Games Like ASKA

Establish and expand your own settlements, liberate the land and assist its villagers, and recruit others to your cause while learning more about a life you had to leave behind. Command your forces, prove your valor through combat, and cement yourself as the hero of your people.

Why similar: Survival 18.7%, Online Co-Op 17.1%, Crafting 14.2%, Open World 13.5%, Building 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game mirrors ASKA's core loop of managing a growing village of NPCs while engaging in medieval survival and combat.

Choose your path across a primeval continent shaped by the Mask's power. From lush rainforests to scorched sands, recruit and lead unique tribesmen, build automated production lines, and construct everything from local bases to colossal airships, uncover the secrets of the Mask

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.9% ★, Colony Sim 17.1% ★, Automation 11.2%, Base Building 9.1%, Sandbox 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: It features a robust NPC recruitment and management system within a vast open-world survival environment.

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.7% ★, Online Co-Op 11.4%, Base Building 9.7%, Survival 9.4%, Building 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the quintessential Viking survival and exploration experience that serves as the foundation for ASKA's atmosphere.

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: Crafting 15.6%, Building 15%, Base Building 14.6%, Survival 11.5%, Sandbox 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: It is the definitive experience for players who enjoy building a settlement from scratch and managing the lives of villagers in a medieval setting.

An online multiplayer survival game, now with sorcery, set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian. Survive in a vast open world sandbox, build your home into a kingdom, and dominate your enemies in single or multiplayer.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.2% ★, Survival 15.2%, Open World 10%, Building 9.8%, Crafting 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: The thrall system allows you to capture and command NPCs to defend your base and perform tasks, much like the villagers in ASKA.

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: Colony Sim 17.7% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Survival 9.9%, Online Co-Op 9.5%, Crafting 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: It combines survival and village-building in a historical Japanese setting, offering a similar progression to Medieval Dynasty and ASKA.

Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.4% ★, Base Building 19.8%, Sandbox 15%, Survival 13.4%, Crafting 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: This colony sim focuses on building and defending a settlement in a harsh medieval world, emphasizing vertical construction and survival.

Lead your Viking clan onto unknown shores and carve out a future for your people in the fjords of Frozenheim. Gather resources, expand, and watch your settlement grow to a bustling town that will withstand the harshness of winter and wrath of other clans.

Why similar: Vikings 37.8% ★, Colony Sim 17.5% ★, Base Building 11%, Online Co-Op 9.5%, Resource Management 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: This Viking-themed city builder focuses on resource management and base defense, capturing the aesthetic and strategic elements of ASKA.

Myth of Empires is a multiplayer war sandbox game featuring a high degree of freedom and multiple civilizations. Players must survive, craft, create, and lead troops in their quest to conquer PVE or PVP territory and build their own empire. Xizhou Civilization Pack is now officially released!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.7% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Sandbox 11.1%, Building 9.9%, Online Co-Op 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: This title offers a massive sandbox with deep building mechanics and an extensive system for recruiting and managing NPC laborers.

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 17.2%, Online Co-Op 14%, Survival 13.4%, Open World 11.6%, Crafting 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: Features excellent building mechanics and a vast open world that encourages exploration and survival in a dangerous environment.

Land of the Vikings is a survival colony sim game. Build and lead your village, and expand it into a thriving city. A wise Jarl must manage resources, survive harsh conditions, and guide their fellow Vikings to work together through social conflict. Skál!

Why similar: Vikings 41.6% ★, Colony Sim 21.2% ★, Base Building 8.5%, Sandbox 7.4%, Survival 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A dedicated city-builder that challenges you to lead a Viking clan through harsh seasons and environmental disasters.

A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

Why similar: Colony Sim 36.5% ★, Base Building 21.1%, Survival 12.9%, Sandbox 11.3%, Building 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: While top-down, it is the gold standard for colony management and survival, providing the deep simulation depth that ASKA players often crave.

Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.2% ★, Base Building 16.3%, Sandbox 12.2%, Survival 10.3%, Resource Management 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A complex colony sim that focuses on the social dynamics and management of a noble family and their subjects in a medieval world.

Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.

Why similar: Base Building 26.5%, Colony Sim 26.4% ★, Survival 18.3%, Crafting 11.9%, Resource Management 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a polished colony-management experience where you must balance the survival needs of your survivors against environmental threats.

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 33.4% ★, Sandbox 8.3%, Base Building 7.4%, Automation 7.2%, Survival 7%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down sandbox that blends colony management with survival and dungeon crawling, perfect for those who enjoy the management aspect of ASKA.

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 24.8% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Online Co-Op 9.9%, Survival 9.1%, Sandbox 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a unique perspective on survival and base-building with a strong emphasis on crafting and environmental interaction.

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 18.6%, Survival 14.4%, Online Co-Op 12.6%, Open World 11.1%, Crafting 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a highly polished survival and base-building loop with a unique dark fantasy theme and satisfying progression.

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: Open World Survival Craft 21.1% ★, Automation 11.9%, Base Building 10.2%, Colony Sim 9.3% ★, Online Co-Op 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the automation and base-building aspects of survival, allowing players to build massive, functional settlements.

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: Open World Survival Craft 27.5% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Survival 10.4%, Online Co-Op 10.3%, Crafting 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A session-based survival game that emphasizes crafting and building under the pressure of time and environmental hazards.

You are the Defier, a Spartan beginning your afterlife on the Crossroads. In this Greek myth-inspired survival craft, ascend from weak soldier to god-like anti-hero. Build impressive Greek structures, craft legendary gear, and break the seals of the Underworld with up to 3 friends.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.7% ★, Online Co-Op 12.7%, Base Building 11.5%, Survival 9.9%, Sandbox 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game inspired by Greek mythology that emphasizes crafting and base-building.

Nightingale is an open world survival crafting game, where you’ll adventure across the mysterious and dangerous Fae Realms. As a daring Realmwalker, you’ll defeat monstrous enemies, survive hostile environments, and build elaborate estates in a visually stunning Gaslamp Fantasy world.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.9% ★, Online Co-Op 11.4%, Base Building 11.1%, Survival 9.5%, Crafting 8%

Why You'll Like It: A gaslamp fantasy survival game that offers unique crafting and building systems across diverse, procedurally generated realms.

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 22.8% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Automation 9.6%, Online Co-Op 9.2%, Survival 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the satisfaction of transforming a barren world into a habitable one through extensive base-building and automation.

Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.3% ★, Sandbox 17.1%, Crafting 15.1%, Building 13.8%, Open World 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: A survival colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands that focuses on the struggles of a family trying to survive the changing seasons.

Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.6% ★, Sandbox 16.1%, Resource Management 13.4%, Base Building 13.2%, Building 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: A grid-less medieval city builder that emphasizes organic growth and the management of villager needs.

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 25.6% ★, Survival 11.8%, Crafting 11.4%, Building 10.6%, Co-op 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A unique survival game where you build your base on floating islands, offering a fresh take on the genre's mechanics.

A vibrant blend of survival and action RPG for 1-10 players! Craft legendary items, grow your home base and embark on an epic journey through procedural realms to face towering creatures hel-bent on unleashing Ragnarök. Valhalla can wait, Einherjar!

Why similar: Vikings 31.9% ★, Open World Survival Craft 23.6% ★, Online Co-Op 9.6%, Base Building 9.3%, Survival 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced Viking survival game that emphasizes base defense and cooperative play against mythological threats.

Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.3% ★, Survival 12.1%, Crafting 9.2%, Base Building 9%, Multiplayer 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A hardcore survival game with a strong focus on base-building and resource management in a challenging wilderness.

On RuneScape’s forgotten continent of Ashenfall, dragons have awoken. Gather, build, skill and craft to survive in this co-operative (1-4) survival crafting game. Only by mastering survival and uncovering ancient secrets can they hope to slay the Dragon Queen—alone or with allies.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.8% ★, Online Co-Op 10.2%, Survival 9.4%, Base Building 9.1%, Open World 8%

StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 19.4% ★, Colony Sim 13.2% ★, Automation 10.8%, Base Building 10%, Survival 6.8%

ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!

Why similar: Survival 19.1%, Base Building 18.7%, Open World 13.4%, Crafting 12.3%, Sandbox 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive dinosaur-themed survival game with deep taming and base-building mechanics.

The Infected is a sandbox, first-person, open-world survival game. Build bases, craft, farm, hunt, and survive changing seasons. Choose whether to face the hybrid “Vambies” or turn them off for a pure survival experience.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.1% ★, Base Building 15%, Sandbox 9.9%, Survival 9.8%, Crafting 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A survival game that focuses heavily on base-building and defending your home against both wildlife and environmental threats.

Nested Lands is a ruthless medieval RPG game featuring in-depth village building, large-scale social management and combats. Gather survivors, build a settlement, craft, master your skills, survive, and endure alone or in online co-op.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28% ★, Open World Survival Craft 17.4% ★, Base Building 8.7%, Online Co-Op 7.6%, Sandbox 6.7%

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 17.7% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Sandbox 9.5%, Online Co-Op 9.1%, Crafting 8.3%

Your avatar is a brave warrior who has fallen in battle. But instead of well-deserved peace in Asgard, his soul is trapped in the harsh world of Niffelheim. Survive in this hostile world, ransack the neighbor lands, explore dangerous dungeons and find your way to Valhalla

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.9% ★, Base Building 10.4%, Online Co-Op 9%, Sandbox 8.8%, Crafting 8%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D survival game set in the Viking afterlife that focuses on crafting, exploration, and defending your base.

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 29.7% ★, Online Co-Op 12.2%, Sandbox 10.7%, Survival 9.4%, Crafting 7.5%

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: Open World Survival Craft 25.5% ★, Online Co-Op 10.1%, Base Building 10.1%, Survival 8.3%, Crafting 7.9%

Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.3% ★, Base Building 10.1%, Online Co-Op 8.7%, Survival 7.9%, Co-op 7.3%

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 21.2% ★, Base Building 16.5%, Automation 15.9%, Resource Management 8.9%, Sandbox 7.3%

Survival of your people - that's the only thing that matters. Become the leader of a newly founded Viking settlement and lead it to safety and glory. Gather, build, craft, hunt, raid and follow your Gods to endure hardships of nature and save your clan from violent destruction.

Why similar: Vikings 58.6% ★, Sandbox 18.2%, Open World 14.9%, Simulation 6.4%, Singleplayer 1.9%

Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in this free prologue introducing one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters – an upcoming open-world game that challenges you, alone or with friends, to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.4% ★, Base Building 10.6%, Automation 10.3%, Online Co-Op 8.2%, Sandbox 6.6%

A city builder with simulated citizens, set in a procedurally-generated world map. Grow your kingdom through the eras from a tiny medieval hamlet into a prosperous global empire! Cooperate or compete in real-time with your friends in multiplayer mode.

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.1% ★, Base Building 18.9%, Multiplayer 9.6%, Resource Management 8.8%, Co-op 8.2%

Adventure in a vast open-world survival craft game with your programmable sidekick Grammi! Program the Grammi to collect materials, build your town, craft weapons and armor to challenge strong enemies! Play alone or with friends online!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.8% ★, Automation 15%, Survival 9.1%, Crafting 8.6%, Online Co-Op 7.6%

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% ★, Base Building 12%, Survival 11%, Sandbox 10.9%, Building 10.3%

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 25.9% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Survival 9.6%, Crafting 9%, Co-op 8.5%

LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.

Why similar: Colony Sim 48.5% ★, Resource Management 12.2%, Survival 10.2%, Building 8.6%, Open World 5%

Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.9% ★, Base Building 16.6%, Survival 10.3%, Building 9.8%, Crafting 9.8%

Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival RPG where you can fully immerse yourself in the epic world of Dune. Alone or with friends, explore a vast open world Arrakis, survive the sandworms, build a home, craft an ornithopter, and unravel the mystery of the missing Fremen.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.7% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Online Co-Op 10.5%, Sandbox 9.4%, Survival 8.8%

Get ready for a Waterworld-themed survival game with modular base building, sunken city scavenging, crafting, base defense, and invasions of NPC clans for resources and territory. Ready for the water apocalypse?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.9% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Survival 11.3%, Co-op 9.8%, Crafting 7.7%

VEIN is a post-apocalyptic survival multiplayer sandbox game. Gather supplies to survive, explore abandoned buildings, defend your home, and rebuild society, whether alone or with friends.

Why similar: Base Building 18.8%, Survival 16.2%, Open World 12%, Sandbox 10.5%, Co-op 10.1%

Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.

Why similar: Colony Sim 56.5% ★, Survival 18.5%, Sandbox 9.8%, Open World 4.9%, Simulation 4.9%

Fight. Sell. Survive. Live off the land, build your perfect shop, and defend against nightly horrors in this open world survival shop simulator for 1-8 players.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.1% ★, Base Building 14.5%, Online Co-Op 12.6%, Survival 9.9%, Crafting 9.6%

A survival crafting adventure set in the Fourth Age of Middle-earth. Lead the Dwarves to reclaim Moria - mine, build, and battle through procedurally generated depths alone or with up to 8 players in co-op. It is time to return to Moria!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.5% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Online Co-Op 11.6%, Survival 9.7%, Crafting 8.9%

Northgard: Definitive Edition is a critically acclaimed real-time strategy game based on Norse mythology. Lead your clan, uncover the secrets of a mysterious newfound continent and defeat your enemies to conquer the Throne!

Why similar: Vikings 36.8% ★, Colony Sim 18.7% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Building 7.2%, Resource Management 6.7%

Survival of your people - that's the only thing that matters. Become the leader of a newly founded Viking settlement and lead it to safety and glory. Gather, build, craft, hunt, raid and follow your Gods to endure hardships of nature and save your clan from violent destruction.

Why similar: Sandbox 31.3%, Vikings 25.9% ★, Survival 19.3%, Simulation 13.6%, Open World 8.6%

Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.9% ★, Base Building 16.4%, Sandbox 12%, Resource Management 10.5%, Survival 10.5%

Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.5% ★, Base Building 20.2%, Building 19.3%, Resource Management 14%, Survival 13%

Everwind is a novel take on RPG and Sandbox Survival genre in First-Person-Perspective. Embark on the adventure with your friends - Build a base on a flying island-ship, gather resources, craft, loot, and fight while you rise above the clouds to uncover the mysteries of this world!

Why similar: Online Co-Op 15.3%, Sandbox 14.2%, Survival 12.7%, Building 11.3%, Co-op 10.8%

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: Open World Survival Craft 26.3% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Online Co-Op 11.4%, Sandbox 9.4%, Survival 8.5%

Start with nothing and build up your viking settlement in harsh Nordic climate in this survival strategy town building game. Start with nothing and prepare for winter. Set forth on raids on other viking settlements and defend yourself from them.

Why similar: Base Building 22%, Sandbox 21.4%, Survival 20.4%, Building 17.2%, Crafting 12.4%

Explore a stunning open-world filled with majestic creatures and quirky characters. Nurture the barren land into vibrant ecosystems and flex your creativity as you build a thriving civilization in balance with nature.

Why similar: Base Building 21.9%, Action RPG 15.3%, Crafting 14.7%, Sandbox 14.6%, Building 13.2%