- #1 Volcanoids
97% matchVery Positive83% of 9,214 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30% ★, Base Building 7.7%, Online Co-Op 7.5%, Crafting 7.5%, Survival 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: This game features a steampunk drill-ship that serves as your mobile base, offering a very similar gameplay loop of drilling, gathering, and upgrading.
- #2 Forever Skies
96% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,284 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.4 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 30.6% ★, Base Building 10.6%, Co-op 10.1%, Crafting 8.6%, Survival 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: You pilot a customizable airship through a ruined world, mirroring the vehicle-focused survival and exploration found in Voidtrain.
- #3 Survival Machine
96% matchMostly Positive74% of 669 reviews2025
Dev: Grape PickersPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Build your base on a moving Machine, travel through biomes with different resources, and prepare for the night when a zombie threat is much higher than during the day. Would you go solo or explore this new world with your best friends?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.8% ★, Base Building 9.4%, Co-op 8.7%, Online Co-Op 8.2%, Crafting 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: This title focuses on a mobile base that you must defend and improve while traveling through dangerous, procedurally generated landscapes.
- #4 Raft
95% matchVery Positive93% of 368,916 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.5 hrsMean: 36.8 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.7% ★, Survival 11.4%, Co-op 9.9%, Multiplayer 7.6%, Crafting 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: Like Voidtrain, this game centers on a mobile base that you expand and upgrade while surviving in a hostile, ever-changing environment.
- #5 Void Crew
94% matchVery Positive87% of 8,134 reviews2024
Dev: Hutlihut GamesPub: Focus Entertainment
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 16.4 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 35.3%, Multiplayer 21.7%, Online Co-Op 19.8%, First-Person 7.1%, Exploration 5.7%
Why You'll Like It: A cooperative space-sim that emphasizes teamwork and vehicle management, capturing the high-stakes collaborative feel of operating a complex machine.
- #6 Heat Death: Survival Train
94% matchMostly Positive79% of 660 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 32.3% ★, Trains 20.4% ★, Base Building 9.3%, Crafting 8.6%, Survival 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: This game is a direct thematic match, focusing entirely on surviving and upgrading a train in a harsh, post-apocalyptic world.
- #7 Aloft
93% matchVery Positive84% of 3,496 reviews2025
Dev: Astrolabe Interactive Inc.Pub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Soar the skies in Aloft, the co-op sandbox survival game set in a world of floating islands. Build any island into a skyship, your home in the clouds. Find lost knowledge, cure the fungal corruption, and brave the hurricane to restore the ecosystem.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.8% ★, Co-op 11.6%, Crafting 10.8%, Survival 10%, Building 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: You build and customize a floating island base that you can pilot through the skies, providing a similar sense of mobile home-building.
- #8 The Planet Crafter
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 67,314 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.1 hrsMean: 37.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 32.6% ★, Base Building 10.6%, Co-op 8.7%, Online Co-Op 8.4%, Survival 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: While your base is stationary, the focus on exploration, resource gathering, and transforming a hostile world provides a similar sense of progression.
- #9 RailGods of Hysterra
92% matchMixed57% of 331 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 18.3%, Crafting 15%, Survival 14.5%, Online Co-Op 13.2%, Multiplayer 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: It features a train-based survival experience set in a dark, Lovecraftian world that emphasizes crafting and base maintenance.
- #10 Barotrauma
91% matchVery Positive94% of 84,235 reviews2023
Dev: FakeFishPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 54.3 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 28.5%, Multiplayer 22.7%, Simulation 5.9%, Action 2.5%
Why You'll Like It: It offers intense cooperative submarine management where you must maintain your vessel while navigating a hostile, alien underwater environment.
- #11 TerraTech Worlds
90% matchMixed63% of 2,175 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.1% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Co-op 9.4%, Crafting 8.6%, Survival 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: This game excels at modular vehicle building and exploration, allowing you to construct massive mobile bases to traverse alien planets.
- #12 ICARUS
89% matchMostly Positive74% of 62,078 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 44.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 33.4% ★, Base Building 9.6%, Survival 9.2%, Online Co-Op 7.9%, Crafting 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: This session-based survival game offers intense crafting and base-building challenges that reward preparation and teamwork.
- #13 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
89% matchVery Positive82% of 9,646 reviews2024
Dev: Merge GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.1% ★, Base Building 9.3%, Survival 8%, Online Co-Op 7.6%, Co-op 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique perspective on survival and exploration with a strong emphasis on base-building and crafting in a dangerous, oversized world.
- #14 Abiotic Factor
87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 52,861 reviews2025
Dev: Deep Field GamesPub: Playstack
Windows
Median: 19.3 hrsMean: 42.7 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 34.5% ★, Base Building 11%, Online Co-Op 9.8%, Crafting 9.4%, Survival 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: A cooperative survival game that emphasizes base-building and crafting within a mysterious, sci-fi research facility setting.
- #15 Scrap Mechanic
88% matchVery Positive92% of 117,049 reviews2016
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.1 hrsMean: 57.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!
Why similar: Building 12.7%, Crafting 12.5%, Survival 11.9%, Open World 10.5%, Base Building 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: The advanced physics-based building system allows for the creation of complex mobile vehicles and bases, perfect for players who love engineering.
- #16 Nightingale
86% matchMixed67% of 17,841 reviews2024
Dev: Inflexion Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 23.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Nightingale is an open world survival crafting game, where you’ll adventure across the mysterious and dangerous Fae Realms. As a daring Realmwalker, you’ll defeat monstrous enemies, survive hostile environments, and build elaborate estates in a visually stunning Gaslamp Fantasy world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.6% ★, Online Co-Op 8.4%, Base Building 8.4%, Survival 8.1%, Co-op 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: The focus on interdimensional travel and exploration mirrors the surreal, shifting world-hopping mechanics found in Voidtrain.
- #17 Core Keeper
84% matchVery Positive93% of 63,205 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.0 hrsMean: 33.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.1% ★, Base Building 9%, Co-op 8.3%, Crafting 7.9%, Survival 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game that excels at exploration and base-building, providing a highly addictive loop of gathering and upgrading.
- #18 Breathedge
86% matchVery Positive82% of 16,026 reviews2021
Dev: RedRuins SoftworksPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Survive in outer space! Together with your immortal chicken, discover the truth behind your sudden spaceship crash. Craft tools, pilot vehicles, and even control space stations to survive and explore the wreckage.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.7% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Survival 9.6%, Crafting 7.5%, Sandbox 7%
Why You'll Like It: A space-themed survival game that features a humorous tone and a heavy emphasis on crafting and managing your limited resources.
- #19 ASTRONEER
85% matchVery Positive92% of 136,711 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 44.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.2% ★, Base Building 9%, Survival 9%, Open World 8%, Co-op 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes exploration and base-building on alien planets, featuring a clean aesthetic and satisfying crafting progression.
- #20 Satisfactory
83% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 265,414 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 31.8 hrsMean: 108.4 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%, Crafting 10.8%, Co-op 10.6%, Open World 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: While more focused on automation, the scale of base-building and the exploration of a massive, alien world will appeal to Voidtrain fans.
- #21 Subnautica
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 344,093 reviews2018
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.4 hrsMean: 40.0 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 44.1% ★, Survival 11%, Base Building 9.6%, Crafting 8.3%, Open World 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: It is the gold standard for atmospheric survival and exploration, offering a deep sense of wonder and discovery in an alien environment.
- #22 Eden Crafters
82% matchVery Positive86% of 2,214 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in Eden Crafters, a solo and co-op open-world game that challenges you to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Temper the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.5% ★, Base Building 11%, Crafting 9.1%, Online Co-Op 7.7%, Co-op 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: It combines automation and base-building with a focus on terraforming, offering a satisfying sense of progression and environmental change.
- #23 Oxygen Train
82% matchMixed61% of 71 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 11%, Base Building 10.3%, Survival 9.6%, Building 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the specific challenge of managing a train in a survival setting, directly echoing the core premise of Voidtrain.
- #24 Sunkenland
81% matchVery Positive81% of 22,996 reviews2023
Dev: Vector3 Studio
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 17.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Get ready for a Waterworld-themed survival game with modular base building, sunken city scavenging, crafting, base defense, and invasions of NPC clans for resources and territory. Ready for the water apocalypse?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42% ★, Co-op 11.5%, Base Building 9.7%, Survival 9.6%, Crafting 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: A water-based survival game that features modular base-building and exploration, capturing a similar feeling of scavenging and growth.
- #25 Tinkerlands
81% matchVery Positive86% of 3,746 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 13.7 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 35.8% ★, Online Co-Op 9.3%, Survival 8.2%, Co-op 8%, Crafting 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that emphasizes exploration and crafting, providing a lighthearted yet engaging experience.
- #26 Lost Skies
80% matchMixed62% of 2,832 reviews2025
Dev: Bossa StudiosPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 44.6% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Online Co-Op 11.1%, Sandbox 6.3%, Crafting 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: This game features massive floating islands and cooperative exploration, focusing on building and maintaining your own airship.
- #27 Necesse
78% matchVery Positive93% of 26,780 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42% ★, Crafting 6.6%, Survival 6.4%, Co-op 6.3%, Open World 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game that focuses on building settlements and exploring, providing a deep and rewarding progression system.
- #28 Valheim
78% matchVery Positive94% of 529,829 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 25.6 hrsMean: 76.1 hrs≥1hr: 93%
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.2% ★, Online Co-Op 8.9%, Survival 8.4%, Base Building 7.7%, Crafting 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a compelling survival and exploration loop with robust base-building mechanics that feel rewarding and grounded.
- #29 Lightyear Frontier
79% matchVery Positive84% of 4,206 reviews2024
Dev: FRAME BREAK
Windows
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 33.6% ★, Base Building 10.9%, Crafting 9.3%, Online Co-Op 9.3%, Co-op 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: You pilot a customizable mech to farm and explore an alien world, offering a unique take on vehicle-based survival.
- #30 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
79% matchMostly Positive79% of 34,087 reviews2020
Dev: Eleon Game Studios
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 76.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.1% ★, Co-op 11.9%, Survival 9%, Crafting 8%, Building 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: This game allows for full-scale vehicle and capital ship construction, providing deep customization for mobile base enthusiasts.
- #31 StarRupture
77% matchVery Positive81% of 10,861 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 18.9 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 31.6% ★, Base Building 10.5%, Co-op 9.2%, Survival 8%, Crafting 7.9%
- #32 Everwind
76% matchVery Positive82% of 2,069 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Everwind is a novel take on RPG and Sandbox Survival genre in First-Person-Perspective. Embark on the adventure with your friends - Build a base on a flying island-ship, gather resources, craft, loot, and fight while you rise above the clouds to uncover the mysteries of this world!
Why similar: Co-op 14.4%, Online Co-Op 12.9%, Survival 12.3%, Crafting 10.9%, Open World 10.9%
- #33 Cubic Odyssey
77% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,483 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Embark on a galactic journey in Cubic Odyssey, an open-world adventure where you explore vibrant planets, craft tools, build vehicles, and fight the Red Darkness. Uncover ancient mysteries, and shape a universe full of life, danger, and limitless possibilities!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.5% ★, Base Building 11.4%, Co-op 10.4%, Building 7.4%, Sandbox 6.8%
- #34 VEIN
74% matchVery Positive90% of 9,542 reviews2025
Dev: Ramjet Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 13.9 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 16.6%, Survival 16.1%, Co-op 13.8%, Open World 13.4%, Crafting 10.7%
- #35 Enshrouded
74% matchVery Positive86% of 98,202 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.3 hrsMean: 44.1 hrs≥1hr: 94%
You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.
Why similar: Base Building 16.4%, Survival 14.3%, Open World 14%, Online Co-Op 13%, Crafting 11.7%
- #36 Unrailed!
75% matchVery Positive93% of 19,462 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 45.1% ★, Co-op 17.7%, Online Co-Op 15.9%, Multiplayer 11.8%, Survival 6.8%
- #37 MISERY
73% matchVery Positive85% of 17,893 reviews2025
Dev: Platypus EntertainmentPub: Ytopia
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
MISERY is a 1–5 player co-op survival game set in a nuclear disaster zone. Here, every day is a struggle: search radioactive ruins for resources, build your bunker, craft weapons, and explore a weird, procedurally-generated world with your friends. Beware of anomalies, monsters, and armed bandits.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.1% ★, Online Co-Op 9.8%, Base Building 9.2%, Co-op 9%, Survival 9%
- #38 Zompiercer
76% matchVery Positive89% of 4,081 reviews2020
Dev: DDDimanN
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 43.2% ★, Base Building 16.7%, Survival 11.4%, Sandbox 10.8%, Open World 10.4%
- #39 The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™
73% matchVery Positive82% of 11,474 reviews2024
Dev: Free Range GamesPub: North Beach Games
Windows
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 20.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 9.2%, Crafting 9%, Survival 8.8%
- #40 Voyagers of Nera
72% matchVery Positive85% of 2,114 reviews2025
Dev: Treehouse Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 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: Base Building 17%, Co-op 16.2%, Online Co-Op 14.6%, Crafting 14.4%, Building 11.7%
- #41 The Last Caretaker
71% matchVery Positive85% of 9,793 reviews2025
Dev: Channel37 Ltd
Windows
Median: 18.8 hrsMean: 30.9 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 18.4%, Crafting 15.5%, Survival 14.6%, Open World 12.7%, Sandbox 10.8%
- #42 Len's Island
72% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,615 reviews2025
Dev: Flow Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
An open-world survival crafting game for 1–8 players, blending intense dungeon crawling and ARPG combat with peaceful farming and creative building. Take on quests and explore a vast, procedurally-generated world full of danger and discovery.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.1% ★, Survival 9.5%, Base Building 9.2%, Crafting 9.2%, Building 8.4%
- #43 Scrapnaut
75% matchMostly Positive70% of 824 reviews2021
Dev: SpiffyBitPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements. Explore an open world with different biomes, take care of oxygen, manage your farms, generate electricity, build your home and much more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.1% ★, Co-op 9.5%, Survival 9%, Online Co-Op 8.6%, Building 8.2%
- #44 Omega Crafter
73% matchMostly Positive79% of 560 reviews2025
Dev: Preferred Networks
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Adventure in a vast open-world survival craft game with your programmable sidekick Grammi! Program the Grammi to collect materials, build your town, craft weapons and armor to challenge strong enemies! Play alone or with friends online!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.8% ★, Crafting 9.6%, Co-op 9.2%, Survival 9.2%, Open World 8.3%
- #45 Grounded 2
71% matchVery Positive81% of 19,870 reviews2025
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 20.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 25.6% ★, Survival 11.4%, Base Building 10.8%, Co-op 9.8%, Crafting 7.6%
- #46 Ale & Tale Tavern
70% matchVery Positive90% of 9,445 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 12.7%, Sandbox 11.1%, Multiplayer 8.2%
- #47 Infinite Rails
70% matchVery Positive91% of 74 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 7.9%, Open World 7.6%
- #48 Occupy Mars: The Game
69% matchMostly Positive70% of 3,012 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 31.4 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.
Why similar: Base Building 13.8%, Crafting 11.8%, Co-op 10.9%, Online Co-Op 10.2%, Survival 10.1%
- #49 Lodventure
71% 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 35.4% ★, Co-op 10.3%, Survival 8%, Base Building 7.7%, Open World 7%
- #50 The Front
69% matchMixed68% of 10,753 reviews2025
Dev: Samar Studio
Windows
Median: 10.6 hrsMean: 44.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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: Open World Survival Craft 32.3% ★, Base Building 9.4%, Crafting 8.2%, Survival 8%, Co-op 7.2%
- #51 Dune: Awakening
68% matchMostly Positive70% of 74,372 reviews2025
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 47.7 hrsMean: 95.2 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival RPG where you can fully immerse yourself in the epic world of Dune. Alone or with friends, explore a vast open world Arrakis, survive the sandworms, build a home, craft an ornithopter, and unravel the mystery of the missing Fremen.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.2% ★, Base Building 10.2%, Online Co-Op 8.4%, Crafting 8.2%, Survival 8%
- #52 Echoes of Elysium
69% matchMixed64% of 502 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% ★, Co-op 11.4%, Crafting 10.5%, Survival 9.4%, Building 8.1%
- #53 ASKA
68% matchMostly Positive80% of 11,320 reviews2024
Dev: Sand Sailor StudioPub: Thunderful Publishing
Windows
Median: 11.2 hrsMean: 28.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 31.3% ★, Base Building 10.1%, Online Co-Op 8.7%, Survival 7.9%, Co-op 7.3%
- #54 Pacific Drive
67% matchVery Positive83% of 24,897 reviews2024
Dev: Ironwood StudiosPub: Kepler Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Face the supernatural dangers of the Olympic Exclusion Zone with a car as your only lifeline in this driving survival adventure! Scavenge resources, load up your trusty station wagon, and drive like hell to make it through alive.
Why similar: Survival 19%, Crafting 17%, Base Building 16.5%, Building 9.9%, Sandbox 9.1%
- #55 Unrailed 2: Back on Track
67% matchVery Positive88% of 1,805 reviews2024
Dev: Indoor Astronaut
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
The chaotic co-op railroad construction game is back! Team up with your friends to build a railroad through procedurally generated worlds with new biomes and bosses. Permanently upgrade your character and engine, even create your own levels - just don‘t let your train derail!
Why similar: Trains 48.1% ★, Online Co-Op 15%, Co-op 13.4%, Survival 11.1%, Multiplayer 10.1%
- #56 The Wild Eight
70% matchMostly Positive70% of 7,155 reviews2019
Dev: Eight PointsPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.9 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 44.2% ★, Survival 12.8%, Co-op 8.7%, Multiplayer 6.8%, Open World 6.6%
- #57 KeepUp Survival
68% matchMixed65% of 734 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
KeepUp Survival is an open base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and unfold your own story on a mysterious island.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.7% ★, Base Building 9.8%, Co-op 9.6%, Survival 8.5%, Crafting 8.4%
- #58 Jump Space
65% matchVery Positive86% of 10,042 reviews2025
Dev: Keepsake Games
Windows
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 9.7 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 49.1%, Multiplayer 14.1%, First-Person 11.8%, Exploration 9.8%, Action 4.7%
- #59 Medieval Dynasty
66% matchVery Positive91% of 49,970 reviews2021
Dev: Render CubePub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 35.7 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 15.7%, Building 12.9%, Co-op 12.6%, Base Building 11.8%, Survival 10.4%
- #60 Grounded
65% matchVery Positive90% of 92,875 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.2 hrsMean: 40.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.8% ★, Survival 12.1%, Base Building 10.6%, Co-op 10.1%, Multiplayer 7.6%