- #1 Once Human
97% matchMostly Positive78% of 182,222 reviews2024
Dev: Starry Studio
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 52.2 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Once Human is a Strange Worlds Survival Game set in a strange, post-apocalyptic future. Unite with friends to fight monstrous enemies, uncover secret plots, compete for resources, and build your own territory. Once, you were merely human. Now, you have the power to remake the world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.7% ★, Massively Multiplayer 9.7%, Base Building 9.2%, Crafting 8.1%, Survival 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the modern, high-production sci-fi survival aesthetic and emphasizes large-scale base building in a dangerous open world.
- #2 Night of the Dead
96% matchMostly Positive77% of 11,856 reviews2024
Dev: Jackto Studios
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 32.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
'Night of the Dead' is an open-world game that combines elements of exploration, tower defense, survival, and crafting. Traverse a world dominated by zombies while collecting various resources and powerful equipment. Build a fortress to survive the hordes of zombies that swarm every night!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.2% ★, Tower Defense 10.6%, Base Building 9%, Crafting 7.9%, Building 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: The focus on building elaborate traps and fortifications to survive nightly waves of enemies makes it a perfect match for fans of the tower-defense elements.
- #3 7 Days to Die
96% matchVery Positive87% of 405,507 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.3 hrsMean: 110.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 27.6% ★, Survival 13.1%, Base Building 11%, Tower Defense 9.7%, Open World 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive survival game that mirrors the tower-defense and base-fortification mechanics central to The Front.
- #4 Rust
95% matchVery Positive87% of 1,393,461 reviews2018
Dev: Facepunch Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 52.7 hrsMean: 429.0 hrs≥1hr: 96%
The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.4% ★, Survival 17.4%, Crafting 13%, Open World 9.7%, Building 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: The core loop of open-world survival, base raiding, and high-stakes PVP is heavily inspired by this genre staple.
- #5 Soulmask
94% matchMostly Positive77% of 22,226 reviews2026
Dev: CampFire StudioPub: Qooland Games
Windows
Median: 13.9 hrsMean: 69.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. Possess any of your tribespeople, recruit followers, and build a thriving automated civilization. Survive, expand, and forge your own legacy across a vast ancient open world — together with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.7% ★, Base Building 15.6%, Crafting 13.5%, Survival 11.7%, Open World 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers deep crafting, base management, and tribal recruitment mechanics that feel very similar to the progression in The Front.
- #6 Subsistence
94% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,766 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 40.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.4% ★, Survival 11.5%, Crafting 10.4%, Base Building 7.8%, Open World 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore survival experience that emphasizes long-term base building and resource management against persistent threats.
- #7 ICARUS
93% matchMostly Positive75% of 67,515 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 46.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.6% ★, Base Building 11%, Survival 10.3%, Crafting 8.7%, Building 7%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a session-based survival experience with a strong focus on high-tech crafting and environmental management.
- #8 Sunkenland
92% matchVery Positive80% of 23,803 reviews2023
Dev: Vector3 Studio
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 20.0 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 35.5% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Survival 10.7%, Co-op 9%, Crafting 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: This game combines survival and base-building with a unique water-based setting and raiding mechanics against rival factions.
- #9 HumanitZ
91% matchMostly Positive74% of 13,984 reviews2026
Dev: Yodubzz StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 77%
HumanitZ is an isometric, open-world sandbox survival game set in a world ended by a zombie outbreak. Survive alone or with friends by scavenging, crafting, building, and fighting to last as long as ‘humanly’ possible. You can’t change the past, but you can fight for the future of humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.5% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Survival 12%, Crafting 10.9%, Open World 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: This game provides a gritty, open-world survival experience with a strong emphasis on scavenging and base fortification.
- #10 ARK: Survival Ascended
91% matchMixed60% of 115,802 reviews2023
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows
Median: 27.7 hrsMean: 198.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!
Why similar: Survival 16.4%, Base Building 14.4%, Open World 13.6%, Crafting 12.5%, Building 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a massive open-world survival experience with complex taming and base-building systems that match the scale of The Front.
- #11 No One Survived
90% matchMixed64% of 7,777 reviews2025
Dev: Cat Play Studio
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 23.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
This is a multiplayer cooperative open world construction survival sandbox game, where you and your friends must find supplies and build shelters in this world. You have to keep an eye on your character's needs state at all times, a bad state is likely to lead to death.
Why similar: Survival 20.8%, Open World 16%, Crafting 14.7%, Multiplayer 11.2%, Building 11%
Why You'll Like It: It offers detailed survival mechanics, including complex base building and crafting, set in a post-apocalyptic world.
- #12 Bellwright
89% matchVery Positive80% of 21,324 reviews2024
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 12.7 hrsMean: 41.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Establish and expand your own settlements, liberate the land and assist its villagers, and recruit others to your cause while learning more about a life you had to leave behind. Command your forces, prove your valor through combat, and cement yourself as the hero of your people.
Why similar: Survival 19.1%, Crafting 16.8%, Open World 16%, Building 12.9%, Online Co-Op 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: The focus on leading a resistance and managing a growing settlement against an oppressive regime mirrors the narrative themes of The Front.
- #13 Myth of Empires
89% matchMixed68% of 17,524 reviews2024
Dev: Angela GamePub: Imperium Interactive Entertainment
Windows
Median: 15.1 hrsMean: 229.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Myth of Empires is a multiplayer war sandbox game featuring a high degree of freedom and multiple civilizations. Players must survive, craft, create, and lead troops in their quest to conquer PVE or PVP territory and build their own empire. Xizhou Civilization Pack is now officially released!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.1% ★, Building 11.1%, Base Building 10.7%, Sandbox 9%, Survival 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: This sandbox survival game features large-scale warfare and base building that aligns well with the military-themed progression of The Front.
- #14 Deadside
88% matchMostly Positive76% of 40,499 reviews2024
Dev: Bad Pixel
Windows
Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 44.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%
An Open World Survival Shooter blending hardcore PVP and PVE action. Secure precious loot in safe zones or build your own fortress in the wild. With intense gunfights, stunning visuals, and performance smooth enough for any system, the challenge awaits!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.8% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Survival 10.2%, Crafting 10.1%, Open World 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore survival shooter that emphasizes tactical PVP and base building in a vast, post-apocalyptic landscape.
- #15 Dune: Awakening
87% matchMostly Positive71% of 78,134 reviews2025
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 46.5 hrsMean: 100.0 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival game with immersive adventure and RPG gameplay. Explore, build, craft, and unravel a cinematic Dune story alone or with friends as you rise from survival to greatness on the most legendary planet in the universe. Just remember: the sandworm always comes.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.7% ★, Massively Multiplayer 10.6%, Base Building 10.6%, Crafting 8.8%, Building 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: This game captures the harsh, high-stakes survival and large-scale base building required to thrive in a dangerous, resource-scarce environment.
- #16 Forever Skies
86% matchMostly Positive78% of 8,950 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 30.6 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 28.4% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 11.1%, Survival 9.9%, Open World 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: It features sci-fi survival with a focus on a mobile base, requiring constant maintenance and technological upgrades.
- #17 Volcanoids
86% matchVery Positive83% of 9,332 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.9 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 13.6%, Crafting 12.2%, Building 10.8%, Survival 9.8%, Sandbox 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: The unique concept of a mobile, drill-ship base provides a fresh take on the base-building and survival loop found in The Front.
- #18 VEIN
84% matchVery Positive88% of 12,003 reviews2025
Dev: Ramjet Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 14.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
VEIN is a post-apocalyptic survival multiplayer sandbox game. Gather supplies to survive, explore abandoned buildings, defend your home, and rebuild society, whether alone or with friends.
Why similar: Base Building 18.3%, Survival 17.3%, Open World 15.2%, Crafting 11.7%, Co-op 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: This early-access title offers deep survival mechanics and base building with a focus on scavenging in a dangerous open world.
- #19 Survive the Nights
84% matchMixed66% of 6,719 reviews2025
Dev: a2z Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 10.9 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 26.5% ★, Massively Multiplayer 12.8%, Survival 10.6%, Sandbox 10%, Multiplayer 8%
Why You'll Like It: The game prioritizes realistic fortification and defense against waves of enemies, mirroring the tower-defense aspects of the seed game.
- #20 The Infected
85% matchVery Positive84% of 6,982 reviews2020
Dev: DigX Studios
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 68%
The Infected is a sandbox, first-person, open-world survival game. Build bases, craft, farm, hunt, and survive changing seasons. Choose whether to face the hybrid “Vambies” or turn them off for a pure survival experience.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 10.4%, Building 9.8%, Survival 9%
Why You'll Like It: It combines base building with survival against environmental threats and hostile creatures in an open world.
- #21 SCUM
83% matchMostly Positive74% of 126,382 reviews2025
Dev: Gamepires
Windows
Median: 11.9 hrsMean: 104.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Welcome to SCUM, a ruthless open-world survival game where deep character customization defines the prisoner you become. Loot, craft, hunt, build, and fight to outlast a hostile island where every choice can change your fate. Stay alive. Stay dangerous. Become harder to kill.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32% ★, Massively Multiplayer 14.9%, Survival 10.4%, Crafting 9.7%, Open World 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers an incredibly deep character and survival system that appeals to players who enjoy the complexity of The Front.
- #22 Unturned
82% matchVery Positive91% of 564,532 reviews2017
Dev: Smartly Dressed Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 72.8 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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: Massively Multiplayer 16.9%, Crafting 13.9%, Survival 13.3%, Sandbox 11.2%, Open World 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: Despite its blocky aesthetic, the core gameplay loop of survival, crafting, and base building is remarkably similar to The Front.
- #23 Valheim
81% matchVery Positive94% of 540,690 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 26.0 hrsMean: 78.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.6% ★, Survival 9.7%, Base Building 9.3%, Building 8.6%, Crafting 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: The building and survival progression systems are highly polished and offer a similar sense of accomplishment when fortifying a base.
- #24 Mist Survival
82% matchMostly Positive76% of 14,333 reviews2018
Dev: Dimension 32 Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 73%
MIST SURVIVAL is a Single-player, survival stealth sandbox game Players will experience the Apocalypse stimulation in the form of virus pandemic, the players have to deal with it to survive through the difficulties such as finding shelter and food, threats from the environment and climate: wild animals, bandits, infected, and dense mist t
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.8% ★, Survival 18.1%, Open World 11.9%, Base Building 11.8%, Crafting 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on base building and survival against environmental hazards and threats, capturing a similar atmosphere.
- #25 Project Zomboid
81% matchVery Positive94% of 475,049 reviews2013
Dev: The Indie Stone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 15.6 hrsMean: 87.1 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 30.7% ★, Survival 16.9%, Open World 10.6%, Sandbox 8.1%, Multiplayer 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: While isometric, it provides the most comprehensive survival and base-fortification experience available on Steam.
- #26 Green Hell
79% matchVery Positive85% of 101,308 reviews2019
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.9% ★, Survival 11.6%, Multiplayer 8.3%, Crafting 7.9%, Base Building 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: While more focused on nature, the hardcore survival and crafting systems provide a challenging experience for any survival fan.
- #27 Starsand
80% matchMixed66% of 1,254 reviews2022
Dev: Tunnel Vision StudioPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Starsand is a mystic survival game set among the dunes of an arcane desert. An open-world full of danger, vast environments and mysterious happenings await you! Explore, hunt, craft, build – and SURVIVE.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.1% ★, Base Building 12%, Crafting 10.6%, Survival 10.1%, Open World 9%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game set in a harsh desert environment that requires careful resource management and base construction.
- #28 StarRupture
77% matchVery Positive81% of 13,247 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 26.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.1% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Crafting 9.5%, Survival 8.9%, Open World 7.9%
- #29 State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition
79% matchVery Positive83% of 69,686 reviews2020
Dev: Undead LabsPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 39.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
The dead have risen and civilization has fallen. Now it's up to you to gather survivors, scavenge for resources and build a community in a post-apocalyptic world – a world where you define what it means to survive in this ultimate zombie survival simulation.
Why similar: Base Building 22.8%, Survival 21.2%, Open World 17.4%, Multiplayer 11.2%, Co-op 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: The focus on base management and defending against waves of threats makes it a great alternative for fans of the tower-defense loop.
- #30 Stranded Deep
78% matchMostly Positive74% of 47,770 reviews2022
Dev: Beam Team GamesPub: Beam Team Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 20.9 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Take the role of a plane crash survivor stranded somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Come face to face with some of the most life threatening scenarios that will result in a different experience each time you play. Scavenge. Discover. Survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.1% ★, Survival 12.8%, Crafting 9.5%, Multiplayer 8.4%, Open World 8%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a focused survival and crafting experience that emphasizes the struggle against the elements in an open world.
- #31 Occupy Mars: The Game
76% matchMixed70% of 3,132 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 34.1 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.1% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Crafting 9.5%, Survival 8.3%, Building 7.9%
- #32 Rem Survival
78% matchMostly Positive75% of 803 reviews2021
Dev: Immortal Hand Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 47.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Scavenge abandoned ruins, craft gear from scrap and salvaged materials, and fight the environment itself as hunger, exposure, and exhaustion push you to your limits. There are no second chances—only adaptation or death.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.8% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Crafting 10.4%, Survival 9.1%, Building 8.8%
- #33 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
74% matchVery Positive82% of 10,429 reviews2024
Dev: Max Ent Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 16.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26% ★, Base Building 10.9%, Survival 9.2%, Crafting 8.8%, Building 8.3%
- #34 Cultivation Tales
75% matchMostly Negative38% of 13,640 reviews2024
Dev: Ac Games
Windows
Median: 22.1 hrsMean: 65.5 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Cultivation Tales is an open world survival craft online game. You will experience collecting, crafting, hunting, fighting, building, researching, in a wild mythical world. Fight for your clan and yourself, from mortal to divinity!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.7% ★, Massively Multiplayer 11.3%, Tower Defense 10.4%, Building 10.2%, Sandbox 9.4%
- #35 XERA: Survival
74% matchMixed66% of 7,941 reviews2021
Dev: Spotted Kiwi Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 24.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Action-focused, open world survival shooter, PvPvE against fellow mercenaries and lethal XOIDS. Raid for resources alone or with team-mates, build and defend your base, stash your gear and survive against the odds. You are the hunters. You are the hunted. And the robots never sleep…
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.1% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Crafting 9.8%, Survival 9%, Massively Multiplayer 8.8%
- #36 Fragmented
76% 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 42% ★, Survival 12.5%, Open World 7.9%, Crafting 7.5%, Multiplayer 6.8%
- #37 Start Over
72% matchMixed61% of 379 reviews2024
Dev: EY-Studio
Windows
Embark on an unpredictable survival journey in Start Over. Solo, co-op, online, explore diverse landscapes, craft through 4 tech tiers, encounter wildlife, and trade or raid for resources. Choose your path, defend against waves, and shape your destiny in a dynamic world. Are you ready to Start Over?
Why similar: Tower Defense 14.1%, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 11.8%, Survival 10.5%, Building 10.3%
- #38 Enshrouded
70% matchVery Positive86% of 104,779 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.9 hrsMean: 46.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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: Base Building 17.7%, Open World 15.2%, Survival 14.9%, Crafting 12.8%, Online Co-Op 9.3%
- #39 GRAV
75% 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 36.4% ★, Base Building 11.4%, Survival 11.4%, Open World 9.1%, Crafting 8%
- #40 Nightingale
71% matchMixed66% of 18,038 reviews2024
Dev: Inflexion Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 24.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Nightingale is an open world survival crafting game, where you’ll adventure across the mysterious and dangerous Fae Realms. As a daring Realmwalker, you’ll defeat monstrous enemies, survive hostile environments, and build elaborate estates in a visually stunning Gaslamp Fantasy world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.1% ★, Base Building 9.7%, Survival 9.1%, Crafting 9%, Building 8.6%
- #41 Last Oasis
73% matchMixed62% of 24,230 reviews2020
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 17.8 hrsMean: 120.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Nomadic Survival MMO. Build wooden walking machines to travel to new lands. Create clans and fight for territory. Resources deplete fast, so take your sword and scavenge, pirate, and trade to stay alive.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 25.4%, Survival 17%, Open World 13.6%, Crafting 12.4%, Building 11.1%
- #42 Eden Crafters
69% matchVery Positive85% of 2,630 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.1% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Crafting 10.6%, Building 8.4%, Sandbox 7.9%
- #43 Out of Reach
73% matchMixed57% of 3,051 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
You’re a castaway stranded in the middle of nowhere. Storm is gone, the worst certainly not. Look for food and resources, craft gear, make shelters. These are the basics, you need much more to stay alive on this cut-off-the-world, yet not desert island. Build & burn, sail & explore, be Out of Reach!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.9% ★, Survival 11%, Crafting 9.1%, Massively Multiplayer 8.2%, Open World 8.1%
- #44 Life is Feudal: Your Own
73% matchMixed66% of 12,061 reviews2015
Dev: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 57.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Hardcore and realistic; LiF is a Medieval multiplayer sandbox RPG, with free terraforming, a rich crafting system and preset and modular building construction. With engaging survival aspects, no target physics-based combat and a unique formation system - along with numerous other features - LiF is not for the faint of heart!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.2% ★, Crafting 11%, Survival 10.1%, Open World 9.9%, Building 9%
- #45 Dawn of Defiance
70% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,842 reviews2024
Dev: Traega EntertainmentPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
You are the Defier, a Spartan beginning your afterlife on the Crossroads. In this Greek myth-inspired survival craft, ascend from weak soldier to god-like anti-hero. Build impressive Greek structures, craft legendary gear, and break the seals of the Underworld with up to 3 friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.4% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Survival 10.6%, Online Co-Op 8.1%, Building 8%
- #46 Renown
70% matchMixed58% of 1,578 reviews2025
Dev: RDBK Studios
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Renown is an intense medieval multiplayer survival experience set in a vast, ever-evolving world. Whether alone or rallying allies, gather resources, build powerful strongholds, and engage in brutal battles for dominance.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.9% ★, Crafting 9.5%, Massively Multiplayer 9.2%, Base Building 8.5%, Building 8.4%
- #47 Miscreated
71% matchMixed66% of 31,591 reviews2018
Dev: Entrada Interactive LLC
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 38.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Miscreated is a multiplayer online hardcore survival game set in a post-apocalyptic future. You will need to survive against mutants, players, and even mother nature herself.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.7% ★, Survival 14.4%, Open World 10.2%, Massively Multiplayer 7.6%, Multiplayer 7.3%
- #48 Force of Nature
72% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,209 reviews2016
Dev: A.Y.std
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.1% ★, Crafting 12.7%, Survival 11%, Building 7.7%, Sandbox 7.6%
- #49 The Planet Crafter
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 73,089 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.7 hrsMean: 38.5 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.9% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 9.3%, Building 9.2%, Survival 9%
- #50 Plains of Pain
69% matchVery Positive83% of 933 reviews2023
Dev: Cobra Byte Digital
Windows
Enter a living post-apocalyptic sandbox where the world doesn't wait for you. Build, craft, trade, earn the trust of factions, and forge your own path through a brutal procedural wasteland.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.4% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Crafting 9.7%, Survival 8.7%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #51 Lost Rift
68% matchMixed70% of 1,693 reviews2025
Dev: People Can Fly
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Lost Rift is a first person survival adventure shooter that blends cooperative base building with multiplayer PvE or PvP extraction expeditions. Journey solo or in teams of up to 5 players across a vast archipelago, craft gear, build bases, defeat raiders, and become legendary.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.4% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Massively Multiplayer 12.2%, Crafting 11.5%, Survival 9.9%
- #52 SURVIVAL: Postapocalypse Now
71% matchMixed56% of 8,877 reviews2019
Dev: TB Games
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Want to survive? - Arm yourself and survive. Crafting, shooting, transport and much more awaits you in the Survival game. What happened to the world around and why he died - you may find out. But is this the main question now?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.6% ★, Survival 14.1%, Open World 8.7%, Multiplayer 7.1%, Crafting 6.4%
- #53 Voidtrain
67% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,810 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 15.9 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 32.9% ★, Base Building 9.5%, Crafting 8%, Survival 8%, Co-op 7%
- #54 Survival: Fountain of Youth
66% matchVery Positive85% of 4,480 reviews2024
Dev: Odinsoft Inc.Pub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Survival: Fountain of Youth is a challenging single-player open-world adventure game set on the Caribbean islands. Survive as a shipwrecked 16th-century explorer, craft tools and shelter, and uncover the secrets of both an ancient civilization and your own fate.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.9% ★, Base Building 13%, Crafting 10.6%, Survival 10.5%, Building 7.8%
- #55 Planetaries
68% matchMixed58% of 226 reviews2024
Dev: EY-Studio
Windows
Experience a vast Sci-fi open-world survival TD game set on a distant planet deep in the universe. Craft, build, mine, trade, explore, and survive in this alien world. Collect Data and defend against waves of enemies seeking to banish you. Enjoy the adventure in Singleplayer or Multiplayer.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.2% ★, Tower Defense 9.5%, Base Building 9.3%, Crafting 8.5%, Building 8.1%
- #56 The Last Plague: Blight
66% matchVery Positive89% of 1,472 reviews2024
Dev: Original Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 15.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
The Last Plague: Blight is an authentic survival experience rooted in realism and immersion. Endure the hazards of a brutal open world, uncover the origins of a mysterious disease, and become humanity’s final hope of ending the Blight.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.4% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Crafting 10.2%, Building 8.6%, Survival 8.3%
- #57 Outlaws of the Old West
69% matchMixed59% of 6,295 reviews2019
Dev: Virtual Basement LLCPub: Wandering Wizard
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Outlaws of the Old West is a massively multiplayer survival MMO with a huge world, thousands of items and a modular building system. Survive the wild, build your own homestead, defeat villainous bandits and work with others to tame the Wild West.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.3% ★, Massively Multiplayer 13.3%, Survival 12.8%, Open World 10.9%, Multiplayer 8%
- #58 Everwind
64% matchVery Positive81% of 3,756 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 14.1 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 14.5%, Building 13.8%, Survival 12.7%, Open World 11.9%, Sandbox 11.4%
