- #1 Terraria
97% 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 33.2% ★, Sandbox 11.8%, Survival 8.1%, Crafting 7%, Building 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: It is the definitive 2D sandbox survival game that shares the core exploration, crafting, and combat loop found in Tinkerlands.
- #2 Core Keeper
96% 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 22.8% ★, Online Co-Op 9.7%, Sandbox 9.2%, Survival 8.2%, Open World 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: This top-down survival game mirrors the exploration and base-building progression of Tinkerlands with a similar focus on multiplayer co-op.
- #3 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 35.9% ★, Sandbox 8.3%, Open World 7.2%, Survival 6.8%, Crafting 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: It combines 2D survival with settlement management and RPG elements, making it a perfect match for fans of building communities.
- #4 Tinkertown
95% 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: Sandbox 12.2%, Online Co-Op 11.5%, Crafting 11.1%, Open World 9.4%, RPG 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: It shares a similar aesthetic and co-op focus, emphasizing the joy of building a home with friends in a pixelated world.
- #5 Forager
94% 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 40.7% ★, Survival 11.5%, Crafting 11.1%, Sandbox 8%, Pixel Graphics 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: The addictive resource gathering and expansion loop in this game provides a similar sense of accomplishment to Tinkerlands.
- #6 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 35.3% ★, Sandbox 11.3%, Online Co-Op 8%, Survival 6.9%, Crafting 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: This 2D space-faring adventure offers deep crafting and exploration mechanics that feel very similar to the progression in Tinkerlands.
- #7 Keplerth
93% 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: Sandbox 18.9%, Survival 15.5%, Open World 15%, Building 13.7%, Multiplayer 7%
Why You'll Like It: This 2D survival game features extensive exploration and combat mechanics that align well with the gameplay of Tinkerlands.
- #8 Nova Lands
92% matchVery Positive89% of 3,351 reviews2023
Dev: BEHEMUTTPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.4 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 32.9% ★, Sandbox 13.1%, Survival 9.9%, Crafting 9.7%, Open World 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: This game blends exploration with automation and base building, offering a satisfying progression system for survival fans.
- #9 Dig or Die
91% 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 36.4% ★, Sandbox 12.5%, Survival 11.8%, Crafting 9.7%, Open World 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on 2D survival and base defense, challenging players to adapt to an alien environment just like in Tinkerlands.
- #10 The Survivalists
91% matchMostly Positive76% of 9,935 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 26.2% ★, Online Co-Op 12.7%, Crafting 10.5%, Survival 10.1%, Sandbox 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: Set on a procedurally generated island, this game emphasizes crafting and survival with a unique monkey-helper mechanic.
- #11 Omega Crafter
89% matchMostly Positive79% of 560 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 27% ★, Open World 9.4%, Survival 9.4%, Crafting 9.3%, Online Co-Op 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: It features automation and survival mechanics that provide a similar sense of building and scaling your base.
- #12 Crea
90% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,406 reviews2016
Dev: Siege Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 19.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 39.2% ★, Sandbox 13.7%, Crafting 9.6%, Survival 7.3%, Building 4.7%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D sandbox that emphasizes RPG progression and crafting, providing a deep experience for those who enjoy the building aspects of Tinkerlands.
- #13 Feel The Snow
89% 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 33.6% ★, Survival 9.6%, Crafting 7.8%, Sandbox 7.5%, Multiplayer 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D pixel-art survival game that focuses on exploration and crafting within a snowy, atmospheric environment.
- #14 Aground
88% 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 31% ★, Open World 10.8%, Online Co-Op 10.8%, Survival 10.7%, Sandbox 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: This 2D survival game features a unique progression system where you advance from primitive tools to advanced technology.
- #15 Planet Centauri
86% matchMostly Positive77% of 2,359 reviews2024
Dev: Permadeath
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Dive into an epic adventure alone or with friends! Explore hidden dungeons, capture and tame fearsome monsters, build and defend your village. Craft powerful weapons, master magical spells, and transform an planet into the cradle of a new civilization!
Why similar: Sandbox 15.4%, Open World 11.8%, Crafting 11.7%, Loot 9.4%, Building 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a vast 2D world with a heavy focus on magic, combat, and creature taming that complements the magical themes of Tinkerlands.
- #16 Realms of Magic
87% matchVery Positive81% of 986 reviews2022
Dev: Polished Games
Windows
Median: 3.1 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 49.6% ★, Sandbox 10.5%, Open World 9%, RPG 6.7%, Survival 5.4%
Why You'll Like It: This sandbox RPG incorporates survival and building elements, allowing for a high degree of freedom in a 2D world.
- #17 Miniland Adventure
86% 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 37.2% ★, Sandbox 15.2%, Survival 12.4%, Crafting 10.2%, Building 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on procedural exploration and survival, making it easy to pick up and play for fans of the genre.
- #18 Longvinter
84% 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 29.1% ★, Survival 12.1%, Crafting 11.2%, Open World 10.3%, Sandbox 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer survival game that emphasizes crafting and base building in a cozy, open-world setting.
- #19 Craft The World
85% matchVery Positive88% of 16,818 reviews2014
Dev: Dekovir EntertainmentPub: Dekovir Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 38.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Craft The World is a unique sandbox strategy game, the mix of Dungeon Keeper, Terraria and Dwarf Fortress. Explore a random generated world populated by dangerous creatures, build a dwarf fortress, gather resources, and craft all the items, weapons, and armor you need.
Why similar: Sandbox 21.5%, Crafting 19.6%, Building 17.7%, Survival 13.6%, Open World 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on managing a group of dwarves to build and defend a base, offering a strategic take on the survival genre.
- #20 Voidtrain
82% 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 35.8% ★, Online Co-Op 9.3%, Survival 8.2%, Co-op 8%, Crafting 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: This game features a unique traversal mechanic combined with survival and crafting, perfect for co-op play.
- #21 Survival Machine
83% 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 28.4% ★, Online Co-Op 11.3%, Sandbox 8.7%, Survival 8.6%, Crafting 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: This co-op survival game focuses on building a mobile base, offering a unique twist on the traditional survival loop.
- #22 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 23.7% ★, Online Co-Op 11.7%, Survival 10.1%, Building 9.8%, Sandbox 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a survival experience with a focus on base building and resource management in a stylized world.
- #23 Shamania
81% 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 28.3% ★, Crafting 9.8%, Open World 9.8%, Survival 9.2%, Online Co-Op 9%
Why You'll Like It: It offers open-world survival with a focus on crafting and multiplayer cooperation in a fantasy setting.
- #24 Creativerse
82% 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 25.5% ★, Online Co-Op 10.4%, Sandbox 9.4%, Crafting 8.3%, Survival 8%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox game that emphasizes building and exploration in a vibrant, voxel-based world.
- #25 Don't Starve Together
81% 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 62% ★, Survival 19.5%, Co-op 3.6%, Multiplayer 3.4%, Online Co-Op 2.8%
Why You'll Like It: This game provides a challenging, atmospheric survival experience that is best enjoyed with friends.
- #26 Portal Knights
80% 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: Sandbox 19.6%, Crafting 14.4%, Building 13.6%, Survival 13.3%, Multiplayer 11.6%
Why You'll Like It: This game blends RPG elements with sandbox building, offering a structured adventure for players who enjoy crafting.
- #27 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 29.6% ★, Online Co-Op 11%, Crafting 8.7%, Survival 8.7%, Open World 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: This survival game features a unique mobile base mechanic that keeps the gameplay fresh and engaging.
- #28 Scrap Mechanic
79% matchVery Positive92% of 117,049 reviews2016
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.1 hrsMean: 57.3 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%
Why You'll Like It: It is a creative sandbox game that allows for complex base building and engineering, appealing to the creative side of survival fans.
- #29 Everwind
76% 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 13.4%, Sandbox 12.3%, Survival 10.7%, Open World 10.5%, Co-op 9.7%
- #30 Craftopia
78% 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 27% ★, Open World 13.2%, Crafting 12.1%, Survival 10.9%, Sandbox 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that mixes magic, crafting, and exploration in a way that feels expansive and rewarding.
- #31 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
77% 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 28.1% ★, Online Co-Op 10.6%, Survival 9.3%, Sandbox 8%, Crafting 7.9%
- #32 Ylands
78% 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 35.7% ★, Online Co-Op 11.6%, Crafting 11.2%, Open World 9.4%, Building 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox exploration game that offers a variety of survival and building tools in a colorful, open environment.
- #33 Eden Crafters
75% matchVery Positive86% of 2,214 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in Eden Crafters, a solo and co-op open-world game that challenges you to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Temper the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.9% ★, Online Co-Op 10.6%, Sandbox 10.2%, Crafting 9.9%, Open World 8.6%
- #34 Nightingale
75% matchMixed67% of 17,841 reviews2024
Dev: Inflexion Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 23.9 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 31.1% ★, Online Co-Op 11.9%, Survival 9.6%, Open World 8.9%, Crafting 8.4%
- #35 Cubic Odyssey
74% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,483 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 36.4% ★, Sandbox 12.6%, Co-op 10%, Building 9.7%, Open World 8.5%
- #36 Dawnlands
76% 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 28.9% ★, Online Co-Op 11.2%, Survival 8.4%, Crafting 8.4%, Sandbox 8.1%
- #37 ASTRONEER
73% matchVery Positive92% of 136,711 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 44.1 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 35.1% ★, Survival 10.8%, Open World 10.7%, Sandbox 9.1%, Multiplayer 7.5%
- #38 Valheim
71% 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 32.2% ★, Online Co-Op 12.1%, Survival 9.5%, Open World 8.5%, Crafting 7.3%
- #39 Palworld
70% 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 30.4% ★, Open World 11.7%, Survival 10.8%, Online Co-Op 9.6%, Crafting 7.5%
- #40 Enshrouded
71% 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 16.8%, Open World 16.8%, Survival 15.4%, Crafting 11.9%, Sandbox 9%
- #41 Wild Terra 2: New Lands
74% matchMixed52% of 3,315 reviews2022
Dev: Juvty Worlds
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 32.0 hrs≥1hr: 42%
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 35.1% ★, Sandbox 12.6%, Crafting 8.8%, Building 7.8%, Open World 7.1%
- #42 Len's Island
70% 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 38.1% ★, Sandbox 11.5%, Survival 11.2%, Building 10.6%, Crafting 10.3%
- #43 Planetaries
72% matchMixed59% of 222 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 27.7% ★, Online Co-Op 11%, Survival 8.4%, Crafting 8.2%, Open World 8.2%
- #44 Raft
69% 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 35.8% ★, Survival 13.4%, Co-op 9%, Multiplayer 8%, Crafting 7.7%
- #45 TerraTech Worlds
71% matchMixed63% of 2,175 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 31.9% ★, Sandbox 11.1%, Crafting 9.8%, Survival 9.3%, Open World 9.1%
- #46 Wayward
72% 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 39.6% ★, Survival 13.6%, Crafting 11%, Sandbox 8.8%, Open World 7.5%
- #47 Junk Jack
73% 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 36.8% ★, Sandbox 12.9%, Survival 9.9%, Crafting 9.2%, Building 7.2%
- #48 ENDALOR
69% matchMixed68% of 79 reviews2026
Dev: Diorite Games
Windows
An immersive medieval dark fantasy survival game with RPG elements for 1-4 players. Set in a hand crafted open world. Explore, survive, build, craft, fight and conquer your way through the dark, brutal and mysterious lands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.5% ★, Online Co-Op 11.3%, Survival 8.7%, Open World 8.2%, Crafting 7%
- #49 RuneScape: Dragonwilds
68% matchVery Positive81% of 23,948 reviews2025
Dev: Jagex Ltd
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
On RuneScape’s forgotten continent of Ashenfall, dragons have awoken. Gather, build, skill and craft to survive in this co-operative (1-4) survival crafting game. Only by mastering survival and uncovering ancient secrets can they hope to slay the Dragon Queen—alone or with allies.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.4% ★, Online Co-Op 10.5%, Open World 9.9%, Survival 9.3%, Co-op 7.7%
- #50 Lodventure
70% 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 33.7% ★, Survival 9.5%, Co-op 9.4%, Open World 9.3%, Online Co-Op 8.6%
- #51 Astral Terra
73% 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 36.4% ★, Sandbox 11.5%, Open World 10.6%, Survival 10.2%, Crafting 7.1%
- #52 Aloft
67% matchVery Positive84% of 3,496 reviews2025
Dev: Astrolabe Interactive Inc.Pub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 13.9 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 27.1% ★, Crafting 11.5%, Survival 11.4%, Building 10.2%, Co-op 10.2%
- #53 Project Castaway
66% 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 29.4% ★, Online Co-Op 11.6%, Sandbox 9%, Survival 8.4%, Co-op 8.2%
- #54 Solace Crafting
68% 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 28.4% ★, Online Co-Op 9.9%, Survival 9.2%, Crafting 9%, Sandbox 8.3%
- #55 Sunkenland
66% matchVery Positive81% of 22,996 reviews2023
Dev: Vector3 Studio
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 17.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Get ready for a Waterworld-themed survival game with modular base building, sunken city scavenging, crafting, base defense, and invasions of NPC clans for resources and territory. Ready for the water apocalypse?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.7% ★, Survival 11.9%, Co-op 11%, Crafting 8.5%, Open World 7.4%
- #56 Crashlands 2
64% matchVery Positive88% of 2,314 reviews2025
Dev: Butterscotch Shenanigans
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Slap your way across a vibrant world where interstellar friendships are the key to your survival. Befriend eccentric aliens, craft bizarre weaponry, and stick it to the man in this sequel to the award-winning open world crafting RPG Crashlands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.4% ★, Survival 10.6%, Sandbox 10.3%, Open World 10.3%, Crafting 10.1%
- #57 Ruins To Fortress
66% matchMixed62% of 164 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 38.4% ★, Survival 10.2%, Crafting 9.8%, Open World 9%, Online Co-Op 8.2%
- #58 Grounded
64% 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 33.4% ★, Survival 14.8%, Co-op 9.6%, Crafting 8.6%, Multiplayer 8.3%
