- #1 Aground
97% matchVery Positive94% of 1,965 reviews2020
Dev: Fancy Fish Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
As one of the last human survivors, you find yourself stranded on an uninhabited island. With a few other victims of the crash, can you craft, mine, and build your way to survival?
Why similar: Base Building 16.6%, Post-apocalyptic 14.5%, Sandbox 12.8%, Building 11.5%, Open World 11.3%
- #2 Surviving Ceres
96% matchVery Positive87% of 137 reviews2025
Dev: Ryan SaundersPub: One Man Media
Windows
Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building. Export manufactured goods to earn funding, manage colonists, defend against hostile aliens, and work towards terraforming Ceres from a frozen ball of ice to a tropical paradise.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Crafting 9.7%, Building 9.3%, Management 8%
- #3 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
96% matchVery Positive81% of 2,242 reviews2018
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.8% ★, Base Building 14.1%, Post-apocalyptic 13.5%, Sandbox 8.5%, Survival 8.2%
- #4 After the Collapse
95% matchMostly Positive78% of 209 reviews2022
Dev: Anarkis Gaming
Windows
ATC is a base building game set in a post-apocalyptic world featuring urban environments. Build a base across several layers with dozens of survivors. Fight other factions for the control of the remaining production centers and explore the world to find long forgotten resources and technologies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.7% ★, Moddable 14.1% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Sandbox 9.8%, Post-apocalyptic 9.7%
- #5 Mercury Fallen
94% matchMostly Positive79% of 307 reviews2023
Dev: Nitrous ButterflyPub: indie.io
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A sci-fi colony management sim with a focus on exploration, expansion, and survival. Rebuild your underground facility, manage colonists and robots, and uncover the mysteries of an alien world light-years from Earth. Dig deep, expand across the surface, and shape your new home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.9% ★, Underground 18.8% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Management 8.6%, Building 7.9%
- #6 Occupy Mars: The Game
94% matchMostly Positive70% of 3,012 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 31.4 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.7% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Sandbox 12.5%, Crafting 9.6%, Open World 9.1%
- #7 No One Survived
92% matchMixed65% of 7,577 reviews2025
Dev: Cat Play Studio
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 22.9 hrs≥1hr: 77%
This is a multiplayer cooperative open world construction survival sandbox game, where you and your friends must find supplies and build shelters in this world. You have to keep an eye on your character's needs state at all times, a bad state is likely to lead to death.
Why similar: Open World 16.5%, Post-apocalyptic 16.3%, Survival 16.3%, Crafting 12.8%, Building 10.3%
- #8 Forever Skies
91% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,284 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.4 hrsMean: 32.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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: Base Building 17.4%, Post-apocalyptic 14.3%, Crafting 12%, Open World 11.2%, Building 9.9%
- #9 Survival Vacancy
93% matchMixed64% of 88 reviews2021
Dev: Mind Leak
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Colony Sim 30.3% ★, Automation 15.8%, Base Building 11.6%, Sandbox 10.4%, Building 8.7%
- #10 Drill and Delve
91% matchVery Positive93% of 59 reviews2026
Dev: noOne
Windows
You've been trapped in a mine. You'll need to use your tools to dig your way to the exit in a fully destructible 3D voxel terrain. Manage your oxygen and equipment, and uncover the dark mystery buried deep within the mine.
Why similar: Voxel 29.2% ★, Sandbox 20.3%, Underground 12.7% ★, Exploration 9.9%, First-Person 8.4%
- #11 Return from Core
89% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,761 reviews2025
Dev: 顽核社 Funcore ClubPub: 2P Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Mine, build, and explore with Monster Girl companions in this underground sandbox adventure. Uncover lost tech, automate production, and forge bonds with allies as you fight to survive and journey back to the surface.
Why similar: Automation 25.6%, Base Building 19.1%, Sandbox 15.4%, Crafting 11.6%, Survival 10.6%
- #12 Gone: Survival
90% matchMixed44% of 308 reviews2020
Dev: Coden StudioPub: Conglomerate 5
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Gone Survival is a first-person survival game for one player. Where you have many opportunities and a completely open world
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 17.3%, Base Building 15.2%, Sandbox 13.5%, Crafting 11.8%, Building 11.2%
- #13 Subterrain: Mines of Titan
88% matchMostly Positive76% of 714 reviews2024
Dev: Pixellore IncPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 14.5 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Awaken from an abandoned stasis pod and discover a doomed mining camp on Titan in an uncompromising turn-based survival RPG. Survive the evolving horrors that lurk below and craft equipment, research new gear, fight against overwhelming odds, or even discover your true fate.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 32.1%, Survival 19.2%, Sci-fi 17.2%, RPG 16%, Exploration 15.4%
- #14 Outpost Zero
89% matchMixed49% of 846 reviews2019
Dev: Symmetric GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Outpost Zero blends the genres of Multiplayer Base Building Survival and Simulation games in a Sci-Fi universe. On a lawless alien world, robotic scouts are tasked with building an Outpost for human colonists. Command AI minions, colonize the planet, and survive the perils of Gaiya.
Why similar: Base Building 23.3%, Survival 20.5%, Open World 17.1%, Crafting 13.4%, Sandbox 12.1%
- #15 Orebound
87% matchMostly Positive78% of 849 reviews2024
Dev: Emberforge
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Orebound is a voxel, factory, automation game set in a first person open-world. The King has tasked you to locate the elusive Emberstone. Go forth and use your Dwarven prowess and knowledge to mine, craft and automate through anything standing in your way - Build up or dig down! How far will you go?
Why similar: Voxel 25.5% ★, Automation 18.3%, Base Building 12.5%, Sandbox 11%, Crafting 9.8%
- #16 I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival
86% matchVery Positive85% of 4,518 reviews2024
Dev: MandragoraPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 8.8 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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: Sandbox 16.1%, Post-apocalyptic 13.8%, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 12.4%, Building 11.6%
- #17 The Planet Crafter
85% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 67,314 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.1 hrsMean: 37.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 16.7%, Automation 16.4%, Sandbox 11.1%, Building 10.4%, Crafting 10.2%
- #18 Surviving the Aftermath
86% matchMostly Positive71% of 4,513 reviews2021
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 17.8 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.1% ★, Post-apocalyptic 22.7%, Base Building 13.4%, Survival 10.4%, Building 6.1%
- #19 Eden Crafters
84% matchVery Positive86% of 2,214 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in Eden Crafters, a solo and co-op open-world game that challenges you to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Temper the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Automation 18.4%, Colony Sim 15.7% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Sandbox 11.2%, Crafting 9.4%
- #20 Ascent of Ashes
83% matchMostly Positive71% of 294 reviews2025
Dev: Vivid Storm Interactive
Windows
A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors. Engage raiders, aliens, Remnant soldiers and other factions in real-time-with-pause combat. Or use stealth to outwit them. Explore the massive world. Survive at all costs
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.6% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Sandbox 10.3%, Character Customization 9.1%, Management 9%
- #21 The Crust
82% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,397 reviews2024
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 22.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.2% ★, Automation 16.5%, Base Building 13.2%, Sandbox 10.1%, Post-apocalyptic 7.4%
- #22 Sheltered 2
84% matchMixed46% of 2,183 reviews2021
Dev: UnicubePub: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 68%
A brutal survival management simulator set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Keep your faction of survivors alive, maintain your shelter and scavenge the ravaged world for resources. Befriend and trade with the factions you meet or conquer them by force.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.7% ★, Post-apocalyptic 16.9%, Base Building 13.8%, Survival 9.2%, Character Customization 8.1%
- #23 Space Haven
82% matchVery Positive86% of 9,719 reviews2020
Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 20.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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: Colony Sim 26.7% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Sandbox 10.7%, Post-apocalyptic 10.1%, Management 8.5%
- #24 Endzone 2
81% matchMixed69% of 1,004 reviews2025
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.8% ★, Post-apocalyptic 16.1%, Sandbox 13.3%, Base Building 12.1%, Building 9%
- #25 AETHUS
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,163 reviews2026
Dev: Pawsmonaut Games
Windows
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: Automation 16.6%, Base Building 15.5%, Sandbox 13.8%, Crafting 11%, Building 10.2%
- #26 Elsewhere
80% matchVery Positive95% of 64 reviews2025
Dev: Four White Cats
Windows
Explore, dig for resources, and build factories in a vibrant open world with quests for both technological and magical progression. Inspired by classic old-school Minecraft modpacks and featuring many new and unique features.
Why similar: Automation 16.7%, Sandbox 16.6%, Crafting 11.2%, Open World 11.1%, Building 10%
- #27 Fargone
81% matchMixed69% of 559 reviews2022
Dev: RedDot Games
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 45%
Fargone is an RPG-based survival game with a strong focus on creating a living, breathing world through dynamic events, and NPC interactions. Set in a fictional land known only as The Barrens, you must survive by any means, whether that be alone or by allying yourself with a faction.
Why similar: Sandbox 13.9%, Base Building 13.6%, Post-apocalyptic 13%, Character Customization 11.4%, Building 10.2%
- #28 iZolated
79% matchMostly Positive71% of 116 reviews2024
Dev: Crooked RoadPub: LT-Games
Windows
iZolated - This is a post-apocalyptic 2D action game with elements of survival and RPG, which throws you into a harsh open world where the slightest mistake costs you your life. Find equipment, engage in fights, and prove that you are the top of the food chain in this chaos!
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 16.8%, Sandbox 15.5%, Character Customization 14.4%, Base Building 13.9%, Open World 9.9%
- #29 Survivalist: Invisible Strain
77% matchVery Positive87% of 4,190 reviews2025
Dev: BobPub: Ginormocorp Incorporated
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
It's ten years since the infection started. Long-established settlements are collapsing, one by one, for unknown reasons. Survivors are running to the hills to escape, hoping for safety in remote places. As another refugee, you're here to carve out a new life for yourself - by any means necessary.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.3% ★, Post-apocalyptic 13.6%, Base Building 13.1%, Character Customization 11.4%, Open World 8.1%
- #30 Satisfactory
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 265,414 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 31.8 hrsMean: 108.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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: Automation 24.1%, Base Building 20.2%, Sandbox 11.1%, Crafting 10.8%, Open World 10.4%
- #31 Keplerth
78% matchVery Positive85% of 4,121 reviews2022
Dev: TAROPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 19.6%, Building 13.2%, Open World 12.9%, Survival 11%, Exploration 9.7%
- #32 Ecopunk
77% matchVery Positive84% of 114 reviews2025
Dev: Zerone Games
Windows
Ecopunk is a survival and colony management simulation game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Balance survival, resource management, and hope as you guide your colony through the ruins of civilization.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.5% ★, Sandbox 14.5%, Post-apocalyptic 14.5%, Management 10.8%, Base Building 8.8%
- #33 The Last Caretaker
74% matchVery Positive85% of 9,793 reviews2025
Dev: Channel37 Ltd
Windows
Median: 18.8 hrsMean: 30.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Explore a drowned Earth, restore lost systems, and raise the last human seeds in this first-person survival-crafting adventure. Build, scavenge, defend, and launch humanity back to the stars.
Why similar: Automation 17.6%, Base Building 14.1%, Sandbox 12.8%, Crafting 10.1%, Open World 9.4%
- #34 Atomfall
75% matchMostly Positive78% of 4,854 reviews2025
Dev: Rebellion
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
A nuclear disaster has left an area of Britain in tatters. Atomfall, a new survival-action game, will see you explore, scavenge, craft, barter and fight your way through beautifully recreated scenery in search of answers.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 34.1%, Open World 25.7%, First-Person 14.9%, Survival 13.4%, Exploration 6.3%
- #35 Oxygen
76% matchMostly Positive73% of 865 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Oxygen is a survival city builder. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.8% ★, Base Building 14.3%, Sandbox 11.8%, Post-apocalyptic 8.2%, Building 8.2%
- #36 Subterrain
78% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,385 reviews2016
Dev: Pixellore Inc
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Uncompromising Sci-Fi survival on Mars! Manage the entire colony single-handed! Craft, Research, Explore and Fight against evolving mutants. Vast open world and randomly generated levels to explore! Can you survive long enough to escape the horror?
Why similar: Survival 28.4%, Crafting 25.6%, Open World 17.9%, Sci-fi 15.8%, Exploration 12.2%
- #37 No Place Like Home
73% matchMostly Positive79% of 4,046 reviews2022
Dev: Chicken LauncherPub: Awaken Realms
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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 22%, Post-apocalyptic 16.7%, Crafting 16.3%, Building 12.8%, RPG 9.4%
- #38 Ragnorium
75% matchMixed59% of 624 reviews2022
Dev: Vitali KirpuPub: Devolver Digital
Windows
Lead a team of cloned settlers and build a home on a new planet. Start from the Stone Age, construct sturdy shelters, hunt for food, and fight off dangers. Make your team stronger and better equipped to survive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.6% ★, Post-apocalyptic 15%, Base Building 12.4%, Sandbox 11.8%, Character Customization 10.6%
- #39 Under A New Sun
73% matchMostly Positive76% of 368 reviews2023
Dev: New Horizon Games
Windows
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: Base Building 20%, Open World 16.8%, Crafting 16.7%, Survival 14.7%, Sandbox 12.8%
- #40 The Last Haven
73% matchMixed61% of 1,526 reviews2023
Dev: Thunder Devs.
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
The world after a nuclear war. Manage the settlement, learn technology, make decisions, produce weapons, ammunition, organize defense, raid for supplies on other areas, do not let residents die, survive the nuclear winter.
Why similar: Base Building 25.7%, Post-apocalyptic 23.1%, Colony Sim 12.9% ★, Survival 9.6%, Building 8.1%
- #41 Necesse
68% matchVery Positive93% of 26,780 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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: Sandbox 17.2%, Automation 14.5%, Base Building 12.7%, Open World 12.4%, Crafting 11.8%
- #42 Plains of Pain
72% matchVery Positive85% of 692 reviews2023
Dev: Cobra Byte Digital
Windows
Survive a brutal open world alone or with friends. Explore a procedural wasteland scorched by chaos. Build and defend your base, trade for what you need, complete deadly quests, and fight to claim faction outposts before someone else does.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 18.4%, Base Building 17.6%, Sandbox 16.5%, Crafting 11.9%, Open World 11.2%
- #43 Volcanoids
72% matchVery Positive83% of 9,214 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 17.3%, Sandbox 15.1%, Crafting 14.4%, Open World 13.5%, Survival 11.4%
- #44 Utopia Colony
74% matchMixed67% of 108 reviews2020
Dev: GridSky Software
Windows
The year is 2033. You, an ex-Marine with little opportunities left, have signed up with Utopia Arura, a large mining corporation on Mars. They have sent you to a location they have proposed but you have chosen for mining. Everything else is up to you.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.5% ★, Post-apocalyptic 21.5%, Base Building 18.5%, Sci-fi 10.5%, Exploration 8.1%
- #45 Ad Fundum
70% matchVery Positive93% of 482 reviews2024
Dev: Oldbut Gold
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Take control of a giant mech and dive into an exciting underground adventure in a dieselpunk world! Dig deep, collect valuable minerals, upgrade wisely, explore diverse locations, uncover ancient secrets, and try not to explode! Will you save the world or vanish in the depths below?
Why similar: Underground 43.2% ★, Character Customization 18.2%, Base Building 11.5%, Sci-fi 10.4%, Exploration 9.5%
- #46 GeoDepths
70% matchVery Positive87% of 298 reviews2023
Dev: A Little More Games
Windows
Pilot your drill deep below the surface of a remote planet, to mine ore to refine into resources, which will be used in drill upgrades and construction of your homebase. Upgrades will allow you to drill deeper to find more types of ores. Explore caves to uncover mysteries and secrets.
Why similar: Automation 25.9%, Base Building 23.6%, Crafting 13.9%, Exploration 10.5%, Building 9.5%
- #47 Sheltered
71% matchVery Positive82% of 6,212 reviews2016
Dev: UnicubePub: Team17 Digital Ltd
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Sheltered is a deep and emotional survival management game. You take on the role of protecting four family members who, after a global apocalypse, have found their way to a deserted shelter.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 25%, Base Building 24.4%, Survival 17.7%, Management 9.8%, Building 7.1%
- #48 Ocean Punk
70% matchMostly Positive80% of 166 reviews2024
Dev: Infinite Studio
Windows
Explore a fantasy ocean-punk world, braving the deep with steam-powered marvels. Discover mysterious underwater treasures, but scarcity and ecological crises test survival. Rise, build, confront foes in this pixel-art ocean survival journey!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.4% ★, Post-apocalyptic 14%, Moddable 13.2% ★, Base Building 9.9%, Sandbox 9.1%
- #49 Craterbound
71% matchMixed54% of 99 reviews2022
Dev: Daniel Marquez
Windows
Crash-land onto a unique and hostile alien world and begin your fight to survive. Face its inhabitants, upgrade your technology, create outposts & bases, and find a way to repair your ship. Explore the beautifully strange terrain, all while blasting and crafting your way off of the planet.
Why similar: Base Building 17.2%, Open World 12.6%, Voxel 12.4% ★, Sandbox 12.2%, Crafting 12%
- #50 Don't get lost
69% matchMostly Positive79% of 479 reviews2023
Dev: Michael HutcheonPub: miicck
Windows · Linux
A procedurally-generated, open-world, first-person colony sim. Build colonies in an infinite world, alone or with friends via Steam or self-hosted multiplayer.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.3% ★, Sandbox 14.5%, Base Building 12.3%, Open World 10.4%, Building 9.4%
- #51 ZED ZONE
68% matchVery Positive80% of 3,539 reviews2023
Dev: Leven LiuPub: INDIECN
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 66%
A great catastrophe has come, and you, who are on duty, crash and trapped in a Zed Zone. There are zombies and monsters everywhere, In order to escape, by collecting materials, upgrading skills, building shelters, defeating zombie waves and mysterious mechs, chasing a glimmer of hope.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 21.7%, Sandbox 18.6%, Open World 14%, Building 13.1%, Crafting 13.1%
- #52 Last Hope Bunker: Zombie Survival
67% matchMixed61% of 343 reviews2024
Dev: Bazura GamesPub: Dreland Enterprises
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 48%
You wake up in a bunker! The Earth became a battlefield. Dangerous creatures at every turn. We give you everything you need: medicine, weapons, shelter. Your task is to find your family. And please try to survive in this post-apocalypse.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 33.2%, Crafting 21%, Exploration 15%, Survival 14.9%, Character Customization 11.5%
- #53 Survivalist
69% matchVery Positive80% of 2,560 reviews2015
Dev: BobPub: Ginormocorp Incorporated
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
It's one year after the collapse of civilization and self-centered hedge fund manager Joe Wheeler emerges from his specially constructed bunker in search of food. This is a huge open-world RPG where you have the freedom to play how you want - but your choices have consequences.
Why similar: Survival 16.8%, Post-apocalyptic 16.3%, Base Building 16.1%, Sandbox 13.8%, Open World 12.7%
- #54 My Time at Sandrock
64% matchVery Positive88% of 28,280 reviews2023
Dev: Pathea Games
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 39.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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: Sandbox 19.8%, Building 16.9%, Crafting 15.2%, Character Customization 15.2%, Post-apocalyptic 12.5%
- #55 Colony Simulator
68% matchMixed67% of 424 reviews2022
Dev: Indie Marc
Windows
Can your Colony survive 10 days or more in the desert? Find food, build your colony, recruit new workers, feed your population, craft tools and equipment, cook food and research technologies!
Why similar: Colony Sim 49.3% ★, Post-apocalyptic 18.1%, Base Building 16.4%, Crafting 10.3%, 3D 5.8%
- #56 Abiotic Factor
62% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 52,861 reviews2025
Dev: Deep Field GamesPub: Playstack
Windows
Median: 19.3 hrsMean: 42.7 hrs≥1hr: 95%
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 20.6%, Sandbox 15.4%, Crafting 14.9%, Survival 12.2%, Building 11.1%
- #57 Post-Apo Builder: Prologue
67% matchMixed69% of 434 reviews2023
Dev: Septarian Games
Windows
Discover a post-apocalyptic world Collect resources and manage people Build your colony on the remains of an oil tanker Prepare supplies and vehicles for a dangerous expedition. Complete challenging tasks from the council of elders
Why similar: Colony Sim 52.9% ★, Post-apocalyptic 19.3%, Base Building 15.2%, Management 6.9%, 3D 5.7%
- #58 Survival Machine
65% matchMostly Positive74% of 669 reviews2025
Dev: Grape PickersPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Build your base on a moving Machine, travel through biomes with different resources, and prepare for the night when a zombie threat is much higher than during the day. Would you go solo or explore this new world with your best friends?
Why similar: Base Building 21.3%, Sandbox 17.8%, Crafting 15.1%, Building 14.1%, Open World 13%
- #59 Polygeddon
67% matchMixed42% of 64 reviews2025
Dev: Digital Dreamworks
Windows
You are on an island where everyone wants to kill you, ranging from weather conditions to dangerous enemies, your goal is to survive. Survive alone or together. Build, craft, grow, explore, fight!
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 21.4%, Sandbox 16%, Open World 12.6%, Crafting 11.7%, Survival 10.8%