- #1 TerraTech
97% matchVery Positive91% of 24,617 reviews2018
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 33.0 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 29.2% ★, Building 14.5%, Sandbox 12.4%, Open World 10.2%, Crafting 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: As the direct predecessor, it shares the core modular vehicle-building and combat mechanics that define the series.
- #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 16.3%, Crafting 13.9%, Sandbox 13.5%, Base Building 12.4%, Open World 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game excels in physics-based vehicle construction and mechanical engineering, mirroring the creative freedom of the seed game.
- #3 ASTRONEER
96% 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 25.4% ★, Base Building 10.2%, Open World 8.2%, Survival 7.9%, Sandbox 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: Captures the alien exploration and modular base-building feel of the seed game perfectly with a distinct, charming aesthetic.
- #4 Trailmakers
95% 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: Crafting 12.6%, Building 12.1%, Sandbox 11.7%, Vehicular Combat 11.7%, Space 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a highly accessible modular vehicle-building experience with a focus on exploration and sandbox challenges.
- #5 The Planet Crafter
94% 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 24.3% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 8.3%, Automation 8.1%, Building 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on terraforming and automation, sharing the satisfying progression loop of the seed game.
- #6 Satisfactory
94% 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: Base Building 17.4%, Automation 13.9%, Open World Survival Craft 12.1% ★, Crafting 10.2%, Open World 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: An excellent choice for players who enjoy the automation and large-scale base-building aspects of the seed game.
- #7 Space Engineers
93% 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: Base Building 18.1%, Building 13.4%, Sandbox 13%, Co-op 12.4%, Open World 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: Provides deep, block-based vehicle and base construction in a space setting with complex engineering requirements.
- #8 Eden Crafters
91% 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 23.3% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Automation 10.6%, Crafting 8.8%, Sandbox 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: A strong match for those interested in automation and base-building on alien worlds with a focus on survival.
- #9 Volcanoids
92% 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: Base Building 17.2%, Crafting 13.8%, Building 12%, Sandbox 11.9%, Co-op 11.4%
Why You'll Like It: Features mobile base-building and survival, perfectly mirroring the vehicle-as-a-home concept found in the seed game.
- #10 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
91% 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 27.1% ★, Co-op 10.7%, Building 10.1%, Crafting 8.9%, Sandbox 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: Combines space survival with modular ship and base construction in a persistent open world.
- #11 Stormworks: Build and Rescue
90% 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 23.3% ★, Base Building 15%, Sandbox 12.8%, Automation 12.3%, Building 11.4%
Why You'll Like It: Offers highly technical vehicle engineering for those who love the complex building aspect of the seed game.
- #12 Avorion
89% 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 18.9%, Sandbox 18.8%, Open World 15.3%, Vehicular Combat 12.3%, Space 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: Allows for massive, procedural ship building and exploration in a vast, open space setting.
- #13 ICARUS
89% matchMostly Positive74% of 63,962 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 46.0 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 25.3% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Survival 8.8%, Mining 8.6% ★, Crafting 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a session-based survival experience with a focus on exploration, crafting, and base construction.
- #14 Voidtrain
87% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,447 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.2% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Co-op 9.3%, Crafting 8.6%, Survival 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: Centers on building and upgrading a mobile train base across a surreal, interdimensional environment.
- #15 Forever Skies
86% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,446 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 32.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A first-person survival game set on a post-apocalyptic, ecologically ruined Earth. Play solo or with up to 3 friends as you build, upgrade, and fly a high-tech airship. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and face dangers on the surface as you hunt for a cure to save humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.9% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Crafting 10.4%, Co-op 9.9%, Survival 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: Features a unique mobile airship base that players must maintain, upgrade, and pilot through a ruined world.
- #16 FortressCraft Evolved!
88% 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 29.9% ★, Automation 11.7%, Crafting 9.6%, Sandbox 8.9%, Building 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: A classic automation and base-building game with a focus on massive scale and resource logistics.
- #17 Besiege
86% 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 27.7%, Sandbox 27.4%, Vehicular Combat 24.6%, Multiplayer 15.1%, 3D 5.2%
Why You'll Like It: A physics-heavy sandbox game centered on creating machines to complete objectives, emphasizing creative design.
- #18 From the Depths
85% 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 18.9%, Sandbox 17.4%, Crafting 17.2%, Vehicular Combat 16.9%, Survival 12.6%
Why You'll Like It: Provides incredibly deep vehicle customization and combat mechanics for players who want total control over their creations.
- #19 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
84% matchVery Positive82% of 9,989 reviews2024
Dev: Merge GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 15.2 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 24.9% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Crafting 8.9%, Survival 8.4%, Building 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a unique survival experience with a focus on building and exploration from a miniature perspective.
- #20 Stationeers
84% matchVery Positive88% of 9,014 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 83.9 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: Mining 17.1% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Automation 11.6%, Crafting 10%, Building 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: Offers complex, realistic survival and base management for dedicated builders who enjoy intricate systems.
- #21 Sunkenland
82% matchVery Positive81% of 23,216 reviews2023
Dev: Vector3 Studio
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 18.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Get ready for a Waterworld-themed survival game with modular base building, sunken city scavenging, crafting, base defense, and invasions of NPC clans for resources and territory. Ready for the water apocalypse?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Co-op 11.2%, Survival 9.9%, Crafting 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on base building and survival in an aquatic, post-apocalyptic setting with modular construction.
- #22 Lost Skies
81% matchMixed61% of 2,893 reviews2025
Dev: Bossa StudiosPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 12.1 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 36.9% ★, Base Building 16.9%, Vehicular Combat 11.4%, Sandbox 9.8%, Crafting 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on exploration and building in a sky-based, open-world setting with a focus on airship travel.
- #23 Planet Explorers
83% 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 36.1% ★, Sandbox 13.3%, Open World 10.6%, Crafting 9%, Survival 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: An older but classic sandbox game with deep crafting and building mechanics set on an alien world.
- #24 Omega Crafter
81% 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 24.6% ★, Automation 12.5%, Crafting 10.7%, Open World 9%, Survival 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Combines automation and survival with a charming, blocky aesthetic and programmable companions.
- #25 Survival Machine
79% matchMostly Positive74% of 687 reviews2025
Dev: Grape PickersPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Build your base on a moving Machine, travel through biomes with different resources, and prepare for the night when a zombie threat is much higher than during the day. Would you go solo or explore this new world with your best friends?
Why similar: Base Building 28.5%, Crafting 23.1%, Survival 16%, Exploration 8.5%, Third Person 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: Features a mobile base that players must defend while exploring a dangerous, procedurally generated world.
- #26 StarRupture
77% matchVery Positive81% of 12,313 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 22.6 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 23.9% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Automation 10.7%, Crafting 8.9%, Co-op 8.3%
- #27 Rising World
80% matchVery Positive86% of 5,890 reviews2014
Dev: JIW-Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 21.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Rising World is a voxel based open-world sandbox game, featuring a procedurally generated world, playable in single and multi-player.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24% ★, Mining 16.2% ★, Base Building 11.4%, Crafting 8.6%, Building 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox game with a focus on building and mining in an open world with high levels of creative freedom.
- #28 Cubic Odyssey
77% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,584 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 31.1% ★, Base Building 15.6%, Building 10.5%, Sandbox 10.4%, Co-op 10.3%
- #29 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
76% matchVery Positive91% of 7,431 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Survive, craft, and automate in this free prologue set on one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters, an open-world game where you play solo or with friends to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.5% ★, Base Building 12%, Automation 9.1%, Crafting 8.3%, Open World 6.9%
- #30 Space Trash Scavenger
76% matchVery Positive84% of 518 reviews2024
Dev: SquarePlay GamesPub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 26.1% ★, Automation 11.2%, Crafting 9.7%, Base Building 8.8%, Sandbox 7.8%
- #31 Scrapnaut
78% 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 22.3% ★, Building 11.9%, Base Building 9.9%, Co-op 9.8%, Survival 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game with a focus on base building and resource management in a top-down perspective.
- #32 Orebound
75% matchMostly Positive78% of 913 reviews2024
Dev: Emberforge
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Orebound is a dwarven themed factory automation game. Play alone or with friends as you build, mine, craft and explore a voxel generated world! Build your fortress, expand your factory, fight off creatures who dwell beneath the mountains and embark on a journey of greatness.
Why similar: Mining 17% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Automation 12%, Crafting 10.6%, Building 8.9%
- #33 GRAV
78% 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 33.8% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Survival 10.3%, Open World 9.1%, Sandbox 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game with a focus on building and exploring diverse alien environments.
- #34 Planetaries
75% matchMixed58% of 223 reviews2024
Dev: EY-Studio
Windows
Experience a vast Sci-fi open-world survival TD game set on a distant planet deep in the universe. Craft, build, mine, trade, explore, and survive in this alien world. Collect Data and defend against waves of enemies seeking to banish you. Enjoy the adventure in Singleplayer or Multiplayer.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.9% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Crafting 9.3%, Building 8.7%, Open World 7.8%
- #35 Star Crafter
73% matchMixed69% of 104 reviews2025
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
A space survival crafting mining base building and star system building game. Craft rockets to create planets and Dyson Rings, mine and craft advanced materials, terraform the terrain, manage electricity, farm food, and more as you watch the star system evolve into stunning, ever-changing views.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23% ★, Mining 15.8% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Crafting 9.2%, Automation 8.5%
- #36 Skyformer
73% matchVery Positive87% of 67 reviews2025
Dev: Weatherfused
Windows
Create an automated system that terraforms a planet with an army of drones. Craft and build bases, set up a weather monitoring system, prepare to survive different types of storms, and take control of the climate and biomes!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.4% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Automation 12.4%, Crafting 10.1%, Building 9.1%
- #37 Palworld
70% matchVery Positive94% of 421,232 reviews2024
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 34.5 hrsMean: 70.8 hrs≥1hr: 97%
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 27.9% ★, Open World 11.4%, Survival 10.1%, Base Building 8.7%, Crafting 8.6%
- #38 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 27.2% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Crafting 9.6%, Survival 9.4%, Open World 8.1%
- #39 Subsistence
74% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,685 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 39.9 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 37.1% ★, Survival 11.1%, Crafting 11%, Base Building 9.2%, Open World 8%
- #40 Shamania
71% matchMostly Positive77% of 145 reviews2025
Dev: Totem Keepers Games
Windows
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 24.7% ★, Crafting 10.9%, Open World 9%, Survival 8.2%, Automation 7.8%
- #41 Keplerth
72% matchVery Positive85% of 4,138 reviews2022
Dev: TAROPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 16.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 17%, Building 15.6%, Survival 14%, Open World 13.9%, Base Building 9.7%
- #42 Tinkerlands
70% 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 32.3% ★, Sandbox 11%, Crafting 9.7%, Survival 9.3%, Open World 9.1%
- #43 Echoes of Elysium
70% matchMixed63% of 519 reviews2026
Dev: Loric Games, Inc.Pub: Snail Games USA
Windows
Survive the skies in Echoes of Elysium, a co-op airship survival RPG. Build and customize your floating fortress, gather resources, and explore a vast procedural clockwork world with up to 6 friends. Battle land and skyborne threats while uncovering mysteries in a paradise on the brink.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.7% ★, Crafting 10.6%, Vehicular Combat 10%, Building 9.5%, Co-op 9.4%
- #44 XenoHaven
69% matchVery Positive86% of 69 reviews2025
Dev: Miniverse GamePub: OKJOY
Windows
In XenoHaven, gather resources to build shelters, enslave alien beasts to work for you, and run restaurants and shops. Delve into dark underground dungeons, defeat swarming insectoids and mighty bosses, and craft powerful gear to conquer the alien world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Sandbox 10.2%, Open World 9.5%, Crafting 9.1%
- #45 Astral Terra
74% 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 32.8% ★, Sandbox 10.5%, Open World 10.1%, Mining 9.5% ★, Survival 9.4%
- #46 Dig or Die
71% 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 35% ★, Sandbox 12.2%, Crafting 11.8%, Survival 11.5%, Base Building 7.6%
- #47 Fragmented
73% 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 41.4% ★, Survival 11.9%, Open World 8.3%, Crafting 7.8%, Sandbox 6.8%
- #48 Space Engineers 2
68% 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: Mining 21.2% ★, Building 14.3%, Sandbox 14.2%, Survival 11.7%, Open World 10.7%
- #49 Techtonica
69% matchMixed65% of 3,202 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 17.2 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.
Why similar: Base Building 19.2%, Automation 19%, Building 14.2%, Crafting 12%, Sandbox 11.2%
- #50 Plains of Pain
68% matchVery Positive84% of 757 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 28.1% ★, Base Building 14.3%, Crafting 10.6%, Sandbox 10.2%, Co-op 9.1%
- #51 Novus Inceptio
71% matchMixed52% of 1,302 reviews2015
Dev: McMagic Productions
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Warning: This is an Early Access game! Welcome to an enigmatic world, where a new gaming experience in exploring, building and surviving is waiting just for you. Experience a sandbox world with survival elements, and join us in creating a full version of the game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.5% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 10.9%, Sandbox 10.1%, Survival 9.4%
- #52 DreamWorld: Sandbox MMO
66% matchMixed69% of 54 reviews2026
Dev: DreamWorld Realities, Inc.
Windows
Build incredible structures with powerful tools. Explore the world with all players on one server. Battle bosses, farm, craft, and socialize with friends. How will you shape DreamWorld?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.5% ★, Base Building 14.2%, Crafting 9.3%, Building 9.2%, Sandbox 9%
- #53 Everwind
65% matchVery Positive82% of 3,221 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Everwind is a novel take on RPG and Sandbox Survival genre in First-Person-Perspective. Embark on the adventure with your friends - Build a base on a flying island-ship, gather resources, craft, loot, and fight while you rise above the clouds to uncover the mysteries of this world!
Why similar: Crafting 15.7%, Building 14.7%, Co-op 14.2%, Sandbox 13.9%, Open World 12.9%
- #54 Solace Crafting
67% matchMostly Positive72% of 891 reviews2022
Dev: Big Kitty Games
Windows · Linux
Embark on an adventure set in a fantasy survival RPG. Visit a borderless, open world where you manage resources to construct your base and new types of equipment to support your conquest.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.1% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Crafting 10.4%, Survival 8.6%, Building 8.2%
- #55 Dune: Awakening
64% matchMostly Positive70% of 76,118 reviews2025
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 47.7 hrsMean: 97.4 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 25.3% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 9.6%, Building 9.1%, Sandbox 8.7%
- #56 Re.poly
68% matchVery Positive91% of 137 reviews2019
Dev: Hinkfoot Studios
Windows
Re.Poly is a relaxed yet deep indie survival game in a low-poly style that blends exploration, combat, building, and adventure. Whether alone or with friends, create your own world, write your own story, and decide how you want to play.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.8% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Crafting 11.4%, Sandbox 10.5%, Survival 9.4%
- #57 Horizon Journey
67% matchMostly Negative26% of 85 reviews2026
Dev: Redivided Studios
Windows
Embark on an epic adventure to Mars in Horizon Journey, an open-world survival game that blends colonization, terraforming, and exploration in both single-player and multiplayer co-op modes. You're tasked with the monumental challenge of making Mars a new home for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.5% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Crafting 10.1%, Building 9%, Sandbox 8.9%
- #58 Occupy Mars: The Game
64% matchMostly Positive70% of 3,070 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 34.4 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: Base Building 16.4%, Crafting 13%, Sandbox 11.9%, Building 11.1%, Open World 10.7%
