- #1 Volcanoids
97% matchVery Positive83% of 9,267 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: Base Building 12.5%, Co-op 11%, Crafting 10.7%, Survival 9.3%, Online Co-Op 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: You manage a drill-ship that serves as your mobile base, which you must upgrade to survive volcanic eruptions and robotic enemies.
- #2 Forever Skies
96% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,446 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 32.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A first-person survival game set on a post-apocalyptic, ecologically ruined Earth. Play solo or with up to 3 friends as you build, upgrade, and fly a high-tech airship. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and face dangers on the surface as you hunt for a cure to save humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.7% ★, Base Building 10.6%, Co-op 10.1%, Crafting 8.5%, Survival 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: This game features a high-tech airship that acts as your mobile laboratory and home while you explore a ruined, toxic Earth.
- #3 Raft
96% matchVery Positive93% of 372,032 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.6 hrsMean: 37.3 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 37.7% ★, Survival 11.5%, Co-op 9.8%, Multiplayer 7.6%, Crafting 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: Like Voidtrain, this game centers on surviving and expanding a mobile base that constantly moves through a dangerous environment.
- #4 Heat Death: Survival Train
95% matchMostly Positive79% of 673 reviews2024
Dev: Mass Game DevsPub: LightOnDevs
Windows
Heat Death is a sci-fi survival game where you can build, upgrade, and customize your battle train to explore and survive a frozen world! This train is not only your shelter and vehicle, but also your weapon and ally to face hostile drones, deadly storms, and hidden mysteries of an unknown world!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.4% ★, Trains 20.4% ★, Base Building 9.4%, Crafting 8.5%, Survival 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: A direct thematic match that focuses on surviving in a frozen wasteland aboard a customizable train.
- #5 Zompiercer
94% matchVery Positive89% of 4,324 reviews2020
Dev: DDDimanN
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Take control of the train which will become your haven on the rails. Collect resources, craft equipment, construct a cozy house on railway cars, and travel through the carefully handcrafted locations to explore the story of a zombie apocalypse world.
Why similar: Trains 42.8% ★, Base Building 16.7%, Survival 11.7%, Sandbox 10.8%, Open World 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: Combines zombie survival with train-based mechanics, requiring you to fortify and upgrade your locomotive as you travel.
- #6 Survival Machine
94% matchMostly Positive74% of 687 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: Base Building 25.1%, Online Co-Op 22.1%, Crafting 21.7%, Survival 17.9%, Exploration 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on building and upgrading a mobile vehicle base to survive waves of enemies in a hostile, ever-changing world.
- #7 Oxygen Train
93% matchVery Positive82% of 480 reviews2026
Dev: OxygenTech Limited
Windows
Oxygen Train is an open-world survival train game. Wake up in a world lacking oxygen. Chop trees, mine, gather resources, upgrade your unique train. Survive by planting, fishing, farming, exploring, fighting. Build your train kingdom. Supports 1-8 online co-op.
Why similar: Trains 30.6% ★, Co-op 10.9%, Base Building 10.3%, Survival 9.7%, Building 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game centered on maintaining a train in a harsh environment while managing resources and building infrastructure.
- #8 Void Crew
92% matchVery Positive87% of 8,248 reviews2024
Dev: Hutlihut GamesPub: Focus Entertainment
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Void Crew is a Chaotic, Co-op Roguelite game for 1 to 6 players: Outfit your spaceship and crew for thrilling quests, brave fierce enemies in Space Battles... and try not to panic!
Why similar: Co-op 35.6%, Multiplayer 21.6%, Online Co-Op 19.7%, First-Person 7.1%, Exploration 5.7%
Why You'll Like It: A co-op space simulation that emphasizes teamwork and vehicle management, capturing the crew-based feel of Voidtrain.
- #9 Barotrauma
91% matchVery Positive94% of 86,224 reviews2023
Dev: FakeFishPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 54.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Barotrauma is a 2D co-op submarine simulator – in space, with survival horror and RPG elements. Steer your submarine, complete missions, fight monsters, fix leaks, operate machinery, man the guns and craft items, and stay alert: danger in Barotrauma doesn’t announce itself!
Why similar: Co-op 39.2%, Survival 28.7%, Multiplayer 22.7%, Simulation 5.8%, Action 2.5%
Why You'll Like It: Offers intense co-op submarine management that requires constant maintenance and upgrades to survive the crushing depths of an alien ocean.
- #10 The Planet Crafter
90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 70,189 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.5 hrsMean: 37.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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: Open World Survival Craft 32.8% ★, Base Building 10.7%, Co-op 8.6%, Online Co-Op 8.3%, Survival 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a satisfying progression loop of terraforming and base-building that rewards exploration and resource gathering.
- #11 RailGods of Hysterra
91% matchMixed56% of 332 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 18.5%, Crafting 14.9%, Survival 14.6%, Online Co-Op 13.2%, Multiplayer 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: Features a train-based survival loop set in a bizarre, Lovecraftian world that mirrors the surreal nature of Voidtrain.
- #12 TerraTech Worlds
89% matchMixed63% of 2,228 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 21.9 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 33.2% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Co-op 9.3%, Crafting 8.6%, Survival 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on modular vehicle construction and base-building, allowing for deep customization of your mobile platforms.
- #13 ICARUS
89% matchMostly Positive74% of 63,962 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 46.0 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: Open World Survival Craft 33.5% ★, Base Building 9.6%, Survival 9.3%, Online Co-Op 7.9%, Crafting 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: A session-based survival game that emphasizes crafting and preparation for dangerous expeditions into alien wilderness.
- #14 Nightingale
88% matchMixed67% of 17,932 reviews2024
Dev: Inflexion Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 24.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Nightingale is an open world survival crafting game, where you’ll adventure across the mysterious and dangerous Fae Realms. As a daring Realmwalker, you’ll defeat monstrous enemies, survive hostile environments, and build elaborate estates in a visually stunning Gaslamp Fantasy world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.7% ★, Base Building 8.4%, Online Co-Op 8.4%, Survival 8.2%, Co-op 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: Features portal-based dimension hopping and survival mechanics that evoke the mysterious, shifting landscapes found in Voidtrain.
- #15 Aloft
87% matchVery Positive84% of 3,576 reviews2025
Dev: Astrolabe Interactive Inc.Pub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 29.9% ★, Co-op 11.6%, Crafting 10.7%, Survival 10.1%, Building 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: Allows you to turn floating islands into mobile bases, providing a unique take on the moving-home survival genre.
- #16 Satisfactory
85% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 270,461 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 32.6 hrsMean: 110.0 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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: Open World Survival Craft 19% ★, Base Building 17.2%, Crafting 10.7%, Co-op 10.5%, Open World 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: While more focused on automation, it offers the same deep satisfaction of building complex, interconnected bases in a vast alien environment.
- #17 Lightyear Frontier
86% matchVery Positive84% of 4,457 reviews2024
Dev: FRAME BREAK
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
In Lightyear Frontier you use your powerful trusty mech to farm on a large beautiful alien planet. Settle your homestead, farm and deliver produce to remote colonies, gather and manage resources, build, craft, explore, expand, improve your mech, meet neighbors, and make a place to call your own.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.7% ★, Base Building 11%, Crafting 9.2%, Online Co-Op 9.2%, Co-op 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: Features a customizable mech that acts as your primary tool for base-building and resource gathering in a peaceful open world.
- #18 Lost Skies
86% matchMixed61% of 2,893 reviews2025
Dev: Bossa StudiosPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Chart a course in a breathtaking, but fractured world. Explore ancient ruins, master advanced technology, and craft your very own skyship to brave nature’s fury and colossal threats in Lost Skies. Team up with friends or go it alone in this awe-inspiring cooperative survival adventure.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.7% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Online Co-Op 10.9%, Sandbox 6.3%, Crafting 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on building custom airships to explore a shattered world, emphasizing the freedom of movement and base customization.
- #19 Abiotic Factor
83% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 55,118 reviews2025
Dev: Deep Field GamesPub: Playstack
Windows
Median: 19.6 hrsMean: 43.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Abiotic Factor is a survival crafting experience for 1-6 players set in the depths of an underground research facility. Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the world’s greatest minds must survive against the universe’s biggest threats.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.8% ★, Base Building 11%, Online Co-Op 9.7%, Survival 9.3%, Crafting 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: A co-op survival game that emphasizes crafting and base-building within a mysterious, science-fiction facility.
- #20 Subnautica
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 365,018 reviews2018
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 39.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44% ★, Survival 11.1%, Base Building 9.7%, Crafting 8.2%, Open World 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for exploration-based survival, offering a sense of wonder and isolation similar to the interdimensional travel in Voidtrain.
- #21 Breathedge
84% matchVery Positive82% of 16,224 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 45.1% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Survival 9.7%, Crafting 7.5%, Sandbox 7%
Why You'll Like It: A space-themed survival game that captures the feeling of scavenging and crafting in a hostile, non-terrestrial environment.
- #22 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
82% matchVery Positive82% of 9,989 reviews2024
Dev: Merge GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.1% ★, Base Building 9.3%, Survival 8.1%, Online Co-Op 7.5%, Co-op 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a unique survival perspective with an emphasis on crafting and building within a dangerous, oversized natural world.
- #23 Core Keeper
81% matchVery Positive93% of 64,481 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.0 hrsMean: 34.1 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 26% ★, Base Building 9.1%, Co-op 8.3%, Crafting 7.8%, Survival 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a compelling survival and base-building loop in a subterranean world that encourages exploration and resource management.
- #24 Scrap Mechanic
82% matchVery Positive92% of 117,481 reviews2016
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.2 hrsMean: 58.2 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: Building 12.8%, Crafting 12.4%, Survival 12%, Open World 10.6%, Base Building 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: Provides an incredibly deep vehicle-building system that allows for the creation of complex mobile bases and machines.
- #25 ASTRONEER
81% matchVery Positive92% of 137,959 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.2 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 36.2% ★, Base Building 9.1%, Survival 9%, Open World 8.1%, Co-op 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on exploration and modular base-building on alien planets with a strong emphasis on cooperative play.
- #26 Sunkenland
80% matchVery Positive81% of 23,216 reviews2023
Dev: Vector3 Studio
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 18.5 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 42.1% ★, Co-op 11.5%, Base Building 9.8%, Survival 9.7%, Crafting 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: A water-based survival game that requires building and defending bases while exploring a flooded world.
- #27 Enshrouded
79% matchVery Positive86% of 101,648 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.7 hrsMean: 45.6 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 16.6%, Survival 14.4%, Open World 14.1%, Online Co-Op 12.9%, Crafting 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: Combines survival and base-building with a vast, open-world exploration experience that feels rewarding and polished.
- #28 Trailmakers
79% matchVery Positive92% of 35,682 reviews2019
Dev: Flashbulb
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Build the ultimate vehicle and explore a vast open world filled with challenges and adventure. Play solo or team up with friends in multiplayer to conquer the toughest obstacles. With a thrilling campaign mode and endless creative possibilities, Trailmakers is the ultimate sandbox for adventurers.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 20.2%, Crafting 13%, Survival 11.9%, Building 11.1%, Open World 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the engineering aspect of vehicle creation, perfect for players who enjoy the customization mechanics of Voidtrain.
- #29 The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™
78% matchVery Positive82% of 11,900 reviews2024
Dev: Free Range GamesPub: North Beach Games
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 19.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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: Open World Survival Craft 35.7% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Online Co-Op 9.1%, Survival 8.9%, Crafting 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: Features deep survival and base-building mechanics set in a sprawling, procedurally generated underground world.
- #30 Everwind
77% matchVery Positive82% of 3,221 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 12.8 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: Co-op 14.3%, Online Co-Op 13.3%, Crafting 12.7%, Survival 12.1%, Open World 10.8%
- #31 StarRupture
77% matchVery Positive81% of 12,313 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 22.6 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: Open World Survival Craft 31.7% ★, Base Building 10.5%, Co-op 9.1%, Survival 8%, Crafting 7.9%
- #32 Eden Crafters
76% matchVery Positive86% of 2,425 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.5% ★, Base Building 10.7%, Crafting 8.6%, Online Co-Op 7.4%, Co-op 6.9%
- #33 Tinkerlands
76% matchVery Positive86% of 3,833 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Explore, craft, and fight your way through uncharted islands — solo or with up to 4 players in co-op! Tinkerlands is an exciting survival adventure where you will build your settlement, craft useful tools to survive, and even use magic!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.1% ★, Online Co-Op 9.2%, Survival 8.3%, Co-op 7.9%, Crafting 7.2%
- #34 Stationeers
78% matchVery Positive88% of 9,014 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 83.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!
Why similar: Base Building 19.7%, Co-op 15.6%, Crafting 15.5%, Survival 15%, Building 12.9%
Why You'll Like It: A complex survival game that focuses on the engineering and atmospheric management of your base, ideal for players who enjoy deep systems.
- #35 Voyagers of Nera
75% matchVery Positive85% of 2,367 reviews2025
Dev: Treehouse Games
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 12.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Voyagers of Nera is a cooperative survival-crafting game where you must survive a magical ocean world brimming with lost spirits and deadly monsters. Sail to distant islands, build beautiful villages and surf across the waves with up to 10 players.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.1% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Co-op 10.8%, Online Co-Op 9.7%, Crafting 9.6%
- #36 VEIN
74% matchVery Positive89% of 10,247 reviews2025
Dev: Ramjet Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 14.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 16.8%, Survival 16.2%, Co-op 13.7%, Open World 13.7%, Crafting 10.5%
- #37 Cubic Odyssey
75% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,584 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Embark on a galactic journey in Cubic Odyssey, an open-world adventure where you explore vibrant planets, craft tools, build vehicles, and fight the Red Darkness. Uncover ancient mysteries, and shape a universe full of life, danger, and limitless possibilities!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.2% ★, Base Building 13%, Co-op 11.3%, Building 8.2%, Sandbox 7.3%
- #38 Len's Island
73% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,720 reviews2025
Dev: Flow Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 40.1% ★, Survival 9.6%, Base Building 9.3%, Crafting 9.1%, Building 8.4%
- #39 The Wild Eight
74% matchMixed68% of 8,077 reviews2019
Dev: Eight PointsPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
The Wild Eight is an intense survival action-adventure set in the frozen wilderness of Alaska. Team up with friends in online co-op or go solo, explore the mysterious land, craft weapons and fight to live another day.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.3% ★, Survival 12.9%, Co-op 8.6%, Multiplayer 6.7%, Open World 6.7%
- #40 ASKA
72% matchMostly Positive80% of 11,689 reviews2024
Dev: Sand Sailor StudioPub: Thunderful Publishing
Windows
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 28.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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: Open World Survival Craft 31.4% ★, Base Building 10.2%, Online Co-Op 8.6%, Survival 8%, Co-op 7.2%
- #41 Omega Crafter
72% matchMostly Positive80% of 566 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 32.9% ★, Crafting 9.6%, Survival 9.2%, Co-op 9.2%, Open World 8.4%
- #42 Ale & Tale Tavern
71% matchVery Positive89% of 9,662 reviews2024
Dev: Scienart GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Get ready for a thrilling mix of genres: a cooperative, first-person, open-world fantasy tavern simulator, action, fishing, hunting, exploration, and completing fun and diverse quests. And, of course, COOKING! Play with friends, feed and quench the thirst of the entire world!
Why similar: Online Co-Op 22.8%, Co-op 18.6%, Building 12.8%, Sandbox 11.1%, Multiplayer 8.1%
- #43 Jump Space
70% matchVery Positive86% of 10,811 reviews2025
Dev: Keepsake Games
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Jump Space (formerly Jump Ship) is a mission based co-op PvE for 1-4 players, where you are the crew of a spaceship. Transition seamlessly from crewing the ship to on-foot exploration and space walks. Explore, upgrade, and survive intense encounters in deep space together.
Why similar: Co-op 47.4%, Multiplayer 14.8%, First-Person 11.9%, Exploration 10%, Atmospheric 5.1%
- #44 Infinite Rails
71% matchVery Positive89% of 83 reviews2025
Dev: Benjamin Voráč
Windows · Mac
A railway-building adventure in an endless, procedurally generated world. Lay tracks, transport passengers and goods, complete tasks, and unlock unique locomotives. Play solo or with friends and create your ultimate railway network!
Why similar: Trains 42.5% ★, Co-op 11.4%, Sandbox 8.2%, Online Co-Op 7.8%, Open World 7.7%
- #45 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
70% matchVery Positive91% of 7,431 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Survive, craft, and automate in this free prologue set on one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters, an open-world game where you play solo or with friends to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.3% ★, Base Building 10.1%, Online Co-Op 7.5%, Crafting 7.4%, Multiplayer 6.6%
- #46 Lodventure
73% 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 35.5% ★, Co-op 10.2%, Survival 8.1%, Base Building 7.8%, Open World 7.1%
- #47 Scrapnaut
73% matchMixed70% of 827 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 26.2% ★, Co-op 9.5%, Survival 9%, Online Co-Op 8.6%, Building 8.2%
- #48 Unrailed!
71% matchVery Positive93% of 19,556 reviews2020
Dev: Indoor AstronautPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Unrailed! is a co-op multiplayer game where you have to work together with your friends to build a train track across endless procedurally generated worlds. Master random encounters with its inhabitants, upgrade your train and keep it from derailing!
Why similar: Trains 45% ★, Co-op 17.8%, Online Co-Op 15.9%, Multiplayer 11.8%, Survival 6.8%
- #49 Grounded 2
69% matchVery Positive81% of 21,263 reviews2025
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.0 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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: Open World Survival Craft 26.5% ★, Survival 11.3%, Base Building 11%, Co-op 9.7%, Crafting 7.5%
- #50 Outbound
69% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,416 reviews2026
Dev: Square Glade Games
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Explore a colorful world and build your own cozy home on wheels. Craft workstations, and source energy from the sun, wind, or water. Upgrade and customize your vehicle, grow crops, and live sustainably off-grid with up to 4 players.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.9% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Online Co-Op 10.3%, Crafting 9.7%, Building 8.1%
- #51 The Last Caretaker
68% matchVery Positive86% of 11,047 reviews2025
Dev: Channel37 Ltd
Windows
Median: 17.2 hrsMean: 32.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Explore a drowned Earth, restore lost systems, and raise the last human seeds in this first-person survival-crafting adventure. Build, scavenge, defend, and launch humanity back to the stars.
Why similar: Base Building 19.8%, Crafting 16.5%, Survival 15.6%, Open World 13.2%, Sandbox 11.4%
- #52 Echoes of Elysium
70% matchMixed63% of 519 reviews2026
Dev: Loric Games, Inc.Pub: Snail Games USA
Windows
Survive the skies in Echoes of Elysium, a co-op airship survival RPG. Build and customize your floating fortress, gather resources, and explore a vast procedural clockwork world with up to 6 friends. Battle land and skyborne threats while uncovering mysteries in a paradise on the brink.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.1% ★, Co-op 11.4%, Crafting 10.4%, Survival 9.4%, Building 8.1%
- #53 Windrose
66% matchVery Positive88% of 44,950 reviews2026
Dev: Kraken Express
Windows
Median: 19.2 hrsMean: 31.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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: Open World Survival Craft 40.2% ★, Online Co-Op 11.2%, Crafting 10.8%, Survival 10.1%, Base Building 8.6%
- #54 Orebound
69% matchMostly Positive78% of 913 reviews2024
Dev: Emberforge
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 15.3%, Co-op 14.6%, Crafting 14%, Building 10.4%, Open World 10.2%
- #55 Grounded
67% matchVery Positive90% of 93,832 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.3 hrsMean: 41.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.9% ★, Survival 12.1%, Base Building 10.7%, Co-op 10.1%, Multiplayer 7.6%
- #56 Necesse
65% matchVery Positive93% of 27,199 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 14.8 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 42% ★, Crafting 6.5%, Survival 6.4%, Co-op 6.3%, Open World 6.1%
- #57 Bellwright
67% matchVery Positive81% of 19,796 reviews2024
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 12.7 hrsMean: 41.4 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 18.1%, Crafting 14.8%, Open World 14.5%, Online Co-Op 14.2%, Co-op 10.6%
- #58 The Gold River Project
67% matchMixed66% of 568 reviews2026
Dev: Fairview Games Inc.
Windows
The Gold River Project™ is a camping trip gone wrong in the Pacific Northwest. Explore, craft, build, and survive in this open-world experiment that traps you and up to 4 friends in this single player or co-op survival adventure game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.2% ★, Co-op 9.8%, Open World 8.3%, Survival 8.3%, Crafting 7.6%
- #59 Arctico
68% matchMostly Positive71% of 2,460 reviews2022
Dev: Claudio Norori
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Explore Arctico with your dog sled, kayak, and up to 3 friends! Build and customize your base camp, gather resources and samples, set up labs, and take good care of your dogs in this peaceful island.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.4% ★, Co-op 9.9%, Survival 8.5%, Open World 7.5%, Multiplayer 6.5%