Games Like Enshrouded: The Best Voxel Survival and Co-op Building Games in 2026

You've pushed back the Shroud, carved a home into a mountainside, and now you want games like Enshrouded. Here's the problem: Enshrouded does a few things at once, and almost nothing else does all of them. It's a survival action RPG, a voxel builder where you can reshape the terrain, and a co-op game for up to 16 players. So I've sorted these by the part you're missing instead of ranking them in one flat list. Most of them nail one or two of those things, not all three.

Prices are Steam list prices as of October 2026 (US store), and sales are constant, so check the store before you buy. Everything here is the Steam (PC) version. For the Norse boss-ladder picks, I already did games like Valheim, so I won't repeat that whole list.

Quick picks

If you want the voxel building

Portal Knights

This is the one with real family ties: Keen Games made both it and Enshrouded. Steam calls it a cooperative 3D sandbox action RPG, and it's tagged Voxel. You pick a Warrior, Mage or Ranger, build with dozens of materials on randomly generated islands, and fight Greatbeast bosses. Co-op is 4 players online or 2 on split screen. It's $19.99 and came out in 2017, so it's a lot shallower than Enshrouded. But it's cheap, it runs on a PC that Enshrouded would flatten (8 GB of storage, a GTX 470 minimum), and it has a Creative Mode and Steam Workshop support.

Be honest with yourself about the terraforming, though. A fully terraformable voxel land, with fortresses and homes carved into the mountainside, is rare. If building is the thing you're chasing, my best building games list goes wider, and games like Minecraft covers the original block-building sandbox.

If you want the action-RPG combat and exploring

Windrose

Think pirates instead of a fog-choked fantasy kingdom. Windrose is a PvE survival adventure with soulslike-style combat, ship battles with boarding, base building and NPC workers. It's still in Early Access (it hit Steam on April 14, 2026), and the developers say full release is 1.5 to 2.5 years away, with the price going up then. Co-op is up to 8 players, though they recommend 4 or fewer for performance. It's $29.99. Minimum PC is steep (an i7-8700K and a GTX 1080 Ti), and they say requirements aren't final. Not voxel, so the building won't scratch the terraforming itch, but the exploring and combat might.

Palworld

Palworld is an open-world survival and crafting game where you fight, farm, build and work with creatures called Pals. It's third-person and not voxel. It left Early Access on July 9, 2026 and costs $29.99. Co-op is 4 players online, and a dedicated server holds up to 32. A heads up for parents: the Steam description includes eating, selling and sacrificing Pals, plus "poaching," so it isn't a gentle creature collector.

Valheim and the co-op survival crowd

If you want the Norse boss ladder and a friends-first loop, that's Valheim territory, and my Valheim list sorts out the rest (V Rising, Conan Exiles, Icarus and more). If your group would rather have zombies and voxel digging, try my games like 7 Days to Die list.

If you want a bigger group or your own server

Enshrouded's 16-player cap is high. Among these, Windrose goes to 8, Core Keeper to 8, and Palworld to 4 in regular co-op. Palworld's dedicated servers go up to 32, and Necesse says its dedicated servers handle hundreds of players. For a group of four friends, any of them works. For a bigger crew, Palworld with a dedicated server or Necesse is where I'd look.

Games like Core Keeper, if that's where you came from

Different list, so I'll keep it short. Core Keeper is a 2D top-down pixel game, while Enshrouded is 3D voxel. What they share is the co-op loop: build a base, grow it, beat bosses. Everything above leans 3D, so for the 2D crowd:

• Necesse ($14.99) is the closest. Build a settlement with recruited settlers, run dungeons, fight bosses, craft, all in an infinite procedurally generated 2D world. It hit 1.0 in October 2025, it supports online and LAN co-op, and it runs on almost anything (the minimum is 4 GB of RAM and 500 MB of storage).
• Terraria is the other obvious one, and I covered it in games like Terraria.

Core Keeper itself ($19.99, 1.0 in August 2024) is also the easiest recommendation if Enshrouded's 16 GB of RAM and 60 GB install are a problem.

If your PC is the problem

Enshrouded's minimum is an i5-6400 or Ryzen 5 1500X, 16 GB of RAM, a GTX 1060 6GB and 60 GB of storage. Lighter options are Necesse (GT 440, 500 MB), Core Keeper (GTX 460, 8 GB RAM) and Portal Knights (GTX 470, 8 GB of storage). Windrose and Palworld go the other way, so don't expect savings there.

So which one should you play?

Want the voxel building and a lighter wallet: Portal Knights. Want combat and exploring with a different setting: Windrose. Want something weirder with a big server option: Palworld. Want the 2D version of the same loop: Necesse or Core Keeper. And honestly, if you haven't finished Enshrouded's post-campaign content, with its worlds and dungeons made by other players, you might not need a replacement yet.