Games Like The Riftbreaker

An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.

Why similar: Base Building 24.8%, Tower Defense 21.6%, Resource Management 9.3%, Sandbox 7.6%, Building 7.5%

The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.

Why similar: Base Building 13.2%, Online Co-Op 11.9%, Tower Defense 9.5%, Hack and Slash 7.6%, Isometric 6.9%

Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!

Why similar: Base Building 32%, Crafting 13.5%, Building 11.5%, Multiplayer 11.5%, Sandbox 10.3%

Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.

Why similar: Base Building 34.4%, Sandbox 13.1%, Crafting 12.2%, Resource Management 12.2%, Survival 8.5%

They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?

Why similar: Base Building 35%, Tower Defense 17.8%, RTS 17.3%, Survival 12%, Building 5.7%

You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.

Why similar: Base Building 21.8%, Online Co-Op 17.6%, Survival 12.8%, Crafting 10.4%, Multiplayer 10%

Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.

Why similar: Base Building 43.9%, Building 18.4%, Sandbox 14.8%, Resource Management 13.6%, Strategy 4.3%

Awaken as a Vampire. Hunt for blood in nearby settlements to regain your strength and evade the scorching sun to survive. Raise your castle and thrive in an ever-changing, open world full of mystery. Gain allies online and conquer the land of the living.

Why similar: Base Building 22.4%, Online Co-Op 15.1%, Survival 13.1%, Crafting 11%, Multiplayer 10.5%

A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.

Why similar: Base Building 23.8%, Online Co-Op 19%, Survival 11.7%, Crafting 11.5%, Building 11.4%

Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.

Why similar: Base Building 18.5%, Online Co-Op 15.5%, Crafting 10.8%, Sandbox 10.5%, Survival 10.4%

Abiotic Factor is a survival crafting experience for 1-6 players set in the depths of an underground research facility. Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the world’s greatest minds must survive against the universe’s biggest threats.

Why similar: Base Building 18.6%, Online Co-Op 16.8%, Co-op Campaign 15.6% ★, Crafting 10.6%, Survival 10.5%

Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.

Why similar: Base Building 19.2%, Online Co-Op 15.4%, Crafting 10.6%, Building 10%, Sandbox 10%

The SpellForce 3: Versus Edition gives you the chance to enter the battlefields of Eo for free, letting you test your RTS skills against AI opponents or even other human players.

Why similar: RTS 16.4%, Base Building 14.8%, Online Co-Op 13.8%, Building 13.6%, Strategy RPG 12.6%

Age of Darkness: Final Stand is a dark fantasy survival RTS where you must illuminate, build and defend humanity’s last bastion against hordes of Nightmares. Set in the remnants of a kingdom consumed by a deadly fog, you decide. Will you hide in the light? Or take back your world.

Why similar: Base Building 21.7%, Tower Defense 21.5%, RTS 17%, Building 10.6%, Survival 10%

Create a hero from one of four classes to save Etheria in this 4-player coop Tower Defense Action-RPG. Includes Steam exclusive Portal gun & TF2 familiars!

Why similar: Online Co-Op 23%, Tower Defense 22.9%, Multiplayer 12.9%, Action RPG 9.5%, Strategy RPG 9.3%

Desynced is a sci-fi strategy game with fully customizable units and behaviors. Gather, build, research, and explore the unknown. Alone or with friends, unveil the mystery of an AI on the edge of self-awareness and uncover the hidden truth in this blend of strategy, automation, and exploration.

Why similar: Base Building 20.4%, RTS 14.7%, Sandbox 10.8%, Online Co-Op 10.3%, Building 9.9%

ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.

Why similar: Base Building 22.6%, Online Co-Op 18.8%, Survival 14.5%, Multiplayer 11.7%, Crafting 11.5%

A solo or coop hero-shooter set in a procedural alien world. Explore, build, evolve, and fight side-by-side against waves of mechanical hybrids. Wishlist now!

Why similar: Base Building 15.8%, Online Co-Op 14.1%, Tower Defense 13.6%, Action RPG 8.8%, Crafting 8%

Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.

Why similar: Base Building 24.3%, Building 13.3%, Online Co-Op 12.8%, Crafting 11.1%, Sandbox 11%

Dungeon Defenders II is a cooperative Action Tower Defense game packed with roleplaying elements like loot, leveling, and pets.

Why similar: Co-op Campaign 20.7% ★, Online Co-Op 20.1%, Tower Defense 16.5%, Multiplayer 11.4%, Strategy RPG 8.2%

A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.

Why similar: Base Building 19.1%, Online Co-Op 19%, Crafting 12.6%, Survival 11.9%, Multiplayer 10.8%

Build and design the terrain while defending your stronghold against alien invasion in this unique Roguelike tower defense. Choose from 30 heroes, survive enemy waves, and upgrade a variety of destructive towers to hold the line!

Why similar: Tower Defense 24.2%, Base Building 21.3%, RTS 15.2%, Building 9.1%, Isometric 8.9%

The desperate leadership of a doomed Soviet Union travels back in time to change history and restore the glory of Mother Russia.

Why similar: Base Building 26.2%, Online Co-Op 22%, RTS 22%, Multiplayer 12.6%, Co-op Campaign 8.3% ★

At last, the Dungeon Lord has successfully united the forces of evil and established his dark empire. Time for the next step in his most diabolical quest: expansion!

Why similar: Base Building 21.2%, RTS 15.5%, Co-op Campaign 14.2% ★, Online Co-Op 13.3%, Economy 11.6%

Greetings sire! Your stronghold awaits you. Build a castle economy, besiege unforgettable villains and return to the 'castle sim' that started it all. Experience this classic RTS with upgraded visuals, modernised gameplay, Steam multiplayer and a new campaign.

Why similar: Base Building 16.4%, Tower Defense 15%, RTS 13.1%, Economy 11.5%, Isometric 10.5%

Gather coins, build defenses and reclaim your fallen Kingdom. Explore and uncover secrets, unlock new technologies and protect your crown versus waves of Greed monsters that come at night. Kingdom is a solo or co-op micro-strategy and tower defense game set in an atmospheric pixel world.

Why similar: Tower Defense 28.3%, Base Building 20.3%, Online Co-Op 15.3%, Building 11.9%, Survival 10.1%

Bunker Defense is a tower defense game for 1-4 players. Waves of enemies attack your base, and you must defend it by building different kinds of defenses.

Why similar: Tower Defense 14.3%, Co-op Campaign 13.8% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Online Co-Op 12.8%, RTS 9.9%

Craft your workshop as an alchemist!‌ Harness arcane devices to automate crafting. Sell alchemical goods, fulfill commissions, and rise to become a renowned alchemy magnate. ‌Multiplayer Supported!‌ Invite master designers to (ahem) contribute their expertise—let them optimize your production lines!

Why similar: Base Building 22.8%, Sandbox 14.6%, Building 14.2%, Crafting 13%, Multiplayer 11.6%

A new Viking age dawns with you at its helm. Forge a thriving colony from nothing in this mythic open-world survival sim. Earn the gods' favor and survive in a land ruled by ancient terrors and unforgiving seasons. Rally unique villagers, expand your settlement and defend your tribe - solo or co-op!

Why similar: Base Building 18.8%, Online Co-Op 16.3%, Sandbox 10.2%, Survival 9.9%, Multiplayer 9.1%

Embark on a co-op survival journey for 1-5 players through a post-apocalyptic Lovecraftian world! Command and evolve a living, monstrous train, craft weapons, build a mobile base, gain powers, and face the Great Old Ones. Explore an ever-changing world, hold on to your sanity, and ascend to godhood!

Why similar: Base Building 19.9%, Online Co-Op 14.5%, Crafting 10.9%, Survival 10.6%, Hack and Slash 9.5%

The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?

Why similar: Base Building 27.1%, Survival 20.8%, Multiplayer 16%, Online Co-Op 13.5%, Crafting 12.8%

HELLDIVERS™ is a hardcore, cooperative, twin stick shooter. As part of the elite unit called the HELLDIVERS, players must work together to protect SUPER EARTH and defeat the enemies of mankind in an intense intergalactic war.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 55.6%, Multiplayer 17.3%, Isometric 10%, Hack and Slash 7%, Survival 6.9%

Machine Mind is an action game in a post-apocalyptic setting with elements of survival and RTS. You will fight, craft modules, build your transport, develop and protect your base. You can control other vehicles to automate operations. Discover all the secrets of the destroyed world!

Why similar: Base Building 16.9%, Tower Defense 15.7%, Isometric 11.4%, Crafting 8.8%, Action RPG 8.8%

Halo Wars: Definitive Edition is an enhanced version of the real-time strategy classic, Halo Wars, updated to run natively on PC. Halo Wars: Definitive Edition includes improved graphics, new achievements and all of the DLC created for the landmark real-time strategy game.

Why similar: RTS 33.7%, Base Building 33.2%, Multiplayer 10.9%, Strategy 10%, Online Co-Op 6.2%

Lumencraft is a unique combination of a top-down, rogue-like shooter and base building with tower defense elements. Dig and light up dark halls of a fully destructible environment on procedurally generated maps and campaign levels to find precious Lumen - humanity's only chance for survival.

Why similar: Base Building 22.8%, Tower Defense 21.9%, Action RPG 16.5%, Sandbox 14.6%, Survival 11.3%

Includes 47 Steam achievements, leaderboards, and stats!

Why similar: RTS 40.2%, Base Building 28%, Multiplayer 14.6%, Strategy 14.1%, Sandbox 1.7%

Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.

Why similar: Base Building 35.1%, Sandbox 20.2%, Building 19.9%, Survival 17.9%, Strategy 6.9%

Beware, Monsters are Coming! In this Tower-Survivor rogue-lite, you protect an ever-moving city from unrelenting hordes. Gather resources, fortify defences, and survive for as long as you can. Will you reach the Ark?

Why similar: Base Building 19.9%, Tower Defense 19.5%, Hack and Slash 14%, Isometric 12.9%, Building 10.7%

Slice, burn, toss, zap, grind and gib massive hordes of repugnant orcs in this long-awaited successor to the award-winning Orcs Must Die! series.

Why similar: Tower Defense 47.7%, Online Co-Op 17.6%, Co-op Campaign 15.9% ★, Multiplayer 10.8%, Strategy 6.9%

DEEP ROCK GALACTIC: SURVIVOR is a single player survivor-like auto-shooter. Take on hordes of lethal aliens, mine riches, and unlock powerful upgrades to survive, as you wield the full arsenal of Deep Rock Galactic. It's one dwarf against all of Planet Hoxxes!

Why similar: Procedural Generation 89.1%, Singleplayer 10.9%

A procedurally generated sandbox survival game with RTS elements.

Why similar: Base Building 22.4%, Tower Defense 19.3%, Sandbox 11.6%, Procedural Generation 10.6%, RTS 10.4%

Tired of RNG and card draws? Experience a "Plan first, pay later" economy where construction scales with your income in real time. As the map grows massive, only careful planning. Not a lucky roll, will keep you alive.

Why similar: Tower Defense 26.1%, Base Building 21.8%, RTS 19.5%, Building 10.6%, Resource Management 9.9%

A base-building survival game with terraforming and crafting. Earth lies poisoned and abandoned ten thousand years after invasion. Awaken from stasis, defend your fragile foothold, and restore a dead world so humanity can live here again.

Why similar: Base Building 27.2%, Tower Defense 23.4%, Survival 11.9%, Sandbox 10%, Crafting 7.1%

Welcome to Keplerth! Try to survive on a hostile alien planet in this 2D sandbox RPG, where you can choose to live alone or fight side by side with your friends in the online multiplayer mode. Survive, build, farm, fight, and explore your way to victory in this open-world adventure!

Why similar: Sandbox 19.9%, Survival 18.1%, Building 17.6%, Base Building 14.7%, Multiplayer 11.1%

Wage war across entire solar systems with massive armies at your command. Annihilate enemy forces with world-shattering TITAN-class units, and demolish planets with massive super weapons!

Why similar: RTS 26.2%, Base Building 23.6%, Online Co-Op 18.8%, Building 11.9%, Multiplayer 11.3%

A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.

Why similar: Base Building 25.9%, Economy 16.2%, Building 13.8%, Sandbox 13.6%, Survival 12.7%

Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.

Why similar: Base Building 38.4%, Survival 18.1%, Building 12.5%, Resource Management 11.9%, Sandbox 9%

A challenging exploration and survival adventure, set in the dying world of Dragons. Only those who harness the power of Frozen Flame have the means to survive the harsh conditions of the realm and able to muster the strength to cleanse it for good.

Why similar: Base Building 16.3%, Co-op Campaign 14.9% ★, Online Co-Op 14.4%, Hack and Slash 10%, Sandbox 8.4%

Ancient portals have been lying dormant, waiting for daring adventurers to travel between worlds. Your task is to lead an expedition through one of these portals, research and build defenses around it, and protect it from hostile guardian life forms.

Why similar: Tower Defense 25.3%, RTS 18.8%, Isometric 14.5%, Base Building 13.1%, Building 9%

Gird your loins and sharpen your steel! Besiege 20 unique enemy lords and battle friends online, in this expanded remaster of the classic 'castle sim'. Relive history with new units, opponents, visuals, audio, campaigns, skirmish trails, co-op and larger maps.

Why similar: Base Building 17.5%, Tower Defense 17.1%, RTS 13.2%, Economy 11.9%, Building 10.4%

The last days of man are at hand.. Two years after the Infinite War the once great warring nations now lie in ruins, and humanity’s hope for a brighter future is nothing but a bitter memory. A new, seemingly unstoppable enemy, supported by the zealots of The Order, now seeks to eradicate mankind: UEF, Aeon Loyalist, and Cybran alike.

Why similar: RTS 42%, Base Building 22.4%, Multiplayer 14.8%, Strategy 12.7%, Online Co-Op 6.5%

Build, farm, tame, fight and explore as you and your friends survive in the world of Foklor. Discover treasures, items and magic of great power as you defend against evil creatures. Your legend awaits!

Why similar: Online Co-Op 17.1%, Base Building 16.5%, Survival 10.7%, Crafting 9.5%, Action RPG 9.4%

Sunny Shores is software for casual and retired gamers who have prematurely reached unc-status in their careers. It features cozy lo-fi fishing mechanics, block-building and an open-world sandbox. Play with friends or play with yourself.

Why similar: Base Building 15.6%, Sandbox 13.7%, Building 12.5%, Survival 11.5%, Procedural Generation 10.8%

Strategically build impenetrable towers & defenses, to endure the endless foes that emerge in the shroud of night. Each passing day is an opportunity to grow stronger. so take what you need from the environment. Gather, Craft, Survive, Defend, Thrive!

Why similar: Tower Defense 25.2%, Base Building 23.9%, Sandbox 11.9%, Survival 11.8%, Crafting 10.5%

IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?

Why similar: Base Building 25.2%, Survival 17.5%, Building 13%, Resource Management 12.9%, Economy 11.3%

Design and simulate the starships of your dreams! Command your ship or fleet in epic battles and manage your crew while exploring a dangerous galaxy. Play alone or with friends, test your ships in online PvP, and let your imagination reach for the stars!

Why similar: Online Co-Op 27.4%, Building 20.6%, Survival 16.5%, Multiplayer 15.4%, Exploration 8.9%

Experience a vast Sci-fi open-world survival TD game set on a distant planet deep in the universe. Craft, build, mine, trade, explore, and survive in this alien world. Collect Data and defend against waves of enemies seeking to banish you. Enjoy the adventure in Singleplayer or Multiplayer.

Why similar: Base Building 16.9%, Online Co-Op 16.1%, Tower Defense 15%, Crafting 10%, Survival 9.7%

Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.

Why similar: Base Building 25%, Survival 16.7%, Multiplayer 15.8%, Sandbox 12.7%, Crafting 10.8%

Face the Lords of the Void and their endless minions, collect their Soulstones and become a god! In this Action Roguelite, unveil secret spells, craft mighty weapons, unlock multiple characters, discover game-breaking synergies and conquer the power of the void.

Why similar: Action RPG 35.8%, Hack and Slash 23.2%, Crafting 19.7%, Procedural Generation 18.2%, Singleplayer 3%

A game about adventure, building, survival and exploration together. Set on a fantasy planet the size of Earth.

Why similar: Base Building 16.1%, Sandbox 11.4%, Online Co-Op 11.2%, Survival 11.1%, Action RPG 11.1%