- #1 Terraria
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,530,276 reviews2011
Dev: Re-Logic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 33.7 hrsMean: 150.7 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 33.8% ★, Sandbox 11.7%, Survival 8.1%, Crafting 6.8%, Building 6%
Why You'll Like It: The definitive 2D sandbox survival game that shares the core exploration and progression loop found in Tinkerlands.
- #2 Core Keeper
96% matchVery Positive93% of 65,043 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.1 hrsMean: 34.4 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 23.1% ★, Online Co-Op 9.5%, Sandbox 9.1%, Survival 8.4%, Open World 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game that emphasizes mining, base building, and boss progression in a beautifully detailed pixel world.
- #3 Necesse
96% matchVery Positive93% of 27,406 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 14.9 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 36.4% ★, Sandbox 8.3%, Open World 7.1%, Survival 6.8%, Crafting 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: Combines survival and settlement management with top-down combat and multiplayer support that mirrors the Tinkerlands experience.
- #4 Tinkertown
95% matchMixed67% of 1,342 reviews2023
Dev: Headup
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 6.2 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: Sandbox 12.2%, Online Co-Op 11.3%, Crafting 11.1%, Open World 9.4%, RPG 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: Shares a similar aesthetic and co-op focus, emphasizing creative building and adventure in a sandbox environment.
- #5 Forager
94% matchVery Positive90% of 43,651 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 41.5% ★, Survival 11.4%, Crafting 11%, Sandbox 7.9%, Pixel Graphics 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced exploration and crafting game that focuses on expanding your territory and gathering resources in a charming 2D world.
- #6 Starbound
94% matchVery Positive90% of 123,040 reviews2016
Dev: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.1 hrsMean: 64.3 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 35.9% ★, Sandbox 11.2%, Online Co-Op 7.9%, Survival 6.8%, Crafting 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a vast 2D universe to explore with deep crafting, building, and survival mechanics across multiple planets.
- #7 Nova Lands
93% matchVery Positive89% of 3,448 reviews2023
Dev: BEHEMUTTPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Nova Lands is a factory building, exploration, and island management game. Explore, engage in combat, and automate your industry. The planet you’re on is full of mysteries, creatures, people, and things to do. Welcome to your new home amongst the stars!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.6% ★, Sandbox 12.9%, Survival 9.8%, Crafting 9.5%, Open World 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: Blends survival with automation and base building in a colorful 2D world that rewards efficient resource management.
- #8 Keplerth
92% matchVery Positive84% of 4,142 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: Sandbox 18.9%, Survival 15.7%, Open World 15%, Building 13.7%, Multiplayer 7%
Why You'll Like It: Features procedural 2D exploration and survival with a strong emphasis on combat and base customization.
- #9 Dig or Die
91% matchVery Positive90% of 4,272 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 37.1% ★, Sandbox 12.4%, Survival 11.7%, Crafting 9.6%, Open World 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D survival game that challenges players to build defenses against nightly waves of enemies while exploring deep underground.
- #10 The Survivalists
91% matchMostly Positive76% of 10,037 reviews2020
Dev: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 71%
A living world full of surprises, secrets and danger awaits in The Survivalists, an adventure-filled survival sandbox set in The Escapists universe. Explore, build, craft and even train monkeys with up to three friends in a desperate bid to survive. Have you got what it takes to be a Survivalist?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.7% ★, Online Co-Op 12.5%, Crafting 10.4%, Survival 10.1%, Sandbox 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: An island-based survival game that features crafting, building, and unique monkey-companion mechanics for co-op play.
- #11 Feel The Snow
89% matchVery Positive87% of 3,052 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 34.2% ★, Survival 9.5%, Crafting 7.7%, Sandbox 7.4%, Multiplayer 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D pixel-art survival game that incorporates magic and combat within a snowy, exploration-heavy landscape.
- #12 Junk Jack
90% matchMostly Positive78% of 472 reviews2016
Dev: Pixbits
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 21.9 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 37.8% ★, Sandbox 12.7%, Survival 9.8%, Crafting 9%, Building 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: A classic 2D sandbox game that focuses heavily on exploration, farming, and intricate crafting systems.
- #13 Omega Crafter
88% matchMostly Positive79% of 569 reviews2025
Dev: Preferred Networks
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Adventure in a vast open-world survival craft game with your programmable sidekick Grammi! Program the Grammi to collect materials, build your town, craft weapons and armor to challenge strong enemies! Play alone or with friends online!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.9% ★, Survival 8.6%, Crafting 8.6%, Online Co-Op 8%, Open World 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on automation and survival in an open world, allowing players to build complex bases with the help of programmable companions.
- #14 Miniland Adventure
89% matchMostly Positive74% of 330 reviews2023
Dev: Imilkowski DevPub: Gameparic
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 53%
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 37.9% ★, Sandbox 15%, Survival 12.3%, Crafting 10%, Building 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: A minimalist survival game where you expand your world tile by tile while managing resources and crafting tools.
- #15 Creativerse
86% matchMostly Positive78% of 30,868 reviews2017
Dev: Playful Corp.
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 63%
A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26% ★, Online Co-Op 10.2%, Sandbox 9.3%, Crafting 8.2%, Survival 8%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox building and exploration game that offers a vibrant world for creative base construction.
- #16 Don't Starve Together
85% matchVery Positive95% of 534,846 reviews2016
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.0 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 62.5% ★, Survival 19.3%, Co-op 3.5%, Multiplayer 3.4%, Open World 2.8%
Why You'll Like It: The quintessential co-op survival experience that emphasizes resource management and overcoming harsh environments.
- #17 Longvinter
84% matchMixed67% of 7,593 reviews2025
Dev: Uuvana Studios
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 43.8 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 29.7% ★, Survival 12.1%, Crafting 11%, Open World 10.2%, Sandbox 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer survival game that emphasizes crafting and social interaction in an open-world setting.
- #18 Craftopia
84% matchMostly Positive77% of 20,075 reviews2020
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 22.2 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 27.8% ★, Open World 13.2%, Crafting 12%, Survival 10.8%, Sandbox 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that mixes crafting, magic, and combat with a wide variety of activities to pursue.
- #19 Realms of Magic
83% matchVery Positive81% of 990 reviews2022
Dev: Polished Games
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Embark on a journey through the Old Kingdom in Realms of Magic - a sandbox RPG where you customize your character, choose your path, and immerse yourself in the fantasy world as a knight, wizard, miner, lumberjack, farmer, and more. After all, this is YOUR adventure.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 50% ★, Sandbox 10.5%, Open World 9.1%, RPG 6.5%, Survival 5.3%
Why You'll Like It: An RPG-heavy 2D survival game that allows for deep character customization and exploration in a fantasy setting.
- #20 Everwind
81% matchVery Positive82% of 3,471 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 13.6 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: Online Co-Op 13.9%, Sandbox 11.7%, Crafting 10.6%, Survival 10.6%, Open World 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: An early-access survival game that emphasizes co-op exploration and building in an open world.
- #21 Romestead
81% matchMostly Positive75% of 3,870 reviews2026
Dev: BeartwigsPub: Three Friends
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 13.4 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 26.1% ★, Crafting 11%, Online Co-Op 10.3%, Survival 10.1%, Sandbox 9%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D adventure game that blends crafting and RPG elements with a focus on building your own homestead.
- #22 Aground
82% matchVery Positive94% of 1,992 reviews2020
Dev: Fancy Fish Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 31.6% ★, Open World 10.7%, Survival 10.7%, Online Co-Op 10.6%, Sandbox 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: A progression-focused 2D survival game where you rebuild civilization through deep crafting and technological advancement.
- #23 Scrapnaut
82% matchMixed70% of 831 reviews2021
Dev: SpiffyBitPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 4.1 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 24.2% ★, Online Co-Op 11.4%, Survival 10.1%, Building 9.8%, Sandbox 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game that tasks players with building a base and managing resources in a stylized, dangerous world.
- #24 Cubic Odyssey
80% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,655 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Embark on a galactic journey in Cubic Odyssey, an open-world adventure where you explore vibrant planets, craft tools, build vehicles, and fight the Red Darkness. Uncover ancient mysteries, and shape a universe full of life, danger, and limitless possibilities!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.9% ★, Sandbox 13%, Co-op 10.5%, Building 10.4%, Online Co-Op 6%
Why You'll Like It: A co-op adventure game that features base building and survival elements in a stylized 2D world.
- #25 Solarpunk™
78% matchVery Positive82% of 2,601 reviews2026
Dev: CyberwavePub: rokaplay
Windows
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Solarpunk is a survival game in a technologically advanced world of floating islands. Alone or together with your friends, you can construct buildings, grow food, craft gadgets and hop on your airship to explore distant islands in the sky.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.6% ★, Online Co-Op 10.9%, Sandbox 9.4%, Crafting 8.8%, Co-op 8%
Why You'll Like It: A co-op survival game centered on sustainable base building and crafting in a serene, nature-focused world.
- #26 Shamania
78% matchMostly Positive75% of 150 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 28.8% ★, Open World 9.8%, Crafting 9.8%, Survival 9.3%, Online Co-Op 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that focuses on crafting and multiplayer cooperation in a mystical setting.
- #27 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
77% matchVery Positive82% of 10,202 reviews2024
Dev: Merge GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 15.8 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 28.6% ★, Online Co-Op 10.3%, Survival 9.3%, Sandbox 7.9%, Crafting 7.8%
- #28 Voidtrain
76% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,560 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 14.0 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% ★, Online Co-Op 9.2%, Survival 8.2%, Co-op 7.9%, Crafting 7.2%
- #29 Eden Crafters
75% matchVery Positive86% of 2,494 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 13.3 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 32.5% ★, Online Co-Op 10%, Sandbox 9.7%, Crafting 9.4%, Open World 8.2%
- #30 Astral Terra
79% matchMixed50% of 152 reviews2015
Dev: Tethys Interactive LLC
Windows
Explore, Adventure, Craft, Build, Survive. How will you shape your world? Astral Terra is a Smooth Voxel, Procedurally Generated Open World game with RPG and Survival Elements!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.1% ★, Sandbox 11.3%, Open World 10.6%, Survival 10.2%, Crafting 7%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival sandbox that focuses on exploration and building in a procedurally generated environment.
- #31 Portal Knights
77% matchVery Positive83% of 22,274 reviews2017
Dev: Keen Games GmbHPub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 5.6 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: Sandbox 19.6%, Crafting 14.4%, Building 13.6%, Survival 13.4%, Multiplayer 11.6%
- #32 Scrap Mechanic
76% matchVery Positive92% of 117,723 reviews2016
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.2 hrsMean: 58.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!
Why similar: Sandbox 16.1%, Building 15.3%, Survival 13.5%, Crafting 13.3%, Open World 13.2%
- #33 Edge of Space
79% matchMostly Negative33% of 2,729 reviews2015
Dev: Handyman StudiosPub: Reverb Triple XP
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Suit up as an operative of the Ark Corporation, sent to the farthest reaches of the universe in search of habitable planets to terraform. However, after the long space journey you awaken from cryosleep to find that your ship has gone way off course and is disabled near a strange new world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.8% ★, Sandbox 14.4%, Crafting 7.6%, Survival 6.1%, Open World 4.4%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D sci-fi survival game that focuses on base building and combat against alien threats in a hostile environment.
- #34 Nightingale
75% matchMixed66% of 17,965 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 31.7% ★, Online Co-Op 11.7%, Survival 9.6%, Open World 8.8%, Crafting 8.3%
- #35 Palworld
71% matchVery Positive94% of 423,735 reviews2024
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 34.6 hrsMean: 71.1 hrs≥1hr: 96%
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 31.1% ★, Open World 11.8%, Survival 10.8%, Online Co-Op 9.4%, Crafting 7.3%
- #36 Valheim
72% matchVery Positive94% of 535,809 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 25.9 hrsMean: 77.4 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 32.9% ★, Online Co-Op 11.9%, Survival 9.5%, Open World 8.5%, Crafting 7.2%
- #37 Planetaries
74% matchMixed58% of 224 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 28.3% ★, Online Co-Op 10.8%, Survival 8.4%, Open World 8.2%, Crafting 8.1%
- #38 ASTRONEER
73% matchVery Positive92% of 138,295 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.3 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 35.7% ★, Survival 10.7%, Open World 10.7%, Sandbox 9%, Multiplayer 7.5%
- #39 TerraTech Worlds
73% matchMixed63% of 2,250 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 21.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.5% ★, Sandbox 10.9%, Crafting 9.6%, Survival 9.3%, Open World 9.1%
- #40 Enshrouded
71% matchVery Positive86% of 102,638 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.9 hrsMean: 46.1 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: Open World 17.1%, Online Co-Op 16.7%, Survival 15.6%, Crafting 11.8%, Sandbox 8.9%
- #41 Wayward
74% matchVery Positive86% of 1,362 reviews2016
Dev: Unlok
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 21.5 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 40.3% ★, Survival 13.5%, Crafting 10.8%, Sandbox 8.7%, Open World 7.5%
- #42 Lodventure
73% matchMostly Positive74% of 162 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 34.4% ★, Survival 9.5%, Co-op 9.3%, Open World 9.2%, Online Co-Op 8.5%
- #43 Raft
69% matchVery Positive93% of 373,485 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.6 hrsMean: 37.5 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 36.3% ★, Survival 13.4%, Co-op 8.9%, Multiplayer 8%, Crafting 7.5%
- #44 ENDALOR
70% matchMostly Positive70% of 250 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 32% ★, Online Co-Op 11.1%, Survival 8.7%, Open World 8.3%, Crafting 6.9%
- #45 Wild Terra 2: New Lands
72% matchMixed52% of 3,942 reviews2022
Dev: Juvty Worlds
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 25.9 hrs≥1hr: 38%
MMORPG full of details that create a unique immersion and the spirit of adventure! Play your role in the life-filled medieval world controlled by players.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36% ★, Sandbox 12.6%, Crafting 8.6%, Building 7.6%, Survival 7%
- #46 Len's Island
69% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,768 reviews2025
Dev: Flow Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 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 38.8% ★, Sandbox 11.3%, Survival 11.2%, Building 10.4%, Crafting 10.1%
- #47 Crashlands
71% matchVery Positive89% of 6,701 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 34.2% ★, Sandbox 10.2%, Survival 9.8%, Open World 9.7%, Crafting 9.5%
- #48 Force of Nature
70% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,204 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 39.2% ★, Crafting 10.9%, Survival 10.8%, Sandbox 9.2%, Open World 7.9%
- #49 RuneScape: Dragonwilds
66% matchVery Positive81% of 25,521 reviews2025
Dev: Jagex Ltd
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 16.2 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 29.9% ★, Online Co-Op 10.4%, Open World 9.9%, Survival 9.2%, Co-op 7.7%
- #50 Project Castaway
67% matchMixed66% of 1,760 reviews2026
Dev: Mardonpol Inc.
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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 30% ★, Online Co-Op 11.4%, Sandbox 9%, Survival 8.5%, Co-op 8.1%
- #51 Solace Crafting
69% matchMostly Positive72% of 891 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 29% ★, Online Co-Op 9.7%, Survival 9.2%, Crafting 8.9%, Sandbox 8.2%
- #52 Crea
70% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,407 reviews2016
Dev: Siege Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 19.0 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 39.9% ★, Sandbox 13.5%, Crafting 9.4%, Survival 7.2%, Building 4.7%
- #53 DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS™ 2
68% matchVery Positive92% of 7,976 reviews2019
Dev: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 47.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS™ 2 is a block-building RPG set in a fantasy land threatened by an evil cult. Explore, battle, build and harvest in the charming single-player campaign or build big projects in the online sandbox mode for up to 4-players.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.6% ★, Sandbox 11%, Building 9.5%, Crafting 6.7%, RPG 6.4%
- #54 Frozen Flame
67% matchMixed63% of 2,979 reviews2022
Dev: Dreamside InteractivePub: Ravenage Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 11.6 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 29.9% ★, Online Co-Op 11.7%, Sandbox 9.7%, Survival 8.6%, Open World 8.5%
- #55 Grounded
65% matchVery Positive90% of 94,448 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.3 hrsMean: 41.5 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 34% ★, Survival 14.7%, Co-op 9.5%, Crafting 8.5%, Multiplayer 8.4%
- #56 Ruins To Fortress
67% matchMixed64% of 177 reviews2024
Dev: NimbleBeasts
Windows · Linux
Explore a post-apocalyptic island, craft, build, tear down enemy bases, defend and nuke your rivals! Life's about surviving in this multiplayer game, no matter what it takes!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39% ★, Survival 10.2%, Crafting 9.6%, Open World 8.9%, Online Co-Op 8%
- #57 Aloft
65% matchVery Positive84% of 3,616 reviews2025
Dev: Astrolabe Interactive Inc.Pub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 14.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Soar the skies in Aloft, the co-op sandbox survival game set in a world of floating islands. Build any island into a skyship, your home in the clouds. Find lost knowledge, cure the fungal corruption, and brave the hurricane to restore the ecosystem.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.7% ★, Crafting 11.4%, Survival 11.3%, Building 10.2%, Co-op 10%
- #58 TerraTech
66% matchVery Positive91% of 24,716 reviews2018
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 32.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%
TerraTech is an open-world, sandbox adventure game, where you design and build your own creations through a mix of crafting, combat and discovery. Design vehicles from a huge library of blocks. Scavenge, craft and buy new parts to survive and become the ultimate planetary prospector.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.4% ★, Sandbox 12.8%, Building 11.8%, Open World 10.1%, Crafting 8.2%
