- #1 Ancient the Dimensions
97% matchNegative9% of 11 reviews2025
Dev: HEADSTONE STUDIO
Windows
Immerse yourself in an epic Survival Action RPG adventure, exploring a vast fantasy fairy tale world to build your own sanctuary and survive against extraordinary mythical creatures. Enhance your equipment, weapons, and skills to battle ruthless empires and interdimensional visitors.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.4% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Survival 11%, Crafting 7.6%, Building 6.5%
- #2 Nighthold: Number 1
96% matchMostly Positive72% of 356 reviews2025
Dev: 2 Zombie GamesPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 1.3 hrs≥1hr: 26%
Investigate a starship crash, explore a hostile world, build shelters and survive nightly attacks of the Rot. Tear down any structure and experience total freedom of action.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.7% ★, Base Building 15.2%, Survival 12.2%, Sandbox 10%, Crafting 8.6%
- #3 Mayday: The Survival Island
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pequi studiosPub: indie.io
Windows
After a mysterious crash, you awaken alone on a strange island. Survive by hunting, farming, and crafting, then explore a vast archipelago filled with secrets, ancient ruins, and magical totems. Build your base, uncover the truth, and escape—if you can.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Survival 9.9%, Action-Adventure 8.8%, Sandbox 8.2%
- #4 Lodventure
95% 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 38.1% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Survival 11.4%, Action-Adventure 7.4%, Crafting 7.3%
- #5 Miniland Adventure: Prologue
94% matchVery Positive87% of 721 reviews2023
Dev: Imilkowski DevPub: Gameparic
Windows
Miniland: Prologue is just part of the gameplay that awaits you in the full game. Your task is to build your world and fight against your enemies. 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!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.9% ★, Base Building 14.8%, Survival 12.2%, Sandbox 9.6%, Crafting 8.4%
- #6 Moonrite
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Haki Studios
Windows
A survival crafting game where you craft spirit companions with different materials to fight, work, and survive. Build your spiritual village and explore a beautiful anime-inspired world to defy ancient gods that rule the material and spiritual.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.7% ★, Base Building 18.8%, Survival 12.9%, Crafting 6.7%, Sandbox 5.3%
- #7 Nighthold
93% 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 49.9% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Survival 9%, Sandbox 7.5%, Crafting 6.8%
- #8 Crashlands
92% 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 36.3% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Survival 11.3%, Crafting 8.7%, Sandbox 8.7%
- #9 Force of Nature
91% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,198 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 47.8% ★, Survival 14.4%, Crafting 11.6%, Sandbox 8.9%, Base Building 6.3%
- #10 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 44.9% ★, Survival 15.4%, Sandbox 12%, Crafting 10%, Base Building 8.5%
- #11 SpiritBorn
90% 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 41.5% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Survival 12.8%, Crafting 9.6%, Building 7.8%
- #12 Subsistence
89% 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 50.8% ★, Survival 15.8%, Base Building 10.9%, Crafting 9.9%, Building 5.8%
- #13 Woodland Rebels
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Beak Berry Games
Windows · Mac
Survive an untamed world where humans, animal villagers and wild animals all coexist, but not in harmony. Craft, farm, cook, and assign roles to villagers. Explore various biomes and muster an animal rebellion to fight back against human invaders.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.8% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Survival 11.8%, Crafting 9.9%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #14 Crashlands 2
86% 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 37.4% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Survival 11.9%, Crafting 8.9%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #15 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 47.2% ★, Survival 13.5%, Sandbox 12.8%, Crafting 9.8%, Building 7.1%
- #16 Bromeliad
87% 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 43.2% ★, Survival 13.5%, Base Building 13%, Crafting 10.6%, Sandbox 8.7%
- #17 Aniverse
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: AniLab
Windows
Chop trees, cook meals, build your home and play music to control the wild! Explore a procedurally generated world and survive your way through art.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.6% ★, Sandbox 9.2%, Crafting 8.2%, Action-Adventure 5.3%, Survival 5.2%
- #18 Wild
84% 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 44.7% ★, Survival 18.4%, Base Building 16.8%, Crafting 8.3%, Exploration 5.4%
- #19 Cubits
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mango Nebula Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Take control of a talkative little Cubit, who knows he lives inside a game, and do your best to ensure both of you survive in this harsh, unforgiving world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.1% ★, Survival 13.2%, Base Building 10.2%, Crafting 10.1%, Sandbox 9.6%
- #20 Wispera
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lunarlane
Windows
Wispera is a procedurally generated, open-world sandbox survival game. Craft weapons to battle monsters at night, or expand your base and create a safe haven. If you prefer to remain mobile, travel away and explore new places. Whether you’re a monster hunter or a builder, the choice is yours!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.2% ★, Survival 13%, Sandbox 10.9%, Crafting 9.9%, Building 8.6%
- #21 Forager
82% 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 47.2% ★, Survival 14.2%, Crafting 10.7%, Base Building 9.9%, Sandbox 7.2%
- #22 Whisper of the Swallows
81% matchVery Positive87% of 144 reviews2026
Dev: Blown Leaves
Windows
Brave a savage and unforgiving procedurally-generated world where extreme weather and the nightmares of the dark are your greatest enemies. Alone or in co-op, survive, build, and explore to transform a cursed hellscape into your sanctuary of light.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.5% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Survival 12.3%, Sandbox 10.2%, Crafting 9.6%
- #23 Re.poly
82% matchVery Positive92% of 135 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 37.1% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Survival 12.6%, Sandbox 10.3%, Crafting 9.7%
- #24 Good Heavens!
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Nowhere Studios
Windows
Good Heavens! Is an open-world crafting and building RPG. Embark on a solo adventure or team up with up friends, picking your tool of choice – sword, wand, or carpenter's hammer. Navigate the quirky races and cultures of the promised lands and restore them to their, ahem, intended glory.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.3% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Survival 12.4%, Sandbox 9.1%, Crafting 8.2%
- #25 Aurendor
80% 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 41.5% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Survival 12.9%, Crafting 8.7%, Sandbox 7.5%
- #26 Miniland Adventure
79% 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 35.7% ★, Survival 12.6%, Base Building 12.6%, Sandbox 11.3%, Crafting 8.1%
- #27 Don't Starve
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 112,271 reviews2013
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 28.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.7% ★, Survival 24.6%, Crafting 10.3%, Sandbox 9.3%, Roguelike 3.7%
- #28 Far Fetched
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: KiwiPastaPub: CreativeForge Games
Windows
Dive into the hazy and cold world of Far Fetched, where dangers lurk in the fog and only the glittering embers of the Traveling Node can keep you safe.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.8% ★, Base Building 18.6%, Survival 14.8%, Sandbox 6.3%, Crafting 4.8%
- #29 XenoHaven
77% matchVery Positive86% of 64 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 33.8% ★, Base Building 17.2%, Survival 13%, Sandbox 11.4%, Crafting 8.8%
- #30 Breathedge
77% matchVery Positive82% of 16,026 reviews2021
Dev: RedRuins SoftworksPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 45.5% ★, Base Building 15.6%, Survival 12.9%, Sandbox 10.2%, Crafting 7.5%
- #31 Cosmorists
76% match5 user reviews100% of 5 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 38.3% ★, Base Building 13%, Survival 12.1%, Sandbox 10.5%, Crafting 9%
- #32 Eldercraft: Mountaineers
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Derivative Synergistics
Windows
Eldercraft: Mountaineers is an RPG about crafting, surviving and exploring. Forge your routes and pathways up the mountain to reach valuable treasures. These will help you forge more pathways that will lead you to the summit.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.6% ★, Base Building 16.4%, Survival 13.5%, Crafting 8.5%, Sandbox 7.7%
- #33 Necesse
73% 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 50.8% ★, Survival 10.2%, Base Building 10.1%, Sandbox 9.1%, Crafting 7.8%
- #34 ARCANA
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Thomas RandallPub: bald
Windows
An Open World Survival Crafting game where you harness magic to advance. Discover new crafting recipies, expand your base, and conquer your enemies.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 51.2% ★, Survival 15.4%, Sandbox 9.7%, Crafting 7.8%, Building 6.3%
- #35 Green Hell
75% 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 49.8% ★, Survival 16.5%, Base Building 10.5%, Crafting 7.8%, Sandbox 4.6%
- #36 Drift: Space Survival
74% matchMixed70% of 76 reviews2023
Dev: KAR Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
You were deep in uncharted space on a research mission. Disaster struck. Together with your friends, explore a mysterious asteroid field and mine whatever resources possible to build what you need to survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.4% ★, Survival 13.4%, Base Building 11.4%, Crafting 9%, Sandbox 7.4%
- #37 Terraria
72% 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 48.9% ★, Sandbox 13.5%, Survival 12.7%, Crafting 8.6%, Building 6.9%
- #38 GRAV
74% matchMixed47% of 6,921 reviews2015
Dev: BitMonster, Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 11.5 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 49.5% ★, Base Building 16%, Survival 15.7%, Sandbox 9.5%, Crafting 7.6%
- #39 AstroPlanet
71% matchMostly Positive71% of 41 reviews2025
Dev: VIVA
Windows
AstroPlanet is a sandbox game where you find yourself in the role of an astronaut whose ship has crashed on a planet with an inhospitable atmosphere. Your task is not only to survive, but also to turn this world into a habitable place.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.8% ★, Base Building 18.4%, Sandbox 13%, Crafting 11.3%, Building 7.4%
- #40 Odd Woods
72% matchMostly Positive75% of 44 reviews2022
Dev: Matt
Windows
Odd Woods is a survival crafting game in a forest environment. Build your base during the day to withstand the attacks of horror creatures at night. Explore, farm and hunt wildlife to survive another day.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.9% ★, Base Building 17.1%, Survival 13.5%, Crafting 9.4%, Building 8.3%
- #41 Cube Life: Island Survival
73% matchMixed69% of 177 reviews2018
Dev: Cypronia
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Cube Life: Island Survival is an open-world, block building, survival game, taking place on a beautiful remote island. Imagine being shipwrecked and stranded left for dead, with only your will to survive. You must explore, build, craft, and fight your way to stay alive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 55.5% ★, Survival 11.2%, Sandbox 9.8%, Crafting 7.9%, Building 7.9%
- #42 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
70% 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 36.3% ★, Base Building 15.5%, Survival 12.8%, Crafting 8.6%, Sandbox 8%
- #43 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 41% ★, Base Building 17.1%, Survival 12.9%, Sandbox 8.6%, Crafting 8.6%
- #44 Blockscape
73% matchMixed46% of 898 reviews2014
Dev: ioneo
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 49%
The ultimate block building game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 61.1% ★, Sandbox 12.9%, Survival 9.5%, Crafting 7.6%, Building 6.1%
- #45 Under A New Sun
69% matchMostly Positive76% of 368 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 44.9% ★, Base Building 14.1%, Survival 13.9%, Crafting 9.8%, Sandbox 6.1%
- #46 Quiet Town
70% match7 user reviews14% of 7 reviews2022
Dev: mudpill
Windows
1
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.1% ★, Base Building 16.9%, Survival 13.1%, Crafting 9.7%, Building 7.5%
- #47 Wrongworld
69% matchVery Positive94% of 538 reviews2018
Dev: Sludj Games
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Crash-landed on a surreal, low-poly world filled with freakish inhabitants, choose between permadeath and non-permadeath modes and embark on an epic (and ridiculous) survival adventure. Will you manage to stay alive as you unravel the mysteries of Wrongworld and search for a way home?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 55.6% ★, Survival 13.5%, Sandbox 8.3%, Crafting 7%, Building 5.9%
- #48 Survival: Fountain of Youth
67% matchVery Positive86% of 4,270 reviews2024
Dev: Odinsoft Inc.Pub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 18.7 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Survival: Fountain of Youth is a challenging single-player open-world adventure game set on the Caribbean islands. Survive as a shipwrecked 16th-century explorer, craft tools and shelter, and uncover the secrets of both an ancient civilization and your own fate.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.7% ★, Base Building 15.9%, Survival 12.6%, Crafting 8.9%, Sandbox 7.9%
- #49 Novus Inceptio
70% matchMixed52% of 1,300 reviews2015
Dev: McMagic Productions
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Warning: This is an Early Access game! Welcome to an enigmatic world, where a new gaming experience in exploring, building and surviving is waiting just for you. Experience a sandbox world with survival elements, and join us in creating a full version of the game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Survival 12.9%, Sandbox 10.1%, Crafting 9.4%
- #50 WildCraft
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Super4Games
Windows
Gather unique resources, craft custom gear, and master skill-based combat in an infinite open world. In Wildcraft, no two items or adventures are ever the same.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 50.8% ★, Sandbox 15.5%, Building 11%, Survival 7.8%, Crafting 6%
- #51 Crea
69% 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 53.4% ★, Sandbox 14.4%, Crafting 10.9%, Survival 10.5%, Building 4.9%
- #52 Project AlbatrOS
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DiSolve Studios
Windows
Take on the role of an underwater reef explorer, find a way to save the corals from extinction. Dive into the colorful waters of Water, explore and admire the local reef, explore the mystery of the island. Gather resources to create your own bases in order your survival.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.8% ★, Base Building 17.1%, Sandbox 9.8%, Survival 8.3%, Crafting 7.6%
- #53 Doomed Lands
68% matchMixed46% of 63 reviews2023
Dev: Nibb GamesPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A diabolical demon dooms a teeming island to destruction. Five legendary lieutenants and their minions descend every seven days…but that allows ample time to prepare. Survive, craft, train, and gear up to defend the island!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.7% ★, Base Building 16.2%, Survival 12.5%, Roguelike 9.2%, Crafting 8.7%
- #54 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,643 reviews2021
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 55%
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 39.9% ★, Base Building 17.1%, Survival 14.4%, Crafting 9.3%, Sandbox 8%
- #55 Signs of Life
68% matchMostly Positive76% of 841 reviews2014
Dev: Sweet Dog Studios
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Signs of Life is a sci-fi survival sandbox platformer with a combination of procedurally generated and hand-crafted content. You'll explore mysterious locations, Mine blocks for resources, and meet strange (and some familiar) creatures, some of which don't even want to kill you and eat your corpse.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 52.6% ★, Sandbox 13.2%, Survival 13%, Crafting 9.8%, Building 5.9%
- #56 Short Snow | Cold Survival Game
66% matchMixed55% of 102 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 41.4% ★, Survival 15.2%, Base Building 11.6%, Sandbox 8.5%, Crafting 8.3%
- #57 Desolated District
65% matchMostly Positive73% of 15 reviews2025
Dev: Real Heroes Studio
Windows
Desolated District is an Open-World Survival Crafting game set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Scavenge for resources, craft essential tools, build your base and battle deadly threats as you explore a sprawling, decaying city inspired by the Kowloon Walled City.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.7% ★, Base Building 15.1%, Survival 10.4%, Crafting 10%, Building 8.6%