- #1 Core Keeper
97% matchVery Positive93% of 66,104 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.2 hrsMean: 34.7 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 18.4% ★, Crafting 10.7%, Online Co-Op 9.3%, Survival 9.2%, Base Building 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: Features a similar top-down perspective and addictive loop of mining, crafting, and base-building with friends.
- #2 Necesse
96% matchVery Positive93% of 28,807 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 15.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.2% ★, Crafting 9.8%, Survival 8.3%, Sandbox 7%, Base Building 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down, pixel-art survival game that focuses on base management and combat in a procedurally generated world.
- #3 Terraria
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,548,448 reviews2011
Dev: Re-Logic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 33.8 hrsMean: 151.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.4% ★, Crafting 11.1%, Sandbox 10.7%, Survival 10.6%, Multiplayer 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: The quintessential 2D survival-crafting game that offers endless exploration and progression similar to The Survivalists.
- #4 Don't Starve Together
95% matchVery Positive95% of 541,972 reviews2016
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 64.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 56.5% ★, Survival 23.7%, Multiplayer 3.8%, Co-op 3.7%, Crafting 3.5%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a challenging top-down survival experience with a distinct art style and heavy emphasis on cooperative play.
- #5 Raft
94% matchVery Positive93% of 377,470 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.7 hrsMean: 37.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.8% ★, Survival 15.6%, Crafting 10.8%, Co-op 8.6%, Multiplayer 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a highly engaging cooperative survival experience centered on expanding a base while drifting through an open ocean.
- #6 Starbound
94% matchVery Positive90% of 123,281 reviews2016
Dev: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.0 hrsMean: 64.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.6% ★, Crafting 10.3%, Sandbox 10.3%, Online Co-Op 9.4%, Survival 9%
Why You'll Like It: Combines 2D survival and crafting with space exploration and base-building in a vast, colorful universe.
- #7 Forager
93% matchVery Positive89% of 43,959 reviews2019
Dev: HopFrogPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 22.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.7% ★, Crafting 16%, Survival 13.4%, Base Building 7.6%, Sandbox 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the satisfying progression of gathering, crafting, and expanding territory in a top-down pixel environment.
- #8 Grounded
92% matchVery Positive90% of 95,505 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.5 hrsMean: 41.8 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 25.8% ★, Survival 15.2%, Base Building 11.2%, Crafting 10.8%, Co-op 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A premier cooperative survival game that emphasizes base-building and exploration in a dangerous, oversized world.
- #9 The Escapists 2
91% matchVery Positive91% of 33,755 reviews2017
Dev: Team17
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Craft, Steal, Brawl and Escape! It’s time to bust out of the toughest prisons in the world as you return to the life of an inmate in The Escapists 2, now with multiplayer! Have you got what it takes to escape?
Why similar: Online Co-Op 21.8%, Multiplayer 15.8%, Crafting 15.6%, Co-op 13.6%, Sandbox 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: Set in the same universe as The Survivalists, this game shares the distinct pixel-art style and focus on crafting and strategy.
- #10 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
91% 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 23.1% ★, Crafting 10.7%, Survival 10.3%, Online Co-Op 10.3%, Base Building 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: Features a unique perspective on survival where you build bases and explore a world from the size of an insect.
- #11 Tinkerlands
89% matchVery Positive86% of 4,087 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 14.2 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 26.9% ★, Online Co-Op 12.3%, Crafting 10.4%, Survival 10.1%, Sandbox 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A pixel-art survival sandbox that captures the lighthearted exploration and crafting feel of The Survivalists.
- #12 Craftopia
90% matchMostly Positive76% of 20,210 reviews2020
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Craftopia is the brand new multiplayer survival action game made in Japan. We combined many features we find enjoyable, such as hunting, farming, hack-and-slash, building, automation to develop this game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.1% ★, Crafting 18.3%, Survival 13.4%, Open World 12.5%, Sandbox 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: Blends survival, automation, and exploration, allowing players to build complex systems similar to the monkey-training mechanics.
- #13 DYSMANTLE
89% matchVery Positive91% of 11,572 reviews2021
Dev: 10tons Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 25.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Ascend from your shelter. Ruin everything. Escape the wretched island. ⚔️🔨🎣🌱🌵🍰 Explore. Fight. Level up. Survive. Gather. Craft. Harvest. Hunt. Build. Farm. Solve puzzles. Fish. Cook. Live. Enjoy the bittersweet post-apocalypse.
Why similar: Crafting 18.2%, Hunting 17.2% ★, Survival 17%, Base Building 13.6%, Open World 12.3%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game that rewards players for exploring and dismantling the environment to craft better gear.
- #14 Keplerth
88% matchVery Positive84% of 4,159 reviews2022
Dev: TAROPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 16.3 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: Survival 18.5%, Sandbox 15.7%, Open World 13.7%, Crafting 9.2%, Base Building 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down sandbox survival game that emphasizes exploration, crafting, and base defense against hostile creatures.
- #15 Stranded Deep
86% 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 40.7% ★, Survival 16.1%, Crafting 12.9%, Multiplayer 8.5%, Open World 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: Captures the tropical island survival theme perfectly with a focus on crafting, resource management, and exploration.
- #16 Scrapnaut
87% matchMixed70% of 837 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 20.2% ★, Online Co-Op 11.8%, Survival 11.5%, Crafting 10.5%, Base Building 8%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game with a focus on building and managing a base in a stylized, dangerous world.
- #17 Green Hell
86% 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 31.9% ★, Survival 13.4%, Online Co-Op 11.3%, Crafting 9.9%, Multiplayer 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a more hardcore survival experience set in a tropical jungle that tests your crafting and resource management skills.
- #18 Valheim
84% 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 28.1% ★, Online Co-Op 12.5%, Survival 11%, Crafting 10.3%, Base Building 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: A highly acclaimed co-op survival game that excels in base-building and exploration within a procedurally generated wilderness.
- #19 Drake Hollow
85% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,807 reviews2020
Dev: The Molasses FloodPub: CD PROJEKT RED
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 9.5 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 16.9%, Survival 15%, Sandbox 11.9%, Open World 11.6%, Base Building 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on cooperative base-building and defending a village in a charming, stylized world.
- #20 Len's Island
82% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,866 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 31.5% ★, Crafting 13.8%, Survival 12.4%, Base Building 10.2%, Sandbox 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: Combines survival, farming, and base-building with dungeon crawling in a vibrant, top-down world.
- #21 Don't Starve
83% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 113,372 reviews2013
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 28.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.9% ★, Survival 23.9%, Crafting 15.6%, Sandbox 8.6%, Open World 5.1%
Why You'll Like It: The original top-down survival challenge that defined the genre's focus on resource management and environmental hazards.
- #22 The Wild Eight
84% matchMixed68% of 8,109 reviews2019
Dev: Eight PointsPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
The Wild Eight is an intense survival action-adventure set in the frozen wilderness of Alaska. Team up with friends in online co-op or go solo, explore the mysterious land, craft weapons and fight to live another day.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.1% ★, Survival 16.8%, Crafting 10%, Online Co-Op 7.8%, Open World 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game that focuses on cooperative exploration and managing resources in a harsh environment.
- #23 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 31.1% ★, Survival 21.7%, Open World 11.3%, Crafting 9.6%, Sandbox 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a deep, top-down survival experience with complex base-building and crafting mechanics.
- #24 Junk Jack
82% matchMostly Positive78% of 478 reviews2016
Dev: Pixbits
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 21.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Make the world truly yours in Junk Jack, a relaxing sandbox experience focused on building and improving your home. Discover new planets, tame and breed creatures, cook foods, collect animal companions, farm exotic plants, collect fish, grow flowers, play with your friends!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.4% ★, Crafting 14.1%, Survival 12.5%, Sandbox 11.4%, Multiplayer 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D sandbox game that emphasizes exploration and crafting in a pixel-art world.
- #25 Unturned
80% 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: Crafting 20.9%, Survival 18.4%, Sandbox 13.3%, Open World 12.7%, Co-op 12.6%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer survival game that emphasizes base-building and crafting in an open-world setting.
- #26 PixARK
81% matchMostly Positive73% of 13,223 reviews2019
Dev: Snail Games USA
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 40.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Enter a world of mystery, danger, ancient dinosaurs, mythical beasts, and cubes! Work by yourself or with a tribe of others to gather materials, craft useful items, tame wild creatures, and build huge bases to survive in PixARK!
Why similar: Survival 22%, Open World 13.8%, Crafting 13%, Sandbox 12.3%, Multiplayer 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: Blends survival and crafting with a voxel-based world filled with creatures to tame and train.
- #27 Romestead
77% matchMostly Positive77% of 4,827 reviews2026
Dev: BeartwigsPub: Three Friends
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 20.1% ★, Crafting 14.2%, Survival 10.6%, Online Co-Op 9.9%, Base Building 9.5%
- #28 Feel The Snow
79% matchVery Positive87% of 3,059 reviews2019
Dev: Owlet
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Choose one of the characters and start your journey. The game has many interesting things in store: building, crafting, puzzles, bosses, mystery, laughs, quests etc.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.9% ★, Survival 11.7%, Crafting 11.7%, Multiplayer 7.4%, Co-op 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: A pixel-art survival game that features cooperative play and exploration in a snowy, atmospheric setting.
- #29 Grounded 2
76% matchVery Positive81% of 23,765 reviews2025
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.9 hrsMean: 24.2 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 21.1% ★, Survival 14%, Base Building 11.3%, Crafting 10.6%, Online Co-Op 7.7%
- #30 Ylands
79% matchMixed64% of 8,445 reviews2019
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 46%
Adventure awaits you and your friends in the world of Ylands! Gather resources, craft tools, construct anything and everything, and explore the lands! Build a ship and set sail, encountering mythical animals, a wide variety of sea-life, enemies of all kinds and much more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.6% ★, Crafting 15.1%, Base Building 12.2%, Online Co-Op 11.5%, Open World 8%
Why You'll Like It: An exploration-heavy survival game that offers a sandbox environment for building and adventuring.
- #31 Wayward
78% matchVery Positive86% of 1,366 reviews2016
Dev: Unlok
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 21.6 hrs≥1hr: 61%
You awake to discover yourself no longer in the company of good men or a fine seafaring vessel. Treasure... you remember something about treasure. Wayward is a challenging turn-based, top-down, wilderness survival roguelike. Explore, build, and most importantly survive in these unforgiving lands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.9% ★, Survival 16.4%, Crafting 16.3%, Sandbox 7.4%, Open World 7%
Why You'll Like It: A traditional survival game that emphasizes crafting and exploration with a focus on emergent gameplay.
- #32 Creativerse
78% matchMostly Positive78% of 30,868 reviews2017
Dev: Playful Corp.
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 15.6 hrs≥1hr: 63%
A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.2% ★, Crafting 13.4%, Online Co-Op 12.2%, Survival 10.6%, Sandbox 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based survival game that allows for creative base-building and exploration in a colorful world.
- #33 Shamania
75% matchMostly Positive74% of 162 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 23.9% ★, Crafting 13.6%, Survival 10.5%, Online Co-Op 9%, Open World 8.5%
- #34 The Escapists
77% matchVery Positive90% of 16,192 reviews2015
Dev: Mouldy Toof StudiosPub: Team17
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 82%
The Escapists provides players the opportunity of experiencing a light-hearted insight into everyday prison life with the main objective being that of escaping!
Why similar: Crafting 33.6%, Pixel Graphics 14.9%, Survival 14.5%, Sandbox 8%, Multiplayer 6.2%
- #35 Crashlands
76% matchVery Positive90% of 6,745 reviews2016
Dev: Butterscotch Shenanigans
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 13.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Fight and tame alien beasts, craft resources into menacing weaponry, befriend the outlandish locals, and go toe-to-chin with a world-domineering maniac.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.8% ★, Crafting 13.6%, Survival 11.3%, Base Building 10.6%, Open World 8.6%
- #36 Palworld
70% matchVery Positive95% of 480,493 reviews2026
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 40.2 hrsMean: 84.9 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 26.5% ★, Survival 12.7%, Open World 10.7%, Crafting 10.6%, Online Co-Op 9.9%
- #37 Everwind
73% 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 15.5%, Online Co-Op 14.8%, Survival 12.5%, Open World 9.6%, Sandbox 9.6%
- #38 Longvinter
73% matchMixed67% of 7,664 reviews2025
Dev: Uuvana Studios
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 45.1 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Fish, farm, craft, gather, cook, loot or steal from other players and build a campsite or a village with your friends in an open-world multiplayer sandbox game without rules!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.7% ★, Crafting 16%, Survival 14.2%, Open World 9.3%, Multiplayer 9.1%
- #39 Dinkum
71% matchVery Positive92% of 29,064 reviews2025
Dev: James BendonPub: KRAFTON, Inc.
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 29.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Dinkum is a survival life simulation game set on an island inspired by the rugged Australian outback. Farm, hunt, mine, fish, and forage to gather resources, expand your town, and discover what makes Dinkum so special—either solo or with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.7% ★, Crafting 13.8%, Online Co-Op 11.9%, Co-op 9.3%, Sandbox 8.2%
- #40 Lodventure
74% matchMostly Positive74% of 164 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 27.7% ★, Survival 10.4%, Crafting 10.4%, Co-op 8.6%, Base Building 8.4%
- #41 ASTRONEER
73% matchVery Positive92% of 139,015 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.6 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 30% ★, Survival 12.3%, Base Building 10.5%, Open World 9.4%, Crafting 9.3%
- #42 Project Castaway
72% matchMixed66% of 1,849 reviews2026
Dev: Mardonpol Inc.
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Project Castaway is a survival crafting title set in the Pacific Ocean. Live the life of a stranded castaway, with only yourself - and the island's inhabitants - for company! Sail the ocean, hunt, explore unique islands and gather resources as you fight for survival.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.4% ★, Online Co-Op 11.9%, Survival 9.7%, Crafting 9.1%, Base Building 8.9%
- #43 HumanitZ
70% 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 20.3% ★, Survival 13.7%, Crafting 13.5%, Base Building 12.5%, Online Co-Op 10.6%
- #44 Tinkertown
72% matchMixed67% of 1,344 reviews2023
Dev: Headup
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Gather your friends and come to Tinkertown - A refreshing new Multiplayer Sandbox Experience! Explore magical places filled with loot, danger, and creativity.
Why similar: Crafting 19.4%, Online Co-Op 14.6%, Sandbox 12.1%, Multiplayer 10.8%, Open World 10.3%
- #45 KeepUp Survival
71% matchMixed64% of 749 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 84%
KeepUp Survival is an open-world base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and shape your own story on a mysterious island.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26% ★, Crafting 12.8%, Survival 11.4%, Base Building 10.9%, Open World 8.3%
- #46 Voidtrain
69% 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 30.7% ★, Crafting 10.2%, Online Co-Op 9.5%, Survival 9.4%, Base Building 9.1%
- #47 Tribes of Midgard
71% matchMostly Positive76% of 23,242 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 34% ★, Online Co-Op 15.5%, Base Building 12.1%, Survival 10.7%, Co-op 7.8%
- #48 Forsaken Isle
68% matchMostly Positive71% of 518 reviews2025
Dev: Smoodlez
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Stranded on a desert island, explore, craft, build and fight in this action survival game!
Why similar: Survival 28.7%, Crafting 28.4%, Sandbox 14.7%, Pixel Graphics 11.5%, Adventure 7.6%
- #49 Miniland Adventure
69% matchMostly Positive74% of 332 reviews2023
Dev: Imilkowski DevPub: Gameparic
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 52%
The world doesn't generate itself - you do it, shape the world as you wish! Start with nothing, and build dream houses for goblins and yourself while exploring, collecting resources, crafting, building, fighting, farming... and more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.9% ★, Crafting 14.2%, Survival 14.1%, Sandbox 12%, Base Building 11.3%
- #50 Wizard with a Gun
68% matchVery Positive80% of 3,949 reviews2023
Dev: Galvanic GamesPub: Devolver Digital
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Wizard with a Gun is an online sandbox survival game for 1 - 4 players set in a magical wilderness wrought with dangerous creatures and arcane mysteries. Embark on a journey alone or with a friend to collect, craft, and outfit your wizard however you see fit as you explore the unknown.
Why similar: Crafting 31%, Sandbox 27.8%, Multiplayer 13.6%, Exploration 11.7%, Adventure 9.9%
- #51 Wonderia
66% matchVery Positive82% of 347 reviews2026
Dev: Rock&DashPub: IndieArk
Windows · Mac
Wonderia's an open-world, manga-art adventure just waiting to be explored. It's got sci-fi sim elements, deep dungeons, and you can even morph into alien form! Grab up to 7 friends to mine, craft, battle, and level—or farm and fish the day away, if that's more your tempo. There's so much to do!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28% ★, Online Co-Op 13.5%, Crafting 13%, Survival 11%, Sandbox 9.1%
- #52 Farworld Pioneers
70% matchMostly Negative38% of 701 reviews2023
Dev: IgloosoftPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Explore an open world, sci-fi sandbox – in PVP, PVE, and co-op. Build and manage colonies on alien planets, and recruit AI survivors with unique personalities and skills. Craft, build, mine, farm, or get your electric death rifle and say hello to your neighbors.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.2% ★, Crafting 12.4%, Online Co-Op 11.2%, Base Building 10.7%, Co-op 9.9%
- #53 Subsistence
69% 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 36.3% ★, Survival 14.2%, Crafting 13.8%, Base Building 7.8%, Open World 7.6%
- #54 Planetaries
67% 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% ★, Crafting 11.7%, Online Co-Op 11.4%, Survival 9.8%, Base Building 9.6%
- #55 Lost Skies
66% matchMixed61% of 2,976 reviews2025
Dev: Bossa StudiosPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 17.0 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 32.9% ★, Online Co-Op 14.3%, Base Building 13%, Crafting 8.7%, Sandbox 7.9%
- #56 Dig or Die
67% matchVery Positive90% of 4,284 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 33.2% ★, Crafting 14.5%, Survival 14.3%, Sandbox 10.6%, Base Building 6.3%
- #57 The Gold River Project
65% matchMixed63% of 659 reviews2026
Dev: Fairview Games Inc.
Windows
The Gold River Project™ is a camping trip gone wrong in the Pacific Northwest. Explore, craft, build, and survive in this open-world experiment that traps you and up to 4 friends in this single player or co-op survival adventure game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32% ★, Crafting 12%, Survival 11.1%, Online Co-Op 10.7%, Open World 9.6%
- #58 Rogue Heroes: Ruins of Tasos
67% matchMostly Positive78% of 3,707 reviews2021
Dev: Heliocentric StudiosPub: Team17 Digital
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Rogue Heroes is a topdown, roguelite adventure game inspired by the Zelda franchise. Play solo or team up with your friends to combat procedurally generated dungeons and take down the evil Titans that threaten to overwhelm the land of Tasos!
Why similar: Online Co-Op 26.4%, Co-op 24.9%, Pixel Graphics 12.6%, Multiplayer 10.6%, Adventure 7.9%
