- #1 Salt 2: Shores of Gold
96% matchVery Positive85% of 2,370 reviews2025
Dev: Lavaboots Studios
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 8.8 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: Pirates 31.7% ★, Sailing 25.9% ★, Crafting 10.8%, Survival 9.7%, Open World 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: A first-person pirate survival RPG centered on sailing between islands, gathering resources, crafting gear, fighting foes, and exploring a large procedural sea.
- #2 Valheim
96% 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 33.6% ★, Online Co-Op 12.5%, Survival 10.6%, Crafting 9.4%, Building 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: Its cooperative survival progression combines base building, crafting, boss preparation, dangerous exploration, and highly satisfying ship voyages across a hostile world.
- #3 ATLAS
97% matchMixed47% of 42,929 reviews2018
Dev: Grapeshot Games
Windows
Median: 12.5 hrsMean: 111.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Set sail for the ultimate pirate experience! Embark on a grand adventure alongside thousands of other players in one of the largest game worlds ever built (and even claim a piece of it to call your own). Build your ship, assemble your crew, sail the high seas, and become a pirate legend!
Why similar: Pirates 24.1% ★, Naval Combat 18.2% ★, Sailing 17.7% ★, Survival 7.8%, Crafting 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: Its persistent pirate sandbox has ship construction, ocean exploration, crew management, base building, and extensive survival systems for groups.
- #4 Enshrouded
95% matchVery Positive86% of 106,050 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.9 hrsMean: 46.8 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: Online Co-Op 17.2%, Survival 17.1%, Crafting 15%, Base Building 14.3%, Open World 13%
Why You'll Like It: While it lacks naval play, it closely matches Windrose's PvE survival loop through flexible building, cooperative exploration, action combat, and boss-driven progression.
- #5 Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition
94% matchVery Positive89% of 373,680 reviews2020
Dev: Rare LtdPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 22.0 hrsMean: 86.3 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: Pirates 40% ★, Sailing 23.5% ★, Online Co-Op 12.3%, Open World 9.1%, Massively Multiplayer 4.5%
Why You'll Like It: It delivers the strongest shared pirate fantasy on Steam through cooperative crewing, naval battles, treasure hunts, emergent voyages, and a lively open sea.
- #6 Sunkenland
94% matchVery Positive80% of 24,007 reviews2023
Dev: Vector3 Studio
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 20.3 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 45.6% ★, Survival 13.9%, Crafting 11.6%, Base Building 10.3%, Open World 6%
Why You'll Like It: This waterlogged co-op survival game emphasizes building fortified bases, scavenging islands, crafting, diving, and defending against raiders.
- #7 Raft
93% matchVery Positive93% of 379,035 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.8 hrsMean: 38.0 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 41.5% ★, Survival 16.8%, Crafting 11.1%, Online Co-Op 8.1%, Building 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: Co-op players expand a floating home, scavenge islands, craft upgrades, and sail through an ocean-survival adventure with a clear exploration loop.
- #8 Voyagers of Nera
92% matchVery Positive85% of 2,647 reviews2025
Dev: Treehouse Games
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 24.1% ★, Sailing 23.8% ★, Online Co-Op 10.1%, Crafting 10%, Building 8%
Why You'll Like It: A colorful co-op survival adventure built around sailing, island exploration, crafting, base construction, and facing oceanic dangers together.
- #9 Survival: Fountain of Youth
91% matchVery Positive85% of 4,528 reviews2024
Dev: Odinsoft Inc.Pub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.4 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 37% ★, Crafting 13.4%, Survival 12.8%, Base Building 11.3%, Building 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused Age of Exploration adventure with island-hopping, crafting, shelter building, sailing, and harsh environmental challenges.
- #10 Skull and Bones
91% matchMixed66% of 5,009 reviews2024
Dev: Ubisoft SingaporePub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 26.8 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Skull and Bones is an open world naval action RPG where ship combat, build choice, and sailing skill define your pirate legend. Conquer rival ships and mythical beasts in a vast ocean of up to 20 players.
Why similar: Naval Combat 35.3% ★, Pirates 34.5% ★, Sailing 7.3% ★, Open World 7.1%, Exploration 5.2%
Why You'll Like It: It is a more combat-focused pirate alternative for players who particularly want ship customization, open-water travel, and naval engagements.
- #11 Nightingale
90% 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 31.8% ★, Online Co-Op 12.1%, Crafting 10.7%, Survival 10.5%, Building 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Portal-based exploration, cooperative survival crafting, customizable estates, and combat against supernatural threats make it a strong fantasy-survival substitute.
- #12 Forgotten Seas
89% matchMostly Positive76% of 605 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: Pirates 20.3% ★, Naval Combat 14.8% ★, Open World Survival Craft 12.5% ★, Sailing 10.6% ★, Online Co-Op 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: It pairs pirate-themed cooperative survival with ship travel, exploration, resource gathering, building, and combat across a mysterious sea.
- #13 Soulmask
89% matchMostly Positive77% of 22,506 reviews2026
Dev: CampFire StudioPub: Qooland Games
Windows
Median: 13.9 hrsMean: 69.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. Possess any of your tribespeople, recruit followers, and build a thriving automated civilization. Survive, expand, and forge your own legacy across a vast ancient open world — together with friends.
Why similar: Naval Combat 25% ★, Open World Survival Craft 22% ★, Crafting 10.8%, Survival 9.1%, Base Building 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: It offers demanding survival progression, large-scale base building, PvE exploration, and a distinctive system for recruiting and controlling tribe members.
- #14 Dune: Awakening
88% matchMostly Positive71% of 79,582 reviews2025
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 43.1 hrsMean: 98.6 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Dune: Awakening is a single- and multiplayer Open World Survival game with immersive adventure and RPG gameplay. Explore, build, craft, and unravel a cinematic Dune story 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 25.7% ★, Online Co-Op 9.8%, Crafting 9.5%, Survival 8.5%, Massively Multiplayer 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A large shared survival world with construction, crafting, resource expeditions, PvE danger, and vehicle travel for groups seeking a more MMO-like alternative.
- #15 V Rising
86% matchVery Positive89% of 137,392 reviews2024
Dev: Stunlock Studios
Windows
Median: 20.9 hrsMean: 58.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Awaken as a Vampire. Hunt for blood in nearby settlements to regain your strength and evade the scorching sun to survive. Raise your castle and thrive in an ever-changing, open world full of mystery. Gain allies online and conquer the land of the living.
Why similar: Survival 15.2%, Crafting 13.6%, Base Building 13%, Online Co-Op 11.5%, Open World 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: Its skill-based combat and boss hunting complement deep crafting, castle construction, and cooperative survival progression in a dark fantasy setting.
- #16 Dawn of Defiance
87% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,856 reviews2024
Dev: Traega EntertainmentPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
You are a fallen Spartan, cast into the realm between the living and the Underworld. In this survival adventure inspired by Greek myth, hunt, craft and build a home worthy of legend with up to 3 friends. Raid the gods' temples, defeat legendary creatures and loot the iconic weapons of the Olympians.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.2% ★, Online Co-Op 12.4%, Survival 10.1%, PvE 8.1%, Base Building 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: This mythic co-op survival game focuses on gathering, building, crafting, combat upgrades, and challenging boss-oriented exploration.
- #17 Lost Skies
86% matchMixed61% of 2,995 reviews2025
Dev: Bossa StudiosPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Chart a course in a breathtaking, but fractured world. Explore ancient ruins, master advanced technology, and craft your very own skyship to brave nature’s fury and colossal threats in Lost Skies. Team up with friends or go it alone in this awe-inspiring cooperative survival adventure.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.3% ★, Online Co-Op 15.8%, Base Building 12.1%, Crafting 8.8%, Open World 5.7%
Why You'll Like It: It replaces pirate ships with customizable skyships but preserves the co-op loop of building, sailing, exploring islands, and surviving environmental hazards.
- #18 Aloft
84% matchVery Positive83% of 3,782 reviews2025
Dev: Astrolabe Interactive Inc.Pub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 15.5 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 26.8% ★, Sailing 20.5% ★, Crafting 14.2%, Survival 12%, Building 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: Its airborne islands and customizable wind-powered vessels provide a gentler co-op survival-crafting take on roaming, building, and exploration.
- #19 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
84% 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 30.8% ★, Online Co-Op 11.5%, Survival 11.1%, Crafting 10.9%, Base Building 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: Another small-scale but substantial co-op survival game featuring mounts, building, crafting, exploration, and hazardous creature-filled environments.
- #20 Sea Dogs: To Each His Own
85% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,362 reviews2012
Dev: BlackMark Studio
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 47.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
1654 AC. The Caribbean. A place of opportunities and mysteries.
Why similar: Pirates 39.7% ★, Naval Combat 28.9% ★, Sailing 21.7% ★, Open World 5%, Third Person 2.8%
Why You'll Like It: This single-player pirate RPG offers a deep Caribbean sandbox of ship command, trading, quests, boarding actions, and naval combat.
- #21 Age of Water
83% matchMostly Positive70% of 3,522 reviews2025
Dev: Three Whales StudioPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 38.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Age of Water is an online adventure game set on a post-apocalyptic Earth completely covered in water. Sail through storms, fight and trade, capture other people's boats or build your own, extract resources from the bottom of the ocean and reveal the secrets of the Age of Water world.
Why similar: Pirates 44.3% ★, Crafting 16.2%, Massively Multiplayer 14%, Open World 9.5%, PvE 4.7%
Why You'll Like It: A flooded open-world action adventure where upgrading boats, scavenging resources, fighting on water, and visiting floating settlements echo Windrose's seafaring side.
- #22 ICARUS
82% matchMostly Positive75% of 68,864 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.4 hrsMean: 46.7 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 32.3% ★, Survival 12%, Online Co-Op 11.4%, Crafting 10.2%, Base Building 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: Mission-based survival expeditions provide tense resource gathering, shelter construction, crafting, weather hazards, and cooperative PvE progression.
- #23 Grounded
81% matchVery Positive90% of 95,977 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.6 hrsMean: 41.9 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 37.6% ★, Survival 17.9%, Crafting 12%, Base Building 11.5%, Online Co-Op 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Its co-op survival loop excels at inventive crafting, elaborate base building, exploration, and boss-like creature encounters despite its miniature setting.
- #24 ASKA
81% matchVery Positive80% of 12,267 reviews2024
Dev: Sand Sailor StudioPub: Thunderful Publishing
Windows
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 29.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 33.8% ★, Online Co-Op 13.9%, Survival 11.4%, Base Building 10.7%, Crafting 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: A Viking survival sandbox with settlement building, NPC management, resource gathering, exploration, and co-op progression against a dangerous wilderness.
- #25 Sons Of The Forest
79% matchVery Positive88% of 321,117 reviews2024
Dev: Endnight Games LtdPub: Newnight
Windows
Median: 15.0 hrsMean: 32.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends, in this terrifying new open-world survival horror simulator.
Why similar: Survival 26.2%, Crafting 17.5%, Base Building 16.7%, Open World 15.4%, Building 12.2%
Why You'll Like It: It offers polished cooperative survival, freeform construction, cave exploration, crafting, and dangerous PvE encounters in an atmospheric open world.
- #26 Windward
82% matchMostly Positive80% of 3,634 reviews2015
Dev: Tasharen Entertainment Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Windward is an action-filled multiplayer sandbox game that puts you in control of a ship sailing the high seas of a large procedurally-generated world.
Why similar: Pirates 41.7% ★, Naval Combat 41.4% ★, Sailing 9.8% ★, Open World 3.4%, Exploration 1.7%
Why You'll Like It: This relaxed naval sandbox focuses on captaining a ship, trading, fighting pirates, completing quests, and exploring procedurally generated seas.
- #27 Blackwake
80% matchVery Positive81% of 26,057 reviews2020
Dev: Mastfire Studios Pty Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Blackwake is a multiplayer naval FPS focused on teamwork and cooperation. Fire the cannons, sink enemy ships or board them with firearms and steel.
Why similar: Pirates 46.4% ★, Naval Combat 38.3% ★, Sailing 11.9% ★, Open World 2.3%, Action 0.9%
Why You'll Like It: It is a crew-based pirate naval-combat game focused on communicating with a ship's team, firing broadsides, repairing damage, and boarding enemies.
- #28 RuneScape: Dragonwilds
77% matchVery Positive81% of 32,495 reviews2026
Dev: Jagex Ltd
Windows
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 20.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
On RuneScape's forgotten continent of Ashenfall, dragons have awoken. Gather, build, skill and craft in this co-operative survival adventure. Only by mastering survival and uncovering ancient secrets can you hope to face the ferocious Dragon Queen.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.4% ★, Online Co-Op 12.2%, Survival 11.5%, Crafting 10.4%, Open World 8.9%
- #29 World of Sea Battle
78% matchMostly Positive75% of 8,956 reviews2025
Dev: Thera Interactive
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 26.1 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Set sail in World of Sea Battle, an action-packed open-world MMO in the Golden Age of Sail! Command historic ships, battle in PvP & PvE, shape the economy, and engage in territorial guild wars in your quest for glory across the high seas!
Why similar: Pirates 26.5% ★, Naval Combat 26.4% ★, Sailing 19.8% ★, Massively Multiplayer 8.6%, PvE 6.1%
- #30 Everwind
77% matchVery Positive81% of 3,899 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 18.8%, Crafting 18%, Survival 15.3%, Building 14.4%, Open World 10.7%
- #31 Sailwind
78% matchVery Positive89% of 2,387 reviews2021
Dev: Raw Lion Workshop
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 23.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Sailing simulator featuring realistic sailing physics and a vast open world to explore. Embark on cargo delivery missions, customize your boat, try fishing and cooking. A relaxing day sail, or an epic ocean voyage? Your sailing adventure starts here!
Why similar: Sailing 56.3% ★, Survival 18.4%, Open World 13.3%, Exploration 9.2%, Adventure 2.8%
Why You'll Like It: For players drawn to the act of sailing itself, it offers a deliberate simulation-like voyage of navigation, provisioning, trade, and open-sea discovery.
- #32 Witchspire
76% matchVery Positive83% of 2,161 reviews2026
Dev: Envar Games
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 36.5% ★, Online Co-Op 14.2%, Crafting 13.4%, Base Building 10.6%, PvE 8%
- #33 Tempest: Pirate Action RPG
79% matchMixed69% of 2,624 reviews2016
Dev: HeroCraftPub: HeroCraft PC
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Tempest is a Pirate Open World Action RPG where you rove the seas across three continents filled with dozens of colonies and forts, hundreds of quests and countless ships to plunder. Customize your ship, trade, challenge fellow pirates and face mythical monsters such as the Kraken and Leviathan!
Why similar: Pirates 62.1% ★, Sailing 22.6% ★, Open World 7.7%, Third Person 3.2%, Action-Adventure 2.4%
Why You'll Like It: A pirate action RPG centered on commanding customizable ships, naval battles, boarding, trading, and exploring a fantasy Caribbean.
- #34 Romestead
75% matchMostly Positive77% of 5,129 reviews2026
Dev: BeartwigsPub: Three Friends
Windows
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 15.9 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 29% ★, Crafting 15.6%, Survival 12.2%, Online Co-Op 11.9%, Base Building 9.7%
- #35 Bellwright
76% matchVery Positive80% of 21,714 reviews2024
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 12.8 hrsMean: 41.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Establish and expand your own settlements, liberate the land and assist its villagers, and recruit others to your cause while learning more about a life you had to leave behind. Command your forces, prove your valor through combat, and cement yourself as the hero of your people.
Why similar: Survival 22.9%, Crafting 20.7%, Online Co-Op 20.1%, Open World 14.5%, Building 13.4%
- #36 Project Castaway
75% matchMixed65% of 1,893 reviews2026
Dev: Mardonpol Inc.
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 7.5 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 34.9% ★, Online Co-Op 13.6%, Survival 10.8%, Crafting 9.5%, Base Building 8.5%
- #37 Len's Island
74% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,974 reviews2025
Dev: Flow Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.8 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 34.8% ★, Crafting 11.6%, Survival 11%, Building 10.5%, Base Building 7.9%
- #38 Farever
73% matchMostly Positive76% of 9,511 reviews2026
Dev: Shiro Games
Windows
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 24.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Forge your legend in a forgotten realm! Farever is an online multiplayer action RPG set in a vast fantasy open world. Alone or with friends, embark on an epic journey together! Explore wild lands and dangerous dungeons, craft powerful gear, and carve your path through dynamic combat and platforming.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 25.8%, Massively Multiplayer 19%, Crafting 16.1%, Open World 12.2%, Exploration 9.1%
- #39 Lost Rift
74% 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 30.4% ★, Crafting 12.1%, Online Co-Op 11.1%, Survival 10.1%, Base Building 9.5%
- #40 StarRupture
71% 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 35.7% ★, Crafting 13.1%, Survival 11.9%, Base Building 11.5%, Online Co-Op 10.9%
- #41 Vampires: Bloodlord Rising
71% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,868 reviews2026
Dev: Mehuman GamesPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
In this dark, open-world adventure, you awaken as a Vampire Lord. Build and customize your castle. Hunt for blood, fight, craft, and gather. Command your loyal servants. Shapeshift into a bat to explore the night and survive the relentless Inquisition, solo or in 4-player co-op.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 17.2%, Crafting 17%, Survival 14.5%, Base Building 13.9%, Building 12.5%
- #42 Saleblazers
72% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,249 reviews2023
Dev: AIRSTRAFE INTERACTIVE
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 19.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A shopkeeping adventure for 1-8 players. Cook, fish, fight, and sell your way through a magical island!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.2% ★, Online Co-Op 12.7%, Crafting 12.4%, Survival 10.2%, Building 9.9%
- #43 Frozen Flame
73% matchMixed62% of 2,997 reviews2022
Dev: Dreamside InteractivePub: Ravenage Games
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A challenging exploration and survival adventure, set in the dying world of Dragons. Only those who harness the power of Frozen Flame have the means to survive the harsh conditions of the realm and able to muster the strength to cleanse it for good.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.9% ★, Online Co-Op 12.9%, Crafting 11.1%, Survival 10%, Base Building 9.8%
- #44 Salt
73% matchMostly Positive77% of 2,252 reviews2018
Dev: Lavaboots Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Salt is an open world exploration game where you sail from island to island looking for loot and new discoveries! Relax and explore at your own pace, picking a direction and setting sail across a vast ocean filled with quests, merchants, ruins, pirates, and other mysterious places.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.9% ★, Pirates 24.1% ★, Sailing 10.8% ★, Survival 10.4%, Crafting 9.6%
- #45 IfSunSets
71% matchMostly Positive75% of 2,506 reviews2024
Dev: POLYMORPHPub: Smilegate
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
「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: Open World Survival Craft 44.4% ★, Base Building 14.1%, PvE 12.4%, Open World 10.2%, Exploration 7.6%
- #46 Voidtrain
69% 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 40.9% ★, Online Co-Op 10.7%, Crafting 10.4%, Survival 10.1%, Base Building 8.5%
- #47 SAND: Raiders of Sophie
70% matchMixed49% of 13,933 reviews2026
Dev: HologryphPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 9.7 hrsMean: 28.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
In SAND you build your highly customizable walking mech fortress. Squad up or go solo. Scavenge the dunes, gather loot, weapons, priceless artifacts, survive and extract. Clash with other players in a brutal procedurally generated desert set in an alternate 1910.
Why similar: Pirates 38.8% ★, Online Co-Op 13.2%, Massively Multiplayer 12.1%, Survival 11.3%, PvE 9.7%
- #48 Breakwaters: Crystal Tides
72% matchMixed62% of 1,001 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 27.5% ★, Survival 14.8%, Building 13.9%, Crafting 13.1%, Open World 9.6%
- #49 Echoes of Elysium
70% matchMixed64% of 566 reviews2026
Dev: Loric Games, Inc.Pub: Snail Games USA
Windows
Ever wanted to live on an airship? Now you have to. Echoes of Elysium is a co-op survival RPG where your airship is home, workshop, and war machine. Build a custom flying fortress, crew up with up to 6 players, and battle soul-powered clockwork beasts across a gorgeous, fractured sky.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.5% ★, Crafting 13.6%, Survival 11%, Building 10.4%, PvE 8.3%
- #50 Tinkerlands
68% matchVery Positive86% of 4,122 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.4 hrsMean: 14.5 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 38.5% ★, Online Co-Op 14.8%, Survival 11.7%, Crafting 11.4%, Building 8.7%
- #51 Pax Dei
69% matchMixed57% of 11,377 reviews2025
Dev: Mainframe Industries
Windows
Median: 18.5 hrsMean: 76.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Welcome to a vast, social sandbox MMO inspired by the legends of the medieval era. Here, myths are real, ghosts exist, and magic is unquestioned. Join thousands of players as you explore the land, build your home, forge your reputation, and craft your own stories. What world will you make?
Why similar: Crafting 25.7%, Base Building 20%, PvE 18%, Open World 14.8%, Exploration 11%
- #52 Last Oasis
70% matchMixed62% of 24,230 reviews2020
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 17.8 hrsMean: 120.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Nomadic Survival MMO. Build wooden walking machines to travel to new lands. Create clans and fight for territory. Resources deplete fast, so take your sword and scavenge, pirate, and trade to stay alive.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 24.1%, Survival 21.6%, Crafting 16.3%, Open World 13%, Building 12.3%
- #53 Necesse
66% matchVery Positive93% of 29,166 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 46.2% ★, Crafting 10.5%, Survival 9.3%, Online Co-Op 7.7%, Building 7.3%
- #54 Palworld
64% 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 36.4% ★, Survival 14%, Online Co-Op 11.4%, Crafting 11.2%, Open World 10.7%
- #55 Captain Bones : A Pirate's Journey
67% matchVery Positive81% of 386 reviews2025
Dev: World of Poly
Windows
Captain Bones is an action-adventure game set in an open pirate world. You must have survival skills to make ship battles and treasure hunts with your crew.
Why similar: Pirates 22.2% ★, Naval Combat 21.2% ★, Open World Survival Craft 17.3% ★, Sailing 16% ★, Crafting 6.9%
- #56 Medieval Dynasty
67% matchVery Positive90% of 52,440 reviews2021
Dev: Render CubePub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 11.6 hrsMean: 36.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.
Why similar: Crafting 29.1%, Building 23.8%, Survival 17.9%, Base Building 14.8%, Open World 11.7%
- #57 Whisper of the Swallows
67% 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 31.8% ★, Crafting 12%, Online Co-Op 10.5%, Survival 10.3%, Building 9%
- #58 Piratopia
68% matchVery Positive83% of 1,055 reviews2021
Dev: Adi ZhavoPub: Project 99 Games
Windows · Mac
Set sail in the open seas and plunder solo, PvE or PvP. Trade goods for ship upgrades or equipments to hunt the Kraken, all in the same Server. Dominate by yourself or with maties. Arrrr for free!
Why similar: Pirates 26.6% ★, Naval Combat 25.5% ★, Sailing 17.7% ★, Massively Multiplayer 6.3%, PvE 6%
- #59 Captain Bones: Prologue
68% matchVery Positive85% of 553 reviews2021
Dev: World of Poly
Windows
Captain Bones is an action-adventure game set in an open pirate world. You must have survival skills to make ship battles and treasure hunts with your crew.
Why similar: Pirates 23% ★, Naval Combat 19.7% ★, Open World Survival Craft 18.6% ★, Sailing 14.7% ★, Crafting 7.3%
- #60 Outlaws of the Old West
69% 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: Open World Survival Craft 48.9% ★, Survival 15.4%, Massively Multiplayer 12%, Open World 9.9%, Crafting 6%
