- #1 Scrap Mechanic
97% matchVery Positive92% of 117,049 reviews2016
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.1 hrsMean: 57.3 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: Crafting 17.3%, Building 17.2%, Base Building 13.2%, Open World 12.9%, Multiplayer 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: This game shares the creative engineering and modular building focus that makes Ylands' construction system so engaging.
- #2 Raft
96% matchVery Positive93% of 368,916 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.5 hrsMean: 36.8 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 37.4% ★, Crafting 10.5%, Multiplayer 10.4%, Co-op 9.7%, Base Building 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: It perfectly captures the nautical survival and crafting loop found in Ylands while focusing on building a mobile base on the ocean.
- #3 ASTRONEER
96% matchVery Positive92% of 136,711 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 44.1 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 33.8% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Open World 10.2%, Multiplayer 8.9%, Crafting 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: The vibrant, stylized aesthetic and focus on exploration and resource management mirror the adventurous spirit of Ylands.
- #4 Creativerse
95% 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 25.5% ★, Crafting 10.9%, Online Co-Op 8.7%, Building 8.6%, Open World 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based sandbox that emphasizes creative building and exploration in a colorful, accessible environment.
- #5 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
94% matchVery Positive82% of 9,646 reviews2024
Dev: Merge GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 15.1 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 25.8% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Crafting 9.5%, Online Co-Op 8.1%, Building 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes exploration and base-building from a unique perspective, matching the sense of scale and adventure in Ylands.
- #6 Valheim
94% matchVery Positive94% of 529,829 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 25.6 hrsMean: 76.1 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 31.8% ★, Online Co-Op 10%, Base Building 9.8%, Crafting 9.5%, Open World 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a deep, rewarding experience centered on sailing, exploration, and base-building within a stylized, atmospheric world.
- #7 Portal Knights
93% matchVery Positive83% of 22,116 reviews2017
Dev: Keen Games GmbHPub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 5.7 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 25.6%, Building 20.9%, Multiplayer 19.5%, Co-op 14.6%, Adventure 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: It combines voxel-based building with action-adventure RPG elements, providing a similar feel to the exploration-heavy gameplay of Ylands.
- #8 Salt 2: Shores of Gold
91% matchVery Positive85% of 2,197 reviews2025
Dev: Lavaboots Studios
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 8.6 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 45.5% ★, Crafting 16.9%, Open World 14.1%, Exploration 7.3%, Action-Adventure 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: This title focuses heavily on sailing and island exploration, making it a direct thematic match for the nautical aspects of Ylands.
- #9 The Survivalists
92% matchMostly Positive76% of 9,935 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% ★, Crafting 15.2%, Base Building 12.3%, Online Co-Op 11.8%, Open World 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a lighthearted survival and crafting experience on a tropical island that feels very similar to the core loop of Ylands.
- #10 Len's Island
91% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,615 reviews2025
Dev: Flow Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 11.9 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 35.3% ★, Crafting 12.4%, Nature 11.7%, Base Building 11.5%, Building 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: This game blends island exploration, base-building, and dungeon crawling, capturing the variety of activities found in Ylands.
- #11 Dawnlands
90% matchMixed52% of 3,131 reviews2023
Dev: SEASUN GAMES PTE. LTD.
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Dawnlands is an Open-World Survival Crafting cross-platform game with a massive world and epic lore. A variety of biomes, relics, and puzzles dot the landscape... an ancient land, lain dormant for centuries, is waiting to be awoken. New stories are waiting to be written.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.6% ★, Crafting 10.9%, Base Building 10.1%, Online Co-Op 9.3%, Building 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer open-world survival game that emphasizes crafting and exploration in a stylized environment.
- #12 Volcanoids
89% matchVery Positive83% of 9,214 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.8 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: Open World Survival Craft 28.8% ★, Crafting 11.1%, Base Building 10.4%, Online Co-Op 9%, Open World 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: The unique mechanic of building and upgrading a mobile drill-ship provides a similar satisfaction to Ylands' ship-building.
- #13 Subnautica
87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 344,093 reviews2018
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.4 hrsMean: 40.0 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 43.4% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 12.6%, Open World 10.8%, Exploration 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: While more focused on underwater survival, it provides the same sense of wonder, exploration, and base-building that Ylands players enjoy.
- #14 Boundless
89% matchMixed70% of 2,766 reviews2018
Dev: Monumental, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 33.0 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 48.4% ★, Crafting 16.8%, Open World 13.5%, Building 11.8%, First-Person 3.3%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based exploration game that allows for massive building projects across diverse, interconnected worlds.
- #15 Core Keeper
86% matchVery Positive93% of 63,205 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.0 hrsMean: 33.7 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 25.1% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Crafting 11.6%, Building 9.1%, Online Co-Op 9%
Why You'll Like It: It features a strong focus on exploration, crafting, and base-building in a vibrant, top-down perspective.
- #16 ATLAS
88% matchMixed47% of 42,842 reviews2018
Dev: Grapeshot Games
Windows
Median: 12.5 hrsMean: 112.2 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 39.2% ★, Crafting 12.8%, Open World 12%, Online Co-Op 9.8%, Base Building 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: A massive multiplayer game that focuses heavily on sailing, piracy, and island exploration.
- #17 Out of Reach
86% matchMixed57% of 3,044 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.2 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% ★, Crafting 12.4%, Open World 10.1%, Building 8%, Multiplayer 8%
Why You'll Like It: This game features survival and sailing mechanics in an open-world setting that mirrors the island-hopping gameplay of Ylands.
- #18 PixARK
85% matchMostly Positive73% of 12,998 reviews2019
Dev: Snail Games USA
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 40.2 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 21.7%, Crafting 17.1%, Multiplayer 17%, Base Building 13.9%, Building 13.7%
Why You'll Like It: It combines voxel-based building with survival and creature taming, offering a similar variety of gameplay systems.
- #19 DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS™ 2
84% matchVery Positive92% of 7,831 reviews2019
Dev: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 11.3 hrsMean: 48.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%
DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS™ 2 is a block-building RPG set in a fantasy land threatened by an evil cult. Explore, battle, build and harvest in the charming single-player campaign or build big projects in the online sandbox mode for up to 4-players.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 55.7% ★, Building 12.5%, Crafting 10.3%, Adventure 4.7%, Co-op 4%
Why You'll Like It: This game excels at combining structured narrative exploration with creative, block-based building mechanics.
- #20 No Man's Sky
84% matchVery Positive85% of 402,164 reviews2016
Dev: Hello Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 20.2 hrsMean: 70.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.2% ★, Open World 15.8%, Crafting 8.7%, Exploration 8.7%, Multiplayer 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: It offers an unparalleled scale of exploration, crafting, and base-building across a vast, colorful universe.
- #21 Eco
83% matchVery Positive81% of 13,777 reviews2018
Dev: Strange Loop Games
Windows
Median: 16.8 hrsMean: 88.2 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 30.2% ★, Base Building 12%, Nature 11.2%, Crafting 10.9%, Building 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on collaborative building and resource management, appealing to players who enjoy the community aspects of Ylands.
- #22 Solace Crafting
82% matchMostly Positive72% of 891 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 27.8% ★, Crafting 11.5%, Base Building 11.1%, Online Co-Op 8.1%, Open World 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game that emphasizes crafting and exploration in a vast, procedurally generated world.
- #23 Medieval Dynasty
80% matchVery Positive91% of 49,970 reviews2021
Dev: Render CubePub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 35.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.
Why similar: Crafting 22.8%, Building 18.2%, Base Building 15.7%, Co-op 11.9%, Open World 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on building a settlement and surviving in an open world, offering a more grounded take on the base-building genre.
- #24 Arctico
81% matchMostly Positive71% of 2,417 reviews2022
Dev: Claudio Norori
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 68%
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 37.3% ★, Co-op 9%, Open World 9%, Multiplayer 8.1%, Base Building 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a peaceful, exploration-focused survival experience that emphasizes cooperative play.
- #25 Eden Rising
82% 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 28.2% ★, Crafting 15%, Open World 13.6%, Co-op 12%, Multiplayer 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: This game mixes open-world exploration with tower defense mechanics, providing a unique twist on the survival genre.
- #26 Stranded Deep
79% matchMostly Positive74% of 47,062 reviews2022
Dev: Beam Team GamesPub: Beam Team Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 21.1 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 47.9% ★, Crafting 12.2%, Multiplayer 10.4%, Open World 9.3%, Building 5.8%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the core survival and island-hopping elements that define the early-game experience of Ylands.
- #27 Lost Skies
79% matchMixed62% of 2,832 reviews2025
Dev: Bossa StudiosPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 12.1 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 41.3% ★, Base Building 16.8%, Online Co-Op 12.8%, Crafting 8.9%, Open World 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: This game features sky-based exploration and base-building, offering a fresh take on the adventure-survival genre.
- #28 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
78% matchVery Positive91% of 7,161 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in this free prologue introducing one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters – an upcoming open-world game that challenges you, alone or with friends, to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.9% ★, Base Building 12%, Crafting 9.7%, Online Co-Op 8%, Multiplayer 7.7%
- #29 Force of Nature
81% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,198 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 42.9% ★, Crafting 16.2%, Open World 8.7%, Building 8.2%, Multiplayer 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that focuses on crafting, building, and exploring a diverse, procedurally generated world.
- #30 Conan Exiles
78% matchMostly Positive79% of 111,441 reviews2018
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 16.9 hrsMean: 111.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
An online multiplayer survival game, now with sorcery, set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian. Survive in a vast open world sandbox, build your home into a kingdom, and dominate your enemies in single or multiplayer.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.8% ★, Crafting 14%, Open World 13.7%, Building 12.4%, Multiplayer 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a robust survival and building experience with a strong emphasis on exploration and action.
- #31 Tinkerlands
76% matchVery Positive86% of 3,746 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 13.7 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 35.7% ★, Online Co-Op 11.6%, Crafting 11.2%, Open World 9.4%, Building 8.4%
- #32 Longvinter
76% matchMixed67% of 7,526 reviews2025
Dev: Uuvana Studios
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 39.9 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 29.2% ★, Crafting 14.6%, Multiplayer 10.6%, Open World 10.1%, Building 7.8%
- #33 Salt
77% matchMostly Positive76% of 2,246 reviews2018
Dev: Lavaboots Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 8.0 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 40.1% ★, Sailing 15.9% ★, Crafting 12.6%, Open World 12%, Multiplayer 6.8%
- #34 Project Castaway
74% matchMixed67% of 1,632 reviews2026
Dev: Mardonpol Inc.
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 69%
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 29.7% ★, Base Building 10.6%, Online Co-Op 9.8%, Co-op 8.6%, Crafting 8.5%
- #35 ICARUS
75% matchMostly Positive74% of 62,078 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 44.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 28.5% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Crafting 9.6%, Online Co-Op 8.4%, Multiplayer 7.1%
- #36 Everwind
72% matchVery Positive82% of 2,069 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 16.1%, Online Co-Op 15.4%, Building 14.7%, Open World 14.2%, Co-op 13.8%
- #37 Voyagers of Nera
72% matchVery Positive85% of 2,114 reviews2025
Dev: Treehouse Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 12.6 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 29.8% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Crafting 10.8%, Online Co-Op 8.9%, Building 8.6%
- #38 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,643 reviews2021
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 55%
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 32.1% ★, Base Building 14%, Crafting 11.7%, Open World 8.9%, Multiplayer 8.6%
- #39 Dark and Light
75% matchMixed52% of 11,804 reviews2017
Dev: Snail Games USA
Windows
Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 49.3 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 38.6% ★, Open World 25.6%, Crafting 10.7%, Base Building 10.5%, Multiplayer 8.9%
- #40 Survival Machine
71% matchMostly Positive74% of 669 reviews2025
Dev: Grape PickersPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Build your base on a moving Machine, travel through biomes with different resources, and prepare for the night when a zombie threat is much higher than during the day. Would you go solo or explore this new world with your best friends?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 11.4%, Online Co-Op 9.7%, Building 8.6%
- #41 Angeldust
74% matchMixed64% of 1,423 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 19.5%, Multiplayer 17.3%, Co-op 13.4%, Online Co-Op 10.1%
- #42 Rising World
73% matchVery Positive86% of 5,845 reviews2014
Dev: JIW-Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 21.3 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 35.1% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Crafting 13.1%, Building 10.8%, Co-op 8.6%
- #43 Aloft
70% matchVery Positive84% of 3,496 reviews2025
Dev: Astrolabe Interactive Inc.Pub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 13.9 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 23.1% ★, Sailing 21% ★, Crafting 12.8%, Building 9.9%, Co-op 9%
- #44 Stormworks: Build and Rescue
71% matchVery Positive90% of 57,601 reviews2020
Dev: Geometa
Windows · Mac
Median: 17.4 hrsMean: 111.9 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 28.2% ★, Open World Survival Craft 23.9% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Building 10.2%, Open World 9%
- #45 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 36.4% ★, Sailing 34.9% ★, Nature 7.4%, Crafting 4.8%, Co-op 4.6%
- #46 Palia
69% matchVery Positive86% of 40,274 reviews2024
Dev: Singularity 6 Corporation
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 24.9 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 16.2%, Online Co-Op 14.6%, Nature 13.8%
- #47 Far Lands
70% matchMixed66% of 166 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 29.2% ★, Base Building 15.5%, Crafting 14.7%, Open World 9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.3%
- #48 Trailmakers
69% matchVery Positive92% of 34,107 reviews2019
Dev: Flashbulb
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 15.4 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 19.6%, Crafting 15.5%, Building 12.6%, Action-Adventure 11.5%, Open World 11.1%
- #49 Shamania
68% matchMostly Positive78% of 140 reviews2025
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 29.8% ★, Crafting 13.5%, Open World 10.1%, Online Co-Op 7.9%, Multiplayer 7.8%
- #50 Cubic Odyssey
67% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,483 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 32.3% ★, Base Building 14.3%, Building 9.8%, Co-op 9.2%, Open World 7.4%
- #51 LEGO® Worlds
70% matchMostly Positive78% of 15,565 reviews2017
Dev: TT GamesPub: Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 13.5 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 24.7%, Open World 23.2%, Multiplayer 17.3%, Third Person 9.4%, Exploration 9.3%
- #52 TerraTech Worlds
68% matchMixed63% of 2,175 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 22.1 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 28.7% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Crafting 11.5%, Building 8.8%, Co-op 8.1%
- #53 Muck
66% matchVery Positive93% of 182,033 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 20.2%, Base Building 14.7%, Multiplayer 14.2%, Building 14%, Open World 12.3%
- #54 XERA: Survival
67% matchMixed66% of 7,888 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 36.2% ★, Base Building 17.5%, Crafting 13.8%, Multiplayer 9.6%, Open World 9%
- #55 Dragon And Home
68% matchMixed60% of 1,378 reviews2021
Dev: HIG
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 59%
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 48.4% ★, Open World 15%, Crafting 12.6%, Building 10.7%, Exploration 8.4%
- #56 Worlds Adrift Island Creator
69% matchVery Positive83% of 553 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 41.9%, Open World 31.6%, Multiplayer 26.5%
- #57 Forgotten Seas
65% matchMostly Positive77% of 572 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: Sailing 19.2% ★, Open World Survival Craft 19% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Crafting 10.4%, Online Co-Op 8.9%
- #58 Necesse
62% matchVery Positive93% of 26,780 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 14.6 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 41.5% ★, Crafting 10%, Base Building 8.4%, Open World 8.2%, Multiplayer 7.5%
