Survival crafting games like Boundless

If the colorful and competitive rhythm of Boundless stuck with you, this helps. These survival crafting games could fill that gap nicely. Most of them work well for a shared session.

BitCraft Online
BitCraft Online is a single-world MMORPG set in the ancient land of Starfell, where thousands of survival crafters share one terraformable wilderness. You start with nothing, gather wood and stone, craft tools, hunt predators, and build toward towns and cities. Slow, cozy, and social, it suits players who like long projects and shared work.
Colorful, Competitive, Relaxing
69% of 3,462 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 278$11.99
Pax Dei
Welcome to a vast, social sandbox MMO inspired by the legends of the medieval era. Here, myths are real, ghosts exist, and magic is unquestioned. Join thousands of players as you explore the land, build your home, forge your reputation, and craft your own stories. What world will you make?
Also in Co-op · Competitive
56% of 7,283 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 863$29.99
Wurm Online
Wurm Online is a long-running sandbox MMORPG where you claim land anywhere, dig and mine the terrain flat, and build houses, roads and settlements that stay in the world. With over 130 crafting skills, farming, sailing and kingdom warfare, it suits survival crafters who want slow, permanent progress.
Also in Co-op · Competitive, Replayable
62% of 2,586 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 140Free
Stars Reach
Explore a living galaxy in Stars Reach. Discover new planets, build settlements, and shape environments that react to everything you do. Players work together to transform untamed worlds into thriving civilizations across a single shared universe.
Colorful, Replayable, Relaxing
50% of 339 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$29.99
Creativerse
Creativerse is a bright voxel sandbox where you mine, hunt, cook, farm and craft your way from bare hands to powerful tools. Its private worlds stretch for days, full of biomes, caverns and creatures that fight back. Relaxed and generous with building options, it suits survival crafters who like to tinker and reshape land.
Also in Co-op · Colorful, Replayable, Relaxing
77% of 2,651 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 51$24.99
Solace Crafting
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.
Also in Co-op · Replayable, Relaxing
72% of 834 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Pixel Worlds: MMO Sandbox
You get your own worlds to build into farms, parkour maps, or hangouts, plus dungeons, fishing tournaments, and player trading. A relaxed, colorful grind for survival crafters who like building and collecting with others around.
Also in Co-op · Colorful, Competitive
74% of 8,069 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 429Free
Starbound
Lost in space with a broken ship, you beam down, gather what you need, and start over. Starbound gives survival crafters a whole procedurally generated universe to mine, farm, cook, craft, and build across, with a story to follow or ignore while you raise colonies and grow your crew.
Also in Co-op · Colorful, Replayable, Relaxing
92% of 120,672 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 912$14.99
Rising World
Rising World is a voxel open-world sandbox where you start with basic tools, gather wood, stone and ore, and work up toward a castle, a town or whatever else you can shape. Survival stays low-pressure, crafting is hands-on, and building tools are deep enough for serious projects, solo or with friends.
Also in Co-op · Replayable, Relaxing
85% of 5,347 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 106$14.99
Soulbound: Online
Soulbound: Online is a pixel-art online world where fishing, mining, farming, cooking, and crafting level up old-school style and feed straight into your gear. If survival crafting games are your comfort zone, the loop of gathering, upgrading stations, and building out your own base will feel familiar, just with bullet-heaven dungeons waiting when you are geared.
Also in Co-op · Colorful, Replayable
59% of 636 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 20$14.99
Cubic Castles
Cubic Castles is a blocky online sandbox where you mine biomes for resources, craft them at a workbench, and build your own plot into a house, shop, or punishing parkour course. It suits survival crafters who like the gather-craft-build loop and sharing worlds more than hunger meters and harsh survival.
Colorful, Competitive, Replayable
74% of 4,279 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 23Free
World Seed
A simple game with big ambitions. Fight creatures, explore the world and progress your character in this ever changing world.
Also in Co-op · Replayable
74% of 342 Steam reviews are positiveFree

Cheaper than Boundless

BitCraft Online

BitCraft Online is a single-world MMORPG set in the ancient land of Starfell, where thousands of survival crafters share one terraformable wilderness.

$11.99

Starbound

Lost in space with a broken ship, you beam down, gather what you need, and start over.

$14.99

Solace Crafting

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…

$14.99

Rising World

Rising World is a voxel open-world sandbox where you start with basic tools, gather wood, stone and ore, and work up toward a castle, a town or…

$14.99

Soulbound: Online

Soulbound: Online is a pixel-art online world where fishing, mining, farming, cooking, and crafting level up old-school style and feed straight into…

$14.99

Necesse

Necesse is a top-down open-world survival crafting sandbox in an infinite procedural world.

$14.99

Citadel: Forged with Fire

A wizard-school sandbox where you learn spells, tame beasts, and raise a castle in a 36-square-kilometer fantasy land.

$14.99

Blockscape

The ultimate block building game. Start with nothing and build an empire. Smooth voxel worlds, settlers, crafting, vehicles, and Steam multiplayer.

$9.99

Skullborn

Skullborn is an infinite massively multiplayer sandbox game!

$4.49

Vagabond

Explore procedurally generated living worlds in this 2D sandbox RPG.

$14.99

Journey Of Life

You have experienced the sudden loss of your wealth, which has compelled you to abandon your previous life and begin anew.

$14.99

Soulash 2

Soulash 2 is a sandbox roguelike RPG in a procedurally generated dark fantasy world where you gather materials, craft tailored artifacts, and build…

$18.99

Hidden gems like Boundless

Soulash 2

Soulash 2 is a sandbox roguelike RPG in a procedurally generated dark fantasy world where you gather materials, craft tailored artifacts, and build…

$18.99

Necesse

Necesse is a top-down open-world survival crafting sandbox in an infinite procedural world.

$14.99

Everlast: Undying Tale

A bright fantasy action RPG where you gather, fish, cook, and craft your way through a world overrun by the undead.

$24.99

Plains of Pain

A scorched procedural wasteland where the sun can kill you faster than bandits.

$19.99

Cubic Odyssey

Cubic Odyssey is a blocky open-world survival crafting game stretched across a whole galaxy.

$24.99

Haven & Hearth

Death is permanent and other players can rob or raze you, so every fence and smoked sausage matters.

Free

BitCraft Online

BitCraft Online is a single-world MMORPG set in the ancient land of Starfell, where thousands of survival crafters share one terraformable wilderness.

$11.99