Games Like V Rising

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: Base Building 17.1%, Open World 17.1%, Survival 15%, Crafting 10.1%, Online Co-Op 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its co-op fantasy survival loop combines building elaborate bases, crafting gear, exploring a hostile open world, and action-RPG boss progression.

A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!

Why similar: Survival 15.7%, Open World 14.7%, Base Building 14.5%, Online Co-Op 11.4%, Crafting 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: Valheim delivers a similarly satisfying cycle of gathering materials, constructing a stronghold with friends, defeating bosses, and unlocking new regions and equipment.

Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. Possess any of your tribespeople, recruit followers, and build a thriving automated civilization. Survive, expand, and forge your own legacy across a vast ancient open world — together with friends.

Why similar: Base Building 19.2%, Open World 14.9%, Survival 14.8%, Crafting 13.4%, Sandbox 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Soulmask offers survival crafting, village and base management, recruitable NPCs, exploration, and multiplayer progression in a dangerous persistent world.

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 16.2%, Survival 14.7%, Base Building 14.1%, Crafting 12.6%, Sandbox 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its top-down perspective, boss-focused progression, co-op survival, settlement building, and gear crafting make it one of the closest structural alternatives to V Rising.

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: Base Building 16.1%, Open World 14.7%, Survival 14.1%, Crafting 11.9%, Building 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Core Keeper pairs top-down cooperative exploration and boss fights with resource gathering, crafting, farming, and an expandable underground home base.

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 21.6%, Survival 18.8%, Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 11.5%, Multiplayer 10%

Why You'll Like It: Palworld mixes open-world survival, automated base production, co-op exploration, crafting, and creature-powered combat into an accessible progression loop.

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: Survival 24.4%, Base Building 21.4%, Crafting 12.6%, Open World 12.5%, Multiplayer 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: Grounded provides polished co-op survival with meaningful base building, equipment crafting, hostile-world exploration, and memorable boss-style encounters.

Dune: Awakening is a single- and multiplayer Open World Survival game with immersive adventure and RPG gameplay. Explore, build, craft, and unravel a cinematic Dune story as you rise from survival to greatness on the most legendary planet in the universe. Just remember: the sandworm always comes.

Why similar: Base Building 12.8%, Open World 10.2%, Massively Multiplayer 10.1%, Survival 9.9%, Crafting 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the persistent online survival-and-building structure, resource competition, crafting advancement, and harsh-world atmosphere, albeit in a more MMO-oriented format.

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: Base Building 16.1%, Survival 15.5%, Open World 15%, Crafting 12.1%, Online Co-Op 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: Nightingale features cooperative survival crafting, ornate estate building, magical gear progression, and portal-based exploration across fantastical realms.

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: Base Building 16.2%, Survival 14%, Open World 12.1%, Crafting 10.5%, Online Co-Op 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Smalland offers co-op survival, elevated base building, exploration, and progression through a threatening natural world viewed from a tiny adventurer's perspective.

7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!

Why similar: Survival 21.2%, Base Building 17.3%, Open World 15.2%, Online Co-Op 9.4%, Building 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its scavenging, skill progression, co-op play, and heavily customizable defenses provide a more brutal survival-focused take on building a safe home in a hostile world.

ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!

Why similar: Survival 16.3%, Open World 15.1%, Base Building 13.8%, Crafting 9.7%, Massively Multiplayer 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: ARK offers expansive multiplayer survival with large-scale construction, crafting, creature taming, and constant progression through increasingly dangerous biomes.

A vibrant blend of survival and action RPG for 1-10 players! Craft legendary items, grow your home base and embark on an epic journey through procedural realms to face towering creatures hel-bent on unleashing Ragnarök. Valhalla can wait, Einherjar!

Why similar: Base Building 26.9%, Survival 20%, Online Co-Op 18.5%, Multiplayer 12.6%, PvE 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: It condenses co-op survival, crafting, base defense, exploration, and mythic boss encounters into repeatable action-RPG sessions.

Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

Why similar: Survival 19.4%, Sandbox 15.9%, Crafting 14.7%, Open World 11.9%, Building 11%

Why You'll Like It: Terraria is a 2D but exceptionally deep blend of exploration, crafting, building, loot progression, and escalating boss battles that works especially well in co-op.

A survival crafting adventure set in the Fourth Age of Middle-earth. Lead the Dwarves to reclaim Moria - mine, build, and battle through procedurally generated depths alone or with up to 8 players in co-op. It is time to return to Moria!

Why similar: Base Building 18.6%, Survival 14%, Crafting 12%, Online Co-Op 10%, Open World 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: This co-op survival adventure centers on reclaiming a dangerous fantasy environment through mining, crafting, building fortified bases, and fighting monstrous threats.

Once Human is a Strange Worlds Survival Game set in a strange, post-apocalyptic future. Unite with friends to fight monstrous enemies, uncover secret plots, compete for resources, and build your own territory. Once, you were merely human. Now, you have the power to remake the world.

Why similar: Base Building 14.2%, Open World 12.9%, Survival 12.5%, Crafting 10.1%, Online Co-Op 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Once Human provides shared-world survival, territory building, crafting, mutated-monster combat, and character progression with a more modern supernatural theme.

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: Base Building 15.3%, Open World 11.9%, Survival 11.5%, Crafting 9.7%, Online Co-Op 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Frozen Flame blends fantasy survival crafting, cooperative exploration, base building, and action-RPG combat across a fragmented open world.

Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..

Why similar: Survival 33.4%, Open World 23.6%, Multiplayer 11.4%, Sandbox 11.2%, Crafting 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: For a more punishing sandbox alternative, Project Zomboid provides deep multiplayer survival, scavenging, skill development, and secure-base management.

Establish and expand your own settlements, liberate the land and assist its villagers, and recruit others to your cause while learning more about a life you had to leave behind. Command your forces, prove your valor through combat, and cement yourself as the hero of your people.

Why similar: Survival 23.9%, Open World 22.7%, Crafting 16.5%, Online Co-Op 12.8%, Building 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Bellwright combines third-person open-world crafting and combat with settlement construction, villager management, and gradual liberation of a hostile land.

ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.

Why similar: Base Building 18.1%, Survival 17.4%, Open World 12.4%, Crafting 11.4%, Online Co-Op 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: ICARUS focuses on cooperative resource gathering, shelter construction, crafting, and surviving dangerous expeditions across a demanding alien wilderness.

You are a fallen Spartan, cast into the realm between the living and the Underworld. In this survival adventure inspired by Greek myth, hunt, craft and build a home worthy of legend with up to 3 friends. Raid the gods' temples, defeat legendary creatures and loot the iconic weapons of the Olympians.

Why similar: Base Building 15.8%, Survival 15.4%, Open World 11.8%, Online Co-Op 11.6%, Crafting 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: This Greek-myth survival game features open-world resource gathering, construction, crafting, combat, and solo or cooperative progression.

Myth of Empires is a multiplayer war sandbox game featuring a high degree of freedom and multiple civilizations. Players must survive, craft, create, and lead troops in their quest to conquer PVE or PVP territory and build their own empire. Xizhou Civilization Pack is now officially released!

Why similar: Base Building 17.9%, Open World 15.9%, Survival 14.6%, Building 12.5%, Sandbox 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: Myth of Empires emphasizes gathering, crafting, large-scale fortress construction, NPC recruitment, and multiplayer survival in a historical open world.

A new Viking age dawns with you at its helm. Forge a thriving colony from nothing in this mythic open-world survival sim. Earn the gods' favor and survive in a land ruled by ancient terrors and unforgiving seasons. Rally unique villagers, expand your settlement and defend your tribe - solo or co-op!

Why similar: Base Building 19.4%, Survival 15.2%, Open World 12%, Online Co-Op 11.3%, Crafting 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: ASKA combines Viking-themed survival and construction with village management, letting you build a settlement and assign NPCs to sustain it.

This massive online sandbox RPG features elements of magic, spellcasting, building, exploring and crafting. As a newly minted apprentice of the magic arts, you will set off to the dangerous world of Ignus. Tame mighty beasts, forge alliances, explore uncharted territories or fight for dominance!

Why similar: Open World 21.8%, Massively Multiplayer 19%, Survival 16.1%, Base Building 9.2%, Crafting 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its magical open world lets players craft, build castles, tame fantastical creatures, and adventure with others in a setting closer to V Rising's dark fantasy mood.

The Front is a survival open-world crafting sandbox game. You are a resistance fighter sent back in time to stop the rise of a tyrannical empire. Collect resources, craft tech, build shelters, and fight monsters to accomplish your mission.

Why similar: Base Building 16.8%, Survival 14.1%, Open World 12.9%, Crafting 12.2%, Massively Multiplayer 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: The Front offers multiplayer survival with resource harvesting, crafting, defensive base construction, and technology-driven progression against both players and AI threats.

Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.

Why similar: Survival 63.5%, Open World 9.6%, Multiplayer 9.3%, Crafting 6.9%, Online Co-Op 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: Don't Starve Together is a stylized co-op survival game with demanding resource management, seasonal threats, crafting, exploration, and defensive camp building.

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: Survival 16.8%, Base Building 16.4%, Open World 15.4%, Crafting 13.5%, Building 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: Len's Island mixes approachable action-RPG dungeon combat with gathering, farming, crafting, and customizable home construction in a relaxed island setting.

A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.

Why similar: Base Building 21.6%, Survival 15.6%, Open World 14%, Crafting 12.7%, Online Co-Op 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: The Planet Crafter delivers an absorbing cooperative crafting-and-base-building loop built around transforming a barren world into a livable one.

Ascend from your shelter. Ruin everything. Escape the wretched island. ⚔️🔨🎣🌱🌵🍰 Explore. Fight. Level up. Survive. Gather. Craft. Harvest. Hunt. Build. Farm. Solve puzzles. Fish. Cook. Live. Enjoy the bittersweet post-apocalypse.

Why similar: Survival 20.9%, Open World 20.5%, Base Building 19.8%, Crafting 16.2%, Sandbox 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: DYSMANTLE offers top-down combat, broad resource gathering, crafting, outpost building, and open-world exploration, though with less emphasis on online play.

In this dark, open-world adventure, you awaken as a Vampire Lord. Build and customize your castle. Hunt for blood, fight, craft, and gather. Command your loyal servants. Shapeshift into a bat to explore the night and survive the relentless Inquisition, solo or in 4-player co-op.

Why similar: Vampires 30.1% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Open World 10.9%, Survival 10.3%, Crafting 9.3%

Embark on a PvE survival adventure in the Age of Piracy. Fight on land and sea, solo or with friends. Build, craft and explore vast open world filled with dark secrets. Master soulslite combat and take on challenging bosses, command your ship and plunder unspoken treasures!

Why similar: Survival 15.2%, Crafting 13.6%, Base Building 13%, Online Co-Op 11.5%, Open World 10.4%

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 18.6%, Survival 16.1%, Base Building 13.9%, Crafting 11.2%, Online Co-Op 10.4%

Conan Exiles Enhanced is an open world survival game set in the mythical lands of Hyboria, now fully upgraded to Unreal Engine 5 with stunning visuals and improved performance. SURVIVE, BUILD, and DOMINATE alone or with friends in a world brimming with adventure!

Why similar: Survival 21.8%, Open World 19.1%, Crafting 12.3%, Building 10.7%, Massively Multiplayer 8.9%

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: Open World 15.3%, Survival 14.6%, Crafting 13.2%, Online Co-Op 11%, Building 10.3%

Start your own cult in a land of false prophets, venturing out into diverse and mysterious regions to build a loyal community of woodland Followers and spread your Word to become the one true cult.

Why similar: Base Building 53.8%, Character Customization 18.2%, Building 18.1%, Adventure 3.6%, Action 3.4%

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: Base Building 17.2%, Survival 15.9%, Crafting 15.6%, Open World 12%, Online Co-Op 9.5%

Experience a thrilling action RPG set on the supernatural island of Aeternum. Forge your destiny on an adventure filled with danger and opportunity.

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 26.9%, Open World 26.4%, PvP 8.6%, Crafting 8.2%, PvE 7.6%

Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!

Why similar: Vampires 85.3% ★, Dark Fantasy 9.4%, Action 2.9%, Singleplayer 2.3%

Nomadic Survival MMO. Build wooden walking machines to travel to new lands. Create clans and fight for territory. Resources deplete fast, so take your sword and scavenge, pirate, and trade to stay alive.

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 21.1%, Survival 18.4%, Open World 16.5%, Crafting 10.6%, Building 7.8%

Build and defend villages of vegetable folk from deadly feral beasts in the blighted world of The Hollow. Explore, gather, and fight! You can even invite your friends. Can you craft the perfect village?

Why similar: Open World 16.6%, Survival 15.8%, Base Building 13.1%, Online Co-Op 11.3%, Sandbox 10.2%

Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.

Why similar: Crafting 18.7%, Base Building 17%, Survival 15.1%, Building 14.9%, Open World 14.7%

VEIN is a post-apocalyptic survival multiplayer sandbox game. Gather supplies to survive, explore abandoned buildings, defend your home, and rebuild society, whether alone or with friends.

Why similar: Base Building 21.1%, Survival 20.9%, Open World 20.4%, Crafting 10.8%, Multiplayer 8.2%

The Riftbreaker is a solo or Co-op base-building, survival game with Action-RPG elements for up to 4 players. Hack & slash countless hordes of enemies. Build up your base, craft powerful weapons and research new inventions to survive.

Why similar: Base Building 25.6%, Survival 15.1%, Online Co-Op 14.3%, Crafting 11.5%, Multiplayer 10%

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: Survival 15.5%, Base Building 15%, Crafting 14.4%, Open World 11.6%, Online Co-Op 11%

London, 1918. You are newly-turned Vampyr Dr. Jonathan Reid. As a doctor, you must find a cure to save the city’s flu-ravaged citizens. As a Vampyr, you are cursed to feed on those you vowed to heal.

Why similar: Vampires 65.7% ★, Open World 17.8%, Dark Fantasy 8.3%, Action-Adventure 2.9%, Action 2.5%

Renown is an intense medieval multiplayer survival experience set in a vast, ever-evolving world. Whether alone or rallying allies, gather resources, build powerful strongholds, and engage in brutal battles for dominance.

Why similar: Survival 12.7%, Open World 12.6%, Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 11.4%, Massively Multiplayer 10.8%

Ashes of Creation is an old-school take on the modern MMORPG set in a living, reactive world where your choices shape civilization. In this PvX open world sandbox, players will build cities, forge empires, and lay siege to foes. Uncover the Ancients as you fight to reclaim the fallen world of Verra.

Why similar: Crafting 26.4%, Base Building 23.9%, Character Customization 18.9%, Action-Adventure 10.6%, Exploration 9.8%

(Multiplayer | COOP) THE FOREST IS DEAD. YOU ARE NOT. Survive. Build. Kill everyone. A world where zombies are smarter than they look. Inventory, crafting, and building are your tools in the war for tomorrow.

Why similar: Survival 18.2%, Base Building 16.2%, Crafting 16%, Open World 13.9%, Building 12.8%

Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!

Why similar: Base Building 28.2%, Open World 17.3%, Crafting 14.8%, Building 10.2%, Multiplayer 8.8%

HumanitZ is an isometric, open-world sandbox survival game set in a world ended by a zombie outbreak. Survive alone or with friends by scavenging, crafting, building, and fighting to last as long as ‘humanly’ possible. You can’t change the past, but you can fight for the future of humanity.

Why similar: Base Building 18.5%, Survival 17.3%, Open World 15.9%, Crafting 12.3%, Online Co-Op 8.4%

Your home is a living beast. Explore a handcrafted open world in an action RPG where you fight with magic, gather resources, find loot, craft, and grow stronger. Customize and expand your home on its back, and take it with you as you explore solo or with friends.

Why similar: Base Building 16.9%, Open World 13.7%, Survival 13.1%, Crafting 11.5%, Online Co-Op 9.6%

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: Base Building 17.6%, Survival 15.3%, Open World 13.6%, Crafting 12.1%, Online Co-Op 9.9%

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: Base Building 17.9%, Survival 13.3%, Crafting 13%, Open World 12.9%, Building 9.5%

Dark and Light is a vast sandbox survival RPG set in a world dominated by powerful elemental forces. Find your way in a meticulously crafted world, featuring breathtaking landscapes, a wide variety of mythical creatures, and limitless possibility to craft, build, and unlock dozens of powerful weapons, spells, and skills.

Why similar: Open World 22%, Massively Multiplayer 21.5%, Survival 20.3%, Sandbox 11.2%, Base Building 7.5%

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: Survival 20.9%, Base Building 20.2%, Open World 15.4%, Crafting 11.4%, Multiplayer 9.1%

The Infected is a sandbox, first-person, open-world survival game. Build bases, craft, farm, hunt, and survive changing seasons. Choose whether to face the hybrid “Vambies” or turn them off for a pure survival experience.

Why similar: Vampires 23.2% ★, Base Building 16.1%, Open World 12.6%, Survival 11.9%, Crafting 10.8%

Step into Nave, a vast fantasy sandbox world with a player-driven economy, persistent housing, and deep crafting systems. Engage in first-person, full-loot PvP combat with other players and perilous foes. Build, explore, and conquer in an unforgiving world. The land is yours—who will you become?

Why similar: Open World 17.7%, Survival 12.7%, Massively Multiplayer 12.7%, Crafting 12.3%, Sandbox 11.3%

Path of Exile 2 is a next generation Action RPG from Grinding Gear Games, featuring co-op for up to six players. Set years after the original Path of Exile, you will return to the dark world of Wraeclast and seek to end the corruption that is spreading.

Why similar: Dark Fantasy 26.5%, Online Co-Op 17.6%, Multiplayer 16.8%, Crafting 15.5%, Character Customization 12.6%

Albion Online is a fantasy sandbox MMORPG featuring a player-driven economy, classless combat system, and intense PvP battles. Explore a vast open world full of danger and opportunity. Grow your wealth, forge alliances, and leave your mark on the world of Albion.

Why similar: Open World 25.5%, Massively Multiplayer 22%, Crafting 12.1%, Survival 10.7%, Sandbox 10.4%