- #1 Valheim
96% matchVery Positive94% of 540,690 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 26.0 hrsMean: 78.0 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 33.3% ★, Online Co-Op 12.7%, Survival 10.5%, Crafting 9.5%, Building 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: It nails the co-op survival-crafting loop with sailing, base building, exploration, and memorable boss progression that echoes Windrose's adventure structure.
- #2 ATLAS
97% matchMixed47% of 42,929 reviews2018
Dev: Grapeshot Games
Windows
Median: 12.5 hrsMean: 111.6 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 18.1% ★, Sailing 17.8% ★, Survival 7.8%, Crafting 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: It is still the closest overall match, combining pirate ships, open-world survival, base building, crafting, exploration, and multiplayer PvE on a massive scale.
- #3 Enshrouded
96% matchVery Positive86% of 104,779 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.9 hrsMean: 46.5 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 17.4%, Survival 16.9%, Crafting 15.1%, Base Building 14.4%, Open World 12.9%
Why You'll Like It: While less nautical, it strongly matches Windrose's mix of co-op survival systems, building, exploration, and action-heavy combat against dangerous PvE threats.
- #4 Salt 2: Shores of Gold
95% matchVery Positive85% of 2,349 reviews2025
Dev: Lavaboots Studios
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 26% ★, Crafting 10.8%, Survival 9.7%, Open World 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: This delivers island-hopping exploration, pirate atmosphere, sailing, crafting, and open-world discovery in a way that feels very close to Windrose's solo-adventure side.
- #5 Sunkenland
94% matchVery Positive80% of 23,803 reviews2023
Dev: Vector3 Studio
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 20.0 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 45.4% ★, Survival 13.9%, Crafting 11.8%, Base Building 10.5%, Open World 6%
Why You'll Like It: Its water-heavy survival gameplay, co-op scavenging, boat travel, and sea-base construction make it a great fit for players who want more ocean-centric crafting and PvE.
- #6 Skull and Bones
94% matchMixed66% of 4,827 reviews2024
Dev: Ubisoft SingaporePub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 26.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 35.4% ★, Pirates 34.5% ★, Sailing 7.3% ★, Open World 7.1%, Exploration 5.2%
Why You'll Like It: It is a strong choice if your favorite part of Windrose is captaining a ship, hunting loot, and engaging in open-world pirate naval combat.
- #7 Nightingale
93% matchMixed66% of 18,038 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 31.6% ★, Online Co-Op 12.3%, Crafting 10.8%, Survival 10.5%, Building 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Its cooperative survival-crafting structure, large exploratory spaces, and combat-focused progression make it a good fit for Windrose players who value adventure and discovery.
- #8 Dawn of Defiance
92% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,842 reviews2024
Dev: Traega EntertainmentPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 9.7 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 30.9% ★, Online Co-Op 12.7%, Survival 10%, PvE 8.2%, Base Building 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: It shares Windrose's co-op survival-crafting framework and adds a strong emphasis on action combat and boss encounters.
- #9 Soulmask
91% matchMostly Positive77% of 22,226 reviews2026
Dev: CampFire StudioPub: Qooland Games
Windows
Median: 13.9 hrsMean: 69.2 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 25.1% ★, Open World Survival Craft 21.8% ★, Crafting 10.9%, Survival 9%, Base Building 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: It offers deep survival-crafting systems, base building, exploration, and dangerous PvE progression in a large world that rewards preparation.
- #10 Raft
91% matchVery Positive93% of 377,470 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.7 hrsMean: 37.9 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 41.3% ★, Survival 16.8%, Crafting 11.2%, Online Co-Op 8.2%, Building 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: Raft captures the survival-on-the-water fantasy with co-op crafting, constant resource gathering, and ocean exploration, even if it is less combat-driven.
- #11 Survival: Fountain of Youth
90% matchVery Positive85% of 4,480 reviews2024
Dev: Odinsoft Inc.Pub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 36.8% ★, Crafting 13.5%, Survival 12.8%, Base Building 11.4%, Building 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: Its age-of-sail flavor, island survival, crafting, and exploration-heavy progression make it an excellent pick for the stranded-adventurer side of Windrose.
- #12 Age of Water
89% matchMostly Positive70% of 3,519 reviews2025
Dev: Three Whales StudioPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 38.5 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 16.3%, Massively Multiplayer 14%, Open World 9.4%, PvE 4.7%
Why You'll Like It: Its ship-centered open world, vehicle combat, crafting, and scavenging make it a good alternative if Windrose's naval layer is what hooked you most.
- #13 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
89% matchVery Positive82% of 10,429 reviews2024
Dev: Max Ent Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 16.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.5% ★, Online Co-Op 11.7%, Survival 11%, Crafting 10.9%, Base Building 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a polished co-op survival-crafting experience with building, exploration, and dangerous creatures, making it a good non-nautical substitute.
- #14 Dune: Awakening
88% matchMostly Positive71% of 78,134 reviews2025
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 46.5 hrsMean: 100.0 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 25.5% ★, Online Co-Op 10%, Crafting 9.6%, Survival 8.4%, Massively Multiplayer 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: If you want another large-scale online survival-crafting world with exploration, building, and PvE pressure, this is one of the stronger modern options.
- #15 Grounded
87% matchVery Positive90% of 95,505 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.5 hrsMean: 41.8 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 37.4% ★, Survival 17.8%, Crafting 12.1%, Base Building 11.5%, Online Co-Op 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: Though smaller in scale and tone, it scratches the same co-op survival-crafting itch with strong exploration, base building, and tough boss fights.
- #16 V Rising
86% matchVery Positive89% of 136,761 reviews2024
Dev: Stunlock Studios
Windows
Median: 20.8 hrsMean: 57.9 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 15.1%, Crafting 13.7%, Base Building 13.1%, Online Co-Op 11.6%, Open World 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: Its base building, shared-world survival systems, and excellent boss-driven combat make it a strong fit for Windrose players who especially enjoy the soulslike PvE angle.
- #17 Lost Skies
86% matchMixed61% of 2,976 reviews2025
Dev: Bossa StudiosPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 17.0 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 43% ★, Online Co-Op 16%, Base Building 12.1%, Crafting 8.8%, Open World 5.7%
Why You'll Like It: Its co-op exploration, crafting, base building, and vehicle-driven traversal should appeal to anyone who likes Windrose's mix of teamwork and open-world adventure.
- #18 Aloft
84% matchVery Positive84% of 3,682 reviews2025
Dev: Astrolabe Interactive Inc.Pub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 14.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Soar the skies in Aloft, the co-op sandbox survival game set in a world of floating islands. Build any island into a skyship, your home in the clouds. Find lost knowledge, cure the fungal corruption, and brave the hurricane to restore the ecosystem.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.7% ★, Sailing 20.6% ★, Crafting 14.3%, Survival 12%, Building 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: Its cooperative crafting, exploration, and base-building focus makes it a good recommendation for players who enjoy survival progression in a more traversal-driven world.
- #19 Outward Definitive Edition
84% matchMostly Positive73% of 31,321 reviews2022
Dev: Nine Dots StudioPub: Prime Matter
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 18.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
No remarkable journey is achieved without great effort. In Outward, the cold of the night or an infected wound can be as dangerous as a predator lurking in the dark. Explore the vast world of Aurai solo or in Co-op. The Definitive Edition features both DLCs and quality of life improvements.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 28.4%, Survival 28.3%, Open World 27.5%, Exploration 8.1%, Third Person 4.2%
Why You'll Like It: It matches the harsher adventuring feel with difficult co-op combat, open-world travel, survival mechanics, and a strong sense of dangerous discovery.
- #20 Frozen Flame
85% matchMixed63% of 2,989 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 31.7% ★, Online Co-Op 13.2%, Crafting 11.1%, Survival 10%, Base Building 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: It blends survival, crafting, exploration, and action-RPG combat in a way that feels close to Windrose's fantasy-adventure side.
- #21 Len's Island
82% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,866 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 34.6% ★, Crafting 11.7%, Survival 11%, Building 10.5%, Base Building 8%
Why You'll Like It: Its blend of survival-crafting, building, exploration, and dungeon combat makes it a good fit for players drawn to Windrose's combat-and-construction balance.
- #22 Stranded Deep
83% matchMostly Positive74% of 47,770 reviews2022
Dev: Beam Team GamesPub: Beam Team Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 20.9 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Take the role of a plane crash survivor stranded somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Come face to face with some of the most life threatening scenarios that will result in a different experience each time you play. Scavenge. Discover. Survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 51.6% ★, Survival 16.4%, Crafting 12.7%, Open World 7.7%, Building 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: This leans harder into survival than combat, but its island exploration, raft-building, and ocean danger line up well with Windrose's wilderness side.
- #23 ICARUS
81% matchMostly Positive75% of 67,515 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 46.4 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 32.1% ★, Survival 11.8%, Online Co-Op 11.6%, Crafting 10.3%, Base Building 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: It is a strong co-op survival-crafting game for players who mainly want more base building, gathering, and PvE progression rather than pirate fantasy.
- #24 Sail Forth
81% matchVery Positive93% of 641 reviews2022
Dev: Festive VectorPub: The Quantum Astrophysicists Guild
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Sail a fleet of customizable ships across an ocean whose ancient depths have swallowed the key to the mysterious past. Befriend fishfolk to expand your boat crews, take up arms against petulant pirates, and chart a course across an expansive watery world. Will you answer the call of High Adventure?
Why similar: Naval Combat 31.7% ★, Pirates 30.6% ★, Sailing 25.3% ★, Exploration 4.7%, Third Person 3%
Why You'll Like It: While lighter and less survival-focused, it captures the joy of commanding a ship, exploring the seas, and engaging in naval skirmishes.
- #25 Caribbean Legend
80% matchMostly Positive76% of 3,263 reviews2024
Dev: BlackMark Studio
Windows
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 47.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
An open-world RPG, set in the Golden Age of Caribbean piracy. Embark on a 200-hour-long adventure, plunder cities and ships, explore the unknown, discover treasures, forge friendships, earn bounties on your head, and charm the ladies on your path to ultimate freedom!
Why similar: Pirates 39.8% ★, Naval Combat 24.3% ★, Sailing 20.8% ★, Open World 7.6%, Exploration 4.5%
Why You'll Like It: It leans more RPG than survival, but its Age of Sail setting, ship management, and piracy make it a natural thematic follow-up.
- #26 World of Sea Battle
79% matchMostly Positive76% of 8,609 reviews2025
Dev: Thera Interactive
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 25.8 hrs≥1hr: 56%
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 26.4% ★, Naval Combat 26.3% ★, Sailing 19.9% ★, Massively Multiplayer 8.5%, PvE 6.3%
- #27 Tempest: Pirate Action RPG
82% matchMixed69% of 2,623 reviews2016
Dev: HeroCraftPub: HeroCraft PC
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 6.3 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 22.7% ★, Open World 7.6%, Third Person 3.2%, Action-Adventure 2.3%
Why You'll Like It: This is a solid pick if you want more ship command, piracy, naval battles, and treasure chasing with a stronger action-RPG focus.
- #28 Voyagers of Nera
78% matchVery Positive85% of 2,598 reviews2025
Dev: Treehouse Games
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 12.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: Sailing 23.9% ★, Open World Survival Craft 23.8% ★, Online Co-Op 10.3%, Crafting 10%, Building 8%
- #29 Everwind
78% matchVery Positive81% of 3,756 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 14.1 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 19.1%, Crafting 18%, Survival 15.1%, Building 14.4%, Open World 10.6%
- #30 The Survivalists
79% matchMostly Positive76% of 10,097 reviews2020
Dev: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 71%
A living world full of surprises, secrets and danger awaits in The Survivalists, an adventure-filled survival sandbox set in The Escapists universe. Explore, build, craft and even train monkeys with up to three friends in a desperate bid to survive. Have you got what it takes to be a Survivalist?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.5% ★, Crafting 16.1%, Online Co-Op 15.6%, Survival 13.1%, Base Building 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: Its island co-op survival, crafting, and exploration make it a lighter but still relevant alternative for players who enjoy tropical adventure loops.
- #31 RuneScape: Dragonwilds
77% matchVery Positive81% of 29,187 reviews2025
Dev: Jagex Ltd
Windows
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 19.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 33.2% ★, Online Co-Op 12.3%, Survival 11.5%, Crafting 10.6%, Open World 8.7%
- #32 Witchspire
77% matchVery Positive83% of 1,994 reviews2026
Dev: Envar Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 8.6 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 36% ★, Online Co-Op 14.4%, Crafting 13.5%, Base Building 10.7%, PvE 8.1%
- #33 Project Castaway
76% matchMixed66% of 1,849 reviews2026
Dev: Mardonpol Inc.
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 34.6% ★, Online Co-Op 13.8%, Survival 10.7%, Crafting 9.6%, Base Building 8.7%
- #34 Forgotten Seas
75% matchMostly Positive77% of 594 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 20.2% ★, Naval Combat 14.7% ★, Open World Survival Craft 12.4% ★, Sailing 10.7% ★, Online Co-Op 7.1%
- #35 Bellwright
75% matchVery Positive80% of 21,324 reviews2024
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 12.7 hrsMean: 41.4 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 22.7%, Crafting 20.8%, Online Co-Op 20.4%, Open World 14.3%, Building 13.5%
- #36 Romestead
74% matchMostly Positive77% of 4,827 reviews2026
Dev: BeartwigsPub: Three Friends
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 28.8% ★, Crafting 15.7%, Survival 12.2%, Online Co-Op 12.1%, Base Building 9.7%
- #37 Farever
73% matchMostly Positive76% of 9,295 reviews2026
Dev: Shiro Games
Windows
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 24.4 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 26.1%, Massively Multiplayer 18.8%, Crafting 16.2%, Open World 12%, Exploration 9%
- #38 Lost Rift
74% matchMixed70% of 1,693 reviews2025
Dev: People Can Fly
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 8.5 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 30.2% ★, Crafting 12.2%, Online Co-Op 11.3%, Survival 10%, Base Building 9.6%
- #39 StarRupture
73% matchVery Positive81% of 13,247 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 26.2 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 35.5% ★, Crafting 13.2%, Survival 11.9%, Base Building 11.6%, Online Co-Op 11.1%
- #40 Windward
76% matchMostly Positive80% of 3,629 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 41.6% ★, Naval Combat 41.4% ★, Sailing 9.9% ★, Open World 3.4%, Exploration 1.7%
- #41 Vampires: Bloodlord Rising
72% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,818 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 17.4%, Crafting 17.1%, Survival 14.3%, Base Building 14%, Building 12.5%
- #42 Voidtrain
71% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,810 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 15.9 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 40.7% ★, Online Co-Op 10.8%, Crafting 10.5%, Survival 10.1%, Base Building 8.6%
- #43 SAND: Raiders of Sophie
72% matchMixed49% of 13,457 reviews2026
Dev: HologryphPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 27.0 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 38.7% ★, Online Co-Op 13.4%, Massively Multiplayer 12.1%, Survival 11.2%, PvE 9.8%
- #44 Breakwaters: Crystal Tides
73% matchMixed62% 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 27.6% ★, Survival 14.7%, Building 14%, Crafting 13.2%, Open World 9.5%
- #45 IfSunSets
71% matchMostly Positive75% of 2,352 reviews2024
Dev: POLYMORPHPub: Smilegate
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 27.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
「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 44.2% ★, Base Building 14.2%, PvE 12.5%, Open World 10.1%, Exploration 7.6%
- #46 Palworld
66% matchVery Positive95% of 480,493 reviews2026
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 40.2 hrsMean: 84.9 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 36.2% ★, Survival 14%, Online Co-Op 11.6%, Crafting 11.2%, Open World 10.7%
- #47 Last Oasis
71% 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%, Survival 21.5%, Crafting 16.4%, Open World 12.9%, Building 12.4%
- #48 Renown
70% matchMixed58% of 1,578 reviews2025
Dev: RDBK Studios
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Renown is an intense medieval multiplayer survival experience set in a vast, ever-evolving world. Whether alone or rallying allies, gather resources, build powerful strongholds, and engage in brutal battles for dominance.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.2% ★, Crafting 12.7%, Survival 10.7%, Online Co-Op 10.6%, Building 9.5%
- #49 Echoes of Elysium
70% matchMixed63% of 557 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 34.3% ★, Crafting 13.7%, Survival 11%, Building 10.4%, PvE 8.5%
- #50 Windward Horizon
69% matchVery Positive80% of 447 reviews2025
Dev: Tasharen Entertainment Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Trade, quest, fight, or simply set sail and enjoy the ambiance in this charming open world naval RPG. Sequel to Tasharen's fan favorite game Windward released on Steam in 2015.
Why similar: Naval Combat 34.4% ★, Sailing 23.9% ★, Pirates 21.8% ★, Open World 6.7%, Exploration 4.9%
- #51 Pax Dei
69% matchMixed57% of 11,286 reviews2025
Dev: Mainframe Industries
Windows
Median: 17.7 hrsMean: 73.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 25.8%, Base Building 20.1%, PvE 18.1%, Open World 14.6%, Exploration 11%
- #52 Necesse
66% matchVery Positive93% of 28,807 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 15.3 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 46% ★, Crafting 10.5%, Survival 9.3%, Online Co-Op 7.9%, Building 7.3%
- #53 Subsistence
70% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,766 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 45.6% ★, Survival 14.3%, Crafting 13.4%, Building 7.6%, Base Building 7%
- #54 Medieval Dynasty
67% matchVery Positive90% of 52,032 reviews2021
Dev: Render CubePub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 11.6 hrsMean: 36.1 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 29.2%, Building 23.8%, Survival 17.8%, Base Building 14.9%, Open World 11.6%
- #55 Tinkerlands
65% matchVery Positive86% of 4,087 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 14.2 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 38.3% ★, Online Co-Op 15%, Survival 11.6%, Crafting 11.5%, Building 8.7%
- #56 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 26.5% ★, Naval Combat 25.5% ★, Sailing 17.8% ★, Massively Multiplayer 6.2%, PvE 6%
- #57 Terror of the Seven Seas
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 108 reviews2024
Dev: Cutthroat Games
Windows
Become a Mighty Captain in a Age of sail naval combat game, set in all of the Seven Seas! Sail the entire world: conquering, boarding, plundering, exploring and trading along the way! Gather your crew, ready your ship, hoist your sails and enter a world of swashbuckling and piracy!
Why similar: Pirates 30% ★, Naval Combat 29.8% ★, Sailing 22.3% ★, Open World 5.8%, Exploration 4.1%
- #58 Salt
68% matchMostly Positive77% of 2,251 reviews2018
Dev: Lavaboots Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 8.1 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 31.8% ★, Pirates 24.2% ★, Sailing 10.8% ★, Survival 10.4%, Crafting 9.7%
- #59 Captain Bones: Prologue
67% 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 18.5% ★, Sailing 14.8% ★, Crafting 7.3%
