ARK: Survival Evolved

Similar to ARK: Survival Evolved

ARK: Survival Evolved runs on taming dinosaurs, snap-based base building, and open-world survival, with full-loot PvP and base sieges raising the stakes. That mix of deep creature breeding, hands-on crafting, and constant threat from other players is what keeps people coming back. The picks below share one of three traits with ARK: taming as a core mechanic, physically vulnerable base building, or open-world PvP with real consequences. From a direct remaster to dinosaur-only survival games with no building at all, each one leans into a different piece of what makes the original click.

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Conan ExilesEditor's ChoiceBuy To Play

Conan Exiles

MMORPGReleased

Conan Exiles is an open-world survival sandbox set in the Exiled Lands of Robert E. Howard's Hyboria, where players raise fortresses from bare desert,...

4
1 rating
Haven & HearthFree To Play

Haven & Hearth

MMORPGReleased

Haven & Hearth is a sandbox MMORPG of foraging, crafting and settlement-building in a world drawn from Slavic and Germanic myth, made by two Swedish d...

4
1 rating
Dune: AwakeningBuy To Play

Dune: Awakening

MMOFPSMMORPGReleased

Dune: Awakening drops you onto Arrakis in a timeline where Paul Atreides was never born and the Fremen have vanished without explanation. Extract wate...

5
1 rating
Darkfall OnlineFree To Play

Darkfall Online

MMORPGReleased

Darkfall Online is the full-loot sandbox MMORPG that pushed open-world PvP further than almost anything else in the genre: six races, no classes, no c...

5
1 rating
Wurm OnlineFree To Play

Wurm Online

MMORPGReleased

Pick a hillside, and Wurm Online lets you flatten it, tunnel through it or pave a road across it — permanently, on a map where every structure was bui...

4
1 rating
Myth of EmpiresBuy To Play

Myth of Empires

MMORPGStrategyReleased

Myth of Empires is a multiplayer war sandbox set in a fictionalised ancient East Asia, where survival crafting, NPC troops and horse warfare all feed ...

4
1 rating
The QuinfallBuy To Play

The Quinfall

MMORPGReleased

The Quinfall exited Early Access and launched its 1.0 version on February 6, 2026, and developer Vawraek Technology has kept up an unusually aggressiv...

4.5
4 ratings
Black Desert OnlineFree To Play

Black Desert Online

MMORPGReleased

Black Desert Online's character creator is deep enough that players spend hours before ever touching combat, and the payoff is a fluid, chain-combo ac...

5
6 ratings
Once HumanFree To Play

Once Human

MMORPGMMOFPSReleased

Capture anomalous creatures called Deviations, install them in your base to mine ore and cook your meals, then send them ahead to the next season when...

5
1 rating
Profane

Profane

MMORPGAlpha tests

Profane is an upcoming sandbox MMORPG from Brazilian studio INSANE, set in a single-shard world where NPC settlements grow on their own and player gui...

BitCraft OnlineBuy To Play

BitCraft Online

MMORPGEarly access

BitCraft Online drops you into a single, shared world shaped entirely by its players — terraform the land, master one of twelve interdependent profess...

4
1 rating
Ultima OnlinePay To Play

Ultima Online

MMORPGReleased

Ultima Online launched in 1997, predates the term "MMORPG" itself, and is still adding new content today, currently under Broadsword Online Games, who...

4
1 rating