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60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Survival, Exploration, Base Building, Singleplayer.

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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?

Reviews: Very Positive — 83% — of 127 reviews
Released: 2025-04-04
Developer: Fancy Fish Games
Genres: Adventure, Indie, RPG
Platforms: Windows, Linux

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    Dev: Fancy Fish Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%

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  2. #2 Forever Skies
    96% matchMostly Positive78% of 8,950 reviews2025
    Dev: Far From Home
    Windows
    Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 30.6 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.

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  3. #3 The Last Caretaker
    96% matchVery Positive86% of 13,056 reviews2025
    Dev: Channel37 Ltd
    Windows
    Median: 19.6 hrsMean: 36.3 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 15.3%, Base Building 12.8%, Post-apocalyptic 11.7%, Sandbox 11.3%, Crafting 9.1%

  4. #4 Surviving Ceres
    95% matchVery Positive87% of 139 reviews2025
    Dev: Ryan SaundersPub: One Man Media
    Windows

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    94% matchVery Positive85% of 1,832 reviews2026
    Dev: Puppyroar GamesPub: Forklift Interactive
    Windows
    Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 93%

    Dig by day, fight by night in this blend of mining and Tower Defense. As the last Spotter at a ruined gas station, hold back mutant hordes, scavenge the wasteland, and repair your receiver to capture the President’s vital message and humanity’s last hope.

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    94% matchVery Positive81% of 2,264 reviews2018
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    Windows
    Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%

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    93% matchMostly Positive78% of 212 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.

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  8. #8 Mercury Fallen
    92% matchMostly Positive78% of 318 reviews2023
    Dev: Nitrous ButterflyPub: indie.io
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%

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  9. #9 Orebound
    91% matchMostly Positive78% of 976 reviews2024
    Dev: Emberforge
    Windows
    Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 78%

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  10. #10 Survival Vacancy
    91% matchMixed64% of 88 reviews2021
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    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.

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  11. #11 Drill and Delve
    90% matchVery Positive87% of 106 reviews2026
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    Windows

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    89% matchMostly Positive76% of 741 reviews2024
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    Windows
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    89% matchMixed70% of 3,132 reviews2026
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    Windows
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  14. #14 Return from Core
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    Windows
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  15. #15 No One Survived
    86% matchMixed64% of 7,777 reviews2025
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    Windows
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    88% matchMixed48% of 853 reviews2019
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    Windows
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    79% matchMixed44% of 1,064 reviews2018
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    75% matchMixed65% of 113 reviews2026
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    73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 73,089 reviews2024
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    Windows
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    76% matchMixed69% of 600 reviews2022
    Dev: RedDot Games
    Windows
    Median: 54 minMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 44%

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    76% matchMixed59% of 624 reviews2022
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    Windows

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    74% matchVery Positive83% of 933 reviews2023
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    Windows

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    71% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,385 reviews2026
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    73% matchVery Positive83% of 9,332 reviews2019
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    Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%

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    71% matchMostly Positive76% of 400 reviews2023
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    Terraform a dead planet back to life in this open world survival crafting game. Explore ruins, gather resources, print machines, drive modular vehicles, grow forests, biomes, and ecosystems. Create life and make it thrive with your own hands.

    Why similar: Base Building 14.6%, Automation 13.3%, Sandbox 12.1%, Post-apocalyptic 11.7%, Crafting 9%

  54. #54 Astro Colony
    65% matchVery Positive81% of 2,699 reviews2026
    Dev: Terad Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%

    Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 28%, Automation 17.8%, Base Building 16.8%, Sandbox 8.8%, Building 7.8%

  55. #55 Necesse
    64% matchVery Positive93% of 28,807 reviews2025
    Dev: Fair Games ApS
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 15.3 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 17.1%, Automation 13.7%, Base Building 13.2%, Open World 12.7%, Crafting 11.7%

  56. #56 Sheltered
    69% matchVery Positive82% of 6,278 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 25.1%, Base Building 24.4%, Survival 17.7%, Management 9.5%, Building 7.1%

  57. #57 Eden Crafters
    64% matchVery Positive85% of 2,630 reviews2026
    Dev: Osaris Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%

    Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!

    Why similar: Automation 17.5%, Colony Sim 15.7%, Base Building 13.6%, Sandbox 11.3%, Crafting 9.3%

  58. #58 Nuclear Epoch
    65% matchMostly Positive79% of 517 reviews2026
    Dev: Cat Play Studio
    Windows

    Nuclear Epoch: Open-world survival mixing base building & extraction shooting. Explore with friends, raid dangerous instances for loot, but death means losing everything. Craft weapons with fully customizable stats in this post-apocalyptic wasteland.

    Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 18.6%, Base Building 18.1%, Open World 12.4%, Crafting 11.5%, Building 11.3%

  59. #59 Penkura
    68% matchVery Positive91% of 200 reviews2018
    Dev: LionsArt
    Windows

    Penkura is a sci-fi base-building survival game where you construct a colony from a top-down command system, explore an alien world in first person, and use programmable bots to gather resources, build, repair, and keep your base alive.

    Why similar: Automation 20.5%, Base Building 17.1%, Crafting 11.3%, Open World 9.8%, Management 9.5%

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