- #1 Creativerse
97% matchMostly Positive78% of 30,868 reviews2017
Dev: Playful Corp.
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 63%
A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.2% ★, Crafting 10.7%, Building 8.6%, Online Co-Op 8.3%, Open World 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: It matches the blocky, colorful aesthetic and open-world crafting and building freedom found in Ylands.
- #2 Raft
96% 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 38.3% ★, Crafting 10.3%, Multiplayer 10.2%, Co-op 9.5%, Base Building 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: Like Ylands, this game challenges you to gather resources and build a makeshift vessel while exploring a vast, unpredictable ocean.
- #3 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: Sailing 45.3% ★, Crafting 16.6%, Open World 14.6%, Exploration 7.3%, Action-Adventure 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: This game shares the core sailing and island-exploration gameplay loop that makes voyaging in Ylands so memorable.
- #4 ASTRONEER
95% matchVery Positive92% of 139,497 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.5% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Open World 10.4%, Multiplayer 8.7%, Crafting 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: It offers the same delightful, stylized exploration and terrain-shaping crafting mechanics focused on cooperative discovery.
- #5 Scrap Mechanic
94% matchVery Positive92% of 123,030 reviews2026
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 65.6 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: Building 17.3%, Crafting 17.1%, Open World 13.3%, Base Building 13.1%, Multiplayer 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: For players who love the engineering and construction aspects of Ylands, this game provides an advanced mechanical sandbox for building vehicles and contraptions.
- #6 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
94% 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 26.5% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Crafting 9.4%, Online Co-Op 7.8%, Building 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: This title delivers a large-scale open-world survival-craft experience with a heavy emphasis on exploration and base-building from a unique perspective.
- #7 Portal Knights
93% matchVery Positive83% of 22,395 reviews2017
Dev: Keen Games GmbHPub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 21.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
The world of Elysia needs YOU! Join this cooperative, 3D sandbox action RPG to level up your character, craft epic weapons, conquer enemies in real-time, and build almost anything! Craft your adventure. Forge your hero. Become the ultimate Portal Knight!
Why similar: Crafting 25.4%, Building 20.9%, Multiplayer 19.2%, Co-op 14.6%, Adventure 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: It combines action-adventure gameplay with stylized sandbox building across fragmented worlds, similar to Ylands' structural design.
- #8 The Survivalists
91% matchMostly Positive76% of 10,123 reviews2020
Dev: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.9 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 29.8% ★, Crafting 15%, Base Building 12.1%, Online Co-Op 11.3%, Open World 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a charming 2D survival-crafting adventure centered on exploring procedurally generated islands and managing resources.
- #9 ICARUS
91% 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 29.5% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Crafting 9.3%, Online Co-Op 8.2%, Multiplayer 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: This session-based survival game mirrors the intense resource management and wilderness survival elements of Ylands.
- #10 Valheim
89% matchVery Positive94% of 555,289 reviews2026
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 26.9 hrsMean: 81.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.7% ★, Base Building 9.7%, Online Co-Op 9.6%, Crafting 9.2%, Open World 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: It delivers the atmospheric exploration, sailing, and base-building components that define the adventure elements of Ylands.
- #11 Green Hell
89% matchVery Positive85% of 102,938 reviews2019
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.1% ★, Multiplayer 9.6%, Crafting 9.3%, Online Co-Op 9.1%, Base Building 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: For those who appreciate the raw survival mechanics of Ylands, this game challenges players with realistic wilderness survival and crafting.
- #12 ATLAS
90% 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: Sailing 39% ★, Crafting 12.7%, Open World 12.5%, Online Co-Op 9.4%, Base Building 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: This massively multiplayer title leans heavily into the open-world pirate and sailing themes found in Ylands' nautical expansions.
- #13 Palworld
86% 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 33.9% ★, Open World 13.1%, Crafting 10.4%, Multiplayer 9.3%, Base Building 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: It combines open-world survival crafting with base building and creature collection, echoing the adventurous creature-encounter side of Ylands.
- #14 Subnautica
88% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 380,795 reviews2018
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.3 hrsMean: 39.8 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 43.9% ★, Base Building 13%, Crafting 12.2%, Open World 11%, Exploration 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: Though more underwater-focused, it shares the deep exploration, crafting progression, and wondrous oceanic environment present when sailing in Ylands.
- #15 Volcanoids
87% matchVery Positive83% of 9,358 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.
Why similar: Base Building 16.6%, Crafting 15.6%, Building 11.6%, Co-op 10.3%, Open World 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on mobile base-building and steampunk exploration, appealing to Ylands fans who love constructing vehicles.
- #16 Terraria
85% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,558,339 reviews2011
Dev: Re-Logic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 33.9 hrsMean: 152.6 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.6% ★, Crafting 11.7%, Building 8.9%, Multiplayer 8.7%, Open World 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a vast 2D sandbox rich in exploration, crafting, and progression that appeals to the same creative spirit.
- #17 Solace Crafting
86% matchMostly Positive71% of 899 reviews2022
Dev: Big Kitty Games
Windows · Linux
Embark on an adventure set in a fantasy survival RPG. Visit a borderless, open world where you manage resources to construct your base and new types of equipment to support your conquest.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.6% ★, Crafting 11.3%, Base Building 10.9%, Open World 8%, Online Co-Op 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: It features seamless open-world magic and tech crafting paired with modular building reminiscent of Ylands.
- #18 Stormworks: Build and Rescue
84% matchVery Positive91% of 60,190 reviews2020
Dev: Geometa
Windows · Mac
Median: 17.4 hrsMean: 113.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Join a world where you design, create and pilot your own air sea rescue service. Release your inner hero as you battle fierce storms out at sea to rescue those in need.
Why similar: Sailing 26.3% ★, Open World Survival Craft 22.9% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Building 9.6%, Open World 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: It satisfies the intricate vehicle construction and maritime exploration desires of dedicated Ylands engineers.
- #19 Grounded
83% 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 33.4% ★, Base Building 14.1%, Crafting 10.7%, Multiplayer 10%, Co-op 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: This cooperative survival game features base building and exploratory crafting in a vibrant, oversized open world akin to Ylands' adventures.
- #20 ARK: Survival Evolved
82% matchVery Positive83% of 778,394 reviews2017
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 202.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.6% ★, Crafting 10.7%, Open World 9.7%, Base Building 8.9%, Multiplayer 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: It matches the multiplayer open-world survival aspect of Ylands, featuring taming, crafting, and building in a wild environment.
- #21 Subsistence
84% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,861 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 40.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.6% ★, Crafting 12.7%, Base Building 9.1%, Open World 8.7%, Multiplayer 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: A pure open-world survival game that tests your base building and resource management skills like Ylands does.
- #22 Necesse
80% 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 42.6% ★, Crafting 9.7%, Base Building 8.4%, Open World 8.3%, Multiplayer 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: This top-down sandbox game emphasizes settlement building, exploration, and cooperative survival crafting.
- #23 Core Keeper
79% matchVery Positive93% of 66,787 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.3 hrsMean: 34.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.6% ★, Base Building 12%, Crafting 11.5%, Open World 9.4%, Building 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: It blends underground exploration, base building, and survival crafting in a compelling cooperative adventure.
- #24 The Forest
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 683,269 reviews2018
Dev: Endnight Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 37.4 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 57.3% ★, Open World 12.2%, Crafting 12.1%, Building 8.3%, First-Person 3.8%
Why You'll Like It: It offers immersive open-world survival crafting with cooperative building elements similar to Ylands' multiplayer sessions.
- #25 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
81% matchMostly Positive78% of 34,438 reviews2020
Dev: Eleon Game Studios
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 77.1 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.7% ★, Crafting 12.3%, Building 11.9%, Co-op 11.7%, Open World 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: It extends the open-world crafting and survival loop of Ylands into a vast sci-fi universe with space exploration.
- #26 Rising World
82% matchVery Positive86% of 6,019 reviews2014
Dev: JIW-Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 21.4 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Rising World is a voxel based open-world sandbox game, featuring a procedurally generated world, playable in single and multi-player.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.4% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Crafting 12.8%, Building 10.7%, Co-op 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based sandbox game prioritizing deep crafting, mining, and open-world building freedom.
- #27 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
79% matchVery Positive91% of 7,668 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Survive, craft, and automate in this free prologue set on one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters, an open-world game where you play solo or with friends to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 9.5%, Multiplayer 7.7%, Online Co-Op 7.7%
- #28 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: Crafting 18.6%, Online Co-Op 15.3%, Building 14.9%, Open World 14.5%, Co-op 13.3%
- #29 Tinkerlands
75% 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 36.8% ★, Online Co-Op 11.1%, Crafting 10.9%, Open World 9.6%, Building 8.3%
- #30 Salt
78% 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 40.6% ★, Sailing 15.9% ★, Crafting 12.2%, Open World 12.2%, Multiplayer 6.6%
- #31 Voyagers of Nera
75% 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: Sailing 23.7% ★, Open World Survival Craft 20.9% ★, Base Building 9.5%, Crafting 8.7%, Online Co-Op 6.9%
- #32 Solarpunk™
73% matchVery Positive81% of 4,581 reviews2026
Dev: CyberwavePub: rokaplay
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Solarpunk is a survival game in a technologically advanced world of floating islands. Alone or together with your friends, you can construct buildings, grow food, craft gadgets and hop on your airship to explore distant islands in the sky.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Crafting 11.2%, Building 8.7%, Online Co-Op 8.6%
- #33 Out of Reach
78% matchMixed57% of 3,051 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 43.8% ★, Crafting 12.1%, Open World 10.2%, Building 7.9%, Multiplayer 7.8%
- #34 Project Castaway
74% 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 30.7% ★, Base Building 10.3%, Online Co-Op 9.4%, Crafting 8.4%, Co-op 8.3%
- #35 Eden Rising
77% matchMixed64% of 1,447 reviews2019
Dev: The Wall Productions Inc.
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 47%
Brace yourself for a brand new action-packed Open World. Explore a huge world to gather materials for gear and defenses. Use everything at your disposal to defend your bases and defeat hordes of hostile monsters. Play solo or up to 8-player online!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.8% ★, Crafting 14.7%, Open World 13.9%, Multiplayer 11.7%, Co-op 11.7%
- #36 PixARK
76% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,659 reviews2019
Dev: Snail Games USA
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 40.0 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Enter a world of mystery, danger, ancient dinosaurs, mythical beasts, and cubes! Work by yourself or with a tribe of others to gather materials, craft useful items, tame wild creatures, and build huge bases to survive in PixARK!
Why similar: Open World 22.4%, Multiplayer 16.9%, Crafting 16.9%, Base Building 13.7%, Building 13.5%
- #37 Windrose
70% matchVery Positive87% of 53,040 reviews2026
Dev: Kraken Express
Windows
Median: 20.3 hrsMean: 33.3 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Embark on a PvE survival adventure in the Age of Piracy. Fight on land and sea, solo or with friends. Build, craft and explore vast open world filled with dark secrets. Master soulslite combat and take on challenging bosses, command your ship and plunder unspoken treasures!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.9% ★, Sailing 22% ★, Crafting 10.5%, Online Co-Op 8.7%, Base Building 7.8%
- #38 Aloft
71% 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 23.7% ★, Sailing 20.8% ★, Crafting 12.6%, Building 9.8%, Co-op 8.8%
- #39 Angeldust
74% matchMixed64% of 1,433 reviews2019
Dev: Frank LucasPub: Metagaming B.V.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 42 minMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 40%
ADVENTURE. ANYWHERE! Explore endless magical worlds and battle fearsome creatures alongside millions of friends. Ride your own horse, bear or moa and discover the many game world wonders. Unleash your imagination by crafting beautiful buildings.
Why similar: Open World 20.2%, Building 20.1%, Multiplayer 17.1%, Co-op 13.2%, Online Co-Op 9.7%
- #40 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,722 reviews2021
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Experience the first stages of terraforming an entire planet in this space survival open world terraforming crafting game prologue. Explore, survive, collect, build your base then create oxygen, heat and pressure to make an hostile planet livable for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Crafting 11.5%, Open World 9.1%, Multiplayer 8.4%
- #41 Longvinter
70% matchMixed67% of 7,713 reviews2025
Dev: Uuvana Studios
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 45.1 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Fish, farm, craft, gather, cook, loot or steal from other players and build a campsite or a village with your friends in an open-world multiplayer sandbox game without rules!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.7% ★, Crafting 14.3%, Multiplayer 10.4%, Open World 10.4%, Building 7.7%
- #42 Dark and Light
73% matchMixed52% of 11,837 reviews2017
Dev: Snail Games USA
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 49.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Dark and Light is a vast sandbox survival RPG set in a world dominated by powerful elemental forces. Find your way in a meticulously crafted world, featuring breathtaking landscapes, a wide variety of mythical creatures, and limitless possibility to craft, build, and unlock dozens of powerful weapons, spells, and skills.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39% ★, Open World 25.9%, Crafting 10.3%, Base Building 10.2%, Multiplayer 8.7%
- #43 OceanCraft
72% matchVery Positive85% of 60 reviews2021
Dev: FlodLabPub: FlodLab UG (haftungsbeschraenkt)
Windows
OceanCraft is a game about surviving alone - or with your friends on a self build vehicle in the ocean.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.3% ★, Sailing 34.4% ★, Nature 7.4%, Crafting 4.8%, Co-op 4.5%
- #44 Sunkenland
69% 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 42.4% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Co-op 11.1%, Crafting 10.9%, Multiplayer 8.1%
- #45 Far Lands
71% matchMixed64% of 173 reviews2024
Dev: Scalpel Softworks
Windows
Far Lands is an open-world survival game. Fight mercenaries, steal their loot and vehicles. Build and defend your base from zombies. Gather resources, craft better gear and loot different points of interest. Want to play with friends? Join them on Co-op!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.9% ★, Base Building 15.2%, Crafting 14.5%, Open World 9.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.2%
- #46 Nomad
72% matchMixed60% of 4,634 reviews2015
Dev: Diminished Studios
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Try and survive in the world of Nomad. Build a base and protect it from raiding players. Scavenge food, weapons and medical supplies across the island. Team up with others and make a base. Make your mark on the world of Nomad.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 53.2% ★, Multiplayer 13.3%, Open World 11.9%, Crafting 11.2%, Co-op 4.7%
- #47 Stranded Deep
69% matchMostly Positive74% of 47,919 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 48.6% ★, Crafting 11.9%, Multiplayer 10.1%, Open World 9.5%, Building 5.7%
- #48 Len's Island
67% 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 36.1% ★, Crafting 12.1%, Nature 11.5%, Base Building 11.3%, Building 10.9%
- #49 Lost Skies
68% 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 42.6% ★, Base Building 16.4%, Online Co-Op 12.2%, Crafting 8.6%, Open World 7.4%
- #50 Hurtworld
69% matchMostly Positive76% of 31,099 reviews2019
Dev: Bankroll Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 64.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Hurtworld is a hardcore multiplayer survival FPS with a focus on competitive gunplay and strategic map control. Built for hardcore gamers, Hurtworld aims to punish.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.1% ★, Crafting 14.6%, Open World 12.7%, Building 10.6%, Multiplayer 10.2%
- #51 LEGO® Worlds
70% matchMostly Positive78% of 15,661 reviews2017
Dev: TT GamesPub: Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 13.4 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Experience a galaxy of Worlds made entirely from LEGO bricks. EXPLORE gigantic landscapes, DISCOVER countless surprises, and CREATE anything you can imagine by building with LEGO bricks.
Why similar: Building 24.4%, Open World 23.8%, Multiplayer 17%, Third Person 9.4%, Exploration 9.2%
- #52 Nightingale
68% 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 29.9% ★, Base Building 10.4%, Crafting 10.1%, Online Co-Op 8.9%, Open World 8.4%
- #53 Shamania
67% matchMostly Positive74% of 171 reviews2026
Dev: Totem Keepers Games
Windows
Shamania is an open world survival game where you can CRAFT, FIGHT, and EXPLORE a vibrant sandbox world with friends in CO-OP. Expand your base as a hub for survival, gather resources, and master professions to unlock new tools and opportunities!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.5% ★, Crafting 13.4%, Open World 10.4%, Multiplayer 7.7%, Base Building 7.6%
- #54 XERA: Survival
67% matchMixed66% of 7,942 reviews2021
Dev: Spotted Kiwi Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 24.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Action-focused, open world survival shooter, PvPvE against fellow mercenaries and lethal XOIDS. Raid for resources alone or with team-mates, build and defend your base, stash your gear and survive against the odds. You are the hunters. You are the hunted. And the robots never sleep…
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37% ★, Base Building 17.1%, Crafting 13.6%, Multiplayer 9.4%, Open World 9.2%
- #55 Escape The Pacific
68% matchMixed67% of 762 reviews2018
Dev: Gamers4Gamers Team
Windows
Raw, real survival in the Pacific. Build a modular floating base. Master realistic sailing mechanics. Face challenging Pacific-like weather & seasons. Hunt, craft, build & navigate using Sun Dial, Sextant & Triangulation. Explore an endless island cluster-based world. Simulate real life scenarios!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.5% ★, Sailing 24.7% ★, Crafting 10.9%, Open World 8.2%, Building 8%
- #56 Palia
63% matchVery Positive86% of 44,545 reviews2024
Dev: Singularity 6 Corporation
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 26.6 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Discover a welcoming world in Palia, a free-to-play fantasy life sim adventure where you can craft, explore, and create the life and home of your dreams. With nearly endless ways to make Palia your home, you’ll find relaxation and joy in every corner of this vibrant, heartwarming world.
Why similar: Crafting 19.5%, Building 16.4%, Multiplayer 16.4%, Online Co-Op 14.2%, Nature 13.7%
