- #1 Volcanoids
97% 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 12.5%, Co-op 11%, Crafting 10.7%, Survival 9.3%, Online Co-Op 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: You operate a steampunk drill-ship that acts as your mobile base, allowing you to surface and dive to survive volcanic eruptions.
- #2 Forever Skies
96% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,533 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 31.9 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 30.9% ★, Base Building 10.6%, Co-op 10.1%, Crafting 8.5%, Survival 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: This survival game features a high-tech airship that serves as your primary base and vehicle for exploring a ruined, toxic world.
- #3 Raft
96% matchVery Positive93% of 373,485 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.6 hrsMean: 37.5 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 37.8% ★, 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 hostile environment.
- #4 Heat Death: Survival Train
95% matchMostly Positive78% of 686 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 20.5% ★, Base Building 9.3%, Crafting 8.4%, Survival 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: A direct thematic match that focuses on maintaining and upgrading a train to survive in a frozen, post-apocalyptic wasteland.
- #5 RailGods of Hysterra
94% 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 18.5%, Crafting 14.9%, Survival 14.7%, Online Co-Op 13.1%, Multiplayer 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: This title emphasizes the train-based survival experience with a unique Lovecraftian aesthetic and deep crafting systems.
- #6 OxyRail
94% matchVery Positive81% of 616 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 30.5% ★, Co-op 10.9%, Base Building 10.3%, Survival 9.7%, Building 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused game where you manage a train while gathering resources and building structures in a sandbox environment.
- #7 The Planet Crafter
92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 71,038 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.5 hrsMean: 38.2 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 32.9% ★, Base Building 10.7%, Co-op 8.6%, Online Co-Op 8.3%, Survival 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: While stationary, it captures the same satisfying loop of gathering resources and terraforming a hostile alien world as seen in Voidtrain.
- #8 ICARUS
93% 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: Open World Survival Craft 33.7% ★, Base Building 9.6%, Survival 9.4%, Online Co-Op 7.8%, Crafting 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: A session-based survival game that emphasizes co-op play and high-stakes exploration on a dangerous alien planet.
- #9 Survival Machine
91% matchMostly Positive72% of 755 reviews2026
Dev: Grape PickersPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 24.4%, Online Co-Op 21.4%, Crafting 20.9%, Survival 17.5%, Exploration 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: You build and upgrade a mobile fortress to survive waves of enemies while traveling through a dangerous, ever-changing landscape.
- #10 Aloft
91% matchVery Positive84% of 3,616 reviews2025
Dev: Astrolabe Interactive Inc.Pub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 14.3 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 30% ★, Co-op 11.5%, Crafting 10.7%, Survival 10.1%, Building 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game allows you to turn floating islands into your own mobile base, offering a unique perspective on exploration and survival.
- #11 Satisfactory
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 273,405 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 32.9 hrsMean: 110.9 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 19.2% ★, Base Building 17.2%, Crafting 10.6%, Co-op 10.5%, Open World 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the complex automation and base-building aspects that players enjoy when upgrading their train in Voidtrain.
- #12 Breathedge
90% matchVery Positive82% of 16,292 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 45.2% ★, Base Building 11%, Survival 9.7%, Crafting 7.5%, Sandbox 7%
Why You'll Like It: This space-themed survival game features a similar sense of isolation and the need to craft tools to survive in a vacuum.
- #13 Core Keeper
89% matchVery Positive93% of 65,043 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.1 hrsMean: 34.4 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 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a compelling mix of exploration, survival, and base-building in a mysterious underground world that is perfect for co-op play.
- #14 Abiotic Factor
88% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 56,173 reviews2025
Dev: Deep Field GamesPub: Playstack
Windows
Median: 20.1 hrsMean: 44.9 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 35% ★, Base Building 11%, Online Co-Op 9.6%, Survival 9.3%, Crafting 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: A science-themed survival game that emphasizes cooperative base-building and crafting within a sprawling, high-tech facility.
- #15 Lost Skies
87% matchMixed61% of 2,928 reviews2025
Dev: Bossa StudiosPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 11.9 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 45% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Online Co-Op 10.9%, Sandbox 6.3%, Crafting 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: Features massive airships and floating islands, providing a grand sense of adventure and mobile base customization.
- #16 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
86% 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: Open World Survival Craft 30.1% ★, Base Building 9.4%, Survival 8.1%, Online Co-Op 7.5%, Co-op 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a unique survival experience where you explore a giant world from a tiny perspective, emphasizing base-building and co-op.
- #17 Nightingale
86% 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: Open World Survival Craft 32.8% ★, Base Building 8.4%, Online Co-Op 8.3%, Survival 8.2%, Co-op 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: Features dimension-hopping mechanics that mirror the interdimensional travel found in Voidtrain, combined with deep crafting.
- #18 ASTRONEER
85% matchVery Positive92% of 138,295 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.3 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 36.3% ★, Base Building 9.1%, Survival 9%, Open World 8.1%, Co-op 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on space exploration and base-building with a focus on modular construction and resource management.
- #19 Lightyear Frontier
84% matchVery Positive84% of 4,521 reviews2024
Dev: FRAME BREAK
Windows
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 11.8 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 33.8% ★, Base Building 11%, Crafting 9.2%, Online Co-Op 9.1%, Co-op 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: You pilot a customizable mech to build a base and farm resources on a peaceful yet mysterious alien planet.
- #20 TerraTech Worlds
84% matchMixed63% of 2,250 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 21.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 33.3% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Co-op 9.3%, Crafting 8.5%, Survival 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on building custom vehicles and bases to explore and conquer diverse alien environments.
- #21 Sunkenland
83% matchVery Positive81% of 23,316 reviews2023
Dev: Vector3 Studio
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 18.8 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 42.2% ★, Co-op 11.4%, Base Building 9.7%, Survival 9.7%, Crafting 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: A water-based survival game where you build and upgrade your own floating base to survive against pirates and environmental threats.
- #22 Void Crew
82% matchVery Positive87% of 8,333 reviews2024
Dev: Hutlihut GamesPub: Focus Entertainment
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 16.6 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 31%, Online Co-Op 18.8%, Multiplayer 18.6%, First-Person 8.6%, Exploration 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: A co-op space-sim that captures the feeling of working together as a crew to operate and defend a complex vessel.
- #23 Everwind
82% 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: Co-op 14.2%, Online Co-Op 13.2%, Crafting 12.7%, Survival 12.1%, Open World 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a vast open world with a focus on co-op survival and exploration that feels similar to the journey in Voidtrain.
- #24 Solarpunk™
81% matchVery Positive82% of 2,601 reviews2026
Dev: CyberwavePub: rokaplay
Windows
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Solarpunk is a survival game in a technologically advanced world of floating islands. Alone or together with your friends, you can construct buildings, grow food, craft gadgets and hop on your airship to explore distant islands in the sky.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.5% ★, Base Building 9.2%, Co-op 8.4%, Crafting 7.6%, Online Co-Op 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on eco-friendly base-building and crafting in a beautiful, floating world that encourages cooperative play.
- #25 StarRupture
81% 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: Open World Survival Craft 31.8% ★, Base Building 10.5%, Co-op 9.1%, Survival 8%, Crafting 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that emphasizes building and automation in a vibrant, alien landscape.
- #26 Eden Crafters
79% matchVery Positive86% of 2,494 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 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 34.6% ★, Base Building 10.6%, Crafting 8.6%, Online Co-Op 7.3%, Co-op 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: Combines automation and base-building in a sandbox environment, perfect for players who enjoy the technical side of Voidtrain.
- #27 Zompiercer
80% matchVery Positive89% of 4,427 reviews2020
Dev: DDDimanN
Windows
Median: 5.3 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 42.7% ★, Base Building 16.7%, Survival 11.7%, Sandbox 10.8%, Open World 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: Features a train-based survival loop where you must defend your moving base from hordes of zombies.
- #28 Tinkerlands
78% matchVery Positive86% of 3,887 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 36.2% ★, Online Co-Op 9.2%, Survival 8.2%, Co-op 7.9%, Crafting 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game with pixel-art graphics that emphasizes exploration and crafting in a mysterious world.
- #29 Unrailed!
79% matchVery Positive93% of 19,608 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 45.2% ★, Co-op 17.7%, Online Co-Op 15.8%, Multiplayer 11.8%, Survival 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced co-op game entirely focused on building tracks to keep a train moving through increasingly difficult terrain.
- #30 Voyagers of Nera
78% matchVery Positive85% of 2,430 reviews2025
Dev: Treehouse Games
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 12.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 34.4% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Co-op 10.8%, Online Co-Op 9.6%, Crafting 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on sailing and exploration in a vibrant, multiplayer-focused world that emphasizes cooperative base-building.
- #31 VEIN
76% 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 16.9%, Survival 16.3%, Open World 13.9%, Co-op 13.6%, Crafting 10.4%
- #32 Cubic Odyssey
77% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,655 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 9.0 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 41.3% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Co-op 11.2%, Building 8.2%, Sandbox 7.3%
- #33 Enshrouded
75% 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 16.5%, Survival 14.5%, Open World 14.3%, Online Co-Op 12.9%, Crafting 11.5%
- #34 MISERY
74% matchVery Positive84% of 23,972 reviews2025
Dev: Platypus EntertainmentPub: Ytopia
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
MISERY is a 1–10 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 29.2% ★, Online Co-Op 9.7%, Survival 9.5%, Base Building 9.2%, Co-op 8.8%
- #35 Scrapnaut
77% matchMixed70% of 831 reviews2021
Dev: SpiffyBitPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 4.1 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 9.4%, Survival 9%, Online Co-Op 8.5%, Building 8.2%
- #36 Len's Island
74% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,768 reviews2025
Dev: Flow Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 12.2 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 40.3% ★, Survival 9.6%, Base Building 9.3%, Crafting 9.1%, Building 8.4%
- #37 Scrap Mechanic
76% matchVery Positive92% of 117,723 reviews2016
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.2 hrsMean: 58.4 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%
- #38 Grounded 2
73% matchVery Positive81% of 21,894 reviews2025
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.4 hrsMean: 22.4 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 26.9% ★, Survival 11.2%, Base Building 10.9%, Co-op 9.8%, Crafting 7.5%
- #39 Infinite Rails
75% matchVery Positive88% of 86 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%
- #40 Outbound
73% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,773 reviews2026
Dev: Square Glade Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 7.3 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 32.1% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Online Co-Op 10.3%, Crafting 9.7%, Open World 8.1%
- #41 The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™
73% 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: Open World Survival Craft 35.8% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Online Co-Op 9.1%, Survival 8.9%, Crafting 8.9%
- #42 ASKA
72% matchMostly Positive80% of 11,841 reviews2024
Dev: Sand Sailor StudioPub: Thunderful Publishing
Windows
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 28.6 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 31.5% ★, Base Building 10.2%, Online Co-Op 8.6%, Survival 8%, Co-op 7.2%
- #43 Omega Crafter
72% matchMostly Positive79% of 569 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 35.7% ★, Co-op 9.5%, Crafting 8.8%, Survival 8.4%, Open World 7%
- #44 Drive Beyond Horizons
71% matchMostly Positive78% of 19,125 reviews2025
Dev: Drive Beyond HorizonsPub: Tacty Studio
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 18.3 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Explore, survive, and push the boundaries of the horizon in a vast, procedurally generated world. Customize your vehicle, face unpredictable events, gather resources, and embark on a unique adventure, alone or with up to 4 players.
Why similar: Co-op 17.8%, Online Co-Op 16.4%, Survival 16.2%, Open World 14.1%, Multiplayer 11.3%
- #45 Windrose
69% 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: Open World Survival Craft 40.4% ★, Online Co-Op 11.1%, Crafting 10.8%, Survival 10.1%, Base Building 8.6%
- #46 No One Survived
71% 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 19.6%, Open World 14.7%, Crafting 12.7%, Co-op 10.7%, Multiplayer 10.6%
- #47 Grounded
70% matchVery Positive90% of 94,448 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 34% ★, Survival 12.1%, Base Building 10.6%, Co-op 10.1%, Multiplayer 7.6%
- #48 Echoes of Elysium
71% matchMixed64% of 538 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 39.2% ★, Co-op 11.3%, Crafting 10.3%, Survival 9.4%, Building 8.1%
- #49 Unrailed 2: Back on Track
69% matchVery Positive88% of 1,916 reviews2026
Dev: Indoor Astronaut
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 9.0 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 48.3% ★, Online Co-Op 14.9%, Co-op 13.4%, Survival 11.2%, Multiplayer 10%
- #50 Necesse
67% matchVery Positive93% of 27,406 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 14.9 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 42.1% ★, Crafting 6.5%, Survival 6.4%, Co-op 6.3%, Base Building 6.1%
- #51 The Gold River Project
70% matchMixed65% of 612 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 39.3% ★, Co-op 9.8%, Open World 8.4%, Survival 8.3%, Crafting 7.6%
- #52 Lodventure
70% matchMostly Positive74% of 162 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 35.6% ★, Co-op 10.2%, Survival 8.1%, Base Building 7.7%, Open World 7.1%
- #53 Railroads Online
68% matchMostly Positive75% of 5,959 reviews2024
Dev: Stefan KelnbergerPub: astragon Entertainment
Windows
Median: 10.6 hrsMean: 66.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build your dream railroad across a huge open world! You can build tracks and stations, drive detailed locomotives, and transport goods to earn money and experience. Play exciting Online Multiplayer sessions with your friends or create your very own sandbox!
Why similar: Trains 43.2% ★, Online Co-Op 12.1%, Open World 9.7%, Building 9.5%, Multiplayer 8.5%
- #54 Jump Space
66% matchVery Positive86% of 11,021 reviews2025
Dev: Keepsake Games
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 10.3 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%
- #55 Solace Crafting
69% 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: Open World Survival Craft 31.2% ★, Base Building 8.8%, Crafting 8.2%, Survival 8.2%, Online Co-Op 7.2%
- #56 Pacific Drive
66% matchVery Positive83% of 26,022 reviews2024
Dev: Ironwood StudiosPub: Kepler Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 16.6 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 17.9%, Crafting 15.6%, Base Building 15.3%, Building 9.1%, Sandbox 8.2%
- #57 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
66% matchVery Positive91% of 7,475 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%
- #58 Shamania
67% 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: Open World Survival Craft 32.1% ★, Crafting 9.4%, Survival 8.5%, Open World 8.1%, Co-op 7.8%
- #59 Astrometica
66% matchVery Positive83% of 3,114 reviews2024
Dev: BeryMeryPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 16.7 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Astrometica is a space exploration and base-building survival game. After a catastrophic event, explore vast space, gather resources, build bases, and uncover cosmic mysteries. Use advanced technology, craft tools, and discover new blueprints to survive and thrive in the unknown.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.6% ★, Survival 14.8%, Base Building 14.3%, Crafting 14%, Open World 12.8%
- #60 Drift: Space Survival
68% matchMostly Positive70% of 77 reviews2023
Dev: KAR Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
You were deep in uncharted space on a research mission. Disaster struck. Together with your friends, explore a mysterious asteroid field and mine whatever resources possible to build what you need to survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.6% ★, Online Co-Op 9.4%, Survival 8.8%, Crafting 7.8%, Base Building 7.1%