- #1 Core Keeper
97% matchVery Positive93% of 63,205 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.0 hrsMean: 33.7 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 18.2% ★, Crafting 10.8%, Online Co-Op 9.7%, Base Building 9%, Survival 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: Features a similar top-down perspective with deep crafting, base-building, and cooperative exploration in a mysterious world.
- #2 Necesse
96% matchVery Positive93% of 26,780 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 14.6 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 32.6% ★, Crafting 10.1%, Survival 8.3%, Sandbox 7.2%, Online Co-Op 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: Combines top-down survival and base-building with complex settlement management that mirrors the automation feel of The Survivalists.
- #3 Forager
96% matchVery Positive90% of 43,003 reviews2019
Dev: HopFrogPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 22.3 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 35.2% ★, Crafting 16.1%, Survival 13.4%, Base Building 7.6%, Sandbox 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the addictive loop of gathering, crafting, and expanding territory in a vibrant, top-down pixel world.
- #4 Terraria
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,511,859 reviews2011
Dev: Re-Logic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 33.2 hrsMean: 149.0 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 31.9% ★, Crafting 11.2%, Sandbox 10.8%, Survival 10.6%, Multiplayer 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: The quintessential 2D sandbox experience that offers unparalleled depth in crafting, exploration, and combat.
- #5 Aground
94% matchVery Positive94% of 1,965 reviews2020
Dev: Fancy Fish Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
As one of the last human survivors, you find yourself stranded on an uninhabited island. With a few other victims of the crash, can you craft, mine, and build your way to survival?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.8% ★, Base Building 14.3%, Survival 13%, Online Co-Op 12.1%, Open World 10%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D survival game that shares a similar progression loop of starting from nothing and building up to advanced technology.
- #6 Raft
93% matchVery Positive93% of 368,916 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.5 hrsMean: 36.8 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 30.4% ★, Survival 15.4%, Crafting 10.9%, Co-op 8.7%, Multiplayer 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A highly cooperative survival game that emphasizes building and expanding a mobile base while exploring an ocean world.
- #7 Starbound
94% matchVery Positive90% of 122,901 reviews2016
Dev: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.2 hrsMean: 64.1 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% ★, Crafting 10.4%, Sandbox 10.3%, Online Co-Op 9.7%, Survival 9%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a vast, procedurally generated universe with 2D survival mechanics and extensive base-building options.
- #8 Grounded
91% matchVery Positive90% of 92,875 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.2 hrsMean: 40.8 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 25.3% ★, Survival 15.2%, Base Building 11.4%, Crafting 11%, Co-op 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A premier multiplayer survival game that excels at base-building and environmental exploration from a unique perspective.
- #9 The Escapists 2
92% matchVery Positive91% of 33,262 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 22.2%, Multiplayer 15.7%, Crafting 15.6%, Co-op 13.6%, Sandbox 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Set in the same universe as The Survivalists, it shares the distinct pixel art style and strategic planning mechanics.
- #10 Len's Island
90% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,615 reviews2025
Dev: Flow Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 11.9 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% ★, Crafting 14.1%, Survival 12.4%, Base Building 10.3%, Sandbox 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: Blends top-down survival, farming, and dungeon crawling with a strong emphasis on building beautiful island bases.
- #11 Don't Starve Together
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 528,033 reviews2016
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 64.1 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 56.1% ★, Survival 23.9%, Multiplayer 3.9%, Co-op 3.7%, Crafting 3.6%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a challenging cooperative survival experience with a distinct art style and deep crafting systems.
- #12 Craftopia
89% matchMostly Positive77% of 19,974 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 24.5% ★, Crafting 18.5%, Survival 13.4%, Open World 12.3%, Sandbox 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that heavily features automation and creature management, similar to the monkey system in The Survivalists.
- #13 Crashlands
89% matchVery Positive90% of 6,633 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 28.4% ★, Crafting 13.7%, Survival 11.3%, Base Building 10.7%, Open World 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down, story-driven survival game with a focus on crafting, combat, and exploration on an alien planet.
- #14 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
87% matchVery Positive82% of 9,646 reviews2024
Dev: Merge GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 15.1 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 22.7% ★, Crafting 10.8%, Online Co-Op 10.7%, Survival 10.2%, Base Building 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game that focuses on base-building and exploration from a miniature perspective, offering a fresh take on the genre.
- #15 Tinkerlands
86% matchVery Positive86% of 3,746 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 13.7 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 26.2% ★, Online Co-Op 12.7%, Crafting 10.5%, Survival 10.1%, Sandbox 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A pixel-art survival game that focuses on exploration and crafting in a procedurally generated world.
- #16 Dinkum
85% matchVery Positive92% of 28,435 reviews2025
Dev: James BendonPub: KRAFTON, Inc.
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 28.4 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 40.9% ★, Crafting 14%, Online Co-Op 12.3%, Co-op 9.4%, Sandbox 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: An island-based survival and life-sim game that captures the relaxing yet productive vibe of building a new home.
- #17 Junk Jack
88% matchMostly Positive78% of 468 reviews2016
Dev: Pixbits
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 21.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Make the world truly yours in Junk Jack, a relaxing sandbox experience focused on building and improving your home. Discover new planets, tame and breed creatures, cook foods, collect animal companions, farm exotic plants, collect fish, grow flowers, play with your friends!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.6% ★, Crafting 14.5%, Survival 12.6%, Sandbox 11.6%, Multiplayer 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D sandbox game that focuses heavily on exploration and creative building in a charming pixel-art world.
- #18 Keplerth
86% matchVery Positive85% of 4,121 reviews2022
Dev: TAROPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 16.2 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 18.3%, Sandbox 15.7%, Open World 13.4%, Crafting 9.4%, Base Building 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down, 2D sandbox survival game that emphasizes exploration, base-building, and genetic modification of creatures.
- #19 Drake Hollow
84% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,787 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 17.4%, Survival 14.8%, Sandbox 11.9%, Open World 11.3%, Base Building 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: A cooperative survival game where you build and defend villages for adorable creatures in a mysterious world.
- #20 Valheim
82% matchVery Positive94% of 529,829 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 25.6 hrsMean: 76.1 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 27.5% ★, Online Co-Op 12.9%, Survival 11%, Crafting 10.5%, Base Building 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: Offers an immersive cooperative survival experience with a heavy emphasis on building and environmental interaction.
- #21 Scrapnaut
84% matchMostly Positive70% of 824 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 19.8% ★, Online Co-Op 12.2%, Survival 11.5%, Crafting 10.5%, Co-op 8%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game with a focus on base-building and electricity management in a stylized world.
- #22 DYSMANTLE
82% matchVery Positive91% of 11,317 reviews2021
Dev: 10tons Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 25.4 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 18.4%, Hunting 17.1% ★, Survival 16.8%, Base Building 13.9%, Open World 12%
Why You'll Like It: A satisfying survival game where almost everything in the open world can be destroyed and repurposed for crafting.
- #23 The Wild Eight
83% matchMostly Positive70% of 7,155 reviews2019
Dev: Eight PointsPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 7.6 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 34.6% ★, Survival 16.8%, Crafting 10.2%, Online Co-Op 8.1%, Co-op 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: A cooperative survival game set in a harsh, frozen wilderness that requires teamwork to manage resources and stay alive.
- #24 Survival Machine
81% matchMostly Positive74% of 669 reviews2025
Dev: Grape PickersPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Build your base on a moving Machine, travel through biomes with different resources, and prepare for the night when a zombie threat is much higher than during the day. Would you go solo or explore this new world with your best friends?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.4% ★, Crafting 11.9%, Online Co-Op 11.6%, Base Building 10.3%, Survival 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: A unique survival game where you build and upgrade a mobile base to survive waves of enemies.
- #25 Portal Knights
81% matchVery Positive83% of 22,116 reviews2017
Dev: Keen Games GmbHPub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 21.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
The world of Elysia needs YOU! Join this cooperative, 3D sandbox action RPG to level up your character, craft epic weapons, conquer enemies in real-time, and build almost anything! Craft your adventure. Forge your hero. Become the ultimate Portal Knight!
Why similar: Crafting 23.7%, Sandbox 18.3%, Survival 17.6%, Multiplayer 14%, Co-op 11.6%
Why You'll Like It: Combines sandbox building with action-RPG elements in a vibrant, block-based world perfect for cooperative play.
- #26 Slime Rancher
80% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 151,397 reviews2017
Dev: Monomi Park
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 21.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Slime Rancher is the tale of Beatrix LeBeau, a plucky, young rancher who sets out for a life a thousand light years away from Earth on the ‘Far, Far Range’ where she tries her hand at making a living wrangling slimes.
Why similar: Open World 33.9%, Sandbox 21.8%, Exploration 18.9%, Adventure 12.9%, Singleplayer 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: Features a unique creature-management and automation loop that provides a satisfying progression system similar to training monkeys.
- #27 Stranded Deep
78% matchMostly Positive74% of 47,062 reviews2022
Dev: Beam Team GamesPub: Beam Team Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 21.1 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 40.2% ★, Survival 16.1%, Crafting 13.2%, Multiplayer 8.7%, Open World 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: A classic island survival experience that focuses on the core mechanics of gathering, crafting, and staying alive.
- #28 The Escapists
79% matchVery Positive90% of 16,161 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 33.7%, Pixel Graphics 15%, Survival 14.4%, Sandbox 8%, Multiplayer 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: The original game in the series, sharing the core pixel-art aesthetic and strategic crafting elements.
- #29 Creature Keeper
78% matchMixed69% of 127 reviews2025
Dev: Fervir GamesPub: Graffiti Games
Windows
Creature Keeper is an action-adventure RPG where you Befriend Creatures and fight alongside them in real time. Explore a mysterious world and uncover the truth behind a strange sickness spreading across the land. Power up your team, fill out your Bestiary, and embark on your journey of destiny!
Why similar: Crafting 33.4%, Survival 24.6%, Pixel Graphics 12.1%, Exploration 10.7%, Adventure 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down adventure game that focuses on creature collection and management, echoing the companion-based gameplay of The Survivalists.
- #30 Volcanoids
79% matchVery Positive83% of 9,214 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.5% ★, Crafting 12.1%, Online Co-Op 11.4%, Survival 9.8%, Base Building 9%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game that features a unique mobile base-building mechanic, allowing players to drill and move their home across the map.
- #31 Green Hell
77% matchVery Positive85% of 94,379 reviews2019
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 18.7 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 31.6% ★, Survival 13.3%, Online Co-Op 11.5%, Crafting 10%, Multiplayer 7.9%
- #32 PixARK
77% matchMostly Positive73% of 12,998 reviews2019
Dev: Snail Games USA
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 40.2 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 21.8%, Open World 13.6%, Crafting 13.2%, Sandbox 12.4%, Multiplayer 10.1%
- #33 Palworld
73% matchVery Positive94% of 417,805 reviews2024
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 34.2 hrsMean: 70.0 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 26.1% ★, Survival 12.5%, Crafting 10.8%, Online Co-Op 10.3%, Open World 10.3%
- #34 Grounded 2
74% matchVery Positive81% of 19,870 reviews2025
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 20.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 18.7% ★, Survival 14%, Base Building 11.4%, Crafting 10.9%, Online Co-Op 8.4%
- #35 Shamania
74% matchMostly Positive78% of 140 reviews2025
Dev: Totem Keepers Games
Windows
Shamania is an open world survival game where you can CRAFT, FIGHT, and EXPLORE a vibrant sandbox world with friends in CO-OP. Expand your base as a hub for survival, gather resources, and master professions to unlock new tools and opportunities!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.5% ★, Crafting 13.7%, Survival 10.4%, Online Co-Op 9.3%, Open World 8.3%
- #36 HumanitZ
73% matchMostly Positive75% of 11,640 reviews2026
Dev: Yodubzz StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 19.8% ★, Crafting 13.9%, Survival 13.2%, Base Building 12.6%, Online Co-Op 11.1%
- #37 Feel The Snow
76% matchVery Positive87% of 3,024 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 30.4% ★, Crafting 11.9%, Survival 11.7%, Multiplayer 7.4%, Online Co-Op 6.8%
- #38 Everwind
73% matchVery Positive82% of 2,069 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 14.6%, Crafting 13.1%, Survival 12.6%, Sandbox 10.2%, Co-op 9.7%
- #39 Ylands
76% matchMixed64% of 8,354 reviews2019
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 48 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% ★, Crafting 15.2%, Base Building 12.3%, Online Co-Op 11.8%, Open World 7.9%
- #40 Lodventure
75% matchMostly Positive74% of 161 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 27.2% ★, Crafting 10.5%, Survival 10.4%, Online Co-Op 8.7%, Co-op 8.7%
- #41 Project Castaway
72% matchMixed67% of 1,632 reviews2026
Dev: Mardonpol Inc.
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 69%
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 24.9% ★, Online Co-Op 12.3%, Survival 9.6%, Crafting 9.2%, Base Building 9%
- #42 Longvinter
71% matchMixed67% of 7,526 reviews2025
Dev: Uuvana Studios
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 39.9 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 25.3% ★, Crafting 16.3%, Survival 14.3%, Open World 9.2%, Multiplayer 9.1%
- #43 Tinkertown
72% matchMixed67% of 1,340 reviews2023
Dev: Headup
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 19.5%, Online Co-Op 15%, Sandbox 12.1%, Multiplayer 10.8%, Open World 10.1%
- #44 Enshrouded
70% matchVery Positive86% of 98,202 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.3 hrsMean: 44.1 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: Online Co-Op 15.5%, Survival 15.3%, Base Building 15%, Crafting 14.7%, Open World 12.6%
- #45 KeepUp Survival
71% matchMixed65% of 734 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
KeepUp Survival is an open base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and unfold your own story on a mysterious island.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.7% ★, Crafting 13%, Survival 11.3%, Base Building 11.1%, Co-op 8.3%
- #46 Voidtrain
68% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,176 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 13.8 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 30.2% ★, Crafting 10.3%, Online Co-Op 9.9%, Survival 9.4%, Base Building 9.1%
- #47 MISERY
67% matchVery Positive85% of 17,893 reviews2025
Dev: Platypus EntertainmentPub: Ytopia
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
MISERY is a 1–5 player co-op survival game set in a nuclear disaster zone. Here, every day is a struggle: search radioactive ruins for resources, build your bunker, craft weapons, and explore a weird, procedurally-generated world with your friends. Beware of anomalies, monsters, and armed bandits.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.4% ★, Online Co-Op 13.4%, Crafting 11.7%, Survival 11.2%, Base Building 9.7%
- #48 ICARUS
70% matchMostly Positive74% of 62,078 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 44.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 26.4% ★, Survival 12.2%, Online Co-Op 11.6%, Crafting 11.4%, Base Building 10.9%
- #49 Dawnlands
71% matchMixed52% of 3,131 reviews2023
Dev: SEASUN GAMES PTE. LTD.
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Dawnlands is an Open-World Survival Crafting cross-platform game with a massive world and epic lore. A variety of biomes, relics, and puzzles dot the landscape... an ancient land, lain dormant for centuries, is waiting to be awoken. New stories are waiting to be written.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.9% ★, Crafting 12.2%, Online Co-Op 12.1%, Survival 9.8%, Base Building 8.9%
- #50 Lost Skies
68% matchMixed62% of 2,832 reviews2025
Dev: Bossa StudiosPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 12.1 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 32% ★, Online Co-Op 14.8%, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 8.8%, Sandbox 8%
- #51 Miniland Adventure
69% matchMostly Positive74% of 328 reviews2023
Dev: Imilkowski DevPub: Gameparic
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 54%
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 31.3% ★, Crafting 14.4%, Survival 14.1%, Sandbox 12.1%, Base Building 11.4%
- #52 Farworld Pioneers
70% matchMostly Negative38% of 691 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 23.6% ★, Crafting 12.4%, Online Co-Op 11.5%, Base Building 10.7%, Co-op 10%
- #53 SCUM
65% matchMostly Positive74% of 122,922 reviews2025
Dev: Gamepires
Windows
Median: 11.9 hrsMean: 102.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Traverse punishing environments, looting, crafting and evading the constant threats to your life. The unprecedented levels of character customization and progression are your ultimate tools for survival.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.7% ★, Hunting 16.2% ★, Crafting 11.5%, Survival 11.2%, Online Co-Op 10.6%
- #54 Forsaken Isle
67% matchMostly Positive71% of 512 reviews2025
Dev: Smoodlez
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Stranded on a desert island, explore, craft, build and fight in this action survival game!
Why similar: Crafting 29.1%, Survival 28.2%, Sandbox 14.4%, Pixel Graphics 11.5%, Adventure 7.5%
- #55 Rogue Heroes: Ruins of Tasos
68% matchMostly Positive78% of 3,659 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 26.9%, Co-op 24.8%, Pixel Graphics 12.6%, Multiplayer 10.5%, Adventure 7.6%
- #56 Wayward
69% matchVery Positive86% of 1,349 reviews2016
Dev: Unlok
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 21.4 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 35.4% ★, Crafting 16.6%, Survival 16.4%, Sandbox 7.5%, Open World 6.9%
- #57 The Gold River Project
66% matchMixed67% of 526 reviews2026
Dev: Fairview Games Inc.
Windows
The Gold River Project™ invites you and your friends on an open world camping trip gone wrong. Alone or together, you must explore, craft, build, and survive the increasingly harsh environments of the Pacific Northwest wilderness as you uncover the experiment trapping you inside.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.4% ★, Crafting 12.2%, Survival 11.1%, Online Co-Op 11.1%, Open World 9.5%
- #58 Subsistence
69% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,601 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 40.0 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 35.7% ★, Survival 14.1%, Crafting 14%, Base Building 8%, Open World 7.5%
- #59 Dig or Die
67% matchVery Positive90% of 4,268 reviews2018
Dev: Gaddy Games
Windows
Median: 4.2 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 32.7% ★, Crafting 14.7%, Survival 14.3%, Sandbox 10.7%, Base Building 6.4%
