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...
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:
7/10
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...
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...
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...
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...
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, 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...
Survival, First-person view, Shooter, Construction, Crafting, Sandbox, Exploration, Open world, Simulation
Early Access: PC → 25 August 2022; Game released: PC → 5 June 2023
Players:
7.7/10
A survival simulator in which a large group of people are marooned on a desert island where they try to survive. There are no rules, but there are advantages for...
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, 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...
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...
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...
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...
Adventure, Simulation, Action, Dungeons, First-person view, Survival, Crafting, Zombies, Post-apocalyptic, Open world, Cooperative (co-op), Online
Early Access: PC → 22 November 2022; Game released: PC → 5 February 2023
Post-apocalyptic survival simulator in an open world. The game takes place in a world where, due to an accident at a research center, the planet became a victim of...
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...
Shooter, Survival, Simulation, Crafting, Open world, Adventure, Action, First-person view, Combat robots
Early Access: PC → 14 February 2023; Game released: PC → 17 April 2023
Karagon is a post-apocalyptic survival game with a first-person view, an open world, robot riding and crafting. The game takes you to a ruined city filled with...
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...
Crafting, Open world, Survival, Exploration, Construction, Sandbox, Adventure, Fantasy, Dungeons, Action, Role-playing game
Game released: PC → 4 May 2023
The game takes place in an unknown world full of strange creatures, dangers and surprises. Collect resources to create items and structures that suit your survival...
Virtual Reality (VR), Crafting, Zombies, First-person view, Survival, Action, Adventure, Cooperative (co-op), Shooter, Battle Royale, Exploration, Post-apocalyptic
Early Access: PC → 20 October 2022; Game released: PC → 5 May 2023
The game takes place in Nevermont, a state on the East Coast. The small town of Autumn is overrun by hordes of the living dead, wreaking havoc and destruction all...
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...
Action, Survival, Online, Shooter, Third-person view, Crafting, Exploration, Sandbox, Construction, Post-apocalyptic, Open world, Zombies
Early Access: PC → 12 August 2022; Game released: PC → 15 June 2023
Players:
6.2/10
The game takes place on an island that is filled with various dangers such as traps, wild animals, infected and survivors who are ready to kill for the opportunity...
