The Best Survival sandbox Games

Update : Forsaken Isle added at rank #1.
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Forsaken Isle (2025)

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PC Windows

Stranded on a desert island, explore, craft, build and fight in this action survival game!

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  • crafting
  • survival
  • pixel
  • sandbox
  • rpg
  • burton
  • casual
  • farming
  • pirates
  • adventure

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Tinkerlands (2025)

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early access PC Windows

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!

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  • crafting
  • survival
  • open-world
  • building
  • sandbox
  • pixel
  • cooperative
  • procedural
  • 2d
  • replay-value
  • exploration

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Castle Craft (2025)

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early access Android IOS iPhone PC Windows

Will your castle survive the relentless onslaught, or collapse under pressure? Build, manage resources, and outsmart your foes in a world where everything can be destroyed. Use strategy and creativity to turn the chaos into your greatest advantage!


  • voxel
  • base-building
  • tower-defense
  • magic
  • medieval
  • hack-and-slash
  • sandbox
  • building
  • third-person
  • city-building
  • survival
  • strategy
  • fantasy
  • destruction

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Dinkum (2025)

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PC Windows

Step into the rugged and beautiful Australian wilderness in Dinkum. This game lets you explore the harsh conditions of the outback, build a thriving town, and gather resources for survival. You can customize your home, care for animals, and cultivate crops. Enjoy the gameplay with friends, and experience the unique setting and design. You can even show off your interior designing skills in your cozy abode!

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What we like:
  • Lots to unlock and build
  • Easy money earning
  • Cute animals and easy relationship building
  • Vehicles for quicker travel
  • Constant improvements and unique Australian setting
What could be improved:
  • Repetitive and shallow NPC quests
  • Unengaging mechanics in combat
  • Lack of future development information

  • farming
  • crafting
  • agriculture
  • open-world
  • simulation
  • survival
  • fishing
  • life
  • hunting
  • sandbox
  • relaxing
  • cute
  • building
  • australian

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Lost Skies (2025)

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early access j PC Windows

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.

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  • open-world
  • crafting
  • survival
  • base-building
  • cooperative
  • sandbox
  • vehicle
  • exploration
  • mass
  • character
  • ship-building
  • flight
  • pve
  • adventure
  • customization

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Dysterra (2025)

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Android PC Windows

On a future post-apocalyptic Earth, build, craft, and loot other players’ bases to survive long enough to board the rocket and escape the dangerous robots and mercenaries that inhabit Ararat Island. Manipulate the weather and use earthquakes to change when the server wipe occurs in DYSTERRA!

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  • survival
  • crafting
  • pve
  • first-person
  • post-apocalyptic
  • base-building
  • shooter
  • character
  • pvp
  • fps
  • sandbox
  • 3d
  • customization
  • realistic
  • open-world

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Crashlands 2 (2025)

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Android PC Windows

Slap your way across a vibrant world where interstellar friendships are the key to your survival. Befriend eccentric aliens, craft bizarre weaponry, and stick it to the man in this sequel to the award-winning open world crafting RPG Crashlands.


  • crafting
  • survival
  • open-world
  • cozy
  • rpg
  • base-building
  • sandbox
  • building
  • laid-back
  • exploration
  • story
  • top-down
  • relaxing

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The Last Camp (2025)

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Xbox One PC Windows

This is a top-down survival-building game blending farming, tower defense, and micromanagement, requiring you to fend off zombie hordes, grow crops, and strategically deploy traps to defend your homestead.

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  • top-down
  • puzzle
  • zombies
  • survival
  • tower-defense
  • shooter
  • sandbox
  • building
  • grand
  • adventure
  • narration
  • puzzle-stuffed
  • stylized
  • base-building
  • pick-and-mix

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Piworld (2025)

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early access PC Windows

Piworld is a unique multiplayer game where everyone can find something to do to suit their desires. Try out different roles: from a simple fisherman to an adventurer. Explore the world alone or with friends, fight evil, develop your skills, and create your own story.

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  • class
  • base-building
  • simulation
  • crafting
  • pvp
  • trading
  • hidden-object
  • farming
  • sandbox
  • pixel
  • survival
  • colourful
  • open-world
  • 2d
  • funny

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Aloft (2025)

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early access PC Windows

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.

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  • crafting
  • open-world
  • survival
  • building
  • sailing
  • sandbox
  • cooperative
  • colourful
  • atmospheric
  • exploration
  • naval
  • agriculture
  • base-building
  • simulation
  • farming

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