Games Like Terraria

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 41.7% ★, Sandbox 13.5%, Survival 6.9%, Crafting 6.3%, Building 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its procedurally generated 2D planets, mining, building, crafting, dungeon loot, and co-op structure make it the closest large-scale Terraria alternative.

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 27.9% ★, Sandbox 11.5%, Survival 8.9%, Crafting 8.4%, Building 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: This top-down subterranean sandbox captures Terraria's satisfying loop of digging out a world, building a base, crafting gear, and defeating bosses with friends.

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 42.7% ★, Sandbox 9.9%, Survival 6.8%, Crafting 6.5%, Multiplayer 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: Necesse blends Terraria-like exploration, crafting, loot progression, and boss fights with a top-down perspective and an expandable NPC settlement.

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 41.1% ★, Sandbox 14.4%, Survival 9.2%, Crafting 8.4%, Building 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: A pixel-art 2D sandbox centered on mining, collecting, crafting, building, exploration, and multiplayer is extremely close to Terraria's core appeal.

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 41.7% ★, Sandbox 14.6%, Survival 11.4%, Crafting 9.3%, Building 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: It combines 2D resource gathering and construction with demanding nighttime defense, physics-based building, exploration, and combat.

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 34.1% ★, Sandbox 11.6%, Survival 8.1%, Crafting 6.8%, Building 6%

Why You'll Like It: Its colorful top-down world supports cooperative gathering, crafting, building, dungeon delving, and boss encounters in a lighthearted survival sandbox.

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 43.6% ★, Sandbox 15.6%, Crafting 9%, Survival 6.8%, Building 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: Crea is a 2D sandbox RPG built around procedural worlds, extensive crafting, building, equipment customization, and monster-filled exploration.

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 21.4%, Crafting 13.4%, Building 10.8%, Multiplayer 9.5%, Open World 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: This 2D sci-fi sandbox offers procedurally generated worlds, deep crafting, construction, combat, creatures, and character progression in a distinctly Terraria-like format.

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 46.2% ★, Sandbox 15.2%, Survival 9.1%, Crafting 8.7%, Building 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its side-scrolling alien worlds emphasize mining, base construction, crafting, hostile creatures, and survival in a destructible sci-fi sandbox.

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 38.3% ★, Sandbox 12.8%, Survival 11.3%, Building 10.4%, Open World 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Aground turns mining, crafting, exploration, and base growth into a focused pixel-art adventure with a strong sense of technological progression.

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 67.6% ★, Survival 18%, Multiplayer 3.5%, Co-op 2.5%, Sandbox 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its cooperative survival loop of scavenging, crafting, base building, exploration, and surviving dangerous creatures suits players who enjoy Terraria's harsher survival elements.

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 45.6% ★, Survival 10.8%, Crafting 10.4%, Sandbox 9.1%, Pixel Graphics 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: Forager delivers a brisk loop of gathering resources, unlocking crafting stations, expanding land, fighting enemies, and automating a growing base.

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 40.4% ★, Survival 9.7%, Sandbox 9.1%, Crafting 7.9%, Multiplayer 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: This charming pixel-art survival game features snowy exploration, crafting, building, combat, and co-op adventure in a compact sandbox world.

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 43.6% ★, Survival 19.5%, Sandbox 12.1%, Crafting 10.3%, Multiplayer 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: The solo version offers the same tense crafting, exploration, and improvised survival gameplay in a distinctive hand-drawn wilderness.

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 40.1% ★, Survival 10%, Building 7.6%, Crafting 7.6%, Sandbox 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Although 3D and more methodical, Valheim shares Terraria's satisfying cycle of exploration, base building, equipment tiers, boss progression, and co-op survival.

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 23.9%, Survival 16.4%, Building 14.4%, Open World 9.9%, Multiplayer 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Keplerth offers top-down survival, farming, construction, procedural exploration, crafting, and combat progression with a similarly open-ended rhythm.

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 25.4%, Survival 23.8%, Crafting 14.5%, Pixel Graphics 11.6%, RPG 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: This action RPG mixes a destructible 2D world, randomized underground exploration, mining, crafting, gear upgrades, and monster hunting.

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 32.6% ★, Crafting 11%, Sandbox 10.7%, Survival 10.7%, Multiplayer 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: This co-op survival adventure combines island exploration, resource gathering, crafting, building, and combat with an approachable, playful tone.

A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32% ★, Sandbox 12%, Crafting 8.7%, Survival 8.5%, Building 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Creativerse is a social voxel sandbox with extensive building, crafting, cave exploration, gathering, and cooperative world creation.

Craft The World is a unique sandbox strategy game, the mix of Dungeon Keeper, Terraria and Dwarf Fortress. Explore a random generated world populated by dangerous creatures, build a dwarf fortress, gather resources, and craft all the items, weapons, and armor you need.

Why similar: Sandbox 27.1%, Crafting 20.4%, Building 18.5%, Survival 14.1%, Open World 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on excavating huge 2D environments, crafting equipment, constructing fortified bases, and surviving monster attacks, though through dwarf management rather than a single hero.

SteamWorld Dig is back! Dig deep, gain riches and unearth the terrors of the underworld in this platform mining adventure influenced by classic Metroidvania style games.

Why similar: Adventure 23.8%, Platformer 21.4%, 2D 20.4%, Exploration 12.7%, Action 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: While more structured than Terraria, its excellent 2D digging, underground exploration, upgrades, secrets, and combat strongly match Terraria's mining-adventure side.

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 23.9%, Crafting 14.5%, Building 13.9%, Survival 13.5%, Multiplayer 12.6%

Why You'll Like It: Portal Knights pairs action-RPG classes and boss battles with block-by-block building, crafting, and multiplayer exploration across many small worlds.

DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS™ 2 is a block-building RPG set in a fantasy land threatened by an evil cult. Explore, battle, build and harvest in the charming single-player campaign or build big projects in the online sandbox mode for up to 4-players.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 53.9% ★, Sandbox 12.6%, Building 9.1%, Crafting 6.5%, RPG 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: It combines joyful block-based construction with gathering, farming, exploration, quests, monsters, and cooperative building in a more guided RPG framework.

No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 50% ★, Sandbox 10.7%, Survival 9.2%, Open World 8.8%, Multiplayer 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its vast procedural universe supports open-ended exploration, resource collection, crafting, base building, combat, and multiplayer on a much larger 3D scale.

The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.5% ★, Survival 15.2%, Multiplayer 9.3%, Crafting 8.7%, Co-op 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: Grounded turns survival crafting, base construction, exploration, and cooperative boss-scale danger into a dense backyard adventure.

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 16.7%, Multiplayer 14.7%, Survival 11.5%, Pixel Graphics 10.7%, Co-op 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: Magicite condenses mining, crafting, procedural exploration, monster combat, and character builds into a challenging 2D roguelike adventure.

Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38% ★, Survival 11.5%, Multiplayer 8%, Open World 8%, Sandbox 7.9%

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 18.6%, Crafting 13.9%, Open World 12.8%, Sandbox 12.7%, Multiplayer 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: Enshrouded offers a more modern 3D take on Terraria's exploration-and-progression loop, with flexible voxel building, crafting, dungeons, and bosses.

Awaken as a Vampire. Hunt for blood in nearby settlements to regain your strength and evade the scorching sun to survive. Raise your castle and thrive in an ever-changing, open world full of mystery. Gain allies online and conquer the land of the living.

Why similar: Survival 19.4%, Sandbox 15.9%, Crafting 14.7%, Open World 11.9%, Building 11%

Why You'll Like It: Its open-world resource gathering, castle construction, gear progression, boss hunting, and optional co-op make it a strong action-focused survival-crafting alternative.

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 50% ★, Survival 13.2%, Crafting 9.3%, Sandbox 7.3%, Open World 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Subnautica excels at the exploration, crafting, base-building, and gradual equipment progression that make Terraria's discovery loop so compelling.

Enter a world of mystery, danger, ancient dinosaurs, mythical beasts, and cubes! Work by yourself or with a tribe of others to gather materials, craft useful items, tame wild creatures, and build huge bases to survive in PixARK!

Why similar: Survival 20.3%, Sandbox 19.5%, Multiplayer 11.1%, Open World 10.5%, Crafting 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: This voxel survival game adds creature taming, crafting, base building, exploration, and multiplayer to a colorful sandbox full of dangerous biomes.

Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.6% ★, Survival 13.6%, Multiplayer 8.7%, Crafting 7.7%, Co-op 6.7%

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 31.9% ★, Survival 17.6%, Crafting 11.5%, Sandbox 9.5%, Multiplayer 8.2%

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 34.1% ★, Sandbox 12%, Survival 8.4%, Crafting 7.6%, Building 6.9%

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 36.5% ★, Sandbox 15.5%, Building 12%, Crafting 8.2%, Multiplayer 6.7%

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 38.7% ★, Sandbox 12.1%, Survival 9.6%, Crafting 9.4%, Building 7.3%

A classic voxel sandbox combined with in-depth progression through exploration, dungeon crawling and boss battles. Spend every minute discovering new weapons, abilities, resources, enemies, structures, mechanics and tools. With a strong focus on discovery, variety and creativity, the world is yours.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.7% ★, Sandbox 11.8%, Survival 8.4%, Crafting 8.1%, Building 7.5%

Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.5% ★, Survival 11.9%, Crafting 7.8%, Multiplayer 6.9%, Building 6.9%

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 40.3% ★, Sandbox 10.7%, Survival 10.5%, Multiplayer 7.9%, Open World 6.6%

Explore, Adventure, Craft, Build, Survive. How will you shape your world? Astral Terra is a Smooth Voxel, Procedurally Generated Open World game with RPG and Survival Elements!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.3% ★, Sandbox 13.5%, Survival 10%, Building 6.9%, Crafting 6.9%

CastleMiner Z is an infinite world filled with deep places to explore, and horrifying monsters to slay. Build structures out of blocks, craft weapons and tools from raw materials, and explore the vast and frightening world around you.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.2% ★, Sandbox 11.9%, Survival 11.7%, Multiplayer 7.3%, Crafting 6.7%

Muck is a survival-roguelike. Collect resources, find items & build a base to survive for as long as you can.

Why similar: Survival 26.6%, Crafting 19.3%, Multiplayer 15.8%, Building 15.7%, Open World 10.1%

Your blocks, your castle, your world! Build anything you can dream up and explore with other players! Cubic Castles is a mini-MMO that combines the best of block-building and 3D platform action! Create fantastic parkour challenges, explore worlds made by other players, or even make friend!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.7% ★, Sandbox 13.3%, Building 10.8%, Crafting 7.7%, Multiplayer 7.3%

Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.6% ★, Survival 16.6%, Sandbox 11.8%, Multiplayer 7.4%, Open World 7.1%

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 34.9% ★, Survival 9.9%, Sandbox 9.9%, Crafting 8.3%, Building 7.6%

Grab your friends, hone your blades, and set off for an epic procedurally generated adventure in Trove! Battle the Shadow in realms filled with dungeons and items created by your fellow players. Whether hunting treasure or building realms of your own, it’s never been this good to be square!

Why similar: Sandbox 25.7%, Crafting 16.2%, Building 15.1%, Multiplayer 11.6%, Open World 11.4%

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 43.3% ★, Sandbox 15.9%, Survival 7.5%, Crafting 7.1%, Open World 6.5%

Unturned is an open-world zombie survival sandbox game. As one of the few not yet turned, you must fight to remain among the living.

Why similar: Sandbox 22.2%, Survival 17.8%, Crafting 16.3%, Multiplayer 11.9%, Co-op 10.7%

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 42.9% ★, Survival 8.4%, Sandbox 8%, Crafting 7.4%, Multiplayer 6.2%

There isn’t much better than a wide open game world in which you have essentially no limits and can alter the very landscape in which you play – that is, unless you add dragons, of course…

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.4% ★, Sandbox 13.9%, Crafting 9.5%, Survival 8.6%, Building 8.1%

Wonderia's an open-world, manga-art adventure just waiting to be explored. It's got sci-fi sim elements, deep dungeons, and you can even morph into alien form! Grab up to 7 friends to mine, craft, battle, and level—or farm and fish the day away, if that's more your tempo. There's so much to do!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.5% ★, Sandbox 13.7%, Survival 9.6%, Crafting 9.2%, Building 8.1%

Embark on a 1-4 players Co-op survival adventure in an open world wilderness in search of a myth called the Lod Stone. Build your house, sow your crops, brew potions, tame a horse and discover powerful abilities. Venture into dangerous dungeons, fight unique bosses to find the Lod stone.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.4% ★, Survival 9.9%, Sandbox 9.2%, Crafting 8%, Co-op 7.2%

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 47.4% ★, Sandbox 16.3%, Crafting 7.1%, Survival 5.7%, Multiplayer 3.8%

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 40.1% ★, Survival 15.4%, Sandbox 11.9%, Building 8.4%, Multiplayer 7.9%

The world doesn't generate itself - you do it, shape the world as you wish! Start with nothing, and build dream houses for goblins and yourself while exploring, collecting resources, crafting, building, fighting, farming... and more!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.3% ★, Sandbox 16.7%, Survival 11.4%, Crafting 9.2%, Building 8.5%

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 36.7% ★, Sandbox 12.9%, Crafting 9.4%, Survival 9.1%, Building 8.5%

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 17.1%, Crafting 12.8%, Multiplayer 10.6%, Building 9.4%, Pixel Graphics 7.8%

Total Miner is an open world voxel sandbox game. It is primarily designed for creative RPG game builders, but also has two action/adventure style game modes where you can just jump in and play.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.6% ★, Sandbox 13.9%, Survival 7.3%, Building 7.2%, Multiplayer 7.2%

Rome has fallen! Rebuild civilization in this action-adventure survival game for 1-8 players. Fight hordes of the walking dead, build settlements, restore the Roman gods... or kick back and farm with friends.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.9% ★, Crafting 11.6%, Sandbox 11.4%, Survival 10.6%, Building 7.5%

Shamania is an open world survival game where you can CRAFT, FIGHT, and EXPLORE a vibrant sandbox world with friends in CO-OP. Expand your base as a hub for survival, gather resources, and master professions to unlock new tools and opportunities!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.8% ★, Sandbox 10.7%, Crafting 10.2%, Survival 9.7%, Multiplayer 6.7%