- #1 Starbound
97% matchVery Positive90% of 122,999 reviews2016
Dev: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.1 hrsMean: 64.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.4% ★, Sandbox 17.1%, Crafting 9.8%, Open World 5.7%, Building 5.3%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a vast 2D space-exploration experience with deep crafting, base building, and RPG progression similar to Windforge.
- #2 Terraria
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,524,255 reviews2011
Dev: Re-Logic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 33.5 hrsMean: 150.1 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.4% ★, Sandbox 17.7%, Crafting 10.6%, Building 6.7%, Open World 4.7%
Why You'll Like It: The quintessential 2D sandbox game that shares the core loop of exploration, mining, and creative building.
- #3 Necesse
95% matchVery Positive93% of 27,199 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 14.8 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.4% ★, Sandbox 12.8%, Crafting 10.2%, Open World 7.1%, Building 5.8%
Why You'll Like It: Combines top-down survival and crafting with RPG elements and base building in a procedurally generated world.
- #4 Dig or Die
96% matchVery Positive90% of 4,269 reviews2018
Dev: Gaddy Games
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Crash land on a hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it. But be warned... this planet is merciless. Build strong, and smart; else physics may flood or destroy your only hopes of survival.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41% ★, Sandbox 17%, Crafting 13.3%, Open World 6%, Survival 6%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D survival game that emphasizes defensive building and resource management against waves of hostile creatures.
- #5 Volcanoids
94% matchVery Positive83% of 9,267 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.
Why similar: Steampunk 39.9% ★, Sandbox 16.3%, Crafting 15.3%, Building 9.5%, Open World 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A steampunk survival game where you build and upgrade a mobile drill-ship to traverse a hostile, volcanic world.
- #6 Airships: Conquer the Skies
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 6,488 reviews2018
Dev: David Stark
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 36.8 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Construct mighty steampunk airships and fly them into battle, waging war and conquering the skies!
Why similar: Steampunk 68.3% ★, Building 24.3%, 2D 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on the steampunk airship design and combat mechanics that define the core appeal of Windforge.
- #7 TerraTech
93% matchVery Positive91% of 24,617 reviews2018
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 33.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
TerraTech is an open-world, sandbox adventure game, where you design and build your own creations through a mix of crafting, combat and discovery. Design vehicles from a huge library of blocks. Scavenge, craft and buy new parts to survive and become the ultimate planetary prospector.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37% ★, Sandbox 18.6%, Building 12.7%, Crafting 12.1%, Open World 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world sandbox where you build custom vehicles and bases from scavenged parts to survive and explore.
- #8 Mechanic Miner
92% matchMixed58% of 210 reviews2020
Dev: Hello John
Windows
Put your mechanical skills to the test in a physics-based sandbox where ingenuity and creativity are the ultimate key to survival. Construct fantastical machines, gather resources, acquire new technologies to battle dangerous enemies and use your imagination to shape your world.
Why similar: Steampunk 37.5% ★, Sandbox 16.8%, Crafting 15.5%, Building 10.6%, RPG 4.9%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on physics-based building and engineering, allowing players to construct complex machines to survive.
- #9 Craft The World
91% matchVery Positive88% of 16,888 reviews2014
Dev: Dekovir EntertainmentPub: Dekovir Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 38.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Craft The World is a unique sandbox strategy game, the mix of Dungeon Keeper, Terraria and Dwarf Fortress. Explore a random generated world populated by dangerous creatures, build a dwarf fortress, gather resources, and craft all the items, weapons, and armor you need.
Why similar: Sandbox 27.8%, Crafting 25.7%, Building 16.9%, Open World 9.6%, Survival 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: A unique 2D sandbox that blends god-game management with traditional block-building and survival mechanics.
- #10 Signs of Life
91% matchMostly Positive76% of 841 reviews2014
Dev: Sweet Dog Studios
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Signs of Life is a sci-fi survival sandbox platformer with a combination of procedurally generated and hand-crafted content. You'll explore mysterious locations, Mine blocks for resources, and meet strange (and some familiar) creatures, some of which don't even want to kill you and eat your corpse.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41% ★, Sandbox 15.9%, Crafting 11.2%, RPG 6%, Building 5.3%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D survival game that blends platforming, crafting, and combat with a focus on deep exploration.
- #11 Planet Centauri
90% matchMostly Positive77% of 2,370 reviews2024
Dev: Permadeath
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 13.7 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Dive into an epic adventure alone or with friends! Explore hidden dungeons, capture and tame fearsome monsters, build and defend your village. Craft powerful weapons, master magical spells, and transform an planet into the cradle of a new civilization!
Why similar: Sandbox 22.7%, Crafting 17.5%, Open World 11.4%, Building 10.1%, RPG 10%
Why You'll Like It: Features deep 2D crafting and combat with a focus on creature taming and extensive world exploration.
- #12 Crea
89% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,407 reviews2016
Dev: Siege Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 19.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Progress with every slain monster, learn over 80 skills through talents, craft hundreds of items, and explore vast procedurally-generated worlds in this ever-expanding sandbox RPG!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.5% ★, Sandbox 17%, Crafting 12%, RPG 6.7%, Building 4.3%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D sandbox RPG that features a robust skill system and extensive crafting options for character progression.
- #13 Creativerse
89% 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 34.6% ★, Sandbox 15.4%, Crafting 13.7%, Building 9.2%, Open World 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based sandbox that emphasizes creative building and exploration in a colorful, expansive world.
- #14 Black Skylands
87% matchVery Positive83% of 4,392 reviews2023
Dev: Hungry Couch GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Become the captain of an airship and explore the world of the skies, gather resources and build powerful weapons, uncover ancient secrets and fight beneath your ship's sails.
Why similar: Steampunk 36.9% ★, Sandbox 16.7%, Crafting 11%, Open World 10.6%, RPG 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world action game featuring steampunk airships and sky-based exploration that mirrors the setting of Windforge.
- #15 Aground
86% matchVery Positive94% of 1,985 reviews2020
Dev: Fancy Fish Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
As one of the last human survivors, you find yourself stranded on an uninhabited island. With a few other victims of the crash, can you craft, mine, and build your way to survival?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.2% ★, Sandbox 15.9%, Building 11.3%, Open World 11%, RPG 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D crafting RPG that starts with primitive tools and progresses into advanced technology and space travel.
- #16 Edge of Space
88% matchMostly Negative33% of 2,729 reviews2015
Dev: Handyman StudiosPub: Reverb Triple XP
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Suit up as an operative of the Ark Corporation, sent to the farthest reaches of the universe in search of habitable planets to terraform. However, after the long space journey you awaken from cryosleep to find that your ship has gone way off course and is disabled near a strange new world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.3% ★, Sandbox 18.1%, Crafting 9.7%, RPG 4.6%, Open World 3.6%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D sci-fi survival game that focuses on exploration, base building, and fighting mutated creatures on a hostile planet.
- #17 Planet Explorers
86% matchMixed62% of 6,817 reviews2016
Dev: Pathea Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Planet Explorers is an open world sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.5% ★, Sandbox 18.5%, Crafting 10.2%, Open World 9.3%, RPG 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox adventure game that allows for complex vehicle and building construction on an alien planet.
- #18 Junk Jack
85% matchMostly Positive79% of 469 reviews2016
Dev: Pixbits
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 21.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Make the world truly yours in Junk Jack, a relaxing sandbox experience focused on building and improving your home. Discover new planets, tame and breed creatures, cook foods, collect animal companions, farm exotic plants, collect fish, grow flowers, play with your friends!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.8% ★, Sandbox 17.4%, Crafting 12.5%, Building 7.1%, Survival 5%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D sandbox game with a strong focus on exploration, farming, and building in a charming pixel-art style.
- #19 Block Story™
84% matchVery Positive83% of 2,006 reviews2015
Dev: Big Cube Interactive, LLC
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 46%
There isn’t much better than a wide open game world in which you have essentially no limits and can alter the very landscape in which you play – that is, unless you add dragons, of course…
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.5% ★, Sandbox 14.8%, Crafting 12.5%, RPG 8.5%, Building 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world voxel RPG that combines building mechanics with quest-driven exploration and dragon-riding.
- #20 Force of Nature
84% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,202 reviews2016
Dev: A.Y.std
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44% ★, Crafting 15.4%, Sandbox 12.7%, Open World 7.1%, Building 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: A survival sandbox that emphasizes gathering, crafting, and base building in a large, procedurally generated world.
- #21 Shards of Azuria
82% matchMixed60% of 101 reviews2019
Dev: Blue Potion Games
Windows
Shards of Azuria is an isometric, craft and build RPG. Create a character and a new world, then start your adventure by waking up in town. You are greeted by the locals of Azuria and begin to find your way around.
Why similar: Crafting 24.3%, Sandbox 21.3%, RPG 15.2%, Building 10.1%, Indie 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D action RPG that incorporates sandbox building elements and dungeon exploration.
- #22 Asteria
82% matchMixed55% of 251 reviews2014
Dev: Legend Studio
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Asteria is a fast paced indie platformer, wrapped up in a sandbox sci-fi world where everything is destructible, mineable, collectable, craftable and creatable.
Why similar: Sandbox 32.8%, Crafting 23.1%, Indie 15.5%, Platformer 10.4%, Action 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced 2D action-adventure game with strong sandbox and mining mechanics.
- #23 Deep Despair
80% matchMixed67% of 280 reviews2020
Dev: BekkerDev Studio
Windows
Median: 10.4 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Deep Despair is a Minecraft-style survival sandbox. Travel, collect resources, craft items, dig, build, grow crops and survive. Freedom of action is limited only by your imagination!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.4% ★, Sandbox 13%, RPG 12.9%, Crafting 12.9%, Open World 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D survival game that focuses on crafting and building in a harsh, unforgiving environment.
- #24 Orion Sandbox Enhanced
78% matchVery Positive94% of 1,140 reviews2018
Dev: y8.com
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 65%
This is a 2D crafting survival sandbox game. You will be able to explore a huge 2D side-view world, building houses, crafting tools, weapons and armour from the resources you collect. There is a day/night cycle and each night many dangerous monsters can be found and defeated.
Why similar: Sandbox 37.1%, RPG 23.1%, Indie 11.7%, Action 11.5%, 2D 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D survival sandbox that offers a variety of crafting and exploration mechanics in a procedurally generated world.
- #25 Lantern Forge
81% matchMixed54% of 284 reviews2014
Dev: Hearthfire Studios
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Lantern Forge is a sandbox survival game with building, crafting, and RPG elements. Mine and forage for resources to build a home, plant crops, and craft weapons and armor. Then venture out to explore the wilderness, find hidden dungeons and temples, fight unique monsters, and collect the treasures they guard.
Why similar: Sandbox 32.6%, Crafting 27.7%, RPG 22.5%, Survival 10.1%, Indie 4.1%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D sandbox survival game that emphasizes crafting and base defense against waves of enemies.
- #26 AutoForge
76% matchVery Positive87% of 457 reviews2024
Dev: Siege Games
Windows
A 2D automation sandbox adventure. Build an automated factory with Mana-powered machines, progress through an expansive tech tree, explore a vast and wonderful world, upgrade yourself with ancient technologies, and defend it all from invasions.
Why similar: Sandbox 27.6%, Crafting 24.8%, Building 16.1%, Side Scroller 13.4%, Platformer 8.9%
- #27 Astral Terra
79% matchMixed50% of 152 reviews2015
Dev: Tethys Interactive LLC
Windows
Explore, Adventure, Craft, Build, Survive. How will you shape your world? Astral Terra is a Smooth Voxel, Procedurally Generated Open World game with RPG and Survival Elements!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.7% ★, Sandbox 15.4%, Crafting 9.6%, Open World 9.3%, Building 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based sandbox that combines exploration and survival with RPG-style character development.
- #28 Adventure Craft
78% matchVery Positive82% of 225 reviews2017
Dev: Edible Entertainment
Windows
Adventure Craft is a challenging procedurally generated sandbox RPG with roguelike elements. Hunt monsters, horde loot, and craft weapons and armor, to survive in a vast ever-changing RPG world full of action, extreme danger and wonderful surprises.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.1% ★, Sandbox 17.3%, Building 9.8%, Open World 9.7%, RPG 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox game that focuses on creating your own adventures and building structures in an open world.
- #29 Everwind
74% matchVery Positive82% of 3,221 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Everwind is a novel take on RPG and Sandbox Survival genre in First-Person-Perspective. Embark on the adventure with your friends - Build a base on a flying island-ship, gather resources, craft, loot, and fight while you rise above the clouds to uncover the mysteries of this world!
Why similar: Sandbox 23.4%, Crafting 21.5%, Building 14.4%, Open World 13.7%, RPG 12.8%
- #30 Magicite
77% matchVery Positive85% of 7,589 reviews2014
Dev: Sean YoungPub: SmashGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Explore, craft, and survive in this Multiplayer RPG Platformer with permanent death! Featuring many Rogue-like elements, Magicite randomly generates each underground dungeon for you and your friends to delve deep into.
Why similar: Crafting 24.4%, RPG 19.8%, Indie 9.5%, Platformer 8.9%, Sandbox 8.3%
- #31 FortressCraft Evolved!
77% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,057 reviews2015
Dev: ProjectorGamesPub: Digital Tribe
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 72%
FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.1% ★, Sandbox 15.6%, Crafting 13.6%, Building 8.7%, Open World 5.2%
- #32 Blockscape
79% matchMixed46% of 898 reviews2014
Dev: ioneo
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 49%
The ultimate block building game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 51.8% ★, Sandbox 17%, Crafting 9.3%, Open World 6.3%, Building 6%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based building game that allows for highly detailed construction and exploration in a vast world.
- #33 Rising World
75% matchVery Positive86% of 5,890 reviews2014
Dev: JIW-Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 21.2 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 44.5% ★, Sandbox 17.4%, Crafting 15.4%, Building 10.7%, Survival 5.5%
- #34 Scrapnaut
74% matchMixed70% of 827 reviews2021
Dev: SpiffyBitPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements. Explore an open world with different biomes, take care of oxygen, manage your farms, generate electricity, build your home and much more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.1% ★, Sandbox 14.8%, Steampunk 14.3% ★, Crafting 11.9%, Building 11.4%
- #35 Forsaken Isle
73% matchMostly Positive71% of 513 reviews2025
Dev: Smoodlez
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Stranded on a desert island, explore, craft, build and fight in this action survival game!
Why similar: Crafting 26.8%, Sandbox 23.2%, RPG 14.1%, Survival 11.9%, Indie 7%
- #36 Vagabond
73% matchMostly Positive77% of 99 reviews2023
Dev: Pierre Vigier
Windows · Linux
Explore procedurally generated living worlds in this 2D sandbox RPG. Meet hundreds of characters in cities, complete quests, craft powerful items, buy and furnish your home or fight monsters in dungeons.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.4% ★, Sandbox 17.8%, Crafting 11.8%, RPG 9.9%, Open World 9.7%
- #37 Deepworld
75% matchMixed61% of 738 reviews2015
Dev: Bytebin
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 12.6 hrs≥1hr: 42%
Deepworld is a massively-multiplayer 2D crafting adventure game. Mine and craft your way through a persistent online universe where there's always something new to discover. Battle frightening monsters, mysterious automatons, and other players in PvP!
Why similar: Steampunk 39.8% ★, Sandbox 21.1%, RPG 10%, Crafting 7.7%, 2D 5.4%
- #38 Forager
71% matchVery Positive90% of 43,424 reviews2019
Dev: HopFrogPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 22.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.3% ★, Crafting 15.4%, Sandbox 10.9%, Survival 5.9%, Building 4.9%
- #39 Tinkerlands
70% matchVery Positive86% of 3,833 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Explore, craft, and fight your way through uncharted islands — solo or with up to 4 players in co-op! Tinkerlands is an exciting survival adventure where you will build your settlement, craft useful tools to survive, and even use magic!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.1% ★, Sandbox 14.9%, Crafting 10.8%, Open World 7.8%, Building 6.8%
- #40 Total Miner
72% matchMostly Positive78% of 767 reviews2017
Dev: Brandon Moore
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 36.0 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Total Miner is an open world voxel sandbox game. It is primarily designed for creative RPG game builders, but also has two action/adventure style game modes where you can just jump in and play.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.8% ★, Sandbox 16.3%, Crafting 8.7%, Building 7.4%, RPG 7.4%
- #41 Crafting Block World
73% matchMixed47% of 53 reviews2019
Dev: IO Games
Windows
Crafting Block World is an adventure with sandbox elements that will help you build your ideal world!
Why similar: Sandbox 31.7%, Crafting 17%, Building 12.6%, Open World 11.1%, Survival 10%
- #42 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 38.1% ★, Crafting 14.6%, Sandbox 13.4%, Open World 8.5%, Building 8.2%
- #43 Outerverse
72% matchMixed50% of 125 reviews2022
Dev: Tbjbu2Pub: indie.io
Windows
Build automated machines and weapons across the universe, beat massive bosses, experience cosmic events and explore unique landmarks in this quest driven automation crafting adventure game. Includes a manual scenario for crafting instead of machines for those not a fan of logic/automation!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.3% ★, Crafting 16.4%, RPG 15.9%, Open World 9.9%, Action 6.7%
- #44 Project 5: Sightseer
70% matchMostly Positive72% of 545 reviews2019
Dev: Tasharen Entertainment Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 28.9 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Open world multiplayer sandbox/RPG game. Explore, gather, build, research, and fight to protect what's yours -- by yourself or together with your friends.
Why similar: Sandbox 27.1%, RPG 22%, Building 17.6%, Open World 10.4%, Indie 9.9%
- #45 Voidtrain
66% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,447 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.5 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 49.4% ★, Crafting 12.3%, Sandbox 10.9%, Open World 7.7%, Building 7%
- #46 Kenshi
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 112,221 reviews2018
Dev: Lo-Fi Games
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 71.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.
Why similar: Sandbox 27.4%, Open World 18.1%, RPG 13.7%, Crafting 11.4%, Building 9%
- #47 Crashlands
68% matchVery Positive90% of 6,682 reviews2016
Dev: Butterscotch Shenanigans
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Fight and tame alien beasts, craft resources into menacing weaponry, befriend the outlandish locals, and go toe-to-chin with a world-domineering maniac.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.7% ★, Sandbox 13.6%, Crafting 12.8%, Open World 8.4%, RPG 8.1%
- #48 Realms of Magic
68% matchVery Positive81% of 990 reviews2022
Dev: Polished Games
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Embark on a journey through the Old Kingdom in Realms of Magic - a sandbox RPG where you customize your character, choose your path, and immerse yourself in the fantasy world as a knight, wizard, miner, lumberjack, farmer, and more. After all, this is YOUR adventure.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.8% ★, Sandbox 12.1%, RPG 11.7%, Open World 6.8%, Crafting 5.4%
- #49 Tile Miner
69% matchMixed62% of 63 reviews2021
Dev: nalothchrisPub: MadSwan
Windows · Mac
Explore a vast world. Manipulate every tile. Build your kingdom. Conquer the elemental dungeons. The moldable world of Tile Miner is at your fingertips!
Why similar: Sandbox 26.1%, Crafting 20.6%, Building 14.7%, Open World 13.9%, Survival 7.5%
- #50 Boundless
69% matchMixed70% of 2,767 reviews2018
Dev: Monumental, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 32.9 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Shape your citizen, forge your destiny and sculpt your world in this epic voxel sandbox MMO built on endless possibility.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.2% ★, Sandbox 16.8%, Crafting 13%, Open World 9%, Building 7.7%
- #51 Pixel Piracy
69% matchMixed65% of 7,360 reviews2014
Dev: Vitali Kirpu
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Embark on an epic 2D pirate simulator RPG adventure, where you navigate both land and sea. Upgrade your ship, recruit and level up your crew, and uncover hidden treasures as you become a legendary pirate.
Why similar: Sandbox 45%, Open World 16.1%, RPG 15.5%, Side Scroller 13.9%, Action 6.1%
- #52 Noita
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 86,897 reviews2020
Dev: Nolla Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 29.3 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
Why similar: Sandbox 29.1%, Crafting 18.6%, Open World 16%, RPG 12%, Indie 7.4%
- #53 A Valley Without Wind
70% matchMixed60% of 519 reviews2012
Dev: Arcen Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
You choose how to play, and the world of Environ adapts around you.
Why similar: Platformer 27.6%, Action 19.5%, Indie 19%, Open World 16.7%, 2D 5.9%
- #54 Lay of the Land
64% matchMostly Positive79% of 971 reviews2026
Dev: Southern Cross Interactive
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Lay of the Land is a sandbox adventure game set in a fantasy world where everything is physically simulated. Use the environment to your advantage and Explore, Fight, Loot and Build your way through mysterious lands.
Why similar: Sandbox 27.7%, Crafting 16.2%, RPG 14.9%, Open World 13.9%, Building 11.7%
- #55 Desert Skies
68% matchMixed57% of 464 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 60.8% ★, Crafting 13.7%, Building 6.8%, Survival 5%, Action 4.6%
