- #1 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
97% matchMostly Positive79% of 34,087 reviews2020
Dev: Eleon Game Studios
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 76.7 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 19.1% ★, Space Sim 10.8% ★, Co-op 10.2%, Space 8.1%, Survival 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: This title offers a similar blend of planetary exploration, base construction, and space travel with a heavy emphasis on survival mechanics.
- #2 Space Engineers
96% matchVery Positive89% of 133,238 reviews2019
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 95.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 16.6% ★, Co-op 12.4%, Space 11.1%, PvP 8.7%, Survival 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: It is the gold standard for complex space-based engineering, ship building, and survival in a hostile vacuum.
- #3 No Man's Sky
96% matchVery Positive85% of 402,164 reviews2016
Dev: Hello Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 20.2 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 30.2% ★, Space 12.9%, Open World 9.8%, Space Sim 8.1% ★, Survival 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a massive, procedurally generated universe perfect for players who enjoy the exploration and resource-gathering aspects of Stars End.
- #4 Starbase
94% matchMixed56% of 6,702 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 20.3%, Space Sim 16.1% ★, Open World Survival Craft 11.7% ★, Space 9.3%, Open World 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: A massively multiplayer space-sim that features highly detailed ship construction and a player-driven economy similar to the goals of Stars End.
- #5 ARK: Survival Ascended
94% matchMixed60% of 100,735 reviews2023
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows
Median: 28.6 hrsMean: 195.6 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 16.6%, Survival 15.9%, Open World 13%, Multiplayer 11.3%, Crafting 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: This game shares the intense, high-stakes multiplayer survival and base-building loop found in Stars End, albeit in a prehistoric setting.
- #6 Rust
93% matchVery Positive87% of 1,344,289 reviews2018
Dev: Facepunch Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 52.0 hrsMean: 416.6 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 23.5% ★, Survival 16.4%, Crafting 10.9%, Multiplayer 9.3%, Open World 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: If you enjoy the cutthroat PvP and base-building intensity of Stars End, this is the definitive multiplayer survival experience.
- #7 ICARUS
92% matchMostly Positive74% of 62,078 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 44.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.8% ★, Online Co-Op 10.6%, Survival 10.2%, Co-op 9.1%, Multiplayer 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: This session-based survival game focuses on the harsh realities of exploring and extracting resources from a dangerous alien planet.
- #8 Interstellar Rift
91% matchMixed68% of 1,655 reviews2020
Dev: Split PolygonPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 33.2 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 11.1%, Crafting 10.6%, Open World 9.5%, PvP 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a deep ship-building and space-sim experience that emphasizes multi-crew cooperation and survival.
- #9 Conan Exiles
91% matchMostly Positive79% of 111,441 reviews2018
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 16.9 hrsMean: 111.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
An online multiplayer survival game, now with sorcery, set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian. Survive in a vast open world sandbox, build your home into a kingdom, and dominate your enemies in single or multiplayer.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.9% ★, Survival 13%, Massively Multiplayer 11.4%, Open World 10%, Crafting 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a robust open-world survival experience with deep building mechanics and a focus on dominating the landscape against other players.
- #10 Starbound
90% matchVery Positive90% of 122,901 reviews2016
Dev: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.2 hrsMean: 64.1 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 33.4% ★, Sandbox 9.4%, Space 8.5%, Online Co-Op 8.3%, Co-op 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D space sandbox that offers incredible depth in exploration, crafting, and building across a vast galaxy.
- #11 ASTRONEER
89% matchVery Positive92% of 136,711 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 44.1 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 28.6% ★, Space 12%, Co-op 10.1%, Survival 9.4%, Open World 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: While more stylized, it excels at the core loop of planetary resource management, base expansion, and exploration.
- #12 The Front
88% matchMixed68% of 10,753 reviews2025
Dev: Samar Studio
Windows
Median: 10.6 hrsMean: 44.3 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 26.5% ★, Massively Multiplayer 15.3%, Co-op 9.5%, Survival 8.7%, Crafting 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: This open-world survival game features intense base defense and crafting mechanics that mirror the combat-heavy focus of Stars End.
- #13 Stationeers
87% matchVery Positive88% of 8,897 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 81.9 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 18.7%, Space 17.4%, Crafting 14.6%, Survival 14.6%, Sandbox 13.5%
Why You'll Like It: For players who love the technical side of Stars End, this game offers complex atmospheric and electrical engineering challenges.
- #14 Eden Crafters
86% matchVery Positive86% of 2,214 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in Eden Crafters, a solo and co-op open-world game that challenges you to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Temper the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.5% ★, Online Co-Op 10.4%, Co-op 9.7%, Crafting 9.6%, Space 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the automation and base-building aspects of survival, perfect for those who enjoy the engineering side of sci-fi games.
- #15 Avorion
86% matchVery Positive90% of 14,288 reviews2020
Dev: Boxelware
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18.6 hrsMean: 98.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A procedural co-op space sandbox where players can build their own space ships out of dynamically scalable blocks. Fight epic space battles, explore, mine, trade, wage wars and build your own empire to save your galaxy from being torn apart by an unknown enemy.
Why similar: Space Sim 26.6% ★, Space 16.8%, Sandbox 13.3%, Open World 11.7%, PvE 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: This space-sim focuses on building custom ships and fleets to survive and trade in a procedurally generated galaxy.
- #16 Volcanoids
84% matchVery Positive83% of 9,214 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.8 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: Open World Survival Craft 27.5% ★, Online Co-Op 11.1%, Co-op 10%, Crafting 8.7%, Survival 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: A unique survival game where you build and upgrade a mobile drill ship to survive volcanic eruptions and hostile machines.
- #17 Planet Explorers
85% matchMixed62% of 6,817 reviews2016
Dev: Pathea Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Planet Explorers is an open world sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.7% ★, Sandbox 12%, Open World 10.4%, Survival 8.3%, Crafting 8%
Why You'll Like It: It features extensive terrain deformation and vehicle building, allowing for a high degree of freedom in a survival context.
- #18 Farworld Pioneers
84% matchMostly Negative38% of 691 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% ★, Co-op 13.6%, Online Co-Op 9.3%, Space 8.9%, Crafting 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: A blend of colony simulation and survival that allows for deep base management on alien worlds.
- #19 Voidtrain
81% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,176 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 13.8 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 33.6% ★, Co-op 12.6%, Online Co-Op 9.5%, Survival 8.2%, Crafting 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a creative twist on the survival genre by having you build and upgrade a train to traverse a mysterious interdimensional void.
- #20 Fragmented
83% 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 38.7% ★, Survival 11.7%, Multiplayer 7.5%, Open World 7.3%, Crafting 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a classic survival experience with a focus on gathering, crafting, and defending against hostile creatures and players.
- #21 GRAV
82% matchMixed47% of 6,921 reviews2015
Dev: BitMonster, Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 11.5 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 34.6% ★, Survival 11%, Open World 8.8%, Sandbox 7.6%, Space 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced survival game that emphasizes base defense and exploration in a vibrant, dangerous alien environment.
- #22 Boundless
79% matchMixed70% of 2,766 reviews2018
Dev: Monumental, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 33.0 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 31.5% ★, Massively Multiplayer 23.8%, Sandbox 9.7%, Crafting 9%, Open World 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: This voxel-based sandbox allows for massive-scale building and exploration across interconnected alien planets.
- #23 Scrapnaut
79% matchMostly Positive70% of 824 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 23.7% ★, Co-op 14%, Online Co-Op 12.6%, Survival 10.8%, Multiplayer 9%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game that emphasizes building and resource management in a harsh, mysterious world.
- #24 Cubic Odyssey
77% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,483 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 32.1% ★, Co-op 14.8%, Sandbox 9.8%, Space 8.5%, Open World 7.4%
- #25 Outpost Zero
80% matchMixed49% of 846 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 36.4% ★, Survival 13.9%, Multiplayer 10.5%, Open World 8.8%, Crafting 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the management and defense of a remote base, blending survival with strategic combat.
- #26 StarRupture
75% matchVery Positive81% of 10,861 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 25.2% ★, Co-op 11.8%, Survival 8.5%, Online Co-Op 8.4%, Crafting 8%
- #27 StarMade
78% matchMixed68% of 2,981 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 21.4%, Sandbox 14.1%, Open World 10.8%, Multiplayer 9.2%, Space Sim 8.7% ★
Why You'll Like It: A block-based space sandbox that allows for the creation of massive, functional capital ships and space stations.
- #28 XERA: Survival
76% matchMixed66% of 7,888 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 27.7% ★, Massively Multiplayer 14.5%, Survival 9%, Crafting 8.7%, Multiplayer 8.3%
- #29 Starsand
76% matchMixed66% of 1,227 reviews2022
Dev: Tunnel Vision StudioPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 39.6% ★, Survival 13%, Crafting 12.1%, Open World 11.6%, Sandbox 9.7%
- #30 TerraTech Worlds
75% matchMixed63% of 2,175 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 28.6% ★, Co-op 13.1%, Crafting 9.4%, Survival 8.9%, Sandbox 8.7%
- #31 Planetaries
74% matchMixed59% of 222 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 25.1% ★, Online Co-Op 10.8%, Co-op 10.2%, Survival 8.1%, Crafting 8%
- #32 Plains of Pain
73% matchVery Positive85% of 692 reviews2023
Dev: Cobra Byte Digital
Windows
Survive a brutal open world alone or with friends. Explore a procedural wasteland scorched by chaos. Build and defend your base, trade for what you need, complete deadly quests, and fight to claim faction outposts before someone else does.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23% ★, Co-op 10.1%, Online Co-Op 9.7%, Survival 7.4%, Crafting 7.4%
- #33 Rem Survival
73% matchMostly Positive76% of 802 reviews2021
Dev: Immortal Hand Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 47.3 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 30.8% ★, Massively Multiplayer 15.6%, Crafting 10%, Survival 9.9%, Open World 8.5%
- #34 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
70% matchVery Positive91% of 7,161 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in this free prologue introducing one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters – an upcoming open-world game that challenges you, alone or with friends, to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.8% ★, Online Co-Op 10.3%, Multiplayer 8.7%, Crafting 7.9%, Co-op 7.7%
- #35 Out of Reach
74% matchMixed57% of 3,044 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 33.6% ★, Massively Multiplayer 13.1%, Survival 10.8%, Crafting 7.9%, Open World 7.9%
- #36 Outerstellar
72% matchMostly Positive73% of 168 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 24.4% ★, Massively Multiplayer 15%, Space 9.4%, Survival 9.1%, Multiplayer 8.3%
- #37 Drift: Space Survival
72% matchMixed70% of 76 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 31.4% ★, Online Co-Op 12.6%, Space 11.7%, Survival 9.5%, Crafting 8.2%
- #38 Beyond Contact
71% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,108 reviews2023
Dev: Playcorp StudiosPub: Deep Silver
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 67%
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 35.1% ★, Co-op 15%, Survival 10.9%, Crafting 9.5%, Multiplayer 8%
- #39 Dune: Awakening
69% matchMostly Positive70% of 74,372 reviews2025
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 47.7 hrsMean: 95.2 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival RPG where you can fully immerse yourself in the epic world of Dune. Alone or with friends, explore a vast open world Arrakis, survive the sandworms, build a home, craft an ornithopter, and unravel the mystery of the missing Fremen.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.5% ★, Massively Multiplayer 14.7%, Online Co-Op 8.6%, PvP 6.8%, Survival 6.8%
- #40 The Planet Crafter
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 67,314 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.1 hrsMean: 37.2 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 27.3% ★, Co-op 11.8%, Online Co-Op 11.3%, Space 9.4%, Survival 8.6%
- #41 Outlaws of the Old West
73% matchMixed59% of 6,287 reviews2019
Dev: Virtual Basement LLCPub: Wandering Wizard
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 22.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 39.1% ★, Massively Multiplayer 21.1%, Survival 12.4%, Open World 10.5%, Multiplayer 9.2%
- #42 Elite Dangerous
71% matchMostly Positive77% of 105,113 reviews2015
Dev: Frontier Developments
Windows
Median: 18.4 hrsMean: 146.5 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 24.3% ★, Massively Multiplayer 18.1%, Space 15.3%, Open World 9.7%, Sci-fi 5.9%
- #43 Remains
70% matchMostly Positive76% of 316 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 31.2% ★, Space 12.8%, Crafting 10.6%, Survival 10%, Sandbox 8.9%
- #44 Lost Rift
67% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,413 reviews2025
Dev: People Can Fly
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 23.8% ★, Massively Multiplayer 15.9%, Online Co-Op 9.5%, Crafting 8.1%, Survival 7.8%
- #45 Occupy Mars: The Game
66% matchMostly Positive70% of 3,012 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 31.4 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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: Co-op 13.8%, Space 13.5%, Online Co-Op 13%, Crafting 11.8%, Sandbox 10.9%
- #46 StarsOne
70% 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 50.1%, Survival 24.6%, Sandbox 17.9%, Action 7.4%
- #47 Project Asteroids
68% matchMixed56% of 128 reviews2024
Dev: Aleksandr Serdiuk
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 24.2%, Survival 11.8%, Crafting 11.7%, Multiplayer 9.8%, Open World 9.7%
- #48 Dysterra
67% matchMixed56% of 755 reviews2025
Dev: Reality MagiQ
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 67%
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% ★, PvE 11.2%, Online Co-Op 11.1%, Crafting 9%, PvP 8.6%
- #49 Space Trash Scavenger
66% matchVery Positive84% of 514 reviews2024
Dev: SquarePlay GamesPub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 9.2 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 29.8% ★, Space 11.4%, Space Sim 10.1% ★, Crafting 9.5%, Survival 9.1%
- #50 Edge of Space
71% 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 39.7% ★, Sandbox 11.9%, Space 9%, Crafting 7.7%, Survival 6%
- #51 Survive the Nights
65% matchMixed66% of 6,335 reviews2025
Dev: a2z Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Hardcore open-world survival where preparation is everything. Scavenge, craft, fortify during the day. When night falls, the infected hunt in numbers. Play solo or with friends in a brutal post-apocalyptic sandbox where survival is earned through smart decisions. How many Nights will you survive?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.8% ★, Massively Multiplayer 16.7%, Co-op 10.4%, Online Co-Op 9.9%, Survival 8.4%
- #52 Deadside
64% matchMostly Positive76% of 40,013 reviews2024
Dev: Bad Pixel
Windows
Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 44.2 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 25.9% ★, Massively Multiplayer 11.5%, Survival 10.4%, PvP 8.7%, FPS 8.4%
- #53 Lost Skies
65% matchMixed62% of 2,832 reviews2025
Dev: Bossa StudiosPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Chart a course in a breathtaking, but fractured world. Explore ancient ruins, master advanced technology, and craft your very own skyship to brave nature’s fury and colossal threats in Lost Skies. Team up with friends or go it alone in this awe-inspiring cooperative survival adventure.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.3% ★, Online Co-Op 15.7%, Sandbox 9.1%, Crafting 6.9%, Open World 6.9%
