Best Games in the Crafting genre of 2023 for PC
Action, First-person view, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Survival horror, Crafting, Online, Open world, Exploration
Early Access: PC → 24 February 2023; Game released: PC → 22 February 2024
Players:
8.1/10
Metacritic:
86/100
Continuation The Forest about survival in the woods. The main character sets out to search for a missing billionaire on a remote island and ends up in a...
Business / Management, Role-playing game, Third-person view, Simulation, Action, Adventure, Crafting, Open world
Game released: PC → 2 November 2023; Early Access: PC → 26 May 2022
Players:
8.9/10
Metacritic:
75/100
The ideological continuation of My Time at Portia. In concept, the game has hardly changed: an open world, your own workshop and farm, as well as another town in...
Action, Shooter, Simulation, Online, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Sandbox, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Open world, Construction, Crafting
Early Access: PC → 9 May 2023; Game released: PC → 7 November 2025
Players:
7.4/10
A cooperative survival action game in which the player becomes a member of the crew of an interdimensional train. The hero sets off to explore a mysterious world...
Shooter, Simulation, Online, First-person view, Sandbox, Post-apocalyptic, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Exploration, Open world, Crafting
Early Access: PC → 26 August 2023; Game in development: PC → 2026
Players:
8.2/10
An open world survival simulator. The game takes place in the near future, when glaciers have melted and global warming has submerged most of the land. As players...
Action, Online, First-person view, Science fiction, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Open world, Crafting
Early Access: PC → 26 October 2023; Game in development: PC → 2026
Players:
6.9/10
Remaster of the survival simulator ARK: Survival Evolved. The updated version of the game is created on the Unreal Engine 5 with support for ray tracing, Nanite...
Role-playing game, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Adventure, Survival, Exploration, Sandbox, Open world, Crafting, Indie
Early Access: PC → 22 June 2023; Game released: PC → 14 April 2025
Players:
7.9/10
Metacritic:
66/100
The game takes place on Earth destroyed by an environmental disaster. To survive and understand what happened, the hero collects resources, fights dangers, searches...
Adventure, Action, First-person view, Simulation, Survival, Open world, Sandbox, Exploration, Crafting
Game released: PC → 12 October 2023
Players:
5.5/10
A survival simulator in a prehistoric setting. The main character is a primitive architect who develops his tribe and takes care of the inhabitants. In...
Simulation, Adventure, Third-person view, Survival, Online, Cooperative (co-op), Open world, Construction, Crafting, Exploration, Fantasy
Game released: PC → 29 March 2023
Players:
7.7/10
The game takes place in the fantasy world of "shorties" who are trying to expand the territory of their peoples in a wild, unforgiving and ever-changing world...
Construction, Business / Management, Action, Top-down view, Crafting, Sandbox, Open world, Exploration, Indie
Game released: PC → 22 June 2023
Players:
10/10
Metacritic:
79/100
The hero finds himself on a colorful planet full of secrets, amazing creatures, people and interesting activities. His task is to build a new house using automation...
Sandbox, Survival, Isometric, Simulation, Open world, Crafting, Exploration, Adventure, Construction
Game released: PC → 25 May 2023
The player creates his own world from pieces and then explores it. More than a hundred varieties of biomes and their combinations are available. To survive, you can...
Action, First-person view, Adventure, Simulation, Survival, Open world, Exploration, Crafting, Construction
Early Access: PC → 19 April 2023; Game released: PC → 21 May 2024
Players:
8.1/10
The main character of the “survivor” is a member of an expedition who went in search of the source of eternal youth. After a shipwreck, the explorer wakes up on the...
Strategy, Construction, City Building, Sandbox, Crafting, First-person view, Cooperative (co-op), Science fiction, Online
Early Access: PC → 18 July 2023; Game released: PC → 7 November 2024
Players:
9.6/10
The events of the game take place in an underground alien world, to which the main character goes to extract minerals and vital products. As he progresses, he...
Cooperative (co-op), Simulation, Science fiction, Construction, Crafting, Sandbox, Side view, Business / Management, Survival
Game released: PC → 30 May 2023
The player builds ships and travels to different planets, where he creates colonies. Only the most successful settlements will be able to pool resources and...
Shooter, Online, First-person view, Sandbox, Post-apocalyptic, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Crafting
Early Access: PC → 11 October 2023; Game released: PC → 30 October 2025
Players:
6.4/10
The game takes place in a post-apocalyptic world inhabited by mutant zombies and gangs. In another reality, the world has been conquered by a tyrannical empire, but...
Role-playing game, MMO, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Sandbox, Free game, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Open world, Fantasy, Crafting
Game released: PC → 9 August 2023
Players:
7.7/10
Conditionally free survival game with crafting, building, anime-style graphics, and a large open world, similar to a mix of Genshin Impact and Valheim. The...
Role-playing game, Action, First-person view, Virtual Reality (VR), Open world, Fantasy, Medieval era, Crafting
Early Access: PC → 22 June 2023; Game released: PC → 19 December 2024
Players:
6.6/10
The game takes place in a dark fantasy world where danger lurks around every corner and only the strongest can survive. The main character is a mysterious knight...
Adventure, Online, Cooperative (co-op), Action, Third-person view, Simulation, Role-playing game, Fantasy, Construction, Crafting
Game released: PC → 20 April 2023
Players:
5.5/10
The game takes place in a huge randomly generated world with different battlefields, such as flower plains, lava fields, poisonous swamps and snowy hills. You can...
Simulation, Online, First-person view, Top-down view, Cooperative (co-op), City Building, Construction, Crafting
Early Access: PC → 27 September 2023; Game released: PC → 2 April 2025
A building game with support for 4-player co-op mode. Gamers turn into designers and builders of the most beautiful virtual houses. The possibilities are varied...
Survival, Open world, Adventure, Crafting, Action, Construction, Exploration, Cooperative (co-op), Online
Game released: PC → 27 July 2023
Players:
7.1/10
An open world survival simulator about time travel. In it you will have to build bases, craft weapons and look for various resources. In addition, it is necessary...
