- #1 TerraTech Worlds
97% matchMixed63% of 2,228 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 21.9 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 29.2% ★, Building 14.5%, Sandbox 12.4%, Open World 10.2%, Crafting 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: This is the direct successor to the seed game, offering expanded building mechanics and a more immersive open-world experience.
- #2 Scrap Mechanic
96% matchVery Positive92% of 117,481 reviews2016
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.2 hrsMean: 58.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!
Why similar: Building 24.2%, Sandbox 17%, Open World 13.8%, Crafting 12.7%, Multiplayer 9%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the core loop of scavenging parts to build complex, physics-based vehicles and machines in a sandbox survival setting.
- #3 Trailmakers
96% matchVery Positive92% of 35,682 reviews2019
Dev: Flashbulb
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Build the ultimate vehicle and explore a vast open world filled with challenges and adventure. Play solo or team up with friends in multiplayer to conquer the toughest obstacles. With a thrilling campaign mode and endless creative possibilities, Trailmakers is the ultimate sandbox for adventurers.
Why similar: Building 16.5%, Sandbox 13.5%, Open World 11%, Vehicular Combat 11%, Crafting 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on intuitive, block-based vehicle construction with a strong emphasis on physics and diverse movement capabilities.
- #4 Space Engineers
95% matchVery Positive89% of 133,721 reviews2019
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 96.0 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: Building 22.3%, Sandbox 18.3%, Open World 15.3%, Multiplayer 9.9%, Survival 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: Provides deep engineering and modular building mechanics for ships and bases in a vast, physics-driven space environment.
- #5 ASTRONEER
94% matchVery Positive92% of 137,959 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.2 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 34.4% ★, Open World 12.8%, Building 11.2%, Sandbox 11%, Multiplayer 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: Features modular base and vehicle building with a heavy emphasis on planetary exploration and resource management.
- #6 From the Depths
93% matchVery Positive89% of 12,623 reviews2020
Dev: Brilliant Skies Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 40.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Over 1000 unique components allow you to build and command voxel vehicles from the deep ocean to outer space! Forge strategies, allegiances and fleets strong enough to destroy eight deadly factions of the planet and reign supreme. A genre-defying mashup of simulation, building, RTS and RPG.
Why similar: Building 24.5%, Sandbox 19%, Vehicular Combat 15.2%, Crafting 13.7%, Multiplayer 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: Offers an incredibly deep vehicle construction system where you design every aspect of your craft for tactical combat.
- #7 Brick Rigs
91% matchVery Positive95% of 57,227 reviews2023
Dev: Fluppisoft GmbH
Windows · Linux
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 77.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Build your own vehicles or download one of the more than 200,000 creations already uploaded to the Workshop and experience the dynamic driving and destruction physics of Brick Rigs!
Why similar: Building 29.6%, Sandbox 27.8%, Open World 19.6%, Multiplayer 13.3%, Physics 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox game centered on building vehicles from bricks and testing them in a highly destructible, physics-based world.
- #8 Crossout
92% matchMostly Positive75% of 68,841 reviews2017
Dev: Targem GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 56.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Crossout - the postapocalyptic MMO action game where you can create a unique design for an armoured vehicle from dozens of parts and then drive it into multiplayer battles raging on land and in the skies alike.
Why similar: Building 19%, Vehicular Combat 18%, Sandbox 16%, Crafting 12.9%, Multiplayer 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: Combines post-apocalyptic vehicle combat with a detailed customization system for building unique war machines.
- #9 Stormworks: Build and Rescue
91% matchVery Positive90% of 58,404 reviews2020
Dev: Geometa
Windows · Mac
Median: 17.3 hrsMean: 112.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Join a world where you design, create and pilot your own air sea rescue service. Release your inner hero as you battle fierce storms out at sea to rescue those in need.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.4% ★, Building 19.1%, Sandbox 18.2%, Open World 13%, Survival 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: Features complex engineering and logic systems for building functional vehicles and rescue equipment.
- #10 GearBlocks
90% matchVery Positive91% of 735 reviews2023
Dev: SmashHammer Games
Windows · Linux
Explore a world of creative building, interactive machines, and gears - lots of gears. Build all things mechanical: cars, trucks, cranes, tanks, gearboxes, engines, clocks, anything you can think of. Test your creations to destruction in challenging scenarios, and share them in the workshop!
Why similar: Building 37.2%, Sandbox 26.6%, Open World 13.7%, Physics 9.5%, Third Person 4.5%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on physics-based construction and mechanical simulation, allowing for complex moving parts and machinery.
- #11 Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander
89% matchVery Positive94% of 12,599 reviews2022
Dev: Walternate Realities
Windows
Median: 19.4 hrsMean: 41.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Design and simulate the starships of your dreams! Command your ship or fleet in epic battles and manage your crew while exploring a dangerous galaxy. Play alone or with friends, test your ships in online PvP, and let your imagination reach for the stars!
Why similar: Building 38.5%, Multiplayer 14.5%, Survival 13.9%, Online Co-Op 10.5%, Exploration 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: Allows for modular ship design where the placement of every component affects your ship's combat performance.
- #12 Besiege
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 52,398 reviews2020
Dev: Spiderling Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 19.1 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Besiege is a physics building game about constructing medieval machines to annihilate armies, obliterate castles and overcome challenging obstacles. Conquer the campaign or skirmish with friends in Multiplayer!
Why similar: Building 28.2%, Sandbox 23.7%, Vehicular Combat 17.4%, Multiplayer 11.6%, Physics 8%
Why You'll Like It: A physics-based building game where you construct siege engines to complete various destructive objectives.
- #13 Nimbatus - The Space Drone Constructor
88% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,148 reviews2020
Dev: Stray Fawn StudioPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Command the Nimbatus and craft drones out of hundreds of different parts. Survive unknown threats in a fully destructible, procedural universe, compete against other players in different arenas or enjoy complete creative freedom in the sandbox.
Why similar: Robots 21.5%, Building 15.7%, Sandbox 12.8%, Crafting 12.1%, Open World 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: Centers on building modular drones from various parts to explore and survive in procedurally generated space environments.
- #14 Avorion
87% matchVery Positive90% of 14,391 reviews2020
Dev: Boxelware
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18.7 hrsMean: 99.8 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: Building 29.8%, Sandbox 25%, Open World 19.5%, Vehicular Combat 13.4%, Exploration 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: Features modular ship building where you can scale and shape blocks to create unique vessels for space exploration.
- #15 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
86% matchMostly Positive79% of 34,194 reviews2020
Dev: Eleon Game Studios
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 76.8 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% ★, Building 15.4%, Sandbox 11.1%, Open World 10.4%, Crafting 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game that includes detailed modular ship and base construction for exploring multiple planets.
- #16 SimplePlanes
86% matchVery Positive93% of 10,848 reviews2015
Dev: Jundroo, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Build airplanes by snapping parts together, designing wing sections, and attaching engines. At any time, you can strap yourself into the cockpit and see how it flies with realistic physics. If you're not in the mood for building, over 100,000 airplanes are available to download for free.
Why similar: Building 26.7%, Sandbox 22.5%, Open World 16.1%, Vehicular Combat 14.7%, Physics 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a robust vehicle design suite with realistic flight physics and modular part assembly.
- #17 Main Assembly
85% matchVery Positive83% of 1,338 reviews2021
Dev: Bad Yolk GamesPub: Team17
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 50%
You’re the designer, engineer and architect if you can imagine it you can create it! Construct robots of any shape or size from eight-legged spider bots to eerie UFO contraptions.
Why similar: Robots 22.8%, Building 21.8%, Sandbox 18%, Crafting 13.8%, Multiplayer 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: An advanced robotics building game that gives you total freedom to design and program custom machines.
- #18 Volcanoids
84% matchVery Positive83% of 9,267 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: Building 20.7%, Sandbox 17.5%, Crafting 14.6%, Open World 13.6%, Survival 9%
Why You'll Like It: Features a unique mobile base-building mechanic where you upgrade and customize a drill ship to survive a volcanic world.
- #19 Starbase
84% matchMixed56% of 6,719 reviews2021
Dev: Frozenbyte
Windows
Median: 14.3 hrsMean: 91.3 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: Building 22%, Open World Survival Craft 17.8% ★, Open World 15.3%, Sandbox 15%, Robots 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: A massive multiplayer game focused on modular ship construction and space exploration in a destructible universe.
- #20 Screw Drivers
82% matchVery Positive85% of 5,994 reviews2024
Dev: CreactstudiosPub: Headup
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 47%
Crazy physics and high-speed races! Craft vehicles cleverly by combining building blocks and mechanical parts to create powerful drivetrains. Unlock new parts, race for the gold, and challenge your friends in multiplayer.
Why similar: Building 39.4%, Crafting 22.7%, Multiplayer 17.3%, Physics 10.6%, PvP 3.8%
Why You'll Like It: A physics-based vehicle building game that emphasizes creative design and multiplayer racing.
- #21 Dig or Die
83% matchVery Positive90% of 4,269 reviews2018
Dev: Gaddy Games
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Crash land on a hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it. But be warned... this planet is merciless. Build strong, and smart; else physics may flood or destroy your only hopes of survival.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.8% ★, Sandbox 15.5%, Crafting 10.9%, Survival 8.9%, Building 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Combines survival, crafting, and base building with a focus on defending against waves of enemies.
- #22 Creativerse
82% matchMostly Positive78% of 30,868 reviews2017
Dev: Playful Corp.
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 63%
A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.7% ★, Building 14.6%, Sandbox 12.1%, Open World 9.7%, Crafting 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based building game that offers extensive creative freedom and exploration in a colorful world.
- #23 MachineCraft
81% matchMostly Positive77% of 889 reviews2016
Dev: G2CREW
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 32.2 hrs≥1hr: 34%
The main purpose of this game is showing and watching machines made out of blocks. Some of the game-modes allow you to battle or race against other players. (testing phase) You can create your original machine with ease by reassembling those machines that are distributed, or by using the automatic control block.
Why similar: Building 36.7%, Sandbox 28.4%, Robots 15.1%, Multiplayer 14.2%, Open World 3.5%
Why You'll Like It: A physics-based building game that allows for complex machine creation and multiplayer combat.
- #24 Mechanica
80% matchMixed63% of 635 reviews2020
Dev: Deimos Interactive
Windows
Mechanica is a multiplayer open-world survival game involving building and programming. Create your own bases, defenses, manufacturing systems and more. Explore the map and expand the scope and complexity of your creations.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.6% ★, Building 23.2%, Robots 15.9%, Sandbox 14.1%, Survival 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game that emphasizes base building and automation through modular construction.
- #25 Kerbal Space Program
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 141,003 reviews2015
Dev: SquadPub: Private Division
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 65.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.
Why similar: Sandbox 36.4%, Building 29.6%, Open World 13%, Physics 11.4%, Exploration 3.9%
Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for complex, physics-based vehicle construction and aerospace engineering.
- #26 Interstellar Rift
79% matchMixed68% of 1,660 reviews2020
Dev: Split PolygonPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 33.5 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: Building 24.5%, Sandbox 18.8%, Open World 16.8%, Crafting 15.6%, Survival 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on modular ship building and space exploration with a focus on interior and exterior ship design.
- #27 HighFleet
78% matchVery Positive88% of 7,247 reviews2021
Dev: Konstantin KoshutinPub: MicroProse Software
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 16.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Battle for survival in the skies of a mysterious future Earth in this unique action-strategy game mixing arcade combat, exploration, management and diplomacy. As giant flying ships wage spectacular aerial warfare, a prophecy tells of one who will save the world – could it be you?
Why similar: Building 47.4%, Physics 12.7%, Strategy 10.4%, Exploration 10.3%, Action 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: Combines modular ship design with intense, physics-based combat in a unique diesel-punk setting.
- #28 Scrapnaut
79% matchMixed70% of 827 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 22.7% ★, Building 17.3%, Sandbox 11%, Robots 8.9%, Crafting 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game with building and crafting elements set in a top-down, open-world environment.
- #29 Space Engineers 2
75% matchMostly Positive76% of 4,590 reviews2025
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 7.9 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: Building 25%, Sandbox 21%, Open World 15.1%, Crafting 11.3%, Survival 10.6%
- #30 Planet Explorers
77% 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 36.4% ★, Sandbox 16.2%, Open World 12.3%, Building 10%, Crafting 7.9%
- #31 TerraTech Legion
72% matchVery Positive82% of 1,312 reviews2026
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
TerraTech Legion, a chaotic Bullet Heaven Builder. Build the ultimate battle vehicle block by block and survive waves of robotic foes, ramming them at speed and shooting infinite projectiles.
Why similar: Vehicular Combat 40.9%, Crafting 37.1%, Survival 16.8%, Action 5.2%
- #32 FortressCraft Evolved!
76% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,057 reviews2015
Dev: ProjectorGamesPub: Digital Tribe
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 72%
FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.4% ★, Building 15.6%, Sandbox 13.8%, Crafting 10.8%, Open World 7%
- #33 Medieval Engineers
77% matchMixed52% of 7,297 reviews2015
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 16.9 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Medieval Engineers is a sandbox game about engineering, construction and the maintenance of architectural works and mechanical equipment using medieval technology. Players build castles; construct mechanical devices and underground mining. There is an entire planet to explore!
Why similar: Building 28.9%, Sandbox 20.6%, Open World 14.7%, Crafting 10%, Multiplayer 8.2%
- #34 Castle Story
76% matchMixed65% of 10,553 reviews2017
Dev: Sauropod Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 11.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Castle Story is a creative voxel-based strategy game in which you can build castles one brick at a time using an army of little creatures called Bricktrons. Design and build your own castles, expand your territory in a vast landscape and defend your Bricktrons against onslaughts of hostile creatures.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.2% ★, Building 25.1%, Sandbox 17.5%, Multiplayer 6.7%, Open World 6.6%
- #35 Gear Up
75% matchMostly Positive75% of 8,351 reviews2015
Dev: Doctor Entertainment AB
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 50%
Feel the adrenaline as you control your unique tank in multiplayer arcade action! Build your ultimate war machine from over a million different combinations. Now, will you go for the rumbling caterpillar tracks or the crawling spider legs?
Why similar: Robots 32.4%, Building 23.9%, Multiplayer 14.1%, Sandbox 10.4%, Open World 5.6%
- #36 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,680 reviews2021
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 55%
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 34.5% ★, Open World 11.8%, Sandbox 11%, Crafting 10.6%, Survival 8.8%
- #37 Starship EVO
73% matchVery Positive84% of 1,435 reviews2020
Dev: Moonfire Entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Mine and craft your way to orbit, build your own starship and explore a vast, dangerous galaxy alongside your crew. For players who love a meaningful survival progression, a unique and elegant building system, and epic space-opera scale.
Why similar: Building 38.4%, Sandbox 25.8%, Open World 12.6%, Multiplayer 7.6%, Action 5.3%
- #38 Sprocket
71% matchVery Positive93% of 12,331 reviews2021
Dev: Hamish Dunn
Windows
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 37.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Carefully balance mobility, firepower and armour in a dedicated tank designer. Then uncarefully put them to the test in a series of combat scenarios progressing through the ages of the tank. Here, your limit is what you can fit inside your hull and turret while still being able to move forwards.
Why similar: Building 36%, Sandbox 31.3%, Vehicular Combat 21.1%, Physics 6.4%, Third Person 3.6%
- #39 StarMade
74% matchMixed68% of 2,982 reviews2014
Dev: Schine GmbH
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 18.8 hrs≥1hr: 54%
The ultimate space sandbox. Participate in epic fleet battles, form alliances, strive to dominate entire galaxies and harness the universe’s resources for your industrious empire or the destruction of others. Customise your experience, the universe is yours!
Why similar: Sandbox 27.5%, Building 23.5%, Open World 18.7%, Multiplayer 10.6%, Crafting 9.2%
- #40 Satisfactory
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 270,461 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 32.6 hrsMean: 110.0 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: Open World Survival Craft 18.8% ★, Building 18.7%, Open World 15.2%, Crafting 13.8%, Sandbox 13.6%
- #41 Omega Crafter
70% matchMostly Positive80% of 566 reviews2025
Dev: Preferred Networks
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Adventure in a vast open-world survival craft game with your programmable sidekick Grammi! Program the Grammi to collect materials, build your town, craft weapons and armor to challenge strong enemies! Play alone or with friends online!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.1% ★, Building 12.5%, Open World 12.4%, Crafting 11.1%, Sandbox 8.6%
- #42 CHKN
73% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,732 reviews2016
Dev: Katapult
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Behold, the miracle of life… packed into cubes! Create fantastic creatures in an open-world sandbox game like no other. Explore, craft, and survive—all with the help of your very own creations.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.2% ★, Building 15.4%, Sandbox 14.3%, Open World 11.5%, Crafting 9.2%
- #43 Terraria
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,524,255 reviews2011
Dev: Re-Logic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 33.5 hrsMean: 150.1 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36% ★, Sandbox 15.7%, Building 12.1%, Crafting 8.3%, Multiplayer 6.8%
- #44 GRAV
73% 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 43.4% ★, Open World 13.5%, Sandbox 13.2%, Survival 9.7%, Crafting 8.8%
- #45 The Planet Crafter
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 70,189 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.5 hrsMean: 37.9 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 34% ★, Building 16.1%, Sandbox 10.7%, Open World 10.5%, Crafting 10.2%
- #46 LEGO® Worlds
71% matchMostly Positive78% of 15,583 reviews2017
Dev: TT GamesPub: Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Experience a galaxy of Worlds made entirely from LEGO bricks. EXPLORE gigantic landscapes, DISCOVER countless surprises, and CREATE anything you can imagine by building with LEGO bricks.
Why similar: Building 29.3%, Sandbox 23.9%, Open World 21.1%, Multiplayer 11.8%, Exploration 4.2%
- #47 Factorio
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 229,554 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.9 hrsMean: 190.4 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Why similar: Sandbox 26%, Crafting 18.8%, Building 17.1%, Open World 13.1%, Multiplayer 9.9%
- #48 Forts
69% matchVery Positive92% of 24,651 reviews2017
Dev: EarthWork Games
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 23.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Unleash your creativity and strategic prowess in Forts, the exhilarating physics-based RTS! Design, construct, and customize imposing fortresses, bristling with devastating firepower, and blast your opponent’s buildings to rubble!
Why similar: Building 34.6%, Sandbox 25.2%, Multiplayer 16.9%, Physics 10.2%, Strategy 6.5%
- #49 Tinkerlands
66% matchVery Positive86% of 3,833 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Explore, craft, and fight your way through uncharted islands — solo or with up to 4 players in co-op! Tinkerlands is an exciting survival adventure where you will build your settlement, craft useful tools to survive, and even use magic!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.2% ★, Sandbox 12.8%, Building 11.8%, Open World 10.1%, Crafting 8.2%
- #50 Necesse
64% matchVery Positive93% of 27,199 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 14.8 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 39.7% ★, Sandbox 11.4%, Building 10.6%, Open World 9.7%, Crafting 8.1%
- #51 Astral Terra
71% matchMixed50% of 152 reviews2015
Dev: Tethys Interactive LLC
Windows
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 35.7% ★, Sandbox 13.8%, Open World 12.7%, Building 12.6%, Crafting 7.7%
- #52 Aviassembly
64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 8,776 reviews2025
Dev: Jelle Booij
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Build and fly your own airplane! Complete missions to earn money, upgrade your plane, and discover new locations in an open world.
Why similar: Building 32.8%, Sandbox 22.3%, Crafting 13.8%, Open World 13.4%, Physics 8.1%
- #53 Eden Crafters
64% matchVery Positive86% of 2,425 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.3 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 32.7% ★, Building 13.7%, Sandbox 12.4%, Crafting 10.8%, Open World 10.3%
- #54 Junk Jack
68% matchMostly Positive79% of 469 reviews2016
Dev: Pixbits
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 21.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 37.5% ★, Sandbox 15.9%, Building 13.3%, Crafting 10.2%, Survival 7.5%