- #1 CrossWorlds: Escape
97% matchMixed64% of 158 reviews2020
Dev: Another Reality
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 97%
CrossWorlds: Escape is a hardcore game in which you will have to deploy all your skills to survive in a huge open world that is susceptible to changes in weather, seasons and various natural phenomena.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.4% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Crafting 10%, Nature 9.7%, Survival 9.1%
- #2 Mythvale
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: adevstudio
Windows
Tame, fight, explore and build! Survive a mysterious fantasy world filled with mythical creatures, dangerous foes and endless adventures!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.6% ★, Sandbox 10.4%, Survival 10%, Base Building 9.7%, Crafting 8.9%
- #3 Wild
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DzernPub: Dzern and Unverändert
Windows
Wild is a survival game inspired by the "7vsWild" series. The goal is to survive, fight against dangerous animals, and build your shelter. For that, you are only allowed to take one bottle as equipment, so prepare it well in advance.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.1% ★, Survival 14.3%, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 9.8%, Nature 7%
- #4 SpiritBorn
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Highforge Studios
Windows
An open-world survival crafting RPG set among floating islands. Gather resources, craft powerful tools, unlock spirit abilities to soar between skybound realms and reclaim your lost godhood.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.2% ★, Crafting 11.6%, Survival 10.8%, Base Building 10.8%, Open World 8.8%
- #5 Force of Nature
94% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,209 reviews2016
Dev: A.Y.std
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.1% ★, Crafting 14%, Survival 11.7%, Sandbox 8.4%, Open World 7.4%
- #6 GRAV
94% matchMixed47% of 6,922 reviews2015
Dev: BitMonster, Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 60%
GRAV is a sand box experience where you explore a multitude of planets, hunt strange alien creatures, build and defend outposts, craft weapons and armor, and attempt to survive against other players in a hostile environment.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.3% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Survival 12%, Open World 9%, Crafting 8.8%
- #7 Crashlands
93% matchVery Positive90% of 6,773 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 30% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Crafting 10.8%, Survival 9.3%, Sandbox 8.3%
- #8 Under A New Sun
92% matchMostly Positive76% of 406 reviews2023
Dev: New Horizon Games
Windows
While searching for a new home, an unexpected failure in your ship has left you stranded on a planet surprisingly similar to Earth. Discover a vast open world, hunt for food, develop technologies, and build yourself a new home to survive!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.4% ★, Crafting 11.3%, Base Building 11.2%, Survival 10.6%, Open World 8.7%
- #9 Necesse
91% 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 39.8% ★, Crafting 9%, Base Building 8.2%, Sandbox 8.2%, Survival 7.9%
- #10 TROLLHEIM: GNOMES
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Trollheim
Windows
More info coming soon
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.6% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Crafting 10.2%, Survival 10.2%, Nature 7.8%
- #11 Grounded 2
89% 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 27.6% ★, Base Building 14.5%, Survival 13.9%, Crafting 10.1%, Open World 8.4%
- #12 Arctico
89% matchMostly Positive70% of 2,553 reviews2022
Dev: Claudio Norori
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Explore Arctico with your dog sled, kayak, and up to 3 friends! Build and customize your base camp, gather resources and samples, set up labs, and take good care of your dogs in this peaceful island.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.9% ★, Survival 9.9%, Open World 8.4%, Nature 8.1%, Base Building 7.9%
- #13 Outpost Zero
88% matchMixed48% of 853 reviews2019
Dev: Symmetric GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Outpost Zero blends the genres of Multiplayer Base Building Survival and Simulation games in a Sci-Fi universe. On a lawless alien world, robotic scouts are tasked with building an Outpost for human colonists. Command AI minions, colonize the planet, and survive the perils of Gaiya.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.9% ★, Survival 13.5%, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 8.3%, Open World 8.1%
- #14 Dig or Die
87% matchVery Positive90% of 4,291 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 37.6% ★, Survival 12.8%, Crafting 12.5%, Sandbox 11.6%, Base Building 7.3%
- #15 A Life Ashore
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: daggg3rPub: daggg3r studio
Windows
After a rough landing on a remote tropical island, turn survival into a life of your own. Observe the land, gather and salvage what it offers, build a dependable home, and settle into practical routines through rain, heat, and changing days.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33% ★, Survival 13.1%, Sandbox 10%, Base Building 9.9%, Crafting 9.8%
- #16 Force of Nature 2: Ghost Keeper
86% matchMostly Positive80% of 2,370 reviews2021
Dev: A.Y.stdPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 16.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Force of Nature 2: Ghost Keeper offers incredible adventures full of mystery, danger, exploration and magic. This game combines the genres of Survival, Sandbox, Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Resource Management
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.6% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 12.5%, Survival 10.5%, Open World 9.4%
- #17 Re.poly
85% matchVery Positive91% of 137 reviews2019
Dev: Hinkfoot Studios
Windows
Re.Poly is a relaxed yet deep indie survival game in a low-poly style that blends exploration, combat, building, and adventure. Whether alone or with friends, create your own world, write your own story, and decide how you want to play.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.2% ★, Base Building 12%, Crafting 11.9%, Survival 10.2%, Sandbox 9.7%
- #18 Canopy
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Yuna Technologies
Windows
Canopy is a non-violent exploration crafting game set in the heart of the rainforest. Gather your friends and embark on an unforgettable cooperative adventure, where camaraderie is key, and teamwork is essential.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.1% ★, Nature 10.4%, Base Building 9.3%, Crafting 9%, Nonlinear 8.6%
- #19 Short Snow | Cold Survival Game
83% matchMixed54% of 173 reviews2025
Dev: MubDev
Windows
A realistic open-world survival experience. After a harrowing plane crash, you find yourself stranded in the wilderness. Battling freezing temperatures and hunger, you face an unknown virus that slowly paralyzes muscles, leaving its victims motionless and at the mercy of the unforgiving cold.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.6% ★, Survival 11.8%, Crafting 9.5%, Open World 9.4%, Base Building 9.2%
- #20 Subsistence
84% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,861 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 42.9% ★, Survival 13.3%, Crafting 12.4%, Base Building 9.4%, Open World 8%
- #21 Eldercraft: Mountaineers
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Derivative Synergistics
Windows
In this first-person, non-combat RPG, scale a vast fantasy mountain. Craft gear, survive the ascent, and forge your own routes up to lost treasures. Trade these treasures to buy and upgrade gear so that you can climb higher. Reach the peak and uncover the mystery of this teleporting mountain.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.4% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Survival 10.9%, Crafting 10.3%, Open World 8.6%
- #22 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 40.2% ★, Sandbox 12.5%, Crafting 12.3%, Survival 11.3%, Multiplayer 6%
- #23 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,722 reviews2021
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Experience the first stages of terraforming an entire planet in this space survival open world terraforming crafting game prologue. Explore, survive, collect, build your base then create oxygen, heat and pressure to make an hostile planet livable for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.6% ★, Base Building 14%, Survival 11.3%, Crafting 11%, Open World 8.1%
- #24 Grounded
79% 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 33.1% ★, Survival 15.5%, Base Building 14.7%, Crafting 10.6%, Multiplayer 8.5%
- #25 Nighthold
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 2 Zombie GamesPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Build shelters, interact with rescuees, battle against the Rot and raiders to survive another night in this Sandbox RPG. Play Solo or team up with friends in Online Сo-op.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.1% ★, Base Building 10.4%, Crafting 8.8%, Survival 7.7%, Sandbox 7.5%
- #26 Streets of Rogue 2
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Matt DabrowskiPub: tinyBuild
Windows · Mac · Linux
Streets of Rogue 2 is a crazy, immersive RPG sandbox set in a vast randomly generated open world where freedom and fun are dialed up to 11. Fight, sneak, hack, farm, build, steal, or talk your way to power as you try to topple a corrupt president in countless possible ways – solo or with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.8% ★, Local Co-Op 11.7%, Base Building 11%, Sandbox 9%, Crafting 8.9%
- #27 XenoHaven
78% matchVery Positive82% of 73 reviews2025
Dev: Miniverse GamePub: OKJOY
Windows
In XenoHaven, gather resources to build shelters, enslave alien beasts to work for you, and run restaurants and shops. Delve into dark underground dungeons, defeat swarming insectoids and mighty bosses, and craft powerful gear to conquer the alien world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.5% ★, Base Building 14.5%, Sandbox 10.9%, Crafting 10.8%, Survival 10.7%
- #28 Planet Explorers
78% matchMixed62% of 6,818 reviews2016
Dev: Pathea Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Planet Explorers is an open world sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.7% ★, Sandbox 13.2%, Open World 10.4%, Crafting 10%, Survival 8.8%
- #29 Longvinter
76% matchMixed67% of 7,713 reviews2025
Dev: Uuvana Studios
Windows
Median: 2.5 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 28.4% ★, Crafting 13.6%, Survival 12.5%, Open World 9.2%, Sandbox 8.8%
- #30 Aurendor
77% matchMixed47% of 17 reviews2023
Dev: Telescope Studios
Windows
Aurendor is an open world survival game. Players must gather resources, cook their meals and fight dangerous creatures to survive and build a home for themselves. Aurendor also offers a multiplayer game option. Players can play together by cooperating with or battling other survivors.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.6% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Crafting 10.8%, Survival 10.7%, Open World 8.6%
- #31 Wurm Unlimited
77% matchMostly Positive71% of 3,138 reviews2015
Dev: Code Club ABPub: Plug In Digital
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 18.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Wurm Unlimited is the standalone version of the fantasy sandbox world Wurm Online, the MMORPG where the players are in charge! A pioneer in the ideas of player influence, crafting and adventure, it is now one of the most deep and feature packed true sandbox experiences available.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.9% ★, Crafting 12.2%, Sandbox 11.5%, Open World 9.9%, Survival 9.4%
- #32 Terraria
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,558,339 reviews2011
Dev: Re-Logic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 33.9 hrsMean: 152.6 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 39.9% ★, Sandbox 12.8%, Crafting 10.4%, Survival 10.3%, Multiplayer 6.7%
- #33 Breathedge
75% matchVery Positive81% of 18,514 reviews2021
Dev: RedRuins SoftworksPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Survive in outer space! Together with your immortal chicken, discover the truth behind your sudden spaceship crash. Craft tools, pilot vehicles, and even control space stations to survive and explore the wreckage.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.7% ★, Base Building 13%, Survival 10.7%, Sandbox 9.8%, Crafting 9.1%
- #34 Delverium
73% 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 29.9% ★, Local Co-Op 10%, Crafting 9.9%, Sandbox 9.3%, Survival 9.2%
- #35 Green Hell
74% matchVery Positive85% of 102,938 reviews2019
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 40.7% ★, Survival 13.6%, Crafting 9.6%, Base Building 8.9%, Multiplayer 8.5%
- #36 Arid
74% matchVery Positive87% of 1,964 reviews2021
Dev: Sad Viscacha StudioPub: Breda University of Applied Sciences
Windows
Discover the mysteries of the Atacama, explore the abandoned mining networks, evade the scorching sun and survive the environment in one of the most arid place in the world. Arid is a FREE survival game made by students from Breda University.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.6% ★, Crafting 12%, Survival 10.7%, Nature 10%, Sandbox 9.3%
- #37 Crea
75% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,408 reviews2016
Dev: Siege Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Progress with every slain monster, learn over 80 skills through talents, craft hundreds of items, and explore vast procedurally-generated worlds in this ever-expanding sandbox RPG!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.9% ★, Sandbox 13.5%, Crafting 13.2%, Survival 8.4%, Multiplayer 4.9%
- #38 Gravehollow
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Silo Snowdash
Windows
Gravehollow is a survival RPG set in a restless world on the cusp of death. Hunt, scavenge, craft, build, and fight as friends and foes alike clash and pursue their own ends. Uncover why death refuses to release you, and what horrors your survival is awakening.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.5% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Crafting 12.3%, Survival 10.9%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #39 Cosmorists
72% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2024
Dev: Stellar Roots
Windows
You find yourself completely alone on a different yet very familiar looking planet. Explore the planet, craft tools, fight enemies, and build bases! Do science to learn new technologies that will allow interplanetary travel and better tools at your disposal!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.2% ★, Crafting 11.3%, Base Building 11.2%, Sandbox 10.2%, Survival 10.1%
- #40 Solace Crafting
73% 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 31.2% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 12.3%, Survival 10.7%, Sandbox 8.2%
- #41 Defend Till Sunshine
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: EUZERU
Windows
Defend Till Sunshine is a exploration-survival game which you will experience with your puppy. You need to survive against multiple situations. Discover across the land, find villages, learn craft techniques, interact with villagers and learn tips from them, build your own house and more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.9% ★, Survival 16.9%, Crafting 15.4%, Nature 9.5%, Open World 8%
- #42 Moon Colony Crafter
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: InfinityCoders
Windows
Play as an astronaut on our moon in the future. Your task is to prepare the moon for future colonies by terraforming. Collect resources, explore procedurally generated caves, build buildings and create a second world for you and our earth.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.9% ★, Base Building 14.6%, Crafting 10.7%, Survival 10.6%, Open World 8.3%
- #43 Shamania
70% 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 31.6% ★, Crafting 13.8%, Survival 11%, Open World 10.1%, Sandbox 8.6%
- #44 Forager
71% matchVery Positive89% of 44,137 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 40.6% ★, Crafting 13.8%, Survival 12%, Base Building 8.7%, Sandbox 7.2%
- #45 ASTRONEER
71% matchVery Positive92% of 139,497 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.7 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 34.1% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Survival 11.1%, Open World 9.5%, Crafting 8.1%
- #46 Core Keeper
69% 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 25.4% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Crafting 11.3%, Survival 10.1%, Sandbox 9.3%
- #47 Golemcrafter
70% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Good Sheep Syndicate
Windows
Golemcrafter is a single-player survival crafting game where you, as a golem, explore a magical world, gather resources, build a base, harness the local wildlife, and craft powerful golems like yourself. Make friends, gain powers!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.1% ★, Base Building 13%, Crafting 12.3%, Survival 10.4%, Open World 9.3%
- #48 Primal Man Simulator
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: RD Games
Windows
Primal Man Simulator is a complex survival simulator where the player becomes one of the evolutionary precursors of modern homo sapiens, trying to live through another day in an unwelcoming forests of Europe.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.4% ★, Crafting 14.2%, Survival 12.8%, Base Building 10.4%, Open World 10.2%
- #49 Out of Reach
70% matchMixed57% of 3,051 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
You’re a castaway stranded in the middle of nowhere. Storm is gone, the worst certainly not. Look for food and resources, craft gear, make shelters. These are the basics, you need much more to stay alive on this cut-off-the-world, yet not desert island. Build & burn, sail & explore, be Out of Reach!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.4% ★, Survival 13.1%, Crafting 11.4%, Open World 9%, Base Building 7.1%
- #50 Sagventyr
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TheFirstStar
Windows
This action game incorporates elements unique to the medium—such as the spirit of exploration as you venture into the unknown, the tension of weighing the risks and rewards of combat, and the exhilaration of acquiring rare, hard-to-find items.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.6% ★, Crafting 11%, Survival 10.8%, Base Building 10.8%, Open World 8.3%
- #51 Stranded Deep
68% matchMostly Positive74% of 47,919 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 46.2% ★, Survival 14.5%, Crafting 11.2%, Open World 8.4%, Multiplayer 8.2%
- #52 Project Canopy
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SocksandGoats Studios
Windows · Mac
Harvest, Build, Craft and Explore the different biomes among massive trees, plants, and hostile creatures to survive and unlock the mysteries of an alien jungle in a first person sci-fi survival adventure.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.4% ★, Crafting 11.6%, Survival 11.5%, Open World 9.6%, Sandbox 9%
- #53 Whisper of the Swallows
66% matchVery Positive87% of 207 reviews2026
Dev: Blown Leaves
Windows
Brave a savage, unforgiving procedurally generated world where extreme weather and the nightmares of the dark will hunt you down. Alone or in co-op, survive, build, and explore to turn a cursed hellscape into your sanctuary of light.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.2% ★, Crafting 12.5%, Base Building 11.8%, Survival 10.6%, Sandbox 10.2%
- #54 Bromeliad
69% matchMixed61% of 28 reviews2021
Dev: Gorka Games Studios
Windows
In Bromeliad you are stranded on a pacific island where you are a Human-Bear. You will have to survive, gathering materials to build tools and bases. You will need to hunt for food, explore, tame animals, then, at night strange creatures will appear. Survive and find an element to return to normal.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38% ★, Crafting 13.9%, Survival 11.8%, Base Building 11.7%, Open World 9.8%
- #55 Rocksowers
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: bemad
Windows · Linux
Co-op Survival Sandbox meets Bullet Hell. Explore the corrupted surface on a moving base, scavenge for resources and craft GAME-BREAKING weapons using many unique modules to defeat ever-stronger foes. Fight to reclaim what The Bloom took from humanity!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.1% ★, Sandbox 12.2%, Survival 11.9%, Crafting 10.5%, Open World 7.5%
- #56 Akiiwan: Relaxing Survival
67% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Little Buffalo Studios
Windows · Mac
Fall into a chill survival adventure, with a talking campfire as your guide. Explore, craft, fish and hunt during the day, and ask your fire three questions each night. Choose wisely: Winter isn't the only surprise in this beautiful, hand-drawn world. Playable in cosy or realistic mode.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.9% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Nature 11.7%, Crafting 11.3%, Survival 9.4%
- #57 Starbound
67% matchVery Positive90% of 123,321 reviews2016
Dev: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.0 hrsMean: 64.5 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 42.1% ★, Sandbox 12.1%, Crafting 9.5%, Survival 8.7%, Open World 6.3%
- #58 Sandustry
63% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 5,238 reviews2026
Dev: Lantto GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Explore and mine fully destructible worlds. Automate increasingly complex production chains. Delve deep to uncover an ancient civilization’s powerful secrets and learn to love the sand in this factory game where every pixel is a valuable resource.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.2% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 12.2%, Sandbox 10.1%, Survival 9.3%