- #1 Crashlands
97% 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 43.8% ★, Survival 10.2%, Open World 8%, Crafting 7.8%, Sandbox 7.6%
- #2 Radiation Island
96% matchVery Positive81% of 629 reviews2016
Dev: Atypical Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Radiation Island is a survival adventure game where you craft your own destiny in a huge open world environment. As part of the Philadelphia Experiment you have become stranded in a parallel, alternate reality. Discover this new and mysterious world, with all its surprises.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 60.6% ★, Survival 16.2%, Open World 6.3%, Adventure 5.3%, Crafting 4.8%
- #3 Don't Starve
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 112,640 reviews2013
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 28.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.1% ★, Survival 19.4%, Crafting 8.1%, Sandbox 7.1%, Perma Death 4.6%
- #4 Stranded Deep
94% matchMostly Positive74% of 47,389 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 57.6% ★, Survival 13.6%, Open World 7.2%, Crafting 7%, Building 4%
- #5 FortressCraft Evolved!
95% 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 53% ★, Sandbox 8.8%, Survival 8.6%, Crafting 8.4%, Building 7.7%
- #6 Grounded
93% matchVery Positive90% of 93,832 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.3 hrsMean: 41.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 53.1% ★, Survival 18.7%, Crafting 8.5%, Open World 7.2%, Sandbox 4%
- #7 Dig or Die
94% 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 52.2% ★, Survival 13.5%, Sandbox 10.2%, Crafting 8.7%, Open World 6.1%
- #8 Wayward
92% matchVery Positive86% of 1,357 reviews2016
Dev: Unlok
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 21.5 hrs≥1hr: 61%
You awake to discover yourself no longer in the company of good men or a fine seafaring vessel. Treasure... you remember something about treasure. Wayward is a challenging turn-based, top-down, wilderness survival roguelike. Explore, build, and most importantly survive in these unforgiving lands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 52% ★, Survival 14.2%, Crafting 9%, Sandbox 6.5%, Open World 6.2%
- #9 Cube Life: Island Survival
91% matchMixed69% of 177 reviews2018
Dev: Cypronia
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Cube Life: Island Survival is an open-world, block building, survival game, taking place on a beautiful remote island. Imagine being shipwrecked and stranded left for dead, with only your will to survive. You must explore, build, craft, and fight your way to stay alive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 55.2% ★, Survival 8.3%, Sandbox 7.1%, Building 6.7%, Open World 6.7%
- #10 Craterbound
91% matchMixed54% of 99 reviews2022
Dev: Daniel Marquez
Windows
Crash-land onto a unique and hostile alien world and begin your fight to survive. Face its inhabitants, upgrade your technology, create outposts & bases, and find a way to repair your ship. Explore the beautifully strange terrain, all while blasting and crafting your way off of the planet.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 55.1% ★, Survival 13.4%, Open World 10.3%, Crafting 9.3%, Sandbox 7.5%
- #11 Out of Reach
90% matchMixed57% of 3,046 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
You’re a castaway stranded in the middle of nowhere. Storm is gone, the worst certainly not. Look for food and resources, craft gear, make shelters. These are the basics, you need much more to stay alive on this cut-off-the-world, yet not desert island. Build & burn, sail & explore, be Out of Reach!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 53.8% ★, Survival 12.9%, Open World 8%, Crafting 7.4%, Building 5.8%
- #12 Starbound
89% 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 55.7% ★, Sandbox 10.1%, Survival 8.6%, Crafting 6.3%, Open World 5.7%
- #13 CHKN
89% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,732 reviews2016
Dev: Katapult
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Behold, the miracle of life… packed into cubes! Create fantastic creatures in an open-world sandbox game like no other. Explore, craft, and survive—all with the help of your very own creations.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39% ★, Survival 11%, Sandbox 9.5%, Open World 8.5%, Building 7.9%
- #14 Under A New Sun
88% matchMostly Positive77% of 384 reviews2023
Dev: New Horizon Games
Windows
While searching for a new home, an unexpected failure in your ship has left you stranded on a planet surprisingly similar to Earth. Discover a vast open world, hunt for food, develop technologies, and build yourself a new home to survive!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 53.2% ★, Survival 12.4%, Open World 9.2%, Crafting 8.7%, Sandbox 5.3%
- #15 Breathedge
87% matchVery Positive82% of 16,224 reviews2021
Dev: RedRuins SoftworksPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Survive in outer space! Together with your immortal chicken, discover the truth behind your sudden spaceship crash. Craft tools, pilot vehicles, and even control space stations to survive and explore the wreckage.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 55.5% ★, Survival 11.8%, Sandbox 9.1%, Crafting 6.8%, Open World 5.3%
- #16 Scrap Mechanic
86% matchVery Positive92% of 117,481 reviews2016
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.2 hrsMean: 58.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!
Why similar: Survival 18.3%, Building 17.1%, Sandbox 15.5%, Crafting 14.1%, Open World 14.1%
- #17 Don't Starve Together
85% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 531,653 reviews2016
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 64.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 74.2% ★, Survival 18.6%, Open World 2.1%, Crafting 1.8%, Sandbox 1.4%
- #18 Short Snow | Cold Survival Game
86% matchMixed53% of 148 reviews2025
Dev: MubDev
Windows
A realistic open-world survival experience. After a harrowing plane crash, you find yourself stranded in the wilderness. Battling freezing temperatures and hunger, you face an unknown virus that slowly paralyzes muscles, leaving its victims motionless and at the mercy of the unforgiving cold.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.1% ★, Survival 12.7%, Open World 9.4%, Sandbox 7%, Crafting 6.9%
- #19 The Forest
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 670,097 reviews2018
Dev: Endnight Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 37.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 57% ★, Survival 13.8%, Open World 7.8%, Crafting 6%, Building 5%
- #20 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
81% matchVery Positive82% of 9,989 reviews2024
Dev: Merge GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 15.2 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 47% ★, Survival 12.5%, Crafting 8.3%, Open World 8.1%, Building 7.9%
- #21 Fragmented
84% matchMixed43% of 1,964 reviews2017
Dev: Above and Beyond Technologies
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Stranded in a hostile alien world, you must fight to survive. Hunt, harvest, craft, advance skills, and build using local resources along with technology from your voyage.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 59.2% ★, Survival 13.4%, Open World 7.1%, Crafting 5.5%, Sandbox 5.4%
- #22 Subnautica
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 365,018 reviews2018
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 39.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 55.6% ★, Survival 13.8%, Open World 8.9%, Crafting 7.7%, Sandbox 4.6%
- #23 Hostile Planet: Survival
82% matchMixed65% of 99 reviews2022
Dev: Aliens Developers
Windows
Hostile Planet: Survival is a harsh adventure on an uncharted planet that full of danger and trials.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42% ★, Survival 14.1%, Crafting 9.5%, Open World 8.5%, Building 7.8%
- #24 Minicology
80% matchMixed68% of 72 reviews2024
Dev: Isaac DennerPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
You have crash-landed into a mini-verse of tiny planets. Welcome to Minicology! Embark on an interstellar survival sandbox journey. Use your crafting, combat, and automation skills to survive the many challenges this mini-verse throws at you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.1% ★, Survival 10.4%, Simulation 8.7%, Sandbox 8.6%, Crafting 8.1%
- #25 Edge of Space
82% 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 59% ★, Sandbox 11.4%, Survival 6.7%, Crafting 6.6%, Open World 3.9%
- #26 Feel The Snow
79% matchVery Positive87% of 3,047 reviews2019
Dev: Owlet
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Choose one of the characters and start your journey. The game has many interesting things in store: building, crafting, puzzles, bosses, mystery, laughs, quests etc.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 52.9% ★, Survival 12%, Crafting 7.6%, Sandbox 6.7%, Open World 5.9%
- #27 Tinkerlands
76% 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 48% ★, Survival 10.8%, Sandbox 9.1%, Open World 8%, Crafting 7.1%
- #28 The Faraway Land
78% matchVery Positive84% of 101 reviews2024
Dev: FireTail
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 76%
The Faraway Land is an open world survival simulator. Plunge into the relaxing atmosphere of a magical world filled with cute and dangerous creatures.
Why similar: Survival 21.4%, Sandbox 18.9%, Open World 17.8%, Crafting 15.8%, Adventure 8.3%
- #29 Savage Lands
78% matchMixed55% of 6,679 reviews2021
Dev: Last Bastion Studios LLC
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Your fight for survival begins on the frozen shores of Tarvhas, where bitter cold and vicious creatures conspire to defeat the unprepared. Uncover the land’s dark history as you and fellow explorers traverse an unforgiving and hostile world to tame the Savage Lands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 55.4% ★, Survival 12.3%, Open World 7.8%, Crafting 6.7%, Sandbox 6.6%
- #30 Signs of Life
79% 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 54.6% ★, Survival 10.1%, Sandbox 10%, Crafting 7.6%, Building 5.2%
- #31 Aground
76% 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 50.6% ★, Survival 14%, Open World 11.1%, Building 10.5%, Sandbox 9.4%
- #32 The Gold River Project
74% matchMixed66% of 568 reviews2026
Dev: Fairview Games Inc.
Windows
The Gold River Project™ is a camping trip gone wrong in the Pacific Northwest. Explore, craft, build, and survive in this open-world experiment that traps you and up to 4 friends in this single player or co-op survival adventure game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 54.2% ★, Survival 11.2%, Open World 10%, Crafting 7.8%, Simulation 5.4%
- #33 Kentum
73% matchMostly Positive76% of 192 reviews2025
Dev: Tlön IndustriesPub: indienova
Windows
Crafting, cloning, and comedy await in this survival-infused metroidvania adventure. Wake up as the last human alive on a wondrous and weird future Earth. Seek out supplies, build machines, platform through mysterious biomes, unceremoniously die, and reclone on your mission to rebuild civilization.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.9% ★, Survival 12.3%, Crafting 9.8%, Building 9.3%, Funny 4.4%
- #34 Polygeddon
74% matchMixed41% of 66 reviews2025
Dev: Digital Dreamworks
Windows
You are on an island where everyone wants to kill you, ranging from weather conditions to dangerous enemies, your goal is to survive. Survive alone or together. Build, craft, grow, explore, fight!
Why similar: Survival 20.9%, Open World 15.8%, Sandbox 15.1%, Crafting 13.9%, Building 9%
- #35 SURVIVAL: Postapocalypse Now
75% matchMixed56% of 8,877 reviews2019
Dev: TB Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Want to survive? - Arm yourself and survive. Crafting, shooting, transport and much more awaits you in the Survival game. What happened to the world around and why he died - you may find out. But is this the main question now?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 62% ★, Survival 14.9%, Open World 7.8%, Crafting 4.6%, Building 2.8%
- #36 DreamWorld: Sandbox MMO
72% matchMixed69% of 54 reviews2026
Dev: DreamWorld Realities, Inc.
Windows
Build incredible structures with powerful tools. Explore the world with all players on one server. Battle bosses, farm, craft, and socialize with friends. How will you shape DreamWorld?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.7% ★, Survival 9.5%, Open World 8.7%, Sandbox 8.6%, Building 8%
- #37 How to Survive
73% matchVery Positive83% of 17,095 reviews2014
Dev: Eko SoftwarePub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
“A real Gem” – Destructoid at E3 “Offers a different experience for zombie game veterans” – Co-Optimus“Has a lot more going for it than smashing brains and gory, red goo ... With a surprisingly deep crafting system” – GamesRadarYou're shipwrecked on an isolated island, a desperate castaway in a total freakshow world. How will you survive?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 54.1% ★, Survival 22%, Crafting 11.2%, Open World 4.3%, Action 3.5%
- #38 Crazy Islands
72% matchMostly Positive71% of 74 reviews2025
Dev: Ge-Aivan
Windows
Welcome to "Crazy Islands", a 3D survival game for 1-4 players that takes you into a world full of mystery and challenges. On this isolated archipelago, you will face ancient gods, cruel natural environment and unknown dangers. Only wisdom and courage can help you survive in this unknown land.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 53% ★, Survival 13.3%, Sandbox 9.1%, Open World 9%, Building 7.2%
- #39 TerraTech Worlds
71% matchMixed63% of 2,228 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 21.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.3% ★, Survival 11%, Sandbox 9.3%, Crafting 9%, Open World 8.5%
- #40 Away From Life
69% matchMixed69% of 157 reviews2026
Dev: Cursor GamesPub: IZilla Games
Windows
You survived a helicopter crash; going home is your top priority. Live as a castaway - survive the dangers of the islands by using your environment to find food, build shelter, craft tools to extend your stay, explore the secrets of the islands and their surrounding waters, and carve your way home.
Why similar: Survival 18.5%, Sandbox 15.8%, Crafting 15%, Building 14.8%, Open World 12.1%
- #41 Wrath of Anna
75% matchMostly Negative35% of 249 reviews2018
Dev: Lorenzo Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 93%
You've been stranded on Empress Anna's remote planet of Drumgore during the Cross-Planetary War of 2021. How long can you survive?
Why similar: Survival 17.8%, Sandbox 15.9%, Action 15.6%, Open World 13.8%, Indie 13.4%
- #42 CrossWorlds: Escape
73% matchMixed64% of 158 reviews2020
Dev: Another Reality
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 97%
CrossWorlds: Escape is a hardcore game in which you will have to deploy all your skills to survive in a huge open world that is susceptible to changes in weather, seasons and various natural phenomena.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.7% ★, Survival 11.7%, Sandbox 9.2%, Open World 8.8%, Crafting 8.6%
- #43 Starsand
71% matchMixed66% of 1,241 reviews2022
Dev: Tunnel Vision StudioPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Starsand is a mystic survival game set among the dunes of an arcane desert. An open-world full of danger, vast environments and mysterious happenings await you! Explore, hunt, craft, build – and SURVIVE.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 50.3% ★, Survival 12.4%, Open World 9.4%, Crafting 8.9%, Sandbox 7.9%
- #44 Bum Simulator
69% matchVery Positive88% of 4,691 reviews2023
Dev: Ragged Games
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Bum Simulator is a sandbox game bursting with inappropriate humor and memorable characters. You live on the streets of Bumsville. Do you have what it takes to adapt, survive and become an urban legend?
Why similar: Survival 16.8%, Simulation 16.1%, Open World 13%, Sandbox 11%, Adventure 8.8%
- #45 Lost Nova
70% matchVery Positive92% of 414 reviews2022
Dev: Jon NielsenPub: HopFrog
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Your spaceship crashed on an alien planet. Explore, salvage, craft, trade, manage and upgrade your way back home!
Why similar: Open World 25.8%, Crafting 22.8%, Funny 14.8%, Adventure 10.5%, Exploration 10.3%
- #46 Life Not Supported
70% matchMixed67% of 172 reviews2023
Dev: YETIBYTES
Windows · Linux
You are the lone survivor orbiting a potential new home planet, tethered to what’s left of your ship. Gather nearby debris and assemble a make-shift vessel in an attempt to survive the harsh realities of space. Maybe you'll live long enough to uncover the truth behind the ship's malfunction...
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.9% ★, Survival 12.1%, Crafting 9.8%, Building 8.3%, Sandbox 7.7%
- #47 Alchemist's Awakening
71% matchMostly Positive73% of 497 reviews2019
Dev: OsarisGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Enter a world full of magic, mystery, beautiful landscapes and dangerous creatures. Build your own destiny, by yourself or with some friends, gather materials, use elements as attacks, recombine them into building blocks... and use your Alchemist's power to give life to any shape you built.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 55.7% ★, Survival 10.2%, Sandbox 10%, Crafting 9.7%, Open World 8.5%
- #48 Space Trash Scavenger
67% matchVery Positive84% of 518 reviews2024
Dev: SquarePlay GamesPub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Grab your jetpack and explore procedural asteroid fields, derelict spaceships and abandoned outposts. Build and automate your Space Rig to process scavenged trash. Craft, trade and fight your way home in this interstellar, open-world survival sandbox.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.9% ★, Survival 10.7%, Crafting 8.6%, Sandbox 7.8%, Open World 7.5%
- #49 Lodventure
68% matchMostly Positive74% of 161 reviews2023
Dev: Sky Games
Windows
Embark on a 1-4 players Co-op survival adventure in an open world wilderness in search of a myth called the Lod Stone. Build your house, sow your crops, brew potions, tame a horse and discover powerful abilities. Venture into dangerous dungeons, fight unique bosses to find the Lod stone.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.1% ★, Survival 10.8%, Open World 8.3%, Crafting 6.9%, Sandbox 6%
- #50 Start Over
68% matchMixed62% of 377 reviews2024
Dev: EY-Studio
Windows
Embark on an unpredictable survival journey in Start Over. Solo, co-op, online, explore diverse landscapes, craft through 4 tech tiers, encounter wildlife, and trade or raid for resources. Choose your path, defend against waves, and shape your destiny in a dynamic world. Are you ready to Start Over?
Why similar: Survival 19.9%, Crafting 15.4%, Sandbox 14.9%, Building 13.7%, Open World 10.2%
- #51 Cubic Odyssey
65% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,584 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Embark on a galactic journey in Cubic Odyssey, an open-world adventure where you explore vibrant planets, craft tools, build vehicles, and fight the Red Darkness. Uncover ancient mysteries, and shape a universe full of life, danger, and limitless possibilities!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 62.1% ★, Sandbox 11.6%, Building 10.7%, Open World 4.2%, Survival 4.2%
- #52 Miniland Adventure
67% matchMostly Positive74% of 330 reviews2023
Dev: Imilkowski DevPub: Gameparic
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 53%
The world doesn't generate itself - you do it, shape the world as you wish! Start with nothing, and build dream houses for goblins and yourself while exploring, collecting resources, crafting, building, fighting, farming... and more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 50.6% ★, Survival 13.4%, Sandbox 11.7%, Crafting 8.6%, Building 8.2%
- #53 Multicellular
70% matchMixed64% of 55 reviews2018
Dev: Insane Dreamers
Windows
Multicellular will take you back in time, to the dawn of life. Build your multicellular organism and combat hunger, the environment, darkness and other organisms. Everything in this new world can kill you, will you be able to survive?
Why similar: Survival 25.1%, Sandbox 17.8%, Simulation 14%, Comedy 10.3%, Funny 9.6%
- #54 Hand Simulator: Survival
66% matchVery Positive86% of 9,917 reviews2019
Dev: HFM Games
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Wild island. Thirst and hunger. Dangerous animals and insects. The perfect place to test your survival skills, especially if you only have empty hands, especially if it is a hand simulator.
Why similar: Survival 33.1%, Simulation 17%, Funny 15.3%, Adventure 11.4%, Action 8.5%
- #55 Lucid Blocks
62% matchVery Positive94% of 3,990 reviews2026
Dev: Lucy B. Locks
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Explore, build, and survive in a cryptic expanse oozing with dreamlike oddities and esoteric critters.
Why similar: Sandbox 20.7%, Open World 19.5%, Survival 16.8%, Crafting 14.6%, Building 13.7%
- #56 Len's Island
63% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,720 reviews2025
Dev: Flow Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 47.3% ★, Survival 11.1%, Building 8.6%, Sandbox 8.1%, Crafting 7.9%
- #57 Wasted World
68% matchMixed65% of 78 reviews2020
Dev: Achrony
Windows
The apocalypse has come, brought by pollution, wars and disease! Your mission is to save your land... or what’s left of it. Alone or with your friends gather, recycle, craft, build, plant, explore, fight & help survivors.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.9% ★, Simulation 15.8%, Adventure 10.6%, Action 8.9%, Indie 7.1%