- #1 Raft
97% 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 38% ★, Crafting 10.3%, Multiplayer 10.3%, Co-op 9.6%, Base Building 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: It perfectly captures the core loop of sailing, scavenging, and expanding your base on the open ocean.
- #2 Scrap Mechanic
96% matchVery Positive92% of 122,134 reviews2026
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.4 hrsMean: 64.5 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 17.2%, Base Building 13.2%, Open World 13.1%, Multiplayer 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: This title excels in mechanical building and survival, offering deep creative tools for players who enjoy constructing functional bases and vehicles.
- #3 Creativerse
96% matchMostly Positive78% of 30,868 reviews2017
Dev: Playful Corp.
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 15.6 hrs≥1hr: 63%
A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26% ★, Crafting 10.8%, Building 8.6%, Online Co-Op 8.5%, Open World 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: This sandbox game provides a similar voxel-based building experience with a focus on exploration and creative freedom.
- #4 Portal Knights
95% matchVery Positive83% of 22,346 reviews2017
Dev: Keen Games GmbHPub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 21.3 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 25.5%, Building 20.9%, Multiplayer 19.3%, Co-op 14.6%, Adventure 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the voxel-based aesthetic and adventure-focused progression that makes Ylands so accessible and fun.
- #5 Valheim
94% 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 32.5% ★, Online Co-Op 9.7%, Base Building 9.7%, Crafting 9.3%, Open World 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers a deep exploration and building experience with a heavy emphasis on sailing and survival in a vast, procedurally generated world.
- #6 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
94% 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 26.3% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Crafting 9.4%, Online Co-Op 7.9%, Building 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: It features a unique perspective on exploration and base-building within a massive, detailed open world.
- #7 ASTRONEER
93% matchVery Positive92% of 139,015 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.6 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 34.3% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Open World 10.3%, Multiplayer 8.8%, Crafting 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a stylized, exploration-heavy experience with a focus on crafting and base-building in a vibrant, alien environment.
- #8 Trailmakers
92% matchVery Positive92% of 38,735 reviews2019
Dev: Flashbulb
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Build the ultimate vehicle and explore a vast open world filled with challenges and adventure. Play solo or team up with friends in multiplayer to conquer the toughest obstacles. With a thrilling campaign mode and endless creative possibilities, Trailmakers is the ultimate sandbox for adventurers.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 19.1%, Crafting 15.4%, Building 12.8%, Action-Adventure 11.7%, Open World 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the engineering and vehicle-building aspects found in Ylands, allowing you to construct complex machines to traverse the world.
- #9 Stranded Deep
91% 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 48.5% ★, Crafting 12%, Multiplayer 10.2%, Open World 9.4%, Building 5.7%
Why You'll Like It: This survival game focuses on the island-hopping and resource-management aspects of Ylands in a challenging oceanic setting.
- #10 Volcanoids
90% matchVery Positive83% of 9,332 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 10.4%, Online Co-Op 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: This game features unique steampunk-themed base-building and exploration mechanics that reward creative survival strategies.
- #11 The Survivalists
89% 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 29.6% ★, Crafting 15.1%, Base Building 12.2%, Online Co-Op 11.5%, Open World 8%
Why You'll Like It: It combines island survival and crafting with a lighthearted, adventurous tone similar to the gameplay loop in Ylands.
- #12 Salt 2: Shores of Gold
87% 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: Sailing 45.5% ★, Crafting 16.6%, Open World 14.4%, Exploration 7.3%, Action-Adventure 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses heavily on the sailing and open-world exploration aspects, making it a great choice for players who enjoyed the maritime side of Ylands.
- #13 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
86% matchVery Positive91% of 7,602 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 55%
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 29.7% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 9.5%, Online Co-Op 7.8%, Multiplayer 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the survival and crafting elements of building a base in a challenging, water-dominated environment.
- #14 ATLAS
89% 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: Sailing 39.1% ★, Crafting 12.8%, Open World 12.3%, Online Co-Op 9.6%, Base Building 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: This massive multiplayer game focuses on the sailing and exploration elements, catering to those who want to conquer the seas with friends.
- #15 PixARK
88% matchMostly Positive73% of 13,223 reviews2019
Dev: Snail Games USA
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 40.6 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 22.1%, Multiplayer 17.1%, Crafting 16.9%, Base Building 13.8%, Building 13.6%
Why You'll Like It: It blends voxel-based building with survival and creature-taming mechanics in a colorful, open-world setting.
- #16 Subnautica
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 378,847 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 43.8% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Crafting 12.3%, Open World 10.9%, Exploration 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: This game provides an unparalleled underwater exploration and base-building experience that mirrors the wonder of discovering new lands.
- #17 Project Castaway
85% 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 30.4% ★, Base Building 10.5%, Online Co-Op 9.5%, Crafting 8.4%, Co-op 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a realistic take on island survival and crafting, emphasizing the struggle to thrive in a remote environment.
- #18 Solace Crafting
84% matchMostly Positive72% of 898 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 28.4% ★, Crafting 11.4%, Base Building 11%, Online Co-Op 7.9%, Open World 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a massive, seamless open world with a focus on crafting and exploration that scales with the player's progress.
- #19 Tinkerlands
81% 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 36.6% ★, Online Co-Op 11.2%, Crafting 11%, Open World 9.5%, Building 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a charming, pixel-art take on the survival-crafting genre with a focus on exploration and discovery.
- #20 Out of Reach
84% matchMixed57% of 3,051 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.1 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 43.6% ★, Crafting 12.2%, Open World 10.1%, Building 7.9%, Multiplayer 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers a gritty take on island survival, featuring sailing and base-building mechanics in a multiplayer setting.
- #21 Eco
83% matchVery Positive81% of 14,049 reviews2018
Dev: Strange Loop Games
Windows
Median: 16.7 hrsMean: 90.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Build a civilization of real people, working together to advance society and stop a meteor, all without destroying the ecosystem in the process.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.6% ★, Base Building 15%, Crafting 13.7%, Resource Management 11.7%, Nature 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes complex resource management and collaborative building, perfect for players who enjoy the community-driven aspects of Ylands.
- #22 Voyagers of Nera
80% 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 23.8% ★, Open World Survival Craft 20.7% ★, Base Building 9.5%, Crafting 8.7%, Online Co-Op 7%
Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes exploration and sailing in a vibrant, family-friendly world that encourages cooperative play.
- #23 Boundless
82% matchMixed70% of 2,774 reviews2018
Dev: Monumental, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 32.9 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Shape your citizen, forge your destiny and sculpt your world in this epic voxel sandbox MMO built on endless possibility.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.9% ★, Crafting 16.5%, Open World 13.6%, Building 11.6%, First-Person 3.2%
Why You'll Like It: It features a vast, interconnected universe of voxel worlds that encourages exploration and creative construction.
- #24 Force of Nature
82% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,209 reviews2016
Dev: A.Y.std
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.5% ★, Crafting 15.9%, Open World 8.8%, Building 8.1%, Multiplayer 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: It combines survival, crafting, and exploration in a top-down perspective that offers a similar progression feel to Ylands.
- #25 Cubic Odyssey
78% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,720 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 36.6% ★, Base Building 15.7%, Building 10.6%, Co-op 9.7%, Action-Adventure 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: It features a voxel-based world with a focus on action-adventure and base-building mechanics.
- #26 Everwind
77% 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: Crafting 18.6%, Online Co-Op 15.5%, Building 14.9%, Open World 14.2%, Co-op 13.4%
- #27 Eden Rising
81% 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 28.7% ★, Crafting 14.8%, Open World 13.7%, Multiplayer 11.8%, Co-op 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: This game integrates tower-defense mechanics into an open-world survival setting, providing a unique twist on base protection.
- #28 Dragon And Home
79% matchMixed60% of 1,380 reviews2021
Dev: HIG
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Dragon and Home is a sandbox MMORPG where players can choose freely how they desire to play. Whether you want to play as a courageous adventurer, or you want to experience the tranquil rural lifestyles, growing plants, and feeding animals with your friends in the Homeland, you can find it all.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.9% ★, Open World 15.1%, Crafting 12.4%, Building 10.5%, Exploration 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: This sandbox game blends survival and building with an adventurous spirit, allowing players to shape their own world.
- #29 Longvinter
77% matchMixed67% of 7,664 reviews2025
Dev: Uuvana Studios
Windows
Median: 2.6 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 29.6% ★, Crafting 14.3%, Multiplayer 10.5%, Open World 10.2%, Building 7.7%
- #30 Subsistence
79% 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 43.5% ★, Crafting 12.8%, Base Building 9.2%, Open World 8.6%, Multiplayer 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the survival and base-building aspects, challenging players to thrive in a harsh, realistic wilderness.
- #31 Salt
78% 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 40.5% ★, Sailing 15.8% ★, Crafting 12.4%, Open World 12.1%, Multiplayer 6.7%
- #32 Muck
75% matchVery Positive93% of 184,419 reviews2021
Dev: Dani
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Muck is a survival-roguelike. Collect resources, find items & build a base to survive for as long as you can.
Why similar: Crafting 20%, Base Building 14.6%, Multiplayer 14.2%, Building 13.9%, Open World 12.6%
- #33 ICARUS
75% 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 29.2% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Crafting 9.4%, Online Co-Op 8.3%, Multiplayer 7.1%
- #34 Palia
73% matchVery Positive86% of 43,867 reviews2024
Dev: Singularity 6 Corporation
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 26.4 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%, Multiplayer 16.4%, Building 16.3%, Online Co-Op 14.4%, Nature 13.7%
- #35 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,709 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 32.7% ★, Base Building 14%, Crafting 11.6%, Open World 9%, Multiplayer 8.5%
- #36 Windrose
70% matchVery Positive87% of 51,977 reviews2026
Dev: Kraken Express
Windows
Median: 20.1 hrsMean: 32.9 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 26.7% ★, Sailing 22.1% ★, Crafting 10.6%, Online Co-Op 8.9%, Base Building 7.8%
- #37 Angeldust
76% 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: Building 20.1%, Open World 19.9%, Multiplayer 17.2%, Co-op 13.3%, Online Co-Op 9.8%
- #38 Aloft
72% 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 23.5% ★, Sailing 20.8% ★, Crafting 12.7%, Building 9.8%, Co-op 8.8%
- #39 LEGO® Worlds
73% matchMostly Positive78% of 15,639 reviews2017
Dev: TT GamesPub: Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.5 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 24.5%, Open World 23.5%, Multiplayer 17.2%, Third Person 9.4%, Exploration 9.2%
- #40 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
71% matchMostly Positive78% of 34,392 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 37.5% ★, Crafting 12.4%, Building 11.9%, Co-op 11.8%, Open World 10.8%
- #41 Necesse
68% 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 42.3% ★, Crafting 9.7%, Base Building 8.4%, Open World 8.1%, Multiplayer 7.4%
- #42 OceanCraft
73% 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 37.1% ★, Sailing 34.5% ★, Nature 7.4%, Crafting 4.8%, Co-op 4.5%
- #43 Far Lands
71% matchMixed65% of 170 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 29.8% ★, Base Building 15.3%, Crafting 14.6%, Open World 9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.2%
- #44 Dark and Light
72% matchMixed52% of 11,834 reviews2017
Dev: Snail Games USA
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 49.0 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 25.7%, Crafting 10.4%, Base Building 10.3%, Multiplayer 8.8%
- #45 Shamania
68% matchMostly Positive74% of 162 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 30.3% ★, Crafting 13.4%, Open World 10.3%, Multiplayer 7.7%, Base Building 7.7%
- #46 Stormworks: Build and Rescue
69% matchVery Positive91% of 59,745 reviews2020
Dev: Geometa
Windows · Mac
Median: 17.4 hrsMean: 113.5 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 28% ★, Open World Survival Craft 24.2% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Building 10.2%, Open World 9.2%
- #47 Arctico
70% matchMostly Positive70% of 2,527 reviews2022
Dev: Claudio Norori
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Explore Arctico with your dog sled, kayak, and up to 3 friends! Build and customize your base camp, gather resources and samples, set up labs, and take good care of your dogs in this peaceful island.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.6% ★, Open World 9.1%, Co-op 8.7%, Multiplayer 8.1%, Nature 8%
- #48 Cubic Castles
71% matchMostly Positive74% of 4,277 reviews2014
Dev: Raptisoft
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Your blocks, your castle, your world! Build anything you can dream up and explore with other players! Cubic Castles is a mini-MMO that combines the best of block-building and 3D platform action! Create fantastic parkour challenges, explore worlds made by other players, or even make friend!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.4% ★, Building 14.5%, Crafting 12%, Open World 11%, Multiplayer 9.9%
- #49 Escape The Pacific
70% matchMixed67% of 761 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 28.4% ★, Sailing 24.8% ★, Crafting 11%, Open World 8.1%, Building 8%
- #50 Len's Island
65% 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 35.9% ★, Crafting 12.2%, Nature 11.5%, Base Building 11.4%, Building 10.9%
- #51 Craftopia
67% matchMostly Positive76% of 20,210 reviews2020
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Craftopia is the brand new multiplayer survival action game made in Japan. We combined many features we find enjoyable, such as hunting, farming, hack-and-slash, building, automation to develop this game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.3% ★, Crafting 18.8%, Open World 15.8%, Multiplayer 9.5%, Building 8.2%
- #52 Worlds Adrift Island Creator
69% matchVery Positive83% of 554 reviews2016
Dev: Bossa Studios
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 34%
Worlds Adrift is a Community-Crafted MMO: each and every island has been crafted by our playerbase. With the free Island Creator tool, this is your chance to create your own adventure for the community to experience. A crumbling ruin, or a teeming jungle, help expand the edges of Foundation ever further!
Why similar: Building 41.7%, Open World 32.1%, Multiplayer 26.3%
- #53 Forgotten Seas
65% 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: Open World Survival Craft 19.5% ★, Sailing 19.1% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Crafting 10.3%, Online Co-Op 8.7%
- #54 Lost Skies
65% 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 42.3% ★, Base Building 16.5%, Online Co-Op 12.4%, Crafting 8.7%, Open World 7.3%
- #55 Nomad
69% 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% ★, Multiplayer 13.5%, Open World 11.8%, Crafting 11.2%, Co-op 4.8%
- #56 Sea of Craft
67% matchMostly Positive74% of 455 reviews2023
Dev: Wizard Games
Windows
Hello! Captain! “Sea Of Craft” is a sandbox ocean-building game with realistic physics simulation. In “Sea of Craft”, you can build your exclusive ship with hundreds of materials, and explore intriguing stages on planet Beella as well as adventures of wonders in the great ocean!
Why similar: Crafting 21.9%, Open World 14.8%, Base Building 12.6%, Building 12.3%, Online Co-Op 9.7%
