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by AniYa Games Studio
Embark on a cozy open-world survival journey inspired by ancient China's heritage. Gather resources, cultivate crops, build your dream home, and defend it from marauders. Team up with friends to explore and uncover a world where adventure meets serenity.
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$29.99Sengoku Dynasty
Nov 7 · Superkami
Both: City Builder · Survival · Open World
Sengoku Dynasty is the ultimate feudal Japan experience: build villages, grow your community, and shape the open world through combat or economy. The choice is yours alone - or that of up to 4 players in multiplayer co-op!
City BuilderSurvivalOpen WorldBase BuildingMedievalLife SimMultiplayerBuildingCraftingRPG👍 6,594
$19.99Core Keeper
Aug 27 · Pugstorm
Both: Open World · Survival · Sandbox
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.
Open WorldSurvivalExplorationPixel GraphicsMultiplayerSandboxCraftingBuildingCo-opBase Building👍 50,086
$34.99Medieval Dynasty
Sep 23 · Render Cube
Both: Building · Crafting · Survival
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.
BuildingCraftingMultiplayerMedievalSurvivalCo-opOpen WorldBase BuildingSandboxImmersive Sim👍 43,086
$29.99Myth of Empires
Feb 21 · Angela Game
Both: Building · Sandbox · Open World
Myth of Empires is a multiplayer war sandbox game featuring a high degree of freedom and multiple civilizations. Players must survive, craft, create, and lead troops in their quest to conquer PVE or PVP territory and build their own empire. Xizhou Civilization Pack is now officially released!
BuildingOpen World Survival CraftSandboxMMORPGOpen WorldSurvivalBase BuildingMultiplayerWarCharacter Customization👍 15,523
$24.99Craftopia
Sep 4 · Pocketpair
Both: Open World · Crafting · Survival
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.
Open WorldCraftingSurvivalMultiplayerOpen World Survival CraftSandboxRPGBuildingOnline Co-OpAdventure👍 18,394
$24.99Chinese Frontiers
Jun 19 · SolidGames
Both: Building · Crafting · Base Building
Become a master builder in medieval China. Construct iconic landmarks brick by brick in first person, while managing villagers, production chains, and a growing settlement at your own pace.
BuildingCraftingMedievalBase BuildingCity BuilderSingleplayerFirst-PersonSandboxSimulationResource Management👍 514
$44.99ARK: Survival Ascended
Oct 25 · Studio Wildcard, Grove Street Games, Instinct Games
Both: Survival · Open World · Base Building
ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!
SurvivalOpen WorldMultiplayerDinosaursBase BuildingCraftingBuildingAdventureSandboxAction👍 106,877
$39.99Enshrouded
Jan 24 · Keen Games GmbH
Both: Open World · Survival · Base Building
You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.
Open WorldSurvivalBase BuildingMultiplayerOnline Co-OpCraftingRPGAdventureExplorationBuilding👍 93,460
$19.99Garden Paws
Dec 18 · Bitten Toast Games Inc.
Both: Sandbox · Building · Crafting
You have inherited your grandparents farm as they set off to travel the world. Work with Frank at the local construction shop to finish off the final touches on your new home. Aid Frank and Mayor Wilson in building up the town so it may reach it's full potential.
ExplorationSandboxAgricultureBuildingCraftingFarming SimCuteOpen WorldRelaxingRPG👍 1,890
$9.99Blockscape
Jul 3 · ioneo
Both: Sandbox · Open World · Survival
The ultimate block building game. Start with nothing and build an empire. Smooth voxel worlds, settlers, crafting, vehicles, and Steam multiplayer. Survival or Just Build — every item in your inventory is also a building block.
Open World Survival CraftSandboxOpen WorldSurvivalCraftingBuildingIndieMultiplayerSimulationCasual👍 727
$15.99Force of Nature 2: Ghost Keeper
May 27 · A.Y.std
Both: Open World · Survival · Crafting
Force of Nature 2: Ghost Keeper offers incredible adventures full of mystery, danger, exploration and magic. This game combines the genres of Survival, Sandbox, Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Resource Management
Open WorldSurvivalCraftingBase BuildingSandboxFantasyBuildingExplorationCharacter CustomizationStory Rich👍 2,042
$19.99Raft
Jun 20 · Redbeet Interactive
Both: Survival · Crafting · Open World
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!
SurvivalMultiplayerOpen World Survival CraftCo-opCraftingOpen WorldBuildingBase BuildingOnline Co-OpAdventure👍 323,554
$13.99Subsistence
Oct 25 · ColdGames
Both: Survival · Crafting · Open World
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).
Open World Survival CraftSurvivalMultiplayerCraftingOpen WorldBuildingBase BuildingSandboxCo-opSingleplayer👍 12,466
$24.99Len's Island
Jun 19 · Flow Studio
Both: Survival · Building · 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.
Open World Survival CraftSurvivalFarmingBuildingDungeon CrawlerOpen WorldNatureCraftingSandboxExploration👍 5,936
$29.99Bellwright
Apr 23 · Donkey Crew
Both: Survival · Open World · City Builder
Establish and expand your own settlements, liberate the land and assist its villagers, and recruit others to your cause while learning more about a life you had to leave behind. Command your forces, prove your valor through combat, and cement yourself as the hero of your people.
SurvivalOpen WorldCity BuilderMedievalCraftingOnline Co-OpMultiplayerBuildingSimulationRPG👍 20,141
$29.99RuneScape: Dragonwilds
6 days ago · Jagex Ltd
Both: Open World · Survival · Crafting
On RuneScape's forgotten continent of Ashenfall, dragons have awoken. Gather, build, skill and craft in this co-operative survival adventure. Only by mastering survival and uncovering ancient secrets can you hope to face the ferocious Dragon Queen.
Open WorldSurvivalMultiplayerOpen World Survival CraftCo-opOnline Co-OpEarly AccessCraftingBuildingBase Building👍 28,410
$19.99Longvinter
Feb 21 · Uuvana Studios
Both: Survival · Crafting · Open World
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!
MultiplayerSurvivalCraftingOpen WorldOpen World Survival CraftSandboxPvPCo-opBuildingAdventure👍 6,951
$14.99Solace Crafting
Aug 1 · Big Kitty Games
Both: Survival · Crafting · Open World
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.
SurvivalOpen World Survival CraftCraftingMultiplayerOpen WorldRPGBase BuildingOnline Co-OpBuildingSandbox👍 830
$24.95Colony Survival
Jun 16 · Pipliz
Both: Survival · Base Building · Building
Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!
Colony SimSurvivalBase BuildingBuildingMultiplayerSandboxStrategyOpen WorldCity BuilderEarly Access👍 8,263
-50%$14.99The Survivalists
Oct 9 · Team17
Both: Crafting · Survival · Base Building
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?
CraftingSurvivalOnline Co-OpAdventureMultiplayerOpen World Survival CraftSingleplayerBase BuildingPixel GraphicsOpen World👍 8,115
$23.99The Planet Crafter
Apr 10 · Miju Games
Both: Base Building · Survival · Building
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
Base BuildingOpen World Survival CraftSurvivalOnline Co-OpCo-opBuildingCraftingSpaceOpen WorldExploration👍 68,913
$29.99Soulmask
Apr 9 · CampFire Studio
Both: Survival · Base Building · Open World
Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. Possess any of your tribespeople, recruit followers, and build a thriving automated civilization. Survive, expand, and forge your own legacy across a vast ancient open world — together with friends.
SurvivalBase BuildingOpen WorldCraftingPvEPvPHuntingSandboxAdventureSingleplayer👍 18,451
Tree of Life
Aug 17 · OddOneGames
Both: Survival · Sandbox · Open World
Begin a journey in the beautiful world! Build your own town anywhere and explore the myterious lands anytime. Nothing is impossible in the open world: Be a legendary warrior and 5-star chef at the same time!
Open World Survival CraftSurvivalMassively MultiplayerSandboxOpen WorldBuildingRPGCraftingIndieCo-op👍 5,131
$39.99Conan Exiles Enhanced
May 8 · Funcom, Inflexion Games
Both: Survival · Open World · Building
Conan Exiles Enhanced is an open world survival game set in the mythical lands of Hyboria, now fully upgraded to Unreal Engine 5 with stunning visuals and improved performance. SURVIVE, BUILD, and DOMINATE alone or with friends in a world brimming with adventure!
SurvivalOpen WorldNudityBuildingOpen World Survival CraftCraftingMultiplayerSandboxRPGMassively Multiplayer👍 79,767
$19.99DYSMANTLE
Nov 16 · 10tons Ltd
Both: Survival · Open World · Crafting
Ascend from your shelter. Ruin everything. Escape the wretched island. ⚔️🔨🎣🌱🌵🍰 Explore. Fight. Level up. Survive. Gather. Craft. Harvest. Hunt. Build. Farm. Solve puzzles. Fish. Cook. Live. Enjoy the bittersweet post-apocalypse.
SurvivalOpen WorldCraftingZombiesBase BuildingRPGAdventureExplorationActionDestruction👍 11,028
$19.99Stranded Deep
Aug 10 · Beam Team Games
Both: Survival · Open World · Crafting
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.
Open World Survival CraftSurvivalMultiplayerOpen WorldCraftingFirst-PersonAdventureExplorationRealisticBuilding👍 43,637
$19.99Eden Crafters
May 7 · Osaris Games
Both: Base Building · Crafting · Sandbox
Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
AutomationOpen World Survival CraftBase BuildingCraftingSandboxOpen WorldOnline Co-OpBuildingSurvivalAdventure👍 2,515
$14.99ARK: Survival Evolved
Aug 27 · Studio Wildcard, Instinct Games, Efecto Studios, Virtual Basement LLC
Both: Survival · Open World · Crafting
Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!
Open World Survival CraftSurvivalMultiplayerOpen WorldDinosaursCraftingBuildingAdventureBase BuildingCo-op👍 586,881
-80%$2.79Seeds of Resilience
Jun 13 · Subtle Games
Both: City Builder · Building · Survival
Ready to start anew? Build a village from scratch in Seeds of Resilience. Learn to choose the right items, understand nature's patterns, use real life-based constructions and craft techniques in this turn-based tycoon game.
City BuilderColony SimBuildingSurvivalSandboxBase BuildingManagementEconomyNatureStrategy👍 257
$29.99TerraTech Worlds
Mar 22 · Payload Studios
Both: Base Building · Sandbox · Crafting
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
Early AccessBase BuildingOpen World Survival CraftSandboxCraftingCo-opSurvivalOpen WorldBuildingMultiplayer👍 2,029
$29.99Sons Of The Forest
Feb 22 · Endnight Games Ltd
Both: Survival · Open World · Base Building
Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends, in this terrifying new open-world survival horror simulator.
SurvivalOpen WorldMultiplayerCo-opSurvival HorrorBase BuildingHorrorCraftingBuildingFirst-Person👍 284,737
$34.99Smalland: Survive the Wilds
Feb 15 · Max Ent Games Ltd
Both: Survival · Base Building · Open 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.
SurvivalMultiplayerOpen World Survival CraftBase BuildingOnline Co-OpOpen WorldCraftingBuildingCo-opExploration👍 8,088
$29.99Kenshi
Dec 6 · Lo-Fi Games
Both: Open World · Sandbox · Survival
A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.
Open WorldSandboxSurvivalRPGStrategy RPGImmersive SimSimulationPost-apocalypticCraftingSamurai👍 98,503
$19.99Life is Feudal: Your Own
Nov 17 · Bitbox Ltd.
Both: Open World · Survival · Crafting
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!
Open World Survival CraftMedievalOpen WorldSurvivalCraftingSandboxBuildingMultiplayerRPGSimulation👍 8,805
$19.99Dinkum
Apr 22 · James Bendon
Both: Farming Sim · Crafting · Sandbox
Dinkum is a survival life simulation game set on an island inspired by the rugged Australian outback. Farm, hunt, mine, fish, and forage to gather resources, expand your town, and discover what makes Dinkum so special—either solo or with friends.
Open World Survival CraftAgricultureRelaxingCo-opFarming SimLife SimFarmingCraftingSimulationSandbox👍 24,646
$10.99Miniland Adventure
Apr 10 · Imilkowski Dev
Both: Sandbox · Survival · Crafting
The world doesn't generate itself - you do it, shape the world as you wish! Start with nothing, and build dream houses for goblins and yourself while exploring, collecting resources, crafting, building, fighting, farming... and more!
SandboxSurvival2DPixel GraphicsOpen World Survival CraftSingleplayerCraftingBuildingRelaxingBase Building👍 290
$39.99Grounded
Sep 27 · Obsidian Entertainment
Both: Survival · Base Building · Crafting
The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?
SurvivalMultiplayerCo-opOpen World Survival CraftBase BuildingCraftingOpen WorldAdventureOnline Co-OpHorror👍 75,780
$24.99Flotsam
Dec 4 · Pajama Llama Games
Both: Base Building · City Builder · Sandbox
Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.
Base BuildingColony SimCity BuilderSandboxResource ManagementAutomationSurvivalOpen WorldFarming SimReal-Time with Pause👍 4,309
$24.99TerraTech
Aug 10 · Payload Studios
Both: Building · Sandbox · Open World
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.
BuildingSandboxOpen WorldOpen World Survival CraftRobotsMultiplayerCraftingActionSurvivalAdventure👍 20,575
$18.99Craft The World
Nov 24 · Dekovir Entertainment, Sibear Games
Both: Crafting · Sandbox · Building
Craft The World is a unique sandbox strategy game, the mix of Dungeon Keeper, Terraria and Dwarf Fortress. Explore a random generated world populated by dangerous creatures, build a dwarf fortress, gather resources, and craft all the items, weapons, and armor you need.
DwarvesColony SimCraftingSandboxBuildingSurvivalOpen WorldStrategyIndieSimulation👍 15,074
$14.99Don't Starve Together
Apr 21 · Klei Entertainment
Both: Survival · Open World · Crafting
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
SurvivalOpen World Survival CraftMultiplayerCo-opOpen WorldAdventureCraftingOnline Co-OpSandboxDifficult👍 376,215
$4.99Towns
Nov 7 · Xavi Canal, Ben Palgi
Both: City Builder · Sandbox · Crafting
The game brings a fresh new take on the city building/management genre by introducing many RPG features. In Towns you manage a settlement on top of an active dungeon. Instead of playing the hero who delves deep into the dungeon, how about playing the town that houses and caters to the hero's needs?
City BuilderIndieSandboxSimulationStrategyCraftingSingleplayerRPGSurvivalBuilding👍 2,400
$24.99Above Snakes
May 25 · Square Glade Games
Both: Open World · Sandbox · Building
Piece by piece, create your own world in this relaxing Wild West-inspired worldbuilder. Craft, farm, hunt, build your base, and explore.
Open WorldAtmosphericOpen World Survival CraftSandboxBuildingExplorationCraftingRelaxingFemale ProtagonistWestern👍 1,573
$4.99Block Story™
Dec 10 · Big Cube Interactive, LLC
Both: Sandbox · Crafting · Open World
There isn’t much better than a wide open game world in which you have essentially no limits and can alter the very landscape in which you play – that is, unless you add dragons, of course…
RPGAdventureOpen World Survival CraftSandboxActionCraftingOpen WorldIndieDragonsSurvival👍 1,944
$11.99Dig or Die
Jul 10 · Gaddy Games
Both: Survival · Sandbox · Crafting
Crash land on a hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it. But be warned... this planet is merciless. Build strong, and smart; else physics may flood or destroy your only hopes of survival.
SurvivalOpen World Survival CraftSandboxCrafting2DOpen WorldIndieTower DefenseStrategyAction👍 3,864
$10.99Mist Survival
Aug 14 · Dimension 32 Entertainment
Both: Survival · Open World · Base Building
MIST SURVIVAL is a Single-player, survival stealth sandbox game Players will experience the Apocalypse stimulation in the form of virus pandemic, the players have to deal with it to survive through the difficulties such as finding shelter and food, threats from the environment and climate: wild animals, bandits, infected, and dense mist t
SurvivalOpen World Survival CraftZombiesOpen WorldSingleplayerBase BuildingCraftingSandboxAdventureEarly Access👍 13,676
$19.99The Matchless Kungfu
Nov 5 · HuanMos Game
Both: Open World · Sandbox · Survival
The Matchless Kungfu is an open world sandbox RPG game based on a WuXia background. You can play any martial arts role you imagine in this wild world. Travel through the great wilderness, or be the leader of the group. The most important thing is, build your own story and live the experience!
Open WorldMartial ArtsSandboxRPGSurvivalSingleplayerStrategyBuildingCraftingIndie👍 6,759
$26.99Wild West Legacy
Aug 22 · Moon Punch Studio
Both: Survival · Open World · Crafting
Conquer the Wild West. Explore the open world of a fictitious American Midwest and survive the harsh environment. Convince other settlers to join you and manage your ever-growing settlements. Build a home, take care of your farm and become a legend in Wild West Legacy.
WesternSimulationSurvivalOpen WorldCraftingBase BuildingBuildingRPGLife SimFirst-Person👍 1,705
$19.99Breakwaters: Crystal Tides
Dec 9 · Soaring Pixels Games
Both: Survival · Building · Open World
Survive in a world ravaged by massive Titans and an ever changing ocean sim. Displace water to find resources for building and crafting unique items. Swim, sail, and fly to explore new islands and fight Titans.
SurvivalBuildingOpen WorldSandboxSimulationEarly AccessAction-AdventureExplorationReplay ValueCrafting👍 866
$29.99Wurm Unlimited
Oct 21 · Code Club AB
Both: Open World · Sandbox · Crafting
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.
Open World Survival CraftOpen WorldSandboxRPGCraftingSurvivalBuildingAdventureMultiplayerIndie👍 1,879
$9.99Don't Starve
Apr 23 · Klei Entertainment
Both: Survival · Crafting · Sandbox
Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.
SurvivalOpen World Survival CraftCraftingAdventureIndieSandboxSingleplayerPerma DeathMultiplayerOpen World👍 97,019
$19.99Planetaries
Aug 15 · EY-Studio
Both: Survival · Open World · Building
Experience a vast Sci-fi open-world survival TD game set on a distant planet deep in the universe. Craft, build, mine, trade, explore, and survive in this alien world. Collect Data and defend against waves of enemies seeking to banish you. Enjoy the adventure in Singleplayer or Multiplayer.
Open World Survival CraftSurvivalOpen WorldOnline Co-OpMultiplayerBuildingCraftingExplorationBase BuildingCo-op👍 214
$19.99Factory Town
Nov 17 · Erik Asmussen
Both: Base Building · Sandbox · Crafting
Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
AutomationBase BuildingResource ManagementSandboxSimulationCraftingManagementCity BuilderColony SimEconomy👍 4,143
