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
Steam:
88/100
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, Shooter, Simulation, Online, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Sandbox, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Open world, Construction, Crafting, Trains
Early Access: PC → 9 May 2023; Game released: PC → 7 November 2025
Players:
7.4/10
Steam:
71/100
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...
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
Steam:
81/100
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...
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
Steam:
60/100
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...
Top-down view, Action, Role-playing game, Simulation, Cooperative (co-op), Indie, Farm Simulator, Crafting
Game released: PC → 25 April 2023
Players:
7.7/10
Steam:
94/100
Metacritic:
82/100
Sandbox with elements of a farmer simulator. The player is building a settlement in the Stone Age. You can grow plants to harvest crops, tame animals, and explore...
Role-playing game, MMO, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Sandbox, Free game, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Open world, Fantasy, Crafting, Adventure, Online
Game released: PC → 9 August 2023
Players:
7.7/10
Steam:
46/100
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...
Business / Management, Role-playing game, Third-person view, Simulation, Action, Adventure, Crafting, Open world, Construction, Farm Simulator, Online
Game released: PC → 2 November 2023; Early Access: PC → 26 May 2022
Players:
8.9/10
Steam:
94/100
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...
Adventure, Action, Role-playing game, Online, Cooperative (co-op), Fantasy, Third-person view, Survival, Exploration, Crafting
Game released: PC → 24 October 2023
Players:
8.9/10
Steam:
79/100
Metacritic:
59/100
A cooperative action game for survival in the fantasy universe of The Lord of the Rings. The Dwarves embark on a dangerous journey to reclaim their legendary...
Isometric, Sandbox, Post-apocalyptic, Science fiction, Survival, Crafting, Casual game, Farm Simulator, Role-playing game
Early Access: PC → 8 August 2023; Game released: PC → 13 November 2024
Players:
8.9/10
Steam:
83/100
The game takes place in a destroyed and flooded post-apocalyptic city. The main character builds a shelter on the roof of a skyscraper. You can explore nearby...
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
Steam:
45/100
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...
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:
6.3/10
Steam:
66/100
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...
Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, Isometric, Sandbox, Combat robots, Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Science fiction, Construction, Crafting
Early Access: PC → 4 February 2023; Game in development: PC → 2027
Players:
5.5/10
Steam:
68/100
The Last World is a strategy with sandbox elements in the post-apocalypse genre. The world that we all knew and loved so well has died. He was killed by bacteria...
Construction, Business / Management, Action, Top-down view, Crafting, Sandbox, Open world, Exploration, Indie, Adventure, Survival
Game released: PC → 22 June 2023
Players:
10/10
Steam:
89/100
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...
Action, Survival, Online, Shooter, Third-person view, Crafting, Exploration, Sandbox, Construction, Post-apocalyptic, Open world, Zombies, MMO
Early Access: PC → 12 August 2022; Game released: PC → 15 June 2023
Players:
6.2/10
Steam:
48/100
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...
Third-person view, Cooperative (co-op), Online, Sandbox, Crafting, Simulation, Exploration, Role-playing game
Game released: PC → 28 September 2023
Players:
9.6/10
Steam:
85/100
A colorful co-op game in which gamers grow a garden in the desert. The heroes explore locations to learn the secrets of ancient civilization and find new plants...
Role-playing game, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Adventure, Survival, Exploration, Sandbox, Open world, Crafting, Indie, Cooperative (co-op)
Early Access: PC → 22 June 2023; Game released: PC → 14 April 2025
Players:
7.9/10
Steam:
78/100
Metacritic:
67/100
The game takes place on Earth destroyed by an environmental disaster. To survive and understand what happened, the hero collects resources, fights dangers, searches...
Action, Logic, Puzzle, Online, First-person view, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Crafting, Construction, Sandbox
Game released: PC → 17 August 2023
Players:
8.8/10
Steam:
61/100
The player is engaged in building various vehicles. The main characters are children who are opposed by a mysterious neighbor from Hello Neighbor. This time...
First-person view, Sandbox, Construction, Casual game, Clicker, Crafting, Exploration, Cooperative (co-op)
Game released: PC → 16 October 2023
Players:
5.5/10
Steam:
93/100
A colorful clicker game with base building. As players progress, they create, collect and manage resources, build their base, and purchase more islands to explore...
Strategy, Construction, City Building, Sandbox, Crafting, First-person view, Cooperative (co-op), Science fiction, Online, Simulation, Exploration
Early Access: PC → 18 July 2023; Game released: PC → 7 November 2024
Players:
8.8/10
Steam:
63/100
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...
Action, First-person view, Simulation, Historical, City Building, Business / Management, Educational game (Education), Construction, Casual game, Crafting
Early Access: PC → 10 October 2022; Game released: PC → 16 January 2023
Players:
6.7/10
Steam:
84/100
A first-person builder simulator from the creators of Car Mechanic Simulator 2021 and American Theft 80s, where you need to rebuild European cities after World...
Sandbox, Survival, Isometric, Simulation, Open world, Crafting, Exploration, Adventure, Construction
Game released: PC → 25 May 2023
Steam:
73/100
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
Steam:
84/100
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...
Crafting, Open world, Survival, Exploration, Construction, Sandbox, Adventure, Fantasy, Dungeons, Action, Role-playing game
Game released: PC → 4 May 2023
Steam:
40/100
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...
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
Steam:
83/100
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...
Role-playing game, Action, First-person view, Virtual Reality (VR), Open world, Fantasy, Medieval era, Crafting, Dungeons
Early Access: PC → 22 June 2023; Game released: PC → 19 December 2024
Players:
6.6/10
Steam:
78/100
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, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Arcade, Role-playing game, Farm Simulator, Crafting, Sandbox
Early Access: PC → 7 April 2023; Game released: PC → 1 August 2024
Players:
9.3/10
Steam:
77/100
An action-adventure RPG with farm simulator elements, where the action takes place in a bright and fairy-tale town called Prairie. This place is populated by...