Games Like Aground

You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.8% ★, Sandbox 12.3%, Survival 9.4%, Open World 8.4%, Building 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the core loop of starting on a planet and advancing through technology to explore the stars.

Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.3% ★, Open World 9.6%, Base Building 9.1%, Survival 8.5%, Sandbox 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: It combines base-building and survival with RPG elements and complex progression that mirrors the depth of Aground.

Crash land on a hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it. But be warned... this planet is merciless. Build strong, and smart; else physics may flood or destroy your only hopes of survival.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.7% ★, Survival 15.1%, Sandbox 12.9%, Open World 9.2%, Base Building 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses heavily on the survival and defense aspects of mining and building in a hostile 2D environment.

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: Open World Survival Craft 23.4% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Building 11.3%, Open World 11%, Survival 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: It features addictive mining, base-building, and boss progression in a top-down perspective that feels very similar to Aground.

Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.9% ★, Sandbox 13%, Survival 11.2%, Building 10.5%, Open World 7%

Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive 2D sandbox experience, offering a massive progression curve from basic tools to god-like power.

The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.2% ★, Survival 13.7%, Base Building 10.3%, Sandbox 7.6%, Building 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: The focus on rapid progression, gathering, and unlocking new tiers of technology makes it a perfect match for Aground fans.

Nova Lands is a factory building, exploration, and island management game. Explore, engage in combat, and automate your industry. The planet you’re on is full of mysteries, creatures, people, and things to do. Welcome to your new home amongst the stars!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.1% ★, Base Building 17.8%, Sandbox 10.7%, Open World 10.2%, Survival 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: It balances exploration with automation, allowing you to build a base that grows in complexity as you discover new islands.

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: Building 17.9%, Open World 16.6%, Survival 16.3%, Sandbox 15.8%, Base Building 10%

Why You'll Like It: This sandbox survival game features extensive crafting and exploration that will feel very familiar to fans of Aground.

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: Open World Survival Craft 28.5% ★, Base Building 15.7%, Building 11.1%, Survival 10.2%, Online Co-Op 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game captures the feeling of transforming a hostile, uninhabitable world into a thriving base through technological advancement.

Craftopia is the brand new multiplayer survival action game made in Japan. We combined many features we find enjoyable, such as hunting, farming, hack-and-slash, building, automation to develop this game.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.2% ★, Open World 20.1%, Survival 15.5%, Building 10.8%, Sandbox 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a massive variety of mechanics, including automation and tech-tree progression, that feel like a 3D evolution of Aground's spirit.

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: Open World Survival Craft 35.5% ★, Survival 19%, Base Building 18.8%, Open World 9.8%, Online Co-Op 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: The survival and base-building mechanics are top-tier, offering a sense of scale and progression that keeps the gameplay loop engaging.

A living world full of surprises, secrets and danger awaits in The Survivalists, an adventure-filled survival sandbox set in The Escapists universe. Explore, build, craft and even train monkeys with up to three friends in a desperate bid to survive. Have you got what it takes to be a Survivalist?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.1% ★, Base Building 14.2%, Survival 13.1%, Online Co-Op 12%, Open World 10%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on island survival and crafting, with a unique monkey-automation system that adds a fun layer to base management.

The world has ended. You are deep underground, and all alone with a cheery AI companion. You will have to mine and build to survive, and search for other survivors to help you. Will you be able to reach the surface? And what will you find when you get there?

Why similar: Base Building 16.7%, Post-apocalyptic 14.5%, Sandbox 12.7%, Building 11.4%, Open World 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: As a direct spin-off, it retains the charm and core mechanics of the original while introducing new colony-sim elements.

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 41.9% ★, Survival 15.7%, Base Building 15.5%, Open World 13.7%, Exploration 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a masterclass in survival and exploration, where your progression from a life pod to advanced submarines feels incredibly rewarding.

Explore, craft, and fight your way through uncharted islands — solo or with up to 4 players in co-op! Tinkerlands is an exciting survival adventure where you will build your settlement, craft useful tools to survive, and even use magic!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.4% ★, Open World 10.8%, Survival 10.7%, Online Co-Op 10.6%, Sandbox 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game blends survival and crafting with a charming pixel-art style, focusing on exploration and gear progression.

Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements. Explore an open world with different biomes, take care of oxygen, manage your farms, generate electricity, build your home and much more!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.9% ★, Building 14.3%, Survival 11.8%, Base Building 10.8%, Online Co-Op 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A survival game with a focus on building and electricity management that provides a solid sense of progression.

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: Base Building 25%, Open World 23.1%, Survival 23%, Sandbox 11.8%, Exploration 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: The satisfying loop of breaking down the world to craft better gear and survive longer is a core pillar of this experience.

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 51.1% ★, Survival 18.3%, Open World 13%, Building 8.2%, Sandbox 5%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the feeling of being a castaway on a deserted island, focusing on the raw survival and crafting aspects.

You awake to discover yourself no longer in the company of good men or a fine seafaring vessel. Treasure... you remember something about treasure. Wayward is a challenging turn-based, top-down, wilderness survival roguelike. Explore, build, and most importantly survive in these unforgiving lands.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.8% ★, Survival 18.5%, Open World 10.9%, Sandbox 9.6%, Pixel Graphics 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A deep, roguelike-inspired survival game that emphasizes crafting and interacting with a complex environment.

Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.1% ★, Survival 28.8%, Sandbox 11.9%, Open World 8.4%, Exploration 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a more challenging survival experience with a unique art style and deep crafting systems that reward careful planning.

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 25.2% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Survival 10.1%, City Builder 9.8%, Building 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a unique perspective on survival and base-building, emphasizing the scale of the world and the need for constant upgrades.

Dinkum is a survival life simulation game set on an island inspired by the rugged Australian outback. Farm, hunt, mine, fish, and forage to gather resources, expand your town, and discover what makes Dinkum so special—either solo or with friends.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 51.2% ★, Building 13.2%, Online Co-Op 10.8%, Sandbox 10.6%, Exploration 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a more relaxed take on island survival and base-building, perfect for those who enjoy the community-building side of Aground.

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 28.7% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Survival 11.3%, Building 10.5%, Open World 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a massive open world with a focus on building and crafting, allowing for a very personalized survival experience.

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 32.3% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Survival 13%, Sandbox 12.7%, Building 12%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist sandbox game that focuses on crafting and survival in a procedurally generated world.

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 32%, Sandbox 14.2%, City Builder 10.4%, Survival 10.4%, Building 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: If you enjoyed the automation and tech-progression aspects of Aground, this game is the ultimate evolution of those mechanics.

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 21.5%, Building 16.6%, Survival 14.1%, Open World 14%, Sandbox 13.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game features a unique mobile base-building mechanic where you upgrade your drill ship to survive a volcanic world.

BLASTRONAUT is a mining game in a procedural alien world. Explore, extract and profit.

Why similar: Mining 23.4% ★, Open World Survival Craft 20% ★, Base Building 9.8%, Open World 8.7%, Sandbox 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: The focus on mining and exploration in a dangerous alien environment aligns well with the core gameplay of Aground.

Your spaceship crashed on an alien planet. Explore, salvage, craft, trade, manage and upgrade your way back home!

Why similar: Open World 35%, Exploration 20%, Family Friendly 19.6%, Story Rich 16.3%, 2D 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing exploration game that focuses on gathering and upgrading, perfect for a more chill experience.

Project Castaway is a survival crafting title set in the Pacific Ocean. Live the life of a stranded castaway, with only yourself - and the island's inhabitants - for company! Sail the ocean, hunt, explore unique islands and gather resources as you fight for survival.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.6% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Online Co-Op 10.3%, Survival 10.3%, Open World 9.5%

Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.

Why similar: City Builder 16.2%, Base Building 15.5%, Building 11.4%, Survival 10.3%, Post-apocalyptic 10.1%

Eden Island is a beautiful survival game. As a survivor, you will explore and survive on a realistic tropical island, craft weapons against beasts, farm and hunt, build your own home.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.9% ★, Mining 23.3% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Building 10.4%, Survival 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a straightforward survival and base-building experience on a remote island, focusing on resource management.

Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.5% ★, Survival 13.5%, Open World 10.5%, Building 10%, Sandbox 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: It combines survival, crafting, and exploration in a way that feels like a classic sandbox adventure.

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: Mining 22.6% ★, Open World Survival Craft 19.1% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Building 10%, Survival 8.9%

Cube Life: Island Survival is an open-world, block building, survival game, taking place on a beautiful remote island. Imagine being shipwrecked and stranded left for dead, with only your will to survive. You must explore, build, craft, and fight your way to stay alive.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.1% ★, Building 13.2%, Open World 11.6%, Survival 10.8%, Sandbox 10.3%

Adventure Craft is a challenging procedurally generated sandbox RPG with roguelike elements. Hunt monsters, horde loot, and craft weapons and armor, to survive in a vast ever-changing RPG world full of action, extreme danger and wonderful surprises.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.7% ★, Mining 19% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Building 8.7%, Open World 8.3%

Crash-landed on a surreal, low-poly world filled with freakish inhabitants, choose between permadeath and non-permadeath modes and embark on an epic (and ridiculous) survival adventure. Will you manage to stay alive as you unravel the mysteries of Wrongworld and search for a way home?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 50.6% ★, Survival 14%, Open World 11.1%, Building 10.5%, Sandbox 9.4%

Stranded on a desert island, explore, craft, build and fight in this action survival game!

Why similar: Survival 38.3%, Sandbox 22.2%, Pixel Graphics 18.1%, RPG 12.7%, Casual 5.9%

You’re a castaway stranded in the middle of nowhere. Storm is gone, the worst certainly not. Look for food and resources, craft gear, make shelters. These are the basics, you need much more to stay alive on this cut-off-the-world, yet not desert island. Build & burn, sail & explore, be Out of Reach!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.7% ★, Survival 15.5%, Open World 13.1%, Building 10.6%, Base Building 8.7%

A diabolical demon dooms a teeming island to destruction. Five legendary lieutenants and their minions descend every seven days…but that allows ample time to prepare. Survive, craft, train, and gear up to defend the island!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.2% ★, Base Building 17.7%, Survival 12.7%, Post-apocalyptic 11%, Exploration 7.1%

You were deep in uncharted space on a research mission. Disaster struck. Together with your friends, explore a mysterious asteroid field and mine whatever resources possible to build what you need to survive.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36% ★, Survival 12.3%, Online Co-Op 11.7%, Base Building 11.3%, Building 11.2%

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 39.7% ★, Survival 18.1%, Base Building 11.2%, Building 9.9%, Open World 9.3%

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: Open World 36.1%, Exploration 22.2%, Story Rich 18.9%, RPG 15.3%, Casual 7.5%

Forge a new kingdom in a land recovering from the Fracture. Which of the surviving races will you lead to rebuild, explore, and conquer the unknown? The dwindling yet immortal Ancients? The bold and resourceful Humans? The life stealing Ardyn? Or the secretive Gwdir who shape living groves?

Why similar: Mining 21.9% ★, Base Building 16%, City Builder 15.6%, Building 11%, Survival 9.9%

Miniland: Prologue is just part of the gameplay that awaits you in the full game. Your task is to build your world and fight against your enemies. 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!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.2% ★, Base Building 15.6%, Survival 12%, Building 11.3%, Sandbox 10.3%

Shrunk again, but the world is much larger. In this open-world, single-player or co-op survival adventure, craft weapons and armor, build your base, and traverse the playground on your buggy. But something else is out there—and it hasn’t forgotten you.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.4% ★, Base Building 18.6%, Survival 16.9%, Open World 12.7%, Sandbox 8%

In a nuclear apocalypse, you have to use your engineering skills to save as many survivors as possible. Defending, mining, crafting, creating production lines, and building an underground city for the survivors is your goal in this 2d side-scrolling automation game.

Why similar: Mining 17.6% ★, Open World Survival Craft 16.2% ★, Base Building 14.1%, Building 12.1%, City Builder 11%

While searching for a new home, an unexpected failure in your ship has left you stranded on a planet surprisingly similar to Earth. Discover a vast open world, hunt for food, develop technologies, and build yourself a new home to survive!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.4% ★, Base Building 15.9%, Open World 14.6%, Survival 14.6%, Sandbox 7%

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.6% ★, Base Building 19.4%, Building 12.2%, Sandbox 11.3%, Open World 10%

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: Building 32.5%, Exploration 22.1%, Family Friendly 21.1%, Story Rich 12.9%, RPG 11.4%

After crash-landing on a mysterious island with no memories of the past, set out to explore the island and scavenge for resources to build automated production lines and repair the damaged ship.

Why similar: Base Building 27.7%, Building 20.1%, Sandbox 16.5%, Exploration 10.4%, Pixel Graphics 8.7%

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 21.5%, Open World 19.3%, Survival 16.6%, Online Co-Op 13.2%, Building 11.2%

Explore and conquer the high seas in this post-apocalyptic sandbox water world survival game where you must fight, build, and craft to survive.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28% ★, Survival 14.8%, Base Building 14.7%, Open World 10.5%, Building 9.6%

Stranded in a hostile alien world, you must fight to survive. Hunt, harvest, craft, advance skills, and build using local resources along with technology from your voyage.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.6% ★, Survival 15.9%, Open World 11.4%, Building 8.1%, Sandbox 7.2%

A first-person survival game set on a post-apocalyptic, ecologically ruined Earth. Play solo or with up to 3 friends as you build, upgrade, and fly a high-tech airship. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and face dangers on the surface as you hunt for a cure to save humanity.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.3% ★, Base Building 17.1%, Open World 12%, Survival 11.8%, Post-apocalyptic 11.5%

FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.2% ★, Building 12.1%, Base Building 10.8%, Mining 10.5% ★, Sandbox 10.3%

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 33.6% ★, Building 14.1%, Base Building 13.2%, Survival 12%, Open World 11.3%

Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.4% ★, Survival 14.1%, Open World 11.5%, Building 10.2%, Base Building 10.1%

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 33.4% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Open World 11.8%, Survival 11.4%, Building 8.9%

Explore, Adventure, Craft, Build, Survive. How will you shape your world? Astral Terra is a Smooth Voxel, Procedurally Generated Open World game with RPG and Survival Elements!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.3% ★, Mining 13.5% ★, Open World 12.9%, Survival 11.6%, Sandbox 10.4%