Games Like Ylands

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 37.8% ★, Crafting 10.4%, Multiplayer 10.3%, Co-op 9.7%, Base Building 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Like Ylands, this game centers on building a custom vessel and surviving while exploring an expansive, water-based open world.

A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.9% ★, Crafting 10.8%, Building 8.6%, Online Co-Op 8.6%, Open World 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based sandbox that mirrors the creative building and exploration elements found in Ylands.

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: Crafting 17.3%, Building 17.2%, Base Building 13.2%, Open World 13%, Multiplayer 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game excels in complex mechanical building and engineering, appealing to players who enjoy the creative construction aspects of Ylands.

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 19.4%, Co-op 14.6%, Adventure 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: It shares a similar colorful, voxel-based aesthetic and focuses heavily on exploration, combat, and building across diverse floating islands.

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 34.2% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Open World 10.2%, Multiplayer 8.9%, Crafting 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on planetary exploration and creative base-building with a distinct, stylized art direction that feels very similar to Ylands.

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 32.3% ★, Online Co-Op 9.9%, Base Building 9.8%, Crafting 9.4%, Open World 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: This title offers a deep survival experience with a strong emphasis on sailing, base-building, and exploring a vast, procedurally generated world.

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 26.1% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Crafting 9.5%, Online Co-Op 8%, Building 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a unique perspective on survival and exploration with a strong emphasis on base-building and interacting with a vibrant, oversized world.

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% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Crafting 9.5%, Online Co-Op 8.3%, Multiplayer 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A session-based survival game that focuses on base-building and exploration, offering a more structured approach to the genre.

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 12.8%, Open World 12.2%, Online Co-Op 9.7%, Base Building 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on the sailing and maritime survival aspects that are a core part of the Ylands experience.

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 29.3% ★, Crafting 15.2%, Base Building 12.2%, Online Co-Op 11.6%, Open World 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game that emphasizes crafting, base-building, and exploration in a tropical, island-hopping setting.

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 43.6% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 12.4%, Open World 10.8%, Exploration 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: Provides an unparalleled underwater exploration and survival experience that captures the sense of discovery found in Ylands' sailing adventures.

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 21.9%, Multiplayer 17.1%, Crafting 17%, Base Building 13.8%, Building 13.7%

Why You'll Like It: Combines survival and creature taming with a voxel-based world, providing a familiar gameplay loop for fans of Ylands.

No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.4% ★, Open World 15.8%, Crafting 8.7%, Exploration 8.5%, Multiplayer 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Features infinite exploration, resource management, and base-building across diverse planets, echoing the scale of Ylands' adventure.

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 48.8% ★, Crafting 16.6%, Open World 13.5%, Building 11.7%, First-Person 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: A massively multiplayer voxel sandbox that allows for extensive building and exploration across interconnected worlds.

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 28.5% ★, Crafting 14.9%, Open World 13.6%, Multiplayer 11.9%, Co-op 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: Blends open-world exploration with tower-defense elements, appealing to those who enjoy the adventurous side of Ylands.

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 78.7% ★, Multiplayer 5.3%, Co-op 4.7%, Crafting 3.9%, Open World 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: A cooperative survival game that emphasizes resource management and exploration with a highly stylized, unique visual identity.

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 15.7%, Building 11.6%, Online Co-Op 10.4%, Co-op 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Features unique steampunk-themed base-building and exploration mechanics that offer a fresh take on the survival genre.

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 43.4% ★, Crafting 12.3%, Open World 10.1%, Building 7.9%, Multiplayer 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that focuses on island life, crafting, and maritime exploration.

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 23.4% ★, Sailing 20.9% ★, Crafting 12.7%, Building 9.8%, Co-op 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on survival and exploration on floating islands, capturing the sense of verticality and adventure found in Ylands.

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 28.2% ★, Crafting 11.4%, Base Building 11.1%, Online Co-Op 8%, Open World 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A massive open-world survival game that prioritizes deep crafting and exploration without the typical restrictions of other survival titles.

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 30.1% ★, Base Building 10.5%, Online Co-Op 9.7%, Co-op 8.5%, Crafting 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A survival game focused on island exploration and resource management, mirroring the core loop of Ylands.

Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.3% ★, Crafting 16%, Open World 8.7%, Building 8.1%, Multiplayer 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that emphasizes crafting and exploration in a procedurally generated world.

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 36.4% ★, Online Co-Op 11.4%, Crafting 11.1%, Open World 9.4%, Building 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game with pixel-art graphics that focuses on crafting, building, and exploring diverse biomes.

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 15.7% ★, Crafting 12.5%, Open World 12%, Multiplayer 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: A dedicated exploration and sailing game that captures the nomadic spirit of Ylands' sea-faring gameplay.

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 29.5% ★, Crafting 14.5%, Multiplayer 10.5%, Open World 10.1%, Building 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer survival game with a cozy, stylized aesthetic that emphasizes gathering and building.

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 15.6%, Building 14.8%, Open World 14.1%, Co-op 13.4%

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 29.4% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 9.6%, Online Co-Op 7.9%, Multiplayer 7.7%

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 20.5% ★, Base Building 9.5%, Crafting 8.8%, Online Co-Op 7.1%

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 41.8% ★, Crafting 9.9%, Base Building 8.4%, Open World 8.1%, Multiplayer 7.4%

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 16.8%, Open World 14.4%, Exploration 7.3%, Action-Adventure 6.9%

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 52.8% ★, Multiplayer 13.6%, Open World 11.7%, Crafting 11.3%, Co-op 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: A survival game that emphasizes exploration and base-building in a post-apocalyptic open world.

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 35.8% ★, Crafting 12.3%, Nature 11.5%, Base Building 11.5%, Building 11%

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 26.6% ★, Sailing 22.1% ★, Crafting 10.9%, Online Co-Op 9%, Base Building 7.8%

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 45.2% ★, Building 14.5%, Crafting 12.1%, Open World 10.9%, Multiplayer 10%

Why You'll Like It: A free-to-play building and exploration game that shares the blocky, creative spirit of Ylands.

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 36.9% ★, Sailing 34.6% ★, Nature 7.4%, Crafting 4.8%, Co-op 4.6%

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 43.2% ★, Crafting 12.9%, Base Building 9.2%, Open World 8.6%, Multiplayer 8.3%

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 38.9% ★, Open World 25.6%, Crafting 10.5%, Base Building 10.4%, Multiplayer 8.9%

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 19.6%, Multiplayer 16.4%, Building 16.2%, Online Co-Op 14.6%, Nature 13.6%

Muck is a survival-roguelike. Collect resources, find items & build a base to survive for as long as you can.

Why similar: Crafting 20.1%, Base Building 14.7%, Multiplayer 14.3%, Building 14%, Open World 12.4%

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 48.3% ★, Crafting 12.1%, Multiplayer 10.3%, Open World 9.4%, Building 5.8%

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 29.6% ★, Base Building 15.4%, Crafting 14.7%, Open World 9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.2%

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 19.7%, Multiplayer 17.3%, Co-op 13.3%, Online Co-Op 9.9%

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 30.1% ★, Crafting 13.5%, Open World 10.2%, Multiplayer 7.8%, Online Co-Op 7.8%

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 24.6%, Open World 23.4%, Multiplayer 17.3%, Third Person 9.4%, Exploration 9.2%

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 28.1% ★, Open World Survival Craft 24% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Building 10.2%, Open World 9.1%

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% ★, Base Building 16.6%, Online Co-Op 12.5%, Crafting 8.8%, Open World 7.2%

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 35.6% ★, Base Building 14.6%, Crafting 13%, Building 10.8%, Co-op 8.5%

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 31.8%, Multiplayer 26.4%

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 48.7% ★, Open World 15%, Crafting 12.5%, Building 10.5%, Exploration 8.3%

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 29.1% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 11.4%, Building 8.8%, Open World 8.1%

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 19.3% ★, Sailing 19.1% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Crafting 10.4%, Online Co-Op 8.8%

Create your tale! Build your home, fight, farm, and explore an old civilization while developing your skills and abilities in this relaxing and adventurous experience. You decide your fate!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.8% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Crafting 11.7%, Building 9.1%, Nature 7.1%

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 22%, Open World 14.7%, Base Building 12.6%, Building 12.3%, Online Co-Op 9.8%

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 33.8% ★, Base Building 10.2%, Crafting 9.9%, Co-op 9.6%, Open World 9.1%

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 19.3%, Crafting 15.4%, Building 12.7%, Action-Adventure 11.6%, Open World 11.2%