- #1 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
97% matchMostly Positive78% of 34,392 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 19.6% ★, Space Sim 10.8%, Co-op 10%, Space 8.2%, Survival 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: Shares the core loop of planetary exploration, ship construction, and survival in a hostile galaxy.
- #2 Space Engineers
96% matchVery Positive89% of 134,313 reviews2019
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 96.4 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: Space Sim 16.7%, Co-op 12.3%, Space 11.2%, Survival 8.8%, PvP 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Essential for the ship-building and space survival mechanics found in Stars End.
- #3 Starbase
95% matchMixed56% of 6,753 reviews2021
Dev: Frozenbyte
Windows
Median: 14.3 hrsMean: 91.6 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: Massively Multiplayer 20.4%, Space Sim 16%, Open World Survival Craft 11.9% ★, Space 9.3%, Open World 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a massive, player-driven space environment with complex building and PVP mechanics.
- #4 No Man's Sky
94% matchVery Positive85% of 414,381 reviews2016
Dev: Hello Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 20.1 hrsMean: 70.7 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 30.5% ★, Space 12.8%, Open World 9.9%, Space Sim 8.1%, Survival 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: Features vast procedural exploration and survival elements that capture the scale of a distant star system.
- #5 ICARUS
94% matchMostly Positive75% of 67,515 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 46.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.6% ★, Online Co-Op 10.4%, Survival 10.3%, Co-op 9%, Multiplayer 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: A session-based sci-fi survival game that emphasizes the harshness of alien environments and resource management.
- #6 Starbound
91% matchVery Positive90% of 123,281 reviews2016
Dev: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.0 hrsMean: 64.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.1% ★, Sandbox 9.3%, Space 8.5%, Online Co-Op 8%, Co-op 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D alternative that captures the spirit of space exploration, crafting, and survival across multiple planets.
- #7 Stationeers
91% matchVery Positive88% of 9,229 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 85.3 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: Co-op 18.6%, Space 17.7%, Survival 14.7%, Crafting 14.5%, Sandbox 13.4%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the hardcore technical aspects of surviving in space, perfect for those who enjoy the engineering side of Stars End.
- #8 Planet Explorers
90% 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 38.3% ★, Sandbox 11.9%, Open World 10.5%, Survival 8.2%, Crafting 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that emphasizes exploration and building in a vast, alien world.
- #9 ASTRONEER
89% matchVery Positive92% of 139,015 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.6 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 29.1% ★, Space 12%, Co-op 10%, Survival 9.4%, Open World 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the exploration and terraforming aspects of space survival with a distinct visual style.
- #10 Interstellar Rift
89% matchMixed68% of 1,666 reviews2020
Dev: Split PolygonPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 33.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Interstellar Rift is an open world starship simulator with an emphasis on ship construction and multi-player interaction. Survive in a hostile galaxy with your own custom designed and constructed starship. Invite other players to join your crew or fight them across the galaxy!
Why similar: Space Sim 21.1%, Space 11.2%, Crafting 10.4%, Open World 9.7%, PvP 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: A space simulation game that focuses on ship design and multi-crew operations in an open galaxy.
- #11 ARK: Survival Ascended
88% matchMixed60% of 115,802 reviews2023
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows
Median: 27.7 hrsMean: 198.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 16.3%, Survival 16.2%, Open World 13.5%, Multiplayer 11.4%, Crafting 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for open-world survival crafting, offering deep base building and player interaction.
- #12 Rust
87% matchVery Positive87% of 1,393,461 reviews2018
Dev: Facepunch Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 52.7 hrsMean: 429.0 hrs≥1hr: 96%
The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24% ★, Survival 16.4%, Crafting 10.7%, Open World 9.2%, Multiplayer 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: The definitive PVP survival experience that mirrors the high-stakes, player-driven conflict found in Stars End.
- #13 Occupy Mars: The Game
86% matchMixed70% of 3,132 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 34.1 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.4% ★, Online Co-Op 11%, Co-op 10.4%, Crafting 8.8%, Survival 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: A detailed survival game focused on the technical challenges of colonizing a hostile Martian environment.
- #14 The Front
85% matchMixed67% of 10,771 reviews2025
Dev: Samar Studio
Windows
Median: 10.6 hrsMean: 44.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
The Front is a survival open-world crafting sandbox game. You are a resistance fighter sent back in time to stop the rise of a tyrannical empire. Collect resources, craft tech, build shelters, and fight monsters to accomplish your mission.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.2% ★, Massively Multiplayer 15.4%, Co-op 9.3%, Survival 8.7%, Crafting 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: Combines open-world survival with heavy base building and PVP combat in a post-apocalyptic setting.
- #15 Farworld Pioneers
84% matchMostly Negative38% of 701 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 22.5% ★, Co-op 13.5%, Online Co-Op 9%, Space 8.9%, Crafting 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: Blends colony management with space survival, offering a unique perspective on building a home among the stars.
- #16 Eden Crafters
81% matchVery Positive85% of 2,630 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29% ★, Online Co-Op 9.6%, Co-op 9.2%, Crafting 8.9%, Space 8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the automation and base-building aspects of survival, allowing for complex planetary development.
- #17 Subsistence
84% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,766 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 40.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.6% ★, Survival 12.7%, Crafting 10.1%, Multiplayer 8.8%, Open World 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A pure survival experience that rewards careful resource management and base fortification against threats.
- #18 Planetaries
83% 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 25.7% ★, Online Co-Op 10.5%, Co-op 10.1%, Survival 8.2%, Crafting 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused game that leans into the exploration of alien worlds and resource gathering.
- #19 Starsand
82% matchMixed66% of 1,254 reviews2022
Dev: Tunnel Vision StudioPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Starsand is a mystic survival game set among the dunes of an arcane desert. An open-world full of danger, vast environments and mysterious happenings await you! Explore, hunt, craft, build – and SURVIVE.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.2% ★, Survival 12.9%, Crafting 11.9%, Open World 11.7%, Sandbox 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that captures the feeling of being stranded in a harsh, unforgiving environment.
- #20 Scrapnaut
82% matchMixed70% of 837 reviews2021
Dev: SpiffyBitPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements. Explore an open world with different biomes, take care of oxygen, manage your farms, generate electricity, build your home and much more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.2% ★, Co-op 13.8%, Online Co-Op 12.2%, Survival 10.8%, Multiplayer 9%
Why You'll Like It: Features top-down survival and building mechanics that emphasize crafting and exploration in a hostile world.
- #21 Cubic Odyssey
79% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,720 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 38.8% ★, Co-op 16.6%, Sandbox 10.9%, Sci-fi 7.8%, Online Co-Op 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that focuses on base building and exploration within a stylized, open environment.
- #22 SpaceCraft
78% matchMixed65% of 2,687 reviews2026
Dev: Shiro Games
Windows
Median: 13.4 hrsMean: 47.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
The Universe is yours. SpaceCraft is an online space exploration and building game. Explore a vast galaxy of solar systems and planets, mine and craft resources, design and build ships, automate planetary bases and interplanetary logistics, trade and cooperate.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 17.6%, Space Sim 12.9%, Space 9.9%, Co-op 7.8%, Open World 6.9%
- #23 GRAV
81% 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 35.1% ★, Survival 10.9%, Open World 8.8%, Sandbox 7.5%, Space 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced survival game that features exploration and combat in a vibrant, alien open world.
- #24 Outpost Zero
80% matchMixed48% of 853 reviews2019
Dev: Symmetric GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Outpost Zero blends the genres of Multiplayer Base Building Survival and Simulation games in a Sci-Fi universe. On a lawless alien world, robotic scouts are tasked with building an Outpost for human colonists. Command AI minions, colonize the planet, and survive the perils of Gaiya.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.9% ★, Survival 13.8%, Multiplayer 10.3%, Open World 8.9%, Crafting 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: Combines base building with survival and combat in an alien environment, echoing the core loop of Stars End.
- #25 StarMade
79% matchMixed68% of 2,991 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: Space 21.5%, Sandbox 13.9%, Open World 10.9%, Multiplayer 9.1%, Space Sim 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based space sandbox that allows for massive ship construction and multiplayer exploration.
- #26 Drift: Space Survival
78% 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 32.1% ★, Online Co-Op 12.2%, Space 11.8%, Survival 9.5%, Crafting 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: A space-themed survival game that emphasizes the isolation and danger of drifting through the void.
- #27 StarRupture
75% matchVery Positive81% of 13,247 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 26.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.8% ★, Co-op 11.6%, Survival 8.4%, Online Co-Op 8.1%, Crafting 7.9%
- #28 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
74% matchVery Positive91% of 7,602 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Survive, craft, and automate in this free prologue set on one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters, an open-world game where you play solo or with friends to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.4% ★, Online Co-Op 9.9%, Multiplayer 8.6%, Co-op 7.9%, Crafting 7.7%
- #29 Plains of Pain
76% matchVery Positive83% of 933 reviews2023
Dev: Cobra Byte Digital
Windows
Enter a living post-apocalyptic sandbox where the world doesn't wait for you. Build, craft, trade, earn the trust of factions, and forge your own path through a brutal procedural wasteland.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.6% ★, Co-op 10%, Online Co-Op 9.5%, Survival 7.4%, Crafting 7.3%
- #30 Fragmented
77% 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 39.3% ★, Survival 11.7%, Multiplayer 7.4%, Open World 7.4%, Crafting 6.1%
- #31 Rem Survival
75% matchMostly Positive75% of 803 reviews2021
Dev: Immortal Hand Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 47.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Scavenge abandoned ruins, craft gear from scrap and salvaged materials, and fight the environment itself as hunger, exposure, and exhaustion push you to your limits. There are no second chances—only adaptation or death.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.2% ★, Massively Multiplayer 15.6%, Survival 9.8%, Crafting 9.8%, Open World 8.6%
- #32 Outerstellar
74% matchMostly Positive72% of 175 reviews2023
Dev: Strange Horizons Ltd
Windows
Stranded on a hostile and deadly planet, you must gather resources, build shelter, and fight to survive each night. But the secrets of this world await in a gripping sci-fi survival PvP game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.8% ★, Massively Multiplayer 15.1%, Space 9.4%, Survival 9.1%, Multiplayer 8.1%
- #33 TerraTech
72% matchVery Positive91% of 24,920 reviews2018
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 32.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
TerraTech is an open-world, sandbox adventure game, where you design and build your own creations through a mix of crafting, combat and discovery. Design vehicles from a huge library of blocks. Scavenge, craft and buy new parts to survive and become the ultimate planetary prospector.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.2% ★, Sandbox 11.9%, Open World 10.7%, Crafting 9.2%, Multiplayer 9.1%
- #34 Outlaws of the Old West
73% matchMixed59% of 6,295 reviews2019
Dev: Virtual Basement LLCPub: Wandering Wizard
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Outlaws of the Old West is a massively multiplayer survival MMO with a huge world, thousands of items and a modular building system. Survive the wild, build your own homestead, defeat villainous bandits and work with others to tame the Wild West.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.6% ★, Massively Multiplayer 21%, Survival 12.2%, Open World 10.5%, Multiplayer 9%
- #35 Out of Reach
73% matchMixed57% of 3,051 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
You’re a castaway stranded in the middle of nowhere. Storm is gone, the worst certainly not. Look for food and resources, craft gear, make shelters. These are the basics, you need much more to stay alive on this cut-off-the-world, yet not desert island. Build & burn, sail & explore, be Out of Reach!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.1% ★, Massively Multiplayer 13.1%, Survival 10.7%, Open World 8%, Crafting 7.8%
- #36 Remains
72% matchMostly Positive75% of 321 reviews2021
Dev: SoloQ
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Remains - survival in outer space orbiting the planet. Explore the area. Find a way to restore oxygen. Create tools for your needs. Beware of the dangers of outer space. Build your shelter in orbit and try not to die!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.6% ★, Space 12.8%, Crafting 10.4%, Survival 9.9%, Sandbox 8.8%
- #37 Avorion
70% matchVery Positive90% of 14,549 reviews2020
Dev: Boxelware
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18.8 hrsMean: 99.5 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: Space Sim 26.7%, Space 17%, Sandbox 13.3%, Open World 11.9%, PvE 10.2%
- #38 TerraTech Worlds
70% matchMixed63% of 2,287 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 22.0 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 29.1% ★, Co-op 12.8%, Crafting 9.3%, Survival 8.9%, Sandbox 8.7%
- #39 Elite Dangerous
70% matchMostly Positive77% of 107,282 reviews2015
Dev: Frontier Developments
Windows
Median: 18.2 hrsMean: 148.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Take control of your own starship and blaze your trail in an ever-changing galaxy. Master the arts of combat, mining and trade or venture out into the unknown across a 1:1 scale universe.
Why similar: Space Sim 24.4%, Massively Multiplayer 18.2%, Space 15.4%, Open World 9.8%, Sci-fi 5.9%
- #40 The Planet Crafter
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 73,089 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.7 hrsMean: 38.5 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28% ★, Co-op 11.6%, Online Co-Op 11%, Space 9.7%, Survival 8.7%
- #41 Boundless
71% matchMixed70% of 2,774 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 31.9% ★, Massively Multiplayer 23.8%, Sandbox 9.5%, Open World 8.9%, Crafting 8.8%
- #42 Deadside
67% matchMostly Positive76% of 40,499 reviews2024
Dev: Bad Pixel
Windows
Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 44.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%
An Open World Survival Shooter blending hardcore PVP and PVE action. Secure precious loot in safe zones or build your own fortress in the wild. With intense gunfights, stunning visuals, and performance smooth enough for any system, the challenge awaits!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.1% ★, Massively Multiplayer 10.6%, Survival 9.5%, Crafting 8.2%, PvP 7.9%
- #43 Force of Nature
71% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,209 reviews2016
Dev: A.Y.std
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.6% ★, Crafting 11.8%, Survival 11.7%, Sandbox 8.2%, Open World 8%
- #44 StarsOne
71% matchMostly Positive74% of 537 reviews2016
Dev: IllusoryWorldEntertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 96%
You’ll see an unexplored world full of dangers, mysteries and adventures. You will explore randomly generated planets, develop industry, conduct trade, plant colonies, explore outer space.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 50.3%, Survival 24.5%, Sandbox 17.7%, Action 7.5%
- #45 Edge of Space
73% 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 40.2% ★, Sandbox 11.7%, Space 9%, Crafting 7.5%, Survival 6%
- #46 Project Asteroids
69% matchMixed56% of 130 reviews2024
Dev: PAEB Studio
Windows
In the vastness of space, you are a lone robot desperately trying to survive. Build, explore, and fight for your life as you face deadly threats in the asteroid belt. This hardcore game shows no mercy—dangers lurk at every step, ready to destroy you at any moment.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 24.4%, Survival 11.8%, Crafting 11.5%, Open World 9.8%, Multiplayer 9.6%
- #47 Space Trash Scavenger
67% matchVery Positive84% of 525 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 30.3% ★, Space 11.4%, Space Sim 10.1%, Crafting 9.3%, Survival 9.1%
- #48 Dune: Awakening
66% matchMostly Positive71% of 78,134 reviews2025
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 46.5 hrsMean: 100.0 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival game with immersive adventure and RPG gameplay. Explore, build, craft, and unravel a cinematic Dune story alone or with friends as you rise from survival to greatness on the most legendary planet in the universe. Just remember: the sandworm always comes.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.1% ★, Massively Multiplayer 14.9%, Online Co-Op 8.3%, Survival 6.8%, PvP 6.7%
- #49 Lost Rift
67% matchMixed70% of 1,693 reviews2025
Dev: People Can Fly
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 8.5 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 24.3% ★, Massively Multiplayer 16%, Online Co-Op 9.2%, Crafting 8%, Survival 7.9%
- #50 XERA: Survival
68% matchMixed66% of 7,941 reviews2021
Dev: Spotted Kiwi Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 24.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Action-focused, open world survival shooter, PvPvE against fellow mercenaries and lethal XOIDS. Raid for resources alone or with team-mates, build and defend your base, stash your gear and survive against the odds. You are the hunters. You are the hunted. And the robots never sleep…
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.2% ★, Massively Multiplayer 14.6%, Survival 9%, Crafting 8.6%, Multiplayer 8.2%
- #51 Beyond Contact
68% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,132 reviews2023
Dev: Playcorp StudiosPub: Deep Silver
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 68%
A fiercely formidable sci-fi survival game, set on a hostile alien world that wants you dead! Alone, or with a crew, do you have what it takes to survive?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.7% ★, Co-op 14.7%, Survival 10.9%, Crafting 9.3%, Multiplayer 7.9%
- #52 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
65% matchVery Positive82% of 10,429 reviews2024
Dev: Max Ent Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 16.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.5% ★, Co-op 11.1%, Online Co-Op 11%, Survival 10%, Multiplayer 8.4%
- #53 Dysterra
66% matchMixed56% of 771 reviews2025
Dev: Reality MagiQ
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 60%
On a future post-apocalyptic Earth, build, craft, and loot other players’ bases to survive long enough to board the rocket and escape the dangerous robots and mercenaries that inhabit Ararat Island. Manipulate the weather and use earthquakes to change when the server wipe occurs in DYSTERRA!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.7% ★, PvE 10.9%, Online Co-Op 10.7%, Crafting 8.9%, Survival 8.6%
- #54 Lost Skies
65% matchMixed61% of 2,976 reviews2025
Dev: Bossa StudiosPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 17.0 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Chart a course in a breathtaking, but fractured world. Explore ancient ruins, master advanced technology, and craft your very own skyship to brave nature’s fury and colossal threats in Lost Skies. Team up with friends or go it alone in this awe-inspiring cooperative survival adventure.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.3% ★, Online Co-Op 15.2%, Sandbox 9%, Open World 7%, Crafting 6.8%
