- #1 Outlaws of the Old West
97% matchMixed59% of 6,297 reviews2019
Dev: Virtual Basement LLCPub: Wandering Wizard
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Outlaws of the Old West is a massively multiplayer survival MMO with a huge world, thousands of items and a modular building system. Survive the wild, build your own homestead, defeat villainous bandits and work with others to tame the Wild West.
Why similar: Western 33.3% ★, Open World Survival Craft 30.9% ★, Survival 9.5%, Open World 8.5%, Multiplayer 5.1%
- #2 Subsistence
96% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,861 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 40.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.6% ★, Survival 12.8%, Crafting 12%, Base Building 8.8%, Open World 8.6%
- #3 Frontier Legends
95% matchMixed43% of 72 reviews2026
Dev: Neojac Entertainment Inc.
Windows
“Live your Wild West fantasy in Frontier Legends, an open-world frontier adventure where survival, crafting and exploration shape your story. Stake your claim, build your place in the West and uncover what lies beyond the rails.”
Why similar: Western 34.5% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Sandbox 10.9%, Third-Person Shooter 10.8%, Crafting 9.9%
- #4 Westland Survival
94% matchMixed58% of 597 reviews2025
Dev: Helio GamesPub: Helio Games
Windows · Mac
Saddle up for the ultimate survival adventure in the untamed Wild West! Build your homestead, tame the wilderness, bounty hunt the outlaws, and duel against the dangers that lurk on the frontier. Do you have what it takes to be a legend of the West?
Why similar: Western 35.9% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 12.2%, Sandbox 9.4%, PvE 6.9%
- #5 Desert Skies
94% matchMixed57% of 472 reviews2019
Dev: White_Rabbit_Games
Windows
Desert Skies takes survival to the air! Build an airship and fly on an adventure through the deserts of the Wild West. Look for places to land and scavenge for loot, expand your airship and craft new equipment, but beware the dangers lurking beneath the sands!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.5% ★, Western 21.5% ★, Crafting 9.5%, Survival 8%, Base Building 6.9%
- #6 Heat
93% matchMixed49% of 2,935 reviews2020
Dev: Code}{atch
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 28.8 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Survive the wilderness, build a home, raise a family, and expand your territory. Gain power as President, deliver justice as Sheriff, fight for your tribe as Chief, or show some southern hospitality as Governor. Begin your new life in 19th century America.
Why similar: Western 38.6% ★, Open World Survival Craft 19.1% ★, Survival 11.9%, Open World 10.2%, Multiplayer 6.8%
- #7 This Land Is My Land
91% matchMixed68% of 4,660 reviews2021
Dev: Game-Labs
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 21.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Experience the frontier as a chief of a Native American tribe and resist the onset of the settlers. Explore the vast world full of hostile humans and animals while defining your narrative through the decisions you make.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.9% ★, Western 27.6% ★, Survival 10.6%, Open World 9%, Crafting 8%
- #8 Plains of Pain
91% matchVery Positive83% of 1,036 reviews2023
Dev: Cobra Byte Digital
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Enter a living post-apocalyptic sandbox where the world doesn't wait for you. Build, craft, trade, earn the trust of factions, and forge your own path through a brutal procedural wasteland.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.6% ★, Base Building 10%, Crafting 8.4%, Online Co-Op 8%, Sandbox 7.4%
- #9 INCUR Survival
90% matchVery Positive81% of 112 reviews2022
Dev: INCUR
Windows
A survival open-world game, where you can gather resources, Hunt, Craft tools and armor, Tame Animals, Ride Animals, Build, and defend your base from creatures, and other players.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.4% ★, Zombies 13.1%, Crafting 11.9%, Survival 10%, Open World 9%
- #10 Far Lands
89% matchMixed64% of 173 reviews2024
Dev: Scalpel Softworks
Windows
Far Lands is an open-world survival game. Fight mercenaries, steal their loot and vehicles. Build and defend your base from zombies. Gather resources, craft better gear and loot different points of interest. Want to play with friends? Join them on Co-op!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.2% ★, Base Building 14.1%, Crafting 13%, Survival 11.2%, Open World 8.6%
- #11 Crushed
89% matchMixed53% of 321 reviews2020
Dev: NipoBoxPub: NipoBox Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Crushed — is an Singleplayer and Multiplayer First-Person Survival Sandbox in an Open World! Challenge the wild and be ready to survive in harsh conditions. Explore the world, get resources, cook food, build a house, farm, hunt, and enjoy nature.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.6% ★, Survival 9.5%, Base Building 9.3%, Crafting 9.1%, Open World 8.8%
- #12 DeadPoly
88% matchMostly Positive78% of 6,250 reviews2022
Dev: TFL Games
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 64%
DeadPoly is a polygon arcade zombie survival looter shooter with base building, crafting, scavenging, leveling, questing, and more, but your only goal is survival, everything else is optional.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.3% ★, Zombies 9.6%, Base Building 9%, Online Co-Op 8.5%, Crafting 8.5%
- #13 Wild Indigo Ranch
87% matchMostly Positive70% of 467 reviews2024
Dev: Funday Games
Windows
Wild Indigo Ranch is a cozy cowboy-life RPG for 1-4 players. Start a new life on the prairie, explore the frontier, build the finest ranch in the West, and ride into the sunset.
Why similar: Western 41% ★, Crafting 14.2%, Online Co-Op 11.6%, Sandbox 11.5%, Open World 10.8%
- #14 Shamania
86% matchMostly Positive74% of 171 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 28.4% ★, Crafting 12.3%, Open World 10.1%, Survival 9.8%, Online Co-Op 8.2%
- #15 Zombie Survival Game Online
86% matchMixed69% of 317 reviews2023
Dev: Zombie Survival Game Online LLC
Windows
Zombie Survival Game Online is an open-world, post-apocalyptic, looter shooter. Craft, quest, explore, build, and fight for survival. Parkour up a mountainside, ramp a truck over a horde, and grab a gasmask to explore the sewers. Can you survive? Doubtful.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.3% ★, Zombies 10.1%, Base Building 9.6%, Crafting 9.5%, Online Co-Op 8.7%
- #16 Not Quite Dead: Open World Survival
84% matchMixed62% of 247 reviews2026
Dev: Voidecho Studio
Windows
Open world zombie survival Coop game with base building, looting, crafting, vehicles, and exploration.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.3% ★, Third-Person Shooter 12.1%, Online Co-Op 9.9%, Post-apocalyptic 9.8%, Action-Adventure 8.3%
- #17 Wild Omission
84% matchVery Positive88% of 83 reviews2023
Dev: Telephone Studios
Windows
Wild Omission is an open world sandbox survival game with severe weather set in an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.9% ★, Crafting 12.5%, Survival 10.6%, Open World 9.5%, Base Building 9.1%
- #18 Wild West Legacy
85% matchMostly Negative37% of 2,143 reviews2024
Dev: Moon Punch StudioPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Conquer the Wild West. Explore the open world of a fictitious American Midwest and survive the harsh environment. Convince other settlers to join you and manage your ever-growing settlements. Build a home, take care of your farm and become a legend in Wild West Legacy.
Why similar: Western 38.2% ★, Base Building 14.6%, Crafting 13.2%, Survival 10.9%, Open World 10.5%
- #19 No One Survived
82% matchMixed64% of 7,844 reviews2025
Dev: Cat Play Studio
Windows
Median: 4.4 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 16.3%, Zombies 14.9%, Open World 13.1%, Crafting 11.9%, Survival Horror 9.4%
- #20 SurrounDead
81% matchVery Positive91% of 27,054 reviews2022
Dev: ZurvivorPub: PlaySurrounDead
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 16.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
SurrounDead is an open world survival game. Taking place in a world ravaged by an apocalyptic catastrophe. The dead reign free and will stop at nothing to kill you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 19.8% ★, Zombies 18.7%, Survival 14.7%, Open World 13.1%, Post-apocalyptic 10.4%
- #21 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
81% matchVery Positive82% of 10,551 reviews2024
Dev: Max Ent Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 16.3 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 27.4% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Survival 9.6%, Crafting 9.6%, Online Co-Op 9.3%
- #22 Delverium
80% matchVery Positive85% of 157 reviews2026
Dev: Sagestone Games
Windows
Explore, Build, Farm, Craft and Fight in this survival sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Delve deep to uncover the secret of the invading 'Faults' and restore stability to the land.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.5% ★, Crafting 10.4%, Sandbox 10%, Survival 9.6%, Online Co-Op 8.2%
- #23 Xsyon - Prelude
83% matchMostly Positive73% of 369 reviews2014
Dev: Notorious Games
Windows
Xsyon is a player driven apocalyptic fantasy sandbox MMORPG, set in a living and evolving environment. Players create the world they want to live in as they form tribes, construct towns, shape landscapes, create quests, hunt, farm, gather, build societies and develop a New World.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.2% ★, Base Building 10.9%, Crafting 9.8%, Survival 8.8%, Sandbox 8.8%
- #24 The Wild Eight
82% matchMixed68% of 8,131 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 40.4% ★, Survival 15.2%, Crafting 8.7%, Open World 8.6%, Online Co-Op 6.8%
- #25 KeepUp Survival
79% matchMixed64% of 751 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
KeepUp Survival is an open-world base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and shape your own story on a mysterious island.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.3% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Crafting 10.6%, Survival 9.7%, Open World 9%
- #26 MISERY
76% matchVery Positive84% of 26,185 reviews2025
Dev: Platypus EntertainmentPub: Ytopia
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 11.2 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 22.3% ★, Online Co-Op 10.2%, Survival 9.8%, Base Building 9.8%, Crafting 8.7%
- #27 Mist Survival
79% matchMostly Positive76% of 14,394 reviews2018
Dev: Dimension 32 Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 73%
MIST SURVIVAL is a Single-player, survival stealth sandbox game Players will experience the Apocalypse stimulation in the form of virus pandemic, the players have to deal with it to survive through the difficulties such as finding shelter and food, threats from the environment and climate: wild animals, bandits, infected, and dense mist t
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33% ★, Survival 14.9%, Zombies 13.3%, Open World 10.2%, Base Building 10%
- #28 Lodventure
78% matchMostly Positive74% of 166 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 33.9% ★, Base Building 10.2%, Survival 10%, Crafting 9.6%, Open World 9.5%
- #29 The Gold River Project
77% matchMixed63% of 686 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 37.4% ★, Open World 11.2%, Crafting 10.7%, Survival 10.3%, Online Co-Op 9.6%
- #30 Deadside
75% matchMostly Positive76% of 40,566 reviews2024
Dev: Bad Pixel
Windows
Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 44.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
An Open World Survival Shooter blending hardcore PVP and PVE action. Secure precious loot in safe zones or build your own fortress in the wild. With intense gunfights, stunning visuals, and performance smooth enough for any system, the challenge awaits!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.6% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 11.2%, Survival 10.9%, Open World 8.4%
- #31 Junk Survivor
77% matchMixed70% of 83 reviews2023
Dev: Neojac Entertainment Inc.
Windows
Junk Survivor is a zombie post-apocalypse game where you loot, craft, build and farm in a struggle to survive. With a vast map to explore, a robust skillset to unlock this customizable sandbox awaits the adventurer. How long before you die!
Why similar: Zombies 13.4%, Survival 11.2%, Post-apocalyptic 10.7%, Open World 9.9%, Crafting 9.4%
- #32 Next Day: Survival
78% matchMixed62% of 10,257 reviews2018
Dev: SOFF GamesPub: Last Level
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 21.6 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Next Day is a multi-player SURVIVAL game with elements of RPG, in an imaginary country in Eastern Europe. Carry out an array of tasks, learn skills, and develop your character. Have shootouts with opponents and earn a reputation.
Why similar: Survival 24%, Open World 18.6%, Post-apocalyptic 14.4%, Crafting 12.1%, Multiplayer 10.7%
- #33 Solace Crafting
76% matchMostly Positive71% of 899 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 27.8% ★, Base Building 10.9%, Crafting 10.9%, Survival 9.5%, Online Co-Op 8.8%
- #34 Whisper of the Swallows
73% matchVery Positive87% of 207 reviews2026
Dev: Blown Leaves
Windows
Brave a savage, unforgiving procedurally generated world where extreme weather and the nightmares of the dark will hunt you down. Alone or in co-op, survive, build, and explore to turn a cursed hellscape into your sanctuary of light.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.8% ★, Crafting 10.8%, Base Building 10%, Survival 9.1%, Sandbox 9%
- #35 VEIN
72% matchVery Positive88% of 12,706 reviews2025
Dev: Ramjet Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 14.6 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 14.4%, Zombies 14.1%, Survival 13.5%, Open World 12.3%, Crafting 9.3%
- #36 Voidtrain
71% matchMostly Positive73% of 9,990 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 14.8 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 36.8% ★, Base Building 10.8%, Crafting 9.3%, Survival 8.9%, Online Co-Op 8.8%
- #37 SURVIVAL: Postapocalypse Now
74% matchMixed56% of 8,877 reviews2019
Dev: TB Games
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Want to survive? - Arm yourself and survive. Crafting, shooting, transport and much more awaits you in the Survival game. What happened to the world around and why he died - you may find out. But is this the main question now?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.4% ★, Survival 14.3%, Open World 9.3%, Post-apocalyptic 7.8%, Crafting 6.8%
- #38 The Infected
72% matchVery Positive84% of 7,020 reviews2020
Dev: DigX Studios
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 18.5 hrs≥1hr: 68%
The Infected is a sandbox, first-person, open-world survival game. Build bases, craft, farm, hunt, and survive changing seasons. Choose whether to face the hybrid “Vambies” or turn them off for a pure survival experience.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.9% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Crafting 10.4%, Survival 8.7%, Open World 8.6%
- #39 GRAV
75% matchMixed47% of 6,922 reviews2015
Dev: BitMonster, Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 60%
GRAV is a sand box experience where you explore a multitude of planets, hunt strange alien creatures, build and defend outposts, craft weapons and armor, and attempt to survive against other players in a hostile environment.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.4% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Survival 12%, Open World 10.1%, Crafting 8.8%
- #40 Wild West and Wizards
73% matchMostly Positive73% of 389 reviews2020
Dev: Lavaboots Studios
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Wild West and Wizards is an open world exploration RPG set in a re-imagined new frontier. Pick a class and level up unlocking abilities and exploring a world filled with quests, loot, outlaws, bosses, spells, caves, towns, and other mysterious places.
Why similar: Western 54.2% ★, Open World 14%, Crafting 11%, RPG 7.3%, Action 4.7%
- #41 Nightingale
70% matchMixed66% of 18,084 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 30.7% ★, Base Building 10.9%, Online Co-Op 10.7%, Crafting 10.3%, Survival 9.9%
- #42 Night of the Dead
70% matchMostly Positive77% of 11,888 reviews2024
Dev: Jackto Studios
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 32.0 hrs≥1hr: 83%
'Night of the Dead' is an open-world game that combines elements of exploration, tower defense, survival, and crafting. Traverse a world dominated by zombies while collecting various resources and powerful equipment. Build a fortress to survive the hordes of zombies that swarm every night!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.4% ★, Base Building 10%, Zombies 10%, Crafting 9%, Online Co-Op 9%
- #43 Fallen Region
73% matchMixed42% of 198 reviews2020
Dev: WayUpGamesPub: HandMade Games
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Fallen Region is a third-person survival sandbox game in an open, post-apocalyptic world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 18.8% ★, Zombies 11.6%, Survival 10.8%, Crafting 8.4%, Base Building 7.9%
- #44 Re.poly
71% matchVery Positive91% of 137 reviews2019
Dev: Hinkfoot Studios
Windows
Re.Poly is a relaxed yet deep indie survival game in a low-poly style that blends exploration, combat, building, and adventure. Whether alone or with friends, create your own world, write your own story, and decide how you want to play.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.4% ★, Crafting 11.4%, Base Building 11.3%, Survival 9.9%, Sandbox 9.6%
- #45 Cowboy Life Simulator
67% matchVery Positive89% of 1,303 reviews2025
Dev: Odd QubitPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 14.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
“Cowboy Life Simulator” is an immersive and relaxing ranching sim where you step into the boots of a failed businessman starting fresh on the frontier. Buy your first goat, meet the locals, explore vibrant lands, and build your dream ranch in a world full of stories and adventure!
Why similar: Base Building 25.3%, Crafting 23.8%, Sandbox 19.3%, Open World 18.1%, Exploration 6.9%
- #46 Hauntsville
69% matchMixed63% of 225 reviews2025
Dev: Michael JanischPub: indie.io
Windows
You're a nameless traveler, stranded in a ghost town in the Cursed West. Use your wits, elbow grease, and the iron on your hip. Build a homestead, work the land, and survive against unspeakable monsters in this unique Western horror survival game - alone or with friends!
Why similar: Online Co-Op 15%, Survival Horror 12.4%, Survival 11.6%, Base Building 11%, Open World 10.9%
- #47 Lost Rift
67% matchMixed69% of 1,717 reviews2025
Dev: People Can Fly
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 31.9% ★, Base Building 14%, Crafting 12.6%, Online Co-Op 10.7%, Survival 10.4%
- #48 Road to Eden
71% matchMixed64% of 408 reviews2019
Dev: Zouking
Windows
Road to Eden is a third-person multiplayer survival coop game, set within the post-apocalyptic ruins of a world destroyed by an alien invasion. You wake up at the side of the road with no memory and must team up with other survivors to make the long and dangerous journey to Eden.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.9% ★, Crafting 10.2%, Base Building 9.4%, Survival 8.7%, Sandbox 7.7%
- #49 StarRupture
66% matchVery Positive81% of 13,607 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 27.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 29% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 10.5%, Survival 9.5%, Open World 8.8%
- #50 Palworld
63% matchVery Positive95% of 490,433 reviews2026
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 41.0 hrsMean: 86.8 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.8% ★, Open World 12%, Survival 11.2%, Crafting 9.1%, Online Co-Op 8.5%
- #51 Karagon (Survival Robot Riding FPS)
69% matchMixed47% of 107 reviews2023
Dev: Tbjbu2 Originals
Windows
Survive, shoot, construct, and ride killer elemental robots. Craft equipment, explore multi-floor buildings, build and farm, uncover schematics, and progress through technology tiers. Alone or with friends in this brutal post apocalyptic open world survival robot riding crafting shooter game!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.6% ★, Base Building 10.7%, Crafting 10.5%, Survival 9.1%, Online Co-Op 8.8%
- #52 Omega Crafter
66% matchMostly Positive79% of 579 reviews2025
Dev: Preferred Networks
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.4 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 11.7%, Survival 9.8%, Open World 8.9%, Online Co-Op 8.1%
- #53 Old Future: Post-Apocalyptic Times
68% matchMixed64% of 55 reviews2022
Dev: Frontline: Games Series
Windows
Post-apocalyptic, Sandbox, Crafting-survival Indie game. Explore at your own pace or team up with your friends in multiplayer. Early access game!
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 13.3%, Sandbox 12.7%, Crafting 12.4%, Online Co-Op 12.4%, Open World 12.4%
- #54 Urge
67% matchVery Positive90% of 524 reviews2021
Dev: EnDrew
Windows
Fight, build, explore, survive, while the dynamic player-caused hazardous fog is slowly changing the rules of the world around you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.9% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Survival Horror 9.9%, Crafting 9.9%, Sandbox 8.9%
- #55 Valheim
61% matchVery Positive94% of 555,289 reviews2026
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 26.9 hrsMean: 81.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.2% ★, Online Co-Op 11%, Survival 9.9%, Base Building 9.7%, Crafting 9%