'll Like It: Perfectly mirrors the mix of base-building, tower defense, and intense combat against hordes of alien creatures.
- #4 Techtonica
95% matchMixed65% of 3,219 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.
Why similar: Automation 23%, Base Building 14.9%, Crafting 9.1%, Immersive Sim 8.7%, Online Co-Op 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a unique underground automation experience with a heavy emphasis on base-building and resource management.
- #5 ICARUS
94% matchMostly Positive75% of 64,831 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 46.3 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 29.2% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Survival 10.8%, Crafting 8.9%, Online Co-Op 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a session-based survival experience that emphasizes exploration and building in a dangerous, alien environment.
- #6 FOUNDRY
94% matchVery Positive81% of 3,864 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 47.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.
Why similar: Automation 18.3%, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 10.2%, Co-op 9.4%, Open World 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based automation game that captures the scale and satisfaction of building massive industrial systems.
- #7 Forever Skies
93% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,551 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 31.8 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 26% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Co-op 10.5%, Crafting 10.3%, Survival 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: Features high-altitude survival and base-building on a ruined planet, focusing on exploration and resource scavenging.
- #8 Abiotic Factor
92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 56,714 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 26.7% ★, Base Building 13%, Crafting 10.2%, Survival 9.6%, Online Co-Op 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: Combines survival and base-building with a unique sci-fi facility setting that rewards creative engineering.
- #9 Dune: Awakening
91% matchMostly Positive71% of 77,257 reviews2025
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 46.8 hrsMean: 99.3 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival game with immersive adventure and RPG gameplay. Explore, build, craft, and unravel a cinematic Dune story alone or with friends as you rise from survival to greatness on the most legendary planet in the universe. Just remember: the sandworm always comes.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.8% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 9.3%, Survival 8.6%, Open World 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that captures the harshness of an alien landscape and the necessity of base-building.
- #10 Lightyear Frontier
91% matchVery Positive84% of 4,562 reviews2024
Dev: FRAME BREAK
Windows
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
In Lightyear Frontier you use your powerful trusty mech to farm on a large beautiful alien planet. Settle your homestead, farm and deliver produce to remote colonies, gather and manage resources, build, craft, explore, expand, improve your mech, meet neighbors, and make a place to call your own.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.8% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Crafting 10.5%, Online Co-Op 8.4%, Co-op 8%
Why You'll Like It: Allows for peaceful yet engaging base-building and exploration using customizable mechs on a vibrant alien world.
- #11 Eden Crafters
90% matchVery Positive86% of 2,537 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 13.6 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 21.8% ★, Automation 14.9%, Base Building 10.4%, Crafting 7.8%, Colony Sim 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: A newer title that emphasizes the automation and survival aspects of transforming a hostile planet into a home.
- #12 Volcanoids
89% matchVery Positive83% of 9,298 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.
Why similar: Base Building 15%, Crafting 11.8%, Co-op 10.4%, Sandbox 9.7%, Survival 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: Features a unique mobile base-building mechanic where you must drill and survive against volcanic threats.
- #13 Stationeers
89% matchVery Positive88% of 9,110 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 83.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!
Why similar: Automation 18.9%, Colony Sim 17.5%, Base Building 14.1%, Crafting 10.3%, Survival 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: Offers deep, technical automation and survival mechanics for players who enjoy complex engineering challenges.
- #14 ASTRONEER
88% matchVery Positive92% of 138,510 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 27.3% ★, Base Building 10.6%, Open World 9.1%, Survival 9.1%, Automation 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on exploration and modular base-building with a distinct art style and intuitive resource management.
- #15 Astro Colony
86% matchVery Positive81% of 2,654 reviews2026
Dev: Terad Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.
Why similar: Automation 22.4%, Colony Sim 19.4%, Base Building 19%, Crafting 8.3%, Sandbox 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on building and automating a space station while managing resources in a zero-gravity environment.
- #16 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
87% matchMostly Positive78% of 34,271 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 29.4% ★, Co-op 11.7%, Survival 9.8%, Open World 9.5%, Crafting 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: A comprehensive space-survival game that allows for building everything from small bases to massive capital ships.
- #17 No Man's Sky
86% matchVery Positive85% of 411,162 reviews2016
Dev: Hello Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 20.1 hrsMean: 70.4 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 38.8% ★, Open World 13.9%, Survival 9.1%, Sandbox 7.5%, Sci-fi 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: The ultimate space exploration game that features extensive base-building and survival mechanics across infinite planets.
- #18 Space Engineers
85% matchVery Positive89% of 133,963 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: Base Building 19.8%, Co-op 14.2%, Survival 13.4%, Sandbox 13.3%, Open World 13.2%
Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for physics-based construction, allowing for intricate engineering and survival in space.
- #19 Voidtrain
83% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,612 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 14.0 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 31.9% ★, Base Building 10.5%, Co-op 9.1%, Survival 8%, Crafting 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: A creative survival game where your base is a customizable train traveling through an interdimensional void.
- #20 TerraTech Worlds
84% matchMixed63% of 2,256 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 21.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.1% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Automation 10.6%, Crafting 8.9%, Co-op 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on building custom vehicles and bases to explore and conquer a procedurally generated alien world.
- #21 Occupy Mars: The Game
82% matchMixed70% of 3,099 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 34.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.
Why similar: Colony Sim 15.9%, Base Building 14.1%, Crafting 11.1%, Open World 9.9%, Sandbox 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: A technical survival game that requires careful management of resources and base infrastructure on the Red Planet.
- #22 7 Days to Die
81% matchVery Positive87% of 402,373 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.0 hrsMean: 109.1 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 29.7% ★, Survival 14.5%, Base Building 13.6%, Open World 10%, Online Co-Op 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: While set on Earth, its core loop of base-building and defending against nightly hordes is a perfect match for StarRupture's combat.
- #23 The Front
82% matchMixed67% of 10,771 reviews2025
Dev: Samar Studio
Windows
Median: 10.7 hrsMean: 44.9 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 26.9% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Crafting 9.6%, Survival 8.9%, Open World 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-crafting game that heavily features base-building and defensive combat against waves of enemies.
- #24 Subnautica
80% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 375,391 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 35.5% ★, Base Building 12%, Survival 11.9%, Open World 9.8%, Crafting 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: An essential survival game that excels at base-building and exploration within a beautiful yet terrifying alien ecosystem.
- #25 Sunkenland
79% matchVery Positive81% of 23,452 reviews2023
Dev: Vector3 Studio
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 19.1 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 32.9% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Co-op 10.9%, Survival 10.1%, Crafting 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game that emphasizes base-building and exploration in a flooded, post-apocalyptic world.
- #26 Deep Rock Galactic
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 377,640 reviews2020
Dev: Ghost Ship GamesPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 14.2 hrsMean: 76.2 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Deep Rock Galactic is a 1-4 player co-op FPS featuring dwarven space miners, procedurally-generated destructible environments, and endless hordes of alien monsters. Explore cave systems, mine for minerals, and work together to survive!
Why similar: Co-op 36.4%, Shooter 17.1%, Survival 16.8%, Sci-fi 14.4%, Exploration 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: While mission-based, it captures the co-op mining and combat-heavy exploration vibe of fighting through alien caves.
- #27 Sons Of The Forest
78% matchVery Positive88% of 312,586 reviews2024
Dev: Endnight Games LtdPub: Newnight
Windows
Median: 14.9 hrsMean: 32.1 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: Base Building 16.9%, Survival 16.7%, Open World 14.2%, Co-op 14%, Crafting 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a high-fidelity survival experience with advanced building mechanics and intense combat encounters.
- #28 Starbase
81% matchMixed56% of 6,734 reviews2021
Dev: Frozenbyte
Windows
Median: 14.3 hrsMean: 91.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Starbase is a hybrid voxel/vertex-based space MMO with a fully destructible and infinitely expanding universe, with a focus on building and designing spaceships and stations, exploration, resource gathering, crafting, trading, and combat.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.8% ★, Open World 18.3%, Sandbox 15%, Crafting 12.8%, Sci-fi 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: A massive-scale space MMO that allows for incredibly detailed ship and station building through modular components.
- #29 The Last Caretaker
77% matchVery Positive86% of 12,107 reviews2025
Dev: Channel37 Ltd
Windows
Median: 18.2 hrsMean: 35.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Explore a drowned Earth, restore lost systems, and raise the last human seeds in this first-person survival-crafting adventure. Build, scavenge, defend, and launch humanity back to the stars.
Why similar: Automation 20.3%, Base Building 15%, Crafting 11.7%, Survival 10.2%, Open World 9.8%
- #30 Hydroneer
78% matchVery Positive86% of 28,157 reviews2020
Dev: Foulball Hangover
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 22.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Hydroneer is a mining and base building sandbox. Dig for gold and other resources to turn a profit and enhance your mining operation. Build a base of operations, forge weapons, go fishing, and dig deep!
Why similar: Automation 24.6%, Base Building 19.2%, Co-op 12.5%, Sandbox 11.6%, Open World 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: A mining and automation-focused game that provides a satisfying loop of building increasingly complex machinery.
- #31 Astrometica
77% matchVery Positive83% of 3,131 reviews2024
Dev: BeryMeryPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 16.6 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Astrometica is a space exploration and base-building survival game. After a catastrophic event, explore vast space, gather resources, build bases, and uncover cosmic mysteries. Use advanced technology, craft tools, and discover new blueprints to survive and thrive in the unknown.
Why similar: Automation 18.7%, Open World Survival Craft 18% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Crafting 12.2%, Survival 12.1%
- #32 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
76% matchVery Positive91% of 7,488 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Survive, craft, and automate in this free prologue set on one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters, an open-world game where you play solo or with friends to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.6% ★, Automation 13.2%, Base Building 11.2%, Crafting 7.5%, Open World 6.9%
- #33 Solarpunk™
75% matchVery Positive82% of 3,137 reviews2026
Dev: CyberwavePub: rokaplay
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 22.9% ★, Automation 11.9%, Base Building 11.1%, Crafting 8.4%, Co-op 8.1%
- #34 SpaceCraft
76% matchMixed67% of 2,264 reviews2026
Dev: Shiro Games
Windows
Median: 13.9 hrsMean: 37.2 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 17.9%, Base Building 14.3%, Crafting 11%, Open World 10.7%, Sandbox 10.3%
- #35 Outworld Station
73% matchVery Positive85% of 799 reviews2026
Dev: Trickjump Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Take the helm as a new Station Commander and exploit an alien star system in this stunning space-station factory automation game. Amass resources and construct starships using increasingly advanced manufacturing and expand your station in a hostile universe.
Why similar: Automation 26.1%, Base Building 18.5%, Co-op 12%, Crafting 11.2%, Sandbox 10%
- #36 Space Trash Scavenger
74% matchVery Positive84% of 521 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 25.9% ★, Automation 16.8%, Crafting 9.2%, Base Building 8.4%, Survival 8%
- #37 Nightingale
73% matchMixed66% of 17,987 reviews2024
Dev: Inflexion Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 23.9 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 29.1% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Survival 9.7%, Crafting 9.5%, Open World 9.1%
- #38 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,689 reviews2021
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Experience the first stages of terraforming an entire planet in this space survival open world terraforming crafting game prologue. Explore, survive, collect, build your base then create oxygen, heat and pressure to make an hostile planet livable for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.9% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Survival 10.2%, Crafting 9.3%, Open World 8.6%
- #39 Subsistence
75% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,723 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 5.0 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 38.4% ★, Survival 12.2%, Crafting 10.8%, Base Building 9.2%, Open World 8.5%
- #40 Lost Rift
72% matchMostly Positive70% of 1,626 reviews2025
Dev: People Can Fly
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Lost Rift is a first person survival adventure shooter that blends cooperative base building with multiplayer PvE or PvP extraction expeditions. Journey solo or in teams of up to 5 players across a vast archipelago, craft gear, build bases, defeat raiders, and become legendary.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.6% ★, Base Building 15.6%, Crafting 12.1%, Survival 10.6%, Online Co-Op 8.9%
- #41 ASKA
72% matchMostly Positive80% of 11,907 reviews2024
Dev: Sand Sailor StudioPub: Thunderful Publishing
Windows
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 28.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 19.9% ★, Colony Sim 13%, Automation 10.5%, Base Building 10%, Survival 6.8%
- #42 Enshrouded
71% matchVery Positive86% of 103,247 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.8 hrsMean: 46.1 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 19.8%, Open World 16.5%, Survival 14.9%, Crafting 12.7%, Online Co-Op 11.5%
- #43 Space Engineers 2
71% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,798 reviews2025
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Space Engineers 2 is a playable Early Access Alpha sandbox focused on engineering, exploration, and colonization in a fully destructible universe. Design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases while uncovering the story of Miro and Ivan Sokol. Help shape the future of the Almagest system.
Why similar: Sandbox 19.3%, Survival 18.7%, Open World 16.6%, Crafting 15.1%, Sci-fi 12.8%
- #44 Everwind
69% matchVery Positive81% of 3,601 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Everwind is a novel take on RPG and Sandbox Survival genre in First-Person-Perspective. Embark on the adventure with your friends - Build a base on a flying island-ship, gather resources, craft, loot, and fight while you rise above the clouds to uncover the mysteries of this world!
Why similar: Crafting 15%, Co-op 14.4%, Open World 13.5%, Survival 13.3%, Sandbox 12.6%
- #45 Soulmask
68% matchMostly Positive77% of 21,914 reviews2026
Dev: CampFire StudioPub: Qooland Games
Windows
Median: 13.8 hrsMean: 68.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. Possess any of your tribespeople, recruit followers, and build a thriving automated civilization. Survive, expand, and forge your own legacy across a vast ancient open world — together with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.1% ★, Automation 13.4%, Colony Sim 11.4%, Base Building 10.9%, Crafting 8.3%
- #46 Planetaries
70% matchMixed58% of 226 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 24.9% ★, Base Building 11%, Crafting 8.8%, Survival 8.2%, Open World 8%
- #47 Star Crafter
69% matchMixed70% of 105 reviews2025
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
A space survival crafting mining base building and star system building game. Craft rockets to create planets and Dyson Rings, mine and craft advanced materials, terraform the terrain, manage electricity, farm food, and more as you watch the star system evolve into stunning, ever-changing views.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.5% ★, Automation 15.3%, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 10.5%, Survival 6.9%
- #48 VEIN
67% matchVery Positive89% of 11,054 reviews2025
Dev: Ramjet Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 14.4 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 17.6%, Survival 14.8%, Open World 14.1%, Co-op 11.2%, Crafting 10%
- #49 Orebound
68% matchMostly Positive79% of 944 reviews2024
Dev: Emberforge
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Orebound is a dwarven themed factory automation game. Play alone or with friends as you build, mine, craft and explore a voxel generated world! Build your fortress, expand your factory, fight off creatures who dwell beneath the mountains and embark on a journey of greatness.
Why similar: Automation 24.9%, Base Building 16.6%, Crafting 13.9%, Open World 10.9%, Sandbox 10.3%
- #50 Penkura
70% matchVery Positive90% of 199 reviews2018
Dev: LionsArt
Windows
Penkura is a sci-fi base-building survival game where you construct a colony from a top-down command system, explore an alien world in first person, and use programmable bots to gather resources, build, repair, and keep your base alive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.6% ★, Automation 17.1%, Base Building 14.4%, Crafting 10.5%, Survival 9.4%
- #51 Windrose
64% matchVery Positive87% of 49,500 reviews2026
Dev: Kraken Express
Windows
Median: 19.6 hrsMean: 32.4 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: Open World Survival Craft 35.5% ★, Crafting 13.6%, Survival 11.8%, Base Building 11.7%, Online Co-Op 11.3%
- #52 Necesse
64% matchVery Positive93% of 27,498 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 33.6% ★, Automation 8.9%, Base Building 7.6%, Crafting 7.4%, Open World 7.3%
- #53 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
66% matchVery Positive82% of 10,269 reviews2024
Dev: Merge GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Survival 9.4%, Crafting 8.8%, Co-op 7.9%
- #54 Grounded 2
64% matchVery Positive81% of 22,174 reviews2025
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.4 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Shrunk again, but the world is much larger. In this open-world, single-player or co-op survival adventure, craft weapons and armor, build your base, and traverse the playground on your buggy. But something else is out there—and it hasn’t forgotten you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.6% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Survival 12%, Co-op 9.5%, Crafting 8.5%
- #55 Dyson Sphere Program
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 91,085 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 75.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.
Why similar: Automation 37.2%, Base Building 25.7%, Open World 12.7%, Sandbox 10.5%, Sci-fi 8%
- #56 GRAV
70% 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 34.3% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Survival 11%, Open World 9.6%, Sandbox 7.8%
- #57 Starminer
65% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,757 reviews2026
Dev: CoolAndGoodGames
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Design and build a massive interstellar fleet in this simulation sandbox. Strip space of its minerals for profit, but stay alert: your greed attracts the alien. Master deep base-building and deploy warships to protect your empire in immersive real-time space.
Why similar: Base Building 27.2%, Sandbox 24.6%, Open World 21.2%, Sci-fi 16.6%, Exploration 10.5%