- #1 Raft
97% 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 34.6% ★, Co-op 12.2%, Multiplayer 10.4%, Crafting 10.1%, Base Building 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive sailing and survival experience that mirrors the core loop of building a base while navigating an endless ocean.
- #2 Aloft
96% 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: Sailing 22.1% ★, Open World Survival Craft 20.5% ★, Crafting 11.8%, Building 11.1%, Co-op 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: Like Voyagers of Nera, it focuses on floating island exploration and cooperative traversal in a beautiful, atmospheric world.
- #3 Sunkenland
96% 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 29.8% ★, Underwater 24.3% ★, Co-op 11%, Base Building 10.9%, Crafting 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses heavily on water-based survival, base building, and scavenging in a flooded world.
- #4 Windrose
95% 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: Sailing 23.7% ★, Open World Survival Craft 23.4% ★, Online Co-Op 10.4%, Crafting 10.2%, Building 8%
Why You'll Like It: This title emphasizes pirate-themed sailing and survival, capturing the nautical adventure elements of the seed game.
- #5 Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition
94% matchVery Positive89% of 370,265 reviews2020
Dev: Rare LtdPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 22.3 hrsMean: 85.5 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Sea of Thieves is a smash-hit pirate adventure game, offering the quintessential pirate experience of plundering lost treasures, intense battles, vanquishing sea monsters and more. Dive in with this revised edition of the game, which includes access to digital bonus media.
Why similar: Sailing 39% ★, Online Co-Op 15.3%, Co-op 14.8%, Multiplayer 14.3%, PvE 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: It offers the most immersive multiplayer sailing and exploration experience, perfectly capturing the spirit of nautical adventure.
- #6 Subnautica
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 373,268 reviews2018
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.3 hrsMean: 39.6 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 33.6% ★, Underwater 29.9% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Crafting 10.1%, Exploration 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: It remains the gold standard for atmospheric underwater exploration and survival in a mysterious, alien ocean.
- #7 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
93% 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 25.2% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Online Co-Op 10.1%, Crafting 9.7%, Building 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a unique perspective on exploration-heavy survival with a strong focus on cooperative play and environmental discovery.
- #8 Valheim
92% matchVery Positive94% of 535,809 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 25.9 hrsMean: 77.4 hrs≥1hr: 93%
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.1% ★, Online Co-Op 12%, Base Building 10.4%, Building 9.6%, Crafting 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: A premier co-op survival game that excels at rewarding exploration and creative base building in a mystical environment.
- #9 Voidtrain
91% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,560 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
Why similar: 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: It offers a unique cooperative traversal mechanic where players build and upgrade a moving base through a surreal environment.
- #10 Core Keeper
90% 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 23.7% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Crafting 11.5%, Building 10.9%, Online Co-Op 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: Its vibrant, magical setting and focus on cooperative exploration and crafting make it a perfect companion to the Nera experience.
- #11 Lost Skies
91% 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 34.8% ★, Base Building 15.7%, Online Co-Op 13.6%, Character Customization 8%, Crafting 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on co-op exploration of floating islands with a heavy emphasis on building and piloting airships.
- #12 Enshrouded
89% 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 21.5%, Online Co-Op 17.1%, Crafting 15.4%, Building 11.3%, Multiplayer 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: A high-quality co-op survival game that features deep building mechanics and a vast, atmospheric world to explore.
- #13 Nightingale
89% 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 28.3% ★, Online Co-Op 11.6%, Base Building 11.4%, Crafting 10.4%, Building 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a highly atmospheric exploration experience with a focus on magical realms and cooperative survival.
- #14 The Planet Crafter
87% 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 30.8% ★, Base Building 15.8%, Online Co-Op 12.5%, Building 11.4%, Crafting 11.4%
Why You'll Like It: It centers on the satisfying loop of exploration and terraforming, allowing players to transform a hostile world together.
- #15 Dawn of Defiance
88% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,809 reviews2024
Dev: Traega EntertainmentPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
You are the Defier, a Spartan beginning your afterlife on the Crossroads. In this Greek myth-inspired survival craft, ascend from weak soldier to god-like anti-hero. Build impressive Greek structures, craft legendary gear, and break the seals of the Underworld with up to 3 friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.3% ★, Online Co-Op 12.9%, Base Building 11.9%, PvE 9%, Building 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: A PvE survival game that emphasizes exploration and cooperative play within a mythical, atmospheric setting.
- #16 Necesse
85% 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 40.4% ★, Crafting 10.1%, Base Building 9.3%, Building 8.5%, Co-op 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer sandbox that excels at combining base building, exploration, and cooperative combat in a charming pixelated world.
- #17 ASTRONEER
86% 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 34.6% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Co-op 10.2%, Multiplayer 9.9%, Crafting 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: Its friendly, vibrant aesthetic and focus on cooperative exploration and crafting make it highly accessible and engaging.
- #18 Survival: Fountain of Youth
86% matchVery Positive85% of 4,383 reviews2024
Dev: Odinsoft Inc.Pub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Survival: Fountain of Youth is a challenging single-player open-world adventure game set on the Caribbean islands. Survive as a shipwrecked 16th-century explorer, craft tools and shelter, and uncover the secrets of both an ancient civilization and your own fate.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.6% ★, Underwater 22.4% ★, Base Building 15.6%, Crafting 12.5%, Building 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers a deep, exploration-heavy survival experience with a strong focus on island-hopping and resource management.
- #19 Luma Island
84% matchVery Positive84% of 12,419 reviews2024
Dev: Feel Free Games
Windows
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 24.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Get ready to explore, farm, fish, mine, craft, and raise magical Lumas as you solve puzzles and embark on quests across Luma Island. Play solo, or team up with friends in 1-4 player online co-op. Choose relaxing Cozy, challenging Adventure, or epic Hero mode to match your mood and playstyle.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 14.2%, Crafting 13.9%, Building 13.2%, Co-op 11.6%, Character Customization 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on cozy, co-op gameplay with exploration elements that prioritize a relaxed, family-friendly vibe.
- #20 Len's Island
82% 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 37% ★, Building 14.7%, Crafting 13.5%, Base Building 13.5%, PvE 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: This title blends exploration, building, and dungeon crawling in a vibrant, sun-drenched setting that feels very inviting.
- #21 Ylands
84% matchMixed64% of 8,407 reviews2019
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 46%
Adventure awaits you and your friends in the world of Ylands! Gather resources, craft tools, construct anything and everything, and explore the lands! Build a ship and set sail, encountering mythical animals, a wide variety of sea-life, enemies of all kinds and much more!
Why similar: Sailing 23.8% ★, Open World Survival Craft 20.4% ★, Base Building 9.5%, Crafting 8.8%, Online Co-Op 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox exploration game that encourages creativity and multiplayer interaction in a colorful, low-poly world.
- #22 Volcanoids
83% 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 18.2%, Crafting 16%, Building 14.4%, Co-op 13.8%, Online Co-Op 13.1%
Why You'll Like It: It introduces unique mobile base-building mechanics that provide a fresh take on the survival-crafting genre.
- #23 ICARUS
81% 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 28.3% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Online Co-Op 10.6%, Crafting 9.9%, Building 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: It offers session-based co-op survival with a strong focus on PvE combat and environmental exploration.
- #24 Don't Starve Together
81% matchVery Positive95% of 534,846 reviews2016
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 64.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 78.3% ★, Co-op 6.4%, Multiplayer 5.8%, Crafting 4.1%, Online Co-Op 3.8%
Why You'll Like It: The definitive co-op survival experience that matches the atmospheric and challenging nature of surviving in a strange world.
- #25 Drake Hollow
82% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,798 reviews2020
Dev: The Molasses FloodPub: CD PROJEKT RED
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Build and defend villages of vegetable folk from deadly feral beasts in the blighted world of The Hollow. Explore, gather, and fight! You can even invite your friends. Can you craft the perfect village?
Why similar: Online Co-Op 16.3%, Base Building 12.7%, Building 10.6%, Multiplayer 10.5%, Character Customization 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: It combines cozy base-building and survival with a focus on exploring a whimsical, ever-changing landscape.
- #26 Omega Crafter
80% 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 31.8% ★, Crafting 12.8%, Co-op 11.6%, Building 10.1%, Online Co-Op 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on automation and survival with a friendly aesthetic that makes cooperative building very rewarding.
- #27 Creatures of Ava
79% matchVery Positive87% of 510 reviews2024
Dev: Inverge StudiosPub: 11 bit studios
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Let your empathy guide you as you play an exciting action-adventure, creature-saver game. Understand and tame the creatures of Ava and let them lead you through a variety of ecosystems – all in the hopes of saving the planet from a life-consuming infection.
Why similar: Crafting 42.5%, Exploration 21%, Cute 15.2%, Atmospheric 12.7%, Adventure 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes exploration and creature-focused gameplay with a cozy, non-violent vibe that complements the family-friendly nature of Nera.
- #28 Roots of Pacha
78% matchVery Positive94% of 4,468 reviews2023
Dev: Soda Den
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 21.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
The charming and relaxing stone-age farming sim where you live in a thriving community exploring the wonderful world of Pacha. Discover "ideas," domesticate crops, befriend animals, and help your village grow. Play co-op with friends or explore the early days of civilization in single-player.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 24.3%, Crafting 23.1%, Building 20%, Relaxing 14.2%, Exploration 10%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a cozy, co-op focused survival and community-building experience that emphasizes harmony with the environment.
- #29 Project Castaway
78% matchMixed66% of 1,760 reviews2026
Dev: Mardonpol Inc.
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Project Castaway is a survival crafting title set in the Pacific Ocean. Live the life of a stranded castaway, with only yourself - and the island's inhabitants - for company! Sail the ocean, hunt, explore unique islands and gather resources as you fight for survival.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.5% ★, Underwater 19.6% ★, Online Co-Op 10.3%, Base Building 9.7%, Co-op 9.6%
- #30 Portal Knights
79% matchVery Positive83% of 22,274 reviews2017
Dev: Keen Games GmbHPub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 21.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
The world of Elysia needs YOU! Join this cooperative, 3D sandbox action RPG to level up your character, craft epic weapons, conquer enemies in real-time, and build almost anything! Craft your adventure. Forge your hero. Become the ultimate Portal Knight!
Why similar: Crafting 22.9%, Building 22.7%, Multiplayer 18%, Co-op 17.1%, Adventure 7%
Why You'll Like It: A lighthearted co-op game that excels at building and exploration across varied, floating island biomes.
- #31 Tinkerlands
77% 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 36.1% ★, Online Co-Op 14.8%, Crafting 11.6%, Co-op 10.7%, Building 10.7%
- #32 Forgotten Seas
77% matchMostly Positive77% of 585 reviews2025
Dev: Pangea Game StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
You are lost in the Bermuda Void, where the ocean is endless and dry land precious. Craft your Ship-in-a-Bottle, then experience survival on the high seas. Sail for new land, build camps, hunt for treasures, trade for goods - then defend your ship from dreaded pirates stalking this strange realm!
Why similar: Sailing 18.8% ★, Open World Survival Craft 15.6% ★, Base Building 10.6%, Online Co-Op 9.3%, Co-op 9%
- #33 Solarpunk™
76% 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 25.9% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 10.8%, Online Co-Op 10.5%, Building 10.3%
- #34 Eden Crafters
75% 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 31.4% ★, Base Building 15.3%, Crafting 12.7%, Online Co-Op 10.7%, Building 10.3%
- #35 Everwind
74% matchVery Positive82% of 3,471 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Everwind is a novel take on RPG and Sandbox Survival genre in First-Person-Perspective. Embark on the adventure with your friends - Build a base on a flying island-ship, gather resources, craft, loot, and fight while you rise above the clouds to uncover the mysteries of this world!
Why similar: Online Co-Op 18.2%, Crafting 17.7%, Building 17.1%, Co-op 16.6%, Multiplayer 11.5%
- #36 Lost Rift
75% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,611 reviews2025
Dev: People Can Fly
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Lost Rift is a first person survival adventure shooter that blends cooperative base building with multiplayer PvE or PvP extraction expeditions. Journey solo or in teams of up to 5 players across a vast archipelago, craft gear, build bases, defeat raiders, and become legendary.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.5% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Crafting 12.4%, Online Co-Op 11.2%, Character Customization 10.5%
- #37 Witchspire
73% matchVery Positive83% of 1,403 reviews2026
Dev: Envar Games
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Step into the ultimate open-world witch adventure. Befriend and battle creatures, and conjure up a sanctuary alongside other witches in co-op or single-player.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.4% ★, Base Building 16.5%, Online Co-Op 14.6%, Crafting 14.2%, PvE 8.8%
- #38 OceanCraft
76% matchVery Positive85% of 60 reviews2021
Dev: FlodLabPub: FlodLab UG (haftungsbeschraenkt)
Windows
OceanCraft is a game about surviving alone - or with your friends on a self build vehicle in the ocean.
Why similar: Sailing 38.2% ★, Open World Survival Craft 33.6% ★, Family Friendly 6.1%, Co-op 5.8%, Online Co-Op 5%
- #39 Cubic Odyssey
73% 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 38.4% ★, Base Building 19%, Building 14.5%, Co-op 14.2%, Online Co-Op 6.3%
- #40 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
73% 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 31.8% ★, Base Building 14.8%, Online Co-Op 11.2%, Crafting 11.1%, Multiplayer 9.1%
- #41 Forever Skies
72% 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 28.1% ★, Base Building 15.3%, Crafting 12.6%, Co-op 12.5%, Building 10.1%
- #42 Cloudheim
71% matchVery Positive82% of 1,791 reviews2025
Dev: Noodle Cat Games
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Master chaotic physics-based combat inspired by Zelda and Devil May Cry. Explore islands and dungeons, smash monsters, loot and craft powerful gear, and grow your home in the sky. Play solo or online co-op with up to 4 players.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 18.6%, Crafting 18.4%, Building 14%, Co-op 12.8%, Third Person 9.1%
- #43 Breakwaters: Crystal Tides
74% matchMixed63% of 1,000 reviews2021
Dev: Soaring Pixels Games
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Survive in a world ravaged by massive Titans and an ever changing ocean sim. Displace water to find resources for building and crafting unique items. Swim, sail, and fly to explore new islands and fight Titans.
Why similar: Sailing 38.6% ★, Building 18.1%, Crafting 14.2%, Character Customization 10.4%, Base Building 9.5%
- #44 Subnautica 2
67% matchVery Positive91% of 118,544 reviews2026
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Subnautica 2 is an underwater survival adventure set on an all-new alien world, developed by Unknown Worlds. Play alone or with friends in 4-player co-op. Adapt to survive by building custom bases and crafting tools. Explore the unknown to uncover the mysteries hidden within the depths.
Why similar: Underwater 48.2% ★, Co-op 15.9%, Multiplayer 13.6%, Exploration 9.2%, Base Building 5.6%
- #45 Salt 2: Shores of Gold
69% matchVery Positive85% of 2,286 reviews2025
Dev: Lavaboots Studios
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Salt 2 is a pirate-themed open world adventure focused on exploration, crafting, and survival. Play solo or with up to 5 friends, sailing the sea with your ship as a mobile base. Discover islands full of quests, towns, caves, and secrets. Level up, craft gear, hunt, fish, and customize your ship.
Why similar: Sailing 52.5% ★, Crafting 16.9%, Character Customization 10.5%, PvE 10.3%, Exploration 7.9%
- #46 Oceaneers
69% matchVery Positive90% of 89 reviews2026
Dev: Barrel Smash Studios
Windows
A sci-fi survival-crafting colony sim set in a flooded world of floating islands. Build a colony, craft gear, design rafts, fend off sharks, manage your survivors, and explore island bunkers to uncover lost Float-Tech from an old-world corporation.
Why similar: Underwater 31.7% ★, Open World Survival Craft 26.1% ★, Base Building 14%, Crafting 13.8%, Building 12.6%
- #47 Rising World
72% matchVery Positive86% of 5,914 reviews2014
Dev: JIW-Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 21.3 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Rising World is a voxel based open-world sandbox game, featuring a procedurally generated world, playable in single and multi-player.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.8% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Building 10.5%, Crafting 10.4%, Co-op 8.8%
- #48 Creativerse
71% matchMostly Positive78% of 30,868 reviews2017
Dev: Playful Corp.
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 63%
A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.7% ★, Crafting 11.4%, Online Co-Op 11.2%, Building 11%, Co-op 10%
- #49 Solace Crafting
71% 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 26.7% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 11.5%, Online Co-Op 9.9%, Building 9.3%
- #50 Sailing alone:Aftermath
70% matchMixed69% of 78 reviews2025
Dev: MLStudio
Windows
You are just an ordinary person, with only a small boat serving as your home, struggling to find a way to survive in the ruthless ocean of the post-apocalyptic world.
Why similar: Sailing 32.8% ★, Open World Survival Craft 24.4% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Co-op 9.7%, Crafting 5.7%
- #51 Shamania
68% 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 27.6% ★, Crafting 13.1%, Online Co-Op 9.3%, Co-op 9.1%, Base Building 8.1%
- #52 Romestead
66% matchMostly Positive75% of 3,870 reviews2026
Dev: BeartwigsPub: Three Friends
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 13.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Rome has fallen! Rebuild civilization in this action-adventure survival game for 1-8 players. Fight hordes of the walking dead, build settlements, restore the Roman gods... or kick back and farm with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.4% ★, Crafting 16.9%, Base Building 15.1%, Online Co-Op 12.5%, Building 11.4%
- #53 Scrapnaut
70% 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 23.1% ★, Building 13.8%, Online Co-Op 12.1%, Co-op 11.4%, Base Building 10.3%
- #54 RailGods of Hysterra
69% 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 21%, Crafting 17.4%, Online Co-Op 15.2%, Building 13.1%, Multiplayer 10.9%
- #55 TerraTech Worlds
68% 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 29.5% ★, Base Building 15.8%, Crafting 12.3%, Building 11.5%, Co-op 11.2%
- #56 Escape The Pacific
70% matchMixed68% of 755 reviews2018
Dev: Gamers4Gamers Team
Windows
Raw, real survival in the Pacific. Build a modular floating base. Master realistic sailing mechanics. Face challenging Pacific-like weather & seasons. Hunt, craft, build & navigate using Sun Dial, Sextant & Triangulation. Explore an endless island cluster-based world. Simulate real life scenarios!
Why similar: Sailing 32.6% ★, Open World Survival Craft 30.6% ★, Crafting 12.7%, Building 11.2%, Exploration 5.6%
- #57 IfSunSets
67% matchMostly Positive75% of 2,279 reviews2024
Dev: POLYMORPHPub: Smilegate
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 27.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
「IfSunSets」 is a survival RPG adventure game. During the day, secure necessary supplies across the island, and survive the night against strong and terrifying monsters that track you down. You can utilize resources you've secured to build a base to fend off threatening monsters.
Why similar: Underwater 27.5% ★, Open World Survival Craft 26.9% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Co-op 10.7%, PvE 8.5%
- #58 Grounded
66% 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 32.4% ★, Base Building 16%, Co-op 13.1%, Crafting 11.4%, Multiplayer 10.9%
- #59 Dune: Awakening
65% matchMostly Positive71% of 76,850 reviews2025
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 47.6 hrsMean: 99.1 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival game with immersive adventure and RPG gameplay. Explore, build, craft, and unravel a cinematic Dune story alone or with friends as you rise from survival to greatness on the most legendary planet in the universe. Just remember: the sandworm always comes.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.6% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Online Co-Op 9.7%, Crafting 9.7%, Building 9.5%
- #60 Echoes of Elysium
66% 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 33.4% ★, Crafting 14.3%, Co-op 13.2%, Building 13.2%, PvE 9.2%