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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Action, First-person view, Adventure, Simulation, Survival, Open world, Exploration, Crafting, Construction, Cooperative (co-op)
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Simulation, First-person view, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Sandbox, Science fiction, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Open world, Space, Crafting
Early Access: PC → 10 May 2023; Game released: PC → 30 January 2026
Players:
8.1/10
Steam:
66/100
A space sandbox in which the player builds his own base on Mars. You can grow crops and produce oxygen. Construction requires various resources that...
Cooperative (co-op), Simulation, Science fiction, Construction, Crafting, Sandbox, Side view, Business / Management, Survival
Game released: PC → 30 May 2023
Steam:
37/100
The player builds ships and travels to different planets, where he creates colonies. Only the most successful settlements will be able to pool...
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:
47/100
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...
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 → 2027
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...
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...
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:
67/100
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...
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...
Simulation, First-person view, Crafting, Action, Casual game, Open world, Sandbox, Exploration, Farm Simulator
Early Access: PC → 16 October 2023; Game released: PC → 25 September 2024
Steam:
80/100
A colorful simulator of a student learning the secrets of the art of alchemy in a world inhabited by anthropomorphic animals. As the player...
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...
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
Steam:
55/100
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...
Roguelike, Procedural generation, Top-down view, Adventure, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Crafting, Role-playing game
Game released: PC → 2 November 2023
Players:
9.5/10
Steam:
95/100
A dynamic action roguelike where the player becomes a hero trying to save the world. As players explore a magical fantasy world, they find a...
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...
Action, Simulation, First-person view, Virtual Reality (VR), Science fiction, Survival, Open world, Construction, Crafting
Early Access: PC → 13 November 2023; Game in development: PC → 2027
Players:
10/10
Steam:
76/100
The main character was looking for a new home, but his ship broke down. He found himself on a planet surprisingly similar to Earth. Here 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...
Role-playing game, Adventure, Simulation, Business / Management, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Exploration, Crafting
Game released: PC → 12 December 2023
Steam:
88/100
Tales from The Dancing Moon is an adventure RPG with survival elements and an isometric camera view in a medieval setting. The game begins with the...
First-person view, Action, Business / Management, Strategy, Historical, Role-playing game, Medieval era, City Building, Construction, Crafting
Early Access: PC → 1 May 2020; Game released: PC → 21 December 2023
Players:
7.3/10
Steam:
66/100
Conditioning sandbox, where the player acts as the mayor of the city in the 13th century. The development of the settlement includes the construction...
