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Volcanoids 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.

Similarity 79%
Price -60% 6.73€
Rating 8.1
Release 29 Jan 2019
Miscreated Miscreated is a multiplayer online hardcore survival game set in a post-apocalyptic future. You will need to survive against mutants, players, and even mother nature herself.

Similarity 79%
Price -66% 8.64€
Rating 6.5
Release 18 Dec 2018
TerraTech TerraTech is an open-world, sandbox adventure game, where you design and build your own creations through a mix of crafting, combat and discovery. Design vehicles from a huge library of blocks. Scavenge, craft and buy new parts to survive and become the ultimate planetary prospector.

Similarity 78%
Price -92% 2.22€
Rating 8.9
Release 10 Aug 2018
Wurm Unlimited Wurm Unlimited is the standalone version of the fantasy sandbox world Wurm Online, the MMORPG where the players are in charge! A pioneer in the ideas of player influence, crafting and adventure, it is now one of the most deep and feature packed true sandbox experiences available.

Similarity 78%
Price -98% 0.82€
Rating 6.9
Release 21 Oct 2015
Survisland / 实境求生 Survisland is a super hardcore sandbox survival game that pays great attention to restoring the real survival experience. The character has rich and realistic actions and reactions to , and the process logic of making props is no different from reality.

Similarity 77%
Price 12.49€
Rating 6.2
Release 14 Apr 2024
Omega Crafter Adventure in a vast open-world survival craft game with your programmable sidekick Grammi! Program the Grammi to collect materials, build your town, craft weapons and armor to challenge strong enemies! Play alone or with friends online!

Similarity 77%
Price 24.50€
Rating 7.6
Release 14 May 2025
Conan Exiles 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.

Similarity 77%
Price -90% 4.12€
Rating 7.8
Release 08 May 2018
The Front The Front is a survival open-world crafting sandbox game. You are a resistance fighter sent back in time to stop the rise of a tyrannical empire. Collect resources, craft tech, build shelters, and fight monsters to accomplish your mission.

Similarity 77%
Price -37% 12.45€
Rating 6.7
Release 11 Oct 2023
SCUM Traverse punishing environments, looting, crafting and evading the constant threats to your life. The unprecedented levels of character customization and progression are your ultimate tools for survival.

Similarity 76%
Price -64% 16.62€
Rating 7.4
Release 17 Jun 2025
Salt 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.

Similarity 76%
Price -41% 8.96€
Rating 7.4
Release 06 Feb 2018
CastleMiner Z CastleMiner Z is an infinite world filled with deep places to explore, and horrifying monsters to slay. Build structures out of blocks, craft weapons and tools from raw materials, and explore the vast and frightening world around you.

Similarity 76%
Price 5.89€
Rating 7.9
Release 03 Feb 2014
Rem Survival Tackle starvation, dehydration, thermal conditions, radiation poisoning, and toxic gas inhalation while trying to keep your sanity intact. Shack up, cook some chicken, and make friends or enemies as you discover, explore, learn, build, and develop your skills needed for a true survival experience.

Similarity 76%
Price 15.79€
Rating 7.2
Release 05 Mar 2021
Arctico 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.

Similarity 76%
Price 9.99€
Rating 6.9
Release 15 Feb 2022
Life is Feudal: Your Own Hardcore and realistic; LiF is a Medieval multiplayer sandbox RPG, with free terraforming, a rich crafting system and preset and modular building construction. With engaging survival aspects, no target physics-based combat and a unique formation system - along with numerous other features - LiF is not for the faint of heart!

Similarity 76%
Price -92% 1.74€
Rating 6.5
Release 17 Nov 2015
Survive on Raft Survive on Raft is a Survival Sandbox Simulator on the Raft in the middle of the ocean! Fight with shark, build base, craft, loot islands, farm and survive. Play solo or with friends.

Similarity 76%
Price 9.75€
Rating 6.1
Release 05 Jul 2019
Project Zomboid Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..

Similarity 76%
Price -20% 15.63€
Rating 9.3
Release 08 Nov 2013
CHKN Behold, the miracle of life… packed into cubes! Create fantastic creatures in an open-world sandbox game like no other. Explore, craft, and survive—all with the help of your very own creations.

Similarity 75%
Price Free to play
Rating 7.7
Release 01 Apr 2016
Necesse 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!

Similarity 75%
Price -45% 8.37€
Rating 9.1
Release 12 Dec 2019
Survival Machine 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?

Similarity 75%
Price -51% 8.28€
Rating 7.2
Release 07 May 2025
Feel The Snow Choose one of the characters and start your journey. The game has many interesting things in store: building, crafting, puzzles, bosses, mystery, laughs, quests etc.

Similarity 74%
Price 12.79€
Rating 8.4
Release 12 Dec 2019
Scrapnaut Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements. Explore an open world with different biomes, take care of oxygen, manage your farms, generate electricity, build your home and much more!

Similarity 74%
Price -95% 0.69€
Rating 6.8
Release 15 Sep 2021
Scrap Mechanic 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!

Similarity 74%
Price 19.99€
Rating 9.1
Release 19 Jan 2016
XERA: Survival 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…

Similarity 73%
Price Free to play
Rating 6.6
Release 26 Sep 2021
Road to Eden Road to Eden is a third-person multiplayer survival coop game, set within the post-apocalyptic ruins of a world destroyed by an alien invasion. You wake up at the side of the road with no memory and must team up with other survivors to make the long and dangerous journey to Eden.

Similarity 73%
Price 16.79€
Rating 6.2
Release 28 Feb 2019