- #1 V Rising
97% matchVery Positive89% of 135,087 reviews2024
Dev: Stunlock Studios
Windows
Median: 21.1 hrsMean: 57.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Awaken as a Vampire. Hunt for blood in nearby settlements to regain your strength and evade the scorching sun to survive. Raise your castle and thrive in an ever-changing, open world full of mystery. Gain allies online and conquer the land of the living.
Why similar: Vampires 41.2% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Open World 8.9%, Survival 8.6%, Crafting 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive vampire survival experience featuring top-down combat, castle building, and blood-based progression mechanics.
- #2 Enshrouded
96% 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: Base Building 17.2%, Open World 15.3%, Online Co-Op 13.2%, Survival 13.1%, Crafting 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: Features impressive voxel-based building mechanics and a vast, atmospheric open world to explore and survive in.
- #3 Valheim
96% 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: Online Co-Op 15.8%, Base Building 14.2%, Survival 13.4%, Open World 12.9%, Crafting 12.3%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a highly atmospheric open-world survival experience with rewarding base-building and exploration in a Norse-inspired setting.
- #4 Conan Exiles Enhanced
95% matchMostly Positive79% of 116,054 reviews2018
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 17.1 hrsMean: 112.9 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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 20.5%, Open World 18.1%, Crafting 15.4%, Building 15.3%, Sandbox 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a brutal, dark fantasy survival experience with extensive base-building and a focus on thrall management.
- #5 Medieval Dynasty
94% matchVery Positive90% of 51,181 reviews2021
Dev: Render CubePub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 11.8 hrsMean: 36.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 19.4%, Building 17.3%, Base Building 14.9%, Survival 11.5%, Open World 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: Combines survival and crafting with a strong emphasis on building and managing a growing settlement.
- #6 Soulmask
94% matchMostly Positive77% of 21,804 reviews2026
Dev: CampFire StudioPub: Qooland Games
Windows
Median: 13.8 hrsMean: 68.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 21.4%, Crafting 17.6%, Open World 14.8%, Survival 14.5%, Sandbox 13.4%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on deep base-building and complex servant management, mirroring the leadership aspects of the seed game.
- #7 Bellwright
93% matchVery Positive81% of 20,282 reviews2024
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 12.8 hrsMean: 41.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 18.5%, Open World 17.7%, Crafting 17.3%, Online Co-Op 16.3%, Building 12.5%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on leading a rebellion and building a community, requiring strategic management and survival skills.
- #8 Sons Of The Forest
92% matchVery Positive88% of 309,677 reviews2024
Dev: Endnight Games LtdPub: Newnight
Windows
Median: 15.0 hrsMean: 32.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends, in this terrifying new open-world survival horror simulator.
Why similar: Base Building 18.1%, Survival 17.9%, Open World 16.2%, Crafting 12.3%, Building 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: Delivers intense survival horror and atmospheric exploration with robust building systems.
- #9 Dune: Awakening
91% matchMostly Positive71% of 76,850 reviews2025
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 47.6 hrsMean: 99.1 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival game with immersive adventure and RPG gameplay. Explore, build, craft, and unravel a cinematic Dune story alone or with friends 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 13.3%, Lore-Rich 11.8%, Crafting 10.5%, Online Co-Op 10.5%, Building 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: A large-scale open-world survival game that emphasizes crafting and building within a harsh, unforgiving environment.
- #10 7 Days to Die
91% matchVery Positive87% of 400,969 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.0 hrsMean: 108.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 18.4%, Base Building 17.2%, Open World 13.4%, Online Co-Op 13.4%, Building 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: Known for its deep base-building and tower-defense elements that challenge your survival skills against waves of enemies.
- #11 Nightingale
90% 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: Base Building 15.6%, Online Co-Op 15.2%, Crafting 13.8%, Survival 13.2%, Open World 13%
Why You'll Like It: Features a unique aesthetic with survival and crafting mechanics set in a sprawling, mysterious world.
- #12 Dawn of Defiance
89% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,809 reviews2024
Dev: Traega EntertainmentPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
You are the Defier, a Spartan beginning your afterlife on the Crossroads. In this Greek myth-inspired survival craft, ascend from weak soldier to god-like anti-hero. Build impressive Greek structures, craft legendary gear, and break the seals of the Underworld with up to 3 friends.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 15.8%, Base Building 15.1%, Survival 12.9%, Open World 10.1%, Building 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game set in a mythical world that emphasizes crafting and exploration.
- #13 ARK: Survival Ascended
89% matchMixed60% of 108,124 reviews2023
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows
Median: 27.5 hrsMean: 197.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 17.8%, Base Building 17.6%, Open World 16.9%, Crafting 14.4%, Building 12.6%
Why You'll Like It: Offers deep survival mechanics and creature taming that provides a sense of progression and power similar to a vampire lord.
- #14 Sengoku Dynasty
88% matchMostly Positive75% of 7,594 reviews2024
Dev: SuperkamiPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 7.4 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Sengoku Dynasty is the ultimate feudal Japan experience: build villages, grow your community, and shape the open world through combat or economy. The choice is yours alone - or that of up to 4 players in multiplayer co-op!
Why similar: Base Building 18.9%, Open World 13.4%, Crafting 13.1%, Survival 12.8%, Building 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: Blends survival and crafting with village management in a beautifully realized historical setting.
- #15 The Forest
87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 674,499 reviews2018
Dev: Endnight Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 37.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
Why similar: Survival 23.6%, Open World 18%, Crafting 15.7%, Building 11.9%, Horror 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: A classic survival horror title that excels in atmospheric exploration and base-building against hostile threats.
- #16 The Bloodline
86% matchVery Positive83% of 3,866 reviews2023
Dev: Shieldbearer StudiosPub: 505 Pulse
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
The Bloodline is a sandbox adventure RPG that lets you play your way. Reforge bonds between kingdoms, explore the wilds, craft and plan adventures and wield mighty weapons or magic as you prepare for what is to come…
Why similar: Sandbox 23.7%, Open World 23.3%, Fantasy 12.9%, Third Person 12.5%, Exploration 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world RPG that offers deep combat and exploration mechanics in a fantasy setting.
- #17 The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™
86% matchVery Positive81% of 12,047 reviews2024
Dev: Free Range GamesPub: North Beach Games
Windows
Median: 7.5 hrsMean: 19.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 18.1%, Online Co-Op 13.8%, Crafting 13.7%, Survival 12%, Building 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on co-op survival and base-building within a deep, atmospheric underground environment.
- #18 Night of the Dead
85% matchMostly Positive77% of 11,799 reviews2024
Dev: Jackto Studios
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 32.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
'Night of the Dead' is an open-world game that combines elements of exploration, tower defense, survival, and crafting. Traverse a world dominated by zombies while collecting various resources and powerful equipment. Build a fortress to survive the hordes of zombies that swarm every night!
Why similar: Base Building 15.1%, Online Co-Op 13.3%, Crafting 12.6%, Open World 11%, Building 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: Combines survival mechanics with tower-defense elements to protect your base from persistent threats.
- #19 ICARUS
84% matchMostly Positive75% of 64,520 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 46.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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%, Survival 15.1%, Online Co-Op 14.3%, Crafting 13.4%, Open World 11%
Why You'll Like It: Features session-based survival with a strong emphasis on crafting and adapting to dangerous environments.
- #20 No One Survived
83% matchMixed65% of 7,677 reviews2025
Dev: Cat Play Studio
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 22.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%
This is a multiplayer cooperative open world construction survival sandbox game, where you and your friends must find supplies and build shelters in this world. You have to keep an eye on your character's needs state at all times, a bad state is likely to lead to death.
Why similar: Survival 20.6%, Open World 18.2%, Crafting 15.4%, Building 10.8%, Online Co-Op 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: Features detailed survival systems and crafting, requiring careful planning to endure the open world.
- #21 VEIN
82% matchVery Positive89% of 10,737 reviews2025
Dev: Ramjet Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 14.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 22.2%, Open World 18.8%, Survival 18.6%, Crafting 13.6%, Sandbox 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore survival game that focuses on scavenging and building in a post-apocalyptic world.
- #22 Frozen Flame
84% 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: Base Building 15.5%, Online Co-Op 13.1%, Crafting 11.5%, Open World 10.8%, Building 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: Offers exploration-heavy survival with fantasy elements and a focus on building a home in a magical world.
- #23 Myth of Empires
82% matchMixed67% of 17,420 reviews2024
Dev: Angela GamePub: Imperium Interactive Entertainment
Windows
Median: 15.2 hrsMean: 230.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 18.2%, Building 16.6%, Open World 14.3%, Sandbox 14.3%, Survival 12.9%
Why You'll Like It: Provides complex base-building and army management mechanics in a vast, sandbox open world.
- #24 Voidtrain
81% 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: Base Building 15.9%, Crafting 12.8%, Online Co-Op 12.8%, Survival 12.2%, Open World 11%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a unique survival premise where you build and upgrade a base on a train traveling through a strange dimension.
- #25 Don't Starve Together
81% 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: Survival 62.2%, Open World 9.5%, Crafting 9%, Online Co-Op 8.3%, Sandbox 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: A gothic, atmospheric survival game that emphasizes resource management and co-op play.
- #26 Project Zomboid
79% matchVery Positive94% of 455,059 reviews2013
Dev: The Indie Stone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 15.1 hrsMean: 84.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 29.6%, Open World 21.4%, Sandbox 14.9%, Crafting 12.8%, Building 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for hardcore survival, offering unparalleled depth in base fortification and resource management.
- #27 Drake Hollow
79% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,798 reviews2020
Dev: The Molasses FloodPub: CD PROJEKT RED
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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: Online Co-Op 15.7%, Open World 14.4%, Survival 13.4%, Sandbox 13%, Base Building 12.8%
Why You'll Like It: Features base-building and survival with a distinct visual style and a focus on protecting fragile creatures.
- #28 Everwind
76% 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 15.9%, Crafting 15.6%, Building 13.8%, Open World 13.8%, Survival 12.9%
- #29 Saleblazers
78% matchVery Positive80% of 2,179 reviews2023
Dev: AIRSTRAFE INTERACTIVE
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 19.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
You’re a humble shopkeeper trying to live a peaceful new life, finding yourself surrounded by warring factions and dangerous creatures. Will you be able to carve out a new home for yourself and your customers in this open-world survival shopkeeping simulator?
Why similar: Base Building 19.3%, Online Co-Op 15.8%, Crafting 15.8%, Open World 13.6%, Survival 13%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game that adds a unique shop-keeping twist to the standard crafting and exploration loop.
- #30 Outbreak Island
77% matchMostly Positive80% of 996 reviews2025
Dev: Tiny Magicians
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Survive on a remote Island, where a mysterious Outbreak awakens bloodthirsty monsters at night. Craft, build and defend your base in the brutal world of Outbreak Island, an open-world sandbox survival horror game.
Why similar: Survival 14%, Base Building 13.9%, Sandbox 13.5%, Crafting 12.3%, Building 9.9%
- #31 Dark and Light
80% matchMixed52% of 11,819 reviews2017
Dev: Snail Games USA
Windows
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 49.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 22.6%, Survival 20.4%, Sandbox 17%, Base Building 8.5%, RPG 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A fantasy-themed survival game with magic and exploration that mirrors the supernatural elements of the seed game.
- #32 Solace Crafting
78% 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: Base Building 14.2%, Crafting 13.2%, Survival 11.4%, Online Co-Op 11.3%, Open World 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on exploration and crafting in a vast, procedurally generated world with minimal combat interference.
- #33 The Infected
77% matchVery Positive84% of 6,954 reviews2020
Dev: DigX Studios
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 68%
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 36.3% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Crafting 9.2%, Open World 8.2%, Building 8.1%
- #34 Windrose
73% matchVery Positive87% of 48,348 reviews2026
Dev: Kraken Express
Windows
Median: 19.7 hrsMean: 32.4 hrs≥1hr: 95%
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: Online Co-Op 17.8%, Crafting 17.6%, Survival 14.2%, Base Building 14%, Building 12.6%
- #35 Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2
75% matchMixed55% of 12,514 reviews2025
Dev: The Chinese RoomPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 10.4 hrsMean: 17.5 hrs≥1hr: 93%
You are the Nomad — an elder vampire awakening from a century-long slumber, new to the modern nights. Trapped in your Blood is a stranger’s voice. This entity, a vampire detective known as Fabien, will be your guide to 21st-century Seattle.
Why similar: Vampires 83.7% ★, Open World 5.8%, RPG 3.3%, Horror 3%, Atmospheric 2.1%
- #36 Valorborn
75% matchMixed63% of 493 reviews2026
Dev: Laps Games
Windows
Dive into a living medieval fantasy sandbox RPG where the world moves with or without you and factions rise and fall. Become a thief, hunter, or sellsword, survive alone or with a party, and shape your story in a fully enterable world where every building, cave, and road hides opportunity or danger.
Why similar: Open World 13.7%, Crafting 13.4%, Building 12.7%, Sandbox 12.6%, Base Building 12.5%
- #37 RailGods of Hysterra
76% matchMixed56% of 333 reviews2025
Dev: Troglobytes GamesPub: Digital Vortex Entertainment
Windows
Embark on a co-op survival journey for 1-5 players through a post-apocalyptic Lovecraftian world! Command and evolve a living, monstrous train, craft weapons, build a mobile base, gain powers, and face the Great Old Ones. Explore an ever-changing world, hold on to your sanity, and ascend to godhood!
Why similar: Base Building 20.5%, Crafting 16.4%, Online Co-Op 14.2%, Survival 14.1%, Building 11.3%
- #38 ENDALOR
74% 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: Online Co-Op 15.5%, Base Building 15.2%, Open World 13.2%, Survival 13%, Crafting 12.4%
- #39 Whisper of the Swallows
74% matchVery Positive86% of 166 reviews2026
Dev: Blown Leaves
Windows
Brave a savage, unforgiving procedurally generated world where extreme weather and the nightmares of the dark will hunt you down. Alone or in co-op, survive, build, and explore to turn a cursed hellscape into your sanctuary of light.
Why similar: Crafting 13.7%, Base Building 13.5%, Online Co-Op 11.6%, Survival 11.4%, Building 11.2%
- #40 Witchspire
72% matchVery Positive83% of 1,403 reviews2026
Dev: Envar Games
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Step into the ultimate open-world witch adventure. Befriend and battle creatures, and conjure up a sanctuary alongside other witches in co-op or single-player.
Why similar: Base Building 24.5%, Online Co-Op 20.9%, Crafting 20.4%, Open World 16.9%, Fantasy 9.9%
- #41 Notmads
72% matchVery Positive82% of 78 reviews2026
Dev: Rhomita
Windows
Your home is a living beast. Raise it, build on its back, and explore the world as it becomes a moving fortress. Fight, gather resources, and grow stronger alongside it in a fast-paced action RPG with progression, crafting, and exploration, playable solo or with friends.
Why similar: Base Building 16.2%, Online Co-Op 12.8%, Crafting 12.1%, Open World 11.5%, Building 11%
- #42 Volcanoids
73% matchVery Positive83% of 9,287 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.9 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: Base Building 15.8%, Crafting 13.4%, Building 11.1%, Online Co-Op 10.9%, Sandbox 10.3%
- #43 Nested Lands
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 479 reviews2026
Dev: 1M Bits HordePub: META Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Nested Lands is a ruthless medieval RPG game featuring in-depth village building, large-scale social management and combats. Gather survivors, build a settlement, craft, master your skills, survive, and endure alone or in online co-op.
Why similar: Crafting 15.3%, Online Co-Op 15.3%, Open World 13.1%, Survival 12.6%, Sandbox 12%
- #44 Shamania
71% 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: Crafting 16.7%, Open World 14.8%, Survival 13.1%, Online Co-Op 11.7%, Base Building 10.6%
- #45 Ars Notoria
71% matchMixed62% of 307 reviews2025
Dev: XRON SoftwarePub: Lilith Games
Windows
Ars Notoria is an open-world survival crafting game set in a rich fantasy world. Learn six distinct schools of magic, gather resources, build your base, expand your influence, and stand against the ever-shifting threat of the Enthralled. You are the one destined to change the kingdom.
Why similar: Base Building 16.2%, Crafting 13.1%, Building 11.4%, Sandbox 11%, Open World 10.7%
- #46 Romestead
70% 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: Crafting 16.4%, Base Building 15.2%, Survival 12.5%, Online Co-Op 12.1%, Building 10.2%
- #47 StarRupture
69% matchVery Positive81% of 12,717 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 23.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.
Why similar: Base Building 19.8%, Crafting 14.7%, Open World 13.3%, Survival 13.1%, Online Co-Op 11.8%
- #48 KINGDOMS
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 4,084 reviews2015
Dev: Oreol
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 70%
KINGDOMS is a procedural medieval RPG in a randomly generated open world. The main feature of KINGDOMS is a smart AI system that completely controls NPC behavior. As the player, you can fully interact with this massive world and become any person you want to be.
Why similar: Open World 20.2%, Building 18.3%, Crafting 15.6%, Survival 14.9%, Sandbox 12.2%
- #49 The Legacy
70% matchMixed52% of 66 reviews2025
Dev: Second RealityPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Cooperative survival and horror genre. You and your family have returned to your native land, on which a terrible curse and darkness has fallen. Will you be able to survive in a harsh and dangerous environment and stop the evil? It depends only on you, on your skills and ability to help each other.
Why similar: Base Building 16.3%, Open World 14.8%, Survival 14.5%, Crafting 12.7%, Sandbox 11.9%
- #50 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
69% 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: Base Building 16%, Online Co-Op 12.5%, Crafting 12.1%, Survival 12%, Building 10.7%
- #51 Towers of Aghasba
69% matchMixed68% of 2,040 reviews2024
Dev: Dreamlit inc.
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Explore a stunning open-world filled with majestic creatures and quirky characters. Nurture the barren land into vibrant ecosystems and flex your creativity as you build a thriving civilization in balance with nature.
Why similar: Base Building 18.1%, Crafting 14.9%, Open World 13.3%, Building 12.3%, Sandbox 10.4%
- #52 Orebound
68% matchMostly Positive78% of 933 reviews2024
Dev: Emberforge
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Orebound is a dwarven themed factory automation game. Play alone or with friends as you build, mine, craft and explore a voxel generated world! Build your fortress, expand your factory, fight off creatures who dwell beneath the mountains and embark on a journey of greatness.
Why similar: Base Building 19%, Crafting 17.1%, Building 13.8%, Open World 13.2%, Sandbox 11.8%
- #53 Lost Rift
67% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,611 reviews2025
Dev: People Can Fly
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Lost Rift is a first person survival adventure shooter that blends cooperative base building with multiplayer PvE or PvP extraction expeditions. Journey solo or in teams of up to 5 players across a vast archipelago, craft gear, build bases, defeat raiders, and become legendary.
Why similar: Base Building 27%, Crafting 22.5%, Online Co-Op 20.2%, Survival 18.4%, Exploration 7.5%
- #54 IfSunSets
67% matchMostly Positive75% of 2,279 reviews2024
Dev: POLYMORPHPub: Smilegate
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 27.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
「IfSunSets」 is a survival RPG adventure game. During the day, secure necessary supplies across the island, and survive the night against strong and terrifying monsters that track you down. You can utilize resources you've secured to build a base to fend off threatening monsters.
Why similar: Base Building 28.8%, Open World 20.4%, Sandbox 18.8%, Third Person 13.6%, Exploration 9.7%
- #55 Plains of Pain
67% matchVery Positive83% of 831 reviews2023
Dev: Cobra Byte Digital
Windows
Survive a brutal open world alone or with friends. Explore a procedural wasteland scorched by chaos. Build and defend your base, trade for what you need, complete deadly quests, and fight to claim faction outposts before someone else does.
Why similar: Base Building 17.9%, Online Co-Op 14.2%, Crafting 14%, Open World 12.3%, Sandbox 12%
- #56 Robin Hood - Sherwood Builders
67% matchMixed69% of 1,085 reviews2024
Dev: MeanAstronautsPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 22.0 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Robin Hood - Sherwood Builders is an action-adventure RPG with base-building elements, where you take on the role of a classic hero who stands up to the tyranny and injustice that haunts Sherwood. Fight, craft, steal, and of course help the local people grow and prosper.
Why similar: Base Building 18.4%, Crafting 13.7%, Open World 13.4%, Building 12.3%, Survival 10.2%
- #57 Creatures Inc
70% matchMixed54% of 162 reviews2019
Dev: Little Beavers Games
Windows
Creatures Inc is an open world survival experience where taming creatures is the key to survival. Explore a hostile world solo or in 2 player online co-op, make impactful choices, upgrade your character, and turn deadly creatures into powerful allies.
Why similar: Survival 22.3%, Base Building 16.6%, Open World 14.1%, Building 11.4%, Simulation 10.4%
- #58 Blood Night
65% matchVery Positive96% of 109 reviews2026
Dev: Team
Windows
(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: Crafting 19.3%, Building 17.5%, Base Building 16.7%, Survival 16.4%, Open World 12.7%
- #59 Pax Dei
65% matchMixed57% of 11,051 reviews2025
Dev: Mainframe Industries
Windows
Median: 16.5 hrsMean: 70.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Welcome to a vast, social sandbox MMO inspired by the legends of the medieval era. Here, myths are real, ghosts exist, and magic is unquestioned. Join thousands of players as you explore the land, build your home, forge your reputation, and craft your own stories. What world will you make?
Why similar: Base Building 19.1%, Crafting 16.1%, Open World 13.7%, Sandbox 13%, Third Person 9.1%
- #60 Survive the Nights
64% matchMixed66% of 6,578 reviews2025
Dev: a2z Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Hardcore open-world survival where preparation is everything. Scavenge, craft, fortify during the day. When night falls, the infected hunt in numbers. Play solo or with friends in a brutal post-apocalyptic sandbox where survival is earned through smart decisions. How many Nights will you survive?
Why similar: Online Co-Op 28%, Survival 26.2%, Sandbox 26%, Atmospheric 12.5%, Adventure 7.3%