- #1 Enshrouded
97% matchVery Positive86% of 106,050 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.9 hrsMean: 46.8 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 18.1%, Survival 13.9%, Online Co-Op 13.2%, Crafting 11.7%, Open World 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: Features excellent voxel-based building and exploration mechanics that feel very similar to the construction loop in Moria.
- #2 Valheim
96% matchVery Positive94% of 555,289 reviews2026
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 26.9 hrsMean: 81.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31% ★, Online Co-Op 10.9%, Base Building 10.3%, Survival 9.7%, Crafting 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: It offers the gold standard for cooperative survival, building, and exploration in a procedurally generated world.
- #3 Core Keeper
96% matchVery Positive93% of 66,787 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.3 hrsMean: 34.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.4% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 10.4%, Survival 9.8%, Online Co-Op 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game centered entirely around mining, crafting, and exploring a vast underground cavern system.
- #4 Deep Rock Galactic
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 380,437 reviews2020
Dev: Ghost Ship GamesPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 76.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Deep Rock Galactic is a 1-4 player co-op FPS featuring dwarven space miners, procedurally-generated destructible environments, and endless hordes of alien monsters. Explore cave systems, mine for minerals, and work together to survive!
Why similar: Dwarves 89.6% ★, Survival 3.9%, PvE 3.2%, Exploration 2.7%, Action 0.5%
Why You'll Like It: While more action-focused, it is the definitive dwarven mining experience that perfectly captures the atmosphere of working underground.
- #5 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
94% matchVery Positive82% of 10,551 reviews2024
Dev: Max Ent Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 25.9% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Survival 9.3%, Online Co-Op 9.1%, Crafting 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the same core survival and crafting loop while emphasizing exploration of a dangerous, oversized world.
- #6 Nightingale
94% matchMixed66% of 18,084 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 29.2% ★, Base Building 11.4%, Online Co-Op 10.5%, Survival 9.6%, Crafting 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: A fantasy-themed survival game that utilizes procedural world generation to keep exploration fresh and challenging.
- #7 Grounded
93% matchVery Positive90% of 95,977 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.6 hrsMean: 41.9 hrs≥1hr: 94%
The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.6% ★, Survival 15.5%, Base Building 15.4%, Crafting 9.9%, Online Co-Op 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: A highly polished survival game with a strong emphasis on base-building and cooperative exploration.
- #8 Dwarf Fortress
92% matchVery Positive95% of 31,541 reviews2022
Dev: Bay 12 GamesPub: Kitfox Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 39.6 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.
Why similar: Dwarves 50.7% ★, Base Building 16.2%, Building 11.3%, Survival 10.9%, Sandbox 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: The ultimate simulation of dwarven industry, mining, and survival that inspired the entire genre.
- #9 V Rising
91% matchVery Positive89% of 137,392 reviews2024
Dev: Stunlock Studios
Windows
Median: 20.9 hrsMean: 58.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Awaken as a Vampire. Hunt for blood in nearby settlements to regain your strength and evade the scorching sun to survive. Raise your castle and thrive in an ever-changing, open world full of mystery. Gain allies online and conquer the land of the living.
Why similar: Base Building 18.6%, Survival 14%, Crafting 12%, Online Co-Op 10%, Open World 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: Combines top-down survival and crafting with satisfying combat and a focus on building a grand gothic base.
- #10 Dune: Awakening
91% matchMostly Positive71% of 79,582 reviews2025
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 43.1 hrsMean: 98.6 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Dune: Awakening is a single- and multiplayer Open World Survival game with immersive adventure and RPG gameplay. Explore, build, craft, and unravel a cinematic Dune story 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 24.3% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Online Co-Op 8.7%, Crafting 8.6%, Survival 8%
Why You'll Like It: Offers large-scale survival and base-building in a harsh, atmospheric environment that demands careful resource management.
- #11 ASKA
90% matchVery Positive80% of 12,267 reviews2024
Dev: Sand Sailor StudioPub: Thunderful Publishing
Windows
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 29.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
A new Viking age dawns with you at its helm. Forge a thriving colony from nothing in this mythic open-world survival sim. Earn the gods' favor and survive in a land ruled by ancient terrors and unforgiving seasons. Rally unique villagers, expand your settlement and defend your tribe - solo or co-op!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.1% ★, Base Building 14.3%, Online Co-Op 11.2%, Survival 9.8%, Crafting 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Combines survival with colony management, allowing you to lead a settlement in a way that mirrors dwarven community building.
- #12 7 Days to Die
89% matchVery Positive87% of 405,507 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.4 hrsMean: 111.0 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 29.9% ★, Survival 14.5%, Base Building 13.4%, Online Co-Op 9.9%, Building 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: Features extensive underground base-building and survival mechanics that reward players for fortifying their environment.
- #13 ARK: Survival Ascended
89% matchMixed60% of 118,321 reviews2023
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows
Median: 27.2 hrsMean: 198.9 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 18.5%, Base Building 17.8%, Crafting 13.8%, Building 12.3%, Open World 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: An expansive survival and crafting game that offers a deep progression system and massive building potential.
- #14 ICARUS
88% matchMostly Positive75% of 68,864 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.4 hrsMean: 46.7 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 29.7% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Survival 11%, Online Co-Op 9.9%, Crafting 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: A session-based survival game that mirrors the mission-oriented exploration and resource-gathering nature of Moria.
- #15 Bellwright
87% matchVery Positive80% of 21,714 reviews2024
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 12.8 hrsMean: 41.6 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 21.5%, Crafting 18.5%, Online Co-Op 17.7%, Building 13.5%, Open World 12.3%
Why You'll Like It: Blends survival, building, and settlement management with a focus on leading a rebellion in a medieval setting.
- #16 The Planet Crafter
85% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 74,281 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.7 hrsMean: 38.8 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 30.2% ★, Base Building 15.1%, Online Co-Op 10.7%, Crafting 9.8%, Survival 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on the satisfying loop of gathering resources and building structures to transform a hostile environment.
- #17 Tribes of Midgard
86% matchMostly Positive76% of 23,278 reviews2021
Dev: NorsfellPub: Gearbox Publishing
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 19.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
A vibrant blend of survival and action RPG for 1-10 players! Craft legendary items, grow your home base and embark on an epic journey through procedural realms to face towering creatures hel-bent on unleashing Ragnarök. Valhalla can wait, Einherjar!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.4% ★, Base Building 16%, Online Co-Op 14.9%, Survival 10.4%, PvE 5.5%
Why You'll Like It: A co-op survival game with a strong focus on mythology, base defense, and gathering resources to survive the elements.
- #18 Medieval Dynasty
86% matchVery Positive90% of 52,440 reviews2021
Dev: Render CubePub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 11.6 hrsMean: 36.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.
Why similar: Crafting 21.5%, Building 19.8%, Base Building 17.8%, Survival 13.9%, Open World 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a grounded survival and building experience that emphasizes long-term settlement development.
- #19 Voidtrain
84% matchMostly Positive73% of 9,990 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 14.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.2% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Survival 8.9%, Online Co-Op 8.9%, Crafting 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: A unique survival crafting game that focuses on building and upgrading a mobile base while exploring a strange dimension.
- #20 Soulmask
84% matchMostly Positive77% of 22,506 reviews2026
Dev: CampFire StudioPub: Qooland Games
Windows
Median: 13.9 hrsMean: 69.3 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 27.8% ★, Base Building 16.9%, Crafting 12.9%, Survival 11.5%, Open World 7%
Why You'll Like It: Offers deep survival mechanics with a heavy focus on building and managing a tribe in a large open world.
- #21 The Lord of the Rings Online™
83% matchVery Positive81% of 23,288 reviews2012
Dev: Standing Stone GamesPub: Daybreak Game Company LLC
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 68.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Join the world’s greatest fellowship of players in the award-winning online re-creation of J. R. R. Tolkien’s legendary Middle-earth.
Why similar: Open World 21%, Online Co-Op 15.4%, Survival 10.9%, Multiplayer 10.1%, Exploration 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: The definitive Middle-earth experience for players who want to immerse themselves in the lore and geography of the setting.
- #22 Len's Island
80% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,974 reviews2025
Dev: Flow Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
An open-world survival crafting game for 1–8 players, blending intense dungeon crawling and ARPG combat with peaceful farming and creative building. Take on quests and explore a vast, procedurally-generated world full of danger and discovery.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.4% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Building 10.8%, Crafting 10.6%, Survival 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: Combines survival and building with dungeon-crawling elements that feel familiar to underground exploration.
- #23 Solace Crafting
82% matchMostly Positive71% of 899 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 26.8% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Crafting 10.1%, Survival 9.3%, Online Co-Op 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on exploration and building in a vast, procedurally generated world with a focus on player-driven progression.
- #24 Lost Skies
81% matchMixed61% of 2,995 reviews2025
Dev: Bossa StudiosPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Chart a course in a breathtaking, but fractured world. Explore ancient ruins, master advanced technology, and craft your very own skyship to brave nature’s fury and colossal threats in Lost Skies. Team up with friends or go it alone in this awe-inspiring cooperative survival adventure.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38% ★, Base Building 16.4%, Online Co-Op 13%, Crafting 7.3%, Sandbox 5.4%
Why You'll Like It: A cooperative survival game that emphasizes building and exploration in a world of floating islands.
- #25 Frozen Flame
81% matchMixed62% of 2,997 reviews2022
Dev: Dreamside InteractivePub: Ravenage Games
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A challenging exploration and survival adventure, set in the dying world of Dragons. Only those who harness the power of Frozen Flame have the means to survive the harsh conditions of the realm and able to muster the strength to cleanse it for good.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.8% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Online Co-Op 10.2%, Crafting 8.9%, Survival 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A fantasy-based survival game that emphasizes exploration, crafting, and building in a magical world.
- #26 RuneScape: Dragonwilds
78% matchVery Positive81% of 32,495 reviews2026
Dev: Jagex Ltd
Windows
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 20.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
On RuneScape's forgotten continent of Ashenfall, dragons have awoken. Gather, build, skill and craft in this co-operative survival adventure. Only by mastering survival and uncovering ancient secrets can you hope to face the ferocious Dragon Queen.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.3% ★, Survival 10.1%, Online Co-Op 10.1%, Base Building 9.9%, Crafting 8.7%
- #27 Orebound
79% matchMostly Positive78% of 993 reviews2024
Dev: Emberforge
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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: Dwarves 62.7% ★, Base Building 9.3%, Crafting 8.6%, Building 8.2%, Open World 4.7%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses specifically on dwarven resource management and mining in a world designed for building and exploration.
- #28 ENDALOR
78% matchMostly Positive70% of 280 reviews2026
Dev: Diorite Games
Windows
An immersive medieval dark fantasy survival game with RPG elements for 1-4 players. Set in a hand crafted open world. Explore, survive, build, craft, fight and conquer your way through the dark, brutal and mysterious lands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31% ★, Base Building 10.7%, Online Co-Op 10.6%, Survival 9.3%, Crafting 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: A fantasy survival game that focuses on open-world exploration and crafting in a dangerous, atmospheric environment.
- #29 Windrose
76% matchVery Positive87% of 53,040 reviews2026
Dev: Kraken Express
Windows
Median: 20.3 hrsMean: 33.3 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Embark on a PvE survival adventure in the Age of Piracy. Fight on land and sea, solo or with friends. Build, craft and explore vast open world filled with dark secrets. Master soulslite combat and take on challenging bosses, command your ship and plunder unspoken treasures!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.2% ★, Online Co-Op 11.7%, Crafting 11.2%, Survival 10%, Base Building 9.7%
- #30 The Lord of the Rings: War in the North™ - Legacy Edition
77% matchVery Positive83% of 2,151 reviews2026
Dev: Aspyr Media
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Step into a darker, grittier Middle-earth. The Lord of the Rings: War in the North™ - Legacy Edition expands Tolkien’s epic legendarium, delving into the brutal, untold story of Agandaûr, a Black Númenórean and servant of Sauron who has rallied an immense force in the ruins of Fornost.
Why similar: RPG 19.4%, Multiplayer 17.3%, Third Person 13.8%, PvE 13.1%, Online Co-Op 12.7%
- #31 LEGO® The Hobbit™
79% matchVery Positive81% of 10,689 reviews2014
Dev: Traveller's TalesPub: Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 13.1 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Reclaim the Lost Kingdom brick by brick! Join Bilbo Baggins, Gandalf, Thorin and his company of Dwarves in an epic adventure across Middle-earth to recapture the Lonely Mountain in the most expansive LEGO game to date.
Why similar: Dwarves 48.9% ★, Open World 15.6%, Multiplayer 11.7%, Adventure 9.7%, Fantasy 4%
Why You'll Like It: A lighthearted take on the Middle-earth setting that includes crafting and building elements suitable for a more casual experience.
- #32 Dawn of Defiance
77% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,856 reviews2024
Dev: Traega EntertainmentPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
You are a fallen Spartan, cast into the realm between the living and the Underworld. In this survival adventure inspired by Greek myth, hunt, craft and build a home worthy of legend with up to 3 friends. Raid the gods' temples, defeat legendary creatures and loot the iconic weapons of the Olympians.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.4% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Online Co-Op 11.1%, Survival 9.5%, Building 6.7%
- #33 Romestead
76% matchMostly Positive77% of 5,129 reviews2026
Dev: BeartwigsPub: Three Friends
Windows
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Rome has fallen! Rebuild civilization in this action-adventure survival game for 1-8 players. Fight hordes of the walking dead, build settlements, restore the Roman gods... or kick back and farm with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.6% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 13.2%, Survival 10.8%, Online Co-Op 9.9%
- #34 Everwind
74% matchVery Positive81% of 3,899 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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: Online Co-Op 16.3%, Crafting 15.8%, Building 14.2%, Survival 14%, Open World 8.9%
- #35 Grounded 2
74% matchVery Positive81% of 24,763 reviews2025
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 13.2 hrsMean: 26.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Shrunk again, but the world is much larger. In this open-world, single-player or co-op survival adventure, craft weapons and armor, build your base, and traverse the playground on your buggy. But something else is out there—and it hasn’t forgotten you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.5% ★, Base Building 15.4%, Survival 14%, Crafting 9.6%, Online Co-Op 7.3%
- #36 StarRupture
73% matchVery Positive81% of 13,607 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 27.6 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 30.8% ★, Base Building 15.4%, Crafting 10.7%, Survival 10.3%, Online Co-Op 8.9%
- #37 Necesse
72% matchVery Positive93% of 29,166 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 40.1% ★, Base Building 8.8%, Crafting 8.6%, Survival 8.1%, Building 6.7%
- #38 LEGO® The Lord of the Rings™
75% matchVery Positive90% of 16,184 reviews2012
Dev: Traveller's TalesPub: Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Based on The Lord of the Rings motion picture trilogy, LEGO® The Lord of the Rings follows the original story-lines of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, taking players through the epic story events re-imagined with the humor and endl
Why similar: Dwarves 44.5% ★, Open World 20.1%, Adventure 12.1%, Fantasy 6.9%, Multiplayer 6.6%
- #39 Vampires: Bloodlord Rising
72% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,868 reviews2026
Dev: Mehuman GamesPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
In this dark, open-world adventure, you awaken as a Vampire Lord. Build and customize your castle. Hunt for blood, fight, craft, and gather. Command your loyal servants. Shapeshift into a bat to explore the night and survive the relentless Inquisition, solo or in 4-player co-op.
Why similar: Base Building 18.1%, Crafting 13.6%, Online Co-Op 13.5%, Survival 12.1%, Building 11.2%
- #40 Life is Feudal: Your Own
75% matchMixed66% of 12,071 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 42.3% ★, Crafting 13.2%, Survival 12.3%, Building 10.3%, Open World 8.2%
- #41 Tinkerlands
71% matchVery Positive86% of 4,122 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.4 hrsMean: 14.5 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 34.1% ★, Online Co-Op 12.3%, Survival 10.3%, Crafting 9.6%, Building 8.2%
- #42 First Dwarf
73% matchMostly Positive78% of 381 reviews2024
Dev: Star Drifters
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Pilot a dwarven mech and fly a dragon as you build and defend outposts across a shattered magical realm. Craft, explore, and survive the dangers of floating islands corrupted by the Taint in this action-packed survival RPG with base-building and co-op.
Why similar: Dwarves 45% ★, Base Building 14.3%, Crafting 11.3%, Building 10.5%, Open World 5.8%
- #43 Lodventure
73% matchMostly Positive74% of 166 reviews2023
Dev: Sky Games
Windows
Embark on a 1-4 players Co-op survival adventure in an open world wilderness in search of a myth called the Lod Stone. Build your house, sow your crops, brew potions, tame a horse and discover powerful abilities. Venture into dangerous dungeons, fight unique bosses to find the Lod stone.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.5% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Survival 10.1%, Crafting 9.1%, Online Co-Op 8%
- #44 Shamania
71% matchMostly Positive74% of 171 reviews2026
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 28.3% ★, Crafting 11.8%, Survival 9.9%, Online Co-Op 8.4%, Base Building 7.9%
- #45 Forever Skies
70% matchMostly Positive78% of 9,059 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 30.5 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 30.8% ★, Base Building 16.1%, Crafting 12%, Survival 11%, Building 9.1%
- #46 Witchspire
69% matchVery Positive83% of 2,161 reviews2026
Dev: Envar Games
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Step into the ultimate open-world witch adventure. Befriend and battle creatures, and conjure up a sanctuary alongside other witches in co-op or single-player.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.6% ★, Base Building 15.5%, Online Co-Op 12.7%, Crafting 12.1%, Open World 6.5%
- #47 Voyagers of Nera
69% matchVery Positive85% of 2,647 reviews2025
Dev: Treehouse Games
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Voyagers of Nera is a cooperative survival-crafting game where you must survive a magical ocean world brimming with lost spirits and deadly monsters. Sail to distant islands, build beautiful villages and surf across the waves with up to 10 players.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.5% ★, Base Building 14.5%, Online Co-Op 11.3%, Crafting 11.3%, Building 10.1%
- #48 Volcanoids
71% matchVery Positive83% of 9,358 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 18.6%, Crafting 14.8%, Building 12.4%, Online Co-Op 12.3%, Survival 12.1%
- #49 Abiotic Factor
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 59,444 reviews2025
Dev: Deep Field GamesPub: Playstack
Windows
Median: 21.2 hrsMean: 46.5 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Abiotic Factor is a survival crafting experience for 1-6 players set in the depths of an underground research facility. Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the world’s greatest minds must survive against the universe’s biggest threats.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Online Co-Op 11.4%, Crafting 11%, Survival 10.4%
- #50 Delverium
68% matchVery Positive85% of 157 reviews2026
Dev: Sagestone Games
Windows
Explore, Build, Farm, Craft and Fight in this survival sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Delve deep to uncover the secret of the invading 'Faults' and restore stability to the land.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.2% ★, Crafting 9.9%, Survival 9.7%, Building 8.7%, Online Co-Op 8.4%
- #51 Pax Dei
68% matchMixed57% of 11,377 reviews2025
Dev: Mainframe Industries
Windows
Median: 18.5 hrsMean: 76.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Welcome to a vast, social sandbox MMO inspired by the legends of the medieval era. Here, myths are real, ghosts exist, and magic is unquestioned. Join thousands of players as you explore the land, build your home, forge your reputation, and craft your own stories. What world will you make?
Why similar: Base Building 22.1%, Crafting 17.4%, Open World 9.5%, Sandbox 9.1%, Exploration 7.6%
- #52 Keep Digging
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 3,285 reviews2025
Dev: Wild Dog
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Keep Digging is a digging survival craft game for up to 8 players. Explore a procedurally generated 5000m underground world, bring back ores, blueprints, and fossils, then use the smelter, forge, and enchantments to build your gear! Team up in co-op or compete for items in PvP.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 28.8%, Crafting 25.7%, Sandbox 14.4%, Exploration 13.3%, Multiplayer 11%
- #53 Eden Crafters
66% matchVery Positive85% of 2,696 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 15.2 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 30.3% ★, Base Building 14.1%, Crafting 10.7%, Online Co-Op 9.1%, Building 8.1%
- #54 Drake Hollow
69% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,809 reviews2020
Dev: The Molasses FloodPub: CD PROJEKT RED
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Build and defend villages of vegetable folk from deadly feral beasts in the blighted world of The Hollow. Explore, gather, and fight! You can even invite your friends. Can you craft the perfect village?
Why similar: Online Co-Op 16.5%, Survival 14.9%, Base Building 14.1%, Building 9.9%, Open World 9.5%
- #55 Tales of the Shire: A The Lord of The Rings™ Game
66% matchVery Positive82% of 3,814 reviews2025
Dev: Wētā WorkshopPub: Fictions
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Welcome home, Hobbit! Live the cosy life of a Hobbit in the wonderfully serene landscape of the Shire. Discover, decorate, & share in this idyllic corner of Middle-earth. Join friendly Hobbits & familiar faces awaiting your arrival in Tales of the Shire: A The Lord of the Rings™ Game.
Why similar: Character Customization 35%, Crafting 31.1%, Third Person 16.7%, RPG 7.6%, Fantasy 7.5%
- #56 Notmads
67% matchVery Positive85% of 107 reviews2026
Dev: Rhomita
Windows
Your home is a living beast. Explore a handcrafted open world in an action RPG where you fight with magic, gather resources, find loot, craft, and grow stronger. Customize and expand your home on its back, and take it with you as you explore solo or with friends.
Why similar: Base Building 17.1%, Online Co-Op 13.1%, Crafting 12.7%, Survival 11.7%, Building 10.7%
- #57 Lord of Dwarves
70% matchMostly Positive78% of 76 reviews2020
Dev: Stellar Sage Games
Windows · Linux
Gather resources, craft weapons, and build a castle. Then defend your castle against monsters who will try to siege, sap, and smash their way in. All in a procedurally generated 3D block world that allows for extensive crafting and total construction and destruction of the terrain.
Why similar: Dwarves 85% ★, Base Building 4.3%, Building 3%, Survival 2.7%, Crafting 2.7%
- #58 Goblin Company
66% matchVery Positive81% of 351 reviews2026
Dev: BitBorne Studio
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Dig, build rails, and survive underground as a Goblin miner for WHAAG MINING INC. Light your path or the darkness will drain your life. Explore fully destructible biomes, fight hostile creatures, and hunt the legendary Giant Crystal, solo or online co-op
Why similar: Online Co-Op 24.3%, Building 18.9%, Survival 15.1%, Exploration 10.1%, Multiplayer 7.8%
