Games Like Above Snakes

In the prologue of Above Snakes, you awake in a destroyed settlement and help the survivors rebuild it. After that, expand the world with world pieces, craft, farm, hunt, build a base, and fight to find out more about what happened.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 19.6% ★, Western 13.5% ★, Isometric 8.2%, Crafting 7.3%, Base Building 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: This standalone prologue offers a direct taste of the tile-based Wild West survival crafting and exploration found in the main game.

Escape to an enchanting, living sandbox surrounded by wildlife and nature. Scavenge materials and craft tools to turn your small cabin into a warm, well-supplied home. Survive by fishing, cooking and growing your own food. Be careful though, the forest is as dangerous as it is wonderful.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28% ★, Open World 10.1%, Crafting 8.4%, Survival 8%, Base Building 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the same atmospheric, peaceful survival and exploration vibe in a secluded woodland setting.

I Am Future is a relaxing single-player survival game about building a cozy rooftop camp amid a flooded post-apocalyptic city. Set up a farm, go fishing, tinker with gadgets, craft new tools, manage a team of cute robots to automate and expand your base, explore the mysterious world, and chill out!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 18.5% ★, Cozy 11.4%, Crafting 9.7%, Open World 9.3%, Building 9%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a similarly laid-back approach to survival crafting, focusing on building a comfortable base in a unique world.

An open-world survival crafting game for 1–8 players, blending intense dungeon crawling and ARPG combat with peaceful farming and creative building. Take on quests and explore a vast, procedurally-generated world full of danger and discovery.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.6% ★, Building 11.2%, Open World 10.4%, Crafting 10.1%, Base Building 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Combines relaxing open-world exploration, farming, and building with light dungeon crawling reminiscent of Above Snakes' isometric perspective.

Travel to the desert community of Sandrock and take on the role of a fledgling Builder. Use your trusty toolset to gather resources, construct machines, and turn your run-down workshop into a well-oiled production facility to save the town from the jaws of economic ruin!

Why similar: Building 22.2%, Crafting 20%, Sandbox 18.3%, Open World 18%, RPG 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Shares the appealing desert-frontier aesthetic and heavy focus on building and crafting in a charming community.

Humanity Trashed the Earth and left for Mars. Only few remained. EXPLORE the world. Clean the environment, CRAFT with recycled resources. Domesticate animals. Rebuild your village. Restore environment and run your own post-apo FARM as there is No Place Like Home!

Why similar: Base Building 18.8%, Crafting 18.1%, Building 14.2%, Open World 10.9%, Female Protagonist 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on a cozy, relaxing cleanup and crafting loop where you rebuild a ruined world piece by piece.

A desert gardening survival game. Start from a tiny spring and cultivate a blooming garden. Explore a vast world amid the sands and uncover its mysteries. Can you defend against the relentless forces of nature and mysterious wraith corruption, to bring life to a dying world?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Crafting 12.8%, Survival 9.7%, RPG 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Challenges you to bring life back to a harsh desert environment through exploration, crafting, and gardening.

Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.2% ★, Base Building 12%, Open World 10.6%, Crafting 10.2%, Building 10%

Why You'll Like It: Offers open-world survival crafting with a heavy emphasis on building shelter and exploring a lush environment from a unique perspective.

Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40% ★, Survival 14.3%, Crafting 10.6%, Open World 9.5%, Building 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Shares the core gameplay loop of expanding your modular platform piece by piece while gathering resources and surviving.

Outlaws of the Old West is a massively multiplayer survival MMO with a huge world, thousands of items and a modular building system. Survive the wild, build your own homestead, defeat villainous bandits and work with others to tame the Wild West.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.1% ★, Western 32.7% ★, Open World 11.8%, Survival 9.2%, Base Building 5%

Why You'll Like It: Shares the direct Wild West survival-crafting and open-world exploration theme.

Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.1% ★, Survival 12.3%, Open World 10.2%, Crafting 9.6%, Base Building 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a more intense deep-dive into realistic survival crafting and wilderness exploration.

Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.5% ★, Open World 17.3%, Survival 11.4%, Crafting 10.1%, Base Building 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Blends open-world survival crafting, base building, and creature collection in a sprawling sandbox.

Conquer the Wild West. Explore the open world of a fictitious American Midwest and survive the harsh environment. Convince other settlers to join you and manage your ever-growing settlements. Build a home, take care of your farm and become a legend in Wild West Legacy.

Why similar: Western 31.4% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Open World 12.1%, Crafting 11.8%, Building 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: Features frontier survival and crafting mechanics built around a classic western atmosphere.

Ascend from your shelter. Ruin everything. Escape the wretched island. ⚔️🔨🎣🌱🌵🍰 Explore. Fight. Level up. Survive. Gather. Craft. Harvest. Hunt. Build. Farm. Solve puzzles. Fish. Cook. Live. Enjoy the bittersweet post-apocalypse.

Why similar: Open World 19.6%, Crafting 17.1%, Base Building 15.8%, Survival 15%, Sandbox 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: Provides an isometric open-world survival crafting experience where almost everything in the environment can be broken down for materials.

THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies -- only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.8% ★, Survival 14.6%, Open World 13.2%, Crafting 6.9%, Sandbox 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: Offers an atmospheric, deliberate survival experience centered on exploration and braving the elements.

A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.2% ★, Open World 12.2%, Building 10.4%, Base Building 10.1%, Crafting 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: Features deep building mechanics and open-world exploration driven by atmospheric progression and crafting.

Take the role of a plane crash survivor stranded somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Come face to face with some of the most life threatening scenarios that will result in a different experience each time you play. Scavenge. Discover. Survive.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.2% ★, Survival 12.7%, Open World 11.8%, Crafting 10.9%, Building 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on open-world survival crafting and island exploration from a first-person perspective.

Explore a colorful world and build your own cozy home on wheels. Craft workstations, and source energy from the sun, wind, or water. Upgrade and customize your vehicle, grow crops, and live sustainably off-grid with up to 4 players.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.8% ★, Cozy 12.7%, Base Building 10.6%, Open World 9.5%, Building 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A cozy exploration and base-building game centered on mobile homes and relaxing survival mechanics.

Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.

Why similar: Building 18.7%, Crafting 18.7%, Open World 13.3%, Base Building 12.9%, Sandbox 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: Combines survival, simulation, and building elements to carve out your own settlement in a historical frontier setting.

“Cowboy Life Simulator” is an immersive and relaxing ranching sim where you step into the boots of a failed businessman starting fresh on the frontier. Buy your first goat, meet the locals, explore vibrant lands, and build your dream ranch in a world full of stories and adventure!

Why similar: Cozy 14.7%, Base Building 12.9%, Crafting 12.7%, Building 12.6%, Open World 12.5%

Why You'll Like It: Immerses you in a frontier setting emphasizing homestead building, farming, and exploration.

Sengoku Dynasty is the ultimate feudal Japan experience: build villages, grow your community, and shape the open world through combat or economy. The choice is yours alone - or that of up to 4 players in multiplayer co-op!

Why similar: Base Building 20.3%, Open World 19.2%, Building 16%, Crafting 15.8%, Survival 14.1%

Why You'll Like It: Offers village-building, crafting, and survival mechanics set in an open historical world.

Embark on a lifetime of adventure in a beautiful world of creativity and intrigue. Raise a family, customise your farm, run a business, craft items, and battle some marvellously malevolent monsters.

Why similar: Crafting 21.3%, Open World 20.3%, Sandbox 20.1%, Relaxing 11.2%, Exploration 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox life and farming simulator that offers deep systemic crafting and exploration in a whimsical world.

Build your farm and relationships with townsfolk, or forge ahead on a quest of magic, monsters, and dragons. Level up through a skill tree in 8 person multiplayer, or adventure solo!

Why similar: Crafting 30.6%, Relaxing 19.8%, RPG 17.2%, Exploration 11.6%, Simulation 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Delivers a cozy, relaxing fantasy farming and exploration experience with rich crafting systems.

Discover a welcoming world in Palia, a free-to-play fantasy life sim adventure where you can craft, explore, and create the life and home of your dreams. With nearly endless ways to make Palia your home, you’ll find relaxation and joy in every corner of this vibrant, heartwarming world.

Why similar: Cozy 27.3%, Building 19.2%, Crafting 18.6%, Relaxing 10%, Exploration 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A cozy, relaxing community sim focused on gathering, crafting, exploring, and building your dream home.

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: Open World Survival Craft 31.9% ★, Open World 12.9%, Base Building 10.5%, Survival 9.3%, Sandbox 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Features terrain deformation and modular base building that mirrors the world-shaping satisfaction of Above Snakes.

The charming and relaxing stone-age farming sim where you live in a thriving community exploring the wonderful world of Pacha. Discover "ideas," domesticate crops, befriend animals, and help your village grow. Play co-op with friends or explore the early days of civilization in single-player.

Why similar: Cozy 18.7%, Crafting 18.6%, Building 16.4%, Sandbox 14.9%, Relaxing 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: Captures a cozy, community-building and crafting progression loop in a prehistoric open world.

Solarpunk is a survival game in a technologically advanced world of floating islands. Alone or together with your friends, you can construct buildings, grow food, craft gadgets and hop on your airship to explore distant islands in the sky.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.7% ★, Base Building 10.2%, Cozy 10.1%, Crafting 9.4%, Building 9%

Slime Rancher is the tale of Beatrix LeBeau, a plucky, young rancher who sets out for a life a thousand light years away from Earth on the ‘Far, Far Range’ where she tries her hand at making a living wrangling slimes.

Why similar: Open World 31.2%, Sandbox 16.6%, Exploration 15.6%, Colorful 11.2%, Female Protagonist 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing, open-world exploration and collection game with light base building and friendly survival loops.

Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.1% ★, Open World 12.7%, Survival 11.2%, Base Building 11%, Crafting 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: An acclaimed open-world survival crafting game driven by atmospheric exploration and gradual base expansion.

Terra Nil is an intricate environmental strategy game about transforming a barren wasteland into a thriving, balanced ecosystem. Bring life back to a lifeless world by purifying soil, cleaning oceans, planting trees, and reintroducing wildlife, then leave without a trace.

Why similar: Isometric 36.6%, Relaxing 25.7%, Atmospheric 15.1%, Colorful 9.9%, Stylized 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A reverse city builder focused on environmental restoration, fitting the ecological rebuilding themes of relaxing survival titles.

Build your apiary on islands above the clouds, travel on your medocycle, crossbreed bees with unique traits and create a cozy home in the sky. Grow plants, explore islands and send healing honey down to Earth, where people still hope for your help.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.3% ★, Cozy 12.3%, Base Building 8.8%, Building 8.5%, Crafting 7.9%

Honeycomb: The World Beyond is a sci-fi survival adventure set on the vibrant alien planet of Sota7. Adapt by building your base and crafting essential tools. Explore diverse biomes and use your bioengineering experience to uncover mysteries and secure humanity's future.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.2% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Crafting 10.3%, Open World 10%, Sandbox 8.5%

The world doesn't generate itself - you do it, shape the world as you wish! Start with nothing, and build dream houses for goblins and yourself while exploring, collecting resources, crafting, building, fighting, farming... and more!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.1% ★, Sandbox 13.2%, Crafting 10.8%, Base Building 10.7%, Building 10.5%

In this open-world crafting and building game, you explore an ancient world full of dangers and secrets. Collect animals and plants, build bases and master the craft as you build your ark and save civilization from destruction by the flood and then rebuild it.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.3% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Open World 13.5%, Crafting 12.9%, Survival 7.7%

Explore a vast underground world to mine and craft hundreds of items while building up your modular Outpost on the surface, to prospect for gems, refine resources and farm hydroponic crops in this top-down sci-fi survival-crafter where the story always provides a reason to dig deeper.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.5% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 12.3%, Building 11.6%, Sandbox 10.8%

Wild Indigo Ranch is a cozy cowboy-life RPG for 1-4 players. Start a new life on the prairie, explore the frontier, build the finest ranch in the West, and ride into the sunset.

Why similar: Western 27.7% ★, Cozy 11.7%, Building 10.5%, Crafting 10.4%, Open World 10.3%

Starsand is a mystic survival game set among the dunes of an arcane desert. An open-world full of danger, vast environments and mysterious happenings await you! Explore, hunt, craft, build – and SURVIVE.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.3% ★, Open World 11.8%, Base Building 11.4%, Crafting 10.7%, Survival 8.8%

Create your tale! Build your home, fight, farm, and explore an old civilization while developing your skills and abilities in this relaxing and adventurous experience. You decide your fate!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.7% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 10.9%, Building 10.5%, Survival 6.7%

Ikonei Island is yours to discover! Explore and gather resources. Farm the land, craft tools and gear, and build your base or a cozy home. Befriend magical creatures and fight monsters with your friends or solo!

Why similar: Cozy 18.7%, Building 16.7%, Crafting 14.3%, Relaxing 12.8%, Exploration 10.4%

Soar the skies in Aloft, the co-op sandbox survival game set in a world of floating islands. Build any island into a skyship, your home in the clouds. Find lost knowledge, cure the fungal corruption, and brave the hurricane to restore the ecosystem.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.8% ★, Crafting 13%, Building 12.4%, Open World 9.8%, Survival 9.8%

Embark on a 1-4 players Co-op survival adventure in an open world wilderness in search of a myth called the Lod Stone. Build your house, sow your crops, brew potions, tame a horse and discover powerful abilities. Venture into dangerous dungeons, fight unique bosses to find the Lod stone.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.4% ★, Open World 11.4%, Base Building 9%, Crafting 8.9%, Survival 8.4%

Embark on an adventure set in a fantasy survival RPG. Visit a borderless, open world where you manage resources to construct your base and new types of equipment to support your conquest.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.3% ★, Crafting 11.4%, Open World 11%, Base Building 10.9%, Building 9.5%

Western Rye is an open world survival crafting adventure game set in the old west American Frontier. Create your dream outlaw! Survive the the wild west, farm, build your ranch, endure the weather, fight and forge your legend with friends or alone. In Western Rye, the wild west just got wilder!

Why similar: Western 25.5% ★, Open World Survival Craft 24.4% ★, Base Building 9.7%, Crafting 9.3%, Open World 8.9%

Become the captain of an airship and explore the world of the skies, gather resources and build powerful weapons, uncover ancient secrets and fight beneath your ship's sails.

Why similar: Open World 18.9%, Base Building 17.2%, Sandbox 15%, Crafting 11.9%, Survival 10.9%

In XenoHaven, gather resources to build shelters, enslave alien beasts to work for you, and run restaurants and shops. Delve into dark underground dungeons, defeat swarming insectoids and mighty bosses, and craft powerful gear to conquer the alien world.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.3% ★, Open World 12.7%, Base Building 11.8%, Sandbox 10.8%, Crafting 9.4%

Start a new life in the enchanting town of Portia! Restore your Pa's neglected workshop to its former glory by fulfilling commissions, growing crops, raising animals, and befriending the quirky inhabitants of this charming post-apocalyptic land!

Why similar: Open World 21.4%, Crafting 19.9%, Building 12.9%, Sandbox 10.3%, RPG 8.8%

Howdy partner! Welcome to Cattle Country, the Cozy Cowboy Adventure Life Sim. Become a determined pioneer traveling west to start a new life. Make a home in the mountains, take on bandits, discover dastardly plots, build a farm, develop your town, and make friends with fellow residents.

Why similar: Western 32.9% ★, Cozy 16%, Sandbox 11.5%, Crafting 11.4%, Building 9.7%

KeepUp Survival is an open-world base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and shape your own story on a mysterious island.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.1% ★, Open World 12.8%, Base Building 12.3%, Crafting 11.6%, Sandbox 10%

An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!

Why similar: Base Building 14.6%, Cozy 14%, Crafting 13.5%, Open World 13%, Building 12.5%

Desert Skies takes survival to the air! Build an airship and fly on an adventure through the deserts of the Wild West. Look for places to land and scavenge for loot, expand your airship and craft new equipment, but beware the dangers lurking beneath the sands!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.6% ★, Western 20.2% ★, Crafting 9.8%, Survival 7.4%, Building 7.1%

Saddle up for the ultimate survival adventure in the untamed Wild West! Build your homestead, tame the wilderness, bounty hunt the outlaws, and duel against the dangers that lurk on the frontier. Do you have what it takes to be a legend of the West?

Why similar: Western 29.6% ★, Isometric 13.3%, Crafting 10.9%, Base Building 10.4%, Sandbox 9.4%

Isometric survival ARPG set in a procedurally generated fantasy world. Build your base, gear up, and venture out, chasing stronger enemies and better loot.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.9% ★, Isometric 13.9%, Base Building 11.5%, Crafting 9.4%, Open World 7.4%

Farm, cook, craft and decorate in this casual open world farming adventure! Set up camp with your crew after being shipwrecked on a mysterious archipelago. Your quest is to survive, explore and uncover the secrets of the Cursed Islands. Take care of your crew to build relationships and earn rewards!

Why similar: Cozy 23.2%, Open World 18%, Crafting 16.7%, Relaxing 9.9%, Exploration 8.7%

Grab your jetpack and explore procedural asteroid fields, derelict spaceships and abandoned outposts. Build and automate your Space Rig to process scavenged trash. Craft, trade and fight your way home in this interstellar, open-world survival sandbox.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31% ★, Crafting 11.3%, Open World 10.4%, Building 9.2%, Sandbox 9.2%

Chill out as you explore the beautiful, realistic island of exiles. Gather resources, craft tools, construct buildings and settlements. Manage tribe and automate your gameplay. Discover 4 lands, a storyline and save the inhabitants of the island.

Why similar: Base Building 20.1%, Crafting 18.7%, Building 18.4%, Survival 13.1%, Exploration 8.2%

Wonderia's an open-world, manga-art adventure just waiting to be explored. It's got sci-fi sim elements, deep dungeons, and you can even morph into alien form! Grab up to 7 friends to mine, craft, battle, and level—or farm and fish the day away, if that's more your tempo. There's so much to do!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.4% ★, Sandbox 11.1%, Crafting 11%, Building 10.3%, Survival 8.7%

Oddsparks is a blend of automation and real-time strategy for both the die-hard fans of the automation genre and the automation-curious. Explore a strange fantasy world, uncover the mysteries of the past, automate your workshops, and go on adventures with your odd & adorable Sparks!

Why similar: Building 23.1%, Cozy 15.8%, Base Building 14.9%, Open World 14%, Sandbox 12.3%

Moonstone Island is a creature-collecting life-sim set in an open world with 100 islands to explore. Make friends, brew potions, collect Spirits, and test your strength in card-based encounters to complete your Alchemy training!

Why similar: Building 30.7%, Sandbox 28.9%, Relaxing 17.4%, RPG 12.6%, Simulation 10.4%

Fight and tame alien beasts, craft resources into menacing weaponry, befriend the outlandish locals, and go toe-to-chin with a world-domineering maniac.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.1% ★, Open World 10.7%, Crafting 10%, Base Building 9.7%, Sandbox 8.7%